Chapter 251: I am your big fan

These words didn't sound strange, because Chen Nuo didn't say, I'll cover any movie under $100 million, right?

However, maybe a man is over 30, and he starts to become sentimental.

Ning Hao was obviously a bit moved, his smile a bit unnatural. "Okay, Nuozi, with your words, I'll go try it. Maybe I'll need the company to support a bit then."

Chen Nuo laughed: "That's for sure. Seriously, if the script is suitable, and you think it's okay, I can be your male lead."

"What?" Hearing this, Ning Hao sat up straight, his voice at least three degrees louder, "Nuozi, you'll be my male lead? Is this what you said!?"

Qi Yuntian coughed lightly and interjected: "Let's talk about this later."

Ning Hao turned his head dissatisfied: "President Qi, what do you mean? Nuozi said it's okay, why is it 'let's talk about it later' when it gets to you?"

Qi Yuntian said: "Because his schedule for next year is full. One by director Zhang Yimou, one for Twilight 2, and he has to prepare to go to the U. S. to shoot a film to win awards. Basically, there's no schedule left."

"Awards?" Ning Hao asked back, "Aren't I also preparing to win awards?"

Qi Yuntian smiled: "Can you win an Oscar?"

Ning Hao was choked, turned his head and couldn't believe it: "Nuozi, you... you, no, you want to win an Oscar again next year?"

Chen Nuo laughed: "I have this idea."

Seeing him shaking his head and waving his arms, looking like a crooked-mouthed potato, Ning Hao laughed, and said seriously: "Nuozi, it's not that you can't."

"If you can't, then no one in our country can. It's not just me who thinks so."

"Just..." Ning Hao smiled bitterly, "Isn't this a bit too fast? You just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. At your age, wouldn't it be a bit too young

"If you can't do it, then no one in our country can. And it's not just me who thinks so."

"It's just..." Ning Hao said with a bitter smile, "Isn't this a bit too fast for you? You just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. At your current age, wouldn't you be a bit too young? Those American judges don't just look at acting skills; they also look at seniority and age."

Chen Nuo was, of course, clear about what Ning Hao was saying.

It wasn't just age; skin color and nationality were also issues.

But to win a Best Actor award before 2014, and then be named one of the Ten Outstanding Youth, would draw a period on his post-rebirth youth that wasn't too embarrassing.

This was the goal he had set for himself.

The further he went, the greater the difficulty.

This was precisely why he had decided to start campaigning for awards from next year.

Because to win an Oscar for Best Actor, there were too many accidental factors involved. No actor, not even if Marlon Brando were reborn, could claim they could hit the mark in one shot.

Regarding this, the strategy he and Qi Yuntian discussed was:

The slow bird flies first, be thick-skinned and shameless, and eat the soft rice hard.

What did that mean?

It meant he was prepared to go and sit at the Kodak Theatre's awards ceremony every year, starting from the 82nd Oscars in 2010.

Don't you think I have yellow skin?

Don't you think I'm too young and too outrageous?

Don't you think I have no seniority?

Don't you think I'm a Chinese person?

That's fine. In any case, I will film one nominated movie every year, forcing you to look at this young, yellow-skinned Chinese face of mine every year.

If you haven't seen enough in one year, then look for two; if you haven't seen enough in two years, then three.

If you don't vote for me once, then twice; if you don't vote after twice, then three times; if you still don't vote after three times, then four, five, six times.

In short, I want to make you look at me until you've had enough, until you feel you should vote for me; if you don't vote for me, the audience worldwide won't be able to justify it.

At that point, you will naturally give me this award.

The "you" here refers to the thousands of judges in the Screen Actors Guild.

The inspiration for this strategy came from Leonardo DiCaprio in his past life. As everyone knows, the year DiCaprio won the award, the whole world had nothing to say.

Although there were still plenty of people who didn't approve of DiCaprio's acting, feeling he was trying too hard, they all shut their mouths.

This is what is known as "pestering your way to a Best Actor award."

The road to pestering for an award is not easy to walk; one could even say that apart from Chen Nuo, no one could walk it through in just a few short years.

Because even getting nominated for an Oscar isn't easy.

Even Meryl Streep wouldn't dare say she is guaranteed a seat at the Kodak Theatre every year.

But Chen Nuo is different.

Next year is 2009; in the previous life, Pan Chengrong had already gone to settle in LA, and he had also begun to reside in America.

When he was learning the language in America at the time, his language teacher, Linda, was a veteran film buff who told them to go home and watch more movies to practice speaking; he watched quite a few films for this reason.

Moreover, he actually watched more award-winning films with more dialogue and slower plots.

After all, you can't learn vocabulary by watching big-budget action movies with bang-bang gunfights.

Therefore, he knew the Oscar-winning films quite well.

This greatly increased the probability of him filming good movies and receiving Oscar nominations.

He didn't believe that if he sat in the Kodak Theatre for five consecutive years, he wouldn't be able to win a single award!?

What would the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences use to convince him, given his increasingly massive fan base acquired through commercial films every year?

Do they really think Edward and the Joker were played for nothing? When fans go crazy, besides stabbing him, they can also stab others.

"You always have to try. What if you get lucky? You never know, right?"

The *The Message* crew's walk on the Golden Horse red carpet was still the same as at its premiere; the actors were mixed together without regard for rank, laughing and chatting while greeting the audience as they walked.

To take care of some actors and directors who rarely walked the red carpet, as well as the three beautiful actresses who had painstakingly spent several hours on their makeup, allowing them to fully showcase themselves on the Golden Horse red carpet—one of the highest stages for Chinese-language films—so that their hard-earned makeup and custom-made clothes wouldn't go to waste.

And to let Harry Winston have a rare appearance in the East, Chen Nuo deliberately slowed his pace this time, dragging himself slowly at the very end of the team.

That's right, according to the contract he originally signed with Winston, Harry Winston would provide jewelry for him or his female companions for free.

Although he had three female companions this time, Winston wasn't stingy; they flew a team over from America, bringing a safe full of jewelry for the three actresses to choose from.

Under the magnesium lights, the exquisite diamond jewelry designed and crafted by Winston's top artisans was worn on them; when these immortal stones complemented the three girls' flower-like beautiful faces,

it made one understand,

why this allotrope of carbon makes every woman in the world obsessed with it.

Besides the three ladies, the others—Ning Hao, Gao Qunshu, Huang Bo, and Duan Yihong—were also enjoying this level of cheering on land outside the mainland for the first time and were all very excited. Chen Nuo saw Huang Bo, this naturally sociable person, actually take the initiative to walk to the fence and sign a few autographs for the fans here in Taipei.

Chen Nuo suddenly felt that perhaps some of the things Jiao Xiongping said sounded hollow, like clichés, but in a certain sense, they were also particularly correct.

At yesterday's banquet, she said: "Little brother Chen Nuo, I am truly very happy that you could come. Not only do I know that there are many fans in Taiwan who want to see you, but also because this is a stage that honors Chinese-language films. If you, who won an Oscar this year, don't come, this 45th Golden Horse Awards will lose more than half of its significance."

Chen Nuo felt that it wasn't the second half of the sentence that was correct;

what he agreed with was that the Golden Horse Awards, this amateurish troupe, seemed in many people's eyes to indeed be a stage to honor their own work achievements, and it seemed to truly be encouraging many filmmakers to continue walking down this path.

At least, at this very moment, it was like that; before it destroyed its own foundation, it was like that.

However, regardless, he no longer needed encouragement.

So, whether it was entering the reporter interview and photo area or accepting questions from hosts Sui Tang and Mickey Huang, Chen Nuo didn't say anything, just silently stood to the side, acting as a background character.

"Don't you think you made Mickey Huang a bit awkward just now?" After taking their seats, Fan Fan Binbing said to Chen Nuo, her lips moving slightly while she waved to someone in the front row.

"Did I?"

"Yes. You don't like him?"

Chen Nuo looked at her a bit strangely: "Am I that sentimental? Do I have to like everyone I meet?"

"That's true. Zhou Jielun said so much yesterday, wanting you to act in his movie, and I saw you didn't really pay him much mind either. He probably held a grudge against you when he left; you should be careful."

"Hehehehe."

Indeed, Zhou Jielun met him yesterday just to get him to act in a movie.

But Chen Nuo was perhaps too picky; he didn't even give face to a dignified superstar, just kept laughing it off, which resulted in Zhou Jielun's expression not looking good at all when he left.

However, so what?

Chen Nuo felt that one should love the profession they are in; he really wasn't in the mood to play house with a singer-turned-actor-turned-director.

Fan Fan Binbing's eyes flickered, "Something's wrong, very wrong. I feel that last time we were in Cannes, you weren't this dismissive of people. Just now when walking the red carpet, those fans of yours almost broke the fence, their throats were almost hoarse from shouting, and I looked back at you several times, but I saw you acting as if you didn't hear them."

Chen Nuo indeed didn't like Taiwan Province very much, but he couldn't explicitly state future events, so he said irritably: "Since you know, why are you still asking?"

Fan Fan Binbing was stunned: "Know what?"

"Know that the fence was about to be broken. Do I have a death wish? Should I have greeted them at that time?"

Fan Fan Binbing immediately showed an expression of being unable to laugh or cry, but a "pfft" of laughter suddenly came from Chen Nuo's other side.

Karena Lam really didn't know why she laughed.

She was actually very nervous.

She never expected that the seating for this Golden Horse Awards would make her his neighbor.

Perhaps it was because *The Message* was nominated for too many acting awards, so as an award presenter, she just happened to fill a spot, just happened to be in the same row as *The Message*, and sat next to him.

The venue for this Golden Horse Awards, the Taipei Zhongzheng Auditorium, didn't have very spacious seating.

When he sat down, his shoulder accidentally touched her arm, and then he immediately reacted and said "sorry" to her.

Karena Lam didn't think she was much of a romantic, nor did she like handsome guys that much.

Therefore, she didn't expect that just a sorry smile and a "sorry" could make a woman nearing 27 years old have her heart beat like this.

Afterwards, she kept thinking if the "it's okay" she said just now was too quiet, and he didn't hear it?

Or, should she have said it in Chinese?

Although his English was good, he had never taken an English name.

She had seen reports online that he had even confronted a foreign reporter over this matter.

Then it was possible he didn't like speaking English.

When Chen Nuo and Fan Fan Binbing were chatting, Karena Lam really wasn't eavesdropping on purpose, but the seats were arranged that way, and she couldn't help it.

His voice kept drilling into her ears on its own, without seeking her consent.

It wasn't the middle-aged man's voice from *The Dark Knight*, nor the slightly sharp teenage voice from *My Blueberry Nights*, and it was also very different from the low voice of the vampire in *Twilight* this time.

Including the voices in those few Chinese-language movies and TV dramas, they were all different.

But just like his appearance, they were all very manly, with an indescribable magnetism.

It seems that even high-fidelity hi-fi speakers have their limits.

This kind of flavor is truly only known after hearing it with one's own ears.

Listening to his conversation with Fan Fan Binbing, Karena Lam found it very interesting, and upon hearing that last sentence, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Seeing Chen Nuo turn his head and look over, Karena Lam turned red from her face to her neck, wishing there was a crack in the ground for her to crawl into.

She felt her smile must have looked extremely strange, perhaps as strange as the heroine in *Twilight*; she lowered her head and whispered: "Sorry, I didn't mean to."

"It's okay."

When the man several years younger than her smiled and repeated what she had said before.

At that moment, Karena Lam couldn't help but admit that her friends were right.

She was sometimes really easy to get carried away.

Just like now.

If it weren't for the hosts of this year's ceremony, Carol Cheng and Blackie Chen, walking out from behind the scenes at this moment to announce the opening of this year's Golden Horse Awards, she really would have had to say something.

At the very least, she had to say that sentence: "Chen Nuo, I like you very much, I'm your big fan, can you give me an autograph?"

(End of chapter)