director of the millennium

Chapter 36 "Juno" Comes to an End
"Look who's back!"

"Ha, our best new actor in Berlin!"

John laughed and opened his arms to hug Wu Yuan, who was rushing back to the crew from Berlin. His words were full of ridicule.

The Berlin Film Festival has come to a perfect close. This year's Berlin Film Festival is the most popular movie "Intimacy" from France!
The movie won a Golden Bear for Best Picture and a Silver Bear for Best Actress!
However, the Chinese Legion also returned with a big victory!

The Best New Actor and Best New Actress were won by "17 Years Old Cycling" and "Love You Love Me".

"Love You Love Me" also won the Best Director Silver Bear Award.

"17-year-old Bicycle" won the second only to the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture - the Jury Award Silver Bear Award!
In other words, out of the four major awards at this year's Berlin Film Festival, two were won by Chinese-language films!

There is no doubt that the 51st Berlin International Film Festival is the one where the Chinese shine.

John's guess before the game was wrong, and "17-year-old bicycle" really won the grand prize.

"I really didn't expect that you would win the Best Newcomer Actor." John was overjoyed, looking at Wu Yuan with a strange look.

Berlin's Best Newcomer is no small award. Such an award is recognized and respected even in Hollywood.

Scarlett, Chris and others who greeted Wu Yuan's return also cheered and applauded.

It is a good thing that the director went to Berlin to win an award, and he must congratulate him.

It's just that the director got back the actor award, which made them feel a little incredible.

"Director, I didn't expect you to be so good at acting that you could win the best newcomer award for your first film!" Scarlett winked mischievously at Wu Yuan.

In fact, I don't have any acting skills, but Wu Yuan still pretended to be forceful: "If my acting skills are not good, can I tell you a play?"

It's so crazy to win the best new actor in Berlin!

"Okay, that's the end of the talk about Berlin." Wu Yuan stretched out his hand to press down, and his face returned to seriousness: "The crew has been suspended for three days, and it's time to start working again."

"Scarlett, how is your pregnant mentality and posture?"

"I think I can give it a try." Scarlett stopped her smile and replied seriously.

Wu Yuan waved his hand: "Okay, then I announce that the crew of "Juno" will resume work!"

After attending the Berlin Film Festival, Wu Yuan rushed back to the "Juno" crew to continue filming without stopping.

There are actually not many plots left, just some plots when Scarlett was pregnant. With the personal teaching and hands-on experience of two pregnant mothers, Scarlett also found a bit of the mentality and behavior of young pregnant women. .

After another ten days of shooting by the crew, the pre-shooting part of the entire "Juno" is considered to be completely completed.

On the last day of February 2001, the production team of "Juno" announced that it was finished!
However, the completion of the film is only the first link in the production process of the entire film.

Next, Wu Yuan needs to work with the editor arranged by Fox Searchlight to edit the film later.

The release date of this movie is aimed at the summer vacation, and the schedule is still very urgent.

And, being a teen-themed film, the film also needs to insert a lot of music, including some songs by current pop artists, as well as an original soundtrack.

In this regard, director Wu Yuan was also needed to set the tone.

Nineteen songs are expected to appear throughout the film, most of which call for an original score.

So after the filming finished, Wu Yuan was still very busy.

While watching the film's post-production cut, he also needs to watch the film's score work at the soundtrack studio, flying between Los Angeles and New York from time to time.

It took him three full months to get this part of the work done and produce the finished film of "Juno".

Immediately, he took the finished film and held a viewing session inside Fox Searchlight.

Some elite producers within Fox Searchlight, the heads of the marketing department, and the company's middle and senior management all witnessed Wu Yuan's version of "Juno".

The 102-minute finished film is 6 minutes longer than the original.

Compared with the original "Juno", Wu Yuan's version completely retains Juno's "cool girl" setting and plot, which is also the core selling point of the film.

However, compared with the original version, Wu Yuan has improved the presence of the male protagonist.

Unintended pregnancy is not caused by one person, it is a matter for both men and women. Brick can no longer be indifferent, and he must also bear his own responsibilities.

The original Juno was aimed at teenage girls, high school and college girls to be precise.

And Wu Yuan's version of "Juno" magnifies this target group, not only hope girls go to the cinema, but also hope boys come to the cinema to watch this movie.

Therefore, Wu Yuan greatly reduced the plot of the adopted couple in the movie, and increased the campus plot and life plot of Juno and Brick.

Of course, the focus of the story is still Juno. This movie needs this cool girl, who is completely different from ordinary girls. favorite.

At the same time, Brick was also influenced by Juno's optimistic and cheerful attitude towards everything, from evading at the beginning to gradually accepting it, and having the courage to take responsibility.

This part of the plot is intended for a male audience.

The core theme of the original "Juno" is to praise women, praise women's motherly love and strength, and criticize men as jerks and immature and irresponsible.

While Wu Yuan's version of "Juno" praises women, he also wants to express that men will mature, learn to shoulder responsibilities, and become mature and attractive men.

It's just that they mature later than women, and you may need to give them a little more patience.

"It's a cool movie. It's not the same as "Sweetheart Iraqi". It's not so serious, and it doesn't have any preaching."

"Hey, I thought this movie would be very serious, but I didn't expect it to be anything serious. Juno is super cool. I'm going to fall in love with this girl after watching the movie."

"This director from China is very powerful. Why does he know American humor so well?"

After watching the first version of the finished film, most people in Fox Searchlight gave the film a favorable review.

Yes, while "Juno" is about teenage coming of age, it's not a serious movie.

Wu Yuan has also been avoiding the seriousness of the film.

He knew that the core reason for the popularity of the original version of "Juno" was the uniqueness of "Juno", her coolness, and her ease in facing accidents.

In other words, this movie must not be made too serious, too serious!
An ordinary audience definitely does not enter the cinema with the idea of ​​"I want to learn something by watching movies".

An excellent director wants to convey his thoughts and ideas to the audience, and wants the audience to "learn something" after watching the movie. He must not use a serious preaching style to force feed the audience.

It is necessary to use methods such as character charm, editing methods, humor, laughter and cursing, through characters and plots, to package "reason" into candy, and quietly stuff it into the audience's mouth.

It seems that Wu Yuan did a good job in the movie "Juno".

At least in the internal viewing meeting, people who watched the movie didn't feel that they were being forced by Wu Yuan to make any sense, and they didn't feel that the movie had any preaching content.

It's just that after watching the movie, they naturally have some insights, and these insights are also things that they have heard a lot and are used to watching.

For example, women should be strong and tolerant, men should learn to take responsibility, parents should love their children unreservedly, etc.
Wu Yuan used witty and humorous lines, as well as unconstrained picture style and film tone, to repackage these rotten truths into fresh desserts!

"I think we should consider starting the film promotion of "Juno"." The director of the distribution department of Fox Searchlight said with a smile on his face.

So far, the work on the film "Juno" has nothing to do with Wu Yuan for the time being.

Fox Searchlight will be responsible for everything that will follow, whether it's publicity, release or release, Wu Yuan can't provide much support.

And after he handed over the finished film, he had nothing to do for the time being.

Back at his long-term rental hotel in Los Angeles, Wu Yuan looked at the calendar on the bedside of the bedroom.

"January 2001, 6."

Staring at this date for a long time, Wu Yuan hesitated for a long time, took out his mobile phone, and called Director Han who was far away in China.

"Director Han, can you help me contact Mr. Zhang Guorong on Hong Kong Island?"

"I want to meet him."

　In fact, this adaptation of "Juno" is not the first time I think so, it should appear in "Best Director" at the earliest.

　　I think that as a Huaxia director, I definitely can't make a completely American "Juno", so I think this should be changed to fit Wu Yuan's Huaxia identity.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)