Chapter 207 I Can’t Suppress It, I Can’t Suppress It at All!

"The Sixth Sense" was shortlisted for 6 nominations and "Love" was shortlisted for 3 nominations. To say more is not a lot, but to say less is definitely a lot.

And most importantly, several nominations that Wu Yuchen wanted were basically on the list, including the best foreign language film for "Love" and the best director, which gave him greater ambitions!

"Congratulations, Wu, you have achieved a new achievement. The same director has two works nominated for the Best Director award at the same time!

This is really crazy. Before, I really never expected that this kind of thing would happen, but you really did something that has never been done since the creation of the Oscar Awards! "

At this time, Richard was also very excited. He had proposed this idea to Wu Yuchen before, but he did not expect that it would actually come true in the hands of him and Wu Yuchen. This was completely beyond his expectations. Therefore, even though he has been engaged in Oscar public relations for a long time, Richard also appeared very excited.

On the contrary, Wu Yuchen, who had adjusted his mentality during this period, started to persuade him: "Hey, Richard, calm down, it's just a nomination, I haven't really won the award yet!"

Richard held Wu Yuchen's shoulders:

"No, no, Wu, you know? This is even harder than winning an Oscar! With double Oscar nominations, every step you take now is making history!"

Wu Yuchen smiled and patted Richard on the shoulder: "It's us!"

Richard also smiled when he heard this, paced back and forth, then rubbed his face, took a deep breath and said, "You're right, Wu, it's just a nomination now. If you don't win the award, it's not a success!"

Later, Richard and Wu Yuchen sat down and analyzed the list in detail.

"Wu, there are five awards related to you personally. Let me first share my personal views.

First of all, the most important award is the best picture. Although "The Sixth Sense" was nominated, according to the current situation, "American Beauty" has great advantages and has a high reputation, while "The Sixth Sense" "The film contains supernatural elements, which is a very disadvantageous point.

Then comes the best foreign language film. "Amour" is now at least one position ahead. The only competitor that threatens you is Spain's "All About My Mother". However, due to your own influence and film exposure, Far higher than this movie, so this should be our favorite for the award right now! "

Richard came up and talked about Wu Yuchen's two weakest and strongest awards, which Wu Yuchen agreed with. He understood what Richard meant. He must clearly distinguish his strengths and weaknesses, and then make a choice, focusing his energy and resources on the ones with the best chance of winning the prize.

Wu Yuchen nodded and said:

"We must strive for the best foreign language film for "Love". With it, my Oscar bid will not be considered a failure in any way."

For Wu Yuchen, as long as "Love" can win the best foreign language film, he has achieved his goal. He will definitely be blown away when he returns to China. The first Chinese Oscar. Whoever wins this honor will basically be able to win it in China. Eat it for a lifetime.

"The Best Picture award for "The Sixth Sense" can be given up appropriately. There is also the Best Editing award, which I don't value very much. Leave it to those editors."

In fact, "Love" was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture in its previous life, but now it has a Chinese story and background. This time it was not nominated for the Best Picture award, which shows that there is still a certain degree of discrimination at the Oscars.

Richard took note of Wu Yuchen's attitude, and then continued:

"So, now let's talk about the remaining two awards. One is Best Original Screenplay, and the other is Best Director. For these two awards, "Love" and "The Sixth Sense" are both nominated. . And in the same situation, you face a very strong opponent for these two awards, which is "American Beauty", so you have to make a choice, otherwise there is likely to be a diversion of votes."

When it comes to Oscar voting, take Best Director as an example. It doesn’t mean that the two films “The Sixth Sense” and “Love” are both written by Justin Wu, so the votes can be added together. If Justin Wu himself did not guide it, it is very likely that the two movies would have received 1,200 votes each, and "American Beauty" would finally win with 1,500 votes.

Therefore, Wu Yuchen had to choose between the two nominated options and choose a target to concentrate on public relations.

Wu Yuchen first took a look at the award for Best Original Screenplay. If he had to choose between "Love" and "The Sixth Sense", it would actually not be difficult to make a choice, because obviously the script of "The Sixth Sense" is more eye-catching, especially That final shocking twist, and "Love" did not rely on the script to win. It is itself an ordinary story about the birth, old age, illness and death of the elderly.

"Best Original Screenplay, surrounding "The Sixth Sense"!"

After hearing what Wu Yuchen said, Richard quickly recorded it. At the same time, Wu Yuchen looked at an award that gave him greater ambitions, which is also the major Oscar award, Best Director!

To be honest, he would not even think about competing for Best Director based on any of the films "The Sixth Sense" and "Love", although both of these films were also shortlisted for this award in his previous life. But now, he has managed to have two films nominated at the same time, and he has taken 2 of the 5 spots!

As Richard said, this is a feat that has never been accomplished by anyone since the establishment of Oscar. In Wu Yuchen's impression, this is the first time in the history of Oscars that someone has done it. He has to wait until next year's Oscars. Director Steven Soderbergh was nominated for two films at the same time, and he also won the best director of that year as he wished. .

Now that he has reached this point and achieved this condition, why can't he think more and look forward to the Best Director award!

He didn't know if he could win it, but if he didn't dare to think about it and didn't try, then the prize would definitely be useless.

But now he has to face a choice, "The Sixth Sense" or "Love"?

"The Sixth Sense" and "Love" embody two different techniques and styles, but if it comes to the film itself, it's still the same problem. "The Sixth Sense" has supernatural elements, while "Love" is reality. However, "Love" is a Chinese story. In contrast, the actors in "The Sixth Sense" are all white, and the story is set in the United States. This means that both movies have advantages and disadvantages.

This choice is related to Wu Yuchen's possibility of competing for awards in the future, so he cannot be cautious. He then thought about the various outpost awards he had participated in in the past few months. Both films had been nominated many times, but in the Best Director award, "Love" obviously seemed to be more favored by the judges.

Wu Yuchen said: "Richard, tell me again the age of the Oscar judges."

Richard immediately said after hearing this: "According to surveys, as of 1998, the median age of Oscar judges was 64 years old, and judges under the age of 50 accounted for 12% of the total number of judges."

"In other words, more than 50% of the judges are over 64 years old, and 88% of the judges are over 50 years old?"

"As you think."

"Best Director, then PR around Love."

Wu Yuchen smiled while telling his decision. When I first filmed "Love", I actually took into consideration that the Oscar judges are all elderly people and would have strong empathy with this movie subject. However, now it seems that the effect has exceeded expectations. "Love" is not only in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. The award has gained quite a bit of advantage, and even many judges were willing to vote for it for Best Director!

Putting aside the fact that "The Sixth Sense" is his mixed-race son and "Love" is his Chinese pure-blood son, just talking about the possibility of these two films competing for the Best Director award, based on his run in the past few months Judging from my experience, that is also more likely to be "Love".

"Okay, next, we will publicize your two nominations, let the media continue to emphasize how great this achievement is, and let all the judges who see it take this factor into consideration when voting. At the same time, Wu, regarding other You can’t give up on the award, and you must show that you want to win the award in public.”

Wu Yuchen nodded, understanding this truth. Those who seek for the top will get it, and those who seek for the top will get the bottom.

To show the judges an attitude, he is eligible for all five awards. Some judges may think that giving him all is too much. Maybe three or two of them are enough for him. But if Wu Yuchen said from the beginning that I only want 3 awards, then maybe some people think that giving him one of them is enough. During the voting period, this kind of centrism, or the mentality of splitting the vote, was in the minds of many judges.

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This time the Oscar shortlist has been announced, and the most eye-catching movie is definitely "American Beauty". Nominated for 8 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, it is the most popular Oscar winner this year.

But if we say the director who gets the most attention, or not just the director, but the person who gets the most attention, it is definitely Wu Yuchen!

"Wu Yuchen sets a new Oscar record!"

"Unprecedented double nomination for Best Director!"

"One person has two nominations. This year's best director has been confirmed?"

"Liang Tang, who was nominated for the Oscar this year, is undoubtedly attracting attention. I think the ratings of this Oscars ceremony will be one or two percentage points higher because of Liang Tang. But his limelight was overshadowed by another person, that is Two films were nominated for Best Director at the same time, Wu Yuchen made history!

His "The Sixth Sense" must have been seen by many people. Even if you have not seen it, everyone has heard of it. It was one of the most shocking movies last year. Now the North American box office has reached 380 million US dollars, and it has a very high reputation. .

But what we want to talk about today is not the famous "The Sixth Sense", but another Chinese-language movie by Wu Yuchen, "Love".

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It’s love that wants you to live and doesn’t want you to leave; it’s love that makes you die, but it doesn’t want to see you in pain. We can always face the end of our lives calmly, but it is difficult to face the gradual departure of the people we love. The most painful thing is that we are powerless.

Wu Yuchen uses "Love" to constantly question us: when the one we love is tortured by illness, how should we choose? Should he respect his lover's wishes and let her be free, or should he just ask her to live even if she is in pain? There is never a right answer to this question, which is why it touches our hearts and brings us face to face with death.

The entire film mainly revolves around the two themes of love and death. Death is the end of life, and love is the pinnacle of life. I think this is what director Wu Yuchen wants to convey to us.

There is no doubt that two films with different styles, "Love" and "The Sixth Sense", were nominated at the same time, which can already reflect Wu Yuchen's extraordinary directorial ability. To some extent, this feat of setting a new record is already more meaningful than the statuette.

Whether this year's Oscar statuette will be awarded to this director who made history will be the focus of everyone's attention. "

In the "Hollywood Reporter", a column was written specifically for Wu Yuchen and "Love". There is no doubt that this was also influenced by Richard's public relations.

In fact, everyone knows this. After all, if you don’t spend money on public relations during the awards season, you can’t even think about getting any traffic online. But even for public relations, you have to have something worthy of praise. Just like Wu Yuchen's double nomination this time, it is indeed very eye-catching and eye-catching. The Oscars have been in development for more than 70 years. Every new record is difficult to set. When you set a new history, you are destined to become the focus!

Not only Hollywood, but also China was in a state of shock when the list of Oscar nominees came out. This time Wu Yuchen couldn't suppress it even if he wanted to!

Previously, after "Love" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, it attracted a lot of reports, letting many people know that Wu Yuchen took "Love" to participate in this year's Oscars, and it seemed to be quite good. hopefully.

When the short list came out, "Love" was not only successfully nominated for the best foreign language film, but also nominated for two important awards: best original screenplay and best director, which suddenly aroused everyone's hearts. hope!

When Chen Kaizi and Lao Mouzi participated in the Oscars, they both only received one nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, while Wu Yuchen was nominated for three directly, and they were all nominated for important awards. The treatment is clearly different!

Not talking about the history of Lao Mouzi and Chen Kaizi, just talk about the other four films shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film this year. Which other film can get this treatment? No, not even one!

What kind of treatment is this? The treatment of seeded players!

There is no doubt that this time "Love" is definitely the closest that a Chinese-language film has come to an Oscar so far. How can it not immediately ignite the enthusiasm in everyone's hearts?

"Best Foreign Language Film Seed Contestant - "Love"!"

"The Chinese-language film closest to an Oscar - "Love"."

"Wu Yuchen is expected to become the first Chinese speaker at the Oscars!"

"Capture the Golden Lion first, then the Golden Ball, Wu Yuchen is aiming for the Oscar with "Love"!"

"Analysis of the possibility of "Love" winning an Oscar."

"'Amour' is the biggest favorite for Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscars!"

""Love" was widely praised by Hollywood, and Wu Yuchen conquered the United States across borders!"

First of all, a wave of reports about "Love" came out, and the movie "Love" was discussed from all aspects.

What's even more exciting is that Wu Yuchen not only has one "Love" participating in this Oscar, but also has a foreign son named "The Sixth Sense"!

According to the consistent argument in China, film works are the director's flesh and blood, the director's biological children. Therefore, although the story and actors of "The Sixth Sense" are not Chinese, since he is Wu Yuchen's foreign son, he is half of our Chinese blood!

The foreign son of "The Sixth Sense" is even more impressive, winning 6 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and other important awards that are closely related to Wu Yuchen.

Naturally, Wu Yuchen broke Oscar history and set a record by the Chinese media immediately.

"On the value of Wu Yuchen's double nomination."

"Wu Yuchen plays double insurance, how hopeful is the best director?"

"Will John Woo become the first Chinese to win the Oscar for Best Director?"

Suddenly, the curiosity and enthusiasm of the people were aroused. Even those who usually didn't pay much attention to movies began to buy newspapers and pay attention to Wu Yuchen's Olympics. Suddenly, Wu Yuchen's Olympic bid became the focus of domestic news. It was no longer limited to people who pay attention to movies. To use a word from later generations, it was a big break out of the circle!

Some netizens even started to carry foreigners' reports to the Internet and send them to Tianya Community for everyone to read. Tianya Community instantly stood out among many forums and became the home base for domestic film and television discussions. They continued to follow Wu Yu every day. Chen’s latest news.

Not only the mainland, but also Chinese-speaking areas such as Hong Kong Island, Wanwan, and Singapore, and even Asian countries such as Neon and Bangguo, have all begun to pay attention to Wu Yuchen's Olympics.

After all, this time at the Oscars, Wu Yuchen not only hopes to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but he has also done the unprecedented thing of being nominated for double Best Director. It seems that the statuette for Best Director will also become There is something promising that can be seen with the naked eye!

You know, in the more than 70 years since the Oscars, no Asian director has ever won the Best Director award. Not to mention those little Nishihachi who have never had anything to do with Oscars, even the neon movie emperor, the master-level Akira Kurosawa, has won big names in Hollywood such as Spielberg and George Lucas. Headed by half of Hollywood fans, he has won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, but he has not won the Best Director Award, or even been nominated.

Therefore, Wu Yuchen now represents not only the Chinese, but also the Asian group. This is the closest to the Best Director Award in all of Asia!

As for Wu Yuchen, he naturally received calls from people who were interested in him. Among them, Han San is particularly rated. He has just been in charge of China Film for one year. If Wu Yuchen can win an Oscar and win glory for Chinese films, then this will be his achievement!

Moreover, he has always had a very good relationship with Wu Yuchen. With Wu Yuchen's support, wouldn't it be easier for him, Han Sanping, to perform whatever actions he wants to perform in the future?

"Brother Wu, I know you are humble, but you are too humble! If Oscar's big list hadn't come out, we would still have been kept in the dark by you!"

"Brother Han, this is really not me being modest. Even though I have so many nominations, nominations are just nominations after all. I can't say there are any advantages now. Brother, please help me suppress the public opinion in this country. Don’t praise me too highly!”

Wu Yuchen discussed with Han Sanping on the other side of the phone.

“I can’t suppress it, I can’t suppress it at all!

Brother Wu, there's nothing we can do now. Your double nomination for Best Director has set a new Oscar record. Who can control this media? If you don't let them write now, you won't let them make money. Besides, people are saying good things about you but not scolding you. How can you care about this? "

Listening to the words of Han Sanping opposite him, Wu Yuchen couldn't help but let out a long sigh. This is what the domestic public opinion is. Not to mention that it is only 2000, even 20 years from now, the self-confidence of the Chinese people will be much higher than it is now. If someone can create similar results, it will also arouse heated discussions on the entire Internet.

At this time, Han Sanjing asked: "Brother Wu, tell me the truth. What do you think are the chances of "Love" winning an award? There are also other awards. I understand the situation and can help you communicate. communicate."

Wu Yuchen thought for a while and gave Han Sanjing an answer:

"Brother Han, I am determined to win the Best Foreign Language Film award now, and I am 80% sure, unless I am really unlucky and give me a big shock. As for other awards such as Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, It’s really hard for me to say, even if I’m in an advantageous position, and it’s basically impossible to win Best Picture.”

Han Sanping personally heard Wu Yuchen say that he was 80% sure of the Best Foreign Language Film, and he immediately felt ecstatic. He didn't ask for much, as long as Wu Yuchen could win the Best Foreign Language Film award this time. , that is the great hero!

"Hahaha, brother Wu, with your words, my heart will be stable! Don't worry, I will go out of my way to help you this time. When the news of your success comes, we will beat the gongs and drums again!"

Han Sanping kept true to his word. This time he personally called the leaders of major newspapers one by one. He either said that they would not let people report on them or that they would control the popularity. Most of the topics focused on the best foreign language film. After all, Wu Yuchen said he was determined to win this award.

As for the other awards such as Best Director, we can conduct a wave of popular science and rational analysis to emphasize the difficulty of winning the award and pave the way for future developments. In this way, we can advance, attack, retreat or defend, and we will be able to make excuses even if we do not win the award.

Wu Yuchen now has little time or extra thought to pay attention to domestic public opinions and developments. With the announcement of the long list, the Oscar competition has entered the second stage, that is, the five films have used all their strength and all means to go into battle. The moment of hand-to-hand bayonet combat.

For example, Wu Yuchen is constantly emphasizing his double nomination for Best Director, but at the same time, some people stand up and point out that he is too young. Such young people obviously lack qualifications. How can there be a best director in his twenties in the world? Huh? !