Chapter 134: The King's Speech
"Hi guys, I'm ...... I'm Lily......"
Looking at the stunned people in front of the stage, Lily was also stupid, but sitting less than ten yards away, she saw the Gyllenhaal siblings, the old headmaster, and Ms. Yale...... Don't be a fool, aren't you going to be a talk show host? How can you be stupid by unexpected situations?
Now it's a show, I'm the host, I'm on the show!
"I'm here to ......" she blurted out, trying to soften her stiff smile, "I'm here to introduce...... So first of all, let me tell you, Ye Wei!"
Oh my god, what am I talking about......
Although Lily and everyone were confused, her words saved her life, and the staff on both sides of the stage were about to rush out and drag her away, but because of this sentence, and Ye Wei cleverly laughed at Ms. Yale and said, "This is my arrangement, surprise!", they stopped suddenly.
Young man, this should be communicated in advance! Ms. Yale was a little helpless, and said on the wireless intercom: "Let her speak, give her a microphone." β
A staff member walked out of the left side of the stage with a microphone, Lily took it in her hand, although she was relieved, but she didn't know what to say, look at the encouraging eyes, look at the crowd, she said casually: "He's a good guy, yes, he's a good guy......!"
Can anyone drag her away? Trist really couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and Connie was quite embarrassed by her friend, so many people from other schools, oh my God!
Tonight, there will be a joke circulating in all the high schools in Los Angeles: A Harvard-Westlake girl is so high that she rushes to the stage and goes crazy in public! That girl's name is Lily Collins!
Some students from other schools around laughed lightly, and the students of this school were also in a strange mood, what kind of trouble is this?
The members of the Dream Chaser Alliance also didn't know what Viy's arrangements were, and Bard excitedly said to Master Gia: "Show-time, show-time!
Can't stop! Lily let herself not hear those chuckles, thinking of something, suddenly glared slightly, and raised her voice: "He did a great thing tonight, he agreed to the organizer to set up the Ye Wei Award! Maybe you still don't know what it is, then I tell you, it is an award in order to prevent Ye Wei from sweeping the award and so that others can win the award." β
Wow, the audience was amazed, what did she want to say?
"As a good friend of Ye Wei, I know that he is also eager to win those regular awards, and a long time ago, he had already said that he was going to sweep the film festival! He was very excited, very excited, very confident! And now we all know that he did it, I mean...... Who here would dare to say that their exhibit is better than "Dance of Angels"?"
Her eyes swept over the young producers, her mind became more open, and she shook her head: "No one dares." β
"Haha!" the students and audience laughed one after another, and all the exhibitors except Ye Wei and Lev felt embarrassed, especially Micah Levin, who was happy to win the award just now, the trophy next to him was like a huge fireball that was about to devour him, and a layer of hot sweat broke out all over his body......
This award is viy, I took it hot, a lifetime of shame, I have to return it......
At this moment, Ms. Yale was about to lose her seat, and she felt anxious! viy? The spirit of the devil! Is this what he played with this young girl, and he could ruin the film festival!
The old principal touched the bald head in front of him, the smile on the old face had already become ugly, and his heart was also worried, and the proud protΓ©gΓ© suddenly turned back into that bad boy? viy, viy, the film festival is different from Monday gatherings, don't play so big!
The judges and consultants all frowned, and Maggie and Jack looked at Ye Wei inquiringly, Weige, this is not interesting!
Ye Wei shrugged his shoulders and exclaimed holy-cow in his heart, but he believed that Lily would not mess around, impossible.
"I'm not happy, I think it's stupid! You can't lose the glory that belongs to you just because you're better than others. β
Lily continued, very indignant, walked a few steps, and said, "I asked him why he agreed to make the seven awards he won one don't say anything 'Ye Wei Award is cool', we all know mathematics." β
"Hahaha!" The audience burst into laughter, except for the producers becoming more and more embarrassed and the big names becoming more and more anxious, everyone laughed heartily!
Gia almost laughed and rolled to the back row, well, if she were a boy, she would like this hot girl too!
Ms. Yale has a countdown that is almost at the end of the day, and if she says a few more words, she will still be forcibly pulled away......
After receiving these laughter, Lily's smile became confident, thinking about the phone call with Wei last night, her expression changed, and she said: "He sued me, to be honest, I thought it was really bad at first, Ms. Yale actually wanted to prevaricate me with an award, how dare she!? Does this year's Oscar set a Peter Jackson Award for "The Lord of the Rings 3"?"
There was another laugh in the theater, and Lev and Bard were applauding even more, it turned out that Brother Wei was just comforting them before, how dare Ms. Yale! Brother Wei, we support you!
"But when I was about to reject her, something suddenly occurred to me. β
Just as Ms. Yale was trying to prevent the disaster from becoming more out of control, Lily continued to repeat Ye Wei's words in a slightly modified voice:
"I had a competition with a classmate at the school because of the film festival, and we both said we were going to win the most popular award, and the whole school knew about it, but then after the success of "Dance of Angels", he didn't submit his work, and he quit, and I knew it was because he knew he was going to lose.
That guy is really not a good person, he is a school bully in the traditional sense, arrogant, low morality, bullying others everywhere he has the opportunity, you can see the shadow of the bad qualities you can think of. However, the fact is that many of these bastards have gone on to become excellent Hollywood filmmakers. β
"Hahaha!" The audience burst into laughter again, and this time it wasn't the students who laughed the most, but the big guys!
The four judges almost laughed, this is really a vicious sentence, if this is at the Oscars, I really don't know what the audience will laugh at.
And the old principal, Ms. Yale, and others realized that there seemed to be no disaster at all...... Just a surprise!
Relax, it's still very good, keep it up!Lily controlled her breath, looked at Ye Wei as soon as there was a sign of messiness, and said steadily:
"And there's a power to make zuΓ² movies that will turn jerks into good guys, because you hate no-good from the bottom of your heart and like good-take. But because of our vicious competition, he didn't appear at the film festival and didn't make a movie. I had mixed feelings, I won, but I felt like I had lost something.
What have I lost? An opponent? No, he can't be my opponent, I've lost a fan.
I don't want to lose more! Especially the good students at the festival, they're not school bullies, they're pure movie lovers, they're kind, they have movie dreams, just like me! I want to win, I want them to win!"
She said sonorously, with a serious face, so infectious, that the audience had already quieted down, filled with a sunny-like atmosphere after the rain, touching the hearts of the producers, and many people were burning with blood......
The smiles on the faces of Ms. Yale and the others were touched and happy.
"I want the Harvard-Westlake Film Festival to be a place to share movie dreams, not a killing battlefield, where I have as many awards as I have and how many awards you have. There are enough battlefields like that, and we will participate in them when we grow up, but not now, not in our youth!
Youth should be pure, dreams should also be pure, and this film festival should also purely remember our youth years driven by dreams!
We get strength and happiness from this, without the slightest bit of frustration and sadness!
Therefore, I promised Ms. Yale to let the Ye Wei Award be established! It is not prevarication, it is my glory, my blessing, my friendship, and my dream! Friends, let us embrace the power of chasing dreams and absorb the joy of the film festival together!
But my "Good People Have Good Rewards" will still compete for awards, so don't be surprised to see me win the award, don't hate me, I really did my best to get you to win the award. β
The audience laughed again, Lily also laughed, and finally said: "That's it, this is Ye Wei Award!
Before she finished speaking, the audience was already thunderous applause, I don't know who started, nearly 90 young producers stood up one after another, and gave viy their sincere applause!
Before, because of his superior strength, they had to be convinced, but they lacked understanding of him, not without a little negative feelings, and now, he was like an old friend of theirs, and his words gave them an idea of what kind of person he was, the kind of guy that people had to like!
"Brother Wei, you deserve to be a man!" Lev admired, the angle from which a man thinks things is different from that of a boy, and the facts are in front of him!
On the other side, Bard was about to cry, and Chen Nuo, Colwin, and the others were also very motivated, but they were right, and their choice was right! At this time, Master Gia laughed with them and said, "You guys follow him all day long, why can't you learn some of it?
The bigwigs in the front row were also applauding, and the mood was like a roller coaster, and the old principal said happily: "I just said, viy is actually very sensible." β
"yes, yes. Ms. Yale nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "Enough surprise, what a big surprise." β
Ye Wei was admired, and everyone praised the girl named Lily on the stage at the same time, she was a little flustered at first, but quickly calmed down and completed a perfect off-script speech, not every middle school girl has this ability.
Okay, Lily, you're really good! Trister and Connie are laughing happily at their friends, and they both say that couples affect each other, and that's true, look at Lily!
"Now I know who your girlfriend is. Maggie Gyllenhaal quipped Ye Wei, "Lily Collins, I know this girl." β
Jake Gyllenhaal really felt a little pressure, the surprise speech of the young couple was so good, and the speech he prepared seemed very mediocre in comparison......
"Haha!" Ye Wei, who was laughing, looked very proud, only he knew his pain, Lily, you are happy, but you have finished my speech!
"Weige, let's award Ye Wei now. Unexpectedly, Ms. Yale over there shouted at him, it was supposed to be the finale, but now the atmosphere is just right, and there is no more suitable time for the award.
Ye Wei was dumbfounded, he just wanted to do one thing, call 911 to call the police, there is a murder of eloquence in the Olive Green Theater of Harvard-Westlake High School!
The police are always one step too late, and Ms. Yale immediately got up and walked onto the stage, to Lily's surprise, and a staff member walked out with a delicate and tall gold trophy, and the crowd who knew what was going to happen applauded even more enthusiastically, until the prompt was quiet and loud a few times.
"Regarding the origin of the Ye Wei Award, Lily has already said. Ms. Yale smiled and said to the audience, "We are grateful for this, Weige's behavior highlights the essence of the Harvard-Westlake Film Festival, makes tonight more meaningful, and invites him to come to the stage to accept the award, Ye Wei!"
Now the audience was boiling again, applause and cheers surged towards Ye Wei, he got up with a smile and ran onto the small stage, opened his hands and hugged Lily lightly, and whispered in her ear, "What's the matter?"
"It just happened, pretty cool, didn't it?"
"It's cool!"
Ye Wei let go of her, took two steps and hugged Ms. Yale lightly, then took the heavy gold trophy from her hand, turned around and raised it to everyone in front of him, and from the rows of audience seats, he vaguely saw the smiling faces of his family, friends, and the smiling girl standing next to him!
Lily felt dreamy, I didn't expect to miss the most important moment, not only did she not miss the most important moment, but she also accepted the award with him!
"It was my first film trophy. Ye Wei said with a microphone in one hand and a trophy in the other: "It's much bigger than I imagined, I thought it would be a little thin man." Everyone chuckled, and he shrugged, "I misunderstood, it turns out that they have plenty of materials, I should have expected that this is Harvard-West Lake." β
He made a few jokes, amused everyone on and off the stage, and then said sincerely: "I want to thank a lot of people, in summary, they are my family, my friends, my faculty, they have always supported me in pursuing my dream of film, do you know how great it is? It's like you're tired of going to a top spa after a tiring day." β
chuckled again, it was really not what Ye Wei expected, he smiled: "Supporting a person, sometimes it's really like doing a spa for him, you do a lot, he gets encouragement, relaxation, strength, and you just get a thank you." How is that enough? You have to give money, or you don't want to get out of the beauty salon!"
This time the audience laughed and Lily bewildered her teeth, and as expected, he said loudly:
"But they really don't want money, they really just want you to succeed, they just want you to say thank you, what a good group of people! Dad, Mom, Duoduo, everyone, all the people who have supported me, I love you! Thank you!!"
The smiling faces were happy and proud, and the applause was warm and loud.
Ms. Yale walked off the stage with Lily, while Ye Wei had to stay on stage to give a small speech.
Ye Wei's speech had already been finished, so he could only improvise and say: "Ye Wei is a good person, yes, he is a very good young man......"
He seemed to be short of words and amused everyone, so I didn't believe it, and Lily, who was standing in the audience like a staff member, glared at him with disgust, and made fun of me, and you were in trouble!
"Although this is the case, an award named after a person is very heavy, and I hope that after me, someone will be able to get it sooner rather than later and share its weight together. Otherwise, there are only ...... winners of the Ye Wei Award Ye Wei. It's so embarrassing like I bought a trophy prize for myself at the dollar tree (dollar store). β
The laughter roared again, and Gia burst into tears, it was really like!
Ye Wei raised his brows and said in a serious tone: "I'm not joking, that's also possible, after all, even the government has times of economic crisis." β
The old principal and Ms. Yale shook their heads with a smile, the trophy is expensive!
"Anyway, I think it told us something: a high school student can make a professional-quality short film!
In fact, in the process of making "Dance of Angels", I have heard a lot of 'impossible' voices, sometimes even from the people who will give you a spa, forgive them, sometimes it is not a mistake to pinch hard. β
As he spoke, he walked freely on the small stage, glancing at the smiling crowd, "I just want to enjoy it and believe in myself!" I'm not saying that everyone should do it, but to say, don't lower your requirements for yourself, don't believe in the impossible, there is only one thing worth believing in, they can be because they think they can!"
Hearing the school motto, the students of Harvard-Westlake cheered, and the alumni applauded.
"You can! You can too! And you, all of you!"
Ye Wei pointed around with trophies to those producers of the same age, "A person can control his own destiny and do what he wants, and the first step is to believe in himself." β
His voice became more and more passionate: "Yesterday, my remade feature film "The Wedding is Coming" was completed, and it also grew up in a lot of impossibilities, and it faced many challenges! But I am not afraid, I believe that in the near future, the world will see what I have to say, how to turn a bad movie into a good movie.
If you see that this has also come true, Ye Wei has created a miracle for the second time! Then please believe that this is not a miracle. People like to call some rare things miracles, and ignore what lies behind them: hard work, hard work, talent, luck, all of them, but most importantly, courage, faith!
And if you see that I have failed, remember what I said now, I am not dead! I have come a long way, and I am there, and I keep going.
Why do you want to linger? This festival is just a small break for you and for me, and the works we exhibit will not be our answer, they are just a question that we ask, how can I do more?
My friends, when you have a higher goal and a bigger dream, don't hesitate to embark on a journey and pursue it!
Then whether you succeed or fail, you can buy a trophy for yourself in the dollar tree, and that trophy will be named after you and live forever in your glory!
As soon as the words fell, Ye Wei raised the trophy in his left hand high, and said that he was also full of expectations and determination, he may have won the highest honor in the short film industry for high school students, he may already be the king of this world, but the other world has just opened the door to him.
The world of feature films!
"viy!!", "Well said!!" once again the audience applauded and cheered through the theater, so that the people waiting in line outside could clearly see that this time even the big names in the front row stood up and expressed their respect to this movie kid!
And the members of the Dream Chasing Alliance, they feel that they are holding something tightly, it must be wonderful!
The youthful years that are driven forward by dreams!
I'm not saying that everyone should do it, but I mean, don't lower your demands on yourself, don't believe in the impossible, there is only one thing worth believing in, they can be because they think they can!"
Hearing the school motto, the students of Harvard-Westlake cheered, and the alumni applauded.
"You can! You can too! And you, all of you!"
Ye Wei pointed around with trophies to those producers of the same age, "A person can control his own destiny and do what he wants, and the first step is to believe in himself." β
His voice became more and more passionate: "Yesterday, my remade feature film "The Wedding is Coming" was completed, and it also grew up in a lot of impossibilities, and it faced many challenges! But I am not afraid, I believe that in the near future, the world will see what I have to say, how to turn a bad movie into a good movie.
If you see that this has also come true, Ye Wei has created a miracle for the second time! Then please believe that this is not a miracle. People like to call some rare things miracles, and ignore what lies behind them: hard work, hard work, talent, luck, all of them, but most importantly, courage, faith!
And if you see that I have failed, remember what I said now, I am not dead! I have come a long way, and I am there, and I keep going.
Why do you want to linger? This festival is just a small break for you and for me, and the works we exhibit will not be our answer, they are just a question that we ask, how can I do more?
My friends, when you have a higher goal and a bigger dream, don't hesitate to embark on a journey and pursue it!
Then whether you succeed or fail, you can buy a trophy for yourself in the dollar tree, and that trophy will be named after you and live forever in your glory!
As soon as the words fell, Ye Wei raised the trophy in his left hand high, and said that he was also full of expectations and determination, he may have won the highest honor in the short film industry for high school students, he may already be the king of this world, but the other world has just opened the door to him.
The world of feature films!
"viy!!", "Well said!!" once again the audience applauded and cheered through the theater, so that the people waiting in line outside could clearly see that this time even the big names in the front row stood up and expressed their respect to this movie kid!
And the members of the Dream Chasing Alliance, they feel that they are holding something tightly, it must be wonderful!
The youthful years that are driven forward by dreams!