Chapter 682 Have you heard of 'The Devotion of Suspect X'?
The awarding ceremony of the French Medal of Letters and Arts was held inside the French Embassy in Shanghai. There were no audiences, no reporters, and only a brief ceremony.
Ambassador Ika Calvi handed the medal to the recipient, and then the embassy staff took photos and then asked questions and made announcements, and that was it.
Wen Jinjiang and Lin Fei had already arrived ahead of Zhang Zhong, and when Ika Calvi brought Zhang Zhong into the embassy, the two of them were chatting.
Seeing Zhang Zhong, Wen Jinjiang smiled and said, "I've finally come to you. Come on, let me introduce you. This is Lin Fei."
Zhang Zhong smiled and shook hands with Lin Fei, "Nice to meet you."
Lin Fei is not tall, just over 1.7 meters tall, and his appearance is not outstanding among celebrities. He is a somewhat handsome middle-aged uncle.
He has many film and television works, and Zhang Zhong has watched many of them. Among them, the most impressive one was the movie "Redemption" in which he starred ten years ago. In that movie, he played an idle criminal.
With this movie, he won nine awards in a row and became emperor for the ninth time. It also broke the record for the number of times a Chinese star has won awards for the same movie.
However, in that movie, he was not Ichiban, and even the promotion was centered around another leading actor, Xu Feng.
But in the end, Lin Fei turned the tables and won many awards, while Xu Feng didn't even get a few nominations.
Lin Fei's experience is envied by countless people in the film and television industry. He started out as an idol in light comedies, and later successfully transformed, from idol to acting, from the small screen to the big screen.
"Hello, hello."
Unlike the tension shown on TV, Lin Fei in reality is more like a taciturn ordinary person. He speaks neither quickly nor slowly, in a low tone, and in a low voice.
Ika Calvi smiled beside him and said, "Everyone, please follow me to the lounge first. The awarding ceremony will not begin until a while."
The French ambassador did not speak authentic Chinese, but there was no problem in communicating with everyone.
His surname means bald in French, but Ika Calvi himself has thick golden hair.
The three of them followed Ika Calvi into the lounge of the embassy. There was nothing special going on, and they just chatted casually together.
When chatting, Wen Jinjiang was responsible for controlling the situation. After all, he was familiar with the other two people.
"Is Lin Fei filming any films recently?" Wen Jinjiang asked.
Lin Fei shook his head, "I've been taking a break recently, but I received a few scripts, but I'm not very satisfied with them."
As for which scripts he received, Lin Fei did not say, nor did Wen Jinjiang ask. After all, this involved business secrets.
"Huayi has a lot of plans recently. If you are interested, why don't you come to the company to sit down in the next two days?" Wen Jinjiang said with a smile.
Lin Fei nodded and said, "Of course I'm interested. I'll probably stay in the Magic City for another two or three days."
"Okay, it's better to choose a different day. I'll pick you up tomorrow."
"No, I also know the address of Huayi Company. I can just go there myself." Lin Fei said.
"That's okay, give me a call when you go." After a few words, Lin Fei decided to visit Huayi. Wen Jinjiang asked Zhang Zhong again, "Are you from Yanjing?"
"Well, Pengpeng went to learn painting." Zhang Zhong said.
"Is Pengpeng here too this time?"
"She went back to Jiangyang directly with her grandparents. They will go to school the day after tomorrow. I'm afraid it will delay her class."
"It's a pity that I haven't seen her in a while. I've read your last two short stories. Are they really the appetizers for "The Wind-Up Girl" as they say?"
Zhang Chong said with a smile, "It's an appetizer. The stories are indeed set in the same world view."
"That kink spring inside..." mid-sentence, Wen Jinjiang suddenly slapped his forehead, "That's all, I won't let you spoil it."
Zhang Zhong smiled, looked at Lin Fei, who was not very talkative, and asked, "Mr. Lin, have you heard of "The Devotion of Suspect X"?"
Lin Fei blinked and was a little surprised by Zhang Zhong's sudden question. He said, "Not only have I heard of it, but I have also read it. In fact, I am also a fan of your book, Mr. Zhang."
"Our company has recently planned to make it into a movie. If Mr. Lin is interested, he can go to Jiangyang to see it and talk about the movie when he has time." Zhang Chong said with a smile.
The company had previously set up an entertainment branch, but it had never started operations.
After such a long period of deliberation, it was time to start taking action. Zhang Zhong made many choices, but still felt that the script "The Devotion of Suspect X" was more suitable as the company's first film.
After all, the story is relatively simple, the shooting cost is not high, and the error tolerance rate is relatively low.
Before Lin Fei could say anything, Wen Jinjiang laughed and said, "You are trying to cut off my penis."
"What the literary director said does not make sense. Mr. Lin is such a good actor, of course everyone wants to work with him. We should not say whether to cut off the nonsense or not, but we should give Mr. Lin more choices. What, does the literary director have a negative attitude toward China?
Not confident in one’s strength?”
"Haha, I didn't expect that you, a great writer, would come to the film and television industry to compete for our jobs. Lin Fei, Zhang Zhong invites you, just go and have a look."
Lin Fei nodded and said, "Thank you, Teacher Zhang, for the invitation. I will definitely take the time to go and have a look later."
Zhang Chong smiled and said, "Then I will wait for good news in Jiangyang."
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The three of them chatted for a while, and then Ika Calvi came over and told them that the awarding ceremony could begin.
As I said before, the ceremony is very simple.
In fact, it was really simple. A temporary stage was set up in the conference hall, Ika Calvi said a few words, and then the three people went up one after another to receive the medal, and that was it.
Afterwards, the embassy asked them to have dinner, but the three of them declined. After that, the three of them found a hotel to form a bureau.
The next day, Zhang Zhong stayed at the hotel until the afternoon before setting off for the Jinxiang Cultural Center in the Magic City.
The Jinxiang Cultural Center is small in size and a little remote, but because it was just built not long ago, all the facilities can keep up.
When Zhang Zhong arrived at the place, a circle of reporters surrounded the door.
Compared with the Hugo Awards, the Wei Feng Awards Ceremony is much shabbier. The venue is smaller, not to mention the location. There are neither hordes of audiences nor a red carpet leading directly to the auditorium.
However, Zhang Zhong still saw a few young people holding his sign not far from the reporter. They should all be local fans in Magic City.
That is to say, this place is relatively remote, otherwise the size of this fan group would have been several times larger.
After Zhang Zhong got out of the car, he waved to the fans and then walked into the circle of reporters.
There is no other way. If you want to enter the cultural center, you must pass through the circle of reporters.
"Zhang Zhong, everyone says that this Wei Feng Award is like picking something up for you. In your opinion, which one are you more confident about winning, Best Novella or Best Novel?"
As soon as Zhang Zhong passed by, a microphone was poked at him, almost hitting him in the mouth.