There is a large room in the Phantom Group that is not accessible to ordinary people. It is called the Door of Glory by Phantom employees. There are many trophies placed there, and these do not include those brought by the Phantom people.

A trophy to go home.

The first one is the Best Picture Award won for Phantom by Wanyu Chang's "Autumn Fairy Tale". This award is placed in the most conspicuous position simply because it announced the birth of the Phantom Empire. Best Picture is a collective effort.

, is also the only award that Phantom Company can win.

There are also trophies donated by some filmmakers to Phantom Company. For example, Xiao Ran donated the first Academy Award trophy he won. There are a large row of trophies in this room, including the Golden Horse and Golden Horse.

There are only a few awards in each category. Since 1987, Phantom Company has only missed out on three Golden Horse Awards for Best Feature Film and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Picture.

In addition to the Golden Statue and Golden Horse, it has also won awards from three Asia-Pacific Film Festivals and one Tokyo International Film Festival. Moreover, at the Berlin Film Festival, The Phantom also won a Golden Bear and a Silver Bear, and Maggie Cheung and Lin Qingxia, as well as hair

I have already won awards there, last year I won the Palme d'Or for "Farewell My Concubine". A rough calculation shows that the number of awards in this Gate of Glory is no less than fourteen or five.

On a smooth wall, there is a clear record of every award-winning Phantom film. If we look carefully, we can find that the total number of awards won by Phantom films in the past few years has exceeded

More than a hundred.

And this time, Xiao Ran's expedition to Cannes, will it add any glory to the Phantom's wall of glory? No one expected it, not even Xiao Ran. In any case, this expedition to France has set off another controversy in Hong Kong.

The craze of the wheel - they are all waiting and watching, wanting to appreciate another wonderful performance of this talented super rich man.

This is obviously a very interesting thing. Xiao Ran went there because he wanted to open up the international market, but now he went there for himself and for his own glory. Because Phantom no longer needs to open the international market.

Open the door for the Phantom.

The only thing that frustrated Xiao Ran was that France finally introduced restrictions on imported movies before Cannes. France is definitely a major player in European movies, and now Phantom has forced France to introduce such regulations to protect its own movies.

, already very proud.

It's a pity that Xiao Ran is not proud of this. As a result, Phantom can no longer distribute films to France without restrictions. The only good thing is that this thing will hurt not only Hong Kong films, but also Hollywood. However, this is obviously

It cannot have much impact on Hong Kong films. It is just some local protectionism. Hong Kong films can still continue to deliver a large number of films every year.

This time, Xiao Ran went to Cannes alone. He rushed there the day before the awards. Just kidding, he made hundreds of thousands per second, so he went to Cannes with nothing to do? In fact, he went there with Xiao Ran.

There are also deputy general managers of celebrity agencies and people from the planning department, who used to recruit talents.

What's interesting is that the ones that qualified for the competition this time are Lao Mouzi's "To Live" and "Pulp Fiction". What's funny is that both of these films were invested by Phantom. Of course, this is Quentin himself.

The director, this bad boy was captured by Phantom as early as the year before last.

At the awards night, countless popular stars appeared on the scene. Xiao Ran greeted others casually, sat down with Liu Qingyun and others, and allowed the planning department and the celebrity company to go around poaching people.

The awards are quite grand, but they are not necessarily better than the current Academy Awards. At least in Asia, the Golden Horse has gradually declined, and awards such as Best Foreign Language Film have been gradually added, and competition for foreign language films has been opened.

After the restrictions, the Academy Awards have transformed in recent years and become Asia's well-deserved number one commercial film award.

In terms of music awards, the Music Awards sponsored by Tianlai also gradually expanded their influence under the horizontal promotion of the Phantom Entertainment Media Empire. This shows that Xiao Ran originally decided to take this path of a comprehensive entertainment media group. Looking at it today, it is

Extremely correct.

Without Lin Qingxia by his side, Xiao Ran always felt like he was missing something. He glanced at Liu Qingyun, who was quite excited at the side, and his dark face was about to turn red, and Wu Zhenyu's eyes also projected envy.

color.

Xiao Ran couldn't help but laugh. Anyone who comes to such a palace-level place for the first time must be nervous. Just like himself back then, he was so nervous that his palms were covered with sweat. After feeling sentimental for a while, Xiao Ran chuckled,

But suddenly he saw the director Murray whom he met last time here. After saying hello to the director, Xiao Ran gradually felt much happier.

In fact, most of the people who come to Cannes are relatively unconventional celebrities, just to go through the process and increase their popularity. Xiao Ran obviously doesn't like these artists, at least he is too lazy to get to know them.

"Don't be nervous, it's just Cannes." Xiao Ran couldn't help but comfort the two of them. Seeing the two of them looking at him in surprise, he laughed: "Winning an award in Cannes is not necessarily very difficult.

I think it’s not as difficult as winning an award at the Academy Awards!”

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Ran couldn't help but sigh. There have been a lot of talents in Hong Kong films over the years. It is definitely difficult to win awards. Take Xiao Ran's "The Legend of the Car God" as an example. Xiao Ran in that film can be said to be

He created some shooting techniques for racing movies or action-themed movies, which have excellent reputations, but they still only received nominations and ultimately fell into the hands of others.

With talents emerging one after another in the Hong Kong film industry, Xiao Ran really doesn't know when he will be able to win Best Director and Best Picture based on his own ability. Only these two awards can best prove the director's ability.

Relatively speaking, Xiao Ran only valued Cannes for its international reputation, and his own strength was definitely not as important as the Academy Awards.

While waiting quietly, Zhang Yimou and Uncle Ge Youge came, as did Quentin, the bad boy. Seeing Zhang Yimou stepping into the arena, Xiao Ran smiled lightly. He had no objection to Zhang Yimou now, or maybe it was better to say it was nothing.

Feel it.

However, Xiao Ran is really very interested in Uncle Ge. He has always believed that there are only two best actor in China, one is Uncle Ge, and the other one is obtained by the combination of Jiang Wen and Chen Daoming.

Until now, he still remembered the classic lines from Uncle Ge's mouth, "Be kind!" and "Uncle Li is very angry, and the consequences will be serious." That kind of humor has a special flavor when spoken in Uncle Ge's mouth.

After waving to Zhang Yimou and Ge You, Zhang Yimou came to Xiao Ran's side and put on a seemingly honest smile: "Mr. Xiao, at first I wanted to invite you to come with me, but I didn't expect you to come first!"

"Sit down, Mr. Ge, how do you feel about being here?" Xiao Ran smiled at him and turned to look at Ge You who was sitting behind him: "If you can come here, you are a world-class figure. This

Now you are red!"

"No, Mr. Xiao, you can just call me Ge You, why don't you call me Lao Ge!" Ge You really has some screen presence in private. Seeing Xiao Ran treating him so enthusiastically, he quickly laughed at himself and said, "Look at me like this,

Call me sir, it doesn’t look like that at all!”

Xiao Ran suddenly remembered something. Ge You only became involved with Phantom after filming "Alive", so he should have not signed a contract with Phantom. You can't blame Xiao Ran for being confused. At his current position, he is the only one who can pay attention to

There are only strategic matters. The specific operations are done by people. How can he know so much?

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Zhang Yimou showing an envious look and exclaiming: "If I can win an award here, I will be considered an international director! Mr. Xiao, before you won an award here last time, I'm afraid Cannes had not awarded an award to

Let the Chinese live their lives!”

Xiao Ran shook his head slightly, he really didn't know this. Ge You showed a Beijing-like smile and said: "That's right, but I look like this, no one wants it!"

Both Liu Qingyun and Wu Zhenyu were very amused by Ge You's behavior of "sabotaging" themselves, especially Liu Qingyun, who laughed and said: "That's not necessarily true. Do you know Wu Mengda? His appearance is not better than yours, but now he is

He is a very popular actor in Hong Kong and earns a salary of four to five million. As for me, I don’t look that great, but my salary now is 10 million, so if I say I am popular, I can’t say that.”

"It's so easy to make money, why don't I come over and work for you? Anyway, those who have returned to Hong Kong say that the environment in Hong Kong is very good!" Ge You smiled and didn't know whether he was joking or serious.

Xiao Ran was naturally eager, and immediately gave a few instructions to Han Yun next to him, then smiled and said to Ge You: "Okay, no problem. I will find someone to sign a contract with you immediately, and arrange an agent for you when the time comes. You will become famous.

It’s a matter of time. The key is that in Hong Kong, you can make good movies and make the movies you want to make!"

After talking for a while, the awards finally began. The technical award was awarded first, and the winner was "Extreme Fatigue". Xiao Ran didn't think much of this award. If he had been willing to win films like "The Legend of Car God"

Come on, then getting a technical award is definitely not a problem.

The International Film Critics Week Award went to "Clerk", while the Film Critics Award went to Wei Changqing's "City Corner". This Wei Changqing is amazing, a mainlander who is very talented and hardworking.

Exchange student director. However, Xiao Ran believes that Wei Changqing is a relatively artistic director, so since "This Killer Is Not So Cold", Wei Changqing has basically stopped accepting commercial films.

This "City Corner" is a film that focuses on the bottom of society. With the suggestion of the planner, Wei Changqing expanded the story of the film from Hong Kong to Europe. In this way, the originally very regional film became an international film.

.In this film, Wei Changqing went to some extremes and was quite stylized, so he was not liked by film critics.

There were quite a lot of awards in Cannes this year. The next Special Jury Award was won by "The Silence of the Palace". The next one was the Jury Award. Xiao Ran looked back at Wei Jiahui who was next to Ge You. He felt that this award was the best.

Maybe it was taken away by "The Birth of a Prefix".

As expected by Xiao Ran, the guests on the stage looked at the audience, took out the post and read it before loudly announcing: "The winner of the Jury Prize at the 47th Cannes Film Festival is..."The Birth of a Prefix"

"!"

Wei Jiahui was so excited that he almost jumped up, but thanks to Xiao Ran's gaze, he calmed down. He didn't even expect that the first film he made after just working at a TV station for several years would be sent to Cannes, and

You can also win prizes.

He was excited, and Xiao Ran was also very excited. "The Birth of a Prefix" is one of his favorite films. This structure method is earlier than "Sliding Doors" and "Run Lola Run", two internationally renowned films.

However, this film did not receive any honors, which is definitely a big regret.

Now that Hong Kong films are blowing violently around the world, it is impossible for Cannes to ignore Chinese-language films. Under such circumstances, Cannes has set up an office in Hong Kong many years earlier than in history to select films.

Shortlisted films, and "The Birth of a Prefix" won this award under such circumstances. Sometimes, some films are not good enough, but a problem with the general environment.

The Camera d'Or was taken away by "The Palace of Silence", and the following is the best screenplay. The best screenplay was won by "Extreme Fatigue". This time it came to the Special Jury Award. What's funny is that this award was tied.

"Alive" and "Poisonous Sun" won awards at the same time.

The next award is Xiao Ran's goal. He believes that his film "True Colors" is most likely to win the director award, because he feels that the most admirable thing about this work is the unique perspective.

, this is a very special processing method, which can definitely add a lot of points.

Director Award! Xiao Ran took a deep breath of air and tried to calm down his beating heart. He needed such an award to prove that he was not in vain. Although everyone thought he was an international director, he wanted to prove it to himself.

Look. Sometimes, the challenges people need to face more come from themselves.

"The films shortlisted for this competition are all very outstanding, and we have all seen that Chinese-language films are developing at an increasingly faster speed." The guest was a French star, and his conversation was very humorous: "Of course, it is undeniable.

Chinese-language films are indeed excellent, and Hong Kong can contribute countless excellent works to the world every year!"

"Those who are qualified to compete for this award this year are all outstanding people. Of course, I am also very eager to cooperate with any of them!" The guest said this and finally opened the post with a smile in his eyes.

He glanced at Xiao Ran.

"I know very well that announcing the winner would be cruel to the loser..." The guest chuckled: "I have tried the same cruelty before, but as we all know, when there is competition, there are bound to be winners and losers. So.
Chapter completed!