"Mr. Benini, I personally wrote that movie, and it is the latest masterpiece directed by Zhang Yimou, the winner of the last Golden Bear Awards. I dare to assure you its quality." Xia Tian saw Benini hesitant and guessed his mentality, and smiled slightly, "Let's do this, if it can't even be shortlisted, you don't have to do anything anymore. The movie "Beautiful Life" is still starring and directed by you, and the funds required are provided by me."

Roberto Benini nodded after hearing what Xia Tian said, after thinking about it for a while.

Since this "Big Red Lantern Hanging High" is also a work by summer and is directed by a director who has won the Golden Bear Award, I believe that the quality should be passed. If I can be shortlisted, it will prove that I have the ability to win the award. Since that is the case, it is nothing more than voting for it yourself.

"Well, Mr. Xia, I promise you that if your work is shortlisted, I will vote for it." Roberto Benini said.

"Okay, thank you Mr. Benini." Xia Tian said with a smile when he heard this, "By the way, the other judges also hope you can help and say a few more good things."

"This..." Roberto Benini hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Okay, I promise you."

Since he has been dragged into the water by Xia Tian, ​​he should take a few more people to accompany him, at least to relieve his guilt.

"Okay, that's it. I will write the script for you as soon as possible." Xia Tian smiled, "I wish us a happy cooperation!"

"Yeah." Roberto Benini finally nodded with a smile when he heard that.

If it weren't for the script "Beautiful Life", he wouldn't have promised to help Xia Tian. The story "Beautiful Life" is so great. He just read a story summary and had already fallen in love with the story and burst into strong creative hopes.

To be honest, if he hadn't been the judge of the Berlin Film Festival, he would have wanted to go back to Italy and start preparing for the filming of the movie "Beautiful Life".

Xia Tian was also very happy to see Benini agreeing.

In fact, he was sure that Benini would agree to cooperate with him.

Because the story of "Beautiful Life" is great, the classic movie ranked 34th in IDC and ranked fifth in Douban, has won many international awards including Oscars, Cannes, European films, Spain, Fuso and many other international awards.

The attraction of such a good story to the director is just like the attraction of a peerless martial arts secret book to a martial arts fanatic. It is simply the lifeblood. Even if you forget to eat and sleep, rack your brains, and use all your means, you will get it.

"Okay, then we'll contact each other often." Xia Tian smiled and then said goodbye to Benini.

...

In the next few days, summer was busy building a promotion for the "Big Red Lantern Hanging High".

Ye Zhiming followed his instructions and found many influential media to help build momentum.

In addition, Xia Tian is a popular figure, with its own topics, and many media have taken the initiative to send interview invitations, so he is really busy these days. One interview plus one interview, one program plus one program, one invitation plus one invitation...

In order to boost Zhang Yimou and Gong Li's international fame, Xia Tian brought them to the top every time and pushed them to the top, which also made them very difficult.

Especially Gong Li has been running away these days and has lost weight all over the place, which is more effective than drinking weight loss tea. As soon as he returns to the hotel, he falls asleep and doesn’t even have the energy to do what he loves to do.

However, after all this tossing, the two of them finally became familiar with each other internationally, which made Western audiences have an impression of these two yellow faces.

In particular, Gong Li was praised by foreign media as an "Oriental Beauty" for his beautiful face, sexy figure and elegant temperament, and made a big debut.

With their hard work in promoting, "The Big Red Lantern" has received great attention without disappointing expectations. Since the start of the screening, it has been hard to get tickets and is crowded.

The media also had a very high evaluation of this movie, believing that it surpassed last year's "Red Sorghum", and reached a new level in terms of story, characters, thoughts, shooting, composition, narrative, and performance.

In this well-reputed atmosphere, even the judges were embarrassed to deny the movie, so "The Big Red Lantern" was successfully shortlisted among twenty movies and was qualified to win the final prize Golden Bear Award.

...

When Director Tu learned that the movie was shortlisted, he was very happy and reluctant to let go of Xia Tian's hand.

This time I came to participate in the exhibition, thanks to the summer operation. Otherwise, if the competition was so fierce, how could they be shortlisted, let alone win the final prize.

"Mr. Xia, thank you so much. If you hadn't been so dedicated to the publicity and made the reputation of "The Big Red Lantern Hanging High", it would be difficult for us to be shortlisted." Director Tu said gratefully.

"Hey, Director, you are polite. In fact, the movie "The Big Red Lantern Hangs High" is still well-made. I just add some icing on the cake. The real hero is Director Zhang. It's not that he made the movie so well. Even if I want to promote it, I can't speak out." Xia Tian smiled.

"Mr. Xia is so humble." Director Tu smiled when he heard this, "Is it because your script is well written?"

"Oh, you can't say that. The same recipe is given to the master to cook, and it's a delicious meal. If you give it to the chef with two knives, you probably won't eat the dishes you made." Xia Tian waved his hand and said, "Director Zhang will definitely make great contributions to the movie "The Big Red Lantern" can be so good, and I absolutely admit that.

In addition, the performances of Miss Gongli, Miss Deng Jie, Mr. Zhang Tielin and others have also added a lot of glory to this movie and are also worthy of encouragement."

"Mr. Xia is so kind and proud of his achievements." Director Tu smiled, "I really admire him."

When Zhang Yimou heard Xia Tian give the credit to him, he was moved and had the urge to "a scholar dies for his confidant."

"Director Tu, in the future, Director Zhang and his team will develop in the mainland, so I will ask you to take more care of you." Xia Tian smiled again, "There are not many filmmakers who can win glory for the country internationally."

Although Zhang Yimou was once called the "national teacher" in his previous life, his life was not very easy in the 1990s. At that time, many people in China had objections to him, believing that he was specializing in filming the dark side of the mainland and using it to win the favor of foreigners, and criticized him a lot for this.
Chapter completed!