If we were to choose the hottest and most popular drama for this year's Magnolia Awards, apart from the slightly less popular "Joy of Life 3", it would definitely be "Let's Get Married".
This drama is really popular. Last year, the satellite TV ratings were 2.08, ranking in the top three of the year, and CCTV-8's ratings were 3.02, ranking second in the national ratings.
It is no exaggeration to say that this drama can be said to be the most popular TV series in the second half of 2013.
If it weren't for the sudden emergence of "Joy of Life 3" and "Mu Mansion" in January this year, its popularity would have continued for a while.
Therefore, this drama has attracted a lot of attention, has been nominated for multiple awards, and is also the drama with the most nominations this year.
Gao Yuanyuan was not only nominated for Best Actress, but also enjoyed great success.
You know, although she is considered a top-tier star with no shortage of resources, she hasn't produced any outstanding works in recent years. Even the "Search" directed by Chen Da did not perform well.
Therefore, his position in the circle is a bit awkward. He can barely be considered a big star, but he is at the bottom. His actual popularity and performance are not as good as those powerful 85 flowers.
This time, "Let's Get Married" can finally make her feel proud.
Even though she is not the biggest favorite for the Best Actress award, she has become a publicity highlight like Liu Shishi and has been compared with several other nominees.
Although "Let's Get Married" has received a lot of exposure, the most popular dramas by the outside world are still "Parents' Love" and "Mu Mansion Storm".
Especially "Parents' Love", which has an average CCTV rating of over 2.6, has an excellent reputation, a Douban score of 9.4, and is hailed as one of the best period dramas in the past decade.
This drama has achieved good results, good reputation and popularity. It can be said that it is the best drama of this year. Its male lead Guo Tao and female lead Mei Ting are also the biggest favorites for this year's Magnolia Award for Best Actress. They cannot be said to have an overwhelming advantage, but they are definitely the leaders.
"Mu Mansion" is not bad either. It is a CCTV drama with a Douban score of over 8 points and a viewership rating of over 3.
Except that its popularity and influence are inferior to "Let's Get Married" and it is not as popular as that drama, it is slightly stronger in other aspects.
So this time, Mei Ting took the lead in the Best Actress award, Gao Yuanyuan and Liu Shishi were equally matched, and Qin Hailu and Sun Niangniang were regarded as supporting roles.
But compared to Mei and Gao, Liu Shishi was very calm, because she knew from the beginning -
There is no hope for me!
Wei Yang's channels are no joke, and Bai Yulan will never play with him. She will inform him in advance of any situation.
If Wei Yang is not satisfied with the interests involved, he can negotiate and reach a point acceptable to both parties.
Don’t think this operation is exaggerated. Regional awards such as the Magnolia Awards and the Golden Eagle Awards have a lot of tricks in them.
Previously, Chen Su won an award for "Iron Pear Flower" in part because she had joined a company under Shanghai Broadcasting and Television in advance.
There was also the Water Queen incident of Dilraba Dilmurat in her previous life. To put it bluntly, it was just that the Jiaxing faction defected to the Hunan TV station, and the two sides cooperated closely, which in turn earned them the Golden Eagle Award for helping them rise to the top.
It's just that the timing was too bad, the quality of the work was too poor, and his performance was not worthy of the position, which led to the failure and public ridicule.
Just imagine, if she had used a decent work to shut up some passers-by, Dilraba Dilmurat would have been the first post-90s Golden Eagle Award winner.
Although she is not as good as the little yellow duck, she is still firmly in the second tier among the 90 flowers, and can even step on the 85 flowers who don’t have trophies.
So the water is very complicated here. We cannot say that all the prizes are exchanges of interests, but there are indeed many weird operations.
Sun Niangniang has been chosen for this year's Magnolia Awards. This is due to her return to the Shanghai circle and her subsequent series of bundled collaborations with Shanghai Thai.
From now on, Empress Sun’s TV dramas will basically be related to Shanghai Capital or Shanghai Satellite TV.
If Liu Shishi wanted to compete, she would have to offer similar conditions, which was obviously unacceptable to Wei and Liu.
So Liu Shishi already knew that it was impossible for her to win the award. If it had not happened to be the PPTV live broadcast, she might have found an excuse not to come, even though she was accompanying Wei Yang to show her support and return a favor.
It is also because of this that Liu Shishi sympathizes with Mei Ting and Gao Yuanyuan very much.
She had been through it, and knew what it felt like to have her high expectations dampened.
From the look in her eyes, Wei Yang thought she was upset about being intercepted, so he tried to comfort her in a low voice.
"I didn't intervene this time. On the one hand, I wanted to give Shanghai TV a face. On the other hand, Mei Ting's advantage is too great. If anyone else wins the award, it will cause controversy. I don't want you to suffer these storms."
Winning an award is not a difficult thing for Wei Yang, especially the white magnolia tree at his doorstep.
If he wanted to win, he could have won the award even if the trilogy of "Joy of Life" were all produced by Hunan TV.
This big shot in the Shanghai circle is no joke!
But Wei Yang was reluctant to take action. One reason was that there was no need to force his way to the top, another was that he did not want to be too much in the spotlight, and the third was that he wanted to take some time to calm down.
"Joy of Life" is a refreshing online drama, and it is more of a comedy. The overall style is relatively relaxed. The probability of winning an award is small, and if the weak defeats the strong, it is easy to cause controversy.
In addition, Wei Yang is too young, she is not even 30 years old yet. The acting career of a male actor is much longer than that of a female actor, so there is no need for him to always be so cutting-edge.
He had previously become the youngest Best Actor at the Golden Eagle Awards, which was already impressive enough. If he then won the Magnolia Award, he would have stolen all the limelight and easily aroused hatred.
So he took it easy for a few years, suffered a couple of setbacks, and finally found a suitable project. Everything came naturally, and he rightfully became the TV King.
The same goes for Liu Shishi. She had won the Golden Eagle Grand Slam before and has been dominating her peers ever since.
But the Golden Eagle Award and the Magnolia Award are different. The former can rely on popularity, while the latter still depends on professional level.
Liu Shishi is very popular now, and countless people are watching her. If she ignores the controversy and steps on Mei Ting to get to the top, she will easily be attacked by everyone.
It's not worth it!
Because Liu Shishi can adopt a safe method and come up with a good work later. As long as there are no particularly strong nominees, she can successfully take the top spot.
Among them, the previous failures also provided a good public opinion basis. The industry and the outside world attach great importance to the number of shortlisted times.
Xiao Zhao was like this in his previous life. He just regarded the previous few nominations as a backup and didn’t care whether he won the award or not.
When the time comes for them to have a chance to win a prize, the cushion in front can be transformed into a boost.
Everyone thought that Zhao Liying had failed enough times before, and that this was a good performance, so it was time for her to have a perfect ending.
It can be said that Zhao Liying's public relations campaign this time was very powerful, creating a very good public opinion environment for herself. It could influence the judges, warn passers-by, and cheer up her fans.
Once she wins the award, even a little controversy will be overwhelmed by public opinion, and even push the value of her award to the peak.
It’s a pity that I didn’t win the prize in the end and all my plans were in vain, but this approach can be learned from.
"Parents' Love" is amazing. It can compete for the top 100 Chinese TV series in the future. Liu Shishi doesn't need to compete head-on with it. She can just wait for the easier opportunity.
"I know."
Liu Shishi had also heard Wei Yang's analysis of these words, and had an idea of what was going on. She smiled and explained her situation.
"I'm not unwilling to accept it. Teacher Mei Ting did perform better than me. I just think it's unfair."
Wei Yang fell silent. This was the world as it was. He used to be angry when he was young, but now he had gotten used to it and was even a part of it.
But he still didn't think it was the right thing to do, so after a moment's hesitation, he made a suggestion.
"If PPTV becomes bigger, we can also organize a film and television drama award, and try to be fair at that time."
"Boss Jia and his team are too stingy. The awards they give out are basically for dramas from their own websites. If I were to do it, I would spread it to the entire network, regardless of which platform it is broadcast on, and treat them all equally."
The distinction between regions, platforms, or factions is one of the biggest reasons why major awards are unfair.
If we can ignore this, fairness will be improved immediately, at least it will be better than the awards offered by various websites now.
"Aren't you afraid that if our website's project doesn't win an award, we'll lose face."
"Don't worry about that. In terms of quality and results, Blue Whale will not back down from anyone. If we really get a zero, it will be because we are inferior to others. We will do a major cleanup from top to bottom, and we will not play dumb."
Wei Yang is confident enough in this regard. Although Blue Whale has cheated, his hard skills are also among the best in the industry.
I can’t guarantee that I can win big every year, but I won’t be so miserable that I will end up with zero points…
While the two were chatting in the audience, the award ceremony on the stage was proceeding in an orderly manner.
"Let's Get Married" performed better than expected, winning the Silver Award for Best TV Drama and Best Director in a row. Another best performer was "Good Man", which won Best Screenwriter and Best Actor.
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"Parents' Love", which was highly regarded by the outside world, did not win any important awards.
Even Wei Yang hadn't expected this! He only knew that Liu Shishi would not win the Best Actress award, but he didn't know who would win the Magnolia Award or other awards.
It was Wei Yang who deduced the situation of Empress Sun based on his memories of his previous life as well as his own connections and intelligence in the Shanghai circle.
But apart from this big controversy, Wei Yang didn’t care much about other awards in his past life or this life.
So when he learned the specific list this time, even though he was mentally prepared, Wei Yang was still a little surprised.
“The way you eat is so ugly!”
It is shameful enough that Mei Ting lost to Sun Niangniang's "Hot Mom". How can Wang Zhiwen's performance in "Real Man" be better than Guo Tao in "Parents' Love"?
That is to say, Wang Zhiwen’s qualifications and strength are there, otherwise the controversy would not be low.
The Best Director award is even more ridiculous! "Let's Get Married" is a good drama, but the quality and content are not excellent. It is largely supported by the male and female protagonists.
If its director can win "Parents' Love", it is equivalent to the Chinese national football team shouting that they will avenge WBG by beating South Korea 3:0...
The Magnolia Awards' operation was so outrageous that even some of the award winners felt a little sad.
The director of "Let's Get Married" hardly gave any acceptance speech, but instead said a few words for Huang Haitao.
Empress Sun simply did not attend the ceremony on the pretext of being pregnant, and her husband Deng Chao accepted the award on her behalf. This broke a small unspoken rule of the Magnolia Awards, as she could still receive the award even though she was not present.
But whether Sun was really inconvenienced by her pregnancy or was too embarrassed to come, only she herself knew.
Wei Yang could only describe the entire award ceremony in four words:
What a mess! Fortunately, there was a conservation campaign this year and no awards ceremony was held, otherwise Wei Yang really doubted how many people would come to show their support.
"Congratulations."
After the show, Wei Yang saw Deng Chao and congratulated him. Seeing that there was no one around, the latter gave a wry smile.
"This award is very hot to hold."
OK! Wei Yang understood. It seemed that Empress Sun didn't want to take this award, or she wanted to take it but found it troublesome. She was conflicted. No wonder she didn't come in person.
In fact, Empress Sun was also very upset. Her drama “The Legend of Zhen Huan” was a huge success back then, but in the end, she didn’t win any awards.
This time it could be considered as Magnolia’s compensation for winning it over.
As a result, they ran into a tough opponent "Parents' Love", and they themselves had the congenital deficiency of "Hot Mom", so they were just asking for trouble.
Wei Yang patted Deng Chao on the shoulder and pursed his lips at Liu Shishi: "Let me tell you in advance, if Shishi's fans are upset, it's not our fault, don't be offended, we will try our best to control it."
Deng Chao couldn't even smile bitterly now. How could he have forgotten about this?
If they win against Mei Ting, passers-by will not accept it! If they win against Liu Shishi, I am afraid the little lions will not accept it! Losing to "Parents' Love" is justified, and losing to "Let's Get Married" is also reasonable, even if Qin Hailu is also a powerful actor + drama, she has her own advantages.
Only Sun Niangniang's "Hot Mom" cannot compare with "Mu Mansion" in any aspect. It would be strange if fans were convinced.
In today's entertainment industry, the little lion's fighting ability cannot be said to be among the best, but it is not much different.
If they really start to criticize, even the fans of Deng Chao and his wife combined are no match for them, let alone Gao Yuanyuan's fans and passers-by netizens.
"If it doesn't work, you two should just pretend to be dead."
Wei Yang did not sympathize with Deng Chao. After all, the Best Actress award was in his pocket. If he really didn't want it, he could just refuse it sternly. He didn't believe that Bai Yulan would force him to give it to her.
Now that you have won the award, you will have to bear the negative public opinion that comes with it.
"She can pretend, but I can't."
Deng Chao had a headache, and Wei Yang also responded: "By the way, your movie "Breakup Master" will be released soon."
"I came to you because I want you to come to the premiere."
"Breakup Guru" was invested by Wei Yang, so it was justified for Deng Chaoti to be invited.
"What date is the premiere?"
"At the end of this month, on the 27th."
Wei Yang calculated his schedule and didn't give a definite answer. He could only say that he would try his best to arrange it. If the person couldn't show up, he would record a VCR.
However, Liu Shishi enthusiastically agreed to support her good sister Da Mimi. Her role in "Langya Bang" was limited, and her schedule was much freer than Wei Yang's.
With Liu Shishi's approval, Deng Chao was satisfied and wanted to hype up the sisterhood between the two beauties in The Legend of Sword and Fairy. They chatted for a few more words, but before he left, his cell phone rang.
After answering the phone, his face turned dark after a while. Wei Yang asked him about it and he looked depressed.
"Meiting fired shots on Weibo."
Upon hearing this, Wei Yang opened his phone and saw that, as expected, Mei Ting’s Weibo post was a bit sarcastic, with the words “hehe” appearing right in his face.
If you look deeper, you can't wonder why they were angry. Before the award ceremony, they specifically posted a Weibo post expressing their confidence in "Parents' Love". In the end, they were slapped in the face and felt treated unfairly. No matter how good-tempered they are, they couldn't stand it.
"Brother, bear with it, the storm is coming."
Liu Shishi was kind enough to add, "Go back and tell Sister Li to stop looking at her phone so she doesn't get pregnant."
You know what, seeing Deng Chao’s bitter face, the two of them felt much better from the depressed mood.
Boss Wei was still thinking about whether to have another indulgent meal today, while Liu Shishi had already started looking for Meituan recommendations...
(End of this chapter)