"The winner of the Best Actress Award at the 58th Cannes International Film Festival is—"

"Hannah Laszlo, Freedom Zone!"

"The winner of the Best Actor Award at the 58th Cannes International Film Festival is—"

"Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Funerals of Escada"

One award after another was awarded, and "Love" missed the Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress awards one after another.

But all the members of the crew became even more nervous.

As we all know, there is a principle at the Cannes Awards, a film can only win one award at the closing ceremony!

The more you don't win these awards, the closer "Love" is to the final award!

Finally, the award presenters began to unveil the penultimate award.

"The winner of the Jury Prize at the 58th Cannes International Film Festival is—"

Wu Yuan clenched his hands tightly and kept chanting silently, "Don't be me, don't be me." ”

Liu Yifei on the side also read along, "Don't be a senior brother, don't be a senior brother." ”

Perhaps the heavens heard the prayers of the two, and the award presenters announced the winners.

"Congratulations Jim Jarmusch, Broken Flowers!"

Director Jim Jarmusch from Ohio, USA, won the Jury Prize at this year's Cannes.

Jim Jarmusch is a very good literary film director.

However, what impressed Wu Yuan deeply was that when he opened the Cannes Film Festival before, when he was interviewed by the media, he humbly claimed that he was a student of Hou Xiaoxian.

Regardless of whether he is complimented or polite, he can say that he is a student of a Taiwanese director, which should be a unique existence among American directors.

But his "Broken Flowers" is really good.

While the luxurious acting lineup is icing on the cake, the ordinary plot is once again transformed into magic because of Jarmusch's originality, and winning the Jury Award also proves Jarmusch's directorial level.

Watching Jia Muxu give an acceptance speech with tears in his eyes on the stage, Wu Yuan also thought about it in his heart.

According to his memory, this Cannes Film Festival, Jarmusch should have won the Grand Jury Prize, and the Jury Award was Wang Xiaoshuai's "Green Red".

Now both of their awards have been relegated.

At present, among the invited crews, only his "Love" and the "Child" of the Darnay brothers have not yet won the award.

And the remaining jackpots are only two.

Two French filmmakers in suits and leather shoes walked up to the podium with an envelope.

"The Grand Jury Prize at the 58th Cannes International Film Festival is—"

The crew of "Child" and "Love" stared nervously at the envelope that was slowly being opened.

Liu Yifei said with words in his mouth: "Don't be a senior brother, don't be a senior brother!" ”

However, this prayer was unsuccessful.

After a pause, the two awarders shouted in unison: "Wu Yuan, Love!" ”

"Congratulations!"

The crew of "Child" and the crew of "Love" were all happy.

The crew of "Child" is sure that they can win the Palme d'Or, and they are so excited that they can't help it.

The crew of "Love" felt that it was not bad to win the second jury award, and hugged Wu Yuan with joy on their faces to celebrate.

Only Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei were a little disappointed.

Liu Yifei was disappointed because in her heart, her senior brother was the best one, and he deserved the crown of the Palme d'Or.

Wu Yuan was disappointed because he knew that the movie "Love" won the Palme d'Or on the original trajectory.

The version he shot has hardly changed much, and the lighting, composition, and some deep meanings that should be given to the picture have also been given.

But he still missed out on the Palme d'Or.

"Hey, I'm still too young after all." Wu Yuan sighed in his heart.

He knew that a big reason for missing out on the Palme d'Or was his age.

Winning the Palme d'Or before the age of 23 is so frightening that it can even cast doubt on the fairness of Cannes.

So even if "Love" has the strength to compete for the Palme d'Or, the jury judges will be cautious and cautious in this regard.

No matter how good the movie is, it is difficult for the judges to put aside Wu Yuan's age and give him an adventurous honor.

This is no longer simply a disagreement with the house magazine, but it is likely to affect the reputation and credibility that Cannes has built up for decades.

For Wu Yuan, youth is sometimes an advantage, and sometimes it is also the biggest disadvantage.

Sure enough, when Wu Yuan hugged the crew members and was about to go on stage to accept the award, Mr. Gilles Jacob, chairman of the film festival, also took the initiative to hug Wu Yuan.

"Daniel, you are still young, there are still many opportunities in the future, don't be discouraged." Jacob whispered in Wu Yuan's ear.

Without showing any dissatisfaction, Wu Yuan nodded vaguely and stepped onto the podium.

Receiving the trophy engraved with the crew of "Love" and his name from the gray-haired award presenter, Wu Yuan stood in front of the microphone and looked around at all the guests present, then held the trophy and said with a smile in Chinese:

"Director Kaigo, congratulations, you are the only director in China who has won the Palme d'Or."

Wu Yuan believes that among the people who are paying attention to this year's Cannes Film Festival at this time, director Kaige is definitely the one who attaches the most importance to it.

He hoped that Wu Yuan would get the Palme d'Or, but he didn't want him to get it.

Domestic.

The news that Wu Yuan's "Love" won the jury prize spread wildly on the Internet through the way of newsletters as soon as possible.

"China's famous director Wu Yuan won the Jury Prize at the 58th Cannes Film Festival with the movie "Love"!"

Portals such as Sohu and Sina, and even the official website of the movie channel, all published this newsletter on the front page for the first time.

"Director Wu won the award again?"

"What is the Grand Jury Prize? Which award is more powerful, or the best director in Berlin he won? ”

"Didn't it just come out that "Qinghong" won the Best Director Award, what is this jury award?"

On the domestic Internet, there was an immediate uproar.

Most young people surfing the Internet don't understand the specific gold content of these awards in Cannes, and they also know the Best Film and Best Director awards.

However, there will always be some enthusiastic netizens on the Internet who answer carefully.

Soon, someone popularized science under these comments:

"The most important award at the Cannes Film Festival is the Palme d'Or, which is equivalent to the Best Film Award."

"And the second most important award is the Jury Prize, which is the second place after the Palme d'Or among all the films shortlisted for the main competition unit!"

"As for the Jury Prize, although it is only one word different from the Grand Jury Award, it is actually a consolation award."

"Because the awards in the main competition are mostly discussed and voted on by the jury, but it often happens that a film supported by a certain judge is not recognized by other judges, and the jury award is generally awarded, that is, the special jury award."

"In terms of gold content, the Palme d'Or is the first, the Jury Prize is second, the Best Director Award is third, and then the Jury Award."

"In other words, at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Director Wu won the second place with "Love", and Director Wang's "Qinghong" won the third place!"

Yes, because Wu Yuan's "Love" appeared, so that Jarmuxu could not win the Grand Jury Award.

But several of the judges liked his film very much, which led to some of the judges unanimously asking for a jury award to Jamush.

This led to the fact that "Qinghong" did not have a jury award, but won the Best Director Award with a higher gold content.

As for why the jury did this, it can only be said that the maverick jury is really difficult for people to understand their brain circuits.

After some operation, the two mainland films won the third and second places at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

On the other side, the home of director Kaige in Beijing.

In some ways, director Caigo can watch the live broadcast of the Cannes Film Festival directly from his home.

He naturally also saw the first words that Wu Yuan said on the podium.

"This stinky boy!" Director Kaige stretched out his hand and pointed to Wu Yuan on the TV, and scolded with a smile.

Chen Hong, who was sitting next to her, also smiled, "Director Wu is not wrong. ”

What kind of character her husband is, Chen Hong knows too well.

What Chen Kaige values the most is the Palme d'Or he won with "Farewell My Concubine", and he is also the only director in China to win the Palme d'Or.

It's something he's been proud of all his life.

If someone breaks this "one", it is impossible to say that Director Kaigo is not sad and sad.

Fortunately, at present, he still keeps this one, and the golden body is still there.

Watch back to the live broadcast.

On the podium at Cannes, Wu Yuan held the trophy in his hand and began to speak seriously about his acceptance speech, this time in English.

"I am very grateful to the film festival for giving me this award, which is the highest recognition for me."

"I know that a lot of people think I'm too young and that I don't deserve to be on this stage, let alone win such an important award."

"But what I'm trying to say is that there's no rule about what age you have to be to shoot a movie."

"As long as you like movies and love movies, even if you are 18 years old, you can make your best film!"

"I would also like to thank my alma mater, Beijing Film Academy, for the cultivation of my alma mater, Mr. Xie Xiaojing, my doctoral supervisor, and China Film Group."

"Finally, thank you to the actors whose acting skills are impeccable."

"Thank you to Mr. Wu Yanshu, Mr. You Benchang, and Mr. Gong Li, you are the best actors in China, without you, there would be no such real "Love".

"Of course, there is also the cute little granddaughter Liu Yifei in the movie, the granddaughter she played, became the ray of sunshine that illuminated the world in the last dark time of Caihua's life."

"You're the cutest actor in my heart."

Off the stage, Liu Yifei smiled very happily, and her teeth were all laughing, although she was not praised for being beautiful, but she was cute and good.

After thanking the crew for a while, and finally thanking the behind-the-scenes staff of the crew, Wu Yuan took the trophy and bowed off the stage.

didn't go backstage for an interview, Wu Yuan went straight back to his seat.

Liu Yifei took the trophy as soon as possible, and touched the name engraved on it very cherishingly, "Wow, this trophy is so heavy, it can't be made of real gold, right?" ”

Liu Yifei, who participated in such a heavyweight award for the first time, was also in an excited mood, making the same confusion as when Wu Yuan participated in the Berlin Film Festival for the first time.

Wu Yuan smiled and took back the trophy, "How can there be anything made of pure gold, this thing is all gold-plated." ”

The next awards ceremony has nothing to do with the crew of "Love".

The final Palme d'Or was won by "Child" from Belgium.

The next day, film-related media from all over the world rushed to report on this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Obviously, Wu Yuan, who won the jury award before he was 23 years old, became the center of the topic.

Major newspapers and online media around the world have chosen one person as their news cover between the Dane brothers holding the Palme d'Or or Wu Yuan holding the trophy.

The media in Asia and North America almost always used Wu Yuan as a cover, reporting that he became the youngest winner of the Grand Jury Award in the history of Cannes.

In China, CCTV and movie channels have directly made special reports for Wu Yuan, and the Cannes interviews that have been prepared for a long time have also been released.

[Won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes at the age of 23, and his legendary road has just begun! ] 】

[Genius or madman, why did "Love" win unanimous praise from the Cannes jury? 】

[The youngest winner of the Cannes Jury Award in history, both business and literature and art are grasped, and both hands are hard!] 】

Wu Yuan, who is already very popular in Asia and North America, once again blew up the covers of mainstream media magazines in countries on both sides of the Pacific.

Fire on fire, heat on heat!

In the center of the topic, Wu Yuan had no breathing space at all, and the day after the closing of Cannes, he was ready to fly back to North America to work.

For the overseas distribution rights of "Love", Wu Yuan left a senior employee of the Light and Shadow Era, and Han Dong stayed in Cannes to continue to negotiate sales.

The domestic release date of this movie has also been set, just on the National Day on October 1st, anyway, Wu Yuan does not have much pursuit of the box office of this movie, and it is good to release it on a cold schedule.

It's just that there are some things that he can't avoid if he wants to.

As soon as he came out of the hotel, Wu Yuan was blocked at the door by reporters from all walks of life.

"Director Wu, may I ask what is your biggest feeling about this trip to Cannes?"

"Director Wu, other directors have announced their film plans for the next two or three years in Cannes, can you easily reveal their new film plans?"

"Director Wu, when will "Love" be released on a large scale in Europe, European fans can't wait!"

"Director Wu, say a few words!"

These European reporters, the pronunciation of the word "Wu" is getting more and more slippery, and they also know that calling "Wu Dao" in China is the meaning of respect, and they no longer speak Daniel.

But this did not affect Wu Yuan's attitude towards them in the slightest.

He really didn't have the heart to accept any interviews now, and after winning the award yesterday, he was caught by the domestic reporter corps, and he interviewed from 6 o'clock in the afternoon until 1 or 2 o'clock in the middle of the night.

Now physically and mentally exhausted, he just wants to get on the plane and get a good night's sleep, and he doesn't want to talk to these reporters at all.

Fortunately, the security of the hotel was strong enough, escorting the members of the "Love" crew, getting on the arranged bus, and sending them directly to Nice Airport.

Here, the crew will be divided into two groups, one for the connecting flight home and the other for the connecting flight to the United States.

Wu Yuan took his assistant, Liu Xiaoli, Liu Yifei, mother and daughter, and got on a flight to Los Angeles together.

What?

Why are there Liu Yifei's mother and daughter?

"My mom took me to visit relatives in Los Angeles, and my aunt is in Los Angeles!" Liu Yifei smiled sweetly.

Facing Liu Xiaoli's helpless expression, Wu Yuan nodded with a smile: "I see!" ”

Winning the Palme d'Or at 23, I couldn't really convince myself.

Even if someone did have this level, the jury would not have taken such a big risk to award the Palme d'Or for the first time.

Next time, take the Palme d'Or.

(End of chapter)