Chapter 460: The First to Leave is Also the First to Arrive

The 69th Golden Globe Awards ceremony ended.

Regardless of whether they harvested trophies or regrets this night, whether they raised their glasses to drink or borrowed wine to drown their sorrows, the stars who attended the grand event would tidy up their moods and prepare for the next journey.

The first to leave is also the first to arrive.

At the entrance of the crystal palace-like Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, there were some people gathered, and the center was a black-haired man.

A group of well-dressed men and women were hugging and saying goodbye to him one after another.

First was a blonde man with a slicked-back hairstyle.

Chen Nuo shook hands with him and hugged him.

"Goodbye, Leo."

"Goodbye, when are you coming back?"

"The 25th, coming back to attend the Santa Barbara Film Festival."

"Okay, call me when you get here. Remember to bring me some Chinese specialties."

"Do you want deer penis wine?"

"What?"

"Hahaha, nothing. Bye."

"Bye, have a smooth trip."

After Leonardo left, it was another blonde man with a glittering trophy.

The British aren't as open as the Americans. The two just shook hands simply and said goodbye. However, Emma Thomas invited him to sit at their home in England.

Then it was Michael Slane. The Warner vice president held his hand and talked for a long time. However, perhaps because Chen's wine hadn't worn off, Chen Nuo felt that this long talk wasn't as intimate as a simple invitation to sit.

Next was Charlize Theron.

To be honest, Charlize Theron was truly charming today, in a pink chiffon haute couture dress by Dior, plus white Givenchy sandals and Cartier jewelry. Chen Nuo had heard backstage that Vogue France was preparing to name her the best-dressed of the night.

Charlize Theron looked at him deeply and said, "Are you really leaving?"

Chen Nuo nodded. "Of course, I have things to do."

"What a pity..." Theron glanced at him lightly. "What day are you coming back?"

"The 25th."

"Will you have time then? I mean, time to chat."

"Cough, should have."

"See you then, bye, have a smooth trip."

After this, Natalie Portman, who had given birth and attended tonight to present Best Actor, the Meryl Streep couple he teased off-stage, Lifetime Achievement Award winner old man Morgan Freeman, and the 'Big Bang Theory' crew who had a scene connection with him, all came over to greet him.

What Chen Nuo didn't expect most was a man wearing sunglasses.

Johnny Depp was still as inarticulate as ever, muttering, "When you return to the US, let's have a drink."

Chen Nuo smiled and said, "Are you really not gay?"

Johnny Depp laughed and said, "No, I'm not. But don't force me."

"Hahahahahaha, don't worry, I won't. But just drinking, I don't touch those things."

"Don't worry, I understand. You are Hollywood's Eastern Saint."

"What the hell..."

Without Angelina Jolie, and without Brad Pitt, Chen Nuo said goodbye to a group of new and old friends and walked out of the hotel entrance, immediately greeted by a sea of flashes.

"Chen, 'Inception' won Best Motion Picture, do you have anything you want to say to the fans??"

"Tonight's Golden Globe ratings are very good, do you want to say anything to the audience?"

"Do you want to continue being a host?"

"Chen..."

Allison and the Golden Globe staff were blocking the reporters who wanted to rush up for an interview on the side. Finally, Chen Nuo waved to the media reporters who had been waiting hard for a long time and got into the limousine.

This was a vehicle specially arranged for him by the Golden Globes to take him, Michelle, and Allison home.

However, he wouldn't rest. After returning, he would pick up his luggage, call Guli Nazha and Linghu who were waiting at home, and head straight to the airport. Finally, he would sleep on the rented Gulfstream G450.

After getting in the car, Chen Nuo untied his bowtie and breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to speak to Allison beside him, suddenly, the phone in his pocket vibrated.

He took it out, looked at the name on it, and answered.

After talking for a while, he hung up.

Allison said, "James Cameron?"

"Yes."

Chen Nuo recalled the old man's quite happy tone on the phone.

Just said he would watch it, and he really did watch it.

Immediately, he said seriously, "When are you going back to Canada?"

Allison was stunned. "Uh, tomorrow, why?"

"Tomorrow? Is there enough time?"

"What?"

"Forget it, you come on the plane with us then."

"Ah?"

"We will fly to Toronto first later, I have already told the aircraft company before..."

Allison looked shocked and said, "Chen, what did you say?"

"Don't be so surprised, I just heard a few sentences inadvertently when you were on the phone. Alright, that's it. However, I won't accompany you to the hospital then."

"No, Chen, you absolutely don't have to. I mean." Allison seemed truly shocked, her speech stuttering.

Chen Nuo shook his head and said, "Don't say any more. I'm the boss, listen to me."

The black stretch Lincoln drove on the streets of LA in the night, getting further and further away from the brightly lit Hilton Hotel, gradually disappearing into the darkness, just like the dance party always has a time to end.

However, for the media around the world, this moment was the starting point of their busyness.

Within a few hours after the end of the Golden Globes, media around the world scrambled to launch lengthy reports from different angles on this Golden Globe Awards full of topics.

"Meryl Streep won the Golden Globe Best Actress for the fourth time, unprecedented. George Clooney won the first Best Actor in a Drama trophy of his career in an upset.

However, the biggest winner tonight belongs to 'Inception', the super blockbuster that swept the world.

Living up to the expectations of millions of fans around the world, 'Inception' successfully won Best Motion Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay on the Golden Globe night!

Among them, the most eye-catching and most intensely competitive is the ownership of Best Drama.

In the end, besides excellent art films and dramas such as 'War Horse', 'The Artist', and 'The Descendants', the Foreign Press Association chose the sci-fi film 'Inception', which has to make people feel slightly surprised.

Does this mean that the mainstream Hollywood film industry is starting to favor those masterpieces that have proven themselves in the market during the awards season? Let us wait and see."

—Variety

"This is a wild night.

A total of 250 million people around the world watched the live broadcast of this Golden Globe Awards, of which the number of viewers in North America reached 21.3 million, and the ratings for the 18-49 age group reached an astonishing 6.8, setting the best record for the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in the past five years.

The Foreign Press Association's bold move to invite Chen, the hottest movie star in the world this year, to host, received a rich return.

This year's Oscar host Billy Crystal should feel under increased pressure now. It is imaginable that every joke of his this year will be compared with Chen's.

I can only say, good luck to him."

—The Hollywood Reporter

"The savior of the Golden Globes!

Chen Nuo's hosting style makes this ceremony both distinct from the orthodox dullness of the Oscars and different from the biting and offensive nature of Ricky Gervais.

His humor is more like the wisdom of old-school talk shows mixed with Eastern restraint, interesting, witty, and measured.

I say again, I am willing to pay to watch his stand-up comedy performance.

Even if the ticket is 1000 dollars each."

—The New York Times

"Chen's identity as a foreigner brings a new perspective to this night.

His teasing of our launch of the Iraq War in his jokes is surprising, but it is also worth deep reflection by our government.

This is indeed a war that has been too long, and it hasn't ended yet."

—The Washington Post

"At the Golden Globe Awards, Chen Nuo teased the nose of the late superstar Michael Jackson, sparking quite a controversy on social media. This is the first time since MJ's death that someone has publicly talked about the past scandals of this King of Pop.

We randomly interviewed several African Americans on the street to talk about the impact of this matter.

Surprisingly, most of them believe that this is Chen Nuo, the Hollywood saint, commemorating MJ."

—Los Angeles Times "Mainland superstar Chen Nuo hosted the Hollywood Golden Globe Awards for the first time, and the opening monologue was praised as a tide. Westerners said: 'Beautiful person with a cheap mouth, can be forgiven'.

Recently, Nuo's new show is being prepared in full swing in Hong Kong. In the studio built in Tseung Kwan O TV Broadcast City, reporters saw that workers had started set construction.

Zeng Zhiwei, chairman of the Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild, said that Nuo's investment in filming a show in Hong Kong this time is expected to bring more than 300 direct or indirect jobs to local filmmakers, and the large amount of capital investment will also inject a shot of adrenaline into the Hong Kong film industry." —China Hong Kong 'Oriental Sunday'

"Chen Nuo choked Harvey Weinstein at the Golden Globes.

After the show, according to 'Vanity Fair', Harvey Weinstein's face was livid, and he did not attend the official celebration banquet after the awards.

The old grudge between Chen Nuo and Harvey can be traced back to the Oscar awards season four years ago—that year 'The Dark Knight' and 'Doubt' competed for Best Supporting Actor, and Chen Nuo narrowly defeated Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Four years later, he still hasn't forgotten the old account, and his pettiness is fully exposed. If the Golden Horse Awards organizers still have fantasies about Chen Nuo, it is purely wishful thinking." —China Taiwan 'Liberty Times'

"On January 15, 2012, Chinese actor Chen Nuo served as the host of the 69th Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles, USA.

This is the second time he has stood on the world-watched awards stage since the 2011 Oscars. His humorous, witty, and graceful hosting style won unanimous praise from domestic and foreign media.

It is reported that in June this year, at the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival, Chen Nuo will serve as the chairman of the jury for the main competition unit.

Relevant experts believe that Chen Nuo's participation is expected to improve the professionalism and international attention of the film festival and inject new vitality into China's only A-list film festival at present." —'China Youth Daily'

"I hope he hosts all awards ceremonies, including the monthly commendation meeting for Walmart employees." —Twitter user @thisisnotgary, as of 12 o'clock at night, received 28,211 likes, 11,120 retweets, and 5,238 comments.

"After watching the Golden Globes, my grandma is now his fan. She said, 'He reminds me of Paul Newman when he was young.'" —Reddit user u/movierabbit123

"Maybe not many people in Japan know, but in fact, besides 'Twilight' and 'Inception', Chen Nuo has also starred in movies such as 'The Mute's House', 'Under the Hawthorn Tree', and 'Mother', and has won two Berlin Best Actor awards and one Cannes Best Actor award. He is a mythical figure among Asian actors.

If one day he can become the Asian Harrison Ford or Sean Penn, that will not only be China's glory.

Minasan, issho ni ouen shimashou! (Let's cheer for him together!)" —Anonymous user on Japan's 2ch forum.

"@GuDaBaiHua, when will the subtitled version be out?" —Chinese Weibo netizen @YiKeKaoDiGua

"Working on it, before 7 o'clock tonight."

Translation blogger Gu Jianguo stretched, clicked on Weibo, saw this hottest comment, and replied below.

Afterward, he took a sip of tea and clicked on the homepage of this 'YiKeKaoDiGua'. There was nothing on the homepage. It was probably another student on vacation home for the New Year.

At this moment, it was still a week away from the Spring Festival, and primary, middle, and high schools across the country had been on vacation one after another. In early 2012, when Momo was in the ascendant and Soul hadn't yet appeared, the bodies and souls of the vast student group both entered an idle state, so the traffic on the entire Chinese Internet skyrocketed, and various entertainment bloggers took off one after another.

This was already the 100th-plus @ Gu Jianguo had received today.

Below the Golden Globe opening clip video he posted at 10:03 am, nearly 3,000 urging comments had been piled up, with more than 30,000 retweets, and likes even broke 200,000.

It can be seen that this wave, he successfully caught the traffic.

Gu Jianguo got up at 7 am, squatted by the computer, from recording, editing, subtitling, and uploading, all in one go. Within half an hour of the opening monologue being broadcast, he became the first person on the entire network to post the Chen Nuo Golden Globe hosting clip with subtitles to Weibo.

All this was not in vain.

He repeated the successful path of last year—

Last year, he "became famous overnight" by translating Chen Nuo's Oscar opening monologue. After another year of hard operation, at the end of the year, his fan count finally broke 500,000. As a result, this time the Golden Globes just ended, and he just posted the first warm-up video, and his fans directly broke 800,000. Half an hour topped his half a year.

Gu Jianguo now really hopes that Chen Nuo simply settles in the United States and does English talk shows 365 days a year, so that if he translates for a year, he can definitely impact the ten-million-level blogger.

Editing and translating were all carried by him alone. After working for several hours in a row, Gu Jianguo was a little tired and decided to rest for another ten minutes, wait until he recovered, check it again, and then upload the remaining video.

What to do in these ten minutes?

Browse Weibo.

He opened the Weibo hot search list. The top three entries currently occupying the list, on this Sunday morning, were unsurprisingly all news related to the Golden Globes and the surname Chen.

No. 1: Chen Nuo said he was Chinese at the Golden Globes (Boiling).

Facing such a cheesy, boring, and ignorant entry, Gu Jianguo smiled. When he clicked in, he immediately cursed in a low voice: "Shameless."

This was a topic initiated by the editor of the West China City Daily.

Originally, this newspaper in Sichuan could be said to be unknown among national media, and it could be said to have no influence outside of Sichuan. As a result, after Weibo appeared, it used the Internet platform to initiate topics related to someone every three days in recent years. Now it has also become a large media account with more than 5 million fans, ranking among the top few in local media.

Catching heat, that is its housekeeping skill, much more professional than him.

Isn't it?

Just such a piece of nonsense like a mentally retarded person, firmly occupying the first place, it is estimated that it has gained another 100,000 fans, making bloggers like him who work hard to catch heat, where can they reason? Ridiculous.

I saw Weibo writing quite seriously: "... In recent years, rumors about Chen Nuo immigrating to Canada, the United States, Hong Kong, and other places have been frequent, and many people believe them to be true. But at this year's Golden Globes, Chen Nuo said 'I'm Chinese' naturally on stage, shattering all rumors with one sentence... He walked out of the Sichuan land, but never forgot his roots... What he represents is the confidence and standing of the young generation in China..."

"Full of nonsense, can be summarized in one word: 'Catch'." Gu Jianguo left a message with a small account.

Back to the hot search interface and look at the second place, "Chen Nuo wishes 'Inception' fans around the world to make their dreams come true (Explosive)."

Also came to catch heat.

It was Sina Entertainment openly catching hot spots on its own platform.

Gu Jianguo estimated that this freshly baked hot search would soon exceed the first one.

He still remembered the day the nomination list was announced, the Golden Globe nominated Best Actor in a Drama didn't have Chen Nuo, and the whole Weibo was surging.

Countless 'NuoMi' (Chen Nuo's fans) and melon-eating masses rushed up and scolded the ancestors of the Golden Globe jury, among which words like "blind", "racial prejudice", and "manipulated" emerged one after another.

At that time, he saw many posts scolding Americans, and he couldn't stand it, so he explained on his own account, saying that the Golden Globe jury was the Foreign Press Association, not Americans. As a result, he was almost scolded to the point of smoke from his seven orifices, and finally had to delete the post. Just this, he lost almost 20,000 fans.

It can be seen how high the popularity of 'Inception' is in China at present.

Sina editor's article was written extremely well. Aiming at this title, but I don't know if this editor graduated from Peking University or Fudan University's Chinese Department, he expanded it into four whole Weibo posts, adding up to a full 1,000 words.

Gu Jianguo left a message: "Dreams may not come true, but traffic is definitely not fake."

Continue to look,

Hot search No. 3, "Hu Xijin says Chen Nuo should apologize (New)."

"Fuck." Gu Jianguo was a little surprised by this entry and clicked in.

"... Old Hu feels that Chen Nuo should let others see the magnanimity of the Chinese people abroad. There is an old Chinese saying, 'Enemies should be resolved rather than knotted'... In such a public occasion, repeatedly provoking, Old Hu can't help but feel a little worried about Chen Nuo's image outside.

Actually, Harvey has been keeping his tail between his legs these years, and there have been no scandals. I think, might as well give him a chance to turn over a new leaf. Don't beat a person to death with one stick because of one mistake, this hurts our Chinese people's tolerant and humble character.

Old Hu here boldly asks Chen Nuo to show our Chinese people's magnanimity, might as well take a step back and apologize to Harvey..."

Gu Jianguo was immediately convinced.

Clicking into the comment section, sure enough, two groups of people were fighting.

One side said Old Hu was "deep in planning and has a global view". The other side scolded him for being a "lick-dog, treating foreigners as ancestors".

The public says the public is right, the mother-in-law says the mother-in-law is right, profanity, cursing, regional attacks... the melee was a pot of porridge.

The heat rushed to the sky.

He changed his original view. Sure enough, he is an old fox. Although the ancestral grave is estimated to be restless tonight, there is no doubt that he will top the hot search later.

After watching the excitement of the Golden Globes, Gu Jianguo continued to look down.

He had no interest in many serious news of the day. Gu Jianguo just wanted to see something fun to rest his brain.

Immediately, he saw another one, ranked 13th, which was a hot news that had just come out not long ago.

It was still related to Chen Nuo, but the title looked quite interesting this time—

"Chen Nuo's stolen cement slab auctioned in Italy last night."

Gu Jianguo immediately remembered what was going on. It was a hot topic on Weibo for several consecutive days at that time. He even specifically turned over the foreign network and translated and moved some foreign news back.

And this time, it was a report from Phoenix Net:

"Last month at the Chinese Theatre, the cement slab with Chen Nuo's handprints and signature was stolen. To date, the Los Angeles police have not released any investigation progress.

Today, according to the British 'The Sun', this missing cement slab appeared at a small black market auction in Italy on the night of the Golden Globes.

The whistleblower participated in this auction. Several items circulating from the black market appeared at the auction that night, and Chen Nuo's cement slab was the third to last to appear.

But because there were few bidders at the scene, it finally failed to reach the reserve price set by the auction party, and the cement slab failed to sell.

The whistleblower also pointed out that it is not uncommon for celebrity personal items to appear in the underground black market, such as 'a famous star's championship ring in 1998', 'a stolen painting by an artist in 2002', etc., all have flowed into the black market, but it is the first time that such a heavy and large item like a cement slab has been auctioned.

At present, the Italian police have started an investigation into this matter."

Gu Jianguo nodded. In order to engage in these Golden Globe things, he hadn't brushed Twitter all day today, obviously missing a lot of interesting things. After uploading the video, he had to go to the foreign network to see if there were more details leaked, and when the time came, moving them over would be an extra traffic.

He picked up the cup and took a sip of water, feeling that his brain was rested enough, and prepared to start working again. He refreshed it casually, and as a result, a news media he followed suddenly popped up a title, attracting his attention—

"It is confirmed that there is no Zhao Uncle Benshan in this year's Spring Festival Gala."

"Ah?!" Gu Jianguo was stunned and hurriedly clicked into the article.

I saw this report from the official account of 'Beijing News' writing:

"Latest news from the Spring Festival Gala program group: The Spring Festival Gala has completed three rounds of rehearsals. Among them, whether Zhao Uncle Benshan's sketch, which has received the most attention, can successfully get on the Spring Festival Gala stage has been unresolved.

According to insiders, due to the program effect not meeting expectations, the works of Zhao Uncle Benshan's team were repeatedly asked to be revised by the directing team during the rehearsal period.

This morning, our reporter learned from the Spring Festival Gala program group that due to health reasons, Zhao Uncle Benshan's team decided to formally withdraw from the preparation work for this year's Spring Festival Gala.

This also means that since Zhao Uncle Benshan has participated in the Spring Festival Gala for 17 consecutive years, this year will be his first absence from the stage on New Year's Eve.

For the audience, this will also be the first New Year's Eve in more than a decade without Zhao Uncle Benshan's sketch."

"Fuck, what the hell!" Gu Jianguo couldn't help but blurt out.

Spring Festival Gala without Zhao Uncle Benshan, is that still called Spring Festival Gala?

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 461 =====