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Chapter 576 [3] At the Golden Globe Awards, Chen Yu confronts Chen Kaige!

January 2006, 1 was the day when the annual American Television and Film Golden Globe Awards were held.

This is the second Golden Globe Awards that Chen Yu has participated in.

In the last session, he was nominated for Best Actor for "House of Flying Daggers", but was ultimately won by Leonardo DiCaprio.

And today, Chen Yu will make his second bid for the Best Actor trophy!

After sleeping until noon, Chen Yu had a meal and started to do various makeup and then met up with the team of "Departures".

This time, the leading actors of "Departures" Hirosue Ryoko and Motoki Masahiro, as well as director Takita Yojiro, screenwriter Koyama Fumio, and music master Hisaishi Joe, all came to the scene.

Corresponding to this is the crew of another film - "Brokeback Mountain"!
Li An's film received more Golden Globe nominations this year.

It won one more Best Supporting Actress award than "Departures", so just like last year's Venice Film Festival, it is the biggest rival of "Departures" for the award.

At last year's Venice Film Festival, Brokeback Mountain failed to beat Departures for Best Picture and only won Best Director and the Jury Prize. This time in their native United States, they are clearly trying to make a comeback.

In addition to Li An, there are many Chinese people in this year's Golden Ball.

Zhang Ziyi was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role in "Memoirs of a Geisha".

Stephen Chow, whose movie "Kung Fu" was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film, also came alone in a low-key manner.

There may be some awards that you know your chances of winning are slim, but participating in such a filmmaker gathering is also a way to make friends; especially now that Hollywood is in power, many Chinese movie stars still want to get a piece of the pie, so if you are nominated, you must come and take a look.

The most sensational event was the crew of "The Promise" which was rejected in the Chinese market. Even though it was badly criticized in China and only earned a pitiful box office of less than 9000 million, Chen Kaige still brought a large group of people from the crew to participate in this year's Golden Globe Awards.

Those who don’t know might think that “The Promise” is the biggest favorite for this year’s Golden Globe Awards. In fact, it was only nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award thanks to its public relations.

Moreover, it was nominated together with "Departures" and "Kung Fu".

"Brother Yu!"

Zhang Ziyi, who was dressed up to attend the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in the evening, greeted Chen Yu in the hotel lobby.

Because every Golden Globe Awards is held at the Benfy Hills Hilton Hotel in Hollywood, Los Angeles, many foreign filmmakers basically stay at this hotel, which makes it convenient for them to attend the award ceremony.

The two hugged each other, and Chen Yu smiled at Zhang Ziyi. It is not advisable to hit someone who smiles at you. Besides, there is no hatred between them and they have worked together before: "Congratulations, you won the Best Actress award tonight!"

"She's a Best Actress. It's good enough to be nominated. But you're the most popular candidate for Best Actor in a Leading Role according to The Hollywood Reporter's vote!"

"The hottest ones must die!"

Chen Yu smiled, but he knew that the probability of Zhang Ziyi winning the award was really not high.

The competition for Best Actress this time is much more intense than that for Best Actor. Strictly speaking, Chen Yu is the most famous, and her only rival is Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe; but Zhang Ziyi is the weakest among the five nominees.

Gwyneth Paltrow, the actress who played Pepper Potts in "Iron Man", won the Oscar for Best Actress in 99 for "Shakespeare in Love".

Charlize Theron, the Queen of Serenity, is one of the hottest actresses in the Oscars and is famous all over the world. Two years ago, she won the Oscar for Best Actress for "Monster" and became a global sensation.

There is also Felicity Huffman, the queen of American TV dramas, the leading actress of "Desperate Housewives", and the winner of last year's Emmy Awards. She is also very popular in the United States. She has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in previous years and was nominated for an Oscar.

Maria Bello...

Which one of them is not more famous than Zhang Ziyi, whether in terms of popularity, awards, or qualifications.

Even though there may be upsets at the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars, that is acceptable to the public. Otherwise, the value of the Golden Globe Awards will be questioned by many outsiders.

You can play tricks in your nominations, such as "The Promise" being nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, but you must never play tricks in the final award. This is the lowest bottom line for the outside world for the Golden Globe Awards, so the previous list of winners of the Golden Globe Awards is still very credible.

For example, if Chen Yu had won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor last year, the Americans would definitely have boycotted him.

That's why Zhang Ziyi said that.

Her nomination was a most competent move by her agency, WMA William Morris.

As long as she is nominated a few more times, no one will say anything if she wins the Golden Globe for Best Actress.

Now, that would definitely be the exposure period.

While chatting with Zhang Ziyi, Li An came down with the crew of "Brokeback Mountain". The two of them hurried over and greeted them.

"You're not in a hurry, are you? The script for Bruce Lee is still being revised!"

Li An was still the same, speaking to Chen Yu somewhat shyly. Of course Chen Yu would not rush him, as he was not without time: "No, slow work produces fine work, Director Li, just do your best!"

"Haha, is there a role suitable for me? Director Li!"

Zhang Ziyi was fighting for it, while Chen Yu started chatting with several leading actors of "Brokeback Mountain", Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Anne Hathaway; they actually knew each other when they were in Venice before, but they didn't add contact information.

Now that they met again, they couldn't help but exchange a few pleasantries. This time, Heath Ledger was also one of Chen Yu's competitors for the Best Actor award.

If we add the character of the future Joker to the mix, there really seems to be a sense of "enemies meeting on a narrow road" between the two.

Of course, the biggest enemy is none other than Chen Kaige.

He led the crew of "The Promise" downstairs in a mighty procession. Obviously, he saw Chen Yu chatting with Li An and others. His face instantly turned a little ugly. The competition between "A World Without Thieves" and "The Promise" a few days ago had caused a lot of buzz in China.

He even accused Chen Yu in public media of manipulating his own company, Star Network, to give low scores to "The Promise".

Although there was no evidence, this guy just said it so openly. What's more, he even sued Chen Yu in court.

Seeing each other now in the first floor lobby of Hilton, it feels like meeting an enemy with eyes full of jealousy.

Of course Chen Yu felt nothing. After he caught sight of Chen Kaige out of the corner of his eye, he continued chatting with Heath Ledger. The two were talking about each other's works. Heath Ledger was nothing like what Chen Yu knew later on, with depression and mental illness. He was actually quite cheerful and talkative.

This shows that the media may also be talking nonsense, saying that in order to play the role of the Joker well and surpass himself, he isolated himself from the world for more than a month, which led to him suffering from insomnia and extreme anxiety.

It might be true that he secluded himself for the role, and Chen Yu sometimes did the same.

But getting sick is a bit far-fetched, and then dying from an overdose of prescription drugs, an accidental overdose, after taking six different painkillers and sedatives?

Only American public opinion describes drug abuse in such a high-sounding way.

For the sake of the box office of the movie, this kind of marketing is really more cruel than eating human blood buns. So Chen Yu didn't have much good feelings towards Heath Ledger, and he didn't feel any sympathy for him. He just felt that this guy was really worthy of being an American star artist, as he was still being used by Warner after his death.

Even if the dead have value, we must overdraw them completely!

"I'll do it reluctantly this time so that you don't suffer so much. Let me play the clown for you!"

Chen Yu was joking in his heart, but after a while he saw Chen Kaige and his group coming towards him.

He obviously wanted to say hello to Li An. It was not known whether Chen Yu knew the two of them, but Chen Kaige often participated in the three major film festivals, so they should know each other. Moreover, although "The Promise" directed by the great director was a flop, his resume was indeed very impressive.

He is the director with the most nominations at Cannes, with a total of five films nominated for the Palme d'Or, and "Farewell My Concubine" even won the award.

At Cannes, Director Chen is undoubtedly the Chinese with the most nominations.

Even Li An is definitely inferior to him, so it is not unreasonable for Chen Kaige to be so arrogant.

They have the capital to be proud of.

"Farewell My Concubine" and Li An's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are the only two films to win the Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards.

These two are the only Chinese-language films that have won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Li An indeed had to give Chen Kaige some face, and the two of them seemed to be chatting in a warm and friendly manner.

Zhang Ziyi also stepped forward to greet them, but Chen Yu was the only one standing there, using Hirosue Ryoko as a shield; however, when Chen Kaige, Chen Hong and Li An were chatting, several main creators of "The Promise" also obviously wanted to greet Chen Yu.

Anyway, this is Chen Yu’s current status.

"Brother Yu!" Liu Huohua walked in front of Chen Yu. Chen Yu couldn't help but look up and hurriedly asked, "Brother Liu?"

Liu Huohua is from the class of 96 at the Central Academy of Drama.

"Haha, why are you so polite!"

Liu Huohua was somewhat flattered, because he and Chen Yu had met several times before in Jinji, but they had never talked, and he always felt that the other party was very arrogant.

Now that I have seen it, I find that it is really not what others say.

Only after Chen Kaige finished talking with Li An did he bring Chen Hong to Chen Yu.

Chen Yu really didn't expect this scene.

According to Director Chen, this is totally inappropriate!

I am his archenemy, one of the top people on the prosecution list. He didn't just walk away in disgrace, which was the greatest respect for each other. But he actually came over to try to get close to me? !

But Chen Yu didn't think much about it, and took the initiative to say: "Director Chen, Sister Hong!"

"Brother Yu!"

Chen Kaige also had a fake smile on his face, but Chen Hong next to him was very enthusiastic.

"You're welcome, Sister Hong. Just call me by my name!"

"How can that be possible? You are the leading actor in a movie with a box office of 12 billion, and the only actor in Asia who has won a Grand Slam..."

Chen Hong smiled, but Chen Kaige beside her spoke up: "Brother Yu, an honest man should not do shady things. I just want to know, did you ask the company to change the rating of The Promise on Star.com?"

It turned out to be for this matter.

No wonder I was reluctant, but I still had to come over and ask him.

This 3.5 rating was like a thorn that pierced Chen Kaige's heart. Compared with the box office failure, the 3.5 points was actually what he could not bear the most. He had devoted himself to preparing for this masterpiece for three years, and after it was released and received ratings from tens of thousands of people, it scored 3.5!

Moreover, the full score is 10 points. 3.5 is not even a passing score. There are only a few films with this score on the entire Star Network. Of course Chen Kaige couldn't stand it.

This score broke his defense several times.

So no matter what, he had to save face and ask.

"hehe!"

Chen Yu smiled and shook his head: "Director Chen, if I want to manipulate the score, it won't be 3.5 points, but 2 points!"

This is the lowest score on StarNet.

"Oh, 2 points might be a little bit fake, it could be 2.3, 2.9 or something like that..."

"you--"

Chen Kaige was so angry at Chen Yu's words that he almost went berserk again.

However, Director Chen is a man who cares about his reputation, so he would not lose his temper in such an occasion.

"Brother Yu, can you change it?"

Chen Hong tugged at her husband's sleeve and asked Chen Yu.

Chen Yu shook his head again: "No, if it is changed, it will lose the basis for Starry Sky's evaluation. I never interfere with the operation of this website, and our company will not interfere with netizens' ratings. Everyone's evaluation will have an impact on a movie!"

"What about PR?"

Chen Hong used a very professional term.

She knew Chen Yu could understand.

"No PR, stay independent and objective!"

"Haha, great, what an independent and objective website! I want to see how independent and objective your website is!"

Chen Kaige was really angry, but instead of being angry he started laughing.

Chen Yu just smiled, not saying anything more, and nodded helplessly to Chen Hong beside him: "Excuse me, both of you!"

"what!"

"You're still being objective. All of my videos on that website have high scores, while all others have low scores!"

"Director Chen——"

Chen Yu suddenly turned around. He actually heard this insult: "If I remember correctly, your Farewell My Concubine scored 9.7 on Xingkong.com, which is the highest score!"

"If I were you, I would work hard to make another bad movie and prove myself!"

"Instead of blaming this or that, is there nothing wrong with you?"

Chen Yu suddenly walked in front of Chen Kaige, and many other people present also obviously noticed the conflict on this side.

Many people were whispering there, and some foreigners even gathered around to watch the show, with someone nearby translating for them.

Zhang Ziyi came forward to pull Chen Yu, but Chen Yu ignored her and broke free.

"There are reporters here!"

Zhang Ziyi hurriedly reminded him, but Chen Yu looked at Chen Kaige and said word by word: "It's not shameful to make a bad movie. Even the great director Spielberg made a movie like "1941" which had a very bad reputation, and Cameron made "Piranha 2". But would they blame the media, the audience, and the ratings website like you did?"

"It is because they knew shame and then showed courage that they created their subsequent masterpieces!"

"I hope Director Chen is also such a person, but unfortunately, I don't see even a little bit of regret and self-blame from you for making a bad movie. Instead, you are complacent and think that there is nothing wrong with your film just because it was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award."

"you you--"

Chen Kaige was really mad.

There were so many people, so many well-known filmmakers in the industry, and it was the Golden Globe Awards, a place full of Hollywood celebrities and stars, and this guy actually -

"What am I?"

"Am I wrong?"

"Let me put this before you. If your film The Promise wins the Best Foreign Language Film Award, it will be the most outright blasphemy to the global film industry!"

"Brother Yu!"

This time Li An obviously couldn't bear it anymore, and hurriedly pulled Zhang Ziyi on the left and right and walked towards him.

Chen Kaige was so angry that he was about to explode.

A bunch of main creators of "The Promise" and Chen Hong hurriedly supported him, fearing that he would go up and fight with Chen Yu!
But at this moment, someone suddenly... started clapping.

Afterwards, many foreigners actually started clapping; people of all nationalities enjoy watching a good show, especially the "free and relaxed" foreigners, who enjoy watching the fun without minding any trouble. Some people think that what Chen Yu said is indeed quite right.

"Oh~~"

"Oh!"

There were several black movie stars shouting, and this scene was obviously captured by many reporters present.

(End of this chapter)