Chapter 58 A kick that shocked the world
In later generations of China, during the Cannes Film Festival every year, a piece of news would often come out: "XX movie starring XX was on the Cannes Film Festival program." Paired with exquisite pictures, it sounds very classy at first glance.
Actually, this is all a trick to fool fools.
As the name suggests, the program is a publication on the film festival site. It is organized by a magazine called "Daily Screen". During the film festival, one issue is issued every day and is given away for free on site.
It publishes various information about the film festival, film information, behind-the-scenes, reviews, and... advertisements!
Anyone can advertise on it and clearly quote a price of tens of thousands. If you are willing to pay more than hundreds of thousands, you can get it on the cover.
The most important thing in the event program is the "event program rating" on the last page.
This rating is made by a group of film critics from eight to twelve media. It is divided into five grades from one to four stars, with a perfect score of four.
This score is considered to be the benchmark for the Palme d'Or!
But in fact...it's of no use.
For example, in 2014, "The Life of Adele" came out and scored 3.6 points, setting a record for the program score, and finally won the Palme d'Or as expected.
Two years later, "Tony Erdmann" broke the record and scored 3.7 points, but didn't even get a cent.
I Am Blake, which won the Palme d'Or that time, only scored 2.4 points.
All in all, the Cannes Film Festival program is just a money-making thing.
But domestic film producers have used this ridiculous thing to cut a lot of leeks.
Now, the program has given "Shaolin Temple" a score.
3.5 points, shocking the audience!
This is the highest score in history. The crew of "Shaolin Temple" were very excited. Even the crew of "The Heroine" came to congratulate me. As a Chinese, I am honored.
This is the first time for everyone to come to the Cannes Film Festival. We don’t understand the routines and thought that “Shaolin Temple” was going to win the grand prize.
Only Yang Ye is quite calm, because he knows that this crap is of no use, but since everyone is so happy, he can't ruin everyone's fun.
"It's rare to see you smile!" Yang Ye said to Xu Feng.
This cold-faced beauty was infected by the atmosphere at the scene and showed a rare smile, which was seen by Yang Ye.
Xu Feng's smile suddenly faded, and he said lightly: "Because there is nothing to be happy about."
"Life is a long road, and there will always be things."
“Hmm!”
During the entire screening period, the screening hall of "Shaolin Temple" was packed with people and the venue was full. In contrast, other exhibition halls were deserted and there were only a few visitors.
Because there were so many viewers, the organizing committee had to extend the screening time of "Shaolin Temple", causing the movie to be shown over and over again until the day of the lottery.
No matter how advanced the film art is, the audience still likes to watch fun movies.
"Star Wars" will not appear for another two years. "Shaolin Temple" is the most dazzling visual spectacle of this era, the most exciting movie among cool movies.
The volley kick at the end of the movie caused widespread discussion, and people wanted to know how it was done.
But Yang Ye won’t say it, so just guess!
The topic is traffic, and traffic is box office. As a time traveler, Yang Ye knows this truth.
Jiang Zhiqiang was extremely happy. He originally thought that helping Yang Ye sell movies would be a hard job. Who would have thought it would be so easy.
Those film producers are all vying to buy the screening rights of "Shaolin Temple", and there is no need to go around to promote it themselves.
In this case, Jiang Zhiqiang started to get Joe, and he received all the cooperation intentions. As for the deal, we will wait until after the award ceremony.
Although Jiang Zhiqiang knows very well that in order to show that they have good taste, the judges will not award awards to more popular movies, but there has never been such a popular movie at the Cannes Film Festival.
This cannot be judged by convention. ……
The Palais des Festivals de Cannes was not opened until 1982. It is now using a celebration building built 30 years ago to launch the film festival.
However, there is no shortage of red carpet ceremonies. Yang Ye and Wang Yu protected Zhao Yazhi on the left and right as they passed on the long red carpet.
The audience outside the building was crowded because of the popularity of "Shaolin Temple". As soon as Yang Ye appeared, it immediately caused a commotion.
People chased his figure and shouted his name until he disappeared at the end of the red carpet.
When Yang Ye heard those calls, he felt secretly happy. I thought to myself, am I so popular? Will a big pony come to my door and beg me to ride her?
Hearing those calls, Zhao Yazhi couldn't help but turn around and looked at Yang Ye with pride, thinking, this is my man, he is really great!
She didn’t know that Yang Ye was thinking about stir-fried noodles right now.
The award ceremony began.
Zhao Yazhi asked with some excitement: "Brother, do you think we will win the prize?"
Yang Ye smiled and said: "Of course... no."
“Why?”
“So many ordinary audiences love to watch our movies, and if the judges give us awards, it seems like they have no taste.”
"Ah, why is this? But the score of our program is very high."
"The score of the program is not judged by the judges of the film festival. How could they take it seriously?"
< br>Yang Ye spoke eloquently and looked very knowledgeable. Zhao Yazhi felt chilled in her heart after hearing this.
Yang Ye had nothing to do, and began to tell Zhao Yazhi how much the judges of the three major film festivals love to show off. He opened his mouth with all kinds of anecdotes, and Zhao Yazhi was dumbfounded.
Yang Ye was playing vigorously when he suddenly heard Wang Yu say: "Young Master Yang, you won the prize."
"What?"
The scene burst into warm applause, and Yang Ye looked confused. He was too busy chatting with Zhao Yazhi and didn't even listen to what was being said on the stage.
“What award did you win?”
“I don’t know, I can’t understand English. Anyway, I heard Shaolin Temple being called.”
At this time, the man sitting next to him Hu Jinquan said with some envy: "Young Master, this is the Supreme Technical Committee Award."
Yang Ye said oh and thought to himself, shouldn't this award be given to "The Heroine"?
It seems that the volley kick he made with Diao Wia finally defeated Hu Jinquan's diving blow with the trampoline.
It’s not that Hu Jinquan is not excellent, Xu Feng’s attack is definitely a classic in film history. It's a pity that Yang Ye is a time traveler, and Hu Jinquan lost to the technology from the future.
Yang Ye quickly walked up to the stage amidst applause, took the trophy and certificate from the presenting guests, and delivered his acceptance speech: "Thank you to the jury for giving me this award, although I have never heard of this award. "
He shrugged and shook the trophy in his hand, and there was a burst of good-natured laughter from the audience.
The Supreme Technical Council Award is not a permanent award. It was invented out of thin air at this Cannes Film Festival. It is actually an encouragement award. It has only appeared once in the history of Cannes.
Yang Ye continued: "Everyone must want to know how the volley kick in the movie was accomplished. It's actually very simple. A steel wire was wrapped around my waist. We used the steel wire. As for why you can’t see the traces of the wire, it’s because we used sunlight to hide the wire.”
Yang Ye solved the problem that troubled many viewers at the scene for half a month. The mystery immediately received a burst of warm applause.
The next thing has nothing to do with Yang Ye. Those regular awards will not be given to him.
A few people watched the award ceremony boredly. As soon as Yang Ye left the venue, he went to find Jiang Zhiqiang. He only said two words: "Increase the price!"
If you don’t increase the price after winning the prize, when will you wait?
(End of this chapter)