How to Raise a King

Chapter 74

"The winner of this year's Golden Dragon Award for Best Director is - the director of "Roots" - Yan Xuan, who made us feel the magnificence in simplicity and the true artistic atmosphere of the movie again!!!"

Yan Xuan straightened up suddenly, and the blankness in his expression disappeared when the award presenter dragged his tone and finally called out his name.

Pressing the red corners of his eyes with his thumb, Yan Xuan stood up and hugged Tang Yi and Li Xinran beside him one by one.

Peng Bohan put his arms around his neck and kissed his left and right cheeks: "Congratulations, Uncle Yan."

"Thank you Xiaobo."

Putting Peng Bohan down, Yan Xuan took a deep breath and walked up the aisle between the seats.

At this moment, all eyes were on him.

When he realized this, Yan Xuan was almost moved to tears.

When someone reached out to shake his hand, Yan Xuan almost subconsciously reacted appropriately. In the eyes of others, he may be calm and calm, but in fact only he himself knows how nervous he is now.

This is his first award.

He proved his ability to himself and to the film industry.

This is not so much an award, but rather an affirmation of his persistence and the courage to persevere.

What he needs is actually not this award, but the glory represented by this award. Just saying "you are doing the right thing" is actually enough.

Over the years, he has been questioned and suppressed too much. At this moment, those things have become the past. When he holds the trophy in his hand, he feels that he has been reborn.

"Director Yan, I really like your movies, not just "Roots"."

The award presenter avoided the microphone and whispered while hugging Yan Xuan.

She is an old actress who has relegated to the second line in the film industry, and she gave Yan Xuan affirmation and encouragement like an elder.

"Keep going, there will always be someone who will see your hard work, come on."

"Thank you."

Yan Xuan nodded vigorously, and under the gesture of the award presenter, he stood in front of the microphone.

He opened his mouth, his emotions seemed a little out of control, and he couldn't speak.

He pursed his lips, turned sideways and pressed the corners of his eyes with the joints of his wrists, and paused when he turned around, but still shed tears after all.

Without trying to maintain his image, he said in a hoarse voice: "Thank you to the jury for giving me this award... It would be a lie to say that I don't expect it, but in fact, when I came, I was ready to return empty-handed."

He lowered his head and looked at the trophy in his hand: "It's been 13 years since filming. I haven't even made a good work in these years. Although I have persisted, I have gradually become disappointed in myself. Occasionally I also wondered whether it was right or wrong to do so. But until today—"

Yan Xuan raised his head abruptly and found Tang Yi's location accurately.

"I finally have a complete work that can be put on the stage, and that is "Roots". From the initial planning to the release, from the dismal box office to the soaring, if I don't have those people with me, if I only rely on I myself will probably never be able to reach this position in my life. Jingchen, Leo, Cui Zhixun, Li Xinran, and the lovely Xiaobo, as well as everyone in the "Roots" crew, thank you for your support and perseverance. And the one I'm most grateful for—"

It was almost unnecessary for him to name names, the light had already fallen on Tang Yi who he had been watching.

Everyone's eyes also turned to Tang Yi.

The man who became the focus of everyone's attention smiled lightly and looked at the man on the stage. The expressions between the two were tacit understanding.

"I once said that there is no way to thank you for your great kindness, but standing on this stage where you should be grateful, there is no way not to thank you. Tang Yi, thank you for accepting me when I found you when no one wanted to trust me. Script. Thank you for traveling with me to get sponsors and even for never doubting the possibility of this drama and taking the initiative to invest. Thank you for the consolation you gave me when the box office was miserable. Thank you for never leaving me. ..."

It has been nearly eight months since last June.

The dribs and drabs in these eight months are vivid in my mind.

Smiling and looking at the most dazzling presence on the stage at this time, Tang Yi couldn't help being moved, and there were slight red marks in the corners of his eyes.

"Without you, I would not be who I am now, and I would not have this trophy. I hope to share this honor with you."

Two men look at each other from a distance, it has nothing to do with love, sometimes friendship is so unforgettable.

Applause sounded at the right time, Yan Xuan bowed and walked down the stage slowly.

Tang Yi stood up and stretched out his hand when the other party walked in front of him. The two of them clasped their palms and bumped each other's shoulders, the most ironic interaction between men.

The announcement of the next round of awards has already begun, and this is the most watched award today-Best Actor.

Yan Xuan, who had a stomach full of things to say to Tang Yi, also fell silent at this time, concentrating on the awarding platform.

He has always had confidence in Tang Yi, Tang Yi is different from him, his acting skills are obvious to all.

"What Director Yan said touched me deeply," the award presenter who announced the best actor sighed after taking the stage, "To put it bluntly, interests are often given priority in this circle, and it is rare to see such a This is a sincere feeling, and I salute you only on my own behalf."

He said and made a salute gesture.

Tang Yi and Yan Xuan quickly stood up and returned the salute.

This guest is also an old actor who has now retired behind the scenes. Instead of arousing the disgust of those who care about him, he said such words, but made everyone's expressions a little dignified.

"Okay, let's get down to business, let's announce the nominations for Best Actor in this year's Golden Dragon Awards, please watch the big screen—"

"The best actor nominees for the xx Golden Dragon Awards are—"Wei Young", Jing Chen."

With the narration of the baritone, Jingchen's wonderful performance in Weizhong began to play on the screen.

The highlights of each person's masterpiece are less than 1 minute before and after. The four actors nominated for best actor this year are Jing Chen, Tang Yi, Wu He and Shen Haotian.

Tang Yi's shortlisted representative work is "Root".Whether it is "Wei Young" or "Root", Tang Yi feels that he has exhausted his best, and they are all treasures that he should be proud of.

Wu He is an artist that Tang Yi has worked with in "Wei Young". Of course, the shortlisted work is not "Wei Young", but the boy from "Youth Bai Zhan Tang", which was filmed in the second half of the year, released at the same time as "Root", and topped the box office. main character.

He has just turned 20 years old this year and has been active in the film and television industry for four years. This is his first starring role in a film, but he has received a lot of attention. Tang Yi felt that this person's acting skills were good in "Wei Young", It is also reasonable to be shortlisted for the best actor today.

Another shortlisted artist, Shen Haotian, is actually a familiar face of the Golden Dragon Awards.

Over 40 years old, he has won many film awards. In recent years, he has been quite disappointed because of the appearance of Luo Jingyao, a dark horse, but the frequent nominations have already shown that he has a certain strength.

Tang Yi couldn't say how he feels now.

I have been paying attention to Yan Xuan's awards just now. At that time, his goal was very clear, but now he is a little at a loss.

It would be the best if he could get the award himself, but once the competitor became Jingchen, this feeling would be a little subtle.

Therefore, when the award presenter picked up the envelope in his hand, the expression on Tang Yi's face was not so much nervous as blank.

Even so, there was still a cold sweat in his hands.

It's not that I don't expect it, but that my mood is too complicated.

He has envisioned various possible outcomes many times, so no matter what, he can survive it.

Tang Yi took a deep breath, and when the award presenter spoke, he held his breath and slowly closed his eyes.

"The winner of this year's Golden Dragon Award for Best Actor is—"

In the elongated voice of the award presenter, Tang Yi had the illusion that he was floating.

is it him?

Will it be him?

""Wei Young", Jing Chen!"

His heart tightened suddenly, Tang Yi closed his eyes tightly, the feeling of his heart falling from a height made his lips tremble.

"Don—"

"I'm fine," Tang Yi opened his eyes, and smiled at Yanxuan, "It's the same if it's Jingchen."

It is the same?

Tang Yi clenched his hands tightly, feeling the pain of nails piercing his palms, he smiled wryly.

Sure enough, I am still lost.

Slowly pursing the corners of his lips, Tang Yi raised his head and looked in Jingchen's direction. Although he was far away, he still showed a somewhat pale smile in that direction.

Jing Chen stood up amidst the applause of everyone.

He had the usual flat expression on his face. It seemed that nothing in this world would shake him. Even such an award, which everyone envied, did not make him even a little bit happy.

Even in the eyes of others, Jingchen is very calm at the moment, but the eyes that turn to Tang Yi inadvertently are full of worry.

Lowering his eyes to hide the strange gaze, Jing Chen walked towards the awarding platform.

After receiving the trophy from the guest, he carried the acceptance speech that Qin Yan had thought up for him, his sexy voice fascinated almost everyone in the audience.

It seems to be unquestionably calm like a deep-rooted image, but if it is someone who really knows him, he will probably find that at every blink of an eye, his gaze is involuntarily swept in the same direction.

Seeing his imposing eyes sweeping across the audience like a king patrolling his territory, he would always be full of helplessness and worry at a certain moment, Tang Yi finally couldn't help but curl up his tense mouth.

Sighing deeply, Tang Yi violently shook out the loss that filled his chest out of his senses.

He simply can't be jealous of this man, let alone the one he loves the most.

In fact, this is nothing, he said to himself, this only proves that he still has a longer way to go, at least someone who is standing higher than him is by his side.

How could it be so simple to become a god?

Tang Yi is not the kind of person who complains about others, and naturally he would not think that it would be too disadvantageous to have such a person standing in front of him, let alone the other party is Jingchen.

Loss is inevitable, and sadness is certain, but it didn't take him too much time to recover, not to mention that under the healing of his own fox-like eyes, no matter how sad it is, it will appear hypocritical.

Tang Yi hugged Peng Bohan who looked up at him from time to time, with his head tilted on top of his head.

"Think about how to celebrate Chen Chen when you go back?"

"Godfather..."

"Ok?"

Peng Bohan paused, and put his small arms around his neck: "Godfather is the bravest and strongest person I have ever met, so don't be sad."

Tang Yi lowered his head, looked at Peng Bohan's serious face, and rubbed the tip of his nose against his nose.

After the award for Best Actor was announced, it was naturally Best Actress.

The three people sitting together were nervous in turns, but Li Xinran and Yan Xuan were both very lucky people.

In today's film industry, Li Xinran has become a pillar of the first-line actress since Tao Kewei retired.Her award-winning masterpiece is a spy movie "Spy" before "Roots".

Li Xinran plays an undercover police officer inside the puppet army.

When making this movie, Li Xinran suffered no less than when he was on the crew of "Roots".

For example, in a certain blasting scene, a detonator buried in the wrong place was blown up because of the wrong point of the blaster. Fortunately, experienced actors would adapt to the situation when filming and did not follow the route of the scene. Go, otherwise the injury is considered minor.

After filming this film, Li Xinran took two months of recuperation before starting to shoot "Roots". She suffered from numerous injuries, and the interim period at least gave her time to breathe, so she was able to shoot "Roots" with Tang Yi and the others. Has a decent performance.

For the next best supporting actor award, Luo Jingyao was shortlisted for "Wei Young" and Leo was shortlisted for "Roots". Surprisingly, Cui Zhixun was not shortlisted for this award.

The internal information obtained by Su Haoyuan has almost never made a mistake, so when the clip was played, several insiders were stunned, especially Cui Zhixun and Tang Yi.

Tang Yi himself was a little disappointed, not to mention Cui Zhixun, who has always had a very strong self-esteem.

He has always been a confident person, but his self-confidence is not the same as Tang Yi's.

Tang Yi is used to ups and downs, even if he doesn't win the award, he can quickly adjust his mentality, but Cui Zhixun, who has been on a smooth journey, couldn't believe it for a while.

Not only did he fail to win an award, he was not even shortlisted.

This made it impossible for him, who received a lot of praise after starring in "Wei Young", to accept this reality. Sometimes being too strong may not be a good thing.

Luo Jingyao, who was sitting on his left, glanced at him from the corner of his eyes. Seeing Cui Zhixun's stiff body language and expression, he slowly turned his gaze back to the awarding platform.

"The winner of this year's Best Supporting Actor is-"Roots", Leo! Congratulations!"

Leo stood up and looked at Cui Zhixun with a complicated expression.

The other party reached out to give him a high five. In fact, this was just a consistent tacit understanding between the two, almost just a subconscious reaction.

Although they have always been equally happy for each other to win the award, the disappointment of losing the election still occupies a lot of place in Cui Zhixun's heart.

Leo looked at him worriedly, but had no time to comfort him, and walked onto the stage amidst the congratulatory voices around him.

In the background of Leo's speech, someone secretly looked at the former actor.

For the whole year of last year, there was not a single starring movie, so he lost the trophy for best actor, let alone the award for best supporting actor.

Some shook their heads and sighed, while others gloated.

However, under all kinds of gazes, Luo Jingyao remained unmoved.

It would be a lie to say that he is not disappointed, but his pride does not allow him to bow his head in front of anyone.

"Are you defeated like this?" Luo Jingyao moved his lips, "If that's the case, then you are nothing more than that."

Although he didn't specify Ming Dao's surname, Cui Zhixun knew who he was talking about.

Sweeping his eyes fiercely, Cui Zhixun let out a "hum": "Don't always act like you understand everything, who was knocked down?!"

Luo Jingyao sneered, "That's good."

Cui Zhixun opened his mouth, but in the end no words came out.

He glanced at Luo Jingyao with a complicated expression, and turned away.

For the next awards, Tang Yi and the others have nothing to look forward to.

Best photography, best music, best art, best editing, best stunt, best costume and many other awards, among which "Wei Young" won the best photography award and best editing award.

Guo Lei's film still won many awards this time, except for the fact that the best director unexpectedly became Yan Xuan's bag, he is still full of energy this year, not to mention that he is sincerely convinced that Yan Xuan won this award.

After the last award was presented, everyone was already preparing to leave, when they heard the host's voice.

"According to previous years' practice, the awards ceremony should be over here. But—"

Everyone stopped and looked at the host platform suspiciously.

After getting the highest attention, the host came slowly: "After the discussion between the China Film Association and the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, starting from this year, the Golden Dragon Awards will add an award - the Best Newcomer Award!"

There was an uproar in the audience.

In the past, the addition of awards would be notified in advance, but this time it was at the awards ceremony, which made it impossible for people not to be surprised.

The voice of the conversation gradually disappeared, and as the award presenters came to the stage, everyone's attention was focused on the stage again.

"I was a little surprised when I got the list of this award," said the award presenter, pinching the two corners of the envelope with both hands. Encourage the best filmmakers in the Chinese film industry, and hope to discover more filmmakers and works with more potential. In order to encourage more newcomers to devote themselves to film, after the unanimous approval of the China Film Association and the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, an additional award will be added this year , that is the best newcomer award in my hand now. I am very honored to be the first guest to present a trophy for this award..."

The award presenters talked a lot, but no one was impatient.

It is a lucky thing for filmmakers to have one more award.

Although most of the people present are old people in the film industry, as seniors, as the award presenters said, they still hope to discover more newcomers with potential.

Only when the Chinese film industry becomes strong can filmmakers truly hold their own in the international arena, just like the so-called reason that the country is rich and the people are strong.

After the award presenters spoke, the screen began to show the nominations for the award.

"Cui Zhixun, the actor who played Mika in "Wei Young"!"

After the episodes passed, finally, the name of Cui Zhixun, who was not selected in the best supporting actor competition, rang out in the introduction of the film.

At that moment, Cui Zhixun firmly grasped the armrest of the chair.

Luo Jingyao beside him glanced at him lightly.

Cui Zhixun quickly turned his head to look at him, just when he thought the other party was going to say "it's just shortlisted", Luo Jingyao turned back without saying anything.

Not having time to think about what he meant by looking at him, Cui Zhixun once again focused his attention on the podium.

"The actor of childhood Lin Tianyuan in "Roots", Peng Bohan!"

When the name was called out, almost everyone was stunned.

At this year's award ceremony where newcomers enter the cloud, among the six shortlisted, there is a child star who is only seven years old and has not even held a formal debut conference.

Tang Yi was also taken aback, and subconsciously lowered his head to look at Peng Bohan, only to see the child dangling his legs in the air, looking innocent and calm.

Tang translation: "..."

The child raised his head: "What's the matter, godfather?"

"No... nothing."

Tang Yi twitched the corner of his mouth, and suddenly felt that in front of Peng Bohan like this, his performance when he lost the election just now was a bit too bad.

Since when did this kid become so calm?Thinking that he has been busy for the past six months, and he has been tired of being with Jing Chen most of the time, Tang Yi suddenly felt that maybe he already had the answer.

It's really a child brought out by a fox.

"Let me announce it next. The winners of this year's Golden Dragon Award for Best Newcomer are - Cui, Zhi, and Xun!"

A heart finally fell to the ground.

Cui Zhixun got up, and Leo beside him raised his hand, and the two hands clasped together vigorously.

Letting go of Leo, he waved his hand in Tang Yi's direction, and after getting a response, he raised a childish smile and strode towards the awarding platform.

She didn't lose face in front of Tangtang.

Cui Zhixun, who was thinking this way, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The awards ceremony ended successfully, but there were still some joys and some sorrows.

When carrying Peng Bohan to the backstage, Tang Yi was surrounded as expected.

The reporter handed over the microphone, and someone was asking him how he felt about losing the election, and someone was asking him how he felt about Peng Bohan being nominated.

"There's next year, isn't it? This opportunity is not the only one," Tang Yi, who had already recovered, smiled, "As for Peng Bohan's shortlist, to be honest, I don't want his starting point to be so high. The reason why he applied was just to give him some points." It's just experience, and I didn't expect such an unexpected ending. But I believe that with this kid's intelligence, being shortlisted this time will not bring him any disadvantages. On the contrary, it will be the motivation for him to work harder, and it will be his future performance. The most precious treasure in my life."