I am a director, but I have the skills of an actor

Chapter 194 A Condition

On the fourth day after arriving in Los Angeles, Wan Qingshan and Chen Yumo, plus Chen Chen and Feng Linlin, walked around the surrounding tourist attractions.

Then, in the afternoon of the next day, Wan Qingshan made a phone call with Zhang Yi, and he and Feng Linlin left the hotel to join the film industry costume design union and other outposts of the Academy Awards. The cast of "A City Full of Golden Armor" gathered together.

"Director Wan, I wish you a happy wedding and a son soon!"

"A City of Gold" did not win the Golden Globe Award, but was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Due to public relations issues, he had no hope of winning the award.

As a result, when he congratulated Wan Qingshan, the smile on his face was a little forced.

When Wan Qingshan saw this, he couldn't say anything, so he could only reply, "Thank you."

Because the movie "failed" at the US box office and "Hannibal" had just been released, Gong Li had to go to promote it, so she didn't even come to the Academy Awards night.

As for Zhou Runfa, he only arrived yesterday.

But he came, but he didn't look excited at all. Instead, he looked a little frustrated.

As for Fan Bayi and Zhou Jielun, who came to join the crew two days ago, they were very excited. For the Oscars, many domestic artists couldn't participate even if they wanted to.

The happiest person in the cast is Xi Zhongwen. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for his gorgeous and exaggerated costumes in "The Golden Armor".

More importantly, he also won several awards in the outposts he participated in during this period, and the American media reported him as the favorite for Best Costume Design at the Academy Awards.

After Wan Qingshan chatted with Zhang Yimou and the people sent by the General Administration, the makeup artist began to design clothes and hairstyles for everyone.

After Wan Qingshan and others were ready to attend the Academy Awards ceremony, several major domestic websites began to organize Academy Awards activities.

In the past, the government did not pay attention to the Oscars, so there was no coverage of the Oscars. However, after Wanwan's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the government started to pay attention.

With many media reports, many audiences are aware of the Oscar Film Festival.

There are more viewers who know about the Oscars, and "The Golden Jacket" was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, so these websites spent a lot of money to broadcast live reports in order to gain popularity.

Sina, in particular, not only launched live broadcast reports, but also invited Lu Chuan, Zhang Yibai, and Wu Shixian, the director of "Waiting Alone", to comment.

At eight o'clock in the morning in China and three o'clock in the afternoon in Los Angeles, Sina opened a live chat room.

As soon as the live broadcast room opened, many netizens who had been waiting for it rushed in instantly.

"Hello to all Sina netizens! I am very happy to chat with you about this issue of Oscars. Today's guests are Wu Shixian, Lu Chuan, and Zhang Yibai.

We are now one hour away from the Oscars red carpet, so let’s talk about this year’s Oscars.

There are two popular movies at this Oscar, one is "Babel" and the other is "The Departed" adapted from a Hong Kong film.

Director Ng Shi-hyun, can you predict what awards these two films will win? "

"Well, the best director should be "The Departed", because this is Martin Scorsese's sixth nomination for best director, so it should be given to him no matter what.

As for the best picture, I think it will be given to "Tower of Babel". "

"Director Zhang Yibai, what do you think?"

"Similarly, the Academy Awards also have to consider balance. It is nominated for the sixth time for Best Director. No matter what, it should be awarded."

"Director Lu Chuan, what do you think?"

"Same, although "The Departed" is not Martin Scorsese's best movie. Compared with his previous movies, "The Departed" can only be said to be average, but this time, the best director will be awarded to him. ."

"All three of them think so, but I don't know what you think about the Best Foreign Language Film award. Among the five Best Foreign Language Films, which one do you think has the best chance of winning?"

Although Wu Shixian and Zhang Yibai had already guessed that they would definitely ask about the best foreign language film, and they were already prepared to answer, but at this time they did not want to stand out, so they both looked at Lu Chuan.

Lu Chuan didn't know whether he should be said to be short-sighted or too sincere!

"I think Overheard is the most promising."

The host's expression changed immediately.

He didn't even need to read the words posted by netizens in the chat room to know that they were definitely going to blow up.

Now "A City Full of Golden Armor" carries the hope of tens of millions of people. No matter what you, Lu Chuan, think in your heart, you should never say such a thing at this time!

The host quickly asked Zhang Yibai, "Director Zhang Yibai, what do you think?"

"Well, I think it's all possible, but "The Golden Armor" is the most likely. As I said before, this is Martin Scorsese's sixth nomination for Best Director, and director Zhang Yimou is also nominated for the best director. This is the fourth Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. After all, it’s director Zhang Yimou’s turn.”

Seeing that Zhang Yibai was not as brainless as Lu Chuan, the host breathed a sigh of relief.

Afterwards, the host asked Zhang Yibai and Wu Shixian to answer most of the questions, leaving Lu Chuan aside.

The host also saw Lu Chuan looking dissatisfied because he was left out.But he didn't care at all. Your Lu Chuan family has a good background, but your influence is only in the entertainment industry. Sina, which he belongs to, is an Internet company.

On the contrary, if I ask you to answer a few more questions, netizens will complain about this host, and he will be fired by Sina.

After Zhang Yibai and Wu Shixian reviewed most of the films nominated for the Academy Awards, the Academy Awards began to walk the red carpet.

If the cast and crew of "The Golden Jacket" walked on the red carpet in China, they would definitely get a group of fans screaming, but on the red carpet of the Academy Awards, they looked like a group of passers-by. Even those who work hard in Hollywood After more than ten years, Zhou Runfa has not been able to make the audience around the red carpet cheer.

As a result, everyone, after letting the surrounding reporters take a few photos in the middle of the red carpet, hastily walked into the signature wall, signed their names and quickly walked in.

Ah!
After entering the venue, Fan Bayi and others looked disappointed.

Perhaps because it hadn't started yet, the venue was a bit messy. Female celebrities dressed cooler than others, and male celebrities dressed more meticulously than others, were laughing and chatting there.

There were also many reporters dragging celebrities there to interview and take photos. Apart from the fact that there were no crowds around, this was even more chaotic than last year's Hundred Flowers Movie.

After Fan Bayi and others were stunned for a while, they were led by the staff to the seats against the wall and sat down.

Wan Qingshan turned around and looked at it, feeling bored, so he started looking for interesting things.

Just for a while—

"Director Wan, isn't it a bit uncomfortable for you to do this? You just got married."

Listening to the voice full of resentment coming from his ears, Wan Qingshan withdrew his eyes from Anne Hathaway.

"What's wrong?" Wan Qingshan said pretending to be confused.

Fan Bayi, who was on the side, complained in a low voice, "Director Wan, you were not like this in China before. You turned a blind eye to female celebrities. Why did you start acting like a man when you went abroad?"

"Uh, uh, you're thinking too much. I'm just looking at the difference between them and the ones in the movie."

Wan Qingshan said this, but in his heart he muttered, "There is nothing to look at in China. They are either flat-chested or short. These female stars abroad are different."

"What's the difference? You took it off in the movie, but you don't take it off now?"

Wan Qingshan glanced at Fan Bayi in surprise.

Fan Bayi's complaint really hit on part of Wan Qingshan's purpose of going to see the female star.

80.00% of these female stars have taken off their clothes in movies. Wan Qingshan has watched many movies in his original life, so when he was bored, he compared the figures with his eyes to see the difference between the figures of these female stars when they were wearing clothes and when they were naked in the movies. .

After Wan Qingshan looked around, he found that most of the female stars were similar, but there were also many differences, and the one with the biggest difference was Anne Hathaway.

In his previous life, he had only seen a few stills of "Love and the Elixir" with clothes on, so the difference between what he saw in the movie and what he saw in the movie was a bit big.

This movie was released in 2010. In just a few years, it is impossible for Anne Hathaway to shrink. It only means that she has a little too much pad now.

Wan Qingshan's reaction made Fan Bayi realize that her casual remarks were right.

Then, she said in disbelief, "Did you really go to see it because of this difference?"

"Of course I can't say it's all true. I'm not that nasty. I only compare through observation to see which people are cheating."

"you,,,"

Fan Bayi was so surprised that she couldn't speak. Then she smiled and said, "Director Wan, I didn't realize until now that you still have a bit of a teenage personality.

In the past, I always thought you were a, a bit..." "How do you put it..."

After being stuck for a few seconds, Fan Bayi said in a low voice, "You look like you are not a mortal. You don't do anything that male stars or directors in the industry do, or in other words, things that men do."

You are like a dummy. Sometimes I feel that you are just pretending because your girlfriend, no, I should say she is your wife now.

Because of your wife's background, you pretend not to be a man and don't dare to do what a man should do. "

As Fan Bayi spoke, his tone became resentful and his expression was a little downcast.

Seeing this, Wan Qingshan did not dare to continue whispering, lest Fan Bayi talk about your relationship again.

Afterwards, Wan Qingshan stopped looking at the female stars. He had finished reading everything he needed to see. He sat there and took out his cell phone to send a text message to Feng Linlin.

After Wan Qingshan and Feng Linlin arranged their work arrangements for the next few months through text messages, the awards party officially began.

The host's opening made many celebrities laugh, leaving Wanqingshan confused.

He now particularly hopes that network technology will develop early and real-time intelligent translation headset technology will develop early.

Because he didn't understand it, and he wasn't nominated for the award, he wouldn't have come to the Oscars if he hadn't come to the United States to discuss things with the six major Hollywood film and television companies.

So after listening to the song performance, Wan Qingshan took out his mobile phone and texted and chatted with Chen Yumo, while taking out chocolates from his pocket and eating them.

The Academy Awards ceremony lasts for three hours and starts before dinner. Participating in the Academy Awards is actually a great test for the stomach.

That’s why in the original life, there was a picture of Ang Lee holding the statuette in one hand and wolfing down a hamburger on the roadside after the Oscar awards party.

Wan Qingshan had thought before he came that he would definitely be hungry, so he hid several pieces of chocolate in his pocket.

Wan Qingshan had just eaten two pieces when a sound suddenly came to his ears.

"Master, do you have any more? Can you give me a piece too?"

Wan Qingshan raised his head slightly and saw Zhou Jielun standing across from Zhang Yimou, staring closely at the wrapping paper of the chocolate in his hand.

"Yes, you are hungry too, right?"

Wan Qingshan smiled and took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket and handed it over.

Then, applause came from the surroundings, and Wan Qingshan immediately reached out and applauded gently.

Wan Qingshan didn't pay attention to this applause, and he did the same before. When people around him applauded, he would follow suit, no matter what award was being awarded.

But soon, the Chinese voice coming from above made Wan Qingshan look up.

"Thank you to all the anti-AIDS heroes and all the people who support us." A Chinese woman said excitedly to the audience while holding the trophy.

Although I don't speak fluent Chinese, it is indeed Chinese.

After Wan Qingshan took a closer look, he turned his head and asked in a low voice, "Who is this person? What award did he get?"

"I only saw in the subtitles that her name is Yang Ziye, and she won the best documentary short film. The subject of the film seems to be about the fight against AIDS." Fan Bayi replied in a low voice.

Wan Qingshan suddenly realized it. No wonder he had no impression at all. The best documentary short film was the one that no one paid attention to. Even if he won the award, there would not be many news reports, and they would only cover it for a few days at most, and then they would not care about it. .

'Gollum, Gollum! '

The sudden sound made Wan Qingshan laugh dumbly, and also made Fan Bayi's face turn red and look embarrassed.

Wan Qingshan smiled and took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket and handed it over, "Are you hungry, want one?"

Fan Bayi took the chocolate awkwardly, lowered his head slightly and started eating.

Afterwards, Wan Qingshan looked at it for a while, then lowered his head and exchanged text messages with Chen Yumo.

After a while, Wan Qingshan suddenly heard Fan Bayi's urgent voice,
"Wan Dao, Wan Dao."

Wan Qingshan suddenly raised his head and asked in disbelief, "What happened? Who in the crew won the award?"

Winning an Oscar requires public relations. This is something everyone knows. Sending some small gifts to thousands of judges is within the rules of the game. Even if it is reported, nothing will happen.

There are thousands of public relations judges, and each judge must be given a small exquisite gift worth tens or hundreds of dollars and some coupons.

Then you have to send a disc of a well-produced movie to each judge, because not everyone has gone to the theater to watch your movie, so you have to send a disc to let them watch your movie.

You also have to promote the movie in magazines and newspapers, which is another huge expense.

This adds up to at least US$200 million.

Jiang Zhiqiang and Zhang Weiping are definitely not willing to spend this money. The overseas copyrights of the films have been sold and the domestic films have been released. Even if they win awards, they will not be able to increase their profits.

Paramount, that's even less likely.

They had already given up on "Man City's End with Golden Armor" after taking out "Man City's End with Golden Armor" before to make a deal. How could they still be willing to spend 200 or [-] million US dollars to give "Man City's End With Golden Armor" to "Man City's End With Golden Armor"? "Golden Armor" does public relations.

In addition, the best foreign language film this year is "Eavesdropping". Even if you do public relations for "The Golden Armor", there is not much hope of winning, so it is even more impossible to do public relations for the movie.

It is impossible for people sent by the General Administration to do public relations for the movie.He just came over to express his support for the film and hoped that the film would win an Oscar. It was impossible for the General Administration to provide the US$200 million.

Zhang Yimou must have thought about becoming a publicist. He is so obsessed with the Oscars, and he definitely wants to win the award, but 200 million US dollars is not an exaggeration to say that it took away all his net worth, but it is still a large part.

When he made art films before, director fees were certainly not high, and he has only made three commercial films so far.

The director's fee for "Hero" was only 1000 million yuan. Although it has skyrocketed in recent years, he has made a few commercial films. Putting aside the real estate, his net worth is estimated to be only 6000 yuan.

If you want him to spend more than 1000 million for public relations, and there is little hope of winning an award, he will definitely be reluctant to part with it.

Therefore, Wan Qingshan has long thought that this year's Oscar "City of Golden Armor" may not win anything.

But now, Fan Bayi's urgent voice surprised Wan Qingshan.

"It's not that I won the award. When the award for Best Adapted Screenplay was awarded to "The Departed," the voiceover on stage actually said that "The Departed" was adapted from an island country film."

Surprise appeared on Wan Qingshan's face. He had no idea that something like this would happen at this Oscar. If he had known, he would definitely not have come to attend.

This kind of thing will definitely be hotly discussed in China. If they don't leave, they will definitely be criticized by the domestic audience, but if they leave...
Leaving doesn't seem to have any impact on him, and he doesn't have an Oscar plot, so even if he offends Oscar because he's gone, it doesn't matter.

After Wan Qingshan thought about it in his heart, he immediately looked at Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou's expression was very tangled, and then within a few seconds, his expression became firm.

Then, he stood up and said, "Let's go!"

Upon seeing this, Wan Qingshan stood up immediately and said to Fan Bayi beside him, "If you still want to develop in the country, get up quickly and let's go together."

Fan Bayi didn't really want to leave, but after hearing Wan Qingshan's words, he got up anyway.

Then, Wan Qingshan and Fan Bayi stood up and followed Zhang Yimou. When they walked to the aisle, Zhou Jielun immediately walked towards the three of them.

Only then did the people from the General Administration react, and then he stood up and walked towards Zhang Yimou and the others as if nothing had happened.

Zhou Runfa struggled for a while, sighed, got up and walked out.

He's not stupid either. "The Golden Armor" failed at the box office, and those who praised the movie were only praising the movie itself and Wan Qingshan's acting. Against the background of Wan Qingshan's acting, his performance was average.

He can no longer survive in Hollywood and has to rely on the domestic market to make a living. If he doesn't leave at this time, it will be difficult for him to survive in the domestic market.

As for Xi Zhongwen, he continued to sit there with a calm expression. He was shortlisted for the best costume design and was still a favorite. He couldn't bear to leave.

He is just working behind the scenes. Even if the audience has a bad impression of him, it will not affect his continued work.

On the contrary, if he wins the Best Costume Design Award, his future remuneration will at least double, so he won't just leave like a fool.

Wan Qingshan and Zhang Yimou walked out under the looks of surprise, admiration, contempt, ridicule, etc. from many celebrities on both sides of the aisle.

(End of this chapter)