Chapter 741: Which Martial Arts Technique is Stronger?

She said she wouldn't go out, so she wouldn't go out, even if the New York Film Festival sent an invitation to Miss Luo Quan.

Before this year, the most well-known film festivals in the world were Venice, Cannes, and Berlin.

And this year, the American Film Guild organized a large group of stars, actors, and directors from all over the world to hold the first New York Film Festival, with the theme of using an inclusive perspective to discover the brilliance of world cinema and achieve a diversified effect.

Past film festivals were almost the opposite of the Oscars, especially the Cannes Film Festival.

Those who could win awards at Cannes were basically defaulted to being unable to compete for the Oscars.

In the nearly hundred-year history of winning awards, there were only a few movies that had won both Cannes and Oscars.

And this New York Film Festival was the opposite of the other three major film festivals, and was revealed by many industry insiders to be a weather vane for the Oscars.

That is to say, if one won the Victory Goddess trophy at the New York Film Festival, which was the special trophy of the New York film industry, there was a very high probability of winning the Oscar next year.

Of course, the organizers had never acknowledged this point; it was all rumors from so-called industry insiders on the internet.

However, the specifications of this New York Film Festival were very high. The stars who participated in the Oscars at the beginning of the year basically all came to participate, and they even invited quite a lot of veteran film and television stars. The gold content was even higher than that of the Oscars in recent years.

Those stars who were still watching from the sidelines saw that the organizers had such great strength, so they finally took the initiative to come to the scene of the film festival.

Although the film festival was by invitation only, it was only aimed at those who might win awards.

During the film festival, anyone could come to the scene to watch the movies.

And if there were empty seats at the award ceremony, one could also contact the organizers to enter.

The organizers probably also thought that this was the first session, and those stars might not agree at the first time, so they left them a way out.

As early as when Miss Luo Quan was still feeding mosquitoes in the mountains, the film festival had already started, and they had sent her an invitation in advance.

At that time, she was in the mountains, so she didn't go.

Later, when she came out, she heard that *Forrest Gump* was shortlisted for the Best Picture competition, but she only asked the deputy director to help attend on her behalf. If it won an award, the deputy director would go on stage to receive it.

It really wasn't that she was lazy; it was mainly because she had just come out of the mountains and was tired for a month, so she really didn't want to go through the hardships of travel again.

Not to mention just a film festival that didn't have much fame or gold content yet, even if it were the Oscars or Cannes, don't think about dragging her out of her room.

In the live broadcast room, this was how Miss Luo Quan explained it to the fans.

"I think you're just purely lazy!"

"It's an award after all, and so many big shots went, so it doesn't feel as bad as imagined."

"It definitely isn't bad; the specifications in all aspects are on par with the Oscars. It feels like those people from the Oscars brought it out to compete with the three major film festivals."

"Feels not quite right; there's no topic value."

"This kind of award still has to rely on time and reputation to accumulate fame."

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Facing Miss Luo Quan's "sophistry," the fans definitely didn't buy her act at all, because she had already used similar excuses many times.

However, considering that she was indeed very hard-working in the previous month, everyone didn't say anything more and focused their attention on the scene of the award ceremony.

After so many days, the New York Film Festival had also reached its end.

In all fairness, the quality of the movies that participated in the selection shown in these few days was quite high.

And because it focused on an international style, even movies in minor languages could be seen, including those from Thailand and Turkey.

Of course, China also had one, and that was *Farewell My Concubine*.

When this movie was established, it was for the purpose of winning awards; this was what those leaders told her clearly.

The quality of the movie was there, and people at home and abroad could appreciate the sorrow and beauty in it and empathize with the characters.

Therefore, in addition to winning the box office runner-up in the Huaxi Dam Spring Festival file this time, *Farewell My Concubine* also gained extremely high reputation abroad.

Especially in the screenings in Japan and South Korea, it won the box office championship for three consecutive weeks.

At the Cannes Film Festival in May, *Farewell My Concubine* also lived up to expectations and won the Palme d'Or.

It's just that at that time, Miss Luo Quan was in New York preparing for the wrap-up of *Forrest Gump* and couldn't get away.

So it was also the deputy director who went to France to attend the Cannes Film Festival.

When filming movies, Miss Luo Quan's deputy directors were all tools; they basically didn't participate in the production of the movie, and sometimes they were no different from mascots.

But when the movie won an award, the deputy director could come in handy.

Because in a crew, besides the producer and director, the deputy director and screenwriter were the biggest.

Miss Luo Quan's movies were all produced, written, and directed by herself, so the deputy director became the number two figure.

Therefore, at the Cannes Film Festival, the deputy director of *Farewell My Concubine* also took a group of main actors to attend the scene.

The outcome of winning the award this time was also surprising at first and then happy. When reading the Best Picture, the award presenter first read the name of another movie.

All the Chinese and Chinese-descendant guests off the stage changed their expressions drastically.

Because those Chinese directors on the Cannes jury all swore to them that *Farewell My Concubine* was stable and would definitely win the Palme d'Or.

The bragging in the country had already been done, and the media had even written the news congratulating *Farewell My Concubine* on winning the Cannes award, just waiting for the result to come out to publish the news and grab the heat.

As a result, this was the result.

No matter how high their cultivation was, it was inevitable to show some surprised or unbelievable expressions at this time.

It wasn't until a full seven seconds later that this award presenter, who deliberately created suspense, spoke out the name of the second movie that won the Palme d'Or.

It was exactly *Farewell My Concubine*, which was highly rated internationally.

It turned out that this Palme d'Or award had made a precedent and produced a "double yolk egg."

The judges felt that the two movies that won the award were too excellent, and they couldn't bear to abandon either of them.

They simply broke the convention and awarded both directly.

Two movies winning the same award didn't mean the gold content was reduced.

On the contrary, because of this unprecedented "double yolk egg," it added even more legendary status to them.

Many years later, perhaps everyone won't be able to remember the winners of most of the Cannes Palme d'Or awards without checking the data.

But that unique "double yolk egg" will definitely be fresh in memory.

In short, *Farewell My Concubine* won big this time and exceeded the goals assigned by the superiors.

As for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film next year, although it was quite tempting, theoretically it couldn't be won, so everyone didn't hold any expectations.

Anyway, being able to win Cannes was already very good.

After many years, China once again won the best in this kind of international film festival, and the domestic box office also hit new highs, proving the prosperity of the domestic film industry, and everything was developing in a good direction.

After Cannes, it was the New York Film Festival.

Although *Farewell My Concubine* didn't get an invitation this time, the country still participated in the selection with another social-themed movie.

The movie was very good; it was one Miss Luo Quan hadn't seen in her previous life. It told the story of a good-natured person who was cyberbullied because of malicious editing and finally jumped off a building and committed suicide.

During this period, his relatives and friends originally had many opportunities to save him, but because the maliciously edited video was too real, they all chose silence.

Finally, until the protagonist jumped off the building, the malicious editor didn't come out to clarify the incident.

The righteous people on the internet didn't feel the slightest bit of guilt, but instead turned their attention to the next innocent person.

This plot and ending could be said to be quite dark.

The version in the country had been modified; the ending was that the malicious editor publicly clarified and accepted legal sanctions, and those keyboard warriors also apologized to the good-natured person one after another.

Could this situation appear in reality?

Miss Luo Quan hadn't seen it much anyway.

She herself had been framed many times before. Every time rumors started, there were plenty of keyboard warriors coming to execute justice.

When the truth finally came out, not many were willing to admit their mistakes and apologize to her.

In this world, the hardest thing to look directly at is the human heart.

Whether it's one's own or someone else's.

This movie, titled *The Mob*, undoubtedly portrayed the sentient beings in the new era of the internet environment extremely well, which could be called incisive, profound, and spicy.

It would be perfect if the final ending hadn't been changed to this kind of "great, glorious, and correct" style.

If she were to film it, according to her personality, she should let the protagonist turn dark and get rid of the bastard who framed her.

But if it were filmed like this, the movie probably wouldn't pass the review.

Regardless, the quality of this movie was very good, and it was absolutely qualified to participate in the selection for awards.

It's just that the crew had no connections in New York, so the difficulty of wanting to win an award was much greater than *Farewell My Concubine* winning an award at Cannes.

One has to admit that connections are sometimes indeed as important as strength.

Or rather, connections are strength.

Under such a premise, domestic movie fans didn't hold much expectation for *The Mob* to win an award, and watching the award ceremony was completely for the sake of watching the fun.

After eating lunch, Miss Luo Quan also opened the live stream to provide live broadcast and sharp commentary for the fans.

The content of her sharp commentary had nothing to do with the movie; it was all about the styling and state of the female guests.

There were many famous female stars attending the evening party this time, ranging from seventeen to seventy years old.

It is said that the shelf life of Western women is short, and it starts to slide off a cliff at the age of thirty.

But in fact, as long as they are well-maintained, some forty-year-olds still look very young.

It's just that there are too many people there who like to be exposed to the sun, so their skin is very easy to be damaged and aged.

This is also one of the reasons why there is so much skin cancer there.

By comparison, Miss Luo Quan's habit of staying in her room all year round without seeing light was very effective for skin protection.

If this continues, while others are at the skin age of thirty at the same age, she will probably still be about the same as in her early twenties.

After commenting sharply on the few female stars who appeared, the evening party officially began.

Similar to the Oscars, the host also went on stage to tell a few jokes to liven up the atmosphere, and then it was time for singers to perform, and then awards were awarded.

Everything had been planned, and the guests and fans were all waiting for the jokes from this host who was a talk show actor.

However, when this host really teased a female guest at the scene, the female guest's husband walked directly onto the stage and gave the host a big slap.

After going off the stage, he even cursed twice, making people realize that this was not a program effect, but that he was really angry.

This husband who hit someone was not a nobody, but an extremely famous black actor in the United States, who was at the level of a national-level veteran actor in the country, and his popularity was also quite high, belonging to the type who grasped both strength and traffic.

Such a status making such an unseemly move was indeed beyond everyone's expectations.

Although the host did offend his wife and teased her illness of hair loss due to taking medicine, as a husband, it was right for him to be angry.

However, what's interesting is that this black male actor was clearly laughing from ear to ear at first, and it was only after seeing his wife's gloomy expression that he walked onto the stage and hit the person.

What is this? Isn't this a typical "henpecked husband"?

Netizens all said: If his wife hadn't given him a cold look, he would probably have been able to keep laughing.

Of course, these were all guesses.

The fact was that this male actor named Spike hit the host who was black. Because they were both black, he didn't have to be accused of racial discrimination, which was the lucky thing in misfortune.

And the unfortunate thing was that he might be deprived of his subsequent eligibility to participate by the Oscars because of his violent behavior.

Especially after netizens revealed the fact that his relationship with his wife was not that good at all, the reputation of this American top-tier star began to slide rapidly.

Conversely, the fame of the New York Film Festival also began to rise rapidly because of this slap.

At that time, after this slap was finished, the number of people in all live broadcast rooms increased by at least thirty percent.

The US broadcast was a picture delayed by five minutes. After editing, the hitting and swearing could not be seen.

Fortunately, because of network problems, Miss Luo Quan watched the Japanese broadcast, which was not edited, and was high-definition and uncensored throughout.

After this slap was finished, not only her, but the little partners in the live broadcast room were also stunned.

No one expected that the famous "Shi Huang" would do such a rude and violent thing.

The countless positive images he had established before also collapsed instantly.

"I think, as long as the host didn't make a move, you could curse back, but hitting someone first is definitely wrong.

If the host takes it seriously, Shi Huang will probably have to go to the police station."

After hitting the person, Miss Luo Quan adopted a posture of "it has nothing to do with me," and talked without back pain.

"Then if the host really cursed you, what would you do?"

"Does anyone really dare to curse Luo Bao to her face?"

"Yes, but the outcome was very miserable; either went to prison or went to the hospital."

"There shouldn't be such a warrior now."

"Indeed, which martial arts technique is stronger? China Yuzhou Luo Boxing King!"

"This punch has twenty years of cultivation; who dares to block it?"

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The fans said a few words and pulled the firepower to her again, and she could only smile helplessly at this.

"How am I so violent? Don't spread rumors, okay?" ===== CHAPTER 742 =====