Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 238

Li Tang adjusted his dress and walked quickly to the stage.

Monica Bellucci on the stage presented him with an award certificate inlaid with a walnut frame, and also said: "Congratulations, Chinese boy!"

Perhaps in the eyes of Europeans, Asians are more tender-looking, but why does Li Tang sound so awkward!So he immediately opened his arms, gave this glamorous young woman a French-style veneer gift, and then whispered softly in her ear: "Thank you, Marlena!"

Monica Bellucci was obviously taken aback, because the film "Malena" just premiered at the Berlin Film Festival at the beginning of the year. Although it was shortlisted for Best Cinematography at the Oscars and Best Foreign Language Film at the Nominations, far from sensational.

Or it can be said that this later translation as "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" only caused a sensation in China, and the response in the world is mediocre. "Based on Giuseppe Tornatore's great reputation.

This is a bit like Zhang Ziyi in "My Father and Mother", a newcomer debuted, starred in a famous director's work and became a hit.

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

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

Of course she would not know that in the near future, when "Malena" was released in Hong Kong, China, and then various pirated copies flooded the Chinese market, which made 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 36 years old at the time, she was a late beauty, and she was always hovering in the second line.But it didn't prevent him from seeing her as the lover of his dreams in his previous life.Perhaps no matter where they grow up, Chinese people have the same aesthetics in their bones.

The girl reacted quickly, she was just a little stunned, and immediately asked in English: "Then who are you, Renardo?"

"No, I'd rather be Nino."

Li Tang smiled slightly and let go of his embrace.He had revisited "Malena" countless times in his previous life. From a professional point of view, Malena's husband Nino, who didn't play much, played the best acting skills.

At such a bright moment, of course Li Tang would not be dazed. After exchanging a few words with the goddess in his previous life dream, he turned to face the audience.

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

"Wow, what a fantastic night. I really didn't expect that a film with the fifth lowest score in the show book would have a chance to win an award. So much so that I didn't prepare any acceptance speech."

Li Tang delivered his acceptance speech in English with a pure British accent.There was a burst of good-natured laughter at the scene, and it was easy to resonate with the guests on the scene about making complaints about the ratings of the show magazine.

"Being able to win this award today, first of all, I must thank the organizers of the film festival for giving filmmakers all over the world a platform to showcase, and secondly, thank the jury for your recognition of my performance. Then I must thank this film Mr. Cheng Er, the screenwriter and director, thank you for creating this great work! I would also like to thank our producer, Ms. Nai'an, my colleagues, Ms. Fan Binbin, Mr. Xu Zheng..."

In the past, whenever Li Tang saw award-winning actors on TV, he often expressed his gratitude with a little disapproval. He always felt that this was a routine.But only if you have really experienced it, you will find that movies are a systematic project, no matter what is in front of the stage or behind the scenes.As an actor to be able to win the award, I really need to thank all the people who have given it. It is sincere, and it is really not a polite word.

This award is of great significance to Li Tang. This is the first truly authoritative international award he has won.But looking at the awards ceremony of the entire Venice Film Festival, it can only be regarded as a small award. What everyone really pays attention to is always who will win the award in the main competition unit.

After that, as the awards of the main competition unit were awarded one after another, the love movie "Monsoon's Wedding Banquet" directed by Indian female director Mira Nair became the biggest winner and won the Golden Lion.

This is the first time that Ah San has won the highest award at the three major European film festivals. When the award was announced, all Ah San on the scene had an instant climax.

However, the score of the program has always been the highest, and the most popular Austrian film "Dog Day" only won the Silver Lion Award of the jury.

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

This is probably the so-called host advantage!

Sitting on the stage, Li Tang couldn't help thinking that one day he might also become the Best Actor of the Shanghai International Film Festival, one of the international A-category film festivals. After all, as a native of Shanghai, he should have this advantage.Even a child like Hu Ge who can't act may have such an opportunity in the future.

One more thing, this little guy has been admitted to the acting department of STA this year, and has officially become Li Tang's junior.

Then Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón won the Silver Lion Award for Best Screenplay for his self-written and directed film "Your Mother Is the Same". Best Newcomer Award.

The only Hong Kong film "Hollywood in Hong Kong" that was shortlisted for the main competition unit failed, and Zhou Xun, which was about to be blown up by the domestic media before, naturally missed the actress.

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

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

Li Tang, who won the Best Actor Award in the Upstream Unit and is commonly known as the "Venice Little Actor", was also very busy.He is handsome and has mastered several foreign languages ​​at the same time, so he is relatively easy to deal with foreigners.

"Li Tang, congratulations!"

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

The failure of the actress did not leave much regret on Zhou Xun's face, and he still looked happy.

On the contrary, Cheng Guo's complexion was not very good-looking, he was already dark, but now he looked even darker.

"Mr. Li, congratulations!"

He came over expressionlessly and shook hands with Li Tang.

Because Li Tang said that he didn't like his movie before, and the Hong Kong media made all kinds of embellishments, Cheng Guo was definitely upset, so his tone was quite perfunctory.

Li Tang didn't apologize to him. Originally, good was good, and bad was bad.Oh, you are allowed to make movies with all kinds of insinuations, so why not allow others not to like them? There is no such reason at all.

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

Several other Hongkongers also congratulated Li Tang and Cheng Er as a matter of routine.

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

"It's okay, they are them, and you are you, so nothing can be done." Li Tang smiled and said.

He understands Zhou Xun quite well. After all, in this circle, many things are involuntary, and cannot be determined by his own likes and dislikes.

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

"Tomorrow, when I come here, I have already booked a round-trip ticket, which will be cheaper. What about you?"

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

"The crew of "Shooting the Condor" will have to wait urgently."

"Well, I actually went back earlier, but I can't help it."

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

After experiencing today's awards ceremony, Li Tang generally felt something.Don't look at the so-called Venice International Film Festival, one of the three major European film festivals. To win an award, in addition to excellent works, you also need luck and connections.

For example, this time the Indian film "Monsoon's Wedding Banquet" was able to beat the highly popular Austrian film "Dog Day", perhaps because there was no Austrian judge in the jury.

As for his own award, Li Tang prefers to classify it as luck. Perhaps out of balance considerations, 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 forward. A short, chubby young female reporter rushed to the front like a little suckling pig, and immediately took the recording pen in her hand. Pass it to Li Tang.

"Ms. Li, I'm a reporter from the Southern Metropolis Daily, and my name is Yuan Lei. Congratulations on getting the Best Actor in the Upstream Unit. How do you feel at this moment?"

"Of course I'm happy. It's a great honor to win an award for the first time to participate in a foreign film festival. Of course, this award is not my own. It cannot be separated from the help of our director Cheng, heroine Fan Binbin, and the entire crew. It’s all of us working together to achieve this award.”

Now when Li Tang talks about these scenes, he just flips his bra with the old sow, one set after another.

"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 business as usual. It's time to film and film. If there is no new book, then it's time to rest. There is no new plan."

This Southern Metropolis Daily reporter named Yuan Lei was also a reporter from traditional media that Li Tang met during the film festival. In addition, he had accepted an exclusive interview with "Southern Weekend" before, and he had always had a good impression of this media.He knew that the Southern Metropolis Daily and Southern Weekend belonged to the same family, so he didn't mind talking a little longer.

So he said again: "Actually, for us, being able to go to Venice this time is already a victory. On the one hand, we came to Venice to study, watched many excellent movies, and met many internationally renowned actors and directors. Personally, it is a rare opportunity to improve. On the other hand, it is to sell the film, and I hope our film can be seen by more audiences."

"How did the film sell?"

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

Of course, Li Tang will not give up today's promotional opportunity, and said: "Our film was screened twice at the film festival, and it is very popular. I think MK2 company also took a fancy to this, and then reached an agency agreement with us Cooperation. "The Third Man" will be released domestically on October [-]th, and I hope domestic audiences will also like our movie."

As soon as he finished speaking, the other reporters couldn't wait any longer. Immediately, a man wearing glasses asked a question in awkward Mandarin: "I am a reporter from "Apple Daily". Excuse me, Mr. Li, have you ever commented on "There's a Hollywood in Hong Kong" before?" " made a criticism, and now the only Chinese-language film that was shortlisted for the main competition unit failed to win the award, can it be considered that it was caused by your inappropriate negative remarks?"

Whoa, what a big hat.

Li Tang glanced at the glasses guy who asked the question. He knew very well that the Hong Kong media reporter obviously had bad intentions. His question was provocative, but if you get angry because of it, it will hit the other party's hands and you will lose. .

Li Tang glanced around with a calm expression on his face, and sure enough, all the reporters were looking at him expectantly.The more sensitive the issue, the more newsworthy it is undoubtedly.

"First of all, I would like to declare that I have not criticized the movie "Hong Kong There's a Hollywood" 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 man couldn't wait to speak again: "Are you denying it?"

He also dealt with reporters in his previous life, and he knew very well that whether it was an American reporter or a Hong Kong reporter, they were all taught by a master.

Their grandparents, those British journalists from Fleet Street, are notoriously good at mobilizing the emotions of the interviewees, and then step by step to bring the interviewees into the rhythm they set, and then take them out of context.

Li Tang wasn't fooled at all, he just said flatly: "Please let me finish my sentence, if you have this attitude, then I don't need to answer the question."

Of course, the reporters at the scene hoped that Li Tang could answer this question, and all turned their blaming eyes on the glasses man.Brother Glasses didn't dare to offend everyone, he opened his mouth, and finally remained silent resentfully.

Li Tang then said: "As an audience, I think I should have the right to express my opinion. If I like it, I like it, and if I don't like it, I don't like it. I like it, but it is defined as inappropriate negative speech by you. I would like to ask where is the freedom of speech that you have always said? Can I understand that what you want to hear is freedom of speech, and what you don’t want to hear is no Appropriate negative remarks?"

The guy with glasses was powerless to refute Li Tang's rhetorical question. His purpose of asking the question was to try to anger Li Tang, create antagonism between the two sides, and pin the big hat that "Hong Kong Has a Hollywood" failed to win the award to the other party. on the head.

It's just that he didn't expect that Li Tang would not play his cards according to common sense, and while refuting with reason and evidence, he would throw the problem back to himself.Obviously the other party was trying to control the dominance of the interview, so he had no choice but to shut up.

Seeing the other party's confession, Li Tang smiled contemptuously, and then said: "I think as a newcomer to the Venice Film Festival for the first time, I don't seem to be able to sway the judgment of the jury just by saying that I don't like it. So The film "There's a Hollywood in Hong Kong" regrettably failed to win the award this time. The only reason may be that the story, aesthetics, and values ​​conveyed by the film itself were not recognized by the judges, or were not recognized by the judges. In the eyes of these judges, this movie is not enough to compare with the award-winning movies tonight!"

　It's hot, sleepy, and in poor condition, go to bed early, and strive for more tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)