Chapter 129 After the Coronation
When Su Yun slowly walked off the stage, the expressions of the people in the audience were truly varied.
Since "Perfect Love" has already won a Best Actress trophy, there is basically no hope for her to win the final grand prize, the Palme d'Or - but even if she did not win the Palme d'Or with her "last" co-production, the 12-year-old Best Actress is still a legend of the era.
As the final chapter of her career as an actress, this Best Actress award brings her more than just honor.
Those people were reluctant to give her the Palme d'Or for Best Picture. A very important reason was that they were afraid that the actors with oriental faces in the film would get a chance to rise through this. So they made a compromise after weighing the pros and cons and only supported her, a child star who seemed to have no future development opportunities and had basically been hanging around in Hollywood.
But for Su Yun, a worker who had experienced all kinds of marketing methods in later generations and even personally engaged in marketing, and with Ovitz, whose marketing thinking and methods were very smart and advanced, the content of the award was secondary: as long as they won a prize of sufficient weight in Cannes, the subsequent matter of selling the film would be an important bargaining chip of considerable weight.
Although it is mixed with many elements of art films, the movie "Perfect Match" is positioned as a commercial film from beginning to end, and its biggest goal is to make more box office money.
So Su Yun walked off the stage with peace of mind, gave Tom and Ovitz, who also had smiles on their faces, a triumphant hug, and expressed her joy excitedly.
Knowing that Su Yun's goal this time was the Cannes International Film Festival, and that this was her last film in which she changed her character image, Hong Kong also sent reporters over.
Although winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the time would have caused a stir among local film companies, it would be a lie to say that I wasn't excited to see my compatriot being recognized on foreign turf.
Today, even though Su Yun has suspended her filming career to return to her studies, this "last" movie has also tried its best to get the greatest glory, a Best Actress trophy!
This is the greatest honor that the people from Hong Kong can get in a foreign country after the Zhao Film Company won the Technical Award in Cannes - and Su Yun had already won a Technical Award in Cannes once before. It can be said that the entire Zhao Group is not as capable as Su Yun alone!
Thinking of the gossip that both Lu Shaolong and Su Yun first went to Zhao and were rejected, and finally went to Jiahe... the reporter was inspired and wrote quickly. After describing the grand occasion of Su Yun's award in a very exaggerated way, he continued to summarize Su Yun's experience in an exaggerated way and combined it with the history of Lu Shaolong and Jiahe's rise to fame, mocking Zhao openly and secretly.
They had heard of Zhao's film company. Although it was struggling to support itself with new-style costume martial arts films created by the old men and a group of handsome young action stars, Jiahe had already started on the road to doubling the box office of 8 million. You know, the highest-grossing movie in 1975 was "The Genius and the Idiot" produced by Jiahe with 4.55 million. But at the end of last year, Jiahe bravely broke its own box office record set last year, with a box office of 8.53 million, leading the way, more than double the second place "Jumping Ash" with 3.87 million.
If Su Yun was not a star of a co-production and therefore not easily counted as a local achievement, Zhao's annual box office title, which was won by sheer quantity, would have been dethroned by Chia Ho, which has two money-making magic weapons, the Hui brothers and Su Yun.
I originally thought that Su Yun would never recover after being banned in Taiwan, but unexpectedly, only half a year later, she fought back beautifully with her last movie.
With a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress trophy in hand, even if she can no longer make it in the Asian market, as long as she can lower her profile, she will probably be offered some supporting roles in Europe and America, right?
Su Yun doesn't look like she will grow up to be disabled, not to mention that she is still studying during this period. As the saying goes, a man of learning is a man of virtue. In a few years, when the rumors have died down, Su Yun will have no worries about Hollywood movies when she grows up, relying on her previous Oscar and Cannes film awards.
The world is truly mysterious!
The reporter quickly wrote down the thoughts and ideas in his mind, then quickly took a dozen photos and sent them back to Hong Kong along with the manuscript for printing.
The day the award news was published in newspapers and magazines, the whole of Hong Kong went crazy.
Although knowledgeable people know that Su Yun is able to win big awards in foreign film awards because she took advantage of co-productions, this is not the case for ordinary people!
They just knew that it was their compatriot who won the Best Actress trophy at a prestigious film festival abroad!
I don’t care what the movie is like! I don’t care how many foreign actors are in it and whether it is produced and distributed by a foreign country! As long as the winner is one of our own - that’s enough.
While enjoying the carnival, many people thought of Taiwan's banning order that was imposed on Taiwan last year without any reason: even if there is no actress to join, Su Yun's status is already the only one among the female artists in Hong Kong. Now add the title of the youngest movie queen, and this is their most outstanding local artist!
Now, the award-winning film has been shown in the United States, and France has also shown it and even gave it a big prize, but it hasn’t been shown in theaters here yet!
This is outrageous!
Hearing the clamor for "The Fault in Our Stars" to be screened in Taiwan, Zou Yunhua sat in his office and pressed his forehead in distress: It's not that he doesn't want to release "The Fault in Our Stars", but the attitude of the Taiwanese is still not good...
If he just shows Su Yun's movies in the cinema, maybe the cinema chains he has that have cooperated with Taiwan will say goodbye to Jiahe from now on.
Otherwise, he would not be willing to let Su Yun go, along with all her previous movies, just to make his and Jiahe's position clear to Taiwan.
Who doesn’t want to make money?
What he was afraid of was that after making money this time, there would be no follow-up for one reason or another, so he had to give up Su Yun and choose the more stable Xu brothers.
Even though Su Yun is earning more and more foreign exchange now, it's a pity that a girl is still a girl after all. She used to be able to get into Hollywood and share a piece of the pie by relying on the bonus of a child star, but as she gets older, she can only be a supporting actress or a supporting actress.
Movies starring women have never sold as well as those starring men. Occasionally they may be popular once or twice, but that is only for a short time and then there will be no follow-up.
But it's different for men. The box office of the Xu brothers' comedy films has been rising steadily and significantly. Recently, he has seen that Hong Ganbao, Chen Xuanlong and others are showing signs of rekindling the glory of modern martial arts films. Su Yun, who has not been able to appear in front of the screen in recent years, is really a chicken rib compared to others.
Zou Yunhua was not the only one who thought so.
Zhao Rifu looked at the newspapers praising Su Yun and mocking his own film company, and just chuckled: "These reporters always like to write nonsense like this, misleading ordinary people."
"Otherwise, how can we attract people to come and see us?" Fang Mona said with a smile as she brought him a cup of ginseng tea.
"Su Yun, this young girl, does have some potential, but it's a pity that she took the wrong stance and ruined her own future." Zhao Rifu looked at the photo in the newspaper and then tapped the table. "If she had announced her retirement from the entertainment industry after last year's incident, or had relied on her previous experience to switch to working behind the scenes, she might have been saved."
"That's right. I've read the general plot of her film, Red Mansions: The End of the World. She has some ideas. If she can settle down and work behind the scenes, it's not impossible for Zhao to sign her and ensure her continued development in the circle." Fang Mona sighed: Zhao's Film Company is only glorious in appearance. The subject matter has become overly conservative because the older generation in the company is still in charge. If it continues like this, it will not survive for more than ten years.
If Su Yun could join the Zhao family and work behind the scenes, with the support of the Zhao family and her qualifications, she might be able to break through and rebuild after a few years.
"She just did the opposite and loved to be in the spotlight, which is a taboo for those working behind the scenes." Zhao Rifu shook his head. "She sent her film to an international film festival to compete for awards. It's obvious that she is reluctant to give up her status in front of the camera, so she is desperately trying to increase the stakes for herself, hoping to fight back or even make a comeback."
But how can the power of an individual fight against the political vortex created by many people?
Apparently, Su Yun has been used as an example by Taiwan to warn others, so this is no longer a problem that can be solved with money alone. Instead, someone needs to do everything they can to help her get out of this whirlpool so that she can see the light of day in the Asian market again.
Most of Chia-ho's market share depends on Taiwan's cinema chains, so Chia-ho and her old friend Zou Yun-hua are not able to and are not qualified to help her.
Looking at the whole of Hong Kong, apart from those British politicians, only Zhao has the ability to promote reconciliation.
However, it was impossible for Zhao to devote so much effort to helping her opponent. When she sent people to help her once, she still had the idea of losing the teeth and lips and the precaution of not allowing Taiwan to absolutely suppress the mainland, so she launched a joint counterattack.
The Zhao family no longer wanted to make this trip to Hunshui again.
We should focus more of our attention and thoughts on the television industry. Mona is right. In the future, big-screen movies will sooner or later be killed by pirated videotapes. Only the television industry that strives to transform and vigorously develops the small-screen industry can survive.
I heard that Su Yun wants to contact the mainland market and send the movie there - I am really speechless about the thinking of these little girls. Hong Kong is backed by the entire Asian market, and the ticket price is so high that even the middle and upper classes in Asia can't make much money in the film industry. And they want to send it back to the mainland and regress? !
Are you really going to fight to the death with Taiwan?
Every penny counts, even if the population of mainland China exceeds 100 million, how much can it contribute to the box office revenue?
The price of movie tickets in Hong Kong has been rising year after year, and even the last-minute seats cost several dollars each!
Moreover, they have a policy where one place pays a price to buy the broadcasting rights, and then allows the subordinate cities, counties, and towns to broadcast the rights for free. This system is like a buy-and-sell system, and it is the biggest disadvantage in film sales.
Maybe it's the idea of grabbing as much as you can, right?
Without witnessing and experiencing the miracles created by the demographic dividend, no one would believe that the fight in the entertainment war could be launched by relying on inland ticket warehouses.
All of them were waiting for the moment when Su Yun, who had just climbed back to the pinnacle of her career, would fall heavily from the highest point.
Unfortunately, history will eventually prove that if you want to climb to the highest peak, you must be down-to-earth and rely on the sincere efforts of millions of people.