Chapter 394: Film and TV Winter
"Tsk, tsk, so miserable."
Song Zhi looked at his phone and shook his head with emotion: "There is basically no mention of other winners online today. They are all scolding last night's 'Best Actor and Best Actress' awards. Especially Reba, who accounted for four or five hot searches."
"Haha, normal." Meng Bai on the side snorted and laughed: "I wanted to ambush a history book, but unfortunately the nominated works were too outrageous, so this time it was ruined."
Everyone is in the circle and is familiar with each other's means. As early as when the list of winners was announced, he understood what Jiaxing Media, the agency behind Reba, was thinking.
According to their original design, they should have wanted to win this year's Golden Eagle Award through the behind-the-scenes operations. The scolding on the Internet was already within their expectations, and they were betting that "the Internet has no memory."
They only need to survive the first wave of public opinion, and as time goes by, the controversy over this matter will slowly pass. After another three to five years, few people will still remember whether this year's awards are fair or not, and Reba will be the real "Golden Eagle Best Actress".
There are precedents for doing this successfully. No award ceremony, ancient or modern, both in China and abroad, can guarantee that there is absolutely no behind-the-scenes deal. As long as it is generally acceptable
, it's fine. But the problem is that this Golden Eagle Festival went a bit too far. Just as netizens complained, even if other supporting roles were replaced, it would be better than this drama that scored less than four points. Now, not only has it been completely nailed to the pillar of shame, but the entire Golden Eagle Award has also sunk.
I guess the ones who are laughing the happiest right now are the organizers of the Magnolia Awards. Every time the three major awards are mentioned online, they are kicked out. Now, the Golden Eagle has hit itself with a punch, and it doesn't have to show off anymore.
High-end competition often only requires the simplest means, and there is no need to make progress at all. Just wait for the opponent to make a mistake.
"Forget it, never mind them, it has nothing to do with us anyway." Meng Bai glanced at Song Zhi who was fiddling with his phone for a long time, "What are you busy with?"
"Choosing photos."
Song Zhi raised his phone and slid two photos left and right: "The team's publicity department is going to send photos of yesterday's award ceremony to fans, let me choose, which of these two do you think is better?"
Meng Bai squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time: "Isn't this a photo?"
"What? How can it be the same photo with such a big difference." Song Zhi said dissatisfiedly: "The angle of the face, the position of the hair, and the state of the mouth are all very different."
"... Next time you shoot a movie, if you have such a demanding level for your performance, you will definitely be able to win the "Best Actress"." "
..."
Song Zhi pursed his lips and turned his face away, too lazy to explain to this straight man.
After choosing for a long time, he picked eight photos, but he still needed one to complete the nine-square grid. She looked for it and didn't find anything she was satisfied with, so she looked for it in her selfies last night.
Should I add a photo with Meng Bai?
Song Zhi looked at the photo of the two of them on the screen of the phone and hesitated.
After thinking about it, she felt that this seemed a bit too obvious. After all, it was an awards ceremony, and the two were not from the same crew, so it was a bit too forced.
With this in mind, she continued to look through other inventory. After searching for a long time, she finally found a satisfactory one.
This photo was taken after she sat down at the scene. In the inconspicuous corner
of the photo, she could just see most of Meng Bai's face in the distance. Compared with the straightforward group photo, this photo was much more subtle. Moreover, this can also satisfy her feeling of secretly showing off her affection, and she has a unique sense of romance.
Just like many men will fantasize about becoming a hero, leading the team to charge and finally sacrifice heroically in the spotlight, women often like the kind of "unable to publicly endure self-sacrifice" feeling.
In a sense, they are all an extension of the second-year disease.
She sent the selected photos to the team, and the publicity and promotion agency Photoshopped the photos and beautified them. Finally, the refined photos were sent out to welcome all kinds of "rainbow farts" from fans.
Song Zhi refreshed the comment area a few times, but did not see anyone discover his "selfishness". He felt proud and a little disappointed. She sighed, laughed to herself, and stopped paying attention.
Despite "training" together for so long, Song Zhi's "little slob" attribute has not improved at all. He was bullied all night last night, and today he didn't get up until noon again.
After washing and cleaning up and eating, she suddenly thought of something.
"The crew of a new drama has contacted me recently, and I don't know if I should agree."
Meng Bai didn't hear the strangeness in her tone, and asked casually: "What drama?"
"It's a novel adaptation project co-produced by New Classics and Tencent, called "Celebrating Yu Nian." Song Zhi stared at him straight: "My role is the second female lead, and I heard from the crew that the female lead seems to be an actor from Taiyang Chuanhe. Do you know who she is?"
"..."
Meng Bai paused for a moment when drinking water, but he, who had been through many battles, immediately returned to normal. Putting down the cup in his hand, he said naturally, "I really don't know. I don't usually pay much attention to the movements of Taiyang Chuanhe."
"Oh, really?"
"Why would I lie to you?" Meng Bai smiled as usual, "If you are curious, I will ask for you later."
Song Zhi stared at him for a long time, but just like when she was in school, she was still unsure whether this guy was telling the truth or a lie.
Humph, if I had known earlier, I shouldn't have let him stay in the acting department. He didn't learn much about stage performance, but his life-like acting skills improved rapidly.
"Forget it, no matter who plays her, I've rejected it anyway." Song Zhi said.
If she said that for Li Qin, apart from the competitive relationship, she was at most a little bit uncomfortable. Then for Li Yitong, she hated her even more.
There was no way, who made Meng Bai stay with this woman after breaking up with her.
Every day, she squinted her eyes and smiled so fakely, it was annoying no matter how you looked at her!
So when she heard the crew say that the heroine was Li Yitong, she refused without thinking.
It would be fine if it was someone else, but as for this "little white lotus", I have no interest in being her match.
Hearing Song Zhi's words, Meng Bai felt relieved, but on the surface he pretended to be indifferent and agreed, "It's good that she refused. There's no need for her to play the role of the second female lead. It just so happens that Huace has recently launched a costume drama project. I'll have someone bring the script to you later."
"Cute drama..." Song Zhi became more excited, "What's the name?"
"The name of the drama is "Liuli", which is also adapted from a novel. It's a fairy tale theme." Meng Bai said, "Although this project is only a medium-sized production, the team is not bad. The director is Yin Tao, who has previously filmed "The Glory of Tang Dynasty" and "Legend of the White Snake."
"Ah, I know these two dramas."
"The Glory of Tang Dynasty" is a drama released in 2016. Its greatest achievement is that it made Da Tiantian, who "has never been popular for thousands of years", finally become popular.
As for "Legend of the White Snake", it was also a small hit at the time. However, because the plot made Fahai and Xiaoqing fall in love, it attracted many reports from Buddhists and finally had to be removed from the shelves.
The plot was changed, but the ratings and playback volume were still very good, proving that director Yin Tao is still good at ancient puppet dramas.
Although it is not a big production, Song Zhi is also quite satisfied. She has been filming spy wars and urban dramas since "The Pretender", and she has long been tired of it. It's just right to try ancient puppets this time.
——The
Golden Eagle Awards ended with a lot of scolding, but the storm of public opinion it triggered did not stop.
Li Feng and Reba, the two new award winners, have been dubbed "Water Emperor and Water Queen" by netizens. At the same time, many netizens also angrily accused the organizers of the Golden Eagle Awards of the shady selection.
In the past, it would not have caused such a big commotion. But don't forget that today's entertainment and film and television industry has been at the forefront of the storm because of various events in the past six months. The "degeneration" of the Golden Eagle Awards this time became the last spark that ignited public opinion.
Li Feng's fans are smarter and have not dared to speak since the awards ceremony. In the discussions on various community platforms, apart from their own topic groups, they do not confront others.
On the contrary, Reba's fans have a stronger fighting spirit. At the beginning, as long as they saw "slanderous remarks", they would rush in and force the other party to delete them by controlling the comments.
Unfortunately, they greatly underestimated the scope of the impact of this incident. In addition to the fans of the opponent's fan circle, there are also a large number of passers-by who have long been dissatisfied with the various chaos in the entertainment industry and have also stood up. No matter how
powerful Reba's fans are, they can't stop the excitement of the crowd and were quickly suppressed.
But this is not over yet. Netizens who have nowhere to vent their anger began to attack the official blogs of the Golden Eagle Awards and Mango TV, forcing the other party to block the comment area for a time.
It's not surprising that everyone is so angry this time. In fact, in the past six months, there have been too many things in the entertainment industry that have refreshed the three views of ordinary people like them.
These celebrities are paid millions of dollars every day to make all kinds of bad dramas and win awards. It's really shameless.
Just when a group of netizens expressed their dissatisfaction with the chaos in the entertainment industry, an official announcement directly suppressed the voices of everyone in the industry. At
the end of October, the Central Propaganda Department took the lead, and five departments including the Radio, Film, Culture and Tourism, and Taxation jointly issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Management of Radio, Television and Online Audiovisual Art Programs".
[… In recent years, some art programs have had problems such as too many film and television stars, star chasing, pan-entertainment, high-priced film pay, and ratings (click-through rate) fraud. Not only have they pushed up production costs and destroyed the industry order and ecology, but they have also misled young people to blindly chase stars, fostering wrong values such as money worship and overnight fame. Effective measures must be taken to correct them...]
The document is not long, and there are only seven items in summary, but everyone who has read this "Notice" was shocked by these seven new regulations.
[1. All companies and practitioners in the entire film and television industry will conduct tax self-examination and self-correction from now on. Those who take the initiative to make up for the arrears or evade before the end of the year will not be punished. 】
【2. Call on film and television production companies and broadcasting platforms to jointly resist the "sky-high pay" of stars and reiterate the "salary limit order". For all kinds of prime-time works, the pay of actors shall not exceed 40% of the total cost, and the pay of leading actors shall not exceed 70% of the total pay
. 】 【3. Strictly investigate all kinds of film and television data fraud, including cinema box office, TV ratings, and online work playback volume. All kinds of broadcasting platforms should strengthen content construction and avoid data competition. 】
【4. In response to the ratings fraud problem investigated recently, the statistics department decided to stop using the traditional CSM city network ratings and replace it with the new radio and television comprehensive big data (CVB) from January 1, 2019. 】
【5. Crack down on online water armies and strictly rectify the self-media marketing accounts that are rampant. 】
【6. The review standards for online audio-visual works and traditional radio and television works shall be implemented with unified standards and standards. Projects with problematic content orientation shall not be broadcast online or offline. 】
【Seventh, abandon the use of celebrities as a selling point, strictly control variety entertainment and reality shows involving celebrity children, and reduce the broadcast volume of entertainment games, reality shows, singing selections and other programs involving film and television stars. 】
The seven new regulations, from heavy to light, almost all hit the core of the entire industry.
For a time, the entire film and television industry was in chaos. Some were checking their accounts, some were paying back, some were deregistered, and some were running away. It can be said that no force can be immune.
In the stock market, the already fragile film and television sector is now even worse, ushering in another wave of plunges. Coupled with this year's bear market, the capital behind them has also gone out.
The film and television industry is full of grief and has completely lost its previous momentum.
Now no one is shouting "winter is coming" anymore, because the film and television winter has really arrived.
...
"No, I haven't been out for a long time, why do I feel that the entire industry has turned upside down?"
In the messy studio, Guo Fan, who has become a middle-aged trendy man, touched the stubble on his chin and sighed at the recent news.
Since the filming of the movie was completed last year, he has been shuttling between the post-production studio and various special effects teams for more than a year. Especially in the past six months, due to the tight schedule and heavy tasks, he often stayed in the studio for more than half a month.
The little free time he had was also spent with his family, wife and children, so he knew almost nothing about the major events in the circle during this period.
"Don't worry about them, they are all old things." Meng Bai said indifferently: "A group of stupid humans rack their brains and use all means for their own interests all day long. There is no need to pay attention to them, let's continue to pay attention to these stars and seas."
The two are now in Guo Fan's post-production studio, and with them are Gongger and a dozen post-production team production staff.
After more than a year, the film "The Wandering Earth" was finally completed. In a few days, China Film will organize a film viewing party. Guo Fan took advantage of this gap to find Meng Bai and asked him to help watch it first. If there are any adjustments that need to be made, you can also take advantage of these few days to cram.
Meng Bai had just watched it, and the effect of the film was the same as expected.
No, it should be said that it was far beyond his previous imagination.
The magnificent doomsday cold, the majestic earth engine, the space station in the vast space... This is the "end of the world" created by six special effects teams using more than 2,000 sets of special effects shots.
Looking at the projection screen, the camera gradually rose from the ground until the blue planet finally came into view. Meng Bai couldn't help but think of Carl Sagan's famous words -
"That's here, that's home, that's us. Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of... everything we cherish is on this dim blue dot."
"What's wrong?"
Guo Fan saw Meng Bai staring at the projection screen for a long time without saying a word, and asked.
"Nothing, I just suddenly thought of something."
"What?"
"As long as there are works like "The Wandering Earth", the film and television industry will not have a real winter."
(End of this chapter)
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