Chapter 336: Support

"Kosslick, if possible, I would also like to attend this year's Berlin Film Festival, but I'm very sorry, I really can't make it! Yes, of course, next time if I have a new film, I will definitely make the Berlin Film Festival my first choice!"

After Wu Yuchen hung up the phone, he sighed softly.

Just now, it was Dieter Kosslick, the chairman of the organizing committee of the Berlin Film Festival, who called him personally, and his intention was naturally to invite his "Departures" to participate in this year's Berlin Film Festival.

Dieter Kosslick was the new chairman of the organizing committee of the Berlin Film Festival in 2002. In recent years, he has also been vigorously revitalizing the Berlin Film Festival. Therefore, this time he was very positive about inviting Wu Yuchen, an international director.

When the chairman of the organizing committee like him personally calls and invites enthusiastically, it basically guarantees that there will be a big reward for you, and you will not return empty-handed.

Wu Yuchen did not lie to the other party just now. If possible, he really wants to attend the Berlin Film Festival. After all, when he first started, "Car 44" and "Run Lola Run" were all able to rise with the platform provided by the Berlin Film Festival.

These two films also gave him a lot of help. A short film Golden Bear directly made him his first real pot of gold, and a "Run Lola Run" helped him win the Berlin Best Director Award and had the opportunity to enter Hollywood. He also has some feelings for the Berlin Film Festival.

But there is no way. "Departures" is still only temporarily closed. If you want to completely finish shooting, you have to wait until March next year, because there are still several sets of seasonal shots to be shot, both in winter and spring, and it is really too late to catch up with Berlin in February.

In fact, it is not only the Berlin Film Festival that has invited him. Gilles Jacob, the chairman of Cannes, and Marco Mueller, the newly appointed chairman of Venice, have actively invited him.

The three major film festivals actually have competition. Now Wu Yuchen is obsessed with shooting commercial films in Hollywood. After waiting for him to shoot an art film, they naturally want to scramble to win him over.

To be honest, Wu Yuchen doesn't care whether he goes to Venice or Cannes. After all, he has long passed the stage of relying on the three major to improve himself. Now he has added glory to any film festival he goes to!

As for this year's Oscars, he can't catch up. Let's go to the next one!

For a movie, the three major European awards and the Oscars are compatible, of course, there is a prerequisite, that is, you must first go to the three major European awards, and then go to the Oscars. For example, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" went to Cannes and then went to the Oscars half a year later to win the Best Foreign Language Film.

But if you go to the Oscars first, then I'm sorry, the door to the three major awards is closed. Basically, no movie that has won an Oscar will go to the three major awards, which is also the face of the three major awards.

So for Wu Yuchen and "Departures", this time they can go to Cannes or Venice first, and then participate in the next Oscar.

Wu Yuchen calculated his time. In addition to those few shots, most of the post-production work of "Departures", including the soundtrack, can be completed in these few months, which is more than enough to participate in the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Of course, he has not only been working on the post-production of "Departures" in the past few months. Before the New Year, he planned to check out the locations and decide on the filming locations of "Batman" in China.

In "Batman 1", the protagonist Bruce Wayne travels around the world. Wu Yuchen plans to shoot in China, so naturally he has to decide on the locations first.

He plans to go to Hollywood after the Chinese New Year to prepare for the crew, and then bring the crew to China to finish filming this part. He will take advantage of this time to attend the Cannes Film Festival, and then return to Hollywood to continue filming. The schedule should be similar.

…

On December 9, Wu Yuchen walked on the red carpet and entered the Great Hall of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Inside, Feng Xiaogang took the lead and hurried over after seeing Wu Yuchen. He took the initiative to extend his hands and said with a smile:

"Director Wu, thank you for coming to support us! Thank you so much!"

Wu Yuchen smiled and said, "It's my duty. I am optimistic that Director Feng's "A World Without Thieves" will achieve good results!"

Feng Xiaogang grinned and said, "Okay, with your kind words from Director Wu, I was feeling very anxious, but now I feel relieved!"

The premiere of "A World Without Thieves" was quite large this time, including a charity dinner and a premiere viewing. More than 600 people from the business and entertainment industries were invited to participate in this event, and each person will spend 5,000 yuan to buy an invitation. Another 400 viewers can buy a premiere ticket for 200 yuan each and watch "A World Without Thieves" with representatives of the organizers and the main creative staff. All the proceeds from this event will be donated to the Beijing Charity Association to establish the "Love Achieves the Future" scholarship fund, which will be used for poverty-stricken education projects for primary and secondary school and high school students in Beijing.

After Wu Yuchen entered the banquet venue, many people came to greet him.

Later, Wu Yuchen saw Liu Dehua, who was in high spirits at the time, and couldn't help but go up to shake hands with him and congratulated him with a smile: "Congratulations! Golden Horse Award winner!"

Liu Dehua was also very happy to hear this: "Thank you, Director Wu! I would rather use this award for the opportunity to be the leading actor with Director Wu!"

Wu Yuchen smiled and shook his head: "You are too polite~ We still have many opportunities in the future."

He knew that what Liu Dehua said was probably half true and half false. After all, he had waited for this Golden Horse Award for a long time. It was not easy for him to get what he wanted this time.

Speaking of Liu Dehua's Golden Horse Award this year, we have to mention that he was fooled at the Golden Horse Award last year.

In the previous life, the competition for the Golden Horse Award in 2003 was very fierce. At that time, the two with the highest voices were of course Liu Dehua and Liang Chaowei. But this time is different, because "Infernal Affairs" was released in advance in 2001 because of Wu Yuchen's intervention, so Liang Chaowei can be regarded as a god one year in advance.

Last year, in the 2003 Golden Horse Award, Liu Dehua was nominated for the movie "Big Man with Big Wisdom". His competitors were Liu Qingyun of "Forget Me Not", Ren Dahua of "PTU" and Wu Yanzu of "The Corridor of the Night". This time, Liu Dehua's voice is the highest among the few.

The award ceremony for Best Actor has always been the most watched point, so as the host, Cai Kangyu must seize the opportunity. Cai Kangyu first interviewed Wu Yanzu: "Wu Yanzu, do you think you can beat Andy Lau?"

Wu Yanzu said "It's hard to say", so Cai Kangyu turned to interview Simon Yam, and said with a smile: "There is a braver person, Wu Yanzu is sitting in the back, and he is sitting next to Andy Lau", and the whole audience laughed.

Cai Kangyong: "Ren Dahua, who do you think can beat Andy Lau between you and Wu Yanzu?"

Ren Dahua: "He (Wu Yanzu) is younger, I am only two years older than him (Andy Lau)."

Then Cai Kangyong interviewed Andy Lau, and Andy Lau's answer was very appropriate: "I really thought it was me every time."

At this time, the audience had already determined that the Best Actor was Andy Lau, because all the words in Cai Kangyu's interview were about Andy Lau, and Andy Lau himself thought so at the time.

As a result, when the award presenter announced the result, the winner was Liu Qingyun from "Forget Me Not".

This was very embarrassing. During the interview stage, they were promoting Andy Lau, and it was almost like announcing Andy Lau's award as the best actor on the spot, but this happened! Andy Lau's fans were really excited at the time.

Many people in the industry also accused the Golden Horse Awards of going too far. Big Mouth Huang Qiusheng posted a post to angrily denounce Cai Kangyu for "teasing" Andy Lau:

"I feel sorry for Andy Lau. Andy Lau is a good person. The Golden Horse Awards shouldn't play with him like this. The host's words are like making Andy Lau happy and then pouring cold water on his head. If the host knew the result would be like this and still did it, I think it would be an insult to Andy Lau! Is Andy Lau a good person who won't lose his temper and bully him like this?"

This incident obviously made Andy Lau feel very embarrassed and angry. About 20 years later, Ning Hao and Andy Lau collaborated and filmed it into a scene in "Mr. Red Carpet".

And the main theme of this year's 2004 Golden Horse Awards, which was a few days ago, was "resolving grievances." When it came to the awarding of the best actor, Cai Kangyu wore a mask with the words "Support Andy Lau" written on it. He also said in public that he made Andy Lau feel unhappy last year, so he should wear a mask and not talk nonsense this year.

Then there is another classic scene, that is, Lin Chiling, as the female host, went down the stage to interview the candidates. She was wearing a fur coat when she interviewed others. When it was Liu Dehua's turn, in order to express her sincerity, she took off her fur coat and only wore a relatively revealing close-fitting dress. She gave Liu Dehua a tighter hug, which made the audience cheer ambiguously. Liu Dehua personally put the coat back on her.

When it came to presenting the Best Actor, as expected, Liu Dehua won the Best Actor for "Infernal Affairs 3", which made him get what he wanted. It was an explanation of the Golden Horse Awards for this matter.

After Wu Yuchen exchanged a few words with Liu Dehua, a figure appeared beside him and smiled and hugged his arm.

Liu Dehua looked at his heroine in the film hugging Wu Yuchen's arm, smiled, and said directly: "Director Wu, I will go to prepare for the auction first~"

Liu Dehua politely left and no longer served as a light bulb for Li Xiaoran and Wu Yuchen.

Li Xiaoran gently pinched Wu Yuchen: "You came but didn't come to me first!"

"I looked around but didn't see you! Did you just come out after putting on makeup?" Wu Yuchen asked with a smile.

"No, I just heard the host say that the auction process will be held later. I have to go on stage then~"

Wu Yuchen asked curiously: "Oh? Do you have to take out an item for auction for each of you leading actors? What are you selling?"

Li Xiaoran said with a grin: "I won't tell you yet, you will know when you see it later~"

Then Li Xiaoran seemed to remember something and pulled Wu Yuchen and said: "Come, I will introduce you to someone!"

Li Xiaoran took Wu Yuchen through the hall. People in the crowd kept greeting Wu Yuchen, and he smiled politely.

After a while, Wu Yuchen followed Li Xiaoran's footsteps and saw a short figure in front of him. He had a childish face and was wearing an orange coat. He looked like a young man in the county. He stood there in a daze and was out of tune with the people present.

Li Xiaoran smiled and called out, "Baoqiang!"

Wang Baoqiang turned his head and smiled and called out, "Sister!"

In "A World Without Thieves", Sha Gen, played by Wang Baoqiang, always called Li Xiaoran, the female thief, "Sister". It seems that he has kept this name in private.

"Baoqiang, look who I brought here?" Li Xiaoran pulled Wu Yuchen beside him to show off.

Wang Baoqiang looked at Wu Yuchen, his eyes widened, and then he stuttered a little: "Wu, Wu, Wu Yuchen!"

Wu Yuchen looked at Wang Baoqiang, who was a little stunned in front of him, smiled and reached out his hand: "Hello, I am Wu Yuchen."

Wang Baoqiang immediately stretched out his hands to hold Wu Yuchen's, with excitement on his face: "Director Wu! I am your idol! No, I am your fan! I have watched your films many times! I I even applied for an extra role on your set!"

Wang Baoqiang was shaking his hands vigorously as he spoke. He was extremely excited. After all, this is the most powerful director in China today! He is a prominent figure in Chinese films around the world!

"Oh? Which movie?" Wu Yuchen asked curiously. If Wang Baoqiang had appeared in front of him, he should not have no impression at all.

"It was a few years ago, "The Donkey Gets Water"! But at that time, I was told that the crew was going to western Shanxi to recruit extra actors, and they didn't hire me."

Wu Yuchen smiled, so it turns out that he must not have even met in person.

At this time Li Xiaoran said: "Okay, okay, how long do you want to hold on to Baoqiang?"

When Wang Baoqiang heard this, he quickly let go of his hand, scratched his head in embarrassment, with a silly smile on his face.

At this time, Li Xiaoran smiled at Wu Yuchen and said, "I told him that I could introduce you to him, but he still didn't believe me!"

Wang Baoqiang said quickly: "Sister, I don't believe it, I just, just..."

"Just what?"

Li Xiaoran deliberately pinched his waist and asked, but when he saw that Wang Baoqiang couldn't say anything after a few times, he smiled and said the next moment: "Okay, I brought you the person, treat us both to dinner later!"

Wang Baoqiang immediately said happily: "Win!"

Wu Yuchen also smiled when he heard Wang Baoqiang's simple "in". He knew that Li Xiaoran took the initiative to bring him to meet Wang Baoqiang, so he must have thought that this kid was a good person, so he introduced him to him. Moreover, Wang Baoqiang was asked to treat them both to dinner. This kind of opportunity was something that many people in the industry could not ask for.

Wu Yuchen knew in his heart that Li Xiaoran probably wanted him to help this honest kid who liked her, so he smiled and praised: "Baoqiang, I have seen your performance in "The Blind Shaft" and your performance was good!"

When Wang Baoqiang heard Wu Yuchen's compliment, he smiled so hard that his teeth were exposed.