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Volume 3 Chapter 86 Ceremony Fourteen

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    After the Best Original Screenplay, naturally comes the Best Adapted Screenplay. The award presenters are Jin Yong and Qiong Yao, whose works have been adapted into film and television dramas more than anyone else in the Chinese literary circle. Not only that, these two are also distant relatives.  Relatives - Jin Yong's cousin is Qiong Yao's aunt.  Jin Yong was very successful around 19RU. The performance of the Ming Pao newspaper group was booming. Taiwan lifted the ban on his martial arts novels. Mainland executives also repeatedly favored him. TV series adapted from his novels such as Michelle's version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"  , Zheng Shaoqiu's version of "The Legend of the Heaven and the Dragon" was a sensation in Hong Kong, with tens of thousands of people vying to watch it. Movies such as "The Legend of the Heaven and the Dragon" directed by Chu Yuan broke box office records in Taiwan. Cinemas even sold standing tickets, which was an unprecedented event.  Qiong Yao was a bit embarrassed. In 1976, she cooperated with Ping Xintao, the owner of Crown Publishing House, to form Superstar Pictures. They produced two movies adapted from novels every year, and they were released during the Spring Festival. Unexpectedly, the good times did not last long, and by the time she was 70  At the end of the 1990s, the "living room, dining room, coffee shop" movies that had been popular in Taiwan for more than ten years suddenly became unpopular. Critics criticized her novels and movies for having pale backgrounds, unreliable characters, misleading young people's views on love, and using queens as queens.  The protagonist Brigitte Lin was involved in scandals and had no intention of acting. Qiong Yao's eight-year extramarital affair with Ping Xintao was repeatedly exposed by the media, which seriously affected her popularity. Therefore, by 1979, Superstar Pictures was already in turmoil and suffered a lot of losses.  Less money.  No matter how criticized their works are, Jin Yong and Qiong Yao are among the most successful literati entrepreneurs in modern China. Who wouldn¡¯t envy them both fame and fortune?  Even if the literati looked down upon her and expressed disdain, they still yearned for her in their hearts. Therefore, when the two appeared on the stage, they were quite popular, and the applause was equal to that of Zhang Ailing.  "Good evening everyone, I am Cha Liangyong." "I am Qiong Yao." "It is an honor to attend this event tonight. This is a film event. When I was young, I also entered the film industry and worked in the Great Wall Film  The company wrote scripts for them, but writing scripts was very hard, so they ran away after only a few times. "Jin Yong's words caused a burst of laughter, and he continued: "The Academy Awards invited me to present the award.  , I feel very embarrassed because I am not as hard-working and serious as Ms. Qiong Yao, who personally adapted the work into a movie. I am very lazy. Anyone who likes my novels, I always say OK, OK, take it and do it yourself.  Editor. "Mr. Jin Yong is so humble. Your works are popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and countless readers are fascinated by them. Film companies are queuing up to adapt them." Qiong Yao has probably been attacked too much recently, and she is full of resentment, complaining: "  I am different. No one likes my novels now, so I have no one to help me adapt them. I have to do it by myself. I really envy Mr. Jin Yong. I can sit on the Diaoyutai and watch the clouds rise and fall. " "  In fact, I think it¡¯s because you have too high requirements for the adaptation of your own works.¡± Jin Yong, an old Jianghu, said in an all-round way: ¡°Adapting a novel into a script is more difficult than an original script. Why, because the original script is Pingdili.  Building a building can be anything you want, but adapting a script involves decorating a ready-made building. Each resident has his or her own requirements, and everyone¡¯s ideas must be met, so it is particularly difficult. Ms. Qiong Yao dared to personally modify her novel,  I don¡¯t have this kind of courage, and she also revised it very well. After reading the novel, readers will go to see the movie, and after reading the movie, the audience will go to see the novel again. It¡¯s really amazing.¡± ¡°Mr. Jin Yong.  Just kidding, how can I be so good?" Qiong Yao probably felt that what she just said was too harsh, so she gave in, then changed her gaze and said: "Mr. Jin Yong, you and I are both members of the jury, but after we voted, we also  I don¡¯t know who won the award, so let¡¯s take a guess before awarding the award. This is the first time that the jury members talked about the inside story of the review. The audience became very curious and sat down one after another.  Straighten your body and pay attention.  "According to the judging rules of the Academy Awards, I can't tell everyone who I voted for." Jin Yong said with a smile: "But based on the reactions of the judges when watching the movie, I think the mainland film "Little Flower" should win  Award, what do you think?¡± ¡°I think it¡¯s the director Chu Yuan. Ms. Zhang Ailing told me that she likes the original work and the adaptation of ¡°A Dream in a Little House¡± very much. Of course, I also like this movie very much.¡± ¡°Chu Yuan is very fond of it.  A capable director, I also like his works very much." Looking up, Jin Yong also praised Chu Yuan and said: "Let's put the suspense here and take a look at the list of shortlisted films." "First.  The 2016 Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, the nominees are: Chu Yuan, "A Dream in a Small Building" Qin Yu, "The Scimitar of the Moon" Qianshe, "Little Flower" Zheng Quan, Jin Deshun,  "The Gunshots of the Security Bureau" Zhong Ling, Hu Jinquan, "Legend of the Mountain"" "Chu Yuan, is that a very popular director in Taiwan, right?" Wang Yang asked: "I heard that the box office of each of his movies in Taiwan is  It¡¯s over ten million?¡±?Yes.  Shen Chong nodded and introduced: "This person is versatile. He can shoot Cantonese movies, Mandarin movies, costume movies, fashion movies, martial arts movies, and romance movies. He can also shoot quickly and well. He is very talented and talented."  director.  " After a pause, he continued: "Mr. Wang, in fact, Qin Yu is Chu Yuan's pen name. He alone occupies two seats on this shortlist.  " "In that case, why are pen names used in the shortlist?  " "It is very difficult to collect information on all the movies released in the three places across the Taiwan Strait within one year.  Shen Chong explained patiently: "The Academy Awards Organizing Committee can only make the shortlist of film workers based on the subtitles typed on the film copy. This avoids a lot of unnecessary trouble. If one crew after another checks the real names and pseudonyms  , there is nothing you can do.  " Wang Yang nodded and said: "This is the only way we can do it due to objective conditions.  " As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Qiong Yao announce the winner: "The first Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, Chu Yuan, "A Dream in a Little House."  " "Now Chu Yuan is finally proud.  After Shen Chong applauded, he said to Wang Yang: "Mr. Wang, you know that the Hong Kong film industry only values ??money, not art, let alone educational significance."  Only directors with very good box office results can have the capital to make the movies they like. Chu Yuan has been making martial arts movies for three or four years in a row, earning tens of millions for Shaw Brothers Film Company. Only last year he finally got the opportunity to make a movie.  His favorite movie, "A Dream in a Small Building", turned out to be a box office collection of only over 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, which made him cry to death at the loss. If he hadn't done very well at the box office before, he might have been unemployed now.  " "The box office performance is so poor, it shows that the audience does not approve of it.  Wang Yang was puzzled and asked: "Then how can you still win the award?"  " "The quality of the movie "A Dream in a Small Building" is very good, mainly because it was not well publicized.  Shen Chong felt that he would not be able to explain clearly for a while, so he could only say vaguely: "Hong Kong is different from the Mainland. In the Mainland, people are hungry and have no choice but to watch movies. In Hong Kong, there are two to three hundred movies released every year. The supply exceeds the demand, so publicity  It¡¯s very important. If you don¡¯t promote it well, no one will read it.  " Wang Yang was thoughtful after hearing this, while Shen Chong watched with great interest as Chu Yuan came on stage to receive the award - he had some connections with the two award-winning guests. Chu Yuan's original name was Zhang Baojian, and his father, Zhang Huoyou, was four years old.  In the 1950s, he was a very famous Cantonese opera and film actor. Together with Wu Chufan, Zhang Ying and Li Qing, he was known as one of the "Four Big Students" of Hong Kong Cantonese films. Under the influence of his father, Chu Yuan entered the film industry very early and became known as "Qin Yu".  Wrote a movie script for a pseudonym. In 19UU, when Chu Yuan was 19 years old, he directed his first movie, "The Hearts of Parents in the World". This is the most classic movie in the Cantonese film era. In 1999, Radio Television Hong Kong and "Wen Wei Po" jointly organized it.  A "Hong Kong Classic Film Selection" event was held. An advisory panel composed of 13 film groups selected 50 films that have been screened in Hong Kong, have achievements in art or entertainment, and have far-reaching impact on Hong Kong's people's livelihood, culture and international status.  The most influential Chinese-language films were selected as candidates, and the audience readers voted to select ten classic films. Among them, "Poor Parents" ranked ninth. It is the only U0s film among the top ten. This shows the quality of the film.  It can also be seen that Chu Yuan's film talent is high. However, in the 1960s, Cantonese films lost a large number of audiences due to their shoddy production and low quality. By around 1970, they were no longer sustainable. Cantonese film companies closed down one after another, and Cathay Films, which Chu Yuan belonged to, closed down.  The company also went out of business in 1970, and rented the studios and theaters to the newly established Golden Harvest. Chu Yuan made many RU movies in the ten years from 1970 to 1970, and he was relatively well-known. He had previously made a movie called RU.  The love movie "Spring Dawn in the Jade House" made Qin Xianglin, a newcomer who has always been involved in martial arts movies, popular, so a Taiwanese film producer came to him and asked him to shoot "The Courtyard" adapted from Qiong Yao's novel. Chu Yuan was quite excited at the time, not only  He went to Taiwan in advance to inspect actors and locations. After returning to Hong Kong, he worked overtime to shoot Cathay Pacific's last Cantonese film. Unexpectedly, he had just finished his work when word spread over there that "The Courtyard" had been released.  It's been several days since I started working, so don't go to Taiwan again This was like a bolt from the blue, and Chu Yuan was thrown into confusion. As a result, he was unemployed for more than half a year, and it wasn't until the end of the year that he defected to Shaw Brothers and started working again. I didn't know that he was replaced on the spot.  Will, is there Qiong Yao's participation After Chu Yuan worked quietly in Shaw Brothers for two years, he became a blockbuster with "Seventy-two Tenants" in 1973, beating Bruce Lee and taking the top spot in the annual box office rankings.  Position, it seems that he will be promoted to a great director, but unfortunately, the five consecutive movies he made after that, whether they were remakes of popular TV series or remakes of popular novels, all suffered huge losses, making them want to cry without tears, and losing face.  Cun, Shaw Brothers has always only recognized the box office and not the people. By 1975, he had no movies to film and was put in cold storage. Then Chu Yuan hid at home and pondered, pondering and pondering, and finally figured out two truths about movies - this world.  On the Internet, there are only two kinds of movies that people always watch, one is comedy and the other is action movie. He is not good at comedy, so he focused on martial arts novels and began to adapt them.I have adapted Yong's novels starting from "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Book of Swordsman" and so on. After writing the plot outline and story summary, I went to find Run Run Shaw.  Every time, he would be invited to eat together in a Shanghai restaurant, and he would read the script while eating, and then shoot him after reading it. This cycle continued. Chu Yuan finished revising Jin Yong's novel, but failed to get a chance to film, so he had to revise Gu Long, which took nine attempts.  Many months later, Ni Kuang said, "Meteor and Butterfly Sword was born out of "The Godfather." If you want to remake it, just shoot this one." I got the opportunity to shoot "Meteor and Butterfly Sword", and finally got the chance to film "Meteor and Butterfly Sword".  He became famous and became the most popular martial arts director in Hong Kong and Taiwan.  In short, neither Jin Yong nor Qiong Yao were Chu Yuan's favorites. Chu Yuan in turn was very helpful to the careers of these two people. He made Qin Xianglin, one of the "Two Qin Dynasties" famous, and became the leading actor in Qiong Yao's movies. He filmed "Yitian"  "The Finale of Sword of the Dragon" made Jin Yong's novels popular in Taiwan.  Chu Yuan is the only one among Shaw Brothers' "Four Famous Directors" who has maintained his reputation. Among the four films shot in 1979, except for the toy "The Dream of the Rest", which did not perform well, the other three martial arts films were very good at the box office.  It was impressive. Among them, "The Greatest Love" grossed more than 4 million, ranking among the top ten in the annual box office rankings. It also broke the box office record of Shaw Brothers in Taiwan. Therefore, when he went up to receive the award, the audience was very proud and the applause was very lively.  "Thank you, thank you." Chu Yuan took the trophy from Jin Yong, held it in his hand, and said with emotion: "I have been filming for many years and have made almost 0 movies. "A Dream in a Small Building" is my personal favorite.  One of my works, I didn¡¯t expect it to be so poor at the box office. Fortunately, it was affirmed by the jury and did not let it become unknown. This award means a lot to me. " "I hope that the Hong Kong Film Awards can give Hong Kong literary films a little chance to survive.  space, don¡¯t let everyone film just for the box office. After filming, people are tired and exhausted. By the end of the filming, nothing can be filmed well. Movies are for people to relax and entertain. They are tools for dreaming. They should not be like canned fish.  "Of course, this is just my personal complaint. I am definitely not complaining about Uncle Liu. The Shaw family has a big business and has thousands of employees. The monthly water and electricity bills are millions. No.  Uncle Liu also has no choice but to work hard to make movies. How can the company continue to operate? And I can keep filming. The opportunity to film "A Dream in a Small Building" is also the opportunity given by Uncle Liu. I am very grateful to him. Without him, there would be no life.  "The present moment of Hong Kong movies." "Finally, I would like to thank the jury again for their recognition of me. Thank you all."
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