You made me a superstar

Chapter 137 "The Crow"'s Trip to Cannes
The Venice International Film Festival has the longest history among the three major European film festivals, and once became one of the most popular film festivals for Chinese people, but unfortunately, its long history did not make it the leader of the three major film festivals. The more and more extreme award-winning literary and artistic works have discouraged many filmmakers. Movie trophies are quite authoritative, 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. They were all brought over to participate in the exhibition, but in the end they cheated to get a leftover award, which was extremely cheating, so the award of "Mine Bottom" a few months ago was almost a breakthrough in China.

The Cannes International Film Festival is quite tolerant among the three major film festivals. Every year, there are quite a few Chinese films that are shortlisted. The annual film market turnover of over [-] million makes many Chinese filmmakers flock to it. Blanket heat, it's good to brush your face with those filmmakers, and because the time of Cannes is just right, it's just when the summer file is about to start, so you can make a big gimmick before the summer file is released, and you can make it in advance. Selling overseas copyrights is definitely the best of both worlds.

Moreover, every few years, there will always be a Chinese director who enters the jury system of the Cannes competition, which is undoubtedly a great incentive for Chinese films.

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

22 films were shortlisted for Cannes this year.

Among them are four Chinese-language films.

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

Yes.

"Hero", a movie that has already been drawn in China, was still brought to Cannes by Shen Changwei to participate in the exhibition.

Such a movie is the first of its kind.

The other two films more or less had the intention of coming here to sell more overseas copyrights and try their luck to see if they could win an award, while Shen Changwei came here purely because he wanted to win an award.

There is no screening room for "Hero"?

It doesn't matter!
No sales area?
It doesn't matter!
People don't care at all, they just want to win the reputation internationally and show off their dignity as a great Chinese director.

"Hero" hurt its vitality in Berlin. Although the film's box office exploded, becoming the most Chinese-language film, its reputation exploded in China, and its overseas copyrights also sold rapidly, it did not have a matching honor status internationally. Divide "Hero" as the most successful commercial film in the Chinese film circle.

Commercial Film……

This made Shen Changwei feel very uncomfortable. Before "Hero" was released, he kept winking at the organizers of Cannes. After learning that Huang Jiacheng was one of the jury members of Cannes's main competition, Shen Changwei became more active.

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 look.

But in private, Shen Changwei is very enthusiastic, at least he has no pretensions towards Zhou Yang, so he pulled over and beeped a lot of this year's Cannes, and even hinted at Zhou Yang that the French girls are actually quite open, especially Some artists are very open-minded. If you want to chat with 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 area and the other is from the Northwest area, there is a little bit of competition for resources, but this does not prevent the two of them from occasionally sitting down and chatting in private. The future of Chinese film...

After some chatting, Shen Changwei regained his seriousness, and led his staff towards the hotel room.

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

"What's wrong?" Zhou Yang was quite surprised.

"The box office achievement of "Hero" is already high enough, but it pursues artistry and keeps its eyes on the European Junior Film Festival. I heard that it has also signed up for this year's Oscar... He has the energy, why not make another movie Well, but I can also understand that even if "Hero" can win a decent international award, it is enough to be famous..." Wang Shuai shrugged his shoulders with emotion.

"Why are you so obsessed with awards?" Zhou Yang asked this question in surprise.

"Which filmmaker is not obsessed with winning awards? Are you not? Don't tell me that you have never dreamed of Cannes..." Wang Shuai gave Zhou Yang a white look.

"No……"

Zhou Yang shook his head, but this caused Wang Shuai to look blank again: "You did win an award in Berlin, but that award was only ranked sixth in the main competition unit... You haven't seen the real award yet."

"What's the real prize?"

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

"Ok?"

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

"Um, I don't know!"

"Actor, Cannes Best Actor!"

"what?"

........................

Zhou Yang was curious about everything in France, people with different skin colors, different languages, road signs on the street, and rows of cars.

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

In a foreign country, he doesn't understand French, and his English is even poorer. If he gets lost, he may have to 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 crew and invited a bunch of blond girls to other places to hold parties. He also invited Zhou Yang, but Zhou Yang refused. .

Zhou Yang felt that this so-called party should not be the kind where everyone sings and dances.

In short, everyone has something to do, but Zhou Yang has nothing to do. Apart from being tossed over and over again by the image artist "Brother Toilet" and trying on all kinds of trendy clothes, he just stays in a daze. In a daze in the 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, and by the way, Song Yiyi asked about the details of the red carpet, but Song Yiyi seemed to be unable to see him, and talked to those French girls The friends chatted and made a giggling sound from time to time, which made Zhou Yang embarrassing!
In the next two days, Zhou Yang and Song Yiyi met several times, but Song Yiyi basically regarded Zhou Yang as air.

Zhou Yang naturally didn't have the habit of sticking a hot face to someone's cold butt. After touching his embarrassing brows twice, he never took the initiative to speak again. When they met by chance, Zhou Yang also followed Song Yiyi's example and regarded the other party as air , eating on my own...

In his heart, he even felt that the Song Yiyi in front of him should not be Song Yiyi, and might be her twin sister.

Two days passed quickly...

One day before the film festival party, Wang Shuai brought a piece of bad news.

The sales of "The Crow" abroad are quite mediocre, not as good as "The Bottom of the Mine", let alone Wang Shuai, who once felt that "The Crow" is close to blockbuster movies like "Warring States".

This disappointed Wang Shuai.

The movie "The Crow" was almost solely owned by him, but the overseas copyright was sold so badly, which made him depressed for a long time.

And the screening effect in Cannes was very cheating.

In a small auditorium, there were not enough people talking about it, and when the movie was about to end, there were only a few people in the huge auditorium...

Although I know that the screening of "The Crow" will disappoint people, but this posture is really too cheating. At one point, Wang Shuai wanted to pull Zhou Yang over to sell tickets.

But then it didn't make any sense...

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

Everyone is very realistic...

Since the bad news came, Bi Funan and the others who were throwing the party also stayed in the hotel room listlessly and never went out again.

Everyone's mood is generally low...

They realized that the overseas copyright of "The Crow" should be on the street.

In case the award is not won again, it is estimated that this trip to Cannes will be in vain.

6 month 20 day.

night.

Zhou Yang stayed in the room as usual, reading the score, and pondering over the arrangement, when an alarm rang at the door.

Didn't Director Wang just leave?
Zhou Yang opened the door in doubt, and when he saw a girl in a long green dress, he was stunned.

"Teacher Song?" He asked uncertainly, as if it was hard to believe that Song Yiyi would take the initiative to come to her at such a late hour.

"Zhou Yang, do you mean that I won't talk to you, and you won't talk to me anymore? Are you going to die forever?" Song Yiyi took a deep breath when she saw Zhou Yang, her shining beauty There was a trace of helplessness in his eyes.

"Ah, no... I greeted 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 defeated by Zhou Yang.

"Eh..." Zhou Yang couldn't speak for a moment, he could only stand stupidly, feeling that he was wrong, but at the same time he felt that there was nothing wrong with him.

"Would you like 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.

"Can't you be more sincere and call me? Distressed about the phone bill?"

"No……"

"Oh my god, your EQ, 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 subconsciously nodded.

"Zhou Yang, are you in a room alone, playing... what?" Song Yiyi suddenly became suspicious.

"well?"

"Forget it……"

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

"..."

　[-]D is updated today, and there is another update

　　Push the book: "Doing good but being falsely accused: what else do I have to apologize for?"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)