Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 530 Three Women

“Jennifer, what’s going on? Why did the jury award both the Best Actress and Best Actor awards to “Rust and Bone”? I don’t remember that there is any precedent for this in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.”

Link asked as they got in the car back to the hotel with Jennifer Lawrence after the award ceremony.

Jennifer Lawrence was wearing a long red suspender dress. She was tall but voluptuous. She sat opposite him and smiled and said: "It's nothing. It's all the result of the jury's vote. When selecting the best actress, Marion Cotillard got it." The one with the highest number of votes is a French actress, so she has no problem winning.

When it comes to selecting the best actor, you will also get the most votes. At that time, director Ang Lee mentioned this issue and said that it is best to choose a leading actor from other movies and give other movies some exposure.

I said at the time that your performance in "Rust and Bone" was obviously better than other actors. If Marion Cotillard won the award, you would not be allowed to win the award. This would be unfair to you. Nicole Kidman supports me. statement.

Director Ang Lee handed over the decision-making power to the jury chairman Spielberg. After thinking about it, Director Spielberg proposed another round of voting and suggested that four other candidates be considered.

But the result of the second round of voting is that your vote is still higher than the other four actors.

After director Spielberg discussed with the organizers of the Cannes Film Festival, he decided to accept the results of the vote, and then the jury set a precedent and awarded the Best Actor/Actress Award to actors in the same film. "

Jennifer Lawrence shrugged and laughed.

Link touched his chin, "Although I haven't watched the movie of the four opponents, I have read relevant comments in the newspaper. The French media said that their performances were great, especially the veteran actors Bruce Dern and Matthew ·Amalric, the media predicts that this year's Cannes Best Actor will be chosen between the two of them, why will my number of votes be higher during the voting? "

Jennifer Lawrence laughed: "In terms of acting, your performance in the movie is definitely not worse than them. Just because they are older does not mean that they can act better than you, so I am not surprised that you won the first round of voting." .

But before the second round of voting, Director Spielberg said in advance that he would consider other nominees, but the voting result still was that you won. I think you are probably too charming. "

Jennifer Lawrence looked at him with adoring eyes.

Link smiled softly, took her arm, held her in his arms, and kissed her, "So I can get this award entirely because of my strength?"

"Of course, you are so awesome, you deserve to win the award. By the way, Nicole Kidman, Christoph Waltz, Naomi Kawase, Aisha Argento, and Zhang Ziyi came to me before voting and said that you It’s a great performance, I guess they want to make friends with you this way.”

Jennifer Lawrence said, sitting on his lap and wrapping her arms around his neck.

"is that so?"

If this is the reason, winning the award will not solely depend on your strength, but also on your own influence and status.

Unlike the Academy Awards, where there are six to seven thousand Oscar judges each year, the Cannes Film Festival has only a dozen or so at each session.

Link guessed that among the judges who voted for him, except for a few who wanted to be friends with him, the others might have been worried about being troubled by him, so they had no choice but to vote for him?

After thinking about it, it felt wrong.

Those invited by the organizers to serve as judges at the Cannes Film Festival are all outstanding filmmakers from all over the world.

They all have relatively high status and achievements in the film industry, such as Spielberg, director Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman, etc., as well as several jury members from Asia and Europe.

They have no contact with him at work, and they don't have to worry about offending him on this matter. They can vote for the actor they like without being affected when voting.

So why is my vote still so high in the second round of voting?

Is this award due to his strength, or is it because the members of the jury are concerned about his status and identity and have no choice but to do so, or are there other factors?

Link was thinking about this question, and gently rubbed the girl's thigh with his palm, slowly upward from the hem of the skirt, hoping that the touch of his fingers would stimulate his brain, and maybe he would have a flash of inspiration and come up with the answer to the question.

Jennifer said "Hmm", hugged his neck, and brought her bright red lips to his mouth.

Link looked at the girl's confused eyes and kissed her gently.

The commercial vehicle departed from the Palais des Festivals and drove along the road along the beach in Cannes to the hotel and residential area in the East District. Because the night on the seaside was beautiful, the journey that originally took five or six minutes took more than half an hour.

After arriving at the promenade, the car first stopped in front of the FiveSeas Hotel. Jennifer Lawrence, with a peach-faced face, carried a small round bag, waved to the car, and then walked into the hotel.

Link sat in the car and walked more than a hundred meters to another five-star hotel, JW Marriott Cannes.

He also did this to avoid suspicion.

After the awards ceremony, the news that he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival has been spread all over the world on the Internet. Currently, there has been a wave of heated discussions on the Internet, most of which are skeptical voices.

Many media questioned his use of Academy Award public relations techniques when attending the Cannes Film Festival, so he won the award.

If he and Jennifer enter a hotel at the same time and are photographed, the voices in the media questioning whether he won the award through unfair means will become louder and even affect Jennifer's reputation.

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After returning to the hotel, he took a shower, put on a cool beach shirt and shorts, found Marion, Monica and others who had returned first, and had a French dinner on the beach with little Cassel.

At the dinner table, everyone re-talked about the fact that Link and Marion were both awarded Best Actor and Best Actress at Cannes.

This kind of thing has never happened in the history of the Cannes Film Festival, so it is quite topical.

"Humph, what's there to discuss? Spielberg, Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman, Christoph Waltz, and Jennifer Lawrence, who has a great relationship with you, are all working in Hollywood, and you are a lion The boss of Door Pictures, isn’t it normal for them to award the Best Actor Award to you?”

Guillaume Canet curled his lips and said.

His film "Blood Ties" was also registered for this year's Cannes Film Festival, but unfortunately the response was mediocre.

This in itself was unpleasant to him.

What’s even more unpleasant is that this **** Link has become the Best Actor at Cannes. You should know that he started acting twenty years ago. He has played more than sixty roles over the years and failed to win any awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

But Link, a guy who has been in the industry for less than five years, a part-time actor, and a vulgar billionaire, can become the best actor in Cannes.

This is outrageous.

What made him even more upset was that Link and Marion won the Best Actor and Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in the same year. Their names will be written into the history of the Cannes Film Festival, and they will be next to each other, like kings. Like the queen, she looks very right.

And he seemed redundant.

"It's definitely not the reason you mentioned. I have met Director Spielberg, but we don't have any friendship. The same goes for Director Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman, and Christopher. They are all extremely professional and ethical filmmakers. It’s impossible to award the Best Actor Award to me just because of my identity. It makes no sense for you to think so.”

Link retorted.

"If not for this reason, what else could it be? Don't tell me that your acting skills are better than those of Bruce Dern and Matthew Amalric. This is absolutely impossible."

Guillaume hummed.

"Why is it impossible? Have you seen "Rust and Bone" and several other shortlisted films, and do you think they deserve this award more than me just because of your bias?" Link said.

"I know without even looking that your acting skills are not as good as theirs. As a boxer who spends time in the training gym every day, how good are your acting skills? How can you be better than them who have been acting all your life?"

"What you say makes no sense. If older age means better acting, then all film festivals would just award the Actor Award to the oldest actor without the need for judges."

"I didn't say that, I just think your acting skills are not very good."

Guillaume said forcefully.

Hahaha~

Marion Cotillard and Monica Bellucci listened to the conversation between the two and couldn't help laughing.

Little Cassel was sitting on the children's chair in the middle, eating fruit dessert and looking at several people curiously with his bright eyes.

"They're so funny, Marion, you're so lucky."

Monica covered her chest and laughed.

"You two, stop fighting."

Marion tried to persuade her, "There shouldn't be any problem with Link winning the award."

"Honey, are you really going to go astray?"

Guillaume asked in frustration.

"Don't speak for now. Listen to my analysis. First of all, among the five actors shortlisted this year, Link, Bruce Dern, and Matthew Amalric performed the best and have the highest probability of winning.

Link and I are actors in the same movie, so the probability is minus one. Amalric is also a French actor. If he and I win awards at the same time, it will appear that the Cannes Film Festival is not international enough, and Director Polanski is full of controversy. His probability is also reduced by one. "

"Then the winner should be Bruce Dern, why would it be given to Link?"

Guillaume asked.

“Bruce Dern is an old actor and his acting skills are indeed good, but you have not considered one issue. Actors need to become famous through Cannes, and Cannes also needs actors to support them.

Compared with Link, Mr. Dunn is not well-known in the entertainment industry, and he does not bring much popularity to Cannes. It is better to award the award to him than to a big shot like Link.

In addition, Link just said that his winning of the award was the result of a vote by the jury members. Cannes only needs to respect the decision of the jury and not participate or interfere. Then the award went to Link, which is very reasonable. "

Marion was wearing a white dress and smiled with a red wine glass in her hand.

"But the question arises again, why did the judges vote more for Link? Is it because Link is a good actor, or are other factors interfering with the votes of the jury members?"

Guillaume glanced at Link and said.

"I think it's because of their acting skills. The performances of Link and Marion in "Rust and Bone" are really great, especially the emotional scenes, they have great chemistry, and there are also some very explicit passionate scenes between the two of them. It’s like shooting with real guns. It’s very exciting. Guillaume, you can watch it when you have time. I’ve watched this movie at least three times.”

Monica said with a gesture.

"I won't watch the scenes they film."

Guillaume tilted his head unhappily.

Link shrugged and took Marion's hand under the table.

Monica smiled slightly, "Most French films are relatively avant-garde and open-minded, and the Cannes Film Festival will obviously prefer this type of film when selecting films. For example, "The Life of Adele," which won the Palme d'Or this year, also has such scenes.

Bruce Dern's "Nebraska" tells the story of a group of elderly people who are about to die. The storyline is relatively depressed and depressing. Most of the members of this year's jury are young. Compared with "Nebraska" ", I think Link and Marion's "Rust and Bone" will be more suitable for their tastes. "

"It's definitely possible."

Marion laughed.

Link also nodded. The Cannes Film Festival is the most open film festival, especially when it comes to relationships between men and women.

Every year at the Cannes Film Festival, some large-scale movies are screened at the midnight screening, with very exciting and violent plots.

For example, Monica starred in "Irrevocable", Nicole Kidman starred in "Smell of X", Cate Blanchett's "Carol", the great director Gaspar Noe's "Love" ”, as well as “Nine Songs”, “Crash”, “Lost Youth”, “Margaret and Julian”, “The Story of Women in the World” and so on.

Every year after being screened in Cannes, this kind of film is sought after by many people, and some even win the Palme d'Or.

For example, this year's "The Life of Adele" was immediately praised by director Ang Lee after the film was released.

Although Link and Marion's "Rust and Bone" is not fully frontal.

But everything that should be exposed was exposed, and the scale was relatively large.

It’s reasonable for this kind of movie to be so popular after being released in Cannes.

"Monica Marion, it is useless to say this. Even if we think it is reasonable, the media will not think it is reasonable and will not be easily convinced.

I dare say that the news about Link’s award will be discussed on all major social platforms. Tomorrow, media around the world will discuss this matter, question the fairness of the Cannes Film Festival, and accuse Link of using unfair means to win the award. By then, Link The honors received through this award do not receive as much criticism.

Link, I hope you can still be in a good mood tomorrow. "

Guillaume shook his glass and smiled happily.

"Thank you for reminding me, but it's nothing. Since I debuted, what I have encountered most is not praise, but criticism. In 2009, 2010, 2011, almost every year, but so what? I am still me, the world The brightest star in the world.”

Link smiled lightly.

"My dear, you are so charming."

Marion looked at his face and couldn't help but stretched out her hands to hug him tightly and gave him a passionate kiss that smelled of wine.

Monica Bellucci also looked at the energetic and masculine Link, with the corners of her red lips slightly raised.

When Guillaume Canet saw that Link had succeeded in pretending and received a kiss from Marion, he glared at him unhappily and drank heavily from the wine glass.

(End of chapter)