Chapter 359 The Pride of Mainland Filmmakers!

Golden Horse Awards, backstage.

The awards ceremony has ended.

When the Best Picture Award was presented, Wu Yuan, who had just received the award, was invited to the center of the stage as soon as he stepped off the stage. He had just expressed his feelings, but he really had nothing to say. His acceptance speech was just a few words of thanks, leaving time and space to other members of the crew.

Song Dandan and Fan Wei said a lot on the stage, and even shed tears at one point, which brought a warm end to this year's Golden Horse Awards.

After the live broadcast of the awards ceremony, there was also a backstage interview session.

After he arrived backstage, Wu Yuan could not escape. He could not just say a few words of thanks to fool around.

Holding seven or eight microphones in his hands, Wu Yuan smiled and said modestly: "I am honored. I didn't expect that I could win the Best Director and Best Picture awards."

"Thanks to the kindness of the Golden Horse jury, I didn't expect that the jury would be so brave to award both the Best Director and Best Picture awards to our mainland film crew."

"As a local film award in Taiwan, it is really courageous for the jury to withstand such great pressure and make such a fair and just assessment. I believe that the Golden Horse Awards will get better and better in the future and become a weathervane for Chinese-language films."

The Golden Horse Awards really dared to award the three most valuable awards to the "Li Wen" crew from the mainland, so Wu Yuan would of course return the favor and praise the Golden Horse Awards without hesitation.

"Wu, have you considered coming to Taiwan to make a movie in the future? Taiwan also has many beautiful filming locations and a group of excellent actors." A local reporter from Taiwan asked.

"Of course." Wu Yuan nodded: "I have always wanted to work with outstanding Taiwanese actors and to come to Taiwan to make movies, but there has never been a suitable opportunity."

"I am still early in my career as a director and have just started. I believe that I will have the opportunity to come to Taiwan to make movies and work with Taiwanese actors in the future."

"The results of the Golden Horse Awards have been announced. The highly anticipated local film "Cape No. 7" won a number of awards including Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Film Music, Best Original Film Song, Audience Voted Best Film, and Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year."

"But in the end, it lost the grand prize. Both the Best Director and Best Feature Film were lost to "A Man Called Li Wen Decided to Die", and the audience was disappointed."

"The major newspapers in Taiwan also used "lost" and "painful loss" to describe the fall of Cape on the front page headlines."

"But most media and film critics believe that the results are objective, and "Cape is just a starting point."

"Why did "Cape No. 7" with the home advantage lose to "A Man Called Li Wen Decided to Die"? ”

“According to the Golden Horse Awards jury, the highly anticipated Cape No. 7 ultimately failed to meet the jury’s high standard of “every frame must be complete” and missed out on the two most important awards, Best Picture and Best Director.” ”

“The final jury convener, Chen Kunhou, admitted that as a Taiwanese, he was under pressure to decide the outcome, but he only had one vote and there was nothing he could do. ”

At noon on December 7, 2008.

Wu Yuan, who had landed in Beijing, was casually flipping through the latest issue of the newspaper that his assistant had bought from a street newsstand.

There is no doubt that the Golden Horse Awards, which just ended last night, became the front-page headlines of the entertainment sections of various newspapers.

Not only in the mainland, Wu Yuan had already read the local newspapers in Taiwan before boarding the plane in Taiwan.

After "Cape No. 7" finally lost to him in the Best Director and Best Feature Film, the headlines of the morning Taiwan newspapers all made this the front-page headlines, using words such as "suffering" and "painful loss", which shows the disappointment.

But most Taiwan media believe that the Golden Horse Awards' evaluation is fair, and called the Golden Horse Awards' decision to award the Best Picture and Director Awards to "Li Wen" and Wu Yuan "brave", and frankly admitted that the Golden Horse Awards are under pressure to break the dreams of the whole nation.

A professional film critic wrote in a newspaper: "Not only did it make Taiwanese films miss the highest honor of their own film awards again, but it also seemed to be a slap in the face to wake up the Taiwanese people. ”

“450 million (New Taiwan dollars) in box office cannot guarantee the recovery of Taiwanese films. If Taiwanese films want to win the hearts and minds of the audience in the competition, Cape is just a starting point.”

It has to be said that professional film critics in Taiwan are really sober.

After all the passion, we have to face reality.

The 450 million New Taiwan dollars in the box office of Cape No. 7 in Taiwan is indeed a miracle for the small market of Taiwan, but it is nothing compared to the entire Chinese film market.

Not to mention compared with Li Wen, which won the Golden Lion, even compared with The Warlords in the original time and space, Cape No. 7 will not win this award in the end.

Although Wu Yuan looked down on The Warlords, he felt that Cape No. 7 was a small matter with a lot of money. It cost hundreds of millions to make a movie. A small-scale movie was released, with a classic Hong Kong style.

But compared to the more petty Taiwanese movies, "The Warlords" is still a step ahead.

Not to mention "Li Wen" which can compete with other countries internationally.

Unless Taiwan invites Li An to compete with Wu Yuan, he dares to say that there is no one in the entire Taiwanese market who can compete.

Taiwanese movie fans are also more rational. On the Internet that night, "Li Wen" and Wu Yuan also received support from most Taiwanese netizens, saying that they deserved it.

Of course, half of the Taiwanese netizens also felt sorry for Wei Desheng and said it was a pity.

Compared to this, in the mainland, "Li Wen" won four awards, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Film. It was a result of four out of five nominations, which was what everyone expected.

On the Southern Metropolis Daily that Wu Yuan was holding at the moment, a professional copywriter commented: "Cape No. 7 is just a commercial entertainment film, and it lacks some content. It seems that the judges were wise in the end."

Wu Yuan smiled proudly, with a lot of emotion in his heart.

The self-confidence of mainland films can be said to have been cultivated by him.

If Wu Yuan had not appeared, the current Chinese-language film industry should be an era of competition between Hong Kong Island films and Taiwan Island films.

Although "The Warlords" is a co-production between the mainland and Hong Kong Island, in fact, from the director to the leading actor to the entire crew, all of them are from Hong Kong Island. In addition to paying, the mainland only inserted a few unimportant supporting roles.

The most outstanding one is the vase heroine played by Xu Jinglei, whose role is not more than half of the three main actors.

On the original track, the current mainland films are inferior. In addition to the fact that companies such as China Film have a lot of money, the actors are not good enough, the screenwriters of commercial films are not good enough, and even the crews are not good enough.

They can only participate in the competition of the Hong Kong Island Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards under the guise of co-productions.

From industry insiders to ordinary movie fans, they all believe from the bottom of their hearts that the film industry in Hong Kong and Taiwan is better and more professional than that in the mainland. For the same position, if professionals from Hong Kong and Taiwan can be hired, the salary can be three to five times that of mainlanders.

Wu Yuan can understand that in the development of commercial films, the mainland did start late and needs to pay tuition to Hong Kong and Taiwan.

But this has been learned since "Hero". It has been five or six years. Not to mention that it can be a master, at least it can start to try to develop independently, right?

But the capital in the mainland still habitually believes that everything in Hong Kong and Taiwan is good, and they want to be suckers and spend several times more money to hire Hong Kong and Taiwan actors and director teams, and don’t need mainland actors and director teams at all.

Only Feng Xiaogang has the courage to use mainland actors as male protagonists and to use an "all-mainland cast" to make movies.

This is why Wu Yuan has a good relationship with Feng Xiaogang, unlike other directors in the circle who look down on Feng Xiaogang.

At least he is much tougher than Zhang Yimou in this regard.

But now it is different. Because of Wu Yuan's sudden appearance, he insists on using the crew he trained and mainland actors to make movies. He can get box office and international awards. He has told mainland movie fans that mainland actors, directors, and crews can also make excellent movies.

The confidence of mainland movie fans has doubled under the stimulation of Wu Yuan's excellent Chinese films year after year.

After "Li Wen" won the Golden Horse Award for Best Picture this time, mainland netizens rushed to tell each other on the Internet, vying to praise and feel happy.

No one thinks that "Li Wen" doesn't deserve this award, and no one thinks that Chen Kexin's "The Warlords" and Taiwan's "Cape No. 7" deserve the best film award more than "Li Wen".

Among the three excellent works from the mainland, Hong Kong Island, and Taiwan Island, mainland movie fans have "our own family" to support, and "our own family" also stood out and won the crown!

"Director Wu, it's great." Zhou Xun, who was waiting for the outside to clear before leaving the airport lounge like Wu Yuan, casually flipped through these newly published newspapers and said happily: "You are almost praised as a god by the mainland media."

"The hope of Chinese-language films, the most outstanding director of the new generation of cross-strait and Hong Kong, the business card of Chinese films in the international arena, look at these titles."

"It's a pity that you don't continue to direct "Painted Skin 2", otherwise I can still follow you to take advantage of your light."

This time going to the Golden Horse Awards was not a good experience for Zhou Xun.

"Li Mi's Guess" didn't have any nominations, but the Golden Horse Awards invited her to participate. Her superiors also told her that she had to refuse and go to support the excitement, which made Zhou Xun, who has a carefree personality, very unhappy.

Not to mention, when she was on the red carpet, she was mocked by the red carpet host Huang Zijiao in a sarcastic way, probably with the ridicule of "a mainland movie queen as an audience".

A Golden Horse Awards made her very angry.

But after all, the Golden Horse Awards gave "If Love" the Best Actress award that year, so she couldn't really show her displeasure on the spot.

"Why, Director Kai Ge is not worthy of you, the three-time Golden Award winner?" Wu Yuan glanced at her and asked deliberately in a sarcastic way.

"Hey, don't say that." Zhou Xun rolled his eyes, hesitated for a moment, and pulled Wu Yuan's sleeve: "Director Wu, it's not that I have a problem with Director Kai Ge, we are just speaking objectively."

"Can Director Kai Ge make a good "Painted Skin 2"? "

"I still remember his "The Promise" (End of this chapter)