Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 720 Daily life
When you're in a social circle, you're bound to have a lot of social engagements.

Shen Yan won the Golden Lion Award for two consecutive years, and Alberto Barbera asked him to take "La La Land" to the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival to show his support...

He felt awkward refusing!
The Capri Hollywood International Film Festival is touted as a bellwether for awards season…

But hardly anyone admits it!

The main issue is that Italy already has the Venice Film Festival, and Italian cinema... is severely lacking globally...

Oh, Shen Yan is attending this gathering mainly to garner votes from British filmmakers…

British filmmakers have effectively become half of Hollywood!
As American netizens have put it, "In modern Hollywood movies, American characters aren't necessarily played by Americans. Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Superman, and Batman have all been portrayed as having 'British ancestry'!"

In 03, John Paterson, a film critic for The Guardian, complained that "cheap British actors are going overseas to do dirty work, playing villains, psychopaths, and even American bad guys." Just six years later, he published an article titled "British Actors Take Over American Television."

When Eddie Redmayne won the Oscar for Best Actor last year, discussions about the "Britishization of Hollywood" exploded across major media outlets.

Even the reboot of Star Wars, which is hailed as a national treasure of America, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, stars Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, two new British faces, as the leads!

Shen Yan recently read many magazines and discovered that Entertainment Weekly stated, "Although the US has excellent actors with formal training like Jessica Chastain and Mark Ruffalo, many young people today only want to become famous. They can become popular by participating in reality shows instead of spending time honing their acting skills in school..."

Uh, this situation is very similar to that in China…

A group of media outlets also started criticizing young male celebrities for being unprofessional, etc.

So, it's the same all over the world: older people look down on the younger generation!
Most importantly, there are now more ways and methods to become famous, and more channels to make money and monetize. For example, "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" directly made the Kardashian family famous...

To put it simply, in 2014, Kim Kardashian launched the mobile game "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood," which earned $200 million within a year…

The older generation had to work hard for years to earn a little money, how could they possibly accept that?

There will definitely be all sorts of criticism...

To be honest, Shen Yan found it hard to understand the phenomenon of Kardashian's rise to fame...

It's really hard to understand...

A human-shaped hippopotamus!
……

Shen Yan chatted with Eddie Redmayne about "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"—the film adapted from J.K. Rowling's novel of the same name…

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them... is considered official fan fiction of Harry Potter...

The behind-the-scenes team is basically the same as the original Harry Potter team—producer David Heyman, director David Yates, and production company Warner Bros.

This movie basically guarantees fame for whoever stars in it!

Eddie Redmayne confirmed to star in the Fantastic Beasts series…

Unfortunately, the servers in Europe and America updated too quickly, and the T0 version of a game became the bottom T5 version. Unexpectedly, social and ideological changes occurred later.

In some ways, Rowling is a typical example of someone who suffered a backlash!

She simply didn't keep up with new ideas...

She's just a supporter of the feminist movement!
If political correctness is not thorough enough, then it is incorrect!
What is the most correct answer?
Gender definition!

The most typical example is the transgender athletes who dominate female athletes in American sports. They remain unknown in their original fields, grow their hair long, take hormone drugs for a month or two, and then they can compete with female athletes and easily break world records.

Then J.K. Rowling was expelled from the Harry Potter world for expressing the opinion that "MtF women who haven't undergone gender reassignment surgery aren't women"...

— J.K. Rowling was not on the invitation list for the 20th anniversary special of Harry Potter…

However, Shen Yan didn't talk about these things with Eddie Redmayne; instead, he talked about Shakespeare.

It's a kind of collaboration, too; British actors have a natural admiration for Shakespeare! You can't exactly talk to him about British food, can you?
As they were talking, Tom Hooper suddenly led a guy over and said, "Hey, McDonald, this is the Shen I told you about."

"Congratulations on your seven Golden Globe nominations!" the man laughed.

"Thanks…"

Shen Yan nodded…

I roughly know who he is—Martin McDonald, director of *In Bruges* and *Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*…

By the way, La La Land received seven Golden Globe nominations: Best Musical or Comedy Film;
Best Director;
Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy;

Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy;

Best Original Song, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score…

Tom Hooper continued, "Shen is not only a very talented artist, he's also an investor... You might want to talk to him about your new film!"

McDonald nodded, exchanged a few brief words, and then took his leave…

Understandable, Martin McDonald has no shortage of investors!

He doesn't have many works, but every one of them is a masterpiece, and many actors are willing to work with him...

McDonald left, Eddie Redmayne went to socialize, and Shen Yan followed Cynthia Schwartz into the social scene…

Basically, they were introducing him as the director of "La La Land," hoping that he would be given more consideration when voting for Best Director...

Yes, that's it!
There wasn't even a token gesture...

……

"I feel like it's just a lot of flying around, attending parties, meet-and-greets, and stuff like that..."

Back at the hotel, Shen Yan called Shi Shi…

"I basically have to attend three to five events every week...and occasionally I have to have lunch with a judge and explain to them that China is China and South Korea is South Korea..."

"They don't know that South Korea is an independent country; they've always thought that South Korea belongs to China!"

Shishi on the other end of the phone was surprised: "Really?"

"Why would I lie to you? They're stupid..."

"...I didn't feel anything special. You know I'm not a fan of celebrities, especially American actors..."

"If you don't mind the trouble, come and keep me company!"

We chatted for a while and then hung up the phone…

With nothing to do, Shen Yan decided to go online to check the situation…

Goodness, "La La Land" got 7 nominations and is trending on social media—previously, Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" got 7 Golden Globe nominations, and "Life of Pi" got 3…

Many people are discussing how many awards "La La Land" could win...

Then a bunch of experts said only the 'Best Actress' role was a possibility…

Gao Xiaosong is trying to ride the coattails of another trending topic!
He's quite optimistic about *La La Land*, believing it can win three out of its seven nominations: Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy; Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy; and Best Motion Picture in a Musical or Comedy…

The reason given was, 'Among musicals/comedies, La La Land has the best public relations!'

(End of this chapter)