Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 78 New Plays and Awards

After the premiere events in eight cities, all you need to do next is to expose yourself from time to time, either by accepting TV interviews, issuing some press releases online, or having traditional paper media report some news to keep the heat going.

During this period, Cao Yang participated in several seminars, some of which were national, some were academic, and some were association-organized.

Cao Yang didn't know how it happened, but he suddenly became a member of the China Film Directors Association and was invited to attend several meetings.

He remembered that he had never applied, and no one had notified him to write an application. How did he become a member of the Directors Guild?
Isn’t it said that it’s not easy to join the Directors Guild?

Then Lao Tian told him that the China Film Directors Association elected a new leadership body in 97, the second year of the association.

The president, Wu Yigong, graduated from the directing department of Beijing Film Academy.

Vice President, Xie Fei, graduated from the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy and is a professor at Beijing Film Academy.

Vice President, Teng Wenji, graduated from the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy.

Vice President, Zhang Yimou, graduated from the Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy.

Secretary General, Zheng Dongtian, graduated from the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy and is a professor at Beijing Film Academy.

Secretary General, He Qun, graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Beijing Film Academy.

At the third annual meeting last May, all of these people were re-elected.

After hearing this, Cao Yang understood.

Originally, Cao Yang wanted to ask, "Senior brother, are you a member of the Directors Association?"

After thinking about it, I decided to forget it. The Directors Guild was founded in 93, and Lao Tian was banned from directing in 92. I didn't catch up with that time, so maybe I haven't joined yet.

Cao Yang patted Lao Tian on the shoulder and said solemnly: "Brother, you don't have to envy me. Don't worry, when I become the president, I will approve you to join."

"Get out." Lao Tian kicked him.

In the evening, Li Xiaoran came to see Cao Yang.

She is very busy. She has taken on a lot of endorsements, appeared on the covers of high-end magazines several times, and has been in the press all over the place. She can be said to be one of the most successful female stars in the country.

As the two of them were busy, the gap that had existed for a while was broken and the distance between them became shorter.

After a long while, Li Xiaoran hugged Cao Yang's arm and asked timidly, "During these days when I was away, are you two still getting along well?"

"Ok?"

Cao Yang felt a little uncomfortable for a moment, and his heartbeat actually accelerated a little. He always felt that Li Xiaoran was hinting at something.

"Do you miss me as much as I miss you?"

"Ah? Yes..."

"Come with me to Xiangjiang."

"Xiangjiang?"

When mentioning this, Li Xiaoran was obviously very happy, and even a little proud.

She was half lying down with her upper body raised, and the inverted mountain was tall and big.

"Maybe you don't know yet, Sunglasses King is the producer of the new film "The Unparalleled" directed by Liu Zhenwei. Sunglasses King personally invited me to play the leading role. I have already signed the contract and the filming will start next month."

Cao Yang thought about it. Wasn't the heroine of this movie the princess? It seemed that she couldn't compete with Li Xiaoran, the winner of the Berlin Film Festival.

"Do you want to elope with me to Hong Kong? Can we live alone there?"

Li Xiaoran shook Cao Yang's arm, biting a small part of her lip, and her watery eyes seemed to be able to speak.

The inverted mountain swayed, sweeping across Cao Yang's arm from time to time.

Cao Yang took a deep breath and reminded her, "Sister, I remember there was a media report a few days ago that this movie was filmed in Hengdian, not Hong Kong."

"Ah? Really? Tsk, it's boring, let's go to sleep." Li Xiaoran let go of Cao Yang's arm and turned away.

Huh? It's time to go to bed now?

Your white snow mountain makes me dizzy and my heart beats faster. You just want to kill me and not bury me, right?
"Come here you."

Cao Yang held her waist with both hands...

On October 10, the 22st China Film Golden Rooster Awards ceremony, which was also the closing ceremony of the 21th China Film Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, was held in Mingzhou, Zhejiang Province.

There are several interesting things about this year's Golden Rooster Awards.

All participants were informed at the beginning that in order to keep pace with international standards, everyone must wear formal attire, including reporters.

Men must wear suits and ties, and women must wear dresses, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter.

In addition, even though there was corporate sponsorship, the organizers wanted to charge reporters so-called "interview fees" under the pretext that they could not provide free interviews, which caused an uproar in public opinion. In the end, the authorities intervened urgently, which prevented a big joke.

It always feels like a makeshift team.

When the news that Cao Yang had decided to attend the awards ceremony was reported, many female stars who originally did not want to attend the awards ceremony became proactive.

Especially the international actress Zhang Ziyi. At first, both she and Zhang Yimou said they wanted to come, but later she said she was busy filming "Hero" and really couldn't spare the time. Zhang Yimou even wrote a letter to the organizing committee to explain the situation.

Then, when she heard that Cao Yang was going to attend the awards ceremony, Zhang Ziyi changed her words in front of the media and said that she might attend the awards ceremony.

Lao Mouzi may feel a little embarrassed. When he was interviewed, he directly said that the entire crew was busy filming "Hero" and no one had time to participate in the Golden Rooster Awards...

In fact, the person who was most hurt this time was Huo Jianqi, who was from the Fine Arts Department of Beijing Film Academy in 78. Originally, there was news inside that he would be awarded the Best Director award, but after Cao Yang won the Golden Lion, there was no news.

In the end, Cao Yang won the Best Director award, Li Xiaoran won the Best Actress award, and Lao Tian lost the Best Cinematography award.

Huo Jianqi did not win nothing, as he won a double yolk award for Best Feature Film, which is not bad.

One for Best Director and one for Best Actress. These are two very important awards. Cao Yang was full of anticipation and checked the garbage system.

Pooh!
You gave me 40,000 more reputation for two big awards?
My two big prizes are so worthless?

Extremely disappointed.

After this busy period, it is already November. The box office of "Empty Room" has already exceeded 3000 million and has reached more than 3400 million.

However, the box office potential has been exhausted, with only about 100,000 yuan per day, and it is not far from being taken off the screen.

According to the current trend, if the film can last for another five or six days, the box office will reach 3500 million. But the problem is that many theaters have already started to withdraw the film, and even if they have not withdrawn the film, they have moved it to a bad time period.

Is there any way to reach 3500 million without any "operation"?

There really is a legitimate means, a celebration party.

China Film Corporation held a celebration party for the movie "Empty Room" which had a box office of over 3500 million yuan. Then the news was all about Li Xiaoran and Yu Feihong holding Cao Yang's arms on the left and right, with a huge ice sculpture worth 3500 million yuan behind them.

With two international film queens on the same stage, the news would definitely be very hot.

Then it was reflected in the box office of "Empty Room", which experienced a rebound and climbed to 3500 million in two days.

The rest is up to fate.

During this period, Cao Yang had already written the new script and showed it to Old Situ.

Old Situ read it several times and found that the situation was not as bad as he had imagined. The satire on religion was not that serious. He only read it briefly and did not go to extremes.

The main theme of the story is not about religion, but about self-awareness and redemption, and it mainly explores human nature.

"The script is very good. Although it is a bit painful and depressing, the power of human faith is broken by the struggle for self-salvation. The brilliance of human nature and spiritual power form a strong contrast... I didn't expect that you have started to think about human nature. This is very good."

Old Situ thought for a moment, then continued, "With your current fame and status, this script should be approved. However, after all, it involves religion, and after filming, it will probably be given special attention. They must be afraid that you will accidentally cross the line too much.

You have to think clearly. If it is in the mainland, the script review will have to go through an extra procedure, and it may not be approved too quickly. It is estimated to take at least two months. "

"Forget it, it's too troublesome. It's better to put the background in Hong Kong to save trouble."

Cao Yang didn't want to waste too much time on endless review, it was not worth it.

I came back from Venice in mid-September, and it’s been almost two months now. It’s time to speed up the preparations for the film. It will be troublesome if I can’t make it to the Cannes Film Festival next year.

Since the movie is set in Hong Kong, we will use Hong Kong actors.

The last collaboration with Wu Qihua went well, and his acting skills are not bad, so we can work together again. He doesn’t have too many scenes, but you can consider giving him the male lead role which plays a key role.

Rather than being the male lead, this character is actually a "dog-licking" and affectionate second male lead.

The role is all about the heroine.

As for the heroine, we still need to consider it carefully.

Most of the scenes in this movie belong to the heroine, second only to Li Xiaoran's role in "A Night Alone on the Beach".

This kind of film, which explores and delves deeply into human nature, is about women's self-salvation and also contains a search for religious beliefs, is still very popular at European film festivals.

To be precise, this can also be considered a politically correct movie. Anything about women and the changes in women's mental journey is politically correct.

As long as the actress can stand out and has so many roles to play, the chances of winning an award are very high.

So after all, the most important thing is the choice of the heroine.

Gao Yuanyuan... looks a bit young, only 23 years old. Can she play a single mother?

You can call me over to do some styling.

(End of this chapter)