director of the millennium

It would be more accurate to say that it was Liu Yifei who wanted to win the prize rather than Wu Yuan.

But in this era, Wu Yuan no longer has much advantage of foresight. He remembers that in the next few years, none of the movies that could win the best actress awards in Europe's three major awards or the Oscars would be suitable for Liu Yifei.

If Liu Yifei wants to win an award, she can only choose to write the script herself, which is not an easy thing to do.

After thinking it over, Wu Yuan said to Liu Yifei very seriously: "If you want to win the prize, I will help you, but it may not be possible now."

"You will be joining the production of Out of Time in the second half of this year, and will be joining the production of X-Men: Dark Phoenix in early next year. Even if we want to tailor a movie for you that will win awards, the earliest it can be scheduled to start shooting is the second half of next year."

"That's good, at least there's enough time to write the script properly."

At this moment, Wu Yuan had not decided which biographical figure of Chinese historical figures to shoot, and he had not even decided whether to shoot it himself.

In fact, deep down, Wu Yuan still felt that it would be more appropriate to ask Zhang Yimou to make this movie.

He pointed out a direction, and then asked Zhang Yimou to bring in several professional screenwriters in the industry to work on the script, and then start filming.

We have to admit that when it comes to art films, Wu Yuan is indeed not as good as Zhang Yimou. He has been a commercial film director for both of his lifetimes. When he made art films, it was mainly because of his memory, and he could replicate the works to an 80% to 90% similarity.

But it is not an easy task for him to write the script himself, conceive the storyboards, picture aesthetics, and shooting techniques himself.

Wu Yuan wanted to make "Bruce Lee" just to fulfill his dream, to leave a movie recording the life of this national darling who stood up the backbone of the Chinese in Hollywood and made Chinese Kung Fu famous all over the world in an era when the plaque of "Sick Man of East Asia" had not yet been smashed.

Moreover, this movie is aimed at Hollywood, or to be more precise, it is targeting the Oscars. Wu Yuan also plans to put a lot of effort into public relations to get a best film award, if for nothing else, just to bring "Bruce Lee" back into the spotlight of Hollywood and awaken North Americans' memories of this Hollywood celebrity.

It can be said that the game behind this movie is more important than the quality of the movie itself. Whether it can win an award does not depend on how well the movie itself is made, but all depends on the strength of the public relations at that time.

But the award-winning film prepared for Liu Yifei cannot be done in this way, and the awards it is competing for are the three major European awards, not the Oscars.

The three major European organizations cannot do public relations. Although there are some unspoken rules behind the scenes, in the final analysis it still depends on the strength and the taste of the judges.

In this regard, Wu Yuan's level is really not as good as Zhang Yimou's.

If it is for Liu Yifei's own good and to make every effort to win the award, it would be better to ask Zhang Yimou to do it personally.

After all, this is a Chinese director who almost won the three major European Grand Slams!
After thinking about it, Wu Yuan decided not to hide it from Liu Yifei, so he told her his thoughts directly.

He said frankly that his level in the field of art films was not high enough, and it would be better to let Zhang Yimou direct it himself.

Faced with Wu Yuan's suggestion, Liu Yifei frowned.

She did want to win an award, but she also wanted to play the leading role in Wu Yuan's art film, not just for the sake of winning an award.

She could see that there seemed to be some unfinished meaning in Wu Yuan's words, but after being "husband and wife" for so many years, Liu Yifei also knew that Wu Yuan did not want to film with her. After all, she had always been his favorite heroine.

Maybe Wu Yuan has his own plans.

Although she frowned, Liu Yifei did not reject Wu Yuan's kindness. She nodded and said, "I understand. Director Zhang is also the best director in the country. It is my honor to work with him." Which actress in the country dares to say that she doesn't want to work with Zhang Yimou?

This is the national master!
Speaking of which, when Zhang Yimou was filming "Under the Hawthorn Tree", Liu Yifei conveyed her intention to fight for the role to Zhang Yimou through Wu Yuan. It was a pity that Zhang Yimou did not choose her in the end, and chose Zhou Dongyu, who looked "ordinary".

Later, facts proved that Zhou Dongyu was indeed suitable for this role. Her pure but not delicate and beautiful appearance was more suitable for the role. However, the regret of not being able to work together has always existed.

Now that I can work with Zhang Yimou, I can make up for this regret.

"Then it's settled." Seeing Liu Yifei being so reasonable, Wu Yuan was also very happy. He smiled and kissed her and said, "I will talk to Director Zhang about this in a few days. If he is willing, we will start preparing for this project next!"

"If we move faster, we should be able to catch up with Venice in 2018 or Cannes in 2019."

"You will only be 31 or 32 years old by then. If you can really win the Best Actress award, your achievement will not be much inferior to that of Teacher Gong Li."

That was true, but Wu Yuan did feel a little bit of dissatisfaction from Liu Yifei.

His eyes rolled and he suddenly remembered something, and the smile on his face became increasingly presumptuous.

"Come to think of it, Xixi, you will be 30 this year too, and I'm almost 35."

"Shouldn't we get married?"

Although he had proposed to her long time ago, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei had been delaying their marriage.

Liu Yifei is not in a hurry. After all, female celebrities don’t get married early. Even earlier, they would only consider getting married when they are in their thirties.

As for Wu Yuan, he has no elders, so naturally no one would urge him to get married or have children, and he doesn't think about it deliberately on a daily basis.

In the blink of an eye, he is already in his thirties. When talking about his age today, he suddenly felt that it is time to enter the next stage of life.

Although the two had indeed been living together for a long time and their daily life was not much different from that of a married couple, they felt like something was missing because they lacked a certificate and had not held a wedding.

However, Wu Yuan's casual attitude not only failed to appease Liu Yifei's dissatisfaction, but made her even more angry.

"How can you be so casual!"

She straightened her back and broke free from Wu Yuan's embrace. She put her hands on her hips and said angrily, "Who wants to get married with you when you propose like this?"

"Ah?" Wu Yuan was a little confused and took back his arm awkwardly, "Haven't I already proposed to you in Korea before?"

"That won't work either!" Liu Yifei glared at Wu Yuan, forcing him to finish the rest of his sentence. She said unhappily, "The people who want to marry me can line up from Beijing to France!"

"You just talk to me and you want to get a marriage certificate with me. How can it be possible?"

"You have to impress me with your sincerity, otherwise don't even think about getting me to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau with you!" (End of this chapter)