Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 237 You Deserve It
night, guest house.

Li Tangshen leaned against the head of the bed, and the cooperation with MK2 was reached. The biggest worry of this trip was finally put down, and he felt extremely relaxed.

Xiaopang came out of the bathroom in his pajamas after taking a shower, and asked, "Do you think we can win the prize?"

Li Tang yawned, and lazily said, "I don't think there's much hope. It doesn't matter whether I get it or not. Anyway, the film has already been handed over to someone else's agent."

"You don't want to win the best actor award?"

Chubby climbed onto the bed and lay down beside him.

A total of four awards have been set up for the upstream unit, namely Best Picture Award, Best Director and Best Actor and Actress Award.

"Don't have too much hope, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment."

Of course it is impossible to say that he does not want to win an award, but according to the current score of the program, he feels that winning an award is a luxury.

"Hey, it's been spreading weekly news that this time she is very hopeful to win the Best Actress. They also said that if she wins the award, she will be on the same level as Gong Li." Fatty couldn't hide his envy.

"How is it possible, it's almost far away." Li Tang snorted softly.

Gong Li won the Venice Best Actress nine years ago with "A Lawsuit by Qiu Ju", and then two Golden Rooster Award Best Best Actresses, and a lot of other messy best actress titles.More importantly, the films starring him have won the highest awards of the three major European film festivals, including the Golden Bear of "Red Sorghum", the Golden Lion of "A Lawsuit by Qiu Ju", and the Palme d'Or of "Farewell My Concubine".And the Cannes jury, the chairman of the Berlin jury.This kind of international influence, even if Zhou Xun can win the Venice Best Actress, it is far from being comparable to it.

As Li Tang said, he turned his head to look at her again, and said, "Don't spread such unreliable gossip in the future."

"I'm not spreading nonsense, I'm just telling you."

Xiaopang blinked his eyes wide, and asked again: "Is your agency reliable? Let me tell you, it's better to sell the copyright, and the money is the most assured. Now that the initiative is in the hands of others, I feel uneasy even thinking about it." .”

Li Tang thought of the disappointment on the other side's face when he notified Huber of the German AG company to stop the negotiation in the afternoon, but he still said confidently: "Don't worry, I will definitely earn more than selling copyright, and I will give you a big red envelope at that time." .”

But Xiaopang said with disdain on his face: "Let's wait until the film can make money."

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On the evening of September [-]th, at seven o'clock.

The 58th Venice International Film Festival finally ushered in the closing ceremony and awards ceremony.

Wearing a dark green cheongsam, Xiao Pang walked on the red carpet with Li Tang on his arm, waving to the fans frequently, and at the same time posing posses in front of the photographers, without any panic at the opening ceremony.

Sure enough, experience is the most tempering. During the ten-day Venice Film Festival, there are various activities, brand advertisements, and various screenings.Chang Jihong took advantage of her contacts to make frequent appearances with Xiaopang at events, took various photos, and sent them back to China for press releases to hype how popular Xiaopang is in Venice.

This year, being able to walk on the red carpet of the three major European festivals is definitely enough to bluff people. The only one who can overwhelm Xiaopang this time is Zhou Xun. Now the domestic media are hyping her as the best actress.

Zhou Xun is also quite helpless about this. This time it is not their company's intentional hype, but the self-indulgence of the domestic media.Who told her to be popular, the more hyped she is, the more attention she can attract.But the aftereffect is that the higher the praise, the harder the fall. If this weekly newsletter fails to win the award, it will undoubtedly be a joke.

Li Tang and Cheng Er, who are also in suits and leather shoes, stood aside and watched Xiaopang make various poses in front of the camera. Compared with the opening red carpet, the work has already appeared and naturally attracted the attention of many Western media.

At this time, Cheng Er was also very calm, with his hands in his pockets, facing the flickering camera, his eyes were empty.

The highlight moment did not stop here. When the three of them passed through the noisy central area and arrived at the steps of the Film Palace, they saw Alberto Barbera, the chairman of the film festival, waiting on the steps.

The three climbed up the steps, Mr. Chairman walked down the steps to greet them, and met in the middle.

"Welcome to Venice!"

"Hi Sir! Venice gave us an amazing trip, thank you very much!"

Li Tang shook hands and hugged the old man in Italian prepared in advance, and then introduced Cheng Er and Xiaopang to the old man.

Barbera shook hands one by one, and then posed for a photo together facing the camera.

They walked up the steps together, stood still at the entrance of the movie palace, turned around, and faced the camera again.

This is the last film festival that the old man served as the chairman, and the ceremony is full of sense.Each shortlisted crew will receive the courtesy of this respected Mr. Chairman.

The old man will step down from tomorrow, and the new chairman is Marco Muller who recommended them to Venice.

Their red carpet ranks are relatively high today, there are not many people in the movie palace hall, everyone sits in twos and threes, or greets each other with a smile on their faces.

Suddenly, I saw Xiaopang waving in one direction: "Sister Yu!"

Li Tang heard the reputation and saw a woman with short hair and casual clothes walking towards her with a smile.

"This is Li Yu, the director of "This Summer."

"I don't need to introduce this one, this is our director Cheng Er!"

Xiao Pang introduced everyone with a smile.

"Director Li, congratulations!"

Li Tang has an impression of the film "This Summer", which is one of the few Chinese films shortlisted for non-competition. He has never watched it, but he only knows from the report in the program that it is a film with the theme of lilies, and has already Won the Women's Theme Award specially presented by the film festival.

At this time, Li Tang couldn't help but carefully looked at the unattractive woman in front of him, unexpectedly, she was quite trendy.Because this is the first time he found domestic lily slices.

"Thank you, hello!"

Li Yu shook hands with Li Tang heartily, and then shook hands with Cheng Er to say hello: "Director Cheng, hello!"

"Director Li, congratulations!"

Cheng Er also congratulated her.After all, this is the first Chinese-language film to win an award at a film festival.

"Sister Yu is the documentary director of CCTV, and "This Summer" is her first work. She wrote and directed it herself, and it is very good!" Xiao Pang affectionately took Li Yu's arm and continued to introduce to everyone.

Li Yu was very embarrassed by Xiaopang's praise, and quickly said: "No, no, I'm just lucky! I wish you all a good result tonight."

Li Tang and Cheng Er looked at each other and said in unison, "Thank you!"

Under the guidance of the staff, after finding a seat and taking a seat, Li Tang asked Xiaopang curiously: "How do you know this Director Li?"

"I met at an event. Sister Yu is very generous, and she is from the same town as me."

When a fellow countryman meets a fellow countryman, both of them have tears in their eyes.No wonder.

Then Li Tang couldn't help but looked at the handsome chubby dressed up today, and couldn't help saying: "Couldn't she be Lily?"

"What lily, lily?" Xiaopang didn't understand.

Well, now Xiaopang is relatively simple.

"It's women and women..."

Li Tang clenched his hands into fists, moved his thumbs together, and made a friendly gesture.

Xiaopang blushed immediately, and said angrily, "What, I don't know that!"

However, after being reminded by Li Tang, she couldn't help but think about the scene when they met at the event last time. The conversation was very good, and it didn't seem to have any meaning in that respect.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but said with a small face: "Don't talk nonsense, although Sister Yu made that film, it doesn't mean that she is the one!"

Li Tang hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, I'm just guessing. But you have to be careful, don't be bent by someone if you don't pay attention."

Although Xiaopang didn't understand what Bianwan meant, he guessed it, and blushed again and said, "Why do you play a set, are you interested in that... oh, Lily is particularly interested?"

Not only did Li Tang watch a lot of videos about this in his previous life, but he also saw them frequently in his life.It's just that it's still a new thing these days, so he said immediately, "I'm not interested, but I'm just a little curious."

"Alas!"

Thinking of the scene of a woman and a woman together, Xiaopang couldn't help shaking, goosebumps all over his body, he gritted his teeth and said, "I don't like this!"

Sitting on the other side of Li Tang, although Cheng Er didn't speak, he kept his ears upright listening to the conversation between the two parents. While feeling very speechless, there was an imperceptible smile on his face, probably thinking of something.

The two chatted for a while, and the guests entered the venue one after another. Li Tang saw Zhou Xun, Cheng Guo and several Hong Kong people walking in together, but he didn't take the initiative to stand up and say hello.

At 08:30, the awards ceremony started on time.

Alberto Barbera, the chairman of the film festival, first came to the stage to give a speech, probably because the old man stood on the stage of the closing ceremony as the chairman for the last time. The old man was obviously very excited, and Barabara spoke for about ten minutes.There is an English translation at the scene, and the general meaning is nothing more than looking back, paying tribute, looking forward, and thanking.

Then a panel of seven judges made an appearance.

The chairman of the jury is the famous Italian director, screenwriter, actor and producer Nanni Moretti.As for the other six judges, except for a director from the United States and a third brother whose title is a novelist, the others are all European filmmakers, three directors, and one producer.

Then there are all kinds of nonsense, full of all kinds of high-level European memes.

About half an hour later, the first award, the Silver Lion Award for Best Short Film in the Short Film Unit, finally began to be awarded.

When the prize winners were announced on stage, the Chinese filmmakers at the scene were all looking forward to it, because Wu Shixian's "Car 44" was the most popular before.

It's a pity that the German short film "Friends" won the award in the end.

However, everyone was not disappointed for a long time, and soon as the award presenters announced, "Car 44" won the special jury award in the short film unit, which is the second prize.

Wu Shixian, who came to the stage to receive the award, was very excited. He spoke a lot in American English, Barabara, and also thanked his fiancée, who is also the heroine of the film, Gong Beimi.

The baby sister in Xiaopang's mouth also stood up and blew kisses to Wu Shixian on the stage, and the applause was very enthusiastic.To use a popular saying in later generations, it is probably full of the rancid smell of love.But it is precisely the tune that foreigners like most.

After the brief climax, there will be some messy awards, some of which have been announced in advance, such as Li Yu's lesbian award... Bah, it's a special award for female subjects and so on.

After the seven or eight awards, it finally came to the awarding of the upstream competition unit.Although there was no hope in their hearts, everyone became nervous at the same time.Especially the first award is the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture in the Upstream Unit. Yes, the only Lion trophy in the entire unit is the Golden Lion.

Of course, the final result was not a surprise, with the critically acclaimed French film "Timetable" winning the honor.

Immediately afterwards, the best director and best actress in the unit also left others behind.

At this point, including Li Tang himself, no one dared to expect that the last best actor award in the upstream unit would fall on Li Tang.

It's just that when the award presenter came to the stage, Li Tang's eyes lit up, because the black-haired beauty on the stage was none other than his teenage idol in his previous life, or the object of his adolescence, the Italian actress Monica . Bellucci.

The 36-year-old female star, who has always been known for her glamorous looks, just became popular in Europe last year with "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily".

Fatty noticed that Li Tang was staring at the stage with piercing eyes, and asked in a low voice, "Who is this?"

Li Tang didn't turn his eyes, and replied directly: "Goddess!"

Even though it was a new term, as the name suggests, Xiaopang immediately snorted dissatisfied.

The glamorous young woman on the stage didn't have too many opening remarks. She opened the envelope and announced directly: "The winner of the Best Actor Award in the Upstream Section of the 58th Venice International Film Festival is..."

The glamorous young woman glanced around, and her eyes just fell on the seating area where Li Tang and the others were. It was probably too easy to recognize, because the three of them in this area had Asian faces.

Then lightly parted her red lips and said, ""Unfinished Girl", Li Tang!"

"Who?"

Hearing his name, Li Tang's first reaction was that he couldn't believe his ears, but at this moment, Xiaopang next to him screamed and jumped up.Although she could not understand English, let alone Italian, she could clearly hear the name Li Tang.

Especially when signing up, according to the Western custom of first name first last last, Li Tang's name should usually be filled in Tang Li, but Li Tang chose to fill in Li Tang.

In his words at the time, my rules are rules.

"Hey, Mr. Li, are you stupid? You won an award!"

Chubby leaned over and yelled in his ear.

Even Cheng Er stood up excitedly, clapping his hands while chanting: "I knew it, I knew it..."

Li Tang finally came to his senses at this moment. His heart, which was still beating violently just now, gradually calmed down miraculously. He stood up, talking incoherently with the excitement, and kept shouting "Mr. Li, you won the prize..." Fat hugged.

He smiled and said, "Well, I know."

Then he turned around and hugged Cheng Er again, and at the same time said in his ear: "Thank you!"

"No, Brother Li, you deserve it!" Cheng Er solemnly said while excited.

　I got up early in the morning and cleaned the house thoroughly, then bought vegetables and cooked, and coded after dinner. I didn't stop for a moment. I had a very meaningful Dragon Boat Festival.I wish everyone a healthy Dragon Boat Festival!The relationship between time, first release and then change.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)