America gains both fame and fortune

Chapter 480 Turbulent Oscar Night
“Thank you, thank you to all the judges!”

This is an indispensable step. Martin looked around again and said, "Thank you Bruce, thanks to Jack and Leo. Without the three of them, I might have collapsed on the beach in Santa Monica!"

There was warm applause from the audience.

Nicholson and Leonardo laughed and applauded.

Martin added: "Thank you to my agent, thank you to all the members of my team, thank you to my girlfriend, thank you to my sponsors, thank you to everyone in my life, thank you to Director Nolan and everyone in the Dark Knight crew."

There was only 45 seconds left to give his speech. The countdown behind him turned red. Martin held up the Oscar statuette and spoke faster: "I don't know how all this happened, but I was very lucky."

Martin is a young man, so he naturally wanted to show his youthful side. He finally said loudly: "To borrow a line from the Dark Knight, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger!"

Amid thunderous applause, Martin went backstage with Nicholson and Leonardo.

The live broadcast camera took a close-up of the three people's backs as they walked side by side.

Applause broke out again.

…………

"cheers!"

The crisp sound of clinking glasses rang out, and the bar was filled with joy as if everyone had collectively won a lottery.

Young people wearing red T-shirts packed the bar to watch the Oscars live broadcast. The atmosphere reached its peak when Martin held up the trophy.

A big blond boy jumped onto the table and shouted, "To celebrate Martin's award, I'll pay for all the expenses tonight!"

"Thank you Oscar, thank you Martin, thank you Chloe." Someone held up a Martin commemorative edition Coca-Cola.

Chloe took a can of commemorative Coke and held it high: "Cheers to Martin!"

Hundreds of people toasted in celebration.

This was a night of explosive consumption across the United States, with millions of people celebrating Martin's Oscar win, directly driving consumption by hundreds of millions of dollars.

In a convenience store not far from here, the owner opened the cash register at gunpoint of a clown.

Another clown swept away all the money inside.

Before leaving, one of the clowns shouted to the store's surveillance camera: "Don't look for us, we are just celebrating Martin's award in this special way!"

Another clown yelled, "Long live Martin, long live the clown!"

The two men rushed out of the convenience store and heard the sirens. Instead of running away in panic, they raised their pistols and fired into the air.

The sound of gunfire blasted like a salute.

The crowd on the street became chaotic and blocked the police car from moving forward.

A clown shouted, "Martin wins the prize! Martin wins the prize! Long live Martin!"

On the originally chaotic street, someone suddenly responded: "Long live Martin!"

Gradually, more people shouted, "Long live Martin!"

It was a crazy night, with robberies and shootings involving disguised clowns reaching a new high across the United States.

Those Martin admirers among the marginalized were also celebrating Martin winning the Oscar in a special way!

In a dim apartment in Burbank, Ben Affleck stared at the TV expressionlessly. On the screen, the bastard was holding up the golden man.

He picked up the remote and turned off the TV, leaving the apartment in darkness.

In the darkness, Big Ben picked up the bottle and poured the wine into his mouth.

"Martin Davis!" He muttered a person's name: "It can only be you, Martin Davis!"

Ben and Cassie's cases were all settled, and they paid a huge financial price for it. Although they didn't lose everything, they were still seriously injured.

When these things were over and his emotions had really calmed down, Ben thought carefully about the cause and effect. It was not difficult for him to feel that there seemed to be an invisible big hand behind all the bad things he had experienced.

Who owns that giant hand? TMZ?

It seems that it was indeed done by TMZ. From exposing the incident to digging up more explosive information, TMZ has been attacking him fiercely.

Da Ben carefully sorted out his experiences over the past six months and found that there was actually only one person with whom he had a serious conflict.

Martin Davis!
At first, Martin had snatched the copyright of the novel he had his eyes on, and he and Cassie wanted to teach Martin a lesson...

Ben is just speculating and can't find any evidence, but he is not the LAPD and doesn't need evidence.

Besides, when the LAPD does things, don’t they sometimes just create evidence themselves?

Big Ben turned on the lights in the room, found the documents of the last house, and decided to sell the house to raise cash to deal with Martin Davis.

Behind him is Harvey, who has been unhappy with Martin for a long time. As long as he can find an opportunity, Harvey will definitely take action.

Big Ben drank the rest of the wine in the bottle and went out in the night. Opportunities have to be sought, not waited for.

On the North Side of Sunset Boulevard, Lily screamed as she walked out of the villa and lit a box of fireworks placed on the Fountain Square. A whistling sound was heard, and brilliant fireworks exploded in the night sky.

Since Martin didn't know when he would be back, Lily decided to celebrate alone.

She set off more than a dozen boxes of fireworks in one go and took photos.

The fireworks burst, attracting a lot of people's attention.

Martin had informed the community committee in advance, and the community committee had also notified the residents. Now that it was not too late, few people had any objections.

But someone next door wasn't too happy.

Charlize Theron was out filming, and Stuart Townsend, who was staying at home and drinking alone, heard the noise outside and went to the window to take a look. The fireworks in the sky disgusted him because they were set off next door.

As a slightly famous actor, Stewart was also following the Oscars. He had just seen his neighbor Martin Davis win the award. Seeing him holding up the little golden man, he felt more upset than he did when he lost ten roles with a salary of one million dollars in a row.

As a man with a beautiful girlfriend, it is a very painful thing to have a male neighbor who is much better than you in terms of appearance, status and money.

This is also the root cause of Stuart's dislike for Martin.

Martin's Oscar win deepened Stewart's pain.

How to relieve the pain? Stuart had a way. He found his cell phone and called, saying, "It's me. Come over tonight?"

"Charlize Theron isn't here?" The speaker was a woman with a somewhat hoarse voice.

Stuart asked, "Are you coming?"

The other side said, "Of course, wait for me, I have a party here, I will come over after it's over."

Stewart glanced at his photo with Charlize Theron and felt that being with this South African woman was becoming increasingly boring, so he said, "Hurry up."

The other side responded: "I will do my best."

Stuart checked the time, called the community and said, "I'm Stuart Townsend. There's a lady coming to visit me later. The license plate number is... When she arrives, just let her in."

At the community office, Toni, who was on night duty tonight, said, "Okay, Mr. Townsend, I've got that down."

After hanging up the phone, Toni transferred the message to the community entrance management office.

Seeing that no one was in the office, Aisha ran over and asked, "Why do you want to change shifts suddenly?"

Toni pointed at her: "You are so stupid."

She switched web pages and found the online text broadcast: "Did you see that? Martin just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He notified the community yesterday that there might be fireworks tonight. There will definitely be a big celebration!"

Aisha was listless. "Even if they celebrate, we can't get in. We like Martin, but Martin won't invite us into his house. If he really wanted to us, he would have called us when he was in New York."

Toni was almost defeated by her, and could only say frankly: "Martin came home and celebrated wildly. With the excitement, it was inevitable that he would do that, right?"

Elsa nodded mechanically.

Toni added, "I've observed carefully that the servants of the Martin family always go out to take out the garbage at 7:30 in the morning, which is right after we get off work. We have to cross the main road of the community and exit from the other side. On the way, we will pass by Martin's house. When we go to search his trash can, the chances of finding something will definitely be very high!"

"Wow, Toni, you're such a genius!" Aisha's eyes widened and she said, "I can finally have a baby for Martin!"

She danced around, "No, I'm so happy."

Toni stood up, covered her mouth with her hands, and said, "Shut up, do you want the whole world to know?"

Aisha quickly closed her mouth, thought for a moment, and asked, "We have found it, should we notify the other sisters?"

Toni asked back, "What's the point of notifying them? Even if we can find some, how much can we expect? Is it enough for so many people to share?"

Elsa nodded: "I understand."

Toni looked at the night sky outside, wishing the night would pass quickly and the day would come quickly.

Martin is her favorite star, and she wants to express her love for Martin in a special way.

But that's only one aspect of what motivates Toni.

On the other hand, Toni had seen a case where having a child with Martin would ensure an unbreakable bond and a prosperous life for decades to come.

If she was lucky enough, with her looks, she might even become Mrs. Davis.

The night shift was very slow, and Toni had nothing to do, so she fantasized about her wonderful life in the future.

The Oscars ceremony has come to an end. The biggest winner of the night was "Slumdog Millionaire". British director Danny Boyle, who collaborated with Martin on "Limitless", won two major awards, Best Director and Best Picture.

As expected, the Best Actor award went to Academy favorite Sean Penn.

Gay themes are very popular at the Oscars, and the trend of awards season is becoming increasingly left-leaning.

After the award ceremony, Martin took the usual group photo and then got into Nicholson's stretched Lincoln to attend the Oscar night party.

Elizabeth Olsen returned home early to prepare for a party at home.

Nicholson was particularly spirited and asked a math question with philosophical implications: "There are three famous Hollywood actors on the bus, who have won four Oscars in total. Which one of them doesn't have an Oscar?"

Leonardo's cheeks puffed up and he glared at Nicholson angrily.

Martin handed the golden statue to Leonardo with great loyalty: "I promised, I will give it to you when I get it."

Nicholson added insult to injury: "Leo, am I right? Martin will win the Oscar before you."

Leonardo declined Martin's offer and said, "I will get my golden statue soon."

Martin patted his old friend on the shoulder and said, "Be prepared to continue running with me."

"You can't change your three-hit combo of glaring, frowning, and roaring. You won't get it in the short term." Nicholson pondered for a moment and said, "You'll have to run for at least another ten years."

Martin comforted him, "It's okay, Jack and I will cheer for you."

He deliberately raised the little golden man and shouted, "Come on, Leo! Come on, run with me!"

Leonardo pointed at the car door and said to the two idiots, "If you don't shut up, I'm going to jump out of the car now! Do you have the nerve to watch me jump out of the car?"

Martin and Nicholson were so loyal that they closed their eyes at the same time and shouted together: "Run along, come on!"

Leonardo leaned back in his seat and looked up at the roof. When would this damn Oscar come?
The three met upstairs at the Oscar night party and soon went to Martin's house to celebrate with other friends.

(End of this chapter)