China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 107
In less than an hour since the announcement of the list of winners of the Hugo Awards, the entire Chinese-speaking Internet world has completely fallen.The four major portal websites, Baidu Billboard, Baidu News, Tieba, Tianya and various forums emerged one after another, and information about this year's Hugo Awards was everywhere almost instantly.

As long as you've been online or watched TV during this time, you've almost certainly come across relevant news.

Especially on various forums, netizens really felt the wave of fear of being dominated by the results of this year's Hugo Awards and Li Mu.

Open the forum, and there are often seven or eight out of every ten posts related to it.

Because bbs forums are all new posts and posts with new replies are ranked at the top, which leads to the fact that once a hot event occurs, netizens will inevitably rush to publish new posts, eventually leading to most of the discussion on the page. It's all the same topic.

No matter how the moderator appeals not to open new posts on the same topic, it will not help, because netizens often reply to hundreds of stories of posts without causing any splashes, but posting new posts by themselves can get a lot of replies.

"It's against the sky, this time it's really against the sky, I f*ck thought it would be great to win one award, but I didn't expect that there are a total of five Hugo Awards, and Li Mu won three of them by himself. !"

"I cried. It was the first time for an Asian country to win the Hugo Award, and the result was three—an unprecedented scene in the history of the Hugo Award."

"What the hell is going on? Didn't foreigners discriminate against us? How could Li Mu sweep this year's Hugo Awards?"

"Discrimination against foreigners is based on what people order. There is no contradiction between their discrimination against ordinary yellow people and their respect for Cheng Long."

Many people who went to bed early the day before woke up the next day and were surprised to find that they seemed to have missed some great event.

The whole Internet is saying that Chinese people have swept the Hugo Awards, that Li Mu has completely conquered the Western science fiction world, and that Chinese science fiction has reached a world-class level.

CCTV's morning news program is reporting, provincial satellite TV's morning newspaper reading program is also reporting, and various cultural interview programs have repeatedly raised related topics.

The teachers in the school are discussing, the classmates in the class are discussing, and the colleagues in the enterprise are also discussing-almost the whole society is discussing awards that they may not have heard of before.

If Li Mu had only won one Hugo Award this time, he would never have the influence he has now, but now Li Mu has won three Hugo Awards by himself.

The nature of this in the eyes of Chinese people has changed all at once.

If Li Mu won only one award, it would be that the Huaxia people finally wrote a good science fiction work, and the Huaxia people finally wrote a science fiction work that was recognized by the West.

But the current situation is that Li Mu won all the five Hugo awards alone, and the nature has become that Chinese science fiction works have completely conquered the Western world, and the charm of Chinese science fiction has attracted the entire West. marvel.

The psychological feelings brought by the two to the people are completely different, and the impact they produce must also be different.

Since that night, Li Mu's cell phone has not stopped, and those who can directly make calls to Li Mu's cell phone are generally people who need to be dealt with seriously by Li Mu.

The leaders of CCTV called Li Mu directly that night, asking him to return to China as soon as possible to participate in the recording of CCTV special programs, and there was not only one program.

Just like Li Mu's face-to-face program on CCTV just now, this time he might have to do it again.

The leaders of Xijing University of Political Science and Law also approached Li Mu, hoping that he could find time to return to his alma mater to give a speech, and said that the school wanted to hire Li Mu as a visiting professor.

At the same time, the entire Huaxia entertainment circle was confused by the sudden news. To be honest, most people in the entertainment circle didn't know about the Hugo Awards, so many people didn't think too much about it when they first saw the news. Take it to heart.

Everyone knows that Li Mu is very good at writing novels. It is known that the total sales volume of his novels has even approached 4000 million copies. It is known that Li Mu’s total manuscript fee is said to be close to 8000 million US dollars, so it is really amazing that Li Mu’s novel won a Hugo Award It's normal.

Therefore, many people in the entertainment industry should be busy after reading the relevant news. As a result, in just half a day, this matter fermented to the point of heated discussion in the whole society.

Its popularity is high, its spread is wide, and its influence is great, even to the point of appalling.

It wasn't until this time that the people in the entertainment circle realized that Li Mu had done something more exaggerated than making a movie with 1.2 million US dollars this time.

It turns out that this Hugo Award actually has the reputation of the Nobel Prize in science fiction!

It turns out that this is the first time an Asian country has won the Hugo Award!

It turns out that this is the first time in the history of the Hugo Awards that someone has won all three Hugo Awards in one session!

It turned out that Li Mu seemed to be more successful as a writer than as a director!

Artists under Huashang, such as Wang Kai and Song Ji, called to express their congratulations; sisters Li Lianhua and Li Xuehua said that they would hold a party for Li Mu when he returned to Beijing; mother and daughter Liu Yifei also called to congratulate Li Mu. It was still relatively routine, but Liu Xiaoli said something quite meaningful:
"Auntie knows that your ability and vision are far stronger than Auntie, so Auntie is very relieved to entrust Yifei to you. Auntie will not interfere in Yifei's affairs in the future. Auntie believes that with you, Yifei's future will be smooth. Good luck and happy."

Li Mu replied: "Auntie, don't worry if you leave Yifei to me."

After hanging up the phone, Li Mu always felt that the conversation just now was a bit weird.

Soon Li Mu received another call from Director Zhang Yimou.

"Director Li, I'm Zhang Yimou."

"Hello Director Zhang."

"I want to ask you something, can you sing?" Director Zhang Yimou asked.

Li Mudao: "My singing is average. I should be considered good among ordinary people, but I can't compare with professional singers."

"Then come and sing me a song next year." Zhang Yimou said again.

Li Mu asked: "The Olympic theme song?"

Zhang Yimou said with a smile: "The response is quite fast. I can't disclose the specific details yet, but I always feel that this show is almost meaningless without you. You are now a famous name card of Huaxia in the world. I just don't need the theme song." You're going to use you on other shows too."

"Okay, Director Zhang, look at the arrangement, and I will fully cooperate." Li Mu replied.

……

The next morning, the group flew back to Beijing.As soon as Li Mu got out of the airport, he was surrounded by a large number of media reporters. After answering a few questions hastily, he was sent home by the driver sent by Liu Siying. After a few hours of rest, he had to go to CCTV to record a program.

At the same time, there was an upsurge of queuing up to buy Li Mu's Chinese and English novels in all major bookstores across the country, and some bookstores with few stocks even ran out of Li Mu's works on the first day.

The person in charge of each bookstore called the publishing house one after another, asking the publishing house to increase the supply of novels written by Li Mu, which surprised and delighted the person in charge of the publishing house.

Li Mu’s series of books just completed a new round of reprinting last month. The number of reprints ranges from 20 to 50, and the total number of reprints exceeds 300 million copies. Why are they selling again in just one month? out of stock?
Think about it, last month Hollywood stars came to China to audition, Tom Hanks confirmed to star in "Inception" and the production cost of "Inception" was 1.2 million U.S. dollars - under the continuous bombardment of these news, Li Mu The sales volume of Li Mu’s novels has skyrocketed, and now Li Mu’s novels have won the Hugo Awards for Best Novel, Best Novelette, and Best Short Novella, and it is even the first time that an Asian country has won this award. The sensational effect of "Inception" is naturally far greater than the sensation caused by the casting of "Inception" and the production budget of over [-] million US dollars.

(End of this chapter)