Chapter Ninety-Five: The César Award for French Cinema
"Jayron, take a break, come out and drink saliva."
Gu Bei handed a bottle of water to Jay Chou and said with a smile: "Your style is what fans like, I feel that you were born to be a singer." ”
"Actually, I wanted to write songs for people at the beginning, but no one wanted to write songs at that time, and then Mr. Yang Junrong suggested that I release my own records, and I have only slowly come to this point." Jay Chou smiled and took a sip of water and said, "Actually, I have a question, don't mind." ”
"It's okay, you ask."
"Why don't you terminate the contract with the company? It shouldn't be a matter of money. ”
Hearing this, Gu Bei smiled and said, "The Organizing Committee of the Treasure Island Golden Melody Awards doesn't want to see you, are you angry in your heart?" But it's useless to be angry now, the key is that I am the same as you, I have to develop obscenely, I can't waste, I am now canceling the contract and wasting money, not to mention, the situation is not much better. ”
Jay Chou didn't speak, or didn't know what to say, the two were the same year, and their experiences had a lot in common, and they both had their own views on the future, and they didn't see it very clearly.
Gu Bei was just about to listen to the song he had just recorded a few more times, when his mobile phone rang, and he still hadn't seen the area code.
"Xiaobei, we're here." Zhang Jiayi's voice came out, "It's a pity that you don't come, this street in France is really good-looking, and the girl is wearing really little." ”
"Hey, Brother Jiayi, if you want to say that, when you get married in the future, I have to talk to my sister-in-law and ask my sister-in-law to wear less clothes for you."
"Hey, don't, my brother is wrong."
Gu Bei smiled and said, "Brother Jiayi, Brother Xiong, are they by your side?" and Xingzhe's two children. ”
"It's all there."
"Did you bring a translator? Don't get lost in France. ”
"Bring it, don't worry about it, I persuaded you to come over, but you didn't come, and now I'm worrying about it again, can't you record songs for others, if you want me to say, you can buy a ticket now, there is still some time to the award ceremony."
Being able to go to France is also a great temptation for Gu Bei, after weighing it again and again, Gu Bei still refused: "Forget it, Brother Jiayi, don't tempt me, I can't enter the venue if I go, and it will be known by my brokerage company, and it will be troublesome." ”
"This is the French Oscar, really not coming? Don't you think it's a pity if you don't have a chance to come over in the future? ”
"The Return" was shortlisted for the French Film César Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the César Award is the highest honor in the French film industry, and has always had the reputation of "French Oscar", Xiong Zhengyu, Zhang Jiayi and others went to attend the 28th sister French Film César Award ceremony.
It's a pity that it's fake, but Gu Bei still said: "I didn't even go to the real Oscar." ”
"Okay, brother won't persuade you anymore, let's take advantage of this time to travel, let's do this first, and I'll talk to you on the day of the award ceremony."
"Wait a minute, Brother Jiayi." Gu Bei heard that Zhang Jiayi was about to hang up the phone, and hurriedly called, "There is one more thing about the Caesar Award in two days, I wrote a book called "God of Killing" before, the foreign name is "Carnage", I sold it to the French SBS production company last year, they made this movie some time ago, you can help me pay attention to it." ”
"You got nominated for this movie?"
"Well, the best original screenplay, I don't know if I can win it, anyway, you help me watch a little, if you win, you are good, Brother Xiong and them, go up and help me take it down, thank you for winning the award Look at it and say something, just say it."
Hanging up the phone, Gu Beigang wanted to make a call to the people from SBS Production Company, only to find that he had just made a few minutes of phone calls with Zhang Jiayi, and his mobile phone was in arrears, so he had to put this matter aside for the time being, and beckoned the staff and Jay Chou to continue recording the album.
Jay Chou has his own style, and the style attributes are particularly strong, when Gu Bei was recording songs, in addition to correcting some professional problems, he was more from the perspective of an audience and told Jay Chou where it was not suitable and where it needed to be changed.
didn't shoot the MV, simply recorded ten songs, and before the end of February, Jay Chou and his team left Beiping, and Zhang Jiayi and Xiong Zhengyu, who went to France to participate in the French Film César Awards, also came back, and also brought back a video of the award ceremony and a César Award trophy for Best Original Screenplay.
Gu Bei's directorial debut "The Return" failed to win the César Award for Best Foreign Language Film, just a nomination, and the award was won by a documentary film "Bowling in Columbine", and "The God of Killing" won Gu Bei the Best Original Screenplay at the 28th French Film César Awards.
The awards ceremony was broadcast live on Cannes TV in France, and there was no way to watch it in China, so when Gu Bei returned home, he put the videotape brought by Zhang Jiayi into the machine.
Gu Bei doesn't collect anything else, there are a lot of these old gadgets for videos and records at home, but there are recently popular VCD players, as well as old-fashioned tape projectors, film projectors, walkmans and vinyl record players for playing songs, and the walkman was given to Gu Bei by Sun Yanzi.
During the entire awards ceremony, Zhang Jiayi and his party were given two shots, one was when the best foreign language film was awarded, although "The Return" failed to win the award, all the nominated films had shots, and the other was when Zhang Jiayi received the Best Original Screenplay Award for Gu Bei.
Zhang Jiayi wore a suit, strode to the podium, thanked him for receiving the trophy, and the first thing he said when he walked in front of the microphone was: "I am not Gu Bei." ”
The audience who was too young and unknown couldn't help laughing, Zhang Jiayi cleared his throat, and then said: "Gu Bei for some reason, he has not been able to appear in front of everyone in recent years, and he has not been able to participate in such a grand event, Gu Bei said that he is very sorry, this year we also brought a directorial debut, "Return", everyone who is doing it should have heard it, I asked him, if he does not have the opportunity to come to the Caesar Award again in the future, will he regret it, Gu Bei did not answer my question positively, but I know, Gu Bei is a very talented person, he made the first movie "The Return", and there will be a second, third, and fourth films, I think that as long as the organizing committee of the Caesar Award likes Gu Bei's films, he will have the opportunity to come. ”
Gu Bei watched Zhang Jiayi talking on the podium, couldn't help but smile, and said that a script award was a film award.
"Getting back to business, thank you to the organizers for awarding this award to Gu Bei, thank you SBS Productions, and thank you to the judges for their trust in Gu Bei, thank you!"
With Zhang Jiayi's resignation, Gu Bei also turned off the video, took out the videotape, and carefully put it back on the cabinet, which also has the video of last year's Golden Globe Awards and Oscars, Gu Bei won the Best Screenplay and the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in the Golden Autumn with "A Beautiful Mind", and now it has put in the Best Original Screenplay of the French Film César Awards.
Next to it are the two trophies that Gu Bei won at the Huabiao Awards, and some music awards awarded to Gu Bei.
There were dozens of trophies, certificates, and certificates in the cabinet, and Gu Bei received a Huabiao award by himself.