Chapter 196: The Sword is Finished, and the Prix Literary Award?
Li Hansheng: "Does it have to be this way?"
Han Zhou: “Yes.”
Li Hansheng: "How about this?"
Han Zhou: “No.”
Li Hansheng and other extras pulled out their guns and went "bang bang bang"!
The monk fell to the ground.
There was no shortage of extras in the crew of "Drawing Sword". Li Hansheng didn't understand why Han Zhou wanted him to play the role of a bandit and then shoot the monk.
However, after the monk died, Han Zhou could concentrate on being a director.
After we stopped acting, we shot the scenes much faster.
And Han Zhou will have time to write some more things.
…
On the podium, Li Yunlong, who had a scar on his face, had a determined look in his eyes.
"Even if the enemy outnumbers us, even if we are surrounded, we dare to draw our swords and fight to the last man. In a word, the brave will win when two meet on a narrow road. The spirit of drawing the sword is the soul of our army. Wherever the sword points, we will be invincible !"
The iron triangle was the last one to take the stage to give speeches.
In the original version, Kong Jie's speech was omitted.
But in the end, Han Zhou added this part.
Finally, Ding Wei talked about strategic matters, Li Yunlong talked about profound things, and Kong Jie talked about battle and tactical matters.
The Northwest Shanxi Iron Triangle finally achieved a perfect ending.
When the original version was being filmed, it was actually hinted at what paper Kong Jie had written.
But what Kong Jie wants to say is what many generals can say. Compared with what Li Yunlong and Ding Wei say, it is a bit ordinary.
So, it was omitted in the end.
But when filming was going on, no one expected that "Bright Sword" would become so popular, nor did anyone expect that the Northwest Shanxi Iron Triangle would be so popular.
So, this is a point that everyone regrets.
Han Zhou filled in the gap here.
However, if there is gain, there must be loss.
In this world's version of "Drawing Sword", the landing on Jin Island was a great success, and our army attacked the Taiwan Strait and crushed it with ease.
Even though the United States instigated the war on the peninsula, it could not stop our military's strategic goal of grand unification.
In the cross-sea battle, Li Yunlong and Chu Yunfei staged the final showdown.
At this point, two levels of translocation have occurred.
Once upon a time, our army was at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, while Chu Yunfei had more people, but they were all trash.
But when we arrived at the Taiwan Strait, our troops had an overall numerical advantage, so Li Yunlong's hope of a one-on-one fight with Li Yunlong was ultimately not realized.
Unlike many people who finally fell to the ground and surrendered, Chu Yunfei, who practiced the Three Principles of the People, felt that the people above were pigs, but he still sacrificed his life for the ideas of the founding father.
Looking back, our army was evenly matched with the United States in the Peninsula War, and the United States was unable to cross the 38th line no matter what.
Eventually, these generals learned modern military affairs at military academies, and our army completed the first reform in its history.
Finally, the filming was officially completed with a speech on the spirit of Bright Sword.
This crew and actors are top notch.
The props are top notch.
The venue depends on fate.
Photographer, just average.
A work without any frills but with a spiritual core that is as rich as the limits of a TV drama has been completed.
As usual, Han Zhou looked at the monitor and lit a cigarette.
"The whole play is finished."
Originally, it was a large auditorium venue, with a large number of actors sitting in the audience seats.
When they heard the word "wrapped", everyone applauded wildly.
Logically, this auditorium should be located somewhere in Shenyang City in Northeast China.
But in fact, this is Xishan Province, and a separate venue was built for the front part of the filming.
It's summer now and everyone is wearing winter military uniforms.
After the filming was finished, the first thing everyone did was to take off their clothes.
Li Hansheng on the stage still had a microphone in front of him. He flicked the microphone with his fingers and said, "So, what about the wrap party? Don't we have to get Director Han drunk?"
The actors in the audience were talking at once.
Han Zhou smiled and held up the loud speaker: "We are in the countryside now. It's too far to go to the county town for the wrap-up party."
"I have a suggestion."
"We have come to Xishan Province, but we haven't had a good meal yet. Isn't this a pity?"
"Today, all the Xishan people in the crew are chefs. How about we make some knife-cut noodles?"
Many people think this proposal is quite unique.
Han Zhou did not treat the crew badly during this period. He set up several kitchens in the manor and had a team of ten chefs serving meals.
I haven't tried the local specialties yet.
Li Hansheng: "Then we have to help?"
Kong Jie's actor: "Although your fingers are like rolling pins, it doesn't mean you can roll noodles. You cook? Isn't that Zhang Fei embroidering, staring at each other?"
"Ahahahaha!" Li Hansheng habitually responded to this complaint with Li Yunlong's signature laughter.
Then I felt lost.
Oops, Li Yunlong's role has ended? !
Someone asked: "Director Han, when will our play be shown?"
Han Zhou smiled and said, "July."
Some people wondered: "Why not in August? Wouldn't it be better to broadcast it in August on Army Day?"
Han Zhou was amused, how could it be broadcast in August?
August is Domestic Film Protection Month.
If you want to go on TV, it will be in July.
By then, a group of American film companies that are trying hard to make money in the Chinese market will be disappointed.
'Why are all the hot searches on Weibo about anti-Japanese war dramas? Don't Chinese people like to watch this?'
As for August, leave it to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
It’s also a patriotic theme, but it’s a martial arts film.
Large noodles, knife-cut noodles, were taken while they were still cold in the hot summer.
In fact, it’s only been a month.
There were too many veteran members in the crew, so Han Zhou had to arrange people to send them to the station and airport one by one, and then explain things to Zhou Xuyun.
After explaining everything, Han Zhou was about to go to Yanjing.
When filming, I am basically disconnected from society.
This time, firstly, I want to give An Lan all the songs chosen for her, and then I want to prepare for the Children's Day party.
…
Han Zhou had a good sleep on the high-speed train.
The people around him obviously recognized Han Zhou, but seeing his tired face, they knew that he had just finished filming, so no one bothered him and just secretly took pictures of him.
When Han Zhou woke up, he was almost in Yanjing.
I took out my phone out of habit and looked at it.
After seeing a lot of news, Han Zhou preferred to read those sent by people inside the company.
Yang Hong:
"There's a prize in New York, do you want to go?"
Han Zhou was stunned for a moment. This year's College Student Choice Awards were still two months away.
As for the award season, it has nothing to do with Han Zhou, and the award season has long passed, right?
Han Zhou replied: "What prize?"
Yang Hong: "Prix de Literary Arts."
Literature Award?
After hearing this name, Han Zhou perked up.
This award is quite special. It is not just a literary award, but also a documentary literature award.
To be precise, the Pulis Journalism Award is the highlight of this award, followed by the Pulis Literature Award and the Pulis Best-Seller Award.
Han Zhou was a little confused. If it was Murder on the Orient Express, it should be the Prix Bestseller Award, right? Why was it the Prix Literary Award?
Han Zhou: "Are you sure? The Prix Literary Prize?"
Yang Hong: “Yes, And Then There Were None won the Prix des Princes.”
No one survived? Oh, so no one survived.
Han Zhou now understood: "We have to go and claim this award."
Han Zhou had no foundation in the United States and was unfamiliar with the place.
Anything that can be used as a bargaining chip must be accepted.
So... there's a change of plan!
"recent?"
Yang Hong: "Tomorrow."
"I don't know if it was intentional. I just received a message from their organizing committee."
"If you don't go, you'll lose the award."
"If you want to win the prize, you have to go tonight."
"I know you will go. The visa and plane tickets are all ready."
Although this matter is important, Yang Hong knows that there is no need to rush before the Hanzhou High-Speed Railway arrives in Yanjing. This is also Yang Hong's strength, as he has made preparations for both scenarios.
Han Zhou: "It seems that there is a problem."
Obviously, if And Then There Were None had not been nominated, it would not have won.
Since And Then There Were None is nominated for the award, it is certain to win.
This shows that many of the judges support this book.
But using this method to inform the winners was obviously intentional.
They obviously knew that Han Zhou was an actor and a singer and had a very busy schedule.
So they deliberately gave the notice at this time, betting that Han Zhou would not go because his schedule couldn't be changed.
Then they can legitimately change the winner of the award.
So, will these people cause trouble at the Pulis Awards?
Han Zhou got out of the train station and got on the company car directly to the airport.
On the way, Han Zhou called An Lan.
An Lan: "Xiao Xi called me and said she didn't pick you up."
Xiaoxi is An Lan's current assistant.
Han Zhou: "I'm leaving in the company car. I'm going to the airport and rush to the United States."
An Lan was stunned: "Ah? What happened? Is there something wrong with the person sent there? Or is there something wrong with the movie?"
"Neither." Han Zhou described what happened.
An Lan: "Okay, send me the song first and I'll practice it."
Han Zhou sent the email and then reminded: "Practice Side A first, and practice Side B when I come back."
The songs on Side A are relatively simple and can be easily handled by An Lan with her ability. Side B requires more distinctiveness, so Han Zhou needs to guide An Lan on how to sing.
Side A has six solo songs this time around.
"Sister", "Taste", "The Most Familiar Stranger", "I Crossed the Ocean to See You", "If I Still Remember You in the Next Life", and "Suddenly".
There is also a chorus song "Coral Sea".
An Lan replied: "Wait for you to come back."
This time, Han Zhou only brought his assistant Lin Lin with him on the journey to the United States.
At the same time, "The Return of the Condor Heroes" has finally come to an end after a long period of updates.
This time, after "The Return of the Condor Heroes" ended, "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" quickly came on stage.
…
After the Hanzhou took off.
Darf called Han Zhou frantically, but no one answered.
Then he found Teemo.
Timo then gave Chen Dayong's contact information.
Chen Dayong gave Darf Yang Hong's phone number.
Then, Darf contacted Yang Hong.
But Yang Hong doesn't speak English.
Yang Hong, who was trying to recruit a first-line star in Yanjing, hurriedly found the company's staff who could speak English, but was unable to get in touch with them.
So Yang Hong thought of a person who was extremely outrageous but should be useful.
Zhang Die.
Two sets of phones, placed on the table and listened to together.
Dalph: "Gee, gee."
Yang Hong: "What did you say?"
Zhang Die: "He said that Brother Han's award was hacked, and someone didn't like Brother Han, so they deliberately delayed the notification. Why didn't Brother Han answer the phone now? Is he on his way to the United States?"
Yang Hong: "Tell him that we have roughly guessed the situation. Han Zhou has already flown to New York. The flight number is... Is there anyone of ours in the Pris Prize now?"
Zhang Die: “Crackling.”
Dalph: "Waaaaaaaaa, Barbie Barbie?"
Yang Hong: "What?"
Darf: "He said that one of his people was among the prize winners. If we go over, we will definitely win the prize. The other party has already received the money, so we will definitely win."
"He said his private jet would start flying from Los Angeles to New York soon, where he would pick up Brother Han."
Yang Hong hesitated for a moment and said, "Was this award bought? Han Zhou may not be happy about it. Will it be exposed later and affect Han Zhou's reputation?"
Zhang Die: "Barbie Barbie, waaaaaaaaa."
Dalf: "Chirp, crackle, wobble."
Zhang Die: "The other party said that the award should have belonged to Brother Han. He paid for the judges to give fair scores, not to give high scores to Brother Han's book."
"He also said that except for those very wealthy authors, everyone else in the cultural world is under his control, and no one would expose this matter."
"He also said that he didn't keep any evidence, and if someone reported it, he would be charged with defamation and sent to jail to study law."
Yang Hong: "That's fine. It seems this person is reliable. I heard Han Zhou talk about him."
Zhang Die: "This sentence is not translated?"
Yang Hong: "You are stupid , of course I won't translate it."
"By the way, tell Darf that Han Zhou gets mad every time he encounters something like this. Tell him to be prepared so that he won't be unable to react when the time comes."
"Han Zhou might cause trouble if he goes there."
Zhang Die: "I understand. I'll translate it right away."
Yang Hong: "Translate well, translate carefully, and don't make mistakes."
On the other side, Darf hung up the phone: "Han Shen is very angry, the consequences are serious."
"Grab your weapons and fly to New York."
"Notice to all irrelevant people to shut up this time. If anyone dares to speak, I will not...I will burn down his house if his books are sold throughout North America!"
The editor-in-chief, assistant, housekeeper, and driver under Dalph asked: "What are you copying?"
"Order a batch?"
Darf: "Idiot! Money, bring the money, give me the three major banks, I want cash!"
"Pack up your suitcases and fly to New York!"
…
Han Zhou came to the United States again.
The airport was packed with people.
Han Zhou was photographed by American fans when he got on the plane.
Posted on Twitter.
Now, security at New York Airport is on high alert.
You know, fans in the United States only have the opportunity to see Han Zhou once every six months on average.
After hearing the news, everyone who had time came.
But Darf arrived at the airport first, left behind some US dollars, and built a separate customs channel.
Only Han Zhou was welcome.
So, Han Zhou passed through customs through the VIP channel and got on the car prepared by Dalph, leaving his fans empty-handed.
In the stretched commercial vehicle, Dalfe asked his men to open the box.
Boxes of US dollars are placed here.
Darf looked excited: "So, how to get mad!"
"Let's burn down the venue where the Prix is being held this year."
Han Zhou: “???”
"Um?"
"Burn the house? Who taught you that?"
Darf: "Maifaru! Every time someone offends him, he takes the cowboys to burn down his house and then calls the fire department to tell them not to come."
Han Zhou: “…”
If your father had lived in the West two hundred years ago, he would have been a wanted criminal.
However, in today's America, he is indeed a model of rich people.
In the United States, especially in the central farm area.
The city police department is all sponsored by big farmers. The fire department is run by them. Judges? Judges don't dare to go out when they hear their names.
This guy Dalf is a rich super redneck.
Compared with those elite beasts pretending to be gentlemen along the coast, he is quite cute.
"Do you know who fucked me?"
Dalph pulled out a list and circled some names.
Han Zhou: "These people?"
"That's quite a lot. More than 70 percent of the judges?"
Dalf shook his head: "These are my people."
"The rest are not my people, and they didn't receive any money. They are all suspects."
"We will definitely not miss the real culprit after we sort them out one by one."
Han Zhou smiled: "You have to act like a detective and find the real culprit instead of shooting all the suspects."
Darf became excited when he mentioned this: "I have already reasoned, Han Shen, please listen to my reasoning."
"Look at this guy called Sass, he has shifty eyes and you can tell at a glance that he is not a good person."
"This girl named Susie, I heard that before she became a writer, she once wrote scripts for a triple-A company in Hollywood. The fact that she can do this job shows that she can't do bad things and is a good person."
"This guy named Baboa is from Eastern Europe. He keeps a low profile in the United States and doesn't seem like someone who would do something like this."
"This person is more suspicious. This one called Kante has a cousin named Rambis."
"This Rambis is a businessman and author."
Han Zhou: "Businessman author? What does that mean?"
Dulph: "He has a company full of authors, and when he writes a book, he just comes up with the idea and the outline, and then lets these people write the book."
"This kind of writing style is quite popular in the United States. Now there are many best-selling authors like this. One person is a company."
"He wanted to win the Prix des Arts to show off his talent, and last year he published a book called Hi! It's the Coast."
Han Zhou scratched his head. Although this guy's reasoning was not good, there were indeed problems with Kante and Rambis.
But is this book a rival to And Then There Were None? What is it about specifically?
Han Zhou asked carefully and finally figured out the situation.
In the late Age of Exploration, many poor people in Europe liked to travel to the New World and dream of getting rich.
At the beginning, this was also called the gold rush dream and the American dream.
Sailing on the sea is very boring, so the further we get to the end of the journey, the greater the psychological pressure on everyone and the closer they are to collapse.
And every time they were about to arrive, the person on the ship who first spotted the coastline would exclaim that they had arrived in the United States.
and shout 'Hi! It's the coast!'
The first person on each ship to discover and shout out this sentence is considered a lucky person and a future rich man chosen by God.
This book tells the story of the Age of Discovery.
But what he wrote was not the wonderful stories that happened on the ship.
But he was a lucky man who suddenly became rich after arriving in the United States.
Then came the days of decadence and luxury.
This seems a bit like The Great Gatsby.
Simply put, this is an American daydream story.
As they were talking, an assistant showed Darf his cell phone.
Han Zhou glanced at it and said, "The case has been solved. No need to think about who it is."
This is a tweet.
One judge fiercely criticized it on Twitter: "And Then There Were None does not depict a story at all, but a murder method and a show of writing skills. No one objects to it winning the US Book Award, but I object to it winning the Pulis Award! In my heart, only Hi! It's the Coast is the winner of this year's award."
It seems that the other party knew that Han Zhou had already arrived in the United States, and would not regard his failure to receive the award on site as giving up the award, so he jumped out impatiently.
This verbal battle will not change the winner of the award.
The only good thing is, the hype.
Hype the book "Hi! It's the Coast".
Sure enough, this Rambis is worthy of being a businessman and writer.
The media are all bloodthirsty sharks.
The thing that the media has paid the most attention to in recent days is the winner of the Prix Journalism Award.
And now that this dispute has broken out over the Prix de Litt, they will naturally shift their attention to it.
It really was a good opportunity for Rambis.
Dalph: "This person... has his own distribution channels and publishing house. Although his scale is far smaller than mine, he is... not that easy to deal with."
After Han Zhou figured out where the other party came from, he said, "A small character."
"I'm here to get the prize, not to fight a loser who failed to stop a car and was crushed."
Dalph: Is this the realm of God?
The last time he came to New York was to film "Lord of War". This time, Han Zhou wanted to take a good look at this city with gloomy skies.
Too bad there's nothing to see.
The streets are dirty and the buildings are old.
Although the skyline is nice, how can you see it while driving on the road?
However, these people walking on the road are really rich, so I have to find a way to get more votes from them.
Having slept on the plane, Han Zhou took another nap when he arrived at Darf's villa in New York.
I made up for the sleep I missed while filming and writing in the second half of the season.
This time, he arrived at the Pulis Awards ceremony full of energy.
The scene was bustling with people.
A large number of Han Zhou's book fans and song fans gathered here.
When Han Zhou arrived, there was wild cheering.
When other authors entered, they couldn't help but sigh: "That person looks like a star, not a writer."
“He’s a star.”
"Yeah, a star writer."
Rambis, a little old man who was almost sixty years old, smiled and walked into the venue.