Chapter 271 Prize Question

On the evening of April 11, 1983, the 55th Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Los Angeles Music Center in California, USA.

"The Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards is..." When award presenters Louise Rainer and Jack Valenti announced the nominees and winners of the Best Foreign Language Film on stage, the expressions of the audience were truly brilliant.

Nervous, anxious, expectant... Of course, there was also Su Yun who looked calm in the eye of the storm.

After hearing the award presenter read out the name of the Spanish film "Begin Again", Su Yunyi just looked at the stage quietly, and then perfunctorily clapped a few times following the crowd.

Anyway, whatever expression she makes will be photographed by the media and over-interpreted, so she might as well save the energy to go back to the hotel room and then go into the system's small black room to hit the sandbag to vent her anger...

Although I know that with my qualifications and age, plus those damn political unwritten rules in Hollywood, it is a rare achievement for "The Postman" to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography; but when I think about the fact that none of the other competitors for the Oscars for Foreign Language Film this year are masterpieces that will go down in history... and yet it was deprived of the award by some shady means, I can't help but feel annoyed.

Even if she was prepared not to win the award, losing to a masterpiece and losing to an average work are two different feelings.

Previously, "Blade Runner" was also nominated for Best Production Design and Best Visual Effects, but the winner of Best Production Design was this year's big winner "Gandhi", which won eight awards in a row and can be said to be crazy, while the winner of Best Visual Effects was Spielberg's "ET the Extra-Terrestrial". The former is a biographical drama with a theme that is suitable for impacting awards and is indeed well-made, while the latter is an old friend that we have known for a long time - in this way, the losses of these two are not unfair and are not easy to make people angry.

However, the two movies she was involved in were both about accompanying the prince to study. Su Yun didn't need to think too much to know what the media who didn't like her would write about her tomorrow.

Su Yun adjusted her sitting posture slightly: Well, it’s not like she doesn’t have the award if she wants it, as both Berlin and her hometown Hong Kong have already recognized her - it’s a bit funny to say, in order to give Su Yun face, the film associations that occasionally set up some unconventional alternative awards in later generations, joined forces with Zhao Lizhong, who likes to stir up trouble, and came up with a "Best International Film Award", which is parallel to the "Best Film" in terms of rank but has a market-based distinction.

The rhetoric was particularly rude and intellectual: Didn't you, Mary Sue, say you wouldn't compete for the acting award at the Hong Kong Film Awards? Then you can't refuse a film award, right?

The award presenters were Lu Shaolong, who appeared in front of the public as a normal person for the first time after being away from the film industry for a long time, and her silly second brother Zhao Lizhong, who was doing a large-scale program for the first time - now, Su Yun really had no choice but to accept their kindness.

With the "Best International Film Award" as a precedent, the future "Best International Film Award" and the subsequent "Best Asian Film Award" or "Best Chinese Film Award" can be arranged in succession.

After all, the Academy Awards is one of the important cornerstones she uses to pave the way for her future plans. It certainly cannot be limited to Hong Kong and the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in the beginning, but it must cover the entire Asian market with enormous development potential and even become a holy place for the Eastern entertainment industry. Finally, it will form an Eastern film system that is opposite to the Western film system but interdependent with it, and create a true "Eastern Hollywood".

Focusing on the future, Su Yun felt relieved. So, taking advantage of the free time, she went to chat with old friends who came to the award ceremony today and congratulated them.

Spielberg's "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" also won many nominations and awards tonight, and Dustin Hoffman's cross-dressing "Mr. Doose" was also nominated for Best Actor... Of course, the most worthy of joy and congratulations is Meryl Streep, who won the Oscar for Best Actress for the first time with the movie "Sophie's Choice"!

Meryl was most delighted to hear Su Yun's congratulations, thinking that she was her mentor in the film industry.

Just like in the past when Su Yun visited her as a little girl, she would always receive a kiss as farewell. Meryl also kissed her cheek several times before letting go tonight. In addition to happiness, it seemed that she also had a little comfort in her heart.

Su Yun also gave her a kiss on the cheek: "Thank you."

Fortunately, Zhuang Long helped her hold Zhao Qiming back, otherwise this eldest brother with an extremely active mind might have thought too much about this scene.

Su Yun was still very excited when she returned to the hotel. She remembered that she had planned to go into the small dark room to vent her anger, so she quickly changed her clothes and went into the small dark room to pound the sandbags. She pounded them like the women beating the villains under the overpass...

After beating for more than an hour without a break, Su Yun finally came back to reality breathlessly and prepared to take a shower.

Suddenly there was a slight knock on the door.

"Who?" Su Yun walked behind the door.

"It's me." Zhuang Long's low voice replied from outside the door.

"What's the matter?" Su Yun opened the door, and he quickly came in with the things in his hand, then quickly but gently closed the door, without making any sound throughout the whole process.

Upon closer inspection, he was holding a plate of plump white milk cake.

"There was not much left in the kitchen, so I exchanged a box of milk with a fat waiter who liked sweets, and quickly made it for you and sent it over." Zhuang Long said mysteriously, "Don't worry, your eldest brother didn't find out."

"Even if he finds out, he can't stop me if I want to eat. I don't have any dietary restrictions." Su Yun felt a little hungry when she saw a plate of fragrant milk cake after a round of intense physical activity. "But why did you make a midnight snack for me?"

No matter how hungry I am, I still have my IQ.

"You don't have to pretend to be so strong. Everyone feels bad sometimes. Eat something and have a good sleep, and you'll feel better." Looking at Su Yun's rosy face and slightly messy hair, Zhuang Long immediately imagined that she might have cried quietly out of anger after returning to her room, so he felt even more distressed.

Although everyone was prepared to run with her before entering the venue, Su Yun is still such a young girl, how could she not expect recognition and achievements?

Unfortunately, she had to endure this grievance, and she had to maintain a decent demeanor in front of others, so as to avoid being used by people with ulterior motives to make a fuss and mock her as a "loser" elsewhere.

It was hard for her to hold on until she got back to the hotel before she exploded - perhaps she was afraid that they would worry, so she smiled and wished others well on the surface, and then after returning to the hotel, she dared to cry silently in her room.

The more Zhuang Long thought about it, the more distressed he felt. He quickly called Su Yun and said, "When I was in a bad mood before, I always wanted to eat something... I thought, maybe you can try it too."

Seeing that he really had misunderstood something, Su Yun shook her head and laughed: "I'm not very sad, you don't have to be like this."

"You don't have to do that!" Zhuang Long continued to mistakenly interpret Su Yun's reply as an attempt to cover up something, and his tone softened a lot, almost like he used to coax a child: "Don't keep everything in your heart. Even if you don't want to say it out, it's good to find a way to vent it out."

"Please, I'm already this old, please stop using the same tricks you used to coax children, okay..." Su Yun held her forehead helplessly, and finally took a piece of milk cake and stuffed it into her mouth, "Just think of it as me turning my sorrow and anger into appetite."

"Okay, whatever you like." Seeing Su Yun eating a mouthful of white food, his eyes also curved.

While eating milk cake and chatting casually, Su Yun sighed with some relief: "In fact, I knew the ending a long time ago, but I was a little unhappy that my opponent was not strong enough. If it was a work like "Gandhi" or "Sophie's Choice", I would even think that I would win even if I lost."

"They are different from you, so you don't have to take it too seriously." Zhuang Long sighed, "I'm not saying that the treatment of Chinese people abroad is better than before, or that you have to get used to this kind of treatment..."

"This is not the first time I've encountered this." As a Chinese, you will always be excluded to varying degrees abroad. Even though we have changed our previous hostile attitude in order to befriend China and have even introduced many relevant policies, there are still many people who have been completely brainwashed and hide their discriminatory and hostile attitudes in their hearts, waiting for the right opportunity to launch an attack.

For example, what happened to her tonight and what she will encounter in the next period of time.

"You and I have experienced this kind of thing before, but I hope and believe that we can break this limitation through hard work in the future, rather than relying on external forces." Zhuang Long said softly.

"It's very difficult. Entertainment is often closely linked to politics. For example, during World War II, in order to achieve a route of cooperation with our motherland, Hollywood specially invited film and television industry personnel who had a passion for, understanding and research on China to shoot Chinese-themed movies..." Su Yun, who is not as idealistic as Zhuang Long and is more realistic, thinks of "Dragon Seed" and "The Good Earth", which had to use white people to play Chinese characters due to policy reasons. "I can only say that politics is a terrible existence that can make the devil push the mill."

Although white people were used to play the Chinese, the crew and production were very sincere. From replicating the Chinese countryside to learning the demeanor, Katharine Hepburn was the heroine and the original work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck was added. Compare this with the so-called "conscientious" works that simply added some Chinese elements to make money. It's not that the West doesn't understand China, but they just don't want to express it or show it.

Behind seemingly innocent film and television works, political intentions are quietly and naturally hidden. This is what America is good at: packaging the private goods that want to be conveyed with the cloak of exquisite light, shadow and music, and then using them for cultural output that serves politics.

However, the capital gained from plundering the world will eventually be exhausted, and the situation will begin to change as the ancient country that has risen from the ashes gradually gains control of the market.

"Even so, I, like you, believe in the beauty of the future in a way you can't imagine." Su Yun smiled slightly when she said this, "Just like I still love my motherland in my heart even though I am in a foreign country."

“It may not be as gorgeous as here, nor have all the modern facilities here, but the old house can also shelter us from the wind and rain, and the old quilt can also give people warmth…”

"Even if there is no convenient electric light, a little light can also illuminate the way forward..." Zhuang Long added subconsciously, but was stunned before he finished speaking.

Su Yun's smile deepened, but she just looked at him quietly without taking any further action.

Just when the atmosphere between the two of them was becoming warm, a sudden ringing of a mobile phone unfriendlyly broke the ambiguous atmosphere that might have given rise to some special feelings.