Chapter 908 Chapter 208 Domination of Domestic Actresses

After waking up the next morning, after breakfast, Li Qian was about to leave.

James McCullough gave him two pipes, a box of rare cigars, and a small bag of several hundred grams of shredded tobacco for pipes. Li Qian thanked them, shook hands, hugged, and said goodbye to the family one by one.

The whole family was sent out, and Elizabeth suddenly asked: "Qian, when I have summer vacation, can I go to China to find you? You can take me on a trip, or... something like that."

Before Li Qian could answer, Helena turned her head to look at her daughter in surprise when she heard the words.

Li Qian said: "Of course, you are welcome at any time! But... well, I will have a movie starting in July and August, and then I probably won't have time to travel with you."

Helena jumped ahead of her daughter and said, "Oh, that's such a pity!"

Who knows, Elizabeth's eyes suddenly lit up at this time, "Really? Your new movie is about to start shooting? What kind of story is it? If I go to China, can I visit the crew? Or... do you need an assistant?"

After a pause, she said excitedly: "I'm very good at crew work! I've been an assistant to my dad since I was seven or eight years old!" She danced and said, "I can be a director's assistant, and I'm fine with photography as well. , my dad said that I am very talented in photography! Oh, my God, I really want to witness the birth of your next work!"

There are some words that she didn’t say yesterday, but today she said very slickly, “I like your "Red Sorghum", but I like your "Once Upon a Time", even though my father said that your "Once Upon a Time" was very good. Bad, a purely commercial film, but I love it! He's out of date!"

James McCullough looked at his daughter in bewilderment.

Although he may not know how many times he has been told by his daughter that he is outdated, but Li Qian thinks that every time he hears it, he should have a feeling of being hit hard.

"Qian, will that be a cooler movie than "Once Upon a Time"?"

"Of course! It will be even cooler than Once Upon a Time!"

"YES! Qian, I want to apply to be your assistant!"

Elizabeth was flustered, but James seemed to be doing nothing wrong. Instead, he laughed and said, "Baby, you will let Qian be sued in court for using underage staff!"

Li Qian really wanted to say: China doesn't have such laws, and even if they did, the regulations are not as strict as those in the UK.

Of course, he didn't say it.

At this time, he looked at Elizabeth's eagerness to try, and said with a smile: "Yes, but...how about learning Chinese well? Most of the staff in my crew are Chinese, you understand. You entered my Crew, you can’t let so many people talk to you in English, can you?”

Elizabeth was immediately discouraged.

Helena's bright smile returned to her face—the French rose in her forties, once she smiled happily, her flourishing beauty was still enough to hold down Elizabeth, who hadn't really bloomed yet.

Just like that, Li Qian waved his hand and got into the car.

After Li Qian left, the car picked up dust and gradually disappeared on the road in the distance. Helena turned her head and glanced at her daughter, "Elizabeth?"

"Huh?" Elizabeth didn't turn her head.

"Qian is a very handsome oriental man, and he is very talented, isn't he?" Helena asked.

James heard the implication, and turned his head to glance at his daughter.

Elizabeth didn't turn her head back, just nodded slightly, "Yes."

Then without waiting for her mother to speak, she said directly: "Mom, you want to tell me that you shouldn't have chosen to elope with a foreigner when you were fifteen or sixteen years old, right?"

Helena opened her mouth slightly, and suppressed all the words.

James hurriedly said: "Hey! Elizabeth!"

Elizabeth turned her head and smiled brightly, "Actually, Mom, I think you did a great job at the beginning!"

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Cannes at the end of May and the beginning of June, it is even exaggerated to say that the whole of France at this time is shrouded in the halo of the Cannes Film Festival.

This is another grand event for the entire world of cinema.

Filmmakers from all over the world came here with their works, even Hollywood producers and directors who were ridiculed as "dollar movies" by European masters, as well as those superstars who shocked the world, are here. From time to time, many of them came to Cannes one after another.

But Li Qian continued not to join in the fun.

After leaving the English Lake District, he went to Manchester to return the rented off-road vehicle, and then he took the train from Manchester to London, but this time, he did not fly back to Cannes directly from London, but chose to take a ferry. English Channel, into France.

Then, like a real lonely traveler, he stopped and looked along the way, and even watched a Ligue 2 game in Paris.

It wasn't until the Cannes Film Festival was about to close that he slowly returned to Cannes.

This is a completely relaxing trip that he has rarely seen in recent years.

The result is a semi-finished briar pipe, countless photos, a wallet full of various ticket stubs, and some odds and ends bought in various places in England and France.

When he returned to Cannes, he gave everyone something small. The two girls, Qin Nuo and Zhao Yingying, found it very interesting, while Jin Han and the others looked a little confused.

Before leaving, Li Qian said that he was going to visit a friend, but who knows, he actually wandered around Europe - you know, the Cannes Film Festival is going on here!

Everyone was excited and excited, but he was lucky and took the opportunity to travel around.

But Li Qian ignored them, first cared about the response of "Peacock" in Cannes, and learned that after the film was screened at the film festival, the word-of-mouth response from all walks of life was quite good, so he smiled and congratulated Jin Han.

Jin Han was more or less worried about gains and losses, "Word of mouth is not very useful, let's see if we can win the prize in the end!"

Li Qian smiled, didn't comment, just helped him relieve pressure, "Be normal! Let's be normal! It's best to win an award, and it doesn't affect anything if you don't get an award."

In fact, he knew that no matter how much he disdains the domestic guys who make literary and artistic films, in fact, Jin Han's admiration for European art films and yearning for the awards of the three major European film festivals are actually It is in the same line as those in the domestic literary and film circles.

This is not surprising.

From the time when Jin Han entered the Suncheon Film Academy in the late 1980s until he graduated from university and started working on film crews, it was a period of time when the Chinese film industry was actively seeking its own position in the forest of world films, and finally Qin Wei, who is quite satisfactory to the Chinese people, won the Venice Golden Lion Award and was a "complete success".

So, as a witness at that time, Jin Han had this kind of complex.

However, whether he can win an award... can only wait!

John Dess told Li Qian in private that there is a chance of winning the award, but it is not great. According to the information from the jury, everyone's evaluation of the movie "Peacock" is more inclined to the photography of this movie. And the heroine gave praise, others, they think it has not reached a certain high level.

As for Ming Xiaojing's first directorial work "Unfinished Love", which is full of the fateful concept of karma and reincarnation, some European filmmakers will be interested, but more people do not agree with this logic.

Therefore, John Dess personally predicted that "Peacock" may be able to get a consolation award, but "Unfinished Love" probably won't get much. The chairman of the jury of this Cannes Film Festival is French The famous director Jean Nael, this is a relatively conservative guy.

The so-called relatively conservative concept means that he is more willing to respect the traditions and concepts of European films in the past.

In other words, including Chinese films, Hollywood films, Japanese and Korean films, etc., it is not easy for him to win awards.

On the contrary, such as Indian films, Iranian films, and even Greek films, etc., among the more traditional European filmmakers, they are full of expectations and are happy to use awards to encourage them.

The final result proved that John Days guessed half right.

Jean Nael is indeed more conservative, but it is impossible for him to ignore the pressure of public opinion, and it is impossible for him to wrestle with the entire jury in the face of truly excellent film works.

So, at the closing ceremony and awards ceremony, "Peacock" won the Best Actress Award.

This is the first Chinese actress at the Cannes Film Festival!

And because of this, the best actress in the three major European film festivals, Venice, Berlin, and Cannes, has been completely picked up by Chinese actresses!

Zhao Yingying, who was still studying at school and took leave this time to participate in the film industry, was dumbfounded. She was still overly frightened until she went on stage to accept the award.

At the same time, John Dyce also looked a little surprised. When Zhao Yingying was a little excited and stuttering to give her acceptance speech, he came over and said to Li Qian: "Qian, I can assure you, this will definitely be the same as What you said in Berlin this year is relevant!"

After a pause, he said emphatically, "Your words have greatly touched European literary filmmakers."

Li Qian returned a smile.

Jin Han was both pleasantly surprised and disappointed.

His "Peacock" went to Europe for the first time to participate in the film festival, and he won a Cannes actress. In terms of honor and ability, he can be ranked third among contemporary Chinese filmmakers-in Qin After Wei made Ming Xiao the Best Actress in Venice, and Li Qian made Qin Jingjing the Best Actress in Berlin, he also successfully won a Cannes Best Actress.

This is the first Chinese actress in Cannes, and the third Chinese actress in the three major European film festivals.

However, apart from this actress, "Peacock" has nothing to gain - before coming to Cannes, Jin Han once said in private that the Palme d'Or is not to be expected for the time being, and he just hopes to win the jury award, otherwise the award I am already very satisfied with the highest technical award that ranks third in the competition.

However, his hopes were dashed.

On the contrary, Zhao Yingying, who was not particularly favored before, was just in her early twenties, and she was actually named queen!

Of course, "Unfinished Love" is even worse.

They also signed up for the main competition unit, and then got nothing.

During the award presentation, Li Qian quietly glanced over, sitting in the middle of the crew of "Unfinished Love" not far away, various emotions such as disappointment, loss and helplessness flashed across Ming Xiaojing's face.

After the awards were presented, many people took the initiative to go over to congratulate Zhao Yingying, Jin Han and John Deiss were by her side, and Ming Xiaojing walked over to Li Qian directly.

"Qian'er, congratulations."

Li Qian smiled and said, "Thank you, Sister Ming."

In terms of the rarity of Chinese films and Chinese filmmakers winning awards in Europe in the past few years, although "Peacock" did not gain in other awards and film awards as a whole, it is only the first Chinese Cannes actress. The achievements are already impressive enough.

Although Jin Han failed to complete the proof in his heart, through the success of "Peacock" this time, he can successfully join the ranks of domestic first-line directors—of course, the lower reaches of the first-line.

The addition of Zhao Yingying as the actress means that Minghu Culture, a company, will have two fresh and hot European film festival actresses-considering that Ming Xiaojing won the award ten years ago, and she has always been The concept of filming also makes her commercial value really limited. Therefore, with Qin Jingjing and Zhao Yingying's Minghu culture in hand, it simply dominates the acting skills of domestic actresses!

Coupled with He Yingyu's huge commercial value, Bai Yujing's extremely high popularity, and Cheng Suping, Liu Yan, Zhao Qing, Lu Lingxi and other top-ranking actresses, it shows that Hu Culture has dominated domestic actresses It's not an exaggeration in the circle - yes, Fu Hongxue stands alone, with the trinity of commercial value plus acting value plus appearance value. Currently, she is slightly ahead of He Yingyu and Qin Jingjing, but she is the only one.

Except for Fu Hongxue, almost none of the most popular actresses in the country slipped through the net in the past three to five years, and all of them were under the banner of Minghu Culture.

It was just such a stylized congratulations, but at this time, the relationship between the two parties was no longer the intimacy and cordiality it was before. Even if Ming Xiaojing wanted to say something else, there was nothing to say.

So, after congratulating Li Qian, Ming Xiaojing nodded at him with a complicated smile, and turned to find Zhao Yingying—don't look at Ming Xiaojing who once unwisely stood in line with Qin Wei, thus offending Minghu Culture and Li Qian. Modesty, but that doesn't mean her EQ is low.

You know, with the amazing show of "Red Sorghum" at the Berlin Film Festival this year, and now two domestic films are going to compete for the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival, the domestic media will naturally not ignore it, and they have sent a lot of Few reporters came to report, and many of them were on the scene at this time.

If Zhao Yingying won the Cannes Best Actress, Ming Xiaojing, the Venice Best Actress who was present at the scene, did not come to congratulate her, it would be a big mistake that is basically impossible to escape, and it will definitely be highlighted by the domestic media ——After she passed by like this, even if she managed to squeeze out a smile, the domestic reports would be written as flowers. The two queens! Everyone loves watching this!

Therefore, even though she must be quite disappointed in her heart at this time, she still had to go to Zhao Yingying's side to have a face-to-face meeting—in fact, being a public figure is really tiring.

As soon as she walked away, a familiar figure walked over.

Zhou Jingyi looked fascinatedly at the bustling Fanfan and the stars around Zhao Yingying over there, shook her head enviously, sighed, then turned to look at Li Qian, and said, "Are you familiar with Cannes? somewhere to have a drink?"

Li Qian smiled, thinking that it's been a long time since we had a drink together, and that his drinking buddy is really not qualified, so he said, "Okay, let's go together tonight."

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