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Chapter 335: The changed ending, the award ceremony full of variables
Led by Zhang Chen, the "Love" crew headed towards the Film Palace opposite the hotel.

If nothing unexpected happens, they will be baptized by the media again.

So this also explains why so many actors yearn for film festivals, because the exposure is so tempting.

However, when Zhang Chen was leading everyone across the road, he happened to meet Gao Yuanyuan who had just returned from the crew of "Qinghong" and brought a piece of news.

"Boss, Qinghong has not received any phone invitation from the organizer."

"Ok?"

Zhang Chen paused.

If he remembered correctly, "Tianhong" should be the only award-winning film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the award should be the "Jury Prize".

Is this gone?

"Will Director Wang still go to the closing ceremony?"

"Go."

"Okay, then come back with us when you're done."

After Zhang Chen gave the instructions, he led everyone towards the media group.

Due to his interference, the awards have changed, and he now cannot guess which films will win awards at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

According to the program brochure, "Love" has fallen out of the top three and ranked fourth due to Zhang Chen's intervention.

The current rankings are:

"Escape" 3.8 points

"Children" 3.6 points

Broken Flowers: 3.6 points

Love: 3.5 points

"The Best Time" 3.2 points

Although the program score can be used as an evaluation criterion, "The Best Time", which scored 3.2 points in the program score, did not win a single award. This also shows that we cannot completely refer to the program score to determine whether to win an award.

What's more, when it comes to the awards ceremony, it is impossible to refer to the program brochure scores to determine what awards each film will win.

In the end, we can only wait together for the jury to reveal the answer.

After Zhang Chen led everyone through the media's flashing lights again, they finally arrived at the venue.

This time, only the "Love" crew from China won the award, and the other three crews sat in the back.

He was also happy to be free, so after finding his seat, he sat down with the others.

“This award is really tiring.”

Zhang Chen rubbed his eyes, which felt a little uncomfortable, and sighed heavily.

“I think it’s very interesting.”

Liu Yifei looked around at the people around her. She felt that everything was very new and fresh.

This is her first time attending a film awards ceremony.

In the past, there were awards for music or TV dramas.

Now, right from the start, it is one of the three most prestigious film awards in Europe. From the moment she entered the Film Palace, she was thinking about what award the crew would win.

Although, all this has little to do with her as a "jobber".

“Do you think it will be the Palme d’Or?”

Liu Yifei suddenly stopped looking around, turned around, put her hand on Zhang Chen's shoulder and asked curiously.

"Forget it. They don't dare to give the Palme d'Or to a new director."

“I’m just thinking about it.”

Liu Yifei also sat back angrily.

Both of them are well aware of how much pressure it would be to give such a big award, the highest prize, to a new director.

Whether from the perspective of public opinion or from the perspective of partners, it is not a wise choice.

While Zhang Chen and Liu Yifei were whispering, the closing ceremony officially began with a speech by Jacob, president of the Cannes Film Festival.

Zhang Chen did not watch the previous content carefully. After all, no matter how wonderful the performances here were, they could not compare to the many world-class celebrities singing on the same stage at the Grammy Awards.

The other guests had no interest in watching this kind of performance. Instead, as the award ceremony of the competition unit approached, the directors, actors, and screenwriters of all the crews on the scene began to tense up at the same time.

Tension began to spread throughout the scene.

"Next, we will present the competition awards. First up is the Best Short Film Debut Award, which goes to Antonio Campos's Buy It Now. Congratulations!"

As the short film award was presented, Liu Yifei tightly grasped Zhang Chen's hand.

Zhang Chen, who was not very nervous at first, also drew a bit of excitement from Liu Yifei.

Nervousness and excitement are sometimes two emotions that are difficult to distinguish.

In short, for Zhang Chen, who had lost his idea of the result, today's award ceremony was indeed gradually arousing his expectations for revealing the answer.

After the "Best Short Film Special Award" and "Best Short Film Palme d'Or" were awarded to Igor STREMBITSKYY's "Klara" and Van SOWERWINE's "PODOROZHNI" respectively.

It’s finally time for the feature film award ceremony for “Love.”

"Next, we will present the Best Screenplay Award."

Hearing about this award, Liu Yifei next to Zhang Chen began to mutter: "It's not "Love", it's not "Love", it's not"

Zhang Chen looked helplessly at the little girl who was muttering to herself.

But he could understand the expectation.

Since there is already a guaranteed award, and according to the principle that bigger awards are given out later, Liu Yifei naturally does not want "Love" to end with just a screenwriter award.

Although it is possible to win another award after winning the screenwriting award, the probability is too low.

Zhang Chen counted the crews present and found that there were 15 crews attending the closing ceremony. His original intention to judge whether the result was "one person for one job" by the number of crews present was also in vain.

There was no way, he could only passively wait for the jury to reveal the answer.

"The winner is Guillermo Arriaga's The Three Burials of Escada. Congratulations!"

"yeah!"

Liu Yifei was even more excited than the crew of "The Three Funerals of Escada", but she also suppressed her voice and just patted Zhang Chen on the back heavily to express her excitement.

With one out of eight removed, "Love" is one step closer to the Palme d'Or!
Zhang Chen reluctantly tried to rub his sore back, but found that his hands couldn't reach it. He could only roll his eyes at the girl to express his dissatisfaction.

I have no idea how strong this guy is.

“Next, we will present the Best Golden Camera Award.”

This award should be the one that Zhang Chen has the highest chance of winning, because this award is also called the "Director's Debut Award", and among the directors of the competing films present, he is the only new director.

“It’s not Love, it’s not Love.”

Someone's spell came to my ears again.

"Leon, Zhang Chen "Love", congratulations!"

"what"

Liu Yifei reacted faster than Zhang Chen. She looked at Zhang Chen with a bitter face, and she looked like she was about to cry.

At this time, Zhang Chen could only comfort her with a simple sentence: "Any award is fine."

After saying that, he touched her head and walked towards the stage.

If I say I have no regrets, of course I do.

After all, after so much preparation, I only took home an award for "Directorial Debut", so the input-output ratio is not equal.

He did not look at the award from a director's perspective, but rather measured his efforts during this period and his gains today from a businessman's perspective.

Now it seems that the ending does not satisfy him.

But no matter what, we should still thank those who deserve thanks.

Zhang Chen picked up the microphone and glanced at everyone with a smile: "I am honored to have won everyone's love and the recognition of the Cannes jury when I made a movie for the first time. If I have the opportunity in the future, I will still make some movies to bring more good works to everyone who has become my fan during this period of time."

Zhang Chen couldn't lose his composure, so he made fun of himself at the right time.

For a man who has a huge fan base, it is quite novel that he has gained a lot of fans in the past few days.

Sure enough, after he finished speaking, everyone at the scene couldn't help but smile kindly.

At this moment, they all felt that the distance between this most popular singer of the moment and those of them in the film industry had shortened a lot.

"Finally, I would like to thank everyone in my crew, especially the two veteran artists. Without their efforts, this film would not have been a success."

After thanking a bunch of people, Zhang Chen specially thanked two senior seniors, Wu Yanshu and Lan Tianye.

During this period, these two old seniors have been running around with these young people to promote the product, which really puts a lot of pressure on them.

When everyone thought Zhang Chen had finished speaking, he suddenly said:
"Oh, I'd like to thank Liu Yifei for making me look forward to the Cannes Film Festival."

Although everyone didn't understand what was going on, they still applauded Liu Yifei who had a dazed expression on her face.

They really didn't know the subtext of Zhang Chen's words.

After all, they were not scratched with red marks by the little girl's "Dragon Claw Hand", nor were they slapped on the back by the little girl's "Iron Sand Palm", so naturally they could not feel this special sense of tension.

Because you don’t know what “unique martial arts skills” the girl will use on your body in the next second.

"Are you really looking forward to the awards ceremony because of me?"

Obviously, Liu Yifei didn't guess the meaning of Zhang Chen's words. Instead, she was waiting for Zhang Chen to confirm with a happy look on her face.

"Of course!"

Zhang Chen nodded seriously and didn't intend to explain.

Let's keep someone in the dark.

Otherwise his back would suffer again when he gets home.

"Zhang Chen, don't be discouraged, we'll come again next time."

Tian Zhuangzhuang was afraid that Zhang Chen would be sad, so he rarely spoke out a word of comfort.

"It's okay. I'm not discouraged at all."

Zhang Chen smiled brightly, not taking it to heart at all.

It would be best if you could win a big prize, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t.

After all, his purpose is not here.

"Next up is the Best Director award."

As the awards continued to be presented, the "Love" crew seemed bored.

On the contrary, the crews who had obviously received calls from the organizers became more and more nervous.

The Best Director Award went to Michael Haneke for "Escape"

The Best Actor award went to Tommy Lee Jones for "The Three Burials of Escada"

The Best Actress Award went to Hanna Laszlo for "Free Zone"

Jury Prize: Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers

When all the awards were announced, only the last two major awards were left at the Cannes Film Festival: the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix.

But Zhang Chen discovered a strange phenomenon.

Except for the people from the "Children" crew, everyone else at the scene relaxed.

Zhang Chen instantly came out of his lazy state, sat up straight, and focused his attention on the stage!
“Next, we will present the Grand Jury Prize.”

　Just get stuck here, hahahaha
　　
　
(End of this chapter)