The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 450 Official Value

"I would like to invite our award presenters, Mr. Chen Jingxing, the best director of Huaguo Film Golden Rooster Awards, the best director of Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards, the best director of American TV Movie Golden Globe Awards, and the best director of Academy Awards, Mr. Chen Jingxing, please applaud! "

Standing in the background, Chen Jingxing, in a well-fitted suit, listened to the host of Donghai Satellite TV introduce a series of titles in front of him. To the microphone in the center of the stage.

Sitting in the front row of the audience, Jiang Wen, chairman of the judging committee of this year's Shanghai International Film Festival, shook his head and said to Ning Hao next to him: "It's unreasonable for the organizing committee to invite him to present the award. No one will care about the best film."

Ning Hao clapped along and curled his lips: "You are overthinking, no one cares about the best picture without him."

Jiang Wen was dumbfounded.

Chen Jingxing stood in front of the microphone for a while, but the applause had not subsided, so he could only make a movement of pressing his hands down.

People who don't know may think that Chen Jingxing is the winner.

Jiang Wen was not the only one complaining that Chen Jingxing deserved to be a star director, and some people even took out their mobile phones to take pictures in the audience.

Of course, the main reason was that Chen Jingxing really rarely appeared on such occasions. He would only attend events like the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers in China, and he almost never presented awards to others.

The main reason is that his films are nominated for the Golden Rooster or Hundred Flowers Awards every year.

"I know that the long awards ceremony is coming to an end, and everyone is about to be relieved, so I am very excited, but please restrain your excitement."

Chen Jingxing made a joke with ease, which made the audience burst into laughter, and also made some people lament that they are young and courageous.

Domestic award ceremonies don't often make jokes. The hosts always have a serious tone close to the broadcast style. Even if the guests want to make jokes, they usually don't make such jokes.

To ridicule that the award ceremony is long and boring is just a joke for an active atmosphere in some people's eyes, and it is indeed a fact. It takes a long time to wait after the red carpet is over, and the award ceremony officially starts and it takes the length of a movie. Most people also follow these awards. It doesn't matter, it's no wonder it's not boring.

To others, this may seem offensive.

But it still depends on who offended, Chen Jingxing is naturally not an ordinary person.

Normally, the award presenters at the Shanghai Film Festival are two-person teams, but since the organizing committee has invited Chen Jingxing to present the best film, there is no guest who can form a team with him.

To present it together with Chen Jingxing, the domestic directors must be at least at the level of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang, and the stars must be superstars. The awarding lineup is so luxurious. Does everyone look at the winners or the award presenters?

Besides, this so-called unspoken rule similar to "the king does not see the king" can be understood by everyone.

It just seemed that Chen Jingxing alone was enough to calm down the situation.

"It's a pleasure to be here tonight and to be honored with the best film award at the festival."

Chen Jingxing stopped in moderation, tore open the envelope neatly, and went straight to the topic.

"Since the birth of the Shanghai International Film Festival, 20 works from home and abroad have been selected as the best film of the Golden Goblet Award. Now let's take a look at the 21st best film.

...The best film winners of the Golden Goblet Award at the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival are "Out of Paradise" and "Farewell to Paradise". "

After Chen Jingxing presented the Golden Goblet Trophy and award certificate to the Swiss-Mongolian director who appeared on stage with a ruddy complexion, he quickly returned to the backstage.

From the applause that was far inferior to Chen Jingxing's appearance, it can be seen that the audience is obviously not very enthusiastic about this Swiss-Mongolian co-production of the Golden Goblet Award for Best Film.

It's no wonder that [-]% of the people present, even those in the industry, have never seen this movie, and they may not be willing to watch it in the future.

This is the embarrassment of the Shanghai Film Festival. The film festival follows the rules of the winner-takes-all game. Awards at the Shanghai Film Festival can only eat leftovers picked by others. The golden goblet film has a ceiling. It is even forced to set up a movie channel media award separately, and to pull domestic movies on top of the actor award to maintain domestic attention, popularity, and starlight.

After the awards ceremony of the Shanghai Film Festival, Chen Jingxing did not leave, because there was a seminar hosted by the Film Bureau after the film festival.

This is also the reason why Chen Jingxing accepted to attend the film festival as an award presenter. The content of the seminar was not kept secret, it was to discuss the gift films for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the 70th anniversary of the Korean War.

Huaguo's film industry and market have made remarkable achievements in the past few years, especially commercial films and industrial films, which seem to be second only to Hollywood in the world. Movies are not a problem.

Feeling that the strength of domestic film production and the market have been shaken, the official requirements for gift films have naturally increased accordingly. They must invite big directors to make blockbuster films with the main theme that can achieve market success.

Next year will be the 70th anniversary, and it's even a bit late to talk about it to be honest.

Therefore, not only Chen Jingxing attended the meeting, Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, Chen Kaige, Jiang Wen, Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, Guo Fan, Tian Xinye, Wu Jing, Chen Sicheng and other directors who have been in the limelight in recent years or whose status can be regarded as major directors are all present. coming.

Although people don't force you to come, normal people will definitely come.

The atmosphere of so many big domestic directors is a bit embarrassing, especially Chen Jingxing and one or two directors. In the "Face to Face" interview, he said that "the most important thing in movies is entertainment" and "good teachers and education". Netizens made a "profound" interpretation, as if they were alluding to some people.

But everyone here is a boss, regardless of what other people think in their hearts, they are all kind on the surface, and the worst is flat.

Before Chen Jingxing exchanged greetings with other directors, he was stopped by the director of the Film Bureau.

"Zhang Ju, I can't change anything even if I'm the chairman of the jury at the Shanghai Film Festival every year."

Chen Jingxing said half helplessly and half modestly.

"Xiao Chen, you are too modest, don't underestimate yourself, your international reputation and status in the international film industry are obvious to all, you definitely have this ability.

Ang Lee will be the chairman of the executive committee of the Golden Horse Awards this year, and the momentum of the Golden Horse Awards will immediately rise, and it can even compete with the Golden Rooster Awards. This shows that international directors like you are attracted to the film industry The power is still very high. When Director Wang reported that he would invite you to be the chairman of the jury, the leaders criticized us and said that we should have done this long ago. "

Zhang Guoxing, deputy director of the Film Bureau in charge of international exchanges, patted Chen Jingxing on the shoulder to comfort him.

Chen Jingxing could only nod helplessly to accept.

The Film Bureau decided to invite Chen Jingxing to serve as the chairman of the judging committee of the Shanghai International Film Festival for three consecutive terms. After Chen Jingxing tried his best to refuse, the number was reduced to two terms, and it was difficult for him to refuse.

When he finished dealing with the film director and returned to his seat in the conference room, Ning Hao came over and said, "You're still being good when you get a bargain."

"Look at what you said, do you want this blessing for you?"

"Yes, why not."

"It's actually a waste of time." Jiang Wen also joined the topic, bluntly speaking: "The quality of the films is not very good, and some of them don't even have solid basic skills. In fact, they are just criticizing."

Jiang Wen, who is the chairman of the judging committee of this year's Shanghai Film Festival, seems to have the same feeling for Chen Jingxing's thoughts. It can be seen that the awards of this year's film festival have tortured him a lot.

Although the Modu International Film Festival is an international A-category, this is only a division of genres and does not represent influence.

International category A refers to "competitive comprehensive film festivals", with awards, but no specific theme.

So in fact, the fifteen A-category film festivals in the world are very embarrassing except for the three major European film festivals.

The current influence of Cannes is far beyond that of other film festivals, and one kind of attention unit has a high degree of attention, and it is almost catching up with the Berlin main competition.

In the past few years, Venice has started to take advantage of the popularity of American movies, and has become one of the bellwethers of the Oscars, and its influence is also good.

Berlin has not been very popular these years, but it is still the top three.For the rest, Locarno and San Sebastian can pay some attention.

If you want to engage in global indiscriminate competitions, you must go to the highest stage, compete and screen with the best movies in the center of the spotlight.

If you want to participate in the competition and win awards, if you don't go to the Oscars and don't enter the top three, it seems that you are automatically labeled as a weak person, and many of them are indeed returned by the three major film festivals.

For example, some of the films nominated for the Golden Goblet Award at this year's Shanghai Film Festival were not even selected in the three major non-competition units. In fact, there are not many good art films every year, and they cannot even enter the three major non-competition units. It can be seen that What is it.

Moreover, the three major European film festivals have arranged a rhythm. Every four months, like a season, you can choose one of Cannes, Venice, and Berlin to participate in the competition when you finish the post-production at any time of the year. Basically, those who are willing to participate, the best It's over with the slightly better part.

What are other A-category film festivals doing?Discover new talents, lost gems, regional films... This is not in harmony with the purpose of the "large-scale competition" of the international A category.

On the contrary, many non-international A-category film festivals are doing very well, and their influence is far greater than that of A-category film festivals like Tokyo or Shanghai, because of their proper positioning and excellent operation.

For example, the Orlando Fantastic Film Festival that Chen Jingxing participated in in this plane.

Obviously, the officials wanted to reverse the somewhat embarrassing situation of the Shanghai Film Festival, so they invited Chen Jingxing to be the chairman of the jury, and even for three consecutive terms, hoping to see if they could use Chen Jingxing's fame to attract more international audiences. Filmmakers and films on .

Although in China, Chen Jingxing is not considered the most famous director, or can only be regarded as one of them. Directors such as Guoshi, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang are not as famous as Chen Jingxing, or even higher. The older generation of older audiences may not even watch it. I have seen Chen Jingxing's movies, but Guoshi and Feng Xiaogang basically know about them.

But in the international arena, Chen Jingxing's popularity is not to say compared with domestic directors, but if it is enlarged to the entire Chinese director circle, it is considered first-class, that is, it is not comparable to Brother Chenglong.

Zhang Yimou has a great reputation internationally, he can be regarded as an internationally recognized film master, but in terms of fame, he still cannot compare to Chen Jingxing.

Ang Lee's popularity is even higher in the film industry, but the disadvantage is that the film is not popular enough, and the absolute number of people who have seen his films is actually not many.

Compared with Chen Jingxing, who has films such as "Gravity" and "Matrix", which are popular all over the world and popular among young people, his reputation is indeed inferior.

It's just that the film festival really can't be boosted by a star director in a short period of time. It's just that the officials value Chen Jingxing so much, so naturally it's not easy to refuse.

In a sense, this is also an affirmation of his status.

(End of this chapter)