Before the opening ceremony, something unpleasant actually happened. The Japanese side played a trick when introducing Baodao filmmakers and used an unconventional title.
Jiang Ping, the vice president of China Film Group and the administrative leader of this trip to Japan, was furious and announced his withdrawal from the film festival.
It is very sad for the crews of "Jade Goddess of Mercy" and "Steel Piano". Best Actor and Best Actress may be the only acting honors that Wang Qianyuan and Fan Meiren can obtain in their lives. However, they are in a dilemma. What if they quit together?
, maybe the actor and actress will fade away; if he doesn’t quit, his acting career will fade away.
Jiang Ping is an old sportsman. He has hardly missed a team along the way. He closely adheres to the main theme of the film and looks forward to everything. As the leader of the team, Fang Yi has to consider Fan Mei and Wang Qianyuan. This
The only hope they have now is Fang Yi.
The best way to deal with any disaster is to prevent it from happening.
The entire team is divided into three groups, with "Jade Guanyin" and "Gang Zhiqin" being the audience.
Jiang Ping was responsible for the civil and military attacks. He found the Japanese organizer and said, "There can only be one team on the green carpet. This is a serious matter. You have hurt our feelings."
He also increased his leverage, "Moreover, in the future, filmmakers such as International Zhang, Tony Leung, and Fang Yi will no longer attend the Tokyo Film Festival, and Chinese filmmakers will never come to the Tokyo Film Festival!"
These words were quite serious. The person sent by the Japanese side to contact him was a small soldier. He realized that something was wrong, so he persuaded Jiang Ping to stop it, and then reported it to the superiors step by step.
On the other side is Fang Yi. He stands with Jiang Ping on this matter. There is no doubt that there is no room for compromise.
Mainland filmmakers unilaterally announced their withdrawal. It is difficult to say that they have "won". Mainland filmmakers should walk on the carpet and participate in the whole process in a glorious manner. It is the other side who should withdraw.
What did Fang Yi do? Before he walked on the green carpet, he participated in the selection of major awards at the film festival and cast his precious vote, all of which were for domestic films (including Baodao films). After the voting results were handed over to
When the organizers were preparing to engrave the trophies with inscriptions, Fang Yi said:
"Due to force majeure, I want to withdraw from the East Film Festival."
The judges were dumbfounded. The awards were about to begin. But the judges left. Should the votes be counted again?
The chairman of the jury, Neil Jordan, is a good-tempered Irishman who worked as a teacher when he was young. When filming "Interview with the Vampire" in 1994, the two major stars Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt almost had a falling out, and it was all because of Neil Jordan.
Jordan came to reconcile.
Why did these two leading actors break up? Because of women.
As we all know, Tom Cruise believes in the Scientology of American imperialism, is a crazy believer, and has reached a certain status.
It just so happened that Brad Pitt met his girlfriend Lewis two years ago. They talked about marriage for a while, but finally found out that his girlfriend was a believer in Scientology, and this religion requires that spouses must also believe in it. The young and young Pitt had a painful relationship with his girlfriend
separate.
As for Tom Cruise, he didn't pick up the pot. After getting to know each other, he introduced his beliefs to Brad Pitt. The latter immediately lost control of his emotions.
Neil Jordan is a master of cooperating with Xini. He feels that it is not easy to offend the mainland filmmakers represented by Fang Yi. He came to the East to enjoy the honor, not to wipe others' butts.
"Fang, we can't lose you."
Since the Irish and English had historically not been able to deal with each other, Neil Jordan often had wars of words in his hometown. He was tired of it. He told the organizer, "Why didn't we have this trouble before?"
Because I didn’t sell swords before.
"I hope the film festival is a clean film festival."
There is also a filmmaker in Baodao on the jury. This person does not have Fang Yi's ambition to burn everything and watch everything happen.
When mainland filmmakers walked on the green carpet, they had already won. On the contrary, many Taiwanese filmmakers who originally dressed up beautifully were given short notice:
"No green carpet allowed."
Then, at the awards ceremony after the green carpet, mainland filmmakers won three out of three nominations, including Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress.
Fan Meiren burst into tears on the spot, and Wang Qianyuan's eyes were red when he spoke. I never expected that it would be the turn of a twenty-year-old director to uphold justice in a Chinese film.
It’s just Wang Qianyuan, but Fan Meiren actually won the Best Actress, which is simply incredible. The media talked about the story behind the jury and believed that the domestic film’s victory this time was all due to Fang Yi’s “distribution according to the situation.”
The matter was not over yet. Fang Yi connected a group of judges and planned to write a slogan to criticize the Japanese people for looking for trouble. What happened in Tokyo also spread back to China, causing Shangfeng to issue a warning to Japan through official channels.
Dongyang was completely cowed and issued a letter of apology.
The closing film of the film festival was originally scheduled to be a film from Baodao, but was temporarily changed to "Love Letter". The effect was actually better, and the number of moviegoers on the last day was more than in the previous days.
Souhu live broadcasted the entire incident. Due to the bandwidth limitations at the time, Souhu adopted the live broadcast method of text and pictures, which also gave some sharp film critics a chance to express their opinions:
"The Tokyo Film Festival is a typical leopard head, pork belly, and phoenix tail. It seems that we are the Chinese delegation that is lucky. The momentum and gorgeous ending are completely occupied by our schedule... The most worthwhile
The praise should go to the director Fang Yi. He did not make things difficult to get out of the situation; but he did not lose face either. It is rare for a domestic filmmaker to use tricks to fight against foreign countries, and he did it to the end."
Fang Yi was not very happy to receive such an award.
On the last day of the film festival, everyone was chatting in the dressing room. A filmmaker from Baodao came to Jiang Ping to express his grievances and said, "I will never work with you again in this life."
Jiang Ping retorted: "I wish I could."
However, when the man left, he suddenly became bitter and said, "I was bluffing him. In fact, it doesn't matter if they don't cooperate. We don't need it now."
Fang Yi: "Why?"
"I signed a document in August. From then on, Baodao's filmmakers and capital can enter the mainland without any obstacles, but the mainland is still subject to lottery restrictions... We have tied our own feet and the door is wide open."
No one could accept this. Jiang Ping's tone revealed a hint of pessimism. Fang Yi felt that the film industry was different from ordinary business. It's not that you can do it if you have it. There is a huge difference between having and being able. inside.
The TV drama industry, on the other hand, may have to go through hard times for a while. Mainland students have just survived Photographer Chen's explosion in the Hong Kong circle, and they have opened up a bright future, and they will soon face competition from the other side.
He stayed alone in Tokyo to shoot a Nikon camera commercial, and then went to see the glorious motion capture technology and record a promotional video.