Chapter 852: Lin Dao's Little Classroom: Gold Content?

Is Li Yang a big director? The answer to this question is indeed self-evident.

In the eyes of ordinary netizens, he can't even touch the edge of a big director, because he has neither a big award resume nor box office results; and in the eyes of the industry, he is just a professional film director, with low influence.

Li Yang is a documentary director by background, and he has achieved remarkable results in this field, especially his popularity in Europe is not small;

And *Blind Shaft* was his first movie. Although it was shortlisted for the Jin Xiong Award, won the Silver Bear Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, and was also nominated for the Best Picture Golden Horse Award;

But 15 years have passed since then, and he has only filmed two and a half movies, *Blind Way* hasn't wrapped up yet... and only *Blind Shaft* has rushed for awards...

Therefore, with such a "simple" resume in the eyes of a group of crazy fans, Li Yang is undoubtedly an inconspicuous little director, and she can attack him unscrupulously without any psychological pressure.

Even in her eyes, this little director Li Yang is intentionally rubbing against her idol's heat, trying to raise his status by smearing Yang Mi, so as to attract public opinion topics and attention, and create momentum for *Blind Way*.

"Okay, I know, you should have called me yesterday afternoon...

Well, I admit I was very busy at that time, and I had a farewell banquet for Ma Te in the evening, drank some wine, and slept early... Thank you for your concern, wife, you have worked hard..."

Lin Nan answered Liu Yifei's phone with a smile on his face, his tone gentle and flattering, making a group of people in the distance have toothaches.

"Lin Dao is too cheesy, right? It's almost catching up with me and Tang Yixin."

"Hey, Big Brother, you are really shameless." Zhao Jinmai complained with disdain.

"You little brat, don't get involved in the topics of us adults."

"15 years old is not small anymore, it's the age of puppy love, but I suggest you better not be distracted by these inappropriate things, it's better to focus on your studies and career." Wu Jing gave Zhao Jinmai a piece of advice with the posture of a predecessor.

"Hmm, I will, thank you Brother Jing."

"Don't worry, leave it to me to handle. Hmm, okay, hanging up." The moment the call ended, the smile on Lin Nan's face disappeared, and then he flipped through Weibo with a cold face, quite seriously.

The large-scale "bee swarm" besieging and cyberbullying Li Yang online was caused by a long Weibo article he forwarded the day before yesterday—*Who is ashamed of Yang Mi and others taking this kind of "International Film Queen"*!

As a senior and professional film director in the industry, his behavior, from the perspective of an industry insider, is denying Yang Mi's honor of "Houston International Film Festival Film Queen";

And to put it bigger, this is even representing the entire film industry in denying Yang Mi... For fans, even if there is only this trend, they will not agree, so there was this escalating storm.

The siege started early yesterday morning, fermented to the scale of the entire internet in the morning, and became completely out of control by the afternoon.

During this period, Li Yang really couldn't bear the screen-swiping siege and scolding, and even specially posted another Weibo to counterattack:

"Whether your idol's acting is good or bad has its own public opinion, I don't need to say it. Any actor who performs well, I will like it.

What I want to say is that the phenomenon of fraud in the Chinese film and television industry will only harm Chinese films and filmmakers. Your attacks and scolding will not hurt me at all, only counterproductive... That's all I have to say."

Well, after this Weibo was posted, the scolding online became even fiercer. Posts like "little director pretending to be a big tail wolf" and "worrying about the country and the people but being able to pretend" were posted everywhere.

"Lin Dao, what are you preparing to do?" Wu Jing walked over with a smile, he obviously guessed something.

"Director Li Yang's influence and fame are too small, so he was cyberbullied. I'll go stand for him, and personally popularize relevant knowledge for that group of brain-dead people..."

Lin Nan's cold tone without a trace of emotion made Zhang Ruoyun and Zhao Jinmai feel a thud in their hearts. Well, they can advance to mourn for the newly promoted international film queen!

"Sigh, this is a typical case of brain-dead fans pitting their idols, tsk tsk tsk." Wu Jing sighed with a smile.

All morning, the news of Ma Te Damon wrapping up in *The Wandering Earth* crew and appearing at the Beijing airport to return to Hollywood didn't cause any ripples online.

The headlines and trending searches still belonged to the Houston Film Queen, especially after Jiaxing announced the celebration banquet in Beijing near noon, the related news became even more rampant and boiling.

However, this lively scene ushered in a basin of cold water at 12:30 noon, so much so that the public opinion that had been suppressed by the bee swarm lost its defense again, and even completely collapsed and rebounded...

The most excited were major platforms and entertainment media, because a wave of greater traffic appeared.

And for the normal netizens who were beaten back by the bee swarm, they were also "crying with joy", because finally a big shot came out to speak!

"In the afternoon, Lin Dao Nan voiced his support for Director Li Yang in the *The Wandering Earth* crew, and updated Weibo as follows:

First, I clearly stand with Director Li Yang. Second, I will 'popularize' the 'gold content' of the Houston International Film Festival for everyone from the perspective of a senior filmmaker;

Admittedly, this film festival was founded in 1961 and is indeed long-standing; but it is not a competitive film festival, but a film festival characterized by encouragement, supporting independent films, and setting up a large number of awards with a super high winning rate.

How high is its winning rate? Let's put it this way, it's about 15%~20%. And this film festival clearly has situations where awards can be obtained by paying fees directly!

Remember one sentence, except for the Sundance Film Festival, there is no other film festival in the United States with gold content.

There are many small film festivals over there, but they are basically commercial film festivals, paying money and giving awards, and the organizing committee will occasionally beg people to participate.

And to say something shameful, a very important part of these 'customers' of commercial film festivals come from Asia... Of course, the Oscars and Golden Globes are not film festivals, they are separate film awards.

So, I don't need to say anything more about the gold content of the Houston International Film Festival Film Queen, right?

PS: This Weibo is only for popular science for certain groups. Of course, you can also besiege me! After all, I haven't won an award at the Houston Film Festival, and in your eyes, I might not have much say?"

Lin Nan's long Weibo article was like a Dinghai Divine Needle, directly causing a brief silence on Weibo, but it was only a brief calm.

With the likes and reposts of many directors, filmmakers, and actors in the industry, and the comments of countless netizens, the previous public opinion turned 180 degrees...

"This is a slap in the face, right? A top big director appeared to say that it is a wild chicken award that pays for awards!"

"Lin Dao's wave is beautiful! By the way, Yang Mi was an artist of Shanhai Media before, can this be considered 'righteousness destroying relatives'?"

"I want to see the 'bee swarm' cyberbullying Lin Dao, tearing apart the Golden Lion, Jin Xiong, Oscars, and Golden Globes, these are not as good as the Remi Award of the Houston International Film Festival..."

"Upstairs, if that's really the case, Weibo will have to permanently ban a large number of accounts! Haha..."

For the bee swarm, they can question Li Yang's influence and intention, but how can they question Lin Nan? What reason to counterattack him? Or just ignore it and scold directly? Just like playing against Li Yang?

There are many brain-dead fans, and there are even more smart brain-dead fans. Who doesn't know the gap in status between their own idol and Lin Nan? The answer is: there is no one who doesn't know.

Those who can become brain-dead fans are all senior followers of the film and television entertainment circle. Sometimes they know how to lift high and step low and play against competitors better than their own idols, and often more directly and nakedly.

As a result, in the afternoon, a strange scene appeared online.

The bees successively began to post posts to calm things down, striving to ensure the "dignity" and "honor" of their own idols while not offending Lin Nan.

"For a big director like Lin Dao who has won Oscars, Golden Globes, Golden Bears, and Golden Lions, the Houston International Film Festival is of course an 'unclassy' award, but for ordinary actors, this is a big award."

"The gold content has always varied from person to person. Things that Lin Dao doesn't like may be a treasure to others."

"Just like the Golden Rooster Awards that Lin Dao doesn't like, but it is also flocked to by countless people in the circle! In fact, everyone is right, just standing at different heights."

"The sentence 'one man's meat is another man's poison' can also be used here. Still want to congratulate Yang Mi, after all, other female actors don't have this big award. If they are not convinced, let them get one first."

Jiaxing.

Yang Mi was no longer in the mood to read the script of *Legend of Fuyao*, and Ceng Jia was also restless.

The plan to use the gimmick of the Houston International Film Festival to market *Reset* was undoubtedly shattered by Lin Dao's Weibo.

"It's been almost 10 years since *Blind Mountain* was off the screen, right? Lin Nan would still stand for Li Yang? Is he nostalgic, or not nostalgic?" Ceng Jia muttered with displeasure.

"Yes, it's been 10 years, logically they shouldn't have any intersection anymore? The human favor from fifteen years ago was returned in *Blind Mountain*! What I didn't expect even more is that Senior Brother Lin... Lin Dao would personally come out to slap my face.

But now is not the time to say these things, what should I do next? Should I make a call?"

Yang Mi asked with a pale face, she still felt that this matter had nothing to do with Lin Dao, it was her senior and former boss who was meddling.

"Tell Yaolai side too? After all, it's a movie produced by Jackie Chan, let them also communicate with Lin Dao... so that the movie can be released safely, and there will be no more falling into the well..."

A new day, the movie script *Hello, Mrs. Money* was low-key submitted for review by Happy Mahua. At the same time, *How Long Will I Love U* officially announced the starring lineup.

The partnership between Miss Jing Tian Tian and Lei Jiayin undoubtedly showed the industry a fact, that is, this movie was internally digested by actors of the Lin Nan Pictures system.

The strength and capital of the big faction were once again displayed vividly, attracting a burst of envy in the circle.

*The Wandering Earth* crew.

Li Guangjie led the team, and the scenes of Wu Mengda and the others' engineering transport vehicle were finally successfully filmed.

At this point, it also meant that Wu Mengda's scenes were running out, and he was about to wrap up.

"Lin Dao, Miss Jing Tian Tian has arrived with her assistant."

"Where is she?" Lin Nan took the water handed by the assistant, looked around the crew, and asked.

"Just now you were directing, so she went out for a breeze. Should be by the artificial lake."

"Then call her back to prepare for makeup, we will shoot her first scene in the afternoon."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Leaning on the director's chair, Lin Nan still felt a bit funny. Yang Mi called early in the morning, which made him very speechless.

But she is indeed a first-tier popular female star who has been fighting alone in the circle for so long, the flattering words and the posture of being able to bend and stretch are far from what Shu Chang and Miss Jing Tian Tian can compare to!

"Brother Lin, Director Wu... Hello, teachers." Miss Jing Tian Tian's voice came from near and far, very crisp. Everyone heard the sound and looked at her.

"Here, you can just call me Brother Jing; as for the director, I can't afford it. There is only one director, well, Lin Dao. Haha..."

Hearing Wu Jing's self-deprecation, a group of people couldn't help but laugh.

Lin Nan looked at Miss Jing Tian Tian with a smile, teasing: "You two should indeed know each other, you are going to play a couple in the sequel."

Hearing this, Wu Jing was instantly excited, Zhang Ruoyun and Zhao Jinmai were also a bit silly and excited...

This was the first time since filming started that they clearly heard Lin Nan mention the sequel. With the style of Lin Nan Pictures, if there were no accidents, it would be 99% the original cast!

Of course, compared to Wu Jing and the three, Miss Jing Tian Tian was completely calm. Because she knew this thing from the beginning, starting from the second part, she would be the main core actor.

"The internet is very quiet today. It was pressed down all of a sudden, Lin Nan is really merciless, hehe..."

"This is completely different! For Lin Dao, Yang Mi is just a former signed artist and a familiar junior, but Director Li Yang is the person who brought him into the industry, Lin Dao will not easily forget the old. And some time ago, Yifei also invested in Director Li Yang's *Blind Way*."

Han Jia carried the tea box down from upstairs and took over her father's words. In the living room, besides Han Sanping, Ren Zhonglun was also there.

"Hmm? This is the first time I've heard of this, no wonder."

Ren Zhonglun nodded, and then asked: "Then have you heard them say whether *The Wandering Earth* can wrap up before the middle of next month? Two months should be enough to finish filming, right? After all, it's a sci-fi movie, special effects work is the bulk."

"Hard to say, but it definitely won't be absent from the Shanghai International Film Festival, and then it has to transfer directly to Hong Kong. Hmm, I will follow too."

"Then it will have to be filmed until July, right?" Han Sanping pondered. "Did Lin Nan reveal anything to you about the Disney invitation? When will he meet with that side?"

"Don't ask, how would I know so much? Isn't it just Director Chen Kaige appearing in Shanghai? In my opinion, he definitely has no play, although it's just an initial negotiation..."

Han Jia said affirmatively. If it were really given to Chen Kaige, wouldn't he think of a way to stuff his son in?

"Then you go and inquire, let them give some strength. If he succeeds, we state-owned enterprises can provide free support in history, architecture, makeup, weapons, and armor for him and Disney. Don't make a mess of Chinese culture like *The Great Wall* again..."

... ===== CHAPTER 853 =====