Chapter 85 Childhood of the post-80s generation
That night, media reports came out:
[High box office commercial film failed in Golden Rooster]
[House of Flying Daggers] No harvest]
[Zhang Yimou missed the Golden Rooster]
Zhang Weiping started complaining at that time, saying that the judges of the Golden Rooster Awards were all "perverts".
He has indeed achieved the ultimate in bombardment.
Bombard Gong Li
Bombard Chow Yun-fat
Bombard Yu Dong
Bombarding Han Sanping
Bombarding Feng Xiaogang
Bombarding Jia Zhangke
Now bombarding the Golden Rooster Award
It makes sense when you think about it, 150 million box office "House of Flying Daggers" was awarded the best art award. It seemed like a consolation prize, but it was also more like a provocation.
No matter what the annual championship, we still failed in our Golden Rooster Award.
Zhang Ziyi, the only one who had some connection, won the Best Actress, but she relied on her performance in "Jasmine Blossoms", which has nothing to do with her performance in "House of Flying Daggers".
Zhang Chen had already expected this situation, and it's useless for you to scold him.
Zhang Weiping has scolded, Feng Xiaogang has scolded, so many people have scolded, do you think the Golden Rooster Awards have changed?
Some people say that the Golden Rooster Award was originally a self-pleasure thing created by a group of self-righteous filmmakers behind closed doors.
They only focus on art films and never pay attention to commercial films.
There is some truth to this, but it is not without exception.
In 2003, "Hero" won the best director, and in 2005, "New Police Story" awarded Jackie Chan the best actor.
This operation is very confusing.
These two are also commercial films, but they won awards.
But it’s true that Golden Rooster doesn’t like commercial films.
If you look at those award-winning movies, 98% of them have never been heard of, let alone seen.
It is estimated that there will be no more than 10 copies.
It is said that Zhang Yimou is quite indifferent to this matter. He has long known what the Golden Rooster Award is about.
Zhang Chen is quite indifferent.
He positions himself very much like Wang Jing, that is, a purely commercial director. The only criterion for evaluation is the box office, and everything else is illusory.
Even for Zhang Chen, winning the award is just to stimulate the box office.
But today's Hundred Flowers Award for Best New Director gave him a surprise.
Because the organizer gave him a bonus of 500,000 yuan.
This is the first time he knows that awards like the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers come with bonuses.
In the past, he always thought it was just an honor, but he didn't expect to get a real bonus.
The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers are the same. The bonuses for single-person awards like his are uniformly 500,000, while the bonuses for genre films will be more, such as best feature film, etc., which are all 3 million.
This is definitely an unexpected surprise, just for this reason, Baihua will still come in the future.
Then he remembered the Saturn Awards. He won the Best Horror Film and Best Director, but he didn't seem to receive any bonuses. Could it be that there wasn't a Saturn Award, and it was those foreigners who were tricking us?
The next day, many people left and the airport became star-studded again.
As soon as Zhang Chen entered the airport, he was surrounded by reporters waiting here. They have experience in surrounding celebrities.
"Director Zhang Chen, what do you think about the failure of "Mobile Phone" at the Golden Rooster Awards?"
"Director Zhang, what do you think of Zhang Weiping's bombardment of the Golden Rooster Awards judges? ?”
“What do you want to say about your winning of Baihua’s Best New Director?”
Finally, I came across a slightly normal question.
Zhang Chen answered the last reporter's question, saying thank you, honor, etc., it was all the same.
After sending the reporters away, Zhang Chen went to chase Ning Hao and the others who were walking in front. These guys were very dishonest. He was blocked by reporters just now, but they actually left him alone and left first.
“You guys are so dishonest.” Zhang Chen complained.
Ning Hao asked back: "Are you sure you want to go back to the capital with us?"
Zhang Chen was confused: "Where can I go if I don't go back to the capital?"
"Oh, I thought you were also going to the premiere of "2046"."
Indeed, many people flew directly to Shanghai, because tonight the premiere of "2046" will be held at the Friendship Auditorium in Shanghai. Literally, these people are all invited guests.
I don’t know if the premiere thing was created by Zhang Weiping or the Wang brothers. Anyway, all domestic films with a little influence now hold premieres.
Invite a lot of media reporters and celebrities in the industry, and then a group of people will speak favorably for the movie.
Ning Hao asked Zhang Chen very embarrassed: "They didn't invite me at all, right?"
So far, he has not received any calls from the organizers of "2046", so he can't rush over to support it.
It is better to go back and stare at the post-production of "Shark Beach".
"2046" is a very magical movie that took 5 years to shoot and starred a lot of big names.
Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Carina Lau, Takuya Kimura, Faye Wong...
And Dong Jie.
After "The Golden Family", Dong Jie signed a contract with Wang Sunglasses' Zedong Film and Television, thinking that she could break into the Hong Kong scene, but it didn't work. Now she is almost confused and can't find this person.
This woman is quite speechless. She is obviously very good-looking and has enough resources to make a debut, but she has to do it by herself, and her vision is very poor.
In the end, I fell to an unknown number of levels, and almost ruined her future. If her ex-husband hadn't been determined and encountered "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", she might have ruined it.
Wang Sunglasses was very popular in the past two years. The movies he produced were either nominated for or won the Academy Awards and Golden Horse Awards.
But this person is very unfriendly to investors. Making movies is too tedious and often goes over budget. But if he can win an award, everyone will tolerate it.
Before he won the award, this guy was having a miserable time, relying solely on his good friends for support.
The most famous thing is probably two things. One is hiding the passport of Leslie Cheung, which almost caused the concert to be aborted. The other one was the filming of "Ashes of Time". The investors almost went bankrupt because of the overspending. Later, a good friend couldn't stand it anymore, so he made a comeback with the original cast and crew of "A Little Mermaid".
In fact, not many people can understand his movies, but in the past two years, people are still relatively literate and have a mentality of blind pursuit of award-winning works. It seems that after watching award-winning works, they will become more advanced. .
It won’t be possible until 10 years from now. By then, it’s almost impossible to hear his name because no one will accept this idea anymore.
It’s useless even if "Flowers" has a good reputation. It took three years for a TV series to be filmed, and no investor would dare to invest in it. Moreover, actors’ time is also time.
Let's just say that during the filming of "Flowers", Hu Ge used his spare time to film another "County Official" and gave birth to a baby by the way. Who can bear this speed?
No wonder Gong Li complained about him: "In "2046", I only played a paragraph-like character. I think this is a waste of actors. Don't put all these good actors in one movie, and then you Just waste them, this is like a training class."
...
Back in the capital, Zhang Chen took the new director trophy and ran to let Teacher Fu take pictures.
Teaching results.
The premiere of "2046" in the evening was quite lively, with a gathering of stars.
Wang Sunglasses was very proud on the red carpet. Even at night, he still wore sunglasses to show off and was not afraid of wrestling.
He has been sharpening his sword for four years.
Four years ago, "In the Mood for Love" only had Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung as the actors, but it received nine Academy Award nominations and finally won the three major awards of Best Actress, Cinematography, and Style Design.
At the same time, he won the Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival that year, and "In the Mood for Love" was also selected by the British "Guardian" as one of the "100 Best Films of the 21st Century", ranking fifth.
The scenery is endless.
Four years later, "2046" has more stars and more of his ideas.
The media was still very fond of him at this time, and film critics also gave him face and gave very positive reviews.
【This is definitely a Wong Kar-Wai-style movie, exuding the unique atmosphere of Wong Kar-Wai's films at all times】
Well, according to popular understanding, film critics and ordinary viewers are opposites.
Movies that are praised highly by film critics are generally incomprehensible to ordinary audiences.
Zhang Chen also has no special interest in art films, it is not his cup of tea.
And Wong Kar-wai did a fancy job this time:
"2046" premiered at 20:46 that night, with the highest ticket price of 2,046 yuan...
Hehe, which fool would spend 2046 to watch a movie, just like spending 10,000 yuan to watch a concert. Rich people are not fools.
Well, there really are such fools.
After watching the news for a while, Zhang Chen stopped paying attention.
In fact, from a commercial perspective, "2046" is quite impressive. It seems that more than 100 copies were released in the mainland, but the total box office reached more than 30 million.
It will definitely make money.
But if you add in the 4 years of filming, it’s hard to say.
This is probably the reason why Wong Kar-wai was eventually abandoned by the market.
The next day, Zhang Chen once again visited the group of simple programmers with gifts.
The post-production of "Shark Beach" went very smoothly. Zhang Chen took a look at the completed parts and was quite satisfied with the effect, but it was too slow.
According to this pace, the special effects production will probably be completed in December.
But urging was of no use. The programmers in the special effects production center were already working overtime.
……
At the Nortel basketball court, Zhang Chen made an appointment with his good brothers to play together.
Basketball is a sport that basically all men can play. Even those who don’t like sports will take a few shots because the movements are so fancy and look good.
In college, there are many girls beside the court. If your basketball skills are good enough, you can get priority in choosing a spouse.
Zhang Chen likes playing basketball entirely because he was addicted to "Slam Dunk".
Hisashi Mitsui: Coach, I want to play basketball~
Akagi: My dream is to lead Shohoku to the national competition~
Miyagi Ryota: One more goal~< br>
Sakuragi Hanamichi: Haruko, my Haruko~
Rukawa Kaede: That red-haired guy is so annoying~
The only thing that didn’t treat the 80s badly, and those born in the 90s probably only had songs and comics.
There are many high-quality comics from this period, including the original "Doraemon" and "Dragon Ball", and later "Saint Seiya" and "Slam Dunk".
When I was younger, I basically followed "Saint Seiya". When I was in junior high school and high school, I started to follow "Slam Dunk".
The designs of comic characters are actually relatively simple:
Shun cries when nothing happens, Hyoga looks for his mother every day, Zilong likes to button his eyes, Seiya is Saori's big licking dog, and only Ikki is the strongest because he can't be beaten to death.
Even though Seiya is the protagonist, the most popular among the Five is actually Purple Dragon.
Because it conforms to Chinese aesthetics.
He is very handsome, has domineering moves, and is a second-generation martial artist.
Other people's masters are all Silver Saints, but his master is a Gold Saint, and he is still the top fighter in gold.
So, no matter what you do, you have to focus on character.
But when I grow up and have three views, when I look back and think about it, I generally think that Ikki is the most attractive.
Ikki is the only one among the five who understands the nature of how the world works. He is not Saori's licking dog. He participates just for the sake of Shun.
At that time, those who liked Ikki were basically die-hard fans. Other fans might like Purple Dragon one day and become glaciers tomorrow, but Ikki’s fans would not.
The one with the smallest number of fans should be Shun, because the name Nebula Chain is really not domineering, and his gender is unknown.
His friends often quarrel because of his gender.
Obviously Yihui calls him younger brother, but his holy robe has a bra, which is very confusing.
Of course, some people think Shun is the most powerful among the Five because he can summon Ikki.
In that era, boys liked basically the same things, hot-blooded comics, martial arts and underworld brothers.
The young lady can only be ranked fourth.
In recent years, VCD piracy has been rampant. The general public has relied on VCDs to popularize Hong Kong and Taiwan culture, and also got to know Brother Haonan.
Chen Haonan was very popular at that time.
Many post-00s generation don’t understand how someone could worship a scum like Chen Haonan, but that was the social environment at the time.
There are basically a few ruthless people in every city who bully the market and cause harm to the countryside. Their names will not be published in the newspapers, but they will be spread by word of mouth among the people.
For example, Dongbei Qiao Si, Shicheng's Zhang Baolin, Dayuan's San Mahu and Xiao Simao.
If you think about it, dramas such as "Conquest", "The End", "Escape" and "Starscream" are all based on real-life prototypes.
Each school also has its own Chen Haonan.
So at that time, there would be severe crackdowns every few years. At the worst time, anyone who robbed fifty cents would be shot.
(End of this chapter)