Night, 4 March 2005. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tokyo, New Takanawa Prince Hotel.

It is a four-star hotel located along the Higashi-Shibuya Line, between Shibuya Station and Roppongi Station, and is considered the heart of Tokyo's entertainment district. Not far from the hotel, you can see the Fuji TV Tower.

In most years, it is the venue for the annual Fuso Film Academy Awards Gala.

The hotel entrance is full of cars and glittering, and the security is very tight. There is a red carpet all the way away, and every car that stops will attract countless magnesium lights.

All the ceremonies and systems of the Fuso Film Academy Awards are as similar to the Oscars of the United States as much as possible, but only in the choice of the venue, it is very different from its counterparts in the United States.

When the Oscars are awarded, they are usually done at the Kodak Theater, and the venue is the kind of big theater, where everyone sits in a row like the audience, including the crew members of the candidate films.

The Fuso people like to put it in the hotel lobby, and the participating crews in the front row have a round table for each group, which is similar to the ordinary oriental banquet arrangement. Only representatives of the jury sat in the back-row stands like the audience in the theater.

This kind of arrangement somewhat makes Fuso's Academy Award ceremony a little more Asian.

The list of nominees is already known, so the final suspense is only about who will win the award in the end.

"Sunset in the Three Chomes" received the most nominations, taking all the nominations except for the main competition unit. So Gu Cheng and Cai Mingliang were placed at the table closest to the rostrum. plus some crew members and special guests, more than a dozen people sat around a table and sat very crowded.

After all, the best director, screenwriter, and supporting actor and actress account for 6 places (the screenwriter and the male protagonist are both Gu Cheng, save one place). It is also necessary to leave a seat for the person in charge of the lighting soundtrack, and awards such as editing visual effects can theoretically be received by the director, but Cai Mingliang took into account the emotions of taking care of localization, and the assistant director of this film, Yamazaki Gui, did contribute a lot during the filming process, and when Gu Cheng was working on the script, Yamazaki Gui originally wanted to make this film, so it was not good to leave him behind.

Before coming, Cai Mingliang communicated with Yamazaki Gui in advance: If the best editing and best visual effects are awarded, then let Yamazaki Gui take the stage and give him more opportunities to show his face.

This arrangement can be regarded as benevolent and righteous.

Gu Cheng's opposite and the two tables behind him are the crews of "Calling for Love in the Center of the World" and "Swing Girl" respectively. These two films are also the most competitive films in the main competition section this year, and they have also won six or seven nominations, although not as exaggerated as the 14 nominations of "Sunset in the Three Chomes", which is more than enough than other films.

The next two tables are the most suspenseful competition for Best Animated Film and Best Foreign Language Film of the year, Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle" and Eduard Zweig's "The Last Samurai". However, when Gu Cheng took his seat, the two tables were basically empty, and there was no one.

The awards of these two films are more certain than "Sunset in the Three Chomes". Because the Fuso Film Academy Awards have always been very proud of the Oscars on the side of the United States. The Oscars are announced at the end of February every year, and the results are already out a week ago.

"Howl's Moving Castle" has just won the Oscar nomination for the "Best Animation Award" in Hollywood, and it is the overall box office champion of Fuso's domestic film in 2004.

As for "The Last Samurai", although in the Hollywood blockbusters that Fusang participated in that year, the global production and reputation were not as good as "Troy" starring Brad Pitt. But on the acre of three-point land in Fuso, the background of the end of the Edo era and the samurai theme is not too cool.

Every time Daddy is willing to make a samurai-themed movie, the big chaebols on Fusang's side are eager to invest money, regardless of the rate of return, just to expand their cultural influence. When Ken Watanabe was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in this film last year, the entire Fuso film and media circles were in high swings.

"The nominees for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Animated Film are generally not given a separate table, and in previous years, all the nominees for an award were counted at one table. This year, "Ha'er" and "Samurai" are considered special treatment. ”

Assistant Director Gui Yamazaki saw that Gu Cheng had been looking at the two tables that were almost half past five and no one was sitting, so he took the opportunity to explain to Gu Cheng. As a big financier, which filmmaker doesn't want to have a good relationship with Gu Cheng and pull some new investment in the future.

Not long after Yamazaki Gui finished explaining, he saw a bang at the door of the hall, and then the judges in the audience behind him also stood up from their seats, and the scene was much more sensational than when Gu Cheng's crew entered the venue just now.

"It's Ken Watanabe here!"

"Oscar Nomination for Best Supporting Actor!

Many old Fuso men were so excited that they shouted regardless of the occasion.

Gu Cheng saw it in his eyes, and secretly sighed in his heart that when Fusang people faced the "rice country father" culturally, they were still not tough enough.

If you want to completely conquer the cultural circles of Fusang and Dongyi, you still have to start with the Oscar.

Ken Watanabe had cancer very early, and over the years, he has been working hard to make movies while exercising. He's busy, having just finished last month from the crew of Spielberg's "Memoirs of a Geisha."

With Spielberg's Oscar regulars, the post-editing of this film will have to be left for more than half a year, and it will not be released until the fourth quarter of this year. However, at present, the audience in China is already very interested in the information of this film, mainly because this film is played by Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, and Yang Ziqiong, three Hollywood actresses who are very familiar to Chinese people.

After all, Chinese actors have almost no chance to work with top bulls like Spielberg before.

And Ken Watanabe is the male protagonist of "Memoirs of a Geisha".

As soon as Ken Watanabe entered the venue, Gu Cheng could feel that the atmosphere had changed a little, and those very rigid and old-fashioned college judges began to permeate an indescribable sense of superiority. Although he didn't say anything, it was like a blind confidence that "Fuso movies are the first in Asia".

Gu Cheng felt a little unhappy in his heart.

Cai Mingliang looked at Gu Cheng's expression a little complicated, and naturally guessed what he was thinking, and comforted him casually in Chinese: "Don't think too much, after all, we have just started to rise, and Fusang people have been throwing money and resources in Hollywood for many years." The mainland is pushed by people like you, and it won't take a few years to catch up. ”

"Let them be, we are passers-by after all, Fusang's Academy Award is just a stepping stone for us to prove ourselves" Gu Cheng poured himself a drink with relief, and then remembered that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, and added, "It's wrong, it's just my stepping stone, you have won the Golden Lion Award." ”

Cai Mingliang was not polite to him.

After the interlude, the time for the awards party has arrived. The lights in the hall switched to a slightly dim mode, and then the hosts Hiroshi Sekiguchi and Shinobu Terashima took the stage.

Fuso's Academy Award judges are notoriously old-fashioned, so much so that in terms of guest candidates every year, the male hosts are relatively old, and they are generally senior actors in their fifties and sixties. The hostesses should pay a little attention to youth and beauty, and they are all women in their thirties and forties.

When the applause in the audience gradually died down, the hostess Shinobu Terashima took the lead in announcing tonight's process.

In addition to the awards, the Academy Awards ceremony in Fuso will be interspersed with singing and dancing performances.

Generally, a popular singer is found to sing for 20 minutes in a hot scene, and then a few technical awards and the best supporting actor and best supporting actress are awarded first, so as to mobilize the atmosphere of "crested".

Then stuff a bunch of "pork belly" fragmentary awards in the middle, and after the guests are almost dozing off, they will finally refresh themselves with the actor and actress awards, interspersed with 20 minutes of singing and dancing, and finally end with the "leopard tail" of the best director award and the film award.

The whole process is similar to that of the Oscars.

After Shinobu Terashima finished speaking, the popular singer Namie Amuro went up to warm up, followed by the male singer Tomohisa Yamashita, and then it was the turn of Kwon Bo Ya.

Quan Baoya was a little excited, although singing was already her instinct, and she had been on the live TV red and white song party three times, but she really had never been to the academy award ceremony. This kind of occasion is more solemn, rarely uses eighteen or nineteen-year-old girls, and the songs chosen can't be too affectionate, love, and so on.

"I choose "Thousand Sakura", it should be the most suitable, right? Wouldn't it be solemn enough? And it's a new song......" Before taking the stage, Quan Baoya asked Gu Cheng a little nervously. She is not afraid of singing badly, but she is afraid of not being in the situation.

In the past week, Quan Baoya has recorded all four songs that Gu Cheng gave her, among which "Thousand Sakura" is the most familiar and can be sung on the stage.

The lyrics of "Thousand Honzakura" are "nostalgic for the Taisho era of high-spirited growth", so it is not the "house song" that later generations of Chinese otaku thought when they didn't read the lyrics and just watched the house dance.

With a bit of nostalgia for period dramas, and energetic, it is more suitable for the way to find beauty in the past in "Sunset in the Three Chomes".

However, the theme of the song is also destined to not carry too much ideological realm, and it can only be purely nostalgic and warm, not to mention broken and established.

"It's okay, you're the best. Gu Cheng held the girl's hand and asked Quan Baoya to calm down quickly.

The girl gave him a grateful look and went on stage.

This is the first public performance of "Senbon Sakura".

When the accompaniment sounded, the group of old-fashioned academics frowned.

There is a body that wants to hear it, but the body that will become young when it listens cannot.

But the consciousness is very resistant, feeling that this song is a bit young, a bit too heavy with electronic elements.

The so-called mouth suspicion is straight.

However, when the lyrics came out, coupled with Kwon Bo-ah's singing voice, which is known for her vitality and pure spirit, those "mouthful" parts were also erased.