Chapter 278: The huge controversy over the extra scenes and the Golden Horse Awards

When Qin Hao and others heard Liu Zhou shout "Cut", they couldn't help but stop and look at him.

Liu Zhou stood up and walked in front of the people and said:
"Letting you relax does not mean you can play. Don't forget your identity. You are astronauts and you are currently carrying out the task of collecting soil.

You don't even have the minimum of seriousness and meticulousness. If you don't know better, you might think you are a group of children picking up shells on the beach!"

Hearing Liu Zhou's analogy, Qin Hao and Zhang Ziyi both looked a little embarrassed.

It seemed like the performance just now was too relaxed.

Liu Zhou then continued:

“Chatting is chatting, but you can’t ignore the work at hand. Otherwise, how can you make the audience believe that you are astronauts collecting specimens on Mars?
I know how to type on a computer. My eyes are fixed on the screen, and my hands are typing away on the keyboard smoothly. That’s how it is.”

"understood!"

"Understood!"

None of them were stupid, and the performance was not difficult at all. The effect was much better during the subsequent filming.

After taking two shots and keeping one, Liu Zhou passed directly.

Next, we moved to the Mars base, where a tent was set up to shoot the scene of the approaching storm.

For this storm scene, a green screen was needed. Because the effect presented in the movie is one of very low visibility, it would not be too troublesome to do post-production around the green screen.

Among these people, except for Zhang Ziyi, perhaps none of them have ever acted in front of a green screen.

But among these people, except Zhang Yi, all of them are professionally trained and have been taught in schools of non-proprietary performance.

As for Zhang Yi, although he has not received any systematic training, he is a drama actor after all, and he is also very talented. He will be a well-known and powerful actor in the mainland in the future.

So after Liu Zhou gave a brief explanation and asked them to simulate twice, and seeing that there were no problems, he began the formal filming.

"Everything is ready!"

"start!"

The entire studio darkened and several high-power blowers started up at the same time.

The sky is full of yellow sand, flying stones and dust!
The three of them walked out of the base slowly and headed towards the spaceship with difficulty against the storm.

Facial and full-body close-ups, with difficulty.

"Captain, the spaceship is tilted 10 degrees now!" Zhang Yi advanced against the howling wind: "We must stop the spaceship from tipping over!"

Zhang Ziyi shouted:
"Any ideas?"

"Use the steel cable on the communication pole and tie the other end to the car!"

Zhang Yi pointed at a communication pole nearby, and just as he finished speaking, he was suddenly blown away by something nearby and was blown far away by the storm.

Zhang Ziyi and Zhu Yawen were stunned for a moment, and then immediately began to look for it anxiously.

As a team, they cannot give up any member.

But after searching for more than a minute, they still couldn't find Zhang Yi, so the two could only return to the spaceship in grief.

If the space suit is damaged, theoretically you can only survive for one minute!

Before boarding the spaceship, Zhang Ziyi suddenly looked back towards the storm.

This shot was not in the shooting plan, but Lui Lok still gave her a close-up naturally.

Liu Zhou saw on the monitor that Zhang Ziyi's face went through several expressions in an instant.

Pain, sadness, reluctance, guilt, and then as if he had made up his mind, he turned around resolutely and boarded the spaceship.

Liu Zhou sighed and then shouted "cut".

"Ziyi, come here for a moment."

Zhang Ziyi walked over clumsily and said as if nothing had happened:

"What's wrong, Director?"

"Don't mess around, just shoot according to the plan!"

"Wasn't that shot just now bad?"

"What a bullshit! This is just like the plot that the audience hates the most in mainstream movies. It's too deliberate, even a blind person can see it."

"Ok."

Zhang Ziyi did not dare to be too presumptuous. Although Liu Zhou was her old classmate, he was also a famous director and a big shot in the industry after all.

The main reason is that the heroine has too few roles, not even half of the male lead.

It didn't seem that important in the movie, so she came to add some scenes to test the waters, but she was still directly rejected by Liu Zhou.

Seeing that Zhang Ziyi understood what he meant, Liu Zhou directly asked her to go back.

Liu Zhou is not against actors adding to their scenes. Sometimes an actor's flash of inspiration can even make a shot more classic.

But if you try too hard, it will be superfluous.

Although Liu Zhou was very happy to have a big star like Zhang Ziyi play the female lead in "The Martian", who did not have many scenes, he would never allow her to add to the role at random.

If she continues to be the same as before and always wants to add more scenes for herself, then Liu Zhou will have no choice but to be merciless and replace her directly.

"The Martian" took so much effort from so many people that Liu Zhou would not allow any flaws to occur during the filming.

However, Zhang Ziyi obviously knew the importance of the matter. She re-shot the scene, followed the script obediently, turned around and called out the name, and climbed straight onto the spaceship.

After two more days of filming, except for Qin Hao, the others also finished their scenes on Mars.

After that, Liu Zhou only needed to deal with Qin Hao.

The next scene to be filmed was the scene set in the Mars base in the movie.

The Mars base in this movie is not just a frame built outside and then filmed in a studio inside.

Jiahe specially hired a construction team from China Construction to work overtime to build a complete Mars base.

Not only does it look like that from the outside, but there are also all kinds of high-tech equipment inside, including astronauts' rooms, restaurants, toilets, and exercise rooms.
After the filming of the movie is completed, this Mars base will undergo a simple transformation and will be open to the public.

After receiving the script, Qin Hao learned that he would be the absolute male lead of the movie, so he began to make sufficient preparations for this role very early on.

Liu Zhou has never been too worried about Qin Hao's professional ability and attitude. Sure enough, when filming his one-man show, everything went relatively smoothly.

The two have worked together several times and are very familiar with each other.

So even though we don’t get it right every time, we can still understand each other’s ideas through simple communication, and one shot will not be shot more than three times.

This also made the filming progress of "The Martian" significantly faster than the planned shooting schedule.

While Liu Zhou and Qin Hao were working in perfect harmony in the northwest, the 44th Golden Horse Awards was also grandly held in Wanwan.

I don't know if it was inspired by the Hong Kong Film Awards earlier this year, but this year's Golden Horse Awards was more grand than any other before. In order to make more adequate preparations, the event was even postponed for nearly a month.

The Golden Horse Awards organizing committee sent out invitations to heroes six months in advance, and just like the Academy Awards, they invited global superstar Nicolas Cage.

Although I don't know through what channel they invited this person, I think it must have cost a lot of money. After all, Nicholas Cage is in great need of money now.

Despite the strenuous efforts of the organizing committee, this year's Golden Horse Awards was also very lively, but it was still far inferior to the Golden Image Awards.

The Academy Awards at the beginning of the year invited almost all the big-name directors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, and even some popular retired actresses.

But at this year's Golden Horse Awards, apart from Wanwan's group of people, the number of people from Hong Kong and the mainland was less than the organizing committee had imagined.

Among the four major directors in mainland China, Liu Zhou directly declined because he was busy filming "The Martian", and Zhang Yimou also declined because he was busy with the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

In the end, only Chen Shishi and Feng Kuzi were present.

Then there are the four most popular actresses, two ice singers and four young actors in mainland China.

Zeng Li would definitely not go, and Fan Xiaopang also knew Liu Zhou's attitude towards the Golden Horse Awards, so he refused on the grounds that he was filming. As for the rest of the people, they all went.

Among the four young actors, Qin Hao definitely couldn't go. Huang Xiaoming, who is also from Golden Harvest, also refused due to schedule reasons.

As for Hong Kong, perhaps because of Li An or other people's face, many people went, but there were not many famous people, such as Jackie Chan and Andy Lau, who was fooled several times.

However, because of the presence of Oscar-winning Best Director Li An, the Taiwanese media also hyped up the Golden Horse Awards this year.

This time, Liu Zhou's film "Room" also received multiple nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress.

But as expected, "Lust, Caution" became the biggest winner of this Golden Horse Awards, while "Room" was completely defeated.

Best Film: Lust, Caution!
Best Director, Li An!

Best Actor, Liang Chaowei!
Even the Best Original Film Music was awarded to "Lust, Caution", while Jay Chou's "Secret" won the Best Visual Effects Award.

This is very confusing. No wonder Jay Chou directly criticized the Golden Horse Awards after they ended.

As for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, it was directly awarded to American actress Chen Chong.

In other words, "Room", which won the Golden Lion and Best Actress awards at this year's Venice International Film Festival, won nothing. Well, it's not that it won nothing, it also won the Best Original Screenplay award.

After learning about the situation, Liu Zhou directly informed the people from Jiahe that they should not accept the trophy.

Liu Zhou felt that it was a humiliation to himself to give the Best Original Screenplay Award like a fig leaf.

He is not someone who cannot afford to lose, and judging awards is inherently subjective.

But this time, the Golden Horse Awards were clearly promoting Li An and stepping on Liu Zhou.

When the Golden Horse Awards organizing committee invited Liu Zhou, he anticipated that this might be the result.

So even if Liu Zhou wasn't busy filming "The Martian" at that time, he wouldn't have gone.

But it was bad enough that it lost the Best Picture and Best Director awards to "Lust, Caution", but the Golden Horse Awards also gave the Best Actress award to Chen Chong.

Chen Chong won the award for a film co-produced by Singapore and Australia called "Hometown Story".

But the damn movie is about a mother and daughter falling in love with the same person, and the location is in Australia. Australia has become her hometown.

Chen Chong's performance in the film wasn't that great, but he still managed to beat the favorite Zeng Li.

Nevertheless, after all, neither Liu Zhou nor Zeng Li were present, and even the entire "Room" crew was not present, so they had an excuse to present the awards in this way.

If you saw that no one from the "Room" crew came and didn't give any award, Liu Zhou wouldn't be that angry.

But in the end, it's disgusting that "Room" was awarded the Best Original Screenplay award.

That is to say, "Lust, Caution" was not nominated for this award, otherwise it would definitely be awarded to "Lust, Caution" because "Room" lost to "Lust, Caution" in all the awards nominated together with "Lust, Caution".

Liu Zhou didn't care whether the Golden Horse Awards meant to humiliate him, but he felt humiliated.

So when the Golden Horse Awards Organizing Committee sent this humiliating trophy, Liu Zhou directly asked Golden Harvest to refuse to accept it.

He even told the top management of Golden Harvest that no films produced by Golden Harvest would participate in the Golden Horse Awards in the future.

I don't know how this sentence got out.

This undoubtedly added fuel to the public opinion that was already in an uproar over the upset of "Room" at this year's Golden Horse Awards.

"Room", a work that won the Venice Golden Lion, suffered a complete defeat at the Golden Horse Awards. It would be strange if it did not cause controversy.

What's more, Liu Zhou is no unknown person, and he is not inferior to Li An, the Oscar-winning director.

As a popular director in mainland China, Liu Zhou has a lot of fans who are speaking up for him. Coupled with the voices from the media in mainland China and Hong Kong, this Golden Horse Awards has brought even greater controversy.

This time, the chairman of the Golden Horse Awards, the famous Taiwanese director Yang Dechang, had to speak out, but no one bought it.

Everyone has a scale in their heart. Your meaning of holding up Li An is too obvious.

The public opinion in this regard had not yet subsided, and now it was suddenly reported that films produced by Golden Harvest would no longer participate in the Golden Horse Awards, which immediately caused a huge sensation.

Everyone outside was lamenting Liu Zhou’s toughness, and he simply overturned the table and refused to play.

Although it is not known whether this matter is true or not, it cannot be groundless, so many media want to interview Golden Harvest executives, and some even traveled thousands of miles to Dunhuang to interview Liu Zhou.

However, all these reporters returned empty-handed, and no one accepted the interview.

But Jiahe's attitude makes the rumor seem more true.

So this made the Golden Horse Awards organizing committee very troubled, and they immediately arranged for people to communicate with Golden Harvest and even gave in.

In fact, whether the movies produced by Golden Harvest will participate in the Golden Horse Awards is not what they care about most. What they care about most is that this incident will seriously undermine the fairness of the Golden Horse Awards.

At this moment, even they did not expect that Liu Zhou would not play according to the rules of the game at all and directly make a big deal out of this matter.

Originally, the Golden Horse Awards wanted to compete with the Hong Kong Film Awards, so the organizing committee created a huge momentum for the Golden Horse Awards, but in the end it shot itself in the foot.

The greater the momentum before, the greater the backlash now.

Liu Zhou originally wanted to teach the Golden Horse Awards a profound lesson, and even had plans for the follow-up.

But unexpectedly, Wanwan's group was so unethical. Relying on the fact that they were favored by their old mother, they directly reported the situation to their superiors and asked for help.

In the end, Han Shanping's immediate superior, Leader Xu, actually called Liu Zhou personally and asked him to focus on unity and not engage in emotional disputes.

This made Liu Zhou lose his temper completely.

There was no other way, so Liu Zhou had to arrange for Zhang Zhao to come forward and issue a statement, saying that the statement of not participating in the Golden Horse Awards in the future was groundless and that refusing to accept the trophy was also a rumor.

Although Golden Harvest publicly denied it, the heat of this matter did not die down so quickly, and many people have been discussing it online for several days.

However, there is never a shortage of news in the entertainment industry. With no one fanning the flames, the Golden Horse Awards incident gradually died down. At this time, the most popular news online was the upcoming premiere of "The Warlords," which brought together three superstars: Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Kim Sung-woo.

This also indicates that this year's Lunar New Year holiday is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)