Golden Horse Awards, backstage.

The award ceremony has all ended.

When the Best Film Award was finally awarded, Wu Yuan, who had just won the award, was invited to the middle of the stage as soon as he got off the stage, and he really didn't have anything to say, and his acceptance speech was just a few words of thanks, handing over time and space to the rest of the crew.

Song Dandan and Fan Wei said a lot on stage, and even shed tears on the scene for a while, which brought a warm end to this year's Golden Horse.

After the live broadcast of the award ceremony, there will be a backstage interview.

When he got to the backstage, Wu Yuan couldn't escape, and he couldn't fool around with a few casual words of thanks.

Holding seven or eight microphones in his hand, Wu Yuan smiled and said reservedly: "It's an honor, I didn't expect me to win the best director and the best film in a row." ”

"Thanks to the love of the Golden Horse jury, I didn't expect that the jury would be so brave and award the best director and the best film to us, the mainland film crew."

"As a local film award on Taiwan Island, it is really courageous for the jury to withstand such a lot of pressure and make such a fair and just review, and I believe that the Golden Horse Awards will get better and better in the future and become the vane of Chinese films."

Golden Horse really dared to award the three most valuable awards to the crew of "Li Wen" from the mainland, so of course Wu Yuan would return the favor and praise Golden Horse without hesitation.

"Then Director Wu has considered coming to Taiwan Island to make movies in the future, Taiwan Island also has a lot of very good scenery and a group of excellent actors." A local reporter from Taiwan asked.

"Absolutely." Wu Yuan nodded: "I have always wanted to cooperate with excellent Taiwanese actors, and I also want to come to Taiwan to make movies, but I have never had the right opportunity." ”

"My career as a director is still early, just getting started, and I believe that I will have the opportunity to come to Taiwan in the future to make movies and work with Taiwanese actors."

"The results of the Golden Horse Awards were announced, and the local film "Cape No. 7", which is highly anticipated by Taiwanese people, won a number of awards such as Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Film Music, Best Original Film Song, Best Film Voted by the Audience, and Outstanding Taiwan Film of the Year."

"But in the end, he hated the award, and the best director and best feature film were both lost to "A Man Named Li Wen Decided to Die", and the audience was disappointed."

The main newspapers on Taiwan Island also used "hate" and "loss" to describe the fall of the cape on the front page. ”

But most media and critics thought the results were objective, and "the cape is just a starting point." ”

"According to the home advantage, why did "Cape No. 7" lose to "A Man Named Levine Decided to Die"?"

According to the jury of the Golden Horse Awards, "Cape No. 7", which was burdened with many expectations, was finally dropped because it did not meet the high standards of the judges "every frame must be complete", and missed the two most important awards of "Best Picture" and "Best Director". ”

Chen Kunhou, the convener of the final selection review, admitted frankly that as a native of Taiwan, he was indeed under pressure when deciding the result, but he only had one vote, and there was no way.

Noon on December 7, 2008.

Wu Yuan, who landed in the capital, was flipping through the latest issue of the newspaper that his assistant bought from a street newsstand.

There is no doubt that the Golden Horse Awards, which just ended last night, have become the front page headlines of the entertainment pages of various newspapers.

Not only in the mainland, but before boarding the plane on Taiwan Island, Wu Yuan had already read the local newspapers on Taiwan Island.

After "Haijiao No. 7" finally lost to itself in Best Director and Best Feature Film, the headlines of the Taiwan Island newspapers in the morning made headlines based on this, using words such as "drinking hatred" and "painful loss", and the disappointment can be seen.

However, most Taiwanese media believe that the evaluation of the Golden Horse Awards is fair, and call the Golden Horse Awards' awarding of the Best Film and Director Awards to "Li Wen" and Wu Yuan "brave", and frankly admit that the Golden Horse Awards are under pressure to shatter the dreams of the whole people.

A professional film critic wrote an article in the newspaper and pointed out: "Not only did Taiwan films once again miss the highest honor of their own film awards, but it also seemed to wake up Taiwan people with a slap in the face." ”

"The box office of 450 million (NT$) does not guarantee the recovery of Taiwanese films, and if Taiwanese films want to really win the hearts and minds of the competition, "Cape" is just a starting point."

I have to say that the professional film critics on Taiwan Island are really sober.

No matter how much passion passes, you have to face reality after all.

The box office of "Haijiao No. 7" in Taiwan is NT$450 million, which is indeed a miracle for the small market of Taiwan, but it is nothing if it is put into the entire Chinese film market.

Not to mention that compared with "Li Wen", which won the Golden Lion, even compared with "Casting Names" in the original time and space, in the end, "Cape No. 7" could not win this award.

Although Wu Yuan doesn't like "Casting a Name", he feels that "Casting a Name" is spending a lot of money to do small things, and hundreds of millions of dollars have made a movie with a small pattern, the classic Hong Kong Island small family style.

But compared with the smaller Taiwanese movies, "Casting the Name" is still ahead.

Not to mention comparing it with "Li Wen", which can compete with other countries internationally.

Unless Taiwan Island calls Li Yu to PK with Wu Yuan, he dares to say that there is no one in the entire Taiwan Island market who can fight.

Fans on Taiwan Island are also more sensible, and on the Internet that night, "Li Wen" and Wu Yuan also won the support of most of the local netizens on Taiwan Island, saying that they deserved their name.

Of course, half of the netizens on Taiwan Island shouted for Wei Desheng and shouted pity.

In contrast, in the mainland, "Li Wen" won four awards for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture.

On the Southern Metropolis Daily that Wu Yuan is holding in his hand at the moment, a professional writer commented: ""Haijiao No. 7" is just a commercial entertainment film, and the connotation is still lacking. The judges seemed to be wise in the end. ”

Wu Yuan smiled proudly, his heart full of emotion.

The self-confidence of mainland films can be regarded as cultivated by him.

If there is no Wu Yuan, the current Chinese film industry should be an era of competition between Hong Kong Island films and Taiwan Island films.

Although "Casting a Name" is said to be a co-production between the mainland and Hong Kong Island, in fact, from the director to the starring actor to the entire crew, all of them are Hong Kong Islanders.

The most brilliant is only the vase heroine played by Xu Jinglei, and her role is not more than half of the three leading actors.

On the original trajectory, the current mainland films are inferior, except for China Film and other companies that have a lot of money in their hands, the actors can't take it, the screenwriters of commercial films can't take it, and even the crew can't take it.

They can only wear the fig leaf of a co-production and participate in the competition for the Hong Kong Island Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards.

From industry insiders to ordinary movie fans, they all believe from the bottom of their hearts that the film industry in Hong Kong and Taiwan is better and more professional than that of the mainland, and if professionals from Hong Kong and Taiwan can be invited to the same position, the salary can be three or five times that of the mainlanders.

Wu Yuan can also understand that in the development of commercial films, the mainland really started late and needs to pay tuition fees to Hong Kong and Taiwan.

But since "Hero", I've been studying for five or six years, not to mention being able to become a teacher, at least I can start trying to develop independently, right?

But the capital of the mainland still habitually thinks that everything in Hong Kong and Taiwan is good, and they want to spend several times the money to invite Hong Kong and Taiwan actors and Hong Kong and Taiwan directors, and they don't need mainland actors and directors at all.

Feng Xiaogang is the only one who has the courage to use mainland actors as the leading actors, and has the courage to use the "whole mainland class" to make movies.

This is also why Wu Yuan and Feng Xiaogang have a good relationship, unlike other directors in the circle, who look down on Feng Xiaogang.

At least in this regard, people are much tougher than Zhang Yimou.

But now it's different, in this life, because of Wu Yuan's birth, he insisted on using the crew team he cultivated, using mainland actors to film, Wu Neng won the box office, Wen Neng won international awards, and told mainland fans that mainland actors, directors, and crew teams can also make excellent movies.

The self-confidence of mainland movie fans has increased exponentially under the stimulation of Wu Yuan's excellent Chinese films year after year.

After "Li Wen" won the Golden Horse Award for Best Film this time, mainland netizens rushed to tell each other on the Internet, competing for praise, and were happy.

No one thinks that "Li Wen" does not deserve this award, and no one thinks that Chen Kexin's "Casting Names" and Taiwan's "Cape No. 7" are more worthy of winning the best film than "Li Wen".

Among the three excellent works in the mainland, Hong Kong Island, and Taiwan Island, mainland fans have "their own family" to support, and "their own family" also stood out and won the crown!

"Director Wu, okay." Also like Wu Yuan, Zhou Xun, who waited in the airport lounge to clear up outside before leaving, casually flipped through these newly released newspapers, and said happily and peacefully: "You are about to be blown into a god by the mainland media." ”

"The hope of Chinese films, the most outstanding directors of the new generation in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the business card of Chinese films in the world, look at these titles."

"It's a pity, you won't continue to direct "Painted Skin 2", otherwise I can still rub your light."

This time going to the Golden Horse Awards was not a good experience for Zhouxun.

"Li Mi's Conjecture" was not nominated for a single one, and the Golden Horse Awards also invited her to participate, and the boss also made her have to refuse, she had to praise this excitement, which made Zhou Xun, who had a big personality, very unhappy.

Not to mention, when she was on the red carpet, she was also ridiculed by the red carpet host Huang Zijiao in a weird way, which was probably ridiculed like "mainland actresses as audiences".

A Golden Horse Award made her full of anger.

But after all, Jinma sent the Best Actress to "If Love" back then, and she didn't really shake her face on the spot.

"What, isn't Director Kaige worthy of your three golden queens?" Wu Yuan glanced at her sideways and asked in a deliberately yin and yang manner.

"Hey, don't you dare to talk nonsense." Zhou Xun rolled his eyes, hesitated, and pulled Wu Yuan's sleeve: "Director Wu, either I have an opinion on Director Kaige, or we say it objectively." ”

"Can Director Kaigo shoot "Painted Skin 2" well?"

"I still remember his "Wuji" back then" (end of this chapter)