Chapter 204 The Crushed Director (Happy New Year!)

The trophy statue of the Hundred Flowers Award is full of modernity. It is a graceful goddess holding flowers and looking intently into the distance, implying unlimited expectations for today's film industry.

"Have you not touched enough? If you touch this layer of gold plating again, your skin will be rubbed off!" Wu Yuchen said with a smile.

Jiang Qinqin hugged her Hundred Flowers Best Actress trophy and touched the three words "Jiang Qinqin" printed on the base before reluctantly placing it on the table. There were already three trophies randomly placed on the table, one for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Film, one for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Director, and one for the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Feature Film. Naturally, they all belong to Wu Yuchen.

Jiang Qinqin walked up to Wu Yuchen and patted his arm: "This is the third grand prize! That's why you don't care so much."

Wu Yuchen smiled and said: "Hey, hey, don't talk nonsense. What do you mean by not caring? What I call it is being unfazed~"

"Okay, okay, you are a great director, even if the mountain collapses, your appearance will remain unchanged!"

Wu Yuchen nodded with satisfaction and scratched Jiang Qinqin's nose: "Well, a kid can be taught!"

Jiang Qinqin hummed twice: "When you get the Oscar next year, let's see if you still change your color~"

When Wu Yuchen heard this, he couldn't help but pinch Jiang Qinqin's waist: "Oh, how can the Oscar be as easy to win as you think? Do you think I can get it if I want to?"

Jiang Qinqin raised her little head and looked at Wu Yuchen with her eyelashes blinking: "You are so powerful. You have got the golden bear and the golden lion. What else can't you do?"

Of course Jiang Qinqin knew that she won the Hundred Flowers Best Actress Award because Wu Yuchen escorted her. Otherwise, how could she have won the Best Actress Award so easily at such a young age?

Not to mention anything else, let’s just say that Xu Fan, who followed Feng Xiaogang, has been in the industry for ten years and has acted in many well-known works. However, he has only been nominated for the Golden Rooster and has not received a single acting award. Compared to Xu Fan, she, Jiang Qinqin, got the Baihua Film Queen less than two years after graduation, so she is already much luckier!

Therefore, Jiang Qinqin now admires Wu Yuchen extremely. In addition, Wu Yuchen has won the Berlin Golden Bear and the Venice Golden Lion this year, which makes her highly admire Wu Yuchen's ability to win prizes. She feels that as long as he wants to get it, he can get it!

Wu Yuchen chuckled and shook his head: "Europe's top three and Oscars are not the same thing at all. The gameplay, rules and standards are different. Many directors who have been nominated for Europe's top three are not even eligible! If you really have any idea It’s so easy, why should I prepare to leave for the United States so far in advance?”

After winning the Golden Rooster Award this time, Wu Yuchen will immediately fly to the United States for various public relations tours. From now in mid-October until the end of voting in March next year, the public relations tour will last for 5 months. !

In fact, if we really count, when he won the award at the Venice Film Festival, the team in the United States had already begun to build momentum for his "Love". Otherwise, why would we say that Oscar PR is a marathon?

"How can they compare to you! My husband is the best, he can definitely catch him!" Jiang Qinqin now blindly worships Wu Yuchen and is more confident than him.

Wu Yuchen couldn't help laughing when he saw this. Although China attaches great importance to the Oscars now, many people know the name of the Oscars, but if you really ask them how the Oscars are played, even many people in the film and television industry don't know, and they think it is simple. The award judging is just like Jiang Qinqin at this time.

Wu Yuchen could only pull Jiang Qinqin and popularize the Oscar's "democratic" voting model with thousands of judges.

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There are no direct flights from Fengtian City to the United States, so after receiving the Golden Rooster Award, Wu Yuchen has to return to the capital and go to the United States from the capital.

As a result, as soon as Wu Yuchen landed in Beijing, he received an urgent call: "What? How could this happen?"

Seeing Wu Yuchen frowning and hanging up the phone, Jiang Qinqin couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"Director Li An went into shock and went to the hospital."

"Ah?! What's going on!" Jiang Qinqin was also shocked when she heard this.

Wu Yuchen shook his head: "I don't know, I have to rush over now to have a look."

"I'll go too." Jiang Qinqin said immediately. After all, Li An had also coached her for a period of time, which was a bit of a fate. And she was really curious, did she suddenly suffer from some disease?

In the hospital, Wu Yuchen looked at Li An, who was lying on the hospital bed outside the ward. He was wearing a ventilator. Through the glass, he could see that his face was slightly dark.

At this time, Wu Yuchen didn't want to go into the house to disturb Li An, so he asked Jiang Zhiqiang beside him: "Producer Jiang, what's going on? Weren't you fine when you called me yesterday?"

Yesterday, Wu Yuchen won the Golden Rooster Award. Li An also called Wu Yuchen to congratulate him. Wu Yuchen didn't feel any problem at all.

Jiang Zhiqiang also looked depressed at this time, his eyes were bloodshot, and it seemed that he had not rested. He said guiltily to Wu Yuchen: "Director Wu, I'm sorry, in fact, the crew has been having troubles since the start of filming, but we are afraid of you I was worried, so I didn’t tell you..."

The "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" project was also very bumpy. At first, investors withdrew their capital, and then Jet Li resigned. I originally thought that after the change of investor Wu Yuchen, things would turn around.

As a result, when the crew just arrived in Xijiang to start filming, they encountered seven days of heavy rain and could not do anything. After the rain stopped, they encountered a desert storm again. They spent so much money to transport a large team of machines and people here, but they couldn't do anything. There was nothing he could do. Li An was so anxious that he couldn't sleep and his lips were blistered.

After finally starting filming, another team of people filming the location lost their way in the desert. The whole crew searched everywhere, but fortunately they were found back on the third day. After a few days of filming, the crew encountered floods on the road while changing locations, breaking the bridge. It coincided with a heavy rain, and the entire crew was trapped there all night, thinking they were going to die.

After the laborious filming of the scenes in Xijiang was completed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. However, more bad news came next. On the tenth day after Yang Ziqiong joined the group, he tore the ligaments of his left leg during a roundhouse kick. He fell heavily from the wall and fell into a coma. After being rescued, he was immediately sent to the United States for surgery and spent two months recovering. Only then returned to the crew.

This time I returned to the capital for filming, which was divided into two groups: day and night, but Li An had to watch both groups. After a series of difficulties and huge pressure, his body finally couldn't hold on to the strike, and he went into shock and passed out.

Jiang Qinqin, who was next to Wu Yuchen, was shocked when she heard this. "My dear, this crew must have gone too far. It may not be a good thing that she was not chosen at the beginning. Now even the director is overwhelmed. Can we film it?" It’s not even possible to go down!

Wu Yuchen was also a little annoyed when he heard this: "Producer Jiang, so many things happened? Why didn't you tell me? You even hid something as big as the heroine's injury from me?!"

Jiang Zhiqiang behaved like a child who made a mistake: "Director Wu, I'm so sorry! We didn't want you to worry too much at first. Later, Yang Ziqiong was injured, and the insurance company staff kept trying to urge us to change the heroine..."

The most important responsibility of the people in the completion guarantee company is to ensure that the filming of the film is completed. As for the impact of changing the heroine, they do not consider it. Yang Ziqiong was injured. If the filming progress continues to be slowed down, their company will have to make up for the excess money.

Wu Yuchen said angrily: "Are you afraid that I will also advocate replacing Yang Ziqiong?"

Jiang Zhiqiang clasped his hands together and bowed to Wu Yuchen repeatedly: "Sheng Wu, I'm sorry, it's all my fault as a producer! I'm sorry..."

Wu Yuchen glared at him, but it was too late to say anything now. If he had known it from the beginning, he might have replaced Yang Ziqiong, but he probably understood what Li An and Jiang Zhiqiang were thinking. A woman like Yang Ziqiong who can fight and act and has a certain appeal in the United States Xing, she was the only one among the Chinese, and Li An didn't want to replace her unless it was absolutely necessary.

Wu Yuchen waved his hand: "Okay, okay. How is Director Li doing now?"

Now Wu Yuchen doesn't care about other situations. First of all, he has to ensure that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" can be filmed. Therefore, director Li An cannot have any problems. He is the core character of the movie.

"The doctor said it has stabilized. The shock caused by endocrine disorders and excessive stress leading to difficulty breathing should be relieved by a few days of rest."

Wu Yuchen was relieved when he heard this. He was really afraid that Li An would die.

At this time Jiang Qinqin shook Wu Yuchen's arm: "Director Li seems to be awake!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Yuchen and Jiang Zhiqiang hurriedly looked into the room. Sure enough, Li An had opened his eyes, and they immediately called the doctor over.

After a while, after the doctor left, Li An, who had already taken off the ventilator, smiled and said to Wu Yuchen: "Director Wu, thank you for coming to see me. I'm sorry for bothering you to make a trip! Don't worry, I'll be able to do it in two days." Filming after leaving the hospital..."

Wu Yuchen stretched out his hand to stop him from continuing to speak: "Director Li, don't think so much now. Your health is the most important thing now. Let's rest in the hospital for a week first. If you collapse, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will be the best It’s really over!”

Li An smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I was lying in the hospital, and all I could think about was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

"No matter what you think in your head, let's lie down for a while first!"

Listening to Wu Yuchen's words, Li An could only nodded.

Then Li An took the initiative to calm down the atmosphere with a smile at Wu Yuchen and said: "Director Wu, fortunately I didn't ask Zhou Runfa at that time. Yang Ziqiong's Mandarin made me want to die. If the male and female protagonists were like this, I don't know if I could continue filming. Got it!"

Wu Yuchen smiled when he heard this. This time the male lead was Liang Jiahui, who spoke Mandarin much better than Zhou Runfa.

Li An is a stickler for details, and he insists that the characters in the play all speak Mandarin, that is, Mandarin. But in his previous life, he invited Zhou Runfa and Yang Ziqiong. Unexpectedly, after filming for so long, their Mandarin was still so bad. He himself wrote in his memoirs that he had the two of them dub three times during post-dubbing. Listening to their poor Mandarin, he collapsed and wanted to strangle them to death, and then bite his tongue to commit suicide.

Wu Yuchen chatted with Li An for a while in the ward. He didn't talk about anything about the crew of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". He just chatted with Li An in order to avoid putting any more pressure on him. As for the matter of replacing Yang Ziqiong, he will naturally not mention it again at this time, otherwise Li An will probably collapse.

After Wu Yuchen came out of the hospital, he couldn't help but sigh, thinking that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was really ill-fated. If he hadn't helped with this investment, both Li An and Jiang Zhiqiang would have had to rely on loans to film, and the pressure would be even greater.

Jiang Qinqin hugged Wu Yuchen's arm, looked at Wu Yuchen's face and said, "Hubby, is being a director so stressful?"

"What do you think? The director has to carry the whole crew on his own, and he also has to consider investors, return of capital, art and audiences. There is so much pressure from all aspects! If you can handle it, you can improve. If you can't handle it, you can't. collapse."

"Ah?" Jiang Qinqin looked at Wu Yuchen with a lot of distress and pity in her eyes. She had never thought that Wu Yuchen would have to endure so much before, she just watched him walk all the way in glory.

"Then, what are you directors going to do?" Jiang Qinqin asked with concern.

"Some choose their own ways to vent, some turn pressure into motivation, and some just resist. Everyone is different."

Wu Yuchen said something, and then smiled at Jiang Qinqin and said: "Okay, don't think too much, I'm still young, I can still handle this pressure~"

Hearing this, Jiang Qinqin tightened her arms around Wu Yuchen, and then said to Wu Yuchen: "Husband, actually, it doesn't matter whether you can get the Oscar or not. Don't put so much pressure on it. So many people didn't get it anyway~"

Wu Yuchen couldn't help but glance at Jiang Qinqin with a smile, and he still cared about himself. His attitude had changed a lot from yesterday!

Then he hugged Jiang Qinqin and smiled heartily: "Haha, don't worry, you have to fight when it's time to fight. I can't be a coward!"

The next day, at the Beijing International Airport, before Wu Yuchen left, Han Sanping came over to see him off, took his hand and said:

"Brother Wu, this time you are going to the United States to compete for the Olympics. Although no one has said it yet, many people have expectations for you. I only hope that you can learn from the lessons of Yimou and Kaige, and this trip will be a success immediately. return!"

"Brother Han, I will do my best!" Wu Yuchen replied, holding Han Sanping's hand.

It has been 20 years since the domestic impact on the Oscars. The first time the mainland submitted a film to compete for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film was in 1979. At that time, the first animated film to compete for the Oscar was "Avanti." Well, he is the symbol of Western Xinjiang's wisdom, a legendary figure, "Afanti" is widely spread, and many people in Europe have watched this cartoon.

However, in the past 20 years, Chinese-language films that have competed for the Olympics have undoubtedly ended in failure. As for what Han Sanping said about learning from the lessons of Lao Mouzi and Kaizi, it was because those two times were promising for winning prizes.

This time, it was Lao Mouzi's "Ju Dou", which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film in 1991. At that time, everyone thought it was because of its inferior skills when it was not selected. However, a few years later, Lu Yan, who was a judge at the Oscars, came back to talk about it. , in fact, many judges at the time liked his "Ju Dou" very much, but Lao Mouzi had never been to the United States, which led everyone to think that he didn't pay attention to this, so they simply wouldn't vote for you.

The second time was Kaizi's "Farewell My Concubine", which was shortlisted for nomination, but it was still too naive. At that time, producer Xu Feng publicly told the reporters that our "Farewell My Concubine" did not rely on public relations, but all on public relations. Excellent quality goes everywhere! After I learned the rules later, "Farewell My Concubine" also held a party, but the methods couldn't compare with others, and I didn't dare to meet the judges in private. This result is naturally unsatisfactory!

Later, Chen Kaizi complained when he came back: "I didn't know it was important to communicate with the Oscar judges at the beginning. They all thought I didn't want to win this award."

Wu Yuchen had already heard Han Sanping nagging him about this matter. As soon as he heard it, he understood that Oscar's place was completely different from that in China. Nowadays, people in China are very concerned about pretending to be noble. Even if you really want to win this award, you have to pretend to be very humble. It doesn't matter whether you win or not.

But the Oscars don't like this. You have to make it clear to everyone that you just want to win. The rules of the game are clear, and you have to rely on public relations. Only if your public relations efforts are strong enough can you prove your sincerity in winning the award!

Moreover, there are so many movies competing for awards every year, and those old men and women don’t have time to watch every movie competing for awards. Therefore, you will only watch your movie after you visit the publicist. Then naturally you will only vote for him when voting. Have seen it.

Like Lao Mouzi and Chen Kaizi these two times, no one else went there, or if you go there, you will publicize and do no public relations to show that you are noble, so isn't it funny that you still want to win the award? Do you really think that the public relations fees for those award-winning movies were wasted?

But this time Wu Yuchen was well prepared. The public relations team had already laid out his daily schedule, which was not what Lao Mouzi and Chen Kaizi could compare to at the time!

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On Hong Kong Island, Huang Xiaoming heard a knock on the door in a daze.

"Brother Xiao Ming, get up quickly, it's a big event!"

Hearing the voice of his teammate Wu Kequn, Huang Xiaoming shook his head and stood up, then walked to open the door and complained: "Kequn, aren't you tired? It's hard to sleep in one day, why don't you take the time to rest more! "

In the past few months, Huang Xiaoming has been prosperous. As "Meteor Garden" became a hit throughout Asia and the album "Meteor Shower" became a hit, F4 also started an Asia tour.

Needless to say, Wanwan and Hong Kong Island, young people, especially boys and girls, are simply going crazy for F4.

F4 caused a big commotion at the airport when it landed in Singapore, with thousands of fans coming to pick it up. In order to ensure the safety of F4, Singapore dispatched large police cars to pick them up and more than 100 police officers to protect them. During the drive, the F4 cars were closely followed by the fans' cars. A record number of 45 cars followed the F4 all day long, and overtook them from time to time, creating a dangerous situation.

In the Philippines, "Meteor Garden" hit a highest ratings of 57.4% and an average of 42.9%. F4 was received by the president and received royal courtesy throughout.

Not to be outdone, the President of Indonesia issued an invitation letter. When F4 arrived in Indonesia, they were guarded by security guards, but they were still jammed with fans throughout the entire process, and the reception vehicle moved forward at a snail's pace. The president hopes that F4 can hold a concert in Bali to save the local economy, use F4's appeal to attract more Jakarta fans to visit Bali, and revitalize the sluggish tourism industry.

In Neon, this is the base camp of the original comic "Boys Over Flowers". After "Meteor Garden" was broadcast, a large number of fans participated in F4's support activities holding flowers, and set off a wave of enthusiasm for learning Chinese.

In Bangkok, F4's fan club has exceeded 200,000 in just one week, and is still growing rapidly. The enthusiasm of the girls during the support activities for Oppa even made Huang Xiaoming feel a little scared.

Thailand's "Bangkok Post" reported that two months after the broadcast of "Meteor Garden", local F4 records and products had sold more than 100 million baht, calling F4 the hottest star in Asia!

It can be said that in just a few months, F4 has become the top men's group in Asia, and Huang Xiaoming's so-called star dream has been achieved 10 times more than the standard!

As for the price, it’s just tiring, very tiring! In the past few months, I have hardly had a day to rest well. I have been running for promotions and announcements, either on the road or on stage. As soon as I get back to the hotel, I feel like sleeping when I touch the bed.

Huang Xiaoming didn't know that in his previous life, F4 had to use intravenous drip for publicity. He pulled out the needle just before going on stage and continued to insert it. Now Cai Yinong can guarantee their sleep, which is already very kind!

Therefore, Huang Xiaoming really cherished the opportunity to sleep in when he returned to Hong Kong Island. He really wanted to sleep in darkness. Even the goddess Zhao Wei did not want to meet him in his dream again. .

Kequn Wu pulled Huang Xiaoming and left: "Brother Xiaoming, this is really a big event. If you don't see it with your own eyes, you will regret it for the rest of your life!"

While Huang Xiaoming was being dragged away by Kenji Wu, he said helplessly: "What's going on? Shuangqi takes over the face? Or is it the king of sheep's impotence?"

What Huang Xiaoming mentioned was what he heard about the recent hot events on Hong Kong Island after returning to Hong Kong Island yesterday.

"Shuangqi Seizes the Face" is a love triangle between Zheng Yi Mian, Gigi Leung and Shao Meiqi. To put it simply, Zheng Yi Mian and Shao Meiqi have been dating for seven years, but now their love is suddenly snatched away by Gigi Leung. Then all the major newspapers were complaining that Gigi Leung was the mistress, and then Zheng Yi came out and publicly said that the breakup was her own decision, that she was sorry for Shao Meiqi, and gave her a property worth 40 million as compensation. However, the gossip newspapers still ignored Gigi Leung and compiled many rosy stories about her rise to power.

The Heavenly King of Sheep Impotence refers to Aaron Kwok, one of the Four Heavenly Kings. Last month, his erotic video was exposed, and someone set up a beauty trap. The video of him being intimate with a beautiful woman was sent to a gossip magazine. Although there are no shocking scenes in the videotape, Aaron Kwok eventually won the lawsuit, but this incident made Aaron Kwok quite embarrassed. The woman was interviewed by many media and revealed that Aaron Kwok was super poor in some aspects of his skills, so he was quickly removed from Hong Kong Island. The gossip media came up with the eye-catching headline "The King of Sheep's Impotence".

This incident dealt a fatal blow to Aaron Kwok's image. After all, he was originally promoting the Asian Dance King, and his image has always been masculine and energetic to the outside world. As a result, he was suddenly labeled as a "sheep impotence", which directly affected many A joke among people. Even though the public relations team behind him was strong enough and his blood was thick enough, he still took a year or two to come out.