China Entertainment 1997

In later generations, the overall competition of the Spring Festival Gala in the entertainment section on the first day of the Lunar New Year has been inferior to that of the Spring Festival.

Many people would rather watch the box office news and word-of-mouth feedback of Spring Festival movies than bother to deal with the aftermath of the Spring Festival Gala, even if they go to watch it. It’s also an idea of ​​​​complaining and ridiculing.

However, in the early years of the beginning of the century, the Spring Festival stall had not yet been formed, and the Lunar New Year stall had basically come to an end.

Every year, almost all the entertainment news around the Spring Festival is butchered by the Spring Festival Gala.

At the beginning of this year in 2005, due to the overall improvement in the quality of the Spring Festival Gala program, the effect was particularly great. Many people praised the Spring Festival Gala.

"Superstars, newcomers, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland, orthodox system, and grassroots Internet, this year's Spring Festival Gala has truly realized the prosperity of the Chinese music scene"

"The hero behind the scenes of the shocking dance "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" turned out to be him"

"From the beginning to the peak, after seven years, Cao Xuan achieved a great counterattack as a pop singer in the Spring Festival Gala"

"For the first time in audience research, the reputation of Spring Festival Gala singing and dancing programs is better than that of language programs"

"The Best Song and Dance Director of the Spring Festival Gala, Cao Xuan deserves the title"

"The highest ratings of the 2005 Golden Rooster Spring Festival Gala - "Thousands of Miles Away""

"The first zero-point finale, the "overt and covert struggle" between the two aces of the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao and Cao"

"The tear-jerking king of the Spring Festival Gala has become history, Cao Tianwang has two programs for the first time, shining on New Year's Eve"

"One person arranged four popular songs for the Spring Festival Gala. Does the director of next year's Spring Festival Gala know who to look for as his deputy?"

"Behind the carnival of pop songs, "Heavenly Road" + "Glory of China" + "Avalokitesvara with Thousand Hands" + "Thousands of Miles Away" are Cao Xuan's deep artistic considerations for the Spring Festival Gala song and dance programs"

"Who is the name of the stunning Yang Guifei who was chosen by Cao Xuan as her partner?" 》

"..."

Starting from the first day of the Lunar New Year, similar news spread widely in print media and on the Internet, and Cao Xuan was blown to the sky.

This is not a rare thing for Cao Tianwang, and it is very common even during the Spring Festival Gala. Almost every year after the Spring Festival Gala, someone starts blowing it.

But this year, although "The Drunken Concubine" and "Thousands of Miles Away" were well received, Cao Xuan is most praised for his role as the singing and dancing director of the Spring Festival Gala.

Different from previous years, there are too many excellent singing and dancing programs this year, which need to be lively and lively, high-quality, and deep.

Among them, the cast and crew of the show must be the first to contribute, but Cao Xuan, as the singing and dancing director of the Spring Festival Gala, also plays an important role.

Some of the most amazing singing and dancing programs in this year’s Spring Festival Gala.

"Thousands of Miles Away" and "The Drunken Concubine" were performed by Cao Xuan himself, while "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" and "Heavenly Road" were specially directed.

In this way, Cao Xuan has indeed taken the greatest credit and contributed a lot to the success of this year's Spring Festival Gala singing and dancing program. This is also an important reason for the praise from the outside media.

Many people even called for Cao Xuan to serve as the singing and dancing director of the Spring Festival Gala for a long time.

But Cao Xuan will definitely not do it. Not to mention the reasons such as being busy, tired, and unhappy, the key point is that he cannot continue to produce this kind of work quality in a long-term and stable manner.

Although he contributed a lot to this year's Spring Festival Gala, it still somewhat meant that "the times make heroes."

Programs such as "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" and "Heavenly Road" are hard to come by. The original 2005 Spring Festival Gala received a lot of praise and was even called one of the best Spring Festival Galas.

Cao Xuan took advantage of a good opportunity and brought over several good works from later Spring Festival Galas, and gathered a group of popular celebrities and singers through his connections, thus building such momentum.

If the Spring Festival Gala is held according to the requirements of this level in the long run, Cao Xuan will be able to sustain it for two or three years, but it will be difficult to say after a long time.

This year's Spring Festival Gala, Cao Xuan has reached the level of various projects. There is no need to wade through muddy waters in the future. At most, he can be an art consultant. I am afraid that he will not touch the specific responsibility.

So regardless of the harsh publicity outside, Cao Xuan himself is still very calm and made a statement through his blog.

The success of many programs is due to the efforts of the cast and crew, not to him alone. At the same time, as the singing and dancing director of this Spring Festival Gala, I would like to thank the cast and crew for their hard work and the audience's recognition.

This blog has been praised by many people, but there are also many people asking about the scandal between Cao Xuan and Zeng Li on the blog.

This Spring Festival Gala is the first time that the low-key Nisigong Empress has made a large-scale appearance.

And because she was on the same stage with Cao Xuan, coupled with the stunning appearance and drama of Concubine Yang, many viewers were deeply impressed by her, to a certain extent even more than Hu Jing who sang "Invisible Wings" the year before last.

After all, the songs at that time were extremely popular, and the people in "The Drunken Concubine" were even more popular in singing, especially Cao Xuan.

Let's put it this way, Xiao Zhou and Cao Xuan were on the same stage, and "Thousands of Miles Away" was very popular, but the enthusiasm for their collaboration was suppressed by Zeng Li.

A lot of information about Zeng Li was uncovered. He was a drama student, one of the Golden Flowers in the 96 Star Class, and a classmate of Hu Jing and Jiuji Zhang.

After graduation, he took the postgraduate entrance examination and stayed in school as a teacher. He was the class teacher of Liu Tianxian and Wen Zhang in the 2nd grade of Chinese Opera. His representative works include Yue Yingying in "Li Wei Becomes an Official", Yin Susu in "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword", etc...

Generally speaking, Zeng Damei's reputation is not very high. If we calculate the celebrity status, I am afraid it will be difficult for the second tier.

Before this, many people's impressions of her were mainly divided into three parts: star teacher of Chinese opera, member of the 96 star class of Chinese opera, and heroine of Cao Xuan's MV.

Since Cao Xuan debuted, the heroines of nearly 10 albums have always been Hu Jing + Zeng Li.

Cao Xuan once explained to the public that when he first released his album, he was in financial difficulty and the two beauties volunteered to help. He was very grateful and vowed at that time that the heroines of his future MVs would be the two of them.

This is half true and half false, but it is still an explanation.

Many people still accept this idea of ​​repaying a favor, but more people still doubt the scandal.

However, Hu Jing was originally the number one in Cao Xuan's scandal list, and she was suspected of being an official wife. Zeng Li also had many scandals in his early years, but because of his low profile, he was gradually overtaken by latecomers.

As of the Spring Festival Gala, Empress Xigong is not even in the top ten of Cao Xuan's scandal targets.

However, after the Spring Festival Gala, Empress Nishinomiya not only became famous, but also her ranking on the list soared. Although she will not reach the top three soon, she is still considered a popular candidate.

Many "informed people" came out and exposed that Hu Jing has fallen out of favor, as evidenced by the fact that there were almost no starring films last year.

Cao Daguan's new favorite is Fan Xiaopang, who spends all his efforts to win over him. Hu Jing is afraid of losing her position, so she drags her old classmate Zeng Li over. Zeng Li and Cao Xuan had an old relationship, but later they separated. Now they are rekindling their old friendship and directly I took it with me to the Spring Festival Gala...

This group of entertainment editors all have good imaginations. They piece it together based on the existing public information and use their imagination.

A love drama about palace fighting and dog-fighting that everyone loves to watch is just released!

Fanxing didn't take the scandal seriously or suppress it. After being in the entertainment industry for many years, Cao Xuan already knew that blocking is worse than blocking.

The more information is pushed to the bottom, the more rebellious netizens and gossips become, doing crazy things, and even smearing the news more and more, completely escalating the whole thing.

So the best thing is not to block, but to confuse.

Aren't the outside world curious about the scandal between Cao Xuan and Zeng Li, so they threw in a few more facts, mixed the true with the false, contradictory and full of loopholes, so that netizens themselves could find out something was wrong.

As long as some guidance and protection are provided, it is basically guaranteed that the reputation of the parties involved is overall positive, and the details will be quarreled casually. When the quarrel is tired or there is another incident, it will automatically disappear.

Cao Xuan deliberately set up a scumbag in this way back then, and the same was true for various news in the East and West Palaces.

As a public figure, Cao Xuan understands that he cannot hide everything.

Pressure means having a guilty conscience.

Don’t press and let the fermentation get out of control.

The best way is to muddy the waters so that everyone doesn't know what is true and what is false, and their attention is diverted in a daze.

For example, on blogs, it’s not like no one exposed that Cao Xuan and Zeng Li were holding hands backstage at the Spring Festival Gala.

But soon another "staff member" broke the news that the relationship between the two was mediocre, but that Cao Xuan and Gu Miaomiao were disgusted. Not long after, another "senior insider" said that Cao Xuan had no interest in these people. It feels like he likes Cai Yilin.

When several people insist on their own opinions, the truth often doesn't matter.

In fact, for Cao Xuan today, scandals of this nature have no impact on him at all. The reason why he played this trick was for the sake of Zeng Li and the family behind him.

This Spring Festival Gala, Zeng Li will definitely experience controversy, but if the foundation of his image is guaranteed, it will not be greatly affected, and he will even get a lot of benefits.

After all, there are too many actresses who have had scandals with Cao Xuan, and many of them have publicly confessed their love. Although Zeng Li was very explicit during the Spring Festival Gala, it was not to the extent of "overwhelming all the other celebrities."

The reason why Cao Xuan repeatedly "exposed" the East and West Palaces was not to stimulate excitement, but to constantly test the outside world.

The constant exposure subtly affects the outside world's view of the relationship between several people, changing public perception bit by bit over the years.

If this continues, I dare not expect it to be a success, but it may offset the public's resistance to this matter to the greatest extent.

Lu Xun said it well, everyone likes to reconcile and compromise. Cao Xuan looked like a prodigal and wanted to marry ten or eight people, and everyone would definitely not allow it.

But when it comes to having two beauties, not getting married, and living a down-to-earth life, many people will think that he is a prodigal son and is "keeping to himself."

Although it is a bit unethical to influence public opinion, Cao Xuan has never been a good person. If it can create a beautiful and comfortable future for himself, he does not mind using some tricks.

Hu Jing is now considered by many people to be the Lady Boss of Fanxing, and Cao Xuan feels that the Lady of the West Palace can also be "exposed" appropriately.

One is a career partner and the other is a spiritual confidant. The saying of red roses and white roses is very popular.

Of course, Cao Xuan was very vigilant about this matter, and his movements were very small. Once he saw something was wrong, he would immediately go underground.

Even more strictly speaking, this matter has always been underground. Cao Xuan and the others will not have any official recognition. Everything is imagined by the outside world, and they are very "innocent" between them.

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Under Cao Xuan's secret protection, the overall public opinion of Zeng Li's popularity remained positive, and Empress Xigong was very happy.

After so many years since her debut, she has also experienced a big hit.

But within a few days, she felt a little annoyed. Although her face was considered familiar in the past, it was not to the point where she knew everyone wherever she went.

But in the two days after the Spring Festival Gala, she really showed this attitude. She went shopping with Sun Lan and was almost surrounded. The paparazzi also took photos secretly, but the photos ended up in Cao Xuan's hands.

In addition, Zeng Li also had many commercial performance invitations, and the asking price was 200,000 yuan per show, which in 2005 was considered a second-tier or above price.

But unfortunately, Miss Zeng would rather please her mother-in-law at home than take on such a "small job".

"Liu Jinlan, I am really a miserable person.

I have been struggling for half my life and have never cut off the roots of suffering.

Husband died when he was twelve years old

Pay homage to the new grave..."

When Cao Xuan came back from outside, he saw Sun Lan and his wife watching Yimeng minor tunes on the TV.

Sun Lan is old, illiterate, has limited appreciation of TV dramas, and does not have as many hobbies as Comrade Cao. The sisters' most powerful weapon is to go out and find neighbors to have sex with.

Until she returned to her hometown last year, Aunt Cao Xuan introduced several CDs of Yimeng minor tunes, and Sun Lan instantly opened up a new world.

Cao Xuan now pays 2 million to his parents every year, and this amount increases every year, and there are other filial piety contributions from time to time. Sun Lan doesn't dare to say that if he has too much, 18 million is easy.

CDs were not expensive, so Sun Lan was still willing to spend a little money to satisfy her hobbies. She bought a stack of CDs from her hometown in Zaoshi and listened to them at home every day.

Every time Cao Xuan stayed home for a long time, the magical Yimeng ditty would surround his ears.

Sometimes he was afraid that one day he would lose his temper, so he played a classic Yimeng ditty "Pao Sichuan Province" during the performance.

In fact, speaking from the bottom of his heart, Cao Xuan does not dislike this kind of music. But it's really not about appreciation. I couldn't help my mother liking it, so I just let her go.

Before, he had specifically reminded the East and West Second Palace not to be caught by Sun Lan. She liked Amway and others to listen together.

Although warned in advance, the two daughters-in-law would not dare to offend their mother-in-law, and they would just listen if they were caught.

The Empress of the East Palace really couldn't stand it. She was frightened when she saw this thing, and she kind of kept away from it.

But I didn't expect that the Empress of the West Palace was very capable and could sit still. She not only watched Sun Lan for most of the day without talking about it, but also analyzed the characters in the plot afterwards, and sometimes taught Sun Lan how to sing.

Not to mention Cao Xuan, even Comrade Cao Shuangguo looked at Zeng Li in shock.

If the daughter-in-law here takes her back to her hometown, she will be jealous of a bunch of old rural ladies...

The couple watched intently, and Sun Lan even got into the drama, her eyes watering as she watched the widow crying in her grave.

Fortunately, although Zeng Li could see, he was not obsessed with this thing, and he quickly noticed Cao Xuan's presence.

"You're back, how's it going?"

"A press conference will be held tomorrow in the building to officially announce the franchise."

"Great, this time the stars are even more powerful."

Cao Xuan is also a little happy. After the Spring Festival, Fanxing is preparing to formally sign a cooperation agreement with Mr. Xu, which means that Mr. Xu will become Fanxing's contracted director.

In addition to Mr. Xu, there are three directors joining the cast tomorrow.

One is Ning Hao, who has been busy with "Crazy Stone" recently. After thinking about it for a while, he still couldn't bear the conditions for Fanxing to come out, so he finally gave in.

The other one is Kang Honglei, an old acquaintance of Cao Xuan.

In fact, Cao Xuan had invited Kang Honglei to join him many times before this, but due to various reasons, he never made up his mind.

Until this time, Cao Xuan came to invite him personally and came up with a studio model to cooperate, and finally persuaded Kang Honglei, who had left CCTV.

Kang Honglei joined Fanxing as a personal director studio, and his studio Fanxing holds 50% of the shares.

After all, Kang Honglei's current reputation is not particularly great, and the only work he can really produce is "The Years of Burning Passion".

Although Cao Xuan knows his abilities, he still has to explain things internally and externally. Lao Kang can join as a studio, which is already an old friendship with Cao Xuan.

In the cooperation between the two parties, Fanxing is undoubtedly in the leading position and has given a lot of support to the studio. It has invested many resources and naturally has to take more equity.

Kang Honglei didn't have any ideas. Being able to own 50% of the shares, get some dividends, and guarantee a certain degree of creative freedom was already a very favorable condition.

Another company might offer better conditions, but they don't have Fanxing's resources and strength.

And Lao Kang's first project after joining Fanxing was "Soldier Assault" which he had been thinking about for a long time.

The last director is called Feng Xiaoning.

This person is not particularly well-known, but his works are very good. The war trilogy "Yellow River Love", "Purple Sun" and "Red River Valley" won awards and was soft-handed.

He is one of the few directors in China who can perfectly combine the depth, main theme and story of a film.

In addition to making war movies, Feng Xiaoning also makes comedies. Pan Zi's "Hands Up" is his work.

He is also good at filming historical and biographical subjects. Hu Jun's TV series "Zhu Yuanzhang" was directed by Feng Xiaoning.

Although this TV series has a lot of flaws, even smearing Emperor Hongwu so much, and all kinds of unofficial history and scheming that I can't bear to look at, it also has many highlights, such as the subsequent plotting and character creation. Overall, it can be regarded as a high-quality biographical drama. drama.

Especially in a market where Qing Dynasty dramas were everywhere at the time, it was possible to produce a Ming Dynasty drama with a score of 8.5 on Douban, and many flaws could be tolerated.

From Cao Xuan's point of view, Feng Xiaoning is an all-rounder. His upper limit may not be particularly high, but it is definitely not low.

Fanxing currently has commercial films such as Xu Laoguai and Ning Hao, and other outside directors can also cooperate, including TV drama directors Chen Hanzhu, Qian Yanqiu, Kang Honglei and other directors.

As for an all-rounder like Feng Xiaoning who is good at literature, art, business, and can also shoot TV series, he is indeed a rare talent, and Cao Xuan still values ​​him very much.

Four directors, Ning and Feng, signed the contract, Xu and Kang cooperated, and also signed preferential investment terms agreements with directors such as Chen Musheng, Lin Chaoxian, Chen Kexin, Du Qifeng from Hong Kong, and mainland directors Tian Zhuangzhuang and Jia Zhangke.

In fact, this is of little use. In the current film market, projects seek directors, or directors take projects and seek investment, with investors occupying an absolute dominant position.

The so-called priority investment agreement is basically nonsense, and everyone is rushing to get good projects. If you are not optimistic about a project, you may not invest in Fanxing.

The reason why all these directors are involved is to build momentum. The most important thing is to look at the contracted directors like Mr. Xu.

…

The next day, Fanxing Building

Fanxing held a press conference to officially announce the joining of several directors. The C position was still dominated by Old Monster Xu.

Lao Kang is a TV drama director. Feng Xiaoning has no reputation, but his reputation is still inferior. Ning Hao is a nobody, and not many people know him at all.

The glorious resume in the early years, coupled with the huge hit of "Xiu Chun Knife" last year, and a blockbuster "Seven Swords" with an investment of over 100 million waiting to be released during the summer vacation, all have made Lao Xu very famous now.

Fanxing also intends to praise him and compare him with Huayi's Feng Xiaogang and New Picture Lao Mouzi. Now he has begun to market Xu's reputation as the number one director in Hong Kong.

As for whether this name will cause Wang Sunjing, Wu Baige, Wang Fatty and others to be unhappy.

This has nothing to do with Cao Xuan. No matter how awesome those people are and they don't make money for him, he doesn't particularly care about the historical status of these Xiangjiang directors.

Mr. Xu is now his subordinate, and there will be a series of cooperation projects in the future. Fanxing will definitely support Mr. Xu. He has the number one director in Hong Kong under his banner, which will help Fanxing's momentum and attract movie fans at the box office.

If that doesn't work, to appease his emotions, or if Mr. Xu is embarrassed to offend others, then add "business".

The number one commercial director in Hong Kong, bypassing artistic film directors such as Wang Sunjing, basically just have to fight to the death with Fatty Wang.

Although Mr. Xu didn't say anything on the surface, he was still a little happy with what this [Hong Kong's number one director] said.

Although many Hong Kong media and movie fans are not convinced, Fanxing's media matrix directly faces the public. Once this statement has become deeply ingrained and formed many people's opinions, it is too late to overturn this statement.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Old Monster Xu can produce outstanding results, and Fanxing can help him.

Otherwise, the movie would collapse at the box office, have a bad reputation, and be blown away by the stars, and everyone would not be a fool.

In the original time and space, Feng Xiaogang came from behind and defeated a series of fifth and sixth generation directors from the wild, becoming one of the three major mainland directors along with Zhang and Chen.

It was made possible by the success of "A World Without Thieves", "The Night Banquet", "Assembly" and several other movies with over 100 million yuan.

During the period of "Private Customization" and "Tangshan Earthquake", he once dominated the box office charts and was the most popular film director in the country at that time. Feng Tongtong even shouted the arrogance of "seeking defeat alone".

If Mr. Xu wants to overpower other directors in Hong Kong, he can also think of ways to overtake at the mainland box office, cooperate with the publicity of Fanxing, and achieve overtaking in corners.

Faced with Fanxing's publicity campaign, Mr. Xu and Mr. Shi were very happy to cooperate with Fanxing.

Not only has Xu Laoguai received a steady stream of publicity and film and television financial resources in the mainland, but he is also expected to realize the opportunity to become the number one director in Hong Kong.

Fanxing is also very happy that the company finally has a great director who can carry the publicity.

But what few people know is that Cao Xuan did not put all his treasure on Old Monster Xu.

Old Monster Xu was too involved in the Hong Kong circle, so Cao Xuan was more or less defensive.

Praising him is mutually beneficial, but Cao Xuan also plans to focus on cultivating the new generation of mainland directors such as Ning Hao. These are the directors who are direct descendants of the stars and are not influenced by the outside world.

Again, Cao Xuan has the same attitude towards most of the directors in Xiangjiang -

It can be reused, but not trusted!

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