1990: Starting from Baojia Street

When Anok Greenbug came down from his acceptance speech, the camera was shooting this way again. Zhou Yan suddenly discovered that although he didn't win the award, he got a lot of shots.

The two people on his left and right have already won awards.

Anoke happily showed Zhou Yan her trophy, a not-so-cute little silver bear.

This was not the first time for Zhou Yan to see the Silver Bear Award. His script "Tree Hole" had won the Special Jury Award before. When Xu Feng brought the award back to China, he showed it to Zhou Yan and said that he would give it to Zhou Yan. He carved a similar one and asked him to put it at home, but Zhou Yan refused.

In fact, he has won many awards, but they are of little importance. He has never heard of many awards himself. If the medals and trophies of these awards are put together, a display case can be arranged.

But Zhou Yan felt boring.

"Congratulations." Zhou Yan congratulated with a smile.

"Thank you." At this moment, Anok also realized that the action of hugging Zhou Yan was a bit abrupt, and apologized, "I'm sorry, I was so excited just now. You know, there are no acquaintances around me."

She actually didn't explain, so Zhou Yan just pretended that it didn't happen. Now that she explained it so seriously, the atmosphere was a little awkward.

"It's understandable." Zhou Yan smiled.

After that, both of them remained silent and returned their attention to the stage.

After the Best Actress was awarded, it was the turn of the Best Actor.

The winner of the Best Actor award was Sean Penn, who played "The Walking Dead". He is also an actor that Zhou Yan likes very much. His starring roles in "I Am Sam", "21 Grams" and "Mystic River" all impressed Zhou Yan. profound.

"I Am Sam" is also well-known in China. It was from this movie that the famous child actor Dakota Fanning began to receive widespread attention.

However, Zhou Yan was a little disappointed. In fact, he really hoped that Li Xuejian would win the Best Actor Award.

And in Zhou Yan's opinion, the most promising award for "Springtime of the Cowherd" at this Berlin Film Festival is Best Actor.

Zhou Yan never thought about the Golden Bear Award and the Silver Bear Award for Best Director. The possibility was almost non-existent.

There is definitely no chance for the best actress. There are very few female characters in "Spring of the Cowherd Class", and it can even be said that there is no heroine. Only Lin Lin played by Zhu Lin can leave some impression on the audience.

In fact, Li Xuejian himself attaches great importance to this award. In other words, there is no domestic actor who does not want to be "International Best Actor" or "International Best Actress".

It would be fine if other domestic actors didn't get it. Over the past few years, a few domestic actors have actually achieved this achievement. The success of Gong Li and other actors in international film festivals has also given domestic actors hope.

But Li Xuejian has very few opportunities to win awards. The number of movies he has acted in is not that many, and he has participated in few international film festivals. This year is the closest he has come to becoming an international best actor.

It's a pity that this award passed him by.

I don’t know when I’ll have to wait for another opportunity like this again.

After the Best Actor Award was presented, the Best Director Award began.

The Best Director Award was awarded to Richard Longcrain. His "Richard III" was adapted from Shakespeare's play of the same name, but the film transplanted the background to the 1930s.

This is not unusual, many movies do this.

After Richard Longcrain came on stage and gave his acceptance speech, he thought he was going to award the last Silver Bear Award, but to everyone's surprise, another Best Director Award was announced.

"The other winner for Best Director was Yan Hao."

Zhou Yan applauded when he heard that Yan Hao won the award.

He thought that after "The Sun Has Ears" won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Film in Competition, it would not win other awards. Unexpectedly, it also won the Best Director Award.

This award is not light. It is the most important individual award at the entire Berlin Film Festival.

Yan Hao is no unknown person. He has won countless awards in his 20 years of debut.

He is from Xiangjiang and has little contact with Zhou Yan, but he has a good relationship with Xu Feng.

Yan Hao was very happy to win the Best Director Award and went on stage to give a long acceptance speech.

People from Xiangjiang generally speak better English, and he also studied in the UK and speaks very fluently. It can be seen that he is well prepared.

This is the second time he has gone on stage to receive an award today. If he had not been fully prepared, he would have already said the words of thanks he wanted to say last time.

The organizing committee did not set a time limit for acceptance speeches, and they encouraged the winners to speak more, because there was no program at the awards ceremony and the main content was the awarding of awards.

If each award-winning guest does not say a few words, the time will be too short.

Besides, Yan Hao won the Best Director Award, so he should say a few more words.

After Yan Hao finished his acceptance speech, the last Silver Lion award began to be announced on the stage.

"The next thing to be awarded is the Special Jury Award, and the person in charge of awarding the award is Jürgen Prochno."

After the host finished speaking, Jürgen Prochno walked onto the stage with the card.

Jürgen is a well-known actor from Berlin, but he speaks English very well and has been very successful in Hollywood.

Perhaps it was because he had been in the United States for a long time, but Jürgen was quite humorous. After taking the stage, he pressed the card on the table with his hand, then slowly bent down and looked through the gap.

After watching it, he smiled and said, "Oh, I like the music in this movie."

As soon as these words came out, there was a lot of discussion at the scene, some people looked at An Li, and some looked at Zhou Yan.

At this Berlin International Film Festival, there are two films with impressive soundtracks, one is "Sense and Sensibility" and the other is "Springtime of the Cowherd".

What’s interesting is that both movies were scored by Zhou Yan.

Seeing many people at the scene looking at him, Zhou Yan kept a decent smile on his face. This was also the time to test his expression management.

Jürgen was very satisfied with the audience's response. He smiled again and continued, "The person responsible for the soundtrack of this film is also a musician from China that I like very much."

This sentence seems to shorten the scope, but in fact it does not make any sense, because Jurgen's first sentence has already made everyone at the scene focus on the two movies "Sense and Sensibility" and "Springtime of the Cowherd" above.

At this point, Jürgen stopped teasing everyone, "Then I will announce the answer directly. The film that won the special jury award is "Springtime of the Cowherd Class"."

After Jurgen finished speaking, everyone at the scene looked in the direction of Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows and was about to stand up when he was hugged by Anok next to him.

"Y, congratulations!"

Being hugged by Anok, Zhou Yanren froze, and he shouted in his heart, Sister, you hug me when you win, and you hug me when I win, it’s endless.

But under the gaze of everyone, he couldn't push Anok away, so he could only respond with a smile, "Thank you."

Fortunately, Anoke also knew that this was an award ceremony, so he only hugged her for a moment and then let go.

Zhou Yan slowly walked onto the stage and took the microphone from the host. At this time, the screen behind the stage was still playing excerpts from "Spring of the Cowherd Class".

The organizing committee chose the part where Lin Ai sang when she returned to the choir.

Lin Ai's voice is nice and contagious, and it's really suitable to play it alone.

Because it was projected, Zhou Yan stood on the side with a microphone and waited until the excerpt ended before walking to the center of the stage.

After handing the Silver Bear trophy to Zhou Yan, Jurgen went down and handed the stage to Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan held the microphone, but before he could speak, applause rang out. Although "Springtime of the Cowherd" is very popular, it still surprised many people that it won the award, because before this, the Berlin Film Festival had never awarded the Special Jury Award to such a young director.

Information shows that Zhou Yan will only turn 26 next month.

Many directors at this age have not yet directed a feature film independently, or even made a short film of their own, but Zhou Yan has already won the grand prize at the Berlin Film Festival.

Previously, Zhang Yimou won the Golden Bear Award at the age of 37, which was already considered young.

Now that Zhou Yan can win the Special Jury Award, does it mean that in two years, the Berlin Film Festival may also award the Golden Bear Award to him? If that is the case, Zhou Yan will win another Golden Bear Award. The person’s age record.

In addition, Zhou Yan is a very popular director. If you grab a handful of these directors on the scene, they may win many awards, but when it comes to movie box office, there may be many of them bundled together but they can't beat Zhou Yan alone.

"Spring of the Cowherd Class" has already received more than 50 million yuan in box office in China, and it came to participate in the film festival.

Other directors are all rising stars, but Zhou Yan is like a rising sun, which is too dazzling.

It wasn't until the applause slowly stopped that Zhou Yan said, "Thank you everyone for your applause. It helped me relieve some tension. At least now my legs are not as shaking as before."

Hearing Zhou Yan's self-deprecation, there was a burst of laughter.

Many people have only heard of Zhou Yan but don't know him. Everyone has a different imagination of him, but they didn't expect him to be quite humorous.

Everyone can see that Zhou Yan is not nervous at all.

There have been many young people on this stage, including some as young as Zhou Yan, but none of them have ever won the Special Jury Award.

Many young people will feel more or less nervous when they stand on this stage, which is normal.

But Zhou Yan's performance was very relaxed.

He said that his legs were shaking, but the audience did not see any shaking in his legs. When he came on stage, his steps were calmer than most people.

After everyone finished laughing, Zhou Yan continued, "Thank you to the jury for giving this award to The Chorus. For a young director like me, this is a great encouragement. If I had expected that I would be standing on the stage to give my acceptance speech today, perhaps I should have prepared earlier, such as writing a small note to carry with me to prevent myself from being speechless due to nervousness after going on stage, and to prevent myself from forgetting to thank the people and organizations I should thank because I am too excited."

"Making a movie is not easy. From the beginning of filming, to the official shooting, to post-production and promotion, there are actually not many things the director can participate in. We need some professional helpers to help us solve the difficulties that we cannot solve. And my luck is obviously very good, because I have always had good people to help me.”

"First of all, I want to thank Xu Feng, my producer. She has been very supportive of me since my first feature film. In China, no investor is willing to invest millions of yuan for a newcomer to shoot his debut film. , but Xu Feng did it, and all my subsequent films were inseparable from her support.”

"In addition, I would like to thank all the behind-the-scenes staff of "Spring of the Cowherd Class", my assistant directors, Wang Xiaobo, Lou Ye, Huo Jianqi, Xiao Can, my photographer Zhao Fei, makeup artist..."

"Thanks also to the actors for their wonderful performance..."

Zhou Yan didn't deliberately prepare an acceptance speech, but now that he was on stage, he couldn't miss the opportunity. He thanked everyone he could thank, and many people mentioned their names, which was also a way to promote these people.

He didn't speak hastily or slowly, and he wasn't worried that the time was not enough, nor was he worried that the people below would be impatient.

After thanking him, he talked about the movie itself.

""Spring of the Cowherd Class" is the film I have been preparing for the longest. For this film, we built a school in the suburbs of Yanjing. The good news is that the school building has been used by local schools. I believe " The spirit conveyed by "The Spring of the Cowherd Class" will also continue in this school."

"As a musician and a teacher, I know the greatness and difficulty of education. Children are like a piece of blank paper without ink when they are born. What kind of chapter their lives will eventually play depends on the music. How one composes.”

Zhou Yan sublimated the topic a little, and the audience burst into applause.

But in fact, Zhou Yan's educational philosophy is not what he said.

How a person's life will turn out is naturally inseparable from education, but education is not a panacea. Life is different. Some people can develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and physically with just a little instruction, while some people can only achieve full development with all their efforts. Keep him from doing bad things.

It's just that such violent remarks cannot be made public on an occasion like today. These people will definitely not be able to accept it. They prefer to believe that "love" has the supreme ability to influence.

Hou Xiaoxian said that "Spring in the Cowherd Class" is a very romantic movie, and Zhou Yan fully agrees with it.

In order to film "Spring of the Cowherd Class", Zhou Yan found many "problem boys" and successfully transformed these "problem boys" during the filming process.

Telling this story is very inspiring.

But in fact, these "problem boys" selected by Zhou Yan all have minor problems and are not fundamentally bad. Many of them are just a little rebellious, and they are all very smart and learn everything quickly.

If Zhou Yan were to find some real "problem teenagers", let alone a few months, even if he was given a few years, he would not have the confidence to complete all the transformations.

But romanticism is definitely not meaningless self-comfort. Educators need reason, but they also need ideals and romance.

The same is true for movies. If you can't find the world built by romantics in the movie, it is undoubtedly a very sad thing.

Zhou Yan's acceptance speech was also very long, and he didn't have much preparation. He just said whatever came to his mind. He is a teacher after all, so speaking an impromptu acceptance speech is a piece of cake.

After Zhou Yan finished his acceptance speech, the host walked onto the stage amid applause.

"Thank you Zhou Yan for your speech. In this speech, I heard the lofty ideals of a great educator. I also thank Zhou Yan for bringing us such an excellent movie as "Spring of the Cowherd Class". I hope you can continue to make movies." More and better movies, let’s continue to see each other at the Berlin Film Festival.”

"Next, we are going to award the Golden Bear, and the person in charge of awarding the award is Claude Riche."

Finally, the most important award of the day has arrived, and the atmosphere at the scene has reached its peak. Everyone is waiting for the results to be announced to see who is the biggest winner tonight.

Everyone thought that after Claude came on stage, there would be a bit of suspense, just like Jorgen just now.

But Claude didn't create any suspense at all. After taking the stage, he said directly, "The one who won the Golden Bear Award is "Sense and Sensibility."

Because the results were announced so quickly, many people were stunned for a moment before applause broke out.

An Li sat closer to the front and quickly walked onto the stage.

Although he has not made many movies, he has rich experience in winning awards. This is not the first time he has won the Golden Bear Award. It has only been three years since he last won the Golden Bear Award for "The Wedding Banquet".

After three years, he once again stood on the awards podium at the Berlin Film Festival, holding the Golden Bear Award, and the familiar feeling came back.

He looked at the trophy and smiled, "Three years have passed, and the Golden Bear trophy has not changed at all."

A very simple sentence, but it reveals infinite confidence and pride.

He won the second award within a few years that others could not win in their lifetime.

Everyone in the audience also laughed heartily. There are not many directors who can say this about An Li.

An Li looked at the trophy in his hand, and then said with a smile, "There are many people I want to thank. I don't know where to start, so let me first thank the soundtrack director of "Sense and Sensibility" because he just On stage.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience laughed again. They did not expect that the two awards next to each other could have such a linkage.

Yes, An Li was not the only one to win tonight, Zhou Yan was not far behind either. Not only did "Spring of the Cowherd", which he directed, win the Special Jury Award, but he also served as the soundtrack director for "Sense and Sensibility" 》 also won the Golden Lion Award.

The soundtrack of "Sense and Sensibility" is so famous. In recent years, no movie's soundtrack has been as popular as the soundtrack of this movie. Even "The Piano Lesson" from a few years ago is not inferior to it. few.

There is no way, who asked Mariah Carey to sing the song in it, and Zhou Yan himself is also very well-known. Before this movie, Zhou Yan's pure music products had sold tens of millions of copies.

Zhou Yan also smiled when he heard An Li mentioning him. An Li was quite interesting.

In fact, when An Li mentioned Zhou Yan, it was not just interesting. On the one hand, Zhou Yan had just won the Special Jury Award, so it was normal for him to mention it. On the other hand, Zhou Yan was the only major director in the production team who was found by An Li himself. The member, Zhou Yan, also wanted to prove that his choice at that time was not wrong.

Of course, even if An Li didn't mention it, Colombia would have already accepted it.

They were even glad that they listened to An Li and chose Zhou Yan to score the movie. Otherwise, the movie would never have been as popular as it is now.

Zhou Yan’s soundtrack gave Columbia too many surprises. (End of chapter)