The Venice International Film Festival has the longest history among the three major film festivals in Europe, and once became one of the most popular film festivals among the Chinese, but unfortunately, the long history did not make it the leader of the three major film festivals, but because of the increasingly extreme award-winning literary and artistic works, many film companies were discouraged, and the film trophy was authoritative, but the film market was pitifully small, and even the sales of award-winning works were dismal......

The Berlin Film Festival is much more atmospheric, but it is easy to be shortlisted, it is difficult to win awards, basically all the films are monopolized by European and American films, Chinese filmmakers have rushed for so many years, and even high-quality movies like "Hero" have been pulled over to participate in the exhibition, but in the end, they have made a leftover award, and the pit is extremely bad, so the award of "The Bottom of the Mine" a few months ago is almost groundbreaking in China.

The Cannes International Film Festival is quite tolerant of the three major film festivals, and there are many Chinese films shortlisted every year, and the annual film market turnover of more than 100 million yuan makes many Chinese filmmakers flock to it, even if they don't win awards, they come over to rub the red carpet heat, and it's good to brush their faces here with those film companies, and because the time in Cannes is just right, just when the summer file is about to start, you can not only make a big gimmick before the summer file is released, but also sell overseas rights in advance, which is definitely the best of both worlds.

Moreover, every few years, there will always be a Chinese director who enters the jury system of the Cannes competition, which is undoubtedly a great incentive for Chinese films.

After all, the former "Overlord" was so awesome, and its status in Cannes is still talked about by many old guys......

This year, 22 films were included in the canon.

Among them are four Chinese-language films.

A "Bicycle. Life", one is Wang Shuai's "Crow", the other is Shen Changwei's "Hero", and the last one is the literary film "Black" from Hong Kong Island.

Yes.

"Hero", a film that has been painted in China, was still brought to Cannes by Shen Changwei for the exhibition.

This kind of movie is the first time in the world.

The other two movies more or less have the meaning of running over to sell more overseas copyrights, and try their luck to see if they can win awards, while Shen Changwei came over and simply wanted to win awards.

"Heroes" does not have a screening room?

Doesn't matter!

Don't have a sale area?

Doesn't matter!

People don't care at all, they just want to compete for their reputation in the international arena and pull a wave of their dignity as a great Chinese director.

"Hero" hurt its vitality in Berlin, although the box office explosion of the movie, becoming the most Chinese-language film, the word-of-mouth explosion in China, and the overseas copyright also soaring, but there is no matching honorary positioning in the international arena, and many people even classify "Hero" as the most successful commercial film in the Chinese film industry.

Commercial Film ......

This made Shen Changwei feel very uncomfortable, "Hero" was constantly giving Cannes organizers a look before its release, and after learning that Huang Jiacheng was one of the members of the main competition jury in Cannes, Shen Changwei's mind became more lively.

Zhou Yang and Wang Shuai met Shen Changwei in front of the Austin Hotel.

Shen Changwei looks very serious in the eyes of outsiders, especially when making movies, many actresses have been scared and cried by Shen Changwei's eyes.

But in private, Shen Changwei is very enthusiastic, at least he doesn't have any argument for Zhou Yang, he pulled over and bleeped to rely on a large number of Cannes this year, and also hinted to Zhou Yang that the young lady in France is actually quite open, especially some artists, who are very open, if you want to talk to them about the glow-in-the-dark script, you can definitely talk to you exhausted.

The relationship between Wang Shuai and Shen Changwei is also good, although one is from the Beijing circle and the other is from the northwest circle, there is a little bit of resource competition, but this does not prevent the two from occasionally sitting down and chatting in private, talking about the future of Chinese films......

After some conversation, Shen Changwei regained his seriousness and walked towards the hotel room with his staff.

"Shen Changwei is definitely one of the most powerful Chinese directors...... It's a pity, he's been a little stunned lately. Wang Shuai looked at the back of Shen Changwei leaving, and sighed faintly.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Yang is quite strange.

"The box office success of "Hero" is high enough, but I pursue artistry, keep an eye on the European Triple Film Festival, and I heard that I have also signed up for this year's Oscars...... He has the energy, it is better to make a new movie, but it is understandable that even if "Hero" can win a decent award in the world, it will be enough to become famous......" Wang Shuai shrugged his shoulders and sighed.

"Why are you so obsessed with awards?" Zhou Yang was very strange and asked this question.

"Is there any filmmaker who is not obsessed with winning awards? Aren't you attached? Don't tell me, you haven't dreamed of Cannes ......" Wang Shuai glanced at Zhou Yang.

"No ......"

Zhou Yang shook his head, but provoked Wang Shuai to look at him again: "You did win the award in Berlin, but that award can only be ranked sixth in the main competition unit...... You haven't seen the real jackpot yet. ”

"What's the real jackpot?"

"At this year's Cannes, your nomination is one of the biggest prizes......"

"Huh?"

"Best Actor Award, you don't know what this thing is, do you?"

"Well, I don't know!"

"Actor, Cannes actor!"

"Huh?"

……………………

Everything in France made Zhou Yang curious, people of different colors, different languages, as well as the road signs on the streets, and the rows of cars.

But Zhou Yang could only cower in the hotel, looking at the crowd of people coming and going below, but he never thought of going out for a walk.

In a foreign country, he doesn't understand France, and his English is even worse, and if he gets lost, he will suffer if he doesn't do well.

Staying in the room is actually quite boring.

Wang Shuai met his old friends in various ways, and Bi Funan, the second eldest in the crew, followed the rest of the crew to invite a bunch of blonde ladies to party in other places, and also invited Zhou Yang, but Zhou Yang refused.

This so-called party, Zhou Yang thinks it shouldn't be the kind where everyone sings and dances.

In short, everyone has something to do, but Zhou Yang has nothing to do, except for being tossed by the image art master "Toilet Brother" over and over again and trying on all kinds of messy trendy clothes, just staying in the hotel in a daze.

When he went downstairs to eat the buffet at noon, he met Song Yiyi, he took the initiative to say hello to Song Yiyi, and by the way, Song Yiyi asked about the details of the red carpet, but Song Yiyi seemed to not see him, chatting with those French girlfriends by himself, and from time to time there was a gurgling sound, Zhou Yang was embarrassed!

In the next two days, Zhou Yang and Song Yiyi met several times, but basically Song Yiyi regarded Zhou Yang as air.

Zhou Yang naturally does not have the habit of sticking a hot face to other people's cold buttocks, and after touching his embarrassed brows twice, he never took the initiative to speak again......

He even felt in his heart that the Song Yiyi in front of him should not be Song Yiyi, but might be her twin sister or something.

Two days have passed quite quickly......

When there was still a day before the film festival party, Wang Shuai brought a not-so-good news.

The copyright of "Crow" sold quite ordinarily abroad, not to mention that it was not as good as "Mine Bottom", and even made Wang Shuai feel that "Crow" was close to a street movie like "Warring States".

This disappointed Wang Shuai.

The movie "Crow" was almost wholly owned by him, but the overseas copyright was sold like a bird, which made him depressed for a long time.

And the screening effect in Cannes is very tricky.

In a small screening room, there were still no people, and when the movie was about to end, there were only a few people in the entire huge screening room......

Although I knew that the screening of "The Crow" would be disappointing, this posture was too tricky, and it once made Wang Shuai want to pull Zhou Yang over to sell tickets.

But then it didn't make sense......

Unless Zhou Yang is willing to hook up with those rich women of film businessmen, talk to them about film art, and dedicate himself to art when appropriate, it will have no effect on selling films.

Everybody is realistic......

Since this bad news came, Bi Funan and the others, who had a party, also stayed in the hotel room in a state of despair and never went out again.

Everyone's mood is generally low......

They realized that the overseas copyright of "The Crow" should be on the street.

In case you don't get the award again, it is estimated that this trip to Cannes will be in vain.

June 20th.

Night.

Zhou Yang stayed in the room as usual, reading the sheet music, and pondering the arrangement, when the alarm bell rang at the door.

Didn't Director Wang just leave?

Zhou Yang opened the door suspiciously, and when he saw a girl in a long green dress, he froze.

"Teacher Song?" He asked unconvincedly, it seemed hard to believe that Song Yiyi would take the initiative to come to her so late.

"Zhou Yang, are you that I don't talk to you, and you don't talk to me anymore? Are you going to die of old age? After Song Yiyi saw Zhou Yang, she took a deep breath, and her bright eyes revealed a trace of helplessness.

"Ah, no...... I said hello to you, but you ignored me. ”

"If I ignore you, can't you ask me why I ignore you?" Song Yiyi looked at Zhou Yang, as if she had been defeated by Zhou Yang.

"Forehead......" Zhou Yang couldn't speak for a while, he could only be stupid and rude, feeling that he was wrong, but he felt that he had done nothing wrong.

"What about inviting me to dinner?"

"Eh, I texted back, you didn't answer me......" Zhou Yang was still at a loss.

"Can't you be sincere and call me? Worried about phone bills? ”

"No ......"

"Oh my God, your emotional intelligence, hey, forget it, forget it, I can't get angry if I want to, wait, you're going to let me stand outside and talk to you? Are you really planning to walk the red carpet alone tomorrow? ”

"Ah, please come in ......" Zhou Yang nodded subconsciously.

"Zhou Yang, should you be alone in the room, ...... What's that? Song Yiyi was suddenly a little suspicious.

"What?"

"Forget it......"

"Hit. Plane? Zhou Yang thought for a while, and then looked at Song Yiyi in disbelief, "No, I'm not this kind of person......"

“……”

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