Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 139 A little thought

"Now let us give a warm round of applause to our award presenter to present the Best Film Award to us.

Welcome to Zhou...Zi...Heng from China..."

On the 7th, the Golden Swan Film Awards in Bangkok.

The host spoke loudly into the microphone, enunciating each word.

Crack, crackle...

When they heard this name, there was thunderous applause at the scene, and the Thai artists present all turned their eyes to Zhou Ziheng who was on the stage.

"I heard that Zhou Ziheng is currently the most popular singer in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Four Heavenly Kings are no match for him in terms of record sales."

"Yes! He is a great talent! He created all his albums by himself."

“I heard that many companies in Bangkok have approached him to obtain the rights to adapt his songs.

Among them, the copyright fees of some of his most popular songs in China were even raised to 4 million Thai baht per song.”

"Oh my god! So high?"

"Of course it's high. This is a popular song in Asia. The Chinese version has a great influence among the Chinese in Thailand. If it is adapted into a Thai version, it will sell well."

Listening to the discussions around him, Tony Jaa, who was sitting at the end of the venue, couldn't help but reveal an envious look.

Four million baht, how much behind-the-scenes work does he need to do to earn that?

However, he had to admit that the discussions around him made a lot of sense.

This guy named Zhou Ziheng is indeed very popular.

Even he, who doesn't understand Chinese, bought a copy of Zhou Ziheng's latest album "Fairy Tale".

Although I don't understand it, the songs in it are really good.

“I am very happy to be able to attend this awards ceremony, which gives me the opportunity to meet so many outstanding Thai artists.

I am also very grateful to the organizers for inviting me to be the presenter of the most important award of this event.

Thank you so much!"

Zhou Ziheng speaks Chinese.

Most of the Thai artists in the audience do not understand Chinese.

Therefore, Zhou Ziheng did not say a lot of words.

Instead, he spoke a few brief words, opened the envelope and presented the award.

To be honest, it’s no wonder that Hong Kong films of this period were so popular in Asia.

At this time, movies in most Asian countries are really bad.

Thailand is one of those countries that is just in its starting stages.

Zhou Ziheng learned about the winning films for the Best Picture award in advance.

The movie is a science fiction movie called "Moon Children".

Overall it is above standard.

However, compared with the current best film winners of major awards in other countries, this movie is obviously far behind.

The director of the film seemed to have known in advance about the film's award, although he seemed a little unconcerned when he went on stage to receive the award.

Or maybe he felt he could win.

That's why he appears not to care.

However, this person respected Zhou Ziheng very much. When receiving the award, he not only received it with both hands, but also bowed deeply to Zhou Ziheng.

"Thank you very much, thank you very much to the organizer, and thank you very much to Mr. Zhou..."

The award winner went on stage, and it was not convenient for Zhou Ziheng to stay on the stage any longer, so he quickly went down the stage and returned to his seat.

Best Director is usually the finale award.

After this award is presented, the Golden Swan will come to an end.

However, after the award ceremony, the group did not leave immediately, but were invited to a banquet at a neighboring hotel as usual.

At the banquet, Zhou Ziheng's identity as Asia's top singer was very popular.

Big stars from Thailand and bosses of film and television companies all came to him.

Through some socializing, he got to know many of Thailand's current big stars.

However, the person Zhou Ziheng paid the most attention to was a man named Pana Ritiklai.

According to others, this guy is a well-known martial arts director in Thailand. He also directed an action movie called "Born To Fight" in the 1980s.

Pana Ritiklai also seemed very interested in Zhou Ziheng.

After the banquet started, he came to Zhou Ziheng and tried every means to talk to him.

This guy is an expert on Hong Kong.

To be precise, I am very familiar with Hong Kong films.

The two chatted for a while through Zhou Ziheng's translation, and Zhou Ziheng heard him say that he was a loyal fan of Bruce Lee.

According to him, the most important reason why he made action movies, besides having learned Kung Fu when he was a child, was the influence of Bruce Lee.

He once ventured into the neighboring Indian film industry to learn the film production process.

After getting inspiration from the films of Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee and others, he returned to his hometown, organized his own martial arts team, and began making his own movies.

The first film he shot was "Born To Fight", which translated into Chinese means "Born To Fight".

It was also the title of this movie that made Zhou Ziheng give up talking to the others and focus on chatting with him.

Speaking of the name Ong Bak, anyone who has watched Thai movies will definitely think of Tony Jaa first.

Zhou Ziheng is no exception.

The fact is, after chatting for a while, he heard Pana say that a new movie for which he was the action director was about to be released, called "Spirited Killer".

Translated into Chinese, it means brave killer, invincible killer, killer boxing master, etc.

The protagonist of this movie is Tony Jaa, who Zhou Ziheng is familiar with.

As a result, Zhou Ziheng became even more interested in this person.

Even bigger than Tony Jaa.

He directly invited Pana to a quieter place for a conversation.

The two chatted about some things related to movies.

Maybe it’s because I’ve watched too many Hong Kong movies.

Zhou Ziheng discovered that this person was simply an avid fan of Hong Kong action movies.

Some of the issues discussed about directors are basically inseparable from Hong Kong films.

It can be seen that he likes Hong Kong action movies very much.

He briefly introduced Zhou Ziheng the plot of the movie in which he was the martial arts director.

The story tells about a tour group that is traveling deep into a forest in Thailand, during which they are attacked by a group of thugs with heavy weapons. It turns out that a gangster who calls himself the "Invincible Killer" has occupied the forest and will kill anyone who intrudes. Then the protagonist, a boxing champion, shows his power and destroys them.

This story is just like those action movies of Bruce Lee, where a poor boy encounters a group of villains and fights his way from being a small fry to becoming a big villain.

However, Zhou Ziheng didn't care about this issue.

Instead, he was very interested in the other party's action scenes.

He is very interested in acting.

Action movies even more so.

When he was a child in his previous life, he dreamed of becoming the protagonist in a movie, with superb kung fu skills, and beating the villains to a pulp.

So, he is a singer now.

In fact, he also has a dream of becoming an action star.

Unfortunately, Hong Kong's action directors are all ungrateful.

Among the many scripts that invited him, there was not a single action scene.

At this time, I heard that Pana was a Muay Thai master.

He immediately became interested and wanted the other party to teach him a few tricks.

In addition, he has been thinking about the first play after the establishment of the directing company next year.

Seeing this future famous Thai martial arts director, he suddenly thought that maybe he could try to poach him.

My own film company is short of people, it would be great if I could poach this person.

Won’t there be martial arts directors when shooting action movies in the future?

Besides, if you can get him, you might even get a buy one get one free deal.

(End of this chapter)