The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 56 Awards

Laughing last is the best laugh.

This may be the self-consolation of the producer Zhang Tong, but Chen Jingxing remembered it in his heart.

And today is the day to decide who will have the last laugh.

Jan. 1, 5:8 p.m. ET.

The theater has been carefully arranged. Although there is no resplendent decoration, it still looks low-key and luxurious.

As the most influential awards ceremony in the North American film industry after the Oscars and Golden Globes, the closing ceremony of the Orlando Film Festival is also the focus of countless fans and audiences.

This year, tens of millions of viewers in 54 countries and regions are expected to watch the live broadcast of the awards ceremony and closing ceremony.

Chen Jingxing and other main creators of "Fatal Identity" were arranged in the seats on the right near the front row, and the main creators of other films shortlisted for the main competition also sat in relatively front positions according to different films.

"Hi everyone, welcome to the 37th Orlando International Fantasy Film Festival awards ceremony!"

After the host came on stage, he talked about the development of some fantasy movies in the past year, and made a prospect for the future. He briefly commented on the surprising movies shown at this year’s film festival, and then directly Into the awards process.

The award setting of the main competition unit of the Orlando Film Festival is relatively simple. The best actress, best actor, best screenplay, best director, jury award and Golden Spruce Award, all award-winning films can compete.

"The first award we want to present is Best Actor." The host on stage paused and said, "Jodie Foster will present it to us."

Chen Jingxing touched Luo Chen on the right, and teased in a low voice: "It's time for your award, why aren't you nervous?"

Luo Chen rolled his eyes: "It has nothing to do with me, I'm nervous."

Theoretically speaking, Luo Chen can be considered as a nominee for Best Actor, but in fact, the possibility of the award finally falling on Luo Chen is very small. Compared with the male protagonists of the other twelve films shortlisted for the main competition unit, Luo Chen's performance is really ranked Not on the number.

Moreover, "Fatal Identity" is more like a group portrait movie, with eleven personalities competing for each other, and the male protagonist's roles are not many in terms of absolute duration.

As far as the character itself is concerned, the hero is the most just, brave and kind-hearted personality of the murderer, so there is basically no character thickness.

It can be said that no matter how you look at it, Luo Chen has nothing to do with the Best Actor award.

What is surprising is that the best actor was finally awarded to the actor Danielle in "Shadow of the Wind", a 13-year-old Spanish boy.

There were bursts of exclamations at the scene, the youngest actor in the history of the Orlando Fantastic Film Festival was born!

Even looking at the whole world, this is also the youngest actor in an international film festival that can be named.

All the media and filmmakers present were surprised by the bold decision of the jury this year.

"The chairman of the jury this year is Paul Morris, who used to be the art director of Universal. I didn't expect this old man to be so courageous!?" Zhang Tong was a little surprised and a little happy, and turned to Chen Jingxing and said, "It seems that "The Shadow of the Wind " is almost out, the gift of the youngest actor in history is enough to kill this movie."

There was a smile on the corner of Chen Jingxing's mouth, and he nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with Zhang Tong's statement.

The implication of Zhang Tong is that the essence of the awards at the Orlando Film Festival is to share pork. Given such a big gift to "Shadow of the Wind", it is obvious that there will be no subsequent awards.

This kind of malicious speculation of pork-sharing thinking has a typical logic of awarding domestic film awards, so can this kind of speculation be used in the Orlando Film Festival across the ocean?

It really works.

Looking at the award presentations of previous Orlando Film Festivals, it can be described as divided pork.

The three heavyweight awards of Golden Spruce, Best Director and Grand Jury Award are basically awarded to three different films. Not only Orlando, but also other well-known international film festivals basically follow a similar logic. It’s just a matter of difference. Of course, the films that can win awards are basically the better ones among the shortlisted films. The logic of the film festival’s awards is very simple, that is, try to let the excellent films have some gains. .

The award of the best actor clearly reflects this point. If you want to say whether the performance of the young actor in "The Shadow of the Wind" is good, he must be not bad, and he is very spiritual. Considering his age, he can show Such a performance is not easy, but limited to acting experience, it is unrealistic for you to say that his acting skills surpass the leading actors in the other twelve movies.

So the most likely guess is that the judges didn't want "Shadow of Wind" to be zero, so they gave him the actor.

Not only Chen Jingxing and Zhang Tong were aware of this, but the main creative teams of "Moon Night Fantasy Talk" and "Door No. 14" were a little surprised when they realized it.

Soon the Best Actress went to the leading actress of the thriller "Julia".

"The winner of the Best Screenplay at the 37th Orlando International Fantasy Film Festival is...Johnson-chen, "Fatal Identity"!"

Chen Jingxing hugged excitedly with Zhang Tong, Luo Chen and other actors, and walked to the stage.

Although it was expected, the arrival of this moment still made his heart beat wildly. This is the first film award he won, and it was at the Orlando Film Festival!

In the award of best screenplay, the biggest opponent of "Fatal Identity" is "Shadow of Wind", but "Shadow of Wind" is adapted from the famous novel of the same name, so it is inherently disadvantaged.

The trophy in his hand was heavy, Chen Jingxing calmed down his excitement, looked at the dark crowd below the stage, the flashing lights flickering like stars, took a few deep breaths, and said with a smile in English: "Thank you, thank you for the great love of the jury." The location of the crew of "Fatal Identity", raised the trophy in his hand: "First of all, I would like to thank Huanshi.com and my crew colleagues who fought with me in the ice and snow, Zhang Tong, Xu Wenshen, Luo Chen...you are my comrades in arms. Without your tolerance and accommodating to me, there would be no film, please forgive my long-winded, because maybe there will be no chance to be on stage in the future."

Hahaha—everyone in the audience laughed.

Chen Jingxing then turned to the camera and switched to Chinese: "I would also like to thank my father and mother. Without your support and tolerance for my movie dream, I would not be able to stand here. You will always be my favorite people."

After expressing his thanks, Chen Jingxing returned to his seat amidst applause from the audience.

"We won't be out of action, right?" Although Luo Chen had a smile on his face, he still asked nervously.

According to the principle of dividing pork, since a piece has been divided, isn't there hope for the next step?

Chen Jingxing was also a little nervous, and turned to look at Zhang Tong. As a senior producer of Huanshi.com, Zhang Tong had a deeper understanding of the film festival.

Facing everyone's questioning gazes, Zhang Tong thought for a while and said, "Probably not. The Best Screenplay Award is not a heavyweight award. The jury, director and Jin Yunshan awards are the highlight. If the jury wants to balance If it is not the case, "Moon Night Fantasy Talk", "Door No. 14" and us may each share one."

In the voice of Zhang Tong, the jury awards began to be announced.

Chen Jingxing began to meditate on the gods and Buddhas in the sky, not praying for himself to get this award, but hoping to be awarded to other films.

Apparently both crews of "Moon Night Fantasy Talk" and "Gate No. 14" also think so, and the NBC broadcast screen is also divided into three panels, aiming at Lee Jung-jae, Chen Jingxing and the director of "Gate No. 14" respectively.

(End of this chapter)