I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

Chapter 562: 560. best

Chapter 562 560. Best

Class A film festival convention.

The award presenters of the main competition unit are all presented by the previous winners in person.

The host this time is a female host named Sonia Aquino.

He should be in his thirties, but he seems to be first-class in terms of height, temperament, and appearance, especially the aura that only mature sisters have on him, which is quite charming.

And... she seems to be quite popular in Italy. When Xu Xin appeared on the stage, although Xu Xin and the others applauded politely, many film crews from the Italian side of the scene were whistling.

It seems that he likes her very much.

With her appearance on the stage, it also represents the official start of the awards ceremony process at this Venice Film Festival.

"Hoo..."

Liu Yifei unconsciously covered her heart.

After panting hard, he turned his head and looked at Xu Xin for the first time.

In the half-dark light, Xu Xin looked at the presenter in front of him very intently at first glance, but his pupils had lost focus.

Obviously, his mind has been emptied.

"..."

Liu Yifei closed her eyes and turned her head to the left.

Lin Juxin was also looking in the direction of the stage, but his eyes moved with the host Sonia.

After noticing her gaze, he turned his head and looked over:

"What's the matter?"

"…fine."

Liu Yifei shook her head, and turned her eyes to the stage again.

…

"Sonia Aquino. A famous Italian hostess and actress. She graduated from the National University of Xinaima. After graduation, she went to the Bellini Theater in Naples to study performing arts. She participated in a play directed by famous drama director Peter Delmote. Many drama performances including "La Traviata", and also one of the most popular hostesses on Italian TV..."

As a partner, Sina will naturally be able to obtain information on some people in front of and behind the scenes at the Venice Film Festival.

In addition, the two also acted as translators for the live broadcast, explaining for the more than a thousand viewers who were still watching the program in the chat room at close to 4 o'clock in the morning.

After Jingwei finished reading the materials, Sonia had already invited a man to the stage at the film festival.

"Pete Aguirre. This is the translation for the simultaneous interpretation of this year's Venice Film Festival, because many crews also do not speak Italian, so he will be responsible for the translation of Italian and English. The Chinese translation will be done by us. Hello everyone, I am Martin, the host of Sina."

"I am Jingwei, the host of the movie channel."

"Welcome to watch the live broadcast of the 67th Venice Film Festival late at night."

After Martin and Jingwei formally introduced themselves again, they heard Martin say:

"Let me tell you about the rules of this awards ceremony. This year's Venice Film Festival will award the following awards. First of all, there are several individual awards, Queer Award, Best Documentary, Best Restoration Film, Future Lion, and Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion Award.

As for these awards, except for the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement, the awarding process of other awards is a post-competition process. That is to say, the only person who appears on the stage to accept the award and give an acceptance speech is the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement. "

"That's right."

"And the following "Venice Day", "International Film Critics Week", and some awards in the "Horizon Unit" will also be awarded in the form of overall awards, and the list of winners will be released at one time. There is also no acceptance speech. The entire Venice film Festival, the only ones who can be on the podium are the main awards of the Film Critics Week Award and the Horizon Best Film Award. And all the awards of the most anticipated main competition unit.”

"Yes, I believe that the viewers who can stay up late to watch our broadcast must be senior movie fans. But in case some viewers don't understand, we still do a little science."

Jingwei's words were very playful, and taking advantage of the time before it started, the two hosts naturally couldn't let the atmosphere cool down.

So after popularizing these awards, Martin said:

"Speaking of which, there are quite a lot of Chinese-language films that meet the requirements of various awards in the main competition unit this year."

"Well, that's right. Apart from "Sword Rain" which is no longer in the competition and "Fist of Fury: Chen Zhen" which is one of the opening films, in terms of the three works shortlisted for the main competition, "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven" The actors and actresses of "Love in the Hawthorn Tree" actually meet a lot of requirements."

Jingwei didn't even mention the name of "Jiabiangou".

"Liu Jialing can compete for the best actress, Liu Dehua is the best actor, and people like Deng Chao, Li Bingbing, and Liu Yifei can compete for the "Marcello Mastroianni" best new actor award."

As soon as Jingwei spoke, many people in the live broadcast room were speechless.

What?

Li Bingbing and Deng Chao can still compete for the best newcomer?

What about trouble?

In fact, this is really the case.

The "Best Newcomer Award" of the Venice Film Festival does not specify a specific age, but is defined by "the first time to participate in a film nominated for a category A film festival" as the dividing line.

Like Li Bingbing or Deng Chao, they are indeed long-established stars. But for this requirement, whether it is Deng Chao's "Assembly Number" and "Li Mi's Conjecture", or Li Bingbing's "A World Without Thieves" and other works.

None of them made it to the top 9 A-category film festivals, so under this rule, their starting point is the same as Liu Yifei, and they all belong to the category of newcomers.

But Jingwei can't explain it, otherwise...it would be a black spot for no reason to the actor.

So she didn't explain, but after telling the result, Martin continued:

"However, Liu Yifei's situation here is the most special."

"Yes, that's right."

Jingwei responded:

"She participated in this film festival as the heroine of "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree". After being shortlisted for the main competition unit, she is also eligible for the awards of Best Actress and Best Newcomer."

"Hey, so Lin Xunxin also has a chance?"

"Yes, he also has a chance. It's just that we haven't seen the movie "Love in the Hawthorn Tree", so we don't know what his role in it is like..."

The two continued to chat there until Sonia on the stage announced the official start of the 67th Venice Film Festival.

"Okay, the 67th Venice Film Festival has officially started. First, the "Best Film" selected by the International Film Critics Week will be awarded. Among the awards that our Chinese-language films are eligible for, who will win each award? Let us know Let's wait and see..."

In the summary of Jingwei and Martin, the first list of winners, on the big screen with the appearance of Jessica Hausner, the director of the best film "Lude" of the last International Film Critics Week, said: Out of the name of "Nowhere to Run", the awards ceremony of the film festival began.

…

According to the order of the awards ceremony, the awards are issued one after another.

Xu Xin couldn't understand their language, but he discovered one thing...that is, every person on the stage would prepare a slip of paper and give his acceptance speech according to it.

He muttered in his heart, is it some unspoken rule?

Only those who have been officially notified to prepare their acceptance speeches will be awarded?

But... no one informed me.

He was a little nervous.

Then just watch these people walk away like a horse.

He clapped when he should applaud, and nodded when he should nod.

The time lasted for about 30 minutes. Suddenly, after Sonia said a lot, Zhong Changyou reminded everyone in a low voice:

"It's the main unit!"

"!"

Including Xu Xin, everyone sat up straight subconsciously, trying to show their best side.

Only Zhang Yimou.

Tut.

A grand master's demeanor.

is immovable like a mountain.

…

"Oh? It's finally here. The list of film winners for the main competition will be announced below. The first award is..."

Listening to Sonia's introduction, Jingwei said:

"Special Golden Lion Award. The guest of honor is the director Jacques van Dommel, who won the award-winning film "No Surname" in the previous Special Golden Lion Award. Let's see who the winners are..."

It’s actually good that she didn’t say that. As soon as she said it, someone immediately left a message in the live broadcast room:

"Don't be "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree"!"

Obviously, this netizen is a supporter of Chinese-language movies.

And Jacques van Dormeer didn't write any ink. After he came to the stage and greeted everyone, he took out the envelope from his arms and read a name to the envelope.

A line of words appeared on the big screen behind:

""Road to Nowhere""

The voice of latitude and longitude also sounded immediately:

"Winning Film: Fruitless Land."

Amidst the passionate music and the applause of the crowd, the people from "Fruitless Land"... came onto the stage with not too much joy on their faces, but not bad expressions.

At this time, the camera suddenly switched, first applauding the "Black Swan" crew, Natalie Portman was staring at the screen in a daze.

Immediately afterwards, the screen switched again, and it became the crew of "Sad Trumpet Song".

Then Silent Soul and Necessary Killing.

Finally, it was given to "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree"...

Although all everyone did was clap and smile, it didn't look any different.

But the shot is very intriguing.

But Xu Xin at the scene didn't know.

I don’t know that after watching this screen transition, Martin said in the live broadcast room:

"This camera cut is interesting..."

"..."

Jingwei was silent for a second before saying:

"Indeed, "Road to No Fruit" is also a brilliant film at this year's Venice Film Festival. After winning the Special Golden Lion Award, it has basically announced that it will miss other main competition awards. Although it is undeniable that Every work that can stand out in the award selection is excellent. But in this level of film hall, the definition of the special Golden Lion Award..."

"Not bad, but not great either."

"..."

Martin's words made Jingwei speechless again.

No, brother, do we have to be so straightforward?

But Martin's tone was quite relaxed:

"It seems that in the eyes of the jury, "The Road to Nowhere" is better than those works that were shortlisted but failed to win the award. But at the same time, it is far from the best director, the silver lion of the jury, and the golden lion of the best picture. The award is still a little bit worse, and it belongs to the middle class of good and bad, right? It’s not enough compared to the top, and it’s more than the bottom.”

"Well…"

Jingwei thought about it, but finally didn't answer.

Just a Quiet Waiter Director Monte Hellman delivered his acceptance speech, and then translated it into Chinese in English by the translator, and said it to the audience.

Then amid applause, the crew of "Road to No Fruit" stepped down.

The second award "Best First Work" award began to be announced.

"Director Xu is not eligible for this award, right?"

"Yes, because Director Xu has already won the "Golden Camera Award" in Cannes. So this time he has lost the qualification to compete for this award."

Following the words of the two, the last award was also won by "Most" directed by Siren Uss.

And when the winner of the third award "Best Photography Technology Contribution Award" appeared, Martin let out a cry:

"oh?"

The winner is "Silent Soul", which is considered to be the favorite to win the film festival this year.

It can be seen from the broadcast that the whole crew of "Silent Soul" is in a daze.

Because these days, no matter whether it is the media, audiences or film critics, everyone gave a very high evaluation after watching this film.

It can be said that in many people's minds, the competition between the Golden Lion and the Silver Lion this year is a choice between the three films "Sad Trumpet", "Silent Soul", and "Under the Hawthorn Tree".

Three films, "Sad Trumpet Song" is a tragic song that packs violence into aesthetics, mixed with absurdity and bizarreness.

has been firmly occupying the top position in the rating list.

"Silent Soul" is like a road movie, but it uses the shell of a road movie, telling the story of a husband sending his wife's body back to the tribe for cremation.

Russian director Alesky Fedochko used this film to express the Russian attitude towards death, love, and "return" quite attractively.

No matter how sad you feel after watching "Sad Trumpet", in this film, although it is only 78 minutes long, it can still soothe all your emotions.

It’s like the sentence in the movie: In the face of death, it’s no big deal.

And "Under the Hawthorn Tree" is considered to be a combination of the advantages of both. You can say that its story is very monotonous, because it goes back and forth, but in fact there are only Jing Qiu and the third child in the film.

But under Xu Xin's control, all the emotions in the whole movie are two-color complementary.

In happiness hides sorrow, and in sorrow hides the purest joy.

Generally, many viewers believe that the love in "Under the Hawthorn Tree" is sadder than "Silent Soul". But it is more introverted than the madness of "Sad Trumpet".

It is a movie worth watching over and over again without getting tired of it.

It's like the river of life and death.

Regardless of life or death, it flows quietly and never stops.

It can be said that in the latter part of the Venice Film Festival, the three films have firmly secured the position of the audience and word-of-mouth royals. The three films have become unbreakable.

As for the competition for the film awards this time, the guesses generally given by the media are also selected from these three films.

But at this moment, "Silent Soul" has only one "Best Cinematography" award?

Although the Venice Film Festival does not have a main competition unit like Cannes, as long as a work wins a certain award, it automatically loses the qualifications for all awards.

Venice allows a multi-award situation.

But the problem is...

"Silent Soul" is good, but it's not good enough to rule them all.

Once I won this award... Then its status suddenly became awkward.

this…

Not to mention their crew, even the many crews on the scene who knew they had no hope of winning the award were dumbfounded.

Including Xu Xin and the others, and the crew of "Sad Trumpet Song".

this…

What do you mean?

For no reason, everyone sensed something was wrong.

But, no matter what, what should continue must continue.

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Newcomer after "Silence of the Soul" steps down…

coming.

"!"

When Liu Yifei saw the English words of the award on the screen, unconsciously, her right hand suddenly grabbed Xu Xin's hand.

Xu Xin was surprised for a while.

But immediately felt the coldness of the fingertips of the fairy sister.

There is no trace of temperature.

Liu Yifei actually reacted purely subconsciously.

But after feeling the warmth from Xu Xin's hand, she reacted immediately, and grabbed Lin Xunxin's hand a beat later.

"Hiss~~"

Caught off guard, Lin Gou gasped.

Then, the three of them saw a very beautiful **** stage.

Jesmine Trika.

One of the judges of the main competition unit jury.

is also the winner of the last best newcomer.

These sisters are known as the hope of the new generation of Italian actors. Since their debut in 2001, they have won various awards just like cheating.

Pure acting genius.

At this moment, she looked extremely relaxed, wearing a decent dress, holding the envelope, walked to the front and back of the awarding platform, and made a gesture of looking out.

Looking around, I finally saw a group of depressed faces.

Then a charming smile appeared.

She has read the contents of the envelope and selected it herself.

So I already knew it in my heart.

So there was no trace of ink, and after opening the envelope, he just glanced at it and said directly to the camera:

"The person who won the Marcello Mastroianni Best Newcomer Award is "Under the Hawthorn Tree", LIUYIFEI, congratulations, Jing Qiu, you deserve it."

"Boom..."

Amidst the sound of music, the screen instantly locked onto the crew of "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree".

The viewers all over the world who watched the live broadcast saw the stunned expression of Sister Shenxian.

But Xu Xin felt that the temperature of the hand holding his own was rising sharply.

"Wow la la la la la la..."

Applause sounded from all directions.

"Pretty! Haha! Old Liu! Congratulations!"

Lin Juxin almost used "carrying" to pick up Liu Yifei.

Without further ado, a big neck was given up.

"Win the prize! Win the prize!"

Being hugged by Lin Juxin's buddies, Liu Yifei stared at Jasmine Trika amidst the applause, and there was only one thought left in her mind...

So, without a word, she broke free from Lin Gou's embrace, turned around and looked at Xu Xin who stood up smiling and applauding...

Unconsciously, tears fell down.

Then he opened his hand without saying a word...

…

"ah!!!"

In a coffee shop on Lido Island, Liu Xiaoli screamed and hugged Wu Qiqi with an almost ferocious expression.

…

"Hoo..."

In front of the microphone, Liu Yifei, who was still in tears after receiving the heavy Golden Lion trophy, looked in the direction of the crew, unable to say a word for a long time.

Finally, under the encouragement of the applause of Jasmine and the audience, she nodded, tried hard to suppress the tears that reappeared in her eye sockets, and said in English:

"Sorry, I didn't think I would win the award, so I didn't prepare my acceptance speech. But at this moment, I want to divide my impromptu acceptance speech into two parts, one in English and one in Chinese...

Thank you Venice, thank you all the judges of the jury. Thank you for presenting this award to me. I also thank the viewers and film critics who have loved "The Hawthorn Tree" for so many days.

This award... means a lot to me, please forgive me for crying... Thank you. "

Looking at her crying appearance, the applause sounded again, Liu Yifei also knew that time was precious, so she forcibly suppressed the crying, and looked in the direction of the crew of "The Hawthorn Tree":

"Xu Xin, Lin Gou...ah bah...Old Lin...Director Zhang, Xiying Studio, and the entire crew...I don't know what to say. I don't know how to express my heart to all of you. ...The only thing I can think of at this moment is...I want to treat everyone to a drink, please, we will not go home until we are drunk...I...I..."

Not knowing what to think of, Liu Yifei's tears burst suddenly.

Big tears fell down.

Outsiders do not understand its meaning.

Anyone who knows her well knows what this movie and this award mean to her.

But all was covered by tears, I really couldn't tell.

So, in order not to waste time, she finally choked up and said:

"Mom, Sissy won an award! ...Thank you everyone."

Bow, step down.

Amid the applause, Xu Xin and Lin Juxin walked out of the aisle immediately, personally caught her who had suddenly collapsed emotionally, and welcomed her back to her seat.

Then she covered her face directly.

Seeing this, the two of them looked at each other, then Xu Xin pulled out his bra and stuffed it in between her fingers.

"Cry, girl."

He said softly and patted her on the back.

Right now, Liu Yifei doesn't need any pretentious words like "stop crying" and "all makeup is gone".

If you want to cry, just cry.

Everyone is with her.

On the stage, the competition for the next award has once again caused waves.

Best Screenplay Award: "Sad Trumpet Song"

When the screenwriter and director Alex de la Iglesia took the stage, the well-known director in Europe actually had a calm expression.

Perhaps because of his age, he couldn't see any joy or anger at all.

After delivering a short acceptance speech, he left the stage with a smile on his face.

And then, the first highlight came.

《Best Actress》…

On the broadcast screen, Natalie Portman calmly maintained her expression, while Liu Yifei, who was also a strong competitor, had already won the best newcomer and lost her qualifications.

She doesn't feel that she has anyone else as a rival.

Until the last Venice Best Actress winner, Xenia Rappaport, glanced at the envelope and read out a name.

"Attenborough, Arianne Labede."

When Natalie Portman heard the name of the movie, her face froze.

And when she read out her full name, when she knew that she had lost to a newcomer who was acting for the first time and had no experience before...

The frozen expression instantly became ugly.

Not only her, but also the people at the scene and even in front of the TV were almost dumbfounded.

no…

What's going on with this jury?

Do not play cards according to the routine?

Even if you gave Jingqiu, we can all understand.

But…

"Attenborough"! ?

A 26-year-old girl with no screen experience before this movie...

A play to confer gods?

Killed Natalie Portman in "Black Swan" in seconds?

Watching the live broadcast, her eyes were full of disbelief, she was covering her nose, her eyes were wide open, and she repeatedly checked whether she was really the girl who won the title of actress...

At this moment, Martin's words are most appropriate:

"The awards at this year's Venice Film Festival...why are they so floating? There are accidents everywhere..."

no way.

This is true everyone is stupid.

Everyone knows that "Black Swan" is the weapon Natalie Portman used to compete for the best actress Oscar... But at this moment, she lost to a newcomer... This is not the case for her to compete for the best actress. "Destructive", but the impact is definitely not small.

This is Venice...

Members of the jury, are you playing too much?

Even if you give it to Jingqiu, it’s fine, after all, they don’t compete for Oscars.

But you give a new guy...

Although we all know that Quentin is different, but... it can't be like this, right?

is saying, in this film, Natalie Portman's feet can be exposed many times.

What are you... doing?

As the dust of Best Actress settled, people all over the world watching the live broadcast were dumbfounded.

Even, many people have seen that in the crew of "Black Swan" over there, Mike McDavoy, a well-known Hollywood producer, quietly left the seat with his waist down.

No need to ask, I must have contacted the team for public relations.

After all, if this matter is not handled well, it will have an impact on the entire Natalie Portman's road to winning the championship.

After the best actress was awarded, the lingering prestige in everyone's hearts made the title of Best Actor and "Necessary Killing" starring Vincent Gallo's best actor title dimmed.

But looking at Vincent Gallo who stepped down after finishing his acceptance speech, Xu Xin's hands became extremely cold.

because…

Zhong Changyou reminded him:

"Director Xu, it's time for the best director."

"..."

Xu Xin didn't say a word.

Just sitting upright, the heart began to beat faster and faster.

The tension that was suppressed before all surged up at this moment.

There is an old saying that without hope there is no despair.

But it was really at a critical point, but Xu Xin felt that these words were farting.

"The Hawthorn Tree" is not "The Secret".

When filming "Secret", he was still very ignorant at that time, and he didn't dare to expect any awards at all.

Even if its box office is extremely high.

But for the success of "The Secret", he always attributed more than half of the credit to the wheel.

At the same time, it is not "The Wind".

While filming "The Sound of the Wind", he has already noticed where the ceiling of "The Sound of the Wind" is.

In the final analysis, "The Wind" is a propositional composition.

It has unlimited space for actors to play, but there are not many places where the director can use his full strength.

And this "The Hawthorn Tree"...

From the very beginning, Xu Xin knew that it was very malleable.

In all honesty, how could the script that the old man likes be so bad?

You know, there is no shadow of Zhang Weiping in this script. It is purely that the old man himself fell in love with this script, but he didn't have time to shoot it, so he left Xu Xin a homework.

From getting the novel, to discussing the script, to filming...for almost a whole year, he put all his best and most proficient tricks into this movie.

It took a lot of painstaking effort to bring out the child by himself...Let him give up hope?

How can it be!

Can…

Why is my heart so empty?

Can't get to the bottom at all.

At this time, he suddenly envied "Sword Rain", "Chen Zhen", and "Empire"...

How nice he is.

I knew from the beginning that I would not win the award.

So use Venice purely as a means of propaganda.

But what about yourself?

The movie has been well received since it was released, and somehow became the grandson of Italian grandmas...

There are back and forth with this year's championship favorite...

...

He felt his heart sinking... sinking... sinking...

His hands and feet became colder, his lips were pursed forcefully, and the corners of his mouth turned white...everything showed the tension in his heart.

Without knowing when, Liu Yifei, who was clutching his bra, also raised his head...

Including Zhang Yimou, everyone's eyes fell on the 66th best director winner Shilin Naisha who walked to the podium.

Watching the Iranian female director relax a little bit and opened the envelope in her hand, she took out the list with the names of the winners engraved on it.

"The winner is..."

Shirin Naisha glanced at the names on the list, and said with a smile:

"Under the Hawthorn Tree, Goethe Hsu. Congratulations."

"..."

um...

The whole world, for Xu Xin...

All that's left is the loud tinnitus...

Consciousness is blank.

Suddenly...

He smelled a fragrance.

Before consciousness could react, he was held in someone's arms.

Very fragrant, very fragrant.