Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 513 Waiting
The 27th China Film Golden Rooster Awards ceremony will be held on the evening of October 17, 2009, in Jiangxi Province, the City of Heroes.

This year's Golden Rooster Awards has garnered significant attention, primarily due to the "extremely" restrictive eligibility requirements.

That's right, in many people's eyes, it was a "great" restriction.

State-owned film studios all have filming assignments. In the past, these state-owned studios would make some very "niche" films and have them symbolically screened in their own local state-owned film studios to fulfill their quotas.

As for box office... this kind of movie wasn't made for box office success, so who cares about box office?

Furthermore, in previous years, many films that audiences had never even heard of were the "mainstays" of the Golden Rooster Awards, and many awards were won by such films.

However, this year, films like this won't be able to win an award at the Golden Rooster Awards.

The Golden Rooster Awards have new rules, and these rules are officially established by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

Most importantly, the document was stamped with the seal of the General Propaganda Department.

This makes those who have objections think carefully.

Offending the Federation of Literary and Art Circles might not be a big problem, but openly opposing the General Propaganda Department is no small matter.

In the film and television industry, veterans often have many ideas based on their seniority, and they also gain a lot of benefits from it.

If it were anyone else, even President Han or the Film Bureau, trying to reform the Golden Rooster Awards would face enormous constraints and pressure, and would likely end up making some compromises.

Cao Yang is different.

Veteran individuals, whether due to their age, achievements in film and television, or numerous honors and awards, are often those who have gained considerable experience.

In terms of seniority and awards, Cao Yang is only one of the three major European Grand Slams, the fourth in the world, and, more importantly, the only living Grand Slam director in the world, which is enough to leave these people speechless.

Especially for the film industry, for these older generation filmmakers, the "Big Three" of Europe was too "sacred." In the era of the full commercialization of film in later years, the "Big Three" of Europe that people knew was not the same thing at all.

In this era and even earlier, the title of "temple" for art films was well-deserved.

As for those so-called "connections," let's put it this way, the Beijing circle is very powerful, right? Not to mention Cao Yang, even if President Han wanted to deal with them, it wouldn't be an easy task, but it certainly wouldn't take much effort.

in the country, only those within the system understand the significance of the deputy ministerial representative.

Many philosophical sayings have been passed down in China since ancient times, such as "a new emperor, a new court" and "when people leave, the tea cools down."

For example, in ancient times, some very powerful second- or third-generation nobles and young ladies could live very comfortably and solve many problems by relying on the former disciples and officials of their elders after their elders passed away.

However, this is conditional. These people's energy is also limited, and they cannot do whatever they want as ordinary people imagine.

Moreover, those who are in the entertainment industry—the truly influential ones are actually very few in the entertainment industry.

As long as Cao Yang doesn't make any fundamental mistakes in his life, he can reach a very high position based on his current achievements.

The kind that's extremely high for a second-tier city.

Today, Cao Yang himself is the biggest background.

As long as he lives, he will be the most influential figure in China in the global film and television industry, and even in the broader film and television industry; he will be the face and symbol of China.

Therefore, those who truly failed to see the situation and foolishly jumped out to oppose Cao Yang's leadership in reforming the Golden Rooster Awards were neither those with "backgrounds" nor veterans; at most, they were just some peripheral figures seeking attention.

Those opponents with "connections" or those whose interests have been threatened can only secretly hope that the Golden Rooster Awards reform will fail, wanting to see them make fools of themselves.

What are the criteria for the failure of the Golden Rooster Awards' restructuring?
The festival features few films and few big-name stars, and there is considerable controversy surrounding the award-winning films…

It's nothing more than these few points.

The first rule is that almost all films released in the past two years that meet the requirements, except for Cao Yang's "Love in the Seaside City" and "Like Father, Like Son", have been submitted to the film festival.

Secondly, many people were hoping that celebrities would not give Cao Yang face... Well, they also knew that this expectation was almost certainly going to be dashed.

As for the last point, it is what those who oppose it in their hearts but dare not speak out and only dare to vent their anger at home are most looking forward to and hoping for.

Cao Yang returned to China on the evening of October 15th.

Because of the tight schedule, Cao Yang hadn't planned to trouble anyone. His assistant had already arranged everything: one night in Beijing, and a flight the next morning directly to Hero City.

However, after his plane landed, he received a call from Little Cannon.

The little cannon came to pick me up.

Perhaps to show his closeness, he didn't bring a driver and drove himself there.

This surprised Cao Yang.

He got into the car with the small steel cannon, and several assistants got into the cars that had been prepared beforehand.

"It's less than two hours until the 16th, why haven't you gone to Hero City yet?"

Cao Yang asked with some curiosity.

It's worth noting that "Assembly," directed by Xiao Gangpao, received the most nominations at this year's Golden Rooster Awards. Given his reputation as a frontrunner, Xiao Gangpao should have already gone to the Hero City for interviews and events.

"Hey, you know me, I've never been interested in awards..."

As he drove, the little gunman grinned and said.

"Really? Okay, I'll call Director Qi right now and ask him to reconvene the judges and exclude 'Assembly' from the competition."

Cao Yang stretched in the car and took out his phone to speak.

He originally thought that Little Cannon would definitely say something like "Don't be like that" or "I'm just talking nonsense".

To his surprise, the little cannon suddenly jolted, and with a loud "whoosh" from the engine, the car lurched forward, startling Cao Yang. "Holy crap..."

Cao Yang only had time to say those two words when he heard Xiao Gangpao burst into laughter. The car began to slow down, which temporarily put Cao Yang's heart at ease.

Little Cannon's mouth seemed to be turned down to his ears, revealing both his upper and lower rows of teeth.

"Well, this car isn't broken in yet. I just tested the engine at high RPMs, and the performance is pretty good."

Regardless of whether Cao Yang believed it or not, Little Cannon gave this flimsy explanation.

After calming down and thinking it over, Cao Yang realized he had been tricked by Xiao Gangpao.

It's not that this guy isn't interested in awards.

He was just trying to find out whether "Assembly" had won an award through those words.

After all, the "Little Cannon" has been scorned and fooled too many times at the Golden Rooster Awards in the past.

Although he felt that after "catching up" with him, he would likely have a chance to win an award based on the quality of the film, everything was still uncertain before the awards were announced.

He jokingly said that he would call Qi Jian, the director of the judging panel, and ask him to cancel the award for "Assembly". To Xiao Gangpao, this was undoubtedly a sign that "Assembly" had won an award.

That's why he suddenly became so agitated.

Indeed, compared to his previous life, this time the little cannon is more obsessed with awards, probably even more so than Leonardo DiCaprio.

For Xiao Gangpao, the films "Assembly" and "Tangshan" made him "unrivaled" in the domestic Chinese film box office.

Once he achieves such success at the box office, he will definitely become even more obsessed with awards.

Cao Yang guessed that this was also the reason why Xiao Gangpao didn't go to Hero City in advance but waited for him in Beijing.

How did you know I was flying tonight?

Cao Yang was quite curious about how Xiao Gangpao knew his schedule so clearly.

Only Teacher Situ, Lao Hou, Lao Tian, ​​and President Han know about my schedule.

Given Xiao Gangpao's connections, with Teacher Situ, Lao Hou, and Lao Tian all being academics, it would be a great sign of respect if they didn't look down on him. How could they possibly tell him his itinerary?

Although President Han has a good relationship with Xiao Gangpao, he won't easily tell others about his schedule.

"you guess?"

Little Cannon grinned widely, showing his big teeth, and started joking.

It was clear that he was in a very good mood at that moment.

"What's there to guess!"

"Haha..." Little Cannon laughed again.

After he had finished laughing, he explained with a smile, "My new movie, 'If You Are the One,' had some problems with the live sound recording. So I asked Xiaoran to re-record it. I tricked her into saying it, and she mentioned it unintentionally."

After saying that, she turned to look at Cao Yang and quickly added, "Xiao Ran wasn't on guard against me. I managed to get some information out of her, so don't blame her. I can tell that she's very excited and looking forward to your return."

Cao Yang paused for a moment, the image of Xiao Ran always beaming with joy whenever she saw him flashing through his mind.

"You're so despicable!"

Cao Yang gave the little cannon a disdainful look, then let out a sigh.

"hey-hey……"

Little Cannon just grinned widely.

Is she still in the capital?

Cao Yang asked.

Although Li Xiaoran said on the phone a couple of days ago that she had gone to Hero City first, maybe she is still in Beijing waiting for me.

"I don't know about that. Xiaoran was nominated for Best Actress this time. She should have gone to Hero City with Director Chen and the others, right? I saw in the report that the 'Mei Lanfang' crew arrived in Hero City this morning."

As Xiao Gangpao drove, he glanced at Cao Yang, hesitated for a moment, and asked in a low voice, "Did you and Xiaoran have a fight?"

"Ok?"

"Otherwise, how could you not know Xiaoran's schedule?"

Little Cannon said with some curiosity.

Cao Yang was too lazy to explain to Xiao Gangpao. He guessed that Xiao Ran had probably already left with the "Mei Lanfang" film crew.

"By the way, where are you going? Home?"

Little Cannon asked.

Cao Yang originally wanted to go to Yu Feihong's place, but for some reason, he really wanted to go to Li Xiaoran's place at this moment, even though he thought Li Xiaoran had already gone to Hero City.

"Go to Chaoyang Park West Road."

There's a house that Li Xiaoran bought there, and Cao Yang has the key to it.

(End of this chapter)