After eating, Zhou Comin was called to the room by Chen Huiqing alone to give instructions, and when he came out, he happened to pass by Lin Youlun's study, and when he saw that the lights inside were still on, he pushed the door and walked in.

Lin Youlun raised his head when he heard the footsteps, and when he saw that it was Zhou Comin coming in, he stopped what he was doing and stood up, walked over and took Zhou Comin's hand to the side and sat down on the sofa.

"Didn't bother you, did you?"

"The list of nominees for this year's Academy Awards has come out, and they faxed a copy over for me to see, and there is basically no problem." Lin Youlun raised his hand to help Zhou Yimin brush the messy hair in front of his forehead, and asked with a smile, "Do you have something to tell me?" ”

Zhou Comin's mind had already been attracted by the shortlist of the Academy Awards, and he came back to his senses when he heard Lin Youlun's words.

"Are you serious about going to Thailand?"

"What, you don't want to go?"

Zhou Yimin hurriedly shook his head, "No, I mean it's really okay like this?" ”

"Of course it doesn't matter, it's up to me to decide how this movie is made, if you really care about this, then I'll arrange a role for you in the movie that doesn't have many appearances, so that the two of us can legitimately go on vacation together."

Lin Youlun said so, but he had another plan in his heart.

"The Hangover 2" inherits the style of the previous work, it is still a funny story of three men getting drunk and making trouble, the content of the movie is very interesting, but the filming process is relatively boring, especially when facing Huang Zhan and Cai Yan all day long, Lin Youlun feels really boring.

If Zhou Comin can accompany him over, not only can he have someone to talk with him when he is bored. In addition to shooting, you can also travel in groups. The whole trip to Thailand will be much easier.

Zhou Yimin has no objection to Lin Youlun's arrangement. After finishing the discussion of this matter, she then asked about the Academy Awards.

Lin Youlun got up and returned to his desk, took a fax and handed it to Zhou Yimin.

"Well, see for yourself."

Zhou Comin quickly glanced at the shortlist, and his first feeling was why there are so many names of Wang Jiawei?

Lin Youlun is also very helpless about this result, if it was placed in previous years, he might still press Wang Jiawei, but this year's situation is more special.

First, there are indeed not too many outstanding works in Hong Kong films in 94. Second, Wang Jiawei, who has always been known for his procrastination in filming, actually broke out a little last year, with two movies released at the same time, and the quality level can be called a small peak in his directorial career.

So there is no doubt that both films were nominated for this year's Academy Awards at the same time, and both became competitors in multiple awards.

In the history of the Academy Awards, it is not uncommon for an actor to be shortlisted for a certain award at the same time with different films, but it is rare for the same director to be shortlisted for the same award with different works, and he and himself play against each other.

Wang Jiawei can be regarded as breaking a record, and the two movies that helped him be shortlisted are called "East Evil and West Poison". One is called "Chongqing Forest".

The drama "East Evil and West Poison" dragged on for nearly two years, and some people even joked that this movie dragged Lin Jianyue's Huanya down alive. previously cheated Deng Guangrong, followed by Lin Jianyue, Wang Jiawei can be regarded as a "nightmare" for Hong Kong film investors, many people avoid him, but some people don't believe in this evil.

After the suspension of production, Media Asia was quickly resold, and many people thought that the movie "East Evil and West Poison" would either die abruptly, or change the director to cut the clips of Wang Jiawei and release them indiscriminately, with so many big-name stars, at least a little cost can be recovered.

But what everyone didn't expect was that Boss Yang, who took over Media, actually chose to continue to support Wang Jiawei, and "East Evil and West Poison" was successfully filmed.

Of course, that Boss Yang is not a fool, he is willing to do this, in fact, he still takes a fancy to "East Becomes West", which has the same cast as "East Evil and West Poison", when Liu Zhenwei finished filming this movie, the investment company at the beginning of the film still played the LOGO of Media Asia, but when this movie was really released, it had been replaced with the logo of the new company.

Liu Zhenwei's nonsensical comedy, which took more than a week to shoot, caused a huge sensation when it was released in February 95, and the box office swept more than 30 million in just half a month.

Of course, in the eyes of professionals, the success of Liu Zhenwei's movie is actually a coincidence, and such box office results do not mean that this is an excellent comedy.

The main reason why this movie can sell well is that in the early 95 years, Chow Xingchi Comedy, who was supposed to dominate this schedule, was absent for various reasons, so that there was a big gap in the entire Hong Kong comedy film market.

What is really strange is Liu Zhenwei's own attitude towards this movie, when he said in an interview with the media: "If you ask me which movie I like the most, I can't tell, but the one I hate the most is "East Becomes West". ”

In any case, "East Becomes West" has been a huge success at the box office, while "East Evil and West Poison" with the same cast only earned more than 10 million at the box office, which is still for some audiences to spend money to buy tickets and go to the cinema to kill time for the sake of such stars, otherwise the box office of this movie will only be worse.

As early as the time of "The True Story of A Fei", the audience already knew that Wang Jiawei was a guy who liked to sell dog meat on the head of a sheep, according to the publicity before the release, that movie should have been an action shootout movie, but the audience who walked into the cinema after the most was very depressed to find that this movie fired one shot or two robberies from beginning to end, which was completely inconsistent with action movies.

In "East Evil and West Poison", Wang Jiawei continued to carry forward this style, there are basically no martial arts scenes in the film, replaced by a large number of incomprehensible character dialogues, and the audience who watches martial arts films will definitely be disappointed, but in the eyes of professionals, the difference in this movie that shows great skill can be called a model of Hong Kong literary films, especially the part where Zhang Yurong and Liang Jiahui sit and drink water opposite each other, outsiders look very interesting, but the parties do not enjoy it so much.

When filming this scene, Liang Jiahui and Zhang Yurong both drank water until they wanted to vomit, and they only filmed the effect that satisfied Wang Jiawei after the last time, and it was simple to change to Liu Zhenwei, the actors can write, direct and act by themselves, wear ancient costumes, dance cha cha, and even the songs they sing are temporarily made up by Zhang Yanrong on the spot.

During the days when the two dramas started filming at the same time, "East Becomes West" was filmed in the morning, and "East Evil and West Poison" was filmed in the afternoon, one side was desperately funny, but the other side was serious and dull to death, and the actors were tortured to some signs of schizophrenia.

Among them, the most tortured is Lin Qingxia, she plays two roles in "East Evil and West Poison", others are only split once, she has to split twice.

Among the many big-name leading actors, the only one who did not suffer from this was Wang Guxian - because Wang Jiawei's filming progress was too slow, when she finished filming "East Becomes West", "East Evil and West Poison" only filmed one of her films, and the schedule she could leave to Wang Jiawei has ended.

In the last "East Evil and West Poison", only one side shot of Wang Guxian appeared, and in less than two seconds before and after, only the most attentive fans could find it.

After the film was released, a reporter interviewed Wang Jiawei and asked him why he wanted to give Wang Guxian so few scenes, Wang Jiawei told the truth, but it didn't take long for him to change his words and say that there will be an ultimate version of "East Evil and West Poison" in the future, which will definitely increase Wang Groupxian's role.

Wang Jiawei himself explained that this decision was made in response to the strong request of fans, but there is another theory circulating in the market - because there is no shot of Wang Guxian, Lin Youlun was very unhappy after watching "East Evil and West Poison", and asked people to bring a message to Wang Jiawei and let him watch it himself.

The truth of the matter is not so complicated, and the main Wang Jiawei himself feels very sorry for Wang Guxian.

Because at the beginning, the investor of this film was Media Asia Film Company, with the bad relationship between Lin Jianyue and Lin Youlun, Wang Jixian was able to agree to star in Wang Jiawei did give Wang Jiawei a big name, and she was asked at the beginning of this play, and she replied happily: "I usually don't take on a lot of group plays, I completely trust the director of this play, so I will take it." ”

In fact, Wang Jiawei himself is quite aggrieved, the all-star lineup of "East Evil and West Poison" looks luxurious, but the operation is very headache, Wang Jiawei himself is not the kind of director with high filming efficiency, and these big stars are busier than one another, like Lin Qingxia is rolling several dramas at the same time, and the schedule left for this drama is originally very limited, everyone comes and goes, and the shots are just some very fragmentary shots, and then only Zhang Yurong's shots are relatively complete, Therefore, Wang Jiawei designed the structure of the film to tell the stories of different characters in the tone of Ouyang Feng.

This made the editor of the film suffer, and it was Tan Jiaming who cut the film for Wang Jiawei at the beginning. The very famous literary film director in Inspur Movies is also half of Wang Jiawei's master, who was sent to the United States at wireless public expense to learn film editing skills, and "The True Story of A Fei" was handled by him.

It stands to reason that this cooperation between the two should be very pleasant, but in fact, the two sides broke up unhappily in the end.

The reason is that Wang Jiawei took Tan Jiaming's cut film and gave it to others to "hold" and "hold", which made Tan Jiaming very unhappy, and he thought that even if Wang Jiawei was not satisfied with his cut film, he should find him to revise it.

After that, Wang Jiawei also asked Tan Jiaming to cut other movies, but Tan Jiaming was no longer willing to help, and because of this, Tan Jiaming's name was not seen in the shortlist of this year's Academy Awards. (To be continued......)