"Is there anything else going on?"

Zheng Xu glanced at the company's management present, just after the Spring Festival, let's talk about the main things in the new year.

"It's gone..."

Lao Qin flipped through the minutes of the meeting process, and the few things that should be said were all reported.

"Okay... Lao Qin, you come with me, have you brought back the films of our main competitors? I'll take a look. ”

Although it is necessary to give all the competitors at the Cannes Film Festival the means, but the movie itself, Zheng Xu is also ready to see, don't fight an uncertain battle, if a dark horse suddenly jumps out to give him a ruthless blow, when the time comes, he should be defenseless, then he should suffer?

"It arrived the other day... It's all in our screening room. ”

Lao Qin took out his mobile phone and sent a message to the people in the screening hall first, asking them to prepare first.

The people on Renault's side are quite reliable, and the film sources of several of Zheng Xu's main competitors have been obtained.

As for what they used...

It's definitely disgraceful, but there is no need for Lao Qin to worry about this matter, as long as the things are obtained.

.................

At five o'clock in the afternoon, a flash flashed in the media screening room.

In the screening hall of Liangtang, only Lao Qin accompanied Zheng Xu.

Zheng Xu held the remote control in his hand and stopped the screen first.

From the time he finished the meeting in the morning to the present, he even ate his lunch in the screening room.

I watched a total of seven movies, and some places were fast-forwarded.

What impressed Zheng Xu the most was the British director.

This film is so rubbish!

In addition to the film making Zheng Xu feel rubbish, this Ken Loach director also made Zheng Xu successfully realize his strength.

This Ken Loach's "I Am Blake", to put it bluntly... It is a film that satirizes the British welfare department, and the main perspective is given to the bottom of the UK.

The male protagonist is a carpenter, who is sick and has lost his ability to work, wants to go to work but can't go to work, and wants to receive benefits but can't get benefits.

While watching the film, Lao Qin also told Zheng Xu about the historical honor of Ken Lodge on the side.

Speaking of this old guy, Zheng Xu really underestimated him, don't look at this product is eighty years old, but he has been committed to hitting the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

A total of 13 entries in history!

He has won five previous awards and this is the closest he has come to the Palme d'Or.

But the specific resume of this Ken Lodge really didn't leave a good impression on Zheng Xu.

He was born in the BBC, and with his old unit, you can imagine his personality, and he is a well-known old white left.

Bai Zuo, as the name suggests, to put it simply, is a virgin, very disgusting, although Zheng Xu is sometimes classified as "white left", everyone needs to pack, but this does not affect Zheng Xu's hatred of Ken Lodge.

Punched Nanshan Nursing Home and kicked Beihai Kindergarten.

In terms of kicking the kindergarten, Chen Yao has already done it for Zheng Xu.

The rest of the bullying of the elderly, Zheng Xu is the first time to do it, and he is a little excited to think about it.

................

"This film is still a bit level, damn, behind this old guy's production company, there are actually French, you have to collect information on this, see who is behind them, find out that person, see if there is anyone in the jury who has anything to do with them, here... Let's take precautions. ”

Zheng Xu lit a cigarette and tilted his head to communicate with Lao Qin, who had been watching movies with him next to him.

This "I Am Blake" plus the first few films shortlisted for the main competition unit took Zheng Xu about seven hours of time.

From the perspective of ordinary audiences, these movies are rubbish.

To look at them is a waste of time, a waste of life.

Especially this kind of traditional European literary film, the picture is obscure, the thoughts are gray and hard, and it is biased towards the Virgin, not only does it not gain anything after watching it, but I even want to scold a little----What the is this filming?!"

But from the perspective of a director or film critic, after watching these films, Zheng Xu still has more or less gains.

At the very least, after watching all the films, his first feeling was that if there were no public relations means, he would definitely be cold!

The biggest problem lies in the film itself.

These traditional European literary films can be said to have no commercial value!

It means that ordinary audiences only look at the title and synopsis of the movie, and they don't even have the desire to buy tickets to watch it.

But Zheng Xu has been influenced by the Oscars for a long time, and even if his films are stuffed with private goods and repackaged, they still have some commercial attributes, at least they can be sold back for a ticket price.

In terms of simplicity and no commerciality, Zheng Xu is inferior to them.

And in these traditional European film festivals, the more commercial the film, the more difficult it is to win the award!

After all, it's the first time to go to the three traditional European film festivals.

Zheng Xu has already struggled extremely pure thought flow movies, but in the end he is still not as good as others.

I have to say that in the field of literary films where garbage does not make money, Europeans will still play!

Turning his head and thinking about it again, Zheng Xu finally understood why Lao Jia's films were always the same, the contrast of the pictures was obvious, and the overall color was mainly dark and cold, smelly and long...

It's all a stinky problem learned in Europe!

Lao Jia is reprocessed like this, coupled with localized design, the movies made are not good-looking, and they are not profitable, from this point of view, it is conceivable that if ordinary domestic audiences directly watch the original traditional European literary films, it will be sour.

Whoever reads it will doubt life.

The only gain brought to Zheng Xu in the past few hours is to see the relationship between the production company behind this "I Am Blake".

A British director with a French background in the production company behind him, ended up at the Cannes Film Festival.

If you want to say that they have nothing to do with it, the dogs don't believe it.

Combined with the news that director Ken Lodge has returned to the Cannes Film Festival after ten years.

This kind of thing, it's okay to fool the layman, it sounds very inspirational, very hot-blooded, the old guy is old and strong, he has worked hard for ten years, and he returned to the Cannes Film Festival at the age of eighty, this is a good story!

But the core essence of the mother's question is, did the jury come round again in ten years, and returned to his relationship to re-enter the jury?

Ordinary people think that they have worked hard for ten years before returning to Cannes, but in fact, they are related to the jury again, and it's as simple as that!

Inspirational.

If his client had re-entered the jury a few years earlier, this old guy would have returned to Cannes a long time ago!

Now Zheng Xu is worried about this, everyone has people in the Cannes jury, and the strength on the surface is almost the same, now it depends on who is more clever in terms of special means.

...............

"This... Can you check it, but the time is not sure how long it will be, is our dinner still going to be held as scheduled? ”

Checking information and collecting intelligence all cost a lot of time and manpower and material resources, and Flashing Media hit the Cannes Film Festival for the first time, and there were basically no other acquaintances except for Renault's "partner".

This made their work even more difficult, and Lao Qin was mainly afraid of delaying the business.

The Féléle de Cannes is open for entries until early March, while the nominees are announced in mid-April and the awards ceremony is held from mid-May to the end of the month.

And Zheng Xu's plan is to go to France around the end of March, hold a private banquet, invite some of the judges of the Cannes Film Festival, everyone to sit down to eat, chat, and talk about the world economy and the personal GDP of the judges, that is, bribery!

From the deadline for registration to the announcement of nominations, there is a month and a half to deal with the problems in the general direction.

For example, getting rid of some small competitors and making trouble for big competitors by the way.

When the final nomination comes out, we will arrange some targeted means, and finally kill all competitors and win the award in one fell swoop!

The plan is no problem, the plans of each producer are similar, the difference is who starts faster, who starts darker, and who kills who first.

Now I find that Director Ken Lodge also has someone in the jury, and the relationship is likely to be very good, in this case, it is just in time for Zheng Xu to hold a banquet to invite the jury, in case the relationship of that person is also mixed in and invited together, resulting in a leak, it will be easy for the other party to notice first.

It's not terrible to have a spy, before I found out, I invited people over and stuffed some benefits, this is a meat bun beating a dog, an enemy.

...............

"You will arrange someone here first, check when you should check, don't look ahead, I'll do the rest."

Zheng Xu raised his hand and stopped Lao Qin's cranky thoughts, how can there be a 100% perfect plan, when he went to the Oscars, there were many more things than now, but then he didn't go up step by step?

If you can't take it once, you should be treated as a mixed experience, this loss... He still loses.

"Dao'er... I have to remind you that next year's Cannes will be reorganized, and a Yanguo Film Honor Award will be specially set up. Whether it is in terms of publicity or gold content, Cannes is not this year, we have to pay attention to it, we can't afford it! ”

“？？？”

"When is it going to be reorganized? Damn, the organizing committee over there in Cannes is crazy about money? ”

The first time he heard such news, Zheng Xu's hands trembled.

Just by listening to the name "Yanguo Film Honor Award", you can guess what this thing is.

can open up a new award for the country alone, no one really thinks that this is the special care of the French people for Yanguo, right?

"The plans have been approved, in the past few years, except for Director Jia, who was shortlisted for Cannes once last year, other companies can't rub it at all, and they have no way out of the Oscars, if they continue like this, the stars in the domestic entertainment industry will not be able to mix, with so much money, they can't participate in any major awards, and they are not worthy of the position."

"Several domestic entertainment companies have organized a group to negotiate with that side, and this award will come out next year, just for fun, bluffing, the advertisers are satisfied, the stars are satisfied, and the fans of the stars are also satisfied."

“？？？”

Can you still play like this?

Zheng Xu was a little confused, he had heard of the blanket star who rubbed the blanket, but he couldn't even rub the blanket, and he specially came up with a garbage and fun award to rub the blanket, and only a few domestic entertainment companies could come up with this kind of "genius creativity".

At film award ceremonies such as Cannes and the Oscars, there are strict rules for attendees.

Theoretically, only the production team of the shortlisted films invited by the organizer can participate, that is, directors, actors, producers, etc.

But only these people are not lively, there are so many shortlisted movies every year, and later there are some advertisers sponsored by international brands, and some of their brand spokespersons can also participate, but only to participate, walk the red carpet, wear a new dress and take a photo or something, it is a large vase.

The crews that slowly developed later, or people who have a little relationship, sell places!

This is the so-called blanket star of the carpet, their quota is generally attached to a certain crew, maybe they don't even know where the crew is, but whether it is the process or the relationship, people can be formal on the surface.

This kind of routine was later learned by some domestic brokers, but if you want to operate it, the cost is relatively high!

People sell places just to make money!

Generally, celebrities with small coffee positions can't afford this kind of quota at all, unless there is a financier behind them.

Therefore, this is also where some big flowers in China go to participate in what film festivals, what looks good in wear, and they are glamorous.

But when they look at the film festival they attend, some viewers have never heard of a small film festival in a corner.

The roots are here, the big film festival is too expensive, so you can only go to the small ones.

Later, the competition was fierce, and many "first-line" big flowers could only rely on advertisers to sponsor while cutting fans and leeks, and on the other hand, they had to take some immoral paths, save money and scrape together some money to rub blankets.

But this time Cannes is a big game...

Directly open a special customized award for Yanguo, if this mouth is released, then...

handed Lao Qin a cigarette, Zheng Xu was a little melancholy, this was blocking his back road.

"Any other news? They're making such a miasma, ready to flip the table? ”

"Dao'er... Look. ”

Lao Qin handed over the phone and showed Zheng Xu a few screenshots of WeChat chats.

“？？？”

, good guy, I don't know if I don't see it, I'm shocked when I see it.

This Nima has not yet won awards at Cannes this year, and there is already a professional team in China that has begun to launch next year's Cannes Film Festival package "seven-day five-star luxury tour". ”

It's still very professional, with a specific itinerary every day, which stars can you meet, the boss of a film and television production company, etc., and the asking price for each package is different according to the people you know.

Even the backdrop of the red carpet, that is, the photographer team, can be packed and selected.

A background board for 20 people is a price, and a background board for 50 people is another price.

This is what these celebrities who have bought the above package, when they walk the red carpet, they go to which section of the road, and there is a group of foreign-looking photographers standing behind them as childcare.

slapped at the star for a while, creating an illusion that the star is very famous abroad.

It's even accurate to the emoji service!

Whether each photographer uses a flat expression or an excited expression, the price is different for different expressions!

I'm Nima...

Handing the phone to Lao Qin, Zheng Xu sighed, this fucking Cannes next year will be wasted, with the play of these domestic companies, the blanket star who will go to Cannes next year to rub the blanket, probably five or six planes can't be finished, right?

A large group of people went over to rub the blanket, is this a film festival or a temple fair?

The point is, do these people have works?

So many people rely on a "Yanguo Film Honor Award", how many garbage movies do you have to pack so many people.

"I really can't play next year, these guys are just messing around, grass."

No wonder Lao Qin is so worried, when next year's Cannes Film Festival is so messed up by these people, Cannes in the future will be about rubbish!

With a little money, you can go, and once you go to a large area, like driving sheep, what's the point of going to such an award?

If the influence of the award loses its original status, is it necessary for Zheng Xu to spend so much money to participate?

A rat poop spoiled a pot of soup!

"Alright... You go and arrange it, I'll go to France early in a while, and I'll keep an eye on what happens there. ”

In the current situation, apart from doing his best and tackling key problems, Zheng Xu has no other way, let's do it first!

...............

Marseille, France, 15 March 2016.

Zheng Xu arrived in France's third largest city in a very low-key manner a few days earlier on the Benshan.

Marseille, many people have heard of this place, but even fewer people have actually been there.

Zheng Xu is also the first time to come, as a harbor city, the history is needless to say, the history of 2500 years, if you move to Nanhe Province, this is a younger brother, no status at all.

But in Europe, this is already an extremely famous historical city, and it is also the oldest city in France.

Listening to the introduction of the person in charge of the European marketing department, Zheng Xu's eyes were a little weird.

What is there to brag about 2,500 years of history?

What is such a historical time called in Nanhe Province?

It's called a young city!

It's old.

Our Zhongzhou City has only a history of more than 3,600 years, and it is a young city in the province.

As for any attractions in Marseille and the like, Zheng Xu was not interested in visiting them.

...

At five o'clock in the afternoon, I arrived at the port in the business car provided by Renault.

Today's small port has been chartered by a mysterious rich man, usually at five or six o'clock in the afternoon, it is the busiest time for the port, even if it is a small port, there is no shortage of people.

But today's small port, except for a very conspicuous and slightly strange yacht, there are not even a few tourists around.

"Boss... This is a yacht borrowed from an animal protection organization, according to your account. ”

The person in charge of the European marketing department is surnamed Wang, and when the business car is parked at the port, he first helps Zheng Xu open the back door, and then follows Zheng Xu to start the introduction after Zheng Xu finishes sorting out his clothes a little.

"Hmm..."

Zheng Xu squinted and looked at the yacht docked in the harbor in the distance, and the most conspicuous thing on the boat was the logo of the World Wildlife Conservation Association.

The French...

They are rumored to be romantic, beautiful in language, and so on.

But the French are not inferior to the British, as long as the general yacht is close to the city port, what is ushered in is to check over and over again, regardless of whether they can find out what they can find, the main purpose of the people is for money!

If there are people who don't have long eyes and don't want to give money, then don't blame people for deducting the goods on your ship.

In the past, a large part of the affordable foreign goods sold on the flash short video came from this source.

Zheng Xu is too lazy to use the relationship of French customs to slowly open up, just to avoid the trouble of being inspected, there is no need to do it slowly from top to bottom.

Come out to hold a banquet, on land occasions, European paparazzi are everywhere, in case they are secretly photographed, and then report it, it is not good for anyone, but just put the venue of the banquet on the yacht at sea, which can largely avoid some trouble.

All that remains is to guard against the neurotic examination of the French.

Here are bribing the judges on the yacht, and the French are on board to inspect it?

How does this work?!

After thinking about it for a while, Zheng Xu could only take out the relationship with the animal protection organization and borrow a yacht from them.

Like a large international organization like a wildlife protection organization, under normal circumstances, these people don't dare to investigate, don't talk about the trouble first, mainly the people in the animal protection organization, one counts as one, they are all more virgin, a little bit of heavy words, you can get into trouble, they have a lot of influence, and there are many people.

If you provoke this kind of organization, you will lose your job at the least, and you will not be able to say anything about the severity.

Zheng Xu, as a very famous member of the World Wildlife Conservation Organization, is now very suitable to wear this layer of gold.

Their yacht is not for personal enjoyment, but to go out to sea to rescue some wild animals in the sea.

In order to facilitate the life and rest of personnel, it is reasonable to drive a yacht to rescue wild animals, right?!

...............

"Boss, slow down, slow down, watch out for the gap." Minister Wang stretched out his hand to lead Zheng Xu, made a protective action, and let Zheng Xu get on the yacht first.

"Hmm..."

"Mr. Zheng! Welcome to our Little Dolphin! Whatever you want next, you can tell me at any time. ”

The first time he boarded the yacht, a man who was a little short and looked like East Asia greeted Zheng Xu in a strange Chinese voice, and after speaking, without waiting for Zheng Xu to react, he came to a standard ninety-degree bow.

Well...

Looking at this way of saluting, it is easy to guess which country it is.

"Who is this...?"

"Boss, this is my own person, the person in charge of this yacht, I can be regarded as the captain, you can just call him Maeda."

Minister Wang quietly came to Zheng Xu's side and introduced Zheng Xu in a low voice.

"Hmm... Maeda: Huh? Thank you for your hard work, and after these two busy days, Minister Wang will thank you on my behalf. ”

"Haha... Mr. Zheng is polite, it is my honor to serve you! ”

Maeda straightened up when he heard Zheng Xu's voice, especially when he heard Zheng Xu's last emphasis that Minister Wang would thank him on his behalf, a more sincere smile appeared on his face, and his glasses were invisible.

Mr. Zheng's thank you is not verbal!

....

"Alright, take me to see my most important special guest first!"

It's not yet banquet time, Zheng Xu came over in advance to check the preliminary work, and there was a key special guest among them, and he was a little curious.

"Mr. Zheng, let's go!"

Maeda led the way in front and walked towards the pool with Zheng Xu.

Minister Wang greeted and gestured to several staff members of Twinkle Media who followed behind him, and asked them to prepare for the video.

....

Led by Maeda, from one side of the yacht to the stern of the yacht, which used to be a small pool, but has now been converted into a small lattice pool that can be removed.

In one of the large pools, there is a large turtle the size of a millstone.

Zheng Xu was attracted by the thick layer of barnacles on this guy's body at first sight.

Big turtles are big and look good, plus the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" cartoon many years ago and the baptism of the game, many men of Zheng Xu's age have a good impression of turtles.

But turtles are animals, because their limbs and heads can't be completely packed into the huge turtle shell, so this thing can only rely on size to win, under normal circumstances, turtles of the same age, large sea turtles will be much larger than tortoises and water turtles.

This thing usually wanders in the sea, and what it is most afraid of is all kinds of marine debris, such as fishing nets, plastic, glass, etc., whether these things are wrapped around the fins of the giant sea turtle or wrapped around its neck, it can be fatal to the sea turtle!

In addition to these man-made garbage, another type of land that can be fatal to large sea turtles is barnacles.

Barnacles don't seem to have any offensive power, but they are just adsorbed on the big sea turtles, and they wander and reproduce in the sea with the big sea turtles, but the barnacles have a strong reproductive ability, and the mucus they secrete is sticky, and the average big sea turtle wants to get rid of these things by their own ability, which is impossible.

Over the years, there are more and more barnacles on the body of the big sea turtle, which not only affects the swimming speed of the big sea turtle in the sea, but also affects the hunting efficiency of the big sea turtle.

Wildlife protection organizations at sea, the most rescued every year are all kinds of large sea turtles, dolphins, whales and the like, these animals also have high IQ, some of them are uncomfortable, and they also know to take the initiative to lean on the side of the boat, and take the initiative to find humans for help.

............

Zheng Xu is ready to participate in wildlife rescue this time, whether it is to report to the local area or to the wildlife protection organization.

But he didn't have the time to go out with the yacht around the world to rescue the giant turtles.

In the end, I made a compromise, and these staff members went to sea to find a large sea turtle that needed to be rescued first, invited this special "guest" back, brought it to Zheng Xu, and asked Zheng Xu to pose for a photo, which was considered as if he had rescued wild animals.

"Mr. Zheng, you change your clothes first..."

Maeda took the coat handed over by the staff next to him and handed it to Zheng Xu.

Do you have to do a full set of plays, Zheng Xu's current image of a suit and leather shoes is obviously inappropriate, and Maeda has prepared a coat for him that looks a little dirty.

Zheng Xu looked at the dirty coat and frowned.

"Boss, don't worry, this dress was specially prepared by the people of our props team, and the dirty things on it are painted, not really dirty, no smell, and will not delay the banquet for a while."

"Oh... Yes. ”

This Minister Wang handled things quite properly, Zheng Xu's arm was slightly open, and the staff began to help him put on a coat.

.............

"Go forward, don't shoot my lower body for a while, who is that, move your light over there, block it for me for a while, this light is biased in the direction of natural light, you don't need to make up too much, it's okay to mold the lake at all."

Zheng Xu personally got started and began to instruct several accompanying employees on the scene to make preparations before shooting.

Although Zheng Xu can't do the kind of bare-chested standing on the side of the boat and rescuing the big turtle in a very bold way, he can dress neatly on the boat to personally rescue the big turtle, with his current identity, this short video is enough for publicity and communication.

Celebrity effect, rescuing a large sea turtle is also a rescue, and his biggest role is to use it for publicity, rather than to personally go to the front line for treatment.

"Mr. Zheng, your tool."

Maeda held a tray in both hands and handed it to Zheng Xu, on which were placed tools such as tweezers, pliers, knives, and scrapers, as well as iodophor and hydrogen peroxide for disinfection.

"Okay, put it here, what's the personality of this turtle, will it bite me?"

Zheng Xu raised his chin and looked at the large sea turtle in the pool.

Hearing his voice, the big sea turtle blinked and looked at Zheng Xu, and buried its head in the water again, looking a little afraid of Zheng Xu.

"Ahh Mr. Zheng, don't worry, we fed him some food, he has a very stable personality, we are all watching from the side, ready to support you at any time. ”

Maeda made a point of emphasis.

When others shoot this kind of video, especially this kind of large sea turtle, several people have to come together, some people hold the big sea turtle, and some people start to clean the barnacles on the body of the big sea turtle.

But Zheng Xu doesn't need to!

In his video, he is ready to shoot himself and not let others show his face, so as to prevent people who show their faces from talking nonsense in the future, now, only he shows his face, even if other people present today talk nonsense, there is no you in the video, and others will not believe it.

"Alright, everyone is in place, ready to shoot."

Zheng Xu stretched out his arms, moved his waist, and waited for the big turtle to be lifted to the shelf, and the camera was ready, so he touched the big turtle.

glanced at Minister Wang and gave him a thumbs up, and Zheng Xu instantly entered the play.

Imagining the scene when he used to go to school, the teacher asked him to call his parents, Zheng Xu's eyes were slightly red.

"Hey... My little pity, you suffered, bear with me, I'll clean it up for you. ”

Holding a spatula in his right hand, reach the bottom of the barnacle and start prying the barnacle.

This thing sucks on a large sea turtle, like an old suction cup with a lot of suction on a smooth and flat tile, and you have to pry it slowly.

Every time he pried open one, Zheng Xu also gently stroked the shell of the sea turtle with his fingers very seriously to see if there was any damage on it, first rinsed the newly exposed turtle shell with hydrogen peroxide, and finally gently coated a layer of iodine with a cotton swab.

In the middle, he stroked the head of the giant turtle with his hand to comfort the frightened turtle.

After cleaning up five or six barnacles, seeing that the big sea turtle was full of barnacles on its back, Zheng Xu dropped the spatula and clapped his hands and said, "Okay, you can get the rest, treat my special little guest with delicious food and drink, and wait for the end of the video of me personally releasing it in the evening." ”