Chapter 13 Awards 4
Li Kaiyuan was awakened by Chen Chong's move to get up. She hummed twice, turned over, and asked with a slightly fascinated look: "What time is it?"
"At 10:00, you can continue to sleep." Chen Chong sat by the bed, touched her hair, then put on his slippers, stood up and said, "I'll go out to play guitar for a while."
"I'll get up too." Li Kaiyuan opened his eyes, sat up half-lying, and said, "It's so strange to go out for a run later. He has been so busy that he has not touched the ground in the past six months and has not eaten anything. He has gained three or four pounds and his belly has risen."
"It's nothing wrong with being fatter." Chen Chong said with a smile: "The best pearls and jade. If you are skinny, you will not only feel nothing when you touch it, but you will also have nightmares when you hold it at night."
Li Kaiyuan gave him a blank look, leaned over and pulled the pajamas thrown by the bed during the battle last night, wrapped them around him, then lifted the quilt and said, "Don't play the piano, go exercise with me."
"Are you suggesting something?"
"Go, you men are always thinking about it." Li Kaiyuan sneered twice and got out of bed and said, "Being young now, exercise more. Now that I have made so much money, I always have to spend time. Didn't you say last time that the most tragic thing in the world is that people die and have not spent the money? I don't want to be a widow at the age of fifty or sixty."
Chen Chong was speechless by her, so he had to say, "Let's exercise again after the Spring Festival. I'll practice a few songs recently."
“What song?”
"It's just a little fun, it'll be used in a while." Chen Chong sat at the head of the bed, looked at her beautiful back, and asked, "Are you free tonight?"
Li Kaiyuan opened the wardrobe and asked while searching for clothes: "What?"
"I'll treat someone to dinner tonight. If you have time, go together."
"Who? I know you?"
"I know you certainly know you, but I haven't seen a real person before." Chen Chong touched his chin and said, "It's Teresa Teng."
"Teres Teng?" Li Kaiyuan turned around and looked at him in surprise, but soon frowned and said, "What are your ideas?"
"No idea, absolutely pure." Chen Chong was helpless. He rubbed the stubble on his chin and said, "She once made a special trip to Boston to celebrate my uncle's birthday. Now she is coming to Hong Kong to record a New Year's special for H. As a landlord, I would like to invite her to a meal. Don't you like her songs very much? Let's go together tonight."
"I like to listen to her songs, what does it have to do with seeing her?" Lee Kaiyuan is an absolutely rational person. She thought for a while and said, "When I see her, I don't know what to say. Instead of being embarrassed, it's better not to see her.
Sister Li Kaiyuan has two extremes. One has no interest in the entertainment industry, but the other is excited to enter the entertainment industry. Chen Chong stood up and said, "Then whatever you want. If you change your mind, call me again. I will be in the film company all day today."
"Well. Wait a minute, don't leave." Li Kaiyuan picked up a suit and said to him: "Since you want to treat me, how about wearing this outfit tonight? I brought it back from London last time."
"Okay, that's it, it's quite formal, don't have a tie." Chen Chong looked at it and said, "You can find it and put it on the bed, I'll wear it when I leave."
Walking out of the room, Chen Chong took out his guitar from the study room, walked onto the balcony, facing Victoria Harbor, jumped and did a few exercises, and then sat on a matted rattan chair, fiddling with songs from later generations in the bright morning light.
During the award ceremony of the Golden Image Awards, some programs will inevitably be arranged to transition. If God does not take it, he will suffer the blame. In terms of not wasting it, he intends to plagiarize several songs that meet the situation in the future to entertain the public and himself.
I have a tense face to make plans every day and make a lot of money. It’s quite boring. I have to make some fun in my life...
As the saying goes, he has practiced these songs many times before, but he went to the United States to work around New Year's Day, and after a while, he was a little unfamiliar. Now he has to practice again.
After thrusting and turning for a while, I felt better. At this time, the glass door was pushed open, revealing Tianbao's little head.
"Brother-in-law, are you playing cotton here again?"
"Go, go." Chen Chong waved her and said, "I'm busy while playing."
"You don't have any musical talent, so don't mess around every day." Tianbao walked out of the room, carefully closed the glass door, and then reached out and said, "Get the guitar, let me play it for you."
"When did you learn to play guitar?"
"We have music classes in our school." Tianbao took the guitar and said arrogantly: "I learned to play it in three days."
After she finished speaking, she sat on a rattan chair, adjusted her posture, and then bounced up. Not to mention, she looked decent. Although it was not very smooth, she was invincible with youth. In the morning sun, the beautiful loli, and her green hands were flying like a butterfly, pleasing to the eye and extremely wonderful.
After playing the song, Chen Chong applauded and praised repeatedly: "It's really good, it's really good, Tianbao, you are the number one talented woman in our family."
"Of course." Tianbao raised his head, put the guitar on the coffee table in the middle of the seat, and complained: "Brother-in-law, do you know how powerful I am? Go to bed well in the morning in the future, don't show off your skills, and it will disturb people's dreams.
"You little girl, don't use idioms randomly." Chen Chong laughed. He picked up the guitar and asked, "This is my unique song, how could you play it?"
"I am very talented and smart. I will play it once I hear it."
"Hu Blowing Conch." Chen Chong smiled with a smile on his lips. He gently plucked the strings and said, "You stole the simple score I put in the guitar box?"
"So what?" Tianbao didn't blush when he was exposed, and said stubbornly: "Anyway, I'll learn it after reading it."
"Okay, okay, Tianbao, you are amazing." Chen Chong asked casually, playing the chords, "Tell me, what's the purpose of getting up so early?"
"Brother-in-law, you are the best, you are understanding." Tianbao was obedient and gave him a smile and said, "Can you buy me a guitar too?"
"Buying musical instruments is not a bad thing. Don't your mother buy them?"
"My mother wants me to learn piano, saying that the piano is elegant and guitar is a street stall toy." Tianbao said with a bitter face: "But I hate learning piano, I like guitar."
"Why do you hate it?" Chen Chong looked at her strangely and said, "The piano is known as the king of musical instruments, it sounds pretty good. I don't even have the chance to learn it."
"If you want to learn it well, what's the best piano? It's big and heavy. You have to pose and sit well when playing it. Only you adults like it." After Tianbao finished speaking, he sighed and said, "The piano is for others to listen to, and the guitar is for yourself. I don't want to be a puppet person who plays the piano for others."
Chen Chong was amused by her literary and artistic posture and reasons, but music is not so elegant or elegant. Just be interested. He said, "Since that's the case, I'll take you to buy a guitar on Sunday."
"Thank you brother-in-law." Tianbao jumped up, gave him a blowing kiss, and ran back to the room.
Chen Chong looked at her back, smiled, and then buried his head in continuing to practice the etude.
The office building that Shen Chong bought in Wan Chai is still being renovated, so the meeting location is still the conference room of Oriental Charming Film Company.
After discussing how the jury of the first Hong Kong Film Awards was formed, one morning, and finally decided to invite five respected film workers from the Mainland and Taiwan. The remaining 14 members were composed of senior film critics, directors, actors and behind-the-scenes professional and technical personnel from Hong Kong.
As for the voting method, it adopts a voting method similar to the later generations of football players. For each award, the judges can fill in the shortlist in order of one, two or three. The first place will get 5 points, the second place will get 3 points, and the third place will get 1 points. The candidate film with the highest score will eventually win the award.
"Mr. Chen, there is another question about the voting method." An editor raised his hand and asked: "Is the voting registered or unlisted?"
After Chen Chonggan Gang's arbitrary decision and determined the core issues of the Academy Awards, he no longer had dictatorship. He handed over all details to discuss to create a fair and democratic discussion atmosphere. He heard this and asked, "Lao Luo, what do you think?"
"I think it's good to be unnamed," Luo Weiming looked at his notebook and said, "There are judges from the mainland and from Taiwan. If the reporter is leaked, it will not be good to the judges themselves and are easily attacked by politically."
Chen Chong nodded slightly and asked, "Do you have any other opinions?"
"I have it." The editor just now raised his hand and said: "If you don't know, those from the mainland will only vote for mainland movies, and those from Taiwan will only vote for Taiwanese movies, which will hurt the participating movies in Hong Kong and other regions, and will not reflect the fairness and fairness of the Cinema Awards."
"This is indeed a problem." Chen Chong nodded and asked, "Then what should you do?"
"I think that voting should be held, not only should voting, but each judge also needs to write down the reasons for the choice." The editor swallowed and continued: "Of course, Editor-in-Chief Luo was considering it correctly. The current political environment in the mainland and Taiwan is not free enough. In order to protect the review, I suggest that in addition to the review, an independent and neutral jury chairman will be added to be responsible for preserving and organizing the voting. After the results are released, the votes will be destroyed immediately so that there will be no leakage. Moreover, there is another advantage in establishing a jury chairman, that is, when the scores of the two movies are of equal importance, it can play a decisive role."
This editor is the one who showed his superiority yesterday. Chen Chong was quite unhappy with him, but when he heard this, he suddenly felt loving talent. This guy is really caring and has a high awareness. The chairman of the jury. Isn’t this a tailor-made position for him?
Whether a movie award can become bigger and stronger, a fair, just and open selection process is the key. Even if you cannot achieve the "three publics", you must maintain the "three publics" on the surface. In the Chinese-language film circle in later generations, there are a lot of awards, including Golden Rooster, Golden Horse, Hundred Flowers, Huabiao, etc. Among them, except for the Golden Horse Awards, it is worth mentioning. Who cares about the rest?
The weight of the Golden Horse Awards is because it was reorganized in the 1990s, recasting the selection process, and creating an appearance of "fairness, justice and openness", so it can counterattack the Golden Horse Awards and become the number one award in the Chinese film industry.
Confucius said: If the name is not upright, the words will not go well, and if the words are not upright, things will not come true. If you want to create a fair, just and open atmosphere, first of all, the organizer of the movie award must be fair. In modern society, what is the most just organizer in the hearts of the audience?
Government meetings are shrouded in politics, and companies are kidnapped by interests. Therefore, the best unit in running a movie award is a non-profit organization...
"Movie Age" and "First Movie Review" are both for-profit magazines. It is okay to hold one or two Academy Awards, but after it grows bigger, it is easy to be criticized, so it is best to register a non-profit organization as the nominal organizer.
Non-profit institutions will have strict restrictions when operating. After they are established, the impact of wealth on the Golden Horse Awards will be greatly weakened, but Shen Chong will never allow the Golden Horse Awards to fall into the hands of others. Therefore, they need to occupy a special position and take the initiative in the review process.
He needs a power to veto the awards of movies that seriously go against his wishes at critical moments - such as movies like "Hello, Cousin".
The chairman of the jury just meets his needs.
Chen Chong was secretly happy and calm on the surface, he asked Luo Weiming again, saying, "Lao Luo, what do you think?"
"This idea is good." Luo Weiming agreed without thinking too much: "The jury of more than 20 people should have a chairman, Bai Sheng, what do you think?"
"I think it's OK."
"What do Editor-in-Chief Lin say?"
"I have no objection."
"OK." Chen Chong picked up the pen, wrote a few words from the chairman of the jury on the memorandum, and then said: "Who do you think you are suitable for this chairman?"
As everyone was talking, the editor just now raised his hand and said loudly: "Mr. Chen, it is most suitable for you to be this chairman."
"I can't do it. I'm too young, how can I serve as chairman for a group of seniors?" Chen Chong shirked and said: "And to say arrogantly, "The Crazy Tribulation" will definitely be shortlisted for certain awards this year. If I become a chairman, it will have a bad impact and will disturb the spirit of fairness and justice."
"This is not a problem. We can set that the chairman has no ordinary voting rights. Only when the two movies have the same scores can we come forward to decide the ownership of the final award. With the voting method of the Academy Awards, the possibility of this happening is very small. Even if there is a Chen movie, it can be temporarily avoided." The editor talked endlessly and said: "Mr. Chen, the position of the Chairman is of great importance. The Academy Awards are the first to be the Academy Awards, and they are planning them personally. If you become the chairman, others can feel at ease and feel at ease.
His remarks touched many people, and Chen Baisheng immediately agreed: "Mr. Chen, He Shiguang is right. If you are the chairman, everyone will feel at ease."
"I think it's good too." Luo Weiming put down the cigarette butt and said, "To put it bluntly, this chairman is just a chore and a culprit. Boss Shen, you are young and have strong mobility and have relationships between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places, which is the most suitable."
"Okay." Chen Chong was not pretentious. While writing down the editor's name on the paper, he said through the verbal words: "I will take the blame first, and when there is a suitable one in the future, I will ask another expert."
The three most core aspects of holding a movie award - the qualifications, selection procedures, and award ceremony. The first two have been discussed, but now there is only the last one left.
After discussing this topic for a while, Chen Chong couldn't help but shake his head. The award ceremony was the most commercial link in all aspects. Most of the people here were scholarly cultural people with conflicting horoscopes, and the suggestions made were messy and unsystematic. They were either too simple, not grand enough, or too ethereal and unoperable.
He knocked on the table and waited for everyone to calm down, and said, "I'll tell me what I think about the award ceremony."
He stood up, walked to the demonstration board at the end of the conference room, picked up the pen, and said while writing: "There are three main issues that need to be considered in the award ceremony. The first is the arrangement of guests. The concert hall in the Hong Kong Grand Hall only has more than 1,400 seats and cannot accommodate too many people. Sales tickets are not feasible. Therefore, in addition to the relevant staff of the candidate movies entering the venue, I plan to adopt the invitation system for the guests. Only with invitations can you enter the venue. You have to bring a list of people to invite."
"The second one is TV broadcasting. I have contacted the live broadcast production unit of Oscar last year, and they will be responsible at that time. As for the TV station, I have reached a preliminary intention with H, but the details still need to be communicated."
"The third one is the choice of the host and the award presenter. The host is very important. It must be solemn and serious, and entertaining and lively. The award presenter must also be carefully selected. In this regard, you have to discuss a list."
"Boss Shen." After hearing this, Luo Weiming raised his hand and said, "Do we want to learn Oscars and walk on the red carpet?"
"This needs to be considered based on the actual situation after the American production team comes." Chen Chong said helplessly: "You don't know the situation in the Hong Kong Grand Hall, and it's not very suitable for walking on the red carpet."
"I think it's better not to walk the red carpet." Chen Baisheng said: "Walking the red carpet has high requirements for clothing and demeanor. No one in the Chinese entertainment industry has the experience of walking the red carpet and is prone to mistakes. If something happens during the live broadcast, it will be very troublesome."
"Brother Chen said something reasonable." Chen Chong nodded. He walked back to his seat and sat down, and said, "But even if there is no red carpet ceremony, all the people attending the award ceremony must wear formal clothes and write this requirement into the invitation."
"Mr. Chen, you're so embarrassed." Luo Weiming complained: "Do you know how much it costs to have a slightly higher-end dress? Those directors and starring actors can afford it, but where can the staff behind the scenes afford it? You can't shoot a half-year drama, just to enter the conference hall?"
"It's okay." Chen Chong crossed his hands and leaned on the back of the chair, saying lightly: "I will provide all the dresses for the film staff who are shortlisted, and I will also pack your dresses."
Chapter completed!