After more than half a month of hustle and bustle, filmmakers around the world spent a fascinating carnival. As if in the blink of an eye, the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival has arrived.
The closing ceremony was much grander than the opening ceremony, and it was very valuable. It was also the awards ceremony of the film festival.
Although the various awards will not be disclosed in advance, and the blind boxes can only be opened on site. However, there will still be traces to follow in advance, and the main judgment criterion is the invitation letter.
If there is no harvest, usually one or two coins will be given as a token fee, and the organizing committee will not even call to inform.
This is actually a kind of mercy. Some of the poorer crews simply cannot afford the expensive accommodation fees and the attire for the closing ceremony. They might as well face reality and go home early.
You know, no matter how streamlined the crew is, a trip to Cannes will still cost tens of thousands of euros. Oh, it’s in francs now, that’s hundreds of thousands of francs, almost one million in soft money, which for most filmmakers
It is also a huge amount of money. To exaggerate a little, it can even be used to make a small-budget movie.
There is even a convention at the Cannes Film Festival that the transaction price of a film must not be less than US$50,000. Otherwise, the round trip expenses are not enough, right?
But if there is a heavyweight award, the number of invitations will be larger, and basically all the cast members can be brought. Like this time for "Two Golden Guns", twelve invitations were sent in the end.
What’s interesting is that there aren’t that many people here at Li Yuan? So in the end, not only Ding Ye was included, but also Deng Li who rushed to Cannes was included...
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Several women were chattering and putting on makeup in the back room, while Li Yuan and Deng Li were chatting outside.
"Young Master Yuan. Congratulations. This movie has become a blockbuster. Even Hong Kong has received rave reviews."
Li Yuan smiled, waved his hand, and said modestly: "Uncle Li, I haven't won the award yet."
As the public enemy of Hong Kong, Li Yuan has that consciousness. The best situation in Hong Kong and Taiwan is envy, jealousy and hatred. How can there be any "rave reviews"?
"Yuan Shao, all the overseas copyrights of "Two Smoking Barrels" were packaged and sold to Harvey. We only kept the Greater China copyrights, Internet and derivative copyrights. Harvey's bid was the highest, and he was willing to pay it all in one lump sum
Clear $6.8 million?”
"It's up to you." Li Yuan was noncommittal.
Harvey Weinstein is not that powerful now, and his bid is relatively fair.
"Master Yuan, I have also visited the French office of Liyuan Trading. It seems that they are all from the mainland, and they don't even speak English very well. Do you want to go back to Hong Kong to recruit a few?"
The most important butler of Huang Jiaojiao, Deng Li will definitely care about the eldest lady's private property.
Li Yuan smiled and shook his head: "There is no need in Hong Kong. If you give too little, you can only work at the bottom level. It is better to use people from the French mainland. In the future, those basic positions will need to be localized. If they are at the manager level, then they will give too much. It is simply not possible."
Not worth it. This is nothing more than an office for a trading company."
Many people don't know that with the development of large Internet companies, the internal management and employment systems of enterprises have also undergone earth-shaking changes. It can be said that they are completely different from the current traditional employment system.
This involves the 500,000 annual salary principle.
What does that mean? If you are a very pure wage earner, an annual salary of 500,000 yuan is usually about the same. If it exceeds that, it will be impossible to achieve it unless it is a leading company or a monopoly with huge profits.
There is a concept of negative residual value here!
"Das Kapital" should all know that the labor value created by workers is subtracted from the income earned by workers, and what is left is surplus value!
But then a very strange and strange phenomenon appeared, which even the mentors at that time did not predict at all, that is - negative residual value!
That is, the labor value created by workers, minus the income earned by workers, actually becomes a negative value?
In other words, after the capitalist hires the laborer, not only does he not get the surplus value, but he also ends up paying for it?
Okay! I won’t go into the convoluted theory, but here’s an example!
Anyone who is familiar with the situation abroad should know that labor costs abroad are extremely expensive. The labor cost of installing an air conditioner is almost the same as buying an air conditioner?
Obviously, installing air conditioners is not installing Transformers. How can the labor value created be approximately equal to the price of air conditioners?
The reason why there are such expensive labor costs is nothing more than the scissor difference between Western developed countries and third world countries, which transfers this part of value to third world workers. That is, things like sweatshops.
It is precisely because of this that European and American workers have become negative surplus value, so they will deindustrialize.
Capitalists are not stupid. The more workers they hire, the more money they lose, right?
This situation is also the same in the Internet industry.
For example, if you are also an engineer. As long as you are a software engineer, the starting salary is more than 200,000, and it will soon become 3.5 million, or even more.
But as long as they wait until the age of 35, most programmers will invite them to tea and receive blessings. Their income will drop sharply.
On the contrary, it is a mechanical engineer. The starting salary may not even be 100,000, but it will gradually increase. When you are over 35 years old and have no illness or disaster, it will still become 230,000 because of your rich experience. And basically
It can be maintained until retirement smoothly.
From the perspective of two engineers with similar levels, their total lifetime income should actually be about the same. This is the compensation principle in economics.
It is also true that major Internet companies lack programmers and prefer to use negative residual value to attract new employees. It also has a certain advertising effect.
And this is true at home, and it is also true abroad. Major foreign Internet companies will also receive welfare benefits at the age of 35. The average age of employees is always below 35 years old, which uniformly reduces labor costs.
Therefore, an annual salary of 500,000 yuan is a very important life-or-death line. Especially wage earners need to be particularly vigilant.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Don’t start with a high income, take out loans to buy a house and a car, and then immediately fall into a mid-life crisis as soon as you lay off employees? And you need to pay attention to the dynamics of layoffs at all times.
Let’s put it plainly! When you make a lot of money, manage your money more! Don’t squander money all day long just to post on Moments.
Of course, in real life, there are many people with more than 500,000, and there are even big guys with an annual salary of one million!
But such talents have basically broken away from the level of wage earners and almost belong to partners and small bosses, which is the equity incentive mechanism.
For example, Li Yuan in his previous life was basically at this level and was already equivalent to a small shareholder of a second-tier large company.
That and being a wage earner are completely different concepts!
Back to the present, of course Li Yuan is not willing to use those working emperors in Hong Kong. He also has to consider the possible negative impacts in the future. He can't let people receive blessings after the age of 35, right?
Deng Li didn't care about this. He just raised a topic: "Young Master Yuan, the old man also wants to meet the young master. I'm just waiting for when your uncle will come to your door?"
Li Yuan burst into laughter. Before, the attitude of the Huang family was one of aloofness, which was basically the friendship between the three brothers and sisters. Has he finally accepted himself now?
"Haha, once I return to Hong Kong, I will take their mother and son to visit them."
"That's good……"
However, before the words could be finished, I heard a group of women going out in all their glory: "Xiao Yuanzi, why are you going back to Hong Kong? Who are you going to meet?"
"Of course your grandfather. And your parents."
"Huh, see you, see you! Bring me the red envelope first! Cack, cack..."
"..."
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The eldest lady was very happy to finally be recognized by her family. She was happy until the beginning of the award ceremony.
Excitedly waiting for the host to come on stage, Huang Jiaojiao asked in a low voice: "Xiao Yuanzi, are you sure about winning the Palme d'Or?" The eldest lady has already started to look forward to Shu. She has even thought about how to show off after returning to Hong Kong.
"I have invited the Danone Group to the celebration dinner after the end, and they will bring a director and a baron." Li Yuan did not answer directly. As one of the local snakes in France, if Danone cannot get a weighty award, Danone will still
Might as well buy a piece of cheese and kill him head on.
Huang Jiaojiao understood instantly. But Ying Xin was a little hesitant: "Yuanzi, is this... not good?"
"What? You don't want it?"
"Why don't you want it?" Ying Xin rolled her eyes, "I already have a relationship with you, so I'll just give you a Palme d'Or."
The people around me were laughing and laughing.
First of all, there are some technical minor awards. "Alive" unexpectedly also won one. It is the Catholic Humanitarian Spirit Award. However, "Alive" is a very sad film. Almost all the relatives around the protagonist receive box lunches. It makes you feel sick no matter how you watch it.
The spirit of humanity is not relevant, right?
Among those small awards, the big winner was the American independent film "Clerk". I saw a group of young Americans cheering loudly, but after taking the stage... they burst into tears. And then... they sang and danced again?
Damn it! This must be a member of the atmosphere team... right?
As the atmosphere became more and more lively, it was finally time to draw the grand prize.
The Best Actress winner was Italian actress Verna Liss for "Queen Margot". This film also won the Jury Prize.
The best director went to Italian Nanni Moretti for "Dear Diary."
It must be admitted that Italy is still quite powerful in the field of art films.
Unsurprisingly, the winner of the Best Actor Award was Uncle Ge Youge for "Alive". But having said that, when the winners were announced, even Uncle Ge himself was a little surprised. When he came on stage, he changed from the smooth talk of Mr. Jing in the past.
, took out a piece of dried tofu paper and stuttered while reading on the stage?
To be honest, Uncle Ge was very excited and nervous, but he was also very embarrassed as a Chinese man!
In the end, there are only two heavyweight awards left: "...Jury Grand Prize: "Alive", "Burning Sun", and "Two Golden Guns"!"
Amid the cheers of the audience, Li Yuan, Huang Jiaojiao, Ying Xin, Liu Dehua and others hugged one by one, and then walked to the stage hand in hand.
I didn’t expect it to be a three-yolked egg? This year’s jury was very playful, right?
However, from the corner of his eyes, he noticed that Lao Mouzi was a little disappointed and was forcing a smile. However, Lao Mouzi controlled his emotions very well. He quickly smiled and took the initiative to shake hands with Li Yuan: "Yuanzi! Congratulations to you."
"Same joy, same joy! Haha."
Lao Mouzi was born at the wrong time. According to the quality of the films he participated in in the past, "To Live" should easily win the Palme d'Or. But who would have thought that "Pulp Fiction" and "Two Golden Guns" would suddenly appear
What's weird? That's a classic film that's been seen for decades. In terms of narrative structure, it even became a dimensionality reduction blow?
But there is no need to lose heart, Lao Mouzi. You will encounter even bigger weirdos in Venice in the future! (laughing and crying)
Of course, the same is true for the three major European movies. When Lao Mouzi competes for the Oscar, he will feel even more ridiculous. He didn't win the award, but he unexpectedly opened the era of blockbusters in Chinese-language movies!
On the contrary, as a mountain monster, Lao Mouzi won a higher reputation! (laughing and crying)
The award-winning crew gave their acceptance speeches one after another. When it was Li Yuan's turn, Li Yuan wisely left this opportunity to the eldest lady.
Huang Jiaojiao was already impatient with waiting. She winked at Li Yuan and expressed her gratitude in a lively manner: "Thank you...thank you...thank you..."
In fact, the content of the speech is just some clichés, but I can’t help but make the young lady very proud, right?
Li Yuan is really afraid that the eldest lady will get carried away. Don't wave your hand at the last moment - 500 mosquito wild mountain meal vouchers for each person here!
That Yeshan Collection will definitely go bankrupt immediately!
The final Best Picture Palme d'Or was awarded to Quentin Quentin's "Pulp Fiction", which brought the atmosphere to a climax...
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That night, after returning from the celebration dinner, Huang Jiaojiao was still excited: "Xiao Yuanzi, they asked you to stay just now, why didn't you go?"
Of course, Li Yuan would not be wrong in answering such a question: "I am a good man, they are the corrupt and degenerate life of the bourgeoisie."
This is not surprising. The film industry is already in chaos. Plus where Harvey and Quentin are? It’s simply a chaotic mess.
Huang Jiaojiao glanced sideways, half-smiling but not smiling: "Really? I don't care about you. There are many golden cats and Persian cats in there? Humph."
"Yes! Jiaojiao, have I embarrassed the people of my motherland?" Li Yuan said deliberately and exaggeratedly.
Huang Jiaojiao laughed, and punched Li Yuan angrily: "You still say? Men are not good things."
"hehe."
"Hey, the film festival is over like this? It seems like it passed without even feeling it. It's so boring! Alas—!"
"Then what else do you want?"
"Hehe. Xiao Yuanzi, I suddenly have an idea? Can you make another movie next year? Let's win the grand prize again?"
"Ah? Do you think this stuff can be wholesaled? Besides, where do I get the time? I have a lot to do!"
"Hey! It's boring. Go out and sleep, don't affect my and the baby's sleep. It's so annoying!"
"ah?"
"I don't know? I am so ruthless. Humph."
"No, no, you are moody, right?"
"Do you care about me? Do you care about me? Giggle! Don't think you are strong, I will never give in! Giggle..."
