Millennium director

The Berlin premiere of "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle" was a blast.

Including the film crew of "Love You Love Me" that Baodao was shortlisted for the main competition unit, Wang Xiaoshuai invited the crews of seven or eight shortlisted films, plus local Berlin film critics, film festival jury, etc., he can The screening room, which accommodates two to three hundred people, was almost full.

Wu Yuan, who was sitting in the front row, also saw his version of "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle" for the first time.

Well, except for the replacement of the male protagonist, everything else is almost the same as the original "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" in Wu Yuan's memory.

Even the cover poster of the movie shows him with his hands on the handlebars, unbuttoning his white shirt, pedaling his bicycle into the wind, with a bright smile on his face.

Facts have once again proved that actors are really not the most important thing in the films of the sixth generation directors.

Even if the actors were changed, the whole movie remained unchanged, and it still received full applause after the premiere.

"Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" is at least in line with the local appetite in Berlin.

Wang Xiaoshuai keenly examines the changes that China's modernization has brought to the lives of many ordinary people through the film's protagonists' subtle involvement in social issues.

With the help of a bicycle, it cleverly reflects the conflict between popular culture and consumerism of this era and traditional Chinese family culture.

Including the visual intersection between alleys and modern high-rise buildings throughout the film, it is also a symbol of the opposition between old and new issues.

This film also shows that Wang Xiaoshuai wants to explore from social realism films to more commercial film fields.

Compared with his previous naked, critical, and boundary-breaking literary films, this "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" is really very subtle.

After the premiere, in the early morning of the same day, the Berlin venue magazine gave an on-site score of 2.9, ranking fourth among the 23 films shortlisted for the main competition!

Early the next morning, staff from the Berlin Film Festival organizers came to the hotel to notify the crew of "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle" to attend the final closing ceremony.

Being notified to participate in the closing ceremony actually implies that there will be a prize at the end.

No matter what the prize is, you won’t leave empty-handed!

Among the jury members of this year's Berlin Film Festival is Director Xie Fei, a famous Chinese film director, screenwriter, and producer. He graduated from the Directing Department of the Film Academy in 1965 and stayed at the school to teach.

This is the ancestor of Wang Xiaoshuai and Wu Yuan!

With him fighting hard for "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle" on the jury, we can still look forward to awards!

It was only then that Wang Xiaoshuai finally calmed down.

After greeting the crew members to change into their formal attires, in the evening everyone got into the limousine and headed to the closing ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival.

The top three in Europe are different from the Oscars.

The Oscars tend to be entertainment-oriented. Not only will some talk show actors be invited to be hosts, but there will also be various performance sessions, live interactive banter, and the like.

But old Europe is different. Old Europe pays more attention to the seriousness of art.

Specific to the Berlin Film Festival, except for the red carpet, the closing ceremony of the entire Berlin Film Festival was relatively dry.

After the crew of "Seventeen Years Old Cycling" entered the awards venue, everyone sat in their seats and briefly said hello to the crew of "Love You Love Me", and the awards ceremony began.

There was no opening act and no cabaret.

The chairman of the film festival led the jury members to the stage and gave a speech looking forward to the art of film, and then began to award awards directly.

Wu Yuan, who participated in the three major awards for the first time, was very uncomfortable. In his memory, it seemed that most award ceremonies were entertainment-oriented, and such serious ones were really rare.

But Wang Xiaoshuai is used to it. This is the case in European Class A film festivals.

"Italian Language Class" won the International Film Critics FIPRESCI Award.

"Know My Heart" won the Special Award for Humanitarian Spirit.

"The Joy and Fury" won the Teddy Award for Best Picture.

Awards were awarded quickly, and the winning crew came on stage to give speeches.

The crew of "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle" also applauded every winner.

Soon, the awards for non-main competition units were awarded, and the award ceremony reached its climax.

Starting with the Blue Angel Award for Best European Film, the awards for the main competition units began to be awarded.

When each award was presented, Wang Xiaoshuai clenched his fists and muttered nervously: "Don't award it to me, don't award it to me."

The prizes awarded earlier are of lower value, and the original site of the main competition unit is to divide the cake as much as possible, and a film can only win 2 prizes at most.

Wang Xiaoshuai naturally hopes not to hear the words ""Seventeen-year-old Bicycle"" too early!

But soon the movie was mentioned.

"The winner of the Best New Actor Award is——!"

"Cui Lin, Wu Yuan - "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle"!"

Everyone around them looked at Wu Yuan and Cui Lin, and applause burst out.

Cui Lin was stared at by so many people for the first time. He was stunned, his mind went blank, and he didn't know how to react.

At this critical moment, Wu Yuan took Cui Lin's shoulders and stood up, smiling and nodding to the congratulatory guests.

By the time Cui Lin came to his senses, he and Wu Yuan were already standing on the awards podium, holding the trophy together.

The trophy for the best newcomer is not a silver bear, let alone a golden bear, it's just a big glass wine glass.

But Cui Lin still smiled very happily, with wrinkles on his 19-year-old face.

"Thank you, thank you to the Berlin Film Festival, and thank you to director Wang Xiaoshuai for choosing me to star in this movie."

After blushing and thanking the film festival and Wang Xiaoshuai in Chinese, Cui Lin didn't know what to say. He held it in for a long time before adding: "Mom, Dad, I won the award!"

Although most of the guests present could not understand Chinese, they all sent kind smiles and applause.

Compared with Cui Lin, Wu Yuan is much more calm.

After Cui Lin finished his speech, he stood in front of the microphone and said in fluent English: "This is my first time to attend the Berlin Film Festival, and I didn't expect to win the award."

"What I didn't expect was that the first award I won in Berlin would be Best New Actor."

"You may not know that I am a director and the junior fellow student of our director Wang Xiaoshuai at the same school."

"Thank you to director Wang Xiaoshuai for choosing me to star in the movie "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle"."

"In order to make this movie, the director worked very hard and the actors worked very hard."

"For the first time as an actor, I felt how difficult it is to make a movie."

"This is my first time acting in a movie, and it may be my last."

"I feel very honored to be able to dedicate my only experience as an actor to this film!"

"Thank you again to the jury and to the Berlin Film Festival. I will remember this day!"