Pei Qian's heart skipped a beat.
Sh * t, the worst situation had happened.
Pei Qian did not expect this movie to win the Golden Lion.
Pei Qian did not have much hope for this movie before. After all, he came up with the idea on a whim. He simply wanted to portray Tengda Corporation as a villain.
However, during the portrayal process, Zhu Xiaoce and Yu Fei, the two people in charge, put forward their own views and extended Boss Pei's idea.
Then, Pei Qian flipped the ideas of the movie and the game and started filming very hastily.
In the end, he did not expect such a casual movie to win the highest award at the International Film Festival.
This matter was very absurd.
This was the seventh time a domestic movie had won the Golden Lion. It was not a historic breakthrough, but it was also the second time in five years that it had won the Golden Lion.
Compared to other film festivals, the Venice Film Festival favored Asian films more. They also favored Chinese films.
That was why many Chinese film directors had won this honor before.
However, there seemed to be a gap in this award since 2007. Even the judges of the Venice Film Festival expressed their regret at the gradual decline of Chinese films.
Therefore, the Future You Choose could win the Golden Lion again. That was a great encouragement to the domestic film industry.
Apart from that, Lu Zhiyao winning the Best Male Actor award was also something worth writing about.
As the acting benchmark of the new generation of powerful male actors, Lu Zhiyao had been working hard on the path of breaking through himself. Many audiences grew up with him as they watched his acting skills gradually improve. They also gave him more and more attention and support.
The Venice Film Festival was naturally both fame and fortune for Lu Zhiyao. He had reached the peak of his life.
What made Pei Qian feel the most speechless was Zhu Xiaoce's speech on stage.
What did he mean by 'Boss Pei has given this movie spirit and flesh'? This movie is entirely my fault.
The key was that Zhu Xiaoce's speech on such an important occasion had raised Boss Pei to such a high position. It was hard for netizens not to think about it.
One could imagine that discussions about this movie and the Venice Film Festival would be overwhelming online in no time.
"I haven't even f * cking seen this movie, and it has already won two awards.
"How can I reason with this?"
Pei Qian was in despair. Pei Qian had many things to do during the filming of this movie and did not have the time to pay much attention to it. After filming and editing, Zhu Xiaoce took the movie to the Venice Film Festival. Thus, Pei Qian did not have time to watch it.
In the end, he didn't even know what the movie was about before the bad news came. It was really a sad story.
Pei Qian responded very perfunctorily to Zhu Xiaoce, Lu Zhiyao, and the others' good news. Then, he began to check the netizens' discussions.
…
"Fei Huang Workspace is awesome! The Golden Lion Award is a very prestigious international award. "
"Yeah. Although the Venice Film Festival is biased towards Chinese films, they must have won the award with their own abilities. What's more, it won the Golden Lion Award and the Best Actor Award. This movie is worth looking forward to. "
"When will it be released? Does anyone know what kind of movie it is? "
"I'm not sure. The crew did a good job keeping it a secret."
"The name of the movie is' The Future You Choose '. It's said to be about cyberpunk."
"Is the cyberpunk theme similar to Tomorrow is Beautiful? Why not make a second Tomorrow is Beautiful? "
"I'm not sure about that, but from the looks of the awards so far, this movie should be better than Tomorrow is Beautiful. Everyone can look forward to it."
"Director Zhu Xiaoce said in the award speech that Boss Pei gave this movie a soul and flesh. Soul, I understand. He should be saying that the original inspiration for this idea was Boss Pei. What does that mean? "
"It seems to be saying that some things in reality provided some details or perfected the plot."
"Is it related to the Anti-Tengda Alliance?"
"It's possible. After all, are movie stories derived from reality and higher than reality? The Anti-Tengda Alliance incident caused a stir previously. It's reasonable to use this as a material to express some of the content in the movie. "
"In that case, this movie should be satirizing the companies of the Anti-Tengda Alliance. I wonder if we can see similar companies appear in the movie?"
"That's right, isn't 'My Fortune' about to be released? Didn't he participate in the Venice Film Festival this time? If he participated, he could at least get the best script or something. After all, the original work was too exciting. "
"I don't think he participated. I don't know what kind of considerations he had. The situation of this movie is even more mysterious than 'The Future You Choose'. Until now, almost no news has been leaked. "
"However, no matter what, this month's movie is a gathering of heroes. It's worth looking forward to."
Netizens were all discussing enthusiastically and looking forward to the release of outstanding movies in the near future.
Pei Qian felt very sad.
The box office of 'The Future You Choose' would definitely not be low when it was released if there was such attention.
He could only hope that the movie would gradually open higher and lower after it was released so that it would earn less in the box office.
Pei Qian realized that many people were also discussing another domestically-produced movie called 'My Fortune' in the comments section. It seemed that many viewers also had high hopes for this movie. After all, it was adapted from a classic original work by a top domestic sci-fi author.
Many people called this month's movie schedule 'Double Star Shining'. It all depended on which of the two movies' The Future You Choose 'and' My Fortune 'would win.
Pei Qian did not pay much attention to 'My Fortune' because he felt that the name was not very good.
What's more, Pei Qian felt that he was a little unlucky. All the movies that competed with Fei Huang Workspace previously. Even Hollywood blockbusters could not withstand his poisonous milk, much less a small domestically-produced movie.
'The Future You Choose' had already won the Golden Lion after all. Under such circumstances, it was still very difficult for an ordinary domestically-produced sci-fi movie to shake it.
Pei Qian fell into a state of resignation and could only wait silently.
According to the original plan, the game would be released first in the second half of the month before the movie.
After all, the release time of the game was relatively free. It would not hurt to adjust it. However, once the release date of the movie was set, it could not be easily changed.
Pei Qian prayed silently: I only hope that the game and the movie will be good but not popular. It's fine if the reputation is good, but it cannot make too much money.
…
At the same time in Shanghai …
Nie Yunsheng and Vinci Media's Lu Xiaoping were having a secret discussion in the conference room.
'The Future You Choose' had successfully won the Golden Lion for Best Actor and Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. Naturally, this news reached Nie Yunsheng and Lu Xiaoping immediately.
'My Property' did not participate in the Venice Film Festival due to various reasons.
One of the reasons was that the director did not really want to go.
This director was a very capable and very individualistic director. He felt that the overall core of the story of 'My Property' was still aimed at domestic audiences.
Even if it participated in the film festival, the results would not be too good. It would most likely not win any awards. Thus, there was no need to go and waste all his energy on the country.
Lu Xiaoping also felt that this would create a numbing effect on Boss Pei so that he would not realize the danger posed by this movie.
What's more, they had thought that 'The Future You Choose' would probably not win the Golden Lion. It would not have much impact if it only won a small award.
Now, the situation had suddenly become complicated and confusing.
Liu Xiaoping and Nie Mingsheng were a little nervous seeing that the release date was almost here. After all, they knew that the success of this movie would greatly affect the success of their final strategy.
"Boss Lu, what do you think about these two movies?" Nie Yunsheng asked.
Lu Xiaoping did not panic. Instead, he said calmly, "Boss Pei's movie has successfully won the Golden Lion, which is not a big or small danger to us. However, I don't think the overall situation has changed fundamentally."
"I am very confident in the hard power of 'My Property'. 'The Future You Choose' might be able to win an international award, but it might not be able to win in terms of reputation and box office sales in the country. "
"Apart from that, there is another very important point."
"Boss Pei's movie's award this time has exposed a very important piece of information to us. If we can make good use of this point, we might be able to find the key to victory. "
Nie Yunsheng raised his eyebrows. "Really? I'd like to hear more. "
Lu Xiaoping explained, "Director Zhu Xiaoce spilled the beans during the award ceremony."
"He said that real events that happened in real life gave flesh to this movie. In other words, some of the plot of the movie was directly based on real life elements."
"Combined with the fact that this movie is a cyberpunk theme, we can roughly guess some things."
Nie Yunsheng suddenly understood. "You mean to say that many anti-Tengda Alliance companies are involved in this movie? They made some insinuations about reality? "
Lu Xiaoping nodded. "Combined with the name of this movie — 'The Future You Choose', isn't this clear?"
"Boss Pei obviously treats this movie as an important part of the public opinion war against our Tengda Alliance. This name is a hint to all netizens: choosing Tengda is choosing the right future."
"Then, in the movie, as the enemy of Tengda Corporation, we will naturally appear as a villain."
"Won't we be able to do something about this?"
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