"Brother, Sister Lingling just told me that they refunded tonight's ticket, and she wants to ask us how to arrange it." Zeng Jia said to Li Tang when he entered the door.

"The organizing committee retained?"

Li Tang was overjoyed when he heard this, if the organizing committee retained it, it would mean that "Purple Butterfly" could win the award.

Compared with the high profile before the premiere, after the premiere of "Purple Butterfly" last night, the most repercussions were that the camera was too shaky, the story was too complicated, and I couldn't understand it. The rating of the field magazine "Purple Butterfly", which was just released this morning, is only ranked seventh, and in general it is not optimistic.

Zeng Jia shook his head and said: "The organizing committee did not keep it, because the overseas distributor hopes that the crew can last until the end of the film festival, and also wants to arrange several activities today and tomorrow." ”

"That's ......"

Li Tang is inevitably a little disappointed, although he is now a frequent visitor to Cannes and Venice, but the movie he starred in has never won an award in the main competition unit.

The two shortlisted Venice units are parallel to the main competition unit, although they won a small actor in Venice, but the parallel unit is always a grade lower than the main competition unit.

"Heroes", which was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival at Cannes last year and earlier this year, were both empty-handed. Although I won the award in Cannes this time, the first-of-a-kind unit in Cannes is the same as the upriver unit in Venice, which is a competition unit one level lower than the main competition unit. And this time it was Ning Hao who won the award, and it was more on behalf of the company and his personal honor.

Originally, "Second Brother" and "Purple Butterfly" were shortlisted for the main competition unit of Cannes at the same time, so I thought that maybe I would have a chance to win an award. The film is a collective creation, and even if he wins an encouragement award, he will be honored as the main actor.

"Second Brother" is completely out of play, the score of the field magazine is as low as the third from the bottom, and after participating in "Purple Butterfly" last night, Wang Xiaoshuai has already taken the train to Paris overnight. According to him, since he came to France, he would go to Paris for two days, and then meet with producer Jiao Xiongping after the film festival and fly back to Wanwan together to discuss the release of "Second Brother" in Wanwan. As for the mainland, not being punished in the end is already burning high incense, and you don't have to think about this kind of thing.

The only good news is probably that "Second Brother" can be registered for this year's Golden Horse Awards as a Wanwan movie. is still the same sentence, if the movie can win the award, as one of the main creators, he will be honored. As for the Golden Horse actor, he didn't think about it, after all, the film "Second Brother" does not have high requirements for the actors' performances, and it is difficult to win awards for such a role.

Li Tang thought about it for a moment and said, "We don't need to stay, let's go according to the original plan." I'll say hello to Brother Ye and Sister Lingling in a while. ”

The retention of overseas distributors is nothing more than trying to use Zhang Ziyi's popularity overseas to sell the copyrights of several more countries.

One more thing, the sister Lingling in the mouths of the two just now is Ji Lingling, the agent of Xiao Zhang's classmate, and is a Li Jiapo person who has worked hard in the American film and television industry for many years, which can also understand that the stylists and makeup artists who were Mao Xiaozhang were specially invited from Li Jiapo.

In fact, Xiao Zhang's earliest agent was her brother, and the fat water does not flow to outsiders, just like Xiao Yanzi and Aunt Qiongyu's company terminated the contract with her sister-in-law.

However, as the saying goes, there are many people who are popular.

Xiao Zhang went from "My Father and Mother" to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to enter the international film industry, and then to "Rush Hour 2" and Brother Cheng Long to break into Hollywood together, and suddenly became an international movie star.

The rise rate in just a few years is amazing, and it will naturally attract all kinds of criticism, such as grapes, booze on the street, and the like. After all, Brother International has no experience, and he doesn't know how to help his sister with public relations, but under the reporter's deliberate digging pit, he came up with a sentence "Cheng Long still relies on our family Ziyi to hype!" ”

One sentence caused an uproar, his sister did all kinds of low things in order to be able to catch up with Brother Cheng Long, and even was ridiculed in public by a loser who broke into Hollywood.

Although Xiao Zhang was young, he was decisive in killing, and after this incident, he decisively fired Brother International and hired Ji Lingling, an experienced senior agent of Li Jiapo, as his agent.

Ji Lingling is indeed very capable, and Xiao Zhang's reputation has obviously improved in the past two years. As for the previous black material, in the end, it was Brother International who carried everything, deliberately created an arrogant and domineering character, and at the same time diverted his attention and carried the black pot for his sister.

Li Tang has been in contact with Brother International twice before, in addition to being like most people in Beijing who love to brag and talk big, he is actually okay, quite enthusiastic and cheerful.

Having said that, the influence of Xiao Zhang, who is favored by overseas publishers, is of little use to stay as the male number one, and he has won the award, so it's better to leave as soon as possible.

Ning Hao and Diao Yinan's thoughts are naturally the same as his, since the boss said that he wants to leave, no one will say that he still wants to stay and have a look.

Especially Ning Hao, holding a framed award certificate in his hand, he couldn't wait to go back and show off as soon as possible. Nortel students can win awards at the three major European film festivals, especially the Cannes Film Festival.

At noon, Li Tang greeted Lou Ye and Zhang Ziyi successively, and said goodbye to them in advance. Of course, Lou Ye doesn't care, he actually can't help himself, there is no way. Otherwise, he would rather take his wife and Ney to Paris to visit the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower, or sit on the Place de la Concorde in a daze, feeding the pigeons, even to see the crowds of strikes and marches on the streets of Paris.

But at Xiao Zhang's classmate, I heard that Li Tang had not changed his itinerary and was going back to China this evening, so he hurriedly ran over and grabbed his arm, and said angrily: "Oh, Mr. Li, I said that everyone would come together and go back together, why are you in such a hurry?" ”

"Who told you that the crew is still waiting for me to go back to work." Li Tang looked disdainful.

I said that I wanted to invite myself to have a drink together in the evening, but I only invited it once, and then there was no sound, and there was no sincerity at all, so I didn't bother to accompany it.

Of course, all of the above is a joke.

Although he failed to win the award this time, Xiao Zhang's trip to Cannes was full of gains. During this time, she not only caught the eye in the domestic media, but also praised her in many overseas media, which laid a good foundation for her to break into Hollywood in the future.

In the afternoon, I had an afternoon tea at the Baril Hotel, one hundred and twenty euros per person, which is absolutely staggering if measured by domestic prices. But since I came, I always want to experience the atmosphere here, and it can be regarded as a small celebration party for Ning Hao to win the award last night.

In addition, the main thing is that it is about to depart, and the flight here is 8 o'clock in the evening, and the transfer to Paris has to be tossed until midnight, so I pad my stomach before leaving.

It is said to be afternoon tea, but of course such an expensive price is to drink coffee. However, such an expensive price is also a penny, and the special white chocolate caramel coffee cake here tastes quite good.

In addition, there is the vanilla peach mousse cake in the shape of the iconic bow, the caramel macaron in the shape of chocolate petals, and the hazelnut chocolate tart in the pure chocolate flavor.

In addition to these sweet treats, savoury dishes such as red wine foie gras pie butter bread, salmon asparagus mousse, mascabani cheese fig orange roll and local lobster sandwich and charcoal bread are also delicious.

Because it is an international flight, the pre-boarding procedures are cumbersome, and after afternoon tea, I departed from the hotel at five o'clock in the afternoon. As a result, when everyone came out of the hotel with their luggage and was about to get on the bus, they were surrounded by a large group of reporters waiting at the door of the hotel.

Tomorrow night is the closing ceremony and the awards ceremony, and the most concerned thing for these domestic media reporters is whether "Purple Butterfly" can win the award.

"Li Tang, does your departure now mean that "Purple Butterfly" will not win the award?"

"How is it possible, Director Lou Ye and Zhang Ziyi haven't left yet, they will hold on until the end of the film festival. I'm mainly still filming, I was originally on leave, and the crew is still waiting for me. So when I first arrived here, I had already booked a return ticket. ”

"How do you feel about coming to Cannes for the film festival this time?"

"Of course I'm happy, I watched last night's "Incense" win the award. It is a huge encouragement for us Sheng Tang Film and Television and director Ning Hao. ”

"There were very few viewers for the re-screening of "Purple Butterfly" this morning, and the audience generally reported that the movie was too obscure and the relationships between the characters were too complex to understand, so that the story was difficult to understand, what do you think about this?"

Regarding this obvious digging problem, Li Tang reacted quite quickly and said: "No, I don't think the story is difficult to understand at all. Maybe I'm too familiar with the story from the script, so wherever I see a movie, I think of all kinds of background descriptions associated with this scene. ”

Saying that, he paused again, glanced at the reporter who looked harmless to humans and animals on the surface, and said seriously: "Lou Ye is a very good director, his ideas and techniques are not bad, maybe "Purple Butterfly" is not as clear as a commercial film, but it is still worth watching." ”

"I'm sorry, everyone, please give way, we still have to catch a plane."

Originally, after answering this question, Li Tang was ready to get into the car under the cover of Zeng Jia, Xiao Zhao, and Du Hua, when a young girl stood on tiptoe outside the crowd and asked loudly: "Teacher Li, do you have any expectations for "Purple Butterfly" to win the award?" Does Zhang Ziyi have any hope of winning the actress? ”

Li Tang saw that the girl was very pitiful, and she couldn't squeeze in, thinking that it was not easy for everyone, so he was about to get into the car and paused, and said loudly to the girl: "Wait, you'll know by tomorrow night." If you have it, you can take it, and it's not a big deal if you don't win an award. Zhang Ziyi is so old, I think with her acting skills, she will win an award one day. ”

After saying that, he ignored the reporters' gossip and quickly got into the car. Ning Hao, who was behind, also hurriedly followed, as the winner of the "Special Attention" award of the attention unit, he was also a sweetheart, and was surrounded by reporters for a long time.

In fact, this is quite a chicken thief, when the reporter asked him about his feelings about winning the award, it was a series of thanks, thanks to his parents, thanks to the crew, thanks to the actors, thanks to the school and teachers for his training, especially thanks to Mr. Li for his strong support, and almost thanks to the party and the government.

When encountering a sensitive question, it is a smirk, and the reporter who asks the question feels embarrassed, and he will not offend anyone.

Flying from Nice airport to Paris and then connecting to the capital directly, because the flight was delayed by two hours during the transfer in Paris, the return flight took two hours longer than when it came, a full twenty hours. When I arrived at the capital airport in Beijing, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening of the 26th.

It is conceivable that they set off from the Cannes hotel, and the domestic side had already received the news, so as soon as they got off the plane, they were once again surrounded by media reporters waiting at the airport.

There was no way, because of the flight delay, these reporters waited at the airport for more than two hours, and they had to deal with it.

The questions are basically clichés, nothing more than asking about the feelings of this trip to Cannes, and predicting whether "Purple Butterfly" will win an award. As for the other "Second Brother", on the one hand, it may be that the relevant departments have asked not to report it, and on the other hand, it is also due to the fact that the score of this film is so poor that almost no one cares about it.

I was blocked for almost half an hour before I finally got out.

"Yaoyao, you don't have to follow. Jiajia, you should also go back to rest early, just to reverse the jet lag. I'll talk about that tomorrow. ”

Li Tang said goodbye to everyone, and especially told Ning Hao not to forget to send the electronic version of the script to his mailbox.

The driver, Shen Lin, sent him back to the small courtyard.

Although Zeng Jia followed him to Cannes this time, she must have ordered it in advance, and the house had been cleaned up in advance.

I took a shower, even though it was almost midnight, because of the time difference, I was very energetic and sleepy. So I went to the kitchen and ordered a package of quick-frozen dumplings, and the more I drank the dumplings, the more I drank.

This quick-frozen dumpling is not the kind bought in the supermarket, but Xiaopang took it from home, it was wrapped by Aunt Zhang, what fennel pork filling, leek egg filling, mackerel meat filling and so on are rich in variety, divided into a small package and put it in the refrigerator to freeze, the outside of the bag is also marked with what kind of filling, and the next package is very convenient when eating.

Li Tang deliberately picked a bag of leek egg filling, and he was tired of eating Western food for nearly half a month.

During this time, he and Xiaopang basically had a phone call for two or three days, and Xiaopang has been very busy recently, with the popularity of "Jade Guanyin" across the country, she finally tasted the explosion again.

Unlike a few years ago, when she was the foil of Xiaoyanzi and Lin Xinru, this time she completely occupied the C position, and what followed was that all kinds of commercial performances and endorsements were soft.

It's the end of the month, double the monthly pass, cheekily ask for a ticket!

(End of chapter)