You Made Me a Superstar

   Chapter 52 Elimination

  The 56th Berlin International Film Festival was chaired by Charlotte Sally as the jury chairman of the main competition unit.

   She is a British actress who often wears black dresses to attend various occasions. Although she is almost 60 years old, she still has a charming charm when she walks.

  Yan Film Academy has a film appreciation course, in which the movies are complicated, but whether they are domestic or foreign, whether they are released in public or banned underground, they will be shown as internal appreciation teaching materials.

   Among them, Charlotte Sally's "The Little Tailor" is a movie that every class of students cannot avoid.

The film "The Little Tailor" tells the story of the people living in **** in the ruins of Germany after World War II. The core of the story is the reflection after the war. A classic anti-war movie.

The film was a sensation when it was released. Not only did it shine at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival, but it also allowed the young and beautiful Charlotte Sally to step on the stage of an era, not only amazed all the people present at the time with her beauty She also convinced a group of cunning judges with her deep acting skills, and won the well-deserved Best Actress of that year!

   Some people think that was the pinnacle of her life.

   But no one thought it would be just the beginning.

   Hereafter...

Charlotte Sally is just like the sky chasing the food. She has made films such as "Peace and War", "Assassin", "Voyager" and other well-known box office hits, and once swept the 60s to the 80s. The three major international film festivals in Europe have amazed an era...

Since then, he has been silent for more than ten years due to family problems, and he no longer participates in major film festivals. Even the invitation to award awards refuses all activities related to the film on the grounds that he is busy with housework. The paparazzi can't see it.

  Many filmmakers feel that it is a pity.

   But in my heart, I think that maybe this is the best ending. At the best age, it is better to leave the most beautiful back in the movie circle than a hero who is twilight and a beauty with a white head!

  Twenty years have passed.

   Just after many young people no longer remember this young woman, a movie suddenly brought her into the public eye again...

   The movie is called "Gunfire".

  The film was nominated for the 72nd Academy Awards, and Charlotte Sally appeared in the Oscar nomination for Best Actress…

   When she appeared at the awards ceremony in an evening dress, there was a sensation, and many people stood up to pay tribute. James Bond, the king of horror in Hollywood, kissed his hand excitedly, like a child...

  No one could have imagined that the old lady who was often amiable but was actually the biggest BOSS in the whole movie was actually played by Charlotte Sally.

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   February 10th.

   "This year there are a lot of Chinese films registered to participate..."

   Sunny afternoon.

In the    office, Charlotte Celie received a lot of calls from Huaxia.

   After answering the phone, her emotions were a little complicated.

   She opened last year's Berlin International Film Festival registration film.

   She found that a total of ten Chinese films signed up for the exhibition last year, and three films were nominated, but none of the Chinese films were to be seen in the final awards.

  The films registered for the exhibition this year are even more exaggerated!

   From last year’s ten films to twenty films, it doubled directly…

   Don’t these Huaxia directors think that the more films you sign up for, the more nominations you can get shortlisted, and the higher the probability of winning, right?

As long as it is a big investment movie that is slightly related to literature and art, it will go to the film festival in one go, and after it is finished, it will call around to find a relationship, and invite the judges of the jury to know people for various meals, parties, etc. Even carrying gifts in person and bringing some heavyweight actors to visit...

   She once felt that these Huaxia directors were a little stunned!

   But then, he smiled helplessly.

   In fact, not only the directors of Huaxia do this, but many other directors do this, and there are more exaggerated forms.

  For a moment...

  Charlotte Celie had another indescribable sense of disappointment.

   She felt that the Berlin International Film Festival began to change slowly.

   From the beginning, the awards were purely based on the selection of films, and gradually began to become the awards of "human feelings", and the number of finalists at the Berlin International Film Festival has even become a "deal".

   She even felt that many people around her were constantly corroding the authority of the Berlin International Film Festival in various ways.

   But it happens...

   She was powerless to change the status quo.

   "dududu"

  Her phone rang.

   She answered the phone subconsciously.

   "Dear Zhou, have you arrived in Berlin today?"

  “…”

   "Okay, um... I don't need dinner, I have a meeting later... To tell you the truth, I hope our friendship is not mixed with other factors..."

  “…”

   "Of course, I will give priority to discussing the "Warring States" project at the meeting... The "Warring States" project, I will be in the first place!"

  “…”

   After hanging up the phone, Charlotte Celie silently opened the copy of "Warring States" and read it carefully...

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  The Spring Festival in 2006 is the month for the protection of domestic films.

  Foreign blockbusters can’t get in, and basically all domestic films are fighting on the field.

   In the past, there were many Chinese movie blockbusters during the Spring Festival, but since "Tianji" and the double collapse of the box office and word of mouth in the second half of 2005, the whole Spring Festival in 2006 appeared gloomy and bleak.

   are basically some semi-comedy, semi-local New Year movies such as "Only on Liangshan", "Second World", "Village Officials New Year".

Of course, the box office of Lunar New Year movies joined by veteran comedy stars Fan Yi and Zhang Bend is not bad. Basically, they broke 7 million yuan on the same day. Nine million at the box office!

  The overall quality of the movie is not too bad. After entering the cinema, the audience can also be amused and laughed a few times by a few burdens.

   However, after watching the movie, let you recall what the plot in the movie is...

   Many people don't remember it!

Especially the movie "Village Officials' New Year's Eve", the only thing they remember is that the first half of the movie was really funny, and the second half suddenly appeared a large-scale sensational clip. end in.

   Special!

   And more than one movie is this kind of dumpling ending, the comedy martial arts movie called "Second World" also has dumplings.

   Not much disappointment...

   is just a pity.

   Without the ravages of foreign blockbusters, although the box office of domestic films and the income of filmmakers have been protected, at least they can have a good year, but the audience always feels that something is missing.

   Instead, they became interested in the next few films from mid-February to March.

   The two films "Heroes" and "Warring States", the former film was filmed by five-generation director Shen Changwei for two years, and even directly invested a huge sum of 200 million to build a Qinwangcheng for this film! The latter is the movie "Warring States" shot by five generations of commercial director Zhou Yilin with a group of celebrities...

   The promotion of "Warring States" and "Heroes" is almost overwhelming, even worse than the previous "Tianji"!

  The subway station platform, major TV variety shows, behind-the-scenes advertisements in major theaters, scandals and hot searches between various stars are full of shadows of these two movies.

   Relevant departments turned a blind eye, and even relaxed some conditions very abnormally.

  The situation of Huaxia Movies is not very good.

The failure of "Tianji" has hit the morale of domestic blockbusters. Although there are no Hollywood directors who ridicule domestic blockbusters, Chinese movie fans are more or less disappointed. The Internet is full of self-mockery and discouragement aimed at our Chinese movies. Speaking of which, many people are even scolding the leaders of relevant departments, thinking that they are blind and support some rubbish...

   The leaders of Huaxia are also under pressure and feel that their faces are dull, and they urgently need a few movies to return blood back and forth to save face...

   "The day of the expedition of domestic films!"

   "Twenty domestic films have officially landed in Berlin!"

   "This year is the most promising year for domestic films, a breakthrough in historical character!"

"The reason why I set "Warring States" in March is not for other reasons, but to compete with the movie "Pirates" directed by Hollywood Pitt, we are old rivals, and at the Berlin International Film Festival, I will Meet Pete!"

  “…”

  “…”

   In addition to the overwhelming publicity, the Berlin International Film Festival is also a direction for the promotion of domestic films.

  Whether it was Zhou Yilin or Shen Changwei, both of them recklessly sprinted for the Berlin International Film Festival, waiting for the announcement of the finalists.

   In comparison…

   "The Bottom of the Mine" looks very humble, there is no big celebrity propaganda, and there is no content to build momentum. No one knows what movie this is, and no one cares what movie it is.

  Many people just glanced at the registration list, and then discovered Zhou Yang, a new and unfamiliar director.

Then?

  No then.

   Every year, many new directors sign up for Berlin out of their own ability. They can’t possibly pay attention to all of them, right?

  ……………………

   Zhou Yang didn't care about that.

  For him, "The Bottom of the Mine" is just a short journey, and he has completed everything in this journey and has gotten off the bus.

   As for the future ending, Zhou Yang doesn't care.

  There are many things out of your control, the more hope you have, the greater the hope in the end.

  The original time and space "Blind Well" actually won an award, this time and space...

  There are too many competitors, and all kinds of human and sophistication are mixed in it, all of them are red-eyed, and no one can say anything.

   After the meeting that day, Zhou Yang agreed to Wang Shuai's invitation and joined the crew of "The Crow".

   However, he did not immediately pack up into the group, but still stayed in the company, busy with the album "Girls Waving Wings"!

   This album is ready to be released on February 20th.

   Time is tight.

   For this album, Wu Zhenhong dragged Zhou Yang into the recording studio to test songs every day, and tortured Jiang Shushu over and over again!

   But there is no doubt that Jiang Shushu is a lucky one.

   In order to open up the situation in the music industry, Huaxing Company naturally spent a lot of money to make albums for her, and even spent money to buy some navy soldiers on the Internet to cooperate and hype...

  …………………………

   February 15th.

   On the eve of the release of the movie "Youth", there was a knock on the door of An Xiao's office.

   Then, Zhong Tingting, her newly recruited assistant last month, had red eyes and lowered her head, as if she had been greatly wronged, and ran in in a panic.

   "Boss An, something happened."

"What's wrong?"

   "Manager Xu smashed the computer in the editing room, scolded everyone, and threatened to beat up Zhou Yang. Now he's driving his car toward the recording studio, and we can't stop him..."

   "What!" After hearing the news, An Xiao stood up instantly, her face changed greatly!

Just at this time……

  Her phone rang.

   She picked up the phone subconsciously.

   "Warring States, the first round of review was eliminated by Berlin..."

   (end of this chapter)