Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 394: Speaking Up for Stephen Chow

Does Zhang Chen hate Wu Yusen?

Actually I don't hate it, I just dislike it.

It's like treating stinky dog ​​shit, I want to stay away from it as far as possible.

But the stinky dog ​​shit always jumps out when he is eating to disgust him, which is very annoying.

The other party has been bullying him again and again, so he must return the favor.

The most direct way is naturally to dig into the opponent's foundation.

Aren’t you going to shoot “Red Cliff”? I’ve made it impossible for Orange Sky to acquire Golden Harvest, so let’s see how you’re going to shoot it?
He even thought about grabbing the project and shooting it in advance~
His soul is from 2023. People at that time, after being baptized by the Internet, have long lost their fear of authority.

After 2010, the least valuable word is "expert".

Not to mention Wu Yusen who has won the global box office champion, even if it is the world king Cameron, pretending to be a father in front of him, he will still scold him~
A common problem among those who have been reborn is that they cannot tolerate any grievance.

In addition, he was listed as 'persona non grata at the Hong Kong Film Awards', which was not very damaging but extremely insulting.

This revenge must be avenged.

After he acquires Golden Harvest, he will definitely stir up trouble in Hong Kong, and more and more people will rely on him for their livelihood.

We will announce it then that Golden Harvest will not attend the Academy Awards ceremony. Let’s see what the Academy Awards’ expression will be then.

If you show off like this in front of me, you will be struck by lightning!
"When you get back, start studying this matter right away, and then go talk to Zou Wenhuai. Remember to enter the village quietly, and don't shoot~"

Zhang Chen really wanted to see Wu Kebo’s expression at that time. By the time Cheng Tian reacted, his house had already been robbed.

"Okay~" Dong Jianqiang agreed readily, and fighting spirit surged in his heart.

Golden Harvest is no longer the same Golden Harvest as before. After Jacky Cheung left, it was relegated to the second tier. Now its size has shrunk greatly, but it is just holding on like a tiger dying.

"As for funds, we should still have some surplus in our account~"

Dong Jianqiang nodded: "There are still about 70 million. In addition, in more than a month, the box office share of "Hurricane" will be due, and the funds will be more sufficient by then..."

When Zhang Chen heard that there was sufficient funds, he nodded.

He actually doesn't worry about funding at all.

There are too many companies that want to get involved in his movies, even Lao Li has mentioned it several times.

You should know that two days ago, Mr. Li just became the richest man in the coal-producing province. He made 600 million yuan by exchanging shares of China Minsheng Bank. He was in high spirits.

The other party simply looked down upon such a small amount of money in the entertainment industry. After learning that Lao Li had made tens of millions from his investment in "Hurricane", he immediately stated that he would not take any of the profits. Instead, he gave Lao Li tens of millions more and let him make whatever he wanted.

He is really rich and can do whatever he wants.

By the way, his father also needs to be notified when the time comes.

His father and several coal boss friends followed his advice and built three cinemas, preparing to enter the cinema industry.

They were planning to join Dadi Cinemas, but only signed a letter of intent.

Dadi Cinemas is a small cinema chain that was established only last year. It follows the strategy of surrounding the cities from the countryside.

While other cinema chains started out in big box office cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Dadi Cinemas chose to start in smaller second- and third-tier cities.

The cinema is still under construction.

It was fine that I didn’t have a cinema chain before, but now that I’m planning to do this, of course I’d like to keep the money within the family.

……

What Zhang Chen didn't know was that during the time he was away, Hong Kong had been in turmoil.

At first, the media reported on the Hong Kong Film Awards, the winners of the Best Actor and Best Actress awards, and the Best Director award went to Johnnie To, who didn’t give them face. There was even news about Zhang Chen’s divine prediction…

But soon, the focus of coverage shifted from the Academy Awards to the Academy Awards dinner.

The conflict between Zhang Chen and Wu Zeng was exposed~
[A famous mainland director openly beat someone up at the Academy Awards dinner...]

This is a media that is hostile to Zhang Chen.

[Dispute breaks out at the Academy Awards dinner, Zhang Chen scolds Wu Yusen for being a loser~]

This is obviously provocative.

[Zhang Chen caused a scene at the Academy Awards dinner, and the chairman of the Academy Awards resigned in anger~]

This is a complete reversal of right and wrong.

[Wu once accused Liang Jiahui, and director Zhang Da used violence to protect his friend~]

This is directed towards Zhang Chen.

Almost all the various newspapers in Hong Kong were reporting on the scenes at the Academy Awards dinner, but there was not a single photo.

The dinner was an internal gathering and no media was allowed to enter.

Yet every media outlet describes the incident in vivid detail, as if they had experienced it themselves.

The spectators gradually pieced together the complete puzzle of this incident from various versions of the reports:

Zeng Zhiwei and Wu Yusen accused Liang Jiahui of not caring about Hong Kong films and instead making mainland films. The famous mainland director Zhang Chen was not happy about this and caught the two of them and scolded them.

It was clearly one against two, but the smaller side had the upper hand, and every word they said could break the defense of the two opponents.

Hong Kong gossip fans are so happy.

They don't care who is right, they just like to watch the fun.

Celebrity verbal fights are rare even in impetuous Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong crowd may not take sides, but Hong Kong celebrities will.

They have always had the tradition of taking sides.

They took sides in the Stephen Chow and Xiang Tai incident, and they also took sides in the Donnie Yen and Zhao Wenzhuo incident, and this time is no exception.

Many people clearly stand on the side of Eric Tsang and Rainie Wu, a well-known Hollywood director and a big shot in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

In comparison, Liang Jiahui is just an actor. Even if he has won the Best Actor award, he is still just an actor after all.

Coupled with the public statement of the Academy Awards Organizing Committee, which listed Zhang Chen as "person not welcome at the Academy Awards", Zeng Wu's side was even more powerful.

Many people were clamoring for Zhang Chen to apologize, or saying things like Hong Kong does not welcome mainlanders like him.

Zhang Chen was like a rat crossing the street. For a moment, even if someone wanted to stand up and support Zhang Chen and Liang Jiahui, they didn't dare to do so.

Zhang Chen's side was like a small boat in the waves, swaying on the verge of collapse. Liang Jiahui stayed indoors and refused to see any guests.

The turmoil in Hong Kong soon spread to the mainland, and many unscrupulous media in the mainland have always used Hong Kong media as a benchmark.

Listening to the wind is like rain.

Before we even figured out what was going on, we started spreading propaganda.

The war of words at the Academy Awards dinner instantly spawned countless versions that began to circulate through various channels.

Then there was also a trend of taking sides in the mainland.

The only difference from Hong Kong is that those who stand on the side in the mainland are basically fans, and the stars all seemed to have fallen asleep collectively, with no one speaking out.

[Zhang Chen is really uneducated. The Academy Awards kindly invited him to present the awards, but he was ungrateful and instead made a scene at the venue. He is simply embarrassing the mainlanders~]

[I am a fan of Zhang Chen, I have watched every one of his movies, but this time, I really think he did something wrong~]

[The most bizarre director in mainland China~] [Why are there so many people criticizing Zhang Chen? I think Zhang Chen is right. Wu Yusen and Zeng Zhiwei deserve to be criticized~]

[The news reported that Zeng Zhiwei raped female celebrities. Can any kind-hearted person tell me in detail who he raped? ]

[Director Zhang is so domineering, support Director Zhang~]

Mainland netizens are clearly divided into two factions, some support Zhang Chen and some criticize him. They all express their own opinions and argue fiercely on the Internet.

After all, Wu Yusen is a leading figure in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film circles, and he has returned from Hollywood with honors, so he still has a group of loyal fans.

Especially now that Chengtian relies entirely on him to defraud money, Wu Kebo clearly stands on his side and has hired a lot of internet trolls.

Chen Xi immediately realized that something was wrong and immediately purchased some navy troops to fight back.

The Internet suddenly became lively.

Some agencies also gave up because the promise of Red Cliff was too good to be true. They knew they could never match Zhang Chen, so they thought about whether they could get close to Wu Yusen.

But more stars remained silent.

One is the inequality of status.

Two big directors are arguing, and it seems that neither of them can do anything to the other, but if they dare to interfere, they will be killed in minutes.

More importantly, it was because of the truths revealed by Zhang Chen.

Yes, Orange Sky has been making a lot of noise, one moment it’s choosing a female lead, the next it’s restructuring the script, and the next it’s making a 6 million investment, but after more than half a year of noise, there’s still no accurate news on the project’s launch.

Could it be that what Zhang Chen said was true and the other party had no money at all?
Many male and female celebrities who have been fed the news have been consciously or unconsciously verifying the reliability of the news, either by asking acquaintances or asking their agents to inquire, just to find out the truth and whether they have been fooled.

But no matter from which aspect, the news we got back was not good news.

It seems like I was really fooled~
For a time, everyone's impression of Wu Yusen and Cheng Sky Entertainment dropped to the lowest point, and some people with hot tempers even called to curse them directly.

……

Zhang Chen had no idea about all this, he had just got off the plane.

Dong Jianqiang and his team returned to the company, while Zhang Chen and Zhou Gongzi took a transfer flight to Yinchuan and rushed back to the crew to continue filming "Painted Skin".

What they didn't expect was that at this moment of opportunity, they were blocked by reporters again.

"Director Zhang, everyone in Hong Kong and China is discussing the verbal fight at last night's Academy Awards dinner. Can you explain it..."

"Oh, what did they say?"

He had just got off the plane and didn't know that the news had already spread back to the mainland, nor did he know how it had spread.

"The Hong Kong media generally said that Director Zhang, you are arrogant and domineering, and you went to the Hong Kong Film Awards to act wildly. They also listed you as persona non grata. Many Hong Kong stars have stood up to support Wu Yusen and Zeng Zhiwei..."

"What about the mainland?"

"Mainland celebrities haven't made any statement, but there's been a huge uproar online. Netizens are divided into two camps. One camp supports you and thinks you're right to criticize. The other camp, you know..."

The reporter was afraid that saying something inappropriate would irritate Zhang Chen, so he didn't dare to finish.

Zhang Chen smiled and continued to ask: "Did they report my speech at the airport?"

"It's reported. Many people in China are calling for Wu Kebo to come out and confront you~"

Zhang Chen laughed: "Then I have nothing to say. I have said almost everything I need to say before."

Seeing that Zhang Chen was unwilling to be interviewed, the reporter immediately stopped.

"Director Zhang, please tell me a little bit. I finally found this opportunity. You are said to be a friend of the media. Please help me~"

Seeing the reporter looking so pitiful, Zhang Chen felt too embarrassed to just leave.

Mr. Zhou next to him simply stopped and looked at Zhang Chen with his big eyes, meaning that you should at least say a few words to him.

Everyone was like this, so Zhang Chen had no choice but to stop and say, "Then let me talk about the Academy Awards. No one has mentioned this before."

"Okay, okay~" the reporter nodded.

Zhang Chen continued: "When I first walked the red carpet, the host asked me about the fact that Taken didn't get nominated for a major award. At that time, I said that the Academy Awards were biased against action movies.

Originally I didn’t want to say much about this, because shortly after it happened, the then chairman of the Academy Awards, Mr. Wen Jun, came to apologize to me in person, saying that this was not the intention of the Academy Awards.

Given Mr. Wenjun’s past practices, I believe it.

But then the Hong Kong Film Awards Organizing Committee listed me as persona non grata, and Mr. Wen Jun had already resigned as the chairman of the Hong Kong Film Awards, so I felt there was no need to save face for the Hong Kong Film Awards..."

The reporter became inexplicably excited, vaguely feeling that he was about to get some big news.

“The selection mechanism of the Academy Awards is actually very problematic. It only favors feature films and is very exclusive to other types of films.

Otherwise, among the two Chow Yun-fat and Yi Cheng, only Chow Yun-fat has won the Best Actor award, and he won it three times.

Stephen Chow only won it once, and Jackie Chan was even worse, not even once.

That’s Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow, how are they worse than Chow Yun-fat?

I have spoken up for Cheng Long before, and this time I’d like to talk about Stephen Chow.

Stephen Chow was nominated for the Best Actor Award at the Academy Awards seven times, and was a runner-up six times. He only won the Best Actor award at the 7st Academy Awards for his performance in "Shaolin Soccer".

And it's not just the Best Actor award, there are also seven awards in total including Best Director, Best Young Actor, etc.

The previous times, he lost because the judges thought the expressions of the characters he played were too exaggerated.

OK, the judges didn’t like this style of performance.

At the 21st Annual Awards, "Shaolin Soccer" won the Best Actor award. He must have thought that the judges finally accepted his nonsensical style.

But not.

The award presenter at that time, Ms. Zhang Minyi, actually told the truth when she presented the award. She said to Stephen Chow, "I am very happy to present this award to you because you make many Hong Kong people laugh when they are unhappy."

Haha, why do you say that?
Because in 2002, the Asian financial crisis had just ended and Hong Kong was in its recovery period, especially the Hong Kong film industry, which was in an extremely weak period. However, the sudden appearance of "Shaolin Soccer" managed to achieve a box office revenue of 6000 million during the recession, which was a shot in the arm for Hong Kong films.

Do you understand?

The Hong Kong Film Awards are still the same Film Awards. They have never liked Stephen Chow. The reason why "Shaolin Soccer" won the award was because it was a special period. Awarding the award to "Shaolin Soccer" had certain political significance.

If it weren't for this reason, Stephen Chow might never have won the Hong Kong Film Awards in his lifetime.

When I say this, there will definitely be people who argue with me and say that Stephen Chow didn’t win the Best Actor award because his acting skills are not good enough.

In fact, the method to judge whether acting is good or not is very simple. You just need to see whether this person can be replaced.

If the emperor played by Director Chen was replaced by someone else, would the same effect be achieved?

Would Jackie Chan's movies still be as good if the protagonist was replaced by someone else?

When it comes to Stephen Chow’s movies, no one can overshadow his brilliance.

Why do those movie kings never work with Stephen Chow? Because they know that in Stephen Chow's movies, only Stephen Chow is the protagonist. No matter who you are, no matter how important your role is, if you act with him, you can only be relegated to a supporting role.

got it? "

The reporter nodded, then shook his head.

"But Director Zhang, I remember you didn't like Stephen Chow?"

"I don't dislike him as a person, but I don't dislike his movies. I still like his movies very much. Today we are talking about the unprofessionalism of the Academy Awards and the fact that they treat people differently. Don't go off topic~"

(End of this chapter)