549 [You're welcome to Lao Xu]
Not much.
Dong Bi glanced at the manuscript and immediately said with a smile: "Okay, let's not say much, let's applaud Mr. Fok Yiuwen, Chairman of the Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Awards Association, Mr. Zou Wenhuai, Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Film Society, Mr. Shao Liushu, Honorary Chairman of the Hong Kong Film Society, and ......, Chairman of the Hong Kong Directors Guild."
Immediately, Huo Yaowen and his party walked up from the backstage.
Humility, as the chairman of the Golden Bauhinia Awards, Fok Yaowen was the first to walk up to the microphone and said: "The development of Hong Kong films has a history of more than 80 years, during which countless outstanding filmmakers have been born, who have struggled on the front line of the industry, worked hard and diligently, and made outstanding contributions to the entertainment of the general public.
The purpose of the Golden Bauhinia Film Awards, established by the Hong Kong Film Society, together with the Directors Guild, the Actors Guild, the Screenwriters Guild and other guilds, is to reward these outstanding film practitioners, and also to encourage the younger generation of filmmakers......
After speaking, Huo Yaowen smiled and gave way to the people behind.
A group of older generation filmmakers also expressed their views on the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Golden Bauhinia Film Awards, as well as their outlook for the future of Hong Kong films, and encouraged more young people in the industry to work hard.
Then the on-screen couple Mi Xue and Liu Songren took to the stage and began to present the first film award for Best Original Film Song.
Many awards of the Golden Bauhinia Film Award were formulated by Huo Yaowen based on some awards in later generations and at this time, in addition to the standard awards such as leading and supporting roles, there are also the Best Foreign Language Film Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Among them, there is an award, which can be said to be the first of the Golden Bauhinia Awards, that is, the Best Action Design Award, which is basically not available in other countries and regions except for Hong Kong and Taiwan.
When Huo Yaowen returned to his seat and sat down, watching Mi Xue and Liu Songren on the stage pretend to report the names of several soundtrack musicians, but they refused to say the winner, he understood that it might be a good thing that he didn't know the answer.
Of the more than 30 films participating in the competition this time, there are only 6 foreign films, even if Huo Yaowen and the people from the organizing committee give foreign films great preferential treatment, except for one "Jurassic Park", everything else is a big bad movie.
Not to mention that Huo Yaowen, an amateur audience, can't watch it, and those relatively professional filmmakers can't watch it.
This also made Huo Yaowen understand why in the 80s and 90s, Hong Kong films were popular all over Asia, and at the same time, he also understood why in such a good environment, the original historical Academy Awards could only go around in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
Without him, none of the films participating in the competition are good films, and even if they cheat, they don't know how to give awards!
Anyway, in the end, everyone took the plunge and took out a few small awards for these foreign films that participated in the awards.
"The winner of the award for Best Original Film Song this time is ......"
Mi Xue took a deep breath and said loudly: "Let's applaud and congratulate Mr. Xu Guanjie!"
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
The guests and the audience applauded, and the camera also focused on Xu Guanjie sitting in the crowd for the first time.
Accompanied by applause, Liu Songren said: "The theme song of the same name composed by Mr. Xu Guanjie in the movie "Half a Pound and Eight Two" shows the helplessness and sorrows and joys of the life of ordinary citizens. ”
Last year, Xu Guanwen once again launched Xu's comedy "Half a Pound and Eight Taels", which tells the story of Li Guojie, starring Xu Guanwen, who quit his job as an assembly line worker in a soda factory because he was dissatisfied with the lives of ordinary people, and resolutely applied for a private detective agency, which became a profession that seems to only appear in China......
The story to be told in this movie is very simple, but because it is close to the reality of ordinary citizens now, coupled with Xu Guanjie's song "I drop such a working boy...... it can be said that it has sung the hearts of many working people!
Therefore, once it was released, it quickly became popular throughout Hong Kong, relying on an investment of less than 800,000 yuan, and won the box office of 8.76 million in Hong Kong, becoming the third place in the Hong Kong box office list after "1999" and "Zombie Taoist".
Don't look at the box office of "Half a Pound and Eight Taels", it seems that it is not as good as "1999" and "Zombie Daochang", but there is no comparison between the three, "1999" invested 40 million US dollars, and the box office in the world is 800 million US dollars, and the investment in "Zombie Daochang" is also as high as more than 1 million Hong Kong dollars, not to mention the later publicity and distribution costs, plus there are fans of Huo Yaowen's big seller "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", which can be worth breaking 10 million.
With this advantage, Xu Guanwen was able to win the final box office of 8.76 million with a comedy film with an investment of less than 800,000 Hong Kong dollars, and stabilize the Hong Kong box office champion last year, you can imagine how strong his ability is!
The box office was a big hit, and Zou Wenhuai helped him release the film to Japan as soon as possible.
From the earliest "Ghost Horse Double Star", "Genius and Idiot" that Huo Yaowen helped release at the beginning, to the current "Half a Pound and Eight Taels", Xu Guanwen is very famous in Japan, and this comedy style route that satirizes reality is very popular with Japanese audiences.
After the film was released in Japan, it got a box office of nearly 1.7 billion yen, which not only broke the record set by Bruce Lee that year, but also became the highest box office for Chinese films in Japan!
According to history, this record was not broken until 1978, when "Drunken Fist" was filmed by "Yuanlou" and received a box office of 1.9 billion yen in Japan.
Returning to the movie "Half a Pound and Eight Taels", it is precisely because of the success of this film that it has set the route of Xu Guanwen's style in one fell swoop, and has become the first generation of comedy kings in the minds of Hong Kong Island.
And Xu Guanwen's younger brother Xu Guanjie also completely opened up his status in the music industry with the release of the movie album of the same name "Half a Pound and Eight Taels", not only the album was a big hit, and he was known as the first Cantonese song, but also won the reputation of "God of Song".
So when Liu Songren said Xu Guanjie's name on stage, whether it was some guests in the audience or the audience in front of the TV, they all applauded.
"Wow, I like Xu Guanjie's singing the most. ”
"yes, yes, this song is almost sung to me!"
"It's heart-piercing, and I feel like it's being sung to me. ”
"Alas, we're all wage earners!"
“......”
Without mentioning the voices of the outside world, Xu Guanjie walked on the stage excitedly, received the trophy and certificate jointly awarded by Liu Songren and Mi Xue, and walked to the microphone and said excitedly: "I am very grateful to the Golden Bauhinia Organizing Committee for awarding this award to me......"
After Xu Guanjie stepped down, the hosts Dong Bi and Xu Guanwen came to the stage again.
"Old Xu, your younger brother won the award, how do you feel about being a big brother?" Dong Bi smiled at Xu Guanwen beside him.
"Haha, what else can you think? Of course I'm happy!"
After saying this, Xu Guanwen, who was originally laughing, suddenly lowered his face and pretended to be ruthless: "Sometimes I really envy my little brother, who is not only handsome, sings well, but also acts!
"Hahaha!!"
"The third brother is not bad, hahaha, it's so interesting!"
Xu Guanwen is still so funny, I have always liked to watch his TV shows before, but unfortunately I don't make much shows now. ”
"yes, it's a pity, but his movies are good. ”
"Yes, yes, his "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" he filmed last year was so funny. ”
“......”
Xu's family has four brothers, the eldest and the second are all ordinary people, the third is a little confused, but the fourth is handsome and talented, which is something that many people are familiar with.
When the camera was focused on the audience, I saw Xu Guanjie and Xu Guanying looking at each other and smiling bitterly, which caused the audience to laugh.
Dong Bi smiled and said, "Lao Xu, what you said is wrong, in my opinion, Ling Zun is very fair to the four of you!"
"Oh?
Xu Guanwen answered.
Dong Bi said: "You see that you can write and direct, your second brother Ah Wu is a very good photographer, the third Ah Ying is a very good actor, and the fourth can sing and dance, isn't this very fair?
"It seems like that's the case. ”
Xu Guanwen pretended to suddenly realize, and hurriedly said: "I said the wrong thing, thank you for the nurturing grace of my old bean and old mother." ”
Dong Bi next to him suddenly interjected, "You're welcome." ”
Immediately, the audience burst into laughter again.
Xu Guanwen was taken advantage of verbally, pretending to be beaten, Dong Bi also bent down and begged for mercy, the two of them each begged for a bargain, and they stopped after laughing.
Seeing the constant laughter on and off the stage, Huo Yaowen touched his chin and felt that it was a very wise choice to ask Xu Guanwen to be the host and turn the boring award ceremony into a joke.
After all, it is the first Golden Bauhinia Film Awards, and the audience doesn't care who wins and who doesn't, they watch more about those stars and those good-looking and fun programs, and there are no arguments about who wins the best actor and who wins the best picture in later generations.
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