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Chapter 152 Awards

Under the blue sky of Las Vegas, on the emerald lawn outside a small chapel, there seemed to be a wedding. The groom in a black suit and a bride in a beautiful white wedding dress were looking at each other sweetly, with a huge wedding cake 1.8 meters high behind them, and there were several tables and chairs filled with food in front, and family and friends in formal outfits were sitting.

However, on the right side of the lawn, there were long guide rails, and the camera was installed on the mobile car and aimed at the wedding scene. Wang Yang sat in the position of the photographer in the car and used the viewfinder to determine the lens angle; and on the top of the lawn, Harry George was operating another film camera to shoot, and everyone in the film crew also did their own jobs.

This is a speed scene. When the Hangover trio was tracking down Stu's marriage, they were attacked by an unidentified gangster muscular man on the side of the road, and then chased and killed. After chasing and fleeing for a long time, the trio in a police car broke many signs, vehicles and other items. In order to get rid of the gangster's sports car, they rushed to the small chapel on the side of the road, passed by the lawn, and destroyed the wedding of the innocent couple in a mess.

Wang Yang originally planned to find a wooden church to crash it. The trio drove into the church in a police car and smashed countless chairs and passed through the wall. The priest in the church was so scared that he screamed... But there is no such suitable wooden church in Las Vegas, and even if there is one, it would probably not be destroyed. It would take a long time to build a new church for this purpose.

So it was changed to the outdoor lawn, where the police car that had been swept through the huge wedding cake, and the wedding was underway.

"Okay, are everyone ready?" Wang Yang put down the viewfinder, picked up the amplifier and smiled, "Everyone finished the filming early, we will enjoy this wedding." Harry George's amplification came from over there: "I'm ready here." Everyone around responded, Wang Yang nodded and shouted to the microphone in his hand: "Okay, action!"

After getting the signal, the police car parked far away started to move. It was not difficult to shoot this set of shots, but it was quite tedious. Each type of shot at different angles needs to be taken apart. For example, the expressions of the three-person group in the car are taken from the front angle of the car, the rear of the car, and the expressions and actions of the bride and groom, etc., which require several shots to be taken separately.

The windshield of the police car had been smashed with cracks, and the inverted rear mirror on the left was gone. A wooden sign was stuck in the police lights above. It rushed to the lawn at high speed. Bradley's panic sound came from the speaker: "Go away, go away! Police do things-"

Seeing the police car running towards him, everyone who attended the wedding screamed in shock and hurriedly got up to dodge. The bride and groom also rushed to the lawn with a "ahhhh".

Kapeng, bang... The police car crashed the tables, chairs, benches and soars, and the food dishes on it fell one after another. Amid the crazy and scared screams of "ah ah ah", the three in the car widened their eyes. The police car whizzed past smashed the entire giant cake to pieces, and fruits, cream and other objects splashed up, smashing the entire front of the car and the windshield.

Everyone on the lawn looked at the police car that disappeared in the corner of the front in a terrifying state. After staying for a few seconds, they cursed angrily. The groom, who was covered in cream cake, stood up and cursed: "Fuck! Death note, I must complain! I remember you!"

After shooting all the footage of this part, the crew took the next shot of driving on the road in the afternoon, which was also the last work of the police car part. For this reason, the crew needed to use the rocker-arm photography car. Looking at the footage on the monitor and passing through the car window, Wang Yang looked at the police car moving forward together outside, picked up the microphone and smiled: "Guys, action!"

"Oh my god, oh my god..." In the police car, Ed and Bradley were so scared that they still didn't come back to their senses. The baby in the back seat cried loudly. Zach, who had a dull look on his face, wiped the cake stuck to the car door, put it into his mouth and ate it, nodding, "I hate Chuck's cheese shop, but it's quite sweet."

Ed was frantically shaped with his hands, and he shouted with great strength, "What the hell is going on!" Bradley in front of him took a deep breath and said, "Calm down, calm down! Everything will be fine, OK? Why are you quarrel!" Ed shouted in anger, "You are so calm down! Oh fuck! We were almost shot and almost hit someone to death, calm down!"

At this time, the baby next to him cried louder and louder. Ed took a deep breath, and his index fingers made a pressing action, turned around to comfort the baby, and said, "It's okay." But the baby continued to cry. Zach took out a bride doll in a wedding dress and stuffed it into the baby's hand. The baby suddenly opened his eyes widened: "Hmm?"

"Where did this come from?" Ed asked in confusion. Zach pointed out of the car window and said seriously: "I don't know. She was flying past outside just now and I caught it."

Time passed day by day, and the filming process of "Hangover" was rapidly advancing with laughter every day. The threesome interpreted more and more easily, completely letting go of themselves to make fun of it. Seeing such a strong and fun chemical reaction, Wang Yang was naturally very happy and decided to reshoot some of them before, and now they can act better shots to get the best hilarious effect.

It will soon be March 24th, and a grand event in the movie entertainment industry will be held, that is the annual Oscars ceremony.

This year's Oscar Gala will be held in the Kodak Theater, which was only completed in November last year. After 9/11, security work is naturally the top priority for such a ceremony that gathers celebrities. Tonight, hotels, shopping malls, subways, bus stations and other facilities close to Kodak Theater are all closed; any planes are prohibited from passing over the Kodak Theater area; patrol security personnel are everywhere inside and outside the theater and outside the theater and where the theater is located.

This year's media prediction awards are very different from the critics' calls. The biggest voice of the fans is of course "The Lord of the Rings 1: The Lord of the Rings Appear", hoping that it can sweep all awards; but the media are not optimistic about the Oscars' changes, and they are even more optimistic about the academic orthodox "Beautiful Mind".

In the competition for Best Actor, Russell Clow, who was nominated for the third consecutive year, is the biggest hottest, and Denzel Washington, who performed in "Training Day", also has a lot of voices; in terms of Best Actor, Halle Berry and Nicole Kidman, who were nominated for the first time, are both the most popular hottest.

In addition to the nominees, the list of guests participating in the party was also dazzling. Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman... In the 3,500-seat audience, countless first-line superstars and celebrities were filled with them, and Wang Yang would also attend this grand ceremony as an award presenter.

Two months ago, he was very surprised when he received the invitation from the Oscar organizer. It seemed that he was completely treated as a "popular star". However, in fact, he is indeed a somewhat popular "idol director". So is it awarded the best original script or the best director? Or the best song or the other? When he agreed with a smile, but a few days ago, something even surprised him even more happened, and he actually awarded the Best Actress Award.

Night had already fallen in Los Angeles. The starry Kodak Theater, hosted by black actress Whoopi Goldberg, gave awards one after another, and applause, cheers and happy and exciting thanks were heard constantly.

"The Lord of the Rings 1" won four technical awards, including Best Photography and Best Makeup. The Best Animation feature was taken away by "The Monster Shrek". Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Connery, "Beautiful Mind"), and Best Supporting Actor (Jim Browderbent, "Working Hands in Life") all had results. The party is now at its final climax, and the Best Actress, one of the four major awards, will be awarded.

Amid the applause of more than 3,000 people, Wang Yang, in a handsome black suit, walked out of the side of the stage with a smile, and came to the microphone in the center of the stage. Everyone in the audience immediately became quiet. The length of this evening party will reach 4 hours, and each award presenter will naturally say something.

"I'm very happy to be on this stage." Looking at the people in the suits and evening dresses in front, Wang Yang smiled and glanced at the familiar faces and smiled happily, Natalie, who was interested in it, Will Smith, who had family with her... He smiled again: "But unfortunately, it's a pity that they were holding an envelope, not the Little Golden Man." Everyone smiled softly, and Wang Yang shrugged again: "What's even more frustrating is that the person written in the envelope can never be me."

There was a sudden burst of laughter in Kodak Theater, and there was a burst of cheering shouts. Natalie smiled and applauded, and said in her heart: "It must be that's not the only one."

"The best actress is always beautiful, smart, interesting, kind, cute..." Wang Yang kept saying it, and the good words to describe women were said in an orderly manner. The audience gradually burst into applause and laughter. He continued without breathing: "Good and generous, great cooking skills, a good daughter, a good girlfriend, a good wife, a good mother, and a good grandma! And a self-reliant woman..."

The laughter in the audience rang for a long time before gradually stopping. Wang Yang smiled and raised the envelope. Looking at Jessica, who covered her mouth with her hands with her smile, she said with a little confusion: "Then are we awarding the Best Actress or the Best Female? I don't know, but I know that every nominee who has not received the Nominee, and all women, as long as they have one of the advantages above, they are the Best Actress in their lives, and they always have it."

The audience immediately burst into applause. Looking at the people applauding below, he leaned closer to the microphone and quietly said, "No, I didn't say that women are always acting." The applause immediately turned into laughter, both men and women were overjoyed, and the decibels of laughter broke the record of the Kodak Theater Oscar Gala.

After the laughter slowly stopped, Wang Yang laughed and said, "Let's take a look at the list of best actress nominations for this year, Halle Berry, "Dance of Death Prisoners". As he said, a movie clip of the nominee was played on the big screen behind him, and a loud applause sounded from the audience. The short-haired Halle Berry also applauded with a smile. When the clip was played, Wang Yang said, "Judy Denqi, "Live Together"."

The applause and cheers below suddenly became even louder. Judy Denchi, now in 1967, is a respected legendary British actress. He has won numerous awards or nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the British Academy Awards. This is also her second time as the Oscar for Best Actress nomination.

"Nicole Kidman, "Mold Rouge"." Nicole Kidman's charming dance pose was played on the screen. Amid the applause, Nicole smiled calmly. Wang Yang finally said: "Sissy Spicek, "About Accidental"... Renee Zelveg, "BJ Single Diary"."

After reading the entire nomination list, Wang Yang opened the envelope in his hand and divided it into five squares on the big screen. Harley and Nicole both looked very serious, Judy smiled kindly, and the other two knew that they were here to run away and smiled very regularly.

"The winner is." Wang Yang took out the result from the envelope, took a look, and understood why the organizer asked him to give the award. He smiled and announced: "Halley Berry, "Dance of Death Prisoners"!" After that, he smiled and applauded happily for her.

But before he finished speaking, a passionate music soundtrack sounded at the scene. The audience clapped and cheered wildly. Many people stood up to congratulate her. The first black Oscar winner was born! Halle Berry was so surprised that he was completely at a loss. He grabbed his friends' hands tightly and kept saying: "Oh, my god! Oh, my god..."

She seemed so excited that she couldn't stand up, and hugged and kissed her friends next to her. After a while, amid the thunderous applause and screams, she staggered onto the stage and muttered in disbelief: "Is this true? Is this true?"

Wang Yang took the Little Golden Man from the staff and came forward to her and hugged her. However, Halle Berry hugged him tightly and seemed to cry. Wang Yang congratulated in her ear: "Congratulations, your performance is really great, and it deserves it." Halle Berry choked and smiled: "Thank you, thank you..." It took her a while before she could stand firm and let go of him. He handed the Little Golden Man to Halle Berry's hand, and then stood aside with applause.

"Ah, ha, ah..." Halle Berry held the little golden man tightly in his right hand, his face full of a crying smile, and gave a blowing kiss to the audience with his left hand, choking sobbing that he couldn't speak: "Oh, my god..." Everyone in the audience kept giving her applause and cheering. She covered her stomach and forehead, sobbing that she still couldn't speak: "Oh, God... Woo, ah haha... I'm sorry..."

She took a few deep breaths and tried hard to adjust her mood. Finally, she said a complete sentence with difficulty: "This moment is so meaningful, and compared with it, I am so insignificant... This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horn, Diane Carroll. It is for women of the same skin color as me, Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Vivika Fox..."

After a long time, Halle Berry excitedly finished her 4-minute continuous award speech. Wang Yang and her walked towards the backstage with a smile.

When the 74th Academy Awards ceremony came to an end and all awards were settled, Russell Crow became the Oscar winner this year with "Beautiful Heart"; in addition, "Beautiful Heart" also won the Best Picture, and Lang Howard's Best Director, becoming the biggest winner of the year.

Afterwards, media reports naturally emerged one after another, and in some gossip comments, Wang Yang was unanimously selected by many media as the "most interesting award presenter of this year". In the entertainment edition of the Los Angeles Times, it was also mentioned: "Shen Qi Yang personally showed his humor on the Oscar stage this time. His brief talk show words even made people think that he was the host."

The day after the Oscars ended, Wang Yang continued to return to Las Vegas to film "The Hangover", but there was another basketball event in March that attracted his attention, that was the UCAA's National Championships, but Southern California was eliminated in the first round early, and he turned to support the optimistic University of Maryland. In the championship game on April 1, the University of Maryland really lived up to its expectations and defeated Indiana and won the championship.

Flame Movie also purchased 120-second advertising spaces for the championship game, playing two different 30-second trailers of "Sweetheart" and "Ice Age", respectively, and did a lot of TV promotion for "Sweetheart" to be released on April 26 and "Ice Age" on May 10. Of course, the publicity work is not the only thing. Anne Fletcher, Jessica, Scarlett, Michael Pitt and other "Sweetheart" creators have already started city tour-style publicity activities separately, accepted interviews from local media, appeared on local TV programs, and held some fan meetings.

In cooperating with publicity work, Wang Yang, the producer, can be said to be quite dereliction of duty. He only recorded a talk show with Jessica in Los Angeles, and then stayed on the set of fun every day.

In the bright and spacious casino of the Caesar Palace Hotel, all kinds of gambling tables were still filled with tourists and gamblers, cheers and sighs were heard one after another. A long time ago, the crew had negotiated with the hotel and could take a table in the casino for shooting, but it could not hinder other gamblers. However, the facts proved that the hotel's concerns were redundant, and no one paid attention to their movie crew. The gamblers who were immersed in gambling simply didn't know that they were making movies.

"Haha, fuck! Black Jack, he's finished! He's finished!" Bradley, who was wearing a suit and timber, was full of excitement. He looked at the camera and firmly raised the middle fingers of both hands, jumped and shouted, "fuck-you, fuck-you!"

Sitting in the middle of the gambling table was Zach wearing a white suit and swollen eyes. He looked at the playing cards on the table with a serious face, his lips spread slightly, as if he was counting cards. Next to him was Ed Helms, who was wearing a suit and tie, dressed like a successful businessman, beside him was Charlize Theron in a red evening dress. Seeing the cards transferred by the dealer, there were 19 o'clock in total, Ed clenched his fists and shouted, "yes!"

"The dealer is 23 o'clock, it's exploded." The dealer dialed a few cards expressionlessly. Amid the screams of the people, he sent out the chips.

The players who played the role of the gambling table were Joshua and Wang Yang in casual clothes. He looked at the fat man's pile of chips as tall as a hill and said enviously: "Oh my God, what luck did you have!" Bradley rubbed Zach's hair excitedly and smiled: "Yes, he is our lucky charm, lucky charm!" Zach's face was still calm, and he said lightly as if he was in a state of meditation: "Next ten thousand."

Bradley threw out ten thousand chips and shouted with joy: "Please, everyone, he can't afford to lose, he can't afford to lose!" Ed nodded, pointed at the white dealer, and said confidently: "Although I don't know who you are, I want to say, you're done." Wang Yang also pushed out all the chips with a happy look on his face and said: "Fuck, I'll follow!"

Joshua looked at this familiar scene and almost couldn't help laughing. He hurriedly looked at the long recording microphone rod over there, a camera with a fixed front angle, and a close-up camera carried by Harry George to distract himself. He glanced at the mature and sexy Charlize Theron again and sighed: "If that Scarlett is as beautiful as her, no matter whether she is a dancer or not, I will definitely not divorce."

At this time, the dealer sent out the cards that the props had already arranged. Ed and Charlize got 10 and K. They laughed loudly. Ed slapped the table and said, "You're finished!" Zach got a and j, and it was another black Jack. Bradley behind him raised his hands like crazy and shouted wildly: "Fuck-you! Your casino is over, it's over!"

Wang Yang couldn't help laughing as he watched everyone's performance. Fortunately, his cards were sent down at this time, 9 and q, and quickly laughed: "Shit! What's going on?!" In this movie, this gambling table is not the protagonist. Now these hip-hop scenes are just a warm-up. In the near future, he will come back here again to shoot a cool movie.

Of course, maybe I can't go back here at that time. For many casinos in Las Vegas, counting cards is a taboo. The current hotel managers don't know that the shots they are taking are counting cards, and they thought they were just ordinary gambling.

"The dealer is 22 o'clock, it's over." The dealer said with a dead face. The gambling table suddenly became crazy. Everyone won a lot of chips, and they screamed with joy: "fuck!fuck!" Only the fat Zach continued to look calm, and his palm seemed to feel it.

"cut!" Wang Yang stood up with a smile, gave everyone a thumbs up, and said, "All of them are very, very good!"
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