Chapter 563 Nothing will happen
If we ignore the fact that the chairman of the jury, Jiao Xiongping, and several other main organizers frequently left the venue to answer phone calls, this year's Golden Horse Awards ceremony would seem mediocre.
The favorites that were hyped by the media in advance basically all won the trophy successfully.
As expected, Xu Kun won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, while Feng Xiaogang was once again a runner-up, losing to Chen Kexin, the director of "The Warlords", in the competition for Best Director and Best Feature Film.
However, screenwriter Liu Heng won the Best Adapted Screenplay Award again.
Although Feng Xiaogang had anticipated this, he still couldn't help feeling disappointed, and this once again strengthened his idea of transitioning to art films.
Xu Kun was relatively calm. After winning the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Horse Award was just icing on the cake for him, not to mention that his main occupation now was actually a director - at least that's what others thought.
This is actually not very common, because many directors who started out as actors, even if they have achieved good results, are still more recognized by the public and the industry as actors.
For example, Stephen Chow, Cheng Long, and Zhang Guoli.
Perhaps it was because Xu Kun’s performance this time was too outstanding.
Since the domestic film industry carried out market reforms, domestic films have been suppressed by Hollywood. Coupled with the atmosphere of worshipping foreign things and fawning on foreigners, the pessimism and discrimination against domestic films are actually worse than in the second half of 2024.
After all, by 2024, Hollywood will have already declined. Even those who have tried their best to criticize domestic films would be embarrassed to use Hollywood blockbusters of the same period as positive examples for propaganda.
In this darkest moment before dawn, Xu Kun seized the window of the sharp rise in Chinese people's self-confidence after the Olympics, and broke the box office record that Hollywood movies had dominated for ten years in one fell swoop, and even doubled this record.
The influence and shock caused by this incident at the time was no less than the 2 billion yuan that Wolf Warrior 56 later generated, and was even greater.
To put it bluntly, heroes are made by the times.
If we ignore the context at the time and insist on comparing the 08 million box office in 7 with the 2025 billion box office in , it would be like using the sword of the previous dynasty to kill the officials of the current dynasty. It is completely inappropriate.
After the award ceremony, Xu Kun was about to stand with Feng Xiaogang and Liu Heng, but he saw Jiao Xiongping coming over with a few people. He said awkwardly: "Director Xu, there are some minor problems, so you may have to bear some grievances."
"how?"
Feng Xiaogang was immediately annoyed when he heard this: "He was just acting in self-defense. Are all the police officers on D unable to tell right from wrong?..."
"Director Feng, don't misunderstand!"
Seeing Feng Xiaogang getting anxious, Jiao Xiongping quickly explained, "That's not what I meant. It's just that there are some radical elements protesting outside. For safety reasons, we hope Director Xu can leave through the back door."
Hearing that the police were not here to arrest anyone, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Xu Kun also put the phone he had quietly taken out back into the trunk. Although being forced to leave through the back door was very unpleasant, as long as they regarded this place as an enemy-occupied area, there would be no difficulty in adapting.
After obtaining Xu Kun's approval, Jiao Xiongping immediately took them to the back door.
But when they got to the back door, they found a bunch of people blocking the way outside, and some were even burning flags and Xu Kun's photos.
Jiao Xiongping's face looked quite ugly, and she even swore a few words under her breath. She must have regretted taking on this hot potato.
"do not worry."
However, she still made a promise to Xu Kun: "We will definitely do everything we can to ensure that you, Director Xu, leave safely."
Well, in this case, it changes from you to you, which is understandable.
Then it was time to make phone calls.
Xu Kun was hesitating whether to report to the Film Bureau when Jiang Yiyan handed him her cell phone and showed him the contents.
I saw that it was a very old forum, and among the top posts, more than half were discussing red carpet events.
Xu Kun clicked on one at random and saw that it clearly stated that the person was a female fan of Zhou Yumin. She was unwilling to let Xu Kun enter the hall like that, so she rushed up to grab Xu Kun and asked him to apologize to Zai Zai.
It turned out that Xu, who was suspected to have a high-level background and was used to being a big shot in the mainland, actually beat the girl directly, causing her to become incontinent. She was eventually sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
Except for the shit, not a single word in this article is true!
As a result, someone below swore that he was at the scene and that things were even worse than this.
Some also said that the TV station has already reported it, so it definitely can't be fake.
Then came the overwhelming accusations, accusing Xu Kun of brutal behavior and the JU of inaction.
There are also calls for everyone to work together to put pressure on the local authorities to bring Xu Kun to justice.
Some people also made revenge remarks online, saying that they wanted to let the other side see the bloodiness of the islanders.
Tsk~
This is really a case of turning black into white. It seems that I have to hold a press conference as soon as possible to clarify the matter when I return to Beijing. As soon as Xu Kun finished reading the post online, Jiao Xiongping ran over excitedly and said to Xu Kun, "Director Xu, there is no problem now. They said they will send someone to escort you to leave overnight!"
When Xu Kun heard the words "leave overnight", he immediately understood that this meant not only leaving from the award ceremony site, but leaving the island directly.
"Then this plane..."
"Don't worry, everything has been arranged!"
Well, now that he has got the Best Actor trophy, Xu Kun doesn’t want to stay here for even a day longer.
So he followed Jiao Xiongping back to the front hall.
After waiting for about twenty minutes, I heard the roar of engines outside getting closer and closer. I looked out the window and saw three armored personnel carriers in front of me.
"It can't be that serious, right?"
Liu Heng was dumbfounded.
Feng Xiao had just read the post, so he analyzed, "They are probably afraid that Kun'er will get desperate and start fighting again, which will cause a direct conflict between the Blue and Green factions and affect government administration. I guess after we leave, someone will say this is deportation in order to keep things quiet."
Xu Kun thought so too.
But it is difficult for him to influence public opinion here. Even if he stays, it is impossible to clarify the facts. Moreover, the islanders may not want any facts, otherwise there would not be so many idiotic rumors circulating on the island.
"Let's talk about it after we go back first."
As Xu Kun spoke, he took out his cell phone and called the Film Bureau, but the person who answered the phone was from the diplomatic department.
After understanding the situation, he was immediately instructed to follow the arrangements on the island and return to the mainland as soon as possible.
There is even less to say about this.
Just then, a safe area had been cleared outside, and people began urging Xu Kun and others to get in the car.
Xu Kun, Jiang Yiyan, Feng Xiaogang and Liu Heng, accompanied by Jiao Xiongping, filed out and boarded the troop carrier amid the sound of monkeys on both sides.
When filming "Operation Kunpeng", Xu Kun dealt with this thing a lot, and it really felt familiar to sit on it.
He patted the seat and sighed, "It would be great if this was our own."
Upon hearing this, a soldier asked with a hint of pride: "Why, your LU doesn't have similar equipment?"
"Shut up!"
Before Xu Kun could reply, the team leader frowned and scolded him.
As a military general of a high rank, he had some understanding of the situation on the other side, so he naturally did not think that there was not even an armored personnel carrier over there.
So what Xu Kun said actually meant that he hoped the enemy's tank would appear on the island.
This made him quite unhappy, but this time his mission was to escort Xu Kun out of the country, so he couldn't possibly have a conflict with Xu Kun halfway, right?
So after scolding the soldiers, he shut up as if nothing had happened.
The troop carrier rumbled along, crushing the night scene along the way and directly sent the four people to the edge of the airport runway.
…………
One o'clock.
As soon as Xu Kun landed at the Capital Airport, he was invited to the airport office by the relevant departments. After repeatedly understanding the specific situation, he was allowed to go home and rest.
During this period, Han Sanping was always by his side, and the car for the return trip had already been prepared.
When Xu Kun left, he specifically asked, "There are so many rumors flying around there, should I hold a press conference to clarify them?"
"Need not."
The comrade in charge of the questioning said flatly: "You don't have to do anything, and nothing will happen."
The next day, the news that Xu Kun won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor spread all over the country, but the red carpet incident and the subsequent situation seemed to have never happened. No one in the print media or the online media reported any news about it.
(End of this chapter)
