Millennium director

"Isn't it?"

"Matt wants to win the prize?"

Wu Yuan was stunned.

Speaking of which, it seems to be true.

In order to take on "The Martian," Matt Damon turned down a movie called "Promised Land."

And this movie was originally a movie adapted from a documentary.

Obviously, this is an award-winning literary film.

If Wu Yuan remembers correctly, it seems that this film did finally win the Berlin International Film Festival Special Nomination Award and the International Jury Prize.

Being shortlisted for the Berlin International Film Festival and winning an award is already a very good performance.

It is worth mentioning that the International Jury Award is not the Silver Bear, the jury award in the main competition unit, but a consolation prize.

The Special Mention Award is an award for the main competition unit, but among the awards for the main competition unit, it serves as an encouragement.

They are all specially nominated. What is it if it is not an encouragement?

So even if Matt Damon acted in this movie, it wouldn't bring him actual honors.

When the awards were presented in February, Matt was relieved after seeing the performance of "Promised Land" in Berlin.

How should I put it? He definitely doesn’t want to see the movie he rejected finally win a big award. Isn’t this just pointing at his nose and saying that he has no vision?

But "Promised Land" really didn't win the award, and he was a little disappointed, because it was the best among the literary films that came to him.

In other words, the best award-winning movies he has access to are at the level of "Promised Land", which is just a consolation prize among the three major nominees.

This makes Matt Damon's desire for Wu Yuan even higher.

Wu Yuan is a director who has won awards in all three majors!

In Berlin, Cannes, and Venice, he has won silver medals with at least second place in gold!

He even served as president of the Venice jury for one term.

By the way, at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, the chairman of the jury is also a Chinese, and he is the famous king of sunglasses in Europe.

Berlin also wanted to invite Wu Yuan before. After all, Wu Yuan's debut place among the top three in Europe was the Berlin International Film Festival.

But Wu Yuan felt that he was too busy at the time, so he declined.

Back to business.

When Matt Damon saw the awards competition for "Promised Land", he understood better how much it would take for a director to make a film that won the top three European movies or the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Actor. ox.

Even for an A-list superstar like him, it would be difficult for him to receive a script from such a director.

Not only him, Leonardo, who has also been working hard to transform and win awards these years, also has a very difficult road to win awards.

Leonardo mainly worked hard at the Oscars and wanted to win the Oscar for Best Actor, but he failed to win the award many times because he was "too handsome".

Leonardo and Matt Damon can be said to be brothers.

It is also because of this that Matt Damon's smart little head really wants to catch Wu Yuan, a treasured director.

If he can have a good relationship with him, and especially let him remember himself in terms of acting, then if Wu Yuan is looking for a leading actor in a literary film in the future, he will have a high chance of getting the role.

This is the Golden Lion winner!

So as soon as he heard that Wu Yuan was coming to the United States to prepare for the early promotion of "The Martian", he came to Los Angeles early to wait for "His Majesty's" summons.

"Ouch." After understanding the situation from John, Wu Yuan was speechless.

"Art films?"

"Stop making trouble, I have no plans to make art films in the next few years."

"Even if there were, there wouldn't be a role for Matt."

Wu Yuan is really not interested in literary films now, mainly because the era of literary films has passed.

In the past, by winning the three major European awards, I could still improve my performance in China, and enjoy the beauty outside the wall.

Not anymore.

Take the movie "Fireworks in the Day" starring Liao Fan and Gui Lunmei.

In 2014, this film won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film and the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival.

If it were placed ten years ago in 2004, this news would definitely have caused a sensation in the country, and Director Diao Yinan would have become the top director in the country, just like Chief Jia.

However, when the time came to 2014, this news was nothing, and not many people even paid attention to it.

Liao Fan, the Berlin Best Actor, is still a not-so-popular actor in art films after winning the award. Not to mention becoming popular, not many people even know him, and his face has not made headlines a few times.

This is true not only in China, but also in literary and artistic films around the world.

The attention and influence of the three major European countries have dropped sharply since 2010. Although the Oscars are still very well-known, people gradually no longer pay so much attention to the Oscar winners, and the ratings in North America are also declining every year.

Under the general environment, movie fans and audiences around the world pay more attention to commercial blockbusters and pay less attention to various awards that favor literary and artistic films.

Having already won many of Europe's top three awards, Wu Yuan is naturally not in a hurry to make art films anymore.

Perhaps when he is in his fifties or sixties and has experienced the precipitation of time, if he still wants to continue making movies, he will make some truly artistic films of his own.

After all, literary and artistic films are actually films full of the director's personal imprint and life experiences.

Just like Chief Jia's literary films always focus on the youth in urban fringes in the 1970s and 1980s.

His movies are not so much made for the audience as they are made for himself. They are all about the people and things he has seen and experienced when he was young.

Wu Yuan doesn't have much special insights into this, and he will have to wait until he gets older before he can have any ideas.

And even if he wanted to make a literary film now, his first choice would definitely be the "Bruce Lee" biopic.

This is the only literary film that he is currently interested in and has ideas for. He had this idea a long time ago when he was filming in the United States.

Make a biographical film about Bruce Lee, the legendary American Kung Fu star.

This kind of biopic is very popular at the Oscars, and it can also promote or reawaken the memory of Bruce Lee among North American audiences.

However, if this movie is really going to be made, the leading actor must be an Asian actor, preferably someone who looks like Bruce Lee.

Yes, that's the same Chen Guokun who acted in "Kung Fu" and the TV series "The Legend of Bruce Lee"

This can be said to be a direct decision, and it even had to be done by him.

It is impossible for Matt Damon, at least in the next three to five years, to have the opportunity to star in Wu Yuan's literary film. Wu Yuan cannot help him realize his dream of winning awards.

But it’s hard to say this to Matt directly.

Wu Yuan sighed helplessly, "So, the main actors of "The Martian" are all here, right, and are they just waiting for me?"

Matt is already here, and the other young actors must have followed his big brother to Los Angeles early to gather.

"Yes." John said firmly.

"I know, it seems I can't be lazy anymore." Wu Yuan shrugged. (End of chapter)