This year's American Film Golden Globe Awards has come to an end, and Wang Zijun has won a total of two trophies - Best Original Music and Best Actor.

The title of Golden Globe Award actor once again made Wang Zijun's name appear in the public's career.

However, Wang Zijun did not show up to accept the award, because the award ceremony of the cheating father happened to be during the Chinese Lunar New Year, how could he have time to go over? Teresa Teng, who is studying in California, has also returned to Taiwan for the Spring Festival, and Wang Zijun had to let Bruce Lee receive it on her behalf.

The news reached Asia, and the media in Taiwan and Hong Kong began to report on it in the following days. This is the first Golden Globe Award Chinese actor, no matter how big Bruce Lee's name is, he has never won the Golden Globe Award Best Actor trophy. Cheng Long has also made a lot of fame in the West, but let alone winning awards, he has not been nominated once.

Wang Zijun, the actor, is the only one with no other branches. Although Guan Zhilin's father Guan Shan is known as the first international Chinese actor, the actor is too watery, and his influence cannot be compared with the Golden Globe Award actor.

The Hong Kong and Taiwan media, which have been ridiculing Wang Zijun from time to time for more than a year, finally touted Wang Zijun again after the positive report of "Transformers".

This touting will not make people blush, because Wang Zijun's performance in "The Pianist at Sea" is really amazing. A female film critic in The Hollywood Reporter put it this way: "Fall in love with Zackery. The king is a matter of course, because you can't help but fall in love with him. In "The Pianist at Sea," this guy's acting skills have reached the point of being supernatural - he is completely integrated with 1900, Zachary. King is 1900, and 1900 is Zackery. King. ”

"The Pianist at Sea" was very controversial among American audiences, but Wang Zijun finally won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, but it did not cause much controversy.

Wang Zijun's acting skills are there, and some people even say that if it weren't for the skin color, he would have been nominated for the Oscar six years ago.

The screening of "The Pianist at Sea" in Europe and the United States has long ended, and the results are not satisfactory, with a total box office of more than 50 million US dollars. You must know that the various investments in this film are nearly 80 million US dollars, which can be said to be a hit at home.

The budget of 80 million US dollars, in addition to normal shooting, also includes the construction of various hull models, the construction of special studios, and the trial and research of various marine special effects lenses. Many things here will come in handy in the next "Titanic", which will greatly save the expenses of "Titanic".

But the general public doesn't know, they only know that Wang Zijun's investment of 80 million US dollars to shoot the movie, the total box office in Europe and the United States is only more than 50 million US dollars, which is a big failure.

The media that relied on the black Wang Zijun to attract sales also chose to ignore the surname, and began to promote Wang Zijun's box office Waterloo everywhere, saying that Dragon Tiger Films would lose at least $40 million because of this movie.

Some newspapers even directly teased that the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor this time is the most expensive trophy in film history, and Wang Zijun spent $40 million to buy it.

However, another trophy for best original music has won the affirmation of many music lovers. None of Hollywood's biggest movie giants noticed that "The Pianist at Sea" was a box office hit, but sales of its film tapes and soundtracks were growing tepidly.

Movie soundtracks have been around for a long time, but genuine movie tapes have only emerged in recent years, and the movie giants haven't paid much attention to this potentially huge market.

It wasn't until half a year later that other film companies were surprised to find that the profits from the film tape of "The Pianist at Sea" were actually worth an ordinary box office movie.

"The Pianist of the Sea" is indeed niche in some ways, but most fans who really like it will buy the movie tape home and watch it many times. In the long run, the accumulated profits will be very considerable.

After the Chinese New Year, "The Pianist of the Sea" began to land in the Asian film market with the prestige of the two Golden Globe Awards.

The market reaction has once again been polarized, with fans in Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong responding well to "The Pianist of the Sea", while the release in Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea and other countries is not very optimistic, and the theater attendance is extremely low.

Not only that, Taiwan and Hong Kong's pursuit of this film mostly stems from the stimulation of Wang Zijun winning the award. Intellectuals and white-collar workers praised "The Pianist at Sea" as a masterpiece and went into the cinema to watch it over and over again, but ordinary audiences often fell asleep in the screening room.

During this time, Wang Zijun was not the only one who was popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Zhang Mingmin just participated in the first Spring Festival Gala in the mainland, and the song "My Chinese Heart" became popular all over the mainland. However, after returning to Hong Kong, they were unanimously condemned by right-wing newspapers, and the Taiwan side directly blocked Zhang Mingmin and his song from entering Taiwan.

In fact, Zhang Mingmin was not the only one who went to the mainland to sing this time, like Chen Sisi, one of the three princesses of the Great Wall who was as famous as Xia Meng. However, Chen Sisi did nothing, but Zhang Mingmin caused an uproar in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Zhang Mingmin sang a total of 4 songs at the Spring Festival Gala, 3 of which are modern folk songs from Taiwan, these three songs are naturally fine, but "My Chinese Heart" was criticized as flattery to the mainland.

Even Huang Zhan, who wrote the lyrics for "My Chinese Heart", was also included in the ranks of leftist lyricists.

After the Spring Festival, Wang Zijun was about to leave for the United States to film "Titanic", when a guest suddenly came to his house.

When Wang Zijun came to the living room, he saw a middle-aged man wearing a somewhat wrinkled Brazilian suit and carrying a briefcase sitting there, chatting with Zhao Yazhi with a smile.

This person is Chen Bosheng, one of the founders of Hong Kong's "Film Fortnightly" and one of the initiators of the Hong Kong Film Awards.

"Hello, Mr. Wang, I took the liberty of visiting, and I am sorry." When Chen Bosheng saw Wang Zijun coming, he immediately stood up and stretched out his right hand to Wang Zijun.

"Hello," Wang Zijun shook hands with him and said with a smile, "Mr. Chen, please sit casually." ”

"Mr. Wang's "The Pianist at Sea" is really a good film, I have watched it several times......" After saying some compliments, Chen Bosheng said, "This time I came to visit Mr. Wang, in addition to doing an exclusive interview, I also want to invite Mr. Wang to participate in the first Hong Kong Film Awards." ”

Chen Bosheng took out an invitation card, Wang Zijun took it and looked at it, but he asked him to be the guest of honor at the Academy Awards.

Wang Zijun thought to himself, it turned out that he was borrowing himself to attract popularity to the Academy Awards. Anyway, the Oscar and Academy Awards ceremonies are only a few days away, and it doesn't take much time to come back, Wang Zijun laughed and said: "It's rare for Mr. Chen to come to the door in person, and I can't go if I don't go." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Wang, for your face." Chen Bosheng breathed a sigh of relief, the main purpose of this trip was achieved. Although the current Hong Kong film is developing rapidly, its status is still pressed by Taiwanese films, and if you want to open the fame of the Hong Kong Film Awards as soon as possible, it is the best choice to invite Wang Zijun as a guest.

Why did he express his goodwill, Chen Bosheng even sold the broadcast rights of the Hong Kong Film Awards to Jiashi. And the reason why Wang Zijun agreed so easily is also because Jiashi got the broadcast rights of the award ceremony.

After negotiating the matter, Chen Bosheng began to interview Wang Zijun, asking Wang Zijun's views on the new wave of Hong Kong films.

"Film Fortnightly" has been published for three years, and it is the latest and most avant-garde film magazine in Hong Kong, although its sales are not as good as "Ming Pao Weekly", but its influence in the film industry is huge.

As the editor-in-chief of "Film Fortnightly", Chen Bosheng has not personally come out for an interview for a long time. said that it was an interview, but in fact it was more like an old friend chatting, and Chen Bosheng controlled the atmosphere of the interview very well.

"The new wave of films, Taiwan has also been engaged in the past two years." Wang Zijun said in an old-fashioned manner, "It's a good thing for cutting-edge directors to have ideas, and seeking innovation and change is conducive to the development of Chinese films." ”

Chen Bosheng said: "Mr. Wang, your works are also often in pursuit of change, such as this "Pianist at Sea". If it is filmed in Hong Kong and Taiwan, it can also be classified as a New Wave work. ”

"I don't dare to do that." Wang Zijun waved his hand and smiled, "I never thought of myself as a New Wave director. ”

Chen Bosheng asked: "Which of the new wave directors in Hong Kong do you like the most?" ”

"Tsui Hark, of course." Wang Zijun said.

"Why?" Chen Bosheng asked, "Is it because he used to be your assistant director, do you know him well?" ”

"There may be a reason for that." Wang Zijun said, "But I like him the most because his works are closer to the market." In my opinion, if a movie doesn't have a box office, it's not a good movie. And now there is a phenomenon that some cutting-edge directors in order to pursue art and depth, make movies not to mention ordinary audiences, even I am confused, and I don't understand what they are talking about. ”

"Can you give us a specific movie?" Chen Bosheng asked.

"Haha, don't set me up." Wang Zijun smiled, "I won't fall for you, I will offend people if I say this." ”

Chen Bosheng did not continue to dwell on this, and said: "In other words, are you not very optimistic about the New Wave movement of films? ”

Wang Zijun said: "It's not that I'm not optimistic, but everything should have a degree." After all, film is a popular art, and in essence, it is no different from our Peking Opera and Cantonese Opera, but the stage is different. If Peking Opera and Cantonese Opera are played in a profound way, and only a few people can understand the operas sung, what do you think will happen? ”

Chen Bosheng said with a smile: "Then this kind of opera will come to an end." ”

"Not bad." Wang Zijun said, "The same is true for movies, if everyone makes cutting-edge movies, the audience won't buy it if they can't understand it." If you don't buy it, there will be no box office, if there is no box office, no one will invest, and if no one invests, then the actors, directors and photographers will not have enough to eat, and if you can't eat enough, you will have to change careers...... So, it's good that there are so many New Wave films every year, and the box office is the key. I know that those cutting-edge directors think that those of us who only watch the box office are cheesy, in their eyes, the miasma of Chinese films is not innovative, but people always have to eat. ”

Film Fortnight was the stronghold of the New Wave movement in Hong Kong, and Chan was himself a supporter of the revolution of Chinese-language cinema. Listening to Wang Zijun's words, Chen Bosheng felt a little uncomfortable, because Wang Zijun obviously looked down on the New Wave director, but he was not easy to refute on the spot.

After chatting for a while, Chen Bosheng took the initiative to shift the topic to the upcoming Hong Kong Film Awards. After all, this is the first session, and many aspects are not perfect, and it is best if Wang Zijun can give some suggestions.

The Hong Kong Film Awards are said to be borrowed from the Academy Awards, but in fact, many places copy the Golden Horse Awards. The Golden Horse Awards are also imitating the Oscars, but many places have localized. The Hong Kong Film Awards is a combination of the Golden Horse Awards and the Oscars, plus some of their own creativity.

Anyway, the basic things are almost the same, and Wang Zijun can't say any novel ideas, so he can only talk about some details of the Hong Kong Film Awards in his impression, and Chen Bosheng recorded these words carefully.

In fact, even when Taiwanese films declined in parallel space and Hong Kong films flourished, the influence of the first few Hong Kong Film Awards was still weaker than that of the Golden Horse Awards. Some of the people who finally won the awards didn't even come to the Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony at all, and just found someone to collect it on their behalf.

I haven't finished talking about the Academy Awards yet, it's time for dinner. Wang Zijun left Chen Bosheng to have lunch together, and Chen Bosheng was not polite, so he agreed immediately.

However, Chen Bosheng was quickly dazzled by Yingying Yanyan, except for Lin Qingxia who did not come back for dinner due to work, Lin Fengjiao, Zhao Yazhi, Teresa Teng and Audrey. Hepburn sat down at the table one after another.

The picture of the four beauties getting along harmoniously made Chen Bosheng sigh, and secretly envied Wang Zijun's good fortune.

In the afternoon, Wang Zijun took Chen Bosheng to visit the plum garden of Wang's Pictures.

At this time, in addition to several companies under Wang's Pictures, Taiwan's Artists Federation also moved in, and in addition, some companies also rented the vacant floors of the [***] building as offices.

Even so, nearly one-third of the space in the entire building is still idle, leaving Wang Zijun, the charter company, helpless.

Getting off in front of the [***] square, Chen Bosheng looked up at the pagoda-like [***] building, and the needle-shaped spire gave him the feeling of a TV station signal receiving tower.

Although the building is the tallest building in Taiwan, it is nothing in Chen Bosheng's opinion. The 52-storey Jardine Building in Hong Kong was built ten years ago.

Chen Bosheng came to experience the group culture of Wang's Pictures, and wanted to make a special topic to compare Shaw Brothers with Wang's. Wang Zijun sent him to the square and left, letting him feel it alone, which was Chen Bosheng's own request.

Wang Zijun put his collar up to cover his cheeks, and walked alone in the plum garden, admiring the scenery he had created.

Those plum blossoms are in bloom, some have withered, most of them are blooming brightly, and even the [***] square can smell a burst of plum blossoms.

Turning a path, Wang Zijun found that there was actually a crew filming in the plum garden in front of him, look at the sign on their camera, it should be the crew of China Television who came to shoot the TV series.

The plum garden has not been completed for a long time, but it has already become a scene in Taipei, just like the Taipei 101 in later generations, which now attracts the crew.

(To be continued)