You don't understand the happiness of the director

Wang Quan took a look at the venue score of "No Man's Land", which was 2.3 points, temporarily ranked third, much higher than the 1.9 points of the original time and space.

He speculated that the plot direction of this version of "No Man's Land" may be more in line with film critics' expectations, unlike the castrated version of the original time and space that made various compromises in order to pass the review.

The two versions can basically be regarded as two movies, and 35% of the shots are different. This shows how much effort Ning Hao made to pass the review and ensure the smoothness of the story.

Wang Quan obviously prefers this version. It’s not that he likes dark plots. He himself prefers a bright personality. However, the plot of this version is more smooth and self-consistent, and the actors have more room for performance, so he will definitely do it when the time comes. Support this movie.

Judging from the overall level of this year's Berlin Film Festival, Ning Hao's directorial ability is obviously among the most outstanding.

The next day Wang Quan attended the premiere of "Mei Lanfang" again. In addition to the director and his wife, Li Ming and Zhang Ziyi also showed up. Wang Xueqi did not come, but it was Wang Xueqi who did not come who caused a stir after the screening. The film critics and media people at the scene unanimously praised it. If it weren't for that he had too few roles, Wang Quan would have given him the best actor award.

In fact, Wang Quan is a little disappointed. This version is exactly the same as the domestically released version. There are no new shots, so the quality of the movie has not been improved at all. It is still anticlimactic. The first half was shot very well, but it is a pity that the latter part was not grasped. Director Chen failed. Seize this opportunity to redeem your reputation.

Wang Quan really felt that Chen Hong was not a suitable producer for Chen Kaige. Chen Hong worshiped him, loved him, regarded him as a god, and could not control him at all, so he would inevitably be willful and put himself at risk when filming. Expression becomes self-pleasure.

He needs a strong producer, just like Xu Feng in "Farewell My Concubine".

At that time, Ms. Xu had already become famous in the film industry. She made a name for herself in film history with "The Heroine". She was also the proprietress of Tomson Group and the investor of "Farewell My Concubine". Her status, financial resources and ability were all able to overwhelm the young. Chen Kaige.

Coupled with the assistance of the top film talents from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, the cast of Zhang Guorong, Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi and Ge You, the screenwriter of Lu Wei, the music created by Zhao Jiping and Li Zongsheng, the photography of Gu Changwei, the sound effects of Tao Jing, the sound effects of Yang Zhanjia The art, Kang Xiaotian's lighting, and Director Chen's father's guidance on the Peking opera part even though he was seriously ill made this a classic in the history of Chinese films.

It was also "Farewell My Concubine" that was so successful that director Kai Ge floated to the sky and could not come down. The most regrettable thing for Wang Quan was the subsequent "The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain", which can be called the pinnacle of director Chen Kaige's bad films. In Wang Quan's heart. It is not as good as "The Promise", and it is only slightly better than "Three Guns" directed by Zhang Yimou.

Although Mr. Xu Haofeng's original work is not very good, it is still much better than the movie version.

Today is still a special day, it is Zhang Ziyi’s 30th birthday. After the movie premiered, she invited filmmakers and media people to attend her birthday party. Apart from Fan Bingbing, who was born in the 1980s, Zhang Ziyi was the youngest .

However, Wang Quan definitely couldn't attend, so he declined the other party's invitation and just sent Li Xian over to socialize.

Later, the "Mei Lanfang" program released a score of 2.4. Even if this movie is not half as good as "Farewell My Concubine", it can still reach the upper-middle level among this year's 17 entries.

In the next few days, Wang Quan and other jury members continued to watch movies and participate in various official activities. The program scores of each film were continuously updated. The highest score was 3.0 for "London River", and the lowest score was "Mammoth", which was only 0.9 points.

"Mei Lanfang" and "No Man's Land" have also changed from upper-class scores to upper-middle-class scores at the beginning. With this score, they have a good chance of winning awards, but there are too few awards. Several movies have similar scores to them. , so in the end it depends on the judges’ thoughts, and royal power has become the key.

During this period, good news came again from the United States. The Producers Guild Award was awarded, and "Slumdog Millionaire" won the best picture.

So far, "Slumdog" has won the four major awards for Best Picture and Best Director! The ability to harvest awards surpasses those of the same year!

It can be said that if there is any mistake in these two Oscars in the end, it will be the biggest tragedy in the history of the Oscars. The global media can criticize the Oscars for deliberately targeting Chinese directors and King Power. This will be a complete violation of the so-called American dream. A complete trampling.

Therefore, during the Berlin Film Festival, in news reports about Berlin, Wang Quan appeared far more frequently than the directors of the participating works.

In China, he also has a greater presence than Chen Kaige and Ning Hao. Every move, word and deed is watched by domestic media people. Eating a German sausage on the roadside with Diane Kruger will make headlines. .

Liu Yifei and Yang Mi could see news about him almost every day in the capital, and they could also satisfy their longing for him.

Liu Yifei learned from the painful experience and simply approached Mei Yanqiu, hoping to learn Mei's cuisine, which would not only satisfy her mother Liu Xiaoli, but would also be more in line with his appetite if she married Wang Quan in the future.

Mei Yanqiu was shocked and called her son to tell her about the incident. Wang Quan told her, "Let her learn knife skills. Ask Song Piaopiao to teach her, and learn how to kill fish and chicken."

Anyway, Liu Yifei is free now. If she learns knife skills for a few months, she can save a lot of trouble when filming in the future.

"Don't you feel sorry for her little hands? They are as tender as tofu. It would be a pity to go to the kitchen."

Wang Quan, "Who makes her like it?" He likes acting, but he has no talent, so he can only practice so hard.

Mei Yanqiu thought her son was saying that Liu Yifei liked cooking, and wondered whether her Meifu Banquet would be handed over to her to inherit in the future?

On the other hand, Yang Mi, in her last semester of college, chose to cooperate with a classmate from the directing department to bid for the Olympics and shoot his A-level graduation short film. Given her current celebrity status, it was very expensive, and she didn't take the money, so she was supporting the newcomers.

Less than two weeks passed quickly. The day before the closing ceremony, all the awards needed to be confirmed, and then the winning crews were notified to participate in tomorrow's closing ceremony + award ceremony. Everyone in the 17 crews was very nervous.

On this day, Wang Quan called Gadot, Mimi, Sissi, and Zaza respectively, because today is 2.14, which is the first Valentine's Day after he and Gadot made their relationship public, and it was the day after he and Xianmi confirmed their relationship. The first Valentine's Day was the first Valentine's Day after he made... an offering to Naza.

After saying sweet words four times with a dry mouth, Wang Quan was ready to tear up the prize.

The seven jury members handed over their mobile phones and were locked in a conference room with projector equipment so they could watch the shortlisted films at any time.

Tilda Swinton looked very experienced and decided on the Golden Bear from the beginning. This short-haired woman was full of aura, "I support "Sad Nosui" to win the Golden Bear. Who is in favor and who is against."

Everyone seems to have a good impression of this movie shot in Peru, and they seem to be unwilling to refute Tilda's reputation, so Wang Quan is the only one to stand up and oppose, "I object, I support "No Man's Land"."

Tilda didn't expect this young Hollywood director to be so disrespectful to her. I haven't slept with you, so it can't be the reason for you to go against me!

However, Tilda is also very wise. King Quan's reputation has been rising recently, so she cannot fight head-on. She smiled and said, ""No Man's Land" is indeed an excellent work. I also like it very much. Let's vote and support "No Man's Land". Those who sang "Sad No Water" raised their left hand, and those who supported "No Man's Land" raised their right hands."

Then three people raised their left hands, including Tilda, and three people raised their right hands, including Wang Quan, Wang Ying and Diane. Sure enough, the German sausages were not in vain, and they still had some friendship with Diane.

Swedish novelist Henning Mankell liked neither, "I loved the Uruguayan film 'Secret Love'."

Diane immediately switched sides, "Yes, actually I also like this movie very much. It was very interesting to shoot." And this Uruguayan movie was actually co-produced with Germany.

Although they are all three on three, the opponent has a main attacker, and the main attacker can kill six of them alone. In addition, Diane defected to "Secret Love", and there was basically no hope of winning the Golden Bear in "No Man's Land", and there was still no sausage. Eat enough.

However, Wang Quan originally didn't expect to win a grand prize for "No Man's Land". He just put forward his position first and didn't care whether he could win the grand prize. But I am determined to win this prize.

As we all know, the three main competition units in Europe only have one gold award, and the rest are silver awards, but the silver awards and silver awards are also different.

In Berlin, for example, the biggest prize is the Golden Bear for Best Film.

The second grand prize is the Jury Prize Silver Bear.

The third award is the Silver Bear for Best Director.

The rest of the Best Actor and Actor, Best Screenplay, Outstanding Artistic Contribution, and Alfred Ball Silver Bear Awards can only be classified as fourth-level awards.

Therefore, although movie fans and fans pay more attention to the ownership of best actors and actresses, at international film festivals, those awards are side effects, and many times they are compensation for outstanding films that have not won the previous awards.

Of course, there are also many times when the performance is so outstanding that it is too dazzling to ignore.

Tilda skipped the Jury Prize and talked about the Best Director award first.

"I think Asghar Farhadi, the director of the Iranian film "About Elli" is very good. What do you think?"

Of course it's good. This is the Iranian director that King Quan pays the most attention to. This guy later made the Iranian masterpiece "A Separation".

However, Wang Quan still made an objection, "I admire Maren Ade, the director of "The Perfect Second Couple" more. As a female director, I am surprised by her delicate handling of the emotions between men and women. She is also the director of this Berlin Film Festival. A very rare quality.”

Some people nodded in agreement, especially Diane Kruger, who vocally supported Wang Quan's view. "The Perfect Second Couple" is the only pure German film in this film festival.

This time Tilda did not play the show of hands, but asked everyone if they had any other favorite candidates for the best director.

The Spanish director then nominated Isabelle Cosette, the director of the British film "Shelly", who was famous for "The Queen" two years ago.

At this time, Wang Ying mentioned Ning Hao, the director of "No Man's Land", "This is his second feature film, but I think the maturity he shows is far beyond that of his peers."

In the end, King Quan gave up "The Perfect Second Couple" and instead supported Tilda's "About Ellie". With the support of two of the strongest judges, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi won the Silver Bear for Best Director. The first award to be confirmed.

Next up for the male and female lead awards, Wang Quan once again clearly supported Xu Zheng or Huang Bo from "No Man's Land" to win the Best Actor Award, and joked, "The dead man played by Huang Bo is simply amazing. Although the role is less, but I believe this role will be the most impressive in Berlin this year.”

No one refuted, but others also had their own targets of support. Wang Quan argued with the scholars, analyzing the greatness of Xu Zheng and Huang Bo's performances in detail, and then also analyzed the flaws and regrets of other actors.

Everyone was surprised by his solid knowledge of acting theory, and even more surprised by his memory. He could even remember the subtleties of his lines clearly. Tilda even applied for several screenings to verify Wang Quan's statement.

This time, Tilda did not take the lead in expressing her opinion. She let everyone discuss it, but it was obvious that others could not compete for the kingship.

But Tilda did not decide on the best actor candidate. She put this award on hold and asked everyone to continue discussing the following awards.

Best Actress: Pochett Minimea for "The Perfect Second Couple" supported by King Power.

As for the Silver Bear Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, he believes that the artistic content of "Mei Lanfang" is relatively high, and explained in detail the details about Peking Opera and the character Mei Lanfang that foreigners cannot understand.

However, he was not too insistent and made appropriate concessions, and later turned to support the Uruguayan movie "Secret Love" that Tilda admired.

After the first round of discussions, except for the best director, no other awards were awarded. Tilda's achievements were not enough to support her becoming an arbitrary president of the jury.

Although Wang Quan is young, no one at the scene dared to ignore his opinion. There is no way, this 24-year-old young man has achieved too much. Even if he fails to win the Oscar in a few days, the film industry will think that the Oscar is unfair. , God cannot tolerate it.

Wang Quan and Tilda had confrontations and cooperations. Under the leadership of the two, the awarding of awards gradually became clear. Well, the pork was divided evenly.

This pork sharing meeting lasted for seven hours, and the lunch in the middle was also eaten in this conference room.

It wasn't until the creators of the participating films finished their dinner that the film festival was announced.

"Please be sure to attend the award ceremony tomorrow."

With this notification, it means that the film has made some achievements. If it has not been notified, it is time to pack up and prepare to leave.

Ning Hao put down the phone and kissed his wife Xing Aina fiercely. They could stay!

He told Xu Zheng and Huang Bo the good news, and both of them were wondering whether they would win the Best Actor Award!

Xu Zheng asked, "Haozi, can the crew of "Mei Lanfang" next door leave?"

"Xiao Na went to ask."

After a while, Xing Aina came back and gasped, "Director Kai Ge and the others were also invited to stay!"

Huang Bo let out a loud "Ouch", "Director Wang is so awesome! Both films were torn off!"