Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 66: Shi Ningwei

Shi Ningwei is a blogger of film reviews.

In 2005, the Internet era was just emerging. There was no Weibo, no Maoyan, and Douban was just a personal website. However, the seedlings of the Internet era had already grown, and the blogs launched by major portals were a huge breakthrough for the traditional media industry.

Since its launch at the end of 04, the number of blog users has increased dramatically. By July 2005, statistics showed that one-third of Internet users had become users of various blogs.

Shi Ningwei was invited to join Sina Blog more than a month ago. Before that, he was a well-known film critic and had published articles in major domestic film magazines.

In July 04, a film review he wrote titled "Ten Sides of Ambush, Who is Ambush?" was published on Huaxia Film, which greatly increased Shi Ningwei's fame. When Sina launched blogs this year, the film section, like the travel section, was one of Sina's key operating directions, and Shi Ningwei therefore entered their field of vision. After receiving a signing fee, Shi Ningwei began to publish his own film reviews on his personal blog on Sina.

When the news of "The Dumb House" winning the award came from Germany, Shi Ningwei paid close attention to it. Hearing that "The Dumb House" had a chance to be released in China, he didn't think much of it, but he didn't expect that the film would actually be released in domestic theaters. Later, when "The Dumb House" was about to premiere at Chengtian Cinema in Chengdu, Shi Ningwei specially asked a friend to get him a ticket and flew from eastern Guangdong to Xichuan the day before the release.

The purpose of this trip, Shi Ningwei came mainly for Chen Nuo. Because he was very interested in Chen Nuo, it should be said that there was no one in the entire entertainment industry who was not interested in him.

Shi Ningwei still remembers that night at the Berlin Film Festival, the dozens of QQ groups he was in had messages popping up like fried fish. From film critics to agents to executives from various entertainment, music and film companies, everyone was asking the same question:

Who is Chen Nuo?

Although director Zhang Yiyi is also an unfamiliar name, after the news of his winning the award came out, some people immediately said that they had heard of him. He is a graduate student of Beijing Film Academy. A few years ago, he found some money and made a low-budget movie, but it flopped. I didn't expect that he would make a comeback this time.

But what about Chen Nuo? At first, no one knew about it.

All there are are some rumors or gossips that came from nowhere.

These rumors are exaggerated. The first message was that Chen Nuo was a retired teacher from the Beijing Film Academy, who was invited by Zhang Yiyi to make the only movie in his life, and he was a hit.

Originally, many people believed this, but after the poster of the mute was circulated, this rumor was immediately disappeared without a trace.

After all, anyone with eyes can see that Chen Nuo is very young and may still be 40 or 45 years away from retirement.

So a new rumor was born. This Chen Nuo was a sophomore student at the Film Academy. He was quite famous in the school and had even been rumored to have an affair with Liu Yifei. Immediately, someone from the Film Academy came out to refute the rumor, saying that there was no such person in the Film Academy. However, this person came to take the entrance exam for the Film Academy this year and was interviewed on Beijing TV. Moreover, he was the first place in the Film Academy's professional exam this year.

As a result, some resourceful netizens immediately got the clip of Chen Nuo being interviewed by reporters from Beijing and Taiwan through some unknown channel.

Shi Ningwei read it and then spit out a mouthful of water on the keyboard, almost ruining his 9999 ASUS laptop. The first impression Chen Nuo left on him was just like in the interview - young, handsome, and with personality. Then, Shi Ningwei also watched the interview broadcasted by Channel , not missing a second, and added another sentence to Chen Nuo's database in Shi Ningwei's mind: a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger.

At this time, he became quite interested in this young man.

However, a new piece of news came, which made Shi Ningwei extremely disappointed.

Because this young man actually went to act in a TV series! ? Looking at the notice and makeup photos released by the crew of The Return of the Condor Heroes, Shi Ningwei was really furious.

Even if the investment in The Return of the Condor Heroes was huge and it was very popular in society, it was just a TV series. For a Berlin Film Festival winner to act in a martial arts TV series, what else could that be? Is it really impossible to find movies to shoot in China, which is so big? Or is he really so poor that he has to make even this little bit of money?
Besides, isn't it time to take the college entrance exam? Can I still find time to film a drama?
This Chen Nuo, either he is stupid or there are bad people around him. Therefore, this time at the premiere, Shi Ning Wei used many connections to get a media ticket, just to ask this young man in person what he really thinks.

When Shi Ningwei arrived at the scene, he found that there were probably many people who had the same idea as him. Among the hundreds of seats, only a small half were serious audiences. The others came with different purposes. Each of them had a pen and a small notebook in their hands. A few of them, like him, also carried SLR cameras.

Shi Ningwei's friend got him a very good seat, in the middle of the third row in the front. Apart from him, all the people in this seat were official media invited by the film company, and there was no freelance writer like him.

When Chen Nuo came on stage, he also picked up his camera and started shooting like the reporters from newspapers and TV stations. This is the characteristic of Shi Ningwei's film reviews, and it can be regarded as making full use of the advantages of the Internet platform. His film reviews are all illustrated, unlike newspapers and magazines which are mostly text.

Like the protagonists of other movies, you can usually find many photos of them on the Internet, but for someone like Chen Nuo, he had to do it himself.

After he had finished taking photos and the host and the main creative staff had finished their promotional slogans about fighting, it was time for the media to ask questions.

Shi Ningwei raised his hand from the first round. He knew that the first few rounds were all scheduled media questions, but he still raised his hand relentlessly, just to leave an impression on the host from the very beginning.

Sure enough, after the scheduled rounds of media questions were completed, the host called on him.

"The friend in blue, yes, the one in the middle of the third row. May I ask which media outlet you are from and what your question is?"

Shi Ningwei stood up with the microphone and said, "I am a film critic from Sina.com, my username is Shishi Qiushi. My question is for Chen Nuo. Why did you choose to shoot The Return of the Condor Heroes after winning the Berlin Film Festival Best Actor Award? Don't you think it's a waste of your acting talent? Are you doing this to make money or to become famous? Did you want to do this yourself, or did someone tell you to do this? You once said in an interview that your goal is Hollywood and to win an Oscar for Best Actor. Do you think you can win an Oscar by shooting a Jin Yong TV series? I have finished my questions. Thank you."

　I'm testing the waters now. Oh, I'll just have to deal with the trouble of raising books these days.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)