The King of Huayu Science Fiction

"There are six directors shortlisted this year."

Zhang Yimou was wearing a Chinese tunic suit, standing alone on the awarding platform with a hale and hearty spirit, looking at the audience with a smile on his face.

Usually the award presenters for each award of the Golden Rooster Awards are a combination of two people, even for awards like Best Director.

However, this year is a bit special. This is the first time that Guoshi has once again stood on the stage of the Golden Rooster Award as an award presenter after ten years.

With the status of an old man, it is not easy to find a partner for him, so it became a one-person award.

The postponement of the shooting of his new film "Sniper" didn't seem to affect the old man's mood, or even if it did, he didn't show it, his voice was loud enough, and his smile was sincere enough.

“……他们有50后，有60后，有70后、80后……还有90后……”

As soon as the words were finished, although there was still a concept poster of the Golden Rooster on the big screen, and there were no shots of the finalists, Chen Jingxing could already clearly feel the eyes from all directions, whether obvious or subtle, were directed at him.

After the awards ceremony started, Ning Hao returned to his seat after expressing his thanks and promising a meal.

Chen Jingxing is basically surrounded by the main creators of "Interstellar", from the actors to the nominated behind-the-scenes.

Chen Jingxing stood out against the trophies, but of course they were not in Chen Jingxing's arms.

As the film with the most nominations in the history of the Golden Rooster Awards, "Interstellar" also won the most trophies.

Best photography, best art, best sound recording, best music, and best editing, the five technical awards, except for editing and art, received the other three.

For the best screenplay, the leader of the screenwriting group of "Interstellar" brought three screenwriters in the group to the stage to accept the award.

Since two years ago, Chen Jingxing has basically only signed "Script Creativity", and the screenwriting awards are also handed over to the screenwriting team members to receive the awards. After all, he has no shortage of such honors.

No one questioned his screenwriting ability either.

The best animated film undoubtedly falls to "Inside Out", which has been awarded by DreamWorks for four consecutive times since 2017.

Nini, who played the leading role's daughter, won her first Golden Rooster trophy, Best Supporting Actress.

Wang Jinsong, who plays the professor, won the best supporting actor trophy. This is the first time he was nominated for a film award, and he won the trophy. Even though he is over [-] years old and has been in the film and television industry for many years, he can't hide his excitement.

Yuan Wei, who nominated the heroine for the second time, did not win the Golden Rooster Best Actress trophy, but the loss was not wronged. Although her role in "Interstellar" was not a vase, she didn't have much room to play.

And Chen Kun finally broke the embarrassing record of losing three gold medals and undisputedly won the Golden Rooster Best Actor.

This is Chen Jingxing's first golden rooster actor. Lei Jiayin from "The Martian" was unlucky and ran into Zhang Yi from "The Ninth District". The master finally got the best actor nomination for the first time, but he also returned empty-handed.

In this way, "Interstellar", which has won an unprecedented twelve nominations, has already won seven, and has become the film with the most awards in a single session in the history of the Golden Rooster.

Only two awards, Best Director and Best Feature Film, remain.

Everyone realized that they might be witnessing a legend.

As the background board, they don't feel boring.

An important reason why many awards like to share pork is that if you don’t share pork with others, if they don’t come to support you, then you have to share pork.

It's a vicious circle.

However, due to the participation of commercial films in recent years, especially the participation of the big player DreamWorks, the influence of the Golden Rooster Awards has grown, and netizens have also paid more and more attention. In addition, this year's Golden Horse Awards are over. It's become more egotistical.

The higher the public's attention, the more sponsorship, the higher the commercial value, and the higher the degree of exposure and discussion, so you don't need to rely on sharing pork to invite people to support you.

So even before the Golden Rooster Awards Gala, all the media and online public opinion agreed that "Interstellar" would sweep the Golden Rooster, this time the Golden Rooster red carpet stars still hit a new high.

Even the artists and filmmakers under Beijing Film Group, who had fallen hard, attended the awards ceremony regardless of whether they were nominated or not, except for Guan Hu and Liang Jing.

Of course, no matter whether you are willing or not, you can only do the role of the background board with a smile on your face.

"...This also fully reflects the inheritance and development of Huaguo film. It shows that there are successors in our country's film industry. The age arrangement of the nominated directors this year is a bit like the family portrait of Huaguo filmmakers. People have the aesthetics of a generation, and each generation has the thinking of a generation..."

Lao Mouzi, who was speaking clichés, then changed his voice: "However... as the seventh art, since movies are art, there must be greatness and mediocrity. Experience and time cannot be added points for art, nor can they make up for the creators of literature and art. difference.

So...sorry, I can't pretend to praise you and your films are different, your art and your aesthetics are different...

So, why is film the seventh art? "

Many people present raised their eyebrows, good guy, is the old man thinking of teaching on the spot?What's the deal?

But the national teacher is of course qualified to be a good teacher.

Lao Mouzi folded his arms and drooped, as if he was taking a big lesson, he spoke in a cadenced tone: "Italian poet and film pioneer Giotto Canudo published a treatise a hundred years ago.

For the first time, cinema was declared to be an art.

Kanudu believes that among the six arts of architecture, music, painting, sculpture, poetry and dance, architecture and music are the main ones; painting and sculpture are complementary to architecture; poetry and dance are melted into music.

And the movie...

It is the synthesis of all these arts to form art in motion.

It's about the art of stillness and the art of movement...

The art of time and the art of space...

The art of emotion and the art of rhythm.

It is a comprehensive art that includes all the six arts.

And works that can integrate these six arts and can accommodate each other regardless of each other should be excellent movies, even great movies.

A director who can make such a movie should also be an excellent, master-level filmmaker.

Pierre, the chairman of the Cannes Film Festival, once said to me in a chat that the mission of the Cannes Film Festival should be to award awards to such films and masters. Awarded to him, that is Cannes dereliction of duty.

I am thinking that the mission of the Golden Rooster Award should be the same, it should be awarded to such films and their creators.

if so……"

Oddly enough, Lao Mouzi's ridicule did not arouse the audience's laughter. It seemed that some kind of potential energy was accumulating in the audience following the talk of the national teacher, and this energy made people quiet.

The award-winning fifth-generation director doesn't care that his rare sense of humor doesn't go unanswered.

"I guess...it's not that great films and masters need the encouragement and recognition of trophies...

But it is necessary for the Golden Rooster Awards to engrave the names of such films and creators on its trophy..."

After saying that, he took a step back, put away his seriousness, and smiled: "Now everyone, please watch the big screen."

"The one nominated by the jury for the best director of the 34th Huaguo Film Golden Rooster Awards is..."

Voice-over After the introduction of the six directors of the six films, Zhang Yimou opened the red envelope neatly, then approached the microphone, and scanned the audience.

"...everyone was listening to the thank you speech after paragraph throughout the awards ceremony, and the same person's name was included in these words of thanks, so let this director who has been thanked all the time come on stage to say his thanks, the best The Director's Award goes to-

Chen Jingxing, "Interstellar"! "

The oppressive silence before seemed to be waiting for this moment.

No one was pretending to be surprised, and the applause was not fanatical, but restrained and polite.

But all eyes with complicated emotions met one person at the same time, and the atmosphere of the venue became extremely thick, as if the eyes and applause also carried weight.

Chen Jingxing, who was not particularly joyful or excited, felt as if he had returned to the feeling when the Oscar for Best Director announced the winner at the beginning of 17.

Three Golden Rooster Awards for Best Director, this weight is naturally special.

Except for Lao Mouzi nearly 20 years ago with "Hero" three times, no one has tasted it again.

The award speeches continued to reverberate in the theater, forming a rhythm with Chen Jingxing's pace, which kept the applause not fanatical.

"...he made us appreciate the beauty of the starry sky with our eyes again in "Interstellar Crossing". , affection, bravery, wisdom, and tenacity...

He used poetic language to express "the vastness and ignorance made me sigh", described "in the dust of the world, I would rather love and hate" with restrained light and shadow, and wrote the next page of meaningful words with humanism. fable……

He's a brilliant narrator..."

Chen Jingxing stood on the stage and received his third best director trophy and certificate from the National Teacher.

"Congratulations."

"Thank you."

Chen Jingxing held up the trophy and said to the audience: "As you can see, this is my third Golden Rooster Best Director trophy. Like everyone, I never expected that I would get this trophy so soon. Thanks to the judges It will be my affirmation, the affirmation of the movie "Interstellar", and the affirmation of all the front and back staff who have paid for this movie.

I have always been passionate about telling stories that immerse the audience, I love stories that surprise, and I love and long to take the audience into another world with every film.

I was trying to find a language, a genre of film that would turn something I was interested in into something acceptable to everyone, and that was science fiction.

I am also very happy that the audience can recognize the story I tell, and I am willing to keep walking on this road until I can't go on.

In 2013, I used my own home as the shooting location to shoot the first movie "The Night the Comet Came". At that time, an actor teacher asked me, you, a person who has never studied film, why dare to spend so much time? How much money to make a desperate movie, or a science fiction movie?

My answer at the time was a line I wrote in the script of "Inception":
Are you willing to give it a go, or are you willing to wait for the years to pass?

I am not willing to wait for the time to pass, and I hope to make more movies and win more awards before the time passes.

I'm not a humble person, so I sincerely hope that the judges won't just give me a lifetime achievement award when I come back next time. "

The solemn and quiet atmosphere in the audience has loosened. Whether it is envy, jealousy, shock, or emotion, they all responded with laughter to this legendary director who won three golden rooster awards in less than [-] years.

After Chen Jingxing pretended to be aggressive, he did not end there, but continued after the laughter stopped: "This year is the year of tribute, as a director and screenwriter, I also personally participated in the script creation and even shooting of several Korean war movies.

Everyone should know "Li Yannian", and many people may have seen it. "

Not only the old Mouzi standing behind Chen Jingxing on the stage was a little moved, but also many people in the audience were a little awed.

Obviously, what the young man who has won the Golden Rooster Director Award for the third time may not like many people, but the most disgusting thing is that the trophy he holds in his hand and the halo behind him make few people in the venue qualified to refute.

"I think every filmmaker who presents this kind of history to hundreds of millions of audiences through images should naturally take on this responsibility——

That is to be sincere.

And sincerity means being faithful to the historical truth and the spirit behind it.

Be true to what you see as the positive side of history.

Because these histories have shaped who we are now, our values, our consensus and perceptions of this land and the people on this land and each other.

Anyone who tries to appropriate this kind of story to convey something that deconstructs contemporary things we need to cherish and remember is an insincere filmmaker.

Because this happened and existed, I hope that all film creators will be faithful to the meaning of these real events in their films, instead of arrogantly deconstructing and distorting them.

I see that many people in the industry, including other groups in society, are discussing the boundaries of artistic creation. I think the boundary of artistic creation is sincerity and not arrogance.

The fictions of artistic creation include sincere fictions and arrogant fictions. The arrogance of the creator will be felt by the audience, and it will also tarnish the art that the creator flaunts.

Thank you. "

After Chen Jingxing delivered his final acceptance speech, he stepped off the stage neatly and returned to his seat.

But the minds and moods of everyone in the venue have not returned to the state before the director award.

This will undoubtedly become the topic of tomorrow, no, tonight.

The ending of "King Kong River" quelled the anger of public opinion, but the storm of public opinion is not far away from now, and the storm has not completely subsided.

But there were still quite a few people from Jingying in the venue, and their faces were extremely ugly at this moment. After all, no matter how well-mannered they were, it would be difficult to resist such an almost arrogant blatant stepping on their faces.

Although Chen Jingxing said "Don't be arrogant", his behavior and words at the moment are extremely arrogant and arrogant.

But with the trophies that swept the nominations today, the thanks, and the trophies in the hands of this young man, it seems to be understandable while making people dazzled.

Only some of the guests, including Lao Mouzi, who had gone backstage, couldn't hide their expressions of emotion.

Young people are really impulsive.

However, the decisive and high-spirited words still linger in my ears.

"Are you willing to give it a go, or are you willing to wait for the years to pass?"

It seems to be annotating the past National Day files and today's emergency awards show.

It was not until the melodious and ethereal organ played by Interstellar that the energy of most people was brought back to the awards stage.

That was the end of tonight's saga.

"Interstellar" won an unprecedented ninth award-best feature film.