In theory, it doesn't matter whether Anthony Hopkins knows Allen or not.

But as human beings, it is inevitable that we have some nostalgia for our hometown.

This kind of thinking is more serious, especially among some older people.

As an actor who was born and raised in Wales and later had to come to America to develop his career, it seems like a joke to say how much Anthony Hopkins likes America. He doesn't like America at all. Every time after filming, Anthony Hopkins will go back to his hometown to rest as soon as possible.

He called his good friend, who is also the previous generation Bond of 007, and the two of them went fishing, chatted, and discussed the situation in the country.

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It is difficult to describe the entertainment industry in Britain. America has the Oscars, and in Europe, France has the Cannes Film Festival, Italy has the Venice Film Festival, and even Germany has the Berlin Film Festival. What does Britain have?

There is an academy award called the Britannia Award, or the Empire Award, which only locals have heard of.

But how bad is this award?

It was discontinued last year, and seems to have resumed this year. Anyway, it's half-dead.

Whenever the British film and television industry is mentioned, the most famous is actually the film industry of the colonial Hong Kong. Even the former colony, the now independent Indian film industry, is more famous than the British film industry.

This has led to Great Britain being extremely bad in the film and television industry. Young actors have few opportunities to make a name for themselves, senior directors have few resources, and the overall box office market is not large. Any movie you make will lose money, and you have to rely on the entire Commonwealth to release it in order to have a chance to break even.

Over a long period of time, the film and television industry has suffered a large loss of talent, and many people have had to leave their hometowns and either go to other European countries to develop, or come to the United States and work in Hollywood.

But there are too many local actors in Hollywood, the competition is very fierce, and not all opportunities can be left to actors from Britain.

In this situation, some people who are not determined at this time simply grit their teeth and become American citizens, and then the situation will improve.

Many older generation actors who came from Britain do not want to become American citizens, even though both the United States and Britain recognize dual citizenship!

In this environment, some British actors who came to Hollywood began to form groups, and Carl Sr.'s work in Los Angeles in recent years has also exacerbated this situation.

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Anthony Hopkins only met Carl last year. At the beginning, Carl didn't communicate much with him. Instead, Anthony Hopkins took the initiative to visit Carl. After a long time, the two became familiar with each other and felt that they were very compatible, so their relationship gradually became solid.

Under such circumstances, Anthony Hopkins was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar this year!

This is also the first time that the Oscars have nominated the protagonist of a thriller R-rated film for Best Actor.

And the chances of winning are very high!

Anthony Hopkins finally felt confident after winning the award, and carefully asked old Carl if he could find an opportunity to introduce him to the Earl of Carmarthen after he returned to Wales.

It would be even better if I could make another movie under that director!

In the past, due to psychological trauma and lack of channels, he did not dare to meet that gentleman. Now that he is about to receive such a heavyweight honor as the Oscar for Best Actor, Anthony Hopkins dares to fantasize about it a little.

To most ordinary Welsh people, the Hill family is like heaven!

The reigning earl of their family sometimes has more influence in Wales than the queen, after all, the county magistrate is not as good as the current governor.

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"Haha." Old Carl slightly turned his body, waved his right index finger at Anthony Hopkins a few times and said, "My master is not someone who can be seen by everyone who wants to, let alone an old guy like you who is not good-looking..."

"Haha." Anthony Hopkins laughed dryly and looked at old Carl's face awkwardly. They were all the same, so no one should blame anyone else.

"But... it's always good to be concerned about your hometown. When I return this year, if I have the chance, I will mention it. As for whether I want to meet you or not, it depends on your Excellency the Earl's opinion."

"That's right, that's right! Thank you, Sir." Seeing that old Carl finally agreed, although there was no definite news yet, Anthony Hopkins was already very satisfied as long as old Carl agreed to help convey the message. The host on the stage had already started to warm up the audience, said a few words casually, and began to make fun of this year's economic situation.

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Alan only knew that because of the financial crisis in 1987, the economic situation in Britain has been bad in recent years. In fact, the situation in the outside world is similar. Except for slight differences, the situation in different places is not good overall.

The same is true for the United States. Since 1987, there has been one or two small economic crises basically every year.

The unemployment rate has risen rapidly. Not to mention the high deficit and high national debt, the financial problem is very serious. This is also one of the important reasons why the United States launched the Gulf War, to divert internal conflicts and expand the market and output value of domestic military-industrial enterprises.

As of the day of the Academy Awards, America had already experienced its eighth economic crisis since the financial crisis in 1987, and the situation was still deteriorating.

The host took advantage of this topic to further complain, saying that Hollywood has had a hard time, and it's not easy for major film and television companies either, and last year's box office wasn't very good. This kind of evening party is broadcast live, and it seems like he is doing useless work by saying this here.

But every time he complains, it brainwashes the many ignorant people watching the live broadcast.

The major film and television companies can also do a better job of cooking the books, altering earnings, and then... paying out less dividends!

The entire Academy Awards is a huge vanity fair. The scene belongs to the actors who show their faces and the behind-the-scenes production team who rarely had the opportunity to show their faces before. The invisible places belong to the film and television companies behind them.

Everyone depends on this market for a living, and everyone needs to learn to play the victim. Through these hot events and award ceremonies with high ratings, they can convey this idea to the public, making them feel that the film industry is about to fail, and then...

The subconscious message to the audience is: the film industry is almost failing, so those of you who like to watch movies, why don’t you buy more tickets and go to the theaters to support the film industry? !

The host was complaining on the stage, and all the guests present, whether they were there sincerely or just for the sake of numbers, were smiling and clapping. The atmosphere was joyful, and then... the formal award ceremony had to wait for a while, and there had to be a song and dance to warm up the audience. In this regard, America is sometimes very similar to Indians, and they have to insert a dance at every turn.

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"Are you all ready?" Li Zairong, wearing a black hooded suit, was looking at the distant streets with a telescope. About 400 meters in front of him was the main entrance of Koreatown, a place he was very familiar with.

The supermarket that was there a while ago has been cleaned up, but the supermarket owner only cleaned the facade. There are still some black smoke marks on the surrounding walls, representing what happened here not long ago.

"Everything is ready. We made four big ones and are just waiting for them to arrive."

A Korean who came from Wales came up to Li Zairong and reported quietly.

After this period of training, this young man has undergone some transformation, from a useless young man with a slightly cowardly character to a scumbag young man who can command operations with a straight face.

"Where are they?"

The subordinate looked at his watch, hesitated for a moment and said, "It will take about half an hour until the parade approaches."

"Um……"

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Following the instructions, Li Zairong saw a van slowly parked near a street in Koreatown. A huge cardboard box was unloaded from the car. The words on the box indicated that the box should contain a refrigerator.

But in fact, there is no refrigerator in here, but something more interesting than a refrigerator.

Bags of flour and firecrackers were mixed together and packed in huge refrigerator boxes, one every few dozen meters, with four placed on the street in front of Koreatown.

Flour is...

You can buy it in any supermarket, but this thing is actually very dangerous. Under normal circumstances, whether you add water and other things, and use flour to make bread, pancakes, noodles, etc., there is no problem!

However, dry flour in a granular state, especially when it is in extremely dense granular form, will explode when exposed to open flames!

The power...

It depends on how far or near you are from the center of the explosion. If you are far away, it's okay. Like Li Zairong now, standing hundreds of meters away, the impact will be small. But if you are within a dozen meters, even if you don't die, you will at least suffer a wave of shock wave damage. After the flour sticks to your body, there will be secondary damage.

For example, when cooking, sprinkling a handful of flour directly onto the open flame on the stove is definitely as dangerous as lighting a large firecracker in your hand.

Now, each of the four large refrigerator boxes contained four bags of about 50 kilograms, which means a total of about 200 kilograms of flour, plus the firecrackers bought from Chinatown. If they were suddenly ignited later, especially when those little black guys passed by, the effect would be...

Although Li Zairong was scared to death, now that things had come to this point, he had no chance to retreat. He could only follow the plan step by step. He looked at the watch again and it was already half past ten in the evening.

Don’t ask why black people like to parade in the middle of the night. To call them a parade is overestimating them. They just take advantage of the night and use the parade as an excuse, but in fact they are preparing to go shopping for free!

How can it be as convenient to shop for free in broad daylight as to shop for free in the middle of the night? Given their skin color, if they just pick up the things and go into any street or alley, who can find them?

Even if there was a video recording, ordinary portable video recorders these days can't capture their appearance clearly at night!

What stands out is their unscrupulousness. This is what they do most often in the past month or so. Every few days, they organize such a large-scale event.

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This year's Oscar heavyweight movie "The Silence of the Lambs", as a thriller R-rated film, received a total of eight nominations. The first six nominations have already passed, and their crew won a sweep of three out of six nominations. Next, the big screen began to play the information of several actors nominated for this year's Best Actor.

When Anthony Hopkins appeared on the big screen wearing a mask, the whole audience was slightly shocked. This image was the most popular image last year. Who doesn't know Hannibal?

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After the highlights were over, the two award presenters walked onto the stage with a smile on their faces and took over the microphone. They didn't even have time to exchange a few words. The gap was too big. Compared to Anthony Hopkins, the other male actors seemed to be there to make up the numbers.

"The winner of the 64th Academy Awards for Best Actor is Anthony! Anthony Hopkins!"

“Wow!”

There was thunderous applause. Even though Anthony Hopkins had been prepared, he couldn't suppress his excitement. He stood up and excitedly hugged the crew members on both sides. He walked sideways from the second row. Anthony Hopkins also ran to old Carl in the first row and hugged him in the old Carl's somewhat disgusted gaze.

"Sir, there's a little surprise later!"

"oh?"

Before old Carl could figure out what Anthony Hopkins meant by the little surprise, the guy had already let go of his hand and turned to go on stage.

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Anthony Hopkins bowed in three directions towards the audience like an old gentleman, which made the applause even louder.

When the applause died down a little, Anthony Hopkins even straightened his shirt which was slightly wrinkled due to bending over, and then walked calmly to the two moving guests to greet and hug them.

"Congratulations Anthony!"

"Haha, thank you..."

Anthony Hopkins accepted the Oscar trophy, looked down at the trophy in his hand, and his heart was filled with emotions that he didn't know how to express.

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As usual, he held the trophy and gestured towards the audience, then began to express his gratitude as usual, thanking the organizing committee, the judges, Hollywood, the director and crew members, the fans, etc.

When you are working in someone else's territory, you have to say something nice when you win an award and everyone should praise each other.

After finishing his acceptance speech, the host came up with the microphone and joked, "Anthony, you just thanked so many people, which was a bit too deliberate. At this moment, is there anyone you want to thank the most, or do you have anything you want to say to the audience in front of the TV?"

“This…I am sincerely grateful.”

Anthony Hopkins seemed a little serious, and there was a bit of simplicity in his smile, which was very different from the image of Uncle Ba in her movies.

"Oh? After you finished filming this movie, you also won the Oscar for Best Actor. Mr. Anthony, what are your plans for the future? Will you continue to bring any surprising roles to the fans?"

Anthony Hopkins raised his eyebrows. He finally asked the question. This is the process that every winner will go through after the heavyweight awards are presented. The acceptance speech talks about the past and the present, but now the host asked about future plans.

"Haha... I'm planning to return to my country soon. My hometown, Wales, is a very beautiful place. It has made great progress in recent years and even produced an internationally renowned director..."