Chapter 596: A Poem of Scolding

Luo Mo's acceptance speech was very brief.

Or rather, he has always disliked saying things that are long-winded.

However, these brief words had an overly terrifying implication.

Listen to the words this young man said.

"Backstage," "cake," "not clean," "uncomfortable."

Finally, he even added: "I won't eat it next time."

This made many stars at the scene realize that they had been surprised too early.

Previously, when Luo Mo refused to accept the award, everyone thought that was the biggest explosive point of the night.

But this acceptance speech of his was truly a head-on confrontation.

This caused the many stars present to have different thoughts and feelings.

Some thought: "The Fan Hua Award is indeed not acting properly, and it has indeed been invaded by capital, but at least you won an award. On the surface, you are also the biggest winner tonight; you should be content. Or rather... why bother?"

While others thought: "I admire him a bit, and I envy him for having this kind of courage."

Of course, there were naturally some who viewed him as a big fool.

This is one of the three major film awards!

Which filmmaker does not need the recognition of the 【Fan Hua Award】?

This world has never had absolute Fairness.

What's more, you, Luo Mo, have the confidence, the resources, the Connections, and the energy yourself.

Many circles have also extended an olive branch to you; it is you yourself who are unwilling to integrate into them.

Don't be so unsociable, don't be so maverick, don't be so arrogant; many things could be much easier.

Integrate into a few circles; there is strength in numbers!

Li Dongliang can engineer a 【Best Director】 win; is it really that hard for you, Luo Mo, to hold onto this award and not let him snatch it away?

It is you yourself who does nothing.

You are noble, you are amazing!

Therefore, this is what you deserve!

How could these people know what stands behind Luo Mo?

"Strength in numbers, Connections, human favors..." Luo Mo is also clear on these.

However, compare numbers with me?

Behind me is an entire Earth!

What's more, the value of so-called awards is linked to credibility and persuasiveness.

Then, everything becomes very simple.

—I only need to do my best!

If the first place you select each year is, in the eyes of the masses, only second place, or even third or fourth place... then what meaning does this crappy award of yours have?

Sitting at the card table, surrounded by capital, Luo Mo slowly covered the cards in his hand.

Then, he flipped the card table over in one go.

What crappy rules; Laozi isn't playing anymore!

………

………

Inside the Fan Hua Award hall, those expert judge representatives had their breathing become a bit more rapid.

Many people even had their cheeks flush red, wishing they could go on stage right now and scold Luo Mo a few times.

This group of people is used to being fawned over in their daily lives, used to pointing fingers at the country, and used to being the ones to critique and evaluate filmmakers and their works.

They hold power in their hands, so they feel they are high and mighty.

The most ridiculous thing is that this group of people also has a very alternative kind of "nobility" in their bones.

After all, they are experts, people who claim to be knowledgeable, cultured people, and people with profound knowledge.

This type of person cares a lot about their face, and what they cannot accept most is this kind of head-on confrontation from Luo Mo.

And the bullet comments in the Live Broadcast are now what you would call exciting.

"Awesome! Too Ox!"

"Hahahaha, too tough!"

"This year's event was run well; don't run it next time."

"I've long been annoyed by this kind of cake-slicing behavior!"

"The Fan Hua Award these past few years is really not as good as the previous years."

"The collision of art has turned into a game of capital, ugh!"

"It still has to be Luo Mo!"

In reality, many people are clear that everything has only just begun.

With so many people in the whole country, how many actually watch the live broadcast of the awards ceremony?

Some people have never watched a live broadcast of an awards ceremony in their entire lives.

Many people obtain information through the next day's news, Hot Search, etc.

It's just that from the current situation, perhaps they won't even have to wait until the next day.

Tonight, many messages will be overwhelming!

Think about how terrifying the subsequent fallout was after Will Smith gave the host a big slap at the Oscars on Earth.

Luo Mo didn't resort to violence; he promised Xu Chujing to be a bit more civilized, so he didn't even say anything unpleasant.

However, it was already enough!

The turmoil at the Fan Hua Award ceremony is very likely about to become known to everyone.

This matter has really blown up!

After Luo Mo walked off the stage, all the awards for this year's ceremony had been presented.

The host took the stage amidst an atmosphere completely different from previous years and began to announce the conclusion of the Fan Hua Film Festival.

The cue cards in their hands had all been written in advance.

The host read according to the content on the cue cards, which included quite a bit about the history, honors, original intentions, and future prospects of the Fan Hua Award...

However, for every sentence they said, the barrage in the Live Broadcast would surge once.

As it evolved later on, the netizens seemed to have grown tired of typing and stopped posting long sentences.

Each and every one of them was like a repeater, with only two things filling the screen:

"Pah!"

"He~Tui!"

A perfectly fine film festival ended in a farce due to various shady dealings and ridiculous maneuvers.

As for the subsequent banquet, Luo Mo and Xu Chujing certainly would not be attending.

No other meaning, it's just that they got a stomachache from eating the cake backstage, right! They are feeling unwell!

Before leaving, Luo Mo even asked Wang Rong, "Do you want this trophy?"

He was referring to the trophy for 【Best Film Award】; it didn't have Luo Mo's name on it, only "Medicine".

Logically speaking, this honor belongs to the entire film crew, but there is definitely only one trophy, which should have been kept by Luo Mo.

"Forget it, I'll keep it as a souvenir." After thinking for a moment, Wang Rong said, "After you stirred things up like this, I can only put it in a cabinet; I can't even put it on the display shelf at home!"

"Go, go, go!" Luo Mo found him long-winded and handed the trophy directly to him.

As for those trophies engraved with his own name, he would take them back to be dealt with, and it could only be done privately.

Luo Mo is too popular, so popular that things belonging to him, or things he has used, all become different.

Like on Earth, he had seen news where people would pay high prices for snacks celebrities hadn't finished, and a group of people would fight over a hotel room a celebrity had stayed in for one night.

He didn't want to invite any unnecessary trouble.

Of course, they also didn't deserve to be placed alongside his other trophies.

………

…….

The Fan Hua Film Festival ended, but not entirely.

The subsequent fallout swept across the entire internet, leaving many people with their jaws dropped.

"Holy crap! I regret not watching the Live Broadcast!"

"What's wrong, what happened!?"

"Front row for the gossip! Is there any gossip farmer who can explain it in detail?"

"Five minutes, I want all the information on this year's Fan Hua Award!"

Many onlookers figured out the cause and effect, and for a time, the public was incensed, cursing loudly on the internet.

You have to know, "Medicine" had just finished its theatrical run and had just been listed on Penguin Video.

The popularity of this film is still very high at the moment.

Many people who didn't get a chance to see it in theaters had just watched the film on Penguin Video.

Quite a few who had seen it in theaters also watched it again on Penguin Video.

For those who like this film, cursing you a few times is considered being nice.

And in this process, the most uncomfortable person is the second male lead in "Car King 2", an artist under Tian Ou's studio—Han Bin.

There's no helping it, who told him to win 【Best Supporting Actor】 together with Luo Mo.

The internet has a memory, and the internet also has no memory. Because the information everyone receives is different.

Many people are keen on winning awards precisely because many people have no idea how this person's award was won.

Now it's great, after being tossed about by Luo Mo like this, the whole country knows I won it with him!

The main thing is that his performance at the awards ceremony was too comical.

Especially the scene where Luo Mo left the trophy directly on the stage and carefully helped him take it down.

Some netizens even turned these into memes and parody videos.

Now it's great, the cake Han Bin was forced to eat has suddenly gone bad.

This made his big boss, Tian Ou, look ashen-faced all day long.

In his mindset, he had never even considered that someone would publicly defy the authority of the Fan Hua Award.

This was simply not in his concept; it exceeded the limits of his imagination.

You have to know, Luo Mo had only just come to develop in the film industry.

If it were in the music scene, where he was already calling the wind and summoning the rain, already had a solid foundation, and could trigger a massive earthquake just by stomping his foot, that would be easier to talk about.

You are standing high now, but the wind is also strong!

"How did I run into such a person!" The more Tian Ou recalled, the more he felt that since meeting Luo Mo, nothing had gone smoothly for him during this period!

And what's interesting is that many netizens are now keeping an eye on the next moves of the 【Fan Hua Award】.

Everyone is very curious, will they issue some kind of statement?

Most importantly, don't forget one very important thing!

Luo Mo rejected the 【Best Director Debut Award】; the response on the scene at the time was that they would discuss the matter and then provide a result.

This award is effectively vacant for the time being.

In fact, logically speaking, given the popularity and reputation of *Monkey King: Hero is Back*, as well as the benefits and influence it brought to the animation industry, it was fully qualified to win this award.

A blockbuster that broke the box office record for animated films by who knows how many times in one go, and it still isn't worthy of a Best Director Debut Award from you?

However, after Luo Mo caused such a stir, how could the group of expert judges at the Fan Hua Award still be willing to do that?

Yet, they didn't have the guts to present this award to any other newcomer director either.

The Fan Hua Award was unhappy with Luo Mo, but they didn't dare to do anything that would cause further complications.

Caught in the center of public opinion, the Fan Hua Award was desperate for this matter to pass as soon as possible.

It wouldn't be too late to settle the score with him later on.

Therefore, an unprecedented event in the history of the Fan Hua Award's "Best Director Debut Award" since its establishment occurred.

At the 31st Fan Hua Film Festival, the winner of the "Best Director Debut Award" was—none!

……..

……..

The Fan Hua Award has been held every two years since its establishment.

Occasionally, there are indeed some awards that are not judged due to special reasons.

But to have held the judging process and then end up with no winner, that was a first!

Many media outlets were frantically trying to interview Luo Mo, but Luo Mo had long since run off to Siam to continue filming *Sheep Without a Shepherd*.

Unable to find Luo Mo, the media wanted to interview others on the *Dying to Survive* team.

Tang Shiyu is a little fan of Luo Mo, and she is quite sensible, so she certainly wouldn't accept an interview.

Hu Wei, the actor who played Huang Mao, had already signed with Luo Mo Studio. As an artist, how could I have the qualifications to speak in front of the media about the big boss's affairs?

This caused a crowd of media outlets that caught a whiff of the situation to start changing their approach and looking for new breakthroughs.

"The people on Luo Mo's side don't like to pay attention to us in the first place."

"However, there is a group of people who naturally love to be interviewed!"

That's right, it's the so-called experts!

In recent years, the so-called "experts suggest that everyone XXX" has frequently hit the Hot Search.

So much so that later on, whenever such a Hot Search appeared, a counter-Hot Search would quickly appear: suggest that experts stop suggesting.

These expert judges themselves love to talk, love to criticize, and love to make comments.

When the media comes to interview them, they surely have to show off their own art of language!

You, Luo Mo, were sarcastic during your acceptance speech at the awards ceremony.

Fine, we'll be sarcastic too.

On the surface, no one leaves behind any evidence, and we'll just disgust each other anyway!

This group of people relies on the power they hold to make a living.

Luo Mo directly challenged the authority of the Fan Hua Award, which is equivalent to touching their lifeline and their rice bowl.

It would be strange if they could hold back from Dancing!

Of course, this also has to do with the fact that the Fan Hua Award is full of internal factions; the interest groups are not aligned, leading to a lack of tacit understanding in how everyone acts.

Some people still advocate letting this wind blow over first and dealing with it after the public opinion dies down.

But a portion of them couldn't care less about that.

Everyone only remained unified on the matter of not reissuing the trophy to Luo Mo.

So, the question arises.

Many people might think: "Aren't these experts afraid of being scolded?"

The answer is, of course—we aren't afraid!

If the experts were afraid of being scolded by netizens, then why would that "suggest that experts stop suggesting" Hot Search appear repeatedly?

Not daring to speak would be a disgrace to our title as experts!

Many expert judges who fancy themselves as intellectuals even feel that their rhetoric is extremely impressive, full of substance, and thought-provoking.

One news story after another amused even Luo Mo, who was far away in Siam.

"They truly are the intellectuals of the entertainment industry." He laughed.

As everyone knows, most people in the entertainment industry are not highly educated.

Solving an equation on a variety show can count as being a top student.

Being able to spout a few lines of poetry is considered having a brilliant literary talent.

So many tactics don't work on them.

Because they don't understand them.

For example, just like when Luo Mo previously relied on *Nocturne* to win five awards in one night at the awards ceremony, achieving the legendary story of "Once the Nocturne plays, you go on stage to receive an award," that line "I do not hate the ancients for not seeing me, I hate that the ancients cannot see my madness," many people at the scene didn't understand what it meant!

This is really not an exaggeration.......

In the entertainment industry, there are too many "Nine Leak Fish."

"But since you all fancy yourselves as intellectuals........" Luo Mo rubbed his chin, actually finding a bit of "refined interest."

Yes, it was refined interest.

As everyone knows, the bickering between intellectuals is often very interesting.

On Earth, the one who is almost invincible in this field is the national male god, Xun Ge'er.

After all, his writing is as sharp as a knife.

But in reality, there is another person who is also very strong.

That is Mr. Wen.

At night, Luo Mo posted another poem on Weibo, a poem by Mr. Wen.

The poem is titled—"Dead Water"!

Luo Mo posted it directly; in any case, he was very clear that some people would naturally identify themselves with it.

Once this poem was posted, it immediately attracted a massive crowd, and many people couldn't help but take a deep breath after reading it!

This content felt so satisfying, and it fit the current situation all too well.

"【This is a ditch of hopeless Dead Water,

A clear breeze cannot raise a single ripple.

Might as well throw in some scrap metal and iron,

Or simply pour in your leftovers and slop.】"

The opening section was extremely similar to the current situation of the Fan Hua Award.

A few years ago, the Fan Hua Award stopped being what it used to be, and under the invasion of capital, it turned into this shitty state.

Isn't this just a pool of Dead Water? You can curse all you want, but if I change, I lose!

The masters of capital must not be defied!

—Incorrigible!

What's more, it's not like we use all the awards for manipulation; there are still at least half of the awards that can truly convince the public.

Hmm, isn't that just feeding you some leftovers and slop?

The seemingly golden Goddess of Fan Hua Statue has been reduced to the scrap metal and iron written about in the poem.

"【Perhaps the copper will turn green like jade,

And rust on the iron cans will bloom into peach blossoms.

Let the grease weave a layer of fine silk,

And mold steam out some sunset clouds for it.】"

Writing the details here is truly vivid and graphic; it's a satisfying scolding!

It looks very magnificent, but what kind of stuff is it deep down!

"【Let the Dead Water brew into a ditch of green wine,

Floating full of pearl-like white foam;

The small pearls' laughter turns into big pearls,

Only to be bitten open by the wine-stealing mosquitoes.】"

Hehe, look, the award is already dirtied, yet there is still a group of people wanting to snatch it, wanting to steal it.

It's as if they haven't taken a few bites, they've lived their lives in vain, and wasted their time in the film industry.

"【Then a ditch of hopeless Dead Water,

Can still be praised for a bit of vividness.

If the frogs cannot endure the loneliness,

Then consider the Dead Water to have sung a song.】"

This made many netizens think of the news they had seen these past few days, thinking of how these experts truly couldn't endure the loneliness; whenever the media went to find them, it was as if their mouths were rented, and they used them for all they were worth!

It's as if they would have wasted their mouths if they didn't speak.

—Noisy!

Being as incorrigible as Dead Water is one thing, but they also like to hop around blindly like frogs, jumping up and down!

"【This is a ditch of hopeless Dead Water,

This is definitely not a place where beauty resides.】"

These two lines can be considered Luo Mo directly defining the current Fan Hua Award.

And the last two lines of the entire poem can be considered Luo Mo's "expectation" for the future of the Fan Hua Award.

After the invasion of capital, no matter how everyone curses, you won't change, right?

The voices and admonitions of the masses are worthless in your eyes, right?

Oh, that's right, how could those bring you a single cent of real money.

Then, I hope you continue to work hard and become even more intense.

On this path, march forward with great momentum, and advance by leaps and bounds.

Let capital become even more rampant, let it preside over the big picture, let it make the final decisions, and let's see what the result will be!

"【Might as well let Evil come to cultivate it,

And see what kind of world it creates!】"

(PS: Two-in-one.)

(End of chapter)