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Chapter 469: Just Lucky Dog

Chen Kaige looked disdainful, looking down on Wang Shu as always.

As a second-generation descendant of a good family, he looked down on Wang Shu's background.

Because he looked down on Wang Shu's background, even if Wang Shu made an award-winning movie, he would still show his superiority from every angle.

In his opinion, the reason why "The Wolf of Wall Street" won the Golden Globe Award was that it happened to coincide with the global financial crisis triggered by the US subprime mortgage crisis.

It was in this context of global events triggered by the United States that "The Wolf of Wall Street" won the Golden Globe Award.

Otherwise, as a 22-year-old Chinese director, it would be impossible for Wang Shu to win a Golden Globe Award when he first arrived in Hollywood at such a young age.

Those people in Hollywood must have water in their brains to give the award to the other party.

In other words, it could be awarded to anyone else, but not to Wang Shu.

If Wang Shu wants to win an award, he will have to spend at least ten or eight years in Hollywood.

Instead of winning the award the first time you go.

Now, Wang Shu has won a Golden Globe Award, been nominated for an Academy Award, and may even win an Academy Award.

However, it was just good luck and a trick.

Who would have thought that Wang Shugang would be making a biographical film about a Wall Street figure just as the US subprime mortgage crisis triggered the global financial crisis?
The dog's luck is really good.

Chen Kaige snorted in his heart, so what if he is lucky?

This kind of movie that wins awards by luck has no value at all, and it is just a fuss made by ordinary people who don't understand it.

Who among these people in the industry wouldn't be dismissive?
"Then do you think Wang Shu has a chance to win this year's Oscar?"

Chen Hong directly filtered out Chen Kaige's talk. She knew in her heart that Chen Kaige was just saying the grapes were sour because he couldn't eat them.

The Golden Globe Awards are still okay, but now it’s the Oscars.

In mainland China, no director has ever won an Oscar.

Among the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, only Li An from Taiwan won the Academy Award for Best Director.

If Wang Shu wins the Academy Award for Best Director, he will be the first director from mainland China to win this award.

And, relatively speaking, it is more difficult for Chinese directors to win an Oscar than a major award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Because Chinese directors can compete in the Cannes Film Festival by making Chinese-language films.

However, only Hollywood films can compete for the Oscars. Chinese directors cannot adapt to the Hollywood environment, and it is much more difficult for them to make films in foreign languages ​​that they are not good at than to make local Chinese films.

If Wang Shuruo won the grand prize, even if it was exaggerated as Chen Kaige said, it would still be an unattainable honor for many directors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong.

This is because there are directors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong who have gone to Hollywood to make their mark. In fact, Chen Kaige, Wang Jiawei, Xu Ke and others have all gone to Hollywood to make their mark.

In the end, everyone returned home in disgrace.

After all this, it has been proven how difficult it is for Chinese directors to break into Hollywood.

Even big directors have failed when they go to Hollywood.

Chen Hong glanced at Chen Kaige secretly. She knew all the reasons why Chen Kaige hated Wang Shu so much.

For example, Wang Shu won an award in Hollywood, which indirectly highlights the incompetence of those directors who ventured into Hollywood and returned home in disgrace.

In particular, Chen Kaige was invited to Hollywood as the Cannes Palme d'Or director.

He is a Palme d'Or director, but he ended up failing in Hollywood.

Now that Wang Shu has won the award, the value of his Palme d'Or director title has been called into question.

Chen Kaige snorted when he heard this: "It's said that Wang Shu is opportunistic. If it were any other Oscars, he wouldn't have won the grand prize."

"This is the only time it's possible."

Chen Hong laughed when she heard this. Previously, Chen Kaige always acted as if he didn't think Wang Shu could win the award, but this time he finally changed his tone.

Since even Chen Kaige has changed his tone, Wang Shu might really be able to win the big prize this time.

Thinking of this, Chen Hong couldn't help but marvel in his heart.

Who would have thought that in just a few years, Wang Shu would have reached this point.

Looking back, my first encounter with Wang Shu was when “The Promise” was released.

As the saying goes, there is no acquaintance without fighting. After a few years, not only have we put aside those minor frictions, but we have also become netizens who bring spiritual comfort to each other.

Although we didn't meet very often, we kept in touch through text messages.

Thinking of this, a faint smile appeared on Chen Hong's lips.

Over the years, I have done all kinds of things to clean up Chen Kaige's mess, and all the ups and downs in it are inhumane. I can only confide in Wang Shu.

And Wang Shu listened to her patiently and gave her words of comfort.

All along, Wang Shu never said anything bad about Chen Kaige in front of her, nor did he secretly try to sow discord between her and Chen Kaige.

Chen Hong saw it and kept it in mind.

As a veteran in the entertainment industry and now a producer, Chen Hong has dealt with many people and is well aware that some people appear to be caring and saying nice things, but are actually secretly provoking her.

He has a bad heart and a wicked mind.

Wang Shu was not like that. Although he had conflicts with Chen Kaige, he just listened to her and comforted her instead of taking the opportunity to sow discord.

It was precisely because of this that Chen Hong let down her guard and communicated with Wang Shu as a source of comfort in her distress.

In fact, Chen Hong didn’t communicate much with Wang Shu at the beginning, but as time went by, she gradually regarded Wang Shu as an online friend to whom she could confide her inner troubles.

She looked glamorous and beautiful, but in fact, she was exhausted from cleaning up the mess for Director Chen. She had a lot of grievances to share, and gradually Wang Shu became the person she confided in.

The Internet can make many people feel awkward face to face and make them feel different from reality.

Chen Hong could feel that Wang Shu seemed to have a secret crush on her and would sometimes tease or flirt with her.

At first, she responded with indifference.

Gradually, I actually began to enjoy it.

Although there was a big age gap between them, Wang Shu told her that she was very beautiful and had a good temperament.

Chen Hong believed it.

Because she is indeed very beautiful and has a great temperament.

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Chen Hong lamented in her heart, that was in the past, not now.

So, she began to resist meeting Wang Shu.

Worried about the two meeting, Wang Shu felt disappointed when he saw the wrinkles on her face and her haggard and old appearance up close.

As a result, she lost this online friend with whom she could confide her troubles without causing trouble for her family relationships or work matters.

"Didn't you say before that there was no chance that Wang Shu would win an Oscar? Why is it said it's possible this time?" Thinking of Wang Shu, Chen Hong subconsciously made a teasing sound.

If it were in the past, Chen Hong would never have teased Chen Kaige using his opponent in front of Chen Kaige.

Today, it's different.

Chen Kaige couldn't help but frown when he heard this, and snorted, "Who knew this kid was so cunning, not only cunning but also lucky."

“For The Wolf of Wall Street, anyone, let alone Wang Shu, would have won an award.”

"It's not that Wang Shu is great, but that this play happened to appear during the global financial crisis. It was a combination of the right time, the right place, and the right people."

“When the right time, right place and right people come together, even a pig can fly to the sky.”

"Presumably, those people in Hollywood don't want to give the award to Wang Shu, but the timing, location and people are all right, and there is really nothing Hollywood can do."

Chen Kaige was indignant when he spoke of this.

He was indignant not only about Wang Shu winning the award, but also about the Hollywood judges.

He could imagine that under the general trend, even if the Hollywood judges did not want to give the award to Wang Shu, they would have to do it anyway.

Otherwise, the controversy will be too great and will cause immeasurable impacts.

If you are not careful for a moment, it may even affect the authority of the award.

However, there is one thing that Chen Kaige has never admitted or said.

That is, the quality of "The Wolf of Wall Street" is online.

The quality of "The Wolf of Wall Street" is enough to compete for the Golden Globe Awards and Oscars.

Wang Shu couldn't win the award simply because he was an outsider and his qualifications were far from enough.

The current situation is that the quality of "The Wolf of Wall Street" is online, and the timing, location and people are all right.

With the combination of these two factors, if the award is not given to "The Wolf of Wall Street", the subsequent impact may be huge.

In order to prevent anything from happening that would affect the authority of the awards, those in Hollywood compromised.

The award was given to "The Wolf of Wall Street" and to Wang Shu.

After listening to Chen Kaige's words, Chen Hong curled her lips slightly.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" does have an original biography, but the screenwriter of the script is Wang Shu.

This movie was written and directed by Wang Shu himself, rather than Wang Shu directing based on an existing script.

Therefore, in her opinion, it is pure nonsense that what Chen Kaige said about a movie with the right timing, location and people can be successfully directed by an individual.

If other directors want to win the award, they have to adapt the original biography into a script first.

Adapt the script.
No matter how wonderful the original work is, it will be useless if the adapted script is not good.

"So, Wang Shu really has a chance of winning an Oscar this time?" Chen Hong glanced at Chen Kaige and pretended to sigh.

Her sigh expressed her unwillingness to see Wang Shu win the award. Chen Kaige was very pleased to hear it and also sighed, "There is nothing I can do."

"Who made this kid so lucky?"

"Everyone knows that if you want to win an Oscar, biographical films are the most favored by the American Film Academy and are one of the most likely subjects to win an award."

"Wang Shu is not an American director, so he can't shoot biographies of European and American historical figures."

“Even if you try hard to shoot, the final product will probably be neither fish nor fowl.”

"Wang Shu obviously knew this, so he didn't make this kind of biographical film, but instead focused on the biographical films he could make."

“Not only does The Wolf of Wall Street not involve historical events in Europe and America, its framework can also be applied to our domestic financial market.”

"In short, this is a biographical film that Wang Shu happened to be able to make."

"It just happened to be filmable, and he filmed it in order to win an Oscar."

"Originally, even if he succeeded in filming it, he wouldn't win any awards. At most, he would just be gaining experience in Hollywood."

"It may take ten or eight years before you have a chance to touch the grand prize of the Academy Awards."

"Who would have thought that this is a biographical film about Wall Street that Wang Shuneng could shoot compared to other biographical films, and it happened to coincide with the global financial crisis triggered by the US subprime mortgage crisis."

(End of this chapter)