Full-time actor

Chapter 573 [138] Breaking the Chinese film history record again!
[63rd Golden Globe Awards Nominations]

Chen Yu opened the official website of the Golden Globe Awards and looked at the nominees for the Golden Globe Awards in January next year. The list had just come out an hour ago.

Richard had inside information, so he could know some of the shortlisted candidates in advance.

This time, "Departures" was nominated for many awards and is considered one of the biggest favorites for this year's Golden Globe Awards.

Best Director, Best Actor, Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Score.

A total of six entries were shortlisted.

Yojiro Takita is really going to be popular this time. Chen Yu is aiming for the Golden Globe Best Actor award again. Last year, it was won by Leonardo DiCaprio. This year, he took a look and found that there were four other people nominated with him. None of them are particularly famous, but they are all good actors.

Russell Crowe, The Iron Fist Man

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

Chen Yu: The Undertaker

Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain

David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck

……

The person Chen Yu is most familiar with should be Heath Ledger. The Joker he played in "Batman: The Dark Knight" was so popular that it was of course related to the hype about his accidental death.

But he probably didn't win the Best Actor award this year, otherwise this would definitely be on his resume after his death.

The Golden Globe winner died unexpectedly and so on.

After all, it is a world-famous title. I can't possibly not use it after I die.

Apart from him, the most famous among the other three is Russell Crowe, who Chen Yu personally thinks is the most competitive candidate for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor this time.

This actor, who was born in New Zealand, won the Oscar for Best Actor in 01 for his role in "Gladiator".

It's not a nomination, he is a real Oscar winner, so of course he is very capable.

As for David Strathairn of "Good Night, and Good Luck", he had already met Chen Yu at the Venice Film Festival before. Chen Yu also won the Venice Film Festival Best Actor title among several of his competitors, completing the last piece of his Grand Slam puzzle.

Now that they meet at home, there should be another fierce fight.

As for the last character, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Chen Yu was very familiar with him. He was the guy who played the villain Owen in "Mission Impossible 3". The two had many rival scenes during the previous filming and had also chatted many times in private.

These are the five candidates nominated for this year's Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. They are talented, but they all need awards to increase their value.

In fact, whoever gets the crown will be very convincing.

Heath Ledger might actually be the weakest one. Compared to Oscar winners, Venice nominees, and even commercial film villains, Heath really doesn't have much to show for it.

No matter how you look at it, he's the poor guy who's the first to be eliminated.

As for Chen Yu, he has won the Grand Slam of Best Actor at the three major film festivals. There is basically no doubt that he won the Golden Globe Best Actor trophy.

The key is that he has an advantage over the other four people - he has money.

If you have money, you can do whatever you want in Hollywood.

If Tom Cruise was nominated, Chen Yu might not have any idea, because Tom Cruise is indeed richer than Chen Yu now, but these four talented actors have no one behind them, and two of them are CAA's co-artists, and their pay, advertisements, etc. are not much.

To put it in a very arrogant way - "Why do you want to compete with me?"

Based on acting skills?

Does Chen Yu lack acting skills?

Based on fame, popularity, or money?
Chen Yu is really not afraid of anyone. His only disadvantage is probably that he is a foreigner.

It is true that foreigners are inherently inferior when competing for local awards, but in 05, this was not a big problem. China and the United States were still in the honeymoon period, and Hollywood was eager to open up this huge Chinese market.

Embracing China and world peace are now mainstream values.

With the support of CAA and corresponding public relations, Chen Yu feels that he can still compete for this award.

Last year, Leo had no choice as he was the favorite son of Hollywood. But now, he is luckier as he has fewer powerful opponents.

"Then let's try public relations first!"

Chen Yu muttered to himself and looked through the other nominations.

The composer of "Departures" is the Japanese master Joe Hisaishi. The soundtracks of "Castle in the Sky" and "Kikujiro's Summer" are both classics, so it is reasonable that it was nominated for Best Original Score.

There is nothing wrong with Best Picture or Best Screenplay.

For the Best Foreign Language Film, Chen Yu saw two other familiar faces.

"The Promise", "Kung Fu"!
These two pieces look so uncoordinated when put together!

Needless to say, the nomination of "The Promise" must have been through public relations, otherwise it would be so bad that the Golden Globe judges would not have included it even if they were fed up.

He is blind to do this. If this list was put on the China Golden Rooster, it would have been criticized to death by the Chinese people and would have completely lost its credibility.

Only the Americans, who control the public opinion terminals, can do this.

Therefore, there is a reason why the value of the Golden Globe and the Oscars is becoming less and less. In the past, there were so many good movies that many people ignored the fact that it was unfair, but in the future, various bad movies will be included in the nominations, and everyone will see the truth.

It turns out that these two world-renowned awards are filled with various money transactions in private.

What he calls fairness and value is nothing but bragging.

In fact, if such a movie is put on the Golden Rooster Awards, the Golden Rooster Awards may not dare to give it a prize?
He also wants to lose face.

Can a film like "The Promise" be nominated for the best award?

Best Golden Broom is pretty good.

"But now, for me, whether it's the Golden Globe Award or even the Oscar Award, it's very useful!"

It's all benefits.

By winning these two major awards, Chen Yu can be a big shot not only in Hollywood, but also in the world.

This is also the reason why he keeps attacking.

it works!

Rather than the so-called recognition of his acting skills.

Chen Yu now has the Grand Slam of the three major awards and the Best Actor award in his hands. He no longer needs any awards to recognize his acting ability.

Winning a Golden Globe or an Oscar is more about value, box office and fame.

Simply put, it means spending money to buy an award, and the money is definitely worth it, as it can be earned back by increasing your popularity through the award; to put it bluntly, the money can be returned by getting a few endorsements.

Many Oscar-winning movie stars in later generations basically did this.

……

Chen Yu basically spent the next few days in the directing department of the Central Academy of Drama.

My understanding of the basics and experience of directing has become more and more profound as I take classes.

The box office of "A World Without Thieves" officially exceeded 3 million on the second day of New Year's Day. Including pre-sales, it has reached 3.11 million!
Everyone can predict that a new record for Chinese domestic films is about to be born.

"A World Without Thieves" will surpass "House of Flying Daggers" and become the new highest-grossing domestic film in Chinese film history.

The leading actor in these two films is Chen Yu.

If you include "Kung Fu", that's three movies, all starring him. Such box office appeal is beyond doubt, and the total box office of movies starring Chen Yu has exceeded 12 billion.

In the entire Chinese mainland, there are not many actors who can star in a movie with a box office of 2 million yuan, let alone 12 billion yuan.

On the other hand, director Chen Kaige of "The Promise" has had a really hard time these days.

A box office of 1 million is still a long way off for him. With the increasing coverage of "Mantou" and the media, the screening schedule of "The Promise" has dropped to less than 10%. But even so, the media and netizens do not want to let him go, because he has refused to repent until now.

The single-day box office of "The Promise" has dropped to around 100 million, and the total box office is still a little short of 9000 million, let alone 1 million.

After Chen Kaige announced that he would sue Hu Ge, people from all walks of life jumped out to criticize Chen Kaige's behavior; before it was only in the entertainment industry and his peers, but now it has spread to educators, writers, and columnists.

Anyone can stand up and scold him.

Of course, without exception, everyone criticized Director Chen.

It is very similar to the "cyberbullying" in later generations, but the parties involved in this kind of cyberbullying are still very combative.

Everyone wants to get a piece of the pie with the popularity of Chen Kaige and Hu Ge. They only need to cater to the content that netizens want to see. Even an unknown person can get huge traffic by scolding Chen Kaige.

Of course, what these people said is actually not wrong. The original sin is Chen Kaige himself.

If he hadn't been so arrogant, he wouldn't have been so embarrassed.

I can only say that it is indeed very sad for a person to behave like him.

Before The Promise was released, Chen Kaige was on TV. When the hostess asked him, "What if the movie is not as successful as you expected?", he was "displeased" and accused her, "Your question is really unfriendly!"

Then a certain newspaper published a long article criticizing the film, and the production team of "The Promise" even called the newspaper and demanded an apology and compensation, otherwise they would sue it.

"Master" can no longer be used to describe Chen Kaige, he can now be called the emperor of Chinese films!

This is what is called "If you don't take what heaven gives you, you will suffer the consequences; if you don't act when the time comes, you will suffer the consequences." Those who do evil will eventually destroy themselves.

Hu Ge and "A Murder Caused by a Steamed Bun", viewed from the perspective of Chen Yu, a reborn person, actually represent a development of deconstruction culture.

In foreign countries, this kind of complaints, ridicule and weird comments have already existed for a long time.

For example, Hollywood's "Jurassic Park" was spoofed into "Jurassic Chicken Park", but Spielberg didn't say anything and just laughed it off. On the contrary, you, Chen Kaige, jumped up and down, sued this and that, with a serious face, as if there was nothing wrong with my work and I could not accept any criticism, which made netizens feel more and more disgusted.

"Master, this time, you have been completely defeated..."

"They listed him among the top 100 directors of the century. Are the judges ashamed now?"

Chen Yu has been enjoying himself these days by eating melons online. He has rarely said a word. In fact, many reporters have approached him, but he politely declined.

The best response at this time is to keep silent, although Master Chen has not yet withdrawn the accusation against him.

He is probably still angry. It is impossible to ask such a person to apologize. In fact, Chen Yu is hoping that the case will go to court so that he can question this guy with paranoia face to face and ask him what makes him think that his "The Promise" is a masterpiece.

Even at this critical moment, he is still stubborn and told the media yesterday: "Ten years later, you will understand what kind of movie this is. It will take ten years for you to understand the significance of The Promise!"

Chen Yu: “???”

Do you think you are Jiang Wen?

Even Jiang Wen doesn’t dare to say such nonsense!
Anyway, "The Promise" is not going to make any waves anymore, so what Chen Yu needs to do is to learn how to be a directing director.

Next year, oh no, I’ll try to make my debut film this year.

Diao Yinan and others are already preparing the crew and shooting location.

He is not as confident as Chen Kaige. If the movie he directed is not well received, he will just focus on his old job as an actor. Directing is just a test.

After the three-day New Year's Day holiday, the box office of "A World Without Thieves" officially surpassed "House of Flying Daggers" and topped the list to become the highest-grossing domestic film.

Wang Zhonglei and Feng Xiaogang were obviously the happiest. Neither of them had expected that this movie would achieve such a high box office.

In fact, Chen Yu didn't expect this.

The numbers he estimated are actually similar to those of "Kung Fu", and the extra numbers now can only be attributed to timing and some marketing.

The backlash from "The Promise" added fuel to the flames.

Hu Ge's "A Great Robbery Case Triggered by 5 Yuan" also had some effect.

So this time, the person Chen Yu should thank most is director Chen Kaige.

Without his farce in “The Promise”, there would be no “A World Without Thieves” today.

“It can be considered a milestone!”

Chen Yu walked towards the directing department of the Central Academy of Drama. Liu Yifei had already officially reported to the crew of "Blind Mountain", and Li Yang officially started filming on January 1, New Year's Day.

Halfway through the class, Chen Yu's cell phone rang.

A rather unexpected phone call.

"what happened?"

Chen Yu answered the phone and asked. The person on the other end of the line was Tong Yao, the deputy monitor of the 02 Performance Department.

"Class monitor, I heard that you have been in school recently?"

"Yes, recharge yourself!"

"They've all been admitted to the directing department, right? Does your acting department care?"

Tong Yao said with some resentment, Chen Yu smiled and said: "Of course I care, but don't I have you guys?"

"It's useless for me and Wen Zhang to do this. The whole class has to do it together!"

"Graduation drama?"

Chen Yu knew this was it. The most important thing for a senior year at the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama was this drama; and it was related to further studies and graduation.

Everyone in the acting department, even the teachers, had to get involved.

Generally, the graduation drama is not rehearsed before graduation, but requires continuous adjustment for a whole semester before it can be premiered in the final theater.

"Brother, do you still know?"

Tong Yao smiled a little and said, "Classes 2 and 3 have been rehearsing for half a semester, and our class doesn't even have a shadow of the big show. When asked, everyone said you can handle it!"

"My dear Grand Slam actor brother, have you finished writing the script?"

Tong Yao called out tenderly. Chen Yu thought about it and did not refuse: "Tomorrow, I'll give it to you tomorrow!"

"You said so. I'm going to report it to my classmates now!"

"Yes, I said so!"

Chen Yu had actually thought about the graduation drama before, but with the recent release of "A World Without Thieves" and "The Promise", he temporarily forgot about it.

Thinking about it at this time, Chen Yu instantly had some ideas.

It is true that he can stage a big play and write the script, but Chen Yu obviously will not do anything that has no benefit.

If these students plan well, it may be beneficial to both parties.

The students in Class 02, Grade , must be eager to rely on Chen Yu to get a name, but what about Chen Yu? Graduation drama, which can be performed in the theater for free, must make good use of this opportunity; Deng Chao became famous because of the graduation drama.

The most important thing is that Chen Yu has studied directing for so long that he can start with drama rehearsals, which can also be regarded as an accumulation of directing experience.

Many film directors actually started out as drama directors.

(End of this chapter)