Chapter 739

"Won it."

"Lu Yan He really won the Oscar."

"Won the Oscar at twenty-five."

Domestically, there was also a lot of discussion.

Too many people were paying attention to the live broadcast tonight.

The moment it was announced that the winner was Lu Yan He, on Weibo, dozens of film and television bloggers posted messages almost simultaneously.

The domestic live broadcast was five minutes late. People watching the live broadcast hadn't seen this scene yet.

But Zhenhua University's official Weibo posted an update at the first opportunity, congratulating their outstanding alumnus.

Also posting updates was Yuming City No. 13 Middle School.

Ten minutes later, someone released the first translated video of Lu Yan He's acceptance speech.

Lu Yan He's acceptance speech was given in English, and until the last sentence, the "thank you again" Lu Yan He said was in Chinese.

The whole internet was crazily refreshing the screen.

And the significance of Lu Yan He winning the Oscar this time lies in the fact that he won it cleanly.

A Malaysian Chinese-language film, a normal Chinese character, a frank and honest PR tour, without any unclean things.

Qiu Ling and Zhou Shuyu snuggled on the sofa, watching the scene on the projection where Lu Yan He, having finished his acceptance speech, turned and walked off the stage. Although she hadn't met this boy for a long time, at this moment, she couldn't hold back her excited, moved tears.

Zhou Shuyu saw this action of Qiu Ling and immediately smiled and touched her.

Qiu Ling: "It's not easy."

"Won an Oscar at twenty-five, isn't that easy?" Zhou Shuyu asked with a smile.

Qiu Ling shook her head.

"If you had met him when he was eighteen, you wouldn't say that."

Qiu Ling will never forget the night she first met Lu Yan He.

That high school student who had just walked out of the river, walked all the way, hungry and cold, his body trembling, yet still trying hard to make himself look not so "terrible."

Qiu Ling will also never forget her interactions with those few teenagers.

Although after they moved away, the intersection in these two years gradually disappeared, they were still active in each other's circles of friends.

She followed the updates of those few people and would watch their works when they came out.

And the occasional post she made in her circle of friends would definitely receive their likes. Sometimes when she posted content about working overtime and being tired, the comments would become concern.

Qiu Ling saw many people on the internet saying that many stars and artists would delete people from the past after they became popular.

She didn't know if it was true or false, but she hadn't encountered it.

It's just a pity that after the intersection of life gradually became less, their contact also gradually became less.

However, this is also the norm of life.

Not everyone you once knew and liked can always be maintained in one circle.

Everyone's life has their own career, family, and life.

At least in this era, they can still quietly and always understand each other's lives.

Perhaps one day in the future, with other opportunities, they will meet again.

Never force a relationship. Sometimes, when feelings fade and contact decreases, perhaps it is to accumulate more longing and warmth for the next reunion.

At this time, Zhou Shuyu suddenly remembered and said: "By the way, wife, Xin Zixing contacted me today."

"Hmm?"

"Didn't I record many episodes of 'City Travel' before? Later, this program changed people to do it, and I didn't participate much." Zhou Shuyu said, "She has now returned to Ye Mai Network. She contacted me, saying she wanted to restart this program and wanted to invite me back."

Qiu Ling showed a look of surprise.

"Really? That's great."

Zhou Shuyu is a university associate professor. Before, in the program "City Travel," he was able to combine humanities with the program and tell stories simply and attractively, which gave him quite a few fans.

After not participating in the program anymore, Zhou Shuyu opened a self-media account himself, recording a small video every day to tell a small story.

He is a person who likes to do this.

Qiu Ling knew that Zhou Shuyu must be very happy to receive the invitation again.

Zhou Shuyu hugged Qiu Ling and said: "I really didn't expect that there would be a day to return to this program."

Qiu Ling leaned on Zhou Shuyu's shoulder and said: "Life has reunions, how good."

Lu Yan He sat back in his seat.

The award ceremony was still continuing.

In the Best Foreign Language Film category, this year, the Oscars made a particularly big reform in the way of presenting awards.

It invited famous actors from the five countries/regions to which the foreign language films shortlisted this year belong to come to the stage, each having forty seconds to introduce the shortlisted film.

For people in the film industry, most of the five famous actors were familiar faces and familiar names.

And the actor representing Malaysia on stage was Qin Shulan.

Whichever country's shortlisted film wins, the award is presented by filmmakers from that country.

Lu Yan He felt that this format was really good—in any case, this way of doing things expresses a kind of respect.

In the future, when China holds international film festivals, it can also learn from this method.

It is a pity that the film that won Best Foreign Language Film this year was not "Tropical Rain," but the Brazilian film "Southern Station."

Lu Yan He applauded for them.

He looked back at Huang Tianlin.

Huang Tianlin shook his head and said with a smile: "We'll come again next time."

Lu Yan He reached out and held his hand tightly.

"Definitely will."

After that, the awards received more and more attention.

Afterward, it was technical awards again.

The Oscars arranged various technical awards between the most watched major awards, also for the sake of ratings—historically, the Oscars have proposed many times for this reason to move the award ceremonies of some technical awards forward instead of placing them in this award ceremony, but the entire industry resisted this behavior.

Even if the ratings are affected, the winners of these technical departments should receive the same respect.

The film was created by them together.

No one expected that in the Best Cinematography award, there would be a huge upset, and the winner was actually "Tropical Rain."

The cinematography team of this film was also led by Huang Tianlin.

Lu Yan He and others almost jumped up in surprise.

The second award!

Originally, he thought that after losing in the Best Foreign Language Film category, "Tropical Rain" might only be able to harvest one trophy tonight.

Too surprising.

Huang Tianlin was stunned.

He was dumbfounded.

Until Qin Shulan patted him on the shoulder.

Can this be considered "a village with willows and flowers"?

Compared with Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography is of course much weaker and not an award of the same magnitude.

But the surprise is priceless.

Lu Yan He hugged Huang Tianlin hard across the seat, "Hey! Don't be dazed, hurry up to the stage and receive the award!"

Huang Tianlin seemed to wake up from a dream at this moment.

Huang Tianlin held the Oscar statuette tightly, stood on the stage, and took two breaths in excitement.

Lu Yan He looked at him with full emotion.

Huang Tianlin looked at the statuette in his hand in disbelief, his voice trembling slightly, "Unbelievable! I actually held a statuette! If I said I hadn't thought about winning it, I would definitely be lying, but, honestly, I feel like I'm dreaming."

"Thank you to everyone, from filming this movie to the Oscars now, this is simply the most dreamy two years of my life. Yuan Hai, where are you? Oh, I see you! I originally thought we could go on stage together to receive the award for Best Foreign Language Film, well, our luck this time wasn't that good, but you must, must promise me that you cannot be absent from every one of my films in the future. You are my best producer; without you, there would definitely be no 'Tropical Rain,' no me!"

Yuan Hai, who was sitting far behind, smiled at him, his eyes red. Probably because he really didn't want to show himself in such a state at this time, he lowered his head and raised his hand to cover his eyes.

However, the camera for the Oscar ceremony live broadcast was still experienced and skilled enough to find an angle, capturing his teary eyes.

"Thank you Yan He, Shulan, Huang Feng, thank you Wang Zixing, Meng Fan, without you two, the Best Cinematography for the film 'Tropical Rain' would not be possible." Huang Tianlin turned his head and said to the two young people standing beside him.

Both of them were also cinematographers for this film.

"Thank you Green Valley, Schmidt, and Helena, it is you who led us to have the miracle tonight." Huang Tianlin suddenly cheered excitedly again, "Thank you to all the judges who voted for us, thank you!"

Sincere and emotional speeches always make people applaud thunderously.

Chen Siqi said to Lu Yan He: "So good, a little less regret."

Lu Yan He nodded.

Every award presented afterward had nothing to do with them.

In the Best Actor category, when introducing the nominee Huang Feng, the most enthusiastic cheers and applause of the night rang out, none other, and even when the winner was announced, the commotion wasn't that big.

Lu Yan He was particularly moved. Fortunately, when he saw that Huang Feng and Teacher Qin Shulan seemed to be noticed by the awards season, they decisively pushed both Qin Shulan and Huang Feng to the awards season, and thus, they had the halo tonight.

Huang Feng's performance in the awards season also gave "Home Alone" a particularly good release timing.

Lu Yan He felt that there might not be a more suitable timing for release in North America.

"Home Alone" achieved Huang Feng's awards season this year, and Huang Feng's awards season performance also achieved "Home Alone."

Truly complementary.

An irreproducible PR path.

At the end, when "Tropical Rain" appeared in the introduction of the Best Picture nomination, as one of the only two non-English films nominated for Best Picture this year, Lu Yan He suddenly felt what "nomination is recognition" meant.

This is the Oscars, an American film award, although it has been trying hard to face the world and build itself into a world-class award—

However, in reality, it faces films from all over the world that have achieved extraordinary influence in the American film industry and the American market.

Non-English films are "disadvantaged" no matter what. In this case, for a non-English film to be nominated for this award, isn't it recognition?

One of Lu Yan He's biggest feelings in the North American awards season this year is that after the Oscars have accumulated decades of influence and industry status in North America, the most powerful thing is that every practitioner in North American Hollywood regards winning an Oscar as the greatest honor they can get in this job.

Even everyone is maintaining the Oscars.

Historically, those winners who "watered" their way to the Oscars, even if they won the award, were faced by the entire industry with an attitude of "disapproval." They wouldn't say that because they won the award, the gray would turn white.

That kind of actor who uses improper means to compete, such as Rooney Mara, who was very strong in all aspects at the time (of course, her method already belonged to the scope allowed by the rules), was clearly one of the two female leads of "Carol," but in order to increase the probability of winning, she changed from lead to supporting and reported for Best Supporting Actress, which instead caused a lot of controversy in the awards season, with people thinking that what she did was unfair to other nominees, and in the end, she didn't win the award.

Lu Yan He believes that such heartfelt recognition and maintenance from so many people in the industry is the fundamental reason why this award has such dominance in this industry.

Looking at those awards in China.

Even Lu Yan He himself actually has doubts, not to mention others.

Of course, the tumors of the Oscars are all there, not one less.

Harvey Weinstein, relying on the PR results of "Shakespeare in Love" in the awards season, became famous in one battle. After that, it can be said that because of his powerful PR ability and means, he was sought after by the entire Hollywood.

He completely figured out the PR rules of the Oscars, and then turned it into his own tool. Even many people's defense of art films and defense of the Oscars became places he could utilize.

These thoughts didn't stay in Lu Yan He's mind for long tonight.

After the Oscar ceremony ended, there was also an Afterparty hosted by Vanity Fair magazine.

Tonight is not a night suitable for thinking about things.

At the AfterParty hosted by Vanity Fair, Zhan Yun, Li Zhibai, and Jiang Yuqian, who didn't attend the Oscar ceremony, all appeared.

Zhan Yun appeared as the female lead of "Friends"—Maxine got her the invitation to this party.

Jiang Yuqian got the invitation because of a cooperative brand—Jiang Yuqian has appeared frequently on the international stage in recent years, with extremely high exposure, and has good follow-up projects, so the brands she cooperates with are very willing to cooperate with her. For such high-exposure vanity fair activities, the invitation quotas obtained by brands will prioritize Jiang Yuqian.

And Li Zhibai was there because "Buried" was in the promotion period.

Parameter had already decided to release "Buried" in April.

The reason why the release date was set so hurriedly in April even though "Buried" had already exploded at the Sundance Film Festival was because Parameter had a blockbuster film to be released in almost every important slot after April. If this film wanted to get Parameter's full support, it could only be released in April so that Parameter's resources could be used on the film "Buried" as much as possible.

Lu Yan He was very happy that he could see them on this night.

Until he heard an unknown person mutter to the person next to him jokingly at this party: "Feels like all these jobs in Hollywood will be snatched away by Asians in the future."

Discrimination is still everywhere.

Lu Yan He originally pretended not to hear it and turned to leave.

But after only two steps, he suddenly stopped and then walked back.

He walked directly to the person who had just spoken.

That person saw Lu Yan He suddenly standing in front of him, stunned for a moment, wanted to speak, opened his mouth, and stopped talking.

The person next to him obviously realized that Lu Yan He had heard what was just said.

He hurriedly took a step back, distancing himself from that person, indicating that he had nothing to do with that person.

Lu Yan He smiled and said: "Just now I heard you say that Asians are going to snatch away all the jobs in Hollywood. I, this Asian, with my screenplay, production company, and budget, opened four projects in Hollywood in one go: 'Buried,' 'Red Eye,' 'Flypaper,' and 'Speed.' Shouldn't that be providing you with more jobs? It's strange, why is it that in the lists recommended by various agents, you are not there?"

That person's face turned red instantly.

Lu Yan He: "Capable people are creating more job opportunities; incapable people always complain that others have snatched their jobs. Actually, it's not that others have snatched your job; it's that the job has rejected you."

He said these words without lowering his volume at all.

Many people around heard it.

Their expressions were different, but all very wonderful.

"Hey, Lu." Jack Roan, who was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars today, walked over. Just now, he was standing nearby. He hugged Lu Yan He's shoulder and said enthusiastically: "Don't be unhappy for such people tonight. Come on, Rohlman has always said he wants to meet you. Do me a favor and come with me to say hello to him."

Lu Yan He smiled at Jack Roan and said: "Of course, no problem."

He didn't even look at that person again and walked away with Jack Roan.

That person stood in place, watched by the surrounding mocking or disgusted gazes, feeling like needles on his back, and left in a hurry.

Jack Roan is not American.

He is Norwegian but has been filming in Hollywood.

In Europe and America, except for actors from a few countries, such as the UK and France, most actors have deep connections with Hollywood because their own country's film industry is often incomplete and the output is small. If they want their careers to develop further, they must come to Hollywood.

Jack Roan is a very well-known actor in the United States, now forty years old, a very charming man.

"Congratulations!" Jack Roan said.

The two had already met many times during the awards season.

Because Jack Roan was never among the hot candidates to win the award this year, it can be said that after entering the nomination list, he had completed his awards season task, and the next step was just to keep appearing in these activities to brush up his fame and exposure.

Therefore, the smoke of war between him and Lu Yan He was not as heavy as it was with Uber Clark before.

"Thank you."

Jack Roan said: "Don't mind what that guy said just now; they are just some losers. You are absolutely right."

Lu Yan He: "I know, I won't mind."

"Let's find a chance to have a drink in private later. On an occasion like today, we can't talk deeply." Jack Roan patted Lu Yan He's shoulder, "You are very much to my taste, Lu. We can become friends."

Lu Yan He smiled and nodded, saying okay, and added "of course."

The incident that just happened spread quickly.

Almost everyone at this party had heard about it.

I don't know when it started, but every American Lu Yan He met would very seriously emphasize that he very much welcomed excellent Asian filmmakers like Lu Yan He to come to Hollywood.

Lu Yan He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

One by one, they all started to "state their position."

Of course, this is a good thing.

When he met Jiang Yuqian, Jiang Yuqian said to him with great relief: "You did it beautifully, well roasted."

Like Jiang Yuqian, who has almost completely mixed abroad in recent years, she doesn't know how many times she has encountered such scenes.

No matter where, there are some arrogant idiots.

It's just that Jiang Yuqian doesn't have the confidence to roast back like Lu Yan He. Unless it's a particularly excessive situation, she can only glare or scold unceremoniously.

It's still better to roast back like Lu Yan He.

Loser!

Lu Yan He said to Jiang Yuqian: "After you film 'Red Eye,' I guess you will encounter more people who are sour about you."

"Let them be sour. The more sour they are, the happier I am." Jiang Yuqian said, "What I'm unhappy about is not that they are sour or sarcastic about me; what I'm unhappy about is that I still can't refute them with confidence."

Lu Yan He: "If you aren't confident enough, who can be?"

Jiang Yuqian said: "It's okay, you don't need to comfort me. Although I can't gain a firm foothold in a short time, I will firmly guard my place. I won't be driven away. As long as I stand long enough, this place is mine, and no one can drive me away."

Jiang Yuqian's tone was a bit stubborn.

Lu Yan He listened, smiled, nodded, and said: "Good."

And when he met Li Zhibai, Li Zhibai happened to have something to find him for, saying that a director had made an appointment to meet him tomorrow to chat, and that director had a role suitable for him.

Li Zhibai didn't know whether to go or not.

Lu Yan He said: "See if that director is a very famous big director. If not, it's okay to meet and chat, but whether to act or not, or the conditions for acting, don't express your position. Just say you don't understand these things and need an agent to handle them."

Lu Yan He suggested this, not really discriminating against "small directors."

It's because Li Zhibai has now attracted some people's attention in Hollywood by virtue of "Buried."

There are quite a few companies in China that will "buy stocks," investing in "to-be-exploded" actors in advance.

Hollywood is the same.

Lu Yan He was afraid that Li Zhibai would be pitted by people of unknown origin.

Li Zhibai understood and nodded.

Lu Yan He added: "But no matter what play it is, it is recommended that you wait until 'Buried' is released before talking. If you talk about a play in Hollywood now, it will be a completely different situation in two months."

"Okay, I know." Li Zhibai nodded.

He smiled at Lu Yan He.

"You said before that 'Buried' would make me explode globally. Now it seems there is really such hope."

Lu Yan He immediately said: "Then wait until 'Speed' is released, Yan Liang will be ten times more popular than you."

"..." Li Zhibai looked at Lu Yan He in disbelief, "Damn, favoring one over the other."

Lu Yan He laughed.

"Who told you that you can't film action scenes." Lu Yan He said, "However, based on my understanding of you, you only need an opportunity. After 'Buried,' you will encounter more good projects yourself; they will all come to find you."

Li Zhibai shook his eyebrows at him and asked: "After finally making me popular globally, are you in such a hurry to kick me to others? Don't you need me to act in your other projects?"

"Not for the time being." Lu Yan He smiled, "Compared to my projects, I think you can go film some films with more artistic exploration. My films in Hollywood now are all commercial subjects. The ones with more style are like 'Flypaper.' This kind of film actually doesn't fit your image and temperament. You are more suitable for films with a bit of authorship and creative concepts."

In Lu Yan He's heart, the uniqueness of Li Zhibai's image and temperament, in terms of the characteristics of picking films, is actually a bit like John Lone—not to say that the two look alike, but John Lone also belongs to the kind of person who will be more charming in films with a bit of artistry, and when appearing in pure commercial films like "Rush Hour 2," he looks mediocrely handsome.

Yan Liang's image is more compatible than Li Zhibai's image.

If both are containers, Yan Liang's image container is larger and can hold more things.

Li Zhibai heard this and said with some disgust: "I didn't understand half of what you said."

"It's okay if you didn't understand. You can show me the scripts you are not sure about in the future." Lu Yan He said, "Simply put, compared to the male leads in those youth romance movies that Lang Xia acted in, you are more suitable for Ke Jingteng in 'You Are the Apple of My Eye.' Compared to those cookie-cutter gods and immortals, you are more suitable for Li Xiaoyao with his Jianghu spirit and youthful chivalry. You are suitable for playing roles with more distinct personality and character traits."

Li Zhibai cannot go and play a "mass-market style."

And "Speed"—

To be honest, in his view, if Keanu Reeves wasn't too handsome and full of hormones, purely from the character setting of the film, it is a "mass-market style" young tough guy image, with no particularly different traits.

Lu Yan He chatted with Li Zhibai for a while, and then Uber Clark suddenly came over to find him.

"Hey, Uber." Lu Yan He saw him, his eyes lit up, and he immediately took the initiative to greet him.

Uber Clark nodded with a smile, clinked glasses with him lightly, and said: "Congratulations, you successfully won the Oscar this year."

Lu Yan He said sincerely: "Thank you, I believe you will also win it soon."

Uber Clark smiled, didn't pick up the conversation, but said.

"Contact me when you have a suitable role later."

"Of course." Lu Yan He nodded, paused, and added: "In fact, I have a role I want to find you for right now."

Originally prepared to write a bit more today.

However, didn't do it.

The reason is...

I finally summoned the courage to start reading this story I wrote from the first chapter.

And then I got fascinated... I always felt before, written like this ghost, how could so many friends be willing to read it.

Today I felt, it really fits my taste, read more than two hundred chapters in one breath. (End of chapter)