1978 Synthetic Writers - Chapter 488 Bullfighting

Jiang Xian was a little surprised. "Why? Can a movie like "Furong Town" of mine make your Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers stop blooming?"

Wang Meng did not answer him directly, but sighed: "Old Jiang, your "Furong Town" was really born at the wrong time."

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After hearing this, Jiang Xian could only smile bitterly.

It was first censored for three full months before it was allowed to be screened in some areas, then it was edited and deleted again, and finally it received the "Notice from the Film Bureau of Radio, Film and Television that the film "Furong Town" can be released domestically after revisions."

Attention.

The statement here is "can be issued domestically first", which makes a difference between domestic and foreign.

After the film was released, there was another incident at the premiere.

"You have to be born even if you are born at the wrong time. It's better than suffocating to death in the womb." Jiang Xian said.

Wang Meng smiled knowingly and said, "After your movie was released, it was quite popular with the audience and received rave reviews."

As he spoke, his voice changed.

"But the bad thing is that it received rave reviews."

Jiang Xian understood what he said.

"Furong Town" is being shown in China, receiving rave reviews from the audience. At the same time, those in charge of ideology are also watching.

Moreover, the more positive the audience's response, the more worried those in charge of ideology will be.

"The results of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers voting have not been announced yet, but I can reveal it to you alone. Please don't tell anyone else."

"In short, don't feel wronged after hearing this result."

The Hundred Flowers Award has a long history. It was proposed by Wu Hao in 62 and is evaluated every two years.

Except for the interruption of the movement, this year 1986 is already the tenth session.

The award format of this award reflects the opinions of the audience, that is, through the "Popular Movies" magazine, ballots are printed and distributed nationwide, the audience participates voluntarily, the votes are counted, and the announcement is made publicly. The person with the highest votes is elected.

The "Hundred Flowers Awards" and "Golden Rooster Awards" are held one after the other, but the awards are announced together.

"The votes for the Hundred Flowers Awards were counted in March."

Wang Meng took a puff of cigarette and said, "Among the three best feature films, Furong Town is far ahead, and the other two are Taierzhuang Bloody Battle and Sun Yat-sen.

Best Actor Jiang Wen, Best Actress Liu Xiaoqing, Best Supporting Actor Zhu Shibin.

There are only a few Hundred Flowers Awards, and from Best Film to Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor, they are all actors from "Furong Town"!Jiang Xian couldn't help but gasp when he heard this.

"Teacher Wang, do you mean that this year's Hundred Flowers Awards are monopolized by the movie "Furong Town"?"

"Ugh."

Wang Meng sighed, "The audience likes this movie, which is the blessing of this movie, but also the unlucky part. If you said you only want to take one of the items, the higher-ups would definitely give it to you without hesitation, but... "

"Teacher Wang, what about the Golden Rooster Awards?"

"I heard that Furong Town also won first place, but those people acted quickly. I guess they learned from the experience of Baihua Awards, so the Golden Rooster Awards kept a close eye on it and directly paused the selection of this year's Golden Rooster Awards."

Oops.

"So what about them?"

"What are you laughing at?" Wang Meng looked at him strangely.

"How funny."

Jiang Xian said: "The results of the two prestigious awards came out in March, but because of my movie, the results have not been announced until the second half of the year."

"It's not as simple as you think."

The Huabiao Award was just established last year. Its full name is the "Excellent Film Award of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television". Its predecessor is the "Excellent Film Award of the Ministry of Culture". It has been awarded once a year since 1957.

In 85, the higher-ups changed the name to “Huabiao Award”.

As a result, the domestic film industry has developed three major awards: the Golden Rooster Award, the Hundred Flowers Award, and the Huabiao Award.

These three awards are all very authoritative, but they have different responsibilities.

"You tell me, of the three most prestigious awards, the 'Golden Rooster' and 'Hundred Flowers' awards were both given to 'Furong Town', how will the 'Huabiao Award' feel?" Wang Meng asked.

"It's quite difficult." Jiang Xian nodded.

Both the "Golden Rooster" and "Hundred Flowers" awards were given to "Furong Town". If the "Huabiao Award" was not given, it would confirm the saying "Why is there such a big gap between your three major awards?" If it was given, there would be a problem with its "direction".

"Directionality" is secondary. The most critical thing is that we cannot pass the "Hua Zhiqiao" test.

If Qiao Mu had not been willing to stand up and argue for "Furong Town" and "Hua Zhiqiao", it would have been a question whether the movie could be released smoothly.

"Teacher Wang, I understand." Jiang Xian said.

The problem now is that the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards for a film called Furong Town are competing against Hua Zhi Qiao. "

The results of Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers cannot be easily changed.

But the Hundred Flowers Awards are not like that. This is an award that is voted for by the audience one by one! It is voted for by the people one by one!Even if "Hua Zhiqiao" has always been tough in its style, why do you still want to go against the people?

So now the Hundred Flowers Awards and the Golden Rooster Awards are competing with "Hua Zhiqiao".

The situation came to a standstill.

This jam is a two-way street.

On the other hand, "Huazhiqiao" is also caught in a dilemma and has no idea what to do because of the current situation.

"I heard someone gave him a suggestion."

Wang Meng smiled playfully, "Someone helped him out and came up with a plan. They said that we could just combine the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award into one film award. In this way, objectively speaking, Furong Town would actually have won one award, and the impact of the film winning the award could be somewhat mitigated."

"This is truly a genius," Jiang Xian was speechless.

"But there is also a lot of opposition from the film industry to this."

Wang Meng said, "The two secretaries of the Film Association, Luo Yijun and Zhang Qing, jointly signed a letter to the relevant departments, expressing their firm opposition.

Of course, these two people were definitely not enough to make him give up. Later, I heard that he sought the opinions of several relevant units, but because he did not get much support, he finally gave up. "

"The Golden Rooster Awards are judged by experts. Who would be willing to easily give up the right to speak just because of something like this?" Jiang Xian complained.

Wang Meng smiled and said, "It was Luo Yijun, secretary of the Film Association, who told me that a guest came to his house the other day and told him that it had been so many months since the Hundred Flowers Awards, but the results had not been announced. A large number of readers of Popular Cinema wrote to question it, and it was difficult to respond.

On the other hand, the Golden Rooster Awards selection could not be started. Many people in the film industry were asking for the reason, and the outside world was also discussing it.

It is not a good idea for the Film Association to continue to confront its leaders, and it will easily become passive if it continues like this.

So this person suggested to Lao Luo: If the Film Association reports to the competent authorities, saying that the selection of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards in 1986 will be suspended for one year, the leaders will definitely approve it immediately. "

Jiang Xian cursed mercilessly.

"The Hundred Flowers Awards were established at his suggestion. Like the Golden Rooster Awards, they were created by the older generation of filmmakers after years of hard work. They are precious cultural assets left by the older generation to the next generation of filmmakers.

Even if it is the Film Association, it only has the responsibility to make the two awards better. What right do they have to stop the event? Not even one year is acceptable.”

"Luo Yijun has the same attitude."

After chatting with Wang Meng for a long time, Jiang Xian said goodbye and got into his car, recalling what Wang Meng had said.

Just because of the movie "Furong Town", the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards were going to be merged and then stopped.

Jiang Xian was a little speechless.

Is this human stuff?Are you treating him as a Japanese?

The first scene of the movie was shot in the imitation Qing Dynasty building complex in the Beijing Film Studio, which was the "Ming and Qing Style Street" built for the filming of "Camel Xiangzi".

Jiang Xian took the opportunity to see another street of the Beijing Film Studio. In order to prepare for the filming of the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions", a huge amount of money was spent to recreate the "Rongning Mansion" in "Dream of Red Mansions".

It has not been fully built yet, and places like Jia Mu's Courtyard are still under construction.

"Boss."

Chen Ai Ge is an e-person. She came here just to see how foreigners make movies. Then, she hooked up with Bertolucci with her strong social skills. She spent most of the first night talking business with Bertolucci and drank so much that her eyes were swollen.

"Didn't you learn English?"

"Oh, my level is too low. Besides, there are too many new words in this edict, and it is too long."

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It's really not the level of English of a great director.

The plot played by Chen Ai Ge was that she led troops into Prince Chun's mansion in the middle of the night and read Cixi's edict to Puyi's father.

This dialogue is in English. It’s very long so I won’t go into details. What’s more terrible is that the edict was not ordinary English. It was full of strange and obscure words.

Bertolucci believed that only writing in a non-colloquial royal tone and wording could match the flavor of a court edict.

"Oh, this is too difficult."

After studying for a while, the director was sweating profusely and started talking to Jiang Xian about other things.

"Look at the foreigners filming, how impressive! So impressive! I've never seen anything so impressive."

"You may not know that they set up a two-meter-diameter pot in the North Theater, where they boil cloth, dye it, and make clothes look old every day.

"Oh my god, oh my god, that's awesome."

Chen Ai Ge kept muttering to herself.

Jiang Xian looked disdainful.

Beggars are awesome?That's because you haven't seen the main actor yet!How gorgeous were the costumes of the main actors in this movie? As soon as the film was finished, the crew held a fashion exhibition in Rome.

The most exaggerated one is the one worn by Cixi, which weighs as much as 50 pounds, and all the embroidery on the clothes was first carved from wax, then cast in aluminum, and finally gold-plated.

The filming of this scene featuring Cixi also started soon.

It’s located in the largest studio at Beijing Film Studio.

Jiang Xian was shocked when he arrived at the set.

A full 17000 square meters!

But now, the 17000 square meter space is filled with Bertolucci's works.

Walking into the scene, the first thing you see is the Buddha statues standing on the wall, each with a grinning face and fangs. In the middle of the venue is a huge dragon bed, on which are carved yellow dragon ornaments symbolizing imperial power, with very fine workmanship."This is too much of a Western curiosity perspective." Jiang Xian was speechless.

I didn’t notice it much when I watched the movie that year, but now that I’m there in person, I feel how magical the scene created by Bertolucci is.

How could Cixi die in such a place?The actress who played Cixi was the Chinese-American Hollywood actress Lu Yan. Later, she played the role of Jia Mu in the "Dream of Red Mansions" directed by Hu Mei.

After all, Lu Yan is Chinese, so she went to Bertolucci and complained to him, "Brother, what's wrong with you? This aesthetic is too low, and this arrangement doesn't look like the Qing Dynasty at all."

"Lisa, you are just an actor, I am the director." Bertolucci said impatiently.

Lu Yan was wearing a 50-pound costume. It was such hot weather, and wearing such a heavy costume, plus the air conditioning in the studio was not good, so she was not only tired but also hot.

But she also understands.

Bertolucci is a famous international director, so it is normal that he is unwilling to listen to a Chinese actress.

Lu Yan turned around and heard someone say:

"Listen, Bertolucci."

(End of this chapter)