"I'm fine, really, I was meant to see the excitement. If you want me to say, Mr. Fan called that injustice, how good he acted, but in the end he still didn't win the award. ”

On June 20, the 8th Shanghai International Film Festival closed. In the end, the Japanese film "Village Photo Studio" won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Film.

The two local films shortlisted are not inferior, Zhao Wei unsurprisingly won the Best Actress Award, "Please Praise Me" won the Jury Prize and Best Screenplay two Golden Titles, and the actor was also won by the actor of "Village Photo Studio" Teng Long.

As soon as he learned the news, He Xin had to make a phone call to comfort his girlfriend. However, judging from the tone of his girlfriend's phone call, although he was a little sour, his mood was not bad, but Fan Wei screamed twice.

In fact, due to the average shortlisted works and the dim starlight, the attention of this year's Shanghai Film Festival was not very high. But Zhao Wei's award still caused great controversy.

Although there were rumors before the awards, rumors are rumors, and facts are facts. Zhao Wei has long been widely criticized by the outside world for his box office poison and embarrassment of acting skills. And as early as after the premiere of "Lover's Knot", some media published articles criticizing her various shortcomings in the film.

It was such a controversial female star who was crowned the queen laurel of the Shanghai Film Festival, which caused an uproar in the media. As soon as the award ceremony ended, some media directly questioned the fairness of the selection of this year's Shanghai Film Festival.

And Zhao Wei didn't know whether he was lacking confidence or angry, so he walked away without accepting any interviews. Although Wu Tianming, chairman of the jury, came forward to clarify afterwards, saying that Zhao Wei's Best Actress was unanimously approved by the seven judges, the media still did not sell it.

In addition to questioning the fairness of the selection, most professional media and film critics believe that Zhao Wei's award is completely short.

In fact, regardless of whether the selection is fair or not, or the merits of the shortlisted films, as far as the two shortlisted local films are concerned, as long as you taste them carefully, you will find the subtleties.

For example, two works, one with a big male protagonist and one with a big female protagonist, may have been aimed at the actor or actress from the beginning. Of course, if all the emperors and queens are awarded to local films, it is obviously too blatant, and you can only choose one of them.

And in terms of the quality of the two works, one has dark humor, the theme is full of life philosophy, and the plot is intricate, unexpected and intriguing. The other is old-fashioned, the plot is bland, and it doesn't even meet the criteria for shortlisting, a bit like having the advantage of being a wild card as a host in a sports competition to be shortlisted.

Since he was shortlisted, he was qualified to share pork, but limited to the quality of the film, so Zhao Yanzi, a very reluctant Golden Goblet Award actress, was born.

In contrast, the award of "Please Praise Me" is undoubtedly deserved, but precisely because Zhao Yanzi won the award, for the sake of balance, Fan Wei, who performed well, did not win the honor of actor.

In addition to the main competition unit, the Shanghai Film Festival also has an Asian Newcomer Award unit, which aims to recognize the works of Asian newcomer directors. The chairman of this year's Shanghai Film Festival Asian Newcomer Award is the leader of the sixth generation of directors - Jia Section Chief, and the judges also include American actor and director Chen Chong and others.

Ning Hao's "Green Meadow" won the Asian Newcomer Award for the most popular film. But now Ning Hao's first work "Incense" has made such a big move in Venice, and now he has lost the qualification for the Asian Newcomer Award.

Bona helped "Green Meadow" sign up for the main competition unit, but unfortunately it was not shortlisted.

However, Ning Hao, who has seen the world in Venice and Berlin and won awards, did not pay attention to the township enterprise award of the Shanghai Film Festival, and even when he was invited by the organizer, he did not come to join in the excitement, and began to prepare his new film "Stone" wholeheartedly.

This product has been busy casting recently, and he can't look down on He Xin, so he found Guo Tao to play the male number one Bao Shihong. Guo Tao was born in an acting family, his father graduated from Chinese opera, his mother graduated from opera, and he was also assigned to work in Mandarin after graduating from Chinese opera.

Although he is well-known in the outside world, he has long been widely known in the circle, and he belongs to the kind of low-key powerhouse. is often active on the drama stage, and has also starred in many film and television dramas.

For example, he played the male lead in Feng Xiaogang's film debut "Never Lose My Love", and then starred in Zhang Yang's "Love Malatang", Wang Xiaoshuai's "Flat Girl" and other films.

After watching the comedy movie "Green Hat" written by Wang Shuo and directed by Liu Struggle, Ning Hao was deeply impressed by the image of the second middle-aged man played by Guo Tao in it.

In fact, when He Xin still wanted to play Bao Shihong, people already had a suitable actor in their hearts. He has always preferred to let He Xin play the role of Brother Dao in it, but unfortunately He Xin didn't do it, preferring to choose the role of Mike, who has relatively few scenes.

This is a chicken thief, probably because I saw that there are often big names in "Wulin Gaiden", since Cheng Hao made a cameo appearance as Brother Dao's girlfriend Qin Jing and Deng Chao to play Xie Xiaomeng, he is not satisfied, and he is looking for some big names to make cameos in the play.

So He Xin found Liu Ye to play the role of Sanbao, a staff member of the security department of the factory.

It is said that although Liu Ye is very miserable by him, this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes still relies on the two hit dramas "What to Save You, My Love" and "Blood Romance" broadcast at the end of last year, and now he has grown into a hot TV series star, more popular than Deng Chao.

Originally, He Xin also wanted to find Jiang Wenli to play the role of a guest wife, but unfortunately he failed to do so because the schedule was not suitable. Tang Wei, who had just finished filming "Wulin Gaiden", volunteered to fill this role.

But Ning Hao's casting was not smooth sailing, and the role of Brother Dao, as the second male lead in the play, is very important. After He Xin refused, he looked around, and fell in love with Sun Honglei, a contracted actor of Zhao Baogang's Xinbaoyuan, who is also a powerful actor from Mandarin.

Although Yan Wang was also woolened by He Xin, he starred in the hit dramas "Three Images" and "Military Song Loud and Bright" one after another, and starred in the movie "Zhou Yu's Train" with Gong Li and Liang Jiahui, which can be regarded as emerging in the circle.

And because of his outstanding performance on the drama stage, he is also known as "Little Jiang Wen", and he is very proud!

After reading the script, he named him to play the role of the male number one Bao Shihong. Do you think Ning Hao didn't give in to He Xin at the beginning, let alone your "little Jiang Wen"?

And then there was no then.

In the end, he went around and around, and found Liu Hua under the recommendation of his senior brother Guan Yu at the Film Academy, and by the way, he also added a head - Guan Bluff's little brother, a guy named Huang Bo with a long crooked melon and cracked dates.

It was precisely because of the ugliness of this cargo captain and the fact that he had a lot of acting experience that Ning Hao reluctantly nodded and asked him to play Brother Dao's black skin under one of them.

Jiang Wu, who was originally promised, also had a change at this time, and someone took over a new play, which conflicted with the schedule of "Stone", so he had to endure the pain and cut his love.

In desperation, Ning Hao had to find Xu Guangtou tentatively. Because in his eyes, Xu Guangtou, who is a Shanghainese, has a kind of symbol that he thinks represents the city.

It's just that he doesn't know Xu Guangtou, and Xu Guangtou is now very popular through hit dramas such as "Zhu Bajie" and "Li Wei as an Official". Of course, it would be easy to introduce it through insiders, but this product made a fuss, wrote a handwritten letter, and sent it to Xu Guangtou with the script attached.

Not long after, Xu Guangtou actually came to the door in person, not only was he very happy to take on the role of Mr. Feng, but he was not even willing to talk about the salary.

Afterwards, when He Xin learned the news, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, originally he still wanted to guard against Xu Guangtou, so that he could pick up the other party's wool in the future, but sometimes the wheel of history is really difficult to change, and the two of them still got together.

But after thinking about it, it's also true, it's hard to avoid the character of Xu Guangtou when writing entertainment articles, and if the design is good, maybe it will be able to write hundreds of thousands of words on the water in the future.

It's just that it's not advisable not to talk about the salary, he doesn't want Ning Hao to get too mixed with Xu Guangtou, and he doesn't want to owe that shrewd little man in Shanghai a favor, and now the buddy is not bad for money, don't talk nonsense, as much as you want.

In the original time and space, when Ning Hao filmed "Stone", he only had a total investment of more than 2 million, which was pitiful, and he couldn't even afford to hire a slightly famous actor, and many actors in the play were selected locally after arriving in Chongqing.

For example, Wang Xun, Xie Xiaomeng, Director Xie, Brother Dao's girlfriend Jingjing, and Sanbao, a staff member of the Security Section, are all local or actors from neighboring Sichuan.

As for Xu Guangtou, it is a coincidence that he originally wanted to invite Xiao Taohong to play Brother Dao's girlfriend Jingjing, and he also hand-wrote a sincere invitation letter angrily, and also sent the script to the other party. It's a pity that Xiao Taohong didn't pay attention to him at all, and it happened that Xu Guangtou saw the script and felt that he liked it very much, so he recommended himself and took the initiative to ask to join, and he didn't even want to be paid.

So the two smelled like each other and started a long cooperation in the future.

As for the role of Mike, because the original investment in his film was from Andy Lau's Asian Rising Star Director Program, Andy Lau promised to make a cameo. It's a pity that Liu Tianwang has to film and hold a concert at the same time, the schedule is really erratic, and he can't be separated, so he finally recommended his friend Lian Jin to play this role.

Because the cast is too much to handle, Ning Hao is still just a fledgling, so this movie has been under the banner of Andy Lau in the later stage of promotion.

He Xin still clearly remembers that many viewers were deceived into the cinema by the three words Andy Lau, but they couldn't find Andy Lau at all, but they were unexpectedly attracted by this hilarious movie without stars.

Of course, the situation is completely different now, with the double gold actor He Xin joining in, and the heartthrob, Deng Chao, Liu Ye and other friendly cameos, plus the Zhu Bajie who played Li Wei, which is enough to attract the attention of the audience.

And the production cost in the original time and space was only 3 million, just like when the two of them tossed "Incense", they could only shoot with high-definition digital, and then magnetically transfer glue in the later stage, and there was no color grading, so that the color of the picture was seriously insufficient.

But now the investment has more than doubled, and the shotgun has been completely replaced. Whether it is the picture quality, sound effects, soundtrack, etc., it is definitely more well-made.

Therefore, He Xin is looking forward to the performance of "Stone" in the future.

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