Huayu’s ex-husband

Chapter 276 275. Zhou Xun who suffered from insomnia because of Fan Bingbing's title of Queen of Huabiao

Since the filming started on August 3, the filming of "Lost in Thailand" has been smooth sailing.

After all, the three main actors of this movie: Xu Zheng + Huang Bo + Wang Baoqiang not only have superb acting skills, but also have worked with Wei Wu twice, so they are already familiar with each other.

Therefore, the filming of "Lost in Thailand" is definitely the most worry-free one for Wei Wu in history.

It only took 8 days to finish all the scenes in China.

Then the entire crew immediately went to Bangkok, Thailand, and started filming the Thailand part of "Lost in Thailand".

Filming abroad is the first time for Wei Wu, Xu Zheng, Wang Baoqiang and others, and it is quite fresh.

But the ancients said that people are cheap when they leave their hometown.

So many people suddenly changed their living environment, and there must be many inconveniences in food, clothing, housing and transportation in the early stage, so it is inevitable that they need a certain amount of time to adapt.

There were indeed many problems at the beginning. Some people had heat stroke, some were injured accidentally, some had food poisoning, and some were even sent to the police station...

But fortunately, the "Lost in Thailand" crew had sufficient funds. As long as there was money, 90% of the troubles could be solved.

Another point that helped a lot was that local government officials also attached great importance to Wei Wu, and almost responded to every request and helped to solve all logistical problems diligently.

After all, "Painted Skin" is now a hot movie in Thailand, and the previous "Those Years" also achieved good box office results in Thailand.

Even if the local Thai officials did not know Wei Wu, as long as someone introduced him as the Chinese-language film with the highest box office now, the other party would naturally look up to him.

Although Wei Wu is not yet an international director, he can almost be regarded as a first-line director in Asia.

Of course, the reason why the local government treated them so well was not entirely for Wei Wu's face, but mainly because of the country's relevant policies.

As a country with tourism as its pillar, Thailand is very supportive of foreign directors coming to the country to shoot movies, because movies have a miraculous effect on boosting the development of tourism.

At present, there are not only very generous tax exemption policies, but also about 20% rebate on production costs.

So it is no accident that movies such as "Lost in Thailand", "Detective Chinatown", and "The Accidental Manslaughter" are shot in Thailand.

Even many Hong Kong films, such as "The Disciple", "Drug War", "SPL 2", and "The Man from Macau 2", all choose to shoot in Thailand at the same time -

Of course, it has a lot to do with the tax reduction and tax refund policy, otherwise why don't people go to Myanmar and Laos?

After Wei Wu and his team overcame various difficulties, the filming in Thailand gradually got on track, and time flew to August 25th.

Before work started that morning, Huang Bo couldn't help asking Wei Wu:

"Tomorrow is the 12th Huabiao Awards Ceremony, aren't you going to go?"

It turned out that at this Huabiao Awards, "Painted Skin" received four nominations:

Outstanding Feature Film Award ("Painted Skin"), Outstanding Director Award (Wei Wu), Outstanding Actress Award (Fan Bingbing), Outstanding Film Technology Award ("Painted Skin")

Wei Wu was nominated, and the Huabiao Award is a government award led by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.

If Wei Wu is in China now, even if he is filming and knows that his chances of winning are slim, he will still attend.

After all, in this industry, no matter how awesome you are, you can't help but give face to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.

The Radio, Film and Television sent you an invitation letter, but you didn't go. What's wrong with you? Do you like to be tricked? Do you like to be blocked by others' review?

Wei Wu shook his head and said, "It's impossible. If I were in China, I would definitely go, but now I'm abroad, and it's too much trouble to go back!"

"That's true," Huang Bo continued, changing the subject:

"But if you don't attend the awards ceremony, you won't be able to be an outstanding director!"

Wei Wu smiled bitterly and said, "That's not bad. Anyway, even if I attend the ceremony, it probably won't be my turn."

Huang Bo was puzzled: "Why?"

Wei Wu analyzed it for him: "This has to start with the difference between the three major awards in the mainland! The three major awards in the mainland all have preferences:

"The Golden Rooster Award focuses on acting skills, the Hundred Flowers Award focuses on reputation, and the Huabiao Award focuses on subject matter.

"In layman's terms, the Golden Rooster Award is a professional award selected by professional filmmakers, the Hundred Flowers Award is a mass award selected by moviegoers, and the Huabiao Award is a government award selected by relevant departments.

"Generally speaking, main-theme films are more favored by the Huabiao Award.

"Another thing is that since it is a selection by the relevant departments, it will naturally bring some bureaucratic style, such as the possibility of considering the issue of qualifications and seniority!

"For me, on the one hand, I am young and have been in the industry for a short time, so my qualifications are definitely not enough.

"In addition, the subject matter of "Painted Skin" is not pleasing, so it is naturally difficult to win the finale award such as the Outstanding Director."

This is not Wei Wu's nonsense. The directors who won the most Huabiao Awards for Outstanding Director in his previous life basically won the award for main-theme movies.

For example, Feng Xiaogang ("Assembly" and "1942"), Chen Kaige ("My People, My Country" and "Changjin Lake"), Xu Ke ("Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" and "Changjin Lake"), and Lin Chaoxian ("Operation Red Sea" and "Changjin Lake").

In addition, "Not One Less", the only film in which Zhang Yimou won the Huabiao Award for Outstanding Director, is obviously also a main-theme theme.

Some of the above films may not be the director's representative works, or the best-received films.

But they all won this award through these movies, which obviously has a lot to do with the subject matter.

Therefore, for Wei Wu, the Huabiao Award for Outstanding Director is almost the easiest to win.

As long as you make a main theme movie with the greatest influence throughout the year, you are basically sure to win this award.

Moreover, movies like "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy", "Operation Red Sea" and "Changjin Lake" were originally on Wei Wu's future plan list, so Wei Wu didn't worry at all.

It doesn't matter if you can't get it this time. If you want to get it, it won't be a problem of one or two in the future, even three or four will not be a problem.

After listening to Wei Wu's analysis, Huang Bo thought it was really the case.

He had considered the movie "Painted Skin" before, after all, it broke the box office record in film history, and Wei Wu was so young.

The relevant departments might give him an Outstanding Director out of the mentality of "rewarding the underdog"!

But on the other hand, youth is also a double-edged sword.

The system still values ​​seniority very much. Even if you are mediocre in all aspects, you can get a certain promotion by accumulating seniority.

Wei Wu is indeed too young! And this is his first time to be nominated. If he is nominated in the next session, or the session after that, then he will basically win the award.

"Then Fan Bingbing will definitely go, right? She seems to be very popular to win the award!"

Wei Wu nodded and said, "She will definitely go. She and Li Bingbing have the best chance of winning the award this session. How could she not go?

"If she doesn't go, it means she is helping Li Bingbing to win the award in disguise. Isn't that crazy?"

Huang Bo said with a sly smile, "Do you think the organizer will deliberately make trouble? Since the two of them are so popular, just go with the flow and let them receive the award on the same stage."

Wei Wu also laughed, "You know what, this possibility is really not small!

"If the two Bings win the award together, the discussion and attention will definitely be much higher.

"And the Huabiao Awards have always had a tradition of double yolk eggs for the best actor and actress. Except for Yu Hui in the previous 11 sessions, the other 10 sessions have double actresses. ”

Zhang Ziyi is the Best Actress of the last Huabiao Awards. She won the award for House of Flying Daggers.

And she also won the Best Actress award with Xiaoyanzi in the last Huabiao Awards. She won the award for Lover’s Knot.

In fact, the last Huabiao Awards was Zhang Ziyi’s second nomination for Best Actress.

She was nominated for Best Actress in the previous Huabiao Awards for Jasmine, but the winners were Jiang Wenli and Ju Xue.

By the way, Zhang Ziyi is also the actor who has won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards the most times at the Huabiao Awards, with one nomination and three wins.

Later, she won the Best Actress award for the second and third time at the Huabiao Awards for Mei Lanfang and The Grandmaster.

The male actors who have won the Huabiao Best Actor award the most times have only won twice, namely Li Xuejian and Liu Peiqi.

In fact, Wei Wu just said that, but he didn’t expect Huang Bo to run over excitedly the next night. As soon as they met, he gave him a thumbs up and said:

“You are amazing! You really got it all right.

"You didn't win the Outstanding Director award this time. Yin Li and Gao Qunshu won the Outstanding Director award.

"Fortunately, "Painted Skin" still won the Outstanding Feature Film Award and the Outstanding Film Technology Award.

"The most important thing is that the two Bingbing sisters won the Outstanding Actress Award together.

"It is said that when the two received the award side by side, there was a galaxy in between them. From the stage to the stage, they did not look at each other or communicate with each other...

"It's a pity that I didn't go to the scene and didn't witness such an interesting scene with my own eyes!"

"Really?" Wei Wu raised his eyebrows:

"Yes, the Huabiao Awards still understand traffic!

"But to be honest, their relationship is really not that bad, right?

"Either they are playing tacitly to stir up the heat, or they deliberately acted like this at the request of the organizer, and they also cooperated with the operation."

Why did Wei Wu make such a judgment? Because the winners of the Outstanding Actress Award of the Huabiao Awards in the previous life were Li Bingbing and Ding Jiali.

And the celebrity guest who presented the award to Li Bingbing was none other than Fan Bingbing.

At that time, the two of them were talking and laughing, and Li Bingbing later mentioned Fan Bingbing in her acceptance speech.

However, I always feel that the organizers are making trouble. They knew that the two of them did not get along well, but they still asked Fan Bingbing to present the award to Li Bingbing.

Li Bingbing was fine, anyway, she was the winner, and she had to force a smile to let her old rival witness her winning the award in person. The uncomfortable thing was that she was not herself.

As for mentioning the other party in the acceptance speech, isn’t it a kind of behavior of rubbing salt into the wound?

By the way, the guest who presented the awards to Zhang Ziyi and Xiaoyanzi in the last Huabiao Awards, which was the 11th Huabiao Awards, was also Fan Bingbing.

Of course, when they gave their speeches, they also thanked Fan Bingbing.

From this point of view, Fan Bingbing is really a bit miserable. It’s okay that she didn’t win the award, but she has been presenting awards to her competitors and forcing a smile to witness their winning the award.

However, it is reasonable for Fan Bingbing to be the award presenter in the 11th session, and it is not entirely the organizers who are making trouble.

The reason why she was the award presenter of the Huabiao Best Actress in the 11th session was because she won the Huabiao Best Newcomer Award in the 10th session through "Cell Phone".

Because she won the award in the previous session, it is quite logical to be invited as the award presenter in the next session.

Another point is that generally speaking, the celebrity guests who present awards to the best actor and actress must also match the corresponding level of celebrities.

If the selection is based on this, at that time, the only female stars in the domestic entertainment industry who were qualified to award Zhang Ziyi and Xiaoyanzi were Fan Bingbing and Zhou Xun.

After all, they both already have a Hundred Flowers Queen at this time!

At that time, Li Bingbing did not have the title of Best Actress in the Mainland's three major awards, and Xu Jinglei was always at the bottom of the popularity list.

Although Zhou Xun is qualified, she has not won any Huabiao Award before.

Moreover, she was not shortlisted for the 11th edition, so of course she did not attend the awards night and could not become an award guest.

So there is nothing wrong with Fan Bingbing awarding awards to Zhang Ziyi and Xiao Yanzi at the 11th Huabiao Awards.

But at the 12th Huabiao Awards, when Li Bingbing won the award, Fan Bingbing was asked to present the award. The officials were somewhat suspicious of deliberately causing trouble.

Because according to convention, when Li Bingbing wins the 12th Huabiao Awards, the previous Best Actress winner should be the one to present her the award.

Both Zhang Ziyi and Xiao Yanzi are suitable in every aspect.

And if the Huabiao Award sends out an invitation, the two of them will definitely not refuse it. After all, it is impossible to kill the donkey so quickly!

Since you were just awarded the title last time, it is only natural that you should be a guest of honor this time. It would be unjustifiable if you don’t come!

No matter how you look at it, Xiao Yanzi or Zhang Ziyi are much more suitable as Li Bingbing's award guests than Fan Bingbing!

What's more, Fan Bingbing has already presented an award to the Best Actress in the last year, so why is she asked to present the award to the Best Actress in this year? Is she so smart?

That year was 2007, not 2017!

Precisely because the officials of the 12th Huabiao Awards in the previous life were suspected of deliberately causing trouble, Wei Wucai suspected that this time, the organizers might be deliberately trying to attract attention.

Wei Wu was suddenly curious: "Who gave them the award?"

Huang Bo scratched his head and said: "Well, I didn't pay attention to this. But looking at the photos on the promotional page, it seems to be Xiao Yanzi and Zhang Ziyi!

"It should be them two. After all, they were the last Best Actress winners!"

Wei Wu said narrowly: "Didn't you ask for Zhou Xun?"

Huang Bo reacted quickly, pointing at Wei Wu and leaning forward and back with a smile:

"Tsk tsk! You are really not a human being! No wonder people say you are petty!

"You can imagine it, but you still plan to ask Zhou Xun to present the award to Fan Bingbing? Killing people, and also killing people?"

Of course Huang Bo had never watched "Let the Bullets Fly", but he saw Wei Wu use it a few times, so he stopped learning.

Huang Bo patted his thigh and said: "I guess when Zhou Xun watched the live broadcast of the movie channel and heard the host read Fan Bingbing's name, he wanted to smash the TV!

"You want her to present the award on the spot, so why don't you throw the trophy on Fan Bingbing's head?

"It is now said on the Internet that if Zhou Xun were to play this role, she would definitely be the one with the most fame now. Of course she will be the one who will be crowned the queen of Huabiao tonight!"

Wei Wu couldn't help but raise his mouth slightly: "Maybe! Who knows!"

Again, although Zhou Xun played Xiao Wei in his previous life, he did not win any major awards in the end.

But the situation is indeed different. The main difference is that "Painted Skin" broke the box office record in Chinese film history, which is a big plus.

Zhou Xun originally played this role very well. If Wei Wu refined it a little more, it would really be unreasonable not to win an award.

It is estimated that Zhou Xun is probably thinking the same way.

Since Fan Bingbing is so successful, and he plays the role of Xiao Wei, can he still not win the award?

Anyway, I guess she won't be able to sleep tonight.