Chapter 185: This Is My Party
In the warm and spacious living room, Jessica hums softly and decorates Christmas decorations. She held a Christmas ring tied with bells, pine cones and other things, hung it in a place next to the photo frame on the wall, and smiled at the sweet photo of the two in Salt Lake City a few years ago. After recalling it, she turned her head to look at Wang Yang on the other side of the sofa, and asked with a smile, "Yang, how about hanging a wreath here?"
I saw Wang Yang sitting on the sofa chatting with his mobile phone, and said expressionlessly: "No, no." Hearing her voice, he smiled and gave a thumbs up, silently saying, "That's good."
Who's supposed to be an invitation to a Christmas party? There are always invitations these days. Jessica patted the rings on the wall and turned to pick up a red Christmas stocking placed on her chair. At this time, Danny, who was standing next to him in a red dog Christmas dress, jumped slightly, and wanted to take off the sock, Jessica bent over and touched its head, pointed to Wang Yang on the other side of the sofa, and whispered in its ear: "Baby, go and harass that lazy guy!"
Danny tilted her head a little confused, and Jessica tilted her head as well, muttering to herself, "You don't understand, do you?" laughed, and she got up and continued to find a suitable place to hang her socks.
"Come on, come on, please!" Listening to the voice of the girl on the other side of the phone, Wang Yang still said "Thank you", it was someone who invited him to the Christmas carnival party, this is not the first invitation, and now this person is Paris Hilton, a more dissolute It-girl. Paris had his mobile phone number for a long time, and Wang Yang vaguely remembered that she invited him to a party a few years ago when she was in "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth".
Then in the past few days, she suddenly called several times. But he doesn't want to go, he's not a party guy, he has his own party, but the style is very different from it-girl's.
Like a nightclub, Paris is one of those frenetic dance music nightclubs, with colorful lights, a huge dance floor full of people, men and women dressed up in so-called fashion, twisting and teasing each other, hot rock music, crazy DJs, psychedelic drugs, crazy ...... Forget it! For him, that period of time has long passed.
It's fine to have a hangover with friends once in a while, but he'll go crazy if you put him in that kind of environment all day, and if you happen to have a Gatling machine gun in hand, he'll kill all the noisy people on the dance floor.
He's evolved into a homely creature who likes the kind of casual bars, or rustic retro bars, where it's quiet and relaxed, with soft music, singing and dancing without being noisy, and not even serving a whole bottle, but sharing a barrel with friends.
But Paris Hilton and her circle were traditional disco or dance music nightclubs, so Wang Yang had no interest in going to her party and meeting her friends, and when he heard Paris say, "Why, please, why are you so cool? You're not a priest!" he couldn't help but laugh and refused, "Yes, of course I'm not, apparently no priest can drink." But really, okay?"
"How can I invite you to a party?" Tell me!" Paris walked around with a look of annoyance with the microphone in the luxurious presidential suite of the Hilton Hotel, she was really angry, who the hell was that guy! If it was anyone else, she would have said goodbye a long time ago, but it was a magical Young! Thinking of his tall and charming figure and full of Asian charm...... And those incredible movies and achievements, she was full of excitement, she wanted to know him for a long, long time!
The magical Yang over there still said in a light tone, "I don't know, maybe." Paris stamped her foot in frustration, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, and pretended to cry, "I really, really like The Hangover, it was unbelievable, I almost died laughing!"
This also made her feel that she must know Magic Yang, such an interesting and handsome man of the same age, how can she not know a 22-year-old director!
Paris said in a sincere voice: "Amazing Young, I really want to get to know you, I love your movies, you know! I have liked it so much since "Youth Musical", "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", "Juno", "District 9", I have watched them all several times!" She exhaled a long breath and cried unwillingly: "Why did you reject me? What did I do wrong?"
Seeing that she was so difficult and refused to give up after refusing so many times, Wang Yang was a little puzzled and helpless, and laughed at himself in his heart: "**! I'm so popular!" It's just Brad Pitt + Tom Cruise, plus Johnny Depp! He shrugged his shoulders with a smile and said seriously: "Paris, let's put it this way, it's not that I don't go to the party, I just don't like that kind of ...... A lot of people have very noisy parties, and I like the quieter, old-fashioned ones. β
"Play jigsaw puzzles, share reading tips, and tell each other stories about grandparents......" he wiped his forehead, of course it was just a pretext, it was a standard nerdy party, but he wasn't.
He looked at Jessica, who was smiling and decorating with Christmas decorations, and smiled into his phone, "This is my party." "And there's going to be one soon, and then Joshua, Zachary, Erin and Rachel will come and watch the Golden Globe nominations be announced. Jessica is full of confidence in District 9 and The Hangover, so she invites them over and prepares to celebrate together.
Then he wanted to simply call Rachel, who was still in Los Angeles, to make up the lineup for "Ghost Shadows". A few good friends chatting, drinking, singing and dancing, playing games...... It's his old-fashioned party.
"Can I go to your party, then, why don't you invite me?" Paris seemed to have a good idea, her voice full of interest. Before Wang Yang could speak, she suddenly said quickly: "Oh! Do you think I am not worthy of being your friend? Do you think I am the kind of spoiled daughter? No, no, that's not the real me! Those are all lies, you should know that magazines like to lie, I am a very hard worker! I haven't spent my family's money since I was 18 years old!"
"Of course, you are. Wang Yang hummed softly, scratched his chin, and said, "Paris, I'm not sure you'll like my party, I'll talk about it later, right?"
Paris ignored him and said to herself, "I really like your movies, and you! You're amazing, so cool, so different......" She laughed as if she was tasting chocolate, and said ambiguously, "You know, I just want to get to know you." It doesn't have to be a party, we can come out for dinner. I have a lot of things I want to ask you about the movie, I want to be a good actor. β
"Actually, we've already met. Wang Yang's eyes rolled up, what did this guy want to do? Whatever! I didn't want to entangle with her anymore, he got up and said, "I'm sorry, I have something to do, so bye!" He pressed the end button, walked over to Jessica, and said, "Sweetheart, what do you say is going on? Paris Hilton keeps inviting me to some party. β
Jessica raised her eyebrows when she heard this, waved the Christmas stocking in her hand viciously, and said in a rough voice: "She wants to rob my boyfriend? Jessica flattened her mouth, if only she hadn't.
"And for the teacher to say again, you are not allowed to beat people casually!" Wang Yang turned his head and pointed at her with a serious face.
"I can't hear it. Jessica laughed and stuck out her tongue, she made a hideous grimace again, raised her fist and said: "Old fellow, if you are verbose, I will even beat you, the door of death!" Don't think I dare to beat the old man!" Wang Yang wowed, his eyes widened and said: "That is indeed impossible to prevent as a teacher, but don't you want to have a baby?" Jessica held back and smiled, her eyes turned back and forth a few times with pretense of consideration, and then she smiled toothy: "Okay, let you go once!"
β»β»"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the scene where the nominations for the 60th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards were announced. On the NBC channel on the TV screen, a blonde in a red evening dress walked up to the floor microphone, she was this year's Miss Golden Globe Awards, Haley-Giraldo, whose mother is the famous rock actress Pee Banata, and Hailey Giraldo was in charge of the announcement of this year's Golden Globe Awards.
At this moment, countless fans and audiences are sitting in front of the TV, as well as this year's hot candidates and film companies are also watching nervously, after all, the Golden Globe Awards are the vane of the Oscars and various awards, and whether there will be any gains next year depends on the next few minutes. There are so many favorites this year, and the media's prediction lists are different, so no one can say what the final result will be.
Like all studios with hits, Flame Films' PR department has made a lot of necessary efforts, such as sending the judges beautifully produced DVDs of "District 9", "The Hangover" and "Mr. Hughes" one by one, after all, "District 9" is a few months old, and the momentum is not as impressive as the academic movies in the Christmas file.
And every year the judges have to watch countless films participating in the competition, and they are often tired of watching them, and the superficial packaging, the impression of the film critics, and the impression of the film company and the cast and crew will affect their judgment. In any case, the efforts that should be done have been done, and as for what kind of fruit will be obtained in the end, we must accept it calmly.
In the Christmas-like living room, Danny is lazily lying next to a Christmas tree adorned with colorful balls, his two round eyes staring fixedly at the people watching TV on the sofa. Joshua stood behind the couch, pressed the back of the couch nervously with his hands, and said quickly in his breath: "Don't worry, there will be a lot of nominations!"
I saw that on the fabric sofa, Wang Yang leaned on the far right, and Jessica next to him sat in the middle, next to the casually dressed Erin and Zachary. Zachary said with a serious face, "Yes, there will be!" and Erin nodded as well. Rachel, who was wearing a lilac shirt and jeans, long blonde hair combed into a ponytail and bangs, sat on the arm of the sofa, she smiled and patted Wang Yang's shoulder next to her, but did not speak.
Wang Yang glanced up at her, knowing that she meant "whether it is all great", he smiled and said: "Guys, thank you, everything is OK! I still say that, of course it is worth being happy to have a nomination, but if there is no ......" He shrugged his shoulders slightly and smiled: "Look at the box office list and be happy." Rachel smiled dimplely, "I'm not happy." Wang Yang smiled: "But I'm a drunk, not a hot girl." β
Everyone laughed, Jessica smiled and clenched his left hand, she knew that Jan had been under a lot of pressure and even ridicule last year, he obviously cared more than he did in "Juno", and it would definitely be very exciting to be nominated for Best Director, but if not, everyone's company and encouragement could also make him less disappointed, so she invited everyone to come.
But now they're all nervous, if there is no nomination...... Will she mess up?Jessica tightened her stout hand and took a deep breath secretly, there will be!
"Let's start announcing this year's nominees!" On the large LCD TV screen, Hailey Giraldo opened the envelope in her hand, looked at it and said with a smile: "The first thing to announce is the film awards. The nominees for 'Best Film Song' were "Die-Another-Day", "Die Again", composed by Madonna/Mirwais-Ahmadzai...... "As she spoke, the screen behind her displayed the nominee's photo and name.
The Best Song award has always been just an appetizer, and soon Hailey Giraldo read out the five nominations for this award, continuing with the announcement of the best soundtrack: "Emor Bernstein, "Far from Heaven", Terrence Blanchard, "The 25th Hour", Philip Glass, "The Moment", "Every", Elliot Gedensel, "Frida", Jenn Kezmelik, "District 9". β
"woo-" Joshua's hands shouted "yes, yes!" like a boxing champion holding a champion belt, Zachary and Erin high-fived in celebration, Jessica almost jumped to her feet and cheered, "We have a nomination!" Wang Yang and Rachel also smiled happily, as if it were a nomination for best director.
This is the second time Jenn Kezmelik has been nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Score, the last time being their first collaboration with "When Happiness Knocks", and this time the soundtrack of "District 9" is a masterpiece of both the intense and dramatic scenes of the huge scenes and the bleak and poignant monologues of the characters. It is also with it that the audience can be more empathetic and hit their hearts.
Four of the five nominations are academic dramas and a science fiction movie, which seems to be very weird, but only on January 19 next year will we know who will win this year's Golden Globes.
Then Hailey Giraldo announced the nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress, but neither of these awards was a flame movie. I saw her flip through the list in her hand and said with a smile: "The following is the nomination for the best screenplay." Jessica and the others immediately held their breath, in the list of media predictions that are optimistic about "District 9", "District 9" is very hopeful to be nominated for this award!
"Bill Condon, "Chicago," David Hale, "All the Time," Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman, "Adapted Screenplay," ......"
Since the order of the nominees is according to the initials of the surname, it is good for any award, if there is "young-wang", it is generally ranked last, unless there is xyz after it. Now there are only two spots left, everyone's eyes are unblinking, Jessica unconsciously squeezes Wang Yang's hand hard, Rachel adjusts her sitting position, and Joshua's hands are in a posture that will be raised high at any time...... "Alexander Payne/Jim Taylor, "About Schmidt." Hailey Giraldo seemed to sense their nervousness, and paused before laughing at the last nomination: "District 9, Wang Yang." As soon as the words fell, a square in the lower right corner of the screen behind her showed a black-haired teenager holding the director's viewfinder, and the organizers actually used a photo from two years ago.
"Wow, wow, wow!" Joshua raised his hands happily, pressed them on Wang Yang's hair and kept rubbing them, jumping and laughing and shouting: "Dude, amazing!amazing!" Zachary whistled excitedly, Erin applauded, Jessica was relieved, stretched out two fingers weakly, panted and laughed: "Everyone, two nominations!" Rachel smiled and pushed his head with her right thumb: "Congratulations!"
Wang Yang let them ravage with a smile on his face, his body was pushed around, and said with a smile: "Thank you, I am proud of you, you are the best people! Okay, don't push me, I'm going to faint......"
Immediately after the announcement, the nominations for Best Foreign Language Film were announced, including France's "Balzac and the Little Tailor", Brazil's "City of God", Mexico's "The Sins of Father Amaro", China's "Heroes", Germany's "Angels of Africa" and Spain's "Say to Her". This also made Wang Yang and Joshua high-five happily. Then soon the nominations for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical Comedy were also read out, and "The Hangover" was not mentioned.
The nominees for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category are "About a Boy," "Adapted Screenplay," "Chicago," ......"
A sense of tension enveloped the entire living room of the couch, and all six knew that this nomination could play an important stabilizing role for the box office of "The Hangover", and it would be easy to become "the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time", and for that part of the evaluation that said it was vulgar and boring, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Comedy was enough to establish its classic status.
"The Hangover!" Joshua shouted uncontrollably, "The Hangover!" Zachary on the couch also shouted, "The Hangover!" and Erin shouted as well, "The Hangover!" Jessica clasped her chin with her hands and Rachel pressed Wang Yang's shoulders...... On the TV screen, Hayley Giraldo smiled into the microphone and said, "My Giant Greek Wedding, and The Hangover." β
The living room was silent for a second, and then suddenly a burst of excited screams broke out with a "wow", like a poor egg who bought a Powerball lottery ticket and won the super jackpot! Joshua looked up to the sky and laughed wildly; Wang Yang also raised his hands and smiled left and right: "Happy moment!" Rachel pushed his head again and smiled: "Cool!"
"yes, that's cool!" Jessica shouted as she excitedly said, "We have three nominations!" "Now that we have two nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Picture in a Musical Comedy, no matter what happens, it's worth celebrating!
The next Best Actress in a Drama category was Thelma Hayak, Nicole Kidman, and others, while Best Actor in a Drama was Adelynn Brody for "The Pianist," Daniel Day-Lewis for "Gangs of New York," Leonardo DiCaprio for "Getting Away with Hell," Jack Nicholson for "About Schmidt," and Robert Downey Jr. for "District 9."
When Hayley pronounced Donnie's name, the living room naturally fell into jubilation again! Wang Yang clenched his fists and waved, and Zachary shouted...... And Joshua stretched out four fingers and shouted excitedly, "Four nominations!" Jessica glared back at him and gave him a warning look, "I will do kung fu!" She clapped her palms and smiled happily, "We have four nominations!"
Rachel looked at Joshua with a smile and gave him a reassuring thumbs up, and Joshua was once again moved and thought to himself, "Why is it not her that my sister is this savage!" he clenched his hands into fists and kept punching Jessica in the head.
But they soon fell silent, because it was time to announce the nominations for the last two film awards, Best Picture for Drama and Best Director! Hayley Giraldo looked at the list in her hand and said with a smile: "The films shortlisted for Best Picture at the 60th Golden Globe Awards are, "About Schmidt", "......District 9", "Hour to Moment", "Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers", "The Pianist". β
The moment the poster of "District 9" was played on the TV screen, everyone couldn't help but shout loudly, countless fans in front of the TV, as well as all the crew members and friends of "District 9...... Everybody is going crazy!
"Five nominationsβ!"
"District 9" won the Golden Globe Award! Science fiction movie won the Golden Globe Award!
Like the Oscars, the last time a science fiction movie appeared in the halls of the Golden Globes was in 1982's "e.t."! That was 20 years ago! From a crawling baby to a tall adult, 20 years; the pages of the newspaper said "Aliens enter the Golden Globes", and then again "Aliens enter the Golden Globes", 20 years.
"Next came the nomination for Best Director, the final film award. Hailey Giraldo looked through the list with a smile, she looked down and said with a smile: "Every year this award attracts a lot of attention, let's see which big directors are selected for the Golden Globe Awards this year." The six nominees are: Stephen Dudley, "The Moment", Peter Jackson, "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers", Rob Marshall, "Chicago......"
The crowd was already holding their breath or panting rapidly. Jessica hugged Wang Yang's hand tightly, looking scared to look at it; Rachel held her right elbow with her left hand, and pressed her mouth nervously with her right hand; Wang Yang pursed her lips, her heart became beating faster, Old Man Wu's wrinkled old face flashed in front of him, he closed his eyes slightly and exhaled, Is life like a box of chocolates? Joshua in the back muttered, "Jesus!"
"Alexander Payne, 'About Schmidt'; Martin Scorsese, 'Gangs of New York'; and ......" Hayley Giraldo turned to look at the big screen behind her and smiled: "Wang Yang, District 9!"
"yes!yes!yes-" The first to scream with excitement was Joshua, who jumped up with his fist outstretched and laughed: "Best Director of Science Fiction Movie!" At the same time, Rachel on the armrest of the sofa covered her face with her right hand and breathed a long sigh of relief before she opened her eyes and chuckled, "Jan, you did it! You madman!" Zachary shouted loudly and unwillingly, and Erin also smiled happily for Wang Yang, and said, "It's amazing!"
The moment she heard Young, Jessica screamed "Ahh!!h
Seeing the crazy appearance of the owner jumping and jumping, Danny, who was lying next to the Christmas tree, also got up happily and ran over with his tail wagging his tail to join in the fun.
"Thank you, thank you!" Wang Yang bit his lip, but the pain made him feel that something in his heart suddenly let go, happy moment! He stood up from the sofa with a smile, stretched out his hands and hugged Jessica tightly, and then hugged Rachel, Zachary, and Erin respectively, touched Danny, and finally he wrapped his arms around Joshua, gritted his teeth and smiled: "Thank you very much! I love you buddy!"
Although Joshua also had some muscles, he was still very uncomfortable by his martial arts body, and hurriedly said, "Hey, you recognized the wrong person! I'm not Jessica!" Everyone immediately laughed, Wang Yang let go of him and looked at him suspiciously, and said with a smile: "Aren't you? Oh, I must be crazy with joy!"
"Amazing Jan, Amazing Jan!" Jessica suddenly clapped her hands and shouted with a smile: "Amazing Jan, Amazing Jan!" Eileen, Zachary and Rachel also clapped their palms with laughter and shouted in unison: "Amazing Jan, Amazing Jan!" Joshua whistled a few times to make a harmony, and also shouted: "Amazing Jan!" Wang Yang had an expression of being defeated by them, covered his forehead and smiled: "You guys are really ...... It's amazing, okay! I can't even speak!"
While they were laughing and shouting, Jessica picked up the champagne that had been prepared on the coffee table, her face was full of pride and joy, and her tone shook it mysteriously: "It's time to celebrate!" At this time, the cork on the mouth of the bottle suddenly popped out, and suddenly flew towards it like a rocket, she was stunned, she didn't expect the air pressure to be so strong!
Between the lightning and flint, the wooden plug that bounced back from above flew straight towards Wang Yang, if you look at it in super slow motion, you can see that everyone opened their mouths in surprise, and the wooden cork kept falling...... "Ho!" After all, it was just the speed of the rebound, Wang Yang quickly reached out and grabbed it, and held the wooden plug that flew at high speed firmly in his hand, and everyone suddenly exhaled "God", he looked at Jessica who was stunned, and said with a smile: "See, right? β
"Wow!" Jessica was relieved, what a big ha! Fortunately, it was fine! She smiled and pressed her thumb to the mouth of the champagne bottle, aimed it at him and shook the bottle violently, and as she removed her thumb, she laughed and said, "What about this!"
(To be continued)