Become famous another day.

As the artistic director of the Netherlands-Spain Film Festival, Wu Yang is warmly received by the local film community no matter which country he visits.

There are many social occasions where even if you don't want to attend, you have to attend because you can't refuse the invitation.

For this reason, Wu Yang has had very few public schedules since then.

Many public figures are like this.

Unless it is some itinerary that must be made public - it has a specific meaning and needs to be shown to the public.

This time, coming to China to attend the International Film Critics Film Festival is such an itinerary.

But it's different.

Because this film festival itself is open to the public on a small scale.

After learning that Lu Yanhe and his girlfriend Chen Siqi were organizing this film festival together, Wu Yang admired their courage.

Because of the existence of film critics as a group in the film industry, it has a very special significance.

Without them, the film industry would not be affected. But without them, it is unknown whether the film concept would still be what it is today in the social sense.

All works are subject to interpretation.

Painting, literature, music and other arts can reach the audience directly. However, without a "final" interpretation or "endless" controversy, it cannot cross the torrent of time and reach a more distant audience.

If movies want to cross the distance of time and space and reach more distant audiences, film critics are an inevitable part of it. In a broader sense, everyone who discusses movies is a film critic.

However, it is very rare around the world to host a film festival with the film critics as the host, as Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi do.

Film critics have always been supporting characters in the world of movies.

However, as the helmsman of one of the four major international film festivals, Wu Yang actually appreciates their move.

In today's international film festival landscape, major film festivals have occupied almost every time period.

It is difficult to hold a film festival in the conventional sense, because no matter when you hold it, there is already a successful film festival, which has attracted more famous films and filmmakers at that time.

The competitive pressure is huge and the probability of success is extremely low.

The International Film Festival of Film Critics is a different kind of event.

It will not become a competitor to mainstream film festivals; on the contrary, it will attract helmsmen like Wu Yang to participate.

Its purpose is not to create a film festival that surpasses anyone else, but to fill a blank position in the current film festival landscape.

Moreover, it was a novelty organized by two young people.

In the film industry, young people and new things never go out of style and are always popular.

So, Wu Yang came.

As the most friendly to Chinese-language films among the four major international film festivals, the Jose Antonio Las Vegas Film Festival has always been one of the film festivals that Chinese-language films are most willing to attend.

Wu Yang is coming to China, and dozens of people, including movie company owners, producers, directors, actors, etc., hope to make an appointment with him and meet him. It is impossible for Wu Yang to refuse all of them. Interpersonal relationships are not just a "patent" of the Chinese.

On the day he arrived in China, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi went to the airport to pick him up.

Wu Yang only brought one assistant with him.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi actually have seven or eight people on their side.

This time, Linyu accompanied Wu Yang throughout the trip and served as his accompanying translator. Although Wu Yang could speak Chinese, it was limited to basic communication, so Linyu was arranged to accompany him throughout the trip to avoid some misunderstandings in communication.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi first sent him to the hot spring hotel.

"During the film festival, this hotel will only receive official guests of the festival. Non-related personnel are not allowed to come in. So, if you want, you can take a hot spring bath or get a massage during your rest time. The hotel provides these services." Lu Yanhe introduced to Wu Yang.

Wu Yang nodded.

This hot spring hotel is not very luxurious, and it is even a level lower than the official hotels of the four major international film festivals. This is not a "luxury hotel" route, but a "simple, comfortable and cheap" resort hotel style.

The overall style is actually a bit similar to the small villa where Lu Yanhe lived when he was filming in Malaysia.

This style complements the positioning of the film festival itself.

"Your arrangements are very considerate." Wu Yang said to Lu Yanhe, "Thank you for your hard work."

In the evening, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi arranged a dinner for more than a dozen people.

Wang Zhong, Shang Yongzhou, Chen Bige, Liu Bige, Zhang Ruozhi, Jia Long, Wan Xin and others all came.

Huang Kairen, Li Songfan and Wang Jing are unable to come tonight because they are all on a play or have work arrangements already.

In addition to these Chinese filmmakers that Wu Yang knew, Lu Yanhe also invited Alex Lam of Northern Lights Video and Mr. and Mrs. Huang of Longyan Pictures.

Apart from these people, the rest are Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi's own people.

Such a dinner is between public and private. With so many big stars appearing in one place at the same time, paparazzi will naturally take photos. The privacy of the dining place is relatively good, and the paparazzi only took photos of them getting in and out of the car and entering and leaving the restaurant.

Still, the photos caused an uproar.

With the exception of Ning Xiu Lian, who won the Best Actress Award at the Venice International Film Festival, it can be said that several of the most internationally-renowned figures in Chinese cinema in recent years are all here.

It was the concentrated release of these photos that suddenly made everyone realize one thing:

In recent years, most Chinese-language films that have gained international attention seem to be related to Lu Yanhe.

The layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

There are more than one film company in China. However, only the boss of Longyan company was invited to attend the dinner organized by Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi to welcome Wu Yang.

At this moment, everyone was not even blaming Lu Yanhe for abandoning them, but questioning their subordinates why they did not receive the news of the dinner in advance so that they could get the invitation in advance.

That’s the artistic director of the Jose Film Festival!

For a film company, that is the person in power who gilds their own films.

Even if you cannot enter the main competition unit, there are other units that can be gilded with the title of "International Film Festival".
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With Wu Yang's arrival, the film festival officially opened.

The opening ceremony of the film festival was held in the auditorium of Zhenhua University.

Of course Yuming also has a theater, which is a more suitable place for the opening.

However, that kind of solemn and ceremonial place is not very suitable for the positioning and style of this film festival.

On the contrary, this atmosphere is more suitable for an auditorium on a university campus.

Moreover, because of Lu Yanhe, Zhenhua University also provided support in this regard, whether it was the venue or the organization of volunteers, which allowed Lu Yanhe to worry less.

There were no speeches by officials and no elaborate and grand ceremonies.

After Lu Yanhe, as the planner, welcomed everyone, Chen Siqi briefly introduced why such a film festival was held, praised the film critics in the audience, talked about several examples of the profound influence that film critics have had on film works, and finally raised the issue to deepen the "meaning" of the "discussion" to the art of film itself.

Afterwards, everyone started watching the opening film of the film festival together.
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That evening, many international film media released reports on the Jumping Critics International Film Festival.

If you look closely, you will find that the media that published this report are basically the media that have their own cooperative film critics or column film critics attending this film festival.

Wu Yang's attendance also gave the film festival a golden luster, making it impossible for those who were jealous or unhappy for various reasons to say that this was a makeshift film festival.

Of course, anyone who wants to find fault can do so no matter what.

Just like the Japanese film critic Nagayama Kazo, who had a grudge against Lu Yanhe, directly ridiculed Lu Yanhe on his social media, saying that he had never seen an actor try to please a film critic so openly.

Such accusations certainly caused Lu Yanhe to fall into some controversy.

Some media also published Yongshan Hesan's criticism and contacted Lu Yanhe to get his response.

Lu Yanhe’s media liaison is still handled by Chen Ziyan herself.

Chen Ziyan: "People who truly love film art will not think in such a utilitarian way about such a move that can make a film more widely noticed and respected. Yan He has been a darling of film critics since his first film. He never needs to flatter them."

In fact, Chen Ziyan didn't want to reply.

The reply will become fodder for further reporting by major media outlets, making the incident even more hyped.

However, I have to respond to Yongshan Hesan's accusations. If I don't respond, it would be like I have acquiesced and that he was right.

Chen Ziyan thought about it and felt that she couldn't just swallow this loss in silence.

In particular, we must not let Yongshan Hesan get any advantage in this matter. Otherwise, if he gets the advantage this time, we don’t know what nonsense he will say next time.

His impartiality as a film critic has been discredited by everyone because of previous events.

The negative scandals surrounding him now far outweigh his professionalism.

Therefore, he doesn't need to worry about tarnishing his reputation when he speaks. With the broken jar thrown into the mix, who knows what more shameless things he will do.

Chen Ziyan is not optimistic about Yongshan Hesan's character.

Chen Ziyan thought about it for a while and figured out what to do.

As for things like martial ethics, she didn't even consider them.

Yongshan Hesan's behavior was already shameless, so of course she would not talk about martial ethics with Yongshan Hesan.
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Chen Ziyan did nothing but find a connection and, through a friend, make a special report on the disgusting things that Yongshan Hesan had done in the past in a program. About eight minutes into the report, at the end of the report, the host asked: How could Yongshan Hesan, a man who had long lost the bottom line as a film critic, have the confidence to question Lu Yanhe?
Then, Chen Ziyan asked someone to translate the program into Japanese, and promoted it locally through her connections in Japan.

How can one make what a person says have no credibility?

One way is to find evidence that these words are lies.

Another way is to find out what this person has said in the past to prove that his past words and deeds have long lost all credibility.

Chen Ziyan adopted the latter method.

Let Yongshan Hesan's already stinky reputation start to stink again, reminding people how stinky he is.

Nagayama Kazuzo has a bad reputation in the Japanese critic circle.

He is one of the very few film critics who has been openly banned from several international film festivals.

Japanese film critics believe that he has tarnished the reputation of the entire Japanese film criticism community.

Now, Yongshan Hesan is criticizing again and was counterattacked by Chen Ziyan, so the matter has become quite hot.

Immediately, other Japanese film critics stood up to criticize Nagayama Kawazo and distanced themselves from him.

These actions of drawing a line in the sand will not bring substantial damage to Yongshan Hesan - he has long been expelled from the mainstream circle. However, such scandal publicity can bring him a lot of unexpected troubles, both in work and in daily life.

So far, Yongshan Hesan has no other identity besides being a film critic. He makes a living by his reputation. He wants to create an image of himself as someone who "dares to speak the truth". What Chen Ziyan wants to do is to make his image of "daring to speak the truth" expose the truth of "personal revenge".

The more profound the impression of his "personal revenge" left on the entire environment, the less harmful his attack on Lu Yanhe would be.

As for making Yongshan He San dare not offend Lu Yanhe again.

Chen Ziyan didn't have such an idea at all. Because she knew it was difficult, she could only let him suffer enough, so that when Yongshan Hesan had such an idea again, he would think about the consequences of his doing so. Maybe this would make Yongshan Hesan behave less meanly.

Chen Ziyan even thought about whether she should just find some connections in Japan and ask someone to warn and threaten Yongshan Hesan so that he would never dare to cause trouble for Lu Yanhe again.

After thinking it over again and again, Chen Ziyan gave up the idea.

Now Lu Yanhe is upright and has nothing to fear. If she has found that kind of relationship and is exposed, it will become a stain on Lu Yanhe that cannot be wiped away. Especially, Lu Yanhe is a Chinese artist, a high-quality idol who graduated from Zhenhua University.

His image must be clean and stay away from things in the gray or even black areas.

Chen Ziyan was still a little unhappy that she couldn't teach Yongshan Hesan a lesson.
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Lu Yanhe did not participate in all the activities at the film festival.

Apart from accompanying the guests throughout the opening ceremony, he only participated in social activities and did not take part in the discussion.

He does have a need to avoid suspicion.

Even though this film festival does not have an awards session and will not be competing for first, second, third or fourth place, but after all, it involves evaluation, and his identity is not suitable for participating in such a session.

Lu Yanhe himself did not respond to the movements of Yongshan Hesan.

Responding would be cheap.

An official response is enough.

However, because this film festival was very academic in nature and lacked the attendance of stars and celebrities, it was inevitable that it did not have much influence and attention.

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Throughout the entire film festival, the most watched event was actually Yongshan Hesan accusing Lu Yanhe.

Fortunately, several domestic film media are still quite powerful.

Even though the public attention was not very high, they still followed every movie screening and subsequent activities with great responsibility.

In particular, CCTV's film channel and Linyu's commentary program on Yuehu TV will set aside a certain amount of time every day to talk about the film festival.

For the group of people who really pay attention to the movie, they are still quite excited.

Because it is really rare to see so many internationally renowned film critics gather together to evaluate and discuss a movie at the same time, and even engage in tit-for-tat scenes.

In particular, many students from film schools got tickets and were able to attend the event to hear their debate and even get the chance to ask questions. They shared all of this on their social media afterwards and were in a very excited mood.
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"But it's a bit strange. With Lu Yanhe's connections in the entertainment industry, it would be easy for him to invite some celebrities to the film festival to boost its popularity. He has gathered so many people for a private gathering before."

"That's because the person entertaining us is Wu Yang, the artistic director of the Jose-La Roche Film Festival. How can it be the same? This kind of film festival sounds good, with the name of an international film festival, but in fact it just invites film critics who are not taken seriously by first-tier film festivals to hold a serious meeting. Who would pay attention to it?"

"Lu Yanhe wants to be the leader of Chinese-language films and has great ambitions."

"If he doesn't do it, who else can? To be honest, half of the international influence of Chinese-language films in recent years has something to do with Lu Yanhe."

"What you said, then where do you put Chen Pinhe, Shang Yongzhou and others?"

"I didn't say they were bad, but they haven't acted in many films in recent years, and even fewer have won awards at overseas film festivals. For example, Chen Pinhe's film White Pearl almost won an award, but in the end it didn't."

"I just feel that although Lu Yanhe has done a good job in recent years, his movies, except for Wang Zhong's "Three Mountains", are all small love stories, "Rouge Button", "Late Spring", and "Love Letter". I just don't like these movies. There are no real epic movies."

"You are too narrow-minded. How old is Lu Yanhe? Do you expect him to make an epic blockbuster in his twenties? If you can still find fault with him for achieving such success at his age, I think there is no one else in the world you can admire."

"Of course I don't mean that. I just don't like people like him who do everything perfectly. It's too fake. He has good grades, got into Zhenhua, has good acting skills, won awards early, is internationally famous, and can write and direct. He has such talent, OK, it's a gift, and I have nothing to be jealous of. But look at his path, he worked in magazines, got involved in the media, built a media empire, made his name shine, and now he's doing this kind of film critic film festival. He's too comprehensive, and doesn't seem like a real person."

"I give in, brother. You can even criticize me for this."

"Then why don't you criticize him for being able to write his own songs? Although he doesn't take songwriting as his main job, the songs he wrote are very popular and well-known."

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The result of this argument was something Lu Yanhe never expected, that several people started fighting because of the argument about him.

While fighting, these people kept insisting on their own opinions and refuting each other's opinions.

Someone at the scene filmed the entire process and posted the video online.

"It's an unexpected disaster." Chen Ziyan was helpless.

Lu Yanhe himself didn't know what to say.

Chen Ziyan: "I also didn't expect that there would be people fighting over different opinions about celebrities."

Lu Yanhe: "Why do I feel like I've been offended recently? First there was Yongshan Hesan, and then this kind of thing happened."

"This incident doesn't have any negative impact on you, but the content of their argument is likely to cause controversy on the Internet. I'm worried that this will turn into a public opinion war." Chen Ziyan said, "You have to try to suppress the heat and don't let others lead the trend. Once someone leads the trend and says that you are the leader of Chinese-language films, some older generations will definitely be dissatisfied."

Lu Yanhe nodded: "I understand."

The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it.

Lu Yanhe’s previous achievements were already high-profile enough.

If we try to establish a "high-profile" image in these areas, many people will be dissatisfied.
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"You see, we have worked so hard for so many years, but our contribution to this industry is not as great as that of a young person who has only worked for a few years."

At a private party, actor Lan Yuan said to others in a joking tone.

Huang Lian, Chairman of the Golden Tripod Awards Executive Committee, was also at the party.

He smiled and said, "Fortunately, it seems that our drama production is doing better. At least so far, Lu Yanhe's drama has not won any international awards. Otherwise, we would probably be ridiculed."

"Those people on the Internet always say bad things, and they don't understand this industry." Liu Teli, who won the Best Actor Award for "Which is the best actor?", was also there. He looked at everyone and said, "It's not easy for our Chinese film and television industry to have an actor like Yan He. He is a creator who can act, write, direct and do everything. He is indeed a genius that is hard to replicate."

Huang Lian smiled and looked at Liu Teli: "Teli really values ​​talent."

Liu Teli smiled and said, "I dare not say such words as cherishing talent. It is not my turn to cherish talent."

"He is too arrogant," Lan Yuan said. "It is a good thing that they hold this film critics' festival, and we support it. But I heard that he rejected many people who were willing to show their support and participate in some dialogue and exchange activities."

"Refuse? Why?"

"Yeah, I don't know why either." Lan Yuan shook his head. "Everyone wants to help him and offers to help, so why doesn't he appreciate it?"

"Why else? He must be afraid that we will steal his connections." Another slightly younger man, about 35 years old, smiled sarcastically, "Isn't it because he is so popular overseas that he has become the leader of our Chinese-language film industry?"

"Western worship."

Liu Teli frowned slightly.

There are many private gatherings like today's.

Of course, such private gatherings are usually held in the circle of old-timers like them who have been in the circle for many years.

When he came here today, he thought it would just be a small gathering like any other.

But as the discussion unfolded, he vaguely felt that the wind direction in the room seemed a little off today.

He had met and dealt with the young man Lu Yanhe before.

Liu Teli really admired it, and it was from the bottom of his heart.

He himself is an actor, and he knows one thing: it is not easy to find a talented actor like Lu Yanhe, and it is even rarer to have the luck to get to where he is today like him.

It is no exaggeration to say that such a person is a treasure of the entire Chinese film and television industry.

He really has the mentality of an elder looking at a younger person, and hopes that he can grow up smoothly.

As for those voices on the Internet, Liu Teli doesn't take them seriously at all.

Sowing discord, making trouble out of nothing, and over-praising, there have been too many such operations in recent years.

Liu Teli thought, we are all veterans in this field, we have seen everything, how can we be easily provoked by such voices?
"Director Luo, it feels like someone is trying to marginalize Xiao Lu."

Privately, Liu Teli thought about it again and again and decided to call Luo Yuzhong.

He has no personal relationship with Lu Yanhe, but he has been friends with Luo Yuzhong for many years.

Luo Yuzhong is also Lu Yanhe's teacher.

After hearing Liu Teli's words, Luo Yuzhong sighed.

"Knew it."

"Have you known this a long time ago?" Liu Teli asked in surprise.

Luo Yuzhong: "During this period, several people have come to me and told me similar things. This should be the sequelae of the Blue Ribbon incident at the beginning of this year."

"Oh!" Liu Teli reacted.

"Huang Lian and the people behind him probably want to exclude Yan He from this year's Golden Tripod Awards," said Luo Yuzhong.

Liu Teli asked: "Besides "Friends", does Yan He have any other works included in this year's selection?"

Luo Yuzhong said: "It's Friends. In fact, there have always been voices in the industry saying that Friends, Friends, and My Own Swordsman, these sitcoms have a very large mass base and are well-made, but because of the subject matter, they have never been favored by mainstream awards. Many people have long called for mainstream awards to take sitcoms seriously."

Liu Teli thought for a moment and said, "I have indeed heard such a statement, but it has been a tradition for many years that sitcoms have not been taken seriously. Did they want to reform it this year?"

"I heard that the General Administration has such a policy direction. They attach great importance to the drama "Friends". Together with the previous "Friends", this drama has a wide range of dissemination overseas and has a large audience. The most commendable thing is that after watching this drama, many overseas audiences have truly understood the living and working environment of young people in China today, which has refuted the smear campaign of some Western media against China. The higher-ups attach great importance to the value of this drama."

Liu Teli sighed, "It's really rare. Does Huang Lian want to go against him?"

Luo Yuzhong: "If the entire industry believes that the artistic value of this drama is not high and is unwilling to compromise, it is impossible for the higher-ups to force the Golden Tripod Awards to give the award to "Friends"."

"I thought so. I just feel that the trend today is not right." Liu Teli sighed. "Yan He clearly supported the Blue Ribbon before, which really offended Huang Lian and his gang. They have been doing those rubbish for so many years, and now the fig leaf has been torn off... Ha, they called me over today, not because I have won the Golden Tripod Award and think I will support their ideas, right?"

Luo Yuzhong: "It's possible. Huang Lian has been saying that if it weren't for his persistence in art and his resistance to pressure from all sides, it would have been difficult for you to win the Golden Tripod Award in your year."

The year Liu Teli won the award, other nominees for Best Actor included Huang Kairen, Jiang Mingzheng, Chen Jiping, etc. It was indeed a big year, especially for Jiang Mingzheng and Chen Jiping, both of whom had very strong backgrounds in the drama industry.

Liu Teli: “This——”

Luo Yuzhong: "Teli, thank you for calling me. I have received the reminder. Just pretend that you didn't call me."

Liu Teli didn't expect Luo Yuzhong to say this at the first moment and to consider him so much.

"Director..." Liu Teli really wanted to say at this time, it's okay, he didn't appreciate the actions of Huang Lian and others, he didn't want to associate with them, but people really can't do things like this, especially when they have reached his position, many things are inextricably linked.

Luo Yuzhong: "It's okay. I won't let those people bully my students if I'm here. Even if I can't help Yan He, he doesn't need one or two Golden Tripod Awards. If the Golden Tripod Awards want to exclude Yan He, it's not Yan He's loss, it's the Golden Tripod Awards' loss."

Liu Te nodded.

"really."
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After hearing from the teacher about some trends and changes in the circle, Lu Yanhe was silent for a long time.

Unexpectedly, the subsequent turmoil caused by the fight even extended to the level of the Golden Tripod Awards.

However, Lu Yanhe was not surprised.

After the Blue Ribbon incident, Lu Yanhe was actually prepared for revenge.

He was very clear that although his current seemingly "powerful" position was compared with those big shots in the circle who had been struggling for many years, he was still far from being able to compete with them.

However, as Luo Yuzhong and Liu Teli said, he was lucky to have accumulated solid capital for himself in the previous few years and had won many major awards. Even if he did not win any awards in the next ten years, it would not affect his status and weight under this honor system.

Not to mention, now it’s just the Golden Tripod Award that has shown its claws.

The Blue Ribbon Award is still open to him.

Lu Yanhe was prepared to fight those people to the end.

"Teacher, if they want to marginalize me, then marginalize me." Lu Yanhe said, "This year Maxine will focus on promoting the Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards for Friends. My goal is not the Golden Tripod Awards."
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