Fa Ge didn't know what to say.

When rich people pretend to compare, just listen.

Fortunately, he is also a rich man, so he can barely understand Lin Dong's mood, and Lin Dong's dedication to meat does not seem to be pretending.

"I haven't congratulated you on winning the Best Supporting Actor, it's a matter of time before the actor is the best actor, are you interested in participating in the Academy Awards for "Xinshu Mountain"?" Fa Ge asked.

"I shouldn't be going," Lin Dong found a reason and said, "Xinshu Mountain is not eligible for selection?" ”

In addition to the time limit, the Academy Awards also require films to be longer than 60 minutes, to be ticketed in Hong Kong, and to be screened no less than five times in a week.

This is nothing, many movies in the mainland can actually be screened in Xiangjiang.

What really keeps mainland films out of the Xiangjiang Academy Awards are a few conditions that are simply bizarre.

If you want to be shortlisted for the Academy Awards, first, the director must be a resident of Hong Kong who holds a permanent resident ID card of Hong Kong;

Second, the production company must have a legally registered company in Hong Kong;

Thirdly, the film has at least six work projects for Hong Kong residents, and 16 awards will be awarded: producer, screenwriter, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, new actor, cinematography, action design, art direction, costume styling, editing, original film music, original film songs, sound effects and visual effects.

Only one Heung Kong staff member will be counted for each work item; If more than one composer, lyricist and lead singer of an "original movie song" is a member of Heung Kong's staff, only one of them will be counted.

The above three must meet at least two conditions in order to be eligible to be called a Hong Kong film and to be eligible to be shortlisted for the Academy Awards.

In the early days, when the Academy Awards were still Oriental Hollywood, mainland films would indeed try their best to meet two of the conditions, such as inviting a Xiangjiang assistant director, such as finding a Xiangjiang company to participate in the production, such as more than six Xiangjiang staff.

Now Xiangjiang is not good, and the Academy Awards are not good.

Whoever is even guilty of being cheap to meet your conditions, love it or not, sooner or later the Academy Awards will become inferior to emerging awards such as the Media Awards.

"It's a pity." Fa Ge was silent for a moment, and finally just sighed.

He is now in a respected position and can almost represent the face of Hong Kong films, but he is still powerless to change the rules of the Academy Awards.

"Xinshu Mountain" has Xu Wei joined, and there is also a Xu Wei edited version, but Xu Wei's label in the creation column is the producer, the first priority, so it can't meet the first article.

The second one is not satisfied, "Xinshu Mountain" is an exclusive production and exclusive distribution of Kleist's movie.

"With "Cold War 2", the Academy Awards will be very lively next year." Lin Dong praised the other party, but it sounded more like sarcasm, meaning that there are local snakes like you, did I use "Xinshu Mountain" as a foil in the past?

Fa Ge didn't know if Lin Dong meant this, but he didn't care about it.

He thought very thoroughly, since we are all a family, we will integrate with each other sooner or later in the future, if you really want to eat this bowl of rice, you can simply come to the mainland to work.

It's like in the 90s, there were a large number of mainlanders who used to mix in the entertainment industry.

There's no need to hold it all the time.

"Are you interested in investing in Xiangjiang films, alas, forget it, it's not a Xiangjiang movie, it's all our Chinese films, I recently came across a project, and it feels very good, it's not the same as "Cold War", it's just a lack of investment."

He was talking about Zhuang Wenqi's "No Two".

As early as 2008, Zhuang Wenqi spent two days creating a 10,000-word story outline of "Wuji", but at that time, his work was very unsatisfactory, and no one wanted the script he wrote.

It wasn't until 2011 that "No Two" had a complete script, but filming could not start for a long time.

One is because of the sensitive subject matter, it was not until 2014 that Zhuang Wenqi got the permit to shoot and really began to prepare for this drama.

The second is that the investment is large, there are many big action scenes in the script, and his friends persuaded him to reduce some action scenes and shoot them in a cheap way, but Zhuang Wenqi is unwilling to compromise.

The third is that based on the first two reasons, no boss is willing to invest.

Without money, everything is in vain.

However, Zhuang Wenqi has grown up little by little from the bottom, and the most important thing is toughness.

The three "Eavesdropping" have established his status in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and some people have begun to contact him to give funds, but the current entertainment companies in Xiangjiang are all sluggish, and they really can't come up with any money.

Those who have money have taken it to shoot some legends of the gods and go to praise their own sons.

Don't......

Lin Dong came to participate in the Capital International Film Festival, in fact, to see if there were any suitable projects.

It's a pity that everyone is chatting with him now, two of the three sentences are inseparable from "Xinshu Mountain", they are all asking if "Xinshu Mountain" wants to make a sequel, those who have money want to make a money field, and those who don't have money want to participate in a role.

Now, at last, someone has approached him to talk about the project.

is still the existence of a brother in the film industry - the reason why it used to be was that Xiangjiang Entertainment was no longer good, and many of the things that Fa Ge starred in in the mainland were bad movies.

He is not even as good as Liang Zihui and Liu Furong.

"Let's talk about this movie, is there a simple script or something?"

Lin Dong wiped his hands, there was goods in his stomach, and he didn't panic.

Fa Ge really couldn't get it for a while, but he had already seen the script many times, so he briefly introduced it to Lin Dong at the moment.

"It's kind of like 'The Usual Suspects.'" Lin Dong has watched a lot of movies, and he is not inferior to the native filmmakers here.

"Very Suspect, I've noticed this, so I've looked for it a few times, and there are indeed some similarities in terms of creativity, and there are also in structure, but the plot is absolutely original, and it's more exciting than "Extraordinary Suspects"." Fa Ge did not shy away from this question.

In front of connoisseurs, avoidance is simply messing things up.

If the audience points it out, it will not be admitted, and if it is admitted, not only will the reputation of the director and screenwriter be discredited, but the hard work of hundreds of people for several months will also be lost.

Therefore, it is not a question of whether the mouth is hard or not, it is a question of the rice bowl.

But if you're so hard-mouthed in front of investors, there's really no need to continue.

When talking about investment, you have to follow the investor's words, if he doubts you, even if you don't have such a thing, you can't veto it, you have to prove your innocence.

But "No Two" is really not so innocent, at least you can't say that the creativity is not related.

There is also the final reversal, this thing is really not something that ordinary brains can come up with, and Christopher McCauley, the screenwriter of "The Usual Suspects", won three Best Screenplay Awards for this film: the Oscar, the British Academy of Film Arts Award, and the Independent Spirit Award.

In Lin Dong's mind, it can probably be compared with "Former Destination".