The Crown Prince of Huayu!

Chapter 262 Classic
As a major feature of Thailand, "囧" actually invited ladyboys to star.

But even without Liu Yifei's warning, Han Jiadong had no interest in transvestites.

He devoted himself wholeheartedly to the filming of the film, and in the end it only took less than a month for the film to be successfully completed.

During this period, he also took the time to attend the Golden Horse Awards, where he won two important awards for Best Director and Best Actress with "Pamento", clearing away the decline of the previous award.

As the setting of the story, "The Holy Spirit" has received very high ratings in Taiwan.

It grossed over NT$80 million at the box office alone.

In terms of other important awards, the best picture went to the local "When Love Comes".

The best actor award was also won by Taiwanese native Ruan Jingtian.

The winners of the Best Supporting Actor and Actor are also allocated to one mainland and one province.

Among them, the best supporting actor was won by Wu Pengfeng in "Seven Days of Love".

But the result is that local films are increasingly declining.

The box office of the former has now exceeded 300 million.

The three major directors Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige gathered together for the first time in the Lunar New Year!

Although the Golden Horse Awards failed to prevent the decline of Taiwanese films, at least they did not decline along with the film market like the Academy Awards. Instead, they took over the banner of the largest Chinese film festival.

It took in 2.4 million at the box office in just four days of release!

At least, this approach is better than the Academy Awards closing the door to entertain themselves and enclose their own cuteness.

Then just a week later, Let the Bullets Fly was released.

People who don't like it feel that the whole film has little to do with the earthquake.

In terms of actual strength, Taiwanese films are not comparable to films from Mainland China, even compared to the decline of Hong Kong films.

The Best Supporting Actress award was won by Hao Lei in "The Fourth Picture".

Of course, judging from the quality of the participating films and the fairness of the awards, the Golden Rooster Awards, which are no longer obsessed with literary and artistic films, and the newly-emerged Huading Awards are no longer inferior to the Golden Horse Awards.

Xiangjiang won nothing in this important Golden Horse Awards.

It’s not that the decline of films in Hong Kong and Taiwan is due to the film festival.

Among them, "Harry Potter" and "Hawthorn Love" were released first in late November.

However, the impact of film festivals on a film market is ultimately limited.

Although it only took a total of more than four months from filming to release, as a sequel to a movie that almost exceeded 500 million, this movie has already been highly anticipated by the market even before it was released.

The core purpose of the two approaches is actually the same, both for the better development of local films.

It directly broke the first-week box office record.

The latter's box office has also exceeded 200 million. While "Those Years" is not considered a literary film, "Hawthorn Love" has already set a box office record for literary films.

As a disaster film, "Tangshan Earthquake" has a box office of nearly 8.5 million, but it has caused considerable controversy.

But the real situation is obviously not the case.

I don’t know whether it’s a fascination with foreigners or an inferiority complex that is at work. Even my own people always feel that mainland film festivals are inferior to others.

Even the newcomer Li Yifeng, who plays the male protagonist, has attracted a lot of attention.

Not to mention the Golden Horse Awards, even the three major European film awards at this level will inevitably favor local films and local people in awards.

As December enters, "Laughing in the River" and "The Orphan of Zhao" have landed in theaters one after another.

And behind it, there is also "If You Are the One 2" about to be released.

Especially when Feng Xiao just broke the domestic film box office record of "Those Years" with "Tangshan Earthquake" a few months ago.

On the other hand, people in northern Taiwan Province...

People who like it will feel very moved after reading it.

In addition, there is a film "Harry Potter" and "Laughing Jianghu" based on Zhao Jiaban.

In addition, Jiang Wen came with his "Let the Bullets Fly" aggressively.

Taiwan Province has shown a posture of competing with the mainland.

As for the nominations... there are more local films or actors that are just fake.

I think there is a problem with this, and there is a problem with that, but I don’t know that the problems that the Mainland Film Festival has, the Golden Statue and the Golden Horse also have, and are even bigger.

But it is understandable that the film awards support local films.

The box office in the first week both exceeded 70 million!
Depending on the situation, there is no suspense if it exceeds 200 million.

Liu Yifei, who stars in this movie, remains very popular on the Internet.

If nothing else, let’s just say that this year’s Best Actor Ruan Jingtian doesn’t need to be compared with other candidates. Even in the movie “Monga”, the evaluation he received was not as good as Zhao Youting.

If Mainland films or Mainland actors want to win awards at the Golden Horse Awards, they must be a step ahead of other competitors.

When Han Jiadong returned to China from Thailand after filming "囧", the film market was entering the most competitive stage.

It can be said that every mainland winner is well-deserved.

Replacing two earthquakes with two car accidents would have no impact on the plot at all.

There is also the cost of this movie, which is claimed to be 1.5 million, but there are no big scenes or special effects at all, and most of the actors are still paid for their roles.

The total salary expenditure was less than 3 million.

The promoter said that the cost was mainly spent on special effects.

However, as the director responsible for all the special effects of this movie, that is, the ten seconds of the earthquake, the amount of cooperation with Huayi was less than 20 million.

I don’t know if it was deliberately exaggerated for publicity purposes, or if Huayi stole money from its partner Phoenix City, or if both parties worked together to put taxpayers’ money into their own pockets?

Before its release, Feng Xiaogang's "If You Are the One 2" was seen as a key point in sniping "Let the Bullets Fly" to break the box office record of "Tangshan Earthquake".

In the end, it also earned over 2.4 million box office in the first five days of release!

During the same period, the box office even surpassed the popular "Let the Bullets Fly", taking the single-day box office championship from "Let the Bullets Fly".

Even though the film schedule of the latter dropped by more than ten points, the total box office in the second week of seven days still exceeded 2.6 million, and the total box office successfully exceeded million!
It became the fifth domestic film to have a box office of over 500 million after "Those Years", "The Founding of the People's Republic of China", "On the Road" and "Tangshan Earthquake".

In terms of reputation.

"Let the Bullets Fly" can be said to be a complete success of "If You Are the One 2", scoring a super high score of 8.9 points on Douban.

On the other hand, "If You Are the One 2" scored only 6.6 points, which was 0.7 points lower than the previous film.

However, due to the influence of word-of-mouth, the film schedule of "Let the Bullets Fly", which was released a week earlier, began to slowly pick up, while "If You Are the One 2" began to decline.

The daily box office of the two movies also started with "If You Are the One 2" taking the lead, then gradually changed to lead alternately, and then "Let the Bullets Fly" completely surpassed "If You Are the One 2".

At the same time, the new Golden Rooster Awards has begun again.

Compared to last month's Golden Horse Awards, which were filled with films that ordinary people had never heard of, the lineup of candidates for this year's Golden Rooster Awards is truly luxurious. Currently being screened are "Let the Bullets Fly", "Love at the Hawthorn Tree", "The Orphan of Zhao", "Tangshan Earthquake", "Sage", "October Siege"...

Yuan Shikong gave up participating in the Golden Rooster Awards because Zhang Weiping felt that he had been unfairly treated many times at the Golden Rooster Awards.

Jiang Wen also chose to withdraw from the competition because he knew in advance that the Golden Rooster Awards would favor literary films and suppress commercial films.

Now, due to the threat of the Huading Awards, the mainland's dominance of the Golden Rooster Awards has been challenged. In the end, they had to compromise and make changes. They no longer insisted on awarding the awards to literary and artistic films. "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" and "Let the Bullets Fly" also I was able to participate in this year's Golden Rooster Award.

The Best Newcomer Award was first presented. Lei Jiayin, who had previously won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Newcomer, finally successfully defeated competitors such as Li Yifeng and Wan Qian and won the Best Newcomer Award again.

Although he has been in the industry for six or seven years, he only filmed his first movie "College Entrance Examination 1977" last year, and he only played a small role in it.

"Saint" is his second film, and he is indeed a newcomer in the film industry.

Now he has won two Best Newcomer Awards in a row and received several Best Actor nominations. He is considered to be at the top of his career in the film industry.

This year I got married to my girlfriend who I have been with for many years, which is a big winner in my life.

After the Newcomer Award, the Director's Debut Award was also won by someone close to Han Jiadong.

But this time it was Jiang Wenli.

"See You in the Sky", which she wrote and directed, was not outstanding, but she was the tallest among the shortest, and she still won the award.

Then the best music went to "Tangshan Earthquake", the best art went to "Hawthorn Tree Love", the best sound recording went to "Let the Bullets Fly", and the best photography was also won by "Hawthorn Tree Love".

Next is the actor award.

The Best Supporting Actress Award was won by Hao Lei for "The Fourth Picture", defeating Zhang Jingchu for "Tangshan Earthquake", Zhou Yun for "Let the Bullets Fly", Wan Qian for "The Holy Piet", and Xi Meijuan for "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree".

The Best Supporting Actor award was won by Ge You in "Let the Bullets Fly", defeating Chow Yun-hua in "Let the Bullets Fly", Xu Caihe in "Reunion", Chen Daoxuan in "Tangshan Earthquake", and Nicholas Tse in "October Siege".

When she arrived at the back of the movie, Jiang Wenli couldn't help but sit up straight.

She has already won the Best Actress of Hundred Flowers and the Best Actress of Golden Horse for "The Holy Piet". If she can win another Best Actress of Golden Rooster, she will be able to strive for the triple gold Grand Slam.

Moreover, it is not that the opponent we encountered this time had no chance of winning.

Lu Liping's "Youth Playing Cool" and Xu Fan's "Tangshan Earthquake" were both defeated at the Golden Horse Awards before.

Liu Jialing's role in "Let the Bullets Fly" is not important, and there is no particularly outstanding role.

Na Renhua's "Eji" is not impressive either as an actor or in the movie.

On the stage.

Zhou Xun, as the awarding guest, read out the names of the winners after watching the wonderful clips of the candidates.

"...The winner of the Best Actress is Na Renhua for "Eji", congratulations!"

As soon as the results came out, there was a lot of discussion at the scene. Obviously, they did not expect this result.

Jiang Wenli and Xu Fan, who were the most popular candidates, were unabashedly disappointed.

But Jiang Wenli quickly cheered up.

Having won so many awards for this role, she has nothing to be dissatisfied about.

Although Han Jiadong was a little surprised by this result, he quickly guessed what the Golden Rooster Award was about.

Probably because he wanted to show his final stubbornness.

After the movie, the subsequent awards returned to normal.

With his performance in "Let the Bullets Fly", Jiang Wen successfully defeated Zhu Xu's "We Will Meet in the Sky", Lei Jiayin's "Lament", and Wang Xueqi's "October Siege" and won the Golden Rooster Best Actor for the first time.

The best screenplay award was also won by Jiang Wen's "Let the Bullets Fly", defeating Han Jiadong's "The Holy Spirit", Su Xiaowei's "Tangshan Earthquake", Yin Lizhuan's "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", and Zhong Menghong's "The Fourth Picture".

The Best Director Award went to Han Jiadong's "Saint", defeating Jiang Wen's "Let the Bullets Fly", Zhang Yimou's "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", Feng Xiaogang's "Tangshan Earthquake", and Zhong Menghong's "The Fourth Picture".

The final Best Picture candidates are also these five films.

Each of these has paid off.

But whether it's the recognition before the awards ceremony begins or the weight of those awards that have been announced, "Hawthorn Love" and "The Fourth Picture" have undoubtedly fallen behind.

Now the only three most popular movies left are "Let the Bullets Fly", "Sage" and "Tangshan Earthquake".

If the Golden Rooster Awards are consistent in their performance, Han Jiadong's low-grossing movie "Pamentation" would actually have an advantage.

But the end result is...

"The winner of the best picture is - "Let the Bullets Fly", congratulations!"

As soon as the results came out, applause and cheers erupted from the scene.

Han Jiadong also gave congratulatory applause.

He also had no objection to the result.

"Let the Bullets Fly" can definitely be called a classic movie that will leave its name in the history of Chinese films!
There will be a Best Picture every year, but there may not be another "Let the Bullets Fly" every ten years.

If it fails to win the award, it would be almost the same as "The Shawshank Redemption" missing out on the Oscar for Best Picture.

"Let the Bullets Fly" also became the biggest winner at the Golden Rooster Awards that night with many awards including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor.

After the Golden Rooster Awards, the movie's box office also had a small explosion, and finally succeeded in surpassing "Tangshan Earthquake", with a box office of 8.8 million, setting a new box office record for Chinese-language movies.

"If You Are the One" was in competition with "Let the Bullets Fly" and soon began to lose its success. In the end, it only settled on 5.8 million, ranking third in the year.

It also became the sixth domestic film after "Let the Bullets Fly" to have a box office of over 500 million.

Among other movies, "The Orphan of Zhao" finally helped Chen Kaige, one of the top three directors in the past, break through the 200 million mark.

The final box office was 2.4 million.

"Laughing Jianghu" will exceed 200 million.

"Hawthorn Tree Love" almost exceeded 300 million, but finally settled at more than 290 million.

At the same time, after completing the post-production period, "Game of Thrones" was finally broadcast before the end of the year and Christmas, which is the most important time in the West.

But the effect of the broadcast...

The average viewership per episode is nearly four million.

Is this good or bad?
At its peak, the original Game of Thrones had an average of over 30 million viewers per episode!
Compared with that, it is naturally far inferior.

But compared to the average of 2.5 million viewers per episode in the first season of The Originals, the performance has increased by 60%!
It is almost the same as the results of the second season of the original Time and Space Game.

This American drama, known as the king of dramas in the world in its original time and space, did not become popular all over the world from the first season.

Even because of the high production costs, the first season could only barely break even, and the producers even considered axing the project.

It was not until the third quarter that various data began to experience explosive growth, and it began to become popular in countries outside North America.

Now with the blessing of Han Jiadong's personal influence, this time is obviously being shortened, and it has begun to show its terrifying influence overseas in the first season.

(End of this chapter)