After reading the algorithm article that Shen Chong took out, the editors exchanged heads and discussions, and after half a sound, Lin Niantong, the editor-in-chief of "First Film Review", who had not opened his mouth, said: "Mr. Shen, I don't know mathematics, but since it is specially researched by mathematicians, it must be very scientific and rigorous, but this set of plans is difficult to implement." ”

"Yes, Mr. Shen." Another editor echoed: "First, there are too many movies, nearly 4oo films, and secondly, the way the audience votes is also debatable, if only Hong Kong audiences are the main body to vote, those movies that are not released in Hong Kong will suffer a lot, and if the mainland and Taiwan audiences are included, the collection and sorting of votes will be a very huge project, and this operation is not good for Hong Kong and Taiwan, after all, there are one billion viewers in the mainland, and they can't see Hong Kong and Taiwan movies, so they will naturally only vote for movies produced in the mainland. In this way, the Academy Awards have become the bag of mainland films. ”

"On the one hand, you think things too simply, and on the other hand, you think things too complicated." Shen Chong put down the pen in his hand and said: "It's too simple, does it mean that your political consciousness is too low, and you can't even escape the political struggle in the Olympic Games, can you escape the Academy Awards?" The mainland and Taiwan are now very strict with each other, if we only have a small jury, then how to choose the members of the jury? If there are three mainlanders, there must be three Taiwanese, what if they quarrel? In the end, if Taiwan is not satisfied, they will boycott and not come next year, what should we do? Or if the mainland is not satisfied, and they don't come, what should they do? ”

"To do things, we should have a bigger vision and a long-term vision." Shen Chong continued: "So I want to expand the circle of judges, so that not only can I increase my popularity and influence, but also not fall into the truth, and no one will have anything to say about the awards selected by tens of thousands of people, so as not to fall victim to the political struggle, and guarantee the independence and authority of the awards." ”

"It's too complicated to think about it, and it refers to the collection and counting of audience votes. We have Cinema Times magazine, which runs in the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and we just need to print the ballots for the candidate films in the magazine, let readers cut them out, fill them out and mail them over, and then find an independent third-party accounting firm to count these votes, which is not difficult to operate. As for the number of votes, there is no need to worry about this, according to the mathematical model provided by Helena, after the vote count is over, it will be recalculated again to balance the voting weight of the two sides of the strait and the three places, and will not affect the fairness of the award. ”

When Luo Weiming heard this, he laughed, he knocked on the table with a cigarette, and said, "Boss Shen, do you know what I like most about you?" ”

Shen Chong wanted to have fun and play a treasure, but after looking at the conference room full of people, he suppressed this thought again, and just asked very plainly, "What?" ”

"No matter what you do, you never suffer a loss, and you run the Academy Awards, obviously spending money to make money, but it turns around and around, and finally becomes the advertising award of "Film Times". Luo Weiming said with a smile: "I dare to guarantee that after the ballot is printed, the sales of "Film Times" will definitely exceed 30,000 and become the largest magazine in Hong Kong." ”

"Mr. Shen, we also want to print." Lin Niantong couldn't sit still, and hurriedly said: "Our "First Film Review" is also the organizer of the Academy Awards, and it also has a presence on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. ”

"No problem, you've printed it together." Shen Chong didn't care about this, the fertilizer and water didn't flow into the fields of outsiders, anyway, it was his own industry, he knocked on the table and said, "This matter is settled, and the details will be discussed later." Brother Chen, you continue to talk about the next link, the types of film awards. ”

"We set 12 film awards based on the Oscars and the three major European film festivals." Chen Baisheng pushed open the demo board, changed the content of the page, and introduced: "Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Original Film Music, Best Costume Styling, in addition to these, there is also a commendation Lifetime Achievement Award." ”

Shen Chong touched his chin and was silent.

In history, the first Hong Kong Film Awards had only five awards - Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Actress, and Best Screenplay, which can be described as extremely shabby.

Now Chen Baisheng's awards have covered most of the film content, but compared with the Academy Awards in the mature period of later generations, it is still a bit unprofessional, of course, this is also related to the times, such as the best sound effects, the best visual effects, these industrial technology awards, now there is no way to talk about it.

But there are several awards, and it is necessary to set them up now.

"Last year, there were many talents in the film industry, and there can be two encouraging newcomer awards, one for the best new director and one for the best new actor." After Shen Chong saw Chen Baisheng write on the demo board, he continued: "I also want to add a best action design, kung fu movies are our characteristic genre in China, action design is very important, and this needs to be recognized by a separate award." ”

"I agree with that." Lin Niantong said: "The Dragon and Tiger Martial Master is very hard, and it should be encouraged. ”

In history, the best action design was after Tsui Hark finished filming "Shu Mountain", and after Zhang Che's suggestion, this award was added to the 1983 Academy Awards, but Hong Kong's kung fu movies have a long history and many practitioners, and there is no controversy about the establishment of this award in 19Ru, but another award that entered the Academy Awards in 1983 is now a bit too early.

This award is the best art director, in the history of Hong Kong film, in 19Ru, Tam Jiaming filmed "Love Kills", and the position of art director appeared for the first time, which has never been seen before.

Although there are Shen Chong's butterfly wings, Zhang Shuping was invited to be the art director during "Crazy Robbery", but in the whole of 1979, there was only such a movie with art director, and it was a bit nonsensical for the Academy Awards to set up this award......

After the discussion of the award setting, the meeting was suspended and the break was held for 10 minutes.

Luo Weiming was free and uninhibited, he followed Shen Chong to his luxurious office, asked the secretary to help make a cup of tea, and then sat comfortably on the sand and asked, "Boss Shen, is the Academy Awards an award ceremony?" ”

"Yes, of course." Shen Chong said without hesitation: "Not only do it, but also do it live on TV." ”

"Where are you going to do it?"

"There are only a limited number of venues in Hong Kong that can host large-scale indoor events," he said. Shen Chong touched his head and said, "It's tentatively set at the Hong Kong City Hall, although it's a little old, but for a while, I can't find a better place."

"Also, other places are either too small, or not high-grade, or the business atmosphere is too strong." Luo Weiming said: "However, the building of the City Hall has too many uses, and it is a bit inconvenient to hold award activities. ”

Shen Chong was silent, the Repulse Bay Hotel is still negotiating, and even if it is done, it will take at least two or three years to demolish, plan, design, and rebuild, so the Academy Awards ceremony in recent years can only be made up at the Hong Kong City Hall.

Covering an area of 111oo square meters, the Hong Kong City Hall consists of two separate buildings and a memorial garden, is the first public civic center in Hong Kong, inaugurated in March 19, located in the Central District of Hong Kong Island, managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong, and is an important venue for official ceremonies and celebrations, the swearing-in ceremony of the Governor of Hong Kong, and the welcome of members of the British royal family who come to visit Wèn, are generally held here.

The Hong Kong City Hall consists of two buildings, one high and one low, which contain exhibition halls, a theatre, a concert hall, a gift shop, a restaurant, a recital hall, an exhibition hall, a conference room, a library, and a marriage registry......

Shen Chong's planned venue for the awards ceremony is the concert hall of the Hong Kong City Hall, which has 1,434 seats, which is a bit small but sufficient.

"By the way, please invite Hollywood stars to the awards ceremony?" Luo Weiming crossed his legs and asked very gossipy: "The Golden Horse Award invited Elizabeth, Boss Shen, you are now worth billions, do you have to invite a big star to support the façade?" Otherwise, the live TV broadcast looks shabby, and the ratings can't go up. ”

"Please, yes, please." Shen Chong laughed twice and said, "But I didn't think about who to invite, Lao Luo, which one do you think is better?" ”

"You have a lot of money, why don't you invite two at once." Luo Weiming took the teacup sent by the secretary and said, "Yu Crisp invited last year's Oscar for Best Actor and Best Actress to present the awards." ”

"Who won the award last year?"

"Jon Voight and Jane Fonda." Luo Weiming despised shì and said: "You don't know such important industry news? ”

"These two people are too famous." Shen Chong ignored his ridicule and said: "Although Jane Fonda is a two-time Oscar-winning actress, she is too literary and not eye-catching enough. ”

"Where's Jon Voigh?" Luo Weiming disdained his high vision and said: "He is a famous acting school and is very popular in the United States. ”

Shen Chong was vaguely familiar with this name, as if he had heard it somewhere, so he asked: "I don't have any impression of this person, has he been reported in "Film Times"?" Are there any photos? ”

"Reported, in the mid-April special issue of the Oscars."

Shen Chong opened the bookcase behind the desk, flipped through the neatly arranged magazines, found the target, opened it, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, he stuffed the magazines back into place, and said with a smile: "Although this guy is famous for his acting skills, he also lacks star aura and is not appealing enough, if his daughter comes, it will be about the same."

"He has a daughter?" Luo Weiming was surprised: "What's your name?" Also a movie star? ”

"His daughter's name is Angelina Jolie." Shen Chongyu laughed twice and said, "I'm only three or four years old now, and after the year, the Academy Awards will invite her to present the award." ”

"Damn, you're fooling me." Luo Weiming made an indecent gesture to him, then took a sip of tea and said, "Boss Shen, who are you going to invite?" I prepared the interview in advance. ”

"It's really not decided yet." Shen Chong smiled bitterly and said: "If you invite too many foreigners, it will seem that our Academy Awards are grandstanding, worship foreigners, lose the face of Chinese, if you don't invite, you can't pull fame, and now you are in a dilemma." ”

"That's right." Luo Weiming agreed: "After all, the Academy Awards is our Chinese's film awards, foreigners are too big, noisy, but not good, last year's Golden Horse Awards invited Elizabeth although beautiful, but after she left, the organizer was almost scolded to death, and the media overwhelmingly accused the government of working hard and hurting money." ”

"Lao Luo." Shen Chong drank tea and said, "Let you give me ideas, but you are sneering here."

"I've seen it, you can work for a part-time job, as long as you do things honestly, don't think about any ideas or plans." Luo Weiming said with a smile: "Anyway, racking your brains to come up with something that you think is good, to you, it's all rubbish, you were born to be a boss, I was born to be a soldier, wait for the decision who to invite to present the award, notify me, I will pick up the customer." ”

"It's been awarded, it's been awarded." Shen Chong arched his hand and said modestly: "I'm just a little lucky."

"Winning the ** lottery, winning the bet on horses, and making a windfall, that's called luck." Luo Weiming is older and has a free and easy temperament, and he said with a straight face: "Boss Shen, you are called ability." ”

"Okay, don't be a sycophant, I don't bet on horses, and I won't raise my salary today." Shen Chong smiled and waved his hand, and after chatting for a while, he took the teacup, stood up and said, "Let's go, continue to the meeting, just now we just discussed the outline of a few key procedures, and I didn't talk about any specific details, and I still have to be busy." We strive to come up with a specific charter today and tomorrow, and start the selection process of the Academy Awards from the 1st of the month. ”

Luo Weiming nodded and responded: "It really has to be set quickly, more than two months, for a film award, the time is a bit tight." ”

The core procedure of a film award is nothing more than three - qualifications, award rules, and award ceremony

After the qualifications were changed by Shen Chong, all the details of the light had to be rearranged, and this article alone was discussed for more than three hours before finally determining the registration information of the participating films, the qualification rules of the winners of the relevant awards, and the preliminary selection process of the shortlist.

In the afternoon, the rules of the awards were discussed, and in terms of audience voting, Shen Chong had already said that he would arrange a professional third-party accounting firm to be responsible, so there was no problem in this regard, and the key issue was the formation of the jury

In Shen Chong's view, twelve judges are a bit too few, as he said, in the atmosphere of strict confrontation between the mainland and Taiwan, in order not to offend both sides, there are a few people from the mainland in the jury, and how many from Taiwan have to be arranged, so it is easy to be kidnapped by the government.

The final result of the discussion was to double the scale, invite twenty-four senior film critics and practitioners, and form a jury, as for who should be the twenty-four reviewers, it was a very headache, Shen Chong looked at the time, and decided to break up the meeting and discuss it tomorrow......

"Brother Chen, Editor-in-Chief Lin, and Lao Luo, don't leave yet." Shen Chong stopped the three leaders and said, "I'm in for a treat tonight, let's get together together." ”

"That's what it sounds like." Lao Luo held the briefcase and said with a smile: "Boss Shen has made a lot of money in the United States and Japan, so he should reward us low-level employees." ”

"Lao Luo, don't be greedy." They are all acquaintances, Chen Baisheng also let go, he said with a smile: "Boss Shen has a treat, there is never a good thing, be careful that he sells you again." ”

"He's still useful, and I'm reluctant to sell it for the time being." Shen Chong teased, put the meeting minutes sorted out by Gu Liwei into his briefcase, and said: "Go, go, Wan Chai has opened a new hot pot restaurant, the taste is authentic, I'll take you to try it." ”

"Mr. Shen, you're talking about scaring people, right?" Lin Niantong followed, walked out of the conference room, and said: "I heard that the business there is very hot, and it is difficult to have a place at this time." ”

"Editor-in-chief Lin, you are a monk halfway, and I don't know his details." Luo Weiming pointed at Shen Chong with a smile and said: "I said it all, Boss Shen has a belly of fancy intestines, never makes loss-making transactions, he said tonight that he was a treat, but in fact he was soliciting customers, it was terrifying, it was a store opened by his mother-in-law, can there be no place to go?" ”

Lin Niantong was stunned when he heard this, and immediately fell for it.

Shen Chong also smiled and said, "Lao Luo, why don't you go and eat?" ”

"That's not good, you are a big family, your wife is a big family, and even your mother-in-law is also a big family." Luo Weiming smacked his lips and said: "In short, it is a big eater, no loss, and the scary hot pot tastes really good." ”

The newly opened hot pot restaurant is just a few hundred meters away from the newspaper office building, and the group doesn't have to drive, talking and laughing, and they will arrive soon.

Aunt Liu tinkered with the hot pot restaurant at the beginning, and Shen Chong, in order to please his mother-in-law, in addition to helping to find a shop, he also plagiarized fresh ideas such as mandarin duck hot pot, small hot pot, stone hot pot and so on.

Wan Chai is close to Central, with many office buildings and a large number of high-income people, so the new hot pot restaurant adopts a relatively high-end decoration style, in addition to the lobby, there are many small private rooms.

Shen Chong booked the room early, and when he arrived, he ordered four small hot pots and a few bottles of beer, and the four of them were very happy.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Luo Weiming put down his chopsticks, lit a cigarette, and said, "Boss Shen, I'm full of food and drink, if you have any big deals to do, let's talk about it quickly." ”

"I do have a big deal to do." Shen Chong took the wine glass and said, "But this matter has nothing to do with you, you are here to be a foodie tonight, whether this can be done depends mainly on Brother Chen." ”

"Ouch, you said it earlier, it hurt me to be worried all the time when I ate hot pot just now." Luo Weiming spat out a cigarette, picked up chopsticks with a smile, and said, "I'll eat some more, you can talk." ”

The atmosphere was very lively by him, and Chen Baisheng asked with a smile: "Ah Chong, what should I do?" ”

Shen Chong raised his glass, drank it all, and then said: "I want to take the right to host the Hong Kong International Film Festival from the Hong Kong government, Brother Chen, do you think it is feasible?" ”

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