Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 297 Of course I forgive him

On June 2009, 6, when the video of Xiao Shenyang giving orders while drunk was uploaded to the Internet, the sensation it caused was almost as great as the nude photo scandal.

So many people are saying that if Andy Lau were in heaven, or if he were in Hong Kong, he would definitely want to give a little red flower to Brother Shenyang.

Save people from fire and water.

The day before, everyone was still discussing that the male celebrity who had been secretly married for 23 years seemed to treat his fans like shit.

The next day, everyone was stunned to see that the rich man from Shenyang in Northeast China seemed to think that the newly crowned Cannes Best Actor was shit.

Maybe this is not very appropriate, because Brother Shenyang in the video did not make any personal attacks, he just pointed out two points.

First, in terms of popularity, Chen is not as famous as him.

This should be true.

Xiao Shenyang in 2009 was as popular as Xiao Yang in 2019. I guess everyone who has a TV at home knows this comedian from Northeast China.

Has Chen Nuo reached this level?

Many netizens’ comment on this is, no.

At least in some mountain villages where there is no Internet and no cinemas, and where people are not interested in international news and where the only TV stations can receive CCTV-1 and CCTV-2, Chen Nuo is definitely not as well-known as Shenyang, where "there is no such thing" or "there really is no such thing".

So, when Shenyang in the video asked people across the country whether they knew him or Chen Nuo, he was not making it up, because he really had the confidence to do so.

Similarly, the second point Shenyang made in the video also makes sense.

Will Chen Nuo’s soon-to-be-released movie be able to sell well?
Many netizens share the same views as Shenyang.

No.

At least it can’t be sold for a lot of money, and it certainly can’t surpass the rumor.

After all, a Korean movie will definitely not be well adapted to the local climate, and even if Chen Nuo is in it, the cultural gap between China and South Korea cannot be avoided. Even this kind of family-themed movie, even if you just look at the name "Mother", will make many people stay away and not be very interested.

However, no one cares about the first point mentioned by Brother Shenyang. The second point is related to money, and the relevant parties responded quickly.

On the afternoon of the day the video was posted online, people from the film's distributors, BJ Boya Culture Communication and Huaxia Film, came forward to express their opinions.

According to a senior executive of Huaxia Film, more than 10 million people have already watched Mother in the cinema in just 500 days since its premiere in South Korea, and it is expected to become the box office champion of the year in South Korea. Director Bong Joon-ho has been praised as the king of commercial film directors in South Korea.

Professional film critics in South Korea called Mother "the most touching and profound emotional masterpiece in the past decade," and called the performances of Kim Hye-ja and Chen Nuo "the best rivalry performances by Asian actors since the 21st century," and called Chen Nuo "the well-deserved king of Cannes."

At the same time, South Korea's developed entertainment media do not believe that the film will stop there, and believe that it not only "takes away the suspense of many major awards such as the Blue Dragon Baeksang Arts Awards at the end of the year," but also "definitely is the most promising Korean film in history to compete for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film."

Therefore, China Film is extremely optimistic about the performance of "Mother" in the domestic market, and is also very confident in Mr. Chen Nuo's box office appeal.

BJ Boya's executives explained the box office prospects of Mother from the perspective of herd mentality.

It is said that when the film booth of "Mother" was in Cannes, there was a huge crowd of people, and film producers from all over the world went to inquire about buying the film.

Finally, the official announcement was that the film had sold distribution rights to more than 7000 countries, with total foreign exchange earnings exceeding million US dollars, setting a record for the overseas sales of Korean films in history.

Even though they had to fight a lot to buy the domestic distribution rights of the film, this shows how good the quality of the film is and how much distributors around the world think of it.

However, it would have been better if the two companies did not explain. Once they explained, they immediately caused widespread ridicule online, and more people became pessimistic about the movie.

"You guys need to explain 'Mother'? Are you fucking crazy?"

"These two companies are shit. Chen Nuo needs your support? First day working in the film industry?"

"Who are you talking to? Why do I feel like you guys are just using this to cheer yourself up in the office? Damn it, if you don't have confidence in Nono, then don't buy it! It's rubbish!"

"You guys have to respond to what people like this say? Have you eaten too much? If you really can't find anything to do, you can sleep at home or go play with some female celebrities instead of disgusting everyone."

"I guess they watched the movie and thought the plot was not good and the market effect was not good. Otherwise, why would Nuoge's award-winning movie have to come out and issue a statement."

"The above person gave the right answer. You know, Nuo Ge's debut film, the pure art film "The Dumb House", sold tens of millions of box office in that year. I really don't know what these two companies are still worried about. There are only two possibilities. One, the plot of "Mother" is rotten to some extent. Two, these two companies are idiots."

As soon as these noisy comments came out on the Internet,

Boya Culture, which spent a huge amount of money to purchase the distribution rights and was really worried about losing money, and Huaxia Film, which had always been a younger brother of China Film and was distributing such a blockbuster movie for the first time, had to jointly issue an official announcement, claiming that the anonymous executives in the media were not from the company and were here to refute the rumor.

Other than that, there was no mention of the movie's box office.

As a result, this actually won back a lot of public opinion points.

Originally, Nuomi's eyes were all looking up at the sky, what the hell do you want me to look at? Are you sick?
Mr. Shenyang, who was attacked as a nobody, reacted quickly and issued a statement in the afternoon of the day the video was posted online.

The statement said that the remarks in the video were drunken nonsense and did not represent Mr. Shenyang's true attitude. Chen Nuo has always been an actor respected by Mr. Shenyang and he hoped to have the opportunity to work with him. How could he think that he was not capable? And so on.

As a result, the statement did not seem to have the desired effect. Netizens did not accept it, saying that he was not talking nonsense after drinking, but was speaking the truth after drinking.

Chen Nuo was not sure whether Brother Shenyang was telling the truth after drinking.

But he knew one thing: Brother Shenyang had offended someone.

He has seen a lot of this kind of thing.

It's a trap to cheat people.

Just like the story of someone in later generations, who went to visit a prostitute when he was in the mood, but ended up having a shemale thrust into his place. I guess after seeing the news, the onlookers around the world were not as disgusted as he was.

The same thing happened in Shenyang.

Chen Nuo felt that someone was jealous of Xiao Shenyang because he was too popular, so they set up a trap on purpose.

No big deal at all.

At that time, Qi Yuntian showed him the video and asked him how to deal with it.

He just said it directly, of course I forgive him.

He had visited Northeast China before and watched some Errenzhuan performances and read some interviews. He knew that it was really not easy to be an Errenzhuan actor. To be honest, they really had to go through wind and rain, which was much more difficult than being an actor.

Mr. Shenyang had a good teacher and finally got through it. He got angry and drank too much. It is normal for him to feel a little drunk. Don't take it to heart.

In fact, Chen Nuo felt a little grateful to Xiao Shen.

If the video hadn't mentioned Zhang Weiping going to see Zhao Benshan, he might not have remembered Zhang Weiping's influence on Zhang Yimou.

In his previous life, he had seen news reports that when Director Zhang went to shoot Three Shots, he had not originally intended to invite that group of people from the Northeast.

As a result, it was Zhang Weiping who took the initiative to invite Master Benshan and his apprentice to join, hoping to make money by leveraging his booming popularity.

The result, of course, is well known.

It's not just Three Shots. In the previous film "The Flowers of War", Zhang Weiping also forced Zhang Yimou to add a bed scene between Christian Bale and Ni Ni.

After Zhang Yimou reluctantly filmed the scene, Zhang Weiping took the sex scene and publicized it everywhere, which not only ruined the film's reputation, but also eventually led to the breakup between the two.

So, is there a possibility?

Is it the same with "Under the Hawthorn Tree"?

It’s just that this movie isn’t as famous as those two, so no related revelations have been leaked?
Chen Nuo felt that Zhang Yimou's misbehavior this time might not be Director Zhang's own wish, but might have been influenced by Zhang Weiping.

So if Director Zhang was given some external stimulation, would it pull him back, or at least change those dead-looking black and white subtitles?
Be a little more arrogant, respect your audience a little, and don't think that everyone has no artistic appreciation and needs subtitles to understand.

What's more, the plot of Under the Hawthorn Tree is not complicated, right?

Inception in the previous life was filmed like that, and Nolan didn’t even put subtitles on it, why are you in such a hurry, Director Zhang!!!!!!

Chen Nuo decided to invite Director Zhang to go see "Mother" after it was released in the country.

After watching the movie, let's have a frank talk and tell Director Zhang all the loud cries in our hearts.

Of course, if it turns out in the end that he was overthinking it and everything was actually director Zhang Yimou’s own decision, then just ignore the fact that he was talking nonsense.

He had no choice but to go back and tell Aunt Liu that he had done his best.

However, I'm sorry, I still have to help and the products cannot be returned.

Chen Nuo was originally thinking about when to call Director Zhang.
As a result, the next morning, before he had even brushed his teeth, he received a call from a big shot who was no less important than Zhang Yimou.

I heard the person introducing himself in a smiling and energetic tone.

Chen Nuo quickly agreed: "Hello, hello, Teacher Zhao, yes, I am Chen Nuo."

Then I squeezed a little toothpaste onto the toothbrush, put it in my mouth and started brushing my teeth.

After listening for a while,

"Use five..." Chen Nuo spit out the toothpaste bubbles in his mouth and said, "No need, no need, Teacher Zhao, it's really okay."

Then continue brushing.

While brushing my teeth, I saw a pimple on my chin in the mirror, so I held the toothbrush in my mouth, tilted my head to hold the phone, and prepared to squeeze the pimple out.

The voice on the phone continued.

"Ouch." Damn, this pimple really hurts. "It's okay, Teacher Zhao, you really don't need to explain so much, I can totally understand. Teacher Shenyang was having sex after drinking, I understand, I've had that too, hehehe..."

"Okay, okay, we understand each other. Okay." Chen Nuo agreed and finally got rid of the acne and started to rinse his mouth.

"Goodbye."

Chen Nuo hung up the phone, feeling a little confused.

I wonder why this respected senior called him?
It's clearly someone else in the video. Could it be that the disciple has something to do and the master is doing the hard work?

But in the afternoon, another call came to his cell phone.

This time it’s the real boss.

But without even listening to a few words, Chen Nuo hung up the phone.

Are you apologizing to me or am I apologizing to you?

How come you just said sorry vaguely and asked me to take care of my Nuomi, tell them not to expose your forum online and harass your master's company, and you also asked me to issue a statement.

Who is your master? I don't know him. He doesn't have a mouth? Why doesn't he tell the story himself?

Oh, you just called me this morning, right? Then why do you sound like you are more of a master than your master? You are not Chef Fan, so why are you so arrogant?
What glutinous rice?
That was something I created?

How can I take care of it if you ask me to?
I still need to issue a statement. Do I owe you one?

Chen Nuo hung up the phone and muted it. He looked at his classmates who were watching him on and off the stage, as well as several acting teachers who had nothing better to do and came to watch the show. He asked, "Is it my turn? Excuse me, come on, Zhang Xiaofei, let's start now."

That’s right. Chen Nuo is now in the small theater of Beijing Film Academy, rehearsing the graduation play of their 05 acting class, The Story of the Stairs.

The character he played in this famous Spanish drama is called Little Fernando.

After director Niu's arrangement, this little Fernando is slightly different from the original play.

His role was greatly reduced, and he only returned from afar at the very end of the play.

Before this, he mostly only appeared in the mouth of his sweetheart, little Carmina, played by Zhang Xiaofei.

After he appeared on stage, he had a scene with Zhang Xiaofei that lasted less than two minutes, and the two of them even danced a Spanish flamenco together.

It’s not long, the part where he dances is really only ten seconds.

The rest of the time, he just watched Zhang Xiaofei dance, stamping his feet and clapping his hands. But when he danced, let alone being passionate and enthusiastic, he was just dancing the cha-cha.

Even after a short special training session last night, he didn't feel much better today, and it was obvious that he needed to practice more when he returned.

However, apart from dancing, Chen Nuo felt that he was on to the right track in other areas.

"What do your grudges and prejudices have to do with me? Why can't Carmina and I love each other?"

At least when he walked down the stairs and shouted this line to all directions, he felt that he already had some of the demeanor of a stage actor.

At this time, standing on the stage and in the audience watching him rehearse were not only his classmates, but also some teachers and teaching assistants who appeared from nowhere.

This is also the norm during rehearsals these days.

The second-floor theater of the Beijing Film Academy Small Theater seems to have become a place where many idle people from the school go in the past few days.

In addition to Li Er,

Teachers such as Huang Lei, Cui Xinqing, Ye Linghui, Zhang Tianyou and many others, as well as some teaching assistants, all come here regularly.

Even Dean Zheng, who was very busy, took time out to come twice and instructed his subordinates to ensure the security of the place. Except for teachers, no students from other classes or grades were allowed in, which would disrupt normal rehearsals.

Today was no different, Huang Lei had nothing to do and came again. This time he brought his wife, Teacher Sun Li, to watch the show together in the audience.

Chen Nuo only made an appearance and said a few lines, but Sun Li, who was attending for the first time, exclaimed softly, "Wow!" and said to Teacher Huang, "After hearing what he said, I suddenly felt something. What's going on?"

Huang Lei chuckled and said, "I don't know what's going on, so I asked you to come and see. I guess it's because he's so handsome."

Teacher Sun Li didn't bother to say anything else, her eyes were fixed on the stage, because Chen Nuo's play had begun.

Chen Nuo was seen dressed like a Spanish boy and wearing a grey melon-shaped hat. He was running quickly towards a tall and thin girl in a Spanish long skirt in small steps.

Then, the dance that Huang Lei had mentioned to him before appeared.

Sun Li watched for a few seconds and couldn't help laughing. "This dance really needs more practice. But if the audience watches him dance, it seems that no one cares how he dances, right?"

Huang Lei also laughed, "That being said, this incident fully illustrates why no one is perfect. Similarly, look at the girl who is his partner, her name is Zhang Xiaofei, she dances well and works hard, but..."

"But what?"

Huang Lei didn't reply.

On the stage, after dancing briefly and stiffly for a while, Chen Nuo stood aside, stomping his feet and clapping, watching Zhang Xiaofei dance.

Zhang Xiaofei danced not just well, but very well.

The girl's skirt is like the wind, and her footsteps are like the spinning leaves in the wind.

She waved her arms and twisted her waist.
Sometimes it pauses like a sculpture, sometimes it dances like a spinning leaf,

It fully embodies the characteristics of flamenco dance that combines both hardness and softness, and also fully demonstrates the result of Zhang Xiaofei's 132 days of hard practice, without even a break during the Chinese New Year.

132 days ago, when Zhang Xiaofei drew the lot for Carmina, she felt like she had struck gold. She was so surprised that she didn't know what to say and her mind was blank.

From Yang Mi to Yuan Shanshan, from Duanmu Conghui to Wang Meng, she knew exactly how many girls in the class had their eyes on this role.

Little Carmina, ever since the class announced that Chen Nuo would play little Fernando, this little supporting actress who originally had few parts and little weight has become the most sought-after character in the entire show.

No one expected that she, who was ordinary and unknown, would be chosen!

After that, at least half of the girls in the class came to her.

Some try to use relationships, some try to use interests, some try to beat around the bush, and some try to be straightforward. It can be said that all of them try to use their own unique skills, all for the purpose of exchanging roles with her.

However, Zhang Xiaofei refused them all.

How did she get into film school? After four years, she knew it clearly.

She acted opposite teacher Li Er's most proud student and showed off her four years of academic achievements in front of teacher Li.

This could be said to be the best graduation gift God had given her. How could she possibly give it up?

She was determined to seize this opportunity, show her best and let Teacher Li know that she had not made a mistake in choosing him.

At this time, Zhang Xiaofei completed her dance with a neat skirt-flipping movement.

Seeing this, Sun Li said, "He has the ability, but unfortunately, his appearance is average."

Huang Lei finally sighed and admitted: "So I said, no one is perfect. She can be said to be the one who works the hardest in my class, and she performed very well. But with her appearance, she really has no characteristics. Even if she wants to make a name for herself, she will probably have to wait for many years, and it depends on luck."

Sun Li didn't have as many feelings as Huang Lei, and said calmly: "Isn't this normal? How many students graduate from Beijing Film Academy every year, and how many of them get to film?"

Huang Lei chuckled and said, "I know. But having said that, every time when graduation comes, I see these students I taught entering society one by one, and then being taught a lesson by society. I still feel a little uncomfortable in my heart."

While the couple was talking, Chen Nuo on the stage had already walked up and held the hand of Zhang Xiaofei, who was a little out of breath, and found that the girl's hands were sweaty.

He didn't know how to act in a stage play, but the director had asked him to act like a play, so he threw himself into it as he normally would, acting like a man in love, while letting his voice loose a little and speaking his lines as emotionally as possible: "Don't abandon me, idiot! I love you, fool!"

The first half of the line was spoken in a low voice, but the second half had a little vibrato, making it more excited and a little pleading.

This is not the first time.

During the rehearsals in the past few days, Chen Nuo has already shouted out this somewhat corny line many times in a slightly sad tone.

Everyone else is kind of used to it.

But Sun Li didn't. For the first time, she smacked her lips in her heart, didn't turn around, and just asked softly, "Old Huang, how would you rate this line?"

Huang Lei laughed and said, "The lines are actually average. The main thing is that you have to observe his body movements, that's where you get full marks."

Sun Li looked carefully after hearing this.

The boy looked a little immature but very serious, with a slightly flushed cheek, a look of nervousness and persistence, and his body seemed to be unconsciously slightly tense.
From head to toe, every part is in the play.

In fact, many stage actors can do this.

However, there are very few people who are so natural and unpretentious, which reminds Sun Li of Teacher Huang in her youth at first glance.

Just this moment made Sun Li feel that it was worth it to leave Duoduo to the nanny this afternoon and sacrifice time with her daughter to come and watch the rehearsal.

Is this the actor recognized as the most talented in China today?

No wonder people say that the relationship between director and actor is the other way around for him.

The performance on the stage continues.

Zhang Xiaofei and Chen Nuo were very close. She felt the warmth of the man's palm, lowered her head and smiled, then looked back, her eyes seemed to contain infinite affection, and said, "I love you too, silly."

Chen Nuo was delighted by his sweetheart's response, his eyes were filled with joy, he held Zhang Xiaofei's hand, looked into her eyes, and said: "Little Carmina, we have to be stronger than our parents, because they were defeated by life."

Zhang Xiaofei replied: "Little Fernando, I know. I believe we will have a different future."

"Yes, we will definitely have a different future!"

In the original drama, a male and female actor would kiss each other here as the finale of the drama.

But this time the director changed this part. After saying this, Chen Nuo and Zhang Xiaofei hugged each other tightly.

Sun Li looked around at this time, then smiled and whispered to Teacher Huang: "How did this girl get this role? Does anyone else have any opinions?"

Huang Lei smiled and said, "It was drawn by lot. Do you have any objection?"

Sun Li said: "I think we need to fight."

Huang Lei asked: "Then how do you know that you haven't fought before?"

After saying this, the couple both laughed softly.

Huang Lei then said with some sigh: "Many teachers in our school think that Chen Nuo's best performance is not in special dramas, but in love dramas. It's just that Western judges may not appreciate his Eastern-style emotional expression."

"I think so."

"I still think that Jeremy's performance in Blueberry Nights was his best. It's a pity that he didn't win an award. Although this movie Mother hasn't been released yet and I haven't seen it, I think his performance in it is definitely not as good as Blueberry Nights."

"Including the media said how good he danced in the film. You just watched him dance, do you think it's good? I was just bragging."

"In the end, not only did he win the Best Actor award, he was also voted in unanimously. This shows that no matter how well you act, you need people to appreciate it, otherwise it's useless."

Sun Li nodded as she listened, but later on, she tilted her head, thought for a while, and said, "Mother...it's not necessarily as bad as you say because it's highly praised outside. I actually really want to watch it."

Huang Lei smiled and said, "How about we make a bet?"

"What's the bet?"

"I bet he does better in Mother than in Blueberry Nights, I'll wash dishes for a week."

"Haha, okay, but you don't have to wash the dishes. Go learn how to cook. How about that?"

"Haha, okay, it's a deal."

After the first rehearsal, Chen Nuo and Zhang Xiaofei rehearsed twice more.

Even though Zhang Xiaofei is still a young and energetic girl, after dancing three consecutive high-intensity, fast-paced flamenco dances, she was a little exhausted. Her face and neck were covered with fine beads of sweat. After coming down from the stage, she sat in her seat panting.

Chen Nuo also sat aside to rest and shook his head and said, "Xiao Fei, you dance really well. Did you practice it yourself?"

Zhang Xiaofei nodded a little proudly and said, "Yeah."

"Great! I can't do that. Alas."

"No, I think you dance, well, very well. After all, you've only been practicing for such a short time."

Chen Nuo laughed and said, "Don't comfort me. By the way, do you have time this Saturday?"

Zhang Xiaofei hesitated and said, "Yes, what's wrong?"

"Before graduation, please watch one more movie."

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaofei couldn't help but feel dazed.

That winter more than three years ago, she, Yang Mi, and he, the three of them went to the cinema to watch If Love.

At that time, they had both just entered university. Although he had already won the Berlin Film Festival Best Actor Award, when she and Yang Mi stood together, the gap between them was not as big as it is now.

"Okay." Zhang Xiaofei suppressed the bitterness in her heart and forced a smile, "When?"

In fact, Chen Nuo made this decision because he missed his youth.

Before I knew it, four years of college had passed.

People tend to be sentimental during graduation season, don’t they?
It just so happens that he has another movie released, so revisiting the youth and making another movie date seems to be in line with my current mood.

Besides, he was also going to invite people to watch a movie. It was the same whether he invited one person or three people. It would just be a little more money for the movie tickets.

He immediately replied, "It's still evening this time, Saturday night at eight."

"Or you, me and Yang Mi?"

"There's also an old senior from our school. Just say hello when the time comes, and you don't have to pay any attention to him."

(End of this chapter)