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Chapter 685 [111] The Golden Rooster’s Unexpected Incident!
"The winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Film at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival is——"

Chen Yu stood on the podium, looking handsome and stylish in a suit and tie, and he presented the final Golden Lion Award.

He opened the winning envelope and immediately looked in the direction where Jia Zhangke was sitting. In fact, everyone already knew the result, because until now, the last remaining crew was the one that got nothing for "Still Life".

This is obviously abnormal. If the film company were to stay until the closing ceremony, they would at least get one award.

"The Good Man of Three Gorges, Jia Zhangke!"

Chen Yu said in English: "Congratulations to Director Jia and the crew of "Still Life"!"

Then he said it again in Chinese.

"Yes!"

Jia Zhangke jumped out of his seat excitedly.

The female lead sitting next to him, his future wife Zhao Tao, had tears in her eyes as she looked at Jia's current wife. Producer Zhu Jiong excitedly hugged Jia Zhangke tightly.

This time, in fact, Director Jia has two films shortlisted for Venice.

A documentary, "East", won the Open Award and Best Documentary Award of the Horizon Unit.

And now, it’s the Golden Lion Award!

This time, Chief Jia definitely reaped a great harvest.

"Thank you, Brother Yu!"

"Thank you!"

Jia Zhangke snatched the dazzling Golden Lion Award from Chen Yu's hand. The two hugged each other tightly, and Jia Zhangke whispered in Chen Yu's ear.

"Deserved!"

Chen Yu stepped back, clapped and smiled, then handed the stage to the other party.

“Thank you, Chairman of the Jury, and thank you to everyone on the Jury, especially my fellow countryman!”

"I am very grateful to the film festival for giving this film a chance. I would like to thank my photographer and producer Zhou Qiang who I have worked with for ten years. I would also like to thank everyone who has always supported me in making films. Thank you!"

“Winning the award is a recognition of my ten years of hard work!”

"Because my movie tells a story about a huge change in China. My movie shows a change in the entire China. The movie talks about the changes in the lives of Chinese people during this period. It is very real!"

“Finally, I want to say that being a filmmaker is a way for me to find freedom!”

"Thank you!"

With this brief acceptance speech, Jia Zhangke, who had been nominated three times, finally realized his dream in Venice.

"Next year, it's up to us!"

After Chen Yu stepped down from the stage, he reunited with Liu Yifei. Chen Yu had already told Mark Muller that "Better Days" would be participating in the Venice Film Festival next year.

Lao Ma is obviously very curious and looking forward to Chen Yu's directorial debut.

The stage was handed over to many award-winning directors and actors. Chen Yu and Liu Yifei held hands and attended the closing dinner in Venice.

He can't leave tomorrow because according to the rules, the winner of the Golden Lion Award will host a banquet for the jury.

Considering the nationalities of Jia Zhangke and Chen Yu, Chen Yu must participate.

And this time, in addition to Jia Zhangke, "Court on Horseback" directed by the famous Chinese director Liu Jie won the best award in the Horizon unit, and this award is also of good value.

There was also a Zhang Yuan, who won a consolation prize.

As for Cai Mingliang and Johnnie To, who were shortlisted for the main competition, they were only nominated.

This time, Chen Yu also experienced the voting of the Venice jury. As a judge, he really could not interfere with the final award; of course, his suggestions, including those of the jury chairman, were adopted and respected.

However, Chen Yu did not do anything too out of line. "The Good Man of Three Gorges" was the result of a unanimous decision made by several judges.

And for a film like "Exiled" by Johnnie To, it is indeed far inferior to Alain Resnais in terms of Best Director; Johnnie To only ranked seventh in the Best Director voting... If it was second, Chen Yu might have been able to fight for it.

But with only the seventh place, it is true that he could not have gotten first place with more help from the judges.

The jury consists of 7 people, including the chairman. Generally speaking, half of them are insiders in each Venice Awards.

This is for the sake of relative fairness in the voting, that is, these 3-4 people will follow the advice of Mark Mueller, who are the chairman and organizer.

"cheers!"

"Congratulations!"

Chen Yu clinked glasses with the Venice award winners one by one. Mark Mueller was also sitting at the table and said to everyone, "We can look forward to Director Chen Yu's debut next year!"

"Really? Chan, your new film will be participating in Venice?"

Jury President Catherine Deneuve looked at Chen Yu with a smile. Chen Yu shrugged and said, "I just had this idea, but whether it can be shortlisted depends on the quality of the film!"

"Ohhh, then we really can look forward to it!"

"Oh my god, acting can no longer satisfy you, are you going to start directing movies?"

One of the judges was making a joke and everyone at the table started laughing.

The celebratory dinner lasted until late at night, and Chen Yu returned to the hotel with the help of Liu Yifei.

The next day, Chen Yu indeed received a call from Jia Zhangke.

This time it was a celebratory reception. Apart from the jury and the organizers, most of the guests were Chinese faces, including several media outlets from Sina and Tencent, all of whom Chen Yu knew.

Several media outlets also conducted an exclusive interview with Jia Zhangke. It was not until September 9 that Chen Yu and Liu Yifei returned to their long-lost homeland.

It took about 20 days in total.

And I can't get back to work right away. Obviously I need to rest for a few days and get back into shape.

Liu Yifei, in particular, could not get into the role so quickly and also had to adjust to the jet lag.

Just as the two men were lying dead in the hotel in the mountain city, Chen Yu's phone rang. It was Yang Lu calling.

"what happened?"

Yang Lu knew that Chen Yu went to Venice. He is currently in charge of Yuxin Pictures, and Chen Yu is very confident in him.

"Sorry, brother Yu, it's an emergency!"

"Say!"

Chen Yu walked to the suite outside the door and opened the window.

"Isn't it true that the application for this year's Golden Rooster is about to close?"

"The organizer just called me and said that our company has submitted too many films and can only submit two at a time!"

"How many do we have?"

He is very familiar with the movies invested by Chen Yu.

“Six!”

"Aroma Journey", "Tokyo Trial", "Crazy Stone", "Tengu", "Departure Director", and "The Expedition"!
“Isn’t that against the rules?”

Chen Yu remembered that there seemed to be no restrictions on the film industry for the Golden Rooster Award application, right?
"I don't know, that's what the organizer told me!"

Except for "Departures" and "Extraction", all of these six films have been released.

"Aroma Journey" also won several awards at the Cairo Film Festival, and its box office was average, at over 500 million.

"Tokyo Trial" and "Crazy Stone" both performed very well at the box office. The former is currently in theaters and has taken in more than 3000 million yuan at the box office, and is expected to eventually exceed million yuan.

The latter was the biggest dark horse this summer besides several Hollywood blockbusters by Chen Yu, with a total box office of 1.1 million yuan. Ning Hao also became the first Chinese director to have a debut work grossing over million yuan, and he was in the limelight.

The reason why the box office of the two movies is so much higher than in the previous life is of course because the domestic film market became active earlier than in the previous life because of Chen Yu. In addition, the distributor behind them is Bona and the producer is Yu Xin, who are many times stronger than in the previous life.

"Tengu" is also a good movie released during the summer vacation, with a box office of 2150 million, which is a pretty good result.

Currently, Yu Xin Pictures is also a golden signboard for movie watching besides Chen Yu. Many fans of Chen Yu will buy tickets to enter. This has almost become a synonym for "Yu Xin is famous, and the products must be high-quality"!
In fact, among the movies produced by Yuxin Pictures, even if Chen Yu is not the lead actor, there is not a single bad movie and they do have a very good reputation.

This is entirely the result of Chen Yu's own selection of films.

Yang Lu was really convinced of this. But now, with six excellent works competing for the Golden Rooster Award at the same time, the Golden Rooster organizers must suppress it, otherwise it will become Yu Xin's one-man show.

After a little thought, Chen Yu understood why the Golden Rooster Awards only allowed Yu Xin to participate in two films.

Being petty does make sense.

"Tell the Golden Rooster Awards that if all of my films are not allowed to be nominated this year, then I won't submit them for the Golden Rooster Awards in the future!"

"Also, find some media to report this incident and put some pressure on the Golden Rooster Party!"

"If you still insist, then I won't run for election in the future..."

The Golden Rooster Award is really dispensable for Chen Yu at the moment; but for other directors and actors, it is a significant resume improvement.

Especially like this time's wins for "Tengu" and "Tokyo Trial", it seems that they did win several major awards.

Fu Dalong, the leading male actor of "Tengu", became famous by winning the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor. If he is excluded from the Golden Rooster Award because of Yu Xin, it will be a loss for both the actor and the director.

So Chen Yu could only choose not to participate himself, but he certainly could not stop other directors’ works.

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"Ok!"

"But if your work doesn't participate, then 4 films would actually be over the limit!"

"Then you call the directors and get their opinions. If they want to go to the Golden Horse Awards, I'll think of a way for them..."

Chen Yu didn't want to go to the other side of the strait, but among the three major Chinese-language awards, the Golden Horse Awards do have the highest gold content.

"Okay, then I'll contact them and ask!"

"Brother Yu, you...really don't plan to play with the Golden Rooster anymore?"

Yang Lu couldn't tell Chen Yu's tone. He felt that the other party should be very angry, but from the sound of his voice... he couldn't tell.

"It's not that I don't want to play with them, it's just what do they want to do?"

"Just let it spread first, I won't run for election is my last move!"

But Chen Yu really didn't take it to heart. He didn't have to go to the Golden Rooster Awards, and there was no loss. His status and awards were there, so it didn't matter to him whether he went or not.

On the contrary, it is the biggest loss for Golden Rooster.

This means money-making ability, investment advertising... a lot of related things.

There is also the issue of credibility.

For example, if "Better Days" wins an international award next year, it will not even be nominated for the Golden Rooster Awards. This is definitely not a good thing for the Golden Rooster Awards.

What’s more, the event was held in Chen Yu’s hometown, Sucheng, which was even more embarrassing.

Netizens may understand that "Departures" was not selected this year. After all, it is a film co-produced by China and Japan, and the Golden Rooster has its own insistence, which is understandable.

But "Better Days", Chen Yu's debut film, Yu Xin is fully invested in it.

The Golden Rooster Award had to endure the first round of attacks from Chen Yu’s fans and moviegoers, and then the abuse and condemnation from the entire network.

Chen Yu is on good ground anyway, it's not his problem.

It's completely Jinji's own posturing.

So Chen Yu didn’t have any worries at all, because this matter had no impact on him, but for Jinji... it had a different meaning.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Yu thought about it and finally decided to find someone to ask.

Chang Li.

"You kid, you said you'd come to school to see me or something, I haven't seen you for the whole summer?"

As soon as Chang Li answered the phone, she started complaining for a long time.

"I'm sorry, Teacher Chang. I won't make any excuses. I will come to school and take a few days of classes after the filming of this play is finished!"

"Tell me, what do you want from me?"

Chang Li is a very smart person. As soon as she saw Chen Yu’s call, she knew that this guy would not come to her for no reason.

"..."

Chen Yu was so embarrassed!
He really had nothing to do and would not call Chang Li. At most he would send her a message to express his condolences.

However, Chang Li should know about his recent situation, such as directing a movie, serving as a judge at the Venice Film Festival, etc. The good news has been sent to the Central Academy of Drama.

"It's like this, Mr. Chang. My company said there were too many films to choose from for this year's Golden Rooster Awards, so we can only pick two!"

"So I want you to ask someone, what's going on?"

"Too many films?"

It was the first time Chang Li heard of being warned because of having too many movies.

"How many?"

“Six!”

"That's not bad. The Golden Rooster Awards select hundreds of films a year. Six is ​​not a lot!"

Chang Li obviously couldn't figure it out either.

"Yeah, that's why I'm wondering, shouldn't the more films you choose the better?"

"Maybe your movies are too famous, and you're afraid the judges will choose all your company's movies. It would be embarrassing to be nominated like this!"

All of them are Yu Xin’s movies. How do you expect other film and television companies in the industry to view them?

Jinji obviously also has concerns in this regard.

After all, there are many films selected every year, but there are actually only a few, at most a dozen, shortlisted for major awards.

"Think about it, there are more than a dozen films nominated, and your company accounts for nearly half of them. The Golden Rooster Awards are obviously under pressure!"

"Compared to offending you, they are more afraid of being accused of being bribed by Yu Xin!"

Chen Yu: "..."

"Let me help you call and ask!"

"If it really doesn't work, you can take it to the Golden Horse Awards, why not?"

"They should be eager for you to send them a film!"

"I don't want to go!"

"Ha ha!"

Chang Li was quite amused. She felt that her student was indeed different from many others.

Others are eager to win the Golden Horse Awards and don't even care about the Golden Rooster Awards. But he is so different that he doesn't even bother to go to the Golden Horse Awards.

"I'll call you when I'm done asking questions!"

"Okay, thank you for your help, Teacher Chang!"

"Small thing!"

As Chang Li was speaking, Chen Yu heard a dead tone on the other end of the line.

"What the hell is this!"

"It's wrong to invest in a movie and participate in an award, nnd..."

Although Chen Yu cursed, he actually agreed with what Chang Li said in his heart.

The shortlist is full of films produced by Yuxin Films, so it is indeed easy for the Golden Rooster Awards to be criticized by the outside world.

But it is obviously not fair to other directors and actors that they cannot win the award.

Chen Yu may not win the award, but what about other actors and directors? !

(End of this chapter)