Nowadays, there are only two film competitions that Hong Kong filmmakers often participate in, one is the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards and the other is the Asian Film Festival. There is also the Hong Kong International Film Festival, which has been held for several times, but not many people take it seriously.
Due to the dispute between Japan and Hong Kong and Taiwan, the Asian Film Festival was transformed from a competitive event into an exhibition film festival several years ago. Now no one takes the so-called Asian movie kings and Asian movie queens seriously.
Therefore, at this time, Hong Kong filmmakers, whether they are film company bosses, directors or actors, the most important thing is the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award.
In the golden autumn of October, the annual Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards are coming again. When the list of nominations for the major awards came out, the Taiwanese media was in an uproar.
Oriental DreamWorks' "The Wrong Ride" won Best Sound Recording, Best Film Episode, Best Original Film Music, Best Costume Design, Best Art Design, Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, and Best
11 nominations for Best Actor, Best Feature Film, and Best Director.
"The Wrong Ride" was released in Taiwan for almost half a year before it was released, and it was unanimously recognized by both ordinary audiences and film critics. It is understandable that it received 11 nominations.
The problem is that it doesn't end there. "The Royal Sisters", which was released in Taiwan during the summer, succeeded "The Wrong Ride" and swept the box office in Taiwan, earning more than NT$36 million in box office revenue. The nomination list announced by the Golden Horse Awards Organizing Committee
Last year, "The Royal Sister" also received two nominations for Best Editing and Best Supporting Actor. The nominee for Best Supporting Actor was actually Kang Jianfei...
"Dao Ma Dan", which has not yet been released in Hong Kong, also received 7 nominations for Best Original Film Music, Best Costume Design, Best Art Design, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Feature Film.
In other words, the three films of Oriental DreamWorks this year actually received 21 Golden Horse Award nominations.
This situation has happened many times before, but the one that won this honor was Taiwan's China Film Company. This time, the film that received a large number of nominations was a Hong Kong company.
"Liberty Daily" (the predecessor of Taiwan's "Liberty Times") choked with acid and claimed: "...Is the Golden Horse Awards a film event held in Hong Kong? Or is it a film event held in Taiwan? The Golden Horse Awards Organizing Committee awards all awards to Hong Kong people, why not
Forget it, just move the Golden Horse Awards to Hong Kong."
"Freedom Daily" was renamed and founded last year. The founder is Lin Rongsan, a leader of the Triple Gang. He specializes in attracting attention with sensational reports and sharp comments. This time, he has touched the tiger's whiskers, because the Golden Horse Awards are nominally news.
Sponsored by the Information Bureau, Liberty Daily's comments were a slap in the face to the Information Bureau. The day after the report came out, Liberty Daily was warned to rectify the situation.
"China Times" commented: "Today's Taiwanese movies have gone to two extremes. One extreme is that the movies are extremely vulgar, commercialized, and shoddy, which has caused a trend; the other extreme is that the directors only value the art of movies and do not consider the box office market at all.
If things go on like this, Taiwan's commercial films will be eliminated due to poor quality, while art films will be in trouble because of lack of funds. This time for the Golden Horse Awards, a Hong Kong film company actually received 21 nominations, both in terms of box office and reputation.
Everything is extremely good. Taiwanese film workers should wake up..."
The Golden Horse Awards have not yet started presenting awards, but Taiwan's media have started to argue. The focus of the discussion is whether there should be a limit for the Golden Horse Awards, such as stipulating the maximum number of nominations that the same film company can receive.
It was under this circumstance that Kang Jianfei brought Zhong Chuhong and Guan Zhilin to Taipei in advance to promote "Dao Ma Dan" with Lin Qingxia.
The excellence of "The Wrong Ride" and "The Royal Sister" have long been obvious to Taiwanese audiences. However, "Swordsman" has not yet been released in Taiwan. Many movie fans are extremely enthusiastic about this movie starring Lin Qingxia and nominated for several Golden Horse Awards.
Looking forward to it. Taking advantage of the Golden Horse Awards, if Kang Jianfei can take the opportunity to promote it, the box office will definitely be much higher after it is released.
Zhong Chuhong has just finished filming "The Story of Hu Yue". She will soon star in "City Patrol" with Chow Yun-fat. This time she took a few days to go to Taipei to promote and attend the award ceremony. As for Guan Chilin, she also rushed back from the United States.
, her efforts to bring her parents back together seemed to have no effect, as her father Guan Shan came back earlier than she did.
Naturally, you need to find an influential program for publicity. Today, the most watched TV program in Taiwan is "Variety Show 100" by China Television. China Television has long carried out the reform of separating TV station production and broadcasting. Although "Variety Show 100" is broadcast on China Television.
The production company is Hanxin Film and Television Production Company, and the TV station is only responsible for reviewing programs.
Kang Jianfei asked Yu Kanping to contact Huang Shaoyan, the producer of "Variety Show 100". As soon as the other party heard that Lin Qingxia was going to appear on the show, he immediately agreed. Not only did he not want any publicity fees, but he would reimburse Kang Jianfei and others for their air tickets.
It was a matter of each other taking what they wanted and hitting it off immediately. Kang Jianfei wanted to use "Variety Show 100" to promote it, while Huang Shaoyan wanted to use Lin Qingxia's fame to increase the ratings of the show.
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In the recording room of "Variety Show 100", Zhang Xiaoyan smiled at the camera and said: "Hello, viewers, I am Zhang Xiaoyan, welcome back to "Variety Show 100"... Next is the 'Artist Performance' segment. Today our program team invites
Here we are, four big names, four big stars who have never appeared on our show. Please invite Mr. Kang Jianfei, Miss Zhong Chuhong, Miss Guan Zhilin, and our great beauty Lin Qingxia to appear!"
Kang Jianfei and three beauties walked into the studio from the backstage. The stage of Variety Show 100 was ten square meters in size, and the audience was very small. There were about twenty or thirty people sitting around the stage.
But compared with other variety shows, this studio is already very luxurious.
When Kang Jianfei, Zhong Chuhong, and Guan Zhilin came on the stage, the response was not enthusiastic. When Lin Qingxia appeared, the audience immediately stood up and cheered wildly.
Zhang Xiaoyan smiled and said: "Welcome you four, let me introduce myself to everyone."
Kang Jianfei said into the microphone: "Hello, hello friends from Taiwan. I am Kang Jianfei, the director of "Dao Ma Dan". The movie "Dao Ma Dan" will be released in Taiwan on November 1. I hope everyone can support it then."
Zhang Xiaoyan said: "Hey, Mr. Kang is not only the director of "Da Ma Dan", he is also the boss of Oriental DreamWorks. The "The Wrong Ride" and "The Royal Sister" we watched this year are all movies invested by Mr. Kang."
Lin Qingxia also smiled at the camera and said: "Hello everyone, I am Lin Qingxia..."
Halfway through his words, Kang Jianfei joked: "Qingxia, there's no need for you to introduce yourself. I guess everyone in Taiwan knows you."
Zhang Xiaoyan exclaimed: "Hey, you two seem to be very close. Is that rumor from last year true?"
Kang Jianfei saw that Guan Zhilin looked a little unhappy, he chuckled and said, "Qingxia and I are good friends."
Before Zhang Xiaoyan could speak again, Guan Zhilin said in Cantonese: "Hello everyone, I am Guan Zhilin. I play the role of Xiang Hong in "Swordsman". I hope everyone will like my performance."
"Hello everyone, my name is Zhong Chuhong. I play the role of Bai Niu in "Swordsman"..." Zhong Chuhong is in a bad state. He worked overtime yesterday to finish filming, and he came to record the show without sleeping well after arriving in Taipei.
"Variety Show 100" is not an interview program. The unit that Kang Jianfei and the others are participating in now requires artists to perform.
After chatting for a while, Zhang Xiaoyan said: "Mr. Kang, "Original Scenery of Hometown" has sold more than 100,000 copies in Taiwan. I heard that you completed this record from composition to performance by yourself?"
Kang Jianfei said modestly: "That's right."
Zhang Xiaoyan said: "I also bought that record. I really want to hear you perform live."
This was all arranged by the program team in advance. Kang Jianfei took out the Tao Xun and quickly started playing.
After playing a song, Zhang Xiaoyan arranged for Lin Qingxia, Guan Zhilin and Zhong Chuhong to draw tasks to perform. Lin Qingxia's identity was a drunkard, Guan Zhilin's identity was a policeman, and Zhong Chuhong's identity was Lin Qingxia's hawker.
Zhong Chuhong got a hat worn by an old woman from nowhere, squatted on the stage and shouted in broken Mandarin: "Apples, sweet and crisp apples..."
"Hahaha……"
The audience laughed so hard that they fell forward and backward. Zhang Xiaoyan was also stunned. She didn't expect that Zhong Chuhong could speak such weird Mandarin. The pronunciation of the word "apple" sounded like "butt".
"Ugh..." The drunkard played by Lin Qingxia staggered over and vomited as soon as he arrived at Zhong Chuhong's "booth".
Soon the two started arguing, and then the policeman played by Guan Zhilin joined in.
This is an improvised skit without any script or lines, but Guan Zhilin and Zhong Chuhong's poor Mandarin are already full of laughter, not to mention Lin Qingxia's self-destructive image as an alcoholic.
After a performance, the studio was filled with laughter.
At the end of the program, we talked about some things about the movie. After the recording was finally completed, the audience came over to ask for autographs from Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia. As for Guan Zhilin and Zhong Chuhong, they were simply ignored by the audience.
After getting rid of the audience, Kang Jianfei left the studio with the three women. As soon as he walked out of the CTV building, he suddenly heard someone shouting in surprise: "Qingxia, you are also at the TV station!"
Kang Jianfei followed the sound and saw that it was Qin Han who was wearing a crisp suit. He couldn't help but ask: "He is still pestering you?"
Lin Qingxia also looked helpless and said, "I met her twice while filming "Chinese Female Soldiers" some time ago."
Qin Han ran over, pretended not to see Kang Jianfei, and said to Lin Qingxia: "Qingxia, let's go to Sister Chen's house for dinner later, she is going to open a new play."
"Sorry, I'm not free!" Lin Qingxia was afraid that Kang Jianfei would misunderstand, so she took the initiative to hold Kang Jianfei's arm and walked past Qin Han.
Qin Han looked frustrated when he saw this, Guan Zhilin pouted and got angry, and Zhong Chuhong followed him indifferently. Outside the China Television Building, several reporters who had come to take pictures of Qin Han quickly recorded this on film.
