Chapter 35: Interview with Vanity Fair
The 88th Academy Awards came to a successful conclusion.
Unsurprisingly, the next day, news outlets, internet portals, and a bunch of breaking news from around the world gave the headline 'Oscar, please respect Asians!'
And then there's 'Little Plum Dreams of Oscar...'
Realistic version of American poignant pants!
USA Today, the largest newspaper in the United States, commented on Shen Lin's performance at the Oscars last night: "In recent years, racial discrimination seems to have become the most mainstream crime, as long as anyone says a bad word about a black person in public, he will immediately be recognized as a racist, however, we can make fun of Asians unscrupulously, which is very unfair, thank you Director Shen Lin for telling everyone in public about our illness at the Oscars, I think, Americans need to reflect on themselves!"
"Why can black people make fun of people and be treated as a joke, and we can become racists if we say a word or two? Perhaps, it's time to think about it!"
—From The New York Times
"I very much agree with Shen Lin's speech at the Oscars last night, Chris obviously said inappropriately, and the board of directors of the Academy of Film Arts should come up with "concrete actions" to avoid the recurrence of discrimination against Asians at the Oscars. …”
- Ang Lee and members of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts in Asia support Shen Lin.
"He's so handsome, no Chinese has ever been as cool as him, and he's still very young, if he's not married, I can consider marrying him!"
- Great cousin Jennifer Lawrence.
In short, the whole United States seems to have fallen into a whirlwind brought by Shen Lin!
Many media, including "Times" and "Variety", are rushing to make an interview with Shen Lin, nonsense, everyone knows that Shen Lin's interview at this time will definitely make a lot of money, last year's interview with "Variety" magazine about Shen Lin was hyped again, and many people called to ask for another print...
Most people who saw Shen Lin for the first time at the Oscars began to want to know him, and then they found that the director seemed to be unusual, 28 years old, more than ten movies have been released, and he has won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Not only that, but he is also the screenwriter of "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men", and the original author of "The Hunger Games"!
The more they learned about these, the more they wanted to know, and many people even found a magical subtitle group to let them translate the variety shows that Shen Lin participated in in China.
"Amazing Chinese director!"
This is the conclusion that many people have come to after learning about Shen Lin's series of past events.
At this time, "Vanity Fair" brought an exclusive interview with Shen Lin.
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"Director Shen, hello, you, we've been discussing the most recently, have you ever thought that you would become the center of the conversation?"
"Hehe, I really didn't expect it, to be honest, the day before yesterday Oscar, I just thought what Chris Rock said made me unhappy, so I said it, I really didn't expect it to cause such a big storm, you know, I even received a lot of scripts recently, and I want to be an actor!
"A lot of people want to get to know you, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?"
"I'm Chinese, I'm a director by profession, I've also been a writer, screenwriter, and by the way, I've also sung songs..."
"Can you tell me what you thought before you went to the Oscars?"
"Before the Oscars, Carol received four nominations, and I thought it would be good to win Best Foreign Language Film, but I didn't expect my wife to win Best Supporting Actress, thank you to the academy for encouraging us. ”
"No, I wanted to ask you what you think of the Academy Awards. ”
"Oscar?"
Shen Lin pondered for about three seconds: "The Oscars are a gluttonous feast for movies, and I am proud to be able to participate in it, but I didn't expect this session to be so bad!"
"Well, we screwed it all up!"
"No, at least the choice of awards is well deserved!"
"We've seen your previous information, you stayed in Hollywood from '08 to '10, and you're already a well-known screenwriter, why didn't you stay?"
"Maybe I still don't have a sense of belonging, my parents stayed in China, and China's film industry developed rapidly in those years, so I simply returned to China to develop. ”
"Then why did you make 'Dallas Buyers Club' and 'Interstellar'? Does that mean you want to do something in Hollywood?"
“… It's really not, the script of "Interstellar" was prepared for director Nolan, who knew that he suddenly didn't want to be a director, then I had to go on it myself, as for "Dallas Buyers Club", I had already written the script, but it was very simple to do as an independent film, and I never thought that I could be nominated for an Oscar, let alone be unanimously recognized by the judges. ”
"Then you are a Chinese filmmaker, from your point of view, do you think there is any difference between Chinese films and Hollywood works?"
"In fact, there is not much difference, now many of the special effects used in Hollywood A-level production are basically involved in Chinese special effects personnel, and Chinese capital has also begun to enter Hollywood, we can also use Hollywood's film industry, the only difference may be the market, Hollywood has a global market, while Chinese films can only stay in China, this may be the direction that our generation of Chinese filmmakers should work towards..."
"Let's talk about your new work, I heard that it's a movie about tomb robbery?"
"Well, to be exact, it should be similar to a treasure hunting expedition, but there are many rules handed down in ancient China..."
"Sounds interesting, do you think this kind of movie would be popular in North America?"
"Probably yes, people all over the world should be adventurous!"
"Okay, when the film ends, you're going to start making a musical and dance film in May?"
"That's right, it's a song and dance movie!"
"You like musicals a lot?"
"Well, I can't talk about love, but I still really want to see the genre of musical and dance movies in the cinema. ”
"Type?"
"That's right, in fact, in recent years, the world's film genre is very single, especially Hollywood, in addition to big productions is a bunch of politically correct works aimed at the awards season, which is a great disrespect for the movie, the movie itself should have a variety of themes, song and dance films were one of the hottest themes in Hollywood back then, "Singin' in the Rain", "Cherbourg's Umbrella", "Ecstasy" includes "Mamma Mia" two thousand years later It's all of a very high-quality work, and I hope that my approach will make people realize a little bit that there are still song and dance films in the original film genre!"
"What about Les Misérables?"
“… I won't comment on it, I can only say that it is a very mediocre work!"
"Okay, can you tell us about the idea for the new work?"
"Conception is a work that dreams come true, and I call it La La Land!"
“… I wish you success!"
"Thank you!"
Closing remarks: There are very few directors who can make me calm down and listen to him and listen to his thoughts on the film, and there is a very special charm about this young man from the East, which, according to my colleague, is called 'gentleman's style'. He doesn't want to talk about himself, only when he talks about movies, he will talk endlessly, maybe only such a person with a pure heart will speak up at the Oscars, as long as he maintains this mentality, I am willing to believe that he will be a real film master of our time!