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

Chapter 343 2009 Forbes Ranking

2010pm, March 3, 17, in a cinema in Chengdu.

".Now, let us invite back the main creative team of this film, Director Zhang Yimou, Liu Yifei, Jiang Ruijia and Teacher Xi Meijuan. Please welcome them with applause."

In the largest Hall No. 1 of Chengdu Jinjiang Chengtian Cinema, where Chen Nuo and Zhang Yiyi once attended the premiere of "Dumb", enthusiastic applause suddenly broke out.

Compared to before the film started, the applause was probably 20% to 30% louder.

This made it difficult for director Zhang Yimou to conceal the smile on his face when he walked onto the stage.

Although the premiere in Beijing yesterday received a good response, and today's media feedback was mostly positive,

However, the enthusiastic feedback from the scene once again made him feel more at ease.

The main reason is that the psychological trauma from Berlin is too deep, which makes Zhang Yimou still feel scared.

After the main creative team of The Hawthorn Tree came on stage, the male host from Chengdu TV said with a smile on his face: "Director Zhang, are you satisfied with the applause just now?"

Zhang Yimou smiled and said, "I am quite satisfied. Thank you all for loving this movie."

"Oh? Director Zhang is just more satisfied?"

"It's mainly because I'm old and my hearing isn't very good, haha." Director Zhang joked.

Who said Director Zhang has no sense of humor?
Why do so many female stars like Director Zhang if he has no sense of humor?

Could it be that he loves Director Zhang’s money and power?

However, there were not many female stars in the audience, so few people laughed.

The host said loudly: "Did you hear that? Let's applaud a little louder to let Director Zhang Yimou feel our love for the movie and the enthusiasm of our Xichuan people, okay!"

Liu Yifei wore a simple and refreshing dress today, with a light green jacket on the outside, which was the same style as her pure and lovely character in The Hawthorn Tree.

Amid the applause, she maintained a perfect smile on her face, revealing two small dimples.

But the big toes of both feet were still in the sneakers, squirming restlessly.

This was definitely influenced by someone.

Otherwise, how could Liu Qianqian, a fairy from heaven, do such an indecent action as digging her toes into the ground in public?

After the second round of applause died down, the host, who usually went to Jiuyan Bridge to do part-time rap after get off work, smiled and said, "Thank you, thank you everyone. I believe Director Zhang should be satisfied now, right?"

"Satisfied, thank you very much."

"When I was watching the movie just now, I noticed that many audience members were wiping their tears with tissues. I think after watching such a touching movie, everyone will have a lot to say. Now, let's give the microphone to the audience. If you have any questions or feelings you want to express, you can raise your hands now."

The first person to be picked up by the host was a girl in yellow clothes. She took the microphone and asked very skillfully without any stage fright: "I want to ask Director Zhang Yimou, I am very excited after watching the movie, especially the last scene, which moved me very much. I want to ask you, your movie "The Hawthorn Tree" shows us a different love story. How did you come up with the idea of ​​making such a movie?"

Zhang Yimou smiled amiably and answered smoothly: "In fact, when I first read this novel, I was very moved."

Director Zhang delivered the long dialogue that he had rehearsed backstage, a long paragraph of hundreds of words, without any mistakes. He is worthy of being the winner of the Best Actor Award at the Tokyo Film Festival.

Next, the second, third, and fourth agents, based on the original arrangement, asked questions to the other three actresses respectively, ensuring that every actress who came to the scene was not left out.

Ask Jiang Ruijia how it feels to work with such a good actor and director, ask teacher Xi Meijuan how she evaluates Liu Yifei's acting skills, and ask Liu Yifei what it feels like to make a movie with Director Zhang.

Everyone answered very well, including Liu Yifei.

"Director Zhang Yimou has always been my idol. It can be said that for us, the students who graduated from Beijing Film Academy, Director Zhang's position is irreplaceable. Filming with Director Zhang this time is a precious opportunity for me. He taught me a lot. It is because of Director Zhang that we have the Jingqiu you see. Here, I also want to say thank you to Director Zhang, thank you Director Zhang."

When Liu Yifei said this, she was sincere.

However, for some reason, Director Zhang's toes moved several times at this time.

This is all the arrangements for the few helpers.

In fact, there is a hidden surprise for this roadshow, which needs to be guided by questions from the audience.

However, neither the film company nor the theater made any special arrangements.

Because everyone agreed that no arrangements were necessary.

The host pointed to a girl in the second row who raised her hand.

The girl stood up. Her Mandarin was not as good as the previous ones, and she had a very obvious local accent. "I want to ask Director Zhang or Liu Yifei, will Chen Nuo not return to China to participate in the promotion this time?"

Sure enough. The host smiled and said, "Why don't we let Miss Liu Yifei, who has a very close relationship with Chen Nuo, answer this question."

"oh!!!!!"

All the applause and cheers that came before it, combined, probably weren’t even half as loud as the booing that happened now.

After it calmed down for a while,

Liu Yifei's face was a little red, but it was not noticeable from a distance. She still kept smiling. After all, this was expected. "Yes, he is filming in the United States, so he can't come back."

"Did he ask you to bring back anything?" the host asked.

"Yes, he recorded a message."

The host exclaimed, "It seems that the audience friends who came to the scene today are blessed! Chen Nuo actually recorded a video for everyone! This is a treatment that audiences from other places don't have! Do you want to watch it?"

"think!!!"

"Say it again, do you want to?"

"think!!!!!"

The host then gave up and said with a smile: "Okay, now please look at the big screen and listen to what Chen Nuo, who is far away in Los Angeles, has to say to us."

At this moment, the big screen went black and bright, and a man's upper body appeared on it.

The video was about 30 seconds long and ended very quickly.

In fact, they were all clichés, but maybe it was because of a bit of Xichuan dialect. After the movie was played, the atmosphere in the theater was really warm. The awkward atmosphere caused by the awkward questions and answers before was completely swept away, and no one was complaining that the stupid host had a bump on his head.

In the lively atmosphere, two more audience members were picked and asked Liu Yifei questions about someone.

There was only one last question left, and then it was time to take a group photo.

After taking the group photo, this roadshow came to an end.

The host glanced around and randomly pointed to a young man in his 30s who was sitting in the middle seat and raised his hand a little perfunctorily.

Why click on him?
Because during the rap process just now, he was the only one who didn't say a word, at most his mouth moved slightly, which was very eye-catching.

The man seemed to have never expected that he would be called. He was stunned for a moment, handed the down jacket he was holding to his companion next to him, and then stood up.

He was wearing a brown sweater, was about 30 years old, had triangular eyes, shaggy eyebrows, a slightly crooked mouth, and a flat head, and didn't look impressive.

Holding the microphone, he nervously pulled his sweater. Surprisingly, he did not ask Liu Yifei, but said to Zhang Yimou: "Hello, Director Zhang, I would like to ask..."

"Cobb, this is the only way." The woman's voice trembled in the strong wind on the rooftop of the high-rise building, revealing a hint of determination, "We must wake up and break free from this endless nightmare."

"No! Mel, don't! This isn't real! Listen to me, this is all fake! Don't leave me, please!"

"I love you, Cobb." Her voice was as light as a feather, but it fell heavily on his heart, breaking it into pieces.

"But this is the only way. Only in this way can we truly wake up."

The woman was wearing a long white dress and her face was hidden in the mist.

Her skirt fluttered in the wind.

She took a step forward.

Like a bird with a broken wing, it suddenly fell in his sight.

"I love you Cobb, but this is the only way."

Chen Nuo couldn't be sure whether it was Keira Knightley's voice or someone else's.

He forgot what he dreamed about.

Only this voice echoed in my ears.

When he woke up from the darkness, his whole heart felt as if it had left him, and it was excruciatingly painful.

It took a long time before the pounding heart calmed down.

Chen Nuo also knew that
This is the result of his final stage, after a month of immersive filming.

After bidding farewell to his family and friends on March 3 and returning to the "Inception" crew, he eliminated all external interference and devoted himself to the final stage of filming.

I even skipped my daily phone call with Liu Yifei, and I was back to the state I was in before going to Berlin.

In the last phone call, Chen Nuo knew that the girl on the other end of the phone did not seem happy about it.

But so what?

Chen Nuo felt that if his careless treatment caused the movie to flop and lose money, and also resulted in the "Inception" crew not being seen on the Oscar stage next year... he would probably be even more unhappy.

So he takes care of her.

It's not just Liu Yifei, he hasn't contacted anyone else, including Fan Binbing, Janice Man, and Xia Yehe.

During this month, he stared at Keira Knightley's square face every day, ignoring all distractions and not caring whether she had ever had sex.

Finally, as the emotional finale of the play, the highlight of his final confrontation with Keira Knightley,
He took one shot, saved one shot, and passed it directly.

Even Christopher Nolan, who once ridiculed him for not understanding the love between husband and wife, had to say that his eyes truly captured the deep and passionate love of a husband for his wife.

Chen Nuo was also slightly proud of this.

However, doing so is not without cost.

Even though he had finished filming yesterday, he still woke up from a nightmare at night today.

Chen Nuo is used to this.

When he was filming The Dark Knight, his life was actually more terrifying every day.

He had never told anyone about those dreams and pains that were as black as ink, but he managed to get through them, didn't he?
This little bit of insomnia is nothing. It will get better in a few days.

Looking at the watch, it was already past 4 o'clock, so he simply didn't want to sleep. He got up from the bed, turned on the desk lamp, and started reading the script that Quentin Tarantino sent him a week ago.

It’s been a week, and he hasn’t watched it yet because he was filming a movie. It’s time to watch it now.

The script hasn't even been named yet, something like "The Rescued Chinese Workers", which is obviously something Quentin came up with on the spot.

The story hasn't been officially finalized yet, but it should be enough for preliminary communication with the actors.

In fact, it stands to reason that Chen Nuo should take a look at the script of Twilight 3 at this time to prepare for joining the crew for filming in the near future.

But as a straight man, with two scripts, Twilight and Quentin's new work, in front of him, how could he possibly watch Twilight 3!

After reading for about an hour, Chen Nuo put down the paper script.

I opened my notebook, went into my email box and started writing an email.

"Hi, Quentin. I've read part of your script. I don't agree with some of the plot settings. Here are my opinions..."

I wrote a lot in a hurry.

Anyway, Quentin Tarantino asked him to speak freely, so he just spoke directly.

He watched the first short clip and was sure that this was indeed another version of "Django Unchained".

The only difference is that the protagonist is a black slave, and a Chinese coolie with pigtails. Indeed, there is no difference between the two in any way.

From the perspective of the script's structure, if Chen Nuo had not read the original version, he would not have felt the slightest bit of incongruity. He even felt that the story might be even more exciting now.

Some people say that Quentin Tarantino is a first-rate bootlicker, a second-rate screenwriter, and a third-rate director. And a second-rate screenwriter can make him completely forget himself even if he only gets a script that is still in the draft stage.

If a top-notch bootlicker starts licking my feet... Tsk tsk, I can't think about it anymore, I feel like vomiting.

The script was good, but after watching the first half, there was something that made him feel a little nauseous.

"As a Chinese, I must say that I fully agree with your use of cutting off the braid as a symbol. Since then, Zhou has broken free from his spiritual shackles and has become a free man."

"However, I don't think that such a psychological transformation must be guided by Dr. Schultz in the film. That would be a bit thin."

“My personal opinion is that it can be conceived in the direction of self-awakening.”

"Dr. Schultz plays this role, and all he provides is some technical skills."

"The protagonist's true inner liberation should come from a certain cultural awakening, which is a change from the inside out."

"The advantage of shaping the protagonist in this way is..."

"Besides, you should know what I think of Oscar, right?"

“Let’s be more ambitious!”

"By the way, I think it's an underestimation and waste of your creative genius to make this movie into a simple commercial film."

"So, Quentin, make it great, not great!"

Chen Nuo thinks there is nothing wrong with Quentin's sense of white superiority that comes with a savior mentality.

But if he took this role, he didn't want to be seen as a lost lamb who needed to be rescued by a white father.

According to his understanding of Quentin, this man has never suffered from the 996 work schedule and should be very interested in chicken blood, so he racked his brains and added some elementary school students' essays into it.

By the time Chen Nuo finished writing and sending the email, it was already dawn.

So I changed my clothes, went out and started running.

When I came back from running, I sat in the cafeteria with Qi Yuntian to eat breakfast. It was already 8 minutes past 10 in the morning. Qi Yuntian had just come out of the gym and was sweating.

Running and the gym, in a sense, this is the difference between straight men and gay men.

The two of them wolfed down their food first. Qi Yuntian wiped his mouth and started talking about work: "Zhang Weiping called me before and told me to call him when you get back. He'll treat you to a meal."

"……Have a meal?"

"Yes, eating." Qi Yuntian smiled and said, "Just eating."

Chen Nuo knew what Qi Yuntian meant, but he didn't care about it.

After all, he was purely considering Director Zhang Yimou's face, and it had nothing to do with Zhang Weiping.

The pay for The Hawthorn Tree is not too small, it is over 10 million, which is still a little more than The Beggar.

And in the end he won the Berlin Film Festival Best Actor Award for this movie, so he can't complain.

Although everyone had said before that Zhang Weiping should give him a red envelope, Chen Nuo is not a real beggar and he cannot accept it even if it is given to him.

This is different from what happened with Zhang Yiyi at that time.

Even though The Hawthorn Tree did very well at the box office.

Chen Nuo forgot how much box office revenue "Under the Hawthorn Tree" had earned in the previous life.

However, when it was taken off the screen last week, it had a Douban score of 8.1 and a box office revenue of 2.13 million yuan.

Not only did it break all the box office records for art films, but it also entered the top 15 of China's box office rankings.

Several Hong Kong movies released in the same period in March and April, such as "Time and Tide" starring Simon Yam and Sandra Ng, "A Chinese Odyssey" starring Liu Zhenwei and Sun Li, and "Beauty" starring Charlene Choi and Lu Yi, can all be considered qualified commercial films.

In this case, "Under the Hawthorn Tree", a small fresh art film, was able to sell more than 2 million yuan... As Qi Yuntian said, many domestic media used the spring of art films to describe this wave.

Not only did New Picture and its investors earn a fortune, but it also made director Zhang's first post-Olympic film a great success.

He won the award, Director Zhang gained fame, and President Zhang and IDG made a profit.

Everyone gets something extra.

At present, it seems that the only one who feels empty-handed, as if she has gained nothing except several million in film remuneration, is the heroine Liu Qianqian, who has been running around for nearly half a month and doing roadshows everywhere.

Although the year-end awards season has not yet arrived, but...

Ugh.

Poor Sissi.

Thinking about Liu Yifei who didn't know that he had finished filming, Chen Nuo decided to give her a phone call in the evening to ask about the situation.

……

……

After finishing breakfast, while waiting for customers, Chen Nuo took out his mobile phone and started refreshing Sina Weibo.

That's right,

On March 2010, 3, Sina Weibo finally launched a mobile version based on iOS.

At this time, even Twitter and Facebook only launched mobile web versions. This is definitely a good thing for him.

Needless to say, Mr. Cao Guoping of Sina was receptive to what people said, and it was worth it for Chen Nuo to say a lot and chat with him for so long.

However, during this month, Chen Nuo has been filming and has not brushed the screen much.

Now holding the iPhone 3GS in his hand, he clicked on the familiar little icon, and when the familiar page popped up, Chen Nuo leaned back...

I couldn't help but sigh silently. After so long, I finally found the feeling of lying on the sofa in my previous life, leisurely browsing Weibo.

Through this action, the control of his Weibo account officially returned to him.

At that time, his name was "Chen Nuo", and his profile was "A movie actor, representative works: "The House of Dumb", "Batman 2: The Dark Knight", "My Blueberry Nights", "Twilight Series", "Mother", "Under the Hawthorn Tree"". There were less than ten Weibo posts on his Weibo account.

Except for the first three posts with content, the rest are promotional reposts about the products he endorses.

The number of people following him is 0, not even one. The number of people following him is quite a lot, a total of 512 million, which is an increase of 400 million in almost 2 months compared to the 100 million during the Spring Festival.

This should be some of the traffic brought by the Berlin Film Festival and Oscar appearances.

Chen Nuo was also certain that these more than one million people were living people.

He had gone through this stage of brutal competition in his previous life. As we all know, in order to make the data look good, the favorite thing for several companies’ Weibo accounts to do is to add a bunch of zombie fans to some big Vs or celebrities.

Just like Tencent Weibo, Mr. Li Lianjie’s number of fans is about to break 20 million.

Speaking of which, his 500 million fans are only a quarter of others.

Sina was actually planning to give him a promotion, but he refused.

Chen Nuo knows the outcome. Even if he has 10 billion zombie fans, those who deserve to live will live, and those who deserve to die will die.

And later on, when everyone understands more and more... people like Li Lianjie, haha, just wait to be laughed to death.

Even now, anyone with a discerning eye can see it.

Li Lianjie, who has 20 million fans, posted a Weibo that he will be working with Sylvester Stallone on a new movie, and there were only two to three thousand comments below.

He now sees more than 3 comments under the latest Porsche advertisement that Li Jing forwarded for him in March.

But why are there so many?

Chen Nuo was a little confused, so he clicked on the comment section and read the first few comments with the highest likes. Only then did he realize that the latest issue of the Forbes Chinese Celebrity Ranking was announced on March 3th.

However, the reason why so many people commented in the comment section of his Weibo post is not because his ranking on this list has made a huge improvement this year.

You know, he ranked second in last year's mainland celebrity list, second only to Yao Ming. He still ranked second in this year's Chinese celebrity list that incorporates Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

However, the person in front is not Yao Ming, but the world star JACKIE CHEN who has three stamps on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

There is absolutely no shame in this.

You know, the comment given to Jackie Chan by the Forbes Celebrity List this time is: "The first person to hold a solo concert at the Bird's Nest."

In this sense, he is indeed more impressive than this young man who has three European Film Emperor titles.

Bird's Nest! Solo concert!
For him, this was probably a scene that only existed in dreams.

However, there are still many fans who comforted him in the comment section, saying that ranking third on the Forbes Celebrity List with an income of 1.41 million is already very good, and he is still young and will have a chance to top the list in the future.

Of course, Chen Nuo couldn't leave a message saying that his brother earned more than 4 million last year.

Because who doesn’t have some hidden income?
The Forbes ranking is not something released by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the Chinese Internal Revenue Service.

So to be honest, he may not be the only one with more than 4 million.

The reason why he ranks ahead of Jay Chou, whose album sales of "Cross Era" exceeded one million this year, and Andy Lau, who was exposed to be "secretly married" and ranked second in the online search rankings, is not because of his income.

It’s all about traffic!

It is because of the Spring Festival Gala, Cannes, Berlin and the Oscars that his exposure on the Internet and in the media from last year to now ranks first among all people, allowing him to maintain his perennial second place position.

In this regard, no matter whether Chen Nuo is happy or unhappy, happy or sad.

He finally became what he feared the most - possibly the most popular star in China today.

"well…………"

Qi Yuntian looked at him strangely, "Why are you sighing? Do you think being second is unfair to you?"

Chen Nuo shook his head and didn't say anything.

Even if Qi Yuntian knew him better, he would not understand this.

Because there is no such thing as a traffic star or internet celebrity now, and no one will be drowned by traffic in the previous life like him.

Therefore, no one would understand the rejection in his heart.

Besides, the Internet has memory.

When I think about some bored people looking back on the past and saying that Zhan and Bo were all disciples of Chen Nuo?!

Isn't this so shameful and it makes people unable to survive?

No, I have to think of a way later. Chen Nuo made a decision secretly.

But for now, let’s continue reading Weibo.

After Mr. Andy Lau, who ranked fourth, is Mr. Yao Ming, who ranked first in the previous Forbes China ranking.

In fact, Yao Ming's income last year was still 2.55 million, ranking first among all.

The reason he dropped to fifth place this year is that he suffered a fractured left foot injury in 2009 and only played two games in the entire NBA season.

At this point, the online search volume dropped to 27th place, so it only ranked fifth.

After Yao Ming, it’s Zhang Ziyi in sixth place, Zhao Benshan in seventh place, Fan Binbing in eighth place, Jolin Tsai in ninth place, and Donnie Yen in tenth place.

Qi Yuntian was looking at the list with him.

At this time, he probably noticed that his eyes lingered on the eighth place Fan Binbing for a while.

Suddenly interrupted, "By the way, there is something I haven't told you. Last week, Bin Bing called and said she was going to take a break for a while."

(End of this chapter)