Chapter 368 Black Widow is mine (Subscribe to support!)
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There is a long red carpet outside the Temple Theatre, and countless film and television workers from all over the world hope to walk on this red carpet.
Some even go further, by dressing up in bizarre clothes to grab the spotlight; some act artificially to grab the spotlight; some just stay on the red carpet and refuse to leave; and some even fall down on purpose to expose themselves.
In short, on this red carpet, there is nothing that cannot appear, only things you can't think of.
Seeing this red carpet, Xu Kai's mind was filled with images of female stars competing for beauty on it, and he couldn't help but think: "If I am willing to take a female star through here, she will probably be willing to let me sleep with her once, um... it seems that even if I don't take them through this red carpet, they will probably be willing to let me sleep with them casually, uh... am I a little narcissistic recently?"
"The next people who will step onto the red carpet are the crew members of Farewell My Concubine from China. Please welcome Mr. Yu Qingyun and Ms. Zhu Bing..."
As the host Cathy Ireland's voice came out, a Daimler RV stopped at the other end of the red carpet, and Xu Kai and Zhu Bing walked out of the car calmly.
Xu Kai held Zhu Bing's hand openly. After they stepped onto the red carpet, they stopped from time to time and waved towards the distance. Flash lights lit up on both sides of the red carpet.
Listening to the scattered cheers around him, Xu Kai said to Zhu Bing: "Our reputation in the United States still needs to be improved."
Zhu Bing said seriously: "I don't have many opportunities to become famous abroad, so I put all my hopes on you. You must do your best."
Xu Kai looked at Zhu Bing and said confidently, "Believe me, you will definitely have a chance."
Xu Kai and Zhu Bing had no intention of taking advantage of the popularity on the red carpet, so they quickly walked through this red carpet that countless people dreamed of.
When Xu Kai and Zhu Bing came to the small temporary stage, host Shirley Shepherd said to them: "The Oscars have welcomed eight groups of Chinese filmmakers, but unfortunately, none of them won an Oscar. I sincerely hope you can break this curse."
Xu Kai said modestly: "We will try our best."
Zhu Bing smiled politely.
Cathy Ireland and Shirley Shepherd chatted with Xu Kai and Zhu Bing for a few more words before they said, "We wish the crew of Farewell My Concubine good luck. Now, please welcome the crew of The King's Speech, director Tom Hopper and lead actor Colin Firth..."
By the time the crew of "The King's Speech" walked the red carpet, Xu Kai and Zhu Bing had already entered the Temple Theatre and were sitting in the middle, waiting boredly for the award ceremony to begin.
Xu Kai, who didn't know anyone, couldn't find anyone else to chat with, so he could only sit next to Zhu Bing and chat intimately to get through the long wait.
After an unknown amount of time, hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin took the stage and the Oscars ceremony officially began.
As the award presenters, Jeff Bridges and Kathryn Bigelow were first invited to the stage to announce the winners of Best Movie Song and Best Movie Original Score and present the awards.
Kathryn Bigelow did not open the envelope containing the list of winners, but said: "Film is a unique and complex art. It is a combination of pictures and sounds."
Jeff Bridges took over and said: "Yes, a good movie must have a touching plot and wonderful pictures, but if it is accompanied by good music, it will definitely be more perfect."
Kathryn Bigelow said: "Now Mr. Jeff and I are going to announce the winners of this year's Oscars for Best Song and Best Original Score."
Jeff Bridges said: "Now let's get familiar with the five groups of nominees. The nominees for this year's Oscar for Best Song are..."
The projection lights were projected onto the big screen. As the highlights of the movie appeared, a recorded voice-over came from the theater: "The nominees for this year's Oscar for Best Song are: John Powell for "The Ace"; Hans Zimmer for "Space"; Alexandre Desplat for "The King's Speech"; Yu Qingyun for "Farewell My Concubine"; Trent Reynolds and Atigos Ross for "The Social Network"..."
Jeff Bridges opened the envelope in his hand, took a look at the contents, and said to Kathryn Bigelow: "Katherine, you should announce the result."
Kathryn Bigelow also took a glance, then deliberately kept the secret and said, "I was surprised to see this result, but it makes sense because he is really outstanding..."
As Kathryn Bigelow spoke, the camera began to focus on several nominees. Kathryn Bigelow continued, "The winner of the Best Song Award is Farewell My Concubine!"
When Xu Kai heard that he had won the award, his heart sank.
Winning an award is certainly a good thing, especially an Oscar, which is recognized as the highest award in film.
But the problem is, according to convention, or you could say according to the unspoken rule, for a foreign film like "Farewell My Concubine", if you are given an award, you may not be given any other major awards.
Just as "Farewell My Concubine" won the highest honor of the Cannes International Film Festival, the Palme d'Or, the jury hopes to give other important awards (Cannes Best Actor) to other outstanding films.
Although he was very sorry that "Farewell My Concubine" did not win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and that he himself did not win the Oscar for Best Director, Xu Kai still politely stood up and walked onto the stage amid applause.
Xu Kai smiled as he gave his acceptance speech: "I was just wondering when I would be able to go on stage to receive the award tonight, but I didn't expect to get off to a great start and win my first trophy. Thank you Oscar, I will be back!"
“Pah pah pah pah…”
Following another round of polite applause from the audience, Xu Kai held up the Oscar trophy and certificate, leaving more than ten seconds for reporters to take pictures, before bowing and returning to his seat.
It seemed that Xu Kai's guess was correct. After winning the Best Original Score, he missed out on the Best Editing and Best Director awards, and Zhu Bing also failed to win the Best Actress award.
"The nominees for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film are: Alejandro González Iñárritu's "A Beautiful Mistake"; Yorgos Lanthimos' "Dogtooth"; Susannah Bier's "A Better World"; Denis Villeneuve's "Scorched Earth"; and Yu Qingyun's "Farewell My Concubine"..."
Among the five nominated films, "Farewell My Concubine" actually has the best chance of winning the award. After all, it is the most artistic (bar none) Chinese-language film of the last generation.
However, "Farewell My Concubine" first won the Cannes International Film Festival's highest honor, the Palme d'Or, and other awards, and then won the Oscar for Best Original Score.
This has invisibly created many obstacles for "Farewell My Concubine" to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Therefore, Xu Kai is not optimistic that "Farewell My Concubine" can win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
However, what surprised Xu Kai was that the award presenter Quentin Tarantino actually announced: "The winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is Farewell My Concubine (China)!"
To be honest, Xu Kai really didn't expect that the Oscars would award him the Best Original Score and the Best Foreign Language Film at the same time, which made him reach the pinnacle of film art in one fell swoop!
Xu Kai was really excited.
So, after he got on stage, Xu Kai said without thinking, "I have always believed that the Oscars have so-called unspoken rules. They will not give awards to films that have won awards at other film festivals, nor will they give awards to films that have won Oscars. Now it seems that I am narrow-minded. You are the most fair judges..."
Undoubtedly, Xu Kai is one of the biggest winners of this year's Oscars.
The key is that with the bonus of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the box office of "Farewell My Concubine" is even more exciting, and even the overseas box office of "Farewell My Concubine" is worth looking forward to.
Fame and fortune! The excited Xu Kai inevitably spoke more on the stage, earning enough spotlights.
Everyone expressed their understanding of this, because this is truly the highest honor for a film worker. Who can face it with a normal attitude?
What Xu Kai didn't know was that while he was giving his acceptance speech on the stage, in the corner, Nicole Johnson, who was dressed as a waitress, saw that Xu Kai was not only a director, but also a director who had been on the Oscar podium twice. She couldn't help but regret not taking the opportunity when Xu Kai took the initiative to find her.
In fact, what Nicole Johnson just said was not true, at least not entirely true. In fact, it was just Western humor.
Unfortunately, Xu Kai, an Oriental, does not understand Western humor.
This is why Xu Kai rejected Nicole Johnson after listening to her humor.
But the truth is, Nicole Johnson actually wants to be an actress. Of course, she really wants to make money from the profession of acting, and buying that sports car she likes is also her wish. The reason why she came to the Oscars to be a waitress was to see if there was a chance to be appreciated by one or two big names in the film and television industry, which would then lead her to the path of an actress.
But what disappointed Nicole Johnson was that, except for a Chinese person whom she didn't know at all, no one else was interested in her, and few people even looked at her twice.
Nicole Johnson, who is usually confident, suddenly became a little unconfident.
As for Xu Kai, Nicole Johnson really didn't think highly of Xu Kai as a Chinese director before.
This is not to say that Nicole Johnson discriminates against Chinese directors, but this is Hollywood, and Chinese directors, or even all Chinese people, have no status here.
This is why, even after Nicole Johnson had the idea of "If it doesn't work, just talk to this Chinese director," she still couldn't let go of her inherent white pride and made a dry joke that Chinese people couldn't appreciate at all.
Now, after seeing the Chinese director Xu Kai step onto the Oscar podium, and step onto the Oscar podium twice, Nicole Johnson realized that she was wrong.
"I should make up for this mistake and get the chance I deserve!"
With this in mind, after the award ceremony, Nicole Johnson found an opportunity to walk straight to Xu Kai, then smiled charmingly and said to him, "Congratulations, Mr. Xu, you are such a talented director and musician."
Zhu Bing, who was beside Xu Kai, glanced at Xu Kai and asked him with his eyes: "Who is she?"
Xu Kai said to Zhu Bing bluntly, "The first-day box office of Iron Man exceeded 15 million, and it is going to be a big hit, so Marvel and I are discussing making Iron Man 2, and even creating the Marvel Universe. So, when I saw her just now, I thought she was very suitable to play the Black Widow, so I wanted to talk to her and sign her, but she doesn't like acting and only likes money, so I think she is not suitable to play the Black Widow."
At this time, several reporters happened to gather around.
Xu Kai politely nodded to Nicole Johnson and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Nicole, I misunderstood you before. You may not be the actor I'm looking for."
After that, Xu Kai took Zhu Bing to be interviewed by reporters.
Xu Kai and Zhu Bing were communicating in Chinese just now, so Nicole Johnson had no idea what Xu Kai was saying.
But Nicole Johnson was very smart. She guessed the transliteration of Marvel and remembered the two words "Iron Man" and "Black Widow" that Xu Kai repeatedly said.
Nicole Johnson quickly went to the corner to call a friend who had a Chinese boyfriend, and then asked her friend: "What do the two words "Iron Man" and "Black Widow" in Chinese mean in Marvel?"
Nicole Johnson's friend also didn't understand what "Iron Man" and "Black Widow" stood for, so she could only call her ex-boyfriend and ask what "Iron Man" and "Black Widow" stood for in Marvel. In short.
Nicole Johnson took great pains to finally figure out what "Iron Man" and "Black Widow" represent in Marvel, and then guessed what role Xu Kai wanted to give her.
Nicole Johnson, who had seen "Iron Man" once before, quickly went to see it again.
This time, Nicole Johnson found Xu Kai's name in the staff list of "Iron Man".
This provides ample evidence for Nicole Johnson's speculation.
"Oh shit, he wants me to play Natalia, what have I been missing!"
In the following few days, "Iron Man" became a huge hit, and its first-week box office in North America exceeded 100 million US dollars, becoming the new box office darling of the North American film market. Major media and film critics in North America are praising "Iron Man".
Moreover, "Rush Hour" starring Xu Kai was also released later.
Chris Tucker is a famous master of verbal humor in Hollywood, and Xu Kai is good at action humor, so the rivalry between the two of them can be said to be very interesting and complement each other.
And because the world's best stuntmen in Hollywood incorporated some great Hollywood-style stunts into the film.
For example, the scene at the end of the film where Tucker uses a large advertising cloth to catch Xu Kai who is falling from mid-air is quite exciting.
This is Brett Ratner's contribution to Rush Hour.
It can be said that "Rush Hour" is a correct collision between Chinese-language films and Hollywood films.
In addition, Xu Kai also showed off his skills as the world's number one action star.
——The scene where Xu Kai jumped down from the air conditioner on the 30th floor step by step without any protection shocked the entire Hollywood, North America, and even the whole world.
The most direct manifestation of this is that the box office of "Rush Hour" even surpassed that of "Iron Man", which was already performing well.
Xu Kai also successfully entered Hollywood because of "Rush Hour".
Soon, "Iron Man" and "Rush Hour" were stirring up the North American box office like two dragons playing with a pearl.
Xu Kai, who is related to both "Iron Man" and "Rush Hour", has finally attracted extensive coverage from the North American media again.
Then everything about Xu Kai was dug out by the all-pervasive media, including some things Xu Kai did in China.
For example, Xu Kai is the top commercial director in China and even in the world, and all the movies he directed are big sellers; Xu Kai is a talented musician, and all the songs he created are widely circulated; Xu Kai is a super-rich tycoon, who just bought the playboy Hugh Hefner's mansion in Beverly Hills, bought the old film company Artisan Films, bought the copyrights of many Marvel superheroes, and so on and so forth...
After collecting all the news, Nicole Johnson realized what a big shot she had missed.
Nicole Johnson is so upset! Especially when she learned that Marvel and Artisan were going to co-produce "Iron Man 2" and Artisan was going to make an independent movie of "Shang-Chi", and both movies had an important role - Black Widow Natalia Alianovna Romanova, Nicole Johnson's annoyance and depression could not be described in words.
Nicole Johnson looked at the poster on the wall of her small and simple room, clenched her fists and said to herself: "Black Widow is mine, no one can take her away from me!"
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(End of this chapter)
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