Chapter 290: Influence

Wu Yuchen's acceptance speech received cheers and applause from everyone in the theatre, and outside the theatre, his winning of the Oscar for Best Director had already caused an even greater sensation.

The Oscar broadcast was conducted by ABC, but due to the influence of the Oscars, many television stations around the world had purchased the rebroadcast rights. For example, TVB had been broadcasting the Oscars since 1969 without interruption, attracting many people in the Hong Kong and Taiwan regions to watch every year.

When hearing that Wu Yuchen won Best Director from the television, quite a few people still felt somewhat unbelievable, and then they were all exclaiming and ecstatic:

"Best Director?! Wu Yuchen won Best Director!"

"Best Director! Our Chinese Best Director!"

"Wife, come quickly to see God!"

"What are you screaming about?"

"Best Director! I've watched the Oscars for more than 30 years. Best Director is a white ghost every year. Wu Yuchen is the first yellow-skinned person! A miracle!"

Due to historical reasons, Hong Kong was once ruled by white people, so Hong Kong citizens were actually more eager to achieve results in front of the ghosts to prove themselves. And now, Wu Yuchen's breakthrough as the first Chinese Oscar director naturally caused all the people in Hong Kong who were watching to cheer loudly, running around to tell each other.

A bit slower than the reaction of those watching the live broadcast was the internet, but it was only a few seconds later, and then it exploded directly.

This time, even the Sixth Princess, which had a delay, was much faster than before. A few seconds after the result came out, its host also suddenly became radiant and excitedly said loudly:

"Wu Dao is awesome! The world's number one director!"

"Wu Dao is awesome! China's number one director!"

"Best Director! Wu Yuchen! Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Many people started brushing this sentence. But it was soon refuted by another post:

"Wu Yuchen! Best Director! Our China's Oscar Best Director is born! At the same time, he is also our Chinese people's first Oscar Best Director! It is the first Best Director of the yellow race! Let us congratulate Wu Dao Yuchen! Congratulations to China!"

"Congratulations to Wu Dao! Congratulations to China!"

And for the common people, it was a simple national pride and sense of pride that was born. Our China, in front of the whole world, won the most influential Oscar for Best Director!

At this time, a large group of people on the internet brushed in unison:

In an instant, the number of posts in many forums exploded, and a large number of people kept posting, venting their emotions to express their excitement.

"Bullshit! Today Wu Dao is the world's number one director! Brothers, follow me:

Wu Dao is awesome! World's number one director!"

"Wu Dao is awesome! China's number one director!"

"God! Am I dreaming?! Wu Yuchen is really Best Director!"

When the Sixth Princess transmitted this news to all parts of the country through the television signal, the whole country boiled over.

"Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn! Really won Best Director!"

"Wu Dao is awesome! China's number one director!"

"Wu Dao, I love you! Love you for a lifetime! Hahahaha!"

"Wu Dao is awesome! World's number one director!"

"Congratulations to Wu Dao! Congratulations to China!"

This was Best Director, also one of the most important awards in the entire Oscars. Now it was broken through history by Wu Yuchen. Not only was it China's first, but it was also the Oscars' first non-white Best Director, setting a record in all aspects!

"Wu Dao is awesome! World's number one director!"

"This is the Oscar Best Director! I'm going crazy! I'm going to climax!!!!"

"Congratulations to Wu Dao! Congratulations to China!"

These common people were already so happy, let alone the people around Wu Yuchen.

The moment they got the news, Jiang Qinqin and Fan Bingbing, who were watching together, were excitedly hugging each other and screaming: "Ah ah ah ah! Best Director!"

"Brother-in-law won Best Director! Oscar Best Director! Brother-in-law, I love you!"

Li Xiaoran was at Wu Yuchen's home at this time, hugging Wu Yuchen's mother's arm: "Auntie! Chenchen is the Oscar Best Director! He even thanked you for your upbringing!"

Wu's father and mother were both smiling from ear to ear.

Gao Yuanyuan was excitedly hugging a pillow and rolling on the bed at home: "Brother Chen is the Oscar Best Director! Brother Chen is too amazing!"

Ceng Yu was also grabbing her sister Ceng Li's arm and shaking it constantly: "Sister! Brother-in-law is Best Director! The first Chinese Oscar Best Director!"

Ceng Li was shaken by her sister, but she was also smiling like a flower, very happy. She wanted to take out her mobile phone and call Wu Yuchen now.

Many people wanted to talk to Wu Yuchen, such as Han Sanping, who had almost slapped his thigh swollen just now!

Han Sanping was really excited this time! He originally thought that Wu Yuchen winning a Best Foreign Language Film would be the end of it. When he saw Gong Li's Best Supporting Actress, it was surprising enough, but he didn't expect that he could bring back a Best Director in the end!

Actually, it wasn't that Wu Yuchen hadn't won a major Oscar award. Last year, he won the Oscar for Best Picture with *A Beautiful Mind*, but *A Beautiful Mind* was about American affairs! Although it was directed by Wu Yuchen, in the final analysis, it wasn't China's. No matter how good someone else's child is, it's not one's own!

But this time it was different. *The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas* was a genuine Chinese-language film! Directed by Wu Yuchen, Chinese actors, Chinese stories, absolutely one's own child! And it was also a film reflecting China's suffering history, which had rare significance for the Chinese nation.

Such a film had now brought back the Oscar for Best Director! And it was the first Chinese Oscar Best Director to break the ceiling!

Han Sanping knew too well how much influence this would have in China. It had to reach the ears of the top leadership!

And he, Han Sanping, leading Chinese cinema to achieve such results during his tenure, would also be commended.

When Wu Yuchen comes back, there's no need to mention any commendation meetings. It's no exaggeration to say that in the next few years, or even decades, this *The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas* would become a benchmark for Chinese cinema, and all kinds of study meetings and seminars would revolve around it.

As for his younger brother Wu, Wu Yuchen, the great Wu Dao, Han Sanping even had a word pop up in his mind: national hero. After he comes back, he will definitely enjoy treatment comparable to a "national hero"! And it will be the kind officially stamped and recognized!

Of course, not everyone was so happy.

At this very moment, Chen Kaizi looked at the news on TV and felt a bit numb. A sense of despair arose in his heart. The gap was too big. How could he catch up?

Actually, rationally speaking, ever since his Hollywood trip failed last year, Chen Kaizi already knew that he probably couldn't snatch back the title of China's number one director from Wu Yuchen. It's just that Chen Kaizi was a proud person and didn't want to admit this.

But when looking at Wu Yuchen winning the Oscar for Best Director now, Chen Kaizi had to face this reality. He knew very well how much influence this award would stir up domestically, and he also knew that he couldn't compare himself with Wu Yuchen anymore.

Sighing longly, Chen Kaizi shook his head. He even felt a sense of relief now, relief that the one who won Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director today was Wu Yuchen, not Old Mouzi.

He would accept Wu Yuchen being ahead of him, but Old Mouzi was a "beneficial friend" who went to school with him for many years. If he rode on top of his head, how could he, Chen Kaizi, mix?

It's pretty good now. Wu Yuchen stepped on Old Mouzi as well. Putting Wu Yuchen aside, he, Chen Kaizi, was still the leader of the fifth-generation directors!

Thinking this through, Chen Kaizi felt his whole body become relaxed. The weather became better, the scenery became more beautiful, and even looking at his wife Chen Hong felt a few points more beautiful.

"Baka!"

China was celebrating nationwide, but the right-wing forces in Japan were furious.

At first, when Ryuichi Sakamoto won Best Original Score, they started cursing, calling him a traitor and a Japanese traitor. When Gong Li won Best Supporting Actress, it made them even more furious. Seeing the film win Best Foreign Language Film, these people were so angry they jumped.

Originally, they thought it would end there, and the worst would be like this. But next, *The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas* brought them a big surprise, not only winning Best Original Screenplay, but actually letting Wu Yuchen take away Best Director!

This was truly a situation these right-wing elements hadn't expected! Of course they knew how influential the Oscar Best Director award was!

Watching this *The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas* win so many awards, thinking about how much influence this film would have internationally under the Oscar halo, and how many people would learn about the crimes committed by their Japanese predecessors, making their decades of continuous whitewashing and beautifying their own behavior greatly discounted, these Japanese right-wing elements were so angry they started smashing things crazily, smashing TVs.

But they could only be incompetent and furious; they couldn't do anything to Wu Yuchen at all. And next, they had no energy to do anything to Wu Yuchen, because after this film, the left-wing in Japan would start attacking them, and there would definitely be many civilians and children influenced by this film.

They couldn't ignore this; they had to eliminate its influence as much as possible, otherwise, wouldn't the modification of textbooks be in vain?

Unlike the Japanese, the Koreans were also happy and amazed for Wu Yuchen.

Koreans had a grudge against the Japanese. Therefore, they liked this film *The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas*, which exposed the crimes of the Japanese during World War II, very much!

*The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas* winning Best Foreign Language Film didn't surprise them, just a sentence of "amazing," being able to win this award for the second time. After all, their Korea hadn't won it even once.

But the moment Wu Yuchen became the Oscar Best Director, the Koreans watching the live broadcast were really stunned!

A yellow-skinned person winning Oscar Best Director? In the territory of the suzerain state, America, snatching the Oscar for Best Director from the hands of noble white people, this is also something a yellow-skinned person can do?!

But now, Wu Yuchen had broken the white people's monopoly history and won the Oscar for Best Director!

Therefore, in an instant, even many Koreans climaxed!

"Wu Yuchen-ssi! Light of Asia! Glory of the yellow race, Simida!"

"Great Wu Yuchen-ssi!"

"All our Korean directors should learn from Wu Yuchen-ssi!"

"With the level of Korean directors, they only know how to copy Hong Kong and Japan all day, and they are still 100 years behind Wu Yuchen-ssi!"

"Ah ah ah ah! Wu Yuchen Oppa! I love you, please choose me to be your heroine! I am willing to do anything for you!"

"Aish! Why isn't Wu Yuchen-ssi our Korean?!"

"Is there a possibility that Wu Yuchen-ssi has our Korean blood? Look at him, his body is burly and strong, his waist is straight and his legs are long, his appearance is handsome. These are all characteristics of our Korean men!"

"Aish... what you said seems very reasonable! Maybe Wu Yuchen's ancestors were Chinese who fled from our Korea!"

As a result, Korean netizens talked more and more vigorously, and it sounded more and more like it. In a short while, they had already compiled Wu Yuchen's family tree in the post! This greatly strengthened their sense of substitution, and then they forwarded this post and shouted long live Wu Yuchen!

Wu Yuchen didn't know about the disturbances outside. After winning the Best Director award, his whole person relaxed. Although there was still the last Best Picture to be presented, to tell the truth, he knew there was no hope for this award, and he didn't have much energy on it from the beginning.

Now that he had won Best Director and completed his goal, it was enough to make him happy. As for Best Picture, he was really just watching the show.

Wu Yuchen himself was relaxed, but now quite a few people were more nervous than him. From the moment he won Best Director, he had raised people's expectations. Since he could win Best Director, why couldn't he win Best Picture?

You know, in Best Picture, Wu Yuchen also had two nominations for *The Hours* and *The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas*!

Actually, it wasn't just the audience who thought so; even Wu Yuchen's opponents were nervous at this time. After all, this guy had already broken the record of Best Director being monopolized by white people. Maybe he would break another record of Best Picture being taken away by a foreign language film?

The camera was aimed at several people. Wu Yuchen was smiling easily, Old Martin was motionless, and anyone could see he cared very much...

The presenters were the famous Douglas father and son in Hollywood. Everyone held their breath and watched the father and son cooperate. The son held the envelope, and the old father took out the note:

"Best Picture... *The Pianist*!"

Wu Yuchen smiled. He knew it would be this result. The Jews were powerful, and Old Martin still couldn't beat them!

Wu Yuchen, who had no expectations from the beginning, was not disappointed. His gains today had already made him very satisfied! ===== CHAPTER 291 =====