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Chapter 398 The Wolf of Wall Street

The next day, Wang Shu met Matt Damon in a cafe and took out the script he had prepared, "The Wolf of Wall Street".

原时间线中，这部电影于2012年8月开机，2013年12月17日在纽约首映。

It is now 2008, long before 2012.

“The Wolf of Wall Street, based on the autobiography of stockbroker Jordan Belfort?”

Matt Damon took the script and saw the notes on it, his eyes lit up as he looked at Wang Shu.

Wang Shu shrugged, as if it was a biographical movie.

Matt Damon was excited and continued reading the script.

As we all know, biographical films have always been the most popular at the Oscars.

Although other types of films have won major awards, in most cases the major awards are won by traditional films.

It is precisely because of this that Matt Damon is so upset.

As an actor who has been in Hollywood for many years, he knows clearly that biographical films are more likely to win awards than other types of films.

If Wang Shu brought out other types of movies, he might think that Wang Shu didn't understand the Oscars and be disappointed.

Now that I see it’s a biographical film, I’m immediately delighted.

He felt that if "The Tuner" was well made, it would be very competitive for an Oscar.

If there is another biographical film, the chances of winning an award will be even greater!
But Matt Damon didn't know that although the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" was nominated for many awards at the 86th Academy Awards (2014), including Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture, it was just a runner-up and won nothing.

Of course, although it did not win any Oscars, it did win awards such as the Golden Globe Awards and the National Board of Review Awards.

Wang Shu chose to make this film even though it was only nominated for a runner-up award, even though he knew it had a high probability of not winning any awards. He had multiple considerations behind this.

First, "The Tuner" will be nominated for next year's Oscars, and Wang Shu has certain expectations as to whether this film can win an award.

Second, looking at the past Academy Awards, nine out of ten films winning the two major awards, Best Director and Best Picture, are biographies of European and American historical figures and politically correct films.

These two types of movies are simply not suitable for a director like Wang Shu who just arrived in Hollywood from the Eastern mainland.

If Wang Shu had been in Hollywood for five or six years, or seven or eight years, it would be understandable for him to make this kind of movie.

At this stage, he is young and has just arrived in Hollywood from China, a country with a different culture, but he adapts biographical films about European and American historical figures and politically correct films, which would be incredible to anyone.

In short, these types of movies are not something he can make at this stage.

Excluding these films, only a few award-winning films such as "Life of Pi", "Birdman" and "La La Land" are what he can make at this stage.

Even Birdman is not suitable.

Although the movie "Birdman" is not a biography or a politically correct movie, it is full of American local culture and satire on superhero movie actors.

Wang Shu had just arrived in Hollywood and normally he would not understand American culture very well, so the nature of this movie was not suitable for him.

In addition, this is a movie full of satire, not only satirizing superhero movie actors, but also satirizing many things.

Satirical films are offensive and are not suitable for a "new director" like him who has just arrived in Hollywood.

As for “Life of Pi,” it has a lot of special effects, which cannot be filmed in a short period of time and will not be able to make it in time for next year’s Academy Awards.

"La La Land" requires the actors to take dance lessons before they can achieve the desired effect, which also cannot be achieved in a short period of time.

Both "Life of Pi" and "La La Land" are award-winning films.

It was a pity that the film was nominated for the same Academy Awards as The Piano Tuner. Thirdly, this was Wang Shuchu's first Oscar after coming to Hollywood, and he did not think that a young director from the East could win the Academy Award for Best Director in his first Oscar appearance.

This has nothing to do with the quality of the film, but other factors.

Therefore, if he took out "Life of Pi" and "La La Land" but failed to win awards due to these factors, he would lose a lot.

Besides, there is already a movie called "The Piano Tuner".

Therefore, his primary goal at this stage is an Academy Award nomination.

If you get nominated, you have a chance to win an award at the next Academy Awards.

He is only in his early 20s, a Chinese director, and his first time in Hollywood.

Taking all these into account, nine out of ten old guys in American colleges will not give him the grand prize.

Even if the movies he made were worthy of winning awards, it would not be the case that the award would be given to a young Chinese director on his first appearance at the Oscars.

Therefore, the primary goal at this stage is to secure nomination.

Just being nominated is already a success.

Of course, it would be even better if I could win an award.

Under such circumstances, Wang Shubi cannot give away his award-winning film to others.

Therefore, nominating movies is a better choice.

Although "The Wolf of Wall Street" is also a biographical film, this movie is different from many conventional biographical winning films at the Academy Awards.

Those award-winning biographical films are basically biographies of people in another field. The Wolf of Wall Street is a biography of the "God of Stocks".

This kind of biography involves knowledge about stock trading, and is the kind of movie that can be made by an outside director who has just entered Hollywood.

Fourth, the US subprime mortgage crisis broke out in 2008 and evolved into a global financial crisis.

During this period, a movie called "The Wolf of Wall Street" was released, which was really appropriate.

Precisely because of the situation, Wang Shu may be able to take advantage of this global financial crisis to make this timely film quickly known to the European and American public.

As the saying goes, times make heroes.

The outbreak of the global financial crisis is the trend of the times, and the emergence of "The Wolf of Wall Street" is the "hero".

Many people in Europe and the United States who have been affected by the global financial crisis will certainly watch the timely film "The Wolf of Wall Street".

It is under this trend that Wang Shu has the opportunity to quickly become well-known and famous to the public in Europe and the United States.

In short, it is precisely because of these considerations that Wang Shu decided to produce the timely work "The Wolf of Wall Street".

In the original timeline, "The Wolf of Wall Street" was released in 2013, at which time both the United States and the world had emerged from the quagmire of the financial crisis.

Although it is attractive, it is not appropriate to release it at this time.

It can even be said that it was because of the financial crisis a few years ago that "The Wolf of Wall Street" was released.

Now it is 2008, but things are different.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" was released just when the US subprime mortgage crisis broke out, and the shock it caused was beyond comparison with hindsight.

Then the US subprime mortgage crisis evolved into a global financial crisis, and the "shock" brought to the European and American public by the timely "The Wolf of Wall Street" will increase again.

(End of this chapter)