Tokyo Film Festival Grand Prix: "Pray to the Snow"

Special Jury Prize: "Conversations with Women", Hans Canossa

Best Director: Yoshitaro Negishi, "Pray to the Snow"

Best Actress: Helena Bonham Carter, "A Conversation with the Women";

Best Actor Award: Hiroshi Sato, "Pray to the Snow"

Best Artistic Contribution Award: "Loaches are also Fish", Yang Yaya

Audience Award: "Prayer to the Snow", Kichitaro Negishi

Akira Kurosawa Prize: Hou Hsiao-hsien

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"Little Sunshine Beauty" has only one main competition unit - the nomination of the Tokyo Film Festival Grand Prix (a total of 15 films compete), and Ye Wei still has not achieved a breakthrough in the zero extracurricular awards.

Don't talk about sweeping, don't talk about the jackpot, nothing. But LMS is so big, the talented director, the dream cast, was greatly praised at the film festival, and he was full of sincerity to let Peter Heller and Tim Ross attend, but in the end he returned empty-handed.

"Prayer to the Snow", which won four awards in one fell swoop, was the first Japanese film to win the Sakura Award after "Typhoon Club" at the first TIFF in 1985, in other words, only 2 of the 18 TIFFs were dominated by Japanese films. The four awards of "Prayer to the Snow" set a new record for the number of awards won by TIFF in a single edition.

What's going on!?

The jury was obviously in favor of LMS, and no one was surprised that it won 5 awards, but now what's going on......?

The Asian media were surprised, and there were words such as "accident", "upset", ""Little Sunshine Beauty" was given a cold reception, and "Ye Wei was invincible" in the news.

After the news spread, the fans who were following the network were surprised and dissatisfied, didn't the media say before, "Brother Wei must have awards, the question is how many awards"?

The cold idiot said at night: "I feel that there is something inside, Lao Mouzi will give Brother Wei a head, and give "Little Sunshine Beauty" a fair!" You said: "I support Viγoo, { Wei Gong ╊ Oil_" The pig is Nian Nian came and said: "Lao Mouzi is like this to let people bully Brother Wei, will the master die!" The god of medicine didn't say to the god of song, "Ah......h

This has become the biggest controversy of this TIFF, the media did not let go of digging deep into the inside information, and Gary Foster and Barry M. Osborne have praised LMS to both the Asian media and the American media, and made it clear that they chose LMS, and others did not.

It turned out that the jury almost fell out, and all the different choices were made because of the choice or not of the LMS.

According to the media's interviews, although Ye Wei is Chinese, he did not get any preference from Zhang Yimou, he told the media: "The judges are all in love with "Pray to the Snow" and "Little Sunshine Beauty", it is difficult for us to choose, and the final result is the majority of choices. ”

The two Japanese judges chose to support the homegrown, and Ron Holloway has the commonality that Europeans disdain Hollywood, and chose a less Hollywood film, here are three votes.

The results are all 4:2, so Zhang Yimou didn't choose LMS and Ye Wei?

After the news broke, the secrets in the network were furious, disappointed, questioning, and scolding...... I thought it was a foreigner who stabbed Brother Wei, but it turned out to be!

In fact, many filmmakers and fans are not surprised by this, as we all know, Zhang Yimou loves local movies, "Pray to the Snow", "Loach is also a Fish", "The Two of Us" are all in line with his taste, and LMS is such a big movie that is not like an independent art film, Ye Wei is a Chinese candidate and he is suspected of being biased, do you want artistic style or "your own people"?

There are also many people who support the national treasure Lao Mouzi, praising him for being selfless and not choosing Ye Wei's little kid, which is really good!

"Ye Wei is a commercial hype in Hollywood, specially to cheat Chinese money, it is right not to choose him." "Wind traces said. "Shame on the person who was thrown to Little Japan, this stupid person withered at night, and he was confused. "╰mr dragged the dragon to say less. "It's so cool to see the withering and barking, the sunshine is little your mother. Said riding a donkey chasing a rocket. "Why do you report on him all day long, and the editor collects money? Don't look at him if you report again, save it. "My wife is a big guy said. Fireworks said: "Ye Wei is not Chinese! This kind of banana man hates China the most, and you still treat him as a treasure, laugh!" ......

The network is quite concerned, and the news is transmitted back to North America, and there are also film entertainment media reporting on this result, which is becoming an invincible LMS first battle fiasco!

Although TIFF's influence is limited, it sounds like it can't win at such a small film festival, where can it win? Is its quality really good?

If TIFF takes care of Asian films, what about Conversations with Women?

This is an American-made romantic comedy independent film, a real independent film, the debut of the "Gordon Street Images" company, with a production cost of 450,000.

also invited a lot of stars, the biggest name is Helena Bonham Carter (1 Oscar nomination for Best Actress, "Pigeon Wings"; there are also masterpieces such as "Howard Manor", "Fight Club"; Tim Burton's wife, starring in a series of Burton films), as well as Alan Eckhart, Olivia Wilde and others.

It is not easy for an art film with a production fee of 450,000 yuan to invite these people, and it can only share dividends, but basically it will not be released in theaters, and DVDs will not sell much. What should I do if I act in a bad movie? I must make the stars agree that the creators are very talented. How is Harvard University?

The editor is Gabriel Zevin, a Harvard graduate who has just published the novel "The Other Other," and she is Asian-American and has the film's biggest relationship with Asia. And the director is 35-year-old Hans Canossa, a Harvard college student and a film master dropout at New York University, and this is his second film.

So...... "Conversations with Women" is even better than LMS!?

It has participated in the Telluride Film Festival and so on, and it has not achieved anything, but it has won two awards on TIFF and stepped on LMS, it is certainly not very good, LMS is so bad?

The media expressed their confusion, because the exclamation of LMS was already ringing, but the secrets were disappointed, they were really bastards, and there were zero eggs again!

This made Wei Hei, who had been frustrated again and again recently, finally happy, and Ztelle laughed and said: "Ye Wei is not respected in his hometown, which shows how annoying he is." Sebastiankj said: "Of course you can't get anything from a bad movie, it will be like this in the United States, and this time Tom Hanks is really a fool, lol." ”

mightcard scolded: "Ye Wei, this-go back to Japan!" hadeel10 replied angrily, "Only Chinese, not Japanese! You idiot knows that it was Japan and not China that bombed Pearl Harbor, right?" josephzzz disdainfully said: "Is there a difference? Asians all look the same." Brigitte-D said, "Is there a difference between England and France? Is there a difference between Germany and Russia? What a bunch of idiots!......

It's a fact, and the first campaign of "Little Sunshine Beauty" did not achieve the desired results, which can be said to be bad.

Peter Heller and Tim Ross returned to the United States with a black face, and no one knows if it was a job that was not done well or what, but many people really have a huge prejudice against a 17-year-old young director, which is obviously unfair, and the chairman of the jury also said, "Ye Wei is still young, it is not a good thing for him to win the award so early, he will have a chance in the future." ”

Even in Asia, it is not difficult to understand why there are no eggs so far. In fact, because of ethnicity, if Ye Wei is a white child, he has already won the award, right?

Isn't it a good thing? It's really not a good thing now! The DreamWorks Distribution Department was very depressed, thinking that it would be able to win a few awards at TIFF, if Ye Wei won the Best Director Award, it would be the youngest Best Director at a film festival in the world, how good is this?

Not to mention the loss of publicity, just the disadvantage of impacting the awards season, TIFF should have played the role of the first person to eat tomatoes, and LMS will participate in the competitions of major film festivals and major film awards in the future, the resistance will be much smaller, and canvassing will be much easier.

The actor is no problem, Hanks, Roberts and others don't need TIFF to prove themselves, and the screenwriter is fine; the most important thing is a 17-year-old director, a best director is too helpful to Ye Wei, with the first one, there is a second, and TIFF has not been obtained, and it will definitely be more difficult in the future.

No matter what the reason, Zhang Yimou did not vote for Ye Wei, which is likely to kill the birth of the youngest Oscar nominee for Best Director.

After suffering this blow, LMS's reputation has to be higher and higher, so high that people can't resist and ignore it, and Ye Wei has a new vitality. The response to the LMS test screening seems to be very good, so I don't know what will happen to the final evaluation given by the film critics and the general audience......

In terms of publicity, the envisaged help has not been realized, so it can only be regarded as if there is no such thing, and losing to "Dialogue with Women" is a failure.

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"Oh! I already know, it's bad. On the bright side, maybe Mr. Zhang understands me, but I don't want my first director award to be won in Japan, haha! I know, I know it's not good for the awards season, maybe whatever, the festival is closed. ”

"It's strange, didn't you have a good conversation with Zhang? He should have chosen you. ”

"We had a very pleasant conversation, I've seen all his films, I love Heroes, he hasn't seen mine, but we had a good conversation. ”

"It doesn't make sense...... Zhang is targeting you now, and not a single award will be selected for you, this is for you!"

"If there is a problem, I think it can only be that he invited me to play a little prince in his new film, "The City Full of Golden Armor"? Yes, it's called this. I turned him down. Mr. Zhang is not such a stingy person, is he? I tend to think too much, because he doesn't have an unhappy tone on the phone, it's like he's just joking. ”

"Please, but, our movie is the best movie there! It's better than "Dialogue with Women"! How can you say that the conversation is very pleasant, you didn't give him 'mianzi', you must know better than me what face is to the Chinese! You are too confused about this, you can promise him first, after the film festival is over, you can say that you will not act, you can say think first!"

"Maybe I was confused, I just felt that Zhang was not a bad person, so I just said 'no, thank you'. ”

"We don't know who he is, why don't you give him face?"

"I don't give him face because I respect him, and anyone who wants to save face is not worthy of respect, I think he can be respected. There are six people on the jury, and four of them don't choose me, this matter is not Zhang Zhang's final say, why only him? How to choose, he has his artistic considerations, he has his persistence. I'm not going to identify anyone as a bad guy until it's settled. ”

"Oh, hell, sometimes you're smart, sometimes you're just a kid. Zhang is definitely aimed at you, he is the chairman, he can influence the ideas of the other judges. ”

"It's all just speculation. ”

"Young man, not speculation. Gary Foster sued Sù Gary for the Best Director Award, Ron Holloway was going to vote for you, it was Zhang, he said, 'The artistic value of 'Little Sunshine Beauty' is lower than 'Pray to the Snow', and the 55-year-old Negishi Kichitaro deserves the award more than the 17-year-old Ye Wei', and Holloway changed his mind. ”

“...... That only says what he thinks, and you can't say that someone else is a bad person just because their ideas are not good. ”

"Everything, we're in trouble, you're in trouble, to be exact. ”

"As long as the LMS is still in theaters, I'm not in trouble. ”

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Ye Wei is actually quite depressed about TIFF's zero eggs, and he and his relatives and friends are once again disappointed, how can he not be depressed?

He doesn't know if Zhang Yimou is in the way, there is no way to verify this, but he really doesn't want to determine anything because of this, the judges have the insistence of the judges, and if he is a judge, he must have his own mind first, what if Zhang Yimou is like this?

Today is Sunday, October 30th, the day of the premiere of "VIY", and he thinks he should have a happy day anyway.

Lev and the others got together to watch it, and they asked him to go, and he said "no, thank you" without giving face, and he was shy! It's weird to watch your own documentary with everyone. It's better to stay home and watch it with your family, Nina is in Toronto this week and will be there next week for the LMS premiere.

In the evening, the festive atmosphere of the Ye family became more and more intense, as if it was the New Year, and the bad news from Asia today could not take away this happiness.

"Brother is going to be on TV!" Duo Duo ran around the house, one moment in the hall, one moment in the dining room, and one moment in the back garden. Cookie doesn't know those bad things, the happiest is her, she just turned 5 years old, she only knows that her brother is amazing!

"Brother, brother, isn't Nana coming, where does she live?"

"Toronto, we have to fly there, and we will go to Toronto during the Christmas holidays. ”

The sunset dyed the sky red, and in the back garden, Ye Wei was sitting on a wooden rocking chair watching "Winter Bones", answering the questions of the flowers who were running around with Toto without a match. Suddenly, I saw my dad walking out of the porch, holding a stack of DVDs and VHS, with a face full of determination.

He glanced at it a few times and asked suspiciously, "Dad, are those ...... What are you going to do? Don't be impulsive!!"

"From today onwards, I am no longer a fan of Zhang Yimou. Ye Haogen suddenly threw all the DVDs to the ground, picked up a smashed DVD and snapped it, and said angrily: "Zhang Yimou tricked my son, I'll let him get out of my photo library!"

"Dad, don't be impulsive!" Ye Wei got up and ran over, and said hurriedly: "Put down that box of VHS!"

"Put it down. Ye Haogen threw the "Qiu Ju Lawsuit" in his hand back to the ground, and immediately stepped on it vigorously, and the tape exploded, "Done!"

"Oh my ......," Ye Wei couldn't laugh or cry. Duo Duo asked loudly: "Who is Zhang Yimoo, what kind of cow is it?" Ye Haogen sneered and said, "A shameless old cow!" Duo Duo felt very funny and mooed, while breaking his hands to count and count, while jumping, "One moo, two moo, three moo, four moo, five moo!"

"Duoduo, I'll give you a task to pull out all the tapes in this. Ye Haogen picked up the cracked VHS on the ground and handed it to his daughter, "Pull them all out!"

"Okay!" Duo Duo thought it was funny, and immediately began to pull the tape without hesitation, and the long black tape rolled and fell to the ground, and the box of VHS was officially destroyed.

At this time, Gu Qiao, who was cooking dinner, heard the sound, and as soon as he knew what was going on, he didn't say anything, picked up those DVDs and pulled them, snap!

"You demons ......" Ye Wei watched his family destroy the pile of video tapes to their heart's content, Duoduo's excitement, his parents' evil breath, he couldn't help but smile brightly, and suddenly yelled: "Just let Zhang Yimoo's movie get out."