Director’s Legend

“Blessed New Year and Happy Spring Festival!”

With the sound of firecrackers and fireworks, 2006 is like a photo buried in an album. Shao Shuaijun was also freed from work and went back to his hometown to spend the Spring Festival. He visited relatives, friends and classmates, stayed away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and happily enjoyed the tranquility in the small town.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the executives of Dream Chasing Company came to Shao Shuaijun’s home to pay New Year greetings and bring their blessings.

This morning, in the evening in North America, the Oscars announced the nominees. "Painted Skin" unfortunately did not receive any nominations. Among all Chinese films, only Zhang Yimou's "A City of Golden Armor" received a nomination for Best Costume Design, once again proving that only mainland directors can get a little Oscar recognition.

In the past year, all the movies that should be released have been released. On the 2006 mainland movie box office list announced by Time.com, Shao Shuaijun's "Painted Skin" topped the list with 360 million yuan, and the runner-up was also Shao Shuaijun's "Love Is Not Blind". 》310 million.

These two movies are like two giant mountains, firmly suppressing all mainland movies and Hollywood blockbusters, always proving the power of Shao Shuaijun's commercial director.

Then came Zhang Yimou's "City of Golden Armor" with 270 million, which broke his own "Hero" record. Because of the existence of Shao Shuaijun, he could only be ranked third. The fourth place is "The Night Banquet" directed by Feng Xiaogang with 125 million. I wanted to say something profound but in the end it was very simple and received average reviews. It seems that Feng Xiaogang is also trying to imitate Zhang Yimou and hit Europe and the United States with "The Night Banquet" and represent Hong Kong films in the Oscar competition. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Of course, in the end it failed simply.

Another Hollywood blockbuster "The Da Vinci Code" ranked fifth with 105.8 million, while Hollywood director Yu Rentai's first film after his return, "Fearless", ranked sixth with 105 million. .

These six movies are all the movies that grossed more than 100 million yuan at the box office in mainland China in 2006.

At the same time, Time.com also released supplementary data, announcing the box office rankings of all movies since 1994. Since 2004, when Shao Shuaijun was reborn, Shao Shuaijun has occupied the top spot on the box office list every year. In 2004, "Kung Fu" had 170 million, "House of Flying Daggers" had 150 million, and "A World Without Thieves" had 121 million, followed by Shao Shuaijun's "Crazy Stone" with 120 million.

In 2005, "The Promise" earned 170 million, "Racing" 150 million, "Golden Heist" 120 million, and "King Kong" 100 million. Then came Shao Shuaijun’s “Source Code” for 98 million.

At the same time, the mainland box office rankings, director box office rankings, and Chinese-language film global box office rankings formulated by Time.com were also announced one by one. Mainland box office list. "Painted Skin" occupies the first place with a box office of 360 million, and "33 Days After Love" occupies the third place with a box office of 310 million; in the director's box office rankings, Shao Shuaijun ranks first with a total box office of 908 million for five films.

On the global box office list of Chinese-language films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Li Eucalyptus, topped the list with a global revenue of 213 million US dollars. "Painted Skin" directed by Shao Shuaijun US$202 million. Coming in second place. Zhang Yimou's "Hero" US$177 million, and Zhou Xingxing's "Kung Fu" US$104 million. Ranked third or fourth. These are also the only four Chinese-language films to have exceeded US$100 million in global box office.

If we count all the movies directed by Chinese. At the top of the list is Wu Yusen's "Mission: Impossible 2" with 546 million US dollars. Shao Shuaijun still needs a long way to go to reach this figure.

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After the new year. Shao Shuaijun left for the United States again, and the post-production of "The Night Watcher" was inseparable from his supervision. And he also has to follow the crew and start promoting. This is his first movie that is completely his own. Although he never likes to promote it like a monkey show, he still takes time to participate in various programs to build momentum for the movie.

He is already 21 years old in the new year, and he is still young. Many American programs hope to invite him to participate. After all, the topic of this age is too strong. Even Americans don't have many twenty-year-old directors, let alone the Chinese who have always been discriminated against by them.

Americans have a blind, so-called American will, and have always discriminated against China in all aspects. This makes Shao Shuaijun very disgusted. Therefore, Shao Shuaijun will reject all programs that are unfriendly to China, regardless of whether they are popular or not. He only participates in programs that are neutral or do not show pro-China tendencies.

But even so, major programs still want to portray him as the embodiment of the "American Dream."

"Fuck the American dream, Mitchell, I'll leave it to you to lead the team to promote the movie from now on!" Shao Shuaijun participated in a show called "Filmisnow-Hollywood", a big-mouthed, big-breasted host, with a lot of tricks, It is always said that he is the most successful young foreigner in the United States, the best embodiment of the American will, and the representative of the American dream.

This made Shao Shuaijun intolerable. He did not want to imitate "cents" and betray his country for glory. He had always been proud of his country and his skin color. The reason why he came to Hollywood to make a movie was, firstly, to make money, and secondly, to prove himself, not to kneel down and lick the Yankees!

From the inside and outside of their words, there is always a feeling of being superior and giving charity to you.

This feeling is very bad.

So Shao Shuaijun immediately threw down his sleeves and handed over the promotion to Mitchell, who then plunged into the post-production of "The Night Watcher". As time went by, the Hong Kong Film Awards came. When the invitation came from the Academy Awards organizing committee, Shao Shuaijun simply refused. He had already been injured once at the Golden Horse Awards, and he didn't want to get injured a second time!

Even in the future, he will never participate in these sensational rubbish awards again.

Regarding Shao Shuaijun's absence, the Academy Awards Organizing Committee was very unhappy and published a notice in the newspaper, although the tone was oblique. But anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that this is a satire on Shao Shuaijun, who looks down on the Hong Kong Film Awards and Hong Kong movies, and is arrogant and arrogant.

Originally, Shao Shuaijun never cared about awards, but he deliberately made himself look more calm, as if he didn't care about gains and losses. As a result, the Golden Horse Award gave him a punch, which made him lose face. He ran over in a hurry, but he was fooled and lost everything.

"I've been so successful, why do you still dare to look down on me? Play with me?"

This is Shao Shuaijun's heartfelt wish. He had held it back before, but who would have thought that the Academy Award would pop up again. Shao Shuaijun broke out in a reporter interview: "I don't know what the Academy Award is. I have already participated in a ridiculous award. There is no need to participate in a second ridiculous award. My movies are made for the broad audience." It’s not for the so-called artists.”

Boom, as if the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima.

Shao Shuaijun's words immediately caused a big earthquake.

"Shao Shuaijun is a funny clown. He made a few films that made no sense and then forgot about it. The Academy Awards has a history of more than 20 years and is older than Shao Shuaijun. From the Academy Awards, there have been Yusen Wu, International directors such as Xu Ke cannot be slandered by anyone. Let us wish "Nightwatch" a global success and hope that he will never fail." Wen Jun, chairman of the Academy Awards and famous screenwriter, immediately hit back in the newspaper.

"No one can ignore the Hong Kong Film Awards. Our glory has made Chinese films known to the world! Directors who do not understand and respect people will be cast aside by the world!" Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Film Awards and famous director Chen Jiashang responded. (To be continued...)

ps:  Thanks to Wu and Xin for pretending to be stuck.