Director’s Legend

() "...the winner of the Asian Newcomer Award at the 7th Shanghai Film Festival is the best director..." The female director Huang Shuqin held the envelope and paused deliberately.

Zhu Wen, who was nominated for the best director, whispered to Shao Shuaijun: "It must be you, "Buried Alive" should not participate in the Asian Newcomer Award, it should go to the Golden Goblet Award!" The tone was a bit resentful.

"The Golden Goblet Award is based on seniority ranking, and it's useless to go. It's better to participate in the Newcomer Award. If you don't get the award, you can get nominated." Shao Shuaijun is a little uneasy. The Golden Goblet Award is the only A-level award in China. There are two grand prizes (now there are two, and so is the Tiantan Award established in 2011), in order to be in line with international standards, it has a little disregard for domestic films, let alone a penniless, young and shameless newcomer.

Huang Shuqin's eyes swept over the faces of the people standing in the back row, and finally stopped on Shao Shuaijun's face: ""Buried Alive", Shao Shuaijun! Congratulations to the post-85 director Shao Shuaijun. In the film "Buried Alive", the director used bold imagination to construct A single-actor, single-scene story breaks the limits of film and will surely write film history."

Shao Shuaijun's heartbeat, which has always been calm, couldn't help but speed up a little. This is the first time he has won an award since he was a child. If it weren't for the temperament honed by the ups and downs of the entertainment industry for ten years in his previous life, he would probably jump up now. Taking the award certificate and the microphone from Huang Shuqin, he let out a long breath.

"Thanks to the judges for their love, thanks to Huayi Brothers for helping release, thanks to the brothers of the crew for their support, although they didn't come to the scene. Thanks to my parents, and everyone I should be grateful to." Shao Shuaijun held the microphone vigorously , I don’t know how to go on, he has never been a person who can say witty words, “Then, thank fate for giving me this opportunity.”

Thank fate, this is the truth.

Crack clack clack clack clack clack clap clap clap clap clap clap clap, the few spectators in the audience clapped vigorously, "Buried Alive" deserved its name.

"The next one will be the best film of the Asian Newcomer Awards. We invite David Baldwell, a famous film scholar and film theorist, to present the award to us."

With a gray beard, David Baldwell read out the list of winners through a translator: "The winner of the Asian Newcomer Award for Best Film at the 7th Shanghai Film Festival is..."Buried Alive", Shao Shuaijun!"

Shao Shuaijun clenched his fists and tried his best to calm down his excitement. He really didn't expect to win two awards.

"Young man, "Buried Alive" is wonderful, congratulations."

"Thanks."

The host came over with a smile: "Director Shao Shuaijun, this is the first time the Asian Newcomer Award has been set up, and you just won two awards, so you want to talk about your acceptance speech?"

"Uh, no need, I think, I probably can't think of what to say." Shao Shuaijun said truthfully.

The audience thought he was playing a joke and burst into laughter.

"Director Shao is really humorous." The host complimented, "I think at this moment, many people really want to know some stories about director Shao Shuaijun, can you tell us?"

"Actually, there is nothing to say. My experience is very plain, and there is nothing worth hearing."

"Then tell us, how did you grow up when you were a child, how did you come up with the idea of ​​making a movie, just have a chat."

Shao Shuaijun thought for a while: "How should I put it, I grew up in a very ordinary family, my parents were primary school teachers, when I was very young, every time there was a movie at school, I would follow it, unconsciously I fell in love with movies. After the college entrance examination, I took my dream to go to the Chinese Opera, Nortel, and Shanghai Theater Examinations, but I failed. In order to save my breath, I did not choose to continue my studies, but went to Hengdian to find opportunities... " "Buried Alive" was a very accidental idea, and after I thought about it, I shot it, it's that simple."

"Simplicity reveals extraordinaryness. I think it is difficult for a director to be as courageous as you, and to do it when you think about it. Well, it's time to get down to business. The organizer of this Magic City Film Festival has specially added the Asian Newcomer Award, The aim is to discover and explore new potential Asian filmmakers. To this end, the organizer offered 300,000 yuan as a reward. We are also honored to invite Zhang Hongsen, deputy director of the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, to present the award to us. Director Zhang is also invited. "

Amid the applause, Zhang Hongsen, in a neat suit, strode onto the stage, took a large template check from the master of ceremonies, and handed it to Shao Shuaijun.

"Young man, congratulations, you will make more good films in the future and contribute to the film industry."

Shao Shuaijun was a little overwhelmed, and hurriedly bowed down to show his respect. This Director Zhang Hongsen is amazing, he is at the same level as Han Sanye, the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, what is this concept? This is the department that controls the life and death of Chinese films. People who are in the film industry want to worship the film bureau as if they are gods!

Shao Shuaijun remembered that before he was reborn, Zhang Hongsen became the director of the film bureau and the emperor of the film industry.

Zhang Hongsen just showed his face, pulled Shao Shuaijun into a friendly pose, and left in a hurry. So far, Shao Shuaijun's trip to Shanghai Film Festival is over. He didn't pay attention to the following interviews with reporters, and didn't listen to the organizer's request to watch the evening Golden Goblet Awards Ceremony, and hurried back to the mountain city with a bonus of 300,000 yuan.

If you win an award and money, you will inevitably have to treat someone to dinner when you go back. Taking advantage of the spare money in his hands, Shao Shuaijun paid Xu Zhan's film salary, and also sent red envelopes to the crew members, which was regarded as buying people's hearts. It's not that I never thought about establishing my own network in my previous life, but because I had no money and was not good at words, I could only be lonely.

Now that I have money and become a director, my interpersonal relationship is much smoother along with it, which feels good.

The Shanghai Film Festival came to an end, and there was a lot of noise outside, which didn't affect Shao Shuaijun, who was busy with the film crew. In short, the filming continued.

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May day turned into June day, and it will soon be July day. The summer in the mountain city is very hot. In order to take pictures, everyone has to wear thick clothes, which is very painful.

The original investment of 3 million yuan, under the request of Shao Shuaijun's pursuit of excellence, still failed to stick to the end. For this reason, Shao Shuaijun had to add an additional investment of 500,000 yuan to make his old sister Shao Xiaoling complain. If you sell out, you will lose money.

"Don't worry Xiaoling, the movie will definitely sell well."

When checking the accounts, Zhao Cheng swore that he had seen the samples, and just a few clips of jokes were enough for him to strengthen his confidence.

Shao Shuaijun looked at the samples in the projector, and said for a while: "The filming is almost done, and it will be completed in two or three days. And this film, with Li Kai and Wang Yixue helping to hold the camera, I have time to do it." Editing, most of the editing work has been completed, and post-production such as soundtrack and dubbing will be completed in half a month. When this movie is released, I will take a good rest..."

"The filming is over, old lady, am I going to lose my job?" Shao Xiaoling suddenly thought.

"Um, it seems so."

Zhao Cheng laughed: "Xiaoling, if you lose your job, you can come to Huayi Brothers. Hu Ming, the director of the finance department, is a relative of me. It's not a problem to arrange a chief accountant for you."

"Really?" Shao Xiaoling was overjoyed. She preferred a stable job to a movie that burns money and has no fixed place to live.

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