Xiangjiang old events [entertainment circle]

Taking a deep breath, Su Yun just opened one of the piles of letters that she wanted to read but also didn't want to read.

Fortunately, this letter was sent by Zhang Querong. Although due to the unique privacy of the letter, the wording he used in the letter was obviously a lot looser, but at least he knew how to measure and vote for Su Yun. So good, after expressing my personal miss for her in a few words, I quickly got to the point.

In the letter, Zhang Querong said that the filming of "Ladder of Love" was basically smooth, but because most of the crew were going north to the central part of China for the first time, it was inevitable that there would be some psychological and physical problems. , are a bit unaccustomed to the situation.

But fortunately, the crew is full of people who can endure hardships. After the initial discomfort, the next filming became smoother and smoother, and they also cultivated a good friendship with the local villagers; Because of these simple and sincere feelings from the villagers, many people who have been dragged down by Xiangjiang over the years in order to take off the speed regardless of people's pressure, so that they feel the peace of mind.

With the support of relevant local departments and people, they will probably be able to return to Xiangjiang before the Chinese New Year, and then add some details according to the situation, and the film can generally enter the next step of production.

Comparing the content of these reports with the content of director Xu Anxia's letter, it is not difficult to see that his perspective has begun to change from one-sided as an actor to a full-scale director on the way of acting.

In this circle, it's never been a rare thing to act and lead a director. On the contrary, many people have come here just like that.

For such a situation, Su Yun, who has never had too many human resources, is quite happy to see the results.

However, Su Yun has other plans for the questions about the release date of the movie raised by Zhang Qurong and Xu Anxia in their letters.

The film "Ladder of Love" was decided to be used for awards before the filming started, and after careful consideration, Su Yun chose the Cannes Film Festival as the target.

Considering that the movie will be filmed inland and the actors’ schedules, in order to avoid some twists and turns, Su Yun tried her best to shoot in a timely manner, but she will not rush to squeeze in 86 years. Cannes Film Festival.

The reason is quite simple. One is to reserve sufficient post-production time and public relations time for the film, and the other is to avoid the 86 Cannes Film Festival, a "big year" with many powerful enemies.

With the capital as the backing, Su Yun's eyes are no longer on the Newcomer Award or the Supporting Actor Award.

If you want to compete for the award, then you should simply point your sword at the best picture, or the heavyweight awards of the actor and actress.

In view of the focus of "Ladder of Love", Su Yun is focusing on the "Actor" award for best film or best actor, and is more confident in the probability of winning the best actor: Although the European film industry is very It pays attention to artistry, but like other awards such as Oscars, it has overt and covert discrimination against Chinese and even Oriental faces.

The best director is basically impossible, and the best film is also reluctant to give to a certain extent, so the rest are the two awards of best actor and actress, which are of sufficient weight but will not have much impact on the situation of the world film industry.

In addition to the precedent that Su Yun won the first Chinese Cannes actress ten years ago, adding another Chinese Cannes actress ten years later seems to prevent some people who say they respect art on the surface, but secretly respect it. People who pick and search feel too uncomfortable...

Moreover, a few years later, the Chinese-language film "Farewell My Concubine" showed a strong momentum of sweeping the Cannes Film Festival with its strong strength, but in the end, because of the invisible key issue of award distribution, it could only win a gold medal for best film in the end. Palme d'Or - this ending also made many people feel sorry for Zhang Querong, who has made a lot of efforts and sacrifices to perform this drama well.

It is true that in that era, Chinese people still held the mentality of not being afraid of deep alleys with the smell of wine, but foreigners who already knew how to public relations and fight for it didn't care what they had, and the jury basically believed that the shortlisted films were all good films. , so I want these good films selected by them to be able to get more exposure... The poor public relations and the judging committee's pork psychology can only end in a regrettable ending.

It is not that he is not good enough, but he lost under the unspoken rule of "resource allocation": this is the first time that breaking the boundaries of Chinese-language films winning the Palme d'Or has been an exception, so it is difficult for the jury to make another exception and let A Chinese-language film won the two heavyweight awards of Best Picture and Best Actor at the same time.

Another point is that for the award for the best "male" actor or "female" actor, the corresponding award is the male actor or the female actor whose biological sex is "male" outside the play, regardless of whether he or she What kind of gender or gender concept she plays in the play is not the basis for judging the awards.

The so-called rumor that a certain judge felt that his performance in "Farewell My Concubine" should have won the best actress, but if you think about it carefully, you know that this is impossible.

However, this does not mean that Zhang Querong did not suffer a dark loss in the selection process of "Farewell My Concubine"-he suffered a much greater loss than the "gender judgment standard", which is very "Rule discrimination" at the overall overall level that is difficult to shake by individual power.

By the way, back to whether they chose the 86th Cannes International Film Festival in 39 or the 87th Cannes International Film Festival in 40: Su Yun roughly got the The opponent distribution of these two film festivals.

In the 86th Film Festival in 39, the best film here has French-Italian British birth, Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award nomination, Oscar Best Director Award, Golden Globe Award Best Director Award, BAFTA Best Director Award A long list of director Roland Joffe, who is full of awards and other awards, and "Fighting Fire" starring Robert De Niro-this is not only a big director's plus card, but also a drama film adapting real events against colonial power. Yun is stupid to use her literary romance to collide with such a big guy.

As for the best actor, there is Michelle Brown from France. I heard that he is the new favorite of the French film industry in the past two years. He is only short of being crowned with a sufficient award... Well, this is basically useless up.

It was the 87th Film Festival in 40. The best film "Under the Sun of Satan" was awarded amid strong controversy, and this award has extraordinary special significance for the French film industry: the last French film The award-winning time at the Cannes Film Festival was in 1966, 87 years after 21.

The next time a French film won an award was 21 years later in 2008.

The intervals are exactly the same, so coincidental that people can't help guessing that they were forcing awards at the 87th Film Festival in 40 in spite of the controversy in order to praise their own people.

As for the winner of the Best Actor in 87, he was a veteran Italian actor who had won the best actor in Cannes, but he had already "passed" due to repeated box office hits and extramarital affair scandals. The film that came to compete for the award was also voted for the Oscars at the same time.

Very good, the best picture is highly controversial, and the strongest candidate for the best actor is a very strong candidate who has already won Cannes Best Actor once and wants to use the same film to compete for the Oscar award. native people...

In this way, as long as Su Yun works hard on these points, maybe this year's jury will be able to sacrifice these people who are not her own in order to quell public grievances, and set up a more attractive target to divert attention - for example "The first Chinese actor in Cannes" is an appellation that is bound to trigger a bloodbath.

There is no way, even Su Yun, who is not very superstitious, has to admit that Zhang Querong's award luck is really not very good. The lucky points are basically given to the actors and actresses who collaborated with him in the same play, giving out one after another Not to mention the best actor and queen of various awards, he himself was very calm and helpless in the awards ceremony auditorium with his strength...

Su Yun herself started her career with public relations and won various awards. Naturally, she will not let her subordinates suffer from poor public relations. On the contrary, she will build on the previous successful examples and make innovations steadily. Go and continue to fight to the death with those "artist judges" who can lose their conscience for the ridiculous reason of skin color.

Although she doesn't think awards can represent anything, in the eyes of many people, awards still represent an artist's career evaluation-thus, those awards who want to maintain their own advantages are opposed to those who are desperately trying to win an international award. Undoubtedly, it is a silent struggle that will never stop one after another.

Local films have local advantages and private preference. This is an unspoken unspoken rule no matter which award is selected. Su Yun sighed secretly, and then wrote a note in her notebook to remind herself to work harder To enhance the value of Hong Kong Film Awards.

After all, from the very beginning when she wanted to go against her original intention and choose a path that blended with the eyes of the world as much as possible, it was doomed that she must try her best to develop her cultural career while trying to make money to take off in Xiangjiang and strengthen her hard power. soft power.

An international award of sufficient weight can always make many film practitioners go crazy for it—and Asia has so far failed to produce an international award of sufficient weight.

Su Yun will make the decision to use "Ladder of Love" to fight for a Chinese actor for Zhang Querong, not only to enhance the "strength assessment" of her own people, but also to, under the most possible circumstances, go Realize his and many people's regretful dream.

After all, fundamentally speaking, the movie "Ladder of Love" has two brightest points: the poignant beauty of the story and the hero's struggle, hard work, and love as deep as the sea, and the latter is the reason why this story is so A major achiever of poignant beauty.

When all the brilliance is concentrated in one point as much as possible, and then when the right time, place and people are in harmony, it is possible to break the so-called rules that should not exist.

And when these rising stars come out, supplemented by sufficient economic and cultural strength and political support, the weight of the Academy Award will gradually increase accordingly, and finally achieve her desired goal.