director of the millennium

The news about the announcement of the Golden Rooster Awards shortlist quickly spread across the domestic Internet.

As the only one left among the three major Chinese-language awards, the Golden Rooster Awards now has to be paid attention to by a large number of movie fans.

no way.

The Golden Horse Awards were banned in mainland China due to inappropriate remarks.

The Hong Kong Film Awards is a traditional small circle event, where only Hong Kong films can participate in the selection, and mainland films can at most compete for the best cross-strait Chinese-language film.

When the Hong Kong film industry was flourishing in the early years, mainland netizens and movie fans would pay close attention even if only Hong Kong films participated. After all, Hong Kong films were still in their heyday at that time.

But that is no longer possible. As the mainland's film industry catches up, the box office of a mainland movie is now equivalent to that of Hong Kong Island in a year. The overwhelming variety of mainland films has made mainland movie fans no longer interested in paying attention to the small Hong Kong film industry. The Hong Kong Film Awards has also gone from being the most popular award in the Chinese-speaking world to a miserable situation where it cannot even get sponsorship.

But to be honest, whether it is the Golden Horse Awards or the Golden Statue Awards, the current results are all the fault of the organizing committee itself, and we can only say that they deserve it.

The Golden Rooster Awards, which have always been disliked by mainland movie fans and considered to be out of touch with reality and too ugly to divide the cake, have become the last hope of the village under the "contrast of peers".
I can only say that this is really dark humor.

However, the Shanghai International Film Festival and the Hainan International Film Festival have performed quite well in the past two years. Perhaps there will be a new situation in the domestic film awards landscape in the future.

But these things have nothing to do with Wu Yuan for the time being.

The Golden Rooster Awards did not cause any waves in North America.

Although Wu Yuan received the news from home first, he didn't care about it at all and focused all his attention on the filming of "Bruce Lee".

From Los Angeles to Seattle, and then to Hong Kong Island, the filming of "Bruce Lee" can be said to be across the Pacific Ocean. There were too many things that Wu Yuan needed to deal with.

But he enjoyed it very much.

Because the filming of the movie went very smoothly, in mid-October, "Bruce Lee" completed its North American filming and moved to Hong Kong Island to shoot the scenes in Hong Kong Island.

This part of the drama mainly focuses on the collaboration between Bruce Lee and Golden Harvest, namely the behind-the-scenes stories of the films "Fist of Fury", "Way of the Dragon" and "The Big Boss" that made Bruce Lee truly famous all over the world.

Moreover, on January 1973, 1, the large-scale kung fu film "Enter the Dragon" co-produced by Warner and Golden Harvest started shooting in Hong Kong Island.

This was the first and last time Bruce Lee starred in a Hollywood film.

After filming this movie, on May 5, Bruce Lee fainted on the Golden Harvest set while dubbing the English version of Enter the Dragon and was taken to the emergency room of Baptist Hospital.

On the night of July 7, Bruce Lee fainted again and was rushed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for emergency treatment, but unfortunately died that night.

As for the cause of his death, it remains a mystery to this day.

Although the official authorities issued an authoritative conclusion, the cause of death was determined to be cerebral edema caused by the effects of analgesics.

But whether it was the people around him, the company, or the private doctor, they all gave various different causes of death. It was too difficult to distinguish the true and false rumors, and there were too many things involved behind them.

After fifty years, the truth of many things has long been covered up.

Even Wu Yuan couldn't give a definitive conclusion to his cause of death, so at the end of the movie, Wu Yuan chose to blur this experience. The movie only stopped when Bruce Lee suddenly fell to the ground while dubbing for "Enter the Dragon", and then the movie came to an abrupt end. This can be regarded as a clever way of handling it, throwing Bruce Lee's death back to the audience.

For such controversial issues, it is best not to give a conclusion in the film, because no matter what the conclusion is, there will always be people who are dissatisfied, question, and disagree.

Every fan who watched this movie may have his or her own ideas. It doesn’t matter how you interpret it. Anyway, the movie will not give a direct conclusion on the cause of death. It also avoids various conspiracy theories surrounding the cause of Bruce Lee’s death after the film was released, which would affect the evaluation and reputation of the film.

In this way, filming lasted another 20 days in Hong Kong Island. On November 2019, 11, the "Bruce Lee" crew successfully finished filming in Hong Kong Island.

After holding a wrap party, the crew disbanded on the spot in Hong Kong Island.

Wu Yuan also flew directly back to the capital with the original film he had shot.

On Disney's side, apart from requiring a female lead, Wu Yuan was given complete authority over everything else.

After all, this is a biographical film, and how it is shot must be decided by the director, and the final editing rights must also be decided by the director himself.

Disney is not a fool. In order to pursue commercial value, commercial films must control the editing rights and edit them in a way that can attract audiences and sell well at the box office.

But art films are very mysterious and have a strong personal style of the director. Any award-winning art film must be edited by the director himself and cannot be delegated to others.

Therefore, Disney was very confident in letting Wu Yuan do the post-production editing himself, and did not even require it to be done at the North American headquarters. Wu Yuan could take it back to Light and Shadow Times to do the post-production himself, as long as the final film was reviewed and approved by Disney.

So, on November 11, Wu Yuan returned to the capital.

He did not immediately start working on the post-production of the film, but instead went home to visit his baby daughter.

Although he also video-called his wife and children every day during the two or three months of filming, how can the feelings be compared to seeing and touching them in person through a phone?

"Oh my, my little darling." Holding his daughter in his arms, Wu Yuan rubbed his handsome face against his daughter's smooth face, treating her like a baby.

Because they video chat every day, Qingqing didn't feel unfamiliar with Wu Yuan. Instead, she grinned and smiled happily.

Liu Yifei, who was standing aside and watching the reunion of the father and daughter, was both angry and amused. She stepped forward and pinched the soft flesh on Wu Yuan's waist, and said jealously: "In the past, he would hug me first after returning from filming, but now that he has a daughter, he doesn't even look at me."

"It turns out that a daughter is her father's little lover."

"No way." Wu Yuan quickly stretched out his other hand and held his wife's arm: "You are as important to me as my daughter."

"Come on, smell some."

After saying that, he gave Liu Yifei a big kiss on the face.

Well, my daughter-less face is smooth, but it still feels great.

"Don't give me that." Liu Yifei rolled her eyes and patted Wu Yuan's hand that was fidgeting around his waist. She asked with a smile, "How about it? My waist is still very thin, right?"

"I've been working so hard these past few months trying to get back in shape." (End of this chapter)