Chapter 180 Filming in Progress, Another Golden Rooster Award

On the streets of Los Angeles where people and cars are everywhere, the crew of "Rush Hour 3" pulled out several cordons and closed half of the street.

Although Wu Yuan is very famous in the United States and New Line is not a small company, this kind of street closure filming still cannot apply for too much time.

So the entire crew raced against time, and everything was arranged very tightly, and they were unwilling to delay any time.

On the half of the street that was blocked, several common cars on the street were running at high speed on the street.

The scene to be filmed today is a street chase scene.

Well, the most common kind in Hollywood movies, the villain drives to chase the protagonist group, and then a fierce gunfight occurs on the street, and finally the protagonist group successfully gets rid of the villain's soldiers.

Although old-fashioned, this kind of plot is really effective and can easily bring a feeling of excitement to the audience.

Otherwise, the "Fast and Furious" series would not have so many viewers wanting to watch the new sequel after more than ten years.

Wu Yuan sat behind the monitor, nervously watching the feedback from more than a dozen camera positions.

It's impossible not to be nervous, this scene is really shot!

What is real shooting?

It means that the actors are really going to have a car chase scene on the street, and the camera position has been fixed.

"Is it okay?" he asked uncertainly.

"It's okay. We have rehearsed it several times." Li Zhongzhi, who was standing next to Wu Yuan, said affirmatively.

This Li Zhongzhi is also a tough guy.

He is not only the martial arts instructor of the Cheng family team, but also very professional in the big scenes of action movies.

From "New Police Story" to "The Karate Kid", Cheng Long has been the martial arts instructor for eight movies in seven years, and he led the Cheng family team to complete the fighting scenes.

This kind of street car chase scene is of course within his control.

Wu Yuan has always adhered to a concept, that is, professional matters should be left to professionals.

Since Li Zhongzhi said it was okay, he did not hesitate, picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Start!"

Immediately, two cars, one black and one red, started racing on the street, one in front and one behind.

In the front car sat Cheng Long, Will and Kayla, and in the back car sat the villain team led by Allen.

More than a dozen pre-prepared camera positions were placed in the order of rehearsal to position the camera where it should be aimed.

The coordination was accurate to the second, allowing the two cars to accurately pass through the lenses of each camera.

The camera positions arranged in the car captured the faces of several protagonists accurately.

"Lee, get rid of them!" In the front car, Will, who was sitting in the co-pilot, grabbed the armrest with one hand and roared with clenched teeth.

Kayla, who was sitting in the back seat, was even more panicked, with a panicked look, so real!

Looking at the picture on the monitor, Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

This is certainly not because their acting skills are extraordinary, but because they are really nervous now.

As Cheng Long said before, he really works hard to make movies.

When talking about racing, you really have to shoot racing, not pull a green screen in the studio for special effects!

Just ask, if Will and Kayla were really sitting in a car that was running wild and drifting from time to time, would they not be nervous?

Their reactions were completely realistic and just fit the script.

Fortunately, Will still did not forget that he was acting. He held a simulated gun full of blanks in his hand, and from time to time he poked his head out and fired a few shots at the car chasing behind.

"Very good!"

"Click!"

Wu Yuan shouted with the walkie-talkie.

It sounds long, but in fact this chase scene was only shot for a little over a minute, and with the editing of multiple cameras, more than a minute of real shooting was enough to cut out a three-to-five-minute chase.

For Will and Kayla, this more than a minute is definitely the longest more than a minute in their filming career.

"Jackie, it's so exciting to make a movie with you!"

Will got out of the car, his face flushed with excitement, grinning and saying, "So cool, so exciting!"

"Your driving skills are great, racing on Third Street is so cool!"

"I just felt crazy." Kayla, who got out of the car one step behind him, leaned against the car door with weak legs, and said weakly, "I thought this scene would be shot in the studio."

"You know, the car is stationary, there are green screens on both sides, and several cameramen are lying in front of the windshield, and then we wait for the director to shout "start", and we act out the feeling of racing."

"I didn't expect that the reality is that we are really racing on the street, OMG!"

Jing Long still couldn't change his character of liking beautiful girls. He ignored Will and said to Kayla with a smile, "This is the charm of Hong Kong action movies."

"We are all for real, and never deceive the audience."

"OK, I understand why Bruce Lee will die accidentally, your filming is too dangerous. "Kayla complained.

Well, although Bruce Lee's accident seems to have nothing to do with the filming style of Hong Kong Island movies, Cheng Long did not mean to explain, but just smiled and said nothing.

"Okay, my actors, stop chatting there, we have to do two more chase scenes!" Wu Yuan's voice sounded from the loud speaker of the on-site dispatch.

Several actors quickly put their emotions in order, got back in the car again, drove the car to the next shooting location, and continued to prepare for the exciting car racing and gun battle.

After shooting for an afternoon, according to the usual style of Hollywood, the crew finished work at 5:30 in the afternoon.

One afternoon was just enough for Wu Yuan to finish the street car chase scene, and the progress was satisfactory to him.

After work, Wu Yuan declined the erotic party organized by Cheng Long and returned to the room to check the shooting materials.

Yes, although Uncle Long is over 50 years old, he is still young at heart. His favorite thing to do after work is to organize various parties.

Of course, these parties must include all kinds of hot beauties.

Although Wu Yuan was not interested in this, he did not say much.

Uncle Long worked hard when filming, and he must be free and easy after work, otherwise why would he work so hard?

Anyway, over the years, Cheng Long has not done anything to force, drug, or use hidden rules, except for having a little dragon girl. Most of them are consensual.

In the entertainment industry, there are too many actors who love to play and have a flowery private life. Xiao Zhu even has a silver party every day.

Under the circumstances of consensual consent, Wu Yuan is not a moral gentleman who has to interfere in the private lives of actors.

As long as Cheng Long is not weak in the fighting scenes and does not affect normal work when he starts working the next day, it will be fine!

The next day, the crew continued to shoot normally.

During the shooting, Wu Yuan received a call from China.

The annual Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival is about to begin.

This year's Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival will be held in the beautiful Sanya of our motherland.

On October 14, the list of nominees was announced.

Wu Yuan's "Love" was nominated for five major awards, including Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress.

Except for the Best Supporting Actress, which can definitely be a runner-up, Wu Yuan is the most favorable contender for other awards.

"Love" won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Award!

Perhaps because he was afraid that Wu Yuan would not attend, a person in charge of the Golden Rooster Awards personally called Wu Yuan, hinting that he would definitely get a prize if he came, and it would definitely be a big prize.

Such treatment is really good.

It is interesting to say that over the years, the main theme of the Golden Rooster Award is "noble". Even mainland films that have won the Cannes Grand Prix are often looked down upon by the Golden Rooster Award.

1's "Farewell My Concubine" won the Cannes Golden Palm Award, but the film was not allowed to be released in China at that time and was banned. After all, the subject matter was too sensitive.

Later, after winning the award, China agreed to release it, but it was impossible to win the Golden Rooster Award.

Coincidentally, the next year, Zhang Yimou's "To Live" won the Cannes Jury Award, and Ge Da Ye became the Cannes Film Emperor. Cannes rarely gave two awards to a film.

As a result, the film was taken to the Cannes Film Festival without reporting, and the old men of the Golden Rooster Award Organizing Committee were also quite dissatisfied with it.

So after "To Live" won the award in Cannes, it did not receive any Golden Rooster nominations.

So the two Cannes-winning films of the two great directors in the mainland were rejected by the Golden Rooster, and they were not even nominated.

This time it was Wu Yuan's turn to win the Cannes, because the procedures were perfect, there was no violation of the exhibition, and the content of the film did not contain sensitive topics, so the old men of the Golden Rooster Awards could not turn a blind eye.

"Farewell My Concubine" and "To Live" were rejected by the Golden Rooster Awards, which can be said to be the problem of the two films themselves violating the rules.

But if "Love" was rejected, it would not be a slap in the face of Wu Yuan, but a slap in the face of the Golden Rooster Awards.

Even if this movie could not win the Golden Rooster Awards, it would only bring more bad reputation to the Golden Rooster Awards.

So the Golden Rooster Awards called Wu Yuan specifically to inform him that he would participate in this year's Golden Rooster Awards.

To be honest, the old men of the Golden Rooster Awards would definitely not want to give Wu Yuan an award. After all, there is only so much cake in the Golden Rooster Awards. If they give it to Wu Yuan, then their "own people" will get less awards.

But who told them that there was really no reason not to award "Love".

Partiality must have a reason, and you can't really do blind things with your eyes open.

Wu Yuan, who received this news, was so happy.

He likes the behavior that the old men at the Golden Rooster Awards clearly look down on him, but they can't do anything about him and have to give him awards with a pinch of their noses.

If he remembers correctly, this year's Golden Rooster Best Feature Film Award was given to Lu Chuan's "Kekexili".

Lu Chuan, who is less than 35 years old, is definitely a young talent in the film industry.

And this year's Best Director was also unprecedentedly given to a 35-year-old female director Ma Liwen.

Yes, the Golden Rooster Awards are not only given to old men and old women, in fact, the Golden Rooster Awards often give awards to some "young and promising" directors.

As for why these "young and promising" directors can share the cake from the Golden Rooster Awards.

Go and check what their parents or university tutors are, and you will understand.

If we really talk about the background in this regard, Wu Yuan, who graduated from the directing department of Beijing Film Academy and whose tutor is Xie Xiaojing, is no worse than Lu Chuan and Ma Liwen!

With the support of Beijing Film Academy, Wu Yuan is really one of our own. As long as he is present, the Golden Rooster Awards will not be unscrupulous in favoring Lu Chuan.

In terms of the excellence of the film itself, "Love" is far better than "Kekexili".

In terms of the relationship behind them, both of them are from Beijing Film Academy and are brothers. Lu Chuan is a master's degree holder, and Wu Yuan has obtained a doctorate this year.

Except for being older, Lu Chuan is not as good as Wu Yuan in any way.

When his mentor Xie Xiaojing called and hoped that Wu Yuan could spare time to attend this year's Golden Rooster Awards, Wu Yuan still agreed.

Although he looked down on the Golden Rooster Awards and the circle that was self-contained.

But as a graduate of the directing department of Beijing Film Academy, he was naturally already branded as an "insider" of this circle.

Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, who also graduated from Beijing Film Academy, were rejected by the Golden Rooster Awards several times, but they did not fall out with the Golden Rooster Awards. At most, they just ignored it.

The higher-ups still attach great importance to the Golden Rooster Awards.

There is no need for Wu Yuan to offend the Golden Rooster Awards by refusing to attend and deliberately slapping the Golden Rooster Awards in the face.

They said they would give you the award, so just go.

Not only him, but also Cheng Long from the same crew, had to go to Sanya with Wu Yuan.

Cheng Long was nominated for the Best Actor at the Golden Rooster Awards for "New Police Story".

If nothing unexpected happens, this award will be given to him and he will be crowned the Golden Rooster Award winner.

Don't ask, the question is to unite Hong Kong and Taiwan compatriots.

Even Mr. You Benchang, who was also nominated for "Love", had to give up his seat under the banner of "Uniting Hong Kong compatriots".

This year's Golden Rooster Awards will start on November 9 and end on the 12th.

Wu Yuan, who is still filming "Rush Hour 3", does not have so much time, so he must be absent from the opening ceremony. The other leading actors of the "Love" crew will just attend the opening ceremony.

On the evening of the 11th, Wu Yuan and Cheng Long flew from Los Angeles to Sanya, a seaside tourist city.

The next day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Yuan took the leading actors of the "Love" crew and walked on the red carpet outside the Sanya Beauty Crown Cultural Exhibition Center.

And Wu Yuan's personal attendance was indeed valuable, and he won the two major awards for "Love", the Best Feature Film and the Best Actress.

It's a pity that the Best Feature Film and the Best Director are generally not awarded to the same movie, and Wu Yuan still didn't get his first Golden Rooster Best Director.

But it doesn't matter, there is still one gold waiting for him.

On the night of the Golden Rooster Awards, he did not stay in Sanya to accept interviews from various journalists and media, nor did he attend any cocktail parties.

That night, Wu Yuan took the leading actors of the "Love" crew and boarded the plane again.

"I don't know what the Golden Horse Awards think." On the plane, Wu Yuan complained: "This year's awards ceremony has to be arranged the day after the Golden Rooster Awards."

"This is the first time I have to rush to attend an awards ceremony."

Gong Li, who was sitting next to him, smiled and said nothing.

Yes, after the Golden Rooster Awards on the 12th, the Golden Horse Awards on the other side of the strait will be held on the 13th.

Although, "Love" has not yet been released in Taiwan.

But "Love" has also been nominated for many Golden Horse Awards and is a favorite to win the award.

After two or three hours of flight, Wu Yuan and the "Love" crew arrived at Taipei Taoyuan Airport at more than two o'clock in the morning.

Here, he met an unexpected pick-up person.

"Haha, Director Wu, I've been waiting for you!" Feng Xiaogang, who was waiting outside with the Golden Horse airport reception staff, warmly hugged Wu Yuan who had just come out of the boarding gate.

His eyes were full of envy, "Director Wu, congratulations, you won the Golden Rooster Best Feature Film."

Because he knew that the Golden Rooster looked down on him, Feng Xiaogang simply did not go to the Golden Rooster this year, and "A World Without Thieves" did not receive any Golden Rooster nominations.

He had completely broken up with the Golden Rooster and did not intend to reconcile. He simply came to Taipei a few days in advance, hoping to avenge his previous shame at the Golden Horse Awards.

"I also wish Director Feng to win the grand prize at this year's Golden Horse Awards." Wu Yuan said with a smile.

"A World Without Thieves" was nominated for the Best Feature Film Award at this year's Golden Horse Awards. The treatment given to Feng Xiaogang by the Golden Horse Awards was much better than that of the Golden Rooster Awards. No wonder he came to Taipei so happily.

"Well, then I'll take advantage of Director Wu's good words." Feng Xiaogang smiled like a chrysanthemum on his face, and enthusiastically pulled Wu Yuan away.

"Come on, I'll take you back to the hotel to rest. Tomorrow I'll introduce you to some great Taiwanese directors and actors."

I won't write much about the Golden Rooster Award. This award is really boring. It's just about sharing the cake within a small circle. As a direct descendant of Beijing Film Academy, Wu Yuan is indeed qualified to share the cake, but it's boring to write about it, so I'll just pass it over.