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Chapter 333: The first in the program rating, the hottest must die (asking for monthly votes)
"Oh, I haven't congratulated you on becoming one of the more than 3,000 Oscar judges yet."

"Zhang Chen."

Zhang Ziyi couldn't hold back when she saw that Zhang Chen's words were more sarcastic than congratulatory. She wanted to explain but was interrupted by Zhang Chen: "I have something else to do. You... go away."

It's really that this guy is too greedy for profit. It's hard to get rid of him once he's stuck with him. It's better to just make it clear.

Zhang Ziyi also looked at Zhang Chen's back in surprise.

She also didn't expect that the boss of a group company and the most famous star in the world would say such indecent words.

But she had no choice.

In fact, after Zhang Chen reached a strategic cooperation agreement with those film and television companies, she knew that she was finished.

She originally planned to break into Hollywood, even if it meant abandoning the small domestic market.

But as soon as she broke in, she found that everyone in Oscar had become Zhang Chen's partners.

The word regretful is not enough to describe Zhang Ziyi's mood at that time.

Today, she wanted to take advantage of the opening of the Cannes Film Festival and her status as an invited award presenter to have a few words with Zhang Chen to explain things.

Originally, she was thinking of staying in the same hotel with Zhang Chen to see if there was a chance to meet in private to explain. In this way, she could beg for Zhang Chen's forgiveness in a more humble way.

But she was told that the largest hotel that was originally popular among visitors to the Cannes Film Festival had been booked by Zhang Chen and was not selling rooms to the public.

So she could only come up quickly and say a few words during the opening ceremony.

After all, no one knows whether Zhang Chen’s movie will win an award. If it doesn’t win, Zhang Chen may not attend the closing ceremony, so the opening ceremony is her only chance to see Zhang Chen.

As a result, this only opportunity ended so hastily.

Zhang Ziyi stood there in a daze.

She felt like the sky had fallen.

On the other hand, after Zhang Chen got rid of the trouble with Zhang Ziyi, he soon met the other two Chinese crews.

Hou Xiaoxian's "The Best Time", starring Shu Qi and Zhang Zhen.

Johnnie To's "Election" stars Simon Yam, Leung Ka Fai, Koo Tien Lok, Cheung Ka Fai and others.

"Boss Zhang."

Johnnie To led the actors from his crew and greeted Zhang Chen indifferently.

Zhang Chen ignored this person and looked past him at the people behind him: "Mr. Ren, Mr. Liang, and Gu Zai."

Others including Zhang Jiahui were also directly ignored by Zhang Chen.

The three people who were called just nodded awkwardly, not daring to show any excessive enthusiasm.

In response, Zhang Chen just smiled indifferently.

Hong Kong Island has been oppressed by some people for some time.

However, he himself cannot deny that there are still many artists with both good character and artistic ethics.

Now that Chenguang Entertainment is starting to build its own film industry, it is time to loosen up these people.

But he was not in a hurry. He believed that his actions just now would be carefully interpreted by these people after they returned. There would always be Hong Kong artists who wanted to develop in the mainland market and would take the initiative to join him.

"Boss Zhang!"

Shu Qi struggled for a while about how to address Zhang Chen, and finally used the most popular name for Zhang Chen on the Internet recently, hoping to get closer to him.

"Yeah." Zhang Chen smiled and nodded.

Because of the existence of his number one henchman, Hu Shubao, Zhang Chen would not deliberately give Shu Qi a hard time.

But it’s better to leave this guy to Feng Kuazi and just stay away from him.

"Should I call you Director Zhang now?"

After Hou Xiaoxian saw Zhang Chen and Shu Qi simply greet each other, he also started chatting with Zhang Chen with a smile on his face.

Zhang Chen didn't have any particular impression of this person.

However, it would be good to chat more with the "film master" rumored by the outside world before the opening ceremony officially begins.

Time passed quickly. When the opening ceremony host walked onto the stage, Zhang Chen also led the members of his crew to the guest seat in the middle.

Gao Yuanyuan left the "Qinghong" crew directly and ran to the "Love" crew, holding Liu Yifei's hand and sitting aside.

Zhang Chen let her do whatever she wanted and did not interfere with Liu Yifei's friendships.

"Welcome everyone to the 58th Cannes Film Festival"

Openings are always boring.

Cannes is not like the Oscars and other awards. Its main function is still a "film festival". The opening ceremony is just a beginning. The continuous film premieres and the final closing awards and copyright transactions are the highlights.

"Today, our film industry is very lucky to have a talent like Zhang Chen join us. I hope he can achieve the same remarkable success in film production as he has in music production."

Gilles Jacob, the president of the Cannes Film Festival, is also a film festival president who is relatively friendly towards Chinese directors.

This time, Zhang Chen, a complete newcomer in the film industry, was specially mentioned in the opening speech, and Zhang Chen's achievements in the music industry were used to predict his achievements in the film industry.

In response, Zhang Chen smiled and nodded to express his gratitude to everyone on the stage under the friendly gaze of everyone.

Then, just like the usual opening ceremonies, a shortlisted film was played as the ending.

The movie was still "Lemmings", and it was exactly the same as Zhang Chen remembered.

So the opening ceremony attracted worldwide attention and ended quickly amidst the tense atmosphere of all participating film production teams.

May 5, still at the Palais des Festivals, Lumiere Hall.

The difference is that today is no longer an opening ceremony, but the world premiere of "Love".

It is the most profitable and most watched film in the entire film festival.

The premiere of "Love" attracted much attention after it was shortlisted, and Cannes also gave Zhang Chen a double-decker exhibition hall in the Film Palace that can accommodate up to 2000 people.

"Brother, I'm a little nervous."

Liu Yifei stood close to Zhang Chen, watching the people coming and going in the theater, holding Zhang Chen's hand tightly without letting go.

"You're not the lead actor in the movie, why are you so nervous?"

"I am nervous even though I am not the lead actor. Aren't you nervous as the director?"

"not nervous."

Zhang Chen shook his head calmly and shook hands with the guests who came in to express his gratitude.

In his opinion, it was just a movie that cost tens of millions of RMB.

"You are so old-fashioned, just like an old man, boring!"

Zhang Chen looked at his arm that was pinched by Liu Yifei and smiled helplessly.

To be honest, there are things that make him nervous.

"Let's go, almost everyone is here."

Zhang Chen let go of the little girl's hand and walked towards the stage.

As a director, he also has to go on stage and say a few words.

Liu Yifei had no choice. After Zhang Chen, the safe haven, left, the second safe haven - Liu Xiaoli, who was also one of the main creators of the film, just touched her cheek and walked to the stage.

Finally, Liu Yifei looked around and could only walk back to her seat.

"Sissi, here, here!"

Fortunately, the seat next to her was filled with people she was familiar with.

"Why are you all here?"

Liu Yifei looked at the group of Morning Light artists surrounding her with a look of surprise.

Fan Bingbing, Li Bingbing, Shu Chang and others were brought by Zhang Chen on another plane when he came here, saying that it was to give them more exposure.

Gao Yuanyuan is also easy to deal with, as she has her own movie participating in the exhibition.

Zhang Yi, Luo Jin, and Wang Baoqiang, although a little new, are at least actors, so it is understandable that they came to attend the premiere of their boss's movie.

But who can tell her what singers like Yao Beina, JJ Lin, Jane Zhang, and Shaohan Zhang are doing here?
Zhang Chen on the stage looked in Liu Yifei's direction and nodded with satisfaction, and his worries were basically put to rest.

The empty seats next to the little girl were reserved for himself and the main creative staff.

The film festival is crowded with people, and you can enter as long as you apply for movie tickets through official channels.

It was impossible for Zhang Chen to arrange all 2000 movie tickets for his own people.

In this situation, who knows who will sneak in.

Ever since his trip to the Oscars, some black guys have been quite repulsive to him.

This is Gaul, and there are quite a few black men.

It would be inappropriate for him to arrange a large circle of bodyguards to sit around him in such an occasion.

So he had no choice but to let the artists from the Morning Light Group surround his seat.

The three layers of human walls here can also allow him to escape in time when faced with emergencies.

Cherishing life is a mentality that should be maintained at all times.

Zhang Chen looked at his arrangements, nodded in satisfaction again, and then focused his attention on the movie premiere.

"Leon, I think everyone is curious, what made you stop pursuing a career in music and start making movies instead?"

After everyone was seated, the host asked a question that everyone was concerned about.

"First of all, I have to correct that I have not given up music." Zhang Chen answered while sitting in the assigned seat. "As for why I made a movie, it is because I think writing a story into a song and making it into a movie are two different ways of expressing it, and I want to try both."

"Which one is more difficult for you?" "Movies, after all, I've only just started."

In fact, even though the tracks are different, movies are much more difficult than pop music.

You can tell just from the length of time.

There is a huge difference in the content that can be included in a work of about 5 minutes and a work of one or two hours.

"When you first set foot in a field you are not good at, do you feel helpless?"

"Well." Zhang Chen thought about it, and suddenly saw Emir Kusturica and the jury members coming to the scene, and he announced directly, "The answer is in the movie."

The host was also stunned for a while.

But he also reacted and asked the staff to move all the chairs off the stage.

"You are such a loser!"

As soon as Zhang Chen sat down in the audience, he heard Liu Yifei's complaints beside him.

"how?"

"What is this chat about? It's meaningless!"

Zhang Chen rolled his eyes. What else could he do? The movie hadn't even started yet, so of course there was no topic to talk about.

"Go watch a movie!"

Zhang Chen stuffed a handful of popcorn into Liu Yifei's mouth, blocking her little mouth that still wanted to continue playing.

The little girl chewed the popcorn quickly, trying to complain after swallowing it.

However, when she saw the big screen light up, her eyes were attracted to the movie.

This is her first time watching a movie directed by Zhang Chen, so she has to find faults!
The film opens with two old men listening to a piano concert.

The performer is the heroine's student.

The concert was a great success. The heroine looked at her favorite student with eyes full of joy and happiness, and she looked radiant.

The male lead said she was "very beautiful tonight".

The two old people returned home after watching the concert, and the male protagonist was very considerate and helped the female protagonist take off her coat and hang it on the hanger.

The film does not explain the identity of the male protagonist, but from the layout of the house, the bookshelves in the study, and the newspapers and magazines scattered everywhere, it can be seen that the male protagonist is also an intellectual.

Both old people like reading and have common hobbies and topics.

At the dinner table, the male protagonist shared what he had read, and the female protagonist listened attentively.

The male protagonist is gentle and elegant, and the female protagonist is quiet and elegant.

If we use an old Chinese saying to describe it, it would be - treat each other with respect and dignity.

dull.

Very bland.

This is the feeling of all moviegoers.

Warm.

Very warm.

This is also the old age life that many couples who come here yearn for.

Just when everyone thought the story would be so straightforward and lead to a perfect ending.

One day at breakfast, the two were chatting as usual, when the heroine suddenly froze without any warning.

She sat in the chair without reacting.

It took her a while to recover, and she was unaware of her previous daze.

But the male protagonist, who had been with her for decades, noticed something was wrong.

The male protagonist clumsily searched for a hospital through the Internet, and the diagnosis result was carotid artery obstruction.

On the doctor's advice, the heroine underwent surgery.

The heroine's surgery finally ended with the doctor asking the hero to "pay" the surgery fee again and again.

The operation went smoothly but was not successful. After leaving the hospital, the heroine suffered from hemiplegia and could only sit in a wheelchair.

The plot takes a sharp turn for the worse after the movie.

She used to live an elegant life, but now she can only eat, go to the toilet and take a bath with the help of a caregiver every day.

She found it difficult to accept the need to expose her body naked in front of outsiders and to deal with the caregivers' perfunctory care.

However, hemiplegia also made it impossible for her to express her discomfort through words, and she could only allow herself to be "abused" by the caregivers.

She had lived a respectable life all her life.

I didn't expect that I would have to live like this now.

She started to become irritable, picky and unreasonable, but the hero still patiently took care of everything for his wife.

She began to try to commit suicide by jumping off a building.

But she was unable to even commit suicide due to her limited mobility.

Finally, her condition became so serious that she had no choice but to end her life by fasting.

The male lead offered her water, but she refused.

The male protagonist chewed up the rice and fed it to her, but she refused.

Finally, the male protagonist said in despair: My patience is almost gone, you will die if you don’t get into the water!
She seemed to understand and clenched her teeth, and the male protagonist slapped her angrily.

After this slap, the male protagonist was very sad.

Just then, he saw the pillow next to the heroine.

He grabbed the pillow, covered his wife's head tightly, and pressed his body heavily on the pillow.

When his wife died, he seemed calm and composed.

He went out and bought a bouquet of flowers, cut the flowers one by one, then closed the doors and windows of his house, sealed them tightly with tape, and then lay quietly on the bed, as if waiting for something.

After an unknown amount of time, Ling Ju brought people to pry open the door.

The heroine was wearing a plain dress, had a beautiful face and neatly-styled hair. She was lying peacefully on the bed, with flowers scattered around her pillow.

Next to her was her husband, also wearing a plain suit, looking just as respectable and peaceful.

The film has no music or rendering from beginning to end, only dialogues between characters, showing the lives of ordinary people in an ordinary way.

Real life has no musical accompaniment.

But every story, every expression of the actor, and every word are like playing different music.

There is excitement, tranquility, relaxation, and sadness
After watching the movie, all the audience in the theater fell into a long silence.

They are all thinking about a question.

If I were her/him, what would I do?
Live a miserable life or leave gracefully?

Should I let my wife live with me in pain, or should I fulfill her wish and let her leave gracefully?

The audience couldn't figure it out.

However, this did not prevent them from giving heartfelt applause to the person who gave them this "difficult problem" after watching the movie.

Bang bang bang bang
Everyone stood up and gave continuous, resounding applause to director Zhang Chen and several actors who stood up and kept thanking everyone.

It was 20 minutes later that the applause finally stopped.

Zhang Chen also returned to the stage with the main creators.

“Didn’t you just ask me if I would be helpless in areas that I am not good at?” Zhang Chen glanced at the audience and the judges in the last row.

"Every story, every expression, every mood, every conversation, and every ending in life are our accompaniment." Zhang Chen smiled slightly, "Do you feel the songs I wrote for you based on the plots of life, love, life and death?"

【Marriage is a kind of companionship, and fulfillment is the bottom line and the ultimate state. There are many kinds of stable marriages. Loving and understanding each other is not rare, and may not even be important. The most rare thing is fulfillment. This is what the movie "Love" wants to tell us】

[Love can be called a love elegy. The perfect performances of the actors make the film not seem that sad, but Zhang Chen still uses real aging, illness and death to make the ultimate consideration and test of love.]

At the premiere of "Love", it received unanimous praise from the media for its cold but true expression, and the program score reached 3.4 points, ranking first temporarily.

"Brother, first place!"

After returning to the hotel, Liu Yifei immediately read the media's comments on "Love". When she saw that Zhang Chen's movie won first place in the program book, she excitedly jumped on Zhang Chen and hugged his neck and refused to get down.

“I would have liked the rating to be lower.”

Zhang Chen held Liu Yifei's increasingly round breasts and muttered something.

"Ah?" Liu Yifei leaned back and put her face in front of Zhang Chen, "Why?"

Zhang Chen sighed and did not explain what the "hottest must die" principle meant.

The juries of the three major European film festivals are also known for not playing by the rules, especially Cannes.

It is very difficult to predict the Palme d'Or through the media.

However, Zhang Chen was well prepared for this situation.

"Xiao Xue, let the media promote other movies."

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