The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 713 What else can I do?
"Clap clap clap!"

The guests presenting the Best Actor Award were Pan Hong and Wu Gang, both standing firmly on the stage.

Pan Hong, who has won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress three times, is in her sixties, but looks to be in her early fifties. Because she is of Chinese and Russian descent, her facial features are still three-dimensional at this age.

Pan Hong was wearing a pair of black-framed glasses today: "Next it's our turn to present awards to the men, no, it should be the prize opening."

"Yes, let's draw the prizes." Wu Gang stood aside, wearing a flashy black and white striped vest and a hat of the same color.

"There is a saying that I like, 'We bloom wherever we live'. I would like to give this saying to the five of you first, as it represents our flowers."

The two of them said a few opening remarks as usual.

“Now, let’s enjoy the wonderful performances of the five nominated actors!”

"The nominees for the Best Actor Award at the 29th China Golden Rooster Awards are Sun Weiming for "Four Days and Nights of Mr. Zhou", Zhang Guoli for "1942", Tao Zeru for "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix", Huang Jue for "Allure", and Lu Yuan for "New World" and "Chinese Partners."

Clips of works by several nominated male actors appeared on the big screen one by one.

"These works and actors are really great," Wu Gang praised.

"In fact, every award ceremony is very cruel. Only a few people win. Okay, let's announce the prizes now."

He handed the envelope to Pan Hong, who indicated that he should make it public himself.

Wu Gang took out the list from the envelope: "This year's Golden Rooster Awards, Best Actor, is awarded to..."

He paused for a moment, kept the topic in suspense, and looked at the audience.

Fans behind the guest seats began to cheer in unison

"Lu Yuan!!"

Lu Yuan frowned. At this moment, he really didn't want to hear his fans or the extras arranged by the organizer calling his name.

Because in the midst of all the shouts, he only heard himself.

However, Zhang Guoli and others who were selected with him were hardly mentioned.

From the perspective of Zhang Guoli and Tao Zeru, this is an extremely embarrassing thing.

He turned his gaze to the big screen. Fortunately, they were all veterans who had been in the industry for decades. There was no sign of dissatisfaction on the faces of Zhang Guoli and others. They were all smiling and waiting for the awards to be announced.

Wu Gang stopped wasting time and revealed the answer: "Lu Yuan, Zhang Guoli!!"

"Beep beep beep!"

The audience was boiling with excitement, and the cheers from the fans in the back almost blew the ceiling of the venue apart.

Double yolks, this year's Golden Rooster Awards have double yolks again!!

Many guests applauded and murmured, while turning their attention to the young figure in the front row who slowly stood up.

Sure enough it was him!

The box office of "New World" and "Chinese Partners", starring Lu Yuan, made them drool.

The former was released for only three weeks and the box office exceeded 1 billion.

The latter was slightly inferior, but the final result also reached nearly one billion when it was downloaded.

But they also knew that although both works were selected, only one of them actually made Lu Yuan eligible to compete for the Best Actor.

That is "Chinese Partners".

This has nothing to do with Lu Yuan's professional ability. He interpreted Li Zicheng very well, and many wonderful clips of this role are still circulating on the Internet.

However, many details in the movie "New World" cannot withstand close scrutiny. Gangs and crimes do not conform to mainstream values.

"Chinese Partners" is just the opposite.

The most outstanding protagonist of that generation in the story chose to go to the United States, but ultimately failed there.

In that country of "equal opportunities", his career and ambitions were repeatedly frustrated, and his "American dream" was shattered.

The other two who stayed in China seized the opportunities brought by reform and opening up and gave their dreams a fertile ground.

This is the Chinese dream.

In an era when there was no Chinese Dream yet, Cheng Dongqing was creating a dream that belonged to the Chinese people themselves.

This is an extremely positive point and is consistent with the concept of the Chinese Dream mentioned above.

It meets the needs of the times.

So much so that during the release of "Chinese Partners", accounts from multiple relevant departments supported the film.

It is said that this is a good movie that condenses the growth process of the first generation of entrepreneurs in the reform and opening up.

Although they understand it, everyone is still envious.

Lu Yuan slowly stood up and hugged Wen Muye, Chen Kexin and others beside him.

"Boss, congratulations!"

"Thank you."

"Congratulations, Mr. Lu, you won the Golden Rooster Award."

"Thank you."

Lu Yuan thanked everyone who congratulated him one by one.

The experience of working hard in the entertainment industry over the years came to my mind.

In June 2009, his fourth year in the industry, he won his first Magnolia Award for Best Actor.

In September of the same year, he won the Feitian Award for Best Actor. The following year, in September 9, he won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor. At the age of 2010, he became the youngest person to win the Best Actor Grand Slam in China.

It was also during that period that the transition to the big screen began.

In September 2013, three years later, at the age of 9, he won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor, one of the three major awards on the Chinese big screen.

Although Jinji’s reputation online has been getting worse in recent years.

But it is undeniable that this award is still one of the most prestigious film awards in mainland China.

It was just as he looked around at his colleagues who were applauding him, listening to the passionate music in the venue, and the award speeches that were gradually ringing out.

He found that he was not as excited as he had imagined, and was surprisingly calm.

In a flash, he understood why he had this mentality.

Perhaps the fact that mainland actors were excluded from the Academy Awards in April, and the reason why Chen Kexin just won the Best Director Award, made the value of these so-called three major awards plummet in his heart.

In other words, the three gold medals have lost their charm in his heart, and the awards that he had dreamed of so much in the past are now just that.

Or maybe it's because he has too many labels now, and many times he no longer looks at things from the perspective of an actor. "Lu Yuan's performance in the film "Chinese Partners" is smooth and natural, and the character's inner emotions are sincere and abundant. He grasps the character's identity change and sense of age just right. He portrays Cheng Dongqing, who looks inferior and cowardly on the outside, but is actually wise and foolish. His acting skills are superb, so I give him the Best Actor Award."

"Zhang Guoli, for his performance in the film 1942, grasped the role from both the external and internal dimensions, truly integrated into the background of the times, and truly presented the state of the victims. He is awarded the Best Actor Award."

After Lu Yuan stood up, he waited for half a minute, then met Zhang Guoli who was walking from the left and went on stage together.

He deliberately slowed down a bit, noticing that Zhang Guoli's walking posture was somewhat unnatural, and he could clearly sense the other person's uncontrollable excitement.

But on second thought, Zhang Guoli had been in the industry for more than 40 years and just won the first Golden Rooster Best Actor trophy in his career. It was inevitable that he was in a trance.

In contrast, he was lucky enough to become the Golden Rooster Award winner at the age of less than 30.

The two received the trophy and certificate for Best Actor from the guests.

"Congratulations."

"thanks, thanks!"

After the guests left the stage, the host Tu Jingwei stood aside.

"My heart almost jumped out of my chest when Teacher Wu Gang paused for a moment. Congratulations to both teachers. Let's give a round of applause to the two Golden Rooster Award winners!"

The applause of the audience was thunderous.

"Clap clap clap!"

After a pause in the applause, Tu Jingwei asked, "Who will give the acceptance speech first?"

Lu Yuan took a step back and motioned Zhang Guoli to go first, and Zhang Guoli did not refuse.

The layout of this year's Golden Rooster Awards was so simple that it was speechless. There was not even a standing microphone on the podium. The only microphone was in Tu Jingwei's hand.

"Then Teacher Guoli, please come first." Tu Jingwei handed the microphone to Zhang Guoli's mouth.

Zhang Guoli's lips moved, and a rare look of nervousness appeared on his weathered face. He stammered and couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.

He gave up and turned to look at Lu Yuan: "Why don't you go first? I didn't expect to win the award, so I didn't prepare a speech. I didn't prepare a note in advance like Director Chen Kexin did. Now my mind is blank."

"Hahaha." The guests in the audience laughed good-naturedly.

Lu Yuan thought about it, took a step forward, bent over, and got close to the microphone.

Tu Jingwei misunderstood and immediately said, "Okay, let Teacher Lu give his acceptance speech first."

"No, no, no, I just hope that the fans in the back row can give Mr. Kunikasa some encouragement and congratulations." Lu Yuan explained.

"Zhang Guoli, Zhang Guoli!!" The fans cooperated very well and their voices were deafening.

Zhang Guoli looked at him in surprise. The cheers from the audience just now did make him feel a little embarrassed. It was also the first time that he felt the delicacy of the other person's thoughts so intuitively.

"Thank you, thank you everyone." He bowed to express his gratitude while organizing his thoughts.

"There are too many people to thank, and first of all, I would like to especially thank Xiaogang. In my heart, Xiaogang is one of the best directors in China and also my best friend."

"You have been preparing for 1942 for nearly ten years, and you have worked harder than anyone else, but in the end you got nothing for it. You helped me. This award belongs to me, to all the people working behind the scenes, and even more to you."

"Clap clap clap!"

Feng Xiaogang in the audience clapped his hands with joy, and Zhang Guoli's words were almost a poke in the lungs of the Golden Rooster Award judges.

Comfortable!

In order to vent Feng Xiaogang's anger, Zhang Guoli got angry at the Golden Rooster Awards. He suddenly remembered his own grievances and continued.

"I am so happy to receive an award with Lu Yuan. I feel so much younger. I started acting in 1971 and have been in the industry for 42 years. During this period, I missed out on numerous awards. I have grown from a young man in his twenties to an old man with gray hair. So I really envy Lu Yuan from the bottom of my heart. He is so young and has won an award before he is ."

"I think if the award this time was not a double yolk, but only one place, one trophy, in this case, he would definitely give it to me, an old man who has waited for 42 years."

"Hahaha." Everyone in the audience laughed.

Lu Yuan smiled on his face but muttered in his heart, I have no objection to your Yin-Yang Golden Rooster Awards, and I even fully support it, but why are you dragging me into this?
The reason why Zhang Guoli is not favored by mainstream awards is because he is too financially savvy.

When he was in his thirties, he took advantage of the favorable conditions of reform and opening up to go into business, establish his own business and call the shots.

People of the same generation such as Li Xuejian, Tang Guoqi, Chen Daoming, Chen Baoguo, Li Youbin, etc., mostly stayed honestly within the system.

So the older judges thought that this man was more of a businessman than an actor, with a complicated character.

Zhang Guoli finished his speech, and Tu Jingwei took over the conversation: "Thank you, Mr. Guoli, for your wonderful acceptance speech."

She walked to Lu Yuan with a smile and asked subconsciously: "Teacher Lu, to be honest, if there is really only one Golden Rooster Best Actor trophy tonight, will you really give it to Teacher Guoli?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Tu Jingwei regretted it.

She shouldn't have asked this question. They all won the awards based on their hard work. Why should Lu Yuan give in? Could it be that Lu Yuan was a little worse?
Lu Yuan glanced at her calmly and smiled, "I have to correct one of your words. The word 'let' is not appropriate. With Mr. Guo Li's ability, he doesn't need to rely on anyone to let him get the trophy. He is fully capable of getting it on his own. Letting him get it would be disrespectful to him."

Tu Jingwei was startled. Why was this person different from what Zhao Yanzi said?
Lu Yuan continued, "Just now, while I was waiting for the list to be announced, I heard many fans in the back row shouting my name. I was happy but also a little sad."

"I think people are paying attention to me now because I am young enough and happened to have portrayed a few decent roles. In a few years, when I am the same age as Mr. Kunikasa and Ms. Tao Zeru in the audience, will I also be sitting in the audience and watching younger actors go on stage to receive awards?"

“No way!!” The fans behind him shouted: “Domestic entertainment will not fall, and we will accompany Lu until old age!”

Lu Yuan tried hard to hold back his twitching. It was so embarrassing and childish. He really wanted to shut up all these fans. They were so blind.

"Before today, I always thought that winning an award was the proudest and happiest thing for an actor, but when the list was announced, I felt unexpectedly calm. At that moment, I suddenly realized that the so-called happiness is not something that can be given by just an award, but something that you need to experience in the process of sincerely creating a role."

"Cheng Dongqing is an idiot. I didn't expect that this idiot would have the opportunity to stand on the podium today. I am happy for this idiot. I would like to thank the Golden Rooster Award judges. To be honest, this award is not well-received. The other teachers nominated have excellent professional abilities. I would also like to thank all the behind-the-scenes staff of the "Chinese Partners" crew."

Under the stage, Zhao Yanzi and Huang Xiaoming sat next to each other.

Zhao Yanzi asked doubtfully: "Hey, did you find anything?"

"what?"

"Why do I feel that this junior brother's edge is much stronger than before, with more edges and corners."

"Is there any?"

Huang Xiaoming said that he didn't notice it, but instead thought that his junior brother was very eloquent.

If he had gone on stage instead and Zhang Guoli and Tu Jingwei had suddenly come over, he would probably have had to respond with "give way".

"Yes, it may be because you meet him so often that you don't think it's obvious. When he encountered such things in the past, he would just laugh it off, but he would not secretly respond to Zhang Guoli and Jingwei on stage."

Huang Xiaoming held his chin up and said, "Maybe it's just like what he said, awards can't bring him happiness, so he doesn't care much about awards anymore."

Zhao Yanzi remained silent. There were indeed controversies over several of the winners of tonight's Golden Rooster Awards.

But this is not the first time that the Golden Rooster Awards has had similar operations. The Golden Rooster, Golden Image and Golden Horse Awards are all equally important.

What can we do given the general environment?

Could it be possible that he could overturn several big awards?
(End of this chapter)