The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 525 Aftermath
Of all the awards, the most important honor is of course Best Picture.

In Lee Sheng-yew's previous life, before he time traveled, Chinese-language films had won a total of [-] Best Pictures in the three major European countries, with the island country winning [-] times and the peninsula winning twice.

It can be said that Lao Mouzi alone can crush all the honors of Peninsula filmmakers.

Lee Sing-yew is thinking about new movies recently, and he plans to copy a Peninsula movie, so that Peninsula Movies will lose another heavyweight film.

The filial sons of the province have the illusion that Peninsula movies can compete with Chinese-language movies.

The movie he wanted to copy was "Parasite."

Although many people think that "Parasite" can win an Oscar, it is a dog bone awarded to the peninsula by a beautiful country. They think this movie is very ordinary, but this movie still has some ability to win the Cannes Palme d'Or.

We calmly evaluate "Parasite" from an objective perspective. This movie is definitely an excellent one that can be said about.

"Parasite" is about class conflict, and it is an understandable story that can be read by the whole world, which is especially rare.

Many movies require some understanding of the historical background in order to understand the overall environment and the motivations for the characters' choices.

And "Parasite" doesn't need that. It's a story about the poor and the rich.

You can set the background of the story in China, a beautiful country, France, or an island country.

This is one of the reasons why "Parasite" was able to earn $[-] million worldwide.

For such an excellent movie, Lee Sheng-yao felt that it could be made in advance.

However, this movie may not be able to pass censorship in the mainland. He plans to set the story in Hong Kong Island and shoot it there.

With this idea in mind, Lee Sheng-yew stayed at home to write the script for "Parasite" throughout August. At the same time, he read the scripts for "Zodiac", "Chinese Partners", and "囧" and helped them make corrections.

Cheng Long attached great importance to "Twelve Zodiac Signs". He was very grateful to Lee Shengyao for helping him change the script and gave Lee Shengyao a role. Lee Shengyao arranged for Brother Hu to go there.

In "Thailand", there are still three people: Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, and Bao Qiang. The other roles are not important, and there is no need to arrange Fenghua artists.

After the character setting for "Chinese Partner" was completed, Han Sanping personally came to visit and asked for advice on which actors to choose.

Lee Sheng-yew flipped over and decided to choose three capable actors in their thirties with acting skills.

In the end, Li Shengyao chose Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao, and Zhao Yang.

The roles of Huang Xiaoming and Deng Chao are both good, and they fit their temperaments very well.

There is no one with this temperament in Fenghua.

Regarding these two important roles, Lee Sheng Yew did not force Fenghua artists to take them.

The third male lead in "Chinese Partners" was the role that originally belonged to Tong Dawei. He felt that Zhao Yang could play the role, so he filled in a Fenghua artist.

……

In August 2011, there were not many good movies in the mainland film market. The only one worth mentioning was "Overheard 8" and the Hollywood movie was "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".

Relatively speaking, the movie market in August is not as hot as July.

It is worth mentioning that on August 22, the Huabiao Awards held an award ceremony in Beijing, with more than 400 artists participating. It can be said that the event was unprecedented.

The explosion of the mainland film market has made more and more people pay attention to mainland film awards.

"1937" can participate, but Li Shengyao only signed up for Huang Xiaoming, and he did not sign up for other projects.

After all, I have already won so many awards at Cannes and Shanghai Film Festival, so there is no need to grab all the awards.

Considering that Huang Xiaoming had a good reputation in the mainland entertainment industry and might hope to win an Outstanding Actor Award, Lee Sheng Yew signed him up.

However, in the end Huang Xiaoming did not win the Outstanding Film Actor Award. This important award was won by Li Xuejian and Ge You.

Huang Xiaoming was a little disappointed, but then China Film approached him to play "Chinese Partner", which made him very excited.

……

On this night, a crescent moon hung in the sky, and the clouds were covered with a silver-white gauze.

The early summer wind blows quietly, with a pleasant smell in the air.

Huang Xiaoming entertained Li Shengyao and Chen Hao at the China World Hotel.

When Li Shengyao took Chen Hao there, he found that in addition to Huang Xiaoming, there were also Yang Ying, Chen Kexin and Wu Junru.

Chen Hao's pregnant belly was already very large. She followed Li Shengyao when she appeared. Yang Ying and Wu Junru immediately stepped forward to help her and acted very friendly.

Huang Xiaoming wore a gray jacket, a pair of dark blue jeans, and a pair of white height-increasing boots.

Chen Kexin wears a black casual suit on the upper body and a pair of white sweatpants on the lower body, paired with a pair of high-end sneakers. The trouser legs of the sweatpants are tucked into the sneakers, which looks very different.

To be honest, there are traces of Japanese fashion, Korean style, and British style clothing matching. If you know what style you want to embody, you can find the highlights if you search carefully.

Only the Hong Kong trend is really vulgar and ugly.

Even a handsome guy like Furuta Raku is always dressed in a shocking way.

Yang Ying and Wu Junru's outfits are relatively normal.

Li Shengyao ignored Chen Kexin's shocking appearance and took Chen Hao to sit down together.

Huang Xiaoming then poured tea for Li Shengyao, while he poured wine himself, "Director Li, thank you for your introduction this time. You will be my lifelong nobleman. I cannot thank you enough. Everything is in this glass of wine."

After finishing his words, Huang Xiaoming raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp.

The news that China Film and Fenghua invested in "Chinese Partners" has spread, and the news that Li Shengyao recommended Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao, and Zhao Yang has also spread.

All three people called Li Shengyao to thank him.

Zhao Yang went directly to Li Shengyao's house and brought two calligraphy and paintings.

Deng Chao happened to be acting at this time. He called Li Shengyao to thank him and said that he would return to Yanjing soon and host a banquet in person.

Huang Xiaoming happened to be in Yanjing. He had time, so he naturally entertained Li Shengyao to express his gratitude.

In the past, Li Shengyao would have said a few words of humility and said that he was just doing business, and he chose you because you fit the role better.

But Lee Sheng Yew will not say that now.

Don't let this kind of favor go to waste.

He looked at Huang Xiaoming with a smile, and after Huang Xiaoming finished drinking the glass of wine, he said: "Work hard and don't let me down."

Huang Xiaoming nodded solemnly, "Director, I will definitely work hard and I will never let you down."

Li Shengyao then sat down.

"Okay, remember your words."

Huang Xiaoming sat down and then introduced the special dishes of this table to Li Shengyao.

They obviously came prepared. The dishes on the table were all very expensive, and Huang Xiaoming could still remember the characteristics of these dishes, what they tasted like, what nutrients they had, and whether they could be given to pregnant women.

Li Shengyao found that most vegetables are beneficial to pregnant women.

Seeing that Chen Hao was eating happily, he looked at it with a smile and didn't say much.

Huang Xiaoming has high emotional intelligence, Yang Ying is also very good at speaking, and even Wu Junru, whose Mandarin is not standard, said a lot and supported Li Shengyao.

After having enough wine and food, Wu Junru led Chen Hao to eat fruit.

Huang Xiaoming and Yang Ying took Li Shengyao to drink tea.

After chatting for a while, Huang Xiaoming glanced at Yang Ying, and then said: "Director Li, in addition to expressing our gratitude this time, there is one more thing I want to discuss with you."

"You said."

"It's like this. Yang Ying came to the mainland from Hong Kong Island to develop. She didn't think too much at first and hurriedly joined Huayi. However, there were too many actors in Huayi and the competition was high. She wanted to go to Fenghua. I wonder if she could sign with Fenghua? "

It turned out that I wanted to sign Fenghua.

Six years ago, before Lee Sung-yew directed a film for the first time, artist contracts were basically decided by himself.

But later, as the stall grew bigger and bigger, he stopped caring about these things.

Very few artists talk to him about this kind of thing.

Before, Yan Bingbing wanted to change her career, but he didn't agree.

As for Yang Ying?
This person is not good at acting, singing or dancing. That is to say, in the first two or three years of "Running Man", he had a lot of fun.

However, the current running men are all Fenghua people, and it is impossible to give them to Yang Ying.Even if Yang Ying comes to Fenghua, Li Shengyao doesn't know what kind of work can be arranged for her.

Although Director Li is very rich, his stall is very big now, there are many departments, and there are many people eating with him. One more person will not affect his business empire.

But Li Shengyao has always been pragmatic.

Just because he recommended Huang Xiaoming to star in "Partners of China" does not mean that he prefers Huang Xiaoming. He even has to take care of Huang Xiaoming's girlfriend.

Without any melancholy, Li Shengyao glanced at Yang Ying and continued: "If you want to sign with Fenghua, of course you can, but Fenghua also has a group of outstanding female artists, such as Sun Li, Deng Jiajia, and Liu Shishi. My movies will also I brought Sun Li with me for "1937".

Being in Fenghua doesn't mean you can make movies.

Those opportunities to act in movies are fought for by the artists themselves.

As for Fenghua's TV series, there are even more talents here. Sun Li is the queen of TV series, and Liu Shishi has [-] million little lions. These two people are very popular. Deng Jiajia and Guo Zhenni are powerful. If they want to be the heroine in Fenghua, they have to be high. Popularity or good acting skills.

Are you ready to take on the challenge?
It is not easy to play a leading role in Fenghua. "

When Yang Ying heard this, she looked at Li Shengyao blankly.

She still had some resources in Huayi. After all, Huang Xiaoming was taking care of her, and Wang Zhonglei looked at her in a lewd way, which made her a little uncomfortable.

The reason why she wanted to go to Fenghua was because she wanted to pursue the career of an actress.

Fenghua Film and Television has many resources.

But listening to Li Shengyao's words, it seems that she really has no advantage over other artists.

Even if Fenghua had a heroine, she would not be cast in it.

So can Li Shengyao praise her?
She blinked her big eyes and revealed a smile that she thought was quite charming.

But Director Li only glanced at it and then turned away.

When Yang Ying saw this, she felt disappointed. She thought of how she had used tricks when she met Li Shengyao in Hong Kong Island before, but Director Li didn't respond at all.

If Huang Xiaoming hadn't had little experience and lack of determination, she might still be on Hong Kong Island.

Now it seems that Director Li still has no intention of hiding from her, so Fenghua is out of the question.

"Don't bother me. After what you mentioned, I feel that I still have a lot to learn and improve. Now I'd better work hard to improve my strength. I will consider joining Fenghua when my acting skills improve in the future."

Both Huang Xiaoming and Yang Ying are smart people. Naturally, they understand that what Li Shengyao said just now seems to be reasonable, but in fact, he rejects Yang Ying.

Both of them were sensible and immediately changed the subject without letting the atmosphere cool down.

Huang Xiaoming and Yang Ying chatted with Li Shengyao for a while, when Chen Kexin, who had been sitting next to them, finally moved.

"Director Li, I respect you."

Chen Kexin then stood up and poured tea for Li Shengyao.

During the period of "The Proposal", Chen Kexin was still very popular, until the box office of "Martial Arts" was only [-] billion, and it was revealed that the crew spent money indiscriminately.

An ordinary straw hat costs six thousand dollars.

It was only then that Chen Kexin was regarded as a vampire by many investors, and no one approached Chen Kexin to make a movie in a short period of time.

Even wealthy coal bosses or large Internet companies avoid Chen Kexin.

Only then did he realize that his reputation had been ruined.

He must make a reliable movie to restore his reputation, otherwise, he is likely to be abandoned by mainland capital.

Throughout August, he did not return to Hong Kong Island and had been active in the mainland. Unfortunately, no one paid attention to him.

Recently, there was news about "China Partners", which China Film and Fenghua invested together.

Chen Kexin heard the synopsis of the story and liked it very much. He felt that this movie had a promising future.

As for the three important characters in the film, China Film followed Lee Sheng Yew's suggestions.

Chen Kexin wanted to talk to Li Shengyao, hoping to get Li Shengyao's support.

Li Shengyao picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

To be honest, Chen Kexin looks quite like a traitor, and she looks like a translator for the Japanese.

Chen Kexin served him tea. He took a special look at it to make sure there was nothing wrong, and then picked up the tea cup.

He thought of Yang Ying's thoughts and felt that Chen Kexin most likely wanted to hug her.

Chen Kexin is naturally not a person with no ideas and no skin like Yang Ying.

He still has strength.

However, because of his past life, he didn't like Chen Kexin very much.

This person is a wandering director. He will praise wherever he can make money. Once he can't make money, he will leave immediately without any regrets.

"Director Li, I want to be the director of "Chinese Partner" and I hope to get your support."

Chen Kexin directly expressed her thoughts.

"If you support me, I am willing to make three movies for Fenghua."

This guy is lining his own pockets, and Li Shengyao is not willing to use him.

He doesn't need Chen Kexin to make a movie for him.

After all, Chen Kexin's subsequent movies may not be released.

"Director Chen, I'm sorry, I can't make a promise to you. "China Partner" is a film mainly produced by China Film Group Corporation, and I can't guarantee whether China Film Group Corporation will listen to my words."

In his previous life, "Chinese Partner" finally chose Chen Kexin as the director.

This decision is actually very good from a professional perspective.

After all, Chen Kexin is very good at filming such dramas that reflect the changes of the times. "Sweet Honey" and "A Tale of Two Cities" are his masterpieces.

This ability is very rare in the entire Chinese film and television industry, let alone Hong Kong.

If China Film Group seriously considers it, it might even choose Chen Kexin.

The reason why Li Shengyao refused was to put forward other conditions.

He doesn't want to invest in Chen Kexin's other movies.

In his previous life, after Chen Kexin directed "Chinese Partner", he produced "Dear". This movie received okay ratings but average box office.

Later movies produced by Chen Kexin, "Li Na" and "Win the Championship" were very popular, but one of them was not released and the other one had a bad reputation.

Li Shengyao felt that Chen Kexin looked calm and seemed to have a gentle personality.

In fact, this person is very impetuous and cannot bear to be wronged. If there is a problem, he will flee immediately.

Just like the controversy surrounding "Win the Championship", Chen Kexin later announced that he would make movies that the whole world can understand, not just movies that mainland audiences like. He also set up a studio to prepare film and television works for the world. We need to cooperate with Netflix.

This guy seems to be pissed off by the mainland audience.

As a result, after several years of tinkering, I defrauded countless investors of their money, and not a single work was produced.

In short, this is a very talented person, but he has no position.

Chen Kexin heard this and continued: "If you speak for me, China Film will definitely consider it. Director Li, please help me."

Li Shengyao heard this but did not answer.

Chen Kexin thought for a while and whispered: "If you are willing to help, I will leave an important role for Fenghua Artist in the next three movies."

Li Shengyao raised his head and glanced at Chen Kexin, "It must be a positive character."

"it is good."

Li Shengyao smiled and raised his teacup, "Director Chen, I believe you will succeed."

"Thank you, and please take good care of me."

Huang Xiaoming and Yang Ying had been sitting quietly nearby. Seeing that Li Shengyao and Chen Kexin had reached an agreement, they immediately joined in the celebration.

(End of this chapter)