Chapter 1171 Second Conquest of Cannes
If there is any film award comparable to the Austrian Video, then it can only be the Cannes Film Festival.
The rest, whether it is the Venice Film Festival or the Berlin Film Festival, are worse.
Although after entering the year 2000, the Cannes Film Festival has begun to transform itself and become more commercial, becoming the world's largest film buying and selling trade conference, and there are also people like the King of Sunglasses who have given away several movie winners in one breath. , Best Actress, and the Palme d'Or, but before that, the Cannes Film Festival was still very public and very artistic.
The authority of the Cannes Film Festival is particularly recognized in China. Perhaps there is another reason for this, and that is that Chinese filmmakers have never received recognition from Hollywood Oscars.
You don't want to play with me anymore, why should I keep pressing my hot face against your cold ass?
This is even more true after the development of the Chinese film market.
Anyway, the domestic market is enough. As for Hollywood and other things, it is boring to covet such things, and it is easy to lose one's hometown.
This idea has become even more popular after "Wolf Warrior 2" hit a box office of more than 5 billion.
On the other hand, the Cannes Film Festival and other three major European festivals are attended by many Chinese filmmakers every year, and this has always been the case.
no way.
Who said that all major film festivals in our country, including TV festivals, are so miserable?
Yin Jun has never been to France in his past life. After all, it is quite difficult to visit such a prestigious place with Yin Jun's salary of several thousand yuan a month.
Before Yin Jun traveled through time, he traveled a lot domestically, including Xiangjiang and Aomen. These are also places where money is spent.
Now back to 42 years ago, after several years of hard work, Yin Jun is certainly not short of money, but he has been busy and has not traveled anywhere.
On the other hand, my women often travel. Even Wen Bixia took her mother to Huajing last year and let Aunt Zhang play for a few months?
Of course, Yin Jun was not out for fun this time, although he held a little girl by the hand as soon as he got off the plane.
One is Li Zhi, and the other person who appears unexpectedly is Qiu Doudou.
Originally, Yin Jun didn't expect Qiu Shuzhen to come, but the two little girls knew each other on the set. When Li Zhi was excitedly preparing for her trip to Cannes, Qiu Doudou saw her and asked curiously. After finding out the reason, she immediately called Yin Jun, an overseas phone call.
Under the cry of the little ancestor, Yin Jun had no choice. Anyway, it was the same to take care of one child, and it was the same for two children. It also allowed them to have company with each other, so Yin Jun asked Shi Shaoming and Zhou Runfa to take them to sit together. The plane came first.
Yin Jun himself and the crew of "The Shawshank Redemption" also came to Cannes two days before the opening ceremony.
The reason for the rush is that "The Shawshank Redemption" has been designated as the opening film of the main competition unit.
This is a very big honor, and at least it proves that the judges at the Cannes Film Festival like this film very much, and it is already ahead of others in the award-winning sequence.
Yin Jun and other crew members have only arrived now, but the public relations team of United Artists Film Company came to Cannes as early as the end of April. Jason Tanya, general manager of the distribution department of United Artists Film Company, personally led the team to conduct various PR.
Although Hollywood has the biggest award coveted by filmmakers around the world-the Oscar, this does not mean that they do not pay attention to European film awards.
From an artistic point of view, there is no comparison between Americans and Europeans.
Many of their aspiring actors, in addition to Oscars, also like to be recognized by the three major European film festivals.
As for film companies, if they want to sell their movies in Europe, they definitely need to become famous in Europe.
How to become famous?
Isn’t it just about winning awards at major film festivals and then selling the film at a high price?
Half of the reasons why the three major European film festivals will become more and more popular in the future are due to the three major camps in Asia, China, Japan and South Korea, and the other half are all films from the United States.
But for this kind of work, it is usually just a matter of sending a manager-level person to be responsible for one, two, or two or three movies.
Senior executives like Jason Tanya actually don't have to come in person.
But who said that the director of "Shawshank Redemption" is Yin Jun, and Yin Jun is the boss of United Artists Film Company? Or the kind that is fully owned and controlled!
So Jason Tanya started to run various public relations very actively, and he never stopped having drinking parties all day long.
Hollywood has public relations, and so do the three major film festivals.
Without those things, what do you think the judges eat? Will the film festival be so popular?
All kinds of transactions have always existed.
However, the basic bottom line of the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival is still there. It is impossible for Chinese film festivals to win awards for weird films and actors.
In fact, if "The Shawshank Redemption" is not good enough, no matter how much public relations money is given, no matter how many connections are found, it will be a "Jury Grand Prize", and maybe even worse, there will be a Youth Film Award. The award makes people laugh or cry.
The fact today is that "The Shawshank Redemption" won the love of all the judges as soon as it appeared.
Including the current chairman of the jury, Giorgio Strehler, a super boss in the Italian theater industry and a top figure in Europe.
Also included in the jury is Jean-Jacques Annaud, who just won the 7th French César Award for Best Director last year with "War of Fire".
This Jean-Jacques Annaud has a good impression of China. Liang Jiahui's "The Lover", which became a huge hit in Europe, was directed by him.
And 22 years after "Lover", he came to China to shoot a very beautiful and primitive movie - "Wolf Totem".
After watching the movie, you will know that this old man has a deep understanding of Chinese culture and grassland culture. If you don't like it, why should a Frenchman understand your Chinese culture?
"The Shawshank Redemption" filmed by Yin Jun essentially has no restrictions on race or country.
It can happen in the United States, it can happen in China, it can also happen in the United States.
This is a story about freedom and self-salvation, and it is also a story that happens around you and me.
All the tastes of life in prison can be expanded to the society as a whole.
Europeans like stories like this, stories with reality and exploration.
That's why they made "The Shawshank Redemption" the opening film of the main competition.
In the two days since he came to Cannes, Yin Jun visited several big shots and talked with them about art films. He used his future theories and opinions to talk to them. On the contrary, Strehler and Jacques were very enthusiastic. I am interested and feel that this young man must have a bright future if he develops into art films.
In addition to work, the boy also took his two girls for a walk around the streets and alleys of Cannes. He treated them to a lot of delicious food, took a lot of photos, and bought a lot of good things. , making the two women, who had never been to such a far away place, feel extremely happy and satisfied.
Compared with them who will become famous in the future, Qiu Shuzhen and Li Zhi are still very simple and naive now.
They don't care about luxurious enjoyment and shopping. As long as they can be with Yin Jun and play around, it is a great happiness for them.
Speaking of which, no matter how arrogant Chinese celebrities are, they are still much more conservative than the exaggerated extravagance of European and American celebrities.
At least they can't go to a foreign country to perform a show without having to sign hundreds of pages of contract details with the performer, including time, car use, meals, utensils, treatment of nannies and assistants, etc., all of which must be clear and clear. It's downright scary.
Most of the celebrities in Xiangjiang come from ordinary families. They only have a few assistants and bodyguards at most, and they are not so pretentious at all.
What's more, Li Zhi and Qiu Shuzhen have never played big names. In essence, they are both good girls.
That's why Yin Jun likes them so much.
In such a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere, "The Shawshank Redemption" began its first day of screenings.
Because of Yin Jun’s fame, the first screening was packed with people. Nonsense, Jason took out Yin Jun’s resume and relied on those comics, those books, and several classics. The screenwriters and directors of the movie, those Europeans, South Americans, Japanese and Koreans, all rushed over to see what kind of literary movies this great talent had made.
Yin Jun also took the crew and sat inside to watch.
Although Yin Jun has seen both the initial and final cuts, and he participated in the editing himself, the feeling of watching the editing in a small room, with a few people watching in the screening room, is different from the hundreds of people watching now The feeling of watching it in the cinema together is completely different.
I heard the audience sighing, exclaiming, and feeling sorry from time to time... and at the end when Andy and Red hugged each other, the audience cheered as if they had won a battle, and at the end of the movie, there was a three-minute standing ovation. , not only the main creative staff, but also Yin Jun himself felt a sense of relief and satisfaction.
I can't say whether "The Shawshank Redemption" is the best movie made by Yin Jun, but it is a movie that Yin Jun made very carefully and has a lot of insights.
After filming "The Shawshank Redemption", he understood why Hollywood movies can dominate the world, but Hong Kong movies can only leave sadly in the end.
It is precisely because Hollywood not only has commercial blockbusters, but also these literary and artistic films that are full of human care and full of various beautiful qualities, that the overall image of Hollywood is so rich and three-dimensional.
What do people mention about Hong Kong movies?
Aren't they just shitty movies, just a bunch of movies of the same type?
Although outstanding directors such as Xu Anhua and Zhang Wanting are capable of making good movies, due to the restrictions of the overall market and various other reasons, they finally failed to support another world of Hong Kong movies and could only become The little waves in the sea were drowned in an instant.
In fact, movies in mainland China also have such hidden worries.
But the fortunes of mainland Chinese movies are good. They have caught up with a large market of 1.5 billion people and have a rising enthusiasm for watching genuine movies. Therefore, it is a bit incredible that those crudely made movies can survive in the end. .
However, amidst such chaos and impetuosity, it is not that there are no good art films emerging.
For example, Xiaogangpao has made several good movies, and "Youth" is a typical example.
There are also Guoshi's "Love at the Hawthorn Tree", "Return" and so on.
I believe that in the future, there will be more good movies in China that take into account box office, connotation and reputation.
Only in this way will Chinese films not be lame, will they truly expand outward, export their own culture and values, and one day compete with Hollywood! !