Chapter 85 The Childhood of the 80s

Chapter 85 The Childhood of the 80s

Chapter 85 The Childhood of the 80s
That evening, media reports came out:

[High-grossing commercial films failed at the Golden Rooster Awards]

[Nothing gained from an ambush from all sides]

[Zhang Yimou missed the Golden Rooster Award]

Zhang Weiping immediately started criticizing the judges of the Golden Rooster Awards, saying they were all a bunch of "perverts".

He really did reach the pinnacle in terms of bombardment.

Criticizing Gong Li
Criticizing Chow Yun-fat

Bombardment in the East
Bombardment of Han Sanping

Criticizing Feng Xiaogang

Criticizing Jia Zhangke

Now they are attacking the Golden Rooster Awards
It's understandable if you think about it. "House of Flying Daggers", which had a box office of 1.5 million yuan, was awarded the Best Art Direction Award. It seems like a consolation prize, but it's also more like a provocation.

So what if he won the annual championship? He still lost at our Golden Rooster Awards.

The only one who had some connection was Zhang Ziyi, who won the Best Actress award, but that was based on "Jasmine", and had nothing to do with her performance in "House of Flying Daggers".

Zhang Chen had anticipated this situation, and it’s no use scolding him.

Zhang Weiping has criticized it, Feng Xiaogang has criticized it, so many people have criticized it, have you seen the Golden Rooster Awards change?

Some people say that the Golden Rooster Awards were originally something a bunch of self-righteous filmmakers came up with behind closed doors to entertain themselves.

They only focus on art films and never pay attention to commercial films.

There is some truth in this, but there are exceptions.

In 2003, "Hero" won the Best Director award, and in 2005, "New Police Story" gave Jackie Chan the Best Actor award.

This operation is very confusing.

These two are also commercial films, but they won awards.

But it is also true that Golden Rooster does not 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 are no more than 10 copies.

It is said that Zhang Yimou doesn't care about this matter. He has long known what the Golden Rooster Awards are about.

Zhang Chen didn't care either.

He positions himself very similarly to Wong Jing, that is, a pure commercial director. The only criterion for evaluation is box office, and everything else is false.

Even for Zhang Chen, winning the award is just to stimulate the box office.

But today's Hundred Flowers Awards for Best New Director gave him a surprise.

Because the organizer gave him a bonus of 50 yuan.

This was the first time he knew that awards like the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers came with prize money.

He had always thought it was just an honor, but he didn't expect there would be a real bonus.

The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards are the same. The prize money for individual awards like his is uniformly 50 yuan. The prize money for genre films will be more, such as the best feature film, which is 300 million yuan.

This is definitely a pleasant surprise. Just for this, Baihua will come again in the future.

Then he thought of the Saturn Awards. He won the Best Horror Film and Best Director awards, but didn't seem to have received any prize money. Could it be that there was no Saturn Award, or were those foreigners just cheating him?

The next day, many people left and the airport became crowded with stars again.

As soon as Zhang Chen entered the airport, he was surrounded by reporters who were waiting there. They had experience in besieging celebrities.

"Director Zhang Chen, what do you think about the fact that Cell Phone didn't win any Golden Rooster Awards?"

"Director Zhang, what do you think of Zhang Weiping's criticism of the Golden Rooster Awards judges?"

"Do you have anything to say about winning the Hundred Flowers Award for Best New Director?"

Finally I came across a question that was a little more normal.

Zhang Chen answered the last reporter's question with words like "thank you" and "honor".

After sending away the reporters, Zhang Chen went to chase Ning Hao and the others who were walking in front. These guys were very disloyal. Just now when he was blocked by reporters, they actually left him alone and walked away first.

"You guys are so disloyal." Zhang Chen complained.

Ning Hao asked back: "Are you sure you want to go back to the capital with us?"

Zhang Chen was puzzled: "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 "2046" will hold its premiere at the Shanghai Friendship Hall tonight, and these people are all invited guests.

I don’t know whether the premiere thing was initiated by Zhang Weiping or the Wang brothers, but nowadays any domestic film that has a little influence will have a premiere.

Invite a large number of media reporters and celebrities in the circle, and then a group of people will speak well of the movie.

Ning Hao's question made Zhang Chen very embarrassed: "They didn't even invite me, okay?"

So far, he has not received any calls from the organizers of "2046", and he can't just rush over to show his support.

It would be better to go back and focus on the post-production of "The Shallows".

"2046", a magical movie, 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 Story of a Noble Family", Dong Jie signed a contract with Wang Mojing's Zedong Film and Television, thinking that she could break into the Hong Kong circle, but it was no use. Now she is almost forgotten and no one can find her.

This woman is really speechless. She is obviously very pretty and has good resources for debuting, but she insists on being so self-righteous. Her vision is extremely poor.

In the end, she ended up falling so low and almost ruined someone else's future. If her ex-husband hadn't been lucky enough to come across "Ghost Blows Out the Light", his future might have been ruined by her.

Wang Mojing was very popular in the past two years. The movies he made were either nominated or won the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards.

But this person is very unfriendly to investors. Filming is too slow and over-budget is a common occurrence, but as long as he can win awards, everyone tolerates it.

Before winning the award, this guy was having a miserable time and relied entirely on his good friends for support.

The two most famous things are probably: one is hiding Leslie Cheung's passport, which almost caused his concert to be aborted. The other is filming Ashes of Time, which overspent the investors and almost bankrupted them. Later, a good friend couldn't stand it and used the original crew to film a new movie called A Chinese Odyssey, which was considered to have recovered some money.

In fact, few people can understand his movies, but in recent years, people are still relatively cultured and have a blind pursuit of award-winning works, as if they will become advanced if they watch award-winning works.

But it won't work after 10 years. By that time, you will hardly hear his name anymore because no one buys into it anymore.

Even if "Fang Hua" has a good reputation, it is useless. A TV series took three years to shoot. Which investor dares to invest in it? Besides, the actors' time is also time.

Let’s put it this way, during the filming of "Fang Hua", Hu Ge used his spare time to shoot another drama "County Officials" and also had a baby. Who can stand this pace?

No wonder Gong Li complained about him: "In 2046, I only played a character in a paragraph. I think this is a waste of actors. Don't put all these good actors in one movie and then waste them casually. This is like a training class."

……

After returning to Beijing, Zhang Chen took the New Director trophy and ran to ask Teacher Fu to take a photo.

Teaching achievements.

The premiere of "2046" in the evening was quite lively and star-studded.

Wang Mojing looked very proud on the red carpet. He still wore sunglasses late at night to show off and was not afraid of falling.

He has been honing his skills for four years.

Four years ago, the film "In the Mood for Love" only starred Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, but it received nine nominations for the Hong Kong Film Awards and ultimately won three awards: Best Actress, Cinematography, and Costume Design.

He also won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In the Mood for Love was also selected as one of the "21 Best Films of the 100st Century" by the British newspaper The Guardian, ranking fifth.

The scenery is boundless.

Four years later, "2046" has more stars and carries more of his ideas.

The media was still very supportive 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 audiences are opposites.

Movies that are highly praised by film critics are generally not understood by ordinary audiences.

Zhang Chen doesn't have any special interest in art films; they're not his cup of tea.

And Wong Kar-wai did something fancy this time:

"2046" premiered at 20:46 that night, with the highest ticket price being 2046 yuan...

Hehe, what fool would spend 2046 to watch a movie? It's like spending ten thousand dollars to watch a concert. Rich people are not fools.

Well, there really are fools like this.

After reading the news for a while, Zhang Chen stopped paying attention to it.

In fact, from a commercial perspective, "2046" is still quite impressive. It seems that only more than 100 copies were released in mainland China, but the total box office reached more than 3000 million.

It will definitely make money.

But if you add the four years of filming time, it’s hard to say.

This is probably also the reason why Wong Kar-wai was eventually abandoned by the market.

The next day, Zhang Chen went to visit the group of innocent programmers again with gifts.

The post-production of "The Shallows" went very smoothly. Zhang Chen took a look at the completed parts and was quite satisfied with the results, except that it was too slow.

At this pace, the special effects will probably be completed by December.

But there was no point in urging them, as the programmers at the special effects production center were already working overtime.

……

At the Beijing Film Academy basketball court, Zhang Chen invited his good brothers to play basketball together.

Almost all men can play basketball. Even those who don't like sports will try it a few times because the moves are so fancy and beautiful.

In college, there are many young ladies around the court. If your basketball skills are good enough, you can get priority in choosing a mate.

Zhang Chen likes playing basketball simply because he was addicted to "Slam Dunk" back then.

Mitsui Shou: Coach, I want to play basketball~
Akagi: My dream is to lead Xiangbei to the national competition~
Miyagi Ryouta: One more goal~
Sakuragi Hanamichi: Haruko, my Haruko~
Rukawa Kaede: That red-haired guy is so annoying~
The only things that the times have not treated unfairly those born in the 80s and 90s are probably songs and comics.

There are many excellent comics in 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 and high school, I started following "Slam Dunk".

The characters in comics are actually quite simple:
Shun cries for no reason, Hyoga looks for his mother every day, Shiryu loves to lick his eyes, Seiya is Saori's big bootlicker, and only Ikki is the strongest because he is invincible.

Even though Seiya is the protagonist, Shiryu is actually the most popular among the five strongest characters.

Because it conforms to the aesthetic taste of Chinese people.

He is very handsome, has powerful moves, and is a second-generation martial artist.

Other people’s masters are all Silver Saints, but his master is a Gold Saint, and a top fighter among the Gold Saints.

So, no matter what you do, you have to consider your personality.

But when we grow up and have established our own values, we look back and generally think that Ikki is the most attractive.

Ikki is the only one among the five strongest men who understands the nature of how the world works. He is not Saori's bootlicker, he participates just for Shun.

At that time, those who liked Ikki were basically die-hard fans. Other fans might like Shiryu today and become Hyoga tomorrow, but Ikki’s fans would not like that.

The one with the least number of fans should be Shun, because the name Nebula Chain is too undomineering, and his gender is unknown.

His friends often quarreled over his gender.

Ikki clearly calls him his younger brother, but his armor has a bra, which is very confusing.

Of course, there are also people who think that Shun is the most powerful among the five strongest because he can summon Ikki.

In that era, boys liked basically the same things: hot-blooded comics, martial arts, and gangster bosses.

The young lady can only rank fourth.

In recent years, VCD piracy has been rampant. The general public has been popularizing Hong Kong and Taiwan culture through VCDs and also got to know Brother Haonan.

Chen Haonan was very popular during that time.

Many people born after 00 don’t understand why someone would admire a scum like Chen Haonan, but that was the social environment at the time.

Basically every city has a few ruthless people who bully the people in the market and bring disaster to the neighborhood. Their names will not appear in the newspapers, but will be passed on by word of mouth among the people.

For example, Qiao Si from Northeast China, Zhang Baolin from Shicheng, San Ma Hu and Xiao Simao from Dayuan.

Think about it, dramas like "Conquest", "End of the Road", "Escape from the Past", and "Red Spider" all have real prototypes.

Every school also has its own Chen Haonan.

So there would be severe crackdowns every few years at that time. At the most severe time, if you robbed 50 cents, you would be shot.

(End of this chapter)