Chapter 230: “movie Emperor”
The entertainment industry is a circle, but Chi Ye seems to never mix in circles.
To be precise, his circle is mainly still concentrated in the drama circle, and the people he interacts with are mostly traffic flowers, with few people from the film circle, so it gave everyone the illusion that he doesn’t mix in circles much.
In fact, with the success of several projects, at least at this stage, Chi Ye himself has a certain appeal and “circle” in the drama circle.
This is his first time truly participating in an “activity” in the film circle.
To be honest, it’s a bit boring, but also a bit interesting.
“Zhu Yao Lin ah, he’s been quite popular these past few years, he was traffic before too, but his transformation was very successful.”
Sister Shang noticed Chi Ye’s gaze and thought he wanted to get to know Zhu Yao Lin, so she smiled and said: “I’m fairly familiar with him, want me to introduce you?”
Chi Ye answered irrelevantly: “I heard he’s competing pretty fiercely with Si Zi?”
“Mm…”
This question was asked to the right person, because Sister Shang is very “informed” about this kind of message and can rattle it off: “Ah, their routes are the same, their real achievements are similar too, good notebooks and good projects in the circle, roles suitable for young male actors, basically pass through their hands first, only if they don’t want them will they go to others…”
“But with two people, whoever is the first to ‘look’, there will definitely be competition.”
Chi Ye nodded: “No wonder he’s been so quiet lately.”
The “he” here refers to Si Zi, previously because of the matter of Chi Ye relying on 《Xing Ni》 to ascension, it affected Si Zi’s team, but later on, Si Zi’s side never directly targeted him.
One reason is that he didn’t want to “elevate status” for Chi Ye, as long as the two are tied together, the one who loses out would definitely be the high-and-mighty “billionaire young actor”.
Secondly, it’s related to him temporarily not being able to free up his hands—Zhu Yao Lin’s threat to him is obviously greater than Chi Ye’s.
The two are the real rivals at this stage.
“Teacher Xiao Chi, when are they going to fight? Definitely call me, I’ll be there right away!”
Seeing Chi Ye like this, Sister Shang’s gossip desire exploded again, and she even started “pre-booking” in advance.
Chi Ye glanced at her: “Just wait, when the time comes, I’ll let you personally go on the ‘battlefield’.”
“Ah?”
Sister Shang was dumbfounded.
……
On the other side.
While Chi Ye was paying attention to Zhu Yao Lin, Zhu Yao Lin also saw Chi Ye.
Of course, he wasn’t very interested in Chi Ye, because the path Chi Ye has walked now is the one he walked before.
—During Chi Ye Rise boy group period, he exploded into a top streamer with a BL adaptation, but unlike Yu Yan and Ji Hemming, he didn’t plunge headfirst into the traffic track, but instead started deeply cultivating acting skills, ultimately achieving a comeback overtake to become a leading young actor in the circle not inferior to Si Zi.
It can only be said that Chi Ye is still in the midst of “transformation” now, whether the transformation succeeds depends on his subsequent box office performance, and more importantly, whether he can win awards and gain recognition from inside and outside the industry.
Can he?
“Not likely this time.”
Teacher Lu is also very familiar with Zhu Yao Lin, so he didn’t hold back, shaking his head: “Xiao Chi’s personality is too tough, he doesn’t know how to bend, I heard that not long ago he just brushed off Young President Wang’s face, right to his face… Now it’s not just personal, whether 《Big Shot》’s movie can win awards is a problem.”
“Previously it was nominated for best cinematography and best story film, best editing, right?”
Zhu Yao Lin thought for a moment: “The remaining one is Chi Ye’s best supporting actor.”
“Mm.”
Teacher Lu nodded: “Best supporting actor originally had no chance, but the other few awards have hope, after all the box office is high, reputation is good too, but…”
He didn’t finish his words, but Zhu Yao Lin already understood.
He smiled and shook his head: “Then the 《Big Shot》 film producer is really suffering.”
“……Let’s not talk about this, haven’t talked about you yet, can you win movie emperor this time?”
Teacher Lu no longer discussed this topic, and instead asked excitedly about Zhu Yao Lin’s matter.
This year both Zhu Yao Lin and Si Zi are nominated for best actor, but who will win it, or whether it goes to one of the other two middle-aged actors… is still unknown.
……
8 o’clock in the evening.
Red carpet segment ended, award ceremony main venue, stars have sat down according to their name cards, the overall atmosphere of the ceremony is rather serious, because this is the official largest film festival, with CCTV6 and other TV stations live broadcasting the entire award process.
Online, the three major platforms Penguin, Kiwifruit, and Ku Ying have also opened channels for live broadcast, audiences and fans movie fans can watch online via mobile phone or computer.
Popularity rising, popularity exploding.
Chi Ye as a “newcomer” in the film circle, his seat is arranged in the right edge of the third row, next to him are 《Big Shot》’s director, lead actors and other team members.
Sheng Ning’s position is similar to his, but on the left side, closer to the C position.
As for Sister Shang, Shi Jinwei, Jin Xia, they are in the fourth row, in different areas, Peng Chen, Ling Han, Lu Lanxin in the fifth row.
The second row further ahead is Si Zi, Zhu Yao Lin, and Zhang Guowen, Wu Yibo and other first-tier young and middle-aged actors in movies, while the most eye-catching first row… is the positions of various leaders, the six major middle-aged actors, Teacher Zhang, Ling Bingbing, and the four great flowers.
Clearly divided, obvious at a glance.
At this moment, who has high status in the circle, who can boast in the circle, it’s clear at a glance, no need for words, because this is the “status ranking” given officially.
「Lin Yang Qianrui Lin Yang Qianrui ahhh！！」
「Zhu Yao Lin movie emperor! Zhu Yao Lin movie emperor!」
「Chi Ye can even be in the third row? A second male lead, elevating status right?」
「Indeed, Sheng Ning is at least the female lead, how does Chi Ye a second male lead have the face to sit in the third row?」
「Can black fans just die? 《Big Shot》 film crew is together, understand?」
「Can only say 《Magic City Fortress》 really elevated 《Big Shot》 to a height it doesn’t belong to.」
「Wild fans still shouting? On Weibo every day shouting leading first with disparity, forcibly peng ci Lin Yang Qianrui, see what row my bro is in?」
「Why not arrange #Chi Pan Xia Yu# together?」
The live broadcast rooms of the three platforms entered melee from the start, but Chi Ye’s side has nothing else but high popularity, so before long, the bullet comments were cleared out by “anti-black” bullet comments.
Therefore, many bystanders’ impressions of Chi Ye have become not very good, mainly divided into two impressions: 1, indeed popular, 2, fans annoying.
“Fans of other actors are really annoying, always blacking and not allowing comment control, not controlling comments and it’s all insulting bullet comments, no matter what you do it’s wrong.”
Xiangnan, Liu Xiaoxiao’s home.
Today is Saturday, she and her boyfriend are watching the Golden Rooster Awards live together, pissed off by the double standard bullet comments.
Her boyfriend unusually picked up the keyboard to battle the online haters, while saying: “It’s fine, I’ll curse back for you.”
Liu Xiaoxiao: “……”
She knows, her boyfriend used to disdain fan circles the most, he still isn’t in the fan circle now, but after watching 《Big Shot》, he has indeed become Chi Ye’s casual fan.
That is, he’ll pay attention if it’s Chi Ye’s work, but normally doesn’t chase stars, a true casual fan.
But now, even casual fans are pissed off by the various fans’ bullet comments.
—Especially Du Ou’s “fans”.
“The awards haven’t been given yet, how has Du Ou already won best supporting actor?”
Her boyfriend scrolled to this hot search term, instantly dumbfounded.
At this moment, the Golden Rooster Awards has just started not long ago, individual awards like best XX are to be left to prime time, but on the current Weibo hot search terms, #Du Ou Golden Rooster Supporting Actor# and #Chi Ye “narrowly loses”# hot search entries suddenly appeared.
He looked dumbfounded and puzzled at Liu Xiaoxiao: “Xiaoxiao, is our live stream delayed?”
“Impossible.”
Liu Xiaoxiao was also stunned for two seconds, then opened the television, tuned to CCTV6 channel, and found it matched what she saw online, just awarded the best children’s story film…
This……
“No way, prophetic vision?”
Her boyfriend was at a loss, directly screenshot the hot search term, and started kuku outputting bullet comments.
……
At the same time.
At the Golden Rooster Awards site, because it’s official CCTV live broadcast, all artists have no chance to look at mobile phones, but in the backstage, many judges and leaders can see.
At this moment, they noticed Du Ou’s team’s mistaken hot search term, all looking at each other in bewilderment.
“Someone sabotaging him?”
“Who bought it for him?”
“……Really.”
Among the judges, a judge related to Du Ou’s background frowned: “This is obviously someone deliberately buying it for him.”
“Whether intentional or not, the impact is very bad.”
Another person looked at the others: “Quickly get his team to withdraw the press release… Also, everyone, argued till now, since there’s already a decision, just wait peacefully for the awards to end.”
Everyone exchanged glances, speechless.
In the front row, Beijing Circle’s Director Feng had a blank expression, his countenance not looking good.
“An accident?”
Director Lu next to him took advantage of the camera just passing, leaned over and asked.
“……”
Director Feng was just about to speak, when on stage, the award presenter for best supporting actor already walked onto the stage, it was the best actor from the 34th Golden Rooster Awards, movie emperor Huang Bo, and grassroots movie emperor Teacher Wang.
Just seeing the weight of this award presenter, everyone knew the climax of tonight’s award ceremony was coming.
Best supporting actor/female, insiders call it “accompanying emperor”, but it is indeed one of the awards with the most value in the film circle.
Especially for actors, many middle-aged actors grinded for years, relied on one best supporting actor to directly leap to first-tier, then launch an impact on movie emperor.
—This is an award that can elevate status and prove industry influence.
Award presenter Huang Bo went on stage and started bantering: “Hey, just now backstage someone asked me, Bro Bo, are you suitable to present this award, because you look young…”
Laughter came from below the stage.
Because Huang Bo’s appearance is indeed rugged enough, can’t be called “young”.
“So actually, presenting awards is like opening a blind box—you can never guess the judges’ taste, but what you can be sure of is that all nominees are already winners.”
After Huang Bo finished, applause rang out below, he looked down at the cue card: “Today’s four candidates… amazing, full of the youth and vitality of the new generation… joking, but you used your roles to tell us, red flowers need green leaves, and green leaves surpass red flowers!”
After speaking, Teacher Wang already leaned over, the Golden Rooster Awards official shot also cut to Chi Ye in the third row below the stage, Du Ou in the fourth row, and the other two veteran actors in the second and third rows.
The four people’s shots were split into four parts, Chi Ye’s superior face stood out exceptionally among these three.
“Du Ou for sure, the rumors before were him.”
“Villain wouldn’t give award, otherwise Chi Ye should be able to take it.”
“……Take what, offended so many people, would the committee give it to him?”
“Golden Rooster these years has become Beijing Circle’s plaything huh…”
Whispers arose below the stage—anyway the camera is on the four now, no one can be caught.
“The winner of the 37th China Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor is—please look at the big screen/VCR!”
After speaking.
The stage big screen lit up, grand strings gradually entered, the picture rolled playing classic clips from 《Big Shot》 with a movie film texture.
The instant Zhao Tai（Chi Ye）’s face appeared, the site instantly erupted.
“??”
“Chi Ye?!”
“……Upset?!”
“Done, wasn’t it said no award?”
Under the camera, Du Ou even forgot expression management, his face instantly stiffened.
“Clamoring.”
Shi Jinwei glanced sideways, Sister Shang blinked wildly, instantly brain-supplementing a “Chi Ye VS Beijing Circle award tearing inside story” no less than 10,000 words, Sheng Ning just glanced at Chi Ye…
The most excited were the 《Big Shot》 film crew, Director Chen and Wu Zhenyu had expressions of “fuck, kidding me”, because previously they really hadn’t received any message… just speculating by convention, villain impossible to win award.
But…
But now?
Could it be you also went through back door?!
Several people looked at Chi Ye, but Chi Ye’s expression also lagged for a moment, although still smiling, but it was obvious he was a bit surprised.
—He was indeed very surprised.
Golden Rooster Awards due to “positive energy” reasons, rarely gives awards to villains… of course, not never, but the villains they gave were undoubtedly those with depth and more complex characters, not just pure bad.
And Zhao Tai… well, after Chi Ye’s performance, it does fit, but the more important reason is perhaps related to his own “contributions” in the Southeast Asia region.
After all, 《Big Shot》 is the only work in internal entertainment in the past decade that has a name in the Southeast Asia region.
“—Congratulations, 《Big Shot》 Zhao Tai, Chi Ye.”
On stage, Huang Bo and Teacher Wang clapped, BGM rose, Chi Ye came back to his senses, stood up, hugged Director Chen, Teacher Wu and others…
Then… then he specially detoured to Jin Xia’s side, and under everyone’s astonished gazes, hugged her.
Only then, under the gaze of many big shots, walked all the way to the stage and took the Golden Rooster trophy from Huang Bo’s hands.
“Congratulations.”
“Congratulations.”
Huang Bo and Teacher Wang hugged him as usual, then went off stage—neither got too close to Chi Ye, because they really aren’t familiar.
Chi Ye then stood alone on stage holding the “little golden man”, scanned around, then calmly said: “No prepared script, I’ll improvise on the spot…”
“Hahaha.”
Laughter came from below the stage, Du Ou, Director Feng, Director Lu and others had ugly expressions.
“Xiao Gang, what’s going on?”
“Wasn’t it said no award?”
“……Fuck, Golden Rooster would give it to him?”
Director Feng turned his head, lowered his voice: “Originally wasn’t giving… sigh, someone from above passed word, said don’t give villain protagonist but deep supporting roles can have… I said it several times, no one listened to me, I can’t do anything…”
