The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 710 Bad Taste

Wuhan, Cultural and Exhibition Center.

The red carpet was star-studded, with familiar faces waving to fans on both sides and screaming hysterically.

Because the host city is changed every year, the accumulated experience and conclusions are of no use in the next city, and for well-known reasons, the influence of the Golden Rooster Film Festival has been getting worse and worse in recent years.

Before the award ceremony, there were only a few stars attending the opening ceremony of the film festival on September 9.

Until the official award ceremony tonight, more and more talents came from all over the country.

Lu Yuan has two films selected, as does Liu Shishi, namely "Search" and "So Young".

Logically, they should have walked the red carpet with their respective crews.

But the organizers had their own considerations and asked them to leave the main group and form their own team.

There is no need to describe the atmosphere when the couple walked onto the red carpet.

Entering the inner field, Liu Shishi looked at the red plastic stools in the back row and the several rows of simple armchairs in the front row, and couldn't help but complain.

"This setting is too shabby. It's not even as good as the Golden Eagle Awards."

Lu Yuan agreed that this year's Golden Rooster Awards seemed particularly shabby.

The reason given by the organizer was that a "Notice on Preventing Extravagance and Promoting Frugality in Holding Evening Parties" was issued.

The Golden Rooster Awards Organizing Committee responded positively, arranged the venue simply, and cancelled seven activities including the opening and closing ceremony receptions.

In fact, the influence of this film festival has declined and it can no longer make money.

While the two were complaining, Zhao Yanzi, who was a little bloated, and Huang Xiaoming led someone closer.

Zhao Yanzi's "So Young" was nominated for the Best Director Award.

In addition to her, the nominees for this award include Wen Muye from "New World" and Qu Jiangtao from "My Grandson Comes from America"
"Junior brother, here I am. Let me introduce to you tonight's host, Jingwei, my best friend." Zhao Yanzi said casually.

"Teacher Lu, I've heard of your name for a long time." Tu Jingwei smiled and extended his hand, jokingly saying, "Before I came here, my mother knew that you were coming today, and she specifically told me to take a close look at whether Professor Chen is that handsome in real life. Now I can finally confirm it, and I'll tell her when I get back."

"Thank you for your love, Auntie." Lu Yuan's gaze stayed on her face for a moment.

Tu Jingwei has long hair, which is braided into a pigtail at the back of her head. She wears a bright red long skirt, which makes her look quite elegant. This person also has another identity: Sa Beining’s ex-girlfriend. No, it should be ex-ex-girlfriend, the ex-girlfriend is Zhang Ziyi.

After a few pleasantries, Lu Yuan walked towards his seat under the guidance of the etiquette lady.

Liu Shishi glanced at Jingwei and muttered quietly, "The Golden Rooster Awards still don't understand marketing. If it was Zhang Bowen, he would have invited Sa Beining to come today. That would have been fun. The ex-girlfriend and ex-ex-girlfriend would all be here. Hey, brother, when PPS holds its annual ceremony at the end of the year, why don't we invite her and Xiao Sa to host it."

"Then invite Deng Chao to join us, let Sun Li and Hao Lei sit next to him, invite Liu Ye to sit with Xie Na, and get Hu Jun to come as well. And Zhou Xun, Zhou Xun is amazing, let me count, forget it, too many, too many to count, just take up an entire row, and there's also Brother Xiao Ming, Brother Xiao Ming has so many girlfriends, hold them down. Woo woo woo."

"Can you be quiet?" Lu Yuan covered her mouth, feeling annoyed.

Although that scene seems quite exciting, it is not realistic. Not to mention offending people, didn’t you see that Ni Ping came to be the guest of honor today, but the director of "Search" Chen Kaiquan didn't show up.

With this thought in mind, he threatened, "Ni Ping hates Director Chen so much that Director Chen didn't even dare to show up today. Do you think Ni Ping will say something mean to the crew of Searching when she goes on stage? You better be prepared."

Liu Shishi was stunned and pulled his sleeve hard.

"Help me think of some ideas. She used to be a CCTV host. Her mouth is like a knife with the tip of a knife dipped in iodine, killing and disinfecting at the same time. I am not good at talking, so I can't beat her."

"It's a relief!" Lu Yuan shook off her hand, patted her head, and went straight to the first row.

The Cultural and Exhibition Center is quite large, and the first row of seats is vaguely divided into four camps.

Taking the central axis of the venue as the reference, sitting on the left are members of the "1942" crew, including Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Guoli, Liu Zhenyun, Wang Zhongjun, etc.

On the right is the crew of "New World" and "Chinese Partners", including Wen Muye, Chen Zhixi, Chen Kexin, Du Kefeng, Du Juan, and Huang Xiaoming.

Lu Yuan's position was between the two crews.

On the left and right of the two camps are other nominated crews, such as "So Young", "A Thousand Arrows Piercing the Heart", "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix", and "Xiao Hong".
Lu Yuan greeted his colleagues in the first row. When he passed the crew of "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix", he stopped in front of a medium-sized, dark-skinned man, bent over and stretched out his hand: "Teacher Tao, hello!"

Tao Zeru was a little surprised. In fact, after Lu Yuan came in, he heard the fans' cheers and began to observe him silently.

His professional ability is well-known in the industry and his acting skills are widely recognized, but he is not well-known among the audience.

The main reason is that he does not pursue success in commercial films and does not play mainstream roles. He does not want to become a pure film businessman. An actor should focus on shaping the character.

But that doesn't mean he has any opinion on Lu Yuan's choice.

He still remembers the time when the nominations for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor were just announced, and there was an endless debate in the forum about who would win the award.

Among the few people, Lu Yuan had the highest number of votes, while Zhang Guoli was far behind and ranked second.

This is very easy to understand. After all, Lu Yuan is the youngest and has the most outstanding appearance among them.

Who are the people nominated with him?

Sun Weiming, who starred in "Four Days and Nights of Mr. Zhou", was 57 years old; Zhang Guoli, who starred in "57", was 60 years old; Tao Zeru, who starred in "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix", was 40 years old; only Huang Jue, the lead actor in "The Fallen City", was younger, also years old.

Among a bunch of old-timers who can’t even be saved by a facelift, there is a handsome guy who is less than 30 years old. The key is that his professional ability is super strong. You know who to vote for even if you vote with your feet.

Tao Zeru quickly stood up, stretched out her hand and shook hands with Lu Yuan, but for a moment she didn't know how to address the other person.

Just call him Teacher Lu. He is sixty years old this year and is probably older than Lu Yuan’s father, so I can’t call him that.

Just call Lu Yuan directly. The camera in the venue is staring at this place. The other party is so popular and has such a strong record. If the video gets out, there is no guarantee that someone will think he is taking advantage of his seniority.

This was obviously not the first time Lu Yuan encountered such a situation. He smiled and said, "Just call me by my name."

"Yeah!" Tao Zeru agreed.

Lu Yuan raised his thumbs up: "I watched the movie "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" starring you, it's this!"

He had watched all the works starring several actors nominated for Best Actor before coming here.

Let’s not talk about the plot for now, that’s the problem of the screenwriter and director.

In his opinion, in terms of character portrayal alone, the Dong Jia played by Zhang Guoli, as well as Li Zicheng and Cheng Dongqing played by himself, are not as good as Jiao Sanye played by Tao Zeru.

"'The New World' is that, a great movie."

Tao Zeru praised sincerely, and said: "I thought you young people didn't like to watch movies like "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix"."

"A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" is a non-mainstream art film that tells the story of folk suona art.

Director Wu Tianmin, Zhang Yimou's mentor, is a leading figure of China's fourth generation of directors.

"I'm not young anymore." Lu Yuan smiled, but was unable to refute.

Today, the consumer groups of domestic cinemas have changed, and most of them are born in the 80s and 90s.

This group prefers Hollywood-style action blockbusters, urban emotional comedies, Marvel superhero series and other movie genres.

Rather than an art film with a slow pace, a heavy, profound, tragic core, or a theme of educating the audience.

Of course, this is not wrong. Each age group has its own aesthetic preferences.

It was precisely for this reason that the film "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" was completed in 2012, but was delayed for a year and has yet to be released.

It is true that Wu Tianmin is a master in the industry.

But the distributors and theaters only care about money, and they are basically unwilling to invest in this art film that is destined to not make money.

Therefore, Wu Tianmin planned to win the award first, increase the popularity of the play, and then plan to distribute it.

(End of this chapter)