This director needs to apologize

Chapter 221 Feeling sorry for Wang Xiaogang

Meghan's visit to China this time was actually under the banner of tourism, and film and television investment and producer internship were incidental.

Now Xiangrui has to concentrate on revising the script of "Love Letter", and the project preparations have to be temporarily put aside. As a result, Megan is suddenly nowhere to be found.

So Chen Yiming took over the task smoothly. There was nothing to discuss about "Love Letter", so let's examine "Mulan" first.

He called Da Zhuang and introduced Mei Mei to the Tangcheng construction site.

This is a golden thigh. Not only is he willing to invest money, but he also doesn’t have much to do with the twists and turns in the circle. Making friends is not a bad thing.

For the next half month, Chen Yiming was busy refining the subsequent shooting plan, occasionally paying attention to the training progress of Yu Nan and others.

Occasionally I would recharge my batteries by playing film, and write scripts for new projects, and my life would go by so fast.

At the beginning of December, Chen Yiming went online to read the news, only to find that Earl's Weibo had been flushed, and the comment section below was full of messages from netizen @himself.

After reading the message, he suddenly realized that the Golden Rooster Award had already been awarded.

Since returning to China after receiving his Oscar at the beginning of the year, Chen Yiming has applied for a brand new mobile phone card. Only a few people including his parents, Da Zhuang, Ma Erye, Xiao Mei, and Xiangrui know the new card number.

He threw his original mobile phone directly to the company, and all calls were answered by the front desk.

This is also a last resort. There are dozens or hundreds of strange calls every day, which is really annoying.

Chen Yiming turned on his phone and found that both Da Zhuang and his father had sent him text messages, one to congratulate him and the other to comfort him.

The congratulations are because "1951" won the special jury award, and the consolation is that 5 of the 1 nominations was missed.

Chen Yiming browsed the news briefly and found that this Golden Rooster Award was not outrageous. It was in line with the previous awarding principles and it was still an old-school literary and artistic elite perspective.

In addition, most of the creators of "1951" were absent, and only producer Ma Yunteng attended the award ceremony.

Duan Yining mentioned the result of Best Supporting Actor and went on an overseas tour, but Mr. Sang declined to attend because of his retirement. Another director of photography, Paul, obviously would not come, and the screenwriter and director Chen Yiming was also absent from the script of "Retreating the Liver".

This is an unspoken rule of Chinese literary and art awards, so everyone in the industry knows the outcome of "1951".

It stands to reason that this matter passed quietly, because among the three gold awards in the Chinese film industry, the Golden Rooster Award has always been the one with the lowest sense of existence. Every time it is awarded quietly, it is quietly dispersed. , the discussion level is very low.

But there is an exception this year, which is "Big Earthquake".

Chen Yiming and "1951" took the initiative to avoid the limelight, but Wang Xiaogang and "The Great Earthquake" actively embraced the mainstream of the literary and art world. Not only did they make high-profile remarks after the nominations were announced, but they also acted like they were giving up on others during interviews.

"Earthquake" does indeed have its own traffic. With a box office of 7 million, it is the annual champion so far this year. The Broad Bean score is also the first among domestic films this year.

To be fair, even if "1951" does not shy away from fighting, "Earthquake" is also fully capable of competing.

However, the Golden Rooster Award is still the same Golden Rooster Award. The judging panel is very aloof. "Earthquake" won 7 out of 1 nominations, which was even worse than "1951".

Wang Xiaogang and his dozen or so creative staff sat there all night, only winning one for Best Photography, and all the other awards were taken away.

How could the little gangster stand this? As soon as the best picture results were announced, he stood up and walked away.

The award ceremony was still going on inside the theater, but outside he was already making remarks.

"This is a shameful night for the Chinese film industry. A group of judges who don't understand movies judged an award that they don't know what to call.

I hereby announce that I will permanently withdraw from the selection of the Golden Rooster Awards. "

After spraying, he may not have finished it, so he didn't forget to bring "1951" on board.

"I extremely doubt the professionalism of the Golden Rooster Awards judges. I would not feel bad if "The Great Earthquake" won any award, but I would feel bad if it won the best photography award. It is recognized in the circle that there is only one best photography award in the past two years, and that is "1951" 》.

I admit that my skills are not as good as those of others. I am disgusted by the crowing of chickens and the robberies of dogs! "

Xiaogangpao's speech caused an uproar because he brought the unspoken rules of the circle to the surface.

Who doesn’t know these days that the mainland’s entertainment awards are a joke?

Therefore, when Chen Yiming was thinking about winning awards and building momentum, he did not consider the country at all and focused on working hard at foreign film festivals.

Nominations in foreign film festivals can at least send out a press release and bring traffic. Domestic awards that pay for hot searches are hated by people.

The Golden Rooster Awards in previous years were actually quite outrageous. For example, the best film was awarded to a film that had not been released in theaters, or the best actress laid a three-yolked egg. There were even unequal distributions of pork, and award vacancies occasionally occurred.

Is there any backlash in public opinion?

not at all!

Compared with the previous ones, this one was actually quite satisfactory, and Chen Yiming himself didn’t feel aggrieved.

The best film was awarded to a biographical film. The box office was only a few bucks, but the film had high artistic achievements. The director and starring actors were both well-established and established artists, so they deserved the award.

"1951" failed to win the Best Picture award, but instead won the Special Jury Award. This has reflected the artistic tendency of the Golden Rooster Awards. The judges felt that the overly straightforward main theme was not artistic enough. It is as simple as that.

For the same reason, "Earthquake" was insulated from the best picture from the beginning.

Chen Yiming has reason to believe that this is the result of "1951" relying on foreign self-respect. Without the support of heavyweight foreign awards, it would probably be treated the same as "Earthquake".

Going down to Best Picture, Chen Yiming has basically never heard of the movie names on the award-winning list, and naturally they are not among the box office rankings.

After winning the box office championship, he also signed up for the Golden Rooster Award, hoping to win both box office awards. This is what Wang Xiaogang couldn't think about. He really couldn't rely on the judging panel.

The Golden Rooster Award itself is a self-entertainment for the upper class in the literary and art circles, because the winners of the awards are out of touch with the actual practice of the industry. Whether or not they win the award has nothing to do with the resources in the industry. There will be no increase in salary if you win, and no loss of value if you lose.

Now that Wang Xiaogang has equated the Golden Rooster Award with the Oscars, and successfully misled the majority of netizens, things have suddenly become big.

The official blog of Bojue is full of comments from netizens complaining about "1951".

"To tell you a joke, the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is not the Golden Rooster Award for Best Picture. I won't watch the Spring Festival Gala without this segment."

"The Palme d'Or is in tears, and the Oscars are silent. The real film art has to be our country's Golden Rooster."

"The domestic box office champion for two consecutive years and the Golden Rooster Best Picture. The people like it, but the judges don't like it. Who is the judge?"

"Old Director Wang has already spoken out, but Director Chen still doesn't hurry up and follow up. Why don't you call him a young man if you're not so arrogant?"

"Let's break up. Only one producer of "1951" attended the award ceremony. Director Chen already knew the results of the selection, and he didn't care about the Golden Rooster Award in the first place."

"I feel sorry for Wang Xiaogang. I originally wanted to care about the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch."

"Feeling sorry for Wang Xiaogang +1."

"Feeling sorry for Wang Xiaogang +10086."

The topic shifted in a strange direction, and #心心王小gang# was even trending among netizens.

Sure enough, people who eat melons can always create unexpected memes, and they can also become popular inexplicably.

As the instigator of the incident, Wang Xiaogang set up the character of a different fighter. He definitely didn't want his name to have a distressed prefix, but it was a pity that the course of the incident was no longer up to him.

(End of this chapter)