During this period, the film and television industry can be described as lively, and various award ceremonies at home and abroad appear in turn.
It has to be said that after suffering from the cold winter period of nearly 3 years, as people return to normal travel life, all walks of life are rebuilding in an orderly manner and gradually recovering.
The film and television industry is also picking up, and the "spring" belonging to filmmakers has also arrived as scheduled.
First of all, abroad, at the grand awards ceremony of the 95th Oscars that has just been held in Hollywood, Michelle Yeoh won the "queen" crown with the Asian-themed film "Instantaneous Universe", becoming the first Chinese actress in Oscar history.
On March 12, the much-watched Asian Film Festival was held in Hong Kong, and Sammo Hung, an old-timer in the Hong Kong film and television industry, won the "Asian Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award", choking up several times with excitement.
However, at the Asian Film Festival, an international film event, the Hong Kong film and television industry vividly reflected the "humility" and "snub" of domestic entertainment filmmakers.
First, let's talk about the winners announced by this year's Asian Film Awards.
From the list of winners, for actors, there are several high-profile awards: Best Male Protagonist, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, Best New Actor, and Lifetime Achievement Awards, etc., these awards related to them basically have nothing to do with domestic entertainment actors.
Not only mainland stars, but even the films on the list do not have mainland films, which means that mainland films and stars at this year's Asian Film Awards have nothing to receive and accompany the whole process.
Looking back at the list of this award again, today, when the Hong Kong film and television industry is already very sluggish, the Hong Kong films nominated by the Asian Film Awards this time "When the Wind Rises Again", "The Lights Shine", "Tomorrow's War", "Justice Corridor" and "Anita Mui" have reached as many as 5.
However, the only films nominated in the mainland are "Ten Thousand Miles Home" starring Zhang Yi and "Life Events" starring Zhu Yilong.
In this regard, the two films in which the mainland participated were only nominated, while the five Hong Kong films all won different awards, and none of them fell short.
Tony Leung won the actor with "When the Wind Rises Again", Hong Kong actor Mak Pei Tong won the Best Newcomer Award for "The Corridor of Justice", the movie "Anita Mui" won the Best Styling Design and Best Sound Awards, and "Tomorrow's War" won the Best Visual Effects Award.
To say that winning these awards will not cause controversy if you win them on your own strength, the key is based on all indicators and market feedback.
"Ten Thousand Miles Home" starring Zhang Yi and "Life Events" starring Zhu Yilong are above "When the Wind Rises Again" in terms of box office, movie score and audience praise.
First of all, let's talk about the box office, the box office of "Ten Thousand Miles Home" also received more than 1.5 billion box office under such a bad environment at that time.
"Life Events" is a dark horse movie that won by virtue of word-of-mouth fermentation, from the newly released no one cared about, to later relying on word-of-mouth communication, and finally swept the 1.7 billion box office with a small cost of 50 million to achieve a counterattack.
And "When the Wind Rises Again" continues to follow the old path of Hong Kong dramas, the story is nothing new, and it was complained about by the audience, and finally ended dismally with a box office of 40 million.
In terms of box office, "When the Wind Rises Again" can be described as a fiasco.
The box office is so poor, not to mention the score, the life event score is 7.3, the return of thousands of miles score is 7.4, and the "When the Wind Rises Again" may still look at the face of the two actors Tony Leung and Kwok Fucheng The score is barely 6.3.
However, with such a gap, "Thousands of Miles Home" and "Life Events" only received one nomination, and did not win any awards, but Tony Leung won the best actor for "When the Wind Rises Again".
No wonder netizens complained about this, complaining about its victory.
It stands to reason that although the Asian Film Festival is not as famous as the Academy Awards, it is also a very influential award in Asia and the Pacific for filmmakers, and the invited filmmakers are also filmmakers from China, Japan, South Korea and other Asian countries.
Such a film event, held in Hong Kong, China, not only Hong Kong stars, but also mainland filmmakers should also receive more attention.
However, the mainland filmmakers who appeared at the awards ceremony not only did not receive the same popularity and high-standard treatment as fans in the mainland, but even the basic greeting etiquette that should be on the red carpet was slightly neglected.
When the live broadcast of celebrities walking the red carpet, there was a detail, that is, mainland actor Zhang Yi, who was nominated for "Ten Thousand Miles Home", was invited to attend this Asian Film Festival.
However, when Zhang Yi walked the red carpet to the host, the host at that time only buried his head in the card in his hand and ignored Zhang Yi at all.
Even when it came to the questioning session, the host did not walk to Zhang Yi's side, but asked questions from a distance across an actor.
In order to hear the host's questions clearly, actor Zhang Yi had to lean his body, prick up his ears, and try to listen to the host's questions.
You must know that this is Zhang Yi, who is now famous in the mainland.
Zhang Yi is not only a double actor of the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award, but also an excellent actor who became popular again with "Crazy" during this time.
The recognition and love of his acting skills by mainland audiences is quite high.
He will be the focus of attention if he attends any of the mainland's awards ceremonies, the star who spends the most time on the red carpet and will be interviewed separately.
However, at the "Asian Film Festival" held in Hong Kong, it was so snubbed and restrained.
On the other hand, the enthusiasm and kindness shown by the host when asking questions about Tony Leung and Sammo Hung contrasted sharply, which made many netizens feel unhappy and angry.
In fact, it is not the first time that mainland actors have been snubbed and despised in Hong Kong.
Jet Li once broke the news of the unfair treatment he suffered when starring in Hong Kong films.
In 1980, "Shaolin Temple" starring Jet Li created a box office myth of hundreds of millions at the time with a dime ticket price at that time, and Jet Li became famous.
The Hong Kong producer, who saw Jet Li's influence, invited Jet Li to continue filming "North and South Shaolin".
However, when filming "North and South Shaolin", Jet Li's daily salary was only three yuan, while the Hong Kong actors in the same crew were paid as much as 5,000 yuan a day, and even the group performance of dead bodies was paid 50 yuan a day, which made Jet Li at that time very unhappy when he learned about it.
Not only has kung fu star Jet Li been treated unfairly in the Hong Kong film and television industry, but even Liu Xiaoqing, a powerful veteran actor who has been famous for a long time, has also revealed the contempt he received when filming in Hong Kong and Taiwan crews.
According to Liu Xiaoqing, when the Hong Kong and Taiwan crew filmed "Listening to Politics" that year, she not only paid many times worse than the actors of the same crew, but even the box lunch provided would be treated differently.
Liu Xiaoqing filmed stills of "Listening to Politics"
At that time, the Hong Kong and Taiwan actors on the set had meat in their box lunches, but she and the mainland actors at that time were vegetarian dishes and steamed buns, which made Liu Xiaoqing very angry at that time, and finally cried a little before adding meat to her box lunch.
There was also the most famous and fierce incident in which Hong Kong actors bullied mainland actors that year was when filming "Little Fish and Flowers", Zhang Weijian and Nicholas Tse used the plot to fight the plot and beat mainland actor Wang Bozhao into serious injury.
However, the director of the film, Wang Jing, deliberately favored Zhang and Xie, turning this dispute between individual actors into a group conflict between Hong Kong and mainland actors, which caused an uproar at the time.
This also caused collective denunciation from mainland actors, led by Chen Daoming, who collectively spoke out for Wang Bozhao and demanded that Zhang and Xie apologize.
Zhang Weijian and Nicholas Tse were also forced by Internet pressure, issued a statement apologizing, and personally visited Wang Bozhao in the hospital, taking photos of the reconciliation between the three, and the matter was over.
In fact, mainland actors have suffered a lot of "discrimination" or unfair treatment outside, and it is said that when Huang Bo hosted the Golden Horse Awards, he also suffered from the deliberate difficulties of Cai Kangyong and others.
And Huang Bo easily solved it with his high emotional intelligence and humor, which won the affirmation and applause of the guests at the scene.
In fact, what Sister Yu wants to say is that everything has always developed and changed, thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi.
The 80s and 90s were the heyday of Hong Kong cinema, and they did produce many classic films and a group of excellent filmmakers.
But today, Hong Kong films and the entire entertainment industry in Hong Kong have undoubtedly gone into decline, and there are few excellent movies, and filmmakers are also young and yellow.
In recent years, the era of films belonging to the mainland has arrived, and outstanding filmmakers have appeared one after another, and excellent films have been released one after another, which has also let the world see the strength and many possibilities of Chinese mainland filmmakers.
And if the Hong Kong film and television industry is still stubborn and refuses to admit its own problems, just behind closed doors, resting on its laurels, and not joining forces with inland films and filmmakers for common development, there will be no way out.
But at the same time, mainland actors and artists should also be clear that whether the audience loves, recognizes and pursues them, it is because of the excellent characters they have created by their own strength.
The glory on your body is with the blessing of the characters of the movie or TV series, it is given by the characters, you must not get carried away, proud and arrogant, only by constantly polishing your acting skills, continuing to output good works, and serving the audience with good virtue and character, will we usher in lasting respect and love.