Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

Chapter 306 Yanjing International Film Chapter ()

The tickets for the key guests of the film festival were all serial numbers, Li Wei was not polite and asked for two tickets directly.When Li Wei got off the red carpet and sat down in his seat.Zhou Xiao had already arrived, and Zhou Xiao obviously didn't care that Li Wei sat down, but kept sending messages on his smartphone.Li Wei couldn't help complaining: "Money can be earned all the time, why can't you accompany me?"

"Isn't I spending enough time with you?" Zhou Xiao raised his head and smiled, revealing his teeth so white that he could shoot commercials. "Okay, don't be sour, this place is really annoying. The partner who finally negotiated is now entangled with me again. It means that you put too much MSG in Huaxia cuisine, which is unhealthy or something. I am laughing , Who put MSG in the real Chinese cuisine? But in any kitchen controlled by a real first-level chef, the chef who put MSG has long been kicked out by the head chef to retake the cooking class! It’s not that they foreigners are self-righteous and engage in such things as "Zuo Zong "Tang Chicken" is a Chinese dish that is so sweet and greasy that we don't even know it, and if you put chicken essence indiscriminately in order to pursue the so-called oriental umami taste, how can there be such a mess now!"

Li Wei also has nothing to say about this, after all, the Western media has already reached the MAX level with the ability to generalize.What kind of Chinese cuisine is heavy in oil and salt!What kind of Chinese cuisine puts MSG indiscriminately!In short, Chinese cuisine is unhealthy, and only Western cuisine is noble, tasteful, and healthy.Li Wei had no choice but to laugh at this, and threw the signboard saying "I have never eaten authentic Chinese cuisine" over.If you want to pursue umami in Chinese cuisine, then the first choice is broth.In any restaurant that is slightly larger, there must always be stock in the kitchen. Anyone who uses MSG and chicken essence for seasoning must be kicked out by the head chef or the master chef.Besides, condiments such as monosodium glutamate were invented by Japanese people, and it has nothing to do with Chinese people's half a dime.And even if there is no broth seasoning, Huaxia's chefs have a lot of ways to use ingredients to make extremely delicious dishes.As for heavy oil and heavy salt, it is because China belongs to the farming civilization. If there is no heavy oil and heavy salt, how can there be physical strength to participate in labor?And with the advent of mechanized production, many Chinese cuisines that are heavy in oil and salt have also been improved into healthy dishes that are oil-free and low-salt.It's a pity that many people who are dismissive of Huaxia cuisine have never even eaten Huaxia food stalls, and are fooled by a group of unknown cuisines who claim to be Huaxia cuisine.

"By the way, how many awards can you win tonight?" Zhou Xiao suddenly asked, "I have also paid attention to several popular films in this film festival. It seems that your film is not so popular? You have done a good job in public relations How? By the way, the chairman of the judging committee of this year's film festival is Lao Shen, who is very strict with a professional background, and he looks down on directors like you who are not from a professional background."

"So what?" Of course Li Wei knew where his biggest obstacle to winning the award was. "Although the chairman of the judging committee has the power to preside over the discussions, one person votes for each person when voting. Besides, he still hates the competition in this circle." Isn't it closed enough? What's the use of shutting the door and being alone there all day? Let me tell you, Zhou Xiao, believe it or not, if you continue to play like this for a few years, the film industry will be over. The box office is rising every year. But what about word-of-mouth? The biggest cancer in the film industry is the group of self-righteous academic film critics and professional directors! No, I have to find a way to deal with these cancers!"

"Okay, don't save the world here, the camera will catch it." Zhou Xiao reminded softly.

Compared to Li Wei's appearances, Zhou Xiao is almost in a semi-retired state.Since the brokerage contract was transferred to Li Wei's side, Zhou Xiao has basically been in a state of letting himself go.He is not short of money at all now. As an upstart in the international catering industry, Zhou Xiao's status no longer requires a job in the entertainment industry.Now Zhou Xiao has almost no programs other than the weekly "Star Kitchen".However, Zhou Xiao has quite a few fans, and Zhou Xiao's former club would occasionally make a collection of Zhou Xiao's songs, which would sell well.It's just that later Li Wei was dissatisfied with Zhou Xiao's old club cheating fans of money, so he directly bought out all Zhou Xiao's record copyrights, and then directly released a three-disc set of Zhou Xiao's best works.Although they are all old songs, Li Wei just carried out a digital restoration to improve the sound quality. As a result, this collection is actually the top five best-selling albums of the year.Therefore, when Zhou Xiao also appeared at the awards ceremony, the camera still gave Zhou Xiao a lot of shots.But what made the on-site director depressed was how did Zhou Xiao enter the scene?It stands to reason that if a guest of Zhou Xiao's level enters the venue, a red carpet must be arranged.But in fact, after Zhou Xiao got Li Wei's movie ticket, he entered the venue through the audience ticket gate very low-key, and then removed the disguise in the bathroom, so it is not surprising that the red carpet camera did not capture Zhou Xiao .

Awards ceremonies at film festivals are generally short and fast, and there are usually very few so-called guest performances.However, the opening speech session was really hard to escape. The secretary-general of the organizing committee spoke for half an hour, and then the chairman of the judging committee spoke for another half an hour.Li Wei now regrets arranging the HBO live broadcast.For such a boring link, I'm afraid that HBO's ratings will fall to the bottom, right? HBO is the only free cable station in the HBO TV network, so the ratings are also very important reference data, after all, HBO still needs advertising.

After the speech session, the awards for newcomers were first awarded.What is the best new director, best new actor and so on.After spending an hour of boredom like this, finally ushered in the first fairly important award, the best screenplay.But what makes Li Wei feel depressed is that although he was nominated and was the one with the highest voice, another screenwriter won the award in the end.

Li Wei didn't think the film made by the award-winning script was so good-looking, but it just met the taste of the judges.It's the kind of weird heroine who doesn't want handsome guys, corporate upstarts, political rookies, or all the outstanding men, just a male lead who has no merits and is not clear with other female partners.For this hero, the heroine doesn't want her parents, siblings, relatives and friends, she has to give birth to a trash hero!Of course, the child will definitely not be born, because it will be lost by the male lead.But the female protagonist is still infatuated with the male protagonist, and finally brings the male protagonist and the children born to other female protagonists to live alone forever.Li Wei couldn't help but maliciously speculate, is it because the judges are too frustrating, that's why they wanted|The obscene goddess fell in love with her?

In fact, Li Wei's focus on public relations is Best Actress and Best Director, while other awards are dispensable.Ke Fan's age is too young, and it is considered a real performance, so it is difficult to get the best actor.But to Li Wei's surprise, Ke Fan's best newcomer actor was also knocked out by an inexplicable person.It was not easy to get to the best actress awards, and Liu Jiaying finally got the award as she wished.During the award speech, Liu Jiaying naturally burst into tears.From entering the film circle with full expectations, but encountered unspoken rules and had to leave.By chance, he actually returned to the film industry after ten years away, and immediately won a very important award.

"Best film or best director, which one do you think you can win?" Zhou Xiao asked as he saw Liu Jiaying delivering a speech on it.

“The public relations firm was fighting for me for best director, but I would have liked to have won best picture. But with the current chaos, it seems likely that I will only get one or none at all. "Li Wei frowned.

In fact, Li Wei's premonition was right. When voting for the final award, the chairman of the jury specifically targeted Li Wei.Regardless of the fact that the chairman has only one vote, generally speaking, most members of the jury will respect the chairman's choice.Because the chairman targeted Li Wei, Li Wei lost many awards.Fortunately, for several key awards, many judges thought it would be better not to go too far.As for the Golden Tripod Award for Best Film and the Silver Tripod Award for Best Director, the Chairman meant that Li Wei should not win the award.

However, Li Wei's public relations is not a vegetarian, and several judges who benefited from it objected to intentionally targeting Li Wei.The reason why these judges are so tough is that Li Wei's film is indeed excellent. If Li Wei is really denied a prize or only given a few consolation prizes, then the reputation of the film festival will be completely ruined.If the reputation of the film festival is damaged, then the organizing committee will definitely find trouble with these judges.The biggest trouble may be that all film festivals will silently block the possibility of becoming a judge again, which is very painful for people like them who are committed to leaving a name in film history.And at the same time, they also have to worry about Li Wei's revenge. Maybe Li Wei's revenge will not reach them, but what about their disciples and grandchildren?If he is really going to be on Li Wei's blacklist, let alone bid farewell to the film and television industry, at least he won't be able to escape being suppressed.

"Heh, they didn't give you the Silver Tripod Award. It seems they are going to use the Golden Tripod Award to appease you." Seeing that Li Wei was not the best director awarded by the film festival, Zhou Xiao frowned and sneered.

Although Zhou Xiao is in a semi-retired state in the entertainment industry, it does not mean that Zhou Xiao is completely insulated from the entertainment industry.Now Zhou Xiao's Yushanfang and other catering brands are the main sponsors of many movies, TV dramas and variety shows, so Zhou Xiao also began to work behind the scenes in the entertainment industry as a producer.Just because he started to work behind the scenes, Zhou Xiao is also familiar with the unspoken rules behind the entertainment industry.Zhou Xiao's fame is here, and the film's excellence is there. If the film festival just let this "Mom" lose the best director and best picture one after another, then the major media will be excited tomorrow.

But the media was not excited, because the chairman of the jury was pinching his nose and announcing that the winner of the best film, the Golden Tripod Award, was Li Wei.Li Wei tidied up her clothes and stepped onto the podium, receiving the trophy gracefully.Li Wei first thanked the film crew for their efforts, then thanked the audience for their support, and finally thanked the film festival organizing committee for the invitation.Li Wei's words of thanks are very decent and reasonable, but they always sound strange.After Li Wei stepped down, a reporter suddenly thought that Li Wei didn't thank the jury!Generally speaking, any recipient would thank the judges, but Li Wei did not.If Li Wei forgot, but Li Wei didn't even forget about the organizing committee.There was a slight smile on the corners of the mouths of several old reporters. It seemed that there was a lot of news to dig here.And the chairman of the judging committee was completely angry in the audience, he even compromised and gave the award, and you didn't even give him face.But the other judges smiled wryly. It seems that even a Golden Tripod Award did not appease this proud new director, so he had to find other opportunities to explain in the future.At this moment, everyone unanimously decided to throw the blame on the chairman of the jury committee. It was the chairman of the jury committee who caused this situation too much!