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Chapter 555 [120] Award Ceremony, I unexpectedly won a prize!

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

There were many sobbing sounds from female audience members in the theater, including Liu Yifei, whose eyes were also red.

Even after the ending subtitles were shown, many people were still immersed in the finale; after two of the most spectacular fights in the movie and the final gunfire that destroyed the car, Chen Long finally rescued Xiaomi.

It seemed like a happy ending, but it ended with Chen Long's arrest.

The two people said goodbye tenderly, which made many people in the theater cry.

Chen Long single-handedly killed his way through a gang's base camp and fought dozens of gang leaders alone, all of whom were killed one by one by him; even though these guys were carrying guns, no one could cause much harm to Chen Long.

The final fight, of course, is between Chen Long and Lone Wolf.

The two men started fighting with bare fists and then changed weapons, dagger versus short knife. In the end, Chen Long blocked the short knife with the dagger and stabbed it into the Lone Wolf's heart.

Before he died, the Lone Wolf smiled.

Because he did not dig out Xiaomi's eyes, in fact, there are several scenes in the movie about the killer's compassion; for example, when the gangsters were beating Xiaomi's mother, he took the initiative to cover Xiaomi's eyes to prevent her from seeing.

He was injured and Xiaomi put a Band-Aid on him. It was the first time he smiled.

Now, it's the second time.

A smile of relief.

Chen Long then chased after him and killed Brother Hu who was hiding in the bulletproof car with 14 shots.

Just when he thought Xiaomi was dead and wanted to commit suicide, Xiaomi's cry made him see the bright light of redemption.

Chen Long put down the gun and hugged Xiaomi tightly.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
Everyone in the audience stood up and applauded.

excellent work.

This is another commercial masterpiece that looks like action but actually contains humanity and redemption.

Chen Yu, it seems like he has never made a bad movie?!
And the type of shooting seems to be different every time?
Countless female fans looked at Chen Yu who stood up and greeted the audience. Many of them went crazy and shouted his name. Some shouted Chen Long. The character they had just “killed” in the movie was now on the stage. How could they not be excited? !

Many people are still immersed in the "good looks" that Chen Long brings to them.

Now when I see the actors appear on stage, I still can’t compare the characters in the movie with the current Chen Yu. It’s true that the character in the movie is too handsome.

The real Chen Yu was completely outshined by that character.

"Chen Long!"

"Uncle——"

"Uncle!"

The scene in the entire theater seemed a bit chaotic. Chen Yu smiled and waved to everyone. The creative team of "Extraction" also went on stage together.

"Hello everyone, I am Chen Yu!"

After Chen Yu spoke, many people thought the scene would quiet down, but unexpectedly the shouts in response to him became even more intense.

He is already very popular, but this movie... seems to have made many female fans even more obsessed with him.

Chen Yu was also helpless, and after the audience quieted down a little, he introduced the identities and names of the main creative staff to everyone present; but every time he introduced them, there was cheers from the audience.

Very cooperative.

Obviously, this kind of extreme behavior by fans has never happened at any film festival premiere!

Actually, there won’t be such a thing in the mainland premiere either, because fan culture hasn’t become popular yet; but nowadays, many movies starring popular stars from Japan and South Korea will have such crazy moves.

But it's so popular that it's really hard for many people to imagine.

Zhang Yimou, Jiang Wen and others felt this enthusiasm and shook their heads helplessly; for the first time, they truly felt that a star could cause such a huge response in the film market. For filmmakers who have not experienced the impact of the traffic era, such a grand occasion would paralyze their thinking.

In fact, only Chen Yu knows clearly that fan circles will always belong to a niche group. Although their purchasing power and organizational ability are strong, they are actually useless.

All I can say is that there is a market and money can be made.

There will be some targeted activities from time to time, just like harvesting leeks, and they will never get tired of cheering, supporting and spending money on their favorite stars; entertainment companies make money from this.

But the improvement in the movie's box office is not significant.

After all, the future market has verified all of this, and traffic stars cannot carry any box office revenue.

No matter how much traffic a movie has, it is not enough to support a market of 10 million, let alone 20 billion or 1 billion... Even if it is a movie starring a popular star, its die-hard fans cannot even reach million at the box office, so its contribution is indeed negligible.

The quality and reputation of the film are the key.

But Zhang Yimou and Jiang Wen obviously don’t think so at the moment. This is also the reason why many investments in the future will fail in traffic stars.

They misjudged the popularity and the increase in shareholdings that this would bring to the film.

However, the current Chen Yu is still different from the traffic stars of later generations.

He has a very high base of passers-by, so the fan club can only bring him benefits; unless this group of people angers the public, Chen Yu will speak out to boycott, because he really does not need such a crazy fan group; now that it does not affect his interests, of course he is happy to accept it.

What's more, these are not domestic fans, but just a spontaneous behavior of Japanese and Korean movie fans.

"Hello, Director Ye, I saw on the subtitles that it says action director, it's Chen Yu, is he taking on a new position in this movie?"

After everyone had introduced themselves, a film critic asked the director Ye Weixing who had just spoken.

"Yes, all the actions in this movie were designed by Brother Yu!"

"No no!"

Chen Yu quickly said, "Brother Jing and Director Ye also gave me a lot of help in action design, especially Brother Jing. His moves are very good and his fighting is very cool. He is also a very famous action actor in our country!"

Chen Yu pointed at the second best actor in the film, and Wu Jing was flattered and bowed.

In this drama, he has much more scenes than in "SPL".

Wu Jing was still very moved and touched after watching it; although he played a villain, he was very distinctive and no one, including himself, felt disgusted after watching it; the scene where he rescued Xiaomi and was relieved in the end was even more moving.

"Of course, in addition to Brother Jing and me, Brother Hua, Sister Huilin, and Jiahui all gave outstanding performances in this movie!"

"Ms. Roland, who is 70 years old and plays the old lady who is a human trafficker, didn't come because she is too old, but her performance was also great!"

"..."

At least, after watching "Escaping the Dark Knight" on the big screen, Chen Yu was shocked by the performances of several Hong Kong actors in the film.

Kelly Chen plays Xiaomi's mother, who suffers from drug addiction and torture... Simon Yam plays Brother Hu, who is insane before his death; and Achai is played by Zha Zha Hui, whose perverted and gloomy temperament is particularly outstanding.

The highlight is the old lady who is a child trafficker and only appears in a few scenes.

All the supporting actors gave their best performances, which greatly improved the reputation of the entire film; no character was redundant, which is undoubtedly a very alternative film at a time when Hong Kong action films are very stereotyped.

It is an extreme action film and a model of commercial films, but it also contains thought-provoking plots such as human nature, social warmth, etc.

After the routine answers and meet-and-greet, countless fans could no longer hold back and rushed towards Chen Yu.

Countless people were there asking for autographs and taking photos.

The security personnel were there to maintain order. Many distributors who wanted to talk to Chen Yu could only find Ye Weixing and the person in charge of Yu Xin Pictures. After watching the movie, they had new expectations for the box office of "Extraction".

Action movies have always been a favorite of men; therefore, for many movies, even those by Jackie Chan, the number of male audiences is greater than that of female audiences, and by a large margin.

But it is much more difficult to get a man to buy a ticket to a cinema than a woman.

In the field of domestic action films, only Jackie Chan and Jet Li have such a reputation; now, there is Chen Yu.

Many male audiences will spontaneously enter the cinema and buy tickets to watch the movie.

This is something all publishers could have expected; but now, publishers have a new perspective.

In this action film, it is very likely that the female population will far outnumber the male population.

Because Chen Yu is so handsome in this movie.

This is a level of appearance that even Jackie Chan and Jet Li could never match even if they spent their entire lives making movies. In its previous life, "The Man from Nowhere" achieved a box office record of over 620 million viewers in South Korea, making it the best-selling Korean local film in 2010.

The number of female moviegoers reached 410 million.

What kind of data is this?
This is the Korean film most watched by women before 2010.

This is a very magical statistic, and also a rare record in the history of action movies where the number of female viewers is greater than that of male viewers.

Therefore, the distributors could predict that this movie would be popular in the female market after its launch. Yuan Bin, who played the role of "The Man from Nowhere", in his previous life, was definitely not as appealing in action movies as Chen Yu in this life.

Many audiences originally liked Chen Yu because of his action stunts, which was the basic basis of the box office; coupled with the female group, there is a very special thing about female audiences, in particular, they generally don't watch a movie alone, they will bring a man with them.

This means that the box office expectations for this movie will be very high from the beginning.

"If I hadn't retreated backstage just now, several female fans would have come for me!"

After the premiere, Liu Yifei was still speaking with lingering fear.

She had been somewhat affected just now. Although many people came for Chen Yu's photo and autograph, there were also some who knew his relationship with Liu Yifei. Some fans hated her more. Liu Yifei was frightened by this situation.

"Well, next time you travel, you have to bring your own bodyguards!"

"Today's movie fans are crazier than each other!"

Chen Yu is actually very low-key. Apart from making movies, he rarely appears in media interviews, let alone variety shows.

The advantage of this is that it can maintain its own mystery, and will not cause aesthetic and visual fatigue due to too many public exposures; many stars often show their faces, which makes the audience feel distracted. The failure of many TV series and movies starring big stars is actually related to this frequent exposure.

If it appears on the hot searches too much, it will backfire, let alone variety shows?

……

"It's time to go to the awards ceremony!"

Chen Yu looked at the time. He would be the award presenter for the Best Picture soon.

After greeting Ye Weixing and the others, Chen Yu took Liu Yifei, Huo Jianqi, Ma Liwen and others and walked towards the award ceremony hall.

The red carpet for the closing ceremony was held by Dongying before the closing film screening.

So all the red carpet guests attended the screening of "Extraction".

Many people greeted Chen Yu as he walked into the award hall. At present, Chen Yu's influence is definitely the highest in Dongying.

He even had a special seat in the award hall, but the entire hall was not full, so he sat with Liu Yifei, and next to him was Jiang Wen, who was also serving as an awards presenter. He was going to present the Best Director award... The awards ceremony of Eastern Film Academy is different from the three major film festivals.

The judges are only responsible for voting and not for awarding prizes; the awards are presented by well-known industry figures invited by the official.

This time, both Ma Liwen and Huo Jianqi received calls from the organizers trying to retain them. Apparently, both films won awards.

In addition to the two of them, Yang Yazhou, the director of "Loach is also Fish", another Chinese film shortlisted for the main competition, also came to the award ceremony. This means that three Chinese films won awards in Tokyo this time.

It has once again broken Dongying’s record for winning awards for Chinese films.

It seems that the jury chairman Zhang Yimou has abused his power for personal gain this time, which is a bit out of line?

Chen Yu didn't know what the final awards would be, but the fact that three Chinese films won awards would still cause quite a bit of controversy. No wonder many film festivals in later generations did not ask him to serve as the jury chairman. This practice was indeed somewhat unkind and biased.

However, this is a good thing for Chinese films.

"Brother Yu!"

Ye Weixing's sudden appearance made Chen Yu stunned: "Why are you here? Award presenter?"

"No, the organizer called me and asked me to participate. I was also very confused!"

Ye Weixing and Chen Huilin sat behind Chen Yu. Chen Yu smiled and said, "Can we still win an award? The movie wasn't even nominated."

"Yeah, our film has nothing to do with winning the film festival award, right?"

"That's not the case. Category B action films can still win awards at film festivals. Category A films are more artistic and are definitely more difficult..."

"..."

The two people were chatting secretly.

After a routine song and dance program, the award ceremony of the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival officially began.

It is similar to the Golden Rooster and Golden Horse ceremonies in China, with guests for opening and presenting awards, as well as big-screen previews. Between the opening and closing of each award, there are various performances linked together, making it quite lively.

The first award to be opened is the Audience Award.

This is an award voted for by the audience at the Eastern Film Festival, and exists independently of other awards. Chen Yu turned his head to look at Ye Weixing, smiled and said, "It should be this award!"

Sure enough, the next second the guest who drew the prize said the name "Extraction".

Most Popular Audience Award——"Taken"!
Generally speaking, the audience award for each year is selected from the shortlisted films.

Because these films are definitely the most famous in the entire film festival.

However, there are exceptions.

For example, a single ticket for this year's Dongying film can be sold for 68 yuan, and the audience vote is terrifying.

"Extraction" deserves its reputation.

Seeing Ye Weixing walking up to the podium with excitement, Chen Yu also applauded. Was this an unexpected award? !
Ye Weixing didn't even prepare a speech to accept the award. He just kept thanking Chen Yu.

It can be seen that even if it was just an audience award, he was very excited.

"So, if you count it this way, our Chinese film industry has won at least four awards at this year's East Film Awards..."

Chen Yu was a little shocked. Liu Yifei beside him clapped and said, "This audience award is not voted by the judges, so it shouldn't be a big deal, right?"

"It may seem like nothing, but in the end it will definitely be Zhang Yimou's fault. Now he may have a hard time getting into the top three next year!"

If he does this, Europeans will also worry that he will mess around, right?
"Let's see what award we win..."

As Chen Yu spoke, the second award, the Best Artistic Contribution Award, began to be presented.

"Is it possible for The Village to win this award?"

In terms of art, among all the nominated films, Huo Jianqi's "The Village" is definitely ranked first.

But unfortunately, the winner of the Best Artistic Contribution Award was another Chinese film - "Loach is Also a Fish", directed by Yang Yazhou.

"What is Lao Mouzi doing..."

Chen Yu murmured a little, but there is no absolute when it comes to awards. The deep art of "Loach is also Fish" is very good, and it is a film that reflects China's migrant workers, while Huo Jianqi is the most basic film image art. It depends on how the judges understand it.

This is obviously played with depth.

But at least it's for our family, Chen Yu clapped his hands, somewhat unsure which award "The Village" would win.

In his opinion, this art award belongs to Huo Jianqi.

But now it’s not, so it’s hard to guess.

"Could it be the best picture?"

Chen Yu thought, it was finally the Best Actress award’s turn.

He glanced at Liu Yifei beside him. Although she had always emphasized before that her acting skills were average and relatively poor among so many nominated films; but as a human being, one must always have some fantasy in one's heart, otherwise, what is the difference between her and a salted fish.

So Liu Yifei looked very calm, but judging from her body language and expression, she still very much hoped to get this award.

No one wouldn't want to win Best Actress.

Even though she herself felt it was unlikely and the hope was slim, her expression contained a hint of anticipation.

Chen Yu held her hand tightly, and her slender white palm was a little sweaty.

"Conversations with Women, Helena Bonham Carter!"

The guest of honor at the awards ceremony, Shinobu Terajima, the best actress from Tokyo Film Academy two years ago, announced the final list of winners.

Chen Yu sensed the somewhat discouraged voice of Liu Yifei beside him.

In fact, how should I put it, Liu Yifei's performance in these two films has improved greatly, at least compared to her previous life, it is not an improvement at all; but if she wants to win the Best Actress award, she still lacks a lot. If Zhang Yimou gave it to her, she would really be put on the pillar of shame.

She can't reach the level of a movie queen.

But Chen Yu obviously couldn't say this directly to Liu Yifei. He could only analyze it with her after the award was presented.

But Terajima Shinobu raised her head again: "The Two of Us" -

"Ok?"

Liu Yifei's emotions suddenly rose again. She glanced at Chen Yu and said, "Double yolk egg? Or the two of us?"

"Correct!"

But it's not you either.

Chen Yu knew the result, so he was not too excited.

The oldest international film queen in the history of Eastern Film.

"Jin Yaqin!"

Shinobu Terajima finished speaking this time, but Liu Yifei pricked up her ears, obviously not giving up. What if she said another name?

"Hey!"

But it was not until Shinobu Terajima put away the prize list that Liu Yifei's expectations gradually faded.

"Waiting for nothing!"

Liu Yifei smiled bitterly at Chen Yu in frustration. Chen Yu grinned: "The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment. Come on, there is still a chance. You are only 18 years old!"

"You won the Best Actor Award at the age of 18!"

Are you comparing yourself to me?

I accumulated it for more than 20 years before my rebirth.

Liang Chaowei couldn't even block my punch, which was the result of my 20 years of skills training.

Chen Yu couldn't help but complain in his heart, but he said, "19, it's 19 years old!"

"Forget it, why should I compete with you!"

Liu Yifei is indeed an optimist. She stroked her drooping hair and smiled brightly again: "Participation is the most important thing!"

"Well, sometimes fate favors us when we least expect it!"

"One day, you will get your own Best Actress award, even if it's not from an international film festival, but given to you by the audience!"

(End of this chapter)