director of the millennium

Chapter 154 Persuading a conspiracy, the golden rooster ends

Chapter 154 Persuading a plan, the golden rooster ends
On the stage, Zhang Guorong held the golden rooster and was giving his acceptance speech excitedly.

Off the stage, separated by a few people, Wu Yuan exchanged glances with Zhang Yimou from the crew of "House of Flying Daggers" on the left, and sighed at the same time.

This year's Golden Rooster, the two big directors really came to be spectators.

no way.

"House of Flying Daggers" is a very thorough commercial film. The story structure is simple, but there are endless bugs. The only thing worth noting is the beautiful picture.

Although the plot of "Your Name" is quite good, the movie's reputation is also very good, and it made a lot of young people cry.

But this movie is naturally impossible to be liked by the golden rooster, and it is also the life to accompany it.

He and Zhang Yimou, an international director and the number one domestic director, can only sit in the audience and watch Zhang Guorong and Peng Xiaolian come to the stage to receive the best director. This scene is also quite ridiculous.

At least many viewers who are paying attention to this year's Golden Rooster Awards in front of the TV are really dissatisfied.

Many viewers who follow the Golden Rooster Awards come to see Zhang Yimou and Wu Yuan.

Both "House of Flying Daggers" and "Your Name" have a large number of fans, and Zhang Yimou and Wu Yuan have even more fans.

They don't care that these two movies are not good in the eyes of the judges, not good in that.

They only know that these two films are the box office champion and runner-up of this year. As a result, both films have failed to receive a single award.

Some angry netizens have already scolded on the Internet.

"What kind of bullshit Golden Rooster Award, you have eyes but no eyes. Which of these award-winning movies can compare with "House of Flying Daggers" and "Your Name"?"

"Both Zhang Yimou and Wu Yuan can't win the award, so what's the justice of this award?"

"Zhang Guorong is still very good, "If Love" is also good, but what kind of movie is "Beautiful Shanghai", I have never heard of it!"

"Beautiful Shanghai" is the main subject of criticism. 99% of netizens have never seen this movie and don't even know when it will be released.

From the director to the actors, they are all very unfamiliar to them, and they don't know any of them.

Fans don't care about whether it is artistic or not, and an award-winning movie that is not famous is not worthy of the name!

There was a lot of scolding on the Internet for a while.

Wu Yuan, who was watching the ceremony at the scene, certainly didn't know that he had become a "tragic" figure on the Internet.

He quietly changed seats with Luo Jin, sat on the edge of the "Your Name" crew, and waved to Zhang Yimou.

Director Yimou also immediately changed positions with Song Dandan from the crew of "House of Flying Daggers", and the two great directors got together.

"Director Yimou, it's not easy after returning from Athens, right?" Wu Yuan asked with concern.

Although more than half a month has passed since the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games, the accusations against Zhang Yimou by outside public opinion have not stopped.

Except for Zhang Yimou's die-hard fans, most of the public are very dissatisfied with him, thinking that he presented a failed and shameful 8 minutes in the capital at the Athens Olympics.

The voices of these responsibilities and abuse are overwhelming. If you want to compare it, it is similar to the whole Internet trolling after a certain star collapsed in the later generations.

To be honest, my psychological endurance is not the top one, so it is very difficult to survive.

"Just scold me." Zhang Yimou sighed, "It's because I didn't present a creative idea that satisfies the national audience, so I should be scolded."

Wu Yuan could tell that Zhang Yimou's tone was full of frustration, and this kind of emotion was rarely seen in him.

After hesitating for a while, Wu Yuan whispered, "Director Yimou, the Athens Olympics is a crime other than war."

"In the territory of foreigners, everything you want to do depends on their faces."

"The Beijing Olympics will be held in our own country, and the chief director can do the opening ceremony completely according to his own ideas."

"I believe that with your artistic level, you will definitely be able to bring a shocking audio-visual feast to the global audience."

Wu Yuan knew that after returning from Athens, Zhang Yimou was very negative about the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and even gave up running for the chief director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Zhang Yimou is now internationally renowned.

He doesn't need this opportunity to show off his talents.

Directing the Olympics is a gamble. If you are not careful, you will be cast aside by thousands of people and be infamy for eternity.

Having already made a mistake at the Athens Olympics and been spurned by millions of people, Zhang Yimou really doesn't want to gamble on this again.

"Didn't you and Kege form the bidding team for the Olympic opening ceremony?" Zhang Yimou frowned: "I have already failed once. Maybe you and Kege are more suitable to prepare for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games."

The 8 minutes of darkness in Athens dealt a huge blow to Zhang Yimou.

After thinking about it, Wu Yuan turned his head and looked at Zhang Yimou seriously, "Director Yimou, although Director Kege and I have formed a campaign team, I still hope that you can also go all out to compete for the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games. Chief Director."

"For us directors, we can make many movies in a lifetime."

"However, the opportunity to direct the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games may only come once in a lifetime."

"If you miss it, you will definitely regret it in the future."

Zhang Yimou's expression gradually became serious, he lowered his head slightly, and murmured: "But if I mess up again this time, it will be the lowest point in my life."

"Then don't screw it up!" Wu Yuan interrupted firmly.

Zhang Yimou fell into silent deep thought.

Until, the awarding speech sounded again on the stage.

"The winner of the Best Art Award at the 24th China Film Golden Rooster Awards is—"

"Huo Tingxiao's Flying Daggers!"

This year's Golden Rooster Awards still continued the boring, formal and boring domestic film awards ceremony.

Except for the opening dance, the award-giving guests came on stage to announce the winners. Then the winners came on stage to receive the award and gave a speech, which was repeated by the next person.

In the end, the two films "Beautiful Shanghai" and "If Love" became the biggest winners at this year's Golden Rooster Awards, winning the Best Actress Award and the Best Director Award respectively.

"Beautiful Shanghai" even won the Best Feature Film Award. This award is not easy to win twice.

The Best Actor of this year's Golden Rooster Award was won by Liu Ye. He defeated Chen Kun and Mr. Liu Wei and won the first Golden Rooster Best Actor in his life.

When accepting the award, Liu Ye took out the speech he had prepared when the movie "The Mountain, That Man, That Dog" was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award, and recounted the acceptance speech he had prepared five years ago.

In addition, "House of Flying Daggers" won the Best Art Award, and "Your Name" won the Best Cinematography Award. It can be regarded as two small cakes, at least they did not return empty-handed.

The worst thing is Director Feng's "Mobile Phone". This film was nominated for four awards: Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Female, Best Art and Best Cinematography.

The last two awards were awarded to Zhang Yimou and Wu Yuan by the jury, but the first two awards did not go to "Mobile".

Even for the Best Supporting Actress award, none of the four nominees came out to win!

Yes, the Golden Rooster Jury would rather choose not to give out the Best Supporting Actress Award this year, leave this award vacant, and not give it to Fan Binbin of "Mobile Phone"!
Even if, in order to win an award, Director Feng insisted on submitting the heroine as a supporting actress
It's no wonder that Director Feng wants to fall out with the Golden Rooster and bombard the Golden Rooster jury.

This is really bullying.
After the awards ceremony, all the guests moved backstage for interviews.As soon as Wu Yuan brought the actors of "Your Name" into the backstage, he heard Director Feng's loud bombardment.

"Is it really that hard to pick just one 'best'?"

"Is it really that difficult not to lay "double-yolked eggs"?"

"I really don't understand the thinking of the Golden Rooster judges. Best Director and Best Actress laid double-yolked eggs very happily. How come they can't even hold back one for a long time when it comes to Best Supporting Actress?"

"Isn't this bullying and discrimination?"

"This is an award that is completely opposed to the audience!"

"She is a middle-aged lady in menopause who always does things that are contrary to the public."

I really can't blame Director Feng, it would make everyone angry.

Director Feng originally did not want to participate in this year's Golden Rooster Awards. Back then, "Big Shot" and "A Sigh" signed up for the Golden Rooster Awards but failed to win, which already caused him to have conflicts with the Golden Rooster Awards.

If someone in the department hadn't come forward to persuade Director Feng to attend this year, and said that Zhang Yimou and Wu Yuan were both here, he really didn't want to come.

Unexpectedly, this person came or was tricked by the golden rooster.

When walking on the red carpet before, Golden Rooster judge Zhong Chengxiang blatantly said in front of the media that ""Mobile" is not high-end" and slapped Director Feng in the face.

How can such words be said in front of the media, what he represents is not himself, but the attitude of the entire Golden Rooster Awards towards movies.

This sentence was not in a good tone. Not only did it scold Director Feng, but it also directly offended all the viewers who had watched "Cell Phone" and liked this kind of popular movie.
Director Feng was holding back his anger, and if he didn't vent to reporters from all over the country backstage, he wouldn't be Director Feng.

In addition, the other half of the backstage is also very interesting. The actor and actress are being interviewed by reporters. One of them is laughing with joy, while the other is crying like a storm.

Liu Ye directly dialed the phone to announce the good news to his family. His mother was crying before she finished speaking, but when he heard her crying, he couldn't help crying too.

Zhou Xun was not so sentimental, he smiled so hard that he lost his eyesight, showed his teeth, and when he saw Wu Yuan coming in, he repeatedly stretched out his hand to beckon him over.

"Director Wu is here, interview him!"

"You have to ask the director about "Painted Skin", I don't know anything about it."

After finishing speaking, she stuffed the microphone in her hand into Wu Yuan's arms who came over.

The reporters hurriedly followed and surrounded Wu Yuan. This is also a topical character. It's not easy to interview him once.

"Director Wu, what do you think of tonight's Golden Rooster Awards?"

"What do you think of "Beautiful Shanghai", which won the Best Feature Film Award before it was released?"

"Your Name missed out on two awards and only won Best Cinematography. Do you regret that?"

"Come one by one." Wu Yuan gave Zhou Xun a helpless look, cleared his throat and said, "Tonight's Golden Rooster Award."

"I think there is still progress. Almost all the actresses put on evening gowns. It is no longer the serious atmosphere before, but has a bit of a party feel."

"However, it still lacks the unrestrained, lively and lively atmosphere that a movie event should have, and there is no trace of the festival-like atmosphere."

"Entering the new century, I think the Golden Rooster Awards should also follow the trend of the times and make some changes that are more in line with the times, instead of standing still."

"Fashion, popularity, and youth should be the goals of the Golden Rooster Awards in the next ten years."

"As for the movie "Beautiful Shanghai", because I haven't seen the content of the movie, I can't comment on it."

"In the end, "Your Name" missed the best director and best picture awards. I personally have no regrets. After all, this movie is originally a commercial movie. As long as the audience likes it, I think everything is enough and it is worth it. "

"In terms of awards for this movie, I don't have much pursuit."

"It's the movie "Love" that I have already made. This is an award-winning movie that I have carefully prepared. You can pay attention to this movie when the time comes."

Wu Yuan has never liked interviews very much, after answering these three questions, he also withdrew from the backstage interview area.

The other actors were still being interviewed, and Wu Yuan didn't intend to disturb them, and left the Golden Rooster backstage alone.

Tonight's Golden Rooster Awards, the protagonist is not him, but the crew of "Beautiful Shanghai" and "If Love", as well as director Feng who bombarded the Golden Rooster.

Outside, Wu Yuan met Zhang Yimou who also left the backstage early, and he was not in the mood for an interview today.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and walked out side by side.

"Director Wu, I've thought about it seriously. The Olympics is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It's a pity to give up like this."

Zhang Yimou said slowly in his usual soft voice: "Unfortunately, you have already formed a campaign team with Kai Ge, otherwise I would also like to invite you to join my campaign team."

"Among our Chinese directors, you are the one who understands the preferences of foreigners best, and also the one who understands new film technologies the most. I can't play with those dazzling special effects in Hollywood."

"But I want to use some modern technology, especially visual effects, at the opening ceremony to bring some sense of technology to the global audience."

"You know, many foreigners still think that we Chinese have braids behind our backs, or our impression of us is still in the 70s and [-]s."

"We must take advantage of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games to let foreigners see that China has also stepped into modernization and is an advanced modern country."

"It requires a lot of visual effects on stage, and that's what you're best at."

"I've seen "Pirates of the Caribbean" and it's really well shot, and the special effects look very realistic."

Wu Yuan opened his mouth, wanted to explain but couldn't explain, he couldn't say that he didn't get involved in the special effects work of "Pirates of the Caribbean" from the beginning to the end, it was all Jerry's job to keep an eye on.
And to put it bluntly, Wu Yuan is definitely the one who knows the most about film special effects, visual special effects, and picture special effects technology among all Chinese directors now.

Because he has a pair of eyes to see through the development of special effects technology in the next 20 years, and he has personally experienced and felt it.

Director Yimou's words are not wrong.

"What a pity." Director Yimou sighed again.

Wu Yuan shrugged his shoulders, it's not yet the time to sigh, he said with a smile: "Director Yimou, it's not like you to sigh."

"If you really run for the chief director of the Olympic opening ceremony, as long as you ask, I will definitely help you."

"Let's talk about these things at a later time. It's too early to talk about it now."

"Come on, let's go eat something, I haven't eaten all day, I'm starving to death."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and the atmosphere became lighter. Director Yimou nodded and patted Wu Yuan on the shoulder: "You are right, it is too early to say this now."

"It's more important to fill your stomach first."

 I have received everyone's criticisms about the plot of the Olympics.

  I am reviewing and reflecting. Newcomers always have to grow through setbacks.

  If you don't have the ability to dig a hole and lay the groundwork, don't engage in this kind of plot. It is indeed my problem.

  Will pay attention next time.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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