The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 744 Lottery Draw

We briefly chatted about the script of "Lost and Love".

Liu Dehua turned his gaze to Li Xuejian, paused at the red national flag badge on the other's chest, and started the conversation.

Li Xuejian said that he has been accustomed to wearing the national flag emblem when attending major events since 97.

Lu Yuan listened quietly and occasionally added a word.

When Liu Dehua was chatting with Li Xuejian, he was very humble and addressed the latter as his senior everywhere.

It’s hard to imagine that the two are only seven years apart in age.

Judging from his physical condition alone, Li Xuejian is obviously much older. Although he is in good spirits, he always feels less energetic than Liu Dehua.

I have to say that Hong Kong celebrities are really good at body management.

People like Cheng Long, Chow Yun-fat, Zhao Yazhi, Lin Qingxia and others are about the same age as Li Xuejian, but they don’t look like they are in their sixties at all.

Li Xuejian was quite envious of Liu Dehua's condition and asked for health-preserving tips.

Liu Dehua said frankly: "I don't drink cold drinks, I only drink warm water."

"What about summer?"

“The same is true for the hottest dog days of the year.”

"How do you arrange three meals a day?"

"Try to eat vegetarian food. In the morning, eat oatmeal mixed with yogurt, a cup of warm milk, and occasionally a piece of fruit. Lunch is mainly whole grains, with a small amount of boiled chicken and a variety of vegetables. Dinner is similar."

“All year round?”

"Well, almost thirty years."

"Great! Don't you get tired of doing this?"

"How can you get tired of it?"

Liu Dehua was in a very good mood and showed off his arms: "When you feel bored, look at your muscles, or pull up your clothes to look at your abdominal muscles, and you will be back to shape immediately."

"Hahaha." Lu Yuan and Li Xuejian both laughed.

After chatting for a while, Liu Dehua turned around and went to the area where Hong Kong artists gathered.

Lu Yuan was just planning to walk around when Wang Jinhua approached with a young man. The young man was about 20 years old, with average looks, a short face, short stature, and wrinkled skin like a little old man.

"Teacher Lu, long time no see."

"Sister Hua." Lu Yuan shook hands with Wang Jinhua, responded politely, and then looked to her side.

The young man approached and stared at him unscrupulously until Wang Jinhua pushed him and called out, "Hello, Teacher Lu."

"Hello." Lu Yuan was surprised, but he didn't care about it. He asked Wang Jinhua curiously, "Who is this?"

Wang Jinhua was not too confident and hurriedly introduced: "Teacher Lu, this is my son, Dong Zijian. I usually dote on him too much and don't respect him. This time, he is nominated for the best new actor in Youth."

"Wow, that's great. You're nominated for Best New Actor at such a young age. You have a promising future." He praised with a smile, looking quite sincere.

After leaving Orange Sky, Wang Jinhua chose to work alone.

Its star artists include Chen Daoming, Liang Jiahui, Hu Jun, Bai Baihe and others, totaling more than 80 people.

With such a mother, Dong Zijian will not lack resources as long as he is willing to enter the industry, and a number of big names are willing to play supporting roles for him.

He has seen many similar second-generation stars.

As for whether you can make a name for yourself, it ultimately depends on your acting skills.

When Lu Yuan saw Wen Muye and the "New World" team arriving, he signaled to Wang Jinhua and went to greet them.

Wang Jinhua withdrew her gaze from his back, her smile faded, and she stared at her son, frowning: "What happened to you just now?"

She brought her son here just to get acquainted with Lu Yuan so that it would be easier for her to negotiate for a role in his play in the future.

"What's going on?" Dong Zijian disagreed.

He has been a car enthusiast since he was young. When he was young, he often went to the alley near his home with his father to guess the car model by listening to the sound. This was his biggest hobby.

I had absolutely no idea about becoming an actor.

His father is the well-known actor Dong Zhihua, who is not well-known in the entertainment industry.

But he was also very popular in the 80s and 90s, and his mother was no ordinary person either. She was the number one agent in mainland China and had countless connections in the Beijing circle.

Growing up in such an environment, he felt that being an actor was too hard and tiring. For the sake of his character, his every word and action had to be restricted.

More importantly, he had already seen the inside story and filth of this industry early on.

Many seemingly glamorous artists have no bottom line in order to get to the top. They can trade their appearance, ideas, and everything for fame.

Having just graduated from high school, he was arrogant and looked down on this industry, thinking everyone was unclean.

Actors are not even worthy of being dogs. The entertainment industry is dirtier than a toilet.

He had planned long ago that as soon as he graduated from high school, he would go to college abroad and stay away from this dirty circle.

Unfortunately, Wang Jinhua is a strong mother. After he finished the college entrance examination last year, she arranged for him to join the crew of "Youth" and let Qin Hailu and others play supporting roles.

And operated several awards in the Mainland.

Wang Jinhua was furious at him for not fighting back: "I'm warning you, to survive in this business, you don't have to have other things, but you must have good eyesight and know who you can mess with and who you can't. I don't even dare to offend someone like Lu Yuan, and Li An has to speak softly when he sees him. Where do you get the confidence from?"

"Mom, I'm 21 this year and he's 29. I was nominated for the Golden Horse Awards for my first film, and it was also his first time participating in the Golden Horse Awards. I admit that he is very popular, but after 8 years, it's not completely hopeless for me to surpass him."

Wang Jinhua was so angry that she wanted to beat him up. He was truly an amateur speaking in amateurish terms and had no idea how high the heavens were or how deep the earth was.

She regretted that she had protected this boy too well and had not yet allowed him to enter the industry in the true sense. Otherwise, he would have known that in the eyes of new actors, seeing Lu Yuan was like an ant seeing the sky.

"Just shut up. I'll deal with you when I get back."

The red carpet was filled with competition for beauty.

Actresses such as Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Manyu, Lin Qingxia, Li Binbin, and Liu Ruoying each have their own flavor.

Shu Qi came well prepared and worked hard to promote "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". She looked glamorous and playful in a deep V-neck Valentino classic long dress, stunning the audience.

Huang Bo seemed a bit out of place among them.

When it was the turn of the "New World" crew to perform, although Lu Yuan was wearing a plain black dress, he always caused screams when he waved his hand.

His popularity was so high that it skyrocketed, causing many Hong Kong and Taiwan artists to look at him sideways and be secretly amazed.

"The crew of New World is walking on the red carpet now. Last year, New World was released for less than 20 days and became the second Chinese-language film in the mainland to break the billion box office. We can see that the most talented actor Lu Yuan, known as the Asian King, and the talented director Wen Muye, who was nominated for Best New Director, are walking in the front."

On the red carpet, hosts Huang Zijiao and Yang Qianpei stopped the group and started joking.

"Mr. Lu, why didn't Goddess Bai Qian come today?"

"Three Lives Three Worlds" has a wide audience on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and several of the leading actors are very popular.

Fans on both sides cheered loudly and shouted Liu Shishi's name.

Lu Yuan smiled and said, "Goddess Bai Qian is busy with other things, but she also asked me to bring a greeting to the fans in Taipei."

"Hahaha." The host Huang Zijiao handed over the microphone: "Mr. Lu, congratulations on being nominated for Best Actor for your superb acting in New World."

"Thank you."

"As far as I know, this is your first time participating in the Golden Horse Awards and your first time being nominated for Best Actor. How do you feel? Do you have anything to say to everyone, either to the audience or to the other competitors?"

Lu Yuan thought for a moment and said, "First of all, I sincerely wish the Golden Horse Awards a happy 50th birthday. The Golden Horse Awards has set the selection criteria under the perspective of the entire Greater China. As long as it is a Chinese-language film and reflects the lives of Chinese people, regardless of region and place of origin, it can participate. It provides a stage for all Chinese films to the greatest extent."

"With this purpose, the Golden Horse Awards can achieve today's glory and be widely acclaimed internationally, bringing together Chinese people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, which is something everyone wants to see."

"I am excited about being nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor. As for what I would like to say to my colleagues who are nominated with me, the most important thing is to participate."

"Okay, thank you Mr. Lu for your answer."

The female host Yang Qianpei took over the topic: "Are there any new works planned next?"

"Since the host asked this, I'll promote it in advance. Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, directed by Chou Hsin-chi and starring Huang Boshuqi and me, will be shown in major cinemas at the end of this year. See you there."

Fans at the scene responded immediately and expressed their support.

The host Huang Zijiao looked at Wen Muye and said, "Director Wen, I would like to ask you, "New World" is your first time as a director. When you are facing the lead actor who is not only your boss but also the director of "Time Raiders", what will you do when you encounter disagreements at work?"

Wen Muye answered fluently: "We prepared this film for a long time. We didn't have any disagreements. Everything is good."

"If we really have to choose, who will listen to whom?" the host pressed on.

Seeing Wen Muye hesitate, Lu Yuan said, "Of course I heard from the director. Muye's directing ability is far better than mine."

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After entering the venue, Lu Yuan met his competitor for the Best Actor award.

This year's Golden Horse Award for Best Actor competition was dubbed the "group of death" by outside media.

The nomination list includes Liang Jiahui, who won the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards at the beginning of the year, Lu Yuan, who won the Best Actor Award at the Golden Rooster Awards in the middle of the year, and Liang Chaowei, the record holder for three-time Golden Horse Best Actor. This is his seventh nomination. There is also Zhang Jiahui, who has perfect muscles and shows off his boxing skills at the age of 7, and Li Kangsheng, the male lead of director Tsai Mingliang.

The shortlisted works are: Liang Jiahui's "Cold War", Lu Yuan's "New World", Liang Chaowei's "The Grandmaster", Zhang Jiahui's "The Fight", and Li Kangsheng's "Outing".

In addition, he also saw five actresses nominated for the Golden Horse Best Actress Award.

Cherry Ngan in "The Way We Dance", Zhang Ziyi in "The Grandmaster", Gwei Lun-mei in "A Christmas Rose", Lu Yi-ching in "Outing", and Sammi Cheng in "Blind Detective".

Lu Yuan was placed between Liang Jiahui and Liang Chaowei.

Liang Chaowei was embarrassed. Because of Dong Jie's incident, he shamelessly went to Lu Yuan to plead for mercy, but was ignored.

Sitting next to Lu Yuan at this moment, he felt itchy all over, his eyes were blank, and he kept lowering his head to play with his fingers, looking more and more socially anxious and helpless.

Lu Yuan glanced at him indifferently and was speechless seeing him being so pretentious.

After a moment, Li An came closer. As the chairman of this year's Golden Horse Awards jury, in order to form the strongest Golden Horse lineup for the 50th anniversary of the Golden Horse Awards, he had confirmed the itinerary with him many times before coming.

Li An was very busy. He said hello and hurried backstage.

Seeing Liang Jiahui shaved his head on the right, Lu Yuan asked curiously, "Are there any new dramas recently?"

"Ah."

Liang Jiahui replied quietly, "I went to the crew a few days ago to decide on the look for Tsui Hark's new play, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy."

Lu Yuan was surprised.

He had heard of this play before. It was a war-themed play invested by Bona Film Group and August 1st Film Studio. There were several roles in the play, and Jiang Qiuyun was trying to get roles for Lin Gengxin, Zhu Yilong and others.

But he hadn't heard about Liang Jiahui's participation in the show.

Liang Jiahui guessed his thoughts, smiled, and kept it a secret: "Tsui Hark does not plan to announce the role I play. I guess after the movie is officially released, no one will be able to recognize me."

"Really?" Lu Yuan was aroused by him.

While the two were chatting, the Golden Horse Awards ceremony officially began.

First, a recollection of the best feature films in the 2012 years since the establishment of the Golden Horse Awards was played, from 1962 to , "The Warlords", "Lust, Caution", "Kung Fu", "Infernal Affairs", "Hero"...

When In the Mood for Love appeared on the big screen.

The on-site director's camera shifted to the scene where he lingered ambiguously between Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung.

I don’t know whether it was intentional or not, but Carina Lau, who was sitting next to Tony Leung, was framed in the picture.

Everyone knows about the feelings between Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Maggie Cheung during the filming of In the Mood for Love. Carina Lau sat in the audience with mixed emotions, while the socially phobic actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai pressed his index finger on his lips, dodging eye contact, and looked at a loss.

Then the host Cai Kangyong came on stage and gave his opening remarks.

The awards ceremony took place in about three minutes, and the previous awards were just appetizers.

The Best Editing Award was presented first, and Huang Bo and Hong Kong actress Cheng Yuling served as the opening award presenters.

In order to liven up the atmosphere, Cherie Chung started by making fun of Huang Bo, joking that he was not dressed formally enough for the 50th anniversary of the Golden Horse Awards, and was wearing pajamas, and his hair looked like it was blown by the wind.

He also cited Lu Yuan, Liang Jiahui, Liang Chaowei, Liu Dehua and others as examples.

The audience laughed.

Huang Bo was not angry, but rather depressed, because Lu Yuan had just said the same thing in the afternoon.

He didn't bother to think about whether his look tonight was really ugly, and immediately thought about how to answer.

"Because they are guests, guests have to dress formally when they go to someone's home, but it's different for me. I have been the host of the Golden Horse Awards for five consecutive years. Coming here is like going home. I dress the same way as I would at home, and of course I dress in whatever is comfortable for me."

This sentence left Cheng Yuling speechless, and the audience burst into regional applause.

Lu Yuan laughed and applauded. No wonder after Huang Bo became famous, his studio marketed him as a persona with high emotional intelligence.

This guy's on-the-spot reaction is indeed quite good. After all, he worked as a bartender and a resident singer in a bar before entering the industry, so he must have some skills to succeed.

As Huang Bo finished his speech, the scene became lively.

Cheng Yuling then turned the topic to the host Cai Kangyong, saying that he had been hosting for many years and did a good job.

Cai Kangyong smiled and said: "This is my first time hosting the Golden Horse Awards, and it was Ms. Cheng Yuling who brought me here. Thank you Ms. Cheng Yuling."

There is nothing wrong with what he said, but Cai Kangyong changed the subject next.

"Huang Bo, this is my home, not yours."

As soon as he finished speaking, both Cheng Yuling and Huang Bo laughed. Compared with Cheng Yuling, Huang Bo's smile was obviously a little awkward.

In the audience, many guests laughed and applauded.

But Lu Yuan's expression changed. Because of his high popularity, the director often turned the camera to him.

At this moment, his face in front of the camera turned visibly darker. There were many other guests who had similar reactions, including Andy Lau, Cheng Long, Li An, and many mainland actors.

It seems that he noticed the expressions of these big names.

The smiles on the faces of many guests who were grinning and laughing slowly faded.

They are not stupid, they just didn't react for a while. Of course, some people still do their own thing even if they react.

(End of this chapter)