Chapter 224: Who doesn't have a little careful thought

The Oscar ceremony, from 4 PM when the TV station started broadcasting the red carpet entrance, to 5:30 when the evening party officially started, until 8:30 when it ended.

During this period, all the guests didn't eat.

In fact, not only this period, almost all female guests, except for eating a little something for breakfast, didn't eat anything until the Oscar ceremony ended.

Especially, they couldn't drink any water or drinks.

After they ate a little something in the morning, they started to put on makeup and dress up; with the help of assistants, they put on specially customized evening dresses, which generally took several hours to complete all this.

Especially that customized suit of clothes, it wasn't something one person could easily put on or take off.

This limited them from not eating or drinking anything for almost a whole day, so as not to go to the toilet.

So, the banquet after the Oscar ceremony every year is the most popular among star guests; it is both a social place and a place to solve "food and clothing."

The Oscar banquet is very rich; one banquet requires 200 chefs, 453 male and female waiters, and 50 bartenders.

However, the most popular food at the banquet is the most simple and unadorned hamburger.

This thing, compared to "exquisite" meals decorated with black truffles, foie gras, and gold foil, can solve food and clothing more quickly and fully.

And, after a hamburger goes down, after quickly solving food and clothing, you can use the remaining time to hold a glass of red wine or white snow champagne to start socializing.

If you want to say who is the most popular among stars tonight, undoubtedly, it must be Cao Yang, who won the Oscar for Best Director.

Stars know that he can promote people; three Best Actresses at the three major European festivals, and again let Depp win the Oscar for Best Actor twice in a row; this ability to promote people, almost no director can do it.

Moreover, Cao Yang is not "hard promoting"; as long as stars with some thoughts have almost specifically watched Cao Yang's films; even if they don't want to watch them themselves, the agency will force them to watch.

The literary films that Cao Yang promoted to Best Actress at the three major festivals before, you can say the film's pattern is small, you can also say the film scene is not big, or you can also complain that the shooting technique is different from the traditional one.

However, one point is undeniable: any actor who won Best Actress would neither use too much force nor stop at the shallowest point; that acting skill is truly extremely natural, almost without traces of performance, and no one can pick out any faults.

One or two can be said to be the actors chosen are awesome, but three in a row?

And, after entering Hollywood, the two films shot in a row let Depp win Best Actor at the Oscars twice in a row, which further proves Cao Yang's ability.

What Depp is like, everyone knows, and the reason why he is a "weirdo" is not his behavior and personality, but his acting skills.

Before collaborating with Cao Yang, Depp was an actor who was extremely picky about roles.

Any role that was a bit "neurotic," he could act well, but any role that was normal, he would easily be distracted.

This is what everyone knows, and it is also the reason why Depp is called a "weirdo."

However, after collaborating with Cao Yang, everything changed.

In *The Milk of Sorrow*, Milk was not "neurotic," but a somewhat perverted and sinister villain; Depp completely integrated into the role, not letting the protagonist have any "neurotic" performance.

This is a very difficult thing, breaking Depp's consistent performance style.

However, not only did this not make Depp disgusted, but he also said more than once in interviews that he enjoyed this kind of performance very much; the collaboration with Director Cao Yang was his easiest time.

In *District 9*, Depp acted out the protagonist's cowardice, timidity, and villain's success vividly; the protagonist's personality changed a lot in the later stage, but there was no "neurotic" performance.

To say that these are all Depp's own acting skills, I am afraid that as long as anyone who pays a little attention to Depp, no one will recognize this point.

Cao Yang's ability to train actors has already proven this point through film after film, becoming a well-known thing.

Perhaps there are still some people who have doubts, feeling that to win an Oscar award, you must spend money to operate it; can this make the director's importance greatly discounted?

For anyone who has this doubt, the agency and agent will reprimand them without hesitation; on the contrary, precisely because the Oscars need operation, the importance of big directors will be more prominent.

You, a small director or a new director, even if you shoot a very awesome, extremely artistic film, for Hollywood's big film studios, your future is unknown; who knows if it will be a flash in the pan?

Additionally, the operation difficulty for new directors and small directors is greater because the popularity is not high, so the cost and difficulty of operation will increase.

Even Cao Yang, before entering Hollywood, was already a world-famous literary big director, promoted three Best Actresses, and won a Golden Lion.

But he was still not trusted by Hollywood, and could only give up some interests to have a little initiative; even so, he was still released pigeons by actors one after another.

Only big directors who have proven themselves will be valued by Hollywood film studios and will be more assured to operate various awards.

In a word, the input-output ratio is more stable.

In this era, which big company is not seeking stability?

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many market research companies, there wouldn't be so many sequel films, and there wouldn't be a swarm of comic adaptation films later.

With stable output, who would go to take risks?

If it were stars who knew more inside information, they would respect and respect Cao Yang even more.

*Cao Yang's Fantasy Journey* on the North American bestseller list is not just a simple collection of bestseller novels, but a collection of "future films" with infinite potential that all Hollywood film studios value.

The success of *District 9* just proves this point.

If one or two more are successfully adapted, then one can imagine that Cao Yang will absolutely become a guest of honor for every film studio and the most popular person.

Still the same sentence, stable output is the most respected and popular thing in this world.

Li Zi is one of the few stars who know the inside information.

Nowadays, Li Zi has not yet become a award-chasing maniac, but he has already seen the clues.

Seriously calculating, Li Zi, like Depp, is also from a literary background; looking at the films he starred in, most of them are literary films during this period.

A literary coffee, and one of the most famous big stars in the world, if there is no big award to rely on, would he have doubts himself?

This is also one of the reasons why Li Zi became an award-chasing maniac.

Dong Xuan used her poor English as an excuse and stayed by Cao Yang's side; wherever Cao Yang went, she followed, which also prevented many female stars who wanted to pass notes to Cao Yang.

However, as long as Cao Yang was chatting with some film studio executives or big directors, Dong Xuan would naturally walk away after greeting.

"This is red wine produced by Coppola Winery; the wine label on the bottle was also personally designed by the big director Mr. Francis Ford Coppola."

International Chapter held the handle of the wine glass, walked over with a smile, looked at Cao Yang who was chatting with Martin Scorsese not far away, and said to Dong Xuan, who was confused, in English:

"I say these, I want to tell you, red wine is not drunk like this; you can't hold the cup belly, but should be like me; the handle of the cup is used for holding, not for looking good."

After speaking, she approached Dong Xuan and switched to Chinese, saying softly:

"This is the Oscar banquet, gathering the most famous stars and big shots in the world, not your living room; don't lose face abroad; you still have a lot to learn."

A few years ago, when Dong Xuan snuck into Cao Yang's room and wanted to sleep with Cao Yang, Cao Yang once said that he didn't plan to shoot Chinese literary films in the near future and was going to Hollywood, so he couldn't promote her, letting her consider clearly. From that time on, Dong Xuan made up her mind that she must learn English well; as long as Cao Yang could stand firm in Hollywood, could she still have no chance?

So, don't look at her telling Cao Yang that her English is not good; in fact, her English is very good, and listening and speaking are not a problem at all.

International Chapter used English, and she could naturally understand it.

Precisely because she could understand it, her heart skipped a beat, very afraid of losing face for Cao Yang.

To tell the truth, ever since she followed Cao Yang in college, she hadn't socialized outside, and there was no need to socialize outside; even if she took some roles or filmed advertisements, they were introduced by people who knew some inside information.

Since they knew the inside information, who would dare to force her to socialize and accompany wine?

Especially after Cao Yang took her to gather with Han Zong last time, Han Zong also introduced her to some resources from time to time, so no one dared to do anything to her.

Many people in the film and television circle knew she had a background, but they didn't know exactly what the background was, only knowing not to provoke her and not to force her.

As a result, Dong Xuan really didn't notice that there were so many stresses in drinking red wine.

According to her cognition, on TV and many occasions, many people also hold the cup belly with their hands, because this is more convenient and comfortable.

Dong Xuan quickly looked around, and then her heart sank; all the guests holding red wine were holding the cup handle. It's over, it's over.

!

At this moment, Dong Xuan wished there was a crack in the ground to drill into.

"Holding the cup handle when drinking red wine is to maintain the temperature of the wine and avoid the temperature of the palm affecting the aroma of the wine."

Suddenly a voice inserted, Dong Xuan looked up, and it was actually one of the most famous big stars in the world, Li Zi.

Li Zi raised his wine glass to signal to Dong Xuan, and then said:

"The correct way to hold the cup is to gently hold the cup handle or the bottom of the cup with your thumb, index finger, and middle finger, avoiding holding the cup belly, because this will make the wine liquid warm up and affect the flavor and taste of the wine."

International Chapter nodded along the side, laughing very happily, and followed up:

"Mr. Leonardo is right; the red wine glass is relatively thin, and once the hand touches the cup body, the human body temperature will raise the temperature of the red wine, which greatly affects the taste."

After speaking, she raised her wine glass to signal to Li Zi, wanting to touch it with Li Zi.

Li Zi seemed not to see International Chapter's signal; he immediately changed the wine glass to the other hand, directly held the cup belly, and said with a smile:

"Everyone just says so; I just like holding the cup belly; holding the cup like this is very convenient. To tell the truth, I have never felt any difference in taste, so, in some occasions, I will also hold the cup belly, but no one has reminded me of anything."

After saying these things, he directly held the cup belly, touched it with Dong Xuan, drank a mouthful himself, and even passed it in his mouth, subsequently saying: "Indeed, there is no difference; it's still that taste."

Dong Xuan showed a grateful look and also took a sip.

"Thank you, Mr. Leonardo."

International Chapter was extremely embarrassed. Today, before the Oscar ceremony was held, Dong Xuan satirized her, and she had been keeping it in her heart, wanting to take revenge.

She thought she had waited for the opportunity; just now, she used English to control her voice, not big or small, just enough for people nearby to hear, but not enough for Cao Yang, who was slightly further away, to hear.

Where could she have thought there would be such a result.

She fiercely scolded Li Zi a few times in her heart, and scolded Dong Xuan, this vixen, for a while, pretending to meet an acquaintance, and almost fled in a panic.

Cao Yang chatted with Martin Scorsese for a while; when he came back, he saw Dong Xuan chatting with Li Zi, which surprised him a bit was that Dong Xuan's spoken English was very authentic.

Seeing Cao Yang come back, Li Zi saw that Cao Yang didn't hold a wine glass, so he also put the wine glass aside, reached out and said with a smile:

"Hello Director Cao Yang, congratulations on winning Best Director; I am Leonardo DiCaprio, very happy to know you; you can call me Leo; friends all call me that."

"Hello Leo, very happy to know you." Cao Yang reached out and shook hands with Li Zi, saying.

The two just exchanged a few words simply, and Depp, who had been paying attention to this place not far away, couldn't sit still and walked over directly.

"Hi, Leonardo, what are you chatting about?"

Li Zi was a bit helpless; he originally wanted to chat a few more words to deepen the connection, saying maybe there would be a chance to collaborate on the next film, where did he know that Depp this guy was actually guarding like a thief.

Subsequently, he chatted a few more awkward words, Li Zi left helplessly, Depp greeted Cao Yang, and also left.

"You are not honest; you still said your English is not good; I see you chatting with Li Zi quite standardly."

Cao Yang joked with Dong Xuan with a smile.

Dong Xuan carefully said in a low voice: "I said I only know a little bit; do you believe it?"

"Want me to believe it, look at your performance tonight." Cao Yang said lightly.

Well, I will make you believe it.

Dong Xuan secretly made up her mind; she didn't believe it. It was time to practice the "teaching materials" of the little days she secretly watched a while ago; the teachers knew so much, but she didn't know if Cao Yang liked it.

At this time, after the Oscar ceremony was carried out, it was noon in Jingcheng, and Hou Keming, who had already fully presided over the work, was not idle, and was rushing to arrange tasks.

As a big leader of the school, he could naturally fully understand the information of the Oscars.

He also didn't expect that Cao Yang was really giving strength.

At the moment when he had just fully presided over the work, Cao Yang actually won the Oscar for Best Director in one fell swoop; is there any better "congratulatory gift" than this?

Add meals, add meals for all teachers and students tonight!

No limit!

Open all places in the school that can be used, and watch the rebroadcast of the Oscar ceremony on CCTV Movie Channel tonight.

Red banner?

Hang it!

Not only in the school, but also the playground, departments, dormitories, canteens, and even the bathhouse must be hung up for me. Several big gates of the school must be hung, and they must be extended outward, and the two sides of the road must be extended by two hundred meters!

What? There is no position to hang banners on both sides of the road in some places?

Then insert flags for me!

In short, I want people passing by to know that Beidian's Cao Yang is the first person in Asia to win the Oscar for Best Director!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 225 =====