"In the past 80 years, Chinese films have grown from scratch, from immaturity to maturity, and have made brilliant achievements. From "Dingjun Mountain" to "The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple"; from "A River of Spring Flows Eastward" to "Yellow River"
"Land", several generations of filmmakers are writing the history of Chinese films together...
In the past 80 years, due to war and political interference, Chinese films have also experienced many twists and turns. Ten years of civil war, the Anti-Japanese War... the development of Chinese films has stopped for a time. Now with the great reform and opening up, Chinese films have been revitalized.
Brilliance..."
The director of the Cultural Film Bureau stood on the rostrum and delivered an impassioned opening speech. Kang Jianfei, as a special guest from Hong Kong, sat in the first row slightly to the side with the directors of domestic film studios. The few in the middle were all
Leader of the Ministry of Culture.
Today's 80th anniversary celebration of Chinese film, the organizers also invited Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai, but they coincidentally did not go north, only Kang Jianfei came over and missed it.
Zou Wenhuai is concerned about Taiwan's film market, while Shao Yifu is old and doesn't have the energy to go back and forth. Anyway, Shao Yifu has donated a lot to the mainland this year and has already made his position and attitude clear. Will he come to participate in this show?
Celebrations are all the same.
"The winner of the fifth Golden Rooster Award for Best Editing is Zhou Dingwen's "Garland Under the Mountain."
"The winner of the 5th Golden Rooster Award for Best Recording is - Feng Deyao and Miao Zhenyu's "Thunderstorm"."
"The winner of the 5th Golden Rooster Award for Best Music is - Xu Youfu's "Life"."
"..."
After some celebratory singing and dancing, the Golden Rooster Awards finally began to be handed out.
After the awards were awarded one after another, Kang Jianfei was only responsible for clapping. Anyway, nothing happened without him. Although Hong Kong films are also Chinese films, they cannot participate in the competition for the Golden Rooster Award. Kang Jianfei is purely here to watch today.
Of course, since he was the only Hong Kong filmmaker to attend the award ceremony (not counting Yindu organizations), the organizer also arranged for Kang Jianfei to be an award guest.
Kang Jianfei had never heard of the winners of the first few awards, but soon he heard the host call out a familiar name.
"The winner of the 5th Golden Rooster Award for Best Photography is Zhang Yimou's "Yellow Earth"!"
Zhang Yimou, who was in his 30s, stood up from his seat excitedly. He bowed several times before walking onto the stage and delivered an excited acceptance speech: "Thank you for the Golden Rooster Award, thank you to all the leaders, thank you to Director Chen Kaige, thank you..."
After a circle of thanks, Zhang Yimou bowed to the audience again before awkwardly walking off the stage.
Although Lao Mouzi was already in his 30s at this time, he had only been in the film industry for three years and was completely a newcomer. Even though he won a photography award abroad for "Yellow Earth", Zhang Yimou still had to nod and bow when he returned to China.
Show humility.
Comparatively speaking, Brother Chen Kai from "Yellow Earth" is much more powerful. Although he is younger than Zhang Yimou, his father who can't stand him is a giant in the film industry.
The following awards were of little interest. Although the movie "Yellow Earth" was a hit abroad, it only won one for Best Cinematography. The subsequent winner, Kang Jianfei, has never been heard of.
Having said that, although the situation of the Golden Rooster Awards is serious at this time, overall it is still passable. In more than ten years, the Golden Rooster Awards will only have double-yolk eggs and triple-yolk eggs, and sometimes only a few people will be awarded the best film.
I've heard of it. That's called being notorious.
"We invite the international director Mr. Kang Jianfei, a patriotic overseas Chinese from Hong Kong, to announce the winner of the Best Actress and present the award!"
Amid a burst of thunderous applause, Kang Jianfei strolled onto the stage. He didn't bother to joke and amuse himself. He opened the envelope and announced: "The winner for Best Actress is Li Ling for "The Girl from Huangshan Mountain."
Li Ling, who was in her 20s, walked onto the stage. Kang Jianfei put the Golden Rooster trophy into her hand. While shaking hands, he took a look at the Golden Rooster Award-winning actress. She was dressed very simply, and her hair style looked specially done. But in Kang Jianfei's eyes,
But I feel that it is old-fashioned and different from the future female stars with awl faces. The current aesthetic concept is that beauties with square faces are popular because they look more upright.
Kang Jianfei gave up her seat on the stage, and the square-faced actress began her acceptance speech, and then everyone got off the stage and returned to their seats. Everything went according to plan without any suspense.
After the awards for Best Picture and Best Director were completed, Brother Chen Kai, who did not win the first award, couldn't help but sigh. "Yellow Earth" could win consecutive awards abroad, but could only win the Best Cinematography at home. Brother Chen Kai felt unhappy.
It's impossible to feel resentful. But even though his father is a veteran in the mainland film industry, since this award has been awarded, there is no possibility of changing it.
Not only that, at the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards held last month, Chen Kaige's "Yellow Earth" did not win any important awards.
In fact, in the final analysis, Brother Chen Kai is still too young. Seniority is very important in the mainland literary and art circles. Several important awards must be awarded to respected directors and their works. Brother Chen Kai, who is in his early 30s, can only stare.
"Director Chen, you will definitely do it next time." Liu Xiaoqing comforted him.
This woman is currently the number one female movie star in the Mainland, so she will naturally be invited by the organizer to attend the awards ceremony. However, she is not of a high level to sit in the front row with Kang Jianfei, so she can only sit with Chen Kaige and others.
Brother Chen Kai knows the truth behind it. If he wants to win the Best Director, he will have to wait for at least three to five years. At this time, he can only smile bitterly and say: "I hope, "Yellow Earth" can be successfully released in China, I will be very satisfied.
"
It's funny to say that "Yellow Earth", which won awards abroad, almost failed to pass film censorship in China. "Yellow Earth" was submitted for review in July last year, but for Chinese people at this time, the film's political and moral
The scale was too big, and it took several months of repeated discussions before it finally passed the review.
However, after "Yellow Earth" was released, the film industry was extremely controversial about the film. Now a group of experts say that "Yellow Earth" has really tarnished China's image. This is one of the reasons why "Yellow Earth" failed to win awards in China.
Brother Chen Kai has risen strongly in the film industry at a young age, and he also has a well-connected father behind him. Liu Xiaoqing naturally wants to fawn over him. She deliberately complimented: "I heard that Director Chen's movie will be released in Canada soon. This
But no other director can compare.”
"It's just luck. It happened that the Canadian film distributors got it right." Brother Chen Kai said quite proudly. There are only a few directors who can make films for screening in North America, let alone mainland China, even Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Zhang Yimou sat nearby and listened to the conversation between the two, and gave Liu Xiaoqing a meaningful look. He thought to himself: No wonder this woman can have such a smooth life, and she can cheer up Brother Chen Kai who was in a bad mood with just a few words.
Brother Chen Kai looked at the Shanghai brand watch and said: "Xiao Qing, Mr. Kang has come all the way from Hong Kong. How can we show our friendship as landlords? You can invite Mr. Kang out for a meal tomorrow."
"Okay, Jianfei also admires Director Chen. He said you are one of the best directors in China." Liu Xiaoqing readily agreed, and deliberately called Kang Jianfei's name affectionately.
Zhang Yimou was indeed tricked and asked: "Xiao Qing is familiar with Mr. Kang?"
Zhang Yimou felt that Liu Xiaoqing was younger than her, so he called out "Xiaoqing" smoothly. But this title disgusted Liu Xiaoqing. She is well-known as the number one female movie star of the younger generation in China. She is called by her name casually? Brother Chen Kai calls her like this
Yes. After all, Brother Chen Kai is the director, and behind him is the father of a film veteran. Zhang Yimou, who do you think you are?
However, Liu Xiaoqing would not fall out in public. Instead, he replied with a smile: "We are not very familiar with each other, Jianfei and I are just ordinary friends in private."
Zhang Yimou offended Liu Xiaoqing with just one sentence. He continued: "I just came back from the crew of "Shu Mountain" and heard a lot about Mr. Kang's deeds. I have many questions that I want to ask him for."
Brother Chen Kai and Zhang Yimou have a good relationship. He smiled and said: "Then we will go together."
Liu Xiaoqing did not miss any opportunity to show her close relationship with Kang Jianfei. She said: "Yes, we just happened to go together. Jianfei likes to communicate with his colleagues in the mainland."
Brother Chen Kai asked: "By the way, Mouzi, how was the filming of "Shu Mountain"?"
Zhang Yimou is one of the photographers of "Shu Mountain". When he mentioned "Shu Mountain", he said excitedly: "It's amazing. Many of their shooting methods are very different from ours. Some of the photography equipment I have never seen before, and they even hired it from the United States."
We have a professional special effects team here, and we have to discuss it with the director and special effects before every shooting, just to facilitate post-production."
Brother Chen Kai's eyes lit up and asked: "Is it the special effects like "Star Wars"?"
Zhang Yimou shook his head and said: "I don't know, it should be about the same anyway."
The two were chatting about the filming of "Shu Mountain". Liu Xiaoqing didn't understand what he was hearing, so he didn't bother to interrupt anymore. He just stared at the singer on the stage and wanted the award ceremony to end quickly.
Kang Jianfei was more boring than Liu Xiaoqing. He didn't care who won the award on stage, because he had never even heard of the names of most of the movies, not to mention watching them. And those song and dance performances couldn't arouse Kang Jianfei's interest, which lasted more than two hours.
Sitting down, Kang Jianfei had long regretted such a trip.
Seeing that the award ceremony was officially over, he was dragged to the banquet again. Fortunately, this time the people eating and drinking together were officials from the Ministry of Culture and the Film Bureau, as well as the directors of several major mainland factories and the principals of the film academy. This made Kang Jianfei
I barely managed to gather my energy to deal with it.
"Mr. Kang, come and have a drink. Thank you for coming to attend the Golden Rooster Award Ceremony in person!"
"Comrade Xiaokang, your movies are very good. Keep up the good work in the future, drink!"
“Xiaokang massive, have another drink!”
"..."
In 1985, the mainland's economy was developing rapidly, and officials were becoming more and more extravagant. For example, this dinner was of a much higher standard than the last time.
Of course, those officials are not afraid of investigation. Even if they are investigated, it is still a pretense of receiving patriotic overseas Chinese.
At the wine table, the two vice presidents of China National Theater and Nortel, taking advantage of the excitement of drinking, insisted on inviting Kang Jianfei to give a speech at their school. When Kang Jianfei refused, he called himself brother and brother and said that he was not being honest, and finally had to reluctantly agree.
It was past ten o'clock in the evening when the banquet ended. After these guys staggered away one by one, Kang Jianfei came out of the bathroom to wash his face.
"Jianfei, it turns out you are still here," Liu Xiaoqing suddenly appeared in the corridor and said with a smile, "I didn't see you just now, I thought you had gone down."
"Why haven't you left yet?" A few days after Kang Jianfei slept with Liu Xiaoqing last time, he wrote a check to her and planned to clear the money and go their separate ways, but he didn't expect that this woman would stick with him again.
Liu Xiaoqing walked over and took Kang Jianfei's arm affectionately, and said in a coquettish tone: "Of course I'm waiting for you. After I returned to Hong Kong last time, you didn't even call me back. When I called you, no one answered."
It was only when someone answered that Kang Jianfei casually wrote the number to her, but Liu Xiaoqing actually took it seriously.
Kang Jianfei didn't want to get entangled with this woman, so he pushed Liu Xiaoqing's hand away and said, "Ms. Liu, this is a hotel. It's not good to be seen."
It was as if Liu Xiaoqing didn't feel the obvious rejection of others. He once again put his arm around Kang Jianfei affectionately and said, "I'm not afraid of others, so what are you afraid of?"
Kang Jianfei was speechless for this woman. He couldn't just kick her away, he could only let her follow.
After leaving the hotel and getting into the car, Kang Jianfei had just opened the car door, and Liu Xiaoqing had already gotten in from the other side, making Kang Jianfei dumbfounded.
This Hongqi car belongs to the film bureau, and it originally had a driver, but at this time Zhang Degong was in charge of driving.
"Boss, are you going back to the hotel?" Zhang Degong subconsciously asked in Cantonese.
Kang Jianfei looked at Liu Xiaoqing, who was leaning on him, and said helplessly: "Go back."
Liu Xiaoqing heard Zhang Degong speak Cantonese, knew that the driver was Kang Jianfei's, and thought he was from Hong Kong, so he immediately became more proactive and unscrupulous.
Kang Jianfei had no intention of getting into trouble with Liu Xiaoqing. The car hadn't driven very far when he felt a small hand touch his crotch. Such an explicit provocation quickly made Kang Jianfei react.
Zhang Degong recognized Liu Xiaoqing at a glance. When Liu Xiaoqing debuted, Zhang Degong was still a soldier. At that time, the army organized the movie "Little Flower" to watch. Many soldiers regarded Liu Xiaoqing as a goddess.
Zhang Degong was no exception. He had been obsessed with Liu Xiaoqing for a while. While driving, he thought about asking Liu Xiaoqing for his autograph later. Halfway through the car, he couldn't help but look in the rearview mirror, but he only glanced at it.
Zhang Degong was so classic that he almost hit the roadside fence with his hand shaking.
Liu Xiaoqing was seen lying on her back in the back seat, her head rising and falling between Kang Jianfei's waist and legs. Finally, Kang Jianfei held her head down hard to prevent her from moving.
"Cough cough cough..." Liu Xiaoqing coughed breathlessly, then swallowed it all under Kang Jianfei's order, and continued to clean up the filth.
Zhang Degong was in a particularly complicated mood while driving. The idol of his youth collapsed in front of him, and his heart was filled with contempt for Liu Xiaoqing.
Liu Xiaoqing looked in the makeup mirror and wiped her face clean, then leaned on Kang Jianfei's shoulder and said, "Jianfei, Director Chen Kai wants to treat you to a meal tomorrow."
Kang Jianfei, who had just had a good time, closed his eyes comfortably and said: "I have no time tomorrow, I have to give a speech at school." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote for recommendations and monthly votes.
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