"According to the rules set at the last meeting, the four most concerned awards, Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actor and Actress, are jointly selected by the audience and the jury, and other professional awards are selected by the jury independently." After Shen Chong read the list again from beginning to end, he said: "Let's make a special issue of the Academy Awards according to this list, when will it be done?" ”

"I'm afraid it's too late before the Spring Festival." Chen Baisheng calculated the date and said: "Around February 25th, it should be about the same, before the last issue of "Film Times" in February. ”

"That's fine." Shen Chong nodded and said, "After you do it, hand it over to Lao Luo and let him be in charge, and at the same time print ballots on "Film Times" and "First Film Review". ”

"Okay." Chen Baisheng stood up and said, "Then I'll go first." ”

"I'll send you." When Shen Chong sent him out, he said sincerely: "Brother Chen, thanks to you, otherwise, the Academy Awards would not be able to be held this year anyway." ”

"Don't say that, I'm just doing trivial things." Chen Baisheng humbly conceded and said with a smile: "If it weren't for Ah Chong's planning and investment, where would the Academy Awards come from, I did the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and I didn't have to take a dime, and I did the Academy Awards, with a subsidy of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan per month, if I didn't do a good job, how could I still have a face?" ”

Shen Chong smiled.

He said that without Chen Baisheng, he would not be able to do the Academy Awards, which is not a lie.

If you only do the "Hong Kong Film" Academy Awards, Shen Chong has no pressure, and he can get it in two months at most, and it will never be like now, with a preparation period of four or five months, and he is still in a hurry and makes mistakes everywhere, but what is the point of that kind of Academy Awards? In 1979, there were only four or five films worth mentioning in Hong Kong, and the best movie was judged in a bunch of crooked melons and cracked dates......

At the beginning of last year, when he first acquired "Film Fortnightly", Shen Chong had the idea of creating the Academy Awards, but he has not moved, because without the participation of the mainland, there is not much difference between the early or late awards, so it was not until the film workers' congress in November that he confirmed that mainland filmmakers were interested in participating in the competition, and then launched the preparatory committee for the awards.

After expanding the scope of the award to the entire Chinese-language film circle, the troubles have increased exponentially, the systems of the two sides of the strait and the three places are different, the objective conditions are different, and there are obstacles everywhere, especially in the mainland, there is not even a program-controlled telephone, and it takes a day or two to make a long-distance call, plus the flights are scarce, and the train is slow, what can be done in a day in the future generations, in this era, it may not be possible to do it in half a month.

In just two months, Chen Baisheng organized people to collect information, formulate the selection rules of the Academy Awards, screen the shortlists of major awards, communicate with the Hong Kong City Hall, arrange the details of the awards ceremony, and at the same time help the Hong Kong International Film Festival to do things, keep a good order, and make a shortlist of shortlisted candidates in advance, which can be described as a lot of hard work.

After Chen Baisheng left, Shen Chong returned to the secretariat and said, "Vivian, let Ah Jun wait for me downstairs."

After looking at Gu Liwei for a while, he asked, "Is this year's company's production planning meeting a record made by you?" ”

"Yes." Gu Liwei picked up the phone, dialed the number, and asked, "Mr. Shen, what's wrong?" ”

"Do you remember what the production plan was?"

"Yes."

After she finished calling, Shen Chong said, "Then you find out the plan, and you will go with me to see Run Run Shaw." ”

"I'm going too?"

"When others go to worship the mountain, they all bring a group of younger brothers to make a strong noise." Shen Chong nodded with a smile and said, "I don't have a younger brother, so I have to bring a secretary to make up the numbers." ”

Gu Liwei has been a secretary for more than a month and is already familiar with Shen Chong's speaking style, she smiled lightly, quickly stood up and cleaned up the text on the table, and said, "Mr. Shen, the plan is in the production manager's office, I'll go over and get it now?" ”

"Okay, there you go." Shen Chong looked at the time and said, "I'll wait for you below." ”

Downstairs, after getting into the car, Shen Chong took out the list of candidates for the Academy Awards from his pocket, thinking about it with interest.

According to the practice of general film awards, there are only five shortlists for major awards, and this time the best film got ten, but also to balance the helplessness of the two sides of the strait, Taiwanese films are weak, if there are only five shortlists, before Hou Hsiao-hsien and Yang Dechang mature, within two or three years, Taiwanese films will not even have the opportunity to play soy sauce, and if the sense of participation is too weak, it will weaken the popularity and influence of the Academy Awards in Taiwan.

Although mainland films have been weathered and devastated, after all, the family business is big, and there are three catties of nails in the broken boat, like Xie Jin, Xie Tieli and other old rivers and lakes, and they still have the power to fight again, and at the same time, when making movies in the mainland, there is only political pressure, no commercial pressure, as long as the topic is correct, you can be meticulously crafted, so the quality of the films made is not bad, and it is not lost at all Hong Kong films that are in a period of transition, and the mainland has been shortlisted for five this time, and Hong Kong has only three, which is proof.

The copyrights of Hong Kong's three films, "Crazy Robbery" and "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain", are all Shen Chong's, only "Pointing Soldiers" is not, which makes him a little regretful.

Shen Chong was originally very interested in investing, but before he went to Huangshan, Teddy Robin and Zhang Guoming were still tinkering with musical films, and when he came back, this drama had already started filming - the so-called musical film, not long after the filming started, Teddy Robin ran out of money, so Teddy Robin went to invite his old classmate, Hong Kong business celebrity Liang Li Shaoxia to eat at the Zhucheng Hotel, fooling her to invest, Liang Li Shaoxia is a heroine among women, Yu is very crisp, she borrowed the name of the hotel on the chopsticks, founded a film company called "Pearl City", and then invested a sum of money, Teddy Robin felt a lot of pressure, and after summing up with Zhang Guoming, she gave up the idea of shooting a musical movie and switched to making the best police film, so there was "Pointing Soldiers".

"Pointing Soldiers" has a tight rhythm, a tense plot, exciting scenes, and full of ornamentation, after its release, the box office reputation is a win-win situation, encouraged by this, it is said that Liang Li Shaoxia intends to increase investment, and is ready to shoot a few more dramas in 19du, to become the second oriental charm.

"Crazy Robbery" and "Pointing Soldiers" are both purely commercial films, the shooting techniques and directorial concepts are very novel, but they have little artistic value, while "Empty Mountain and Spiritual Rain" emphasizes artistic conception and light plot, the advantages and disadvantages are too obvious and unlikable to the audience, and it is not easy for them to fight their way out of the encirclement and win the best movie.

The five movies in the mainland have their own characteristics and extraordinary origins, and Shen Chong, as a queen of Ru, is a movie fan, and he has seen almost all of them in his previous life.

"Little Flower" is the collective memory of an era in the mainland, the three leading actors, Tang Guoqiang, Chen Chong, Liu Xiaoqing, are all in the best youth, they are all big names with excellent acting skills, so the whole movie seems flesh and blood, the characters are plump, and they are timeless, and they are still worth watching after twenty or thirty years.

"The Guns of the Secret Bureau" is a successful attempt at commercialization in the mainland, the highest-grossing film in the Chinese film industry in 1979, not to mention the content, just the number of viewers of U billion, the box office of 18 uu, it is staggering......

"Heliocentric Arrow" is an anti-Japanese movie starring Zhao Erkang and Siqin Gaowa, about the Northeast anti-Japanese fighters who were seriously injured and fell behind, and were captured by the Japanese army, he went through hardships, escaped, and then was rescued home by a widow. The standard main theme story, but it is filmed in the deep mountains and old forests, the shooting is real, the acting is natural, and the truth is revealed, which has a rustic charm.

"From Slave to General" is a biographical film of the pioneer Luo Binghui, divided into two episodes, the film is 18o minutes long, because it is a gift film for the founding of the country, so Shanghai Film Studio spared no expense, mobilized the troops of Guangzhou and Nanjing to participate in the performance, and filmed a huge and magnificent war scene, Hong Kong movies can't make this kind of war film anyway.

"Seven Sesame Officials" takes the essence of dramatic art, but is not confined to the stage, closely combines drama and film stunts, and shows strong local colors and exquisite skills in singing design and modeling performance, which is a unique genre of Chinese films, although niche, but very artistic.

In addition to these five, Chen Baisheng also listed the names of the five unsuccessful films in the appendix, they are "Where to Trouble the Sea", "The Battle of Jinan", "Ah, Cradle", "Look at This Family" and "Overseas Child"

"Nezha Havoc in the Sea" is a classic among domestic cartoon classics, a peerless masterpiece on an equal footing with "Havoc in Heaven", Nezha's decisive eyes with a sword and killing himself are Shen Chong's unforgettable memory, he never knew that this was a 1979 movie, if he knew, he would have given the Academy Awards a Best Animation award.

"The Battle of Jinan" and "Ah Cradle" are all movies about the period of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the political confrontation is too strong, and it is reasonable for it to be brushed off by the editors, but "Ah, Cradle" is one of the classic works directed by Xie Jin, and it is a pity to brush it off.

"Look at this family" is a comedy film made up by Chen Qiang and Chen Peisi, father and son, and it is also a reform attempt by Beijing Film Studio to carry out market-oriented creation, this film is very popular in the mainland, but not in Hong Kong, because it has too strong Beijing flavor, in the eyes of Hong Kong people at this time, Beijing is a very strange and mysterious place, so there is no way to appreciate Chen Peisi's comedy jokes in daily life.

"Overseas Child" ...... Looking at the name, you can know the political intention of the Film Bureau to send it to Hong Kong, this is the only movie that Shen Chong has not seen, but he knows the theme song of this film - the famous "I Love You China".

As for Taiwan's "Tales of a Small Town", in front of these films, the business is not exciting enough, the literature and art are not connotative enough, the acting skills are not good enough, and the system is not atmospheric enough, basically the role of accompanying the prince to study, although the scenes of "Legend in the Mountains" are beautiful, but the plot is dragged and the rhythm is slow, which is not liked by the audience than "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain", and it is basically impossible to win the championship.

"Mr. Shen." Gu Liwei opened the car door, sat in the co-pilot, held a Wen Jiàn clip, and said, "This is the Wen Jiàn you want." ”

"It's not me who wants it, it's what you want." Shen Chong put away the list and said: "You review it on the road, and you will explain to Run Shaw later, whether you can invite him to present the award depends on your eloquence." ”

Gu Liwei was taken aback, glared and asked, "Me?" ”

"yes." Shen Chong said with a smile: "You have a good appearance and temperament, it's a pity to be a secretary, I am going to let you be the official news spokesperson of the Academy Awards, practice first tonight." ”

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