Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 196 Silver Lion
"Nine-Tailed Demon Fox" received an invitation from the organizing committee to stay and attend the closing ceremony.

It’s a pity that I didn’t receive any notification about Jia Zhangke’s “The World”.

Jia Zhangke had expected that "The World" would not be selected, but he was shocked to receive the notification for "Nine-Tailed Demon Fox". He couldn't help but wonder, is it really an experimental film?
Cao Yang understood. This was probably the surprise that Lao Ma had mentioned. It was just a technical award, but it was better than nothing.

There were so many people from the crew, and they were all very excited when they heard the news.

The key point is that they did not expect that a commercial film could win an award in Venice - if they received the invitation to stay, they must win an award.

"Director Cao, congratulations, we are going to win a prize!"

Huang Xiaoming was the first to react after President Han announced the news that he would stay, and he spoke to Cao Yang first.

"Congratulations, Director Cao, this is really not easy." Chen Kun continued with a smile.

"Congratulations, Director Cao." Duan Yihong, Zhou Yiwei and Wang Luodan also said after reacting.

After everyone finished speaking, Pang Bing said with a smile, "Congratulations, Director Cao. I know you can do it."

What you said seems to be a double entendre.

Li Xiaoran and Gao Yuanyuan looked at each other, and neither of them spoke first. They just looked at Cao Yang with a smile.

In the eyes of others, the two seemed to be full of confidence in Cao Yang, and it didn't matter whether they congratulated him or not.

Only Cao Yang knew that the two were still competing secretly, and neither of them was willing to speak first, lest they be outshined by the other.

Alas, why bother?

At night, Li Xiaoran and Gao Yuanyuan walked hand in hand tacitly, watching out for each other, and decided to stay in the same room.

Pang Bing also joked: "I really envy your sisterly love. Otherwise, you all come to my room at night, and I will sleep with two movie queens in my arms. How fulfilling it would be."

"Go away, why are you causing trouble?"

Fat Bing played with the two in their room for a while. Seeing that they were both sleepy, he yawned and said, "You should go to bed early. You still have to walk the red carpet tomorrow. You are both movie queens, and the European media will definitely want to interview you."

"I know, Bingbing, you are so nagging now."

"Good night, ladies."

Pang Bing walked out of the room and closed the door for the two of them. He even stood close to the door and listened for a while.

Then, he who had been yawning and feeling sleepy just now immediately became energetic.

He walked quickly to Cao Yang's door like a thief and knocked gently.

When Cao Yang opened the door, Pang Bing bent down and went in.

Two hours later, after washing up, Fat Bing put on his clothes, kissed Cao Yang, and said with a giggle, "Let me let you smell your own scent, haha."

After saying that, he waved his hand and Pang Bing left Cao Yang's room in a very casual manner.

To Cao Yang, Pang Bing is still very sensible.

She just complained to Cao Yang with a smile that she was being neglected in the company. Because she refused many of the company's special arrangements, she now had no chance of getting any of the company's better resources.

She also said that luckily Sister Hua, who was in charge of the agency, was a nice person and helped her get roles in several dramas.

Well, Cao Yang understood what he said. He was telling himself that he had taken what he said last time into account. It was good enough that he could take it into account.

Before becoming the president of the Venice Film Festival, Marco Mueller had a nickname, "Film Festival Architect", which came from the reform measures he implemented when he was the president of the Rotterdam and Luggaro Film Festivals.

Now that he has become the chairman of the Venice Film Festival, Ma will certainly carry out reforms in order to bring vitality to the Venice Film Festival, which has been controversial in the past two years.

The first step of his reform measures was to abandon the Deco Theater, which had served the film festival for decades, after three years.

In order to commemorate the contribution of this theater, 60 golden lion statues were erected in front of it during this film festival.

The 60 Golden Lions represent the 1932 highest awards given out by the Venice Film Festival since 60. The base of each Golden Lion is marked with the name and year of the director who has won the Golden Lion.

The second step is how to save the Venice Film Festival from a cold and deserted scene that is not in line with its reputation.

In fact, the approach is very simple, which is to learn from Cannes and embrace Hollywood.

Marco Muller spent a lot of energy on this point.

This year's Venice Film Festival is packed with Hollywood stars.

Tom Hanks, Spielberg, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Reese Witherspoon, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman…

These popular Hollywood stars all came with their movies, some to promote their movies, some entered various non-competitive units, and of course, some entered the main competition unit.

In comparison, it is not a big deal for Cao Yang's "Nine-Tailed Demon Fox" to enter the main competition unit.

On the 11th, the 61st Venice Film Festival entered its last day, and the awards ceremony will be held in the evening of that day.

Starting at five o'clock in the afternoon, many celebrities have walked on the red carpet of the closing ceremony.

However, compared to the opening ceremony with its explosive number of Hollywood stars, the closing ceremony seemed a bit overshadowed.

Walking the red carpet arm in arm, Berlin Film Festival winner Li Xiaoran and Cannes Film Festival winner Gao Yuanyuan are almost the biggest stars present based on their current achievements.

Lao Ma is worthy of being an Italian. Just like the slogan "Down with Hollywood" shouted by the Venice Film Festival, in the end, there was not a single Hollywood movie invited by the organizing committee.

At 6:30 in the evening, the award ceremony officially began.

The first award to be presented is the Best Newcomer Award, which is also called the Marcello Mastroianni Best Newcomer Award.

The winners of this award are Marco Luisi and Tommaso Lamenger from the Italian film "Slow Work".

Then, the award presenter came on stage and announced that the next award to be presented was the Best Technical Contribution Award.

The award presenter opened the envelope and took a look, then announced, "The winner of the Best Technical Contribution Award is Cao Yang's "Nine-Tailed Demon Fox"..."

Without waiting for the guests to applaud, he continued: "And Hayao Miyazaki, Howl's Moving Castle."

Damn, a technical award just to make up the numbers, but it's a double yolk egg.

Cao Yang smiled, clapped and complained at the same time.

The big screen began to play movie clips. The scene of "Nine-Tailed Demon Fox" was not the scene of thousands of troops charging, but the scene when Xiao Wei was still in the mountains and stole a painted skin from her grandmother.

Then, just like putting on clothes, a pure white fox with nine tails put on the painted skin and transformed itself into the charming Gao Yuanyuan.

(End of this chapter)