I am a director, but I have the skills of an actor

Chapter 230 Winning the award, come again

During the Spring Festival, Wan Qingshan stayed at home except for paying New Year greetings to relatives. He didn't even call his three companies.

After the Spring Festival, Wan Qingshan and Chen Yumo flew to Los Angeles together.

After asking about the later stage of "Fire", Wan Qingshan and Chen Yumo went to other continents for a week, and then arrived at the Oscar Awards party.

At this awards night, Wan Qingshan and Chen Yumo attended together.

With Chen Yumo here, Wan Qingshan couldn't look around, and the female stars didn't tempt as blatantly as before. They stepped forward, said hello, and left.

However, there were too many female celebrities who came up to say hello, causing Chen Yumo's eyes to change a little.

"You seem to be very comfortable in Hollywood. You are more popular than at home."

Chen Yumo's breath hit Wan Qingshan's ear holes, causing Wan Qingshan to tilt his head, then reached out and took out his ears.

Then, Wan Qingshan whispered back, "It's not that you're popular, it's not that you don't know that foreigners are generally more enthusiastic."

Chen Yumo rolled his eyes and said nothing more.

For this Oscar awards show, several major domestic portals have launched live chat rooms.

But now there are more TV programs and more tidbits in the entertainment industry. In addition, the post-80s generation has become busy with life, and the post-90s generation has gradually become the mainstream star chaser. They are not very curious about the Oscars. In their opinion, with this time, Why not watch more TV series?

Most of the fans of Wanqingshan are born in the 80s and 90s. Well, most of them still like stars who came out of TV series such as Huang Xiaoming, Chen Kun, Yang Mi, and Liu Yifei.

It would be nice if Wan Qingshan appeared in front of domestic audiences more often, and with his good looks, he could attract many young people to become fans.

But for more than a year, he rarely appeared in front of the domestic media, so his fans became more and more silent, as if there were no more.

This also resulted in that, except for some loyal movie fans, not many people came to watch the Oscars party specifically for him.

The popularity is much lower, and the major portal websites are not doing anything fancy.

In addition, it is difficult for netizens to fool nowadays. The Oscar live broadcast chat room incident last year, although the popularity was high for a while, but in the aftermath, many people did not use the portal chat room.

So this time, it’s just two hosts chatting.

After the two hosts chatted for half an hour and the audience became impatient, the Oscars ceremony began.

Maybe it was God's destiny, maybe the academic judges didn't like Leonardo, or maybe there wasn't enough money, so Leonardo still ran with him.

The best actor award went to "Crazy Heart"'s Jeff Bridges, the villain of "Iron Man."

This made Leonardo, who originally thought he was a sure winner, unable to hold back any longer. When the camera came over, he had a straight face and looked very ungraceful.

Leonardo now feels that he has been targeted. In "Manchester by the Sea", he spent all his energy. In order to play the role of Chandler well, he didn't even go to Victoria's Secret.

Even the lobbying funds were given to him, yet he was still not given an award! ! ! ! !
He didn't win Best Actor, and then "Manchester by the Sea" also failed for Best Original Screenplay.

After hearing that the Best Original Screenplay award was won by "The Hurt Locker", Wan Qingshan smiled happily.

Leonardo didn't win the Best Actor. He spent 500 million. If he doesn't get the Best Director, he must at least be compensated with the Best Original Screenplay. If he doesn't get any of the four awards, then what? Hang him and continue to give him high lobbying money next time.

As for the best picture, Wan Qingshan believes that even if it spends 1000 million US dollars, "Manchester by the Sea" will not win.

The best picture has long been reserved for "The Bomb Disposer".The theme of the Iraq war praises the ideology of the United Nations. If the best film is not given to "The Bomb Disposer", who else can it be given to?

Of course, whoever can spend 2000 million US dollars is very likely to win a prize. The money-making ability can make the Oscar judges forget everything.

But no fool is willing to spend $2000 million for best picture.

Now the best original screenplay is awarded to "The Bomb Disposal Expert", and Wan Qingshan believes that his best director award is guaranteed.

Then when the best director was presented, presenter Barbra Streisand read Evergreen Mountain.

With a smile on his face, Wan Qingshan stood up and hugged Chen Yumo tightly, and then gently hugged Leonardo, who was forcing a smile. Then, amid applause from the side, Wan Qingshan took the stage to receive the award.

Wan Qingshan won the best director, and the stars in the audience were not surprised. Last year's "Parasite", which dissected the hearts of the audience, had a good chance of winning the best director, but Wan Qingshan did not give lobbying money, so there was no way.

Although this year's "Manchester by the Sea" was not highly rated by outside audiences, they all knew that the film was rated highly by academic judges.

Therefore, before this Oscar, in their opinion, the best director should be selected from Wanqingshan and Bigelow.

As for Cameron, although the outside world is very vocal, don't think about it. Anyone who knows a little bit about the inside will know that "Avatar" is unlikely to win a major Oscar award.

In the past, Cameron conquered the Oscar with "Titanic". It stands to reason that "Avatar", which set off the film's special effects technology this time, should conquer the Oscar after conquering the Golden Globe.

But this time at the Oscars, no major award will be awarded to "Avatar."

Not to mention anything else, because of the ideology of "Avatar", the male lead actually betrayed the people of Earth in the end, so it is impossible to award the major award to "Avatar".

More importantly, the people on earth attacked for resources, and the Na'vi people were forced to resist. This was much like the United States massacred Indians in the past.

If this movie wins an important award, it will be an Oscar recognition that America is a bloody executioner and Thanksgiving is a joke. You must know that when Thanksgiving was first established, it was because of thanks to the Indians for their help.

When Wan Qingshan took the stage to a round of applause, his fans in China all wrote in the live chat room, 'Awesome! '

When Wan Qingshan gave his acceptance speech on stage, the domestic media began to report, 'Chinese young director Wan Qingshan won the Oscar for Best Director for "Manchester by the Sea"! '

By the time Wan Qingshan stepped down, the news that he won the Oscar for Best Director spread throughout the domestic film and television circles.

After Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige heard this, their energy suddenly disappeared, as if they had aged a lot.

In the past, when Ang Lee won the Oscar for Best Director, they could still be said to be contemporaries, so that was fine.

Last year, Wan Qingshan was nominated for the Oscar for Best Director, but did not win.

They can still comfort themselves by saying, 'Look, he didn't win any prize either! '

But now that Wan Qingshan has won the award, and a junior has won the Oscar for Best Director that they dream of and miss, they can no longer lie to themselves.

After the other directors heard the news, their unwillingness to admit defeat immediately disappeared.

Previously, some news listed sixth-generation directors, and then some media counted Wan Qingshan as a sixth-generation director based on his debut time.

But this sixth-generation director is so outstanding. Not to mention the awards he won at the three major European film festivals, he entered Hollywood and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This has put many sixth-generation directors under a lot of pressure.

Therefore, after the sixth-generation directors were ranked, many viewers believed that the other directors were not qualified to be alongside Wan Qingshan. This made the other sixth-generation directors secretly hold their breath and must show their achievements to the outside world.

Now that Wan Qingshan has won the Oscar for Best Director, which has surpassed the fifth generation directors, they are desperate and their anger is relieved.

In the Kodak Theater, after Wan Qingshan stepped off the stage, the excitement in his heart disappeared instantly.

In the past, in order to motivate himself, he set the Oscar for Best Director as his goal. Now that the goal has been achieved, he feels empty again.

Chen Yumo immediately felt Wan Qingshan's abnormality. She reached out to hold Wan Qingshan's hand and whispered, "What's wrong?"

Wan Qingshan smiled at Chen Yumo and replied, "It's nothing, I just seem to have no goal."

Chen Yumo understood what he meant, and she threw a hygienic eye, "I think you are too full, that's why you think so.

Others, the richest man in the world, are still busy with their careers and making money. Why, do you think you are richer than the richest man in the world? "

Wan Qingshan was stunned for a moment, then smiled dumbly and said, "Yes, I am too full."

Then, Wan Qingshan suddenly rolled his eyes, picked up the trophy, and turned to look at Leonardo.

"Leonardo, thank you. Without you, I wouldn't be able to win this award!"

Wan Qingshan's gratitude was very sincere, but it made Leonardo want to vomit blood.

In order to win the award, he spent a lot of money.Not to mention the energy he put into playing a good Chandler, let's talk about the money.

Normally, directors would reduce the director's fee when making literary films, but he did not let Wan Qingshan reduce the director's fee. He also increased the director's fee for Wan Qingshan, and he also paid for the 500 million lobbying money.

After putting in so much effort, he didn't win the award, but Wan Qingshan won the award, which was enough to make him depressed.

Now Wan Qingshan was holding the Little Golden Man trophy dangling in front of his eyes, and it felt like he had been hit hard on the chest.

"You won this award based on your ability, not my credit." Leonardo replied with a stiff smile.

"NO, you deserve half of the credit for this award. Without your lobbying money, how could I have won the award?"

The corners of Leonardo's mouth twitched slightly, then he laughed dryly and stopped talking.

He really doesn't want to talk to Wan Qingshan now. Not to mention that Wan Qingshan's mention of the lobbying money is just rubbing salt into his wounds. When Wan Qingshan was talking, he picked up the trophy and waved it in his eyes. He was afraid that if he said it again, he would not be able to bear it. I want to hit someone.

Seeing this, Wan Qingshan raised the corners of his mouth slightly, then he suppressed a smile and whispered,

"Leonardo, it's a pity that you didn't win the award. I think your acting skills can definitely win the Best Actor.

It doesn’t matter if we didn’t win this time, let’s try it again. During this period, I thought of another good script.

If you are interested, for the sake of our friendship, I will not raise the price, but we will cooperate again according to the previous cooperation method. "

Leonardo's eyes lit up, Wan Qingshan was abominable, holding the trophy dangling in his sight, but Wan Qingshan's ability deserves recognition.

"Manchester by the Sea" received high reviews and was nominated for an Oscar, meeting his expectations when he approached Wan Qingshan to collaborate.

At the same time, Leonardo felt a sense of gratitude to Wan Qingshan, who won the Best Director Award for "Manchester by the Sea."

It proves that the scripts he writes and the movies he shoots are very sure to be nominated for Oscars, and even the chances of winning are not low. He can definitely raise the price.

Even if the director's fee is increased to 3000 million and the reward is 500 million, there will be a lot of stars flocking to it. That's an Oscar.

"Thank you, of course I'm interested, but... I still have to let my team evaluate the script."

"OK, let's talk about it tomorrow, and I'll give you the script then."

"OK!"

The depression in Leonardo's heart suddenly disappeared. He is now full of expectations, looking forward to Wan Qingshan's script and looking forward to next year's Oscar.

As everyone expected, the best picture went to "The Bomb", and "Avatar" only received a few technical awards.

The stars had expected it, but the audience was disappointed. They all thought that "Avatar" could copy "Titanic" and win several major awards.

Then, "I feel sorry for Leonardo!" came up again! ' News.

Wan Qingshan, who was holding the trophy with a smile on his face, and Leonardo, who had a stiff smile. The two were photographed talking in a low voice. The contrast in their expressions, and then thinking about the fact that both of them failed to achieve anything at the Golden Globe Awards, The audience couldn't help laughing after watching it.

Wan Qingshan didn't know what the follow-up to the news would be, because the day after the Oscars ended, Chen Yumo proposed to travel.

Wan Qingshan thought that he had nothing to do recently, so he agreed, but before that, Wan Qingshan had to meet Leonardo first.

This time, Wan Qingshan took out "Marriage Story" which he had copied before and registered with the Screenwriters Guild.

Leonardo frowned after reading the script.

"From my point of view, the script is very good. But the male protagonist has too few roles. This script is very helpful for winning the best actress, but it is not suitable for me."

"Leonardo, the previous "Manchester by the Sea" can be said to be your one-man show, but you didn't win the award.

I went back and thought about it yesterday, and I think it's not your acting skills that are the problem. I think you could have won an award long ago for your acting skills.

I think it's because in the movie, you don't have an opponent or an opponent to play with, so there's no way to compare your acting skills. "

"But as for the opposite role, the female lead in this script has a heavier role." Leonardo said with a frown.

"Yes, but only by fully interpreting your acting skills through a small number of scenes can you show your super charm."

Leonardo felt a little strange. Just when he was about to speak, Wan Qingshan said again,
“Leonardo, think of The Silence of the Lambs, think of Mr. Anthony.

If you want to win awards, the role is not the key, but whether the role allows you to show off your acting skills. "

In "Silence of the Lambs", Anthony only had a role of ten minutes, but he won the Oscar for Best Actor.

Wan Qingshan mentioned Anthony, leaving Leonardo speechless.

Although he still felt a little strange in his heart, he couldn't find the words to refute.

"OK, I'm convinced by you. However, the script still needs to be evaluated by my team."

"No problem, you can evaluate it slowly. It just so happens that I have to travel in the next period of time."

"OK, Mr. Wan, I wish you all the best on your journey."

"Thank you!"

After talking to Leonardo, Wan Qingshan started traveling with Chen Yumo.

Starting from Los Angeles, we visited several major attractions in the United States and then visited several European countries.

It wasn't until mid-April that Chen Yanfeng called Chen Yumo, 'The real estate company is too busy' and had to end the tour.

Chen Yumo flew directly to China, while Wan Qingshan flew back to Los Angeles.

After returning to Los Angeles, Wan Qingshan went to see the post-production special effects of "Fire" and then called Leonardo. He had been calling Leonardo frequently since March to ask if he was back.

Leonardo couldn't wait any longer and said as soon as they met,
“Mr. Wan, my team thinks the script is suitable for me and we can work together again.

But for this collaboration, I hope you, Mr. Wan, can be more responsible. In terms of actor selection, I hope you can interview with me. "

A trace of surprise appeared on Wan Qingshan's face, "No problem, just notify me during the interview."

"OK."

Leonardo smiled happily. He thanked Wan Qingshan for not raising the price, so he could only use the right to interview actors to thank Wan Qingshan.

Then, sign the contract.

As soon as the contract was signed, Leonardo directly transferred all the director's fee of 500 million.

As soon as the money was received, Wan Qingshan immediately asked the lawyer to continue legal tax avoidance.Then, Wan Qingshan had nothing to do, and went to watch the special effects of "Fire" from time to time.

It’s a blockbuster with special effects. The special effects are so time-consuming. It’s been more than four months now and the special effects are only half done.

Wan Qingshan thought that there would be nothing going on recently and he would just wait for the filming of "Marriage Story" to start.

But at the end of April, Leonardo's movie didn't arrive, but he did wait for a call from China.

Upon hearing that it was another meeting, Wan Qingshan instinctively resisted.

The last meeting made him sick.

But this time, he couldn't resist because it was Tang Jianli on the other end of the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Wan Qingshan sighed helplessly, went home, packed his things, and took a plane back to his country.

After spending a day in Shenzhen to release his energy, Wan Qingshan flew to Beijing to attend the meeting.

(End of this chapter)