I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 642 International Chapter (44)

The most talked-about part of this year's Weibo Night red carpet session was the joint appearance of four generations of Mou girls...

Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Dongyu, Nini, Liu Haochun…

To be honest, at first glance, Liu Haochun looks pretty good.

Sure enough, when men reach a certain age, they all like young...

Then... Zhou Dongyu is also very young!
Haha, Liang Ge is a real man, and real men only like big-breasted hot girls...

Oh, the awards given out at Weibo Night are not authoritative at all. Firstly, multiple winners share one award, and secondly, many winners’ works are really not that outstanding and there is nothing memorable about them.

The routine of "sitting in a row and sharing fruits" has no surprises at all. It is more like a formality for celebrities to show their faces. The value of the awards is too low.

For example, the most popular dramas on Weibo this year: "Lotus Tower", "Douluo Continent", "Female Psychologist", "Legend of Fei"...

Wu Yu’s mother opened the door for Wu Yu, Wu Yu is home!
"Legend of Fei" is actually the most popular drama of the year...

Shen Liang won the Quality Filmmaker of the Year award.

“Do you need an acceptance speech?”

Shen Liang was a little surprised: "Then I will simply say: Thank you to the Weibo platform, thank you to the fans who voted for me... I would like to borrow the acceptance speech of Mr. Han Han. I feel that I am unworthy of this award, but who else should I receive it but me!"

After saying that, Shen Liang raised the trophy in his hand...

A group of people in the audience stared at Shen Liang...

Thoughts varied, but basically everyone was applauding.

What Liang Ge said is the truth!
——He single-handedly supported half of the Chinese film industry in 2021. He is the number one in the domestic entertainment industry and won the Weibo Annual Quality Filmmaker Award. How can he not be considered the best?

……

After receiving the award, I can’t leave yet…

Shen Liang sat in the first row, feeling quite bored. Sitting next to him were Zhang Ziyi and Huang Xiaoming…

Brother Liang has always liked Brother Xiao Ming.

Moreover, he was invited to play Xu Yunfeng in "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!"...

Originally I wanted him to play Pete, but... Sun Yizhou's audition performance was so good!
In addition, Li Jiahang was also invited to play Zhuang Zhengzhi...

After all, Wang Xun’s face looks too villainous.

Brother Pao is still better!
To be honest, except Chen He, the actors in Love Apartment have a very high cost-effectiveness!

Even if he graduated from a serious school and has good acting skills, he can play a normal role with a score of 70 or above. If he put a little effort, he can aim for the excellent level of 80 points.

The person is not famous enough, his status is average, and his price is not that high, but he can miraculously gain national popularity and attention that is not commensurate with his price through "Love Apartment"...

Logically speaking, Sun Yizhou should have continuous resources, but he almost disappeared in the past few years. It is said that he didn't control his mouth when filming "The Princess Weiyoung" and leaked the fact that Dabaobei was cast in a photo shoot, which offended Dabaobei. So people have been bullying him. Dabaobei is not popular, but my buddy is alive...

Back to Brother Xiao Ming, he didn’t even read the script and directly agreed to act in the film.

Shen Liang was quite grateful to him.

"I'm so grateful that you thought of me!"

"...Xiaoming brother, please don't say that..."

"If there is any suitable project, just find me and I will definitely come!"

"…Um."

Projects suitable for Xiaomingge...

"Silent Killing" is quite suitable, but that movie is too rough!
It can be seen that the director wanted to show domestic violence + school bullying + the oppression of the times + the powerlessness of ordinary people, but his ability was not enough, which led to a messy plot.
If the logic is untenable, the audience will be bored.
The director probably realized this, so he adopted a bloody and spectacled filming method... Just characters, just spectacles - as a revenge movie caused by school bullying, "Silent Killing" is full of violent scenes of a rather large scale. In terms of the visual level alone, its scale is rare in domestic cinema films.

In addition, the director seems to have stuffed all the bad things and villains he has seen in his life into the movie. So, there is a beastly father who sexually assaults a child, a domestic violence man like An Jiahe, a mother who abuses her daughter, a student who bullies his classmates, a corrupt policeman who takes bribes, a "good guy" who perjures his testimony, a voyeur, a lewd principal, a numb teacher, a father who seeks revenge...

Spend the money to watch N crime movies, hey! It's really worth it!
He just doesn't know how to make choices, he can't control it but he has crammed so many elements in.

Otherwise, why is "Female Psychologist" so bad...

Brother Liang and Brother Xiaoming were chatting casually, and Zhang Ziyi, who was standing next to them, tried to start a conversation several times but missed the opportunity...

However, when it was over, Shen Liang was about to leave when Zhang Yimou extended an invitation.

"Have a meal together?"

"…Now?"

Shen Liang looked at the time, it was almost 1am...

"Let's have a late night snack. I just wanted to talk to you about "The Beast Clawing at Straws"..."

"OK…"

……

Award ceremonies…usually start at four hours!

Many of them are six or seven hours...

Chaos, disorder...

Weibo Night has been held for more than ten sessions, and it still continues the same state as the first time - very chaotic.

In a sense, it can be regarded as not forgetting the original intention!
Liang Ge had been sitting for six hours and was already very hungry, so he did not refuse the invitation to have dinner together.

Shen Liang couldn't say that he had a good impression of Zhang Ziyi.

Not particularly respectful.

I feel like there is nothing to respect about the international chapter...

Zhang Ziyi has never won an international film actress award!
On the one hand, it is because of the film ecology: the ecology of Chinese-language films changed when Zhang Ziyi's second film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was released.

This film was invested and distributed by Sony, and it created a box office frenzy around the world, and can compete with Hollywood commercial films.

Then, everyone discovered that in addition to winning awards at film festivals, Chinese-language films could also be marketed by making commercial genre films.

As a result, costume blockbusters such as "Hero", "House of Flying Daggers" and "The Banquet" became popular, and Zhang Ziyi became the best candidate for such movies.

Another aspect is the acting!
During this period, Zhang Ziyi also starred in standard film festival films such as "Purple Butterfly" and "2046", but the level of the films themselves and Zhang Ziyi's performance were not enough for her to win the Best Actress award!

Purple Butterfly is the film that will hit Cannes…

"Purple Butterfly" is a Sino-French co-production, with Toru Nakamura and director Lou Ye in the cast, and even MK2 Films as the investor...

——MK2 is a French film production and distribution company that has collaborated with many international directors and promoted the art of film around the world.

"Purple Butterfly" was shortlisted for Cannes, but it exposed Zhang Ziyi's biggest flaw in acting: unnatural and artificial.

The performance seemed very deliberate, and many of the expressions seemed forced.

Zhang Ziyi is actually a rather embarrassing existence.

Especially after the domestic film market exploded.

As a big star, she has to maintain her own image and worth, so it is difficult for her to act in low-cost art films. At the same time, the costume action films she is good at have not received good market response in the past decade. As a persistent actress, she is also unwilling to take on some bad scripts, so her film output in recent years has been very low.

Finally there was a "Beast Clawing at Straws", of course she didn't want to miss it!
(End of this chapter)