Chapter 240 Surprised Jay Chou (Won’t Apply for Olympics Until Tomorrow!)

Speaking of Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow, Spielberg expressed emotion to John Woo:

"I didn't expect that Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow would be so popular. Today's audience tastes have changed so much from our time. I already feel that I can't keep up with the trends and audience tastes, and I have to accept my old age!"

Wu Yuchen knew the reason why Spielberg said this. The movie "Pirate King" is essentially a treasure-hunting adventure movie, and to be honest, this type of theme was promoted by Spielberg.

In 1981, Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" set a model for this type of treasure-hunting adventure movie. It can be said that the same type of movies in the following decades, whether it is "The Mummy" or "The Pirate King" Or is it "National Treasure"? The structure and rhythm of the movie are all based on "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

The screen image of "Dr. Indiana Jones", the leading actor in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", has also become one of the most successful movie characters in Hollywood.

It can be said that Dr. Jones is a typical literary person who can write about history with his pen, and can mount a horse and swing his whip to determine the world. He is also handsome, courageous, and has a high IQ. He is also a hero of the West and a university professor. A heroic idol, he is the American version of "big and complete" and "great and upright". This type of protagonist was a trend in the 1980s and 1990s, and was the favorite of audiences at that time.

But now, times are changing, and this type of perfect heroic character is no longer popular. Instead, there is a character like Captain Jack in "The Pirate King".

Captain Jack has a lot of shortcomings. He is slovenly, undisciplined, philandering, cunning, funny, unable to fight, and effeminate... It was impossible for a character like this to be the protagonist in the past. But now it has become an audience favorite!

Therefore, through the changes in the market taste for treasure-hunting movies, Spielberg also felt that he could not grasp the market and was getting old.

Wu Yuchen smiled at Spielberg and said: "Steven, you are still early. I bet you can shoot until you are 80 years old!"

He didn't know if Spielberg could make movies until he was 80 years old, but in his impression, Spielberg was still making movies even 20 years later.

"But Steven, you are right about one thing. The current market trend has indeed changed. The main trend in movies is in the hands of young people. Now that the post-80s generation has grown up, they are becoming more and more individual and no longer like the sameness. The perfect hero, but prefer a protagonist with his own personality, his own shortcomings, and unique charisma, such as Captain Jack Sparrow.”

Spielberg nodded thoughtfully, then smiled at Wu Yuchen and asked: "Is this why you acquired Marvel?"

Wu Yuchen couldn't help but sigh that Spielberg's thinking was really fast. When he said this, he thought of Marvel and gave Spielberg a thumbs up: "You have discovered this~ "

Spielberg smiled and said:

"I also thought of a lot after this "Pirate King" and your point of view. 20 years ago, the most popular superheroes were Superman and Batman, and protagonists like 007. However, In recent years, whether it is Superman, Batman or the 007 series, they have all reached a trough, which is very consistent with your statement. If this is the case, audience tastes and trends will change in the future, and Marvel's heroes will replace Superman and Batman, start playing the leading role?”

As expected of Spielberg, he is very sharp!

Regarding this, the rise of Marvel hero movies is clear evidence. Marvel's superheroes do have their own flaws, but that doesn't stop them from being popular and sought after. The reason why they began to rise gradually not in the 1980s and 1990s, but in the new century, is partly because of the upgrade of special effects technology, and partly because of the audience's tastes and trends.

Wu Yuchen also said to Spielberg: "In my opinion, it will develop like this. If Superman and Batman want to be successful, they must make changes and come down from the altar. In the future, the audience will no longer like a god. , but prefer superheroes who are earthy and more human-like, because this will be more emotionally resonant with the audience."

This is also something that has been experienced in previous lives. Superman has made several movies but they have not been very successful. Batman, that is, Nolan has given him humanity and added many human weaknesses to him, allowing him to go down the path of gods. Only with the altar and down-to-earth spirit can we reshape the glory of the trilogy.

Spielberg smiled at John Woo and said, "Warner should really hire you as a consultant to help them re-create Superman and Batman."

Wu Yuchen shook his head and said: "Come on, Steven, I'm still too busy with "Pirate King" and Marvel!"

In the past two years, "Pirate King" and "Spider-Man" have kept him busy enough, and Wu Yuchen doesn't want to put more burdens on himself yet.

Spielberg also smiled. He just said casually that he didn't want Wu Yuchen to come up with Batman or Superman for Warner. What does this have to do with DreamWorks? "Pirate King" is DreamWorks' top priority! If you have this time, you should urge Wu Yuchen to shoot the sequel as soon as possible!

…

On the other side of the ocean, in Wanwan, the annual Golden Melody Awards ceremony is currently taking place. This is currently the highest award in the Chinese music scene, and is pursued by every musician in the Chinese music scene.

"Xiao Zhou, you are so awesome! You were nominated for 4 awards the first time you came here. You are indeed a great talent!" Huang Xiaoming said with a thumbs up to Jay Chou next to him.

Jay Chou is used to wearing a baseball cap in public, which makes him look cool. But at this time, he showed a shy smile: "No, Brother Xiao Ming, the company cultivated me, so I can get so many nominations~"

This is Xiao Zhou's true words. He is indeed very happy at this moment, not only because he came here with full expectations and longing as a newcomer, but he also won the Best Newcomer Award, Best Composer Award, and Best Album Producer Award. And nominated for 4 awards including Best Album!

For a newcomer who just released his first album last year, he is naturally very excited to be able to win so many nominations and receive so much recognition in one fell swoop. At the same time, he is also very grateful to the company behind him, Little White Bear. After having been in the industry for two or three years, he is no longer a novice. He knows that even the Golden Melody Awards are still about the relationship and public relations behind the scenes. The fact that the company can help him win so many nominations also shows that it values ​​him!

But in front of Huang Xiaoming, Xiao Zhou still didn't dare to take it big. Although his first album "Jay" was considered a hit, and many music critics spoke highly of it, when it comes to its influence and current status in the industry, compared with top Asian groups like F4 There's no comparison at all. The difference between his popularity and Huang Xiaoming's is a few Maydays.

F4 and Jay Chou are both artists under Little White Bear, so naturally they sit together at today's Golden Melody Awards. Moreover, one of them is a group and the other is a solo singer. There is no competition between them, so they naturally get along harmoniously.

In Huang Xiaoming's opinion, this little brother Jay Chou has a good creative talent. If you build a good relationship with him, you might be able to ask him for some singing appointments in the future.

Huang Xiaoming asked with a smile: "Jielun, how many awards are you confident of winning today?"

Jay Chou quickly shook his head: "Brother Xiao Ming, how can I have any confidence? I'm so grateful to have won the Best Newcomer Award. I don't even dare to think about the other awards!"

This is indeed Xiao Zhou's innermost thoughts. There are many seniors in the other awards. The Chinese-language awards were strictly based on seniority. He didn't dare to hold out any hope, and he didn't think his talent was any better than these seniors. What he really hopes for the most is this year's Best Newcomer Award!

Huang Xiaoming also sent his blessings to Jay Chou: "I think you will be fine as the best newcomer this year!"

"Hey, thank you, Brother Xiao Ming~"

Not long after the Golden Melody Awards ceremony began, Jay Chou's first award, the Best Newcomer Award, began to be awarded, which also touched the hearts of many people.

"Let me take a look at this year's Best Newcomer Award nominations..."

On the big screen, the MVs of several newcomers' masterpieces began to play in turn, including "It's Dark" by Sun Yanzi, "Lovely Woman" by Jay Chou, "Don't Want to" by Penny Dai, "Can't Arrive" by Weiqi Fan, and "Living Alone" by Lin Fan. .

If Wu Yuchen were here, he would probably be impressed by the quality of this year's best rookie candidates, but at this moment, everyone in the audience seemed to be normal. This is the Chinese music scene that is still in its golden age!

Jay Chou stared at the stage without blinking, hoping that the next moment the award-giving guest would speak his name.

"This year's best newcomer is... Sun Yanzi!"

With a "Wow" sound, a girl with a middle parted hair and full of energy jumped up from her chair. The smile on her face kept overflowing, showing how happy she was at this moment.

Some people are happy, but others are sad. The sad Xiao Zhou watched Sun Yanzi jumping up to the podium, and his heart was filled with envy.

But he also knew that it was normal for the Best Newcomer Award to be awarded to Sun Yanzi, because Sun Yanzi's "Heihei" was so popular. The two of them also released albums of the same name last year. As a result, Sun Yanzi's album sales in Asia exceeded his twice. Not only that, he has more fans and more influence than him. Sun Yanzi is well-deserved as the best newcomer.

But even though he knew this was true, Jay Chou was still very disappointed when he saw the Best Newcomer Award disappearing with his own eyes. After all, this was the award he had the most hope for at the Golden Melody Awards. Now it seems that I can only return empty-handed...

At this time, Huang Xiaoming patted Jay Chou on the shoulder: "Jay Chou, don't be too sad. In my opinion, you are the best newcomer. Your creative talent is much better than Sun Yanzi!"

Listening to Huang Xiaoming's comfort, Jay Chou also felt warm and smiled at Huang Xiaoming: "Thank you, Brother Xiaoming, I'm fine. I came today with the mentality of seeing the world!"

Huang Xiaoming chuckled, and then said to Jay Chou: "Jay Chou, didn't Director Wu's "The Pirate King" show in Wanwan in the past two days? I will book the theater tomorrow. You can bring your friends and we will watch it together!"

"Okay, thank you, Brother Xiao Ming!" Hearing this, Jay Chou thought of his good gay friend Fang Wenshan.

Now, in addition to writing lyrics, that guy wants to jump into the film and television production department of Little White Bear. I had wanted to get to know F4 before, and this time I just introduced them to them.

As for Huang Xiaoming, as for Wu Yuchen and his teacher Wu’s movies, no matter what Chinese or foreign works, he is a must-see. This time it just so happened that I just invited Jay Chou. It’s just a few more people and a few less people, it doesn’t matter.

Huang Xiaoming has never forgotten that he is an actor from Beijing Film Academy. Although he is now popular in Asia through F4, a lot of energy is occupied by singing and dancing. But Huang Xiaoming has never given up on his dream of being an actor!

His ultimate dream is to play the leading role in his teacher Wu's play, but he also knows that he still falls short of that. Not to mention other things, he just filmed the movie "The Emperor" in the first half of this year. After he starred opposite Mr. Chen Daoming in it, he knew how big the gap was between himself and these veteran actors.

But he will not give up this dream. One day, he will conquer Teacher Wu with his acting skills and make him proud of himself!

And soon, it was Huang Xiaoming's turn to concentrate, because it was about their F4 Best Band Award.

Although he personally feels that F4 has the greatest chance of winning this award, he is afraid of encountering an upset. After all, F4 is not considered a local group from Wanwan. The other nominees such as Mayday and Nuomi Tuan were all born and raised in Wanwan.

Especially this May day, I heard that they are quite famous in Wanwan. Although they cannot compare with F4 in all aspects, what if the Golden Melody Award is trying to cultivate local musicians?

"This year's winner of the Best Band Award is...F4!"

However, there was no surprise. After hearing the results announced on the stage, everyone in F4 was filled with joy, but they were not too excited. After all, they have seen a lot of big scenes, and they won the award this time. It's also expected.

"Brother Xiao Ming, congratulations!"

After Huang Xiaoming heard the congratulations from Jay Chou next to him, he hugged him gently, then winked at Jay and said: "Jay, I will give you some of my good luck, and you will also win a prize~"

After saying that, Huang Xiaoming winked at Jay Chou, and then followed several brothers to the stage to receive the award. Xiao Zhou looked at Huang Xiaoming at this moment and couldn't help but feel slightly moved. He felt that this good big brother was so warm!

On the stage, when the host Tao Jingying saw F4 on stage, she immediately imitated the crazy girl fans of F4: "Wow! F4, I will announce you!"

Huang Xiaoming also smiled and said: "Sister Tao Zi, we all know you and watch your show often!"

"Is it true? People would be so shy~"

The audience burst into laughter as they watched Tao Jingying liven up the atmosphere by playing tricks.

After a while, Huang Xiaoming said to the audience: "I am very grateful to the Golden Melody Award for awarding the best band to us F4. This is the best reward and recognition for our efforts in the past year. Thank you to my parents, thank you to my teachers, Thank you to the company and to the fans who support us, we love you forever!"

…

Next, many awards were awarded one after another, and it was just as Jay Chou expected...

"Best Composer Award...Li Sisong, "The Sky is Dark"!"

"Best Album Producer Award...Brother Li Zongsheng, "Mok Wenwei on the Twelfth Floor"!"

Xiao Zhou clapped below. As expected, the two awards he was nominated for were not awarded to him, and both were won by seniors.

And the last award is also the most important award of the Golden Melody Awards...

“The nominees for Best Album are:

"Fables" by Wang Fei;

"The Happiness I Want" by Sun Yanzi;

Karen Mok's "Mok on the Twelfth Floor";

Jay Chou "Jay";

La Ying's "Sad Romance". "

Jay Chou shook his head inwardly and looked at who the nominees were. Even Queen Wang Fei was among them. Jay Chou was like little Karami in front of Wang Fei. Why did he win the award?

Therefore, Jay Chou has no expectations for this award at all. Instead, he is analyzing it with the mentality of a theatergoer. He feels that Sun Yanzi is unlikely. Karen Mok's album was produced by the boss Li Zongsheng, so there is hope. As for Laying...although he is a senior, he is not very familiar with her. But the most likely one is probably Wang Fei!

Wang Fei's "Fable" has been a huge success since its release. It has won many awards last year, including Hong Kong's top ten Chinese hits, top ten songs, global Chinese rankings, etc.

Just when Jay Chou was thinking about other things, the award-winning guest on the stage also announced in the eyes of everyone:

"This year's winner for Best Pop Vocal Album is..."

Then he suddenly raised his head and said loudly: "Let us congratulate, Jay Chou!"

Wow...

Many people in the audience were shocked. They didn't expect that this award would go to Jay Chou's "Jay" who had just debuted!

However, everyone reacted quickly. The next moment, the whole audience burst into applause, and they all turned to look at where Jay Chou was.

Jay Chou didn't realize what was happening yet, so he looked around. However, I only saw Huang Xiaoming next to him grabbing his shoulders and loudly shouting with joy: "Jielun, you won the award! Best Album Award!"

I? Best album? Best album ever! The winner is me!

Jay Chou felt confused in his head, how could this be possible? Not a dream, right?

Seeing Jay Chou's dumb look, Huang Xiaoming shook him and patted him hard: "Jay Chou! You won the award! The biggest award today! Come on stage to accept the award!"

To be honest, even Huang Xiaoming didn't expect that Jay Chou, a newcomer, could win the most powerful best album award at tonight's Golden Melody Awards! This thing is similar to the best movie in the movie awards!

He just encouraged and comforted Jay Chou casually, but he didn't expect it to come true!

Jay Chou was shaken a few more times by Huang Xiaoming before he woke up a little. Then he hugged Huang Xiaoming quickly, and hugged the other three F4 people who came to congratulate him one after another. He kept nodding to the people around him to congratulate him, and then just looked silly like this. Walking onto the stage with a silly smile.

After Jay Chou came on stage, the host Tao Jingying couldn't help but joked: "Jay Chou, congratulations on winning the award! But there are very few people like you who come up wearing a baseball cap~"

Jay Chou, who was a little nervous, quickly stretched out his hand to take off his hat. Upon seeing this, Tao Jingying immediately said: "It doesn't matter, you look handsome in a hat~"

There was laughter in the audience, and everyone could see that this newcomer Jay Chou was an honest kid.

"Jay Chou, I just saw you chatting happily with Huang Xiaoming next to you in the audience. Can you tell me what you were talking about?"

"Nothing, it's just that Brother Xiao Ming congratulated me on winning the award, and he said he would take me to see "The Pirate King" directed by Wu Yuchen tomorrow..."

Tao Jingying immediately made an exaggerated expression: "Hey, Huang Xiaoming, it turns out you are discussing this kind of thing!"

But the next moment, his face changed and he begged: "Can you take me with you?"

Suddenly, there were smiles in the audience again, and Huang Xiaoming naturally smiled and nodded.

Then, Tao Jingying brought the topic back to the topic: "Come on, Jay Chou, after winning such an important award, tell me about your special feelings?"

Jay Chou's head was also numb, and he imitated others before him and said: "Thank you to my mother, my grandma...Thank you to Brother Xian for bringing me into the industry..."

Fortunately, he remembered what Huang Xiaoming said just now, and immediately said: "Thank you to the company for training me!"

At this moment, he really thanked the company. Without the company's contribution, why would he have won the best album this time?

Xiao Zhou didn't care about losing the Best Newcomer Award at this moment. After all, the Best Album was a much higher honor than the Best Newcomer Award. He never thought that he would have many opportunities to win the Best Album Award in the future, but the opportunity for the Best New Artist Award was only available once!

The next day, the results of this Golden Melody Awards also spread throughout the Chinese-speaking region, and the news that Huang Xiaoming invited Jay Chou and others to watch "The Pirate King" naturally followed.

But to be honest, with Wu Yuchen's current fame and the influence of "Pirate King", there is actually no need for this kind of publicity at all.

Since "Jurassic Park" broke through Bay Area in 1993, Bay Area's film market has long been dominated by Hollywood. Hong Kong films have been defeated here. In the past ten years, Bay Area's box office champion has released a movie Except for "My Sassy Girl", the others were all Hollywood Western films. Even Cheng Long was of no use and was beaten while being held down.

Today's Wanwan Film Market is basically the back garden of Hollywood, so "Pirate King" plus Wu Yuchen is almost the first choice for movie theaters and audiences here in Wanwan.

It can only be said that celebrities rushing to watch "Pirate King" just add a little interesting news to "Pirate King".

This time, "The Pirate King", because the director is Wu Yuchen, and because it is a family-friendly movie, has set off a wave of movie viewing in Bay Area and Hong Kong Island, and the box office has been rising steadily.

As for the mainland, although Han Sanping is taking care of it, because it is an imported film, the pace is still slower, and it cannot be released with other places. It is estimated that it will have to wait until August for mainland audiences to see it.

Wu Yuchen didn't know what was going on with "Pirate King" in Asia, and he didn't have the energy to pay attention. At this moment, he had already boarded a flight to Moscow, Dama, to participate in the bid for the 2008 Olympic Games host city!