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- Tokyo Film Festival Grand Prize: "Pray to the Snow"
Judges¡¯ Special Award: ¡°Conversations with Women¡±, Hans Canossa
Best Director Award: Negishi Yoshitaro, "Pray to the Snow"
Best Actress Award: Helena Bonham Carter, "Conversations with Women"; Jin Yaqin, "The Two of Us"
Best Actor Award: Hiroshi Sato, "Pray to the Snow"
Best Artistic Contribution Award: "Loach Is Also a Fish", Yang Yazhou
Audience Award: "Praying to the Snow", Kitaro Negishi
Kurosawa Akira Award: Hou Hsiao-hsien
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"Little Miss Sunshine" has only one nomination for the Tokyo Film Festival Grand Prize in the main competition unit (a total of 15 films competed), and Ye Wei still has not achieved a breakthrough in non-school awards.
Not to mention a sweep, not to mention a grand prize, there is nothing. But LMS has such a big background, with a talented director, a dream cast, received great praise at the film festival, and sincerely invited Peter Heller and Tim Roth to attend, but in the end they came away empty-handed.
"Pray to the Snow", which won four awards in one fell swoop, was the first Japanese film to win the Sakura Award since "Typhoon Club" at the first TIFF in 1985. In other words, only 2 of the 18 TIFFs were won by Japanese films. rule the roost. The four awards won by "Pray to the Snow" set a new record for the number of awards in a single TIFF event.
What¡¯s going on! ?
The jury was clearly in favor of LMS. No one was surprised when it won 5 awards. What¡¯s going on now?
The Asian media were astonished. Words such as "accident", "upset", "Little Miss Sunshine" received a cold reception, and "Ye Wei was defeated" were all used in the news reports.
After the news spread, the fans who were following the movie on the Chinese Internet were surprised and dissatisfied. Didn¡¯t the media say before that "Brother Wei will definitely win an award, but the question is how many awards will there be?"
Ye Lihanchi said: "I feel like there is something going on inside. Lao Mouzi, please stand up for Brother Wei and give justice to "Little Miss Sunshine"!" I said: "¨×s Yongyuan supports VI¦Ão§°, {WEIæŠæŠþ]©î "You!" The pig thought about it and said, "Why did Lao Mouzi let people bully Brother Wei like this? Will you die if you kill him?" The Japanese called his mother and said, "Passing by, the Diaoyu Islands belong to China." Not even the singer said: "What the hell! Zhongbi, I'm ready to refill the champagne and pick it up!"
This has become the biggest controversy at this year's TIFF. The media have not spared any efforts to dig deeper into the inside story. Gary Foster and Barry M. Osborne have already praised LMS to the Asian and American media and made their attitude clear. , they chose LMS, and others did not.
It turns out that the jury almost fell out, and all the different choices were due to choosing or not choosing LMS.
According to interviews with the media, although Ye Wei is Chinese, he did not get any preference from Zhang Yimou. He told the media: "The judges all fell in love with "Pray to the Snow" and "Little Miss Sunshine." It was difficult for us to choose. The end result is the majority choice.¡±
The two Japanese judges chose to support the local film industry. Ron Holloway has the commonality of Europeans who disdain Hollywood and chose a film that is even less Hollywood. Here are three votes.
The results are both 4:2, so Zhang Yimou didn¡¯t choose LMS and Ye Wei? Didn't choose any of them?
After the news broke, the Weimi people on the Chinese Internet were filled with anger, disappointment, doubts, and curses I thought it was a foreigner who stabbed Wei Ge, but it turned out to be the case!
In fact, many filmmakers and movie fans are not surprised by this. It is known that Zhang Yimou loves local-themed movies. "Pray to the Snow", "Loach Is Also a Fish" and "Two of Us" are all in line with his taste, and a film like LMS is of such great origin. For a film like an independent art film, Ye Wei is Chinese and there is a suspicion of favoritism in choosing him. Do you want artistic style or "one of your own"?
There are also many people who support the national treasure Lao Mouzi and praise him for being selfless and not choosing that little brat Ye Wei. What a great job!
"Ye Wei is a Hollywood commercial hype, specially here to defraud Chinese people of their money. It would be wrong not to choose him." Feng Zhenwen said. "It's such a disgrace to little Japan. I'm fooling this idiot Ye Wei." ¨tMr pulled Long Shao and said. "It's so nice to see Wei Mi barking wildly, Sunshine is so small for your mother." Riding a donkey chasing Rocket said. "Why is the editor getting paid to report on him all day long? I don't look at him anymore, just save it." My wife, who is a boss, said. Yanhua Liunian said: "Ye Wei is not Chinese! This kind of banana person hates China the most, and you still use him as a treasure, laugh!"
The Chinese Internet was very concerned, and the news spread back to North America, and some film and entertainment media also reported the result. The LMS, which was becoming unbeatable, suffered a disastrous defeat in the first battle! </>
Although TIFF¡¯s influence is limited, it sounds like it can¡¯t win at such a small film festival. Where can it win? Is its quality really good?
If TIFF takes care of Asian films, what happened to "Conversations with Women"?
This is an independent romantic comedy film made in the United States. It is really??'s independent film, the debut of "Gordon Street Images" company, cost only $450,000 to produce.
We also invited many stars, the biggest one being Helena Bonham Carter (1 Oscar nomination for Best Actress, "The Wings of the Dove"; and other masterpieces such as "Howards End" and "Fight Club"; Tim- Burton's wife, starring in a series of Burton's films), as well as Aaron Eckhart, Olivia Wilde and others.
It¡¯s not easy to hire these people for an art film with a production fee of $450,000. It can only pay dividends, but it will basically not be released in theaters, and the DVDs will not sell much. It is not about making money from acting in it, it is just about earning fame and acting in movies. What should I do if I act in a bad movie? The stars must agree that the creators are very talented. How about Harvard University?
The editor is Gabrielle Zevin, a graduate of Harvard University. She has just published the novel "The Other World". She is Asian and has the greatest connection between the film and Asia. The director is 35-year-old Hans Canosa, a Harvard student and a film master's dropout from New York University. This is his second film.
So "Conversations with Women" is even better than LMS! ?
It has participated in the Telluride Film Festival, etc., and has not seen any results, but it has won two awards at TIFF over LMS. It must not be that good. Is LMS that bad?
The media expressed confusion, because the praise for LMS was already ringing out, and the secretaries were disappointed. What a bastard, another zero!
This makes Wei Hei, who has been frustrated recently, finally feel happy. ZTelle laughed and said: "Ye Wei doesn't get respect in his hometown, which shows how annoying he is." SebastianKJ said: "Of course he takes everything from bad movies. No, it will be like this in the United States, Tom Hanks is really stupid this time, LOL.¡±
mightCard scolded: "Ye Wei, you piece of shit, go back to Japan!" Hadeel10 replied angrily: "You are Chinese, not Japanese! You idiot, you know that it was Japan, not China, that bombed Pearl Harbor, right?" Josephzzz Disdainfully said: "Is there a difference? Asians all look the same." Brigitte-D said: "Is there a difference between Britain and France? Is there a difference between Germany and Russia? What a bunch of idiots!"
The fact has become a fact. The first campaign of "Little Miss Sunshine" did not achieve the ideal results, which can be said to be very bad.
Peter Heller and Tim Roth returned to the United States with a bit of shame. No one knows whether it was because they did not do a good job or what, but many people really have huge prejudices against a 17-year-old director. It is obvious that It's unfair. The chairman of the jury also said, "Ye Wei is still young. It's not a good thing for him to win the award so early. He will have many opportunities in the future."
Even in Asia, we suffer this kind of treatment. It is not difficult to understand why there are zero eggs so far. In fact, it is still because of ethnicity. If Ye Wei was a white child, he would have already won the award and got soft, right?
Isn¡¯t that a good thing? This is really not a good thing now! The DreamWorks Distribution Department was very depressed. They thought they could win a few awards at TIFF. If Ye Wei won the Best Director Award, he would be the youngest Best Director in the A-category film festival in the world. How great would that be?
Let¡¯s not talk about the loss in publicity, but only the disadvantage in impacting the awards season. TIFF should have played the role of the first person to eat tomatoes. LMS will participate in competitions at major film festivals and major film awards in the future. In competition, the resistance will be much smaller and canvassing votes will be much easier.
The actors are fine, Hanks, Roberts and others don't need TIFF to prove themselves, and the screenwriters are fine too; the most important thing is the 17-year-old director. A best director is of great help to Ye Wei. Only with the first one can he have the second one. Two, but I didn¡¯t get it from TIFF, so it will definitely be more difficult in the future.
No matter what the reason is, Zhang Yimou's refusal to vote for Ye Wei may have killed the birth of the youngest Oscar nominee for Best Director.
After suffering this blow, the reputation of LMS must be higher and higher, so high that people cannot deny it and ignore it, so that Ye Wei can have new vitality. The response at the test screenings of LMS seems to be very good, but I wonder what the final evaluation will be from film critics and ordinary audiences
In terms of publicity, the expected help did not come true, so we can only pretend that it has never happened. Losing to "Conversations with Women" is a failure no matter how you say it.
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"Oh! I already know, it's too bad. Terry, look on the bright side, maybe Mr. Zhang understands me. I don't want my first director award to be won in Japan, haha! I know, I know It¡¯s not good for the awards season, maybe whatever, the film festival is closed.¡±
"This is very strange. Didn't you have a good conversation with Zhang? He should have chosen you."
"We had a very pleasant conversation before. I have seen all of his movies, and I love "Heroes". He has not seen mine, but we had a pleasant conversation."
"It doesn't make senseZhang is targeting you now. He won't choose you for any award. This is targeting you!"
"If there is a problem, I think it can only be that he invites me to star in his new film."?Little Prince, "A City Full of Golden Armor"? Yes that's what it's called. I rejected him. Mr. Zhang is not such a stingy person, right? I tend to think that I'm overthinking it, because he didn't have an unhappy tone on the phone, it was just like he was joking. "
"Come on, Yui, our movie is the best movie out there! It's better than "Conversations with Women"! How can you say we had a pleasant conversation? You didn't give him 'mianzi'. You must know more about face than me." What do you mean to the Chinese? You are too confused about this. You can promise him not to act after the film festival. You can think about it first!"
"Maybe I was confused. I just didn't think Zhang was a bad person, so I just said, 'No, thank you.'"
"We don't know who he is, so why don't you give him face?"
"I don't give him face because I respect him. Anyone who insists on giving face is not worthy of respect. I think he can be respected. There are six people in the jury, and four of them didn't choose me. Zhang didn't have the final say on this matter, so why only him? How to select? He has his own artistic considerations and his persistence. I will not identify anyone as a bad guy until the matter is determined."
"Oh, what the hell, sometimes you are very smart, sometimes you are just a child. Zhang is definitely targeting you. He is the chairman and he can influence the thoughts of other judges."
"This is all just speculation."
"Young man, this is not a guess. Gary Foster told Gary that for the Best Director Award, Ron Holloway was going to vote for you, it was Zhang. He said, 'The artistic value of "Little Miss Sunshine" "After "Praying to the Snow," the 55-year-old Kitaro Negishi deserves the award more than the 17-year-old Ye Wei." Holloway changed his mind.
"That only shows his thoughts. You can't say that others are bad people just because their thoughts are not conducive to you."
"Everything is fine. Now we are in trouble. To be precise, you are in trouble."
"As long as LMS can still be released, I won't have any trouble."
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Ye Wei is actually quite depressed about TIFF¡¯s zero success. He and his family and friends have been disappointed once again. How could he not be depressed?
He didn¡¯t know if Zhang Yimou was causing trouble. There was no way to verify this, but he really didn¡¯t want to make any assumptions because of it. The judges had the insistence of the judges. If he was a judge, his own thoughts must come first. What if this was the case with Zhang Yimou?
Today is Sunday, October 30, the day when "VIY" premieres. No matter what, he thinks he should live this day happily.
Lev and the others gathered together to watch, and asked him to go, but he said "no, thank you" without giving any face, he was shy! It's weird watching your own documentary with everyone. It¡¯s better to stay at home and watch it with your family. Nina is in Toronto this week and will attend the LMS premiere next week.
It¡¯s evening, and the festive atmosphere in the Ye family is getting stronger and stronger, as if it¡¯s the New Year. The bad news coming from Asia today cannot take away this joy.
"Brother is going to be on TV!" Duoduo ran around the house, sometimes in the hall, sometimes in the dining room, and sometimes in the back garden. Cookie doesn't know those bad things. She is the happiest. She has just turned 5 years old and only knows that her brother is amazing!
"Brother, brother, isn't Nana coming? Where does she live?"
"Toronto, we have to fly there. We will go to Toronto during the Christmas holidays."
The sunset dyed the sky red. In the back garden, Ye Wei was sitting on a wooden rocking chair and watching "Winter's Bone", answering Duoduo's questions that were running around with Toto. Suddenly, I saw my father walking out on the porch, holding a stack of DVDs and VHS in his arms, with a look of determination on his face.
He looked at it for a few times and asked doubtfully: "Dad, those areZhang Yimou's movie DVDs? What are you going to do? Don't be impulsive!!" By the end of the sentence, he was already exclaiming.
"From today on, I am no longer a fan of Zhang Yimou." Ye Haogen suddenly threw all the DVDs to the ground, picked up a smashed DVD and broke it, angrily: "Zhang Yimou is playing tricks on my son, I will Get him out of my library!"
"Dad, don't be impulsive!" Ye Wei got up and ran over, saying anxiously: "Put down that box of VHS!"
"Put it down." Ye Haogen threw "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" back to the ground in his hand, and immediately stepped on it hard, and the video tape exploded, "Done!"
"Oh my" Ye Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Duoduo asked loudly: "Who is Zhang Yimiao? What kind of cow is he?" Ye Haogen sneered and said: "A shameless old cow!" Duoduo mooed in fun, counting on her hands while Jumping, "One moo, two moo, three moo, four moo, five moo!"
"Duoduo, I'll give you a task, pull out all the tapes inside this." Ye Haogen picked up the tape on the ground.I handed the cracked VHS to my daughter and said, "Pull them all out!"
"Okay!" Duoduo found it very funny, and immediately started to pull the tape without hesitation. The long black tape rolled up and fell to the ground, and the VHS box was officially destroyed.
At this time, Gu Qiao, who was cooking dinner, came over after hearing the sound. As soon as he knew what was going on, he didn't say anything, picked up those DVDs and turned on it, bang!
"You devils" Ye Wei watched his family destroying the pile of DVDs and video tapes, Duoduo's excitement, and his parents' angry expressions. He couldn't help but smile brightly, and suddenly shouted: "Let Zhang Yimou's movies get out of our library!"
He jumped up high and stepped on the pile of DVDs, "No one can be left behind!"
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