Xiangjiang has a small population, more than 6 million, and the size of an ordinary prefecture-level city.

But the glory of film and television here was once unsold. In the 1980s and 1990s, Xiangjiang was called Oriental Hollywood and Asian Film and Television Center.

The films taken here every year are sold throughout Asia.

A movie was made in fifteen days and a movie was made in eight days. At that time, it was still a place with a population of less than five million, with an annual production of hundreds of movies, and the film and television industry was so popular that it was unreasonable.

Even the underworld wanted to come in and share a piece of the pie. You can imagine how popular the movies were at that time.

Tan Zhang Zhengba, the Four Heavenly Kings, the Five Tigers of Wireless, nonsensical comedy, golden supporting roles, popular gunfight films, supernatural films... In this film and television land, too many childhood memories of too many people have been born.

Even after traveling through time for so many years, Yuan Hua still remembers the Hong Kong movies he watched when he was in junior high school and the Hong Kong stars he chased.

Of course, he mainly pursues actresses, such as Qiu Shuzhen, Guan Zhilin, Li Lizhi, Ye Yuqing, Weng Jie, Chen Baolian and others.

At that time, I couldn’t go to the cinema. The owner of the convenience store or the game console room would set up a small black room, put on a small stool, and put the discs as soon as the time came.

One dollar per ticket.

After each reading, my friends can talk endlessly until they go home.

"Hello, Mr. Yuan, I am the driver arranged by Director Chen, and I am responsible for taking you to the hotel."

As soon as Yuan Hua left the airport, the person in charge of picking up the plane arrived. When he arrived at Chen Kexin's territory, he was naturally the one who received him.

In the hotel, Chen Kexin was already waiting for Yuan Hua. When he put his luggage down, he took him to dinner in person.

An old tea restaurant.

"No, Director Chen, are you saving so much money?"

Sitting by the window on the second floor, Yuan Hua looked around. This was an ordinary restaurant. There were many diners around him, some were drinking tea, some were chatting, and no one followed him.

These people speak too fast, and they seem to be carrying dialects from other places, so they can't understand what others say.

In Cantonese, he heard those sentences most often.

Beautiful boy!

Fall out!

Cute hair!

"Bird's nest abalone lobster, you haven't eaten anything." Chen Kexin gave him a blank look: "How can you not come to Xiangjiang and Wang Ji?"

"I know you're here for the first time, and I probably don't know if it's good or not. I'll recommend a few."

Without looking at the menu, Chen Kexin waved to the waiter and said five or six dishes casually. I think he often ate them.

"After eating, there will be afternoon tea and dinner, I will take you to meet people."

Yuan Hua picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup of tea. He sipped it gently. It felt a little different from the mainland, but it was not the same as that of the mainland. Anyway, it was not the taste he liked, so he took a sip and put it down and didn't move.

He leaned his hands on the table and joked:

"Is it a bit late to canvass votes at this time?"

The award ceremony is tomorrow, and the final result will be decided by counting a week ahead.

"I'm introducing you to some colleagues, and maybe there will be cooperation in the future." After glanced at Yuan Hua's unmoved teacup, Chen Kexin sighed and secretly scolded him for not knowing how to drink good things: "There are also several big directors and famous actors who will be present tonight. Don't you want to meet?"

"No……"

"I voted for you."

The voting method of the Golden Star Awards is different from that in the mainland. The audience participation is not high, and more importantly, the major voting methods in the industry are voting.

Each genre will be different and its proportion will be different. For example, if they vote for the best director or new director, the voting ratio will be as high as 25%, and the other awards will be reduced to 20%.

The film screenwriters association's vote for the best screenwriter accounted for 25% and the other awards accounted for 20%.

The Performing Artists Association votes in the Best Actor and Actress, Supporting Actress, and New New Actors, accounting for 25% of the total, and 20% of the other actors.

"This time, for your award, I even drank wine for half a month, and I almost vomited blood. Now you have come, and I don't even meet other supporters, which is not suitable."

He has many friends in the Directors Association, and many directors gave him face to vote for Yuan Hua, but if you want to win the award, you must seize the votes from the Performing Artists Association.

The Performing Artists Association has the most votes and is also the most difficult to control.

Because there are too many artists, there are more than 600 people, spanning the three realms of songs, films and television, both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, and overseas.

Of course, the so-called overseas people are actually Chinese, but they have changed their nationality later.

For example, Li Lianjie and his wife, Xu Laomo, and Shi Nansheng.

"Okay, then I'll see you." Yuan Hua picked up the teacup and took another sip.

He doesn't like trouble, and knows that he will definitely have trouble after meeting these people, but they all voted for him, and it's really not good to be reluctant to have a meal.

"That's right. Don't worry, it's all good things and it won't make it difficult for you to do. There are multiple friends and multiple ways."

After a while, the food was served. After eating, Chen Kexin took Yuan Hua to visit the local customs and customs. The customs and customs are real, and human feelings are real human feelings.

To be honest, the development here is not as good as that in China's second-tier cities. Many buildings were from decades ago. Some buildings have hundreds of units and thousands of people live in, and the average household is several square meters.

Except for the prosperous areas close to the city center, more places are no different from ordinary county towns.

But the feelings are still OK. Chen Kexin takes him to places where he has made movies before.

"Tongluo Bay knows it."

"I know, Chen Haonan!"

"This is where the movie became popular, there were a lot of Dongxing Bars on this street after it became popular."

"This is Bolan Street!"

"Thirteenth sister, I understand."

"I understand Hammer, Thirteenth Sister is in the movie. The real situation is that no gang dared to say that he was the boss of Bolan Street, because there are more than a dozen big gangs in Xiangjiang here, all of whom are among the best people in the martial arts world."

Yuan Hua nodded thoughtfully: "No wonder Shan Ji was almost beaten by a high school student when playing football in Genting Mountain. He said yelling at those people is useless and he has the ability to go to Bolan Street to make a try."

Chen Kexin: “…”

These are three sentences that are inseparable from the young and dandy.

"Let's go, there is Temple Street not far ahead, I'll take you around. I've also filmed a movie here before, so I'll have to teach you the protection fee."

"Director Chen, I heard that Temple Street was very lively at night before, is it really fake?"

"It's true, please put away your wretched smile."

These places that often appear in movies in the 1990s were different from what Yuan Hua thought. They did not change much about what they were like more than ten years ago and what they are still like now.

If you say that changes are even worse, they are even older.

The grandparents on the street had a lot of good faces, and there was no carved dragons and phoenixes on their arms. Chen Haonan, who had long hair, had a croaker-headed pheasant coming out to chop him.

No one asked him to sign.

But when I meet some younger students, they will take photos from a distance with their mobile phones or call their names loudly.

On this acre of three-point land in Xiangjiang, most ordinary people are numb to celebrities.

You can encounter it when shopping, eat, buy vegetables in the vegetable market, take the bus and subway, and sometimes you can often see the road blocking in front of you filming on the way to and from get off work.

Over time, everyone is immune.

When he meets a road-closed filming, he will curse and greet his ancestors for 18 generations, then raise his middle finger and go home to cook on another road.

"I can't take love here!"

"In the world of love, Andy Lau riding a motorcycle to smash the wedding shop is this location."

“Many of my sweethearts have to be filmed on this street.”

"Look up, the rooftop in the Infernal Affairs Road is the rooftop of this building."

"If you don't know anything, just ask, today I am the host. Don't say that I didn't entertain you well when I returned to the mainland."

"Director Chen, where did you take pictures of the Jade Girl Heart Sutra?"

...

In the evening, Yuan Hua attended the banquet, which was the second day of today. He had afternoon tea and had snacks in the afternoon. He met a group of directors, but most of them had never heard of the names.

The most famous one is probably Fatty Wang Jin. He heard him talk about some romantic pasts when he was young at the table, and Yuan Hua lamented that he was born at the wrong time.

Otherwise, you can also compete with actresses in the 1980s and 1990s and discuss life.

"Hello, Brother Le, I have seen the movies of You since I was a child. Today I finally have the honor to see a real person. I must sign a name for me later."

During the meal, under the guidance of Chen Kexin, Yuan Hua was the first to say hello to Gu Zai.

There is no saying that I call the teacher here in Xiangjiang. When I meet my colleagues, I call you brothers, sisters, or seniors. Yuan Hua also follows the local customs and calls you elder brothers and sisters for a day.

Today, when the Xiangjiang film and television industry is declining, Gu Zai can be said to be an evergreen tree. At least four movies are released a year, and he is one of the few Xiangjiang artists who can enjoy themselves in the mainland and have a fame as an audience.

In addition, he is also the president of the Performing Arts Association.

Yuan Hua from Xiangjiang is not familiar with him, and he has heard of many celebrities, but he doesn’t respect him many of them. Gu Zai is one of them.

This star who built hundreds of Hope Primary Schools in the Mainland has been doing charity for many years. He has never said it in the media or promoted it. It was exposed because a director mentioned it.
To be continued...