Chapter 208: Congratulations from all over the world

"Li Bingbing holds a press conference, angrily revealing unspoken rules. Attachment: Full text of Li Bingbing's speech. The full text is full of true feelings and touching."

"Interview with famous mainland agent Wang Jinghua: Li Bingbing has courage, I am not as good as her. Attachment: The ins and outs of Wang Jinghua's departure in 2005. It turns out the truth of the incident is like this!"

"Zhou Xun: Signed not long ago, not often in the company, don't know much. As a woman, admire Sister Bingbing's courage, women must be united."

"Lin Xinru: Always in Taiwan, support MeToo, women must be brave."

"Chen Daoming: The entertainment industry is so chaotic, someone should have stood up long ago. Li Bingbing is amazing, worthy of study by women across the country, and also worthy of respect from male compatriots."

"Carina Lau: Refuse to comment. Frankly, Hong Kong also needs the MeToo movement."

"Fan Fan Binbing appeared at the airport today, reporters asked questions throughout without saying a word, showing a cold sneer. Attachment: The ins and outs of Fan Fan Binbing's contract termination process."

The press conference held by Li Bingbing caused a reaction in the news media and the general public, just like a basin of cold water splashed into a hot oil pan.

The movement caused was greater than the trouble Harvey made in the US.

Whether it was the entertainment news of various TV stations on TV or the entertainment sections of major portal websites, the headlines were all related reports.

As long as relevant artists appeared, whether in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, or the mainland, there were microphones stuffed into their mouths, asking about Wang X-lei and Li

Meanwhile, the comment sections of the entertainment sections of major websites saw the number of registered users, logged-in users, and comments reach an all-time high.

For the vast majority of netizens and ordinary people, it really was like the New Year.

How exciting.

Unspoken rules, female stars, film company bosses.

One can only say that in this regard, there is no difference between Chinese and Americans.

Originally, the Huayi company side remained silent about this,

But then a document from the China Performing Artists Association called on all film and television personnel not to indulge in unhealthy trends or take crooked paths, and to resolutely fight against some existing dark phenomena.

Along with the exclusive interview of Li Bingbing on CCTV-2's "Oriental Horizon: Face to Face,"

It suddenly caused all the projects that Huayi company was pushing forward to fall into a state of stagnation.

On January 4, 2008, just after the New Year's holiday, Huayi held a grand press conference in Beijing.

Wang Zhonglei denied all accusations against him at the meeting and announced his resignation.

Huayi company confirmed that Wang Zhongjun would concurrently serve as general manager in the future, and that the company's various tasks would gradually restart, and the release of "Assembly" would not be affected in any way.

At the same time, Huayi company announced that it would enter the contract termination process with Li Bingbing starting from that day, reserving the right to pursue legal responsibility against the other party.

After this press conference, Chen Nuo was on the phone in the classroom again.

But fortunately, it wasn't during class, and the person on the other end of the phone wasn't someone like Harvey Weinstein who required one to be on high alert to deal with.

He could answer the phone with a relaxed expression and walk to the corner at the back of the classroom.

"Mm-hmm, of course we can be friends if there's nothing wrong. You're too kind, you're too kind, we learn from each other. I also wish your studio prosperity in the future. Okay, let me know when you open, I'll definitely go support you when I have time. It's fine, I'm not in class. Mm, bye-bye."

After finishing the call, he stood there and thought for a moment.

Such a result could be considered quite good. Retiring behind the scenes, his reputation severely damaged, especially with the recent push for listing all suspended; it looks like he won't be able to be the number one film and television stock.

Although it's impossible to kill him with one blow, it definitely counts as a heavy loss.

Li Bingbing also got what she wanted most.

Honor, prestige.

The title of the first initiator of the #MeToo movement in China is enough for her to contend for the top spot in the mainland entertainment circle with Zhang Ziyi, and it's not impossible to even use this to enter the United States.

Huayi has since given up fighting with her, actively terminating the contract, and she also took the opportunity to become independent and opened a personal studio.

No wonder she had to make a special call to thank him. It seems the title of "Friend of Women" is well-deserved.

Chen Nuo felt that things had reached this point, and it could be considered acceptable.

At the very least, Harvey's fate can serve as a reminder to those opponents who want to provoke him in the future.

Fair competition is fine, but if anyone wants to play any dirty tricks, then let's see who dies first!

Walking back to his original spot, "Sorry, come on, let's continue."

Yuan Shanshan was quite familiar with Chen Nuo by now and asked curiously, "Who was that? It wouldn't be Harvey again, would it?"

Wang Meng next to her said, "Which country's Harvey speaks Chinese?"

Once this was said, Yang Mi and Song Leitao next to them both laughed.

The five of them gathered together, precisely to rehearse the final exam sketch for this semester.

"The Late Train."

One person plays the station staff, who is the core protagonist. The other four play passengers, who are supporting roles.

The theme and roles are fixed, the rest is free improvisation.

The final exam is on the 14th, and there are still about 10 days left; today is the first time they've gathered together, and they are still assigning roles.

Song Leitao, who is in the same dorm as Chen Nuo, said as a matter of course, "Chen Nuo should play the staff member. Does anyone have any objections?"

Actually, Song Leitao knew clearly in his heart, what objections could these girls have?

Not to mention Yang Mi, who is recognized in the class as Chen Nuo's best friend, while Yuan Shanshan is recognized as Chen Nuo's hardcore fan.

Wang Meng has a good relationship with both the hardcore fan and the best friend, so she was freely combined into the group.

As long as he, the lucky guy who came to make up the numbers, had no objections, the other girls couldn't possibly have any.

And the facts were indeed so.

Yang Mi said first, "Fine."

"No problem."

"That's fine."

Chen Nuo laughed, "Forget it. I believe in my acting skills, playing a passenger is no problem. It should be a passing grade. I won't play this lead role. It should be left to those who need it. Whoever feels they might not pass Teacher Huang Lei's class, claim it yourselves."

Hearing his words, while Wang Meng laughed along with everyone else, she felt warm inside.

This is Chen Nuo.

This is why no matter how popular he is, not a single classmate in the class has ever been snide or sarcastic behind his back.

It is also why he is always close to the girls in the class, yet no one thinks too much of it, and no one talks nonsense to the outside world.

Because he will always use a playful and mischievous way to let everyone comfortably accept the kindness he gives, without having to bear any psychological burden.

Romance novels always write about "being with you is like being bathed in a spring breeze."

Wang Meng, who usually likes reading Qiong Yao, felt that this might be it.

Subsequently, in the process of everyone pushing and yielding, this lead role, which only a poor student with bad grades would play, fell to Song Leitao.

Yuan Shanshan couldn't help but look at Wang Meng and smile.

Sure enough, as long as Chen Nuo is present, Yang Mi will become a different person. She talks less, and she is more low-key.

It really is gratifying.

Over the next few days, the five of them gathered from time to time to rehearse. To accommodate Chen Nuo's usual travel convenience, it was generally scheduled for the evening.

Chen Nuo brought them food and drink many times, and after every day of hard rehearsal, not only did they not lose weight, but they actually gained a few ounces.

Unknowingly, it was January 14th, the day of the final exam performance for the 2005 Acting Class of the Beijing Film Academy.

They are already juniors, and in total, they have taken classes for five semesters. This is only Chen Nuo's second time participating in a final exam.

Perhaps because rarity makes things valuable, on the day of his exam, quite a few teachers from the school came.

Not to mention Huang Lei and Li Er, there were also veteran professors like Cui Xinqing, as well as teachers like Ye Linghui who taught other grades.

Finally, amidst the applause of the whole class and the teachers, they welcomed Dean Zhang Tianyou and the now-confirmed Principal Zheng Zhongjian.

It can truly be said that all the wise and virtuous were gathered, and the famous teachers filled the room.

The exam started at 9:10 in the morning. Each exam lasted 30 minutes, and Chen Nuo's group was scheduled for the second session.

With so many leaders present, the students were obviously a bit nervous; Chen Nuo saw that in the first session, Zhang Xiaofei, Duanmu, Zhang Ge, and the others were clearly trying a bit too hard.

They turned a memorable gathering into a particularly memorable gathering.

It wasn't that it was wrong, it's just that they probably wouldn't get a high score. After the first group finished performing, when the teachers were giving their critiques, Yang Mi poked his shoulder and asked in a low voice, "What are you laughing at?"

Chen Nuo smiled, his voice coming out without moving his lips: "Schadenfreude."

Yang Mi looked at him with an unreadable expression and stopped talking.

Next, it was their group's turn.

Song Leitao was a station staff member who would stutter whenever he got anxious. Chen Nuo and Yang Mi played a young couple traveling, Yuan Shanshan was a female college student rushing home because of a family member's serious illness, and Wang Meng held a doll, playing a single mother whose child would have various issues.

In short, after rehearsing for ten days, their respective character biographies were written very solidly, and their performances were quite dramatic.

Chen Nuo seemed truly tired.

The way he sat on the stool was the very picture of a lazy boyfriend, splitting every sentence into three parts.

No matter how anxious Yang Mi was, his butt seemed glued to the stool.

After performing for nearly 10 minutes, he had stood up for at most ten seconds, and that was only because his girlfriend was arguing with the single mother until her face was red and her neck was thick, and he only went over to pull her back.

He mumbled something indistinctly, which couldn't even be heard clearly; one wonders how this person learned his acting class.

Professor Cui Xinqing, who brought out the '96 Star Class, watched with a smile on her lips. Even though the play wasn't over yet, she leaned over and whispered to Li Er, "Is it too effortless for Chen Nuo to play this kind of role? Adding difficulty for himself?"

Li Er had no expression and said lightly, "He likes to look for trouble, he just knows how to show off."

"Yeah, so he doesn't even say his lines, he's doing mime, right? In terms of acting, it's a full score, but according to exam standards, his lines are a failing grade."

Although she said that, Cui Xinqing was also watching with great interest, just like the other teachers, her expression was lively, as if she were only missing some melon seeds and beer to liven things up.

As the play reached its end, the sound of the train pulling into the station was finally heard.

The mother stopped arguing, the college student quieted down, and the impatient girlfriend pulled her lazy-as-can-be boyfriend up from the stool, preparing to follow the instructions of the train conductor, who was already sweating, to enter the station.

The exam was about to end at this moment.

But strangely, starting a few minutes ago, the teachers and leaders all seemed a bit restless.

Principal Zheng looked at his watch, Dean Zhang looked at his phone, and the other teachers also whispered to each other, holding their phones and looking at them constantly.

Even the 20-plus students in the 2005 class who weren't taking the exam were a bit unable to hold back, all looking at their phone screens.

There was a vaguely uneasy atmosphere flowing in the air, so thick that bubbles seemed to be bubbling up.

It seemed like something big was about to happen, about to trigger some earth-shattering explosion here.

Finally, that moment arrived.

At the moment when several waiting passengers were lining up to enter the station, Dean Zhang stared at his phone, and his pupils suddenly dilated.

His hand seemed to have no feeling as he slapped the wooden table in front of him hard, making a loud "bang" sound.

Startling everyone.

But Dean Zhang didn't have the slightest self-awareness; this was clearly not respecting the students' half-hour of hard work at all.

He suddenly stood up regardless, the chair behind him making a chaotic sound as it fell to the ground.

A pair of eyes behind his reading glasses stared unblinkingly at the small phone screen in his hand, the expression on his face difficult to describe accurately in words.

Excitement, agitation, relief, satisfaction, and so on.

"We got it!"

He shouted with a hoarse voice, then raised his head and looked at Zheng Zhongjian next to him,

A man in his 50s, his voice was trembling: "Principal, really, we really, really got it, got it!!"

At the same time, everyone who had been looking at their phones all along suddenly became boisterous.

"We got it, we got it!"

"It's announced, it's announced!"

"Really, really, holy shit, awesome!!!"

Just over 10 minutes ago, at 6:00 PM on the 13th, Pacific Time, and 10:00 AM on the 14th, Beijing time.

The Golden Globe Awards organizing committee, which had canceled this awards ceremony, announced the list of winners for the 65th Golden Globe Awards at a press conference.

The British film "Atonement" defeated the highly anticipated "No Country for Old Men" to win Best Motion Picture – Drama,

Daniel Day-Lewis, the master of immersive acting, won Best Actor – Drama for "There Will Be Blood."

The Spanish film "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" defeated Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution" to win Best Foreign Language Film, and director Julian Schnabel simultaneously won Best Director.

And, at the end of the long list,

Golden Globe Awards organizing committee chairman James Horton finally read the award that had received the most global attention at this year's Golden Globe Awards, Best Supporting Actor.

It's hard to say whether the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor will ever have such glory again in the future, because at least in this year, the attention it received was even greater than that of Best Actor.

" 'The Dark Knight', Nuo Chen."

The Golden Globe Awards organizing committee obviously also knew that the moment Chen Nuo won the award, he had created a great deal of history,

Therefore, when reading the two Chinese pinyin characters "Nuo Chen,"

Golden Globe Awards organizing committee chairman James Horton's voice was deliberately a bit louder,

As if declaring to the world that a shining new film star was officially rising above the world's film scene.

" 'The Dark Knight', Chen Nuo, defeated rival Philip Seymour Hoffman from 'Doubt' to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor."

"Chen Nuo brought back the first-ever Golden Globe Award for acting for China, and this is also the first Golden Globe Award for acting won by an Asian, and even a person of yellow race, in the world."

"At the age of 21 years and 10 months, Chen Nuo became the third youngest Golden Globe winner in history. The first and second place winners both appeared in the old 80s, namely 9-year-old Ricky Schroder and 10-year-old Tatum O'Neal."

"Among all Golden Globe winners in the past thirty years, the one closest to Chen Nuo's age was still a full seven years older than him."

These reports were transmitted back to the country in an instant by many Chinese reporters who had specially gone to the scene, and also transmitted to the phone of Dean Zhang of the Film Academy's acting department.

Principal Zheng Zhongjian is worthy of being a leader; amidst the excited clamor and discussion in the classroom, he stood up unhurriedly.

In fact, Chen Nuo's Golden Globe Award this time was already within everyone's expectations.

Including these teachers in the classroom, they had all come precisely for this reason.

The teachers and students at the Film Academy all knew,

This morning, when the final exam for the 2005 acting class started, the Golden Globe Awards organizing committee would be reading the list of winners on the other side of the ocean.

Therefore, the teachers who were free didn't want to miss this moment.

That's why they flocked to the scene to watch such a boring final exam.

Zheng Zhongjian understood the logic, but when he thought about how a student of the school had won a Golden Globe Award at the beginning of his tenure,

Then, in the school history museum in the future, and in the resumes of past principals, how would he be recorded?

Even though Zheng Zhongjian had long since practiced a prime-minister-like level of sophistication in endless official and workplace struggles, he couldn't help but feel a little dizzy.

But Principal Zheng, who had a bit of high blood pressure, finally steadied himself.

In front of so many excited gazes in the classroom, Zheng Zhongjian quickly stepped over the front row of tables, walked to the center of the classroom, and in front of his girlfriend and the other waiting passengers, as well as all the audience,

Principal Zheng stretched out both hands and gripped the boyfriend's hand tightly, deliberately lowering his voice to prevent any unseemly trembling.

He said in a deep voice: "Congratulations, student Chen Nuo, congratulations on winning the Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. On behalf of all the teachers and students of the Film Academy, I would like to express my congratulations to you."

After finishing, he emphasized his tone and stressed again: "Today, the school is proud of you."

The school photography teacher, who had been waiting for a long time, seized the opportunity, and with a flash of the strobe, recorded this moment that was destined to be collected by the school history museum.

In the background of the picture, there were handsome or beautiful classmates like Yang Mi, Yuan Shanshan, Wang Meng, Zhang Ge, etc.,

And there were also many smiling teachers like Cui Xinqing, Huang Lei, etc.

In the middle of the picture was a middle-aged and elderly man with slightly graying hair, a flushed face, and an excited expression, and a male student with a shy face.

The two held hands tightly.

Except for being a bit shy, the boy didn't seem to have much else unusual about him.

It was as if he had just received a small red flower from kindergarten.

(End of chapter)