Chapter 164: Awards
If a comedy wants to win an award, the probability is very small.
In fact, not only comedy movies, but most pure genre films are relatively difficult to win awards.
It is difficult to make an artistic film in a genre film.
After two hours of your time, it's hard enough to think about life, and it's even harder to add comedy!
If you want to win an award, you must either make a literary film or a war movie!
Among the Oscar winners for Best Feature, there are a large number of war films winning awards - the reason is very simple, war films are a basket, any thinking about history and reality can be thrown into it, war is naturally a test of human nature, and the plot narrative and intention can be completed together.
Other types of films, such as science fiction, horror, and comedy, are difficult to complete the narrative routine of this genre, and then go deeper in terms of concept.
Comedy is probably the film that the audience expects most strongly in the genre other than horror films - if you don't play where you should be funny, the audience will be very uncomfortable, and if you don't amuse the audience first, the audience won't listen to anything. Comedy movies are funny if they're not funny.
But if it's funny, you may not be able to take care of your intentions.
Therefore, if a comedy work wants to rely on artistry, it must either be combined with other genres; Or go the path of black comedy, absurd comedy, which makes you want to laugh but can't laugh from the beginning.
Xing Ye rarely wins awards, "Shaolin Football" won the Academy Award, mainly because of the pulling effect on Hong Kong films, telling everyone that Hong Kong films are not dead, from this level, "Shaolin Football" is more of a consolation prize!
"The King of Comedy", Xing Ye's acting skills can be called powerful, but the result is sigh, not even a nomination, especially when he was kicked out of the crew, the uncle who sold boxed lunches insulted him wildly, embarrassed, helpless, and humble laughter...
One actor a year, a hundred years of Stephen Chow, is really amazing!
Ironically, Liang Jiahui won the best actor with his comedy, and the judges said 'there is a breakthrough', but when he came to Xingye, he was just a pompous performance!
I'm speechless...
Zhang Baizhi won the Newcomer Award with "Star Wish" instead of "The King of Comedy"!
Of course, if you can make a great comedy like "Forrest Gump", or an absurd comedy like "Flying Over the Asylum" that analyzes human nature, not to mention winning awards, it is even enough for celebrity film history!
In the original time and space, the ratings and influence of "Wulin Gaiden" are very high, but the major TV drama awards are all scornful of it, and Baosteel has said: The high ratings are not necessarily good shows! Although "Wulin Gaiden" is very popular, it can only amuse, not an excellent work!
Of the three major TV drama awards, only the Feitian Award gave it an excellent TV series award - after all, it has created a CCTV ratings record!
From this point of view, Xiaobai, including the actor award nominated for "Wulin Gaiden", wants to win the award, and the probability is very low...
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In the Name of the People, Ode to Joy, Chinese Relations, Little Farewell, Wulin Gaiden, Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky, and other 10 works were nominated for the "Magnolia Award" for Best Chinese TV Series, of which the first season of "Ode to Joy" was nominated for eight awards.
The hotly discussed "In the Name of the People" and "Chinese-style Relations" each received 6 nominations, and "Little Farewell" and "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky" both received 5 nominations.
Obviously, this year's "Magnolia Award" has a wider range of selections!
The shortlisted works in the TV drama unit include both biographies of leaders and legends of the era, and many word-of-mouth works that focus on realistic themes have emerged.
Unlike last year's Magnolia Award, which was divided by costume works such as "The Legend of Miyue" and "Langya Bang", the vast majority of the shortlisted works of this year's "Magnolia Award" are works with modern and contemporary themes. It is not difficult to see that modern and contemporary themes and realistic themes have become the types of themes that Chinese TV people pay more attention to in recent years.
As an industry vane, an award should be given to those classics that are worth savoring repeatedly and standing the test of time, not just popular hits.
Of course, the most competitive is the best actor and actress and the best TV series.
There are many first-line actors who have been nominated, Sun Honglei, Liu Tao...
The suspense is great!
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The next day, the festival closed.
The award ceremony was held at the Shanghai Grand Theater, and compared with the previous days, the number of stars today was much less, and only special guests and candidates attended.
After a song and dance, the host came to the stage and began to beep, not only in Chinese, but even very international in English: "Good evening everyone, welcome to the scene of the 23rd Shanghai Shanghai TV Festival and Magnolia Award Gala..."
Xiaobai only watched it for a while, then got bored, and lowered his head to text the young lady.
"You're hanging, I estimate that the probability of you winning the prize is basically zero!"
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"I just heard them say that it seems that they are going to award it to us Manchu Gege!"
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The young lady sent a frightened expression.
"It's okay, the Qing Dynasty has been destroyed for decades, and I'm afraid that no matter how lofty our status is, it's useless..."
"Do you have an issue with her?"
"What are you kidding? I don't even know her, how dare I have an opinion..."
The young couple sent WeChat messages to each other, and several awards were also awarded on stage. The Magnolia Awards are divided into four categories: TV Series, Variety Show, Documentary and Animation.
Originally, there were some awards voted by the audience, such as the most popular actor, the most watched TV series, the most potential actor, etc., but then these messes were simply eliminated, and only the actor award and director award remained!
The consolation prizes are all gone!
This is a good thing, the industry is actually very disgusted with so many falsehoods!
The best is the best!
In fact, this Magnolia, many people think that it is "In the Name of the People" PK "Ode to Joy", after all, the ratings and influence of these two films are here!
Of course, it is not impossible for "Chinese-style Relationship" and "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky" to win awards!
Emperor Shi concentrated on Zhang Yi and Chen Jianbing, both of whom are recognized as powerful factions, of course, "Chinese-style Relationship" was collectively absent from 'Magnolia', and it is estimated that Emperor Shi is already in Zhang Yi's bag.
After the view, it was concentrated on Yin Tao, Haiqing, Jiang Xin, and Tang Xiaoyu!
No one from the "Little Farewell" group came...
That's between Yin Tao and Tang Xiaoyu!
As for Liu Tao, it is generally believed that her performance in "Ode to Joy" is unsatisfactory, her lines are not fluent and her speech is slurred, and Andy played by her is considered to be too deliberate and too violent.
As for Jiang Xin, the role of "Ode to Joy" is more like a supporting role!
In the opening more than 30 minutes, the documentary and cartoon have been awarded, and then, there is a relatively important voting award, and a Thai actor in the nursery swayed to the front of the stage, chattering, the chicken and the duck were embarrassed for a while, opened the envelope, and said: "The 23rd Shanghai Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award for Best Supporting Actor, "In the Name of the People", Wu Gang, Zhang Zhijian! â
In the warm applause, the two winners came to the stage, looking excited but a little bland, by the way, Mr. Wu Gang did not come, and Hu Jing took the stage to accept the award.
The next Best Supporting Actress was awarded to Manchu Gege, and Xiaobai smiled a little disdainfully...
The award for the best screenplay was awarded.
The awarders were Yan Geling and Chen Wengui, both of whom are screenwriters of Juniu!
Needless to say, the former is a big player in costume dramas, "Iron Tooth Bronze Tooth Ji Xiaolan" He is the main screenwriter, by the way, we are familiar with "Bao Qingtian", he is also the main screenwriter...
These two people do not appear in public, and behind-the-scenes workers are rarely willing to appear in front of the stage and directly disclose the shortlist.
"He Qing "Little Farewell", Shen Jie "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", Bai Xiaofei "Wulin Gaiden", Zhang Lei "Chinese Relationship", Zhou Meisen "In the Name of the People", Yuan Zidan "Ode to Joy"
The two didn't sell it, and opened the envelope directly: "The master of the best screenwriter, Bai Xiaofei, "Wulin Gaiden"!" â
Chen Wengui didn't give Yan Geling a chance to speak at all, and did everything by himself...
The host added: "Congratulations to Bai Xiaofei for winning the Magnolia Award for Best Screenwriter at the 23rd Shanghai TV Festival, and Bai Xiaofei is invited to the stage to accept the award!" â
"The jury's comment is: 'In terms of form, the style of "Wulin Gaiden" is very avant-garde and fashionable, and the expression techniques used are also collage, irony and parody, which are not limited by time and space, regardless of the classification of the subject matter, dialects, jokes, games, advertising terms, film and television culture, pop music, etc., have a strong postmodernist tendency. However, the play has carefully grasped the "degree of parody", clicked on the various states of contemporary life in the playful irony, and vividly paroded a life state after ideal weightlessness. ââ
Xiaobai was quite surprised, he really didn't expect to win the award.
After accepting the encouragement of the girls, passing by the crew of "Ode to Joy", the young lady got up and gave him a hug as if she had sworn sovereignty.
It was easy to get on stage, took the trophy and certificate, Xiaobai bowed, the two teachers stepped down, and the host came over.
"Is there anything you want to say, Director Bai?"
"Well, it's a great honor to receive this trophy from the hands of the two teachers!"
The reason why people are looking for such accomplished seniors is that they want you to mention it when you give a speech!
Be a man!
Then it's time to give your testimonials.
"Actually, I really didn't think I could win the award, after all, "Wulin Gaiden" is a comedy, and it is also a sitcom, as we all know, our industry doesn't attach much importance to comedy, thinking it's too vulgar, when I was writing the script, I really racked my brains to make it not go in the vulgar direction, but many times, if the comedy is not vulgar, it will look embarrassing."
"Before, some authoritative people in the industry decided that "Wulin Gaiden" was only funny, not an excellent work, of course, there was also something called "postmodernism", which shortened the emotional distance between the work and many young audiences, I don't know this very well, when I wrote the script, I simply thought it would be more fun to write like this, because I am also a member of the young audience!"
"As for me, three years after my debut, I would more or less imitate others when I first made movies and TV series, and "Wulin Gaiden" is the first time I insisted on my own things!"
"I really thought that the judges would also award the award to me, thank them very much, and finally thank the actors, half a year, nested in the film and television city of Xihong City, it's hard for you, especially Xiaoxiao, a shy little girl can play Guo Furong so vividly, you didn't win the award, I'm sorry, but, it's okay, let's make another one, I'll continue to write the script!"
"Thank you..."