The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 577 Best Actor
September 29th, the beginning of autumn.

Night fell much earlier than before, and the breeze was blowing, bringing a hint of coolness to the air.

Lu Yuan had a night scene today, so he left the hotel at 6:30 pm and put on a coat.

Before getting in the car, he checked the news. The Hundred Flowers Awards would be held in Shaoxing, Zhejiang tonight.

There were so few stars attending that the organizers even cancelled the red carpet segment of the opening ceremony. The starlight was dim, and the event looked exhausted, with few guests.

There were very few elements related to the movie in the opening ceremony, and the host of Zhejiang Satellite TV even took this opportunity to talk about many things related to China's Voice.

Lu Yuan put down his phone. It was true that each year of Baihua was getting worse and worse.

The Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers and Huabiao Awards are known as the three major film awards in mainland China.

The Golden Rooster Awards and Hundred Flowers Awards were merged in 1992 and collectively known as the Chinese Film Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards.

Since 2005, the Golden Rooster Awards and Hundred Flowers Awards have been held every other year.

The Golden Rooster Awards are held in odd-numbered years, and the Hundred Flowers Awards are held in even-numbered years. This system allows the two evaluation mechanisms of professional judging and audience voting to alternate.

The Golden Rooster Award is an expert award, while the Hundred Flowers Award is an audience award.

A simple analogy is the Golden Eagle Awards for audience favorite actors and the most popular actors.

Audience voting means that the Hundred Flowers Awards have little artistic value.

In addition, due to insufficient publicity in recent years, the film has been declining, its influence has been decreasing, celebrities are no longer buying into it, and the film festival has become increasingly deserted.

Awards are useless to actors. In previous years, some awards were simply cancelled because no one supported them.

This year, Lu Yuan was nominated for the Best Actor, and his roles include Wang Xiaojian in "Love Is Not Blind", Yu Huatian in "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate", and Lu Ming in "Time Travel".

Because the Golden Eagle Awards takes two and a half days and the shooting is tight, he didn't have time to attend this time.

I called the organizer to apologize, and they expressed understanding. I made a few more calls and found out that Song Jia, Zhou Xun, Tsui Hark and others were all absent.

He had no choice but to let Liu Shishi go on his behalf. There was no other way but to make his girlfriend suffer first.

When I arrived at the crew, Huang Bo was putting on makeup.

His makeup took quite a while, his entire body was covered in gray, his hairline was high to the top of his head, and there were weed-like gray hairs floating behind his head. He looked dead and pale, and hanging on the wall could ward off evil spirits.

Based on the huge success of "Journey to the West" and the lifelike performance of Mr. Liu Xiao Ling Tong.

In the minds of most people, Sun Wukong is the image of a golden, majestic and handsome monkey king.

But in the original book, Sun Wukong's appearance is not outstanding and beautiful, on the contrary, he is very ugly.

Round eyes, red ears, full of hair, mouth like a thunder god, thin face, pointed mouth and shrunken cheeks, short stature, like a monkey eating pine cones, although it looks like a human, but lacks cheeks than humans.
Therefore, in order to conform to the original work, Zhou Xinchi created this image of Sun Wukong in this play.

Zhou Xinchi found a 13-year-old boy to play the role of Sun Wukong in the fighting state, while Huang Bo played the role of Sun Wukong in the sealed stage.

Huang Bo is not a handsome guy in the traditional sense.

Well, this guy is not handsome at all, but he has been in the entertainment industry for many years and has rich experience. He has a good temperament, just like old wine, which becomes more mellow as it ages.

Lu Yuan sat down on the chair and the makeup artist put a wig on him.

Huang Bo stared at the mirror and saw that he was silent. He said, "The Hundred Flowers Awards will be doomed if it continues like this. I heard that none of the directors nominated this year, such as Feng Xiaogang, Han Sanping, Tsui Hark, and Teng Huatao, went."

"It's similar for the actors. Many of them have participated in The Voice of China." Lu Yuan recalled the report on his phone just now.

"Apply some more here." Huang Bo said to the makeup artist, and then said: "This award is just a formality now, and it has almost no credibility."

Lu Yuan nodded in agreement.

In fact, one important reason for the decline of the Hundred Flowers Awards is the constant changes in the venues.

Since the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards implemented a rotation system of hosting venues, its significance has gradually begun to change.

In the past, it was a grand event for filmmakers and an award held for films.

Now it has become a promotional tool developed by the governments of the host cities to promote their local areas.

Every host city regards the film festival as an opportunity to promote the local area, using the name of the film festival to promote the local area.

For example, this time Zhejiang Satellite TV used the film awards to promote The Voice of China.

The starting point is strange.

Based on this, they will not focus on how to run a film festival with film as the theme.

The opening ceremony was like a makeshift concert, with a bunch of stars coming to sing and dance to liven up the atmosphere, and then everyone dispersed after the show was over.

Whether it is the opening ceremony of a film festival or the opening ceremony of something else, who cares?
As for movies, they are even more sidelined.

Huang Bo himself was nominated for "Iron Man" in 10, but he also did not go.

After they finished putting on makeup and arrived at the set, they saw Zhou Xinchi chatting with a middle-aged woman who was estimated to be in her sixties.

That lady's appearance wasn't ugly, but at least she looked comparable to Huang Bo.

Zhou Xinchi asked: "Ms. Zhang Mei'e, if a customer comes to eat and doesn't pay, what would you say and do if you were the boss?"

When the old lady heard this, she stepped on the bench and acted like a shrew. She said in half-cooked Mandarin: "I will teach this kind of person a lesson, scold him and then give him a meal."

After the aunt finished her performance, Zhou Xinchi covered his face with his hat and laughed out loud.

"What are you doing?" Lu Yuan asked Luo Zhixiang who was standing beside him.

Luo Zhixiang suppressed his laughter and whispered, "The character I play is Shen Xu... uh... Mr. Kong Xu, who has four golden girls around him. The director was not satisfied with the extras that the production staff had previously found. He thought they were too normal and didn't fit the nonsensical style of comedy. He wanted an extremely ugly old lady. The production staff brought this old lady here today, and the director is interviewing her."

Lu Yuan frowned, turned his head and said, "Xiao Zhu, what you just said is suitable to be added to the play."

"What?" Luo Zhixiang was stunned.

"I have kidney deficiency, no, it's Mr. Emptiness." Lu Yuan imitated his tone and said it, then went on to prepare for the next scene.

Luo Zhixiang recalled it, wrote it down for use in the filming, and looked at Huang Bo: "Teacher Lu even remembers my part so clearly?"

"He is a pervert. He doesn't bring a script when filming. He takes any role and memorizes it all in his head." Huang Bo tapped his temple.

“Awesome.” Luo Zhixiang muttered.

Lu Yuan walked into the scene of the next scene.

It is said that Chen Xuanzang, in order to subdue Zhu Ganglie, crossed mountains and ridges on foot and came to Wuzhi Mountain, and entered the old temple, but he could not see the big Buddha anywhere. He washed his face in a stone basin and saw the four words "mirror flower and water moon" appear in the water, which suddenly made him realize.

He climbed up the mountain and saw a spot of green among the rocks. When he got closer, he saw that it was a large field of lotus flowers. The large green lotus leaves were dotted with pink. In the middle, there was a white lotus and several lotus leaves.

Chen Xuanzang pushed aside the lotus leaves next to the white lotus, revealing a big hole underneath. The sunlight instantly shone on the bottom of the hole, which was the place where Sun Wukong was sealed.

The setting for this scene is relatively simple.

The studio is surrounded by stone walls made of foam, with a small red stone platform in the middle. The cave area is less than ten square meters.

After Zhou Xinchi finalized Zhang Mei'e, he bumped into the oncoming props crew.

"Be careful," he warned.

"Director, I'm sorry."

"Where did it come from?" Zhou Xinchi noticed that the other person was holding a durian in his arms.

The props team nodded and said, "Teacher Lu said we might need it in this scene."

"Him." Zhou Xinchi looked inside the field and saw Lu Yuan and Huang Bo arguing.

In the hearts of Chinese people, Sun Wukong means a lot, so Huang Bo’s first scene had to be amazing. He thought about it for a long time, but was still not satisfied with the details.

In the end, he gave Huang Bo and Lu Yuan a direction and let them play freely around the branches.

impromptu!

He also wants to learn how to be like the King of Sunglasses.

It’s just not clear to what extent these two people can perform and what kind of sparks they can create.

The scene has been set up, the actors are in place, and the script manager is facing the camera with the clapperboard.

"Attention all units."

"Action!"

In the dim cave, Lu Yuan stood up with a small lantern in his hand, his face covered in dust. Before he could take a closer look at the surroundings, he saw Huang Bo suddenly jump out from behind a stone wall and trot over.

He let out a strange cry, hugged him excitedly, touched him all over, and at the same time put his nose close to his body and sniffed him vigorously.

"Get up, get up," Lu Yuan pushed him away forcefully, "I'm here to find Sun Wukong."

"I, I," Huang Bo pointed at himself eagerly, smiling ugly, "Sun Wukong, Sun Wukong."

Lu Yuan raised the lantern in his hand and used the light to carefully confirm: "Are you Sun Wukong?"

"The Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong." Huang Bo deliberately lowered his voice, which was accompanied by a slight hoarseness, as if the voice had been crushed in the narrow passage.

"Hello Mr. Sun, my surname is Chen, Chen Xuanzang." Lu Yuan bowed.

Before he could finish, Huang Bo hugged him again, this time directly on the mouth, starting from the arm and moving upwards. Every move was like a wild monkey that had escaped from the zoo.

Sun Wukong had not seen the sun for five hundred years. Today he finally saw a living person and was extremely excited.

"It's finally here. It's been five hundred years. It's finally here."

"Mr. Sun, don't do this." Lu Yuan dodged, like a girl who was molested, and shyly tightened his collar.

Zhou Xinchi watched this scene and cheered for the two of them in his heart.

The decision to let Huang Bo play the role of Sun Wukong was made by him personally. Huang Bo initially refused, but he agreed only after being invited many times.

Huang Bo lived up to expectations and his performance was stunning and very infectious.

Just a few lines of dialogue and a few subtle movements can deeply make you feel Sun Wukong's pain and depression.

And Lu Yuan is no less inferior.

Huang Bo is the focus of this scene. He is relatively passive, but his whole body exudes an air of loss, and he appears dull and absent-minded.

After being beaten by the pig demon and the exorcist, he no longer had the innocence he had when he first appeared, and began to doubt whether he could be a good exorcist.

It may not be visible from a single fragment, but in his eyes, Chen Xuanzang's mental journey is very complete.

The filming continued. Lu Yuan and Huang Bo squatted on both sides of the stone platform and looked at each other.

Sun Wukong talked about the past and said that he was ignorant five hundred years ago and had a feud with the Buddha, so the Buddha beat him down with the Mahavairocana Sutra.

Then he shut himself off from the world and earnestly studied the great principles in the scriptures. Now his demonic nature has been eliminated, and he no longer even looks like a demon.

There is only truth, goodness and beauty left in the body, praising the mystery of the true scriptures of Vairocana Tathagata.

Chen Xuanzang was very pleased to see that he was so repentant, and said frankly that he came here this time to ask Sun Wukong for advice on how to subdue the pig demon.

As soon as Sun Wukong heard it, he knew it was Zhu Ganglie. He said he had a way and pointed to the stone tablet wrapped with vines - Om Mani Padme Hum.

He said that it was the Exorcist Holy Fire Order, which he brought down from the Heavenly Palace, and it could destroy all demons and monsters.

Chen Xuanzang said that he did not want to kill the pig demon, but just wanted to awaken the truth, goodness and beauty in his heart.

Sun Wukong said that the main function of the Exorcist Holy Fire Order is to awaken people's truth, goodness and beauty.

Chen Xuanzang didn't dare to take it because he thought it was too valuable.

Sun Wukong said it was not expensive, only about ten or eight yuan.

Chen Xuanzang said forget it, but Sun Wukong insisted that he take it.

Chen Xuanzang was not stupid. He asked Sun Wukong directly if this was the seal that Buddha used to suppress him?
As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Bo's expression suddenly became ferocious in the camera, as if he was trying hard to suppress his emotions.

This was a trap, he set it on purpose. Sun Wukong predicted that Chen Xuanzang would predict his prediction, and led Xuanzang into the trap step by step.

"I asked you to take it, and if you didn't take it, you were looking down on me."

Huang Bo suddenly turned his head, no longer eager to please, and said solemnly: "Do you know who I am? The Thirteen Guardians of Huaguo Mountain know that I am the boss. Back then, I held two machetes and chopped from Nantianmen all the way to Penglai East Road. Blood flowed like a river. I didn't even blink."

Outside the court, Zhou Xinchi narrowed his eyes.

There is no false reputation under a great name, and Huang Bo made his effort without any preparation.

It's like two peerless masters are testing each other, chatting about their recent situation and family matters, how their children are, and one of them has no martial ethics and suddenly draws his sword at a tricky angle, using all his strength right from the start.

Zhou Xinchi was wondering how he would respond if it were him.

Combining his past performance experience, a word came to his mind: use softness to overcome hardness!
Strictly speaking, this was the first time Lu Yuan fought with Huang Bo.

Huang Bo is extremely good at using body language. Through rich expressions and diverse body designs, he can show the inner world of the characters and enhance the expressiveness of the characters.

Lu Yuan remained unchanged in the face of change, maintaining his own rhythm, with clear eyes and a little uneasiness, asking: "Will your eyes become dry if you don't blink for such a long time?"

This sentence almost choked Huang Bo.

So he stepped on the low stone bench, pointed with his fingers, and said, intensifying his arrogance, "Whatever I do, whatever I don't do, does it have anything to do with what I said?"

"I'm just curious!"

"Don't you understand the point of what I'm saying? Am I talking about what eyes do or don't do?"

Lu Yuan's eyes widened: "I was just wondering, what would happen if I didn't blink for such a long time?"

"Don't tell me your eyes are dry or not dry anymore." Huang Bo almost went berserk. He kicked Lu Yuan and the two began to chase around the stone platform.

"Calm down Mr. Sun, that's not what I meant."

"I said I kill people without blinking an eye, and you asked me if my eyes were dry. Fine, I'll show you if my eyes are dry."

He took out three pieces of sugar cane from his bag and propped them on a stone: "Do you think my eyes are dry..."

He swung his hand away after a knife strike.

He threw away one and tried a second time: "Do it or not...Do it or not..."

Another chop, but still not a single piece of sugarcane was broken.

He threw away another one and chopped down the last one in frustration.

“Do it or not!”

Crack, the sugarcane finally broke.

"What else do you have? Take it all out and I'll smash it all for you." His expression changed, he raised his chin, and looked arrogant and domineering.

Lu Yuan hurriedly took out a green durian from his bag, blinked, and looked at him innocently.

Huang Bo's expression froze again. He was in a dilemma and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Pfft! Are you missing anything?"

"Card!"

"Hahaha, good! This one is interesting." Zhou Xinchi also laughed. He began to understand Wang Jiawei a little.

Huang Bo and Lu Yuan’s comedy styles are actually quite similar.

These two people don't have the innate sense of comedy in their brows like he does.

The joke comes naturally from the action, and the punchline serves the narrative, rather than using the narrative to pave the way for the punchline.

Moreover, the funny scenes are completed through the arrangement within the camera, and there is no need for transitions to let the funny scenes take the lead.

This sounds simple, but it is actually quite difficult to grasp.

After Lu Yuan and Huang Bo finished their discussion, the props team replaced the sugarcane with new ones.

Zhou Xinchi waved his hand and said, "Go on, just do as you did just now."

Lu Yuan and Huang Bo looked at each other and got into the mood.

At this time, Zheng Qian came running over: "Boss, it's Sister Shishi's call."

Lu Yuan seemed to have anticipated something and pressed the call button.

Liu Shishi's voice came from the other end, very excited.

"Congratulations, Hundred Flowers Award Winner!"

(End of this chapter)