The entertainment empire began with Liu Yifei's premarital pregnancy.

Following the Best Actor award, the awards will be the Golden Lion for Best Film, the Silver Lion for the Jury Prize, and the Silver Lion for Best Director.

"Congratulations to Brian Palma for winning the Best Director award for 'Excerpt Revised'..."

The host on stage announced loudly.

American director Brian Palma stood on the stage, and after his acceptance speech, began presenting the Venice Film Festival's second major award, the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.

Just as Lin Bufan remembered, the jury prize was ultimately won by a tie, with "Grain and Mullet" and "I'm Not There" sharing the award.

Next up is the Venice Film Festival's most important award, the Golden Lion for Best Film.

Even Lin Bufan felt a little nervous at this moment.

According to the original world's trajectory, "Lust, Caution" would definitely win the Golden Lion Award for Best Film, but he didn't know if his version of "Lust, Caution" could win the Golden Lion Award.

The original version of "Lust, Caution" won the Golden Lion Award and the Best Cinematography Award, but Lin Bufan's version did not win the Best Cinematography Award, but won the Best Newcomer Award.

Perhaps, if he had filmed it according to the original "Lust, Caution", the probability of winning an award would be at least 90%, if not 100%.

But this is not what Lin Bufan wanted.

He has everything now. If everything is filmed exactly as in the original, what's the point? He'd just be a tool.

If someone is a reincarnated person, and even a reincarnated person with a system, and is still willing to be a tool, then he is truly a disgrace to all transmigrators.

So what if we fail?

Compared to others, he is least afraid of failure.

Even if we don't win the Golden Lion this time, we can just make another one next time.

Congratulations to "Lust, Caution" for winning the Golden Lion for Best Film...

When the host announced his award on stage, even Lin Bufan, with his strong will, couldn't help but be stunned for three seconds.

"Director Lin, you've won an award!"

Beside Lin Bufan, Dong Jie and the others looked at him with some excitement.

The fact that "Lust, Caution" won the Golden Lion Award is an honor for the actors who starred in it. Even if they hadn't won the award, it wouldn't have mattered, as they could at least say that they had made a Golden Lion Award-winning film.

Although Dong Jie didn't win the Best Actress award, she can still promote herself as the female lead in "Lust, Caution".

Lin Bufan snapped out of his daze, took a deep breath, walked onto the stage, and as he received the Golden Lion Award from the host, he raised it with one hand.

Instantly, the flashbulbs under the stage began to go off.

Lin Bufan held the photo up for a few seconds, and the flashbulbs of the reporters below went off wildly for a few seconds. He was confident that this photo would become the headline news tomorrow.

"Strictly speaking, I'm only 22 years old this year..." Lin Bufan put down his hand, walked to the microphone on the stage, and slowly began to speak.

He was born on the seventh day of the eleventh lunar month in 1984. Today is September 8th, 2007. Since he hasn't had his birthday yet, strictly speaking, he is 22 years old this year, and he will turn 23 in a few months.

"Whoosh..."

Lin Bufan's words instantly caused an uproar among the directors and actors in the audience.

They only noticed that Lin Bufan looked young, but they didn't know his actual age. They simply assumed he looked younger than he was, but they never expected him to be only 22 years old.

They couldn't help but recall what they were doing when they were 22 years old.

"Three years ago, I took my script and knocked on the doors of countless companies, but everyone told me that my script was terrible. Some even said I couldn't find any scenes..." Lin Bufan said, smiling confidently. "But at this moment, I want to tell everyone, don't give up on yourself because of other people's disapproval. Only by persisting in your dreams can you succeed..."

"Thank you to the organizing committee, and thank you to everyone who helped me along the way! Thank you!"

After Lin Bufan finished speaking, he walked off the stage amidst a deafening round of applause.

"Director Lin, were you really rejected by countless people back then?"

After Lin Bufan returned, Xue Kaiqi, who was standing to the side, became somewhat curious.

"hehe!"

Lin Bufan glanced at her but did not answer.

Isn't an acceptance speech just storytelling? If you don't tell a story with twists and turns and a twist where you're proven wrong, how can others resonate with you?

Of course, it is undeniable that before Liu Yifei became pregnant, Lin Bufan did prepare several scripts and approached some entertainment companies for investment.

Unsurprisingly, he was rejected.

As for those words, they were all made up by him. The company that rejected him only said euphemistically that the company had no intention of investing in the film at the moment.

In fact, before Liu Yifei became pregnant, the system had not yet awakened. The scripts Lin Bufan prepared were only average. They were based on some movies from later generations, and he wrote down as much as he could remember.

Take the movie "Love is Not Blind" as an example. Without the system, he could recall the general plot of the movie, but he would definitely not remember many of the lines.

It's not that ordinary people who are reborn after time travel will have a meteoric rise in their lives.

Some things are innate; otherwise, even if you transmigrated or were reborn, you couldn't reach that level without training. Lin Bufan had a clear understanding of this.

He knew very well that without the system, relying on his knowledge of future films, he could at most be a moderately famous director and a relatively well-known producer.

Financially, one might not be worried. After all, with money, one could blindly invest in stocks like Tencent and Moutai, and buy more after the emergence of B-coins. When the time comes to cash out, one would certainly not be poor, but one would definitely not reach the status and influence one has now.

It was the emergence of the system and the improvement of the director's skills that enabled him to achieve such success.

In short, even without the system, he would have succeeded based on his understanding of the future, but he would never have reached the level he has today.

After the awards ceremony, there was a cocktail party. After a brief social gathering, Lin Bufan left first.

……

Lin Bufan's itinerary from then on was different from theirs.

Liang Jiahui, Dong Jie, Pan Yueming, Sun Yiyi, and Xue Kaiqi took a different plane back to China the next day.

At this time in China, the industry and the internet were already buzzing with excitement.

Lin Bufan's success over the past two years has led many to whisper behind his back, believing that his Oscar for Best Director was solely due to luck, achieved with the film "Manchester by the Sea." They think that if it were "him," they too would have won the Oscar for Best Director.

But now, with Lin Bufan winning the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival with "Lust, Caution," even those who dislike Lin Bufan, whether they are colleagues in the industry or online haters, have to admit that he is a director with real talent.