Chapter 204

The statue of the Hundred Flowers Award is full of modern feeling. It is a graceful goddess holding flowers, looking at the distant focused eyes, implying infinite expectations for today's film industry.

"Haven't touched enough? If you touch it again, this layer of gold plating will be worn bald!" Wu Yuchen said with a smile.

Jiang Qinqin hugged her Hundred Flowers Award Best Actress trophy and touched the three characters "Jiang Qinqin" printed on the base, before reluctantly putting it on the table. At this time, 3 trophies were placed casually on the table, one for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Film, one for the Golden Rooster for Best Director, and one for the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Story Film, which were naturally Wu Yuchen's.

Jiang Qinqin walked to Wu Yuchen's side and patted his arm: "These are the three major awards! It's only you who don't care so much."

Wu Yuchen smiled and said: "Hey, hey, hey, don't talk nonsense. What do you mean by not caring? I call this being calm in the face of favor or humiliation~"

"Okay, okay, okay, you are a great director, Mount Tai collapses in front of you without changing color!"

Wu Yuchen nodded with satisfaction and scraped Jiang Qinqin's nose: "Hmm, teachable!"

Jiang Qinqin hummed twice: "When you win an Oscar next year, let's see if you change color or not~"

Upon hearing this, Wu Yuchen couldn't help but pinch Jiang Qinqin's little waist: "Heh, how can an Oscar be so easy to win as you think? Do you think I can win it if I want to?"

In the hospital, Wu Yuchen looked at Li Ang lying on the hospital bed outside the ward, wearing a ventilator. Through the glass, he could see that his face was faintly black.

Wu Yuchen shook his head with a light smile: "The European three major awards and the Oscars are not the same thing at all. The gameplay, rules, and standards are all different. Many directors who have brushed the European three major awards can't even get a nomination! If it were really as easy as you think, why would I prepare to set off for America so long in advance?"

"Ah?! What's going on!" Jiang Qinqin was also shocked upon hearing this.

Jiang Zhiqiang was also dejected at this time, with bloodshot eyes. It seems he hadn't rested at all. He said to Wu Yuchen guiltily: "Wu Dao, I'm sorry. In fact, the film crew has been going through one trouble after another since the start of filming, but we were afraid you would worry, so we didn't tell you..."

The project "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was also very bumpy. At first, it encountered the withdrawal of investors, and then Jet Li resigned. Originally, I thought that after changing to Wu Yuchen, an investor, it should be a turn of fortune.

Not to mention anything else, take Xu Fan, who followed Feng Xiaogang. She has been in the industry for ten years since her debut and has acted in many well-known works. As a result, she has only received a nomination for the Golden Rooster until now, and she hasn't even won a performance award. Compared with Xu Fan, Jiang Qinqin won the Hundred Flowers Best Actress less than two years after graduation, which is already much luckier!

Therefore, Jiang Qinqin now admires Wu Yuchen extremely. Plus, Wu Yuchen won the Berlin Jin Xiong and Venice Golden Lion successively this year, which made her admire Wu Yuchen's ability to brush awards to the extreme, feeling that as long as he wants to win, he can win!

Wu Yuchen shook his head: "I don't know, I have to rush over to see it now."

Jiang Qinqin raised her little head, her eyelashes blinking as she looked at Wu Yuchen: "You are so powerful, you have won both the Jin Xiong and the Golden Lion. What else can't you do?"

Seeing this, Wu Yuchen couldn't help but laugh. Don't look at how much the country values the Oscars now. Many people know the great name of the Oscars, but if you really ask them how the Oscars play, even many industry insiders in the film and television circle don't know. They think it's a simple award, just like Jiang Qinqin at this time.

"I'm going too." Jiang Qinqin said immediately. Anyway, Li Ang had guided her for a period of time, which can be considered a bit of fate. And she is really curious, is this a sudden illness?

Wu Yuchen could only pull Jiang Qinqin and give her a good popularization of this "democratic" voting mode of thousands of judges for the Oscars.

Yesterday, Wu Yuchen won the Golden Rooster Award, and Li Ang also called Wu Yuchen to congratulate him. Wu Yuchen didn't feel any problem at all.

Jiang Qinqin naturally knew that she won this Hundred Flowers Best Actress because Wu Yuchen was escorting her. Otherwise, how could she easily win this Best Actress at such a young age?

As a result, just after Wu Yuchen landed in Beijing, he received an emergency call: "What? How could this happen?"

The current Fengtian City does not have direct flights to America. Therefore, after receiving the Golden Rooster Award, Wu Yuchen still has to return to Beijing and go to America from Beijing.

"Li Dao Ang is in shock and has been sent to the hospital."

At this time, Wu Yuchen was not easy to enter the room to disturb Li Ang, and asked Jiang Zhiqiang beside him: "Producer Jiang, what's going on? Wasn't he fine when he called me yesterday?"

As a result, when the film crew arrived in Xinjiang and prepared to start filming, they encountered 7 days of heavy rain in a row, and nothing could be done. After the rain stopped, they encountered a desert storm. They spent so much money to transport the large team of machines and people here, but they couldn't do anything, which made Li Ang anxious, couldn't sleep, and his lips were blistered.

After receiving the Golden Rooster Award this time, Wu Yuchen will immediately fly to America for various public relations tours, from mid-October now until the voting ends in March next year, a public relations tour lasting 5 months!

In fact, if you really count it, when he won the award at the Venice Film Festival, the team in America had already started to build momentum for his "Love." Otherwise, why do they all say that Oscar public relations is a marathon?

"They can't compare to you! My husband is the best, and he will definitely get it!" Jiang Qinqin is now blindly admiring Wu Yuchen, and her confidence is even fuller than his.

Jiang Qinqin saw Wu Yuchen frowning and hanging up the phone, and couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong?"

After finally starting filming, a team of location shooting people got lost in the desert. The whole film crew searched everywhere, and fortunately, they were found back on the third day. After filming for a few days, when the film crew transferred to the location, they encountered a flood on the road, which broke the bridge. It happened to be raining heavily, and the whole film crew was trapped there for a night, and everyone thought they were going to hang up.

After the scenes in Xinjiang were filmed with great effort, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but then a bigger bad news came. On the tenth day of Michelle Yeoh's joining the crew, she tore the ligaments of her left leg during a roundhouse kick and fell heavily from the wall, falling into a coma immediately. After being rescued, she was immediately sent to America for surgery and rested for two months before returning to the film crew.

This time returning to Beijing for filming, it was divided into day and night groups, but Li Ang had to watch both groups. Under the successive troubles and huge pressure, his body finally couldn't hold on and went on strike, and he went into shock and coma directly.

Jiang Qinqin beside Wu Yuchen was also shocked. Good guy, this film crew's luck is too bad. She thought that she wasn't selected at the beginning, which might not be a bad thing. Now even the director has been crushed. It's not certain whether it can be filmed!

Wu Yuchen was also a little annoyed when he heard it: "Producer Jiang, so many things happened? Why didn't you say it? Even such a big thing as the female lead being injured was hidden from me?!"

Jiang Zhiqiang also behaved like a child who made a mistake: "Wu Dao, I'm really sorry! We didn't want you to worry too much at first, and later Michelle Yeoh was injured, and the insurance company personnel kept urging us to change the female lead..."

The most important duty of the completion guarantee company is to ensure the completion of the film. As for the impact of changing the female lead, it is not within their consideration. If Michelle Yeoh is injured and keeps slowing down the filming progress, their company will have to make up for the excess money.

Wu Yuchen said huffily: "Are you afraid that I will also advocate changing Michelle Yeoh?"

Jiang Zhiqiang put his hands together and bowed to Wu Yuchen repeatedly: "Mr. Wu, I'm sorry, it's all my fault as a producer! I'm sorry..."

Wu Yuchen glared at him, but it was too late to say anything now. If he had known from the beginning, maybe he would have really changed Michelle Yeoh. However, he also roughly understood the thoughts of Li Ang and Jiang Zhiqiang. Like Michelle Yeoh, a female star who can fight, act, and has a certain appeal in America, she is the only one among the Chinese. Li Ang didn't want to change people unless it was a last resort.

Wu Yuchen waved his hand: "Okay, okay. How is Li Dao's situation now?"

Wu Yuchen doesn't care about other situations now. First of all, he must ensure that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" can be filmed. Therefore, Li Dao Ang cannot have problems. He is the core figure of the movie.

"The doctor said it has stabilized. Endocrine disorders and excessive pressure caused shock caused by difficulty breathing. It should be able to recover after resting for a few days."

Wu Yuchen breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. He was really afraid that Li Ang would hang up.

At this time, Jiang Qinqin shook Wu Yuchen's arm: "Li Dao seems to be awake!"

Wu Yuchen and Jiang Zhiqiang looked into the room hurriedly upon hearing this. Sure enough, Li Ang had opened his eyes, and several people immediately called the doctor over.

Half an hour later, after the doctor left, Li Ang, who had already removed the ventilator, smiled and said to Wu Yuchen: "Wu Dao, thank you for coming to see me. I've troubled you to make a trip! Don't worry, I can be discharged from the hospital to film in two days..."

Wu Yuchen reached out to stop him from continuing to speak: "Li Dao, don't think about so much for now. Your body is the most important thing now. Rest well in the hospital for a week first. If you collapse, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is really finished!"

Li Ang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Lying in the hospital, my mind is full of things about 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'."

"No matter how your mind thinks, lie down for a while first!"

Listening to Wu Yuchen's words, Li Ang had to nod.

Then Li Ang took the initiative to smile and ease the atmosphere to Wu Yuchen: "Wu Dao, fortunately, I didn't invite Chow Yun-fat at that time. Michelle Yeoh's Mandarin made me want to die. If both the male and female leads were like this, I don't know if I could continue filming!"

Wu Yuchen smiled upon hearing this. This time the male lead is Tony Leung Ka-fai, whose Mandarin is much better than Chow Yun-fat's.

Li Ang is a detail-oriented person. He insisted that the characters in the play speak official language, that is, Mandarin. But in his past life, he invited Chow Yun-fat and Michelle Yeoh. He didn't expect that their Mandarin would be so bad after filming for so long. He wrote in his memoir that he asked the two to dub 3 times for post-production. Listening to their awkward Mandarin, he collapsed and wanted to strangle them, and then bite his tongue and commit suicide.

Wu Yuchen chatted with Li Ang in the ward for a while, but didn't talk about the film crew of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," just chatting about family matters, so as not to put pressure on him again. As for changing Michelle Yeoh, he naturally wouldn't mention it again at this time, otherwise Li Ang would probably really collapse.

After Wu Yuchen came out of the hospital, he couldn't help but sigh, thinking that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was really bumpy. If it weren't for his help with the investment, Li Ang and Jiang Zhiqiang would have to rely on loans to film, and the pressure would be even greater.

Jiang Qinqin hugged Wu Yuchen's arm and looked at Wu Yuchen's face: "Husband, is the pressure of being a director so great?"

"What do you think? A director has to carry the whole film crew alone, and also consider investors, cost recovery, art, and the audience. There is a lot of pressure from all aspects! If you carry it over, you can improve; if you can't carry it, you will collapse."

"Ah?" Jiang Qinqin's eyes looking at Wu Yuchen had a lot more heartache and pity. In the past, she had never thought that Wu Yuchen had to bear so much, just watching him walk all the way in style.

"Then, then what should you directors do?" Jiang Qinqin asked with concern.

"Some choose their own methods to vent, some turn pressure into motivation, and some just carry it hard. Everyone is different."

Wu Yuchen said a sentence, and then smiled at Jiang Qinqin: "Okay, don't think too much. I'm still young, and I can still carry this pressure~"

Jiang Qinqin hugged Wu Yuchen's arm tighter upon hearing this, and then said to Wu Yuchen: "Husband, in fact, it doesn't matter whether you can win an Oscar or not. Don't be under so much pressure. Anyway, haven't so many people not won it~"

Wu Yuchen couldn't help but glance at Jiang Qinqin with a smile. She even knows how to care about him. Her attitude has changed a lot from yesterday!

Then he hugged Jiang Qinqin and laughed heartily: "Haha, don't worry, you have to fight when you should fight. I can't be cowardly!"

The next day, at Beijing International Airport, before Wu Yuchen left, Han Sanping specifically ran over to see him off, holding his hand and saying:

"Brother Wu, this time you go to America to compete for the Oscars. Although no one has said it now, many people have expectations for you. I only hope that you can learn from the lessons of Yimou and Kaige, and succeed in this trip and return in triumph!"

"Brother Han, I will definitely do my best!" Wu Yuchen also held Han Sanping's hand and answered.

Since China started competing for the Oscars, it has been a full 20 years. The first time the mainland sent a film to compete for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film was in 1979. At that time, the first one to compete for the Oscar was an animated film, "A Fanti." Hmm, that is the symbol of wisdom in Xinjiang, a legendary figure. "A Fanti" is widely spread, and many people in Europe have seen this cartoon.

However, in the past 20 years, Chinese films competing for the Oscars have undoubtedly all ended in failure. As for the lessons Han Sanping mentioned to learn from Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, it is because those two times there was hope of winning the award.

The first time was Zhang Yimou's "Ju Dou," which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991. At that time, everyone thought it was because the skills were not as good as others when it wasn't selected. As a result, Lu Yan, who was a judge at the Oscars, came back to say that in fact, many judges liked his "Ju Dou" at that time, but Zhang Yimou had never been to America, which led everyone to think he didn't value this, so they simply didn't vote for him.

The second time was Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine," which was nominated, but it was still too simple. At that time, producer Hsu Feng publicly told the reporters who interviewed that our "Farewell My Concubine" does not rely on public relations, but relies on excellent quality to go around! After learning the rules later, "Farewell My Concubine" also held a party, but the means could not be compared with others, and they didn't dare to see the judges privately one by one. The result was naturally unsatisfactory!

Later, Chen Kaige came back and complained: "At that time, I didn't know that communicating with Oscar judges was very important. They all thought I didn't want to win this award."

Wu Yuchen had already heard Han Sanping nagging him about this. He understood as soon as he heard it. The Oscars are completely different from the country. The country now pays attention to pretending to be noble. Even if you really want to win this award, you have to pretend to be very humble and say that whether you can win the award is not important, etc.

But the Oscars don't follow this set. You have to clearly express to everyone that you want to win the award. That is playing by the rules, that is relying on public relations. Only if your public relations efforts are strong enough can you prove your sincerity in wanting to win the award!

Moreover, there are so many films competing for awards every year. Those old men and old ladies don't have the leisure to watch every film competing for awards. Therefore, only if you go to public relations and visit them will they watch your movie. Then, when voting, they will naturally only vote for the ones they have watched.

Like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige these two times, you don't even go, or after you go, you publicly promote that you don't do public relations to show your nobility. Then isn't it funny to want to win an award? Do you really think the public relations fees of those films that won awards were spent in vain?

However, Wu Yuchen is quite well prepared this time. The public relations team has already listed his daily schedule, which is not comparable to Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige back then!

In Hong Kong, Huang Huang Xiao Ming heard the knocking on the door in a daze.

"Brother Huang Xiao Ming, get up quickly, big event!"

Hearing that it was his teammate Wu Kequn's voice, Huang Huang Xiao Ming shook his head and got up, then walked to open the door and complained: "Kequn, aren't you tired? It's hard to have a day to sleep in, and you still don't seize the time to rest more!"

Over the past few months, Huang Huang Xiao Ming can be said to be infinitely glorious. With the explosion of "Meteor Garden" across Asia and the great sales of the "Meteor Rain" album, their F4 also launched an Asian tour.

Needless to say, Taiwan and Hong Kong, young people, especially boys and girls, are simply going crazy for F4.

F4 landed in Singapore and caused a big commotion at the airport, with thousands of fans coming to pick them up. In order to ensure the safety of F4, Singapore dispatched large police cars to pick them up and also dispatched more than 100 police officers to protect them. During the journey, fans' cars followed closely behind F4's car. The highest record was 45 cars following F4 all day, and they frequently overtook, which was dangerous.

In the Philippines, "Meteor Garden" set a viewership rate of 57.4% at the highest and 42.9% on average. F4 was received by the President and treated with royal courtesy throughout the whole process.

The President of Indonesia was not to be outdone and issued an invitation letter. When F4 arrived in Indonesia, they were guarded by police, but they were still blocked by fans throughout the whole process, and the reception car moved at a turtle's speed. The President hoped that F4 could hold a concert in Bali to save the local economy and use F4's appeal to attract more Jakarta fans to visit Bali and revitalize the sluggish tourism industry.

In Japan, this is the base of the original manga "Boys Over Flowers." After "Meteor Garden" was broadcast, a large number of fans held flowers to participate in F4's support activities and set off a wave of learning Chinese.

And in South Korea, the F4 fan club broke 200,000 just one week after its establishment and was still growing rapidly. The fanaticism of those young girls for Oppa in the support activities made Huang Huang Xiao Ming feel a little scared.

Thailand's "Bangkok Post" reported that two months after "Meteor Garden" was broadcast, local F4 records and products had sold more than 100 million baht, calling F4 the most popular star in Asia!

It can be said that in just a few months, F4 has become the most popular male group in Asia, and Huang Huang Xiao Ming's so-called star dream back then was also completed 10 times over!

As for the price, it is tired, very tired! For the past few months, there has basically not been a day to rest well. They have been running publicity and announcements, either on the road or on the stage. As long as they return to the hotel and touch the bed, they want to sleep.

Huang Huang Xiao Ming doesn't know that in his past life, F4 had to run publicity while on drips, pulling out the needle just before going on stage and inserting it again after going down. Now that Cai Yinong can still guarantee their sleep, she is already very merciful!

Therefore, for this return to Hong Kong, Huang Huang Xiao Ming truly cherished the opportunity to sleep in for a day. He really wanted to sleep in a daze, and even didn't want to meet the goddess Zhao Wei in his dreams anymore.

Wu Kequn pulled Huang Huang Xiao Ming and left: "Brother Huang Xiao Ming, it's really a big event, you will regret it for the rest of your life if you don't see it with your own eyes!"

Huang Huang Xiao Ming was dragged by Wu Kequn and said helplessly: "What is it? The love triangle between Gigi Leung and Gigi Lai? Or the Heavenly King's impotence?"

What Huang Huang Xiao Ming mentioned is the hot event in Hong Kong that he heard people say after returning to Hong Kong yesterday.

The love triangle between Gigi Leung, Ekin Cheng, and Gigi Lai is simply that Ekin Cheng and Gigi Lai talked for seven years, but now they were suddenly snatched away by Gigi Leung. Then major newspapers were spraying Gigi Leung for being a mistress, and then Ekin Cheng came out publicly to say that breaking up was his own decision, sorry for Gigi Lai, and gave her a property worth 40 million as compensation. But gossip newspapers were still unforgiving to Gigi Leung and compiled many peach-colored stories about her rise.

And the Heavenly King's impotence refers to Aaron Kwok, one of the Four Heavenly Kings. He was exposed to a peach-colored videotape last month. He was set up by a beauty trap, and the videotape of him and the beauty being intimate was sent to a gossip magazine. Although there were no shocking pictures in the videotape, and Aaron Kwok finally won the lawsuit, this incident made Aaron Kwok quite embarrassed. The woman accepted interviews with many media and broke the news that Aaron Kwok's technique in a certain aspect was super poor. Therefore, the gossip media in Hong Kong quickly came up with an eye-catching headline of "Heavenly King's Impotence."

This incident was a fatal blow to Aaron Kwok's image. After all, he was originally promoted as the Asian Dance King, and his image has always been masculine and full of vitality. As a result, he was suddenly labeled with an "impotence" label, and he directly became a laughing stock in many people's mouths. Even though his public relations team behind him was strong enough and his blood was thick enough, it still took him a year or two to walk out.