Li Tang straightened his dress and walked quickly towards the stage.

Monica on stage. Bellucci presented him with a certificate of award framed with walnut glasses, and said, "Congratulations, Chinese boy!" ”

Maybe in the eyes of Europeans, Asians are more tender-faced, but Li Tang sounds so awkward! So he immediately opened his arms and gave the cold young woman a French veneer gift, and then whispered in her ear: "Thank you, Marlena!" ”

Monica. Bellucci was visibly stunned, because "Malena" had just premiered at the Berlin Film Festival at the beginning of the year, and although it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, it was only a nomination, and it was far from a sensation.

Or this later translated as "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" only caused a sensation in China, and the international response was average, at most it was a relatively excellent literary film, and it was also based on the fact that the director was "Italian Zhang Yimou" Giuseppe. On the basis of Tornatore's great prestige.

This is a bit like Zhang Ziyi in "My Father and Mother", a newcomer debuted, starred in the works of famous directors and then became an instant hit.

However, "My Father and Mother" won the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Festival that year, but this "Malena" did not win any awards.

In Asia, the film has just been released in Japan, South Korea and other places, and Monica has never heard of China also importing the rights to this film.

Of course, she didn't know that it wouldn't be long before "Malena" was released in Hong Kong, China, and then all kinds of piracy flooded the Chinese market, making her famous among the huge Chinese audience.

In fact, Li Tang knew that this girl's development in Hollywood was not smooth, after all, she was thirty-six years old at this time, and she was beautiful in the twilight of her life, and she was always hovering on the second line. But it did not prevent him from seeing her as his dream lover in his previous life in adolescence. Maybe no matter where they grow, the aesthetics in the bones of Chinese are the same.

The girl reacted quickly, only stunned for a moment, and immediately asked in English, "Then who are you, Reinado?" ”

"No, I'd rather be Nino."

Li Tang smiled slightly and let go of his embrace. In his previous life, he rewatched "Malena" countless times, and if you look at it from a professional point of view now, the acting skills of Marlena's husband Nino, who has not appeared much, are the best.

At such a highlight moment, of course Li Tang would not be stunned, and after communicating with the goddess in his dream in his previous life, he turned to face the audience.

He held high the award certificate and received applause from the audience.

"Wow, what an amazing night. I really didn't expect that as a film with only the fifth lowest rating in the house magazine, it would have a chance to win an award. So much so that I didn't prepare any acceptance speeches. ”

Li Tang spoke English with a pure British accent to deliver his acceptance speech. There was a burst of good-natured laughter at the scene, and it was easy to resonate with the guests at the scene for complaining about the score of the house magazine.

"To receive this award today, first of all, I must thank the organizers of the festival for giving filmmakers from all over the world a platform to showcase, and secondly, thank the jury for their recognition of my performance. Then I have to thank the screenwriter and director of this film, Mr. Cheng Er, for creating this great work! I would also like to thank our producer, Ms. Ney, and my colleagues, Ms. Fan Binbin and Mr. Xu Zheng, ......"

In the past, whenever Li Tang saw an award-winning actor on TV, he often thanked him a little disapprovingly, and always felt that this was a routine. But only when you really experience it, you will find that film is a system engineering, both in front of and behind the scenes. As an actor to be able to win an award, I really need to thank all the people who have paid, it is sincere, it is really not polite words.

This award is of great significance to Li Tang, as it is the first truly authoritative international award he has received. But looking at the awards ceremony of the entire Venice Film Festival, it can only be regarded as a small award, and everyone is always concerned about who wins the awards in the main competition unit.

Later, as the awards of the main competition unit were handed out one after another, Indian female director Mila . The romantic movie "Monsoon's Wedding" directed by Nair became the biggest winner, winning the Golden Lion.

This is the first time that Ah Sanguo has won the highest award at the three major European film festivals, and when the award was announced, all Ah San on the scene instantly climaxed.

The Austrian film "Dog Days", which has always ranked first in the house magazine score and has the highest demand, only won the Silver Lion Award, the Grand Jury Award.

The Best Actor and Actress Award, which attracted the most attention from the audience, was won by the actor and heroine in the Italian local film "Love Through Your Eyes".

This is probably the so-called host advantage!

Li Tang, who was sitting on the stage, couldn't help but imagine that maybe one day he could become the actor of the Shanghai International Film Festival, one of the international A-class film festivals, after all, as a Shanghainese, he should have this advantage. Even children like Hu Ge who can't act may have such opportunities in the future.

One more thing, this little guy has been admitted to the drama performance department this year and officially became Li Tang's junior brother.

Then the Mexican director Alfonso. Cuarón won the Silver Lion for Best Screenplay for his film "Your Mother Is the Same", and two young newcomer actors in this film also won the best newcomer award at this year's festival.

The only Hong Kong film "Hong Kong Has a Hollywood" shortlisted for the main competition unit did not receive any results, and Zhou Xun, which was about to be blown up by the domestic media before, naturally missed the actress.

In addition, this year's festival really fully interpreted the slogan of "Down with Hollywood imperialism", and American films also failed to win important awards.

At the end of the award ceremony, everyone congratulated the winners, regardless of whether they won the award or not. No matter what you think in your heart, at least the superficial work still needs to be done.

won the Best Actor Award in the Upstream Unit, and Li Tang, commonly known as the "Venice Little Actor", was also very busy. He is handsome, and at the same time he has mastered several foreign languages, so he can still mix well with foreigners.

"Li Tang, congratulations!"

At this time, Zhou Xun and several Hong Kong people also came over to congratulate Li Tang.

The defeat of the actress did not leave much regret on Zhou Xun's face, and she still looked giggled.

However, Cheng Guo's face is not very good-looking, he was already dark, and he looks even darker at this time.

"Mr. Li, congratulations!"

He walked over and shook Li Tang's hand with an expressionless face.

Because Li Tang said that he didn't like his movies being added to by the Hong Kong media, Cheng Guo was sure that he was unhappy, so his tone was quite perfunctory.

Li Tang didn't apologize to him, originally, good is good, bad is bad. Oh, just allow you to make movies with all kinds of insinuations, can't you allow others not to like it, there is no reason for this.

So he just nodded: "Thank you, Director Cheng!" ”

Several other Hong Kongs also congratulated Li Tang and Cheng Er as usual.

Zhou Xun on the side looked a little embarrassed, and secretly said to Li Tang: "I'm sorry!" ”

"It's okay, they're them, you're you, you can't beat the eight poles." Li Tang smiled.

He understands Zhou Xun quite well, after all, in this circle, many things are involuntary, and they can't be determined by their own likes and dislikes.

Zhou Xun breathed a sigh of relief and asked again, "When will you return to China?" ”

"Tomorrow, when I came, I booked a round-trip ticket, which was cheaper. What about you? ”

"I'm going to stay for two more days, and I'll leave the day after tomorrow."

"Then the crew of "Shooting the Condor" is in a hurry."

"Alas, actually, I would have gone back earlier, but I couldn't help it."

Li Tang and Zhou Xun chatted for a while, but were soon interrupted by Wu Shixian, who was in high spirits. Although this product is only one step away from the Golden Lion trophy for Best Short Film, it is still a typical American mentality, quite open-minded. In his words, it was already a surprise to be able to win the special award in the short film unit this time.

After today's award ceremony, Li Tang generally has some understanding. Don't look at the so-called Venice International Film Festival, one of the three largest in Europe, if you want to win an award, in addition to your own excellent works, you also need luck and connections.

For example, this Indian film "Monsoon's Wedding" can defeat the highly popular Austrian film "Dog Day", maybe there is no Austrian judge on the jury.

As for his own award, Li Tang prefers to attribute it to luck, perhaps for balancing reasons, the jury needs an Asian face to win this award.

When they walked out of the movie palace, the Chinese reporters who had been waiting outside rushed up, and a young female reporter who looked short and chubby rushed to the front like a little milk pig, and handed the voice recorder in her hand to Li Tang as soon as possible.

"Mr. Li, I am a reporter from Nandu Daily, and my name is Yuan Lei. Congratulations on getting the actor in the unit against the current, how do you feel at this moment? ”

"Of course, I am very happy, I am honored to be able to win an award for the first time at a foreign film festival. Of course, my award is not mine, and it is inseparable from the help of our director Cheng, the heroine Fan Binbin, and all the cast and crew of the crew. It was all the hard work of all of us who made this award possible. ”

Now when Li Tang talks about these scenes, he is like an old sow turning over her bra, one by one.

"You won the award this time, do you have any new plans for your future work?"

Li Tang smiled and said: "I can only say that everything is as usual, it should be filmed and filmed, if there is no new book, then it is time to rest and rest, and there is no new plan." ”

This reporter named Yuan Lei is also a reporter from traditional media that Li Tang met during the film festival, and he has always had a good impression of this media after being interviewed by Southern Weekly before. He knew that Nandu Daily and Southern Weekly were the same family, and he didn't mind chatting more.

So he added: "Actually, for us, being able to go to Venice this time is already a victory." On the one hand, I came to Venice to study, watch a lot of excellent movies, and meet a lot of internationally renowned actors and directors, which is a rare opportunity for me to improve. On the other hand, it is to sell films, hoping that our films can be seen by more audiences. ”

"How's that piece selling?"

"We have reached a cooperation with the French company MK2, the largest arthouse cinema chain in France and even in Europe, and they will represent the global market except China."

Of course, Li Tang will not give up today's publicity opportunity, and said: "Our film was screened twice at the film festival and was quite popular. I think MK2 also took a fancy to this and reached an agency cooperation with us. "The Third Man" will be released in China on October 11, and I hope that domestic audiences will also enjoy our film. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the other reporters couldn't wait, and immediately a bespectacled and awkward Mandarin asked, "I'm a reporter from Apple Daily." May I ask Mr. Li, you have criticized "There is a Hollywood in Hong Kong" before, and now the only Chinese-language film shortlisted for the main competition unit failed to win the award, can it be considered that it is your inappropriate negative remarks that caused it? ”

Wow, that's a big hat.

Li Tang glanced at the glasses brother who asked the question, he knew very well in his heart that the Hong Kong media reporter was obviously ill-intentioned, and his question was a provocation, but if you are angry because of this, then it is in the other party's arms, and you have lost.

Li Tang's face was indifferent, and he glanced around, and sure enough, those reporters looked at him with expectant eyes. The more sensitive the issue, the more newsworthy it is.

"First of all, I want to state that I have not criticized the film "There is a Hollywood in Hong Kong" directed by Cheng Guo, I just said from my personal point of view that I don't like this movie......"

Halfway through his words, the glasses brother couldn't wait to speak again: "Are you denying this?" ”

In his previous life, he also dealt with reporters, and he knew very well that whether it was an American reporter or a Hong Kong reporter, he was taught by a grandfather.

Their grandfathers, the British correspondents from Fleet Street, were notoriously good at evoking the emotions of their interviewees, and then step-by-step bringing them into the rhythm they had set, and then taking them out of context.

Li Tang was not fooled at all, but said lightly: "Please let me finish speaking, if you have this attitude, then there is no need for me to answer the question." ”

Of course, the reporters at the scene hoped that Li Tang could answer this question, and they all turned their blaming eyes to the glasses brother. Brother Glasses didn't dare to offend the anger of the public, opened his mouth, and finally kept silent.

Li Tang said: "As an audience, I think I should have the right to express my opinion. Like is like, dislike is dislike, I don't have to lie. Secondly, I would like to say that just because I don't like it, it is defined by you as inappropriate negative speech, and I would like to ask where is the freedom of speech that you have always said you profess? Can I understand that saying that what you want to hear is freedom of speech, and saying that what you don't want to hear is inappropriate negative speech? ”

The glasses brother was powerless to refute Li Tang's rhetorical question, the purpose of his question was to try to provoke Li Tang, create antagonism between the two sides, and put the big hat of "Hong Kong has a Hollywood" that failed to win the award on the other party's head.

It's just that he didn't expect Li Tang to play his cards according to common sense, and while refuting it with reason, he also threw the problem back to himself. It was obvious that the other party was trying to control the dominance of the interview, so he had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.

Seeing the other party's admit, Li Tang smiled disdainfully, and then said: "I think as a newcomer to the Venice Film Festival for the first time, I don't seem to have the ability to sway the jury's judgment just because I don't like it." Therefore, the only reason why the film "Hong Kong Has a Hollywood" unfortunately did not win the award this time may be that the story, aesthetics, and values conveyed by the film itself are not recognized by the judges, or in the eyes of these judges, the film is not enough to compare with the award-winning films tonight. ”

It's hot, sleepy, not in good shape, go to bed early, and try to get more tomorrow.

(End of chapter)