Chapter 425 Another Year of Oscars
In 2010, Wu Yuan spent the Spring Festival with Liu Yifei and her daughter in Los Angeles.
In order to have the atmosphere of the Spring Festival, they also went to Chinatown together and watched a unique American lion dance.
Except for the Chinese compatriots who recognized them and took photos and posted them online, everything else was pretty good.
Anyway, for Wu Yuan, the Spring Festival is not a day that he attaches much importance to.
There is no way, you can't let a man who is the head of the household registration book at the age of 16 look forward to and love this kind of family reunion day.
However, in recent years, Liu Yifei and her daughter have been with Wu Yuan during the Spring Festival, and Wu Yuan has regained a little bit of the atmosphere of home.
After eating a reunion dinner, watching the Spring Festival Gala with "time difference" and listening to the queen Wang Jingwen's comeback to sing "Faye Wong", Liu Yifei, who was lying in Wu Yuan's arms, was no longer thinking about the Spring Festival Gala.
"Brother, are you going to attend this year's Oscars?"
"Yes!" Wu Yuan nodded as a matter of course: "Although I don't really feel anything about being nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, the domestic public opinion is unusual."
"The movie Gravity is almost becoming China's national name card. The General Administration has submitted this movie as a representative of Chinese films for the Oscars Foreign Language Film Award, hoping that Gong Li, Wang Xueqi and I can attend the Oscars as Chinese filmmakers."
"In recent years, the domestic film industry has been developing better and better, and the fifth generation of directors has been chasing the Oscars, making the Oscars more and more famous in China, and they are all about to surpass the three major European awards."
"The General Administration must hope that Gravity can win the Best Foreign Language Film Award again and win glory for the country."
"We will definitely attend then."
"You can go with me."
Wu Yuan has never understood why the North American Oscars became the global film hall and authoritative award in the minds of Chinese people in the decade from 2005 to 2015.
The Academy Awards has never been an international award. It is just a North American award that is only given to Hollywood films. Its nature is similar to the Golden Rooster Awards, Golden Horse Awards, and Hong Kong Film Awards in China.
You can say that it is an authoritative award in North America and the most valuable award in Hollywood.
But to say that this is a global film hall, that Chinese-language films should be proud of winning the Oscars, and that Chinese-language actors should be proud of winning the Oscars, is really nonsense.
This is an award that Americans play behind closed doors. Why do you Chinese filmmakers want to join in the fun?
The Oscars are not like the three major European awards. They are international film festivals that are oriented to global films. Every year, the films shortlisted for the main competition unit come from more than a dozen countries.
Only local films can be shortlisted for the main competition of the Oscars, and foreign films can only be shortlisted for the consolation Best Foreign Language Film Award. Its value is similar to the Best International Film of the Golden Rooster and the Best Asian Film of Hong Kong.
Even if Li An has won Oscars many times, it is because Li An is a Hollywood director and works in Hollywood, and has nothing to do with China!
Wu Yuan had won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for Juno and was nominated for Best Picture. The Pirates of the Caribbean series also won several technical awards, but he didn't think it was worth praising.
Wu Yuan couldn't understand why the fifth-generation directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige were so obsessed with the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
They were all directors who had won the three major European awards. Would they be obsessed with an Oscar consolation prize?
"Last time, after Amour won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the country was in an uproar for a while. If Gravity can win it again this time, I guess this award will be worshipped as a god in China."
Wu Yuan sighed, feeling a little helpless.
Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige rushed for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film several times, but they didn't win it. Instead, this award was made more valuable.
An award that the winners of the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear couldn't win, but Wu Yuan won it twice in a row.
This consolation prize is really regarded as a god-level award by domestic audiences.
"I don't want this to happen." Wu Yuan said helplessly.
"Brother, don't be so ungrateful." Liu Yifei reached out and touched Wu Yuan's nose, saying angrily and amusedly.
"If Director Zhang Yimou and Director Chen Kaige heard what you said, they would be so angry!"
"It turns out that those who are favored are fearless, and those who can't get it are always in turmoil."
As she said that, Liu Yifei also hummed "Red Rose" by the last singing god of Hong Kong Island.
"Well, you haven't answered me yet." Wu Yuan rolled his eyes and asked again: "Are you going to the Oscars with me?"
"The organizing committee hopes that I can bring my family and female companions. This is not considered to be rubbing the red carpet. It is the tradition of the Oscars."
"Generally, invited guests have to bring their families to attend."
Liu Yifei rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Okay, then I will reluctantly attend as your family member."
"If you win the award, I will sit down and applaud you."
This year's Oscars is a big year.
In terms of box office, there is "Avatar" which is conquering the world.
In terms of reputation, there is "The Hurt Locker" which has won a lot of awards in the Oscars.
In the field of animation, there is "Up" which is still a classic ten years later.
In addition, there are "District 9", a romance film "Up in the Air", and Quentin's "Inglourious Basterds", which are both quite high-level in the field of science fiction movies.
More importantly, "The Blind Side", produced by Light Era, was also nominated for the Best Picture and Best Actress at this year's Oscars.
The script of the movie "The Blind Side" was given to John by Wu Yuan a long time ago.
The movie was originally adapted from a novel.
The original novel was published in 2006 and tells the story of a poor black boy from the slums who became one of the first players selected by the National Football League.
Simply put, it is full of the American dream.
When Wu Yuan gave the movie to Johnh, there was only an outline of the story.
And he also said directly that the inspiration of this story itself came from a black player in the National Football League.
This kind of novel and movie adapted from real people and real events can be easily completed by Wu Yuan.
When the original book was published in 2006, although John felt strange about it, he just thought that the author of the original novel and Wu Yuan had the same idea.
It was just a coincidence that one of them chose to write the story into a novel and the other chose to adapt it into a movie.
So, John immediately bought the film adaptation rights of the original novel of "The Blind Side" to fill the copyright loophole.
This movie also invited "Little Pepper" Gwyneth Paltrow, who has always cooperated well with Light Era, to play the leading role.
Well, once again, a moment of silence for Sandra Bullock.
Who called Wu Yuan and John did not have any cooperation with Sandra Bullock?
After the filming of this movie, it was released in the summer of 2009, and the box office performance was good, more than 100 million US dollars in North America, and less than 200 million US dollars worldwide.
With an investment cost of more than 20 million US dollars, it must have made money.
John even planned to get awards for the public relations of this movie!
After so many years of development, Light Era is no longer satisfied with the box office results!
The company's honor wall should be placed with some trophies. (End of this chapter)