Chapter 832

"It's just a water award with no reference significance." Although he said so, the smile on Chen Ziyan's face could not be collected.

Lu Qingzhen: "It's not easy, the situation has finally changed."

"But this movie still needs people to create momentum," Chen Ziyan said. "We must let everyone not want to see this movie but have to see it at all times, and be reminded at all times, don't you want to vote for this movie?"

Lu Qingzhen: "What do you plan to do next?"

Chen Ziyan said: "Create momentum."

"Hmm?" Lu Qingzhen said. "Find people with weight in Hollywood to speak for *Storm Calmer No. 1*?"

Chen Ziyan shook her head.

"I suffered this loss before. If I let them directly create momentum for *Storm Calmer No. 1*, it is easy to let them fall into the dispute of political stance, so everyone kept silent. We must change our thinking," Chen Ziyan said. "Teacher Wen and Yan He's acting skills are beyond doubt. Our previous PR thinking always wanted to prosper together, so we played the movie quality card. We should focus on the performance of the actors themselves, which is also the propaganda point that can best avoid disputes."

Lu Qingzhen understood.

Simply put, it is to avoid those points that people worry about and attack those places where everyone has reached a consensus.

Chen Ziyan's PR strategy is to "abandon Best Foreign Language Film and protect acting awards".

Of course, it can also be said to be besieging Wei to save Zhao.

Use acting awards to improve everyone's recognition of *Storm Calmer No. 1*.

"I like *Storm Calmer No. 1*. I watched Lu Yan He grow up. He is really a very sensible child. I heard that he was admitted to the best university in China by his own ability. Oh, I really hope my child also has such academic performance."

On this day, a video of a black aunt accepting a street interview on the Internet suddenly spread very hotly on the social platform.

The reason is that this black aunt suddenly wiped her tears emotionally while talking.

And the reason why it is hot is because everyone questioned that this is acting because of this emotional wiping of tears.

Even in Hollywood, some people think this is Lu Yan He's PR method this year, but it didn't play well, it was done too obviously, and it was messed up.

In fact, it is not.

Chen Ziyan almost thought that the people in North America messed up and deliberately made such a play.

As a result, after an investigation, this video has nothing to do with Lu Yan He's propaganda side and PR side.

Then who filmed this video? It was done so clumsily?

Chen Ziyan instantly cast her eyes on Zhang Yuezhen and Chen Pinhe.

Is this clumsy performance of praising Lu Yan He used by them to attack Lu Yan He?

The person who posted this video on social media is a Chinese-American.

He himself is also a small internet celebrity with more than 100,000 fans.

However, after the investigation, Chen Ziyan found that this person is really not a hater.

He himself is indeed Lu Yan He's fan.

He has watched every movie of Lu Yan He released in North American theaters.

Through his homepage, you can see movie tickets or photos in the theater.

Even when *Road to Glory* was released, there were theaters with screening sessions more than 20 kilometers away, and he drove there.

Chen Ziyan couldn't help but frown in doubt.

Such a real fan, did he direct such an interview video to help Lu Yan He create momentum?

There are more and more ridicules about Lu Yan He on the Internet.

Lu Yan He's acting skills are highly praised, and it is the same overseas.

But no matter how talented a person is, once suspected of directing and acting, it will attract ridicule.

——Because you obviously don't want to do this, the applause will ring, but you have to arrange a supporter, which looks so ugly.

Chen Ziyan accepted an interview with *Variety* in her own tone and replied: "This video was not produced by us. We have contacted the publisher of the video. The specific situation will be explained to everyone after understanding. In fact, although Lu Yan He very much hopes that his performance in *Storm Calmer No. 1* will be seen by everyone, his focus now is on filming the new movie *The Boat*. In order to fully invest in the performance, he also pushed off all early propaganda and PR activities in North America, where he should have participated in the awards season PR activities."

The implication is that Lu Yan He doesn't attach much importance to his performance in the awards season. He doesn't even come to PR himself, so why use such means to attract attention?

Chen Ziyan's reply made some people believe to a certain extent that this video was not Lu Yan He and his team's handwriting.

Especially some industry insiders.

Indeed, with Lu Yan He's current situation, there is no need to do this at all.

Why bother? -

On the set of *The Boat*, Luo Yuzhong said: "I found that every time I film with you, you will encounter some trouble."

Lu Yan He said: "Yes, it's very annoying."

Wang Biao said: "Actually, it's not every time I film, it's that the trouble on Little Brother Lu has never stopped."

Luo Yuzhong: "Is it still like this until now? He is different from the past, and there are still so many people looking for trouble for him?"

"People are popular and have many troubles," Yu Mengling said. "Little Lu's work is too much. I will see him on the hot search almost every week. It is usually a serious matter. It is not that he wore some clothes today and came out with some pictures tomorrow. Look, the thing he was on the hot search a few days ago was that *Storm Calmer No. 1* was rated as the top ten films of the year by a French magazine, and what else? Oh, right, there is also Little Lu confirmed to return to star in *Friends*."

Yu Mengling laughed.

"When there are many things and work, there will definitely be no less trouble."

Luo Yuzhong: "Speaking of which, it's strange. You are on the hot search every three days. Why don't people get tired of your things? Usually, they will advise actors to be low-key, reduce exposure, and maintain the freshness when playing roles, but for you, it seems unnecessary."

"Superstars are like this," Wen Shengming also said with a smile. "Once an actor becomes a superstar, you can't expect him to bring freshness to the audience, but as a superstar, what kind of charm can he give the role between his gestures. If you still use the set of washing away the lead to play a role at this time, the result will not be much better."

Lu Yan He hurriedly waved his hand with a smile.

"I am not a superstar, Teacher Wen, you are."

"Excessive humility is arrogance," Wen Shengming said. "If you are not a superstar, who dares to call themselves a superstar."

Lu Yan He said immediately: "Li Zhibai dares."

Luo Yuzhong laughed and scolded: "That thick-skinned guy, you just praise him as the number one handsome in the universe, and he will shamelessly nod to accept it."

"Just like the two of you, how does Yan Liang maintain friendship with you?" Yu Mengling laughed. "I feel his personality is very different from yours."

"The essence is the same," Lu Yan He said. "People with different essences will never become friends."

"What is the essence?" Yu Mengling asked curiously.

"The official statement is, love for performing arts," Lu Yan He said old-god-like.

Yu Mengling rolled her eyes slightly.

She is a person who basically doesn't roll her eyes.

It is really because the relationship is familiar to a certain extent that she will do such an action.

Lu Yan He continued: "Private statement, the three of us are all people who refuse to admit defeat to this world, refuse to be satisfied with the current life situation, and never want to stop."

Yu Mengling widened her eyes.

Her eyes were shining slightly.

"Your statement is so romantic."

"Huh?"

"Very extreme romance," Yu Mengling said. "Except in film and television works, I have never heard anyone say such hot-blooded, secondary words in front of me, but I don't feel awkward at all. Lu Yan He, what you said makes me very moved."

Lu Yan He: "I have never thought that what I said would be evaluated as romantic."

Yu Mengling asked: "Isn't it romantic?"

Lu Yan He laughed.

"Indeed romantic," Lu Yan He thought, refusing to admit defeat to this huge world, what is this if not romanticism, is it realistic realism? -

The person who released the street interview video is named Yang Mark. This is the Chinese name he took for himself.

On the third day after the interview video he released caused a huge uproar, he updated a video.

It was still that black aunt.

The black aunt stood in front of the camera, nervously clasping her hands together.

She said: "I am not an actor... When I accepted this interview last time, I never thought that my answer would cause such a big controversy and bring so much trouble to Lu Yan He. I feel very sorry."

When the black aunt said this, she choked up again, and tears appeared.

"The reason why I couldn't control my emotions last time is, is because... Lu Yan He is actually an actor my son likes. My son is the same age as Lu Yan He, but last year, because of gang fighting... he died..."

The black aunt covered her face with both hands and burst into tears.

A voice said "OMG" behind the camera, which was a young man's voice.

People familiar with Yang Mark's account heard that this was his voice.

After a while, this video switched screens.

A young Chinese face appeared in front of the camera.

It is Yang Mark.

"Everyone, my mood is very complicated now. Since I released a street interview video the day before yesterday, which caused a lot of controversy, I have been looking for this aunt—because the last video was really not me writing a script and finding someone to cooperate with my performance. I have been doing street interviews for many years. Many people have followed my account for many years and should know my style. However, I am not sure if the aunt is performing, so I have been wanting to find this aunt for the past two days. Until just now, I found her. I asked her if she saw the controversy about her 'performance' on the Internet. She said she didn't know what was going on. After I showed it to her, she said it wasn't like this, and then took the initiative to say she wanted to record another video to clarify this matter."

Yang Mark sighed deeply.

"If I knew it was for this reason, I would definitely not want to ask the aunt why again," he scratched his hair. "In the past two days, I have suffered a lot of questioning and attacks, saying that Lu Yan He's team found me to direct and act in this play, saying that the actor I found was not professional enough and acted too fake. This video is considered an explanation and response."

After the video was played, Lu Yan He exited the full-screen mode after opening the video, and felt a bit sighing in his heart.

I didn't expect the truth of this matter to be like this.

In fact, almost no one thought that the truth hidden behind this matter was like this.

The protagonist of this matter is actually no longer Lu Yan He.

The response video also has a high number of views. Lu Yan He was originally worried that many people would still question the authenticity of the black aunt's response content, but this time this situation did not appear. Everyone basically defaulted that what the black aunt said was true.

Here.

Zhang Yuezhen breathed a sigh of relief quietly.

Almost, almost she went down.

Originally, two American media contacted, wanting to ask Chen Pinhe to comment on this matter.

Zhang Yuezhen had already found someone to write the response draft and sent it to Chen Pinhe.

Almost, it was really almost.

The phone time was scheduled for three hours later.

If the phone interview time was a few hours earlier, I am afraid that the one who was embarrassed at this time would be them.

In their response draft, they were insinuating about Lu Yan He, full of contempt for the "self-directed and self-acted" behavior.

In addition to being lucky, Zhang Yuezhen's heart also sparked a layer of unhappy fire.

Why can Lu Yan He catch up with this kind of thing?

Now because of this, many people have sympathy and good feelings for him because of Lu Yan He's previous attacks.

Zhang Yuezhen is even a little worried that if this matter helps him get sympathy points in this awards season, it will be bad.

Judging from the current situation, although Chen Pinhe has received some praise from media and magazines, the movie *The Pianist* has been seen by too few people, and the North American mainstream critical circle has not included Chen Pinhe as a candidate for the Best Actor award this year.

Basically, it can be judged to be out of the game in advance.

Zhang Yuezhen did not give up PR because of this, because even if he could not get the final Oscar nomination, the early exposure indeed increased Chen Pinhe's popularity in Hollywood.

This can make many producers and directors pay attention to the actor Chen Pinhe.

In fact, director Asimov's new film came here like this.

Zhang Yuezhen does not want Lu Yan He to get the opportunity and really perform well with *Storm Calmer No. 1* in the case of Chen Pinhe's exit.

This day, Darren Wilson called Lu Yan He.

He came to suggest that Lu Yan He change to report for Best Supporting Actor.

"If you change to report for Best Supporting Actor, the probability of you getting a nomination will be greatly improved. This year's Best Supporting Actor is a big melee, and there has not been a sweep situation yet," Darren Wilson said. "According to the news we have, in the several critic association awards that will be announced later, the winners of Best Supporting Actor are not consistent, and there is no particularly hammer-settling one."

Lu Yan He asked: "What about Teacher Wen?"

"Change Wen Shengming to report for the lead," Darren Wilson said. "Although in this way, he can basically be determined to be out of the game. He reports for the supporting role now, the situation is not clear, let alone reporting for the lead."

Lu Yan He heard this and hesitated.

"If Teacher Wen reports for the supporting role, is his situation clear later?"

"Also average," Darren Wilson said. "For Hollywood, he is an outsider, and *Storm Calmer No. 1* is not a big trend movie, so it can't protect him. Currently, the number of academy members willing to vote for him is still a very small minority. But you are different. There are many academy members who are very willing to vote for you. Your basic disk is large enough. As long as you report the project correctly, the probability of you getting a nomination is very large."

Lu Yan He hesitated for a long time, not knowing how he should choose.

He called Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan said: "Even a nomination is very valuable. If you really succeed in getting it, this is your third Oscar nomination at the Oscars, and this is also your third Oscar nomination before the age of thirty. This achievement is still very shining."

"But for me, the actual significance is not that big," Lu Yan He said. "For me now, an Oscar nomination, especially on the premise of having been nominated, is nothing more than making my golden body more solid. But no matter what, I basically have no play to win the award."

"Yes," Chen Ziyan said. "There is basically no play to win the award, and now even the difficulty of nomination is so great, there is no way, *Storm Calmer No. 1* is a Chinese-language movie."

"It's better to go all out to rush for Teacher Wen, maybe, maybe he can get a nomination," Lu Yan He said. "If he really gets a nomination in the end, it will have huge benefits for him to take plays internationally in the future."

"Yes, the Oscars still have great influence in Europe and America, especially in the United States. Hollywood is a place that attaches great importance to the Oscars."

Lu Yan He said: "It's better to go all out to fight for it. I will still report for the lead. If I really can't squeeze into the nomination list, forget it."

He thought, if he really wants to collect Oscars in the future, he also has many scripts of Oscar-winning movies, and he can click his golden finger to play good roles by himself.

There is no need to care about this opportunity in front of him.

Chen Ziyan: "Just think about it yourself."

Lu Yan He: "I have thought about it."

Chen Ziyan: "Okay, since you have thought about it, we will do as you think."

Lu Yan He couldn't laugh or cry.

"Your trust and support for me now make me a little nervous. What if I judge wrongly?"

"You think too much. When I say, do as you think, a big reason is that I don't think what you think is wrong," Chen Ziyan said. "When I really think you have a problem, I will definitely stop you and let you rein in the horse at the edge of the cliff."

Lu Yan He laughed.

For this decision of Lu Yan He, Darren Wilson, who has been working in Hollywood, does not understand very much.

Why?!

This is an Oscar nomination!

Can you even give up this?

Can you even give this to others?

Darren Wilson really wanted to fly to China, rush to Lu Yan He, and ask loudly: "Why?"

However, he held back.