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Chapter 303: The organizer’s phone call hints at the omen of winning the prize

More than ten hours later, the passenger plane Li Yu and others took landed smoothly at Berlin Airport.

As soon as Cao Qing got off the plane, he received news from Li Muge from China.

Domestic media, both large and small, paid close attention to their trip to Berlin, which made Cao Qing feel even more pressured.

He is the director of this movie and he is the first person responsible.

If this movie fails to win an award in the end, wouldn’t it be that it has failed to live up to the expectations of so many people.

He smiled bitterly and said to Li Yu: "Director Li, the domestic media are going crazy. We are under great pressure."

"No way, who made us famous? We can't keep a low profile even if we want to."

The joke was over, Li Yu continued.

“You can relax and don’t put too much pressure on yourself.

Anyway, Li Yu is treating this trip to Berlin with a normal attitude. If he really can't win the award, he should travel to Europe and taste German food.

Li Yu heard that there are more than 1500 types of sausages in Germany, and it would take several years to taste just one flavor a day.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that Li Yu met a group of Chinese people in Berlin, the main creative members of "Reunion" headed by Wang Quan'an.

But after all, this is a film festival organized by foreigners, so the uncertainty is still relatively high.

The film festival has screening arrangements, allowing audiences to enter and watch movies by purchasing tickets.

But this time with Li Yu here, Wang Quan'an won't be so easy to win the best screenwriter.

For example, "Honey" won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film at this Berlin Film Festival, and "Shadow Writer" won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director.

Just think of this trip abroad as advertising for the movie.

After seeing Wang Quan'an, Li Yu remembered that this guy also participated in this Berlin Film Festival, and was shortlisted for the Golden Bear Award in the main competition, and finally won the Silver Bear Award for Best Screenplay.

Of course, Li Yu didn't have that much time to taste every kind of sausage.

This trip to Berlin is a guaranteed profit regardless of whether you win a prize or not. The difference is whether you make a big profit or a small profit.

These days, he and Fatty Fan were enjoying sausages during the day and sausages at night. They were living quite happily.

After the film festival started, Li Yu, Fan Xiaopang and others went for a walk for a few days.

Li Yu himself must have some confidence in winning the award.

Li Yu and his party have seen a lot of this year's entries in the past few days.

Do many domestic audiences know that there is a movie called "The Night the Comet Came"?

It is actually a good thing that the media and netizens pay attention to us.

Cao Qing carefully studied Li Yu's words and found that they were indeed the same as what Li Yu said.

If you can win a prize, it will be double happiness. There is no way to win awards, but our film has already gained popularity and can save a lot of advertising costs if it is released in China later. "

Because Li Yu's "The Night the Comet Came" was aimed at the best screenwriter.

If you think about it this way, even if we didn't win the award at the Berlin Film Festival.

After meeting, Wang Quanan took the initiative to say hello to Li Yu: "Director Li, before I came to Germany, I had heard from friends in the circle that you were also here, and I finally met you in person."

Wang Quan'an's attitude towards Li Yu was still very polite, at least on the surface.

Li Yu's status in the world is there.

In the domestic director circle, Li Yu's status is definitely higher than that of Wang Quan'an, even though Wang Quan'an won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival a few years ago with "Tuya's Marriage".

It's true that her style is quite high, but Li Yu's style is not bad either. It was Li Yu who won the mainland's first Cannes Best Actress.

Li Yu has won all the domestic Golden Rooster Awards.

Forget about the Golden Horse and the Golden Statue, they are biased against mainland directors and films, not to mention directors like Li Yu who are on their blacklist.

It would be really crazy if Li Yu could win awards in these two places. "Hello, Director Wang."

Li Yu shook hands with Wang Quan'an in a friendly manner.

After all, the two of them are not the same person, and this time they are one of the potential competitors, so there is no deep friendship, just a simple hello.

After Wang Quan'an left, Cao Qing said with some worry: "Director Li, Wang Quan'an won a Golden Bear award here a few years ago, and the probability of him winning the award this time should be quite high.

They didn't have much hope for Best Picture. He heard from the gossip that Wang Quan'an's goal had been changed to Best Screenplay.

Isn’t this also our goal? This time we are going to fight with his "Reunion". "

Cao Qing was slightly worried. After all, Wang Quan'an was a director who had won the Golden Bear Award.

It shows that Wang Quan'an is already very familiar with Berlin's competition for awards, and his "Reunion" fully catered to the tastes of the judges.

With "Reunion" as a strong competitor, it becomes much more difficult for "The Night the Comet Comes" to win the award.

As for why Cao Qing knew that "Reunion" had little hope of winning the best picture, it was because the opening film of this film festival was "Reunion".

Cao Qing has already seen "Reunion" and other excellent movies. I can only say that this Best Picture award is a bit complicated.

Facing Cao Qing's question, Li Yu replied: "Just because he won an award a few years ago does not mean that he can win an award this year. The quality of Wang Quan'an's "Reunion" is not as good as "Tuya's Marriage". The former is just a continuation of the latter. ”

This is not Li Yu’s comment, this is the jury’s comment.

In short, Li Yu has confidence in "The Night the Comet Came".

On Wang Quan'an's side, after they separated from Li Yu, the main actors of "Reunion" asked Wang Quan'an: "Director Wang, when we just walked over to greet Li Yu and the others, I heard them say that the goal of this trip is Isn’t it against us to be the best screenwriter?”

Wang Quan'an had already retracted the warm smile when he greeted Li Yu just now, and he said in a deep voice: "What can we do if we face each other?"

“Li Yu is at the height of his popularity in China, and all of his movies are hits, and now the number one and number two domestic movies at the box office are all produced by him.

He has recently collaborated with Zhang Yingmou to co-produce a movie called "Man Jiang Hong" with an investment of 3 million, which has caused quite a stir..."

Before she could finish her words, Wang Quanan waved his hand and interrupted: "Don't boost others' morale or destroy your own prestige.

I admit that Li Yu has two skills in making commercial films, but when it comes to making films to compete for awards abroad, I am more professional than him.

A few years ago I was able to win the Golden Bear, would I lose to him? "

Wang Quan'an is very confident in himself.

He thought that Li Yu and he were not on the same track at all.

Li Yu, a commercial film director, wants to beat him in a field he is familiar with? He could only comment that this was wishful thinking.

……

In the blink of an eye, a week has passed and the closing ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival is coming.

Cao Qing received a call from the organizer, inviting him to attend the closing ceremony.

Cao Qing was so happy that he went crazy.

Because according to the consistent style of the Berlin Film Festival organizers, as long as a film finally wins an award, they will call the crew in advance before the closing ceremony.

Cao Qing is the director of "The Night the Comet Came". He received a call, indicating that the film will definitely be successful at the closing ceremony.

At the same time, Wang Quan'an, who was in a hotel in Berlin, started to panic.

Because he didn't receive a call from the organizer, this meant that he was just a sidekick at this Berlin Film Festival.

Wang Quan'an was unwilling to give in. He waited until twelve o'clock in the evening when no call came, and his heart dropped.

He was very unconvinced. "Reunion" was a work he put great effort into. It couldn't win the best picture, but it would be no problem to win the best screenplay, right?

Who took away the award he wanted?

(End of this chapter)