Chapter 557: Korea Trip (8,000 Words Updated!)

Jiang Jun won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and the domestic entertainment industry has reshuffled the pattern of 40-year-old male stars.

Jiang Yuqian was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. In the past six months, her international star has remained at the first-line level, and her status has risen and stabilized.

Liu Zefan was not nominated for the Golden Globe Award, but he was very popular for his role as a young policeman with overflowing hormones, especially among female audiences, and a group of rich women generously expressed their desire for his body - which also caused a lot of heated discussion.

Although Wang Jing's role as Fengpi did not make her as popular as the previous leading actors, her attention in China was just as high, and her popularity increased rapidly.

This battle royale series, which did not have as much stamina as "Wulin Wai Zhuan", returned to the audience's field of vision with Jiang Jun's harvest at the Golden Globe Awards.

Jiang Jun's acceptance speech also gained a lot of popularity on the Internet.

A story about persistence that has persisted for many years and finally reached the top.

"Squid Game" also soared in popularity on Maxine, and the number of daily viewers returned to the top.

This is the influence of a big award.

Winning a big award is not only an artistic achievement and honor, but also means that it can bring extremely high commercial returns.

This is also the reason why so many movies and filmmakers compete for the awards of the four major international film festivals, the Oscars, the Emmys and the Golden Globe Awards every year.

Because their corresponding commercial value is also extremely high.

So far, among the actors who have starred in the scripts written by Lu Yanhe, three actors have won big awards.

At this moment of celebration, some extreme career fans complained about Lu Yanhe angrily: "The scripts you wrote for others won one domestic actor and one foreign actor. What about you? If you were to play these scripts yourself, you wouldn't have only one actor trophy now! Can you fight for your career? If you like writing scripts for others so much, you might as well be a screenwriter, not an actor!"

Lu Yanhe saw this complaint and silently crossed it out.

He has been training his ability in this area recently.

No explanation, no rebuttal, you can say whatever you want.

Zeng Qiao, on the other hand, suddenly sent a message with only two words: What about me?

Lu Yanhe: Huh?

Zeng Qiao: Don’t you have a script for me?

Lu Yanhe: Brother, I’m writing the script for the second season of “River of Silence”.

Zeng Qiao: Can you give me a Best Actor award?

Lu Yanhe: I’m under so much pressure.

Zeng Qiao: Pressure is motivation.

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Jiang Jun won an award, and Lu Yanhe was targeted——

The main reason is that his winning rate is too high.

Or, Lu Yanhe’s script is too flattering for actors.

Let alone these two dramas, “Lost on Journey” made the new actor Wang Dashan famous overnight and well-known nationwide, not to mention “Friends” and “Wulin Wai Zhuan”.

The latter also used the role of Tong Xiangyu to make Liu Zi, who had never acted in a film or TV series, famous overnight.

Someone summarized the actors who came out of the film and television dramas adapted from Lu Yanhe’s scripts. This summary made everyone realize that the actors who starred in the film and television dramas adapted from Lu Yanhe’s scripts were never ineffective.

Almost every role brought attention and dividends to the actors who played them.

Lu Yanhe, who had been watched by major agencies, agents and actors because of his popular dramas, is even more popular now.

Moreover, the actors who are attracted to Lu Yanhe's scripts this time have become those who are already big names.

Those big names also want to win big awards.

In the past 20 to 30 years, how many domestic actors have won major awards abroad?

In just two years, Chen Bige won the Best Actress Award at the Jose-Madison International Film Festival, and Jiang Jun won the Best Actor Award at the Golden Globe Awards.

This success rate, this gold content!

Ning Xiulian, who just won the Venice International Film Festival, called Lu Yanhe specifically to congratulate him and asked indirectly if there is a role suitable for her to play. Not to mention those acting schools in China. Who doesn't want to go further at this stage and become famous internationally?

Filming Lu Yanhe's dramas can be popular, the actors can be famous, and there is a very high success rate of winning awards.

At this time, you have to get in touch with Lu Yanhe first.

How do you know him?

Who can be the introducer?

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At this point, no one in the industry asked: What exactly did Lu Yanhe think? He resolutely chose to attend the Blue Ribbon Awards ceremony under such circumstances.

Whether it was his overseas influence at the premiere of "The Mist", or the 3% average ratings of "Friends", or the newly released Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, they have fully explained one thing to everyone in the industry: Lu Yanhe doesn't need to care about those miscellaneous things.

For Lu Yanhe, as long as he does everything well and follows his own path, no one can shake his position.

On the day of the Blue Ribbon Awards ceremony, Lu Yanhe was the last one to walk on the red carpet.

He and Chen Siqi walked hand in hand, and were greeted by Wen Yang in person, giving them enough face.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi, a very famous couple, are usually discussed a lot, but rarely appear together in formal occasions.

They are not the kind of couple who stick together wherever they go.

Therefore, being able to attend the Blue Ribbon Awards together was also giving the Blue Ribbon Awards enough face.

This time, both of them were under tremendous pressure and held up the venue tonight.

That night, Li Zhibai performed as the opening show, singing five film and television hits in a row, setting off the first wave of craze.

Awards are presented and awards are given out in sequence.

It still looked like a star-studded party, but Lu Yanhe discovered that there were indeed many nominees who did not attend.

As the top domestic award, for an awards ceremony, it is indeed abnormal to a certain extent that so many nominees did not come.

No matter how many guests there are, the protagonists are still the nominees.

There were several awards in the technical department. None of the winners came to the scene. Others received them on their behalf.

But, luckily, at least things have passed on the surface.

The party reached its climax when Lu Yanhe took the stage.

This is a specially designed session.

"The Golden Age", "Seventeenth Floor", "River of Silence", "Squid Game", "Wulin Gaiden", "Six People", "Friends"...

For every drama starring or written by Lu Yanhe, the singer of the theme song came to the scene.

Lu Yanhe stood in the corner of the stage and before the start of each song, he used his role in that play to say his most famous lines in that play.

The whole session is exquisitely arranged, some are relaxed, some are contemporary, some are exciting, some are lively.

The live broadcast on the big screen also featured Huang Kairen, Jiang Yuqian, Wang Jing, Liu Zi, He Jiang, Yan Liang, Li Zhibai, Zhan Yun and others from time to time. They are all actors in these dramas.

Most of the time, Lu Yanhe just stood in the darkness, listening to the singers singing and watching the dancers on the stage.

Those songs and dances are actually the story of that play and his memories of that play.

Lu Yanhe actually didn't feel much during the rehearsal, but at this time, he felt something inexplicably.

I have actually filmed so many works.

His eyes felt a little hot and he quickly held it back.

When the last performance ended and Lu Yanhe thought that the session was over and he could step off the stage, a VCR suddenly appeared on the big screen at the scene.

"Hi, Xiao Lu, I haven't seen you for a while." Director Luo Yuzhong appeared in the VCR.

Lu Yanhe turned around and looked at the big screen with surprise on his face and opened his mouth.

"It's an honor to be the director of your first play. Although you always say that I am your guide, I know that even if you don't meet me, with your talent, you will still shine as well as you do now." Luo Yuzhong said , "There is no way to come to Blue Ribbon with you this time Award, it’s a pity, because you have done such an amazing thing. As a teacher, I should stand by your side. When I finish filming the movie on hand, we will have dinner together. I hope we can have dinner together next time. When you get the blue ribbon, I will give you the award.”

Lu Yanhe smiled and nodded.

It was as if Luo Yuzhong was really standing opposite him.

The next second, Chen Bige appeared again.

"Hi, junior brother, Xiao Yanhe." After she said that, Wang Zhong suddenly stuck his head in and asked, "Where are you recording the VCR for Yan He?"

Chen Bige pushed Wang Zhong away, "Director, don't join in the fun, the recording has officially started."

She smiled again.

"The director and I were discussing the script you wrote, "Raise the Red Lantern." He just praised me for ten minutes about the script you wrote." Chen Bige sighed, "Every time like this, I really want to know, you How can we do so many things that we can’t do at this age?”

"I have never actually said this to you, but you should know that I am very grateful that you can give me such a good script and such a good role to play." Chen Bige laughed, "From "Seventeen" "Layer" to "Rouge Button", and then to "Raise the Red Lantern". In just a few years, we have collaborated four times, and will soon collaborate for the fifth time."

When Chen Bige said this number, everyone was shocked and in an uproar.

Five collaborations... For people in the entertainment industry, it may be difficult to collaborate with one person so many times in a lifetime.

"I'm glad that when I am no longer a young girl in my twenties, I meet a creator like you."

Lu Yanhe had no idea that such a VCR would be installed for him at the Blue Ribbon Awards Ceremony.

The host walked onto the stage.

"Lu Yanhe is only 22 years old this year. Such a young creator has become a heavyweight creator of our Chinese film and television dramas. Yan He, let me interview you. After completing so many high-quality works that are loved by everyone, After that, do you have any plans to share with us? I just heard that you have collaborated on a new project with Director Wang Zhong and Ms. Chen Bige, right?”

"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded, "Actually, it was written together with "Rouge Button". At that time, it was given to Sister Bi Ge. We filmed "Rouge Button" first."

"How do you manage to be so creative?"

"This -" Lu Yanhe couldn't be shy and said that he was very good at writing, so he had to say: "I don't know, maybe it's mainly because I have an advantage over other screenwriting teachers. Because of my status as an actor, basically what I write I never have to consider other people’s opinions regarding scripts or themes, so I can create quickly.”

This can be regarded as a reason.

For a professional screenwriter, the time he spends actually creating the script is actually not that much. What consumes the most time and energy is the creative ideas and revision opinions coming from all directions, as well as too many inexplicable revisions.

Lu Yanhe said with a smile: "You just happened to ask, and I would also like to appeal to everyone to have more trust in the creator, leave criticism and scrutiny before deciding to cooperate with him, and once the decision is made, give the creative autonomy to the creator. Otherwise, it would be really difficult to produce good works.”

"Yan He said that is great." The host praised.

Many people in the audience were applauding wildly.

"So, Yan He, last question? In fact, you have worked with all kinds of directors and actors, including big names who have already won numerous honors, and newcomers who are just starting out. Can you share with us, who are you? How is it that after working with so many people, we all work well together and there are never any disputes or conflicts? "

Lu Yanhe pondered for a moment and said: "I really can't give any general reasons. Let me talk about the common characteristics of the crews I participated in. First, basically every crew I participated in Before the crew officially started filming or made preparations, they held several script reading meetings. We had a lot of doubts, discussions and disputes about characters, lines, and understanding. In fact, we had already completed this stage and we would not go to the filming site. Just showed up.”

"Secondly, it seems that our crew has never spent too much energy on things other than creation." Lu Yanhe laughed, "Who has more roles, who has less roles, whose role is in the front, whose role is in the back."

Many people at the scene laughed.

"The last thing is, if you have anything to say, say it directly. Don't keep it in your heart. Whether you are dissatisfied or have different opinions, you must speak out." Lu Yanhe smiled, "Actually, I want to say that many young people who have cooperated with us must speak up. Partner, we had some friction in the beginning. We didn’t have a good relationship from the beginning, but because we always said what we had to say directly, and no matter what, everyone was acting seriously, so we gradually understood each other later. ”

When talking about this place, Lu Yanhe felt that he was still being hypocritical.

However, in this situation, he couldn't say that he didn't like Li Yuefeng because he thought he was too utilitarian at first, and Zeng Qiao was alienated because he didn't like his idol status at first.

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But for other people present, the effect that Lu Yanhe could say these words on such an occasion actually had far-reaching significance.

Especially the script reading.

What Lu Yanhe didn't expect was that after he said this, several winners mentioned script reading when they came on stage to receive their awards and give speeches.

"Script reading is very important for the crew. We spend a few more days in the first place, and everyone sits together to sort out the script and communicate about the shooting situation. During the subsequent shooting, the efficiency and quality can be doubled without exaggeration." This is What the Best Cinematography winner said.

Then, inexplicably, everyone's speeches slowly began to focus on "how to shoot a good work and how to do your own job well." The award ceremony slowly began to turn into a year-end debriefing conference and industry discussion. It’s a conference...

When it was announced that the winner of Best Actor was Liu Yu, many people's first reaction was to come and see Lu Yanhe.

After all, everyone knew that he and Yan Liang were good enough to wear the same pair of pants, but Yan Liang didn't win the prize.

Lu Yanhe had expected it and managed his expression very well, so he applauded heartily.

Yan Liang was also applauding.

Because I already knew that my chances of winning the prize were slim, I didn’t have high expectations.

The subsequent Best Actress winner was Lan Lin, an actress in her early thirties.

These two actors are both actors who are relatively familiar to the audience, but are not very popular and popular. They are old faces but have few fans. The works that won the award this time are all realistic-themed works that they have always been deeply involved in. The broadcast data is not bad, there are many viewers, and everyone agrees with their performance - but they have not been converted into fans.

In this case, Chen Lingling gave them two grand prizes, which was actually a very strong signal.

It has to be a good performance, and it has to be a performance that the audience recognizes.

Tonight's grand prize winners were almost no surprises. All the winners were considered capable of winning the prize from the beginning.

Fortunately, these winners all attended tonight's award ceremony.

There was no embarrassing situation where no one claimed the most popular awards.

On the contrary, those who did not attend the award ceremony actually had little hope of winning the award from the beginning.

After the award ceremony, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi went to the celebration dinner hosted by Boya, the sponsor of this award ceremony.

As soon as the two of them appeared, someone came over to say hello.

Almost everyone is asking about what dramas he is preparing for next and whether there are any roles suitable for them.

Lu Yanhe only said that he is indeed preparing for a few dramas in the future, but they have not yet entered the casting stage. After entering the casting stage, he will definitely send audition invitations to everyone.

At this time, Lu Yanhe said he wanted to audition again, and there were far fewer actors who expressed disbelief.

They were used to not auditioning to get roles in other crews, so they were more or less familiar with Lu Yanhe's habits and knew Lu Yanhe's requirements.

In fact, many actors are reluctant to audition, not because of bad acting skills, but because they are in their 30s and 40s, they are no longer young people who have just debuted, and have a certain degree of fame and industry status. When others do not need to audition to get roles, if they need to audition, they will seem particularly inferior to others, so they all use "not auditioning" as a symbol of their status.

Now everyone does not resist Lu Yanhe's audition requirements, and it is also because Lu Yanhe's plays require auditions. It has become a well-known thing in the industry, so auditioning yourself is no longer special.

To put it bluntly, many things are exaggerated by the media as if they are all problems of artists and actors. In fact, many times, there are problems behind the environment.

The environment is the big dye vat.

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The day after the Blue Ribbon Awards, "The Mist" officially began to be released in the United States and simultaneously in Europe.

Other countries and regions will be released one after another.

South Korea will be released three days later.

For horror films like this, except for Japan, which will be delayed for a period of time due to special release policies, other places will release them as soon as possible because timeliness is very important.

Lu Yanhe set off for South Korea to participate in the screening activities in South Korea with everyone.

So, when the first day box office of "The Mist" came out, they were all together.

"The Mist" won 12.5 million in the Friday box office in the United States, which was the same as the forecast of the forecasting agency. Previously, the box office forecast of the forecasting agency had adjusted the total box office in the United States to between 80 million and 100 million US dollars.

The better news is that the audience reputation of "The Mist" is very good, and Rotten Tomatoes got 81%, which is a very good result for a horror movie.

However, everyone also knows that according to the nature of horror movies, it is difficult to go long-term in both box office and Rotten Tomatoes.

The results of the first and second weeks are the big ones.

The box office results of the first weekend basically determine the fate of the movie, whether it is a success or a failure.

If the box office of the first weekend can reach more than 40 million, then this movie can be described as a "huge success" because the cost of the first weekend in North America was recovered by the box office. However, if the box office of the first weekend does not reach more than 40 million, even if the total box office is still over 60 million, the cost has been recovered and the profit has been achieved, but it cannot be described as a "huge success".

Of course, in fact, for Lu Yanhe, this movie has already made his "cost back" before it was released.

The early publicity strategy of this movie has greatly increased his popularity in Europe and the United States, and he is more famous than many actors who have played four or five movies in Europe and the United States-

Moreover, Lu Yanhe's performance in this movie has won praise from American media and film critics.

This has actually put Lu Yanhe in the sights of many film companies, producers and directors.

Not to mention those film companies that care very much about the Chinese box office market.

Several scripts have been sent before this.

Judging from the number of Asian characters in Hollywood scripts and the fact that the movie has not yet been released, this sign is already very unusual.

It shows that Hollywood is also optimistic about him.

However, none of the scripts that have been approached by Chen Ziyan are what she likes.

They are all very iconic Asian characters, full of stereotypes, and not as rich as the Asian ghost character in "The Mist".

They are not worthy of Lu Yanhe at all.

Chen Ziyan declined all of them. Of course, it was not in vain. When she declined each script, she recommended several Chinese actors who were more suitable for the role.

After all, although these scripts are not suitable for Lu Yanhe, they may not be opportunities for other actors.

Especially those actors who don't have many film contracts or want to open up overseas markets.

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In Korea, almost no one knows Lily Williams, on the contrary, Lu Yanhe is a big star in their group.

Whether it is the media or the people at the scene, almost all of them came for him.

Lily Williams was surprised. She said, "I thought you were so popular in China. Don't Koreans always dislike you Chinese?"

"Well, we don't like them much either, but this doesn't affect the spread of our literature and film and television works." Lu Yanhe said, "I have several dramas that are very popular in Korea. Their TV stations have adapted them to remake them."

Lu Yanhe didn't expect Lily Williams to say something like "Don't Koreans always dislike you Chinese?"

Lu Yanhe thought for a while and added, "Lily, to be precise, there are many behaviors in Korea that make us Chinese very angry. We have never stolen their culture and festivals."

Lily Williams: "...Okay."

Lily Williams asked again, "But, Lu, I want to know, if you don't like Korea so much, how do you feel when you face so many Koreans who like you?"

"These are two different things. To be precise, it's not that I don't like South Korea, I don't like South Korea as it is now." Lu Yanhe said, "I have always hoped that this world can truly seek common ground while reserving differences and respecting each other, although I also know that , this is almost impossible, competition is everywhere It is inevitable, and the contradiction will never disappear. However, at least we should have a balance between right and wrong. I told you that I don’t like South Korea. At least I can tell the reasons and reasons why I don’t like it. I am not. Deliberately seeking trouble is not arrogantly discriminating against a certain country.”

Lily Williams asked thoughtfully: "So do you like America?"

Lu Yanhe was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Between the two of us, because we are friends, if you like China, I like the United States."

Lily Williams thought for a moment and said, "Forget it, let's not dwell on these issues."

"You really don't have to worry about it. Apart from issues of principle, being friends with you is just a matter between the two of us. It's still the same sentence: seek common ground while reserving differences." Lu Yanhe said, "I know you, and you know me. If you want to gain your own interests by harming others, you all want world peace, and that’s enough, right?”

Lily Williams nodded thoughtfully.

"I'm surprised that you can tell me this." Lily Williams said, "I have also met several Chinese directors and actors, and they are always very secretive about such topics, which makes me very confused. , why can’t you discuss these issues.”

"Because it's too sensitive, it's easy to be misunderstood, and it's even easier to be interpreted maliciously, so it's better not to say anything." Lu Yanhe explained, "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be so specific. I've been in contact with you and known you for so long, and I know You and I are friends and you won’t distort or spread my words, so I told you.”

Lily Williams sighed and said, "Well, there are a lot of people in Hollywood who like to distort and spread other people's words."

What Lu Yanhe wanted to say was actually not Hollywood, but since Lily Williams said so, he just laughed and said nothing.

After the screening event in South Korea, they were interviewed by South Korea's TVN TV station.

Meanwhile, Saturday's box office numbers are out.

The box office of "The Fog" in the United States on Saturday was slightly higher than that on Friday, with a box office of 14.3 million.

This puts "The Mist"'s opening weekend box office very likely to exceed $40 million.

If this result can be achieved, the total box office of "The Mist" will most likely exceed 100 million.

When everyone in the crew found out about this result, they cheered together and went to a bar to have a drink to celebrate.

Lu Yanhe was originally going to go with him, but TVN's Kim Yeon-sook suddenly contacted him and said that Korean director Kim Ji-yeon learned that he came to Korea and wanted to meet him.

Lu Yanhe was stunned for a moment when he heard this familiar name.

This is a great Korean director. He had previously thought about asking Sang Young-joo to act, but because some conditions could not be agreed upon, Sang Young-joo withdrew.

Director Kim Ji-yeon is one of the great directors in South Korea who is better at integrating business and art. The works have won awards at international film festivals, and the box office in South Korea is also very high. Several movies have more than 10 million viewers. The statistics of Korean movie box office are based on the number of movie viewers, which is also the same as other places. Very different.

Lu Yanhe thought for a while, told Chen Ziyan, and decided to meet director Jin Jiyan.

According to Chen Ziyan, his next step is to become an international director and cooperate with directors from different countries - he has not yet cooperated with a Korean director.

However, after Chen Ziyan received his message, she sent a message: It's okay to meet him, but be careful and don't agree to anything. This person has a strong sense of locality and may not give you a good role. He thought before I tried to find Shang Yongzhou to cooperate, but the contact was not very pleasant.

Lu Yanhe replied: Okay, I understand.

Chen Ziyan: But he is a great director. No matter what, you should respect him a little, especially since you are now internationally famous and influential. He may deliberately show that he does not care about your aura because of this. This person...me too I haven't had any contact with him, so I can't make any comments, but from what I learned from various channels, this director is both arrogant and inferior at heart. When he says some harsh words to you, do you want to bear with it first? It's South Korea, and others suffer a loss because they are unfamiliar with the country.

Lu Yanhe: Okay, I understand.

Chen Ziyan: No, I have to explain to Zou Dong that you can bring more bodyguards.

Lu Yanhe: ...Sister Ziyan, I just went to have a friendly chat with a director, not to fight with anyone.

Chen Ziyan: It’s a good idea to be more prepared and cautious in a foreign country. Who knows what will happen.

Lu Yanhe: You made me suddenly nervous. (End of chapter)