Chapter 520: A Cycle of Twenty Years

January 18, 2000.

Outside the Kodak Theater in Shuntianfu, a long red carpet stretched across, a full ninety-nine meters long. The reporter's photo area was packed with long guns and short cannons, and the audience area gathered at least a few thousand movie fans who spontaneously came to see the stars.

At 3:30 in the afternoon, the red carpet officially started.

Compared with western countries, the domestic entertainment industry started relatively late, and I learned from the experience of western countries at the beginning, from TV stations, movies to music records.

But then, in the early and mid-1980s, China experienced another wave of reflection, began to reject Western things, and carried out a so-called "de-Europeanization of the literary and art world" reform.

The influence of this reform is extremely far-reaching. As far as music is concerned, it has caused domestic music to begin to change from the original purely national drama style and sweet songs to foreign products from Europe and America. In fact, it is formed by a large number of works that borrow and imitate Western music. Polarization and confrontation, turned to explore the Chinese nation's own culture.

Folk songs, folk songs, folk songs and other music with a strong Chinese style began to flourish during this period, and for a long period of time after that, they dominated the music scene and created a large number of people such as Liu Mingliang, Zhen Zhen, etc. Such a top singer.

As far as the film and television market is concerned, it was also during that period that China began to try its best to get rid of the crude imitation of European and American works, and began to explore its own national style, and produced quite a number of high-quality goods and outstanding genres, which truly established the domestic film and television industry. Strong foundation for development.

In terms of TV dramas, from "Water Margin" back then, to "The Heroine Zhang Sanfeng" later, to "Journey to the West" directed by Feng Yumin, plus a lot of historical dramas and rural villages full of local flavor Feature films have made the domestic TV drama industry completely form its own style.

In terms of film, the most representative is the emergence of a group of people headed by two great directors, Qin Wei and Du Weiyun. Those directors, with their own unique styles, have successively formed a huge domestic and international influence. , On the one hand, the domestic film industry has begun to win international reputation, on the other hand, it has indeed laid the foundation for the development of the domestic film market.

Of course, the price is that there are a group of old-school directors who are gradually replaced by Qin Wei and others during this period. They may be forced to transform and explore new paths to cater to this reform and the aesthetics of the domestic people behind the reform. The gradual transfer of interest, or being eliminated directly, can only gradually turn to the backstage.

After the rise of Qin Wei, Du Weiyun and others, followed by Zhao Meicheng's urban life comedy, which shined on the big screen, and not far behind him, was the rise of Liu Chengzhang. In Zhao Meicheng's movies, slowly They are all from the northern regional culture, while Liu Chengzhang is a typical southern style, delicate and gorgeous, but a bit eccentric. Since then, the domestic film market has blossomed.

The result of this is the rapid growth of the entire film market for two decades.

Until 1997, the box office of domestic movies reached an astonishing 8 billion Chinese yuan, equivalent to a total of 4 billion U.S. dollars, making it the third largest single box office market in the world after the United States and Japan.

Today, the power of this reform has reached its peak, but after the peak, it seems a little weak to continue. As a result, the movie market first, and now the music market, began to experience a sharp decline, or even... collapse.

Moreover, this is not simply reflected in the sudden recession of the film market in 1998, nor is it simply that the record market finally experienced negative growth in 1999. The most important thing is that the original "non-mainstream" has been reformed. Obtaining the status of "mainstream" met people's aesthetic needs and entertainment needs at that time, but today, the group of people who jumped into the "mainstream" and the art they advocated have not kept up with the times. pace.

The rapid development of the national economy, the increasing national income, and the wider horizons have all made the aesthetic taste and needs of the domestic people once again raised to another dimension.

For example, it is very representative that the Great Wall Award, which has always respected the voice of the audience, began in 1996. For the first time in history, a red carpet has been added to a domestic awards event!

There is no doubt that this is learned from European and American countries. Specifically, it is basically copied from Oscar!

However, people really like to watch this!

Therefore, seeing the great success of the Great Wall Awards on the red carpet, it is said that in the past two years, Huabiao Awards, Feitian Awards, etc. are also considering restructuring, at least the red carpet should be included in it!

To put it simply, after nearly two decades of "de-Europeanization", when domestic cultural entertainment has begun to take shape and the needs of the nation's own culture have become clear, when the people open their eyes to see the world, they feel Foreign things are "very interesting".

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Since coming to this time and space, this is the first time Li Qian walked the red carpet.

He did not attend the premiere of "Titanic" before, and there is no red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards.

But he is a man, even if he needs to dress up to attend, there is not much to clean up after all, while Bai Yujing and He Runqing, as women, have to go on such a red carpet since they have breakfast.

The "Legend of the New White Snake" submitted by Minghu Culture led the nominations for TV dramas, and it was one of the most important crews participating in this year's Great Wall Award competition, so it got quite a lot of invitations.

Li Qian, Zhao He, Jin Han, Han Shunzhang, Cao Zhan, Zhu Mingyu, Liu Qing, Lu Ming and other crew members, together with Bai Yujing, Zhu Qiang, Zhong Ling, Hua Runsheng, Chen Xinfang, Shen Tiantian, Ming Hai, Zhou Yuhai, Wu Shaojun When the actors are all counted, there is not enough room for the two tables given by the organizer. If Yu Bojun is not coming, Feng Yumin, the nominal producer, will definitely be present as an award presenter, so Li Qian just called more One He Runqing.

As for Liao Liao, she is of course a member of the crew, but as the singing guest of this year's Great Wall Awards, she has to go in ahead of time to make stage preparations, and cannot walk on the red carpet.

In addition, because Cheng Suping was nominated for Best Newcomer and Best Actress in the film actor category, but Yu Bojun did not come, so, except for Zhao He, the assistant director, she almost wanted to run a single gang, and the organizer was very considerate She was assigned to the crew of "Legend of the New White Snake".

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Li Qian and the others had already arrived at a hotel not far from the Kodak Theater.

The rules for walking the red carpet at the Great Wall Awards are based on the crew, but there is no clear boundary between the crew of movies and TV dramas. Basically, a crew of movies will be arranged, and a crew of TV dramas will be arranged close to it. It is precisely because of this that movie actors feel that it is not enough, and TV drama actors all want to get together.

Of course, there are only three top film and television awards in China. Besides, there is only one Yangcheng Film Festival in April every year. I am still very willing to give this face to come and walk the red carpet.

What's more, now that the domestic film market has experienced repeated declines, by 1999, the total market volume has only remained at 5.3 billion yuan, which is a full 2.8 billion yuan less than the peak in 1997. However, the TV drama market has become more and more popular in the past two years, especially the release of "Legend of the White Snake", which directly triggered an upsurge of watching in the whole country. Its influence is beyond the reach of most movies. .

During the waiting period, everyone gathered together as a crew, talking and laughing softly, and the crew of "Legend of the New White Snake" was no exception. Occasionally, someone would come over to say hello to Bai Yujing, Jin Han, Zhao He and others. After the introduction, Li Qian shook hands with them, and naturally had to chat a few words.

As a result, they waited until 4:40 in the afternoon. Seeing that the surrounding crews had left, there were only a few crews left in the backstage, and finally it was Li Qian's turn.

The reason is that "Legend of the New White Snake" is too popular, and the director Li Qian is also one of the most popular stars in China, so although they are TV dramas, they are still arranged at the back, a little bit biased Time to play.

Hua Runsheng, Chen Xinfang, Ming Hai, and Shen Tiantian went out to lead the battle, which attracted cheers from both sides of the red carpet. You may not remember their names, but you all know that they are the sisters of Li Gongfu and Xu Xian. It's Baoshan, and that's Li Bilian.

Next came Zhao He, Jin Han, Liu Qing, and Lu Ming. In comparison, even if only compared with the previous group, their journey was completely calm.

Not to mention the fans at the scene, even many reporters are not familiar with them.

Then Cao Zhan, He Runqing, Zhou Yuhai, Wu Shaojun, Han Shunzhang and Zhu Mingyu went out. Because of Cao Zhan, He Runqing, Fa Hai and King Jinbo, the audience cheered again.

Obviously, Li Qian and the others were in charge of the finale.

When stepping off the extended version of the concierge car sent by the organizer, the moment Li Qian showed his face, it immediately aroused the exclamation of many sharp-eyed audiences—it is rare for Li Qian who never appears in any variety show Accepting interviews, but for celebrities who are so popular, ordinary viewers usually only see him from a few pictures given in news reports, or on the album covers of the Four Great Beauties. When the live-action version appeared in front of them, and they could still talk, walk and move, everyone naturally felt novel.

Li Qian led Cheng Suping, and Zhu Qiang and Bai Yujing, the screen golden pair, walked side by side. When Chuchu stepped onto the red carpet, the audience cheered hysterically.

The cheers were so loud that even those who had entered the theater could clearly hear them.

Lu Ping listened for a while, then turned his head and asked Gao Lanlan with a smile, "The crew of "Legend of the New White Snake" must have arrived, right?"

Gao Lanlan smiled and nodded.

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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone!

Thank you everyone for tolerating my interruption this time. Frankly speaking, I have been writing for more than a year, and suddenly I did not write for two days, and I did not write without other delays. I am really not used to it! However, it is really comfortable to drink tea and chat with my wife without coding after dinner!

My thoughts are almost cleared up, so I'm back on time!

Including these two days, I owe a total of six chapters. Starting tomorrow, I will start paying off the debt!