Chapter 127: Battle of Cannes

Although the great opportunity that came with the reform and opening up has not yet come to her, Su Yun, who has lost half of her market due to being banned in the eyes of the world, has already started a "self-rescue" strategy in secret.

If she is banned, at most they will ban her from appearing in front of the screen. But if she turns around and puts on a vest, can't she still play the role behind the scenes?

Not to mention that she has a bunch of hidden side jobs that are completely unaffected by Taiwan's attitude.

It doesn't matter if she can't gain both fame and fortune now. She can first put on a vest to gain the fortune, and then become stronger with the support of the motherland. Once the vest is revealed, the long-awaited fame and praise will eventually return to her.

Although Su Yun couldn't get along with the idiots who lived across the water from her, she had no intention of getting along with money.

Therefore, in the scriptwriting column of the play "The Last Red Mansion", she used a pseudonym "Wang Tongyi" - for those who have experienced the great era of the Internet in later generations, who doesn't have a few pseudonyms?

For people like Su Yun, who are born as social animals and programmers, whether it is work-related or personal relationships, they have done many things such as pretending to be a water army and brushing data. Even now, only opening a pseudonym is considered a moderate approach: literati like her teacher Zheng Guoguang Zheng Sir, who have to maintain their reputation as literati while making money to support their families, have at least five or six pseudonyms in their hands, and then rely on this unruly operation of pretending to be a pseudonym to get jobs in all related companies in Hong Kong...

After agreeing on the signature of the vest, Su Yun hurriedly spent the New Year with her family in Hong Kong, and then went to the airport to catch a flight with the Wang family's eldest brother and his wife and old friend Wang Jiaju.

After more than a year of study, Wang Jiaju's Japanese was almost perfect. Considering that most schools in Japan start in April, Su Yun discussed with the Wang family and decided to send him to Japan in advance to adapt to the environment.

As for why she spent a few more days going to Japan, it was because George Lucas was overworked and had high blood pressure, so he had to be hospitalized for a week. Therefore, without the guidance of a director, it was not easy for Su Yun to directly join the group and get involved in the affairs.

So she made an appointment with Lucas that before going to the ILM headquarters in California, she would first go to Japan to see a friend off, check on the sales of Nintendo's new consoles and the progress of new game production, and visit director Akira Kurosawa on her behalf regarding some issues related to "Star Wars". She did so many things at once.

The first is a personal matter, and the second is from Star Wars, which Lucas wrote and directed. In addition to the Vietnam War, which ended not long ago, the characters and story lines of Star Wars also refer to Akira Kurosawa's first wide-screen movie, Sengoku. If you pay attention, you can see that many of the characters in the movie are based on Sengoku.

After all, in the 1960s, Akira Kurosawa made Japanese films international with "Seven Samurai" and broke the Western world's monopoly in the film industry with films with oriental characteristics. He then quietly permeated this transitional period of film exploration and had a profound impact on young directors in the wave of the New Hollywood Movement.

Lucas, who has been a fan of Akira Kurosawa since his student days, clearly imitated the film techniques of "Star Wars" in the opening and ending clips of the new movie "Star Wars" he wrote and shot. The main plot also pays tribute to the rescue and escort of the princess in "Star Wars". Even the term "Jedi Knight" and the popular lightsaber in the film were influenced by Japanese samurai and Japanese samurai swords.

It is precisely because of these new elements of film culture, and with the efforts of filmmakers in Asia and other continents, which have continuously poured into the rolling tide of this era, that a new era of film that builds on the past and opens up the future has been created.

If Su Yun could get feedback on the new film from his idol and the person he pays tribute to, it would definitely be more valuable than bringing anything to California.

So, after settling Wang Jiaju down with Wang's eldest brother and his wife, Su Yun hurried to Nintendo again. After checking out the current progress of the new console and new games, she also brought back a new console trial package and a bunch of parts that were originally customized along with Nintendo's large order.

Su Yun gave the new game console to her old friend Wang Jiaju as a back-to-school gift, and also gave him the contact information of Lin Jiashu, who had been looking forward to his coming to Japan to join the band. Su Yun clapped her hands and began to pack the chips and parts with shock-proof foam plastic materials.

Once everything is packed, she will be the one to check it in to ILM's headquarters in California - the most useless thing for post-production special effects is not the human brain but the computer, especially computers of this era... In short, it's always better to have some extras in case of emergency.

After finishing her personal affairs, Su Yun went out to visit Kurosawa Akira, and then boarded a plane to California with a large notebook full of handwritten notes.

After taking Su Yun in, Lucas, who had just been discharged from the hospital, took the notebook and dove into it, unable to pull himself out.

Seeing how eager he was to learn, Su Yun, who had already been introduced once, sighed and shook her head, then turned around and went to the small dark room where special effects were made.

In the small dark room, five young men who were bald before their age took a look at Su Yun. After confirming that she was one of their own, they continued to move their fingers and type the next line of code.

Good special effects are all created by spending money and time. With the mentality of sharpening the knife before chopping wood, Su Yun stood in the middle of the room and used the system cameras to transcend the normal social distance and see the content of the nearby screens clearly.

Very good, they are worthy of being the top special effects team in the industry. Now they have the demeanor of future bigwigs.

Working in a small dark room to do post-production special effects is an extremely boring and even irritating job. After working for more than a month, only after confirming over and over again that there were no bugs did Su Yun and the other five members of the team, each with a pair of panda eyes, hand over the processed master tape to Lucas.

"Are you planning to go to Cannes with me? 'The Fault in Our Stars' has been shortlisted for this year's main competition," Su Yun asked.

Although "The Fault in Our Stars" became the annual box office champion in North America last year with a box office of 130 million, the second place, the classic movie "Rocky" starring Sylvester Stallone, only had a box office difference of more than 13 million.

The filming cost of the latter is only one-tenth of that of "The Fault in Our Stars".

Moreover, in terms of subject matter, "Rocky" is a typical American dream and American spirit, and is more popular with the mainstream population locally than the nostalgic and fresh style of "The Fault in Our Stars".

A big part of the reason why "The Fault in Our Stars" won the annual box office championship is that the subject matter is suitable for family viewing, and last year's ban incident attracted so much attention that people thought it was Su Yun's last work in front of the camera... Therefore, it almost suppressed the classic "Rocky".

Hearing this posthumous misunderstanding, Su Yun didn't know whether to laugh or cry: Never mind, she has grown up when she returned to the screen three years later, so it's not wrong to consider it as a "posthumous work" of her girlish image.

However, although it was a narrow win at the box office, in order to avoid the momentum of "Rocky" that was about to sweep the Oscars, Su Yun and Ovitz decided to send "The Fault in Our Stars" to Cannes - not only was the subject matter of this film more suitable for France, but most importantly, there were no big names participating in this year's 30th Cannes International Film Festival.

Previously, Su Yun won a special type of technical award, so she did not study the details of the film festival awards in detail. Now that she plans to focus on film festivals, she quickly started to learn relevant knowledge from Ovitz.

Different from the Academy Awards such as the Oscars, Césars, and British Academy Awards which are basically equivalent to annual commendation ceremonies; the most important point of the Class A international film festival, in addition to being for communication and promotion, is to sell films.

Especially those that have won awards, they sell better.

The films that are shortlisted for the main competition units are the protagonists of the film festival, while the other units are mostly aimed at discovering and supporting new filmmakers. Newcomers also mix in these non-competitive units, seeking a chance to stand out.

Generally speaking, the former is the King's game, and the latter is the Novice's game.

Unless you are a super newbie, writing in your resume that your film was nominated for other categories of the film festival is just to fool outsiders.

Once a film participating in a Category A film festival is shortlisted for the main competition, all the actors in the film are automatically entered, regardless of whether they are the main or supporting actors, so there are no Best Supporting Actor or Actress awards, let alone nominations for Best Actor or Actress awards; there are only the Best Actor and Best Actress awards, commonly known as the Best Actor and Best Actress awards.

As long as the film is shortlisted for the main competition, all the actors are nominated. Therefore, Su Yun has a great advantage in winning the Best Actor Award for starring in the star-studded drama "Perfect Love".

However, both she and Ovitz want to win the Palme d'Or for Best Picture.

Unfortunately, the famous stars in the movie are now busy with work. After much deliberation, Su Yun finally set her sights on the movie's male lead Tom and planned to take him out to see the world.

After calling Tom's home in New Jersey in advance to say that she had something to visit, Su Yun was driven there by Ovitz in the afternoon.

Hearing that Su Yun was going to take their son to the French Film Festival, Tom's parents thought for a while, and finally decided to put his future first and gritted their teeth and accepted Su Yun's invitation.

Seeing that his parents had agreed to his request to go on a long trip, Tomton happily prepared to pack his luggage as he didn't have to go to school and could go out to play.

"Remember to bring the birthday present I gave you before!" Su Yun reminded.

"Don't worry, I'll take it well. I've even got an extra set of batteries! It's really convenient to have!" Sitting on a pile of messy clothes, Tom answered without raising his head while packing.

"I'm not talking about that reading pen - you definitely can't leave it alone." Su Yun raised her voice, "I'm talking about the pair of height-enhancing sneakers I gave you!"

Hearing this, Tom's hands, which were packing up, immediately choked.

Su Yun walked out without any conscience: It turns out that in these days, the genes and development of teenagers are not as good as those of the new generation who will grow up with good food and drink in the future.

Besides! Who made you love wrestling so much? It's normal that you don't grow tall!

Why not change your hobby to playing basketball or jumping on the trampoline? Or even hold hands with Donny and others and jump back and forth in the 170 Club?

When Tom heard from Su Yun that the growth and development of height requires sufficient nutrition and more high jump exercises, so that there is a chance for "hard work can make up for lack of talent" to continue to grow taller through secondary development, although he was still a little skeptical, he listened to it very seriously and went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of milk after finishing it.

Comforted by his youngest sister Marian's generous words "Drink it first and grow taller quickly", Tom, who didn't like the taste of milk very much, endured the discomfort in his mouth and heart and drank the bottle of milk anyway.