Huayu: Director started with art films

"All right!"

Li Yishu patted her arm and said with a smile, "It's time for you to go on stage and receive your award."

Yu Feihong came back to his senses and heard the booing around him. His face turned red and he hurriedly headed towards the stage.

Jiang Qinqin pouted and said with a wronged look on her face: "She, Sister Feihong, how could she kiss you."

Li Yishu patted Jiang Qinqin's arm and said with a smile, "Alright, your sister Feihong is just happy. She won the Best Actress award, an international Best Actress award. If you won it, you would definitely be happier than her."

No matter how big the Locarno International Film Festival is, it is still an international A-level film festival. Yu Feihong won the Best Actress award, and she can be said to be a true international film queen!

After hearing this, Jiang Qinqin's depressed mood gradually dissipated, but until Yu Feihong walked off the stage with the trophy, she still stared at him with an unhappy look on her face.

Yu Feihong noticed her little mood, switched seats with Li Yishu, and coaxed her a few words with the trophy in hand. The little girl immediately smiled happily.

Next was the Best Actor award. As expected, the winner was not Wang Zhiwen, but an Italian actor.

This also made Wang Zhiwen sigh, but he quickly recovered.

As the awards ceremony came to an end, the Golden Leopard Award was soon presented.

The main creators of the crew, including Li Yishu, became nervous.

Even though she had already reached an agreement with the organizers of the film festival, Li Yishu was still a little worried that there might be twists and turns before the opening moment.

In addition to the jury president, Finnish director Walter Whiteman, Isabelle Adjani also took to the stage.

The two first chatted for a while about the grand occasion of this year's film festival, and then Whiteman took the initiative to hand the envelope to Adjani, allowing this French actress who is very famous in Europe to read out the winner of the Golden Leopard Award.

Anjani took the envelope and glanced at it. After seeing Li's name, she smiled and looked up. Finally, she saw Li Yishu in the audience and said with a smile, "The winner of the 48th... Golden Leopard Award is... "Fireworks in the Daytime". Congratulations to director Art Lee!"

"what!"

Jiang Qinqin jumped up excitedly. When she heard Li Yishu's English name, she asked excitedly, "Brother Yishu, did you win the prize?"

"Yes!"

Li Yishu smiled and stood up and hugged her. Just as he was about to let go, he saw Jiang Qinqin holding his head with both hands and kissing him directly and awkwardly.

With a loud noise, the surrounding foreign crews shouted and some even made strange noises.

Huang Lijia couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene: "What a romantic young man."

"Haha, Director Li is indeed very popular."

Wang Zhiwen looked at Li Yishu who walked onto the stage with a smile on his face. He didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Li Yishu.

If someone else had his talent and looks, he would definitely be very popular.

"Congratulations Lee."

On the stage, Whiteman and Ajani shook hands and hugged Li Yishu.

"Thank you!" Li Yishu thanked the two of them, then walked to the microphone with the trophy in hand.

Looking at the crowd, perhaps he had already prepared for the award, so he was not too excited at the moment: "I am very grateful to the Locarno International Film Festival for giving me this opportunity, and I thank the main creative team for their hard work..."

After expressing her gratitude, Lee Yi-su finally said the words that the organizers of the Locarno International Film Festival had been waiting for for a long time: "Today, I finally won the last Golden Leopard Award from the four major European film festivals. I have collected all four major European gold awards and become the first director in the world to receive this honor!"

yes!

Og Booker clenched his fists excitedly, and the organizers who came to attend the closing ceremony also looked happy.

They agreed to Li Yishu's condition one after another, wasn't it just for this last sentence?
The filmmakers at the scene, including the film critics, were slightly stunned when they heard what Li Yishu said.

The term "four major film festivals" has been around for a long time, but with the decline of the Locarno International Film Festival in recent years, few people talk about the four major film festivals anymore. They are all the three major European ones, namely Cannes, Berlin and Venice.

But now, Li Yishu not only shouted the slogan of the four major film festivals, but also threatened to collect the last Golden Leopard Award, collecting the gold awards of the four major European film festivals, and becoming the first director in the world to receive this honor...

In an instant, the scene was boiling.

Many filmmakers with good memories silently wondered whether Lee Yi-su was the first person to win the gold medals at the four major film festivals at the same time.

Many film critics are also calculating.

But for things like this, it is difficult to know without checking the information, so they calculated and found that it seemed that Li Yishu was the only person who received this honor.

Many foreign filmmakers and film critics looked at the high-spirited young man on the stage with complicated expressions.

When he was less than 30 years old, he won the gold medal at the four major European film festivals, becoming the first person in the history and destined to be recorded in the history of world film.

Zhang Xiaobo, who was waiting outside the venue, was the first to learn about Li Yishu's winning of the Golden Leopard Award. He breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to attend the evening party held by the film festival to interview Li Yishu.

He had already sent the exclusive interview from a few days ago back to China. This time, as it was an interview that won the Golden Leopard Award, it also needed to be sent back to China as soon as possible.

"Oh my god, Li is the only winner of the gold medals at the four major film festivals!"

Suddenly, the voice of a foreign reporter caught Zhang Xiaobo's attention, and he walked over to listen to the other person talking to someone else.

“What are the four major film festivals?”

“Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno.”

"When did Locarno become one of the top three and become one of the top four?"

"This saying has been around since the 50s and was very popular in the s and s. However, the development of the Locarno Film Festival has not been smooth in the past years, so gradually there is only the saying of the three major ones. But now it is different. China's Li won the Golden Leopard Award. He became the first director in the world to receive this honor!"

Lee Ye-seo became the first and only winner to win the gold medal at the four major film festivals?

And he is the only Chinese director!
Zhang Xiaobo clenched his right fist and, excitedly, quickly asked his foreign colleagues about the four major film festivals.

No matter what happens, you have to have a legitimate reason.

Nowadays, people in China only know the names of the three major European film festivals, but not the four major ones.

So if we want to let people in China know that there is a fourth largest film festival in Europe, there must be a history, rather than just making it up.

Around 9pm.

At a reception held at the Locarno Film Festival, Zhang Xiaobo and another reporter met with Li Yishu again and asked about the Big Four in Europe.

After confirming from Li Yishu that he was indeed the only director in the world to have won the gold medal at the four major film festivals, Zhang Xiaobo excitedly returned directly to the hotel and sent the information to the Xinhua News Agency's office in France through the hotel's fax machine.

After seeing these interview contents and materials, the Xinhua News Agency office immediately began to investigate the history of the four major European film festivals through various channels.

At the same time, we confirmed that no one had ever won the four gold awards at the same time, and then we sent the relevant data and interview content back to China.

Xinhua News Agency.

It was late at night in Europe, but nearly seven hours later in China, it was already early morning.

The two editors in charge of liaising with the French office were both surprised after seeing the information.

"Aren't there three major film festivals in Europe? How come there are four major ones?"

"Didn't I say it above? The Locarno Film Festival has only declined in recent years. It was one of the best film festivals in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. Now Lee Yi-su has won the Golden Leopard Award, becoming the first director in the world to win awards at all four major film festivals!"

"Before winning the three Golden Globes, Director Li became the Godfather of Asian Cinema. Doesn't this mean that Director Li has become the Godfather of Global Cinema?"

"How is that possible? At most, he is more famous. How can those foreigners admit it? Okay, forget about it. Hurry up and show the information to the editor-in-chief!"

After the two talked, they immediately ran to find the editor-in-chief with the faxed information.

When the editor-in-chief saw the information, he was delighted: "Is this about the four major European film festivals true?"

One person said: "It should be true, otherwise the office wouldn't have sent it back."

Hearing this, the editor-in-chief nodded. It is highly likely that the French Xinhua News Agency would not make up a story out of nothing. Since the four major European film festivals have a long history, even if no one has mentioned them in recent years, they are still worth reporting extensively.

With this thought in mind, the editor-in-chief said, "Make a few copies of the information and send them to other newspapers. Ask them to write the article and report it as soon as possible."

Nowadays, Xinhua News Agency is the only one that has the ability to set up news offices abroad, so whenever Xinhua News Agency obtains important international news, it will share it with major newspapers in the mainland.

After the materials were copied, the editor-in-chief took the faxed manuscript and ran directly to the News Bureau to report to his superiors.

Today, Li Yishu’s identity is no longer just an ordinary big director. It can be said that she is a business card of the mainland to the outside world. Especially after she became the "Godfather of Asian Film", the value of this business card is even higher.

Now that it has won the first honor that will be recorded in the history of global film, the country will naturally give it a big publicity.

In fact it is.

After the superiors confirmed again and again that Li Yishu was the only director to win the gold medal at the four major film festivals in the world, the news channel that evening reported the news for three minutes.

"According to Xinhua News Agency reporters' interviews on the front line, the 8th closing ceremony of the Locarno International Film Festival, the fourth largest film festival in Europe, was held on August 17. Our young director Lee Yi-su won the Golden Leopard Award, the highest award of the film festival, for his film Black Coal, Thin Ice, and became the first person in the world to win the gold medal at one of the four major film festivals..."

"Humph!"

Looking at Li Yishu's bright smile after winning the award on TV, Brother Chen Kai slammed the table with anger on his face.

He took "Yellow Earth" to the Locarno International Film Festival that year, but only won a Silver Leopard Award and the Catholic Humanitarian Award.

I thought the award I won was the only one in the country, but I didn't expect that Li Yishu not only signed up for this film festival, but also won the Golden Leopard Award.

There is nothing now.

Not only did it fail to win the Palme d'Or, but even the only Silver Leopard Award was surpassed by Lee Yi-su's Golden Leopard Award.

It also made this guy the world's first winner of the gold medal at the four major film festivals.

Brother Chen Kai was almost going crazy!
Ni Ping beside him sighed and said comfortingly, "Old Chen, there's no need to continue to fight with Director Li."

"I didn't fight with him!"

Brother Chen Kai clenched his fists: "One step slow, every step slow! No, I have to make another new movie and participate in the Cannes Film Festival next year!"

Originally, he wanted to take "The Emperor and the Assassin" to the Cannes Film Festival, but the Japanese were only concerned with the immediate small profits and had already started promoting it in Japan.

The Beijing Film Studio naturally would not go against the investors and also launched publicity.

It will be released in Japan at the end of September, and in China on National Day, October 9st.

Once it is released, according to the rules of the film festival, it will naturally not be able to participate.

Ni Ping asked curiously, "Do you have plans for a new film?"

"Well, I got it, let's take this shot!"

Brother Chen Kai picked up a book. Ni Ping leaned over to take a look and saw the words "Flower Shadow" written on it.

“You want to film this?”

Ni Ping has read this book. The heroine fought against the dark feudal ethics at the cost of her youth, passion and life.

It would be nice if it were made into an art film.

"Yes, ever since I saw the book written by Lao Ye, I have had the idea of ​​adapting it." Brother Chen Kai nodded and said excitedly: "Do you know the white-collar gangs in Shanghai in the past?"

Ni Ping is a CCTV host, so she is naturally well-informed. When she heard the name, she asked, "Snowflake Fan Party?"

"Yes, my idea is that the male protagonist is a member of the blackmail gang. He is suave and good at blackmailing women. He is in love with the female protagonist..."

Brother Chen Kai talked incessantly about his thoughts. Ni Ping couldn't judge whether this story was good or not, but seeing that he was talking with great interest, she didn't say anything. As long as she didn't continue to be angry with him, it would be fine.

On the other hand, Hong Kong's Asia Television naturally reported Li Yishu's award extensively.

The boss won an award and was awarded the only grand slam of Europe's four major gold medals. As employees, shouldn't we flatter him?
"Director Li won another award!"

In a villa halfway up the mountain, Xu Lu was watching the news on TV and couldn't help but sigh that Li Yishu is getting better every year.

"is it?"

Tang Sheng strode over and saw the photo of Li Yishu holding up the trophy on TV. He smiled and said, "Director Li is really amazing. He is the only winner of the gold medal at the four major film festivals. He deserves the title of Godfather of Asian Cinema!"

Xu Su couldn't help but ask, "Husband, do you think I should invest in making movies again?"

Since working with Li Yishu on "Sword Rain", Tang Chen Pictures has hardly participated in production in the past few years. Instead, it went to Shanghai to be responsible for Tang Chen Group's real estate projects in Shanghai.

Although he made a lot of money in the past two years, Xu Lu's heart for movies was not completely dead. Seeing that Li Yishu won another award in Europe, he planned to invest in another movie.

"Okay." Tang Sheng smiled and said, "The company in Shanghai has been getting back on track recently, and we won't be so busy in the future. I think you might as well work with Director Li on another movie?"

"I'm afraid Director Li doesn't have time."

Xu Lu shook her head. She knew that Li Yishu was filming "Red Cliff" and the release date would be mid-next year.

Tang Sheng smiled and said, "If Director Li is not suitable, then we can go with other directors, such as Zhang Yimou, Xu Ke and others. By the way, didn't you always admire Brother Chen Kai? You can work with him."

"Him? Forget it." Xu Suo knew that Li Yishu and Chen Kai didn't get along, so how could he go to him to collaborate on a movie? (End of this chapter)