Chapter 749 There's Nothing Wrong with a Vase
After some small awards were presented, the Golden Rooster Awards entered the second half.
Lan Yu and Deng Chao served as hosts on the stage.
"Now we are entering the exciting moment of the day, the Best Actress award will be presented.
Deng Chao, who do you think has the most drama?"
"This question stumps me. In my opinion, all of you are talented actresses, and it's hard to tell who is better."
Deng Chao took the opportunity to introduce several nominated actresses one by one, including Ma Yili [Find You], Bai Baihe [Macau is a City], Yong Mei [So Long, My Son], Zhou Dongyu [Us and Them], Zhao Xiaoli [Living and Singing], and Yao Chen [Send Me to the Clouds], and he made a heart shape with his hands to the nominated actresses present.
"Don't make a heart yet. You haven't answered my question just now. Who do you think will be the best actress?" Lan Yu asked with a smile.
Deng Chao hesitated for a moment, as if he was stumped by the question, and then leaned over to look at the audience.
"Is Teacher Sun Li here?"
At this moment, the camera lens immediately cut to Sun Li sitting in the audience.
Deng Chao had a smile on his face.
"Teacher Sun Li, you will always be the best actress in my heart!" As she said this, she raised her hands to the top of her head and put her fingertips together to make a heart shape.
Sun Li couldn't help laughing while sitting in the audience. She knew that her funny husband would definitely cause some trouble as the host, but she was still very happy.
These few lines of hosting and the interaction with his wife made the filmmakers and audience present eat a mouthful of dog food.
It was time for Lan Yu to wrap up: "I give this answer full marks. Okay, no more jokes.
Next, we're going to announce today's Best Actress winner, and we'd like to invite our award-giving guests, filmmakers Gu Wei and Wu Jing!"
Amid the audience's applause, Gu Wei and Wu Jing walked up from backstage.
The two stood in the center of the stage, and Wu Jing spoke first: "Gu Wei, what kind of actress do you think can be called the best actress?"
"Needless to say, I'm just lucky!" After Gu Wei finished speaking, there was laughter from the audience, and he laughed too.
"This is the truth. First of all, you have to catch up with such a good era, and then encounter a good script, a good director, a good photographer, a good artist, and a good team.
Combined with your own talent and all your hard work, you are one of the best actresses today."
After he finished speaking, the audience burst into applause.
Wu Jing continued, "That's absolutely right. Gu Wei and I have both been directors and we know very well that an excellent work is the result of the hard work of countless people.
A person wins an award because of the support of everyone behind him.
Now let's take a look at who are nominated for today's Best Actress."
After Wu Jing finished speaking, the big screen behind him began to scroll through clips of several actresses nominated for Best Actress and their movies.
After the screening, Gu Wei took the prize card and read out the winner carefully: "The winner of the 32nd Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress is..."
Wu Jing shouted loudly: "Yongmei [Eternal]!"
"Congratulations!"
There was intense applause, and Teacher Yongmei stood up excitedly, hugged the people around her, and then walked towards the stage.
Gu Wei and the other man also completed their mission and slowly retreated to the backstage.
"Today, [So Long, My Son] has achieved great success, winning two major awards: Best Screenplay and Best Actress.
"The Wandering Earth" only won Best Recording, and "Dying to Survive" didn't win anything."
Gu Wei went backstage to chat with Wu Jing.
"Don't worry, there are still Best Actor and Best Director awards to come, Xiao Yang and Director Wen should have a chance.
Both "The Wandering Earth" and "Dying to Survive" were nominated for Best Feature Film."
“I hope I can gain something from it later~”
After the Best Actress award, the Best Actor award was also won by Mr. Wang Jingchun from "Forever Young".
When the awards were announced, other nominated male actors such as Xiao Yang, Duan Yihong, and Fu Dalong looked a little disappointed, but they quickly adjusted their expressions and applauded Wang Jingchun.
In fact, their loss was not unfair. As an art film, the performances of Wang Jingchun and Yongmei in "Forever" were indeed outstanding.
At the Berlin Film Festival in February this year, the two won the Best Actor and Best Actress respectively, becoming the Berlin Film King and Queen.
In today's domestic entertainment industry, awards are important, but not particularly important either.
Purely talented actors like Wang Jingchun and Yongmei have won the Silver Bear Award and the Golden Rooster Award at the Berlin Film Festival and are honored with many awards, but in the market they still have to play supporting roles. They will hardly lack work, but their fame and income will not change much.
After the Best Actor award, the Best Director award went to Lin Chaoxian of "Operation Red Sea", and "The Wandering Earth" won the Best Feature Film award. Tonight's award ceremony officially ended.
After the Golden Rooster Awards, various news about the awards ceremony appeared on the front pages of major media the next day.
#Golden Rooster Awards releases report card for Chinese films, scoring high in both box office and art! #
#A gathering of blockbusters and a fierce competition among the best, China's highest film award is well deserved! #
#“So Long, My Son” became the biggest winner, and the Golden Rooster Awards finally became the Oscars of Chinese-language films! #
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Unlike previous awards that received mixed reviews, this year's Golden Rooster Awards were particularly well-received by the audience.
It is generally believed that this year's Golden Rooster Awards are very fair and objective.
The crew of "So Long, My Son", which had been unknown before, became the biggest winner of the Golden Rooster Awards. Netizens believed that their strength defeated their traffic, and the titles of Best Actor and Best Actress were of extremely high value.
In addition to the awards, netizens' most discussed topic about the Golden Rooster Awards was the celebrities who attended.
There were so many big-name celebrities at this year's Golden Rooster Awards, and many of them were couples I'd already been fans of. It was so cool!
[The combination of Brother Hu and Hu Jianhua, it’s Hu, not Huo, they are still so handsome! ]
This interview with Gu Wei, Lu Han, and Wei Daxun made me burst out laughing. What interesting people! Poor Lei Lei, she looked so aggrieved in front of her brothers.
[Ni Ni and Liu Shishi are so beautiful. One is the domineering queen Black Swan, and the other is the gentle fairy White Swan. They are both beauties, but they have different temperaments!]
Deng Chao and Huang Bo's hosting was hilarious, especially Deng Chao. He should be the host of more ceremonies like this in the future. I love watching him act funny on stage!
Mei Changsu and Xiao Feiliu from Nirvana in Fire reunite after many years. Gu Wei is still as handsome as ever, and Wu Lei has grown from a child into a man as handsome as Brother Su!
It's a shame that Better Days was released too late to be entered into this year's Golden Rooster Awards. Otherwise, both Gu Wei and Zhang Zifeng should have been nominated. I think they both deserve a trophy!
After the award ceremony, Gu Wei rested for one night in a hotel in Xiamen, and flew back to Beijing the next day with some people from the "Dying to Survive" crew.
"It's a shame I didn't win the award this time, but it doesn't matter, we'll have another chance next time."
On the plane, Gu Wei also comforted Wen Mu.
"The competition for this year's Golden Rooster Awards was indeed very fierce, so it's understandable that I didn't win any awards.
But it doesn’t matter. I have a feeling that the movie “Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils” that we are about to start filming will definitely win awards after it is released in the future.
Then maybe there will be another chance to fight for the Golden Rooster title!"
Wen Mu was not too disappointed. "Dying to Survive" had already brought him too much honor. He felt a little regretful for not winning the Golden Rooster Award, but life is never perfect and he still had a long way to go.
“You’ll have to work hard during this period.
We need to do a good job of preparation before filming starts for [Zhou Chu], and we also need to cooperate with the team to do a good job of publicity for [The Accidental Murder] which will be released next month."
While the two were chatting, the private jet stewardess brought two cups of freshly brewed coffee.
Wen Mu also picked it up, blew on it gently, and slowly took a small sip.
"After finishing filming [Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils], I will definitely take a break for a while.
Since I joined the company, I have never stopped working on one project after another.
Those who work also have weekends off and annual leave."
"No problem, you can take as much time off as you want.
You can find a place to spend your vacation, whether it's domestic or foreign, I'll arrange for you to go wherever you want!"
As for Wen Muye, the most famous director in the company, Gu Wei always gives him whatever he wants and fully satisfies all his needs.
"That's not necessary. Mr. Gu, just don't tempt me with some good scripts." Wen Mu also put down the coffee cup, thinking of some things before, and looked at Gu Wei with resentment in his eyes.
"Hahaha, Director Wen, we have to speak with conscience. After we finished filming 'The Love Master', whether it was 'Dying to Survive', 'Manslaughter', or 'Zhou Chu Eliminates the Three Evils', I didn't force you to take them.
You said you had to film it after reading the script yourself." Gu Wei said with a smile.
"I know, good scripts are hard to come by." Wen Mu also sighed, and then thought of something.
"By the way, Mr. Gu, what are the plans for the second part of [Love Saint]?"
"What? You just said you wanted to take a break, and now you're doing this again?"
Before Gu Wei finished speaking, Wen Mu interrupted him: "No, I remember we talked about this before, and you said that the company had already completed the script for [Love Saint 2].
I'm just curious about when the filming will start and who will shoot it.
After all, ‘The Love Master’ was my first film since joining the company, so I still have some feelings for it.”
"I'm planning to have our new director, Cui Rui, direct this sequel, and you'll be the producer to oversee it."
Gu Wei picked up the coffee and took a sip.
"Cui Rui?" Wen Mu was also unfamiliar with this name.
In addition to him and Rao Xiaozhi, there are some other directors in Wei Ming Tianxia, such as Li Xin and Zhao Liang, who all joined the company early on and usually served as assistant directors of some crews. He has no impression of Cui Rui at all.
"Director Cui joined the company just last year. He is a top graduate of the directing department at the University of Southern California. I met him when I was filming Detective Chinatown 2.
Later, when he joined the company, I arranged for him to direct the web series version of Detective Chinatown.
Wen Mu also nodded slowly.
"I watched the web series version of Detective Chinatown, it was well made. It seems Director Cui is quite capable."
Gu Wei smiled and said, "He just graduated and is still very young. He lacks experience. Director Wen will need your help during the filming."
“That’s no problem.”
After the plane landed in Beijing, Gu Wei returned to the company and called Yang Dan to his office.
"Look up a former Soviet film called 'Trap for Bachelors' and see which company holds the copyright. Then buy the rights to adapt it."
Yang Dan was a little confused when she heard Gu Wei's instructions, but she had long been accustomed to her boss's behavior over the years, so she silently memorized the name of the movie.
It has been more than 4 years since the filming of "Detective Chinatown 2". When Gu Wei first met Cui Rui, he just felt that his name was somewhat familiar. It was only when he joined the company last year that he slowly remembered that this person was the director of "The Vanished Girl" in the original time and space.
Just as Wen Mu mentioned it this time, Gu Wei asked Yang Dan to buy back the original film rights of "Her" .
That’s right, this film is not original, but adapted from the film “Trap for Bachelors” that Gu Wei just mentioned.
[Girl in Black] had a high box office and good reputation, so now that I remembered it, there was no reason to miss it.
On November 25, Gu Wei met up with the Reba team at Beijing International Airport and boarded a plane to Paris.
Both of them were stars invited by LV to attend this year's Paris Fall/Winter Fashion Week.
"I saw you backstage at the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony two days ago. Why didn't you come to see me?"
On the private plane, Gu Wei and Reba were chatting.
"You're surrounded by big stars, directors, producers, and so on. How can I get close to you?"
The weather in Beijing was getting increasingly chilly in November. Reba wore a light brown windbreaker, dark brown casual pants, and a pair of black women's leather boots.
After getting on the plane, she took off her coat, revealing the white blouse underneath. She reached out to smooth her loose hair, and her exotic facial features were extremely beautiful.
"I saw the news after the Golden Rooster Awards. Your flower fairy costume was really beautiful. Did the company buy you the "Stunning" notice afterward?"
Reba felt a little embarrassed after hearing what Gu Wei said.
"The company wants me to follow Fan Bingbing's path. Every time I go on the red carpet, I will carefully prepare some looks and then bring out the best in everyone."
After saying that, she looked at Gu Wei cautiously.
"Isn't this a bad idea? Should I tell the company to change the promotional strategy?"
"There's nothing wrong with it. You have a good foundation and are pretty enough. There's nothing wrong with the marketing plan Jiaxing arranged for you.
Just look at Fan Bingbing and you will know that she has been marketing her beauty and finally made a name for herself in the world with her beauty.
If it weren't for that accident, she would have probably dominated the entertainment industry for a few more years."
It is said that the most important thing for an actor is his work, and traffic and other things are all illusions. Only practicing acting skills is the fundamental thing.
Everyone knows the truth, but Reba has limited talent and looks too exotic, so her roles are severely restricted.
Asking her to concentrate on her acting is simply wasting her time. It would be better for her to attract traffic with her beauty and become an ultimate vase. This way she won't have to worry about money or fame and will have more opportunities.
"How can I compare with Fan Bingbing?"
"Beauty, at a certain level, becomes very personal; different people have different tastes.
In my eyes, you are more beautiful than Fan Bingbing!"
Of course he had to praise Reba in front of her, and Gu Wei knew how to do it.
"You're exaggerating," Reba said modestly, but it looked like she was very happy to be praised by Gu Wei.
The two chatted for a while, and Gu Wei took out the script of "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils" to read.
"This direct flight takes ten hours. If you're tired, go to the bedroom over there and take a nap."
Reba nodded obediently.
(End of this chapter)
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