Chapter 68: Another Banner

Overall, Huang Lei's career this year was quite smooth.

The TV series "Oranges Turn Red," which just wrapped up filming a while ago, was shot by the high-flying director Li Shaohong in the TV industry, starring Huang Lei and Xun Ge'er. This definitely counts as the highest-quality resource available today.

This was Huang Lei's second collaboration with Xun Ge'er; the first was the hit drama "April Rhapsody."

When he went to do dubbing for the TV series yesterday, Huang Lei was quite happy. Xun Ge'er clearly hadn't recovered from the blow in Venice, and plus Xun Ge'er puts emotions into filming and is easily drawn into the role, so it was obvious she had a bit of attachment to him.

If it were before, Huang Lei wouldn't have felt much—to say something narcissistic, given his current status and image as a literary youth, there were plenty of girls attached to him.

What gave him a sense of frustration these past few months was that Milk Tea Liu didn't pay much attention to him anymore. Seeing that the fourth type of relationship was about to fail, this made him doubt his status and charm for a time.

Fortunately, seeing Xun Ge'er yesterday, Xun Ge'er was as usual, which slightly helped him regain his confidence.

What made him even happier was that Li Shaohong said that this drama had already been negotiated with CCTV. If there were no accidents, it would be broadcast as the opening drama of the year on the CCTV TV channel, which indicates that there is basically no need to worry about ratings.

Success in his career helped Huang Lei regain his confidence.

Returning to school early this morning, just after entering the office, it seemed like a familiar plot was playing out again.

A large group of teachers from the Acting Department were chatting with Wang Jinsong, and sounds of envy and congratulations came out from time to time.

Huang Lei felt a wave of disgust, his good mood was greatly dampened, and there was a bad premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, as soon as Teacher Liu next door came in, he shouted loudly to tease Wang Jinsong.

"Old Wang, you're awesome this time, Venice Golden Lion, you're also an actor with a Golden Lion award-winning film."

Wang Jinsong waved his hands, his mouth smiling almost to his ears.

"Hey, what Golden Lion or not, I'm just a small supporting role. It's Cao Dao who thinks highly of me, Old Wang. Whenever there's something good, he always thinks of me. Thank you Cao Dao, haha..."

"Golden Lion?!"

Huang Lei's shocked words blurted out. He was busy dubbing for the TV series until very late yesterday, so where would he have time to pay attention to this.

Although he knew Cao Yang's "Empty Room" stayed in Venice to participate in the closing, in Huang Lei's view, this year's Venice special Best Screenplay should have been prepared for Cao Yang.

Golden Lion? This clearly exceeded his imagination.

Seeing someone look over, Huang Lei laughed and quickly made up for it.

"Golden Lion is good, Golden Lion is good, Golden Lion... right, treat, Old Wang has to treat, must treat."

Others also joined in the fun.

"Old Wang must treat."

"Right, treat."

Wang Jinsong smiled and waved his hands, "Hey, you guys... treat, I'll treat, tonight, let's go to the same place as last time, everyone come."

So, a group of people started chatting again, but clearly, Wang Jinsong became the center of the topic.

This made Huang Lei envious. That is one of the three major European Golden Lions. If this were written into a resume, it would be much stronger than a thesis.

To mix in a unit, no matter how popular you are, it's useless when it comes to promotion. Either your thesis is awesome, or your awards are many and powerful.

Like Wang Jinsong, even if he is not a main actor, as long as he writes in his resume: participated in the Berlin Grand Jury Prize film "Night and Day," participated in the Venice Golden Lion film "Empty Room"...

Whether it is promotion or evaluating professional titles, these are very important bonus items.

Because this is Beijing Film Academy, this is the Acting Department, what is more convincing than these awards.

Huang Lei is depressed. The laughter in the office is truly incomparably harsh. These people have no example of being a teacher at all, ashamed to be with them!

Go for a walk to clear his mind.

Just after leaving the Acting Department, he saw a dozen cadres from the Student Union walking over, holding red cloth and talking to each other.

"What are you guys going to do?"

Huang Lei's heart moved, and he asked.

"Teacher Huang."

"Teacher Huang." These people greeted him and explained: "Cao Dao won the Golden Lion, winning glory for the school. Hou Yuan personally ordered us to go and hang these banners."

The thought in Huang Lei's heart became clearer and clearer. Why did that old kid Wang Jinsong "mix" two big awards? Isn't it because he flattered Cao Yang early on, and Cao Yang was willing to promote him.

He knew Cao Yang earlier, why let that old kid surnamed Wang take the lead?

"Go, I'll watch for you. Cao Dao can win this kind of top award in his junior year... oh, now he's a senior. It's both a manifestation of his own ability and winning glory for the school. We must be serious when hanging banners, and we must reflect the school's emphasis."

Then, leading a few Student Union members along the way, whenever he saw someone he knew, Huang Lei would greet them in advance.

"Ha, nothing much, it's just that Cao Dao Yang of the Directing Department just won the Golden Lion, winning glory for the school. Hou Yuan values talent and personally ordered the banners to be hung. I knew Cao Dao earlier, so I took the initiative to participate..."

This time the school really attached great importance to it. A student in school won a Golden Lion, which school leader isn't happy to the point of losing their way.

Is it just talk that Beijing Film Academy produces directors?

Didn't you see that under the guidance of school leaders and the cultivation of the Directing Department, a student can win a Golden Lion!

Looking at the whole country, let alone the whole country, even looking at the whole world, such a young student director is unique.

What American Film Institute, what USC School of Cinematic Arts, what Australian Film Television and Radio School, what Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, what University of Television and Film Munich, what National Film and Television School...

!

All get out of the way!

Where is this? This is Beijing Film Academy, which cultivated a student who won a Golden Lion in their student days.

May I ask, who among you has the ability to cultivate talent like this?

Banners? Hang them, hang them all.

School gate? Hang.

Don't forget to extend it a bit, hang them on both sides of the road.

Playground? Hang it.

Dormitory? Hang it.

Canteen? Hang it.

Office building? Hang it.

Teaching building? Hang it.

Hang them all.

Huang Lei couldn't help but want to show off again, asking Hou Yuan if he should extend it a little further, just to the gate of the Central Academy of Drama.

Dong Xuan stayed up late last night squatting in front of the computer, constantly refreshing the three major portals, and also went to the Tianya community from time to time to check, and had a long confrontation with a bastard named "Number One in the Circle."

When Liu Ye won Best Newcomer, she couldn't help but be envious but not jealous. Liu Ye, apart from being a bit weird, his acting skills were impeccable. He was worthy of being International Zhang's classmate.

The acting skills of the Central Academy of Drama people were still online, half a catty to eight taels with the Beijing Film Academy acting class, Beijing Film Academy half a catty, Central Academy of Drama eight taels.

Perhaps it should be a modern ten-tael scale.

When Yu Feihong won the Venice Best Actress, Dong Xuan felt it was both unexpected and reasonable.

What ten-tael scale, it was clearly the ancient sixteen taels, half a catty and eight taels mean the same thing.

You Central Academy of Drama produced a Venice Best Actress Gong Li, and my Beijing Film Academy also produced a Venice Best Actress Yu Feihong!

Having witnessed the explosive display of acting talent from Yu Feihong after being directed by Cao Yang, she felt that the kind of effortless, free-flowing performance she saw was something she could never achieve in her entire life.

However, if she could be trained by Cao Yang... it wasn't impossible to surpass the Central Academy of Drama.

In a word, Cao Yang is the true god, and Yu Feihong is the biggest beneficiary.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but be jealous of Yu Feihong's luck.

Dong Xuan was jealous of Yu Feihong's luck, not knowing that she was also the object of jealousy for other students in the class, who thought she was the luckiest one.

The first movie she participated in as a freshman won the Venice Golden Lion. Although it was only a small supporting role, this starting point was high enough.

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