Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 277 Asians don’t look like this, and pretty Asians don’t look like this either

"The 28th Golden Rooster Awards came to a close in Luzhou. This year's Golden Rooster Awards did not produce a double yolk egg. Except for In Time, which led the nominations with 9 awards and won the Best Director, Photography, Art, and Best Feature Film awards, the other winning films only won one award. Aftershock won 9 out of 1 nominations and took home the Music Award. The surprise film of the year, The Piano in a Factory, only won the Special Jury Award, which is a bit regrettable."

"In Time won 9 out of 4 nominations, becoming the biggest winner of this year's Golden Rooster Awards. Li Qiutang won the Best Director Award, becoming the youngest winner of the Golden Rooster Award, setting the age record at 27, and it is almost impossible for later generations to break through."

"Although this year's Golden Rooster Awards still favors low-budget movies, unknown films, and non-theater movies, the fact that a movie like In Time, which has both box office success and critical acclaim, won the award has satisfied the audience's expectations to a certain extent. But it's a pity that Aftershock only won the music award."

"This year's Golden Rooster Awards still ended in controversy. Netizens accused the judges of being too partial to In Time. Although Aftershock was slightly inferior in box office, its reputation was not inferior to In Time. It is really unacceptable that the Golden Rooster judges were so biased this year."

No one is saying that In Time didn't deserve the award.

Li Qiutang's winning of the Best Director award was also unanimously recognized by the outside world.

In a later interview, Li Qiutang made a different statement about winning the award.

"It was very stressful to film this drama and I knew what I was doing, so I wanted to be encouraged."

"Movie-making is like walking a tightrope. If you lean a little this way, it's too obscure, the audience won't like it, and the investors lose all their money. If you lean a little this way, it's too vulgar and melodramatic, and it's not a good story. I have to work hard to find the balance in between."

"I am exposing and satirizing this phenomenon and this type of people, not targeting any specific person."

“A world like that of In Time will never happen. This is a necessary fiction and exaggeration for artistic creation. You don’t need to put yourself in this way.”

“The total length of material for ‘In Time’ was more than 100 hours, and it was finally cut down to the current 150 minutes, with a lot of things discarded. If I have the chance in the future, I will do a version myself, re-do the special effects, and release it for everyone to see.” I don’t know if he was just looking for trouble or if he really wanted to make a director’s cut.

The next night, it was morning on Liu Yifei's side. She had just woken up and called Li Qiutang to congratulate her.

"Congratulations, you are the youngest person to win the Golden Rooster Award for Best Director."

"Congratulations to you too." Li Qiutang said with a smile.

"Congratulations to me?"

"Congratulations on having a boyfriend who is the youngest Golden Rooster Award-winning best director." What a shameless guy.

"Ah? You..." Liu Yifei was a little speechless and showed a disgusted expression.

"And he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director." He is becoming more and more shameless.

"Alright, alright," Liu Yifei couldn't stand it any longer. "You're getting more and more excited. Xiao Shu told me that she wants to act in Teacher Xue Xiaolu's movie. Thank you."

Liu Yifei thanked him, which made Li Qiutang feel uncomfortable.

"You are sick, why are you thanking me?"

Liu Yifei knew Li Qiutang's bad habit and would feel uncomfortable when his own people thanked him.

"I said this on behalf of Xiao Shu."

"Shu Chang has thanked me eight hundred times." Li Qiutang said.

Li Qiutang still didn't tell Liu Yifei about her purchase of a new house, but he didn't know that Liu Xiaoli had already told Liu Yifei that Li Qiutang and Shu Chang helped her move.

Liu Yifei didn't feel anything special, and she also thought that there was no need to specifically mention buying a new house and moving.

"You said you were coming to see me," Liu Yifei began to get upset, "You bastard, you don't keep your word."

"Your curse was a bit harsh." Li Qiutang said with a smile.

"That's right!" Liu Yifei was still not convinced. "You said you would come to see me once a month, and it's been two months, and you haven't come once." "I'm busy. I promise, I will come after a while." How could Li Qiutang not hear that Liu Yifei missed him.

Liu Yifei said: "You have an easy job as a boss. You are not afraid of someone taking over your company and running away."

"Then you, the boss lady, please take care of it for me."

"Who is the boss lady?" Liu Yifei said, "Don't talk nonsense."

"You don't want to be the boss's wife? If you don't want to be the boss's wife, just tell me earlier and I'll find someone else."

"Hey!" Liu Yifei shouted.

"Little guy, I can't deal with you." When Li Qiutang wanted to say something naughty, the other party said, "I won't talk to you anymore. I have to go to training."

Liu Yifei's movement training is very hard. She trains six days a week, eight hours a day, and her diet is strictly controlled by the coaching team. In her own words, she was as tired as a dead dog in the first few days.

Just after the first weekend of November, Liu Yifei was informed that she did not need to train today, but would have her makeup done today. After her makeup was done, she could take photos for posters and promotional photos.

This should have been a happy thing, but Liu Yifei had a conflict with the Hollywood makeup artist over makeup.

She refused to accept makeup done by the makeup artist on the set.

Liu Yifei is very fair, so even if she were to use a darker makeup, it should be a healthy yellow skin. However, the makeup artist on the crew made her look like she had jaundice, an ugly yellow.

Liu Yifei has big eyes, so the makeup artist made her eyes smaller, raised her cheekbones, and applied so many highlights.

Liu Yifei gave her opinion to the makeup artist and said that she didn't want this kind of makeup.

But the makeup artist said that this is what Asians look like in his eyes.

Liu Yifei directly asked him to change his makeup. She did not dare to give any suggestions just because she was overseas and in a large group. Her English was pretty good and she expressed her dissatisfaction to the makeup artist very boldly and directly.

"Asians don't look like this, and beautiful Asians definitely don't look like this."

After all, she is the heroine, so the makeup artist changed her makeup.

But Liu Yifei was still not satisfied. She didn't even know whether he did it on purpose or he really thought that Asians looked like this.

Liu Yifei asked to change a makeup artist, and the crew agreed.

But the effect is still the same even if you change the makeup artist: jaundiced skin, squinty eyes, high cheekbones, it's as ugly as it can be.

Finally, Liu Yifei had no choice but to say, "Can I put on my own makeup? You don't know what Asians look like."

Thomas Tull and Toro both said they knew nothing about Chinese culture and agreed to let Liu Yifei do her own makeup.

The character she plays, Grace, is also a mecha pilot, a soldier in her own right. This kind of makeup is not difficult for Liu Yifei, she just does it like Jin Yanzi.

The makeup she put on herself just looked like a normal Chinese girl, but compared to the makeup done by the previous makeup artist, she looked very beautiful.

After seeing it, the director agreed with Liu Yifei to use this makeup: "OK, that's it. Cut your hair tomorrow and take the promotional photos."

On the same day, Liu Yifei's assistant received a call from Li Qiutang, saying that he would arrive in Los Angeles in two days, and asked not to tell Liu Yifei that he was coming, as he wanted to give his girlfriend a surprise.

(End of this chapter)