Chapter 414 What Award Did I Win?
Xia Tian brought his new friend Big Nose to have dinner with Lao Mouzi and his friends.

French food is quite formal.

I guess this old man must have bled a little bit~
Not to mention Zhang Yimou, he was dressed very casually and looked like a Terracotta Warrior.

Gong Li is quite eye-catching, wearing a navy blue knitted sleeveless top and blue floral trousers. She sits leisurely on a beach chair, looking quite fashionable.

The braided hairstyle, paired with a big red flower, still maintains the charm of Chinese style.

Big Nose also quietly asked Xia Tian about the relationship between the two, and Xia Tian said, “It’s the relationship between a French director and his favorite actress.”

Big Nose immediately gave a look of understanding!

We are so used to this here!

For example, the French Rose Sophie Marceau followed the director when she was a teenager~
Lao Mouzi is now on the international stage~
Speaking of which, Big Nose and Lao Mouzi are actually competitors.

Because the works he starred in, such as “Cyrano de Bergerac” and “Ju Dou”, were both nominated for the Palme d’Or.

However, it seems that neither of these two films won the Palme d’Or!

……

On the evening of the 21st, many sports cars, reporters, and gorgeously dressed actors and actresses began to gather in Cannes.

The final award ceremony is about to begin, of course, everyone still has to walk the red carpet before that.

Many female stars are waiting for this moment!
Although winning awards is important, it is also imperative to outshine the rest!
There is no need to go into detail about the red carpet process. Although Gong Li was dressed beautifully and had great temperament, she was holding the arm of Zhang Yimou, so there was nothing much to see.

And Xia Tian is a short film director, and he doesn’t even have a female companion. At most, there are a few female reporters taking pictures. Oh, and it seems there are also a few gays!

When Xia Tian saw someone looking at him strangely, he quickly quickened his pace and even pretended not to hear the other person calling him to take a photo!

Even after entering the venue, he was still muttering in his heart: Could that male reporter be from the Troublemaker Country? !
The event here also included speeches from the chairman of the judges, and three people went up to speak one after another.

Xia Tian, ​​who speaks English, has no problem with the explanation, but he who speaks French can only roughly understand the general idea – some words are probably professional terms when he hears them for the first time.

But as a short film director, I sat much further away than Zhang Yimou and Big Nose’s crew, so it was difficult to ask.

However, the actress sitting next to him was quite curious about him and asked him which country he was from.

Xia Tian thought it was quite interesting, so he asked, “Many people only know about Japan and ask if I am Japanese? But you didn’t ask that.”

The actress smiled and said, “I have seen Japanese people and have been to Japan. They rarely have people of your height~”

Made summer laugh!
After dragging on for about half an hour, the awarding ceremony finally began.

First, the feature films are announced, starting with the unimportant awards, and finally to the main competition unit.

(I actually don’t know how the Cannes awards are given, especially since I can’t find any information about short films. I think you can understand~)

However, the guests on the stage soon shouted out “Ju Dou”, well, it’s still far from the final Palme d’Or!

No, I haven’t won the grand prize yet!

“Ju Dou” won the Luis Buñuel Special Award, but I don’t know what kind of award it is.

It can only be said to be better than nothing.

There was an expression of indescribable disappointment on Zhang Yimou’s face, but he quickly calmed himself down and went on stage to receive the award.

Of course, I didn’t feel comfortable saying a few more words for the award and hurried off the stage.

From a distance, you can see Gong Li seems to be comforting him.

The awards ceremony continued, and soon the Grand Jury Prize, which was second only to the Palme d’Or, was announced. This time, “Cyrano de Bergerac” won it.

And the big-nosed Gerard Depardieu got an extra reward, he won the Best Actor Award – Cannes Film Festival!
Xia Tian: Okay, okay, now I will have some connections in Cannes!

Since neither film won the Palme d’Or, there will be only a few films left competing for the award.

——Finally the award was announced, and the winner was the American film “Wild at Heart”, directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, these two people are relatively familiar to me in the summer.

The movie starring Big Nose at least won the Grand Jury Prize, but it was more like Zhang Yimou just received a consolation prize. He looked very lonely.

Xia Tian observed the scene while chatting with the actress next to him. Soon, the awards ceremony for the short film competition began!

This year, there are only 8 works shortlisted for the competition unit, but in the short film corner, you can arrange screening and promotion by registering and paying a fee – this year there are nearly 2000 films!

We are all here to sell movies, so whatever we can sell will work.

Xia Tian thought, with a one in eight chance, even if he didn’t win the grand prize, why not give him a smaller one?!
As a result, when I was listening to the actress next to me talking about crew gossip, I suddenly heard someone calling my name on the stage!
Xia Tian turned her head and then realized what was going on – “Buried”, Charlotte (Xia Tian’s English name)!
Holy crap, I won a prize?!

He stood up a bit bewilderedly – what award did I win? I was just busy listening to the gossips of the director and the actress!
But the actress next to her suddenly covered her mouth and screamed, “Charlotte, your short film won the Palme d’Or!”

Xia Tian casually rolled up the sleeves of his Chinese stand-up collar, strode onto the stage and received the award.

After receiving the trophy from the unknown award presenter, Xia Tian adjusted the microphone and apologized: “I’m sorry, I was stunned just now and didn’t realize that I got the award~”

He was speaking French – his spoken English had improved tremendously in the past ten days. Besides, whoever was shortlisted to participate in the exhibition had to prepare a speech to accept the award!
Look, isn’t this useful?

Xia Tian speaks fluent French with a very pure accent – a real old Parisian accent~
After all, I learned it here in Paris.

This actually made many practitioners at the scene feel more favorable towards him – of course, it was mainly because of his appearance.

Judging people by their appearance is something even Confucius could not avoid. After all, humans are visual animals and the first impression is entirely based on appearance.

Although Xia Tian has an oriental appearance, her figure, facial features, temperament, or her calmness and sense of humor are all very admirable.

The dozens of male and female actors who have flirted with me these days can testify to this.

Xia Tian thanked the jury, the film festival, and the Hong Kong professionals who helped him with the filming. He then said a few words urging them to keep working hard and bowed before leaving the stage.

At this time, Big Nose and Zhang Yimou were already waiting for him in the audience.

Zhang Yimou never expected that he didn’t win the Palme d’Or, but Xia Tian won it instead!
Although it is the Palme d’Or for a short film, it is also the first Palme d’Or in China!
Big Nose was also very excited. He took out his trophy and put it next to Xia Tian’s trophy, grinning: “Haha, Charlotte, this is what you call an unexpected success!”

During this period, Xia Tian was really not very concerned about awards.

But in fact, the audience reputation and ratings of “Buried” in film review publications are quite high, and it is considered one of the favorites to win an award!
Moreover, he is the screenwriter, director and actor of “Buried”! It’s a real one-man show! This movie is so interesting~
Some of our foreign correspondents have already started taking pictures – it won the Palme d’Or in the summer, even though it was a short film.

Next to him is this year’s Cannes Film Festival Best Actor, and Zhang Yimou, who has won the Golden Lion Award in China!
Reporter: I must capture this scene and send it back to China overnight!
Because he won the Palme d’Or, Xia Tian got to know a lot of people in the circle.

At least you should say thank you to the judges who selected you, right?

There are also some people who like you or think you have potential and will come over to introduce you and get to know you.

There are also local boss Big Nose who helps introduce directors, actors, etc. from the French film industry.

After the dinner, Xiatian didn’t find any time to eat. He just chatted with foreigners and was so hungry!

In the evening, I specially called Zhang Yimou, Gong Li and Big Nose to go out for a midnight snack.

Lao Mouzi is quite magnanimous. Although Xia won the grand prize and he only got a consolation prize, he was still cheerful and didn’t show any other expression.

This alone has already surpassed countless people – I’m talking about you, great poet Chen!
……

I spent another day in Cannes and sold the screening and adaptation rights of “Buried”.

The adaptation rights were sold for 18 US dollars – in the summer, Charlotte, the best-selling American author, had her salary increased by at least or US dollars!

The director is also a best-selling author, which is a gimmick and worth raising the price.

Then there are some small film festivals in Europe that will buy the screening rights for award-winning short films and screen them at their own film festivals.

The income of one can range from a few hundred to a thousand euros. There are probably more than 30 sellers, with a revenue of less than 20,000 euros.

From this perspective, if you don’t win a big award, making a short film will indeed be a loss, no wonder no one is willing to make it.

Thanks to the big nose for help, otherwise summer would be a dark time for the international film market, and don’t even think about “selling out” the movie in just one day!

I went to Paris to do some shopping as gifts for my friends.

Then, in the summer, I will fly back to China with Zhang Yimou and others.

Before leaving, Xia Tian hugged Big Nose and said, “My dear Big Nose, I hope you have the opportunity to come to China. I will give you a grand treat and will definitely take you to experience the special food of Yanjing – fried dough sticks with bean juice~”

Gong Li on the side almost laughed out loud!
Plane, take off!
(End of this chapter)