The Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award are two well-known film awards in the mainland, and the two will be merged in the future, but in 2007, the Golden Rooster Awards were held separately in Suzhou.

The organizers of the film festival held a press conference in Beijing to announce the list of finalists for this year. Among them, Gu Cancan's "Donkey Gets Water" was nominated for "Best Director", "Best Screenwriter" and "Best Supporting Actress", which can be regarded as a small face in the industry.

However, the most nominated is "The Ballad of Yunshui", which was nominated for eight awards, and the film also achieved good results at the Huabiao Awards.

"So, we're probably going to run together this time?"

In the conference room of the bright era, the people of the bright era are meeting to discuss the Golden Rooster Award.

Gu Cancan listened to their analysis, and the company was not optimistic about winning the award.

Su Luo nodded, pondered and said: "As far as we know, Huayi Public Relations has done a great job this year, and the organizing committee is an expert jury system, so there are too many articles that can be done here." ”

"In fact, there are a lot of strange things in this year's Golden Rooster Awards." The person who spoke was the director of the distribution center, his name was Han Yanbo, who came to the bright era this year, and he was originally a senior filmmaker in Qingying Studio.

Han Yanbo is in his forties, in the original unit, his age is basically hopeless, Qingying Studio is a state-owned enterprise, and the seniority is serious, he saw that there was really no future, and the salary of state-owned enterprises was like that, so he finally made up his mind to resign from Qingying and got the position of director of the distribution center in the bright era.

"I have carefully studied the shortlist of this year, the Golden Rooster Award, as the highest award selected by Chinese film experts, the biggest feature of this year is still that it tends to be the main theme movie, and some small-budget films are also favored. Films such as "Tiangu", "My Long March", "Restless Chickens and Dogs", and "Shambhala Messenger" all cost between 1 million and 5 million yuan, including our "Donkey Gets Water". "The Ballad of Yunshui" and "Tokyo Trial", which were shortlisted for the highest cost among the best films, also had an investment of less than 20 million yuan. ”

Gu Cancan asked, "Where is the strange thing?" ”

"Knowing that the company's films were shortlisted, I deliberately studied the criteria announced by the organizing committee before, and the shortlisted films are required to be films that have been shot and released in the past two years, and this time, in order to highlight this feature, even "Night Raid", which was released at the end of last month, was included in the list." Han Yanbo said: "But "Shambhala Messenger", which was shortlisted for best film this year, and "5 Bullets", which was shortlisted for best actor, have not been released in theaters until now. ”

And in the past, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival was known for its "double yolk eggs", but most of them were movies that had already been released, but this time they even began to select these "eggs in the belly" that had not been released, which does sound a bit unbelievable. Su Luo frowned slightly, and said with some dissatisfaction.

For the Golden Rooster Award, Gu Cancan's memory of the future is not helpful, she has not paid attention to what movies have won awards, and there is nothing about the Golden Rooster Award in her memory, let alone what happened in 2007.

Han Yanbo continued: "In the past, the Golden Rooster Award was still called "expert selection", which paid attention to artistry, but this time, in the list, if you consider the artistry of the film, it seems to be vague. From an artistic point of view alone, many Chinese films have appeared at international film festivals in the past two years, Jia Zhangke's "The Good Man of the Three Gorges" and "East" won awards at the Venice Film Festival, and Wang Quanan's "Tuya's Marriage" also won awards at the Berlin Film Festival. ”

"That's what Director Han said." It was Yang Qi who spoke.

Yang Qi is also an old man in the bright era, he participated in the screenwriting of "Donkey Gets Water", and improved the script on the basis of the script framework proposed by Gu Cancan, Gu Cancan's first step in the movie was to take Yang Chi's nightclub, so she felt guilty about Yang Chi, and usually attached great importance to Yang Chi, the screenwriter of "Donkey Gets Water" signed by Yang Chi was Yang Chi in the first place, so the best screenwriter nomination for the Golden Rooster Award this time was Yang Chi.

Yang Qi was grateful to Gu Cancan and the bright times from the bottom of his heart, and when he learned that he had been nominated for Best Screenwriter, he was quite happy and excited, and he had done a lot of work, and then he found out that the nomination for this year's Golden Rooster Award was very weird.

"There seems to be a convention for the Golden Rooster Awards." Yang Qi said slowly: "The Golden Rooster Awards seem to be very exclusive to commercial blockbusters over the years, I looked at this year's list of nominees, among the commercial blockbusters, only Zhang Zhiliang's "Ink Attack" was shortlisted for the Best Director and Best Music awards, and Feng Xiaogang's blockbuster "Night Banquet" was shortlisted for 4 awards, but they were all small awards. Feng Xiaogang had a festival with the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, and his commercial films were not recognized by the judges of the Golden Rooster Awards, but he always won the Hundred Flowers Awards. The list of nominees this time once again shows that the Golden Rooster Award is not waiting to see Feng Xiaogang. What's even worse is Zhang Yimou's "The City is Full of Golden Armor" and "Crazy Stone" that "everyone who reads it says it is good", they were shaved alive and bald, and they were not shortlisted for any awards. ”

And this year, Huayi has been nominated for a total of 18 awards, and there are only 18 awards in the entire Golden Rooster Award. Hua Yi did too much, too high-profile. ”

"Since the 2005 Golden Rooster Awards were opened to Hong Kong films, the selection of these two years will see some Hong Kong heavyweight films, such as Jackie Chan's "Police Story" the year before last, "Kung Fu" and "Myth" last year, and they were all shortlisted for Best Film, although in addition to Jackie Chan, several other films have become "foils", but this year Hong Kong films are not even qualified as "foils". ”

"Yes, yes. In this year's list, only Cheung Chi-leung's "Ink Attack" (best director) and Rene Lau's "Serial Game" (best actress) were nominated for major awards, and neither film represented the best of Hong Kong cinema last year. In terms of box office, these two films are not as good as Liu Weiqiang's "Wounded City", and artistically speaking, they may not be better than Peng Haoxiang's "Isabella", so if the Hong Kong films shortlisted in the first two years still have a certain competitiveness, then the Hong Kong films shortlisted this year have completely fallen from foil to embellishment. ”

"Hehe, the difference between Hong Kong's Academy Awards and Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards is this virtue, even if the quality of mainland films in these two awards is high, they can't compete with local ones."

For a while, everyone was lively, and they expressed their views on the Golden Rooster Award.

Originally, this was the monthly middle and senior leadership meeting of the bright era, and it became a tea party for everyone to discuss and complain about the Golden Rooster Award.

Su Luo and Gu Cancan didn't stop it, listening to everyone's opinions with a smile, and finally Gu Cancan clapped his hands, focusing the attention of everyone who was discussing passionately on himself, and said with a smile: "So, this time, it's not bad for us to get four nominations." In any case, this is also the first time that our bright era has appeared at the largest film festival in China, and this is also an opportunity to enhance the influence of the bright era. ”

This is the proper meaning, and everyone naturally agreed.

After the meeting, Gu Cancan stopped Yang Qi.

Yang Qi was originally not enough to participate in this meeting, but he himself was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Screenwriter, and Gu Cancan also called Yang Qi to him.

Following Gu Cancan to her office, Yang Qi silently speculated about Gu Cancan's intention of calling him here.

"Screenwriter Yang, I'll get straight to the point," Gu Cancan poured a glass of water for Yang Qi and said: "Some time ago, you handed a script to the company, I read it, the content I think is very good, I think the company can shoot." ”

"Great!" Yang Qi clapped his hands excitedly, and his joy was overflowing: "Thank you, thank you, Mr. Gu!" ”

He didn't know that Gu Cancan was sighing in his heart at this time, and there always seemed to be an invisible hand in time and space silently revising the direction of history.

Yang Qi became famous through "Nightclub" in the original time and space, and then filmed the blockbuster "Hot Pot Hero". But in this time and space, because of Gu Cancan, he lost "Nightclub", although Gu Cancan gave him a lot of income, but he still lost his fame in the original time and space.

In the bright era, Yang Qi participated in the screenwriting of many plays, and he could feel that Gu Cancan valued him, although he didn't know why, but it still felt good to be valued.

Under such circumstances, Yang Qi is full of energy, not only trying his best to complete his work tasks perfectly, but also writing scripts by himself in his spare time.

For this situation, in fact, the bright era is also supported, if it is a script written by a screenwriter in the company, as long as it is above the horizontal line, it will be prioritized. A screenwriter in the company created a script for an urban emotional drama, although in Gu Cancan's view, it is all a bloody routine, but at least it is a qualified script.

Yang Qi created a script by himself and handed it over to the company for review, and the script was sent to Gu Cancan as soon as possible.

When Gu Cancan simply flipped through it, his mood was quite complicated.

The inertia of history, Gu Cancan looked at a familiar plot and thought to himself, isn't this the hot pot hero?

What I didn't say, shoot, must shoot!

The movie "Hot Pot Hero", Gu Cancan likes it very much, whether it is the actor or the plot, it can be regarded as a good work.

Its story takes place in Chongqing from beginning to end, and most of it is in a Dongzi hot pot and silver horn. This is not only the background of the film's story, but in fact the protagonist of the story. The boiling red oil hot pot and the rain-drenched Chongqing have become another meaningful urban space outside Hong Kong in the eyes of Gu Cancan, a foreigner.

"It's so good, I thought there was violence and crime in the plot, and the company wouldn't agree to it." Yang Qi happily looked like a child of one hundred and sixty pounds.

Because of the special national conditions, "Hot Pot Hero" has fallen into some kind of predicament almost from the moment Yang Qi's brain was born, it takes crime as the main line, full of black elements, the protagonists have to go deep into it, wander on the edge of the scale, and constantly provoke conflicts, but they must retreat decently in the storm, reasonable, and legal.

Gu Cancan habitually curled his fingers and tapped on the tabletop, and said in a deep voice: "This part of the plot is indeed not easy to pass the review, but as long as you grasp it well, it should still be able to pass the review." There is a lack of this kind of crime drama with black humor in China, as long as it doesn't pass the line, in the end, what will happen, justice will win, I think there is no problem. The key is the choice of actors, and who will direct it. ”

After saying this, Gu Cancan paid attention to Yang Qi.

If it is said that a role is assigned to a certain actor, this kind of thing is at most that the actor's acting skills are too poor to make people play, and the role is ruined. But if the director chooses the wrong one, the whole movie will be ruined.

In the original time and space, "Hot Pot Hero" was directed and filmed by Yang Chi, but at that time he already had considerable directing experience, and although Yang Chi had been with the team here, he had no experience as a director.

Gu Cancan is willing to let Yang Qi be the director of the hot pot hero, even if he doesn't have much experience, but the premise is that Yang Qi himself is willing, he has the idea of being a director. As long as he is willing, Gu Cancan is willing to take the risk of project failure, which is what Gu Cancan owes Yang Qi.

Of course, Gu Cancan will not be forcibly assigned, in case Yang Qi doesn't have the idea of being a director, catching ducks on the shelves may make things very bad.

Yang Qi has his own ideas, he seems to have made up his mind, and said to Gu Cancan seriously: "Mr. Gu, the story takes place in Chongqing, my idea is that the starring actor should find an actor from Chongqing who was born in Chongqing, and the actor in the film speaks Chongqing." ”

As for the filming location, of course, it is Chongqing, only Chongqing can find the Dongzi hot pot described in the script, those criss-crossing air-raid shelters, and the magical three-dimensional steel jungle.

Gu Cancan has liked this city since the filming of "Crazy Stone", although the food in Chongqing is almost not spicy, although the road is almost flat, but this is the unique charm of the river city of Chongqing.

Of course, she would not deny Yang Qi's idea.

"Mr. Gu, starring me, I think Chen Kun is very suitable." Yang Qi didn't have the confidence to say.

Even the leading actor has been thought about, if you want to say that Yang Qi does not have the idea of directing in person, Gu Cancan does not believe it.

She smiled: "Screenwriter Yang, you have thought about the starring role, have you considered the composition of the shooting scene?" ”

Yang Qi's little eyes were opened to the maximum, he heard the meaning of Gu Cancan's words, and rubbed his hands a little excitedly and nervously: "I've thought about it!" ”

After being silent for a while, Yang Qi solemnly said to Gu Cancan: "Mr. Gu, I want to be the director of this movie, in fact, I have experience as a director, and I promise to do my best to make this movie well!" ”

Then he seemed to hear the sound of heaven.

Gu Cancan said, "Okay." ”

Then she smiled and said, "Chen Kun will also participate in the Golden Rooster Award, and I just found an opportunity to talk to him about it." The details of the script still need to be polished, screenwriter Yang, you polish it again, and the project will be established when I come back. ”