Chapter 167: Love Apartment Casting

The Golden Rooster Award is the highest award in the professional selection of the Chinese film industry, which was founded by the Chinese Film Association in 1981 to reward outstanding films and commend outstanding filmmakers.

Well, the prize of the Golden Rooster Award is a copper-plated golden rooster.

The first Golden Rooster Award was held in May 1981 (the Year of the Rooster in the Lunar Calendar), and the golden rooster crow symbolized the contention of a hundred schools of thought and inspired filmmakers to smell the rooster and dance, hence the name Golden Rooster Award.

Since 2005, the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award have been selected every other year, and the Golden Rooster Award has been selected every odd-numbered year. This year is 2007, which happens to be the year of the Golden Rooster Award.

There is no doubt about the quality of the donkey's water, in fact, there are many pheasant awards that have found the Bright Era, claiming to give the donkey the water award, of course, the Bright Era also needs to be properly sponsored, this kind of Su Luo didn't need to tell Gu Cancan, he directly refused.

If you talk about the award and the box office, Gu Cancan is definitely the first choice at the box office, but Gu Cancan feels that this movie is still a bit ideological, and she has long been looking forward to her film winning a weighty award.

"Sister Su Luo, is it possible for us to win the award?" Gu Cancan asked with some expectation.

Su Luo touched her face and joked: "It's hard to say this, maybe it's a two-point possibility." Does Cancan really want to win the prize? ”

"Of course, how to say that the Golden Rooster Award is also the most authoritative award in China. By the way, like various film festivals, have we signed up for our films? ”

Gu Cancan remembered that many film festivals seemed to require production companies or directors to sign up to participate in the selection, such as Golden Horse, Cannes, etc.

Award-winning movies are not necessarily blockbuster movies, but when they do, especially domestic and foreign awards, there are always good bonuses for production companies and individuals, and they have a positive effect on future works.

Su Luo said: "The Golden Horse Award and Ansheng signed up in July, I didn't take it to participate in the competition, the Golden Horse is Wanwan's award, the core of Donkey Water is too ironic, and the people of Wanwan have always been prejudiced against the mainland, if you take it to participate in the Golden Horse, I think it is likely that there will be people who have a heart to make a fuss about this movie, and they simply did not send it to the election." ”

Gu Cancan remembered those ridiculous things in the original time and space, nodded and said, "You are very thoughtful. ”

"For foreign film festivals, the three major film festivals of Cannes, Venice and Berlin all need to wait until next year to participate, and July and Ansheng can sign up."

Gu Cancan waved his hand and said: "July and Ansheng will be released this year, and this movie is not a painful movie that caters to foreign aesthetics, so don't think about these three awards." I remember that the Tokyo Film Festival in Wakoku is coming soon, right? ”

The three major internationally recognized films are the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice International Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival.

Among them, the Venice International Film Festival is the first international film festival in the world. He is known as the "father of international film festivals".

The world-famous "Cannes Film Festival" is known as the "Olympics of the film industry". Once a year, the Cannes Film Festival awards the Palme d'Or and is recognized as one of the highest honors for cinema.

The Berlin International Film Festival, formerly known as the West Berlin International Film Festival, was founded in 1951 and has the highest award being the "Golden Bear". The most important part of the Berlinale is the competition with films from all over the world, which also attracts many filmmakers to try to make their mark at the Berlinale.

In addition to these three international film festivals, there are also Montreal in Canada and Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, and the five of them are also known as the five major international film festivals.

In addition, there are four film festivals in Moscow, Russia, Cairo, Egypt, Shanghai, China, and Tokyo, which are nine A-level film festivals.

There are also two more influential ones: San Sebastian in Spain and Matabrata in Argentina.

These film festivals are known as the top 11 international film festivals in the industry.

Of course, none of these film festivals may have a greater impact than the Oscars in the eyes of ordinary people, but the Oscars are mainly selected for films released in the United States, except for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, which is a film selected by various countries, and the Oscars are not film festivals.

Speaking of this, Su Luo blamed himself a little: "After all, our company has not been established for a long time, and we don't know much about film festivals, and we have missed the registration and selection of many film festivals, and Shanghai International Film Festival has not been able to register, otherwise your film may have more exposure opportunities." ”

"It's okay, I didn't know about it before." Gu Cancan said indifferently: "But we still have to work hard to participate in the Tokyo Film Festival, when is the Tokyo Film Festival?" ”

The Tokyo Film Festival is a well-known film festival in Asia, and if it stands out at this film festival, it will be of great benefit to the distribution of the film.

Of course, based on the relationship between China and Japan, the influence of the Tokyo Film Festival in China is not very large, but to be honest, compared with the Shanghai International Film Festival and the Tokyo International Film Festival, the Tokyo International Film Festival may be a little more professional and influential.

For example, it can be seen from the award-winning works that domestic films account for the majority of the awards at the Shanghai Film Festival.

"We've signed up for the Tokyo Film Festival." Su Luo looked at Gu Cancan and said: "The chances of winning the award at the Tokyo Film Festival may be smaller, but there is a young director competition unit, facing young directors whose works do not exceed 6 or more, and it is very beneficial for July and An Sheng to participate in this, many filmmakers will choose films that they think are good in the competition unit, which will help sell films in foreign markets." ”

Gu Cancan also means this, winning awards is secondary, the movie is sold in a few more countries, and making more money is the key.

Whether it is the Golden Rooster Award or the Tokyo International Film Festival, there is still a period of time before it is held, there is still half a month for the Golden Rooster Award, and there is nearly a month left for the Tokyo International Film Festival.

Gu Cancan is the director, and she is the starring and director in July and Ansheng, so she must attend, and she can only ask the school for leave to participate when the time comes.

"By the way, the casting of the love apartment is underway, didn't you say you want to see it for yourself?" Su Luo remembered one more thing.

It's been a week since the casting of the Love Apartment started, and Gu Cancan specially told Sun Yizhou to participate, so that he could bring a message to the younger brothers and sisters in the school, and the students in the school could also sign up to participate, she remembered that the leading actors in the Love Apartment should still be in school now.

Gu Cancan didn't care about the first test, she still wanted to check it in the second test, at least the leading actors in the original time and space were quite compatible with the role, if possible, Gu Cancan still wanted to use the original team.

It's just that he still has to fly to Shanghai, Gu Cancan feels as if he is busy again.

"Got it, alas, I'll go and ask for leave from school tomorrow."

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The original space-time love apartment is very popular, and the reason for this can only be said to be that the same type is too bad......

In the domestic TV drama market, there are almost no urban love light comedies, and this drama has always been the most popular and the largest market.

Urban light comedy, the requirements for screenwriters are the highest among all dramas, and it requires extremely strong screenwriting standards to be filmed.

Therefore, a good urban light comedy does not need to be at all, it doesn't care whether there are stars involved, it can create stars by itself, such as Friends abroad and The Big Bang Theory. And in China, the most successful is the love apartment.

What do you think, a group of handsome guys and beauties in their early twenties, who hardly have to worry about financial problems, live in big and beautiful houses, go to bars and hang out when they have nothing to do, don't have to take care of the elderly, and the only thing they need to worry about is their love life.

Isn't that the perfect life for today's young people? Just like men's A~ movies, women's Korean dramas have naturally become popular among young people.

Of course, the most criticized thing in it is the plot jokes in the love apartment, many of which are copied from foreign sitcoms, and there are some jokes on the Internet, and even in the setting of several main characters, the character attributes can basically correspond to the few people in Friends, except for the original Guan Gu magic.

This is undeniable, Gu Cancan also knows that Love Apartment is a complex of American and British dramas, and some even have translated and copied the lines, but it is undeniable that these American and British dramas are all comedies of good quality, and all kinds of jokes borrowed from Love Apartment are all from masterpieces.

It's just that plagiarism is indeed a very serious thing, although China does not respect intellectual property rights, but Gu Cancan doesn't want to be scolded by people in the future.

When she decided to shoot Love Apartment, she had already let people from the bright era get in touch with these original works abroad, and she wanted to get the right to remake.

In this case, the producers of these excellent works are also the first time to see each other, they still have some understanding of the general environment of the Chinese entertainment industry, to tell the truth, even if there are TV series in Huaxia that have plagiarized their stalks, it is extremely difficult to hold them accountable, in fact, even in the United States and the United Kingdom, many dramas have learned from each other, some of the concentrated plots of Friends and Happy Family are super similar, and the plot of a certain episode of the Big Bang Theory is also extremely similar to Friends. It is also more troublesome to pursue responsibility for this kind of thing, and it may not be possible to win the lawsuit.

Therefore, Bright Times wanted overseas remake rights, and the people of Bright Times negotiated with them relatively smoothly, and the production company of the key Friends and Daddy and Mom's Romance agreed to the request of Bright Times Huaxia for domestic remakes.

The cost is not too high in Gu Cancan's opinion, the two dramas cost a total of three million, which can be said to be quite cheap.

The other party also thinks very thoroughly, plagiarism and stalk melting are very common in China, and lawsuits may not be won, not to mention the distant eastern country, it is better to sell the adaptation rights, at least you can get an income.

There are also strict restrictions on adaptation rights, but it has no impact on filming love apartments.

With the remake rights of Friends and the romantic history of his parents, Gu Cancan can shoot the love apartment with confidence.

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Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Chen He walked into the scene of the re-examination of the love apartment excitedly, accompanied by Zheng Kai, Wang Chuanjun, Du Qi, they were all classmates.

Among them, Chen He, Zheng Kai, Du Qi are in a dormitory, plus Wang Chuanjun and the four of them usually get along well, and they entered the re-examination of the love apartment at the same time, and the four of them came over with a smile.

Speaking of which, the 2004 acting class is also a star class full of talents, Chen He, Zheng Kai, Du Qi, Wang Chuanjun, Zhao Ji, Jin Shijia, Jiang Shuying, Hailu, Wang Xiaochen, Chen Rong, etc., by the way, there is a very famous one, Lan Yan......

"Hey, Du Qi."

A girl shouted Du Qian and trotted over with a smile on her face.

Du Qian is very handsome, and from a certain angle, he looks a little like Xiaosheng Ren Quan.

The girl looks good, in the film academy, except for a few people, there is no too ugly, she stood in front of Du Qian generously, handed Du Qian a bottle of water, and said with a smile: "Du Qi, how are you preparing?" ”

Du Qi auditioned for the role of Lu Zhanbo.

He was a little uncomfortable in the face of the attentive girls, but they were all classmates, and Du Qian didn't react much, so he had to smile and say, "Okay, Li Yixiao, aren't you going to film?" ”

Li Yixiao is Du Qi's classmate, she already has a drama appointment on her, and she did not participate in the audition for the love apartment. Speaking of Li Yixiao, her later development is okay, the first and second lines are not counted, but the third and fourth lines are still worthy of it, and the most famous role she has played should be Xin Xiao Shiyi Lang, who cooperated with Yan Kuan, she played the amorous Feng Siniang in it, this role has won everyone's love, and it has attracted a wave of fans for Li Yixiao.

It's no secret that she likes Du Qi, the Northeast girl dares to love and hate, and if she likes it, she expresses it generously, and Zheng Kai, Zhang He and others squeeze their eyebrows later.

"Well, we're in for an interview." Du Qi fled a little in despair.

Li Yixiao looked at Du Qi's back a little lost, Zhao Ji and Jin Shijia stepped forward to hug her and didn't say anything.

Different from the Chinese opera Nortel, the students who are in the drama seem to be particularly united, whether it is Li Bingbing Ren Quan, Bao Lei, Xue Jianing, Hu Ge, Yuan Hong, or Chen He and Zheng Kai, anyway, when it comes to the opera, they are a pair or a bunch of names together, and Nortel is most famous for nothing more than Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, and Huang Xiaoming, and the two years before Gu Cancan's rebirth have been rumors. Chinese opera is even more disunited, Zhang Ziyi and Liu Ye don't seem to have intersected, and Bai Baihe and Tang Yan also seem to be old and dead.

"Okay, you guys go in too, it's time, come on!" Li Yixiao raised his fist to cheer on his good friend.

Jin Shijia said with a grin: "Waiting for our good news, see if we take down those characters!" ”

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~~ Miserable, I don't dare to say anything more in the future, my face has been swollen these times......