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Chapter 684 Red Carpet
Chapter 684 Red Carpet
11 month 28 day.
The annual five-day Golden Panda Awards in the Chinese film industry officially opened.
During these five days, there will be an opening ceremony, a red carpet, an awards ceremony, and a final dinner.
The Golden Panda Award is the most authoritative award in the entire Chinese film industry. At the opening ceremony, leaders from relevant departments must come to the scene to give speeches.
Obviously, whether or not to deliver a speech is not important, what is important is that the boss came here to increase the reputation of the Golden Panda Award, and this is the key.
Moreover, the higher the status of the boss, the higher the status and grandeur of the Golden Panda Award in the Chinese film industry.
To be honest, if it was any other awards, with Wang Shen's current schedule, he would hardly be able to spare time to participate.
But for this awards ceremony, after thinking about it, since I received the invitation, it's better to attend.
As a human being, when it's time to keep a low profile, keep a low profile.
Besides, if you want to be high-profile, it also depends on the occasion.
If you are blind with a few high-profile words, it will be no different from Shabi.
Although it is true that I am too busy to spare time, but in the face of this matter, I still have to put down some work, and it is best to spare time to participate.
Of course, the most important thing is that Wang Shen was invited not only as a guest, but also as a guest presenting the Best Actress award.
This identity always has a little class.
If you refuse, it is indeed too conspicuous and too high-profile.
On the contrary, if Wang Shen was only invited as a participating guest, then it is not impossible to use the excuse of being too busy to regret not coming.
But now, since it was time to present the Best Actress award, it was natural to come over.
As we all know, at the film awards ceremony, only a few best award presenters such as Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Movie are the most famous.
And Wang Shen can come as the guest presenting the best actress award during the period when there is no work to participate in the awards.
It shows that Wang Shen, in the eyes of the relevant bosses, is a very famous entertainer.
how to say?
Although the jury, participants, etc. of the Golden Panda Awards are all from the film industry, this most authoritative award in the film industry is watched by higher-level bosses.
Therefore, even if the entire process is run by people in the film industry.
Due to its particularity, no one dares to engage in some black-box operations, nor dare to look at people with colored eyes, so they can only obediently be a tool man.
In addition, this award ceremony is followed by hundreds of millions of people across the country. If some shady things are involved, it will not only ruin the reputation of the most authoritative award, but also make the relevant departments lose face.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, no one dares to mess around.
That is to say, in other awards ceremonies, because they are all practitioners in the entertainment industry or controlled by some capital, Wang Shen may be treated coldly and treated indifferently if he goes to attend.
However, at this awards ceremony, because it was too grand and formal, no one dared to easily show a slightly negative attitude.
From start to finish, either with a smile on your face or a deadpan expression.
This is because, if a bad situation is caused on this occasion and the relevant bosses notice it, then the future work will definitely be greatly affected.
In short, on this stage, even some artists are very unimpressed with Wang Shen.
When I met Wang Shen, I could only smile on the surface, but I didn't like it in my heart.
At five o'clock in the evening, the red carpet ceremony began.
At the signature wall and the interview area at the end of the red carpet stood two hostesses from China Movie Channel.
The red carpet event will be hosted by them.
As for why the host of Huaxia Movie Channel hosted the red carpet event, the reason is very simple.
It's because the Huaxia Golden Panda Awards will be broadcast live by Huaxia Movie Channel, and the host of the event will naturally be owned by Huaxia Movie Channel.
In addition, since the Golden Panda Award is still held in Jianghai, the whole process will be broadcast live on Jianghai Satellite TV, and the host of Jianghai Satellite TV will also participate in the previous opening ceremony.
As for the current red carpet session and the subsequent award presentation session, both will be hosted by the host of Huaxia Movie Channel.
There is a simple lounge 100 meters behind the arch of the red carpet passage.
At this moment, the lounge was full of people.
Men in suits and leather shoes, with shiny hair.
The women's dresses fluttered, and their makeup was glamorous and moving.
Apparently, waiting in the foyer are the many stars and entertainers in the entertainment industry who will participate in the Golden Panda Awards.
Some are representative teams of a crew.
Some are male and female partners.
Some are acquainted with a few people gathered together.
After all, the hostess standing at the end of the red carpet will call out the names of each artist one after another at the moment when many artists are about to walk out of the red carpet opening arch.
Therefore, if it is not arranged in advance, it is absolutely inevitable that mistakes will occur.
Therefore, the artists gathered in a group in the lounge at this moment are naturally the lineup coordinated and allocated in advance to walk the red carpet.
Moreover, the order of admission is also reminded by relevant staff.
All in all, for the many artists and stars present, they just need to wait in the lounge at this moment. When it is time to enter the venue, the staff will naturally come to remind them.
Wang Shen is sitting in the lounge at the moment, and at a glance, many celebrities and artists in the lounge are greeting each other with polite acquaintance.
Wang Shen, on the other hand, was leaning on the chair with his eyes closed to catch his sleep.
Too much work, too busy, too tired.
Since it's not in his order to enter the red carpet at this moment, let's close our eyes and cultivate our spirits first.
Anyway, he is a singer, and he has never been in the entertainment industry. Although he has dabbled in movies and is also a super popular star, he is still a non-staff person in general.
To put it simply, there are many actors and stars in the lounge. Although Wang Shen has seen them on TV, he doesn't know them.
In addition, Wang Shen was playing with himself from beginning to end.
Whether it's the script, the shooting, or the production and investment, he is playing by himself.
In addition, the invited celebrities are all little-known actors, or TV actors.
In other words, in this lounge at the moment, there were no actors he knew at all.
That being the case, since he doesn't rely on others for food, and since he is excluded from the entertainment industry, is it necessary to lick his face to greet others?
Obviously, it doesn't need to.
So, why not take the time to close your eyes and rest?
Time is precious, so it shouldn't be wasted, right?
In fact, this is one of the reasons why Wang Shen didn't want to come to this awards ceremony.
If this awards ceremony were changed to the Golden TV Drama Awards in the TV field, then Wang Shen would definitely not be so single.
But now Wang Shen has set foot in the film field for the first time, and the works he produced will not be able to participate in the judging until the next year. In addition, apart from him, no other actors in the same crew have accepted the invitation.
Thus, this situation was created.
Under normal circumstances, even if you don't know other people, since you're here, just say hello and you'll be familiar with them.
But Wang Shen's situation is different.
Well known.
Countless stars and entertainers in the entire entertainment industry regard Wang Shen as rat shit.
May I ask, under such circumstances, is it necessary for Wang Shen to politely go to greet other artists?
Is it because Wang Shen needs to eat their rice to survive?
Or could Wang Shen not be able to stay in the entertainment industry anymore if he left them?
Since it is so irrelevant, since the two sides are at odds with each other, and since the face has already been torn apart before this.
Then, there is no need to take it too seriously, and there is no need to lick the smiling face to greet people.
Although there are also many artists in this lounge who have no enmity with Wang Shen, they have never excluded and ridiculed Wang Shen.
But since Wang Shen doesn't want to be familiar with anyone, how can he tell who hasn't targeted him?
So, again the old saying.
The road is facing the sky, go to one side.
You take your Yangguan Road, and I take my single-plank bridge.
Wang Shen's posture of closing his eyes to recharge his batteries inevitably attracted the attention of other artists in the lounge.
Some people don't care.
Some people don't take it seriously.
Some people criticized this rather, thinking that Wang Shen did not have the attitude of a junior at all.
In this lounge, there were many bigwigs in the entertainment industry, but Wang Shen came to say hello.
Not only did he not come to say hello, but he also slept beside him indifferently.
This kind of behavior is completely ignoring the many bigwigs in the entertainment industry.
In their minds, you, Wang Shen, are very popular, so it's reasonable not to take an artist with no reputation in their eyes.
However, in the waiting room before the red carpet of the Golden Panda Awards, there were many super bosses in the showbiz, super bosses who couldn't be more super.
And you, Wang Shen, actually put on such a gesture.
Didn't he completely ignore these super bosses?
Ok?
After this time, some artists chewed their tongues one after another.
So, slowly, Wang Shen suddenly became the topic of discussion among many entertainers in the lounge.
It's not that everyone has a prejudice against Wang Shen, or that every artist likes to gossip.
But some artists brought up the rhythm by chewing and chewing.
In addition, there was nothing else to do while waiting in the lounge, so some chatted along the lines of the conversation.
As the word spread, more and more people were talking about it.
Anyway, everyone is fine, and many artists are not interested in Wang Shen at all, and they want to see Wang Shen, so they will naturally be attracted by this topic and talk about it.
Some people even intentionally have a strange ambiguity, in order to spread it to the ears of many bigwigs, so that the bigwigs will "pay close attention" to Wang Shen.
To be honest, the entertainment industry is a place full of interests and competition. Some people seem harmless to humans and animals, but they are actually very dark.
Moreover, there are a lot of scheming bitches and coquettish operations.
It would be a big mistake to judge the thoughts of practitioners in the entertainment circle with the thinking of normal people.
Not to mention anything else, but many things that normal people think are impossible.
In the entertainment circle, it happened clearly.
There is a saying that as long as you have the courage, the teacher will take maternity leave.
There is nothing impossible, only unexpected.
That's it.
……
In places with many and noisy sounds, although closing eyes can nourish the spirit, it cannot smoothly enter sleep.
Therefore, Wang Shen naturally heard all the voices of the surrounding discussions.
Furthermore, some people also deliberately told him to listen to it, just to make things difficult for him.
The thinking of those people is very simple, since they have reached the situation of endless confrontation with Wang Shen, there is no need to have any scruples.
In all aspects, you can make a move if you can, there is nothing to be vague about.
In their eyes, Wang Shen's various behaviors have given a clear statement.
That is, the two sides are incompatible.
Furthermore, when they think about it, why do you, Wang Shen, keep using various methods to create a tone of yin and yang.
They can't?
Obviously, the same can be done.
It's just that the opportunity has never been found.
At this moment, I finally found an opportunity to move back to Yicheng, so I certainly wouldn't miss it.
Wang Shen was like a mirror in his heart, these people deliberately said some sarcastic remarks around him, or made some provocative remarks, nothing more than trying to make him attack him.
However, Wang Shen is no longer a young and immature boy, so naturally he will not be easily hooked.
No matter how the voices of the discussions around him were, he was indifferent.
"Look at that Wang Shen, he really takes himself seriously? Although his popularity is indeed very high, it also depends on who he is compared with, and how he compares it with! In the entertainment industry, the status of different artists is just based on Is it based on popularity? This is a joke."
"Haha, don't tell me, this Wang Shen actually slept on the sidelines during such a grand red carpet ceremony. The president and the others are all there, and with Wang Shen's attitude, he simply doesn't take them seriously."
"Hehe, what is Wang Shen? Did you make it Wang Ritian? The president of the association? The vice president? A well-known actor with multiple movie kings and actresses? Many well-known directors? To be honest, I don't think much of him."
"Tsk tsk, you guys are sour. What kind of director is Mr. Wang now? Do you know "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes into the World"? The box office exceeded 70 billion, and an animated film broke the box office record in China and became the top box office in China. This level of strength, this level of fame, those well-known directors, those big productions with big names, compared with them, they are not qualified to give director Wang a shoe."
"That's right, if we want our stupid teacher Wang to take the initiative to greet the president and vice president of the association, are you thinking farts? The existence of such a bully should be the president and the others who came to greet Teacher Wang on their own initiative. .”
"Sleeping with eyes closed before the red carpet session, has Wang Shen actually inflated to such an extent? This kind of behavior, don't take the Golden Panda Award seriously. Look at the scene, apart from the president and vice president of the association, etc. In addition to people, there are many bigwigs in the circle. Didn't Wang Shen take them seriously with such a gesture?"
"I was thinking, Wang Shen must have done this on purpose. He deliberately put on a posture for the big shots in the circle and us to tell us that he, Wang Shen, never took us seriously from the beginning to the end."
"As you can imagine, he really didn't take us seriously."
"Did you forget that people mocked us as cats and dogs on Weibo before?"
(End of this chapter)
11 month 28 day.
The annual five-day Golden Panda Awards in the Chinese film industry officially opened.
During these five days, there will be an opening ceremony, a red carpet, an awards ceremony, and a final dinner.
The Golden Panda Award is the most authoritative award in the entire Chinese film industry. At the opening ceremony, leaders from relevant departments must come to the scene to give speeches.
Obviously, whether or not to deliver a speech is not important, what is important is that the boss came here to increase the reputation of the Golden Panda Award, and this is the key.
Moreover, the higher the status of the boss, the higher the status and grandeur of the Golden Panda Award in the Chinese film industry.
To be honest, if it was any other awards, with Wang Shen's current schedule, he would hardly be able to spare time to participate.
But for this awards ceremony, after thinking about it, since I received the invitation, it's better to attend.
As a human being, when it's time to keep a low profile, keep a low profile.
Besides, if you want to be high-profile, it also depends on the occasion.
If you are blind with a few high-profile words, it will be no different from Shabi.
Although it is true that I am too busy to spare time, but in the face of this matter, I still have to put down some work, and it is best to spare time to participate.
Of course, the most important thing is that Wang Shen was invited not only as a guest, but also as a guest presenting the Best Actress award.
This identity always has a little class.
If you refuse, it is indeed too conspicuous and too high-profile.
On the contrary, if Wang Shen was only invited as a participating guest, then it is not impossible to use the excuse of being too busy to regret not coming.
But now, since it was time to present the Best Actress award, it was natural to come over.
As we all know, at the film awards ceremony, only a few best award presenters such as Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Movie are the most famous.
And Wang Shen can come as the guest presenting the best actress award during the period when there is no work to participate in the awards.
It shows that Wang Shen, in the eyes of the relevant bosses, is a very famous entertainer.
how to say?
Although the jury, participants, etc. of the Golden Panda Awards are all from the film industry, this most authoritative award in the film industry is watched by higher-level bosses.
Therefore, even if the entire process is run by people in the film industry.
Due to its particularity, no one dares to engage in some black-box operations, nor dare to look at people with colored eyes, so they can only obediently be a tool man.
In addition, this award ceremony is followed by hundreds of millions of people across the country. If some shady things are involved, it will not only ruin the reputation of the most authoritative award, but also make the relevant departments lose face.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, no one dares to mess around.
That is to say, in other awards ceremonies, because they are all practitioners in the entertainment industry or controlled by some capital, Wang Shen may be treated coldly and treated indifferently if he goes to attend.
However, at this awards ceremony, because it was too grand and formal, no one dared to easily show a slightly negative attitude.
From start to finish, either with a smile on your face or a deadpan expression.
This is because, if a bad situation is caused on this occasion and the relevant bosses notice it, then the future work will definitely be greatly affected.
In short, on this stage, even some artists are very unimpressed with Wang Shen.
When I met Wang Shen, I could only smile on the surface, but I didn't like it in my heart.
At five o'clock in the evening, the red carpet ceremony began.
At the signature wall and the interview area at the end of the red carpet stood two hostesses from China Movie Channel.
The red carpet event will be hosted by them.
As for why the host of Huaxia Movie Channel hosted the red carpet event, the reason is very simple.
It's because the Huaxia Golden Panda Awards will be broadcast live by Huaxia Movie Channel, and the host of the event will naturally be owned by Huaxia Movie Channel.
In addition, since the Golden Panda Award is still held in Jianghai, the whole process will be broadcast live on Jianghai Satellite TV, and the host of Jianghai Satellite TV will also participate in the previous opening ceremony.
As for the current red carpet session and the subsequent award presentation session, both will be hosted by the host of Huaxia Movie Channel.
There is a simple lounge 100 meters behind the arch of the red carpet passage.
At this moment, the lounge was full of people.
Men in suits and leather shoes, with shiny hair.
The women's dresses fluttered, and their makeup was glamorous and moving.
Apparently, waiting in the foyer are the many stars and entertainers in the entertainment industry who will participate in the Golden Panda Awards.
Some are representative teams of a crew.
Some are male and female partners.
Some are acquainted with a few people gathered together.
After all, the hostess standing at the end of the red carpet will call out the names of each artist one after another at the moment when many artists are about to walk out of the red carpet opening arch.
Therefore, if it is not arranged in advance, it is absolutely inevitable that mistakes will occur.
Therefore, the artists gathered in a group in the lounge at this moment are naturally the lineup coordinated and allocated in advance to walk the red carpet.
Moreover, the order of admission is also reminded by relevant staff.
All in all, for the many artists and stars present, they just need to wait in the lounge at this moment. When it is time to enter the venue, the staff will naturally come to remind them.
Wang Shen is sitting in the lounge at the moment, and at a glance, many celebrities and artists in the lounge are greeting each other with polite acquaintance.
Wang Shen, on the other hand, was leaning on the chair with his eyes closed to catch his sleep.
Too much work, too busy, too tired.
Since it's not in his order to enter the red carpet at this moment, let's close our eyes and cultivate our spirits first.
Anyway, he is a singer, and he has never been in the entertainment industry. Although he has dabbled in movies and is also a super popular star, he is still a non-staff person in general.
To put it simply, there are many actors and stars in the lounge. Although Wang Shen has seen them on TV, he doesn't know them.
In addition, Wang Shen was playing with himself from beginning to end.
Whether it's the script, the shooting, or the production and investment, he is playing by himself.
In addition, the invited celebrities are all little-known actors, or TV actors.
In other words, in this lounge at the moment, there were no actors he knew at all.
That being the case, since he doesn't rely on others for food, and since he is excluded from the entertainment industry, is it necessary to lick his face to greet others?
Obviously, it doesn't need to.
So, why not take the time to close your eyes and rest?
Time is precious, so it shouldn't be wasted, right?
In fact, this is one of the reasons why Wang Shen didn't want to come to this awards ceremony.
If this awards ceremony were changed to the Golden TV Drama Awards in the TV field, then Wang Shen would definitely not be so single.
But now Wang Shen has set foot in the film field for the first time, and the works he produced will not be able to participate in the judging until the next year. In addition, apart from him, no other actors in the same crew have accepted the invitation.
Thus, this situation was created.
Under normal circumstances, even if you don't know other people, since you're here, just say hello and you'll be familiar with them.
But Wang Shen's situation is different.
Well known.
Countless stars and entertainers in the entire entertainment industry regard Wang Shen as rat shit.
May I ask, under such circumstances, is it necessary for Wang Shen to politely go to greet other artists?
Is it because Wang Shen needs to eat their rice to survive?
Or could Wang Shen not be able to stay in the entertainment industry anymore if he left them?
Since it is so irrelevant, since the two sides are at odds with each other, and since the face has already been torn apart before this.
Then, there is no need to take it too seriously, and there is no need to lick the smiling face to greet people.
Although there are also many artists in this lounge who have no enmity with Wang Shen, they have never excluded and ridiculed Wang Shen.
But since Wang Shen doesn't want to be familiar with anyone, how can he tell who hasn't targeted him?
So, again the old saying.
The road is facing the sky, go to one side.
You take your Yangguan Road, and I take my single-plank bridge.
Wang Shen's posture of closing his eyes to recharge his batteries inevitably attracted the attention of other artists in the lounge.
Some people don't care.
Some people don't take it seriously.
Some people criticized this rather, thinking that Wang Shen did not have the attitude of a junior at all.
In this lounge, there were many bigwigs in the entertainment industry, but Wang Shen came to say hello.
Not only did he not come to say hello, but he also slept beside him indifferently.
This kind of behavior is completely ignoring the many bigwigs in the entertainment industry.
In their minds, you, Wang Shen, are very popular, so it's reasonable not to take an artist with no reputation in their eyes.
However, in the waiting room before the red carpet of the Golden Panda Awards, there were many super bosses in the showbiz, super bosses who couldn't be more super.
And you, Wang Shen, actually put on such a gesture.
Didn't he completely ignore these super bosses?
Ok?
After this time, some artists chewed their tongues one after another.
So, slowly, Wang Shen suddenly became the topic of discussion among many entertainers in the lounge.
It's not that everyone has a prejudice against Wang Shen, or that every artist likes to gossip.
But some artists brought up the rhythm by chewing and chewing.
In addition, there was nothing else to do while waiting in the lounge, so some chatted along the lines of the conversation.
As the word spread, more and more people were talking about it.
Anyway, everyone is fine, and many artists are not interested in Wang Shen at all, and they want to see Wang Shen, so they will naturally be attracted by this topic and talk about it.
Some people even intentionally have a strange ambiguity, in order to spread it to the ears of many bigwigs, so that the bigwigs will "pay close attention" to Wang Shen.
To be honest, the entertainment industry is a place full of interests and competition. Some people seem harmless to humans and animals, but they are actually very dark.
Moreover, there are a lot of scheming bitches and coquettish operations.
It would be a big mistake to judge the thoughts of practitioners in the entertainment circle with the thinking of normal people.
Not to mention anything else, but many things that normal people think are impossible.
In the entertainment circle, it happened clearly.
There is a saying that as long as you have the courage, the teacher will take maternity leave.
There is nothing impossible, only unexpected.
That's it.
……
In places with many and noisy sounds, although closing eyes can nourish the spirit, it cannot smoothly enter sleep.
Therefore, Wang Shen naturally heard all the voices of the surrounding discussions.
Furthermore, some people also deliberately told him to listen to it, just to make things difficult for him.
The thinking of those people is very simple, since they have reached the situation of endless confrontation with Wang Shen, there is no need to have any scruples.
In all aspects, you can make a move if you can, there is nothing to be vague about.
In their eyes, Wang Shen's various behaviors have given a clear statement.
That is, the two sides are incompatible.
Furthermore, when they think about it, why do you, Wang Shen, keep using various methods to create a tone of yin and yang.
They can't?
Obviously, the same can be done.
It's just that the opportunity has never been found.
At this moment, I finally found an opportunity to move back to Yicheng, so I certainly wouldn't miss it.
Wang Shen was like a mirror in his heart, these people deliberately said some sarcastic remarks around him, or made some provocative remarks, nothing more than trying to make him attack him.
However, Wang Shen is no longer a young and immature boy, so naturally he will not be easily hooked.
No matter how the voices of the discussions around him were, he was indifferent.
"Look at that Wang Shen, he really takes himself seriously? Although his popularity is indeed very high, it also depends on who he is compared with, and how he compares it with! In the entertainment industry, the status of different artists is just based on Is it based on popularity? This is a joke."
"Haha, don't tell me, this Wang Shen actually slept on the sidelines during such a grand red carpet ceremony. The president and the others are all there, and with Wang Shen's attitude, he simply doesn't take them seriously."
"Hehe, what is Wang Shen? Did you make it Wang Ritian? The president of the association? The vice president? A well-known actor with multiple movie kings and actresses? Many well-known directors? To be honest, I don't think much of him."
"Tsk tsk, you guys are sour. What kind of director is Mr. Wang now? Do you know "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes into the World"? The box office exceeded 70 billion, and an animated film broke the box office record in China and became the top box office in China. This level of strength, this level of fame, those well-known directors, those big productions with big names, compared with them, they are not qualified to give director Wang a shoe."
"That's right, if we want our stupid teacher Wang to take the initiative to greet the president and vice president of the association, are you thinking farts? The existence of such a bully should be the president and the others who came to greet Teacher Wang on their own initiative. .”
"Sleeping with eyes closed before the red carpet session, has Wang Shen actually inflated to such an extent? This kind of behavior, don't take the Golden Panda Award seriously. Look at the scene, apart from the president and vice president of the association, etc. In addition to people, there are many bigwigs in the circle. Didn't Wang Shen take them seriously with such a gesture?"
"I was thinking, Wang Shen must have done this on purpose. He deliberately put on a posture for the big shots in the circle and us to tell us that he, Wang Shen, never took us seriously from the beginning to the end."
"As you can imagine, he really didn't take us seriously."
"Did you forget that people mocked us as cats and dogs on Weibo before?"
(End of this chapter)
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