Yu Dong and Jimmy chatted for a while about the Android company. There was a knock on the door, and then they heard Liu Cixin shouting outside the door, "Teacher Yu, it's time to eat."
Jimmy smiled and stood up first, "Let's eat first, and we'll talk about other things in the evening."
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Liu Cixin came to call Yu Dong for dinner, and the others had already gone to the restaurant first.
When the three of them arrived at the restaurant, it was already very lively. This year's Galaxy Awards ceremony was even more lively than in previous years.
The Galaxy Awards Ceremony has been attended by people from the film and television industry since 1992, and later film and television awards were set up. Among the guests this year, people from the film and television industry account for a larger proportion than in previous years.
Several science fiction movies released in North America last year basically sent representatives. Needless to say, "The Martian", in addition to director Spielberg, several major actors were also present.
Another movie about Mars, "Mission to Mars," also sent two people, but they probably knew they wouldn't win any awards, so they only sent a director's assistant and a staff member from the distribution company.
The crew of "Transparent" is quite impressive. There are seven or eight people from the director to the leading actors. This movie suffered a huge loss at the box office. Their production cost was close to 100 million US dollars, which was higher than the production cost of "The Martian"
Some, but in the end the North American box office was less than 80 million US dollars.
Since it is not successful at the box office, they want to win more awards. As long as they can win more awards, the video tapes and CDs will be easier to sell, which can bring back some blood for them. Before coming to Chengdu, they had just won the best award at the Saturn Awards.
Costume Award, naturally I hope to win an award when I come here.
It is worth mentioning that "The Martian" dominated the Saturn Awards, winning six awards for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Special Effects and Best Soundtrack.
Because the Saturn Awards did not award the Best Screenplay Award to "The Martian", it also caused dissatisfaction among many Yudong readers. These readers believed that "The Martian" fully deserved the Best Screenplay Award.
Although "Black Hole Frequency" is also good, the script is still somewhat different from "The Martian".
The Saturn Award jury also responded to this. They affirmed the script of "The Martian", and then stated that the script of "The Martian" is not very different from the original novel of "The Martian" and is not original enough, so it cannot be awarded.
Give the award for best screenplay.
After the response to the Saturn Award came out, some people joked that if this was the case, YU would never want to win the Saturn Award for Best Screenplay in his life, because his screenplays were all adapted from his own novels.
There are also conspiracy theories that the Saturn Awards are targeting YU by doing this.
This has actually happened more than once, but this time readers reacted more strongly. After the previous film adaptation of "Closed Loop", although the box office was average, it also won several awards at the Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film, and finally
Best supporting actor, best costumes, but no best screenplay award.
It’s okay that there was no Best Screenplay Award that time. After all, there was another “Seven Deadly Sins” that year, and no readers dared to say that the script of “Closed Loop” must be better than “Seven Deadly Sins”.
But this year is different. This year, "Black Hole Frequency" should not have beaten "The Martian" to win the Best Screenplay Award.
If "Black Hole Frequency" could win the Best Screenplay Award, then "The Butterfly Effect" should have won the Best Screenplay Award before, but "The Butterfly Effect" did not win the Best Screenplay Award that year. Besides, the jury
It is also said that they did not award the award because they considered that the script of "The Martian" was not much different from the original work. On the other hand, they also thought that the script of "The Martian" was better.
Given these circumstances, and the fact that this year’s Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards did not give Yu Dongfa awards, readers themselves have become more sensitive. Some people think that this is a kind of resistance or rejection of foreign language science fiction by the American science fiction community.
Yang Xiao and the others are also quite sensitive. Seeing this happening, they invited many Hollywood guests before the awards ceremony.
In addition to the main creative staff of movies that were released last year, there are also representatives of movies that have not yet been released like "Source Code".
The cast of "Source Code" is also quite complete, with director Christopher Nolan, actor Louis Koo and actress Aniston all coming to the scene.
When Yu Dong and others arrived, the crew members of "Source Code" were chatting with the crew members of "The Martian".
Jimmy walked over with a smile and greeted them with a smile, "When did you all arrive?"
Christopher Nolan said with a smile, "Jennifer and I arrived this afternoon, so we came earlier."
Gu Tianzhu took over the conversation, "I have been in Chengdu for several days, and I have a lot of free time during this period, so I just ran around and took a look around Chengdu."
Jimmy looked at Aniston and asked, "Jennifer, is this your first time in Chengdu?"
Aniston nodded and said with a smile, "I have only been to Yanjing and Jinling before. This is my first time coming to Chengdu. My impression of Chengdu is that it has the cutest giant pandas in the world."
"Besides pandas, there are many interesting things in Chengdu. If you are not in a hurry to leave, you can stroll around after the award ceremony. I believe you will not be disappointed," Yu Dong said.
Aniston said with regret, "It's a pity that I have to go to Yanjing the day after the award ceremony."
Jimmy smiled and said, "She and Gu Tianzhu have to go to Yanjing to promote the new movie, so time is really tight."
Yu Dong nodded. It was obvious that Aniston was very interested in the movie "Source Code" and she would actively participate in basically all the movie's promotional activities.
For Aniston, "Source Code" is very important. She hopes to use this movie to change the public's belief that she cannot be on the big screen.
In addition, Aniston also wants to star in other Deep Space movies, preferably with scripts written by YU, so she has to work harder to promote the movie.
Matt Damon, who had just received the Saturn Award for Best Actor, seemed to be in a good mood and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter. You have a flight at three o'clock in the afternoon. You can still play for at least half a day. We will take you to see it then."
Giant panda, drink a bowl of tea, and if you have time, you can watch its face change."
Matt Damon stayed in China for a long time because of the filming of "The Martian". Although he spent most of his time in Mangya, he occasionally traveled to other places, and besides filming, he also
I go to China often, so I am quite familiar with China.
"I definitely want to see the giant panda." Aniston smiled.
"Before you go see the giant pandas, you have to learn a few words in Sichuan dialect. The giant pandas here can only understand Sichuan dialect." After Christopher Nolan made a joke, he said to Dong, "YU, your
I have read the new novel "District 9" and the story is very exciting. Are you considering making it into a movie now?"
Compared to giant pandas and bowls of tea, Christopher is obviously more interested in Dong's new novel "District 9".
If it had been before, of course he would not have asked Yu Dong so early if he had considered adapting it into a movie. However, Yu Dong had just published "Gravity" some time ago, and the film and television adaptation had already begun before the novel was even serialized.
In view of this, Christopher believes that "District 9" can be considered for film and television adaptation.
Yu Dong smiled and said, "Film and television adaptations will definitely be done, but I haven't seriously considered it yet. Do you have any ideas?"
"Haha, I'm just asking casually. Of course, I don't rule out that I will take the initiative to apply to shoot this movie later. If you really consider making it into a movie, you can give me some due consideration." Christopher Nolan said.
Next to him, Gu Tianzhu also climbed along the pole and said with a smile, "I think I can also play a role in the movie."
Aniston blinked her eyes twice. She really wanted to recommend herself, but the problem was that she searched in her mind for a long time and couldn't find an impressive female character in "District 9".
The human female character with the most scenes in "District 9" is the male protagonist's wife, but this role didn't leave a deep impression on people.
In fact, although there are many characters in the novel "District 9", both human and alien, the whole story is more like a one-man show of the male protagonist. Aniston focused all her attention while reading the book.
on the male protagonist.
Some people say that "District 9" is like Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", at least in this respect. In "The Metamorphosis", although there are many characters besides the protagonist, there are also some family members of the protagonist.
Tenant, but other characters don't leave much of an impression.
The only wife role in "District 9" that had some role, Aniston didn't really want to play it, so she didn't open her mouth.
When Yu Dong heard what Christopher and Gu Tianzhu said, he responded with a smile, "I will definitely consider you when the time comes, but before that, I must complete the "Source Code" project."
"Of course, everything is ready now, just waiting for the result. I believe the result will be good." Christopher Nolan said.
While a few people were talking, there were more and more people in the restaurant, more and more people were surrounding them, and the topics everyone was talking about were scattered.
The banquet that night was very simple, because there was still business to do tomorrow, so most of the people did not drink. Only Hu Changqing and the others drank, but they were more restrained and did not drink more.
The next afternoon, the Galaxy Awards ceremony officially began. "The Martian" took the lead, winning many awards including Best Science Fiction Film. Yu Dong also went on stage to receive the Best Screenplay Award.
The main creative staff of "Transparent" went all the way and their work was not in vain. They won three awards for Best Makeup and Best Supporting Actor and Actor. Although they were not major awards, they were very satisfied.
There are many awards in the Galaxy Awards now, including film and television, comics and animation, and then novels.
According to the order, the film and television categories will be awarded first, then comics and animation, and finally the novel category.
In the novel category of this year's Galaxy Awards, the competition for the novella award and the short story award is very fierce.
The novella award and the short story award each have three places, for a total of six places, but authors from all over the world have to compete for them.
Just when people thought that this year's short and novella awards would still be won by Chinese writers, the result surprised them.
There are a total of six award places, and three of them are foreign writers.
There will be one prize for the novella and two prizes for the short story.
The winner of the novella award is a young writer from the United States named Russell Jackson. He is only twenty-five years old and has only made his mark in the past two years.
Russell Jackson began writing science fiction novels at the age of twenty-two and did not publish them until he was twenty-three.
His first science fiction story was not published in any serious science fiction magazine, but in a local marginal magazine in Ohio.
That side magazine called "One Hand" usually publishes some curious and colorful anecdotes. I don't know what Russell Jackson thought, but he actually submitted his novel to it, let alone
What did the editor of this magazine think that he actually used this manuscript?
After all, it is a peripheral magazine. What readers want to read after buying it is of course the colorful content, not science fiction novels, so Russell's short story did not arouse much response.
However, an agent from Deep Space Company saw this novel and thought Russell Jackson had great potential, so he found Russell Jackson through the magazine and signed him.
After signing the contract, Russell Jackson began to submit articles to some science fiction-related magazines in the United States under the arrangement of his agent. After a few articles were published, the agent began to recommend to "Science Fiction World", and then the "Science Fiction World" editorial department
I introduced several novels by Russell Jackson.
This time Russell Jackson won the award for his novel "Cloud Ring" published in "Science Fiction World" last year. It is not easy to win. Domestic short and medium-sized science fiction novels have always been very high-volume.
After all, you may not be able to write a full-length novel in a few years, but short and medium stories are different. Whether you are a veteran or a novice, you can write short and medium stories for fun when you have nothing to do.
Especially for novices, they do not yet have the ability to write long novels, nor do they have the opportunity to write long novels. They can only write short stories, which results in an extremely large number of short and medium-sized novels every year.
Even though there are three awards for both novellas and short stories, the competition is still very high.
This time, half of the short and medium story awards were taken away by foreign writers, which also sounded a wake-up call for Chinese science fiction authors.
As for the Best Novel Award, there is basically no suspense.
Last year, Yu Dong published a novel "Wali" after a long absence. This year, the novel certainly deserved to win the Best Novel Award.
Chapter completed!