Big director

The Cannes Film Festival usually lasts about [-] days, and it will close on the second Sunday. There will also be a red carpet session at the closing, but because the stars who can stay until the closing ceremony are basically at least nominated for awards, So in terms of scale, it is much smaller than that of the opening ceremony, and the attention from the outside world is not as good as the opening red carpet. Everyone's focus is still on the upcoming awards ceremony.

But even so, the red carpet show of the "Atlantis" crew is still dazzling.

Different from the military uniform style at the opening ceremony, at the closing ceremony, the men of the whole crew wore ink-wash freehand-style gowns uniformly, while the women wore silk cheongsams carefully customized. Because of the need to match the costumes, all men’s hairstyles also have an old-fashioned gentleman The wind is combed submissively, while the lady has exquisite and beautiful curly hair, which is full of curves and graceful, sandwiched among the suits and evening dresses, not to mention how eye-catching.

These two kinds of clothing are extremely picky about the figure, and any slight defect will be magnified and become a tragic 'accident'.But this crew is simply a model of self-willedness, and the appearance can make people fascinated every minute.

...When they first came to Cannes, they were unknown to everyone, but by the closing ceremony, few people didn't know who they were.

When walking up, the spotlights flickered all of a sudden, and the eyes of those who were illuminated could not be opened.

The crew following them stopped at a distance at the beginning, and after a few minutes, they walked forward slowly.In the past, Zhu Zimo and the others had to rack their brains to calculate the time to avoid the sharpness of others, but after only a dozen days passed, they became people who needed to be feared by others.

Including Zhu Zimo, who in the entire crew could not detect the subtleties in this? The word 'sentiment' may be taken too lightly when used here. To be precise, almost everyone feels a fiery torrent emanating from the depths of their hearts, like a magma erupting, like the earth rejuvenating !Those who have never been there will never understand the... touching and proud of that moment.

With their heads held high and relaxed smiles, they walked forward, occasionally raising their arms to greet those who stopped them.Anyone who has paid attention to their two red carpet shows can notice that during the closing ceremony, the gestures and expressions of this group of young actors became much calmer.

At the end of the red carpet this time, there are still hosts waiting for interviews - the rest of the crew are all elites who are likely to win awards, and after the [-]-day film festival, there are more topics that can be asked and the audience is interested in Quite a lot, so compared to the haste of a few minutes at most for each crew during the opening ceremony, the interviews at the closing ceremony were much more solemn, and the time reserved was more sufficient.

The same host, saw Zhu Zimo and the others coming, smiled and took a few steps forward, and then asked a question: "Director Zhu, what do you think about your film breaking the previous record for turnover? "

"Which awards do you think you might win? What are your biggest ambitions?"

"As the biggest dark horse of this year's film festival, many people, including me, will love you to death after watching your film. Can you tell me which shooting technique or special effect technique you used? I must Said, the picture effect is too impactful, too shocking!"

"I heard that you just arrived this year? This is unbelievable... I mean, compared to a director, you are too young. When many world-renowned directors are here, you are still accumulating knowledge in school. You are really a genius!"

"About the issue of nationality, you know that there have been a lot of news lately, which can't be distinguished from the true to the false. So, can you take this opportunity to tell the poor audience, which country's nationality do you currently hold? ?”

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There are so many questions that people are simply overwhelmed. Zhu Zimo answers most of the questions in an ambiguous manner. As an actor, try to keep the focus away from your own private issues, so as not to disperse the topic and make it seem overwhelming.

The hostess Karina smiled at the camera while complaining bitterly in her heart - she thought that the director's young age meant that she lacked experience, so if she tried to induce her a little bit, she wouldn't have to worry about finding a hot spot.Who would have thought that he would deal with it so savagely, like an old fritter who has been in the entertainment industry for decades!

How did she know that as a rich and free person, the only fun is in Two-dimensional, the future second ancestor who has been concerned about the entertainment industry since childhood, as long as Zhu Zimo overcomes the interpersonal communication barrier of the otaku, and then prepares in advance through the optical brain, It is so easy to deal with such a scene!

At this time, a crew that Zhu Zimo was very familiar with was waiting outside the interview area during the regular period. They were obviously the crew that had been pressed behind the sad reminder, because the host interviewed Zhu Zimo and they were too excited. As a result, the next production team came for a while, but the previous production team still occupied the interview area and did not move... The feeling of waiting was too embarrassing, and all the members of that production team looked very ugly.

If Zhu Zimo was willing to look back at this time, he would probably express the same sigh as someone behind him—what kind of fate is this!

The day before the opening ceremony, a beam was inadvertently formed.

During the red carpet of the opening ceremony, they lined up one after the other.

When filming, the screening venues arranged for them are next to each other.

Now on the red carpet for the closing ceremony, they turned out to be one behind the other!The only difference is that the order is reversed.

john.Lei Meng looked at the energetic Zhu Zimo in front of him with almost hatred eyes, his face had already turned livid.

Mi Yisha, who used to say that 'Cannes doesn't like Chinese people', no longer dared to make sarcastic remarks. She stood by John.Beside Raymond, expressionless.In Mi Yisha's view, it is nothing to be a winner and loser. When you see an inconspicuous little character on the side of the road, it is nothing. It's time to apologize, to please people - to succeed, especially in the entertainment industry, the first thing you have to lose is your own face!like john.Such a naive guy as Raymond... Heh!

Zhu Zimo didn't expect to meet old acquaintances again. After the interview, they walked down and left. No one looked back, even John.Lei Meng almost stared out of the window with a pair of small mung bean eyes, but he didn't wait for the Lord's response... This scene is really heartbreaking...

Actually, it stands to reason, John.Raymond and his films are not qualified to participate in the next awards ceremony. After all, they haven't even received a single nomination, so it is [-]% impossible for them to win the award.But because of John.Raymond himself is French, so the so-called privileges of the natives are inevitable even for a grand event like the Cannes International Film Festival. If he doesn't want to miss this opportunity, he can only come here with a lick of his face.

The awards show is full of stars.

The award setting of the Cannes Film Festival is actually very characteristic.

The supreme award of the film festival is the Palme d'Or, which is equivalent to the Oscar's best picture award, and it is the award with the most gold content.At present, Chinese films have only won one Palme d'Or, and that is Chen Jundi's "The Drunken Concubine" in [-]. It caused quite a stir at the time, but because of the sensitive subject matter, it was only released on a small scale in China, so it did not do well at the box office. Did not achieve much.

Below the Palme d'Or is the 'Jury Award', which recognizes the 'runner-up'.Compared with the winners of the Palme d'Or, which often have a certain social significance or topicality, the films that win the jury award mostly win because of their unique style and sharp point of view.In [-], Chinese director Zhang Shuyun won this award for "Life", and Ge Hong, the leading actor of the film, also won the first Chinese Best Actor.

After that, there are Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay awards.The actor award in Cannes does not distinguish between leading role and supporting role, and the screenwriting award also does not distinguish between original script and adapted script. He won the best director award before, and this time he mainly wanted to win a best actor for his queen actor Lin Weitang.

After that, there is the very special jury award. This award is usually a special commendation won by two or three judges in the jury who are very fond of a certain distinctive film.The award-winning film is not necessarily the best, but it is more popular within the jury.

Then there are Golden Camera Awards, Artistic Contribution Awards, and Technical Contribution Awards.These awards are the "little transparency" of the film festival, and almost no one pays attention to them. It is estimated that the biggest significance of the film festival's establishment of these awards is to strengthen the integrity of the film festival...

As for other miscellaneous awards, such as the 'Grand Golden Rail Award' established just last year, they were voted by a purely secret jury, so they don't mean much.

The awards show is about to begin, and all the nominated crews have found their seats and sat down. Al, the current chairman of the Cannes Film Festival.Cheman sat in a blind spot of the camera, staring blankly at the podium in front of him.

Recently, he has been in a state of desperation.

The handover with the previous chairman was very unpleasant, which also led to the chaos and disorder of this film festival from beginning to end, Elychenia, you bastard!Now he has disappeared with a smear of oil on the soles of his feet, but he has taken over all the mess by himself!Those media outlets wouldn't hang on to a former chairman, so all the blame fell on Al.Cheman carried it off by himself—and then, maybe God just didn't think he was annoying enough, and sent a dark horse over!The five judges were arguing over the issue of the next award, and it was not until the last moment that they finally settled on the current strategy.

Every leader hates variables when they are out of control.

"Atlantis"...

The situation of this film is too special, so special that no matter how it is arranged, it feels inappropriate!

It’s fine if its influence is very large, just like the big ship in the United States back then, it swept the box office. As long as you live on the earth, no one has never heard of the name of that movie. With such a phenomenal movie being nominated , Regardless of whether it is the Oscars or the Golden Globes, everyone is as excited as Christmas!Because they don't have to worry about ratings at all!For the ratings, no amount of entanglement is worth it!Regardless of how many awards Da Chuan won in the end, it will become a legend that people talk about in the days to come.

Yes, if "Atlantis" had already been released globally and achieved great success, such a film would come to the Cannes Film Festival, Al.Cheman would feel very honored, and he would not be as worried as he is today.

It's a pity that "Atlantis" is not that big ship. No matter how good it is, it is currently only a commercial film with a science fiction theme. Apart from accidentally triggering some topics, it has no impression at all—or it will be in the future. Influential, but what's the use?The film festival is over long ago, and the day lily is completely cold!

The awards ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, compared to the Golden Globes or the Oscars, is small in scale and short in time, and each link is crisp and neat, Al.After Qieman was distracted for a while, the best actor award was started on the stage.

"Best Actor... Wei Tong. Lin! "The Years of Time"! From Hong Kong, China!"

Well, it really is this Chinese actor.

Al thought with a blank face, this is the difficulty of this year's award distribution.

I don't know why, but this year's excellent Chinese movies are like a blowout!Wang Sheng's "The Year Like Water", Jiang Zikun's "Devil Enters the Village", and Taiwanese director Yang Qichang's "Two and Three" are already menacing enough, but the last addition "Atlantis" is also not in the slightest. Jean—Could it be that you Chinese want to book a venue in Cannes? !Not so fun!

But what is frustrating is that the quality of these films is so high, and the films of the same period want to suppress them without meaning, which is really unconvincing...

Perhaps the only good thing is that the director of "Atlantis" is actually an American. Even if he has a yellow face, his nationality will not automatically belong to China.And Wang Sheng is from Hong Kong, China, and Yang Qichang is from Taiwan, China. Strictly speaking, they can be distinguished, as long as they pay a little attention... At least on the surface, the awards will not appear so crowded.

'Fortunately, I'm not a judge', Al thought irresponsibly, because of annoying headaches, and because the final result came out too late, he didn't take advantage of the prerogative of the chairman to know the result in advance, whoever it is, what can be the worst Woolen cloth?

"Best Artistic Achievement Award...Sheng. Wang, "The Years of Time"! From Hong Kong, China!"

"Special Jury Award... Zikun. Jiang, "Devils Enter the Village"! From China!"

"Best Technical Contribution Award... Zimo. Zhu, "Atlantis"! From the United States!"

"Jury Grand Prize... Zimo. Zhu, "Atlantis"! From America!"

"Best Director...Qi Chang. Yang, "Two Three"! From Taiwan!"

The awards were announced one by one, and the crew that won the awards cheered, holding up the trophy and excitedly speaking about their acceptance speeches, while those who didn't get it felt sad, but politely applauded and congratulated the winning crew... But there are One crew performed very exceptionally.

Zhu Zimo and his party, who were sitting in a prominent position, fell into embarrassment collectively after the first award was read out by the award presenter.

It stands to reason that winning the award, even if it is the best technical contribution award that is not very important, is better than not getting it, but no one thought that the organizing committee would attribute Director Zhu Zimo to the "United States" go!Even the participants were stunned for a moment!

I don't know why, even if they were asked the question of "is the nationality American or Chinese?", this group of people collectively ignored the consequences of this question - after all, "Atlantis" is in China The filming, the actors are all Chinese, Zhu Zimo still holds American citizenship, and considering various preferential policies, he still firmly regards himself as Chinese, um, that is, Chinese.In the end, this head-on blow completely fooled the idiots of the entire crew, where is there a free lunch in the world!

Therefore, even though Dafeng Harvest won two awards, Zhu Zimo was shrouded in clouds, and the entire crew was silent in embarrassment. I wonder if I should express my congratulations like other award-winning crews...

Of the two awards given by Cannes, the most generous is the Jury Prize, second only to the Palme d'Or. For a sci-fi film, it is really generous.As for the best technical contribution award, it can be ignored.

This is similar to Zhu Zimo's previous imagination - they will not return empty-handed, but it is basically impossible to win the Palme d'Or.

Unfortunately, all the excitement was ruined by the 'United States' suffix.

Those poor actors under him were too scared by their director to speak.

Don't mention Zhu Zimo's mood at the moment, but he can't find anyone to vent his anger on. After all, it's his own decision to retain American citizenship, and he can't blame anyone at all... No matter how unhappy he is, he can only swallow it himself .

Depressed, he didn't want to stay in France any longer, so he booked a flight ticket to return home overnight, and a group of people returned home just like that.

After returning to China, it is time to prepare for the world premiere of "Atlantis".

At this moment in 2000, the Internet had not fully emerged, and the real influence was the TV station and the print media. Therefore, while promoting vigorously in the forum, these two methods should go hand in hand.With his performance in Cannes as a basis, he has the confidence to explain to Uncle Han that he still needs to use China Film's distribution channels to put posters in major movie theaters and then release them on a large scale.

What he didn't know was that after ten days of preparation, that forum gave him a huge surprise when Zhu Zimo returned to China.