Chapter 344: The Pond Fish
Xu Kun and Tang Ren had just chatted for a while when they saw Jiang Qinqin approaching with Chen Jianbin's arm around them. She didn't come forward to talk to them, but just stared at them with a resentful look.
Xu Kun was a little overwhelmed and took the initiative to step forward and apologize: "Sister Qinqin, I'm sorry this time, but we didn't expect that this incident would affect you."
Jiang Qinqin and Chen Jianbin just got married this year. They are a strong combination. Not only did they win the award for their performance in "Qiao Family Courtyard", they were also shortlisted for this year's "Guanxi Award".
Jiang Qinqin is also the most popular nominee for the 'Most Popular Actress Award' - if nothing unexpected happens, it will basically be her.
If you really say that the Golden Eagle Award has many problems and only cares about the overall situation, if you want to give the 'Best Performing Arts Award', then give it equally to everyone.
It just so happened that Zhang Guoli won the "Watching the Joy" award for male actor, but Jiang Qinqin's "Watching the Joy" award for female actor was not cancelled. So according to the public's understanding, Jiang Qinqin should be the double winner of this year's Best Actress.
As a result, because Xu Kun and Zhang Guoli formed an offensive and defensive alliance, the organizing committee could not withstand the pressure and finally came up with a temporary solution of changing the name.
All of a sudden, Jiang Qinqin was also affected. She went from being a double-awarded Best Actress to a controversial double-awarded Minor Best Actress. No wonder she felt so resentful.
To put it bluntly, Chen Jianbin and Jiang Qinqin were not as important as Xu Kun and Zhang Guoli, so they naturally became victims.
Although she was extremely dissatisfied, facing Xu Kun's sincere apology, Jiang Qinqin did not dare to be arrogant, and quickly said: "This is not the fault of Director Xu, but my bad luck - but if there is a suitable opportunity in the future, Director Xu must help me."
"Next time, definitely next time!"
As Xu Kun was speaking, another group of people rushed in from outside, led by Jiang Yiyan and Su Youpeng.
Seeing Xu Kun talking to Chen Jianbin and his wife, Jiang Yiyan left Su Youpeng without a second thought and quickly came to Xu Kun, asking angrily, "Brother Kun, have you read the morning newspaper?"
"what happened again?"
"The newspapers are hyping up who is the fifth director to make over 100 million yuan between you and Yu Rentai! They are also touting that Huo Yuanjia's overseas box office is more than five times that of Lost on Journey."
"It's normal for people from Hong Kong Island to do such things."
Xu Kun curled his lips slightly. In fact, Yu Rentai was also an unlucky guy who was caught in the crossfire, and it was also related to him, Xu, or it could be said to be the butterfly effect.
But Xu Kun cannot be blamed for this matter.
Yu Rentai is the director of "Huo Yuanjia", which was released on January 1, which is the eve of the Spring Festival.
By the end of February, "Huo Yuanjia" had already grossed over 2 million yuan. Just when Yu Rentai and the distributor wanted to "try harder" to get to 8000 million yuan, Chen Kaige suddenly jumped out and demanded a strict review of the box office data.
Although Director Chen's goal was to target "Lost on Journey" released by Huayi Film Group, the result was that "Huo Yuanjia" suffered misfortune, with the box office stuck at around 9000 million and unable to go any higher.
Everyone thought they were going to admit defeat, but who knew that half a year later, Yu Rentai suddenly announced that there was a problem with the original box office data. In fact, including the subsequent box office statistics from some small places, the mainland box office of "Huo Yuanjia" had reached million, and it broke the million mark earlier than "Lost on Journey".
Although not many people agree with this hindsight statement, it does not prevent Hong Kong people and southern media from hyping it up.
This also made Xu Kun very speechless. As the saying goes, every wrong has its perpetrator, and if you want to cause trouble, you should find Director Chen. Why are you looking for me, Director Xu?
But in fact, he also understood why Yu Rentai did this. It was not a big deal to rank behind Zhang, Chen, Feng and Zhou, but it was not so glorious to rank behind Xu Kun, a junior.
Plus, Jet Li's reputation is also involved...
Just as we were talking about "Huo Yuanjia", the heroine of the movie, Sun Li, walked in arm in arm with Deng Chao.
Seeing Deng Chao's smug look, Xu Kun went up and punched him in the chest: "Do you know that we were almost poisoned to death because of you?!"
Deng Chao was confused, rubbing his chest and wondering, "What do you mean? What's the point of this? What's the point of this? What's the point of this? What's the point of this?"
"You don't believe it, right? Bao Qiang, Bao Qiang!"
Xu Kun immediately called over the "witnesses", and also brought Li Chen and Chen Sicheng along.
When Baoqiang heard Brother Kun asking him to testify about the "poisoning incident", he grinned and laughed.
He hadn't had any TV dramas to show off yet, but he was nominated for the Hundred Flowers Awards, so he chose to go with Xu Kun, first to Changsha and then to Hangzhou. Bao Qiang didn't rush to speak, but Li Chen took the initiative to tell him about the poisoning - Li Chen's role was in the second half, and he didn't have much of a role, almost just a small supporting role, but he was still actively busy in the crew, usually working as a production manager.
However, Li Chen wisely did not mention the "apple" incident, and only said it was an issue of fertilizer poisoning.
After hearing this, Deng Chao said in dissatisfaction: "Damn, I thought this was going on - what does this fertilizer poisoning have to do with me?"
"Director Feng originally wanted to wait for the snow, but it's because you kept taking leave that we couldn't continue filming the drama scenes, so we had to film the battlefield scenes in advance, right?"
Deng Chao then understood what Xu Kun meant, and he also realized that Xu Kun was reminding him that Feng Xiaogang and even the entire crew might be dissatisfied with him because of this.
but……
Deng Chao turned his head to look at Sun Li beside him and felt that happiness in the second half of his life was more important.
At this time, Sun Li smiled and said, "Now that you mention it, it's my fault. If it weren't for me, Deng Chao would definitely not have overlapped with other roles. Director Xu, I've heard of your great name for a long time."
As he spoke, he extended his hand to Xu Kun.
"Each other, each other."
Xu Kun originally wanted to stop at once, but seeing that Deng Chao was staring at him, he simply grabbed Sun Li's hand and shook it in front of him.
Deng Chao slapped him on the wrist and took Sun Li's hand.
Seeing this, Xu Kun said to Sun Li, "Go buy him some more walnuts, so as not to offend everyone without knowing it."
This guy has always been a jealous person, and now he is even more in love. If this continues, the grudge between him and Feng Xiaogang will only get deeper and deeper.
Even if he was recommended by Liu Heng and Wang Zhonglei, Xiao Gangpao might not give them face once he got angry.
At this time, Director Feng Xiaoning also arrived, and Xu Kun hurriedly stepped forward, lowered his posture, and stretched out his hands.
Feng Xiaoning also shook his hands and said with emotion: "When we were filming Zhu Yuanzhang, I knew you were a good actor, but I didn't expect you to be a good director - it's true that the younger generation pushes the older generation forward!"
"You're joking. I'm just taking advantage of you. I can't compare with you."
Xu Kun is not being modest out of deliberateness. He has always believed that Feng Xiaoning's "War Meridian" is the best Chinese anti-Japanese war film, and there is no need to even add the prefix "one of".
Although Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly" invited Liu Heng to be the chief writer and was adapted from real events, Xu Kun believed that it was far inferior to "War Meridian" in terms of story portrayal and emotional mobilization.
Of course, let alone "War Meridian" which was originally labeled as a children's movie, even the later "Red, Yellow and Purple" war trilogy cannot compare with "Assembly" in terms of scenes.
Thinking of this, Xu Kun suddenly had an idea. When he was editing the script, could he ask Director Feng for some advice on how to highlight the national patriotic sentiment?
Director Feng Xiaoning is definitely a master in this regard. The trilogy and "War Meridian" seem to have been written and directed by him, and he is also particularly good at using foreigners' perspectives to highlight the tragedy and courage of the Chinese people.
And my new movie will definitely involve a lot of "foreigners".
Not only the script, if Director Feng Xiaoning is willing, he can be the producer himself.
Previously, Xu Kun refused to accept Feng Xiaogang as the producer because he was not yet famous and was worried about becoming the second Lu Chuan. Now that he has become a big director with a box office of over 100 million yuan, he naturally no longer has such concerns.
"This……"
Hearing Xu Kun's invitation, Director Feng Xiaoning hesitated and said, "I just took on a tribute film recently, so I'm afraid I won't be able to spare the time in the first half of next year."
"That's perfect. I plan to have the main actors undergo some military training first. The earliest we can start filming is estimated to be the second half of next year. If it's later, we may even push it to 08."
(End of this chapter)
