Chapter 1083: Awards Ceremony: Who can really teach Xiao He a lesson?

Soon, time passed in everyone's silent busyness.

The Cannes Film Festival is gradually coming to an end.

Because of the shield screen and the subject matter, some people ultimately chose to give up the distribution rights of "Long". However, there are still many people who want to make money. So in the last few days before the film festival ends, Wang Sheng and Zhuang Hongyi have made arrangements for the overseas distribution of "Long" and signed contracts with the corresponding distributors.

Overall, the journey of "The Dragon" in Cannes was relatively smooth.

Even in Japan, where the character "silent villain" was successfully portrayed in "Mong," there were still buyers.

After all, the online opinion following the screening of "Long" was still overwhelmingly positive.

Even with the covert targeting from the Shield Curtain, some hesitant publishers can still see that Xiao He and "Long" are gaining popularity overseas, especially among young people, where they are generating a lot of buzz.

Among them, the Yangdou platform almost treated Xiao He as its main artist, providing such strong support that even their own company's own sons did not. In fact, Chinese Taoist culture and Eastern metaphysics also became a trend and popularity indicator on the platform, and incidentally, it also revived the popularity of several Chinese games with strong traditional Chinese fantasy culture.

This success is attributed to China's growing international influence and reputation in recent years, and these platforms themselves are sparking a trend of learning Chinese culture.

Now that talismans and feng shui have been added, a group of young foreigners have become very interested, and have even dug up some early Hong Kong ghost movies that were famous internationally, and have begun to enthusiastically create derivative works.

Almost any casual swipe through the video feed will randomly reveal several popular overseas bloggers lining up to learn the zombie dance to newly choreographed music.

To be honest, seeing a group of foreigners lined up with their arms around each other, forming a long queue to imitate the scene of corpse transport in western Hunan, is really a bit eerie, my friends.

However, to be fair, under the platform's intentional or unintentional cultural influence and the trend of popularity, a group of people are really looking forward to the work "Long", which has even led to other works and products related to traditional Chinese culture going abroad.

The Shield Screen team tried to follow their usual practice of deliberately marketing conspiracy theories about China, but this time it all failed.

Although Shield Screen has lost the trust of its own country's netizens due to political issues and its influence in public opinion has been severely diminished, no one expected that they would now be unable to win the public opinion battle against a film crew from China.

It's truly somewhat surreal.

However, due to various reasons, Shield Screen still stubbornly refused to purchase the distribution rights for "Long".

Manager El's heart was bleeding, but when questioned by others, he pretended to be nonchalant, saying only that the company was not very interested in the content of "Long" and that the subject matter of "Long" was not suitable for imported theatrical release, so he needed to continue to look for other excellent films that were also participating in the screening and awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

—There's nothing we can do. The bosses upstairs want to fight, but these guys also have to focus on performance.

Now that "Long" is no longer available, where can he find other suitable box office hits?

The hottest song this year is "Long"!

If we don't turn to it, who else can we turn to?

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So when Manager El saw the creative team of "The Dragon" arrive on the penultimate day of Cannes, when the Un Certain Regard section officially began the awards ceremony and announced the results, he could hardly keep his smile on his face.

But the organizers did something strange today, arranging the "Long" crew's location on the other side of the venue, while the entrance and exit required the crew and actors to walk around in front of the shield screen.

And so, amidst the complex or awe-inspiring gazes of the crowd, Zhuang Hongyi, Xiao He, and the others calmly and composedly walked past the seats of the other shield-screen actors toward their own seating area.

At today's awards ceremony, Xiao He was dressed very formally, in a sharp black suit with a dazzling brooch pinned to his chest.

The only difference is that today, although he didn't walk the red carpet, he still brought a cane. He would occasionally tap the ground as he walked, and the gems on the cane, along with the jewelry rings on his hands, reflected the youthful spirit.

At first glance, one might really think he's some kind of wealthy underworld scion.

Only Manager El was taken aback by the powerful aura that Xiao He displayed at close range, and inexplicably felt that this young man's cane could be raised at any moment to stab someone to death.

Just as Elgin looked away, preparing to chat casually with others and pretend he hadn't seen anything, Xiao He deliberately stopped in front of him.

His gaze swept over the shield-covered actors, then he asked with some concern, "Manager El, why haven't I seen Master Mecarille today? Has he already left Cannes? I thought he would stay for today's awards ceremony."

“Hehe, Master Mecaril has other things to do. After all, this isn’t the last day. He said he’s not interested in the awards in the non-main competition section.”

Manager El chuckled and subtly mocked.

Xiao He could only shrug regretfully: "That's such a pity. When we met at the last screening, his idea was very unique. I originally thought he also liked the work 'Long' and that I could chat with him a bit more today."

Faced with Xiao He's sarcastic tone, Manager El's expression softened slightly. He stared intently at the young man today, his expression more complex than ever before: "Although he can't come in person, I will convey your message accurately."

"Thank you then."

To his surprise, the young man in front of him actually dared to respond to that!

Manager El's expression finally turned cold, and he wanted to say something, but the young man in front of him had already raised his cane—

The gems on the cane were still glittering, but Manager El thought that Xiao He had suddenly gone mad and wanted to raise the cane to hit him. Startled, he instinctively tried to dodge behind him.

But in response to his action, Xiao He merely raised an eyebrow at him, then smiled and put down his cane again, tapping the ground as if mocking him for being frightened earlier. Without saying a word, he turned and continued walking forward.

Manager El was left with his face alternating between red and black.

Xiao He, Xiao He, Xiao He—just what kind of ability does this person have that he dares to come face to face with the heir of the Yin-Yang Mecaril family?

So where did their "Long" crew get their ability to achieve such a great success at this year's Cannes Film Festival?

Why?

On what grounds?

Sometimes Manager El wanted to grab the people above him by the neck and shake them wildly, then ask them what they were thinking, how could they let a Chinese person step on their heads and act so arrogantly, without taking their Shield Curtain and Mekkaller seriously at all.

Back in the day, even global superstars couldn't get the better of them. They also had a place in the internal political struggles of the United States. In the last century, they stirred up storms all over the world, manipulated global public opinion, and controlled countless top entertainment resources.

But what about now?

Is it simply because Xiao He has the backing of China that even the Mecaril family there dares not to make a move against him?

Manager El thought it was outrageous.

Who can actually teach this Xiao He a lesson?!