Chapter 36 Juno Comes to an End

"Look who's back!"

"Ha, our Berlin Best New Actor!"

John laughed and hugged Wu Yuan, who rushed back from Berlin, with a teasing tone.

The Berlin Film Festival ended perfectly. The most popular film of this year's Berlin Film Festival was the French film "Intimacy"!

This film won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film and the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress!

But the Chinese team also won a big victory!

The Best New Actor and Best New Actress were won by "17-year-old Bicycle" and "Love Love Me".

"Love Love Me" also won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director.

"17-year-old Bicycle" even won the Silver Bear Award for the Jury Grand Prix, which is second only to the Golden Bear Award for Best Film!

In other words, two of the four major awards of this Berlin Film Festival were won by Chinese-language films!

There is no doubt that the 51st Berlin Film Festival was a shining one for the Chinese.

John's pre-match speculation was wrong, and "17-year-old Bicycle" really won the grand prize.

"I really didn't expect that you would win the Best New Actor Award." John was overjoyed, and looked at Wu Yuan with a strange look.

The Best Newcomer Award in Berlin is not a small award. Such an award is recognized and respected even in Hollywood.

Scarlett, Chris and others who welcomed Wu Yuan back also applauded happily.

It is a good thing that the director went to Berlin to win an award, and congratulations must be given.

It's just that the director won the actor award, which made them feel a little incredible.

"Director, I didn't expect that your acting is so good that you can win the Best Newcomer Award for your first movie!" Scarlett winked at Wu Yuan mischievously.

In fact, there is no acting skill, but Wu Yuan still pretended to be cool: "If my acting is not good, can I tell you about the play?"

Won the Best Newcomer Award in Berlin, so arrogant!

"Okay, let's stop talking about Berlin." Wu Yuan stretched out his hand to suppress it, his face returned to seriousness: "The crew has stopped working for three days, and it's time to start working again."

"Scarlett, how have you learned the mentality and posture of a pregnant woman?"

"I think I can give it a try." Scarlett restrained her smile and answered seriously.

Wu Yuan waved his hand: "Okay, then I announce that the "Juno" crew will start working again!"

After attending the Berlin Film Festival, Wu Yuan rushed back to the "Juno" crew to continue filming.

There are actually not many plots left, just some plots when Scarlett was pregnant. With the personal teaching and hand-in-hand experience of the two pregnant mothers, Scarlett also found a little bit of the mentality and behavior of a young pregnant woman.

After the crew filmed for another ten days, the pre-production part of the entire "Juno" was completed.

On the last day of February 2001, the "Juno" crew announced that it had finished filming!

However, the filming of the movie is only the first link in the production of the entire movie.

Next, Wu Yuan also needs to work with the editors arranged by Fox Searchlight to do post-production editing of the film.

The release date of this film is aimed at the summer season, and the schedule is still very tight.

Moreover, as a film with a youth theme, a lot of music needs to be inserted into this film, including some songs of current pop singers and original soundtracks.

This aspect also requires director Wu Yuan to set the tone.

It is expected that there will be 19 songs in the whole film, most of which require original soundtracks.

So after the filming was completed, Wu Yuan was still very busy.

While he was watching the post-production editing of the film, he also needed to watch the film soundtrack work of the soundtrack studio, and he had to fly back and forth between Los Angeles and New York from time to time.

It took him three months to complete this part of the work and produce the finished film of "Juno".

As soon as possible, he took the finished film to a viewing meeting inside Fox Searchlight.

Some elite producers, heads of the marketing department, and middle and senior management of the company in Fox Searchlight witnessed Wu Yuan's version of "Juno" together.

The 102-minute film is 6 minutes longer than the original.

Compared with the original Juno, Wu Yuan's version completely retains the setting and plot of Juno's "cool girl", which is also the core selling point of this movie.

However, compared with the original, Wu Yuan has increased the presence of the male protagonist.

Unexpected pregnancy is not caused by one person, but by both men and women. Brick can no longer have no sense of existence, and he must also bear his responsibilities.

The target audience of the original Juno is girls, to be precise, high school and college girls.

Wu Yuan's version of Juno has enlarged this target group, hoping not only that girls will go to the cinema, but also that boys will come to the cinema to watch this movie.

Therefore, Wu Yuan greatly reduced the plot of adopting couples in the movie, and increased the campus plot and life plot of Juno and Brick.

Of course, the focus of the story is still Juno. This movie needs this cool girl, this girl who is completely different from ordinary girls, to face everything around her with a very optimistic attitude, sharp teeth, quirky, and lovable.

At the same time, Brick was also influenced by Juno's optimistic and cheerful attitude towards everything, from escaping at the beginning to gradually accepting and taking responsibility.

This part of the plot is prepared for male audiences.

The core theme of the original "Juno" is to praise women, praise women's maternal love and strength, and criticize men's bastards, immaturity and irresponsibility.

While Wu Yuan's version of "Juno" praises women, he also wants to express that men will also mature, learn to take responsibility, and become mature and attractive men.

It's just that they mature later than women, so we need to be more patient with them.

"A very cool movie, different from "Sweetheart", not so serious, and there is no preaching."

"Hey, I thought this movie would be very serious, but I didn't expect it to be not serious at all. On the contrary, Juno is super cool. After watching the movie, I almost fell in love with this girl."

"This director from China is very powerful. Why does he understand American humor so well?"

After watching the first version of the film, most people at Fox Searchlight gave a good review of the film.

Yes, although "Juno" is about the growth of teenagers, it is not a serious style movie.

Wu Yuan has also been avoiding the movie from being serious.

He knew that the core reason why the original "Juno" was a hit was the uniqueness of "Juno", her coolness, and her relaxed attitude when facing accidents.

In other words, this movie must not be made too serious or too solemn!

An ordinary audience will never go to the cinema with the idea of ​​"I want to learn something from watching a movie".

An excellent director who wants to convey his ideas and concepts to the audience and wants the audience to "learn something" after watching the movie must not force the audience to eat in a serious preaching style.

Use character charm, editing methods, humor, laughter, anger and other methods to package "truth" into candy through characters and plots, and quietly stuff it into the audience's mouth.

It seems that Wu Yuan did a good job in the movie "Juno".

At least in the internal film viewing meeting, people who have watched the movie did not feel that Wu Yuan had forced them to learn any great truths, let alone that the movie had any preaching content.

It's just that after watching the movie, they naturally had some insights, and these insights are also things they have heard and seen a lot.

For example, women should be strong and tolerant, men should learn to take responsibility, and parents should love their children without reservation, etc.

Wu Yuan used humorous lines, as well as imaginative visual styles and film tones, to repackage these old truths into fresh desserts!

"I think we should consider starting the promotion of the movie "Juno." The head of the distribution department of Fox Searchlight said with a smile.

So far, the work of the movie "Juno" has nothing to do with Wu Yuan for the time being.

Everything that follows will be handed over to Fox Searchlight. Whether it is publicity or distribution and release, Wu Yuan can't provide any support.

And after handing over the finished film, he has nothing to do for the time being.

Back to his long-term rental hotel in Los Angeles, Wu Yuan looked at the calendar on the bedside of the bedroom.

"June 2, 2001."

Staring at this date for a long time, Wu Yuan hesitated for a long time, took out his mobile phone, and called Mr. Han who was far away in China.

"Director Han, can you help me contact Mr. Zhang Guorong in Hong Kong?"

"I want to meet him."

Actually, I am not the first to think of adapting "Juno" in this way. It should have first appeared in "Best Director".

I think as a Chinese director, I definitely can't shoot a completely American "Juno", so I think it should be adapted in this way to fit Wu Yuan's Chinese identity.