You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 691 ① Best Film ② King Power: Die or Die ③ Debt of Favor ④ The Secret of the Golden Bamboo Trophy

You Benchang was born in 1933, and he should be the oldest person here tonight.

He graduated from the Shanghai Theatre Academy, and Liao Fan and Xu Zheng are both his junior fellow students.

After that, he worked in Jinling, appeared on the Spring Festival Gala in 84, and played Jigong in 85, which made him known to the world.

Apart from Jigong, he has never starred in any big-name dramas and is a very low-key person. "Not competing" is his life creed.

If Wang Quan had not invited him to star in the "Xiao Yao You" series, he would have probably remained low-key until he passed away one day, and then caused an overwhelming commemoration from the 8090s and s groups for a limited time of one day, and then no one would remember him.

It was also because of "Xiao Yao You" that he was later invited by director Zhang Yimou, and even Wong Kar-wai invited him to film.

Actually, Zhang Yimou originally wanted to find his old partner Li Baotian, but that person had a capricious personality and couldn't get along with Zhang Yimou after a few words. Then Zhang Yimou got angry and found the older You Benchang, which led to this classic about humans and animals.

I didn't expect that after not competing for so many years, now that I'm old, I would actually win the title of Best Actor at the first Golden Bamboo Awards from several young people who need more recognition.

So after he came on stage, the old man first expressed his apologies to several young candidates, "We Chinese have always been very particular about respecting the elderly and loving the young. I am old enough, but unfortunately you are not young enough. So thanks to the judges' favor, this award fell on my head. I am really ashamed. I am already this old, and this award is of little use to me. What should I do with it? Who can I form a group of four old students with? Where can I find three old men of similar age?"

Xu Zheng, Liao Fan and others clapped and smiled politely. Jiang Wen on the stage and Wang Quan and Fan Wei in the audience were laughing happily.

The audiences in front of the TV and on the Internet exclaimed that he was worthy of being called Jigong, and it sounded like Jigong would say these words.

Some younger friends were not familiar with him, but they instantly fell in love with the old man when they saw his humorous remarks.

I heard that the old man also has a Douyin account and is very active, so I went to follow him.

The first video pinned to the old man’s Douyin account was a recommendation of the prototype character of “A One Man’s Zoo” to help him attract traffic.

Now there is only one award left, Best Film. Zhang Guoli and Lin Zhiling seemed reluctant to see the show end too early. They said a lot during their guest appearance, which even made people feel a little nagging.

It was not until a confirming voice came from Zhang Guoli's headset that he invited the award presenter.

Two international superstars, Jackie Chan and Leonardo DiCaprio, walked up to the podium together, and the audience applauded and cheered loudly. This scene was also discussed on the Internet at home and abroad.

Even though there are Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman in front of them, their international influence cannot be compared with Cheng Long, not to mention Leonardo DiCaprio, who has many famous works in film history.

Just now, Leo got lost, but he was finally found in time. Wang Quan was already prepared to let Dorothy present the awards on behalf of Leo and Jackie Chan.

Leo didn't seem to be embarrassed at all. Although he had gained some weight like Jay Chou, he was once handsome and looked confident.

He had headphones on his ears, and Cheng Long spoke Chinese, with simultaneous interpretation provided by people backstage.

However, when he spoke English, Cheng Long had to help him translate it briefly for the audience.

Cheng Long asked him a question, "How many of the nine nominated films have you watched?"

When Cheng Long asked this question, the camera immediately turned to the directors of several shortlisted works in the audience. Except for Wang Quan, everyone was looking forward to hearing the name of their work.

In fact, Leo has only watched "Easy Journey 2", but saying that directly is a bit disrespectful.

So he said: "It is true that I haven't watched all of them, but I think they must be excellent works to be selected from so many works by this award, so I will watch them one by one after the award ceremony. Of course, it would be best if they have English subtitles."

This answer was very appropriate. After that, Leo made another advertisement, saying that the re-released version of "Inception" will be released next Friday.

Wang Quan has said before that now, with Leo doing it again, it has greatly deepened the audience's impression. Wang Quan does not want to invest too much publicity and promotion funds in an old film. These plus some ground publicity will be enough.

Then, highlights from the nine shortlisted works were shown in turn.

There are pure commercial films such as "Operation Red Sea", "Happy Journey" and "Wushuang", as well as pure art films such as "Ash Is Purest White", "Killed a Sheep" and "The Last Night on Earth", the commercially very successful art film "A Man's Zoo", and "Dying to Survive" and "Nobody" which are considered to be somewhat literary and sentimental.

There are nine films in total. Bi Gan feels that as a newcomer, it is already a victory for him if his works can be discussed together with those of the big names.

However, he was cheated by the producers. They made the money, but he had to bear the blame. He doesn't even have the investment for his next movie.

So he couldn't help but imagine that if he won this award, it would be easier to attract investment.

But he was obviously disappointed. In the end, Cheng Long uttered the five words "I am not the God of Medicine", and movie fans and netizens across the country finally put their hearts at ease.

Most people probably think that the best film of the year is "Dying to Survive", even the higher-grossing "Happy Journey 2" and "Nezha: The Devil Boy" cannot compare to it.

But this annual masterpiece only won two awards, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay, but the male lead and the director didn't win any, which makes people sweat.

Now, the Golden Bamboo Award is off to a good start. If there is a work of this level winning the award every year, then there is no need to worry about the popularity of Chinese-language films!

At this moment, the entire Internet is flooded with these four words: Well-deserved!
“Next, please invite all the members of ‘Dying to Survive’ to come on stage!”

In addition to director Wen Muye, screenwriter Han Jianu, male lead Xu Zheng, female lead Tan Zhuo, supporting male actors Wang Chuanjun, Zhang Yu, and Zhou Yiwei, producer Wang Quan and producer Yu Feihong also went on stage to accept applause and congratulations from the audience.

However, Wang Quan did not speak, Wen Muye spoke first.

Wen Muye first thanked Wang Quan: "I worked as an assistant director for Director Wang Quan for a period of time. I benefited a lot from the experience of working in a mature and efficient crew, so I wanted to learn from him for a few more years. But one day he told me that he felt I could make a movie on my own, but I was really trembling with fear at the time and didn't know where to start. Later he said he would be my producer, and he also found Teacher Xu Zheng to co-produce, and he would become my male lead. Only then did I feel completely at ease..."

There were also several young directors in the audience, such as Shen Ao and Dong Yue. They all envied Wen Muye. Their debut works did not have such strong support from Wang Quan, and at most they were just nominal producers.

Wen Muye still had time, so he asked Xu Zheng to say a few words. He affirmed from a high vantage point that this Golden Bamboo Award was a successful and mature award ceremony, an award ceremony that he would never forget and one that he would want to attend every year in the future.

Since last year, his own Golden Horse Award for Best Actor is no longer worth much. From now on, in the Chinese-language film world, the Golden Bamboo Award is the most valuable. So if you want to be the leader of the six major Chinese films, you have to win both box office awards.

The box office is no longer a challenge for me, so I will work hard to win the Golden Bamboo Award in the future!

There will also be a 2019 Chinese-language new film promotion conference later.

Wang Dao's "Ghost Blows Out the Light 4", "The Wandering Earth", "Journey to the West: The Monkey King", "The Captain" and "Happy Journey 3" are all key projects.

There are also "The Climbers", "Better Days", "Galaxy Tutorial" and "The King's Avatar" from sister companies.

As well as other companies' such as "My People, My Country", "The Eight Hundred", "Ip Man 4" and so on.

It seems that Wangdao produces the most blockbusters and in a richer variety, while the software and hardware of other companies are still far behind.

At this point, the more than three-hour award ceremony came to an end, and fireworks began to be set off in the sky above the Dome Theater to celebrate the successful conclusion of the Golden Bamboo Awards. On this day, the visitors of Longtoutai Park who bought low-priced tickets enjoyed a gorgeous fireworks show up close for free. Afterwards, the guests in the audience left in an orderly manner, and the award-winning filmmakers began to take a group photo on the stage, holding the Golden Bamboo in their hands and smiling.

At this time, six of the top ten hot searches on Weibo are about the "Golden Bamboo Award".

In the entertainment list, except for the death of Liu Jiang, the boss of Fashion Group, the rest of the top 20 were all about the Golden Bamboo Awards and the guests attending the event.

Fashion Group is the parent company of Harper's Bazaar.

After the photo shoot, there was a Golden Bamboo Dinner. Except for the movie emperor Mr. You, most people stayed. After all, this was a very rare social occasion.

Many domestic artists want to take the opportunity to meet international stars, so even if it is already 12 o'clock, these male and female stars who pay attention to their looks still have no intention of going to bed.

However, the foreigners were just visiting as friendly guests. After they were done with their work, they returned to the hotel. Some even went straight to the airport to return home.

Only Jiaduo and Xiao K stayed out of family affection rather than friendship, but they basically talked to sisters like Liu Yifei and Yang Mi.

Yang Mi also pointed to a female celebrity passing by and introduced her to Gadot, saying that this person had a close relationship with Lao Quan.

Old Wang acted like a master, helping his missing son to greet heroes from all over the place.

People like Taylor Swift, Nicole, and Charlize Theron have already returned to the hotel.

After returning home, he took a shower first, and then looked at the time to see whose room he came to first.

Wang Quan decided to leave the tough battle for later.

So he knocked on Son Ye-jin's room first.

But I didn't expect that there was a big Japanese and Korean gathering in this room. In addition to Yoona, Ayase Haruka, Aragaki Yui, and Nagasawa Masami were also there!
Wang Quan shook his head and closed the door. Just die!

China-Japan friendship relies on South Korea, and China-South Korea friendship relies on Japan.

Wang Quan used this principle to use Son Ye-jin and Yoona to attack Yui and the others, and in turn used Yui and the other two to deal with Son Ye-jin.

In the end, everyone was satisfied, but Wang Quan had conserved his strength well.

It was already late at night. Wang Quan checked the online status on Twitter and found that Lily Collins was still online.

Okay, you're next.

~
At this time, Gao Yuanyuan and Jia Jingwen had already returned home. Gao Yuanyuan was still excited and told Jia Jingwen what Wang Quan had said before, asking her to focus on local films and take the opportunity to win a Golden Horse Award for Best Actress or something.

Jia Jingwen listened to it, but she was still thinking, wouldn’t it be better if her Taiwanese movie could be released in mainland China and if she could win the Golden Bamboo Award!
"By the way, Yuanyuan, have you been in a relationship recently?"

"No~"

"No?" Jia Jingwen narrowed her eyes. "You seem to be emitting damn charm anytime and anywhere, like a woman in love."

"Could it be that you are wrong?"

Jia Jingwen: "Then what about the fun things in your house? Sorry, I didn't mean to take the initiative to look at them. It's just that you just happened to wash them and hang them on the balcony, and I happened to see them."

Gao Yuanyuan's face suddenly turned red. After hesitating for a long time, she finally said, "Actually, it's not really a relationship. I'm just a regular sex partner."

“How fixed?”

"He's the one for me in this life!"

"He has a family?" Jia Jingwen couldn't help but guess. It was obvious that he only wanted to enjoy himself and didn't want to take responsibility.

"No, okay, let's not talk about this anymore. How about I let you use my little props when I get home?"

"I don't want to~" Jia Jingwen sneered, but couldn't help thinking how fatally attractive Gao Yuanyuan would be to men with the help of those props.

Facing such a Gao Yuanyuan, he actually refused to take responsibility. He thought he was the richest man in China!

Wait, the richest man in China!
Jia Jingwen suddenly felt like she had found the answer!

~
After soothing Lily to sleep, Wang Quan looked at his phone and found a message from Taylor Swift, who said she would leave at dawn and was packing her luggage.

Wang Quan felt soft-hearted, so he walked ten steps out of the door, knocked on the door, went in, and was squeezed by her again.

This time the kingship was passive.

Taylor Swift left cleanly and without any delay, and Wang Quan went to sleep in her room.

After sleeping for about four hours, Wang Quan felt that he had almost recovered, and began to repay his debts again.

The debt of favor is the hardest to repay.

Fortunately, some people were not in a hurry to leave, so he didn't need to pay it back within a day.

After paying off the foreign ones, he still has to pay off the domestic ones. Many of them are obviously very famous, but they were dragged to the Golden Bamboo Awards to be a background board. They were not nominated, did not receive awards, or perform.

Of course, they were all paying off debts, Zhang Jingchu was a reward, and Wan Qian was compensation.

Wang Quan specially called the two of them together and asked Zhang Jingchu to bring the Golden Bamboo Award over.

Wan Qian caressed the golden bamboo trophy lovingly, she wanted it so much!
Wang Quan had already told them some details of the final selection and awards. It turned out that he was just missing out by a tiny bit. It was such a pity. If he had made a few more phone calls, the result might have been different. He might never have such an opportunity again.

Wang Quan also told them a little secret, "Do you know that the two bamboos of the Golden Bamboo Award are 20cm long? What is the meaning of this?"

Zhang Jingchu thought about it, "Could it be a symbol that movies were born in the 20th century?"

Wang Quan: “To be precise, it should be the end of the 19th century.”

Wan Qian's eyes suddenly lit up, and she gestured to the bamboo of the Golden Bamboo Award, and then looked at Wang Quan's waist and below...

(End of this chapter)