Chapter 287 The Art of Irony, Director of the 500 Million Club! The Controversy of Lust, Caution, New Plan?

"Director Ning, your team is quite big?"

Ning Hao, who was leading a group of people, was stopped by the host in front of the autograph wall.

"Haha, thanks to Director Chen for his kindness, he gave me many directing opportunities, otherwise I would still be carrying a camera in the crew."

Ning Hao is the kind of person who knows how to be grateful. Whenever he meets someone who praises him in an interview, he almost always brings up Chen Fei to talk about him.

Without Chen Fei, there would be no achievements he has now!

Facing the interview of the host, Ning Hao's answer was quite conventional. After all, there are some things that Chen Fei dares to say, and Jia Zhangke, Wang Quanan, and Jiang Wen dare to say them before, but with his status, he still has to be a little taboo.

After briefly introducing the filming of "Painted Skin" and doing some brief publicity, Ning Hao was ready to lead a group of people in.

But unexpectedly, the host changed the interviewee to Liu Yifei again!

"Some time ago, a notice was released online that "Mulan" will be released in December. Has the post-production been completed?"

Liu Yifei nodded and replied: "Yes, it's almost done."

Host: "It's a pity that we didn't see the excellent work "Mulan" at the Golden Rooster Awards this time, and Director Chen's "Shoplifters" was also unable to attend. I wonder if there is any reason?"

This statement clearly meant to dig a hole.

Ning Hao was just about to take over the topic and block this difficulty for Liu Yifei, but the girl didn't care too much.

"Regarding this situation, Director Chen specifically told me that he felt that the threshold of the Golden Rooster Awards was too high, and neither "Mulan" nor "Shoplifters" was worthy.

We can only go to places like the Oscars and the Cannes Film Festival to try to win an award. As for the Golden Rooster, we should wait until we have enough confidence."

As soon as this was said, Ning Hao was stunned!

And Huang Xiaoming, Zhou Xun, Xu Zheng, Huang Bo and others behind him widened their eyes, with disbelief on their faces!

Good guy, so brave? !

They did hear that this was something Chen Fei had specifically told Liu Yifei to bring to the scene, which was also a way to show his attitude.

But this... isn't it a bit too explicit?

Including the host, they all looked at Liu Yifei stupidly at this time, and for a moment they didn't know how to start.

On the contrary, the reporters on both sides of the red carpet were so excited that they couldn't control themselves. There was so much fun tonight. These directors were more daring than each other. The performance in the future was guaranteed!

They originally thought that Jia Zhangke and Wang Quanan were brave enough, but they didn't expect that Chen Fei, who didn't come to the scene, was even braver!

The threshold of the Golden Rooster Awards is too high, we can only go to the Oscars and Cannes, and we don't have the confidence to participate...

Wow, he is worthy of being a screenwriter, and his art of irony is simply excellent!

…

The lineup of this year's Golden Rooster Awards is still quite strong!

Even though Chen Fei is not in China, there are still people on his mobile phone who keep informing him of the news, such as Zhu Yawen and Luo Jin.

"The top artists from Hong Kong Island are here. Chen Long, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Liang Jiahui, Li Ming, and the Four Heavenly Kings are all here!

In addition to Zhang Yimou, all the famous directors from China are here. Brother Chen Kai's lineup is really amazing. I heard that he moved the crew of "Mei Lanfang" directly to the unopened area of ​​the Forbidden City! He is worthy of being from the compound.

Li An is here too, leading the crew of "Lust, Caution". Tang Wei is really brave. He doesn't care about the real swords and guns. It's a bargain for the actors from Hong Kong Island..."

Chen Fei received the news before. The reason why so many Hong Kong and Taiwan artists went there was entirely because of Liu Jialing.

This person is the image ambassador of this film festival, and she is doing well in Hong Kong Island.

The Golden Rooster is still the Golden Rooster, and the double yolk operation is very good.

The Best Actress was won by Liu Jialing and Yan Binyan. The former smiled brightly, and the latter looked a little embarrassed.

The Best Director also won two yolks. Many commercial film directors were trying to hold back their laughter. This was just like playing a child's house game.

Two people won the award together?

Where is fairness and justice?

As soon as the award ceremony ended, Chen Fei called Han Sanping from Iceland.

"Director Han, you can see for yourself what this award is about? Can we still go?"

"I will report it to the higher-ups..."

Han Sanping said this without any confidence. Those retired "old guys" firmly controlled the votes in their hands for the right to speak, and would not let go easily.

Other film festivals dared to announce the names of the judges, but the Golden Rooster Awards only dared to announce the number of judges!

But this odd number of judges always produced even numbers of double yolks, which was much more interesting.

Chen Fei suddenly thought of the actor who called himself "odd number control". Could it be that there were such people among the judges of the Golden Rooster Awards?

The media focused on watching the excitement and published the speeches of the major directors on the red carpet on the Internet without missing a word.

Although Chen Fei is not in China, the speech relayed by Liu Yifei is still on the front page of Sina.com.

Perhaps unable to bear the pressure, the Film Association and the organizing committee held a media meeting to explain why the "double yolk" situation occurred.

"During the voting, some judges abstained because they were entangled in which excellent film to choose..."

"Fuck you..."

Chen Fei turned off the interview video directly.

There is really nothing new under the sun. Can you abstain from voting for this kind of award?

Worry your sister!

Can't you tell whether the acting is good or not, and whether the directing is good or not?

…

October flew by amid netizens’ ridicule and abuse of the Golden Rooster Awards.

On November 1st, two major events happened in domestic entertainment!

The first is Li Yin's "Lust, Caution". After many edits and revisions, it was finally released in major theaters in the mainland.

Immediately following is the film "囧" directed by Ning Hao, written by Chen Fei, and produced by Feiyue Film and Television.

After China Film Group announced its final box office results for one month after its release, the entire film and television industry suddenly became quiet for a moment!

515 million!

As Chen Fei predicted before, Thai囧’s box office actually exceeded 500 million!

After a moment of silence, suddenly, the entire film and television industry was completely boiling!

Several portals were the first to react and posted the news on their front pages.

["囧囧" box office is 515 million! The first domestic director’s club member with a box office of 500 million is born! 】

Ning Hao, who was filming "Painted Skin" in the northwest desert, was immediately bombarded with calls. "Director of 500 million" was so awesome!

"Actually, this is all the credit of Director Chen. His script is well written, otherwise I would not have been able to achieve such results..."

"Don't be so modest. If your level wasn't high enough, why would Director Chen ask you to make a movie? Why didn't he ask me to make a movie?"

This speech really silenced Ning Hao.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems true!

If his own abilities were not enough, Chen Fei would not be able to ask him to make a movie.

For example, he is currently filming "Painted Skin". This type of fantasy theme is something he has never even thought about before, but Chen Fei still chooses to trust him unconditionally!

"call!"

Ning Hao let out a sigh of relief and felt a touch of emotion in his heart.

If it weren't for Chen Fei, I'm afraid he would still be struggling to study literary films, and his life would be even more impoverished. How could he have achieved what he does now?

"Director Ning, are you treating me tonight?" Zhou Xun came up.

"Please! Must please!"

Ning Hao waved his hand and felt happy.

Going straight from the director's club of 300 million box office to 500 million, this is a big deal!

Many phone calls and text messages also appeared in Chen Fei's hands. There is no doubt that this movie has once again made huge profits, especially for several theaters. Now watching him is like watching his biological father.

After answering a few more important calls, Chen Fei turned off the phone directly.

The eighth episode of Game of Thrones is about to start filming. He plans to finish all the filming tasks for the first season in mid-November, so he has to continue to maintain the filming schedule of one episode a week.

Even under the pressure of "囧囧" with a box office of 500 million, the popularity of "Lust, Caution" remains unabated.

…

The box office of over 10 million on the first day is the best affirmation for Mr. Li!

However, while the box office is rising, some sharp reviews of the movie have gradually appeared online.

"The movie "Lust, Caution" uses the pan-love idea of ​​"true love is not guilty" that transcends morality and national interests to defend the love between the anti-Japanese comrade Wang Jiazhi and the traitor leader Mr. Yi. To a certain extent, it beautifies the traitors and vilifies the anti-Japanese comrades. , is this really appropriate?”

"I finally figured it out. Li Yin had three motives for filming "Lust, Caution": one was money, the other was to glorify the traitor, and the third was to defend someone. It's really vulgar!"

"The novel "Lust, Caution" written by a certain writer seems to also write about Mr. Yi, the leader of the traitors, in an appreciative tone. She has the feelings of a traitor both in the novel and in reality!"

"Although this movie is revealing human nature, it shows the power of sex to a great extent. It returns to human nature, but it also stays away from people."

"Too much "caution" and too little "sex" squeeze out most of the dramatic content in the film. There is too little real drama in this two-and-a-half-hour drama."

From countless good reviews to a burst of bad reviews, Chen Fei was paying attention the whole time.

The most interesting thing is the Douban score.

Many people gave it a high score of 8.6, but their comments below were "better than 99% of youth films and better than 99% of romance films."

This comment immediately amused Chen Fei.

There are so many talented people among contemporary netizens!

…

A call from Bruce pulled Chen Fei back from his busy filming work.

"Leonardo recently invested in a movie called "Forbidden Island". An invitation to the movie project's launch reception was sent to the company. Your name is also on the invitation. Do you want to go together?"

Forbidden Island?

"Hey? Xiao Li is planning to win another prize?"

"Haha!" Bruce was also amused: "Old Martin's attainments in literary films are quite high. Leonardo is like a fish that is dying of thirst. He can't wait to get an Oscar to prove it. Own."

Chen Fei shook his head and laughed.

If he remembers correctly, this "Forbidden Island" did not allow DiCaprio to realize his dream.

"It's better to film "Inception" and try to compete for the Saturn Award for Best Actor..."

Chen Fei muttered secretly, but suddenly, his eyes suddenly changed!

Inception?

He quickly opened his film library and looked around, only to see the script of "Inception" lying there quietly.

"Damn it! I almost forgot! "Inception" and "Interstellar" are both mine!"

Chen Fei became excited instantly. If Bruce hadn't suddenly mentioned Leonardo, he would have completely forgotten this classic science fiction masterpiece.

I quickly called Bruce back and he immediately said, "Wait a few minutes, I'll send you two copies of the script, and you can help me send them to the Editors Association for filing."

"Okay, happy to help!" Bruce replied with a smile.

It has been a long time since he helped Chen Fei to file the script with the Screenwriters Association. I heard that the association has a very beautiful receptionist, so he can just go and have a chat.

On the other end of the phone, Chen Fei secretly thought about the follow-up arrangements.

With the great success of "Iron Man 1", Marvel Studios is preparing the pre-shooting scenes and props for the three movies "Iron Man 2", "Thor" and "Captain America: The Avengers" according to the original plan.

This is a time-consuming job.

Chen Fei is ready to return the movie to the normal timeline, that is, "Iron Man 2" will be released in global theaters in 2010.

The reason is simple. The following 2008 and 2009 will be the trough period of the American economic crisis.

At this time point, the box office performance in North America will inevitably continue to decline. After all, most movie fans are bankrupt. Who has the time to go to the cinema to watch blockbusters?

Therefore, the next two years will be a time for filming.

Chen Fei will try to make all the A-level blockbusters in his hands in this period, and then put them all in the theaters 10 years later.

"Iron Man 2", "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2", "Thor", "Captain America: The First Avenger", "Twilight 2", "Twilight 3".

The above is the work plan of Wall Street Films and Marvel Studios so far.

He had told Natasha before that the subsequent series of Rise of the Planet of the Apes would be handed over to other directors to shoot, because shooting too many repetitive series would weaken his creative passion.

Natasha believed his "nonsense" and is currently looking for a suitable science fiction director in Hollywood.

Twilight has been entrusted to Woody Allen.

As for the three movies "Iron Man 2", "Thor", and "Captain America: The First Avenger", Chen Fei finally decided to only provide the script, and Kevin Fei would find the director.

There are many tool directors in Hollywood who only have the right to shoot but not the right to edit.

Chen Fei's current plan is to leave enough time to deal with this global economic crisis!

Whether he can become the "world's richest man" and one of the most powerful capitalists in this life depends on this wave of operations.

However, when he saw the script of "Inception", he couldn't help but start to get excited again!

"3D movies" really began to enter a period of vigorous development after "Avatar".

But Chen Fei had no chance to get involved in that movie, because 20th Century Fox regarded it as a turning point, and the production cycle was as long as four years, which ordinary people could not play at all.

But "Inception" is different. The effect of 3D+IMAX camera will definitely make movie fans exclaim.

If it is released before "Avatar"...

The epoch-making battle of 3D movies may start ahead of time!

Thinking of this, Chen Fei couldn't hide his excitement. He wanted to end the game of power immediately and start the phantom journey of "Inception" directly.

Unfortunately, he can only fantasize now because everything has not been prepared yet.

Moreover, there is a "Mulan" waiting for him in China, and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is also one of his goals.

"It would be great if there were 48 hours in a day." Chen Fei muttered softly.

Alan Taylor, who was sorting out the shooting schedule for the ninth episode of Game of Thrones, suddenly paused, and a trace of fear appeared on his face unconsciously!

He felt that the "996 work mode" was like a crime. If there were 48 hours in a day...

18, 18, 12? ? ?

"Oh! No! This is slavery! Slaves are not so miserable!"

Chen Fei: "???"

What is this guy talking about? Why did he suddenly talk about slaves?

Could it be that he was stimulated when he attended the Emmy Awards ceremony before?

It shouldn't be? Didn't he just win the Emmy Award for Best Director in a Drama Series?

Is it because he was too excited and happy?

…

South Korea is determined to tie Chen Fei firmly to the chariot.

On November 11, the 28th Blue Dragon Film Festival in South Korea announced the nominations, and as this year's hot favorite, "New World" won seven nominations in a row!

In the column of the best screenplay, the name "Chen Fei" appeared.

A vice president of CJ called him personally and invited him enthusiastically: "Director Chen, the award ceremony will start on the evening of the 23rd, and the venue will be the Sunrise Theater of the National Theater in Seoul, South Korea. Please be there to support..."

Chen Fei nodded and replied casually: "Let's see when the time comes. If I have time to go, I will notify you in advance."

Game of Thrones has now been filmed to the end of the ninth episode, and the tenth episode is about to start filming.

If he follows the original plan, he should have time to attend, and he can also deal with the matter of Cheng Tian by the way.

Chen Fei originally thought that Zhang Weiping was already disgusting enough, but he didn't expect that Cheng Tian's Wu Kebo did something even more disgusting!

Push Jiang Yiyan to South Korea, and let her use her classmate relationship with Chen Fei to exchange benefits at ShowBox.

Zhu Yawen went to be the middleman, but Jiang Yiyan said that she had no idea and everything was arranged by General Wu.

Chen Fei was amused by this reply. In this case, let's see who has a tougher hand!

The domestic portals have been very lively recently. Although the box office of "Lust, Caution" has been rising since its release, it has been controversial.

However, in comparison, another piece of news is more dazzling!

Mr. He spent 69.1 million Hong Kong dollars to take the "Horse Head" that had been lost overseas for 160 years, and chose to donate it to the country free of charge.

As soon as this happened, there was an uproar on the Internet!

After paying attention to this matter, Chen Fei suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a special script in the "Hong Kong Film Script Gift Pack" he had drawn before.

"The Chinese Zodiac"

"Why not take some time to find Chen Long? Anyway, the script is just there, so just give it to him..." Chen Fei thought secretly.

"The Besieged City in October" is about to be completed, and Golden Harvest has vacated a lot of logistics personnel.

This group of people have to get paid even if they are just idle. There are a lot of Hong Kong movie scripts in the script library. Just pick a few and throw them to Huo Qigang.

We can't let this guy idle, otherwise he will have to pester the diving queen again.

There is less than a year left before the Olympics. Guo Jingjing must devote herself to training and win glory for the country. Huo Qigang's love-minded brain cannot disturb her!