director of the millennium

To be honest, the Golden Rooster awards are really easy to predict.

Not to mention Wu Yuan, an expert, even a layman, as long as he is a movie fan, will have a basic understanding of the nature of the Golden Rooster Award.

So when Wu Yuan said his guess, Liu Yifei was not surprised at all. She just nodded calmly and said, "I think so too."

Although she still had a glimmer of hope in her heart to "enjoy" the Best Actress award alone, the rational Liu Yifei knew that the result of this year's Golden Rooster Awards would most likely be as Wu Yuan said.

There is no way. The result that Wu Yuan mentioned is really too good. All aspects have been taken into consideration. The only thing that may not have been taken into consideration is the "academic school" that once monopolized the grand prize at the Golden Rooster Awards.

To be precise, it should be the "old pedant" school, because directors such as Wu Yuan, Wang Xiaoshuai, and Zhang Yimou are also from the academic school, but they are not necessarily favored by the Golden Rooster Awards.

"Now, those old-timers who once controlled the Golden Rooster's discourse power can no longer exert much influence on the Golden Rooster after the Golden Rooster reform."

"Now they only have the 'Five One Project' award to manipulate."

"This year's special award for the 'Five One Project' was given to 'Gutian Military Call.'" Liu Yifei chatted with Wu Yuan with a gossipy look on her face.

As an actor who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, Liu Yifei naturally has connections in the academy and is quite familiar with such matters in the circle.

"'Gutian Bugle' is actually quite good, but in this day and age, it is unrealistic to expect other films to give way and win the grand prize just because it talks about the main theme."

"We can't forget our revolutionary history, but films about revolutionary history should also keep pace with the times."

This topic cannot be discussed for long, Wu Yuan just said a few words and changed the subject: "Then The Wandering Earth and Operation Red Sea are both very well made, and can be regarded as new-style mainstream movies of the new era."

"Well, just like the American blockbusters in Hollywood, we can also make our own "American blockbusters" that can be popular and can subtly spread China's ideas and collective style."

"I think the future of Chinese-language films will depend on 'collectivism'. Hollywood has already reached the pinnacle of 'individualism'. We should find a new way to compete with Hollywood based on collectivism!"

“The next decade will be an era of competition between the east and west winds.”

Although movies are always claimed to be artistic creation and cultural industry, they have been inseparable from national development since their inception.

Only when a country is strong and has developed finance, can their cultural products be equally developed and even radiate across the world.

Just like Japan’s cultural industry developed rapidly during the bubble economy era, Japanese dramas, music and stars swept across Asia.

During the era of the Four Asian Tigers, Hong Kong dramas and Hong Kong stars also swept across Asia and even radiated to Europe and the United States.

By the beginning of 2000, South Korea had also joined the ranks of developed countries. Supported by the country's national strength, Korean dramas, idols, stars, and music gained countless fans from East Asia to Southeast Asia, and even counterattacked Europe and the United States.

On the surface, this appears to be the development of the cultural industry, but in fact, it is based on the confidence brought about by the economic take-off of each country.

Now this trend has finally come to China. As China has become the world's second largest economy, China's entertainment industry has also taken off, and the film industry has flourished and begun to have influence throughout Asia. Apart from other things, in the past three to five years, Chinese TV dramas have been extremely popular in Southeast Asia.

For example, some online drama actors may not even be considered first-tier in terms of popularity in China, but they are top-tier actors in Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. If they post a status on their Instagram accounts, the number of likes and comments will be several times more than that of domestic Weibo accounts, and all the comments and replies are from foreign fans.

Sites of platforms like Guangying Kuaibo, Penguin Video, and Qiyi Video have developed quite well in Southeast Asia, each with millions of users. A large number of mainland TV dramas are popular in Southeast Asia and other countries.

It mainly focuses on campus romance, urban romance, and ancient costume fantasy dramas.

It’s just that most ordinary people in mainland China don’t pay attention to these, so they don’t know how popular and popular these “ancient idol dramas” and “sweet dramas” that are looked down upon by many mainland audiences are in Southeast Asia. The popularity is comparable to the popularity of Korean dramas in China.

In comparison, Chinese films are not very popular in Southeast Asia.

But Wu Yuan is very optimistic about the future. He believes that as China's national strength strives to become the second and the first, Chinese films will sooner or later conquer Asia, especially the immature Southeast Asian market, and this time point will most likely be in the next ten years.

In the next ten years, Chinese films will compete fiercely with Hollywood films in Southeast Asia!

This is also the general direction of the future development of Light and Shadow Era. After all, the Japanese and Korean markets have already matured, and Southeast Asia is globally recognized as the next region for economic take-off after India. It has a vast market with great potential!

"In the next ten years, Light and Shadow Era will have to play the Southeast Asian strategy card well."

"The company's Xianxia movie universe has been released in Southeast Asia in recent years, and Guangying Kuaibo has also exclusively launched a streaming version, and the feedback in Southeast Asia is also good."

Wu Yuan was still chattering away, but Liu Yifei was totally uninterested in the commercial aspects of these movies. She half-closed her eyes and looked drowsy.

"Okay, let's stop talking about this and go to bed!"

A week later.

The 32nd China Golden Rooster Awards was successfully held in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China.

As expected by Wu Yuan, the Best Feature Film was won by "The Wandering Earth", the Best Director was given to "Operation Red Sea", and "Dying to Survive" also won the Best Director Debut.

The Best Actress award, which he was most concerned about, was indeed a double yolk egg again. Liu Yifei and Yongmei won the award together. The Best Actor award went to Wang Jingchun from "So Long, My Son". Yu Hewei also won the Best Supporting Actor for his role as Cao Cao in "Cai Wenji".

The cake was really divided equally, and everyone is almost happy. Those films that ultimately didn't win any awards couldn't say anything bad about it. After all, in terms of box office and artistic quality, those unsuccessful films really can't be compared with the four films mentioned above. Both inside and outside the circle tacitly agree that these four films divided this year's Golden Rooster Awards.

At the award ceremony, Liu Yifei shed tears again and gave a sincere and touching acceptance speech.

It's a pity that Wu Yuan, who was emphasized in her speech, did not come to watch the ceremony that night, but stayed in Beijing to do post-production editing of "Bruce Lee".

There is no other way. Time is tight and the task is heavy! (End of this chapter)