Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1041 The Proportion of the Academy Awards
Thinking of what happened at the Academy Awards last year, it seemed to Lin Daoqiu as if it happened yesterday.

In order for the Academy Awards to be held smoothly, Lin Daoqiu had to lend Jackie Chan to Pan Disheng to film "Project A".

Fortunately, "Best Partner" was up to the mark, so that the newly established Xiangjiang Cinemas was not defeated by "Plan A".

But this kind of thing should not happen in the future, because for Lin Daoqiu, Baocheng Cinemas is in a dead end, and no matter how hard it is, there will be no results.

As soon as "Godzilla" comes out, I believe that within at least a month, Baocheng Cinemas may have to close its doors for renovations.

And as the special effects technology becomes more and more mature, Lin Daoqiu's control over the Xiangjiang film industry will also become more and more powerful.

Baocheng Cinemas originally wanted to rely on Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, and those traitors in New Art City to conquer the world.

But this dream is already impossible to realize, because whether it is a traditional action movie or a special effects movie, Lin Daoqiu has a strong hand like a cloud, and with the backing of Magic Studio, Pan Disheng's Baocheng Cinema Line has almost zero chance of winning. .

What Lin Daoqiu has to do now is to find a way to dismember Baocheng Cinemas as soon as possible, and then complete the great feat of unifying the Hong Kong film industry.

Of course, these can only be done after "Godzilla" is released. If you do it now, it will have little effect and will waste time.

"Mr. Lin, the preparations for the Golden Statue Awards have been successfully completed."

The venue for this time will be the Xintiandi Theater under New Oriental, which is the most advanced and modern theater in Xiangjiang at this time.

Lin Daoqiu spent a lot of money on decoration before, just to use it as the leading theater of Xiangjiang Cinemas.

The Hong Kong Cultural Center, the venue for the Golden Statue Awards, was laid in 1979, and construction only started this year, and it will take five years to complete.

Therefore, during this period of time, Lin Daoqiu will choose the Xintiandi Theater as the venue for the Academy Awards.

"Miss Yu has worked so hard over the past year. Without you as the vice chairman of the preparatory committee, I think it would be very difficult to hold this Golden Statue Award."

Lin Daoqiu's words are flattering Yu Teng. Even without her, Xiangjiang has so many talents, it is impossible to not even win a gold medal.

Yu Cheng also knew that Lin Daoqiu was speaking politely, so she didn't take it to heart at all.

"I don't know who Mr. Lin plans to hire as the chairman of the Academy Awards this time."

The Golden Statue Award adopts the method of rotating chairman, the first one is Lin Daoqiu, and the second one is replaced by someone else.

In the previous life, because the Golden Image Awards became more and more successful, many stars were looking forward to whether they could win the award.

So when the chairman of the Academy Awards is announced, a group of people who are close to him will go to inquire.

If you tell the other party, it must be against the rules, but if you don't say it, it will hurt your feelings. After all, not everyone is a character like Lin Daoqiu.

Therefore, in order to prevent such a situation, Lin Daoqiu came up with such a method. The chairman of the Golden Statue Awards will be announced on the day when the Golden Statue Awards are held.

Although a small number of judges know who the chairman of the Academy Awards is, the identities of these few people are kept secret, so everyone is keeping each other in check.

"I have invited Mr. Zou Wenhuai to be the chairman of this year's Golden Statue Awards."

Zou Wenhuai came to serve as the rotating chairman of this year's Hong Kong Film Awards, no matter in terms of experience, seniority, or prestige, it can be said that he is impeccable.

After working with Lin Daoqiu for so long, when Lin Daoqiu made this request, Zou Wenhuai just thought about it, and then agreed.

This can be regarded as a benefit to Xiangjiang's film industry, and with Zou Wenhuai's current status and status, he doesn't need to think about fame and fortune at all.

"It turned out to be Mr. Zou. It is indeed very suitable."

Hearing that this year's rotating chairman is Zou Wenhuai, Yu Teng also nodded. It seems that she is also very satisfied with the one Lin Daoqiu invited.

"By the way, Ms. Yu, is there any good movie this year?"

Lin Daoqiu had basically never talked about these things with Yu Teng before, and there was nothing wrong with the Academy Award this time, so it was rare for him to chat with him about Yu Teng's views on movies.

"In front of you, Lu Ban, Lin Daoqiu, how dare I play tricks. I actually don't have much opinion on this year's Golden Statue Awards."

Yu Teng actually has her own preferences for movies, but she only participated in the preparations for the Academy Awards, and she did not intervene in the judging work.

And this year's most popular films at the Academy Awards, such as Li Hanxiang's "Listen to the Government" and Zhang Jianting's "A Wrong 7-Day Love", as well as Fang Yuping's "Half Side Man" are all popular films that have won awards.

But if Yu Teng were to pick out a movie that she thought was good enough to win an award, it would be a bit too embarrassing for her.

After all, at this time, her understanding of movies is still very shallow, and she still has no way to understand the minds of the judges.

However, it can be seen from these popular movies that the genres that these judges like are biased towards that kind of literary films.

And comedies or funny movies like "Best Partner" can't get into the eyes of those judges.

So this year's award-winning film must be selected from these literary films, and it depends on who can win more.

Lin Daoqiu had already pondered over whether the Hong Kong Film Awards would become a carnival of literary and artistic films a year ago.

After the Academy Awards ended last year, Lin Daoqiu has already started preparing for it.

And it is absolutely impossible for the carnival night of literary films like last year to appear again.

Even if people say that he is sharing the cake, or some other ugly words, Lin Daoqiu will not change his decision.

After all, the purpose of his holding the Golden Image Awards, besides commending those filmmakers, Lin Daoqiu's biggest idea is to spread Xiangjiang films to every corner of the world.

And if the Golden Statue Awards can be held as a film festival with huge influence in Asia, it will definitely do more good than harm for Xiangjiang Films.

As for the judges' eyes or taste, these are completely out of Lin Daoqiu's consideration.

However, Lin Daoqiu never thought of killing literary films with a stick. He just wanted to adjust the proportion of literary films and commercial films in the Academy Awards, instead of making earth-shaking changes.

"It's actually a good thing that you, the vice chairman of the preparatory committee, don't have your own opinions on the films for the Academy Awards."

I don't know if Lin Daoqiu's words are complimenting Yu Cheng, but it sounds like a recognition of Yu Cheng.

(End of this chapter)