Literary Master 1978

The sudden applause and cheers in the Debussy Theater filled the main creators of the crew with full surprises and surprises.

In just a few dozen seconds, they seemed to have walked between heaven and hell.

At this moment, it was like being in heaven!

The warm applause in their ears seemed to have a kind of magic, gently lifting them up, as if falling into a dream.

Xu Guanwen sat there, between the ups and downs, he seemed to feel the beating of his heart, and the whole person was a little trance.

At this time, he felt the touch on his wrist, and saw Lin Chaoyang patting him lightly, with a smile on his face full of ease and calmness.

"Michael, go on stage to accept the applause!"

Xu Guanwen stood up a little dazed, and walked to the stage by instinct. With him, there were Ann Hui, Cherie Chung, and Maggie Cheung.

Xu Guanwen walked onto the stage and found that Lin Chaoyang was still sitting in his seat without moving, so he hurried down and pulled him to the stage.

The applause and cheers in the theater continued, and when the two stood on the stage, the applause and cheers became deafening.

This was the audience's thanks to these excellent filmmakers, thanking them for creating such an excellent film and bringing all the audience a wonderful spiritual journey.

Lin Chaoyang and others bowed on the stage to express their gratitude, and the applause did not stop. It seemed that the audience was not enough to express their love for the movie without doing so.

After a few minutes, the applause of the audience finally stopped. The applause of more than 10 minutes made "The Truman Show" the longest applause movie so far at this Cannes Film Festival.

Just for this reason, "The Truman Show" will definitely be written about in the program book "Screen" tomorrow.

All reporters and film critics did not expect that "The Truman Show" would be so excellent.

They are now very sure that "The Truman Show" is definitely capable of competing for the highest award of this Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Palm Award.

Even many people present could not hold back their excitement and shouted the slogan "Golden Palm".

Ann Hui and Xu Guanwen on the stage were also excited when they heard these shouts. They were so excited that they could hardly control themselves.

After a long time, everyone calmed down and the Debussy Theater finally quieted down.

Next was the interview and exchange session. The reporters and film critics on the scene raised their hands impatiently, hoping to be called by the host.

"Thank you, host. I am Laurent Guedillon, a reporter from French Film. Please allow me to give you my most sincere praise. The Truman Show is definitely an extraordinary masterpiece."

Laurent Guedillon stood up and eagerly expressed his love for The Truman Show. He didn't even bother to ask questions, which attracted a lot of laughter from his colleagues.

"Sorry, I'm a little excited now. I like this movie too much. I would like to ask Mr. Screenwriter, how did you come up with the genius idea of ​​'reality show'?"

Laurent Guedillon's question was not only his own curiosity, but also what most people on the scene wanted to know.

In the 1950s and 1960s, variety shows in developed countries in Europe and America continued to develop, and in recent years, the prototype of variety shows such as reality shows has evolved.

But compared with the reality shows that are almost indistinguishable from the real ones shown in "The Truman Show", reality shows at this stage can only be regarded as child's play.

The most important thing is that Lin Chaoyang presented this variety show in the form of film, which actually created an indescribable artistic charm and convinced all viewers.

These reporters and film critics in the Debussy Theater are all professionals with a deep understanding of film and high quality.

It is not an easy task to gain their love and admiration.

Lin Chaoyang took the microphone handed over by the host with a calm expression.

"As we just introduced, The Truman Show is actually adapted from my novel of the same name, and the plots of the novel and the movie are almost exactly the same.

As for the conception of the novel, it was actually Michael who found me through a friend and asked me to help write a script..."

Different from the routine questions at the press conference, the reporters asked questions very enthusiastically after the movie screening. They now urgently need to learn more about the behind-the-scenes stories of the film creation through the answers of the main creators.

The questions of these reporters took up a long time, which made the film critics present dissatisfied, and the host had to balance the speaking time of both parties.

The media exchange after the screening lasted for nearly an hour, because the Debussy Theater had to continue to show other participating films in the afternoon, and the event had to be stopped. The reporters and film critics were still reluctant to leave.

Before the main creative team of The Truman Show left the theater, some reporters couldn't wait to invite them for an interview.

Among these invitations, there are reporters from well-known magazines such as "Cahiers du Cinema" and "Feature Film".

Cai Lan played the role of a contact staff to communicate with these reporters about the next interview.

Everyone tried to be restrained when leaving, but the excitement in their hearts had already overflowed.

Before leaving, they said goodbye to several judges of the jury, whose attitudes were much more enthusiastic than in the morning.

According to the habit of the jury, if the work today is busy, they will usually find a chance to slip away after the movie starts, and then watch the movie later when they have time.

But today they stayed until the end, because the quality of "The Truman Show" was beyond their expectations. Everyone was attracted by the characters and plot of the movie unconsciously and stayed until the end.

Oshima Nagisa also held Lin Chaoyang's hand and said sincerely: "Lin-san, this movie is really great! It's a bold idea and unforgettable!"

Oshima Nagisa's film style has always been known for its curiosity. The setting of "The Truman Show" is very much to his taste.

What he regrets is that the director's technique is a little immature and the handling is too ordinary. If this script is given to him to shoot, it will definitely make all the audience drop their jaws.

Before leaving, Oshima Nagisa invited Lin Chaoyang again, saying that his "Marx, My Love" will premiere at the Lumière Cinema tonight.

Lin Chaoyang readily agreed to attend the premiere event in the evening.

After the screening, Zou Wenhuai happily led everyone to the Thoth House restaurant for dinner to celebrate.

The location of the Thoth House restaurant offers an unbeatable sea view of the Cannes seaside. The price of meals during the film festival is ridiculously high, with an average consumption of $150 per person, and it is difficult to get a table.

When everyone was eating, Cai Lan also came over. He had just stayed at the Festival Palace to connect with those reporters about interview invitations.

As soon as he sat down, he talked about interviews. The latest interview was scheduled at 2 pm, and it was an interview with "Cahiers du Cinema".

"Cahiers du Cinema" is the first publication in the French film industry and has considerable international influence. Two days ago, it was something that Ann Hui and others would not dare to think about that their reporters would take the initiative to request an interview.

"At 4 o'clock, there will be an interview with "Feature Films", and at 7:30 in the evening, there will be a live interview with TV4, and at 9 o'clock, there will be an interview with "Variety" in the United States..."

Cai Lan didn't care about eating, and kept telling everyone about the next series of interview activities.

While everyone was happy to hear this, they couldn't help but be amazed. They didn't expect that a successful premiere would attract so many authoritative media attention to the film.

The sharp contrast between such treatment and the experience over the past three days made everyone a little uncomfortable.

Everyone also understood why Zou Wenhuai directly pulled everyone to celebrate after the screening. With this frequency of interviews, there was no time to celebrate in the evening!

In the afternoon and evening interviews, the director and the two leading actors were the protagonists.

Lin Chaoyang had nothing to do. When night fell, he was ready to leave for the Film Festival Palace, and took the bored Maggie Cheung with him.

There were many interview activities for the crew in the past two days, but unfortunately they had nothing to do with her, the supporting actress. People wanted to see the director and the male and female protagonists.

It happened that there was a red carpet for the premiere of "Max My Love". There must be more reporters present than they did this morning, which was also a chance for Maggie Cheung to show her face.

There were too many stars on the official red carpet on the opening day, and a small transparent person like Maggie Cheung had no sense of existence at all.

But today's red carpet was different. She came with Lin Chaoyang as an invited guest, standing beautifully in front of the red carpet and enjoying dozens of seconds of exclusive photo time.

After walking the red carpet in her gorgeous attire, Maggie Cheung's eyes were full of excitement and excitement, but she soon lost her excitement.

What, what, what is this!

Maggie Cheung felt like she was going blind.

Although she had been in the film industry for two or three years, she was still shocked by the scale of "Marx, My Love". To be precise, she was not shocked, but had physical discomfort.

Not only her, but many reporters and film critics present had similar reactions.

After the film screening, the Lumiere Theater fell into a brief silence, which was different from the atmosphere in the Debussy Theater in the morning. Maggie Cheung could even feel the confusion of those reporters and film critics.

After a few seconds, polite applause rang out in the theater.

After the premiere, Lin Chaoyang and Maggie Cheung left the Festival Palace.

Walking on the Croisette Promenade, the small town of Cannes was brightly lit, neon lights flashing, and people were noisy. The beach, hotels, and restaurants were full of people, most of whom were tourists from all over the world.

There was a bonfire on the beach in the distance, and many viewers were watching open-air movies there.

During the film festival, there were movies shown to ordinary audiences every night, but these movies were usually not movies from the main competition unit, but some old movies.

Her eyes looked in the direction of the beach, with a hint of melancholy in her deep eyes, and she asked Lin Chaoyang hesitantly.

"Brother-in-law, do you think I can be a good actor?"

She is now close to Tao Yumo, and it is not inappropriate to call him "brother-in-law".

Lin Chaoyang was slightly surprised when he heard this, and then he understood her mentality.

Maggie Cheung debuted as Miss Hong Kong. After entering the entertainment industry, she went to TVB first, and then worked as a vase in several movies for two years. For the film industry, she has not yet entered.

This is her first time to come to the Cannes Film Festival, and the impact she received is undoubtedly huge.

It's like a child from a mountain village who walked out of the mountains for the first time and saw the prosperity of a big city.

She didn't see it before, and didn't think it was a big deal, but now she sees it, and the crazy growth of ambition is inevitable.

"Everyone has the potential to be a good actor." Lin Chaoyang said.

"How can I become a good actor?" Maggie Cheung looked at Lin Chaoyang, with hope in her eyes.

Lin Chaoyang shook his head helplessly, you think I'm Doraemon!

Seeing Lin Chaoyang's reaction, Maggie Cheung lowered her head in disappointment, thinking that Lin Chaoyang was not optimistic about her.

After a long while, she suddenly heard a voice saying, "Act well!"

These four words were ordinary and not unusual at first, but Maggie Cheung read them several times and slowly gained some insights, as if she understood something all of a sudden.

She raised her head suddenly, and Lin Chaoyang had walked far away. The light of the street lamp was shining on his head, and he looked indescribably chic and wise.

On the afternoon of the third day and the morning of the fourth day of the Cannes Film Festival, a movie that had not received much attention before was on the pages of the daily review articles of many media at the film festival. It was "The Truman Show".

The daily review of "Cahiers du Cinema" commented on it as follows: Ann Hui's "The Truman Show" brought absurdism back to France.

The review article of "Main Film" wrote: Its unique and extreme story setting is amazing, and it is a movie worthy of a Palme d'Or.

The film review of "Sight and Sound" is very distinctive:

A huge studio, a fake world, everything is carefully designed.

Here, free will is deprived; here, personal privacy is gone; here, ethics are not worth mentioning.

Welcome to Utopia! Welcome to "The Truman Show"!

Every year at the Cannes Film Festival, there is a word that the media mentions most frequently: the program book.

The program book of the Cannes Film Festival is called "Screen", which is published the day before the opening of the film festival.

After that, one issue is issued every day, which contains all the information about the film festival, behind-the-scenes, comments and advertisements.

Of course, the most important one is also the one that all the crews, reporters and film critics participating in the film festival pay attention to-the program book score.

On the fourth day of the film festival, the program book for the third day of this film festival was freshly released.

In today's "Screen", "The Truman Show" made a big splash and occupied the cover.

This is not the "Daily Screen" magazine responsible for the program book, but Zou Wenhuai's gold and yuan method.

The success of the premiere yesterday made Zou Wenhuai see the possibility of "The Truman Show" winning an award. With such a good situation, of course, we must build momentum again.

The front and back cover advertisements of the Cannes program are clearly marked with prices. You can appear on the cover for $5,000.

Compared with the generous rewards after the movie wins the award, this little money is nothing.

In addition to being on the cover, "The Truman Show" also surprised many people in the most important program score.

3.6 points!

This is the highest score since the opening of the film festival.

Before "The Truman Show", the highest program score was Roland Joffe's "Life in War", which scored as high as 3.5 points.

The program score of the film festival is scored by a small group of program jury, which is composed of film critics from major media.

These include well-known media such as "Cahiers du Cinema", "Feature Films", "Daily Mail", "Sight and Sound", and "Variety".

The score is divided into five levels: "×" and one to four stars. "×" means no score, which means that the highest score of the program book is 4 points.

The media jury gave "The Truman Show" a score of 3.6 points, which shows their optimism about this movie.

In fact, it is understandable if you think about it. The proposition of "The Truman Show" itself is related to news dissemination and personal privacy, which can be said to have touched the itch of these media.

With this program book score, "The Truman Show" has been successfully promoted to one of the strong competitors of the Golden Palm Film of this Cannes Film Festival in the minds of many filmmakers.

Ann Hui, Xu Guanwen and others were very happy to see this score. They thought the same as those filmmakers. Although the score does not mean that you will definitely win the award, it is definitely proportional to the probability of winning the award.

But Lin Chaoyang was not happy to see this score.

In his impression, a high score in the program book of the Cannes Film Festival is not a good thing. There are many works that have been rated high by the award media in previous years but have unexpectedly missed the award.

Of course, this phenomenon is not completely absolute.

Anyway, in less than a day, many heavyweight media participating in the film festival reported and commented on "The Truman Show", which immediately caused a wave of public opinion at the Cannes Film Festival.

"The Truman Show" seemed to blow over the sky of the small city of Cannes, not only firmly locked the sight of many media, film critics and filmmakers, but also successfully swept the attention of many movie fans.

It took only one day to complete the transformation from obscurity to the spotlight, and became the biggest dark horse at this film festival.

As the reputation and influence of "The Truman Show" at the film festival grows, each of its screenings will attract many media reporters, film critics, film investors, and film producers to support it, and the attendance rate remains high.

At the same time, audiences holding signs "asking for tickets" began to appear at the door of the Debussy Theater.

The screenings of the films in the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival are arranged by the organizing committee. There are not many screenings, and you must have an invitation letter, a work permit or a ticket issued by the organizing committee to enter and watch.

Every year, the Cannes Film Festival attracts thousands of movie fans from all over the world. The official will release some tickets to these fans, but tickets for many popular films are not so easy to get, and sometimes they are even hard to come by.

So during the film festival, there will be a group of audiences holding "Ticket Request" signs in front of each theater showing popular movies in Cannes.

After a few days of fermentation, "The Truman Show" has become one of the most popular movies at the film festival.

There are many "ticket requesters", and many people even write down the price.

But because tickets are so scarce, the price on the sign has risen from the initial "5 US dollars" to "20 US dollars".

You should know that in today's America, a movie ticket is only 2~3 US dollars, and the French ticket price at this time is about 20% lower than that in the United States.

Spending 20 US dollars to buy a movie ticket is absolutely a sky-high price.

But even so, tickets for "The Truman Show" are still in short supply, and the reason is that there are too many audiences who want to watch it.

"Mr. Pollack! Mr. Pollack!"

Sidney Pollack, who had just attended the proposal meeting for literary adaptation movies at the Ambassador Salon, was surrounded by several strange men, and the judges who were with him immediately became nervous.

Sidney Pollack also asked with a vigilant look: "Gentlemen, is there anything wrong?"

A brown-haired young man leading the group said: "Sorry, sir. We don't mean anything else. We just want to express our demands."

"What demands?" Sidney Pollack asked.

"You should add more screenings for "The Truman Show" and give more tickets to fans. There are too many fans who are eager to see this movie now."

Sidney Pollack's face relaxed after hearing this, and he smiled and said: "Of course, gentlemen, I am very happy to serve you."

After agreeing to the demands of these enthusiastic fans, Sidney Pollack and his companions were able to leave. On the way back to the hotel, they couldn't help discussing the current popularity of "The Truman Show".

Now that the film festival has come to the second half, the media popularity and audience love of "The Truman Show" are far ahead of all the participating films in this film festival.

Even Sidney Pollack, the chairman of the jury, has a special liking for this movie.

He is an American. The values ​​of pursuing freedom at all costs shown in "The Truman Show" are really to the American appetite.

Although "The Truman Show" shows and explores much more than the word "freedom", Sidney Pollack doesn't care. "Freedom" is enough.

The fans' move to surround Sidney Pollack was very useful. On the 9th day of the film festival, the organizing committee temporarily decided to add two screenings for "The Truman Show" and released a large number of tickets to amateur fans.

Such a move cheered the fans. Before the movie was shown that day, hundreds of fans gathered in front of the Debussy Theater, as if celebrating a great victory.

"Xu! Xu!"

When Xu Guanwen appeared in front of the Debussy Theater, their cheers became more deafening. These fans excitedly shouted Xu Guanwen's name loudly with fanatical expressions.

"The Truman Show" has been hot in Cannes for a week, and it has made Xu Guanwen, who was originally unknown at the film festival, a big star. He conquered reporters, film critics and audiences with his wonderful performance in the film.

Standing on the steps in front of the theater, Xu Guanwen waved to the fans with a superstar demeanor. Looking at the scene in front of him, he was full of emotion.

Looking back ten days ago, he was still sitting in the open-air restaurant of the Carlton Hotel, hesitating whether to take a photo with Robert De Niro.

Now, he has become the most watched star at the Cannes Film Festival.

The difference before and after is really sighing.

Xu Guanwen couldn't help but think of Lin Chaoyang's encouragement to him and several people in the crew in the first two days of the film festival. Before, he thought it might be a kind of blind confidence.

But now it seems that Chaoyang is clearly in the lead!

Xu Guanwen walked into the Debussy Theater surrounded by fans, and on the second floor of the Palm Cafe not far from the Debussy Theater.

At this time, Lin Chaoyang looked at Xu Guanwen's back, slowly retracted his gaze, and gently put down the coffee in his hand.

"Of course I am happy about the publishing house, Mr. Byrne. It's just that I need to think about the royalties again."

He said calmly to Julio Byrne who was sitting opposite.

Julio Byrne frowned, "Mr. Lin, the royalties we give are not low. You should also understand that it is not easy for a novel written by a Chinese writer to be published in Europe."

"Mr. Byrne, who doesn't want to make more money? We writers also need to eat, don't we?"

Lin Chaoyang's frank attitude revealed a confident toughness, and he did not waver in his persistence because of Julio Byrne's words.

Julio Byrne pondered for a while, then said, "How much royalties do you want?"

"15%."

Julio Byrne shook his head when he heard the number, "Mr. Lin, this is too unrealistic. I think you should understand..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Chaoyang raised his hand and looked at his watch.

"Sorry, Mr. Byrne. I have an appointment later. Since we can't reach an agreement, let's do this for now."

Julio Byrne opened his mouth, wanting to keep Lin Chaoyang, but was afraid that Lin Chaoyang would take this opportunity to ask for too much, so he could only watch Lin Chaoyang get up and leave.

He paid the bill and was about to leave the cafe, but when he walked to the first floor, he was surprised to find that Lin Chaoyang did not leave here, but sat in the booth on the first floor and drank coffee leisurely.

Julio Byrne immediately understood that Lin Chaoyang's next date was also here.

At this moment, Julio Byrne saw a familiar figure walk into the cafe. The other party glanced inside the cafe, then waved to Lin Chaoyang and walked over.

"Damn it! Why is he here?" Julio Byrne cursed inwardly.

He saw Lin Chaoyang chatting and laughing with the man, and his heart was very anxious.

Julio Byrne is a senior editor and a heavy movie fan. He spends almost all of his annual leave at the Cannes Film Festival every year, and this year is no exception.

A few days ago, "The Truman Show" set off a wave of enthusiasm in Cannes. Julio Byrne took a lot of effort to get a movie ticket. After watching the movie, he felt astonished.

When he was young, the absurdist drama was developing in full swing in Paris. The absurdity and black humor shown in "The Truman Show" were no less than any absurd drama he saw when he was young, and even better.

Then he learned that "The Truman Show" was adapted from the novel of the same name, which immediately aroused Julio Byrne's interest.

Although he had not read the original novel, with his more than 20 years of experience in the industry, the movie "The Truman Show" had such a strong core, and the novel must be right.

In his career, he had never seen any movie adapted from a novel that was better than the original.

Therefore, he had the idea of ​​introducing this novel to France. His company, Grasset Publishing House, was one of the most famous literary publishing houses in France.

The man who was chatting and laughing with Lin Chaoyang at this time was Clement Metayer, an employee of Gallimard Publishing House, their biggest competitor in France, who was in charge of foreign literature publishing.

Gallimard Publishing House is more powerful and famous than Grasset Publishing House. Julio Berne watched the two of them talking and laughing, and he felt full of regret.

I should have agreed to Lin's request earlier.