The closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival arrived as scheduled, and the guests at the closing ceremony can see the influence of the Cannes Film Festival in Europe and even the world.
Just like the Venice Film Festival, the day before the closing ceremony, Wu Jianye received a call from the Cannes Film Festival, informing them to attend the closing ceremony tomorrow.
This means that the movie "The Last Emperor" won an award, but it is unknown what award it won.
Wu Jianye also led his crew on the red carpet. Just like his previous performance, Wu Jianye did not stay too long on the red carpet.
Blanket stars, that's a special case of female stars.
I originally thought that the dress falling off that I had not seen at the Venice Film Festival could be seen in Cannes. After all, this is the birthplace of this matter. Unfortunately, when Sophie Marceau, the founder of carpet stars, had not yet appeared, this profession
It still hasn't been promoted.
Awards ceremonies all over the world are actually similar, competing for stars, directors, and competing for excellence.
Hosting gags at the award ceremony to liven up the atmosphere, teasing the nominees, award-winning actors or thanking everyone behind the scenes...
Looking at the guests receiving awards one by one on the stage, Zhao Fei began to slowly become nervous. This time "The Last Emperor" has been nominated for two awards.
Director Award and Palme d'Or!
"Old Wu, are you confident?" Zhao Fei looked even more nervous than Wu Jianye.
Wu Jianye shook his head with a wry smile, "You've been asking this question since I came to Cannes."
Zhao Fei rubbed his hands together with a smile on his face, "Aren't you nervous? This is the Cannes Film Festival. If you win the award, you would be really awesome!"
Regarding the changes at this Cannes Film Festival, Wu Jianye can only say that he has no idea at all!
While the two were chatting below, Jeremy Thomas and Theo Angelopoulos, who were the award guests, had already taken the stage.
Jeremy Thomas held the envelope in his hand and said with a smile: "I am honored to be the award guest for the Best Director at this film festival. There are both familiar faces and unfamiliar faces in this film festival, but what is certain is that these faces
They are all the best in the film industry!”
"Thomas, as a producer, you should have the most contact with directors. I would like to ask you what you think of the profession of director!" Theo Angelopoulos smiled.
Jeremy Thomas is not a director. In fact, he has only directed one film in his career and appears more as a filmmaker.
"Rock and Roll" in 1900, "Merry Christmas on the Battlefield" in 193, and later "Silver Empire" starring Guo Tianwang, he was the editor of that movie.
The most important thing is that this is also the producer of Bertolucci's version of "The Last Emperor".
When Bertolucci was filming "The Last Emperor", he almost raised the investment of US$26 million by himself.
As for Theo Angelopoulos, he is also a big star and a regular at the three major European film festivals. He was also influenced by Godard before entering the film industry. He later won the 51st Cannes Film Festival.
Film Festival Palme d'Or.
"I think the director is the soul of a movie, or it can be said that movies are the director's art. By controlling the entire movie, the director allows the audience to enter the world of images and feel the lives of the characters in the movie. This is the charm of movies. Director
Ability......."
Theo Angelopoulos smiled: "Then which director do you most expect to win the Best Director award this year?"
Jeremy Thomas smiled and glanced at Theo Angelopoulos, "You are making me offend someone!"
But then Jeremy Thomas continued: "To say which director I am most optimistic about, it is better to say that I am most like working with the director."
"Oh, is that the director?"
"Wu Jianye, the director of "The Last Emperor", actually when Wu was filming this movie, I already liked "The Last Emperor" written by Director Wu. Unfortunately, Director Wu later shot this movie himself, but
After watching this movie, I was deeply impressed by Director Wu's ability. This is an epic movie."
Theo Angelopoulos laughed: "It seems that you gave your vote to Director Wu?"
Everyone who could see Wu Jianye in the field turned their attention here, while Wu Jianye nodded with everyone with an elegant smile.
"Okay, let's not be pretentious here, let's announce this award!" Theo Angelopoulos continued.
Theo Angelopoulos then took the envelope from Jeremy Thomas's hands, opened it, and showed a surprised expression.
"The winner of the Best Director at the 40th Cannes Film Festival is--"
Jeremy Thomas took the envelope at this time and said with a smile: ""The Last Emperor" Wu Jianye!"
After Wu Jianye heard his name, he was slightly startled for a moment, then showed a surprised expression, stood up, and together with Zhao Fei, Mu Deyuan, Zun, and Chen Shenyong, they straightened their suits and walked out
podium.
Jeremy Thomas had opened his arms, and Wu Jianye smiled and hugged him, "Director Wu, congratulations, I think you deserve this award!"
"Thank you, Thomas!" Wu Jianye thanked him.
"There is a chance to cooperate!" Jeremy Thomas patted Wu Jianye on the shoulder again and said.
Wu Jianye then hugged Theo Angelopoulos and thanked him.
Holding the trophy in his hand, Wu Jianye raised it vigorously and then smiled.
"Thank you to Jeremy Thomas and Theo Angelopoulos for awarding the award, thank you to the Cannes Film Festival, and thank you to all the judges."
Then Wu Jianye took a deep breath, scanned the audience, slowly raised his voice, still using his signature Chinese, and said: "I feel very honored to be able to stand on this stage. However, I want to say that day by day,
Mature Chinese-language films will become an important part of world cinema. And my compatriots and I will bring more and better Chinese-language films to every corner of the world! Thank you to the judges, and thank you again to Thomas and Angelopoulos for their work.
It is an honor for me to present this award to me.”
In Wu Jianye's acceptance speech this time, he did not throw out the classic saying "The nation is the world" like he did at the Venice Film Festival before.
This disappointed the Cannes Film Festival, but Wu Jianye's acceptance speech still made the Cannes Film Festival a lot more prestigious. The Cannes Film Festival has always been committed to the development of global influence, as Wu Jianye said,
Chinese-language films are slowly growing.
In the past, the main force of Chinese-language films in Europe was Hong Kong films, but now Wu Jianye has emerged in China and is leading the slow development of Chinese-language films in the European film market. With the future development of China, Chinese-language films
The influence will also become greater and greater, and the Cannes Film Festival naturally hopes that such development will bring them greater influence.
But then when Yves Montand awarded the Palme d'Or to the film "Under the Sun of Satan", the audience booed, making Gilles Jacob and others look dissatisfied...
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The low score actually won the Palme d'Or...
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The 40th Cannes Film Festival is destined to become a highly controversial awards ceremony.
The first Chinese director to win Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival and the lowest score in the program, he won the Palme d'Or.
After the award ceremony, Gil Jacobs' face was obviously not very good-looking, but when facing Wu Jianye, he still showed his smile.
There is no doubt about the excellence of "The Last Emperor". Wu Jianye's award will not only bring a lot of buzz to the Cannes Film Festival, but his award will not cause much discussion.
In fact, this film festival has been a competition between "The Last Emperor" and "Under the Berlin Sky" from the beginning. According to Gil Jacobs, the best result is that Wu Jianye won the best director for "The Last Emperor", and "The Last Emperor" won the best director.
Under the Berlin Sky won the Palme d'Or.
It's a pity that "Under the Berlin Sky" became the biggest failure at the Cannes Film Festival.
The biggest favorite for the Palme d'Or ended up empty-handed.
At the celebration party at the Cannes Film Festival.
"Director Wu, congratulations on winning the Best Director award!" Gil Jacobs congratulated with a smile on his face.
"Thank you also to the Cannes Film Festival for your recognition!" Wu Jianye maintained a humble attitude in front of Jill Jacobs.
Naturally, Martin Kamitz was also at the celebration banquet, "Director Wu, can we talk about the screening rights of "The Last Emperor" this time?"
Although Wu Jianye did not intend to sell the French screening rights of "The Last Emperor" to mk2, he could not directly refuse Martin Kamitz.
"I wonder how much Mr. Kamitz is prepared to bid?"
"100,000 US dollars! I believe this is already a very high offer!" Martin Kamitz laughed.
Wu Jianye clinked the wine glass with Martin Kamitz, and then said with a smile: "This price is indeed very fair, but we have a saying in China, which is called shopping around. Let's do this. After three days, we will definitely pay the card
A clear answer from Mr. Mitzi!”
"If Director Wu still has some thoughts on this quotation, we can adjust it again!" Martin Kamitz said seriously.
With Wu Jianye winning the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival, Wu Jianye's fame is bound to create a whirlwind in Europe. By then, the movie "The Last Emperor" will definitely rise.
However, Wu Jianye had no choice but to apologize again for Martin Kamitz's enthusiasm. However, he did not directly veto Martin Kamitz's request. He only said that he would seriously consider Martin Kamitz's suggestions.
Soon the news that Wu Jianye won the award at Cannes spread to the country. Naturally, this was deliberately spread by Tangting Culture, and then all the major official newspapers in the country began to spread the news.
Some local newspapers have even called Wu Jianye the most famous director in the country.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with them saying this. If we just talk about the international influence among Chinese directors at this time, Wu Jianye is indeed worthy of it.
He has won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival. Such honors are indeed much higher than those of domestic directors. But if we only talk about China, Wu Jianye can only say that he has already won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.
He has reached the top ranks, but compared with those veteran directors who are inextricably connected with domestic high-level officials, he is still a little behind.
But if we talk about the fifth generation of directors, Wu Jianye has become the leader of the fifth generation of directors.
No one is raising any objections to this. Even Chen Kaige, who was so amazing in his first movie, still couldn't get enough of it in front of Wu Jianye.
In fact, the path Wu Jianye is taking internationally is not much different from that of the original fifth-generation directors.
The Nantes Three Continents Film Festival is of great significance to fifth and sixth generation directors.
In the previous life, Zhang Yuan, the original leader of the sixth generation, was forced to join Nantes and followed the old path of the fifth generation, and only then began to become famous.
You know, before, the movie "Mother" only sold a total of 3 copies in the mainland, and one of them was bought by the Film Archive.
It's really shabby... At least Sunglasses King's movies have good aesthetics. These sixth generation...
Zhang Yuan's success inspired a group of the sixth generation who were in a deadlock, and this led to the creative enthusiasm of Wang Xiaoshuai, Lu Xuechang, Lou Ye, Wang Chao and others. At the same time... the film bureau and these 'rebels'
The war began.
This led to the first famous "Seven Hypocrites Incident". A song "Liangliang" was given to them.
They were suppressed by the 'officials', but it made the Western world happy to see them... The identity of this group of people in international films has changed from simple 'underground films' to becoming 'dissidents' in the Chinese film industry. On the contrary,
Beginning to become famous internationally...
In this matter, menopause, which is generally quite stubborn, collides with the dissident’s secondary syndrome!
As for the fifth generation, at least they still have some character in the early stages. Whether it is Lao Mouzi or Chen Kaige, although their films focus on disadvantaged groups, they are not blindly kitsch.
The sixth generation...don't mention it.
Nowadays, Wu Jianye has become famous at the Cannes Film Festival. As long as he attends more Cannes Film Festivals in the future, just like Hou Hsiao-lei, who comes to Cannes even if his films are not shortlisted, he will be regarded as a direct descendant by the Cannes Film Festival.
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Then Wu Jianye can use this to develop his own strength at the Cannes Film Festival, just like the King of Sunglasses. However, this kind of thing must happen slowly and cannot be rushed.
For ordinary moviegoers, the end of the Cannes Film Festival's closing ceremony means the end of the Cannes Film Festival, but for thousands of film producers, the real Cannes Film Festival has truly begun.
Matthew Murphy was also feeling pain and happiness at this time.
As Phantom Entertainment, the nominal investor in "The Last Emperor", Matthew Murphy was naturally surrounded by a lot of people at this time, but unfortunately...
Matthew Murphy knew that he was involved in this matter. He had no say at all. All quotations had to be handed over to Wu Jianye for decision-making!