Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 274 This is a minor matter
Cao Yang drove Lao Chen and Sister Hong to Arcadia Villa in Los Angeles.

Although it's called a resort, it's actually a city in Los Angeles County, located in the San Gabriel Valley, 20 kilometers east of Los Angeles. It's a small city with a large Chinese population and is only a 40-minute drive from Los Angeles International Airport.

Arcadia has a population of around 50,000, half of whom are Asian, and the majority of the Asian population are Chinese.

This is a well-known affluent area with excellent security.

Although shootings happen every day in free America, wealthy neighborhoods are quite safe. They seem like two different worlds, even though they are in the same area as other places.

Cao Yang drove his car into a detached villa.

"You can stay here while you're in the US."

After getting off the car, Cao Yang spoke to Old Chen and Sister Hong.

Sister Hong looked around the villa. The environment was very beautiful. The villa occupied a large area, had a private swimming pool, and overlooked Los Angeles.

"Cao Yang, is this the house you bought?"

Sister Hong asked curiously.

Old Chen glared at her. The question was a bit abrupt, but since they were all family, especially since it was Sister Hong who asked it, it didn't really matter.

Old Chen also looked at Cao Yang with some curiosity.

"I bought it at the end of 03. I was filming a movie here at the time, and I couldn't stay in a hotel every day, so I bought this house through a real estate agent. It took more than nine months to renovate, and I only recently moved in."

Cao Yang explained with a smile.

"Let's go inside. I've already had the rooms prepared. We'll have some food first, and then you can get some rest."

While curiously observing, Sister Hong chatted with Cao Yang.

"This villa looks pretty big, it must be quite valuable, right?"

"It's alright. It's about 1800 square meters in total, with eight bedrooms. The community has excellent educational resources and is close to the core business and entertainment area. The price is a bit high, it cost more than 600 million US dollars."

As Cao Yang walked and explained, he led the two to a large, sunny room, opened the bedroom door, and asked with a smile:

"Senior brother, how's this one?"

"Hmm, it's pretty good." Old Chen looked at the spacious room and nodded with a smile.

How is the safety situation here?

During the meal, Sister Hong asked again.

Cao Yang could tell that Sister Hong was interested and might want to buy a house here.

"I heard the security is pretty good, and I haven't lived here for very long."

Cao Yang thought for a moment and then said, "The real estate agent said that this is one of the safest small towns in all of Los Angeles. She said that Li Lianjie and Wang Zhizhi both bought houses here."

"Wang Zhizhi?"

Sister Hong asked with some doubt, as she couldn't remember who this person was for a moment.

"A basketball player, the first Asian player to enter the NBA, bought this house when he was with the Clippers."

"Oh."

Sister Hong nodded, but she still didn't seem to understand.

"Go tidy up the room, I need to talk to Cao Yang about something."

After finishing his meal, Old Chen gave instructions to Sister Hong.

Sister Hong went straight back to her room without saying anything. She wanted to laugh a little. Knowing Old Chen as she did, she figured he probably wanted to ask Cao Yang for a favor, but he couldn't bring himself to ask with her there.

To save face and suffer the consequences!
We all know each other, so why are you too embarrassed to speak up? What's there to be embarrassed about in front of me?

What is there that I haven't seen or don't know about?

snort!
"Junior brother, is the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film really decided? Is 'The Promise' completely out of the running?"

Old Chen hesitated for a long time before finally asking the question.

At this moment, he felt ashamed. He should have been helping and protecting his junior brother, but instead, he had to ask his junior brother for help... How shameful!
He would never have said that unless he had absolutely no other choice.

Old Chen really couldn't understand why, with such high box office numbers and so many viewers, "The Promise" was being criticized.
This movie is actually not bad.

This movie is clearly highly entertaining and artistic.

You've planted so many metaphors in your film, why don't you find them?

Why are domestic media outlets, film critics, and audiences all criticizing it? It's insane!
If you still don't understand, didn't you see that Cao Yang's interpretation was quite good back then?
Old Chen really, really wants to win an international award so he can go back to China and slap those people in the face—the movie you can't understand, the movie you swear at, has won a big award abroad!
The most likely outcome now is the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Cao Yang thought for a moment and then called Tom Rothman, the executive director of Columbia Pictures, to ask him if "Kung Fu Hustle" had any plans to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Tom Rothman said no directly, and then asked Cao Yang curiously if he had any ideas.

Actually, Tom Rothman is a bit strange. As far as he knows, Cao Yang's "Black Swan" was not even in contention for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

When Tom Rothman learned that Cao Yang wanted to promote the award to a Chinese-language film, he was even more enthusiastic than Cao Yang.

Cao Yang declined Tom Rothman's offer, leaving Tom Rothman somewhat regretful and disappointed.

Winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is not easy, but winning the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film is not so difficult.

If he helps Cao Yang secure this award, Cao Yang will owe him a favor.

A lackluster Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but in exchange for a favor from Cao Yang, they made a killing.

Cao Yang's second call was to Rory Zossori, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Lorizo ​​Sori is a newly appointed chairman. His predecessor, Magana Brycecombe, was forced to step down after deciding to terminate her contract with NBC.

The reason is a bit complicated. Simply put, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is registered with the federal government as a charitable foundation, so the $600 million they received from NBC last year was tax-free.

At last year's Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the Foreign Press Association listed a cost of $200 million, including $50 for hosting and $50 for staff, but the whereabouts of the remaining $100 million are unknown.

This led to questions from NBC, and Magdalena Brycecombe threatened to terminate the contract.

The final result was that Magna Bryrecon stepped down and Lorezzo Sori took over as the new chairperson.

With a new broom in charge, he naturally wanted to make his first Golden Globe Awards more influential. Just then, Cao Yang and Fox Searchlight wanted to promote an award for "Juno," so they hit it off immediately.

Cao Yang became one of the award presenters.

The second call Cao Yang made was to Luo Ruizhaosuo Rui.

Of course, we didn't discuss this over the phone. There are many phone tapping incidents in the US, and the paparazzi here are no less skilled than those in Hong Kong. So we just arranged a time to meet and discuss this small matter in person.

That's right, it's the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film that Old Chen really wants.

Whether it's Cao Yang's view, Columbia Pictures' executive director Tom Rothman's view, or the Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Rorezo Sorey who organizes the Golden Globe Awards' view, it's all a trivial matter.

At night, due to jet lag, both Old Chen and Sister Hong had trouble sleeping.

"Your junior brother agreed to do it for you?"

Sister Hong, wearing pink pajamas, sat on the terrace connected to the room, gazing at Los Angeles in the distance. Because of the transparent glass cover, it wasn't cold sitting there.

"What do you mean, 'agreed to do it'?"

Old Chen wanted to play dumb, but it wasn't something to be proud of, so he was a little ashamed to bring it up.

"Best foreign language film, what else could it be?"

Sister Hong glared at Old Chen and kicked his shin with her toe.

"hey-hey……"

Old Chen chuckled to himself, scratched his head, and since things were out in the open, there was nothing to be embarrassed about anymore; in fact, he felt a little smug.

Cao Yang said he was about 70-80% sure.

Sister Hong was amazed by Cao Yang's abilities, but at the same time, she was also slightly disappointed.

Old Chen is getting old, and with all the pressure, he's losing his backbone.

(End of this chapter)