On May 4, 1982, Wang Xiaohu, Zhao Yazhi, Lin Qingxia, Chow Yun-fat and others arrived in Paris, France, and then took a plane from Paris Airport to Nice. 【Reading.com】

"Boss, welcome to romantic Paris, France." With a smile on his face, he greeted Wang Xiaohu, and after seeing Wang Xiaohu hugging left and right, he couldn't help but whistle for the old disrespect, raised his eyebrows and said enviously: "Boss, with these two beauties by your side, I'm afraid you will have nothing to do at the film festival where beauties gather!" ”

"What?" Wang Xiaohu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "Please, we are here to promote the release of "Mulan", not to hunt for beauty!" ”

"Boss, it makes me very sad that you say this, aren't you here to receive the award? You must know that you are the owner of the four Oscars, and you should have strong confidence to win the Palme d'Or. King. Winterdur looked disappointed and sighed.

"The Palme d'Or?" Wang Xiaohu thought about it, saying that he had never seen what the Palme d'Or trophy looked like until now, which was all due to his lack of knowledge of film festivals and trophies.

In fact, he can't be completely blamed, looking at all the kung fu films and martial arts films in China and Hong Kong in the previous life, few of them have won this kind of trophy at the World Film Festival, even a fierce film like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has only won awards such as the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and no Chinese director has won awards with real kung fu films and martial arts films, Wang Xiaohu naturally pays less attention.

And there is another reason for this, except for real professional filmmakers, ordinary people, more than 80% of the audience, few know that the film was born in France, under the powerful film propaganda offensive of Hollywood, they only know American films, and even only know that the Hong Kong film in the 90s, the status of the Cannes Film Festival as the world's largest film festival has been gradually replaced by the Oscars, and even the film festival with the highest artistic gold content in the world cannot be said.

In the car to the small town of Cannes, Winterdur kept making up for Wang Xiaohu's knowledge about the Cannes Film Festival.

"If the Oscars are the ultimate goal of the world's commercial films, then the Cannes Film Palme d'Or is a symbol of the world's top laurels for art films." "In this small seaside town, we can enjoy fair competition, we don't have to worry about intrigue, we don't have to pay bribes to the judges, we just need to submit 'Mulan' and we can resign ourselves to fate," Winterdur said to himself. ”

"It's that simple?" Wang Xiaohu shrugged his shoulders and said, "In that case, you can handle it, why do you have to come over?" ”

Now Winterdur didn't do it, he said in an almost complaining tone: "Boss, although you are well-known in mainstream film circles such as Hong Kong, China, Hollywood, and even Hollywood, and your film has been released in France, it does not mean that you will be accepted by the French. ”

Wang Xiaohu smiled bitterly and nodded, Winterdur was right, he had only considered conquering the market over the years, only paid attention to the Oscars, and he was a more commercial director, which was not very popular in the eyes of the French.

"However, boss, I am still very confident in your strength, I believe that "Mulan" will enter the main unit competition, as long as it enters the main unit competition, we will be closer and closer to the Palme d'Or, and this is also a great opportunity for our Concorde company to cooperate with film companies from all over the world, according to experience, every time as long as it is a Cannes film that can participate in the main unit competition, there will be film companies to come to the door to cooperate."

Winterdur's old eyes were shining with gold: "So, boss, you have to come in person, and some business negotiation contracts still need you to check." By the way, did you bring what you prepared? ”

"There is a good housekeeper like Lao Wen who often reminds me, can I not bring it?" Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "Posters, introductions, trailers are all available, and even I brought the MTV that just came out, for fear that something would be missing." ”

Although Winterdur was angry that the young boss did not pay attention to the Cannes Film Festival, and although he felt that it was a crime for the young boss to miss the publicity opportunities of major film festivals over the years, he still admired Wang Xiaohu very much, you must know that he has witnessed the rise of Concord in the past ten years, and he is a veteran.

After the car arrived in the small town of Cannes, Winterdur led the group to a rented apartment.

Wang Xiaohu saw a lot of Europeans walking with sleeping bags on the streets of Cannes, and learned from Winterdur that the hotels in Cannes are luxurious and expensive, and the prices are even more expensive during the film festival.

Winterdur can take these details into account, which is enough to be worthy of Wang Xiaohu's reputation as "Concord Butler".

After everyone had arranged the salute they had brought with him, Winterdur went out with a copy of the film, a trailer, a large number of posters, and a synopsis of the film, and he praised the poster of "Mulan" before leaving.

The poster for the overseas version of "Mulan" is simple: a huge bronze helmet on top and a bright red lip underneath. There are no faces, let alone any photos of actors, which looks quite "mysterious" at first glance.

"Boss, I bet this poster alone will make the judges wow, haha."

Wang Xiaohu smiled when he heard this, and Zhao Yazhi glanced at Lin Qingxia, and immediately laughed.

When the poster first came out, Zhao Yazhi also complained that Wang Xiaohu was a little inappropriate to do this, because this poster was too weird and terrifying, and it didn't match the theme of the film "Mulan" at all, and the Chinese couldn't understand it, let alone the blonde foreigners.

Wang Xiaohu explained at the time: "You are all wrong, this poster actually reflects the theme of the film very well, Mulan is a woman dressed as a man, foreigners will definitely be confused in terms of surname, and the bright red lips under the helmet are a hint, which can only arouse the curiosity of foreigners." ”

Zhao Yazhi had already experienced Wang Xiaohu's crooked reasoning, and anyway, persuasion had no effect, so he tossed it casually.

How do you know that today Winterdur opened his mouth to praise, Zhao Yazhi suddenly realized, it seems that her husband still knows how to figure out the curiosity of foreigners.

Winterdur happily took his things out of the house, and the rest of the crowd began to stare at each other, Wang Xiaohu sighed and said: "This film festival will be tossed for a long time, and everything big and small is in charge of Winterdur, we"

"We should take advantage of this rare time to enjoy the sights, the food and the beaches of Cannes."

Zhao Yazhi said with a smile: "I had already planned a tour plan for Cannes before I came, we started with the old town of Sugei District, then went to Miramar Space, and then went to Île Sainte-Margaret to explore and see the Royal Fortress, the Maritime Museum, the prison cells of the Man in the Iron Mask, the archaeological caves and so on. ”

"Ok, I don't have an opinion anyway." After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking, he looked at Chow Yun-fat: "Fa Zai, do you have any arrangements?" ”

"I" Chow Yun-fat looked at Wang Xiaohu, Zhao Yazhi, and Lin Qingxia, and said in his heart, Brother Tiger, you are hugging left and right, but unfortunately I am still alone, I would have brought Yu Anan with me if I knew that it would be so easy. "Hey, I'd better just hang out, maybe it's the same encounter as Winterdur said."

"Humph!" Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia immediately snorted in disdain, and Chow Yun-fat ran back to his room in embarrassment.

Over the next few days, Winterdur was busy, with Concorde International employees promoting "Mulan" at the main venue of the Cannes Film Festival, while Wang Xiaohu was dragged by two beauties to press the road in the world's most exquisite and beautiful city.

Yes, pressing the road, every time they go to a beautiful place, the two beauties will stop to take pictures, Wang Xiaohu takes the camera as a photographer, not to mention, the photos taken by a big director like him are just right in terms of angle and light, far more than the group photo taken by Lin Damei for him and Zhao Yazhi.

When they are tired of strolling, the three of them will enjoy exotic tastes in the Golden Palm Restaurant, Cannes occupies a unique natural environment such as sunshine, sea, olive groves, etc., so the food here is also one of the most famous in France, and the small Cannes City has more than 300 restaurants with Mediterranean cuisine characteristics, which is enough for three people to taste.

On May 9th, the Cannes Film Festival began to show films from all over the world in order, Wang Xiaohu and Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia came to the Binhai Avenue, and the 500-meter-long beach really gathered beauties from all over the world, wearing avant-garde swimsuits to show their proud figures in the sun, as if they were looking forward to being excavated and packaged.

Seeing the beach and the swimsuit, Wang Xiaohu couldn't help but glance at Lin Qingxia, thinking that there was an unknown little ambiguity between the two when they were on Peach Blossom Island, but Lin Qingxia seemed to feel that Wang Xiaohu was peeking at her, and she turned her head to look at him, and then the two of them hurriedly looked at other places like cheating.

Zhao Yazhi didn't realize it, but held her cheeks and thought seriously for more than a minute, and then said to the two: "Shall we go over there and give it a try?" ”

"Try what?" Wang Xiaohu raised his eyebrows and said.

"Of course, I enjoyed the sunbath, but it would be a pity not to come to Cannes without enjoying the sunbath." Zhao Yazhi said with a smile.

"Uh, I don't want to make a fuss!" Wang Xiaohu pursed his lips and looked at his wife, and then at Lin Qingxia, "You must know that you two are both oriental beauties, you are considered an outlier here, and it will definitely cause a sensation. ”

"Huh!" Lin Qingxia laughed when she heard this: "Ah Hu, you have beaten 100 black belt masters, these foreign devils may not be your opponents, anyway, I am not afraid." ”

Zhao Yazhi also nodded and said with a smile: "I feel that what Qingxia said is very correct, come, Qingxia, let's go buy swimsuits." ”

Wang Xiaohu rolled his eyes, and just as he raised his feet to follow the two girls to the swimsuit shop, a voice came from behind him.

"Hey, hey, hey, isn't this Tiger, damn it, you came to Cannes and didn't tell me!"

(To be continued)