Chapter 870: Busy as a war

After the Oscars, the three major news agencies immediately reported on the award and commented on Zhang Ran's award. Among them, the headline of the Associated Press is: "Zhang Ran won the Oscar for Best Director, rewriting the history of foreign language films".

The article said that there are 29 directors in the history of the Oscars who have been nominated for the Oscar for Best Director for foreign-language films, but none of them have succeeded, including the Japanese film master Akira Kurosawa, whose film career has lasted for 50 years. Kurosawa won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975 for "Desuuzara" and was nominated for Best Director in 1985 for "Chaos", but ultimately lost. Zhang Ran won the Best Director Award for a foreign language film, which is not only unprecedented, but also beyond the reach of latecomers.

Immediately afterwards, ABC, BBC and other media reported in detail on the Oscars on their official websites, and the headlines of the entertainment editions of major domestic portals were quickly replaced with "Zhang Ran won the Oscar for Best Director".

According to preliminary statistics from the Nielsen Ratings Survey, this year's three-hour awards ceremony hosted by Anne Hathaway and James Franco received a rating of 24.6%, which is not as good as last year's ratings, but better than the Oscars broadcasts in 2008 and 2009. Looking at the Oscars in the past 10 years, this year's ratings are the fourth lowest. However, the number of online hits set an all-time record, especially in China, where more than 30 million viewers watched the ceremony online.

According to the procedure, after the ceremony, 1,500 people, including Oscar winners, nominees, and award presenters, will be invited upstairs to a celebratory dinner called the "Governor's Dinner". In recent years, Chinese cuisine has become very popular with celebrities, and this year there is a Chinese film that has received multiple nominations, especially the introduction of jade rice from China, accompanied by lobster and king crab seasoned with Chinese sauces, including fried dumplings, Shanghai lobster and several other Chinese dishes.

In the spacious banquet hall, there were 1,500 guests, some chatting and laughing, some feasting, some borrowing wine to drown their sorrows, and some secretly accosting each other, while Zhang Ran constantly coped with the people who came to congratulate him.

In fact, Zhang Ran wanted to eat something, after all, he must have been a little hungry from two o'clock in the afternoon until now, but because he won the Best Director Award and made history, people kept coming to congratulate him, and he didn't have time to eat at all.

"Hey, boy, great job! This movie is really good, it's the perfect use of multi-part montage. You are so rich now, it seems that some people say that you are the richest man in the world! You should try more experimental films, and don't waste his talent like Lucas!"

"I make money just to be able to make movies freely, and the movie "Future Apocalypse" I made a few months ago was originally planned to cost $200 million, but it ended up costing $350 million, but I am most satisfied with the results. If I were just an ordinary director, it would not have been possible to do it. Zhang Ran could only put down the dumplings in his hand and chatted with Coppola.

"You are so rich and have the heart to chase movies, in the world of movies, you will go further than us!" Coppola was a little envious of Zhang Ran, if he had Zhang Ran who was so good at making money, then he should be able to go further.

"There is no end to the world of movies, we will always be students, always on the road!" Zhang Ran said with a smile.

After chatting about their new films and plans for a while, Coppola left, and the hungry Zhang Ran picked up the fried dumplings and prepared to eat them, but he didn't expect Darren Aronofsky to come over again, and he could only put the fried dumplings down again.

Zhang Ran once saw a book about the inside story of "Vanity Fair", the Oscar party was extremely luxurious and expensive from the lighting to the snacks, but the celebrities couldn't eat enough. Top celebrities don't dare to eat anything in public, lest they be photographed when their mouths are stuffed with food. Think about Brad Pitt with a sausage in his mouth, Nicole Kidman eating a cucumber, Natalie Portman having a green leaf on her tooth, what would happen if she was on the cover of the media.

For celebrities who are always image-conscious, taking pictures of their mouthfuls of food is as bad as taking pictures of them going to the toilet. So, they all endured it desperately. Until after leaving the dinner, a long limousine will stop in front of a drive-in McDonald's drive-in. Behind the dark glass, Hollywood stars are munching on giant burgers.

After Ang Lee won the little golden man with "Youth Pi" in 13 years, he was photographed by the media holding the little golden man in one hand and eating a hamburger in the other on the side of the road. Of course, Ang Lee didn't dare to eat at the banquet to ensure his image, but as a director who had just won the award, everyone took turns to bless him, and he didn't have a chance to eat at all.

Today, Zhang Ran has really experienced Ang Lee's feelings, from the beginning to the end of the dinner party, in addition to eating only a few fried dumplings, he filled a stomach with champagne. He began to think about whether to buy a burger to nibble on when he went out for a while!

The Governor's Dinner was just the starter for Oscar Night, and the end of the dinner meant that the night officially began. On this night, there are all kinds of parties, such as film companies holding parties to celebrate the company's award-winning films, agencies holding parties that are mainly artists from their own companies, such as CAA and other big four agencies, which are sure to be star-studded, entertainment and fashion media will also hold their own parties, such as "Vanity Fair" and "InStyle" will hold parties on the day of the Oscars, Vanity Fair Almost all of the year's winners and celebrities from Hollywood, as well as film company bigwigs, some non-profit organizations take the opportunity to hold parties, Elton John's AIDS Foundation holds a party every year after the Oss ceremony, and of course, there are some intimate parties that are not humane.

Most of these parties are ticket-sold, and they can be entered with money or donations, and have formed an industry and are part of the entire Oscar economy.

The most sought after and hottest of all the parties is undoubtedly the Vanity Fair party, which has reached the point of being known to all. On the night of the ceremony, almost all the Oscar nominees will be in attendance, both winners and losers will take the stage to show their faces, and even many of the big stars who did not show up on the Oscar red carpet will also show up at the party venue.

In the past three or four years, Zhang Ran has received invitations from "Vanity Fair" every year, but he has never gotten there. This year, while "Vanity Fair" sent out an invitation letter, it also mailed him a gift, a red director's chair with the words "Vanity Fair" written on the back of the chair, but Zhang Ran still did not go. It's not that it doesn't give face, but Summit Entertainment has its own celebration party.

Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu took their parents to the governor's dinner, sent them back to their rooms at the Four Seasons Hotel, and then rushed to the scene of the Summit Entertainment Celebration Banquet, when there were not too many people in the party hall. The Vanity Fair party in the Sunset Tower was so appealing that the big stars and many of the winners rushed to it as soon as possible, so it was not uncommon for the main character to be present at the studio's celebration party. At least the stars of the two films at the pinnacle of the century, except for Natalie Portman, who has a big belly and is inconvenient to attend, everyone else has arrived.

For Zhang Ran, it is also good to have fewer people present, at least no one disturbs him to eat. He hurriedly took the plate, picked a bunch of food, and found a quiet place to eat it violently.

Seeing that Zhang Ran was reincarnated like a starving ghost, Hu Jun kept stuffing things into his mouth, and said curiously: "The things at the celebration banquet just now taste good, why don't you eat more?"

Zhang Ran's mouth was stuffed with lobsters, and he said in a slurred tone: "Hundreds of people came to greet me and congratulate me, do you think I have a good meal?"

Hu Jun laughed: "Who made you a big director, this is the trouble of being a celebrity!" He saw that Zhang Ran looked very funny with something wrapped in his mouth, and quickly took out his mobile phone: "This look is not bad!"

Zhang Ran is not as afraid of being photographed with a mouthful of food like Hollywood stars, how do directors care about their image, not to mention that China is a country of foodies, the more you can eat, the more you will make everyone feel that you are close. However, he still deliberately threatened: "Don't mess around, don't affect my glorious image!"

Hu Jun smiled: "Even the gods have to and eat!"

Zhang Ran said angrily: "You are too hateful, you deliberately didn't let me eat, right?"

Without waiting for Hu Jun and Hu Jun to answer, there was a sudden commotion at the door, and it was Leonardo and the crew of "Inception" who arrived. Everyone didn't expect the crew of "Inception" to come over so early, and they were overjoyed, and many people gathered around to say hello.

Leonardo knew Zhang Ran, and after entering the arena, he didn't care about the others, and went straight to Zhang Ran, who was still eating fiercely, and greeted him with a smile: "Congratulations, Zhang!"

Zhang Ran was also a little surprised, the crew of "Inception" should have gone to Warner Bros. or the party of "Vanity Fair" first, why did they come to us first. However, the first time others could come over was to save face, he reluctantly put down the fork in his hand, and smiled: "Thank you! Leo, I'm so glad to see you!"

Leonardo sincerely admired: "I like "One Man Shines on the Lights" so much, although the story is a Chinese story, I feel that I resonate very much with the characters in it, and I feel that I really live in an indifferent society. I especially like the ending of the movie, which is the most brilliant cinematic art. When "Ode to Joy" sounded, my tears flowed from my eyes. This is the best ending I've ever seen, how did you come up with it?"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "My movies are often remade, and sometimes they are shot repeatedly, because it is always difficult to be satisfied, and there are always new ideas popping up, and they are always revised during shooting, and this ending is constantly revised." ”

Leonardo had some regret about his rejection of Future Apocalypse, when he felt that the characters were too thin and too unchallenging for himself and gave up. Later, after watching "One Man's Lights", he realized that Zhang Ran is the kind of director who can make a story that is not particularly complicated wonderful, and at the same time can deeply explore the characters and the connotation of the story. Now after listening to Zhang Ran's words, Leonardo is even more convinced of this, he looked at Zhang Ran and said seriously: "I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate in the future!"

Of course, Zhang Ran will not hold a grudge because Leonardo rejected "Future Apocalypse", this is a very normal thing in Hollywood, every director will encounter it, and said with a smile: "Of course, I appreciate your acting skills quite a lot!"

Leonardo laughed when he heard this, he was quite confident in his acting skills, and said lightly: "If it is a movie like "One Man Puts on the Lights", I am willing to charge according to the minimum wage standard of the union!"

If the minimum wage is charged, Leonardo's salary for filming a movie will be tens of thousands of dollars at most, which is equivalent to free. However, it is common for Hollywood superstars to shoot niche literary films with famous directors with ultra-low salaries, Zhang Ran naturally did not feel surprised, and said with a smile: "Then we have made up our minds, but you can't regret it!"