Huayu started as a lecturer at Beijing Film Academy

"Ok, I'll find someone to arrange it." Chen Sicheng went to contact people without stopping. He was more concerned than Gu Zhongyu. After all, as long as this movie could win an award in Toronto, he would become the first young director in China!

He always felt good about himself and ignored the fact that there was Guo Fan in front of him.

"Dear, although your idea is very good, I still want to remind you that this method is not new. Dark Horse Films uses public opinion to create momentum and deliberately become a hot topic to interfere with the film festival's evaluation. This kind of thing has happened before. You'd better lower your expectations."

As a veteran, Shariz has seen many strange tricks used by filmmakers to win awards. Gu Zhongyu's idea must not be hidden from the jury.

Gu Zhongyu shrugged: "It doesn't matter. I have always felt that winning awards is dispensable. A truly good movie does not rely on the affirmation of awards."

It's like the Golden Rooster Awards before Gu Zhongyu traveled through time. As one of the three major Chinese awards, the Golden Rooster Awards is one of the few domestic awards, and it can even be said to be the only professional award. Even though there were controversies in the previous awards, the Golden Rooster Awards still have a certain amount of gold content.

However, the film that received the most nominations in that session was "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which received a total of nine nominations, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress. The number of nominations for "The Nameless" was second only to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", with a total of eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

Following these two films were "The King of the Sky", which received five nominations; and "China Ping Pong" and "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department", which received four nominations.

That's right, "China Ping Pong" was nominated for Best Director and Best Picture.

However, the highly anticipated and well-received "The Wandering Earth 2" only received three nominations, namely Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Art. Yes, you read it right. The number of nominations for "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Nameless", and even "The King of the Sky" and "China Ping Pong" were not as good.

Moreover, among the three nominations for "The Wandering Earth 2", except for the Best Picture, the other two are the Best Sound Recording and Best Art, two awards that basically no one pays attention to.

When seeing this list for the first time, many people even suspected that this list was forged by some bloggers in order to attract traffic, and they did not believe that the jury of the Golden Rooster Awards was so outrageous, but in fact, that Golden Rooster Awards was so outrageous.

Even if "The Investiture of the Gods" is indeed a good movie, in the words of a certain netizen, "The Investiture of the Gods" is just a good movie, while "The Wandering Earth 2" is a great movie. However, the two movies had completely opposite experiences at the Golden Rooster Awards. It is also for this reason that this topic has been at the top of the hot search list of a certain website for a long time, with a popularity of more than 10 million.

The reason is actually very simple. "The Wandering Earth 2" is a symbol of the new film force, and director Guo Fan is also a representative of the new school of directors. His "alternative" has moved the cheese of some old scholars.

But will anyone think that "The Wandering Earth 2" is not as good as "The Investiture of the Gods" and "The Nameless" because it won fewer awards?

It's impossible!

The public's eyes are sharp. They will only spit at the jury and those movies that seek fame, and turn around to praise "The Wandering Earth 2" to a higher position!

...

On the day of the award ceremony, it was time to walk the red carpet. However, since there were only four Chinese-language films participating in the Toronto exhibition, namely "Chinese Partners", "Tai Chi Hero", "Sentiment" and "Watermark Street", the familiar faces were only Chen Kexin and Jia Zhangke. Gu Zhongyu didn't see any female stars he liked, and even the queen of the carpet, Fan Binbin, didn't come to rub shoulders with him.

"Hello, Mr. Gu, I watched "Chinese Partners" with Director Chen. It's pretty good. This time, "The Invisible Guest" is also very interesting. If you have time, let's sit down and chat."

"Okay, next time! Next time!"

Gu Zhongyu didn't expect that Jia Zhangke, who has always been unruly, would take the initiative to greet him when he arrived backstage.

Jia Zhangke is an old anti-traitor. His films, such as Xiao Wu and Platform, all focus on in-depth exploration and criticism of real problems in domestic society, such as the decline of rural areas and the plight of the working class. While mirroring the stories and characters, he also bears certain social responsibilities and reveals the ugly side of real life.

So this guy's movies basically don't want to get the domestic dragon mark. It is said that the bigwigs in the review department will reject it directly as soon as they see his name on the list of producers!

But don't think that he won't make money if he can't release it. Foreigners are very fond of Jia Zhangke's account. He relies on foreign investment and then sells the copyright overseas to make a profit; for example, the copyright of "Still Life" in 2006 was sold to 75 countries, and the copyright fee was more than 40 million, which is nearly 7 times the cost of shooting; "Mountains May Depart", with an investment of more than 40 million, recovered the cost through overseas copyright pre-sales before it was released.

His first work, Xiao Wu, cost only 380,000 yuan, but he made over 5 million yuan. That was 5 million yuan in 1998!

The same is true for the movie Tian Zhu Ding, which was banned in China but received numerous acclaims abroad. It recently won the Best Screenplay Award at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival and was selected as one of the BBC's Top Ten Films of 2013.

Tsk tsk tsk, BBC gave a list of the top ten Chinese films. If you think about it carefully, you can know what the stories of these films are. They perfectly match the imagination of foreigners about the living environment of Chinese people.

Admittedly, there is nothing wrong with making movies to expose social reality, but Gu Zhongyu still sneers at the behavior of pleasing foreigners by exposing one's own scars.

As the domestic film market rises, the so-called Chinese art films represented by Jia Zhangke will gradually fade away in the European and American film industry, because now it is not difficult for domestic art films to have a box office of over 10 million, and it is possible to have over 100 million if they are well done. The domestic shooting budget can also be over 10 million, while the European and American markets have not changed much in recent years.

I still have to talk to him. People with different ideas cannot work together. Gu Zhongyu is unlikely to have anything to do with him.

Seeing Gu Zhongyu's perfunctory attitude, Jia Zhangke lost interest in the conversation. Chen Kexin got along well with him. The two directors got together and felt that they had a lot in common.

The opening ceremony invited the famous Canadian actress Avril Lavigne to perform. She wore her signature smoky makeup, a black leather skirt, leather jacket and leather boots, and looked like a punk girl. Her hair was also dyed in various colors. This time, she sang the song "What the Hell": "You say that I'm messing with your head..."

"Yeah yeah yeah yeah..."

This song is good, but the makeup is too eye-catching.

"What's wrong, dear, are you interested in a girl like this?"·Sha Liz saw that Gu Zhongyu was listening to the song seriously and thought he was interested in Avril Lavigne.

"Why do you think so? I just think her outfit is too eye-catching, just like a little gangster."

Salize chuckled: "I thought you didn't get satisfied these two days and wanted to go out hunting! I still have to remind you that the outside world says Avril has a serious skin disease. Even if you want to find her, don't go after her, otherwise if she takes off her clothes..."

"Is there such a thing?"

The rumors outside are true, but it's not a skin disease. Avril got Lyme disease, a zoonotic infectious disease, because she was bitten by an insect. But because Avril insisted that she was not sick at the beginning, she missed the best treatment time, which led to her having to retire and recuperate for a full five years.

Gu Zhongyu really had no interest in Avril. Now that he heard that Salize said she was sick, he couldn't help but think of Yao Beina. He didn't know how the girl was recuperating now.

In his previous life, Gu Zhongyu had always liked the singer Yao Beina, but it was a pity that she died young. So after they met by chance in 2005 and became friends, he kept thinking about Yao Beina and would ask about her health in a roundabout way every now and then.

Because of this, Yao Beina always misunderstood that Gu Zhongyu wanted to pursue her, but he really didn't mean that. He just wanted to save a life.

Fortunately, God will not let down those who work hard. With Gu Zhongyu's frequent reminders, Yao Beina was diagnosed more than two years in advance. Because she was discovered early and treated in time, she has been resting in peace for the past few years. I hope she won't relapse like in my previous life.

After being reborn again, I have to do some good things. The feeling of saving a life is much more valuable than making a hit movie.

…

“An excellent film can always reflect the various aspects of life…”

In the banquet hall of the InterContinental Hotel in Toronto, Pierce Handlin, the president of the film festival, and Cameron Bailey, the artistic director, announced the winners of the various awards of this year’s Toronto Film Festival to the media present.

A few days have passed, and most of the films have already been screened. The reason why many filmmakers have waited until now is to wait for the final award to be announced.

The “People’s Choice Award” is completely voted by film critics, media reporters and ordinary movie fans, and its gold content is praised by people.

Especially in recent years, as long as you win the People’s Choice Award, you have almost booked an Oscar ticket!

In recent years, political correctness seems to have become the mainstream, so everyone is not optimistic about "The Invisible Guest" or other movies to win the award. Their choice is still "12 Years a Slave".

“The winner of the People’s Choice Award is…” Cameron Bailey paused briefly and gave the answer, "12 Years a Slave!"

Sure enough, as expected, the quality of the film is ultimately no match for the mainstream of political correctness.

The applause was thunderous, while other film crews were a little dull, especially Gu Zhongyu. Chen Sicheng, Shariz and others looked at each other, but still had to applaud.

But then, the funny thing came!

After Cameron Bailey announced the People's Choice Award, he did not leave. Others looked suspicious, and Gu Zhongyu was even more questionable.

What does it mean?

Is it the same as the Cannes Film Festival, with a double yolk?

Cameron took out another list of winners and announced: "This time at the Toronto Film Festival, the best film in the Midnight Madness Unit is... "The Invisible Guest"!

Puff!

Gu Zhongyu almost laughed and fell on his seat, Chen Sicheng was stunned, and Shariz and Alexandra opened their mouths to the size of Gu in disbelief.

The people at the film festival were so funny that they actually gave them this award!

Midnight Madness Unit, just by hearing the name, you know it is not a normal award. It is unique to the Toronto Film Festival and aims to discover excellent cult movies (niche movies) from all over the world. It only screens the annual selected horror movies, action movies and weird movies that cannot be classified after 12 o'clock at midnight.

The famous heavy-taste movies such as "The Human Skin Hostel", "The Raid" and "Jennifer's Body" were all premiered in this unit. The "Huang Feihong" series of Chinese director Xu Laoguai and "Zombie" by Juno Mak were also screened in this unit. Martin McDonagh (director of "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"), who benefited from the Toronto Film Festival, also won the award in this unit for "Seven Psychopaths" in 2012.

However, no Chinese-language film has ever won this award. After all, there is no living space for cult movies in the mainland, and the size of Hong Kong and Taiwan is too small, so it has always been weak in this aspect.

"The Invisible Guest" also has suspense and horror elements. It is not impossible to classify it as a cult movie, but the film festival gave them this award, which is definitely ulterior motives.

Logically, the Midnight Madness section should be announced before the People's Choice Awards, but the film festival put it after "12 Years a Slave", and it was announced by the same person.

The intention is very clear: your movie is good, we really like it, but because of the current political correctness, we can't give you the People's Choice Award, but it's embarrassing to let you go home empty-handed, so give you some consolation, don't be disgusted.

Sure enough, the face of the director Steve McQueen from the crew of "12 Years a Slave" next door was quite unpleasant, but he couldn't get angry, after all, the biggest award was still won by him.

This should be regarded as a silent protest of this Toronto Film Festival!

But it's a good thing to win an award. As a director, Chen Sicheng was very happy. He has been working hard in China and has never received the treatment of winning an award abroad. Finally, it's not in vain that he sold himself to Zongheng Film and Television.

He wanted to rush up to receive the award, but seeing that the boss Gu Zhongyu hadn't left yet, he could only anxiously stand up and hug and celebrate with Chen Kexin and others from China.

"Go up, Director Chen, this is your day!"

Except for the Oscars, the highest awards at most film festivals around the world are given to directors. As a boss, there is no need for me to compete with Chen Sicheng for the limelight at this time.

Chen Sicheng smiled happily after receiving Gu Zhongyu's affirmation. After shaking hands with Gu Zhongyu and Shariz, he stood up and walked to the temporary award ceremony stage set up in the hotel.

Although I won the grand prize, the Toronto Film Festival did not set up any trophies.

I will be a little busy in the next few days and may take two days off. Please bear with me, readers!