Chapter 486 I didn’t win a prize today, I’m really depressed ( words updated!)After chatting with Ning Zhiyuan and Zhou Yuning.
Chen Ziyan whispered in Lu Yanhe's ear: "After the box office of 'Nine Yins' exploded, many film companies offered high prices to snatch his next film, but he is a very righteous person and remembers the kindness of others. When he was filming 'Nine Yins', it was not well received. No one believed that martial arts films could still sell at the box office, so it was always difficult to find investment. Later, his current film company took over and invested, so he was able to film 'Nine Yins'. Therefore, he rejected other film companies and continued to cooperate with Donglin."
"Dongli? I don't think I've heard of this film company."
"It's a small company." Chen Ziyan said, "It used to make low-budget films. Basically, you haven't heard of it."
"Although 'Nine Yins' is a martial arts film, Director Ning Zhiyuan is also a veteran director. Is it so difficult to find investment for him?"
"Because the previous two films lost money." Chen Ziyan said, "Now martial arts movies really don't have good box office. Before "Nine Yins" came out, we hadn't had a martial arts movie with high box office for many years."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yanhe also felt it was a pity.
What a pity.
Chen Ziyan's eyes suddenly narrowed, "Don't tell me that you also have a martial arts story in your head that you want to write?"
Lu Yanhe smiled and waved his hand.
"Not yet."
Of course there are, but he has too many projects right now, so he has to take it easy and take it slow.
However, meeting Chen Bige today gave Lu Yanhe a reminder.
Even if he works until he dies, he won't be able to finish filming so many scripts by himself.
However, if he works together with everyone, he doesn't have to do it all by himself.
Just like Chen Bige took the lead in making "Rouge" and "Raise the Red Lantern".
Just like Jiang Yuqian wants to make "Telephone" now.
Just like Li Zhibai's "Nineteen Years of Crime Records".
In fact, can we train some "project managers"?
When this thought popped up in Lu Yanhe's mind, he laughed.
That sounds a bit far-fetched.
But is there any way to make it happen? -
After some social greetings, Lu Yanhe was finally able to sit down.
His seat is in the middle of the second row.
The actors sitting in the first row were only big names like Shang Yongzhou, Chen Bige, Chen Pinhe, and Ning Xiulian.
By this calculation, Lu Yanhe's position is also very good.
But Chen Ziyan had complained before. Chen Ziyan felt that with Lu Yanhe's current status, there was no way he couldn't sit in the first row. To put it bluntly, the Feihong Award thought Lu Yanhe was too young. No matter how high his achievements were, his qualifications were still a little shallow. It was not appropriate for him to sit in the first row, so Lu Yanhe was moved to the second row.
Lu Yanhe had no idea whether he could win the Best Actor award tonight.
He really wanted to take it.
I have acted in so many dramas and have been held in such high regard by everyone, but I have never won a Best Actor trophy. I feel really embarrassed about that.
However, the competition this year is just too great.
Even if others don’t mention it, there is also a Shang Yongzhou in this play of mine.
Shang Yongzhou's disadvantage is that he has already won two Feihong Awards for Best Actor, so it would be very difficult for him to win a third one. But his advantage is that he has not acted in an art film seriously for nearly five or six years, and his performance in "Road to Glory" has won unanimous recognition.
As for Lu Yanhe, his strengths are beyond description, but his weakness is that the character is not rich enough in "Road to Glory". Although the transformation from the beginning to the end makes the character's portrayal quite profound, he is only the second character in "Road to Glory".
If Lu Yanhe applied for the Best Supporting Actor this year, he would basically win the award.
When he applied for the award, the reason why he did not apply for Best Supporting Actor was because he really had no shortage of supporting actors, and he could have applied for Best Actor for this role.
Lu Yanhe thought about it silently and felt that he might not be able to win the Best Actor award for this movie.
It's not his acting skills that are the problem, it's his role that is the problem.
Or should I just apply for the Best Supporting Actor for the last two awards?
Best Actor, I feel like there's no chance.
Lu Yanhe thought silently.
Huang Kairen, who was sitting next to him, kept rubbing his hands on his knees.
Seeing this, Lu Yanhe came to his senses and asked, "Brother Kairen, why do you always rub your hands?"
Huang Kairen whispered in Lu Yanhe's ear: "I'm nervous. My palms are sweating."
"..." Lu Yanhe didn't know what to say for a moment.
This is the first time that Huang Kairen has been nominated for Best Actor in one of the three major film awards, so it is inevitable that he feels nervous.
Especially, his performance in Rouge has won wide acclaim. Even though he didn't win the Best Actor award at the Jose-La-Spain Film Festival like Chen Bige, it doesn't mean his performance is worse than Chen Bige. It can be said that Huang Kairen is the most popular candidate in the media. The media seems to like Rouge very much, and the best actor and actress are Huang Kairen and Chen Bige in the predicted list.
Lu Yanhe said: "Sure, Brother Kairen, I think you can definitely win one of the three major awards this year."
The Feihong Award is the first award to be presented, so it is the most difficult to predict.
According to the rule that the same award should not be given to the same person, if the Feihong Award was given to Shang Yongzhou, he would basically not be considered for the other two awards.
Unless this year's awards are really too bad, like when Lu Yanhe won the Best Supporting Actor award for "Three Mountains", there was basically no competitor, so he won two awards alone.
Clearly, that is not the case this time around.
Huang Kairen took a deep breath and said, "Don't worry about me. I need to calm down now."
Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "You should have asked Sister Zixing to come with you."
"Zixing has something tonight, otherwise she would have come with me." Huang Kairen said.
"Sister Zixing, what's going on tonight?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised.
"She wants to meet someone, and we hope to ask that person to come out and be my agent."
"Ah?" Lu Yanhe was confused.
Who has Huang Kairen taken a fancy to and who does he want to invite to come out?
The Best Supporting Actress award was presented at this time.
The winner was Li Shiyi, the supporting actress in the commercial action film "The Abyss".
A girl in her early twenties.
This is her first time acting in a movie.
When she heard her name, she was so excited that she burst into tears.
Lu Yanhe turned his head and looked over. Li Shiyi was still a little far away from him. The little girl was sitting on the right side of the fourth row.
"I'm so lucky to win an award for my first acting performance." He heard a voice behind him sighing softly.
He glanced back.
Sitting behind him was Yu Mengling, the heroine of "Fusang", who had previously won the Lingyun Award for Best Actress for this film.
When Yu Mengling saw Lu Yanhe looking back at him, he suddenly realized that his subconscious sigh just now must have been heard by someone.
She stuck out her tongue embarrassedly.
Lu Yanhe smiled kindly.
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Lu Yanhe has two nominations tonight, one for Best Actor and the other for Best Screenplay for "Rouge".
According to industry predictions, his chances of winning the Best Screenplay award are actually lower than those for Best Actor.
The main reason is that "The Seventh Chapter of a Floating Life" is so powerful that as soon as it was released, its text was praised as the most literary script of Chinese-language films in the past decade.
How good is its script?
The film was so mediocre that it did not receive any nomination for the Feihong Awards except for the Best Screenplay Award.
But in this case, no one can ignore how good the script is.
Lu Yanhe hasn't seen this movie yet, but since so many people have praised it, he believes that it must have something great about it.
He also plans to find some time to watch this movie carefully.
When the winner was announced as "The Seventh Chapter of a Floating Life", the audience burst into applause of "no surprise".
Its screenwriter, a young man of only twenty-six years old, walked onto the stage wearing a pair of black-framed glasses.
His name is Zuo Feng. He graduated from the College of Arts of Yuming University, and then went to Beijing Theater Academy to study screenwriting as a graduate student. After graduating with a master's degree, he entered this industry. In addition to working as an anonymous screenwriter for others, he used his spare time to write scripts, which he submitted to a Youth Film Fund Venture Capital Conference. This was "The Seventh Record of a Floating Life", which was spotted by actor Liu Teli, and he served as the producer and made this film.
After Zuo Feng came on stage, his movements were somewhat stiff, and he even seemed afraid to look at the audience.
He walked to the microphone, took the trophy, and said as if he was embarrassed, "I'm a little surprised. I thought Lu Yanhe was the winner of this award. I really like the movie Rouge."
Lu Yanhe was suddenly cueed and started laughing.
He knew there must be a camera filming him at this moment.
He waved his hands quickly.
Sure enough, the scene of him waving his hand appeared on the screen at the scene.
A director cut to him.
Zuo Feng said: "Thank you, Mr. Liu Teli, for giving my script a chance to be made into a movie. Maybe I will have many more chances to make my scripts into movies in the future, but I know that the first one is always the most difficult. So, Mr. Liu, I will always remember you telling me that my script is well written. You are the first person to encourage me."
Liu Teli was not at the scene.
But Zuo Feng's attitude of gratitude was obviously appreciated by everyone present.
The applause continued.
"Like me, you may be struggling to make ends meet, and you don't know when your scripts will be noticed by others. There are really many young screenwriters whose works have been made into movies. I hope that all the teachers present here can pay more attention to the works of young screenwriters. Our works are not bad, we just need a chance to be seen by you. Thank you."
The audience applauded again.
Lu Yanhe clapped and looked at Zuo Feng.
From his position he could still clearly see the expression on Zuo Feng's face.
What Zuo Feng said made Lu Yanhe think deeply.
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During the break in the award ceremony, Lu Yanhe took the initiative to find Zuo Feng.
"Hello, I'm Lu Yanhe."
Zuo Feng raised his hand and pushed up his glasses, "Hello."
At first glance, Zuo Feng had a blank expression on his face, and seemed not to care about Lu Yanhe coming to see him, and was even a little condescending and distant.
But Lu Yanhe was still quite sharp enough to notice the slightly trembling corners of Zuo Feng's mouth and the occasional rolling of his Adam's apple.
Lu Yanhe laughed, guessing that Zuo Feng must be very nervous.
Just like he used to be.
When meeting famous people, one wants to appear neither humble nor arrogant, but is unable to control one's performance well, which results in unsatisfactory deviations.
Lu Yanhe said: "Congratulations."
Zuo Feng said: "Actually, you should have won the award. Compared with Rouge, The Seventh Chapter of a Floating Life is not that popular."
Lu Yanhe: "Although I haven't seen your movie yet, almost every friend around me told me that the script of this movie is very good, so I believe that you deserve the award tonight. There is no need to be modest."
"No way?" Zuo Feng was surprised.
"It's true. So, now that you've won the Feihong Award, don't underestimate yourself." Lu Yanhe said with a smile, "If there's a chance in the future, we can work together. How about I act in the script you wrote?"
Zuo Feng immediately said, "If you are willing to act, of course that's fine."
Lu Yanhe exchanged contact information with Zuo Feng and added him as a friend.
He added, "Just now, you said on stage that there are many talented young screenwriters who are actually just missing an opportunity. If you meet a screenwriter who needs an opportunity in the future and they have a mature script, you can contact me at any time. If I am not suitable, I can also introduce it to others. There are many actors around me who are actually waiting for a good script. But you also know that in our industry, there may be an invisible barrier between us and good scripts. Including the script of "The Seventh Record of a Floating Life", it has never been in the hands of me or any of the actors around me. Everyone said that if such a script came into their hands, they would definitely not miss it."
Zuo Feng looked surprised.
"really?"
Lu Yanhe nodded. "There are many actors who don't know how to choose scripts, but there are also many actors who have the ability and vision to read scripts. Unfortunately, it seems that the more such actors are, the harder it is to find good things from a large number of scripts."
Zuo Feng: "I thought not many people would like this script. When I was looking for actors, many actors were unwilling to take the role because the budget was very low."
"It is true that this happens, but nothing is absolute," Lu Yanhe said. "Sometimes it is not us who reject the script, but the team members who reject it. The actors don't even have the chance to see it. But if the actors do see it, as long as the script is good, the pay can be negotiated. So, if there is a good script or a good screenwriter in the future, and you need an opportunity, feel free to contact me."
Zuo Feng smiled in surprise and nodded.
He said thank you very vigorously.
Only then did he laugh.
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"Who do you think won the Best Actor award today?"
There were more than a dozen smokers gathered in a lounge, so the lounge became a smoking room.
"Except for Zhang Ding in "You Who Came From the River", everyone else has a chance."
"Indeed, this year is really a big year for Best Actor and Best Actress, both are coming in strong." Someone laughed. "Shang Yongzhou should be eliminated first, right? He has already won the Best Actor award twice. It is impossible for him to win it again this year. If he wins it again, he will have won it three times. He is only in his thirties. If he breaks the record now, will he be given the award again in the future?"
"But apart from this, is there any other reason not to give it to him?" Someone asked immediately, "Compared to him, Lu Yanhe's character is a bit weaker. The depth of his character is not as deep as Shang Yongzhou's. He should be the one who should be eliminated first."
"Don't say that. Among the five nominees this year, tell me, from the judges' perspective, who is the most deserving of the Best Actor award at this moment?"
"But the character he plays is indeed not the core protagonist of "Road to Glory". Although it is said to be a dual male lead, everyone can see that the protagonist of this movie is still Shang Yongzhou."
"This doesn't affect the brilliance of his performance, does it? He has even been nominated for many awards in the United States."
"Those are the Best Supporting Actor awards. If he applied for the Best Supporting Actor award, he would definitely sweep them all this year."
"Perhaps the judges did not consider them at all, but wanted to choose one between Huang Kairen and Zhou Yuning. Huang Kairen's role as the Twelve Young Master was so good, and he completely nailed it. As a popular star with a large amount of traffic, he dared to insist on acting in this drama under the public opinion environment at that time that no one was optimistic about, and gave a performance that made people look at him with admiration. He totally deserves the recognition of the best actor."
"Zhou Yuning is a late bloomer. He single-handedly supported the martial arts film "Nine Yins", which brought martial arts films back into the mainstream. Isn't this representative?"
"Alas, except for Zhang Ding, these four people all have reasons to win the award. It's really hard to be a judge this year."
“I feel like no matter who you choose, there will be a lot of controversy.”
"There's nothing we can do about it. In the past, it was already a big year when there were two people competing for the award, but this year there are four people competing for the award, and everyone has a reason to win the award."
"But one thing is almost certain, this year's three major awards will probably go to three people."
"If three out of four people appear, who will be the most unlucky?"
"Who knows."
"Will there be any judges who think that Lu Yanhe is competing for the North American awards season and that he might win something there, so they will give the award to someone else?"
"Isn't it?"
"If our three major domestic awards don't quickly give Yan He a Best Actor award, it will become a scandal for the three major awards."
"You're exaggerating. Lu Yanhe has only played the leading role in Road to Glory. Didn't he win the Best Supporting Actor award for his previous film Three Mountains? It's not like he hasn't been awarded before."
"Are you sure? Lu Yanhe was nominated for the best actor in three major awards last year for his role in Late Spring, but he ran into Liu Teli and Chen Pinhe competing for the award, as well as a big upset, He Daren. Didn't Lu Yanhe lose last year because he was too inexperienced? In fact, Late Spring was also a performance that could have won an award."
"'Late Spring' is a group play. No matter how good Lu Yanhe's performance is, it is still a little bit behind Chen Pinhe and Liu Teli."
"You just can't stand seeing a young man win the Best Actor award."
……
The break wasn't very long, with the commercial break only lasting fifteen minutes.
When there were only three minutes left before the ceremony was to continue, someone knocked on the door, reminding them to leave.
Everyone stopped talking and walked out of the room one after another.
The conversation that just took place in the small room was just a conversation.
Will someone tell others about it? Will it have any impact in this circle? No one knows at this time.
Anyway, in this industry, there are countless people chatting and expressing their opinions every day.
Maybe Lu Yanhe will be able to successfully win the Best Actor award tonight, or maybe someone else will win it.
In any case, no matter what the outcome, there will be all kinds of controversies.
But there is one thing that everyone is clear about.
In the eyes of many people in this industry, it is time for Lu Yanhe to be awarded the Best Actor trophy by the three major awards.
Otherwise, if a top actor who is representing the industry cannot get a trophy that belongs to him, people will only question the authority of your award.
From "Three Mountains" to "Late Spring", from "Rouge" to "Rouge Road", the films in which Lu Yanhe participated have represented Chinese-language films and shined internationally in the past two years. This is a fact that everyone can see.
An actor who was smoking in a small room just now exclaimed to his companion: "Tsk, tsk, it's hard to believe, he is only 21 years old."
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Lu Yanhe sat back in his seat.
He let out a long breath.
Huang Kairen also clenched his fists.
Lu Yanhe couldn't help laughing when he saw him like this.
The award ceremony has come to an end, and it is almost time for the most important awards to be presented.
Lu Yanhe put his hand on Huang Kairen's shoulder and said, "Brother Kairen, let's continue to look for suitable projects to cooperate on next time."
Huang Kairen was at least a little distracted by this sentence, and asked with some confusion, "Are you writing a new script again?"
"I've written a new script, but there's no role suitable for you." Lu Yanhe smiled, "I mean, if there's a suitable play, we can continue to act together."
"Okay." When Huang Kairen heard that there was no script suitable for him, a hint of disappointment flashed across his eyes.
He asked, "Well...if you win the award this time, I might still be a little jealous of you. Please don't mind it then."
Lu Yanhe was stunned.
Huang Kairen took a deep breath and said, "I really want to win this award. I can't control my emotions."
Lu Yanhe laughed and said, "Okay, Brother Kairen, if you win this award, you have to take my feelings into consideration. I will be jealous of you too."
"If I win this award, I will help you make a movie for free in the future." Huang Kairen said, "Really, I can't think of any other way to thank you."
Lu Yanhe: "Now that you mention it, I suddenly feel that it would be great if you won the award."
Huang Kairen clenched his hands and took a deep breath.
"That's you. If you had a competitor sitting next to me, I wouldn't even want to bother with him right now."
Lu Yanhe smiled.
He was originally quite nervous, but when he saw Huang Kairen like this, his attention was diverted a little.
Finally, it was time to present the Best Actor award.
Lu Yanhe felt that Huang Kairen’s whole body tensed up.
Lu Yanhe himself was the same, not much better.
What about him reaching the point where he no longer needs awards to prove himself... that's all bullshit.
Why doesn't he need an award?
Lu Yanhe raised his right hand and covered his eyes.
As a result, Huang Kairen suddenly grabbed his left hand very hard, as if he was praying for something.
"Let me grab it for a while, otherwise I won't be able to breathe!" said Huang Kairen.
When the people around saw their actions, they were all surprised.
——Do you two need to be so conspicuous?
The award presenter, Bao Zhenzhu, who had won the Feihong Award for Best Supporting Actress, opened the envelope and took out the winner's information.
"The winner of this year's Feihong Award for Best Actor is——"
"Huang Kairen, Rouge."
Before Lu Yanhe could react, Huang Kairen, who was standing beside him, hugged him excitedly.
"Congratulations." Lu Yanhe said.
He was a little numb and didn't react.
Huang Kairen took a deep breath and said, "It will definitely be you who wins the award next time."
Lu Yanhe laughed, patted Huang Kairen, and said, "Go up and receive the award quickly, and stop trying to comfort me."
Huang Kairen was in a state of extreme excitement and excitement.
Lu Yanhe watched him hug the people around him and then go on stage.
He was actually a little...jealous at this moment.
Why wasn't he the one who went on stage?
Reason had long told him that it would be difficult for him to win an award with "Road to Glory", but if reason could work at this time, human emotions would be of no use.
Lu Yanhe took a long, deep breath.
Yu Mengling, who was sitting behind him, suddenly put a hand on his shoulder and patted it gently.
"There are still the Lingyun Award and the Yinhe Award to come. You still have a chance." Yu Mengling leaned over and whispered to Lu Yanhe, "Don't be disappointed."
Lu Yanhe thanked him politely.
Lu Yanhe was very grateful that someone came to encourage him at this time.
While clapping, he turned around and smiled at Meng Ling.
From the corner of his eye, he saw many people looking at him, their eyes full of encouragement and support.
Lu Yanhe thanked them one by one with his eyes.
Huang Kairen has already gone on stage to receive the award. Holding the trophy, he stood in front of the microphone and took a deep breath.
"I hope I don't look too embarrassed now," Huang Kairen said with a smile. "I'm so excited."
He took two deep breaths, then clenched the trophy in his hand with red eyes, and said: "I really want to say with confidence that I have no guilt at all for winning this award, but the actors nominated with me this time are all so amazing. You all know how amazing they are without me telling you."
Many people did not expect Huang Kairen to say these words on the stage.
"I don't even know how to face Yan He. If it weren't for him, I would never, ever act in Rouge. Maybe he will be the one to receive the award today."
As soon as Huang Kairen finished speaking, the audience burst into laughter.
Lu Yanhe couldn't help laughing.
"I rejected this movie and this role three times," Huang Kairen said. "Then Yan He persuaded me to come back three times. He told me at the time that this would become the masterpiece of my acting career. At the time, I thought, you wrote the script, of course you said that, if I really believed it, I would be a fool. Now I am holding the first Best Actor trophy in my life, and I just want to go back to that time and tell myself at that time, well, you really are a fool."
Lu Yanhe's frustration and discomfort slowly subsided.
Huang Kairen's acceptance speech was a bit funny and attracted him.
"Just before I went on stage, I told Yan He that if I won the award this time, I would help him make a movie without any pay. I was just joking at the time and wanted to liven up the atmosphere because we were both quite nervous in the audience. Speaking of which, it's my first time to be nominated, so I'm fine if I'm nervous, but Yan He, you've been nominated so many times, why are you still nervous?"
Faced with Huang Kairen's teasing, Lu Yanhe resisted the urge to raise his middle finger. He just pursed his lips and made a helpless gesture.
Huang Kairen took a deep breath and said, "But now I have to say this very seriously in front of everyone: if you ask me to act in your next movie, I don't want a penny of salary. Anyway, I don't have an agent now, so no one can control me."
Crazy, crazy.
Huang Kairen also won an award and was very excited.
Lu Yanhe shook his head and made a clicking sound.
Huang Kairen's acceptance speech almost entirely ended with his interaction with Lu Yanhe. After he stepped off the stage, he suddenly realized and was shocked, "Damn it, I forgot to thank the director and Sister Bi Ge!"
Bao Zhenzhu smiled and said, "It's okay, they won't mind. Everyone can see from your look that you are just too excited."
Huang Kairen: “…Ah.”
Five minutes later, Ning Xiu Lian won the Best Actress award.
Chen Bige clapped in a particularly calm manner, showing no disappointment at all.
On the contrary, Xu Yiren couldn't hide his disappointment.
The Best Director Award was given to Ning Zhiyuan, who has been insisting on shooting martial arts films and finally returned to the public eye with "Nine Yins".
The Best Film award was unexpectedly given to the animated film "The Angry Crows", which shocked everyone.
Another Feihong Award has come to an end.
Lu Yanhe missed the award again.
Lu Yanhe did not go to the celebration party afterwards. Everyone thought that he didn't need to care about these awards, but he did. He was worried that he would be too disappointed and couldn't hold back his expression, so he simply didn't show up.
When he walked out of the venue and was about to get in the car to go home, many media reporters swarmed over and asked him questions.
"Since you didn't win the Best Actor award this time, do you have anything to say to your fans who support you?"
"Neither Rouge nor Glory Road won the Best Film Award. Many netizens said it was a big upset. Do you think it's reasonable for The Angry Crows to win the award?"
……
Lu Yanhe was not interested and sighed, but still stopped.
"My dear brothers and sisters, I didn't win any awards today, and I was already feeling very depressed. You guys asked me so many questions, and I'm really depressed."
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(End of this chapter)
