The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 711 Nothing more than that
The Golden Rooster Awards ceremony officially begins.

Ren Quan, Huang Xiaoming and others went on stage to sing three songs. Tu Jingwei announced that the Best Original Drama and Best Adapted Screenplay would be announced first.

The two awards were given to Huang Hong and Wang Jinming for "The Falling City" and Liu Zhenyun for "1942" respectively.

Liu Zhenyun came on stage and talked about the hardships during the filming of "1942".

After he finished speaking, Tu Jingwei said, "Friends, next we are going to present tonight's most important award, the Best Director Award!"

"Tonight's Best Director competition is unprecedentedly fierce. Director Feng Xiaogang's 1942, as Liu Zhenyun just said, Director Feng resolutely transformed himself and used the popularity and audience appeal he had accumulated over more than a decade of shooting Lunar New Year films to support this epic disaster film."

"I think everyone must be deeply moved by Director Feng Xiaogang's courage and perseverance in not resting on his laurels. Let's give a round of applause to Director Feng."

"Clap clap clap!"

Lu Yuan also applauded, saying that Feng Xiaogang undoubtedly had many problems.

But speaking objectively, the movie "1942" was indeed shot with sincerity, showing a very high artistic standard, worthy of his status as a great director.

Tu Jingwei went on to say: "There is also director Chen Kexin who is close to Lu Yuan. Chen Kexin's previous works, such as "The Warlords" and "The Besieged City", all won reputation but lost box office."

"I know that box office performance is not everything, but to a certain extent, it made "Chinese Partners" carry the determination and courage to fight to the bitter end, and finally lived up to expectations and achieved excellent box office results."

"And Director Wang Jing, Thousand Arrows Piercing the Heart is a good work and I look forward to your performance."

After Tu Jingwei finished speaking, he covered his chest and pretended to be puzzled: "Who else did I miss?"

Looking around the guest seats, she suddenly realized, "Oh, and finally, there is director Wong Kar-wai who is not here today. The Grandmaster will be playing 'Missing Generation' again tonight."

Everyone in the audience smiled, and Lu Yuan adjusted his sitting position.

All crew members of "The Grandmaster" are absent tonight.

The most likely reason why Wong Kar-wai didn't come is that he thought the organizers didn't like "The Grandmaster". After all, the Golden Rooster Awards didn't even give Tony Leung a nomination for Best Actor.

In fact, this movie only has a good reputation in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and has been praised to the sky, but the reputation in mainland China is average.
Zhang Ziyi's absence does not mean Gong Er is incompetent.

It is no exaggeration to say that the most outstanding and popular character in "The Grandmaster" is Gong Er, who makes the male protagonist seem invisible.

The fundamental reason is that there is an unwritten rule in the Golden Rooster Awards that there will only be one award twice.

As of this year's Golden Rooster Awards, no male actor has ever won the Best Actor award twice.

There are some best actresses. In the early years, Pan Hong, Gong Li and Song Chunli won the award 3 times, 2 times and 2 times respectively.

There will be no second letter after that.

The fundamental reason why Pan Hong was able to break the convention of "only winning the Golden Rooster Award twice" and won the title of Best Actress three times, an unprecedented number of times, was confrontation.

At that time, the veteran judges specifically wanted to select an actress with acting skills who could compete with Liu Xiaoqing, the three-time Hundred Flowers Award winner.

That’s why Pan Hong was chosen. It was a matter of time and fate.

As early as 2004, Zhang Ziyi won the Best Actress Award at the 24th China Film Golden Rooster Awards for her role in the movie "Jasmine".

Therefore, it is almost impossible for her to win the Best Actress award at this year's Golden Rooster Awards.

In addition, "The Grandmaster" was not well received by the Golden Rooster Awards, and considering the ideas of Wong Kar-wai and others, Zhang Ziyi was too lazy to give face to the organizers and made excuses not to attend.

Tu Jingwei said on the stage: "Next, please welcome the award presenters, Bai Baihe and Xie Fei!"

The two walked in from the backstage, and clips from several movies appeared on the big screen.

Bai Baihe and Xie Fei chatted for a while as usual, and Xie Fei tore open the envelope: "Best Director Award, awarded to."

Real-time footage of several nominated directors appeared on the big screen, but only Wong Kar-wai was a picture.

"Chinese Partners, Peter Chan!"

The director's camera intentionally stayed on Feng Xiaogang's face for a moment, and then moved to Chen Kexin's position.

"Beep beep beep!"

There was thunderous applause.

Chen Kexin stood up suddenly, a look of disbelief flashed across his face, then was replaced by shame.

Lu Yuan hugged him and congratulated him: "Director, congratulations."

"Thank you, thank you." Chen Kexin was also a little confused.

As an art award, from an artistic perspective, the Golden Rooster Award is undoubtedly more profound and heavy than "1942".

Obviously, Feng Xiaogang's award is more convincing.

"Director Peter Chan combined his own ideas with those of mainland China in the film 'Chinese Partners' and described the rich connotations of the Chinese Dream." The award speech echoed in his ears. Peter Chan walked up to the stage quickly, took the trophy from the presenter, and stood steadily in the center of the stage.

"Thank you both for the awards. Let us congratulate director Peter Chan!"

Tu Jingwei adjusted the atmosphere and walked to the edge of the stage, saying half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Let me take a closer look first. Director Xiaogang won't be angry, will he?"

"Buzz!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the huge conference hall suddenly became quiet, and everyone's eyes were focused on Feng Xiaogang.

If you put yourself in his shoes, Tu Jingwei's seemingly joking words sounded like a direct mockery to Feng Xiaogang's ears.

Feng Xiaogang reacted quickly as well. He waved his hands immediately, and his originally tense face broke into a smile, like a blooming chrysanthemum, vividly and vividly interpreting the meaning of "forced smile".

Lu Yuan glanced at him and pursed his lips.

Finally, he calmly stretched out three fingers of his right hand, pressed them firmly on his lips, and looked like he was in deep thought.

He was afraid that he would laugh, and Feng Xiaogang deserved it.

Mentioning only his name among so many people is equivalent to the Golden Rooster Awards judges speaking through Tu Jingwei's mouth.

"Xiaogang, do you think that you are the best director because 1942 has a good reputation and is a breakthrough in style? No, I am not surprised, delighted, or angry."

Most people may not understand how a host from CCTV could say such inappropriate words.

Lu Yuan could vaguely guess the reason, and at the same time, the value of the Golden Rooster Awards in his heart dropped again.

The feud between Feng Xiaogang and the Golden Rooster Awards has a long history, and he has criticized the Golden Rooster Awards more than once or twice.

As early as the 2000th Golden Rooster Awards in 20, Feng Xiaogang participated in the competition with two films, "A Sigh" and "Never Ending", which were widely favored by the market and experts.

As a result, they were coldly rejected by the Golden Rooster Awards jury, and the two films were not nominated for any major awards.

Out of strong dissatisfaction with the Golden Rooster Awards, Xiao Gangpao has repeatedly publicly stated that the Golden Rooster Awards selection ignores the market and is unfair.

And claimed that he would never participate in the "Golden Rooster Awards".

This time I came with "1942" and I was asking for trouble.

Feng Xiaogang in the audience was also helpless.

Who can blame me for being so mean? Who can blame me for having almost reached the end of my Lunar New Year comedy and it is hard to surpass it.

If he wants to make further breakthroughs in the domestic film industry, he must explore new themes, styles and fields. The Feng Xiaogang brand alone is obviously not enough, and he needs to gain more recognition and support.

This is also the fundamental reason for the emergence of "1942", he wants to prove himself.

How to prove it? When the box office is not ideal, he can only rely on winning big awards. Winning the Golden Rooster Award for Best Picture and Best Director is obviously his only way.

So he, who has never cared about the Golden Rooster Awards, came here with a flattering attitude.

He didn't dare to show his disapproval as he had done in the past. After all, he needed help from others. Since he had decided to transform, even if he didn't have a chance this time, it didn't mean he wouldn't have a chance next time.

Feng Xiaogang made trumpet shapes with his hands, showing his rotten teeth, and explained loudly: "Chinese Partners is a good work, and Chen Kexin deserves the award."

Unfortunately, due to the large area of ​​the venue, his voice was drowned out by the noise.

At the critical moment, no staff member had the foresight to hand over the microphone, and for a moment, the atmosphere in the entire venue became extremely awkward.

Chen Kexin tilted his ear several times but still couldn't hear, but he was tactful and immediately took over the conversation.

"I am grateful to Director Xiaogang. The reason why I was able to win the award is that Director Xiaogang's filmmaking level is too high. He is now at another level, so he gave me the opportunity."

"I am really nervous and ashamed now. The Best Director trophy is too hot for me. I have seen the other four nominated films. To be honest, compared with them, Chinese Partners is just a pure popcorn commercial film."

After seeing this, Lu Yuan no longer had any expectations for the Golden Rooster Awards.

Although he is one of the leading actors in "Chinese Partners", he does not agree with the award for Best Director.

In his opinion, there was nothing wrong with "1942" itself, but it was implicated because of the director's issues and the grudges of the Golden Rooster Awards.

What’s the point of such a Golden Rooster Award?

Nothing more.

Chen Kexin took out a piece of paper from his bosom and read out the names of the people he wanted to thank, starting with Han Sanping, without missing a single one.

After he left the stage with the trophy, Tu Jingwei said, "The next award to be announced is the Best Supporting Actress. Let us invite the award presenter!"

On the big screen, clips of Liu Shishi from "Search", Li Lie from "Flying Against the Light", Du Juan from "Chinese Partners", Chi Peng from "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" and Cai Zhuoyan from "New World" appeared in sequence.

(End of this chapter)