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Gong Li, who has had many experiences in the three major film festivals, knows that the score of 3.6 is probably the highest this year, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to get a score higher than this in the future.

Seeing Zhou Xun's hurried expression, Gong Li said calmly:

Why are you panicking? A high score in the program shows that our movie is popular. This is a good thing! The score will not affect the awards. There is no need to use this to predict the result.

Wu Yuchen immediately smiled when he heard this: Sister Li is right. The jury of the program and the jury of the real film festival are two different people. And it is a matter of probability that the film will die if it is popular. There is no need to worry.

Hearing Gong Li and Wu Yuchen say this, Zhou Xun and others breathed a sigh of relief.

After the others walked away, Gong Li and Wu Yuchen gathered together again: Director Wu, what do you think about this?

Although both said it didn't matter, judging from past data, the probability of winning the best picture for a film with the highest score in the program is indeed not high, less than 20%. It is easier to win prizes if you get a score in the middle or higher ranking. Of course, this is a statistical problem, and the specific situation is different for each session.

Wu Yuchen sighed: The highest score is always more likely to win than the low score. I'm worried that some of the judges on the jury have rebellious psychology. It's hard to predict human psychology.

Gong Li also nodded when she heard this. She had served as a judge at the Cannes Film Festival the year before last, and she knew that the judges on the jury were all artistic and were more likely to make weird mistakes.

Not to mention anything else, the president of their jury, Adjani, is the actress known as the French national treasure. In the eyes of their other judges, she is a super masterpiece.

Outside the venue, Adjani and another female judge competed for the bodyguards arranged by the organizer and occupied the mayor's private room in Cannes. During the judging period, Adjani asked the judges to have breakfast with her on time at 7:45 every day and to accompany her. Eating weight loss meals is completely centered on her. Moreover, her views on movies change day by day, with a new idea every day.

The final result was that Adjani made all the judges angry, and everyone joined forces to remove her as the chairman of the jury. This also became a joke circulated at the Cannes Film Festival, and subsequent jury presidents took warning from it.

Therefore, Gong Li knew that Wu Yuchen's worries were justified. There might be judges who wanted to compete against the popular ones, and it was difficult to tell what would happen.

Sometimes the more you worry about something, the more it will happen.

Paulo Blanca is a veteran actor and producer from Portugal who has been involved in the independent film industry and is one of the judges of this Berlin Film Festival. After watching The Donkey Gets Water, he thought highly of the movie, but he didn't like the director Wu Yuchen.

As a filmmaker who has always supported literary and artistic films, he believes that since Wu Yuchen started his career in literary and artistic films and became famous through the Berlin Film Festival, he should stick to literary and artistic films. He despises his betrayal of literary and artistic films and went to Hollywood to shoot commercial films. Habit, this is simply a waste of talent and talent!

Well, he admitted that he was jealous that Wu Yuchen had achieved so much at such a young age. Why can he repeatedly perform in Hollywood and the three major film festivals? While you're making money in Hollywood by making commercial films, you're also working in the three major majors to win honors. You're taking advantage of all the good things? !

After seeing that the program review gave Donkey Gets Water the highest score and gave Wu Yuchen such a high evaluation, he became even more unhappy. The three major awards should not be awarded to those who are tainted with commercial films, but should be reserved for literary and artistic filmmakers!

But Paulo Blanca is very smart. He knows that with the quality of the movie Donkey in Water, it is obviously impossible to make it useless, but he can completely prevent it from getting the Golden Bear.

At this time, the Berlin Film Festival has passed more than half of its progress, and the jury is already discussing and evaluating various awards.

When it came to several important awards, Paul Blanca took the lead in breaking the calm and spoke:

I want to talk about my suggestion first. I think the best actress this year is undisputed and must go to Gong Li! Her performance in Donkey Gets Water is unparalleled. No matter who else wins, I can't recognize it. !”

Xie Fei, a judge from China, felt happy when he heard what he said. Before he even opened his mouth, a Donkey Gets Water or a fan of Gong Li jumped out. It seems that this time the award for Donkey Gets Water The situation of De Shui is great!

I agree, Gong Li's performance is great, absolutely a movie queen level performance! Another judge also said.

Xie Fei naturally also spoke in support of Gong Li. Just like that, the award for Best Actress was almost uncontroversial and fell into the hands of Gong Li. Donkey Gets Water can be said to have made a good start.

Next up was the Best Actor award, which, after a quarrel, went to Michael Guisdecker for the German film The Shape of Night.

Then came the competition for the Best Director award. One of the judges first proposed:

I think the director of The Thin Red Line should be given to Terrence Malick. This movie is anti-type and subverts the Hollywood model. Although there are people like Sean Penn, George Clooney, and Travolta in the movie, Big stars, but the real star of the movie is the director’s idiosyncratic approach.”

When Paul heard this, his eyes flashed, and he felt that the opportunity had arrived, so he immediately raised the time:

I totally agree with you. Terrence Malick has brought us a great movie after 20 years. I think it has more than one Best Director. This movie should win the Golden Bear!

The other judges were stunned when they heard this. Isn't this talking about the best director? Why did you suddenly get involved with Golden Bear?

At this time, the chairman of the jury, Angela Molina, also reminded: Paul, let's discuss the director award first.

Oh no, Angela, now is the time to discuss it. Otherwise, can you guarantee that after giving the best director to Terrence, will you give it another Golden Bear? The Thin Red Line is definitely the Golden Bear this year. Best movie ever!

Seeing that Paul mentioned the issue of dividing the cake, the other judges simply joined the battle:

No, I propose Golden Bear to Toshiro's Elegy!

Paul directly counterattacked: The Elegy of Toshiro is good, but it is a love movie. We are here at the Berlin Film Festival, which prefers politics and society. The war reflection theme of The Thin Red Line is the most suitable and also The golden bear video that deserves its place!”

Xie Fei also spoke at this time: I propose to give Donkey Gets Water!

In the same way, I don't see anything political in Donkeys Get Water, and it already has the best actress. Isn't that enough? Paul said, spreading his hands.

Xie Fei's mind turned and he understood. Good guy, why don't you propose the best female lead to Gong Li, who is waiting here!

However, Xie Fei did not panic and said with a smile:

Oh no, no, no, Paul, if you say this movie has nothing to do with politics, then I can only say that you have not understood this movie. Please allow me to give you a good introduction to the background of China in 1942... …”

This is why Xie Fei is here. If it were Yang Ziqiong who spread her background, she would probably know nothing about it.

After Xie Fei finished speaking, he then said:

So, The Donkey Gets Water has a lot of political metaphors in the movie. Mr. Paul, you can't say that it has nothing to do with politics just because you don't understand China, and China at that time was also part of the battlefield of World War II.

Before Paul could speak, another judge, Ken Adam, spoke up: Oh, thank you, thank you very much for your explanation. I didn't expect that Donkey Gets Water contains so many subtle political metaphors behind it!

Then he turned to look at the other judges: Donkey Gets Water is really a great movie, and it is also the biggest surprise of this film festival. Human nature, politics, and women's rights are all perfectly integrated by it. I find it difficult to Don’t vote for it for Best Picture.”

Xie Fei looked at Ken Adam with surprise in his eyes and gave him a kind smile.

After hearing this, Paul immediately emphasized: Mr. Adam, Donkey in Water is just a comedy!

Ken Adam also refused to give in at this time:

But it is not an ordinary comedy. It satirizes corruption, it satirizes the bureaucracy, it satirizes the oppression of women in society, it satirizes the contradictions and darkness of human nature! Donkey Gets Water is a successful film It is an absurd comedy rich in black humor that cleverly combines comedy elements with satirical reflections on politics. If you can't understand it and simply beat all comedy movies to death with a stick, then I think you should read it. pride and Prejudice.

Paul opened his mouth. He didn't expect this old guy to work so hard to protect Donkey Gets Water. Did you get paid?

His mind turned and he immediately said: Terrence Malick is coming back after a 20-year break from acting. The works he brought are also master-level. He holds high the banner of anti-Hollywood. This also represents the attitude of our European movies. . No matter what angle, we should support The Thin Red Line!

Ken Adam sneered: Oh, you're right. I support Terrence Malick very much. His anti-Hollywood shooting techniques make it reasonable to give him the best director. As for The Thin Red Line, you don't know him. Is Sony Columbia the investor? According to your theory, we shouldn’t give it the Golden Bear!”

Xie Fei was very surprised when he saw Ken Adam singing praises for Donkey Gets Water and confronting Paul. He didn't expect that this old man who had been silent before was so fierce and worked harder than him, a Chinese judge. It seemed that I really love Donkey Gets Water!

Little guy, you should improve your appreciation ability! Ken Adam, who is almost 80 years old, is relying on his old age to show off his old age. Paul, who is 30 years younger than him, said rudely.

Seeing that he could not fight this old guy verbally, Paul had no choice but to recruit reinforcements. He got closer to Angela Molina, the chairperson of this year's jury, and looked at her for help.

Angela Molina actually wanted to support the film in her native Spain, but it was not live up to expectations and was not qualified to participate in the competition for the Golden Bear Award. There are only three or four films that can be proposed to compete for the Golden Bear this time, including The Thin Red Line, Donkey in Water, Toshiro's Elegy and 8mm.

Looking at the people arguing fiercely in front of her, Angela knew that her preferences were very important to the final result, and she had to stand up and preside over order...

This Berlin Film Festival, because of the participation of Wu Yuchen and Donkey Gets Water, several domestic media such as Film Weekly and China Film News also gritted their teeth and sent reporters here to do real-time reporting.

After all, the cast of Donkey Gets Water is really luxurious. Needless to say, director Wu Yuchen is led by actor Gong Li. Li Xuejian, Zhang Guoli, and Ding Jiali are also absolute talents, as well as Zhou Xun, Fu Dalong, Sun Honglei, etc. who have begun to emerge in the past two years. People, so this time Donkey Gets Water goes to Berlin naturally with high hopes.

Now, reporters from several media outlets gathered together and couldn't help but feel excited, holding a complete list of ratings for all the main competition units of this film festival.

Sure enough, there is no higher score than Donkey Gets Water, ranking first with a score of 3.6, the highest score in the program!

Is Donkey Gets Water stable now?

It's almost the same. Look at the second place The Thin Red Line, which only scored 3.2 points, which is a full 0.4 points lower than Donkey Gets Water. The gap is obvious!

Several Chinese reporters were extremely excited. It was their first time attending the Berlin Film Festival. They were all newbies and didn’t know many things. They regarded the venue score as authoritative and immediately faxed the news back. Domestic.

The Spring Festival has just been celebrated here in China, and it is only the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. Newspapers and magazines are still closed. However, the newspapers and magazines that received the news still asked people to work overtime and write relevant articles.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, people who had finished the Spring Festival holiday went to work one after another, and the newsstands on the streets also returned to life. The front page of the China Film News on them clearly read:

Donkey Gets Water has a super high score and has become the biggest hit of the Berlin Golden Bear!

This title naturally attracted many movie lovers, who bought and read the newspaper one after another. After reading Donkey Gets Water and getting the highest score, the readers were also overjoyed. The magazine's score was far ahead, so this time it is not stable. Got it!

As a result, people who read the newspaper began to tell their friends and colleagues, and for a while, the country was full of expectations for Donkey Gets Water.

At the Berlin Film Festival, the more than ten days of screenings have come to an end. On the red carpet of the closing ceremony, Donkey Gets Water was undoubtedly the most watched movie this time. The high quality of the movie itself, coupled with the super high score of 3.6 in the program, made it the focus of everyone's attention. People cheered wildly as they walked by.

As for the opening film Shakespeare in Love, perhaps because they didn't gain much from knowing about it, Harvey Weinstein and the heroine Gwen Snee didn't come to attend at all. They had already flown back to the United States and continued to focus on publicizing the Oscars.

On the red carpet, He Bing and Sun Honglei watched as people on both sides kept shouting Pei and Zhou at them. Although the fans did not remember their names and called them by the names of their characters, it already made them very happy. You must know that the two of them were completely transparent during the opening red carpet, and now they have left a deep impression on the foreign audience.

Led by Wu Yuchen and Gong Li, the crew walked across the red carpet and entered the venue, and soon the awards ceremony officially began.

Some miscellaneous small awards were awarded first, among which the winner was A Thousand Words directed by Ann Hui. This result made Ann Hui quite disappointed. This film is a political film wrapped in love. It tells the story of the awakening of local intellectuals in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s and their challenge to the British in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, it was not favored by Berlin. The heroine is Li Lizhen, who came from a tertiary film background. Her performance in it was very good. In her previous life, she won the Golden Horse Best Actress for this role.

After the small prizes are over, it’s time for the Silver Bear to appear. This time the organizer still saved face for Shakespeare in Love and gave it a Silver Bear Award for Outstanding Achievement, which was used as a fig leaf to prevent Hollywood movies from not coming in the future. The rest are all major awards that have attracted much attention.

Best Actress...Gong Li, The Donkey Gets Water!

Immediately, the crew of Donkey Gets Water, including Sun Honglei, He Bing, Zhou Xun and others burst into cheers.

Wu Yuchen and Gong Li looked at each other, then smiled and hugged her: Congratulations, Sister Li! You are now a double Best Actress in the three major movies!

Gong Li had already won the Best Actress in Venice in 1992 with Qiu Ju's Lawsuit. This time she won the Best Actress in Berlin and was promoted to Double Best Actress. She is one of the top three actors in Europe.

Thank you, Director Wu!

Gong Li did not show any ecstasy, but accepted the congratulations from people around her with a faint smile. She knew that if she really followed the theory of dividing the cake, then if she won the Best Actress, it would reduce the possibility of the movie winning the Golden Bear. So although she was happy just now, she still took Wu Yuchen's feelings into consideration first.

Subsequently, amid cheers and applause, Gong Li confidently stepped onto the podium and delivered her acceptance speech.

At this time, Wu Yuchen was clapping his hands and smiling, but he felt a little uneasy in his heart. Isn’t this really going to be cursed with the highest score in the venue catalog?

Although winning the Berlin Best Actress award is no longer empty-handed, but this time he gathered such a luxurious lineup and came to Berlin with Donkey in Water, so his only goal was the Golden Bear. If he can't win the Golden Bear, other awards will mean nothing to him.

Next was the Best Actor award, which was won by German native actor Michael Giesdecker. Then came the Best Director award

Best Director at this Berlin Film Festival...

At this time, Wu Yuchen kept praying in his heart that it wouldn't be him. If it was really him, the Golden Bear would definitely be hopeless.

“Terrence Malick, ‘The Thin Red Line’!”

Yeah! Wu Yuchen cheered loudly in his heart, with a sincere smile on his face and clapped hard in his hands.

The Thin Red Line was the winner of this year's Golden Bear in its previous life and is the biggest competitor of Donkey in Water. This time, it won the Best Director, so at least it is on the same starting line as Donkey Gets Water. Now that the two companies have one Best Actress and one Best Director, the probability of competing for the Golden Bear is the same!

Now it is not just Wu Yuchen who is happy, but other film crews who are determined to hit the Golden Bear are also secretly happy, such as the director of Elegy of Toshiro and 8mm, Donkey Gets Water and The Thin Red Line ” have already won the award, so their hopes of winning the Golden Bear are greatly increased!

The winner of the Jury's Silver Bear Award is...Toshiro's Elegy!

The director from Denmark is also very happy. It is good to win the jury award this time, and it has fully achieved the expected goal.

At this time, Joe Schumacher, the director of 8mm, couldn't help but his heart beat faster. Several opponents had won prizes. Is it their turn for the biggest cake? It seems like the golden bear is right in front of you now!

The last Berlin Best Actress, Brazilian national treasure actress Fernand Montenago walked onto the awards stage. She smiled and said: It is an honor to be a guest to present this year's Golden Bear Award. This is an exciting moment. I was also very nervous at the time.”

Wu Yuchen saw that this was the award-giving guest. His heart beat faster and he couldn't help but feel that this was a good sign. Because at last year's Berlin Film Festival, his starring role in Central Station won the Golden Bear and Best Actress awards!

At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on the award guest Fernand. Without any further nonsense, she opened the envelope directly, took out the note from it, glanced at it, and shouted into the microphone:

The Golden Bear Award at this Berlin Film Festival is...Donkey in Water!

In an instant, Wu Yuchen stood up from his seat, raised his arms high, and the crew of Donkey Gets Water also burst into violent cheers.

Zhou Xun grabbed Sun Honglei's clothes and screamed: Ah, golden bears! We are golden bears!

Sun Honglei was also very excited: Golden Bear! I won the Golden Bear!

Zhang Guoli and Ding Jiali no longer have the burden of age at this time, and they are shouting and hugging the young people around them, golden bears!

Gong Li took the initiative to hug Wu Yuchen and showed a bright smile: Congratulations, Director Wu! Golden Bear!

Hahaha, we share the same joy! Wu Yuchen and Gong Li hugged tightly, and then continued to hug every actor who came with them with open arms. Then, he walked onto the podium amidst endless applause.

Hearing this result, Terrence Malick, the director of The Thin Red Line sighed, but he also felt that young people today are really amazing.

And Joe Schumacher of 8mm was just yelling shit in his heart. After all, The Thin Red Line still has a best director, but he didn't even get a hair this time! I will never come to Berlin again!

On the stage, Fernand handed the golden Golden Bear trophy to Wu Yuchen's hand and said with a smile: Congratulations, Director Wu!

Thank you, Fernand, for the good luck you brought me today!

Fernand reacted and laughed after hearing Wu Yuchen's words, then hugged him and said: Your Donkey Gets Water is very good, you deserve it!

Then, Wu Yuchen picked up the phone and said with a smile:

Dream! Perfect! Forgive me that my mind is blank at the moment and I can't think of more words to describe my mood at this moment!

Everyone below heard this was filled with good-natured laughter.

Then Wu Yuchen took a breath and continued:

Honestly, a week ago, after seeing Donkey Gets Water receiving the highest score in the program, I didn't even dare to think about the Golden Bear. After all, the probability of conquering the media and the jury at the same time was not very high. But the result really exceeded my imagination, it was such a surprise!

Thank you to the jury for their recognition, to the media and the audience for their love, and to Gong Li, Li Xuejian, and Zhang Guoli. Ding Jiali, He Bing, Sun Honglei, Fu Dalong, Zhou Xun and other actors performed wonderfully. I also wish Teacher Li Xuejian, who performed while sick, a speedy recovery! Thanks to all the crew! Thanks to Beijing Film Studio and Han San Ping for their help, and thanks to my alma mater!

I love you all!

After saying that, Wu Yuchen kissed the Golden Bear trophy in his hand, which was photographed by the flash and spread to the whole world!