1985 should be said to be the most prosperous stage of Hong Kong movies. There were many talents in the industry, and unconstrained and fantastic ideas could be seen everywhere on the big screen.

Not only the local market is rising every year, but also the markets in other cities are also conquering cities and territories, and every move is unfavorable.

Before Hollywood's special effects blockbusters were rampant, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Hong Kong films dominated Asia.

The Heung Kong Film Awards were first film awards jointly organized by the film magazine "Film Fortnightly" and Hong Kong Radio based on the selection of the top ten films.

In recent years, with the development of Hong Kong films, the Academy Awards, a new film award, has gradually gained more and more influence.

Early in the morning after the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony concluded, news about the results of the Hong Kong Film Awards appeared on major radio and television news broadcasts in Hong Kong, as well as in entertainment newspapers and weekly magazines.

They are all winners.

""Homecoming" won five awards and became the biggest winner at the Academy Awards" ""The King of Chess" set a record, winning Best Actor and Best Screenplay both times" "The 4th Academy Awards: Tony Leung Ka Fai became the emperor for the second time, Siqin Gao

"The baby was upset and sealed" "The Academy Awards was upset, Z-school filmmakers won a big victory"...

The movie "Homecoming" won five awards, and Siqingaowa, a mainland actress, won the Best Actress crown.

This situation has surprised many people in Xiangjiang. Many people still remember that this time last year, Liu Xiaoqing, who starred in "The Government Behind the Curtain", was also shortlisted for the Academy Award, but unfortunately he lost to Ye Tong in the end.

I didn’t expect that this year’s Best Actress Award would actually go to a mainland actress!

But the most hot news and topic of discussion at last night's awards ceremony was the re-election of Best Actor and Best Screenplay.

Winning consecutive awards has always been a low-probability event in the selection of film awards. Winning two awards at the same time is even more of a low-probability event.

What's more important is that the two winners collaborated for the second time.

There is "Listening to Government Behind the Curtain" in the front, and "Chess Master" in the back.

Not only did it achieve great success at the box office and word of mouth, but it also won awards together. This coincidence will naturally bring about huge topicality.

Early in the morning, various news reports emerged one after another, fully demonstrating the city's strong circulation ability of news information.

In addition to news reports from authoritative media such as Hong Kong Radio, TVB, and Wen Wei Po, last night's awards ceremony also became a feast for many entertainment newspapers and weekly magazines in Hong Kong.

In order to differentiate their content from those of the big media, these newspapers and weekly magazines often focus on less serious aspects.

For example, this morning Hong Kong's "Overseas Chinese Daily" wrote a report based on Tony Leung's acceptance speech last night. The title was eye-catching.

——"The man behind the movie king, doing it once is not enough".

If such a report is placed on the front page, which citizen passing by would not want to take a second look?

After reading it, these people often cursed a few words. The content was far different from what they imagined.

The most detestable thing about a clickbait is that, even though he is clearly not telling lies, you are deceived again and again. What these clickbait preys on is the curiosity of the public.

With this "sultry" article, the sales volume of "Overseas Chinese Daily" exceeded 120,000 copies for the first time in a long time, and it unexpectedly sold 50,000 more copies of the newspaper than usual.

"Overseas Chinese Daily" has a long history. After World War II, it once formed a "three-legged alliance" with "Business Daily" and "Sing Tao Daily" in the Chinese newspaper industry in Hong Kong. It was also a major newspaper at that time.

But as time went by, Xiangjiang, a tiny place, had to support dozens of newspapers, and competition in the newspaper industry became increasingly fierce. After the 1970s, this competition could only be described as fierce.

The fierce competition in the print media industry has forced these newspapers to use all kinds of tricks, and they have to move closer to gossip news in reporting news content to satisfy the "low taste" of the general public.

Inside Ming Pao Building.

Dong Qiao turned over the pages of "Overseas Chinese Daily" and made a tut-tsk sound in his mouth, "I can't believe that the style of "Overseas Chinese Daily" is getting lower and lower now."

He read the newspaper with great interest for a while, then raised his head and looked at Lin Chaoyang, with the word "bad intentions" written all over his face.

"Chaoyang, as the 'man behind the actor', what do you think of this report?"

Lin Chaoyang smiled helplessly, "I think they will be finished sooner or later."

Dong Qiao couldn't help laughing.

Early this morning, Lin Chaoyang's home phone was buzzing with calls. The callers could be divided into two categories. One was media invitations for interviews, and the other was film companies looking for cooperation with him.

Lin Chaoyang declined all these interview invitations.

He doesn't want to be a star, there is no need to seek the limelight.

As for cooperation invitations from film companies, Lin Chaoyang also ignored them.

Among the people who called Lin Chaoyang, Dong Qiao was considered the most serious. The purpose of his call was to make an appointment with Lin Chaoyang to discuss the publication of his new work.

Last month, Lin Chaoyang handed over the manuscript of "The Truman Show" to Li Shifei, and Huacheng Publishing House plans to publish it in mid-August.

The biggest difference between the publication of "The Truman Show" and the previous one is that there is no magazine publishing process.

With Lin Chaoyang's current fame, he no longer needs magazine publication to spread the influence of his new work.

Moreover, publication in magazines will more or less affect the sales of works after they are published. In the past, it didn't matter whether the sales were high or low when getting a thousand-word manuscript fee, but now Lin Chaoyang gets royalties, and behind every sales volume is income.

"The Truman Show" is about to be published in the mainland, and the publication in Hong Kong should also be put on the agenda.

With the previous cooperation, the negotiation for the publication of the new work went smoothly, and the royalty rate is still 20%.

After discussing the publication of his new work, Dong Qiao suddenly asked Lin Chaoyang for an interview.

At yesterday's awards ceremony, Lin Chaoyang won the Best Screenplay Award for the second time. He was also the most topical winner of this year's Academy Awards. Outside media had no chance to interview Lin Chaoyang, so Dong Qiao would not let go of this opportunity.

Even though he came, Lin Chaoyang couldn't refuse his request bluntly, so he had no choice but to agree.

The interview was not the responsibility of Dong Qiao, the editor-in-chief. The conversation just happened between the two of them while they were waiting for the interview.

After a while, two reporters from Ming Pao came, one responsible for written interviews and the other responsible for photography.

The person in charge of the written interview was named Shen Xicheng. He had a mustache and a shrewd look. When he saw Lin Chaoyang, he started chatting enthusiastically.

After getting familiar with each other for a while, we officially entered the interview session.

The style of "Ming Pao" is relatively high among Hong Kong media, so Shen Xicheng's interview questions are also very serious, but he has to show off some knowledge from time to time, which makes Lin Chaoyang a little uncomfortable.

"Lin Sheng has won the Best Screenplay Award at the Academy Awards for two consecutive years. Now someone in the news has dubbed you a 'talented scholar'. What do you think of this?"

As the interview entered the second half, Shen Xicheng asked a rather sharp question, his eyes determined, as if he wanted to dig out some topical content from Lin Chaoyang.

Lin Chaoyang looked relaxed and pondered for a moment before saying:

"According to Chinese people's habits, I should be humble.

However, everyone's definition of talent is different, and their judgment of talent is also different.

Some media won awards for the scripts I wrote and praised me as a genius. That was media support. Readers and audiences laughed it off. There is no need to take me as a ‘talent’ seriously.

Otherwise, the next time someone calls someone else a ‘talented scholar’, I, a ‘talented scholar’, might even feel sour in my heart.”

Lin Chaoyang answered the questions in a humorous and humorous tone, easily dispelling Shen Xicheng's clever questions.

Shen Xicheng is a reporter for "Ming Pao". This interview with Lin Chaoyang is of course necessary to advertise the upcoming novel "The Truman Show".

What's more, the novel has been confirmed to be adapted into a movie of the same name, which is also a publicity point, so Shen Xicheng asked some questions about the cooperation between Lin Chaoyang and Ming Pao Publishing House.

After the interview, Shen Xicheng felt a little regretful. The questions he asked were all answered with ease by Lin Chaoyang without any fuss. For reporters, such an interview really lacked explosive points.

Of course, the entire interview process was very smooth, and Lin Chaoyang's answers were also meaningful. The occasional flashes of humor and wisdom also added a lot of color to the interview process.

After Shen Xicheng left, Dong Qiao talked with Lin Chaoyang for a while and sent him out of the building as a gift.

"With your exclusive interview today, Ming Pao will definitely have good sales tomorrow!"

It was already evening when Lin Chaoyang returned to Oriental Garden. Tao Yushu said that the phone calls at home had not stopped during the day. Later, Tao Yumo and his children could not bear the disturbance, and finally put the phone receiver on the coffee table, and finally got some peace and quiet.

"You won the award last year, but I didn't see so many people contacting you. I really don't know how they got our home phone number?"

"Last year was the first time I won the award, and this year I won it again, so the impact is naturally different. And this time it's me and Fai Zai winning the award again, so there will definitely be a superimposed effect.

Our phone number is not a secret, it’s not difficult to find out if you ask someone to find it.”

The family was eating and chatting about the news outside today.

Tao Yumo vividly told Lin Chaoyang about the reports in the newspapers that praised Lin Chaoyang. Today she went out and bought several newspapers, just to see what those media reports about Lin Chaoyang were.

"Brother-in-law, they praise you as a 'master of screenwriting'. You have won two Best Actors at once, and they are both the same person."

“There are newspapers that praise you as a ‘talented man from the Mainland’. They say you are a talented man, but they insist on adding the word ‘Mainland’, which is awkward.”

While several people were chatting lively, the doorbell rang at home. Lin Chaoyang got up and opened the door. It was Li Hanxiang.

As soon as he entered the door, he complained: "I've been calling your family all afternoon, but no one answered?"

"There are too many harassing calls." Lin Chaoyang replied to him and asked him again: "Have you eaten yet?"

"What are we going to eat? Come on, let's go, I'm waiting for you to hold a celebration banquet."

Lin Chaoyang was pulled out of the house by Li Hanxiang and went all the way to Fulinmen Restaurant in Wan Chai.

When the two arrived, there were already many people here, including Chen Huaikai and Liang Jiahui, the main creators of "The Master of Chess", as well as Li Hanxiang's friends in the industry such as Xu Guanwen, Yue Hua, Ti Lung, Cai Lam and others.

As soon as they met, everyone complained about Lin Chaoyang's late arrival, and Li Hanxiang also joked: "Chaoyang, you are now a well-known screenwriter in Hong Kong, and you deserve a big brother."

"With Big Brother, you have to answer the phone when someone calls. Aren't you spending money to put a yoke on yourself?"

As soon as he said these words, everyone was speechless.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this for now. "The King of Chess" won another big victory at the Academy Awards this year, and it also won the award for the second time. We have to celebrate it!"

Li Hanxiang's mood was high and his voice was loud. A few words set off the atmosphere of the celebration banquet.

"Chess Master" was invested and produced by his New Kunlun Pictures. The movie had a good box office and won awards. Speaking of which, it is a very rare success story in the film industry, so it is natural for Li Hanxiang to be happy.
To be continued...