Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 13 The annoying Riddler
Xie Fei was really in a difficult situation.

If the movies are pretty good, it's understandable to promote one, but promoting two would require a lot of favors and a balance.

It would be too difficult to mainly promote these three parts.

Even though the Berlin Film Festival is very friendly to Chinese-language films, it is an international film festival after all, so there are still bottom lines to be met and the behavior cannot be too ugly.

He hinted to Cao Yang that if there were other ways, he could try to contact them. As long as someone pushed it first within the jury, he would be able to follow up in time and would not be so embarrassed.

Old Xie has a difficult situation too. He has to push it off from Wang Xiaoshuai, he also has to push it off from Cao Yang, and he also has to push it off because he owes a favor to Wanwan. It's really a difficult situation.

The Berlin Film Festival is not run by his family, and there are only a few awards in the main competition unit? If he really bites the bullet and pushes three movies... I feel dizzy just thinking about it, and then he will lose the reputation he has accumulated throughout his life.

He also hinted to Wang Xiaoshuai and Wanwan that they should each think of ways to prevent an old man like me from being the only one to rush to the front.

I haven't reached the point where I don't care about my reputation anymore.

Speaking of this, Cao Yang couldn't help but think of the King of Sunglasses Wang Jiawei.

When he served as the chairman of the jury for the main competition unit of the 59th Cannes Film Festival, he demonstrated the art of compromise, and his actions shocked everyone.

He selected five Best Actor and six Best Actress at one time!
From then on, for a period of time in Europe, no one dared to invite the King of Sunglasses to be a judge.

Cao Yang wanted to tell this story to Lao Xie, but he thought that this happened in 06 and it hasn't happened yet. Lao Xie probably can't handle this kind of thing. He is a leader of the fourth generation of directors and an old artist, and his reputation is very important to him.

If Cao Yang dared to suggest that Lao Xie do the same, Lao Xie would beat Cao Yang to death.

After hanging up the phone with Lao Xie, Cao Yang felt a little confused. He was annoyed by people who only spoke half the sentence. He could understand it a little, but also couldn't understand it a little. How to understand it depends on your ability to understand.

Why can't you just say it directly? Why keep guessing?

Old Tian is still the best. The stubborn Old Tian won’t play tricks on you and will just say what he thinks.

"What are you doing? You keep answering the phone and you don't even work."

My mother slapped Cao Yang on the back of his head, interrupting his thoughts.

"Mom, I tell you, I make a living with my brain. What if you slap me and make me stupid?"

Seeing his mother's hand raised again, Cao Yang quickly reported the good news, "Mom, the movie I shot a while ago was selected for the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival?"

My mother was startled, then she quietly put away her raised hand and asked happily, "Did you win a prize?"

"Well, not yet, but it's possible."

"Haha, my son is really awesome. When you win the prize, I'll make you something delicious."

Although I haven't won any awards yet, my mother is obviously very happy, even though she doesn't necessarily understand what the Berlin Film Festival is or what it represents.

"Lao Cao, what are you doing? Didn't you see your son making a phone call? You're still sitting there smoking, smoking, smoking, smoking, hurry up and get to work. Our son is going to win a prize, a big one from a foreign country."

The dinner was extremely sumptuous. After some research, my parents finally found out what the Berlin Film Festival was like.

In this era, the trend of worshipping foreign things and fawning on foreigners was extremely prevalent. The parents only knew that if their son could win a grand prize at the Berlin Film Festival, he would soar to fame and become a well-known domestic director with a bright future.

Is there anything that could make the old couple happier than this?
After dinner, Cao Yang called Tian Zhuangzhuang to ask for Lao Tian’s opinion.

He told Lao Tian exactly what Xie Fei said on the phone today. Lao Tian pondered for a moment on the other end of the phone and told him to just relay the message to Hou Keming and not to worry about anything else, as Hou Keming would naturally know what to do.

Then, Lao Tian told Cao Yang another thing.

The chairman of the jury of this year's Berlin Film Festival is the chairman of Fox Film Corporation, who is in charge of film production and distribution.

He led the investment in the film "Happy Times" directed by Guoshi Yimou. This guy is really awesome. Ever since the film "Titanic" directed by him earned 2.4 million yuan in the domestic market at the normal screening and 3.6 million yuan after the two-month extension, he has attached great importance to the mainland market.

You have to know that was 98 million in 3.6. At that time, only big directors could sell or million domestically.

Terrence Malick, the producer of "Happy Times", is the winner of the Golden Bear Award at the 49th Berlin Film Festival. He has been a friend of Moritz DeHadden, chairman of the Berlin Film Festival, for many years.

Yimou is the winner of the Golden Bear Award at the 38th Berlin Film Festival. He just won the Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival last year. He has very wide connections there and is considered a direct descendant of the Berlin Film Festival.

Finally, Lao Tian said, this is just the beginning. The energy of the school is beyond your imagination. You can figure it out for yourself.

"What the hell! I didn't expect that Old Tian, ​​that guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would also rebel and become a riddle teller. It would be so nice to be your stubborn Old Tian." Cao Yang hung up the phone and muttered to himself.

Having said that, Cao Yang still called Hou Keming and relayed Xie Fei's meaning.

Alas, it would be better if you two could just have a direct conversation instead of playing riddlers.

Hou Keming said he understood, then asked about Cao Yang's well-being enthusiastically, and finally asked when he would return to school.

第51届柏林电影节2月7日至18日在德国柏林举办，今天是1月17日了，还有二十天时间。

Cao Yang promised to return to school at least a week earlier.

As the days passed, Cao Yang's good treatment lasted for a week, and then he was rejected by his mother again.

Fortunately, the Spring Festival was coming. Cao Yang thought that his parents would show up in front of relatives and "accidentally" mention their son's "achievements", but he didn't expect that his parents kept it to themselves and didn't tell anyone.

Maybe the parents wanted to keep it a secret and wanted to make it high-profile after Cao Yang won the award.

Or maybe it’s from the parents’ point of view that things that have not been accomplished should not be publicized for fear of ruining their luck.

During this period, Cao Yang thought about it carefully. Even if Xie Fei was present at the Berlin Film Festival and the school was supporting him secretly, there was no way that the Golden Bear would be awarded to him.

Even if Li Xiaoran performs exceptionally well in this movie, it is impossible for her to win the Golden Bear the first time around. The most likely award is Best Actress, or the Berlin Film Festival winner.

In fact, whether it is the Berlin Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, or the Cannes Film Festival, as long as the film is not bad, many awards can be won, with the exception of the highest awards, the Golden Bear, the Golden Lion, and the Palme d'Or.

The jury can ostensibly decide all the awards, but without the tacit approval of the festival officials, it is difficult for the highest award to be given.

Don’t think that the dozen or so jury members are invited randomly. Every year there are a few of them who are there to implement the official will. The purpose is to ensure that the highest award is under control.

Since the highest prize is too difficult to obtain, you can only get other prizes.

Cao Yang used the Spring Festival to start thinking about the script and began writing it.

In his previous life, Cao Yang's edges were smoothed out and he did things in a somewhat worldly and tactful way. Even so, he would still get upset whenever he saw the comments made by South Koreans on the Internet.

So he decided to use their better movie ideas first, because these bastards were always stealing Chinese culture and making outrageous remarks.

(End of this chapter)