Reborn as a little director

Not long after the entries for the semi-finals were submitted, it was the day of the finals and awards.

Xie Siqing bought a new suit, but it still looks good in it.

Yao Shunyu looks really good...

"..." Xie Siqing recalled the time when his previous self emerged.

Generally speaking, Xie Siqing is a person who is very immersed in his own world, and has little interest in contacting people.At the very beginning, that is, after his first award-winning work that caused a sensation, he still kept his head on writing and filming, and did not show his face on any occasion—he did not participate in publicity, did not attend events, did not accept interviews, and did not appear on programs.That is, at the end of each year, a movie is suddenly thrown out, and then continues to disappear.He is known as "the most mysterious director" and "comes out once a year to tell others: I'm still so good this year"... Once a reporter couldn't find him and couldn't make a job, so he made an ingenious idea to use Xie Siqing's withdrawnness as an excuse. I wrote a report in which I interviewed the supermarket downstairs of Xie Siqing's house, and asked the clerk with the photo, the clerk looked at it for a long time, and finally came up with a sentence: "Ah, so it is this person who always comes to buy salted crispy chicken. "So for a long time, Xie Siqing's name was associated with crispy salted chicken. After many years, almost everyone in the circle knew that Xie Siqing loved crispy salted chicken the most.

After the host entered the arena, he pretended to be very excited as usual and introduced the leaders and other guests present.

There are many old acquaintances of Xie Siqing in it.The director of the film program management center, the director of the Internet center, the director of the studio, the general manager of the film group, the person in charge of the video website, the president of the screenwriter association, the president of the film association... After a long list, the judges.

Xie Siqing also saw Zhong Yang.

He's still so conspicuous—

No matter how many people are around him, everyone will focus on him.

However, Xie Siqing only felt a chill running up his spine.

Zhong Yang, is he really that kind of duplicity guy——

Xie Siqing withdrew his gaze and warned himself not to keep staring, what a smart person Zhong Yang is, maybe he would notice.

The speeches of several leaders were very brief, and they knew that no one wanted to listen.

Immediately afterwards, the battle for the top four began.

"The first group..." the host continued, "The title is 'Internet Age', and the two directors are Yao, Shunyu and..."

Hearing his name, Xie Siqing stood up and stood on the stage with another player in the same group.

The host briefly introduced the two participating directors.

Xie Siqing's opponent seemed to be well-known, and the host read a lot.

But when it came to Xie Siqing, there was only one sentence: "Yao, Shunyu, movie lovers."

At that time, the organizing committee asked him to add something more to the introduction, but Xie Siqing thought about it for a long time, but he didn't know what to add. After all, he didn't do anything except make some pornographic films.After spending a long time thinking about it, I finally filled in another sentence, which became "Yao Shunyu, a movie lover, who likes watching movies and making movies."

Now it seems that the organizing committee still only kept the first sentence, and it seems that Xie Siqing racked his brains to come up with the second sentence as pure nonsense, and it was deleted after all.

"Okay," the host continued, "now let's watch a short video of the two of them."

A video of Xie Siqing appeared on the big screen.

Xie Siqing chose a slightly different theme.

At the beginning of the film, the protagonist clicks on the "customized" product advertisements presented to him by Google and Baidu based on his search records, browses the novels recommended to him by the website according to his preferences, checks emails, chats with people, reads news, watches videos, interacting with people on social networking sites and adding people they think he might know, even getting eerie emails and calls immediately after visiting a site...he doesn't seem to feel like he's getting What is lost while gaining convenience.Big companies obtain and use his information unscrupulously. As a modern person, he is almost always on the Internet except for sleeping, and the people who control these technologies—government, Internet companies, software companies, media... If you want to, you can know everything about him - what did he search for, what did he check, what did he buy, what did he use, who were his friends, what did he talk to... and even further To guide and control some of his behavior.It seems that as long as you are connected to the network cable, there will be no privacy at all.Technology seems to be undergoing a colonization, coming out of the virtual world and turning reality into its colony step by step.The movie raises a question: Should human beings choose convenience and speed, or independence and freedom?Is it convenience or freedom that human beings have been pursuing tirelessly for thousands of years?In this age of technology, the two seem to be at odds.While becoming more and more convenient, it is also being monitored and guided like never before.

As for the opponent, just as Xie Siqing probably thought, he always praised the benefits brought to people by the Internet age.

"Okay," the host laughed again, "Our jury composed of 39 media representatives will vote to determine the first promotion place."

After a pause, he said, "Both of you canvass for yourselves!"

After finishing speaking, he handed the microphone to Xie Siqing.

Xie Siqing thought about it, and felt that there was nothing to say, so he smiled.

He didn't know how to "canvass votes".

The host held up the microphone for a long time, but Xie Siqing remained silent.

In the end, the host bit the bullet and asked again: "Do you have anything to say?"

"No."

"..."

The host turned awkwardly to the other person.

The other party talked a lot.

He said: "What is described in the short film is my own real experience, and the teenager in it is myself. When I was young, my parents divorced, and my mother was busy earning money to support the family and would come home late every day. I felt very lonely. All my life was confined to a small house of only 15 square meters... Later, when I came into contact with the Internet, I realized that the world is so big..."

After he finished speaking, the host announced the start of voting.

The 39 media representatives sat in four rows and held up signs one by one. The red sign represents one person, and the blue sign represents another person.

Those media people seemed to have quite a few familiar faces. Xie Siqing looked carefully and stared until he was almost blind, but he still couldn't remember any of them.

This memory...

The final winner was Xie Siqing.

"Okay." The host said, "Congratulations, Yao Shunyu, you can now sit on the chair of the first top four director in the back."

Great - Xie Siqing thought, you can sit down.

Xie Siqing doesn't like standing very much, as long as he can sit, he will never stand.

So he is a person who can sit very well. When writing a script, he can lie down in front of the desk for a whole day. He doesn't feel it at all on the fifteen-hour plane to Los Angeles every time.

When I took the bus when I was a student, sometimes the bus was crowded, but there would be a vacant seat covered with water or mud. Every time, Xie Siqing would take out a piece of paper to wipe the seat carefully, and then curl up on it contentedly and think about it. Some are not.

To put it bluntly, it is lazy.

Regardless of whether it was the previous life or this life, Xie Siqing just lay straight at home, or read a book, or thought wildly.I don't go to the field, let alone go out, and buy everything online.

Also thanks to being able to sit.

Each short film of the remaining six contestants will be screened, and then the judges will be invited to comment. Finally, the media representatives will vote. In addition, each contestant will express their impressions. After an hour and a half, they finally enter the next link.

Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards will be awarded among the top four.

As for No.4, it can only be No.4.

After a singer star sang two songs, their four preliminary works were displayed one by one, and in the end it was necessary to divide the remaining four works of the preliminary and semi-finals into one, two, three, four.

The final round of scoring comes from two parts, 5 judges, and 500 spectators at the scene, and the professional judges and audience judges each account for half of the scores.

"Director Zhong Yang," the host asked, "Can you comment on the four directors here?"

Normally, Zhong Yang should say something like "The four directors are excellent...".

But Zhong Yang is obviously not a normal person.

He leaned back in his chair: "There's one person who obviously sucks."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone couldn't help being a little uproarious.

The four people on the stage also froze.

Zhong Yang didn't care: "I'm talking about Yao, Shun and Yu. I imitate Xie Siqing too much, and there are traces of Xie Siqing everywhere. Learning from others is not a bad thing, but I don't think we should encourage creators who don't have their own characteristics .”

Xie Siqing looked at Zhong Yang fixedly, reached out and pulled her microphone from the host's mouth.

"I don't want to imitate him, I just want to surpass him," he said.

"Oh?" Zhong Yang didn't seem to take it seriously: "I'm not interested in your future affairs, I'm only in charge of judging this competition."

"..."

This person is still so annoying... Xie Siqing thought, why are there such annoying people on earth?If there is a "Most Hated Person in the World" competition in the world, I must strive to be an audience judge and personally send Zhong Yang to the throne.

After a pause, Zhong Yang looked at another person: "The best of the four is Lu Shaohua."

The one named Lu Shaohua seemed very happy: "Thank you! Thank you!"

After the judges scored, the host put the cards in an envelope and did not publish them directly.

Then the live audience began to judge.

Before announcing the final results, the host said: "As mentioned before, the top three will receive financial support, and the number will be different for different rankings."

"..."

"At the same time, the three of them will also become the executive directors of the movie "Rainbow Bridge."

"..."

Executive director, as the name suggests, is to participate in the director's work, be responsible for implementing the director's intention, and complete the work that the director himself is inconvenient or unwilling to complete by himself.Sometimes the time is too tight, and several scenes are filmed at the same time. At this time, the director will completely hand over the unimportant scenes to the executive director.

The host continued: "This movie will be directed by the famous director Fu Fang himself, and there will be a very~~~ very capable actor playing the leading role."

After a pause, as if to enliven the atmosphere, the host turned to a few of them: "Guess who this person is?"

"..." Xie Siqing looked at her.

"That's good," the host urged again, "The person who guesses correctly can sit next to Director Zhong Yang at the dinner after the award ceremony. I believe that even a short conversation can benefit you a lot."

With that said, the host put the microphone to the lips of the person closest to her: "You come first."

"Hmm..." The first person pondered for a while before trying to conjecture, "Shao Yu?"

"I can't say it now." The host laughed again, stretched the microphone a little farther, and asked the second person, "What do you think?"

The second and third people also named some celebrities who have been popular recently.

The last is Xie Siqing.

Xie Siqing thought about it, and then said: "I guess it's Liu Shengrong."

"Hello..." The little man standing next to Xie Siqing kindly reminded, "He died last month."

Xie Siqing whispered, "I know."

Of course he knew that Liu Shengrong was dead.

He just didn't want to sit with Zhong Yang.

Saying someone else's name is risky.

Unexpectedly, the little man's voice suddenly increased several times, and the pitch was also three octaves higher: "You know he is dead and you still say his name?!"

Every word was clearly transmitted through the microphone in the host's hand, and there was a burst of laughter immediately.

Xie Siqing regretted it immediately.

I really didn't expect this kid to have such an exaggerated performance. I should have pretended not to have heard the news if I knew about it.

Xie Siqing didn't want to sit with Zhong Yang at all.

First of all, he is quite afraid of Zhong Yang now.Before knowing whether it was Zhong Yang, why and how he "killed" himself, Xie Siqing didn't want to get close to him in a daze.

Secondly, Xie Siqing hasn't figured out how to investigate the truth of what happened that day.If he contacts Zhong Yang now, Xie Siqing is afraid that he will not be able to help asking some questions. It would be harmful and useless to make him suspicious unnecessarily.

"I'm announcing the answer now." The host laughed again, "The actor who has confirmed to join is this year's 'Golden Hedgehog Award' Best Actor winner——Shao ​​Yu."

When hearing this name, Xie Siqing only felt a slight tremor in his whole body.

Shao Yu... used to be so close, but now is so far away.

Shao Yu is a very special person to him, his closest partner and friend, although, he has no way to respond to the other party's feelings.

Really... Xie Siqing thought, he started taking other people's roles - that's of course.

Xie Siqing inadvertently glanced at Zhong Yang again, only to find that the other party was staring at him.

He couldn't help but thumped in his heart.

Shouldn't you provoke this guy...