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Chapter 340 Zhang Yimou

Wang Shu was not excited at all, nor was he looking forward to it at all.

The three major European film festivals are a cake-sharing game for filmmakers from all over the world. The grand prizes are not enough to divide, and it is basically impossible for a film to win both the Silver Lion Award for Best Director and the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture.

Under normal circumstances, you can win one of the Newcomer Award, Cinematography Award, Screenplay Award, or Actor Award, and then win one of the Best Director Award, the Jury Prize, and the Best Screenplay Award.

It's hard to show up and win the Best Director Award, and also get involved in the next two awards.

The Best Director Award, the Jury Prize, and the Best Screenplay are the three most honorable awards, and usually only one of them can be awarded.

In the original timeline, "Human Mountain" was adapted from a real case and had just won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Now, without the bonus of real cases, Wang Shu knew clearly that Zhang Yimou should be the one who won the Best Director Award for "Human Mountain".

It can be said that it was precisely because he knew that Zhang Yimou was the chairman of the jury of this Venice Film Festival that he made an art film and came to Venice.

Zhang Yimou said in an interview that "movies do not respect national boundaries."

The Golden Lion Award will be announced by him personally.

Not far away, Li Yu saw Zhang Yimou talking to Wang Shu and walked over.

At the end of the acceptance speech, there were bursts of applause again.

The two exchanged a few words and entered into a mode of complimenting each other.

Mei Ting and Zhang Hanyu were stunned when they heard this. The disappointment on their faces flashed across their faces, and they immediately followed the crowd in applause.

For example, "The Sun Also Rises" by Jiang Wen is one of them.

"If nothing else, the Golden Lion Award will go to Lust, Caution." Wang Shu made a judgment in his heart.

"Congratulations to Director Li for winning the Golden Lion Award at this Venice Film Festival." Zhang Yimou said with a smile.

At this point, the awards ceremony of the Venice Film Festival is over, followed by the regular cocktail party.

"Hello." Zhang Yimou and Wang Shu were both well-educated people and responded politely immediately.

It's better to give it a try with "Mountains of People".

When Wang Shu went to Hollywood, Li Yu indeed had the strength and qualifications to take care of him.

Since Li Yu won the Oscar for Best Director, he has entered the ranks of Hollywood's top directors.

"Director Li." Zhang Yimou and Wang Shu responded politely when they saw Li Yu.

If his film "The Crowd" could win the Silver Lion Award for Best Director, Zhang Yimou must have contributed.

"Congratulations." Zhang Yimou said congratulations when he saw Wang Shu.

"Hello, Director Zhang and Director Wang, I am Tang Wei." Seeing the opportunity to meet Zhang Yimou and Wang Shu at the same time, Tang Wei was excited and quickly introduced himself.

In fact, even if Gong Li didn't say that to him, he would still push Wang Shu, and the result would be the same.

Zhang Yimou faced forward and said loudly under the gaze of countless people: "The film that won the best screenplay at the 64th Venice International Film Festival is."

Li Yu also knows the art of speaking, and said with a smile: "Without Director Zhang's support, it would not be so easy to win the Golden Lion Award."

“Lust, Caution!”

Because, Li Yu not only won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival before, but also won the Oscar for Best Director last year.

In fact, Wang Shu knew that as long as the quality of the participating Chinese films was indeed good, Zhang Yimou would not mind pushing them.

In the game of dividing pork, I can't beat Li Yu in any other shooting.

Winning the Golden Lion for a film directed by such a great director not only shows the world that the Venice Film Festival has the participation of top international directors, it can also shut the mouths of many people.

Zhang Yimou shook his head when he heard this. He didn't want to continue chatting on this topic, so he changed the topic and said, "In the future, Director Wang may also go to Hollywood to develop. At that time, Director Li may need to take care of him."

"Director Zhang, Director Wang." Li Yu said politely.

Zhang Yimou shook his head and said with a smile: "You still need to be strong in yourself, mainly because your "Human Mountain" is indeed excellent and worthy of this award."

If you win the big prize, you will make a lot of money, but if you don't win, you won't lose.

Under such circumstances, only by awarding the Golden Lion Award to Li Eucalyptus can the international status of the Venice Film Festival be stabilized.

Now, none of the best actors and actresses have come to the scene, further embarrassing the Venice Film Festival.

At this moment, Zhang Yimou, as the chairman of the jury, stepped onto the stage.

Under countless applause and gazes, Li Yu walked onto the stage and slowly delivered an acceptance speech.

And because I knew it was Li Yu, I filmed "Human Mountains and Seas of People."

After all, pork is divided, and since Zhang Yimou is the chairman of the jury, there is no reason not to give it to Chinese films.

The 5th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival in mid-May is not only shining with stars, but also attracting outstanding films from all over the world to participate in the competition.

Nowadays, many of the films coming to the Venice Film Festival are films that were rejected by the Cannes Film Festival.

Seeing this, Tang Wei followed Li Yu's footsteps.

In order to preserve the international status of the Venice Film Festival.

"Thank you for Director Zhang's affirmation." Wang Shu also understood.

As for Zhang Yimou saying this, he was obviously using his connections to pave the way for Wang Shu.

Wang Shu, who was the party involved in the conversation, looked stunned.
His friendship with Zhang Yimou was not only not deep, but actually very shallow.

But now, Zhang Yimou would actually speak to Li Yu for him.

I have to admit that the national teacher is the national teacher, and he has Chinese-language movies in his heart.

Like Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang and others, but far inferior.

While Wang Shu was stunned, he was also wondering how Zhang Yimou knew that he might go to Hollywood.

Then I thought of Gong Li, and I instantly had a guess.

Li Yu and Tang Wei were stunned at the same time when they heard this.

Li Yu was stunned because he didn't expect Wang Shu to go to Hollywood so soon.

Tang Wei was stunned because he was surprised to hear the news.

Seeing Li Yu's confusion, Zhang Yimou immediately said: "There is a producer in Hollywood who wants to buy the film adaptation rights of "The Tuner", and Director Wang may go to direct it."

"At that time, if Director Wang goes to Hollywood to direct a remake of "The Tuner", he will be new here. I hope Director Li can take care of him to the best of his ability."

When Wang Shu heard this from the side, he wanted to say that there was no need for this, but he couldn't refuse Zhang Yimou's kindness.

This is the national master's way of supporting his young junior.

When Li Yu heard this, he was stunned at first. Then he looked at Wang Shu and responded with a smile: "No problem. If there is anything I can help with, you can come to me."

He knew that the friendship between Zhang Yimou and Wang Shu was not very deep, and he also understood in his heart why Zhang Yimou would sacrifice his face to say this for Wang Shu.

He felt bitter about this.

If Baodao's filmmakers are so united, why worry that Baodao's movies can't go global?

Of course, he also knew that even if Baodao's films were united, it would be in vain without a talented director like Wang Shu.

When Wang Shu heard Li Yu's words, he first glanced at Zhang Yimou, and then said to Li Yu: "Director Li is too polite. I haven't said anything about going to Hollywood yet."

Li Yu couldn't help but brush Zhang Yimou's face and said with a smile: "No matter what the outcome is, whenever you come to Hollywood in the future, if you have anything you don't understand, you can come to me."

"Thank you very much." Wang Shu cupped his hand. "It's okay." Li Yu responded with a smile.

In fact, in Wang Shu's expectation, even if he went to Hollywood, there would be no place where he would need to seek help from Li Yu.

But as the saying goes, it’s always better to have more roads.

Furthermore, this is Zhang Yimou's intention and it is not easy to dismantle him.

Listening to the conversation between Zhang Yimou, Wang Shu, and Li Yu, Tang Wei was in a state of panic.

I thought it would be an incredible event for Wang Shu to win the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival at the age of 21.

Unexpectedly, the other party might actually go to Hollywood to direct a remake of "The Tuner".
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Tang Wei suddenly realized that even if she starred as the heroine in the movie "Lust, Caution" directed by Li Eucalyptus, she would still be very different from Wang Shu in terms of rank.

After the dinner, Wang Shu, Mei Ting, Zhang Hanyu, and Fu Dalong returned to the hotel.

Just as Wang Shu returned to the room, his cell phone rang, and it was a text message from Mei Ting.

"Come to me." Mei Ting.

Wang Shu saw this text message and went to Mei Ting's place without saying a word.

Today is the red carpet of the awards ceremony, and Mei Ting's makeup is more exquisite than that of the opening ceremony red carpet and the red carpet of the premiere of "Human Mountain".

In addition, Wang Shu won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival today.
I must whip her.

As soon as he walked into Mei Ting's residence, he was hugged by Mei Ting.

Mei Ting looked at Wang Shu with burning eyes, put her feet up and stretched out her head to whisper in his ear: "Me!"

When Wang Shu heard this, his blood immediately surged.

At the same time, news spread back to China that Wang Shu won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival and Li Yu won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Suddenly, it aroused heated discussion.

"Holy shit! The 21-year-old young director not only broke the record and became the top-grossing director in mainland China for a single film, but he also won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival!"

Some netizens posted on the forum and exclaimed.

A netizen saw this post and replied: "It is necessary to remind the poster that Wang Shu is the first Chinese film director in mainland theaters to have a single film box office exceeding 3 million."

Another netizen replied: "As expected of a 21-year-old young director, Niubi!"

A netizen posted on the forum: "Has anyone seen "The Crowd"? What is this movie about?"

One netizen replied: "It's about the Spring Festival travel season, with huge crowds of people squeezing the green train."

Another netizen replied: "I was in Venice before and happened to see the premiere of "Humanity". The person above is right. This movie is indeed about the green trains crowded during the Spring Festival."
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An honest netizen replied: "If I hadn't seen the trailer of "Humanity", I would have believed your lies."

Like "Lust, Caution", Wang Shu's "Humanity" was filmed, submitted for review, passed review, and then premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

Only the trailer has been circulated in China, and the release date has not been set yet.

In fact, it is amazing that the movie "Lust, Caution" passed the review due to its "shy" element.

It can only be said that Li Yu deserves to be the winner of the Oscar for Best Director.

Sometimes, when it comes to such big directors, the review standards are more flexible than other directors.

A netizen posted: "Everyone, Li Yu's Golden Lion seems to be the biggest award at the Venice Film Festival. Why are you all talking about Wang Shu and not Li Yu?"

One netizen replied: "Who is Li Yu?"

Another netizen replied: "Li Yu is awesome! Then let's discuss the 21-year-old young director."

In fact, ever since the news that Wang Shu won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director and Li Yu won the Golden Lion Award came back to China, Wang Shu has always occupied the most topics.

The reason is very simple.

Li Yu is an internationally renowned director. Not only did he win the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival the year before last, he also won the Academy Award for Best Director last year.

It’s not unusual for such a great director to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

It’s not surprising, so there won’t be too many topics.

In addition, he is a director born in Baodao.

On the contrary, Wang Shu is different.

He is only 21 years old this year.

Not only did he become the top-grossing director in Mainland theaters, he also won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival for the first time.

The combination of age and grades, plus the fact that it was Wang Shu's first time, naturally led to more topics and louder discussions.

As the news spread back to China, Han Sanping, Xiao Wang and others all knew about it.

While Han Sanping lamented that Wang Shu had really won the grand prize in the top three European universities, the big and small kings were cursing.

It is true that the Golden Lion Award is the biggest award at the Venice Film Festival.

But the Silver Lion Award for Best Director has always been the highest honor for a director.

It is the reason why the domestic director-centered system makes the Golden Lion Award related to directors.

For Hollywood movies, the Golden Lion Award has nothing to do with the director. This honor belongs to the producer, not the director.

For example, Nolan won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Screenplay for "Oppenheimer"
Among them, when the Academy Award for Best Director was presented, Nolan took the stage to accept the award and gave a speech.

When the Academy Award for Best Screenplay was awarded, the crew, including the actors, appeared on the stage together, and the producer accepted the award and made a speech.

Nolan, watching from the side.

Therefore, although Wang Shu did not win the Golden Lion Award, the Silver Lion Award for Best Director is already the highest recognition of his directorial ability.

This is not a small prize, but a big one.

The honor is equivalent to that of a movie king or a movie queen.

With this trophy by his side, Wang Shu's gold content skyrocketed.

It can be said that today's Feng Xiaogang, in addition to having higher qualifications than Wang Shu, is outclassed by Wang Shu in both the commercial film field and in terms of awards and honors.

This is also the reason why the big and small kings are cursing.

When they learned that Wang Shu had won the Venice Silver Lion for Best Director, they instantly realized that Wang Shu had surpassed Feng Xiaogang.

Feng Xiaogang has always been proud of his achievements in commercial films.

In the entire Mainland, excluding Zhang Yimou, an unreasonable commercial blockbuster director who always makes luxurious lineups, Feng Xiaogang is the leader in commercial movies in the Mainland.

Looking at the mainland, no one knows commercial films better than him.

Although his commercial films are just like that, there is no stopping mainland directors from being more creative than him, thus highlighting his greatness.

Now, the emergence of Wang Shu has directly shattered Feng Xiaogang's reputation as the mainland's commercial film leader, which he has always been proud of, with box office results.

Not to mention, the art film also won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival.

thus…

In the field of commercial films, which Feng Xiaogang is most proud of, the box office performance proved to be inferior to that of Wang Shu.

In the field of art films, he is not as good as Wang Shu.

The only thing better than Wang Shu is his qualifications.

(End of this chapter)