You Made Me a Superstar

  Chapter 137 "The Raven"'s trip to Cannes

The Venice International Film Festival has the longest history among the three major film festivals in Europe. It once became one of the most sought-after film festivals by the Chinese. Unfortunately, the long history has not made it the leader of the three major film festivals. The increasingly extreme award-winning literary and artistic works have discouraged many filmmakers. The authority of film trophies is quite strong, but the film market is pitifully small, and even the sales of award-winning works were dismal...

The Berlin Film Festival is much more grand, but it is easy to be shortlisted, and it is difficult to win awards. Basically, all films are monopolized by European and American films. Chinese film people have been rushing for so many years, even high-quality big films such as "Hero". They all came over to participate in the exhibition, but in the end, they got a scrap award, which was extremely stupid, so the award for "The Bottom of the Mine" a few months ago was almost a breakthrough in China.

Cannes International Film Festival is quite tolerant among the three major film festivals. Every year, there are many Chinese films shortlisted. The annual turnover of the film market exceeds 100 million yuan, which makes many Chinese filmmakers flock to them. The popularity of the blanket, it is good to brush your face here, and because the time in Cannes is just right, just when the summer season is about to start, you can not only make a big gimmick before the summer season is released, but also in advance. Selling and selling overseas copyrights is definitely the best of both worlds.

   Moreover, every few years, a Chinese director will always enter the jury system of the Cannes competition, which is undoubtedly a great incentive for Chinese-language films.

  After all, the previous "Overlord" was really awesome, and its status in Cannes is still talked about by many old guys...

   22 films were included in this year’s Cannes.

   There are four Chinese movies in it.

   One is "Bicycle. Life" from Taiwan Island, one is "The Crow" by Wang Shuai, the other is "Hero" by Shen Changwei, and the last one is the literary film "Black" from Hong Kong Island.

Yes.

   "Hero", a film that was already drawn under Huaxia, was still brought to Cannes by Shen Changwei for the exhibition.

A movie like    is the first of its kind.

   The other two films have more or less the idea of ​​running over to sell more overseas copyrights, by the way, to try their luck to see if they can win the prize, but Shen Changwei just came over and wanted to win the prize.

   "Hero" doesn't have a showroom?

  It doesn't matter!

  No area for sale?

  It doesn't matter!

  People don't care at all, they just want to compete in the international arena and show off their dignity as a Chinese director.

"Hero" hurt its vitality in Berlin. Although the box office exploded and became the most Chinese-language film, the word of mouth exploded in China, and overseas copyright sales also skyrocketed, but it did not have a matching honorary position in the world. Many people even Classified "Hero" as the most successful commercial film in the Chinese film industry.

Commercial Film……

   This made Shen Changwei very uncomfortable. Before the release of "Hero", he kept winking at the Cannes organizer. After learning that Huang Jiacheng was one of the jury members of the main competition in Cannes, Shen Changwei's mind became more lively.

   Zhou Yang and Wang Shuai met Shen Changwei in front of the Austin Hotel.

  Shen Changwei looks very serious in the eyes of outsiders, especially when filming, many actresses have been scared to cry by Shen Changwei's eyes.

But in private, Shen Changwei was very enthusiastic, at least he didn't have any pretence for Zhou Yang, he pulled over to bet on a big pass in Cannes this year, and winked at Zhou Yang to imply that the French lady was actually quite open, especially Some artists are very open, if you want to talk to them about the night light script, you will definitely be exhausted.

The relationship between Wang Shuai and Shen Changwei is also good. Although one is from the Beijing circle and the other is from the Northwest circle, there is a little bit of resource competition, but this does not prevent the two from occasionally sitting down and chatting in private. The future of Chinese cinema...

   After some chatting, Shen Changwei regained his seriousness and walked towards the hotel room with the staff under his hand.

   "Shen Changwei is definitely one of the most powerful Chinese directors... It's a pity, he's been a little stunned recently." Wang Shuai looked at the back of Shen Changwei leaving, and sighed faintly.

   "What's wrong?" Zhou Yang was very strange.

"The box office success of "Hero" is high enough, but he pursues artistry, staring at the European Junior Film Festival, and I heard that he has also signed up for this year's Oscar... If he has this energy, he might as well make another movie. Well, but I can understand that even if "Hero" can win a decent international award, it is enough to become famous..." Wang Shuai shrugged his shoulders with emotion.

   "Why are you so obsessed with awards?" Zhou Yang asked this question very strangely.

   "Which filmmaker is not obsessed with winning awards? Are you not obsessed? Don't tell me, you have never dreamed of Cannes..." Wang Shuai rolled his eyes at Zhou Yang.

"No……"

   Zhou Yang shook his head, but Wang Shuai gave him another blank look: "You did win in Berlin, but that award is in the main competition unit and can only be ranked sixth... You haven't seen the real award yet."

   "What is the real jackpot?"

   "This year's Cannes, your nomination is one of the biggest awards..."

"Um?"

   "Best Actor Award, don't you know what this is?"

   "Uh, I don't know!"

   "The best actor, the best actor in Cannes!"

"what?"

  ……………………

  Everything in France makes Zhou Yang curious, people of different skin colors, different languages, road signs on the street, and the row of cars.

   But Zhou Yang could only hide in the hotel, looking at the people coming and going below, but he never thought of going out for a stroll.

   In a foreign country, he does not understand French, and his English is even more sloppy. If he gets lost, he might suffer.

  Staying in the room is actually quite boring.

Wang Shuai visited old friends in various places, and Bi Funan, the second child in the crew, followed the rest of the crew to invite a bunch of blond ladies to have a party elsewhere. He also invited Zhou Yang, but Zhou Yang refused. .

   This so-called party, Zhou Yang thinks, should not be the kind where everyone sings and dances.

In a word, everyone has something to do, but Zhou Yang has nothing to do, except for being tossed over and over by the image art master "Toilet Brother" tossing his dog's head and trying on all kinds of messy fashion clothes. Stuck in a hotel.

When he went downstairs to eat the buffet at noon, he met Song Yiyi. He took the initiative to say hello to Song Yiyi. By the way, Song Yiyi asked about the details of the red carpet, but Song Yiyi seemed to be unable to see him. The friends chatted and made a gurgling sound from time to time, Zhou Yang was embarrassed!

   In the next two days, Zhou Yang and Song Yiyi met several times, but basically Song Yiyi regarded Zhou Yang as air.

Zhou Yang naturally didn't have the habit of sticking his face to someone's cold butt. After touching his embarrassed brow twice, he never opened his mouth again. Occasionally, Zhou Yang also imitated Song Yiyi's appearance and regarded the other party as air. , eating on his own...

   He even thought that the Song Yiyi in front of him should not be Song Yiyi, but might be her twin sister or something.

  Two days passed quickly...

   Just one day before the film festival party, Wang Shuai brought some bad news.

   The copyright of "The Crow" sold abroad is quite average, not as good as "The Bottom of the Mine", and even made Wang Shuai feel that "The Crow" is closer to the street movie "Warring States".

   This disappointed Wang Shuai.

   The movie "The Crow" is almost wholly owned by him, but the overseas copyrights sold like this, which made him depressed for a long time.

   And the screening effect in Cannes was very bad.

  In a small screening hall, there were still people who were talking about it, and when the movie was about to end, there were only a few people in the huge screening hall...

  Although I knew that the screening of "The Crow" would be disappointing, this posture was really too embarrassing, and once made Wang Shuai want to pull Zhou Yang over to sell tickets.

   but then it doesn't make sense...

  Unless Zhou Yang is willing to hook up with those rich filmmakers, talk to them about film art, and devote himself to art at the right time, otherwise, it will have no effect on selling films.

   Everyone is very realistic...

  Since this bad news came, Bi Funan and others, who had a party, also stayed in the hotel room and never went out again.

  Everyone's mood is generally very low...

   They realized that the overseas copyright of "The Raven" should be thrown into the street.

   In case you don't get any awards again, it is estimated that this trip to Cannes will be in vain.

   June 20.

   Night.

   Zhou Yang stayed in the room as usual, reading the score and thinking about the arrangement, when the alarm bell rang at the door.

   Didn't Director Wang just leave?

   Zhou Yang opened the door suspiciously and was stunned after seeing a girl in a long green dress.

   "Mr. Song?" He asked uncertainly, as if it was hard to believe that Song Yiyi would take the initiative to come to her so late.

"Zhou Yang, are you not talking to you, and you won't talk to me anymore? Are you going to die?" Song Yiyi took a deep breath after seeing Zhou Yang, her bright beauty There was a hint of helplessness in his eyes.

   "Ah, no... I said hello to you, but you ignored me."

   "I ignored you, so you can't ask me why I ignored you?" Song Yiyi looked at Zhou Yang as if she was defeated by Zhou Yang.

   "Uh..." Zhou Yang was speechless for a while, so he could only stammer, feeling that he was wrong, but he also felt that there was nothing wrong with him.

   "Are you going to invite me to dinner?"

   "Uh, I replied to the text message, but you didn't answer me..." Zhou Yang was still at a loss.

   "You can't be sincere, call me? Are you worried about the phone bill?"

"No……"

"Oh my God, your emotional intelligence, hey, forget it, forget it, you can't get angry even if you want to, wait, you plan to let me stand outside and talk to you? You really plan to walk the red carpet alone tomorrow. ?"

   "Ah, please come in..." Zhou Yang nodded subconsciously.

   "Zhou Yang, shouldn't you be alone in your room, fighting... what?" Song Yiyi suddenly became suspicious.

"well?"

"Forget it……"

   "Fighting?" Zhou Yang thought for a while, then looked at Song Yiyi in disbelief, "No, I'm not that kind of person..."

  “…”

   Today's 4D update, there is one more

   Push the book: "Doing Good and Being Fraudulent: What Happens After I've Apologised"

   (end of this chapter)