When the director of "Mountain", Qi Feng, saw the results, he looked like he had been expecting this all along.
In the end, the Best Female Lead award still came down to the acting skills of the female leads.
No matter how amazing the screenplay of "Mountain" was, even if the judges really liked it, it could not change the fact that Ning Xueluo's acting was not able to touch their hearts.
The fact that they had received the Best Screenplay award was a huge irony. Despite such solid screenplay, he could not live up to its standards…
As time went on, arthouse films got less and less popular. Even with directors like him, a lot of them would give in and invite some young and rising stars, ending up with some cliche-filled melodramatic movies.
