Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 1 Sundance Film Festival
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"Sir, wake up!"

"Sir, are you still alive?"

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January 1992, 1, Park City, Utah.

"The film that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 8th Sundance Independent Film Festival is Buried! Congratulations to Director Link!"

the jury president shouted from the podium at the Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony.

Wow!
There was a round of warm applause.

A handsome young Chinese man in a black suit stood up from the guest seat, hugged Nicole Kidman beside him, turned to the podium, shook hands with Chairman Robert Redford, and took a crystal trophy from him.

"Thank you! Thank you everyone!"

Link raised the trophy and smiled. After traveling through the foreign country of America for several months, he was very frightened and confused at first. After receiving this trophy, he felt much more at ease.

"Thank you Sundance, thank you Mr. Robert Redford for founding this wonderful and great film festival, and thank you to the seven gentlemen and ladies on this year's jury. Thank you for choosing Buried among so many excellent films. It is my honor and the greatest encouragement to me."

"Why?!"

Just as Link was happily delivering the award speech, a dissatisfied questioning voice came from the audience. The voice was very loud and abrupt, attracting the attention of everyone present.

"Why? Why did they give the Grand Jury Prize to Buried?"

Quentin Tarantino yelled.

Quentin is the director of "Reservoir Dogs". This year he brought this film to participate in the Sundance Independent Film Festival. Due to the novel subject matter, humorous and interesting content, and excellent production of the film, it was recommended by the organizers of the Sundance Film Festival as the opening film.

At the beginning of the film festival, Reservoir Dogs received more attention, discussion and praise than any other film in this year's Sundance, and a hundred times more than the unknown Buried.

The film festival has not yet ended, and the media unanimously believes that the Grand Jury Prize will definitely go to "Reservoir Dogs". Many film critics also believe that "Reservoir Dogs" is the best film of this year's Sundance and will win at least two major awards.

Quentin Tarantino wore a handsome suit today, combed his hair into a slicked-back style, and sat quietly in the audience, waiting to go on stage to receive his award.

Quentin didn't care when he saw that the previous awards were won by other films. He thought that the final Jury Prize would definitely belong to "Reservoir Dogs".

But in the end, the Grand Jury Prize was given to "Buried", and "Reservoir Dogs" didn't win any award at all.

It was so unexpected and shocking.

The hot-tempered Quentin endured it for a long time, but finally he couldn't bear it anymore. When Link went on stage to receive the award, he stood up and loudly questioned the jury members of this year's film festival to give him a reasonable explanation.

"Quentin, stop shouting and sit down."

Quentin's close friend, Reservoir Dogs producer Lawrence Band pulled him and shouted.

"Bender, don't pull me. I just want to know why they gave the Grand Jury Prize to Buried? How can Buried compare to my Reservoir Dogs?"

Quentin was 1.9 meters tall and had a sturdy build. Lawrence Bender couldn't stop him at all and could only persuade him softly: "Link's Buried is also good. The subject matter he chose is very appealing. He used a homosexual who suffered domestic violence as the protagonist of the story, and clearly proposed to oppose domestic violence and discrimination against homosexuals, which has a positive effect on improving the social environment.

Although Reservoir Dogs is also very good, it promotes and glorifies violence, contains a lot of blood, foul language, and erotic topics, and the theme is not positive enough. The Sundance organizers probably considered these points when giving the grand prize to Buried. "

"Not bad!"

Chairman Robert Redford, who had just stepped down from the podium, came over and said, "The purpose of the Sundance Film Festival is not only to discover excellent independent films, but also to encourage colleagues to make more films that are beneficial to improving the social environment. In this regard, Buried is better than Reservoir Dogs.

In addition, Director Link pioneered the idea of placing all the scenes of the film in a small wooden box, using only one actor and a few simple props, yet he was able to make the film so thrilling and exciting.

His ideas are extremely clever, and his directing techniques are very novel and unique, which will inspire the future development of movies. Director Link deserves the Grand Jury Prize. "

Robert Redford said in a firm voice. Snap!
The filmmakers around applauded.

Quentin snorted and reluctantly sat back in his seat.

"Haha, thank you Mr. Redford for your affirmation."

Link smiled gently, looked at Director Quentin in the audience, and said into the microphone: "Although Director Quentin questioned me, I am still very happy. Michelangelo said that all great works of art and artists were born in fierce competition with their peers and grew up amid doubts from the outside world. I am very happy to be in this great era, in Hollywood with so many outstanding filmmakers.

Everyone, please let us work together and make persistent efforts to carry forward the art of light and shadow, electricity and sound, make more good movies, and let history remember us! Let history remember Sundance! "

Link shouted as he held up the trophy.

"well said!"

Wow!
All the filmmakers at the scene stood up and applauded, applauding Link's magnanimity and his passionate declaration.

Even Quentin, who looked indignant, was pulled up by Lawrence Bander and clapped his hands reluctantly.

The warm applause lasted for more than a minute in the venue.

Link waved his hand to say thank you, then returned to his seat with the trophy in his arms. His seat was right in front of Quentin.

"Humph! Director Link, you just got this trophy by luring people in. It's nothing. Do you dare to bet with me?"

Quentin Tarantino said, kicking his seat.

Link handed the trophy to Nicole Kidman, the leading actress of Buried. When he was about to accept the award, he was interrupted by Quentin. He forgot to thank the woman who had given a lot during the filming. Nicole smiled and congratulated him while holding the trophy.

"Director Link, don't you dare?"

Quentin questioned loudly.

"What are you betting on?"

Link tilted his head and asked with a smile.

"We're betting on the box office of this movie. We're both new directors, so we're betting on who has the better box office performance. That means who's better. How about it? Do you dare to bet?"

Quentin Tarantino raised his chin and challenged confidently.

"What's the stakes?"

Link laughed.

Quentin thought for a moment, pointed to the trophy in Nicole Kidman's hand and said, "If you lose, publicly hand this trophy to me."

Link laughed, "If you lose, how about coming to my film company and making two movies for me?"

"Two?! I just want your trophy. You want me to make a movie for you?"

Quentin said unhappily.

"You proposed the bet, not me. If you're worried about losing, you can just refuse it."

Link chuckled.

Quentin Tarantino frowned, and despite Lawrence Bender's pulling, he stretched out his fist with a ferocious expression and said, "Let's bet, I will never lose."

Link smiled slightly, and under the gaze of more than 50 filmmakers around him, he bumped fists with Quentin to seal the bet.

(End of this chapter)