Chapter 299 This Month Is Too Hot

Zhao Lao's voice suddenly attracted the attention of others.

Fang Xiu came out of the big office and stopped in front of Zhao Zhang, "Junior brother, you said that senior brother won the Oscar score?"

Zhao Lao patted his chest and said, "Yes, the news just came from the United States, keep it true."

The few girls who came up from behind heard this and started discussing among themselves.

"I just said that senior brother will definitely win the award."

"Tsk, tsk, is this the first Chinese to win an Oscar?"

"It doesn't seem to be the case. It has happened before. Didn't Senior Brother Su Cong take it?"

"Oh, yes, I won it once for "The Last Emperor" at that time."

"Senior Brother Zhou Yan is different this time. Senior Brother Zhou Yan enjoys this award exclusively."

A short girl came over and curled her lips and said, "Oh, isn't it just an Oscar for Best Score? This award is given to my senior brother. It is they who benefit from the senior brother, not the senior brother who benefits from them."

Zhao Lao glanced at the girl who was speaking and sighed secretly. He considered himself a loyal fan of Zhou Yan, but compared with Li Yanqiong, he was still far behind.

In fact, most of the people in the band admire Zhou Yan, but when it comes to fanaticism, it must be Li Yanqiong.

In Li Yanqiong's eyes, Zhou Yan is better than Mozart and Beethoven, but there is no comparison at the bottom... She doesn't think there is any musician who is still out of breath who can compare with Zhou Yan.

At first, Zhao Lao was actually a little uncomfortable because Li Yanqiong exaggerated.

Senior Brother Zhou Yan is indeed very powerful, but it is impossible to say that he is invincible in the world. Even if he is far away, even Senior Brother Tan Dun, who is from the same school, will beat Zhou Yan.

It can only be said that Zhou Yan's level in the new century and pop sectors is truly unrivaled.

When it comes to traditional music works, whether it is the number of works or honors, Zhou Yan is definitely not as good as Tan Dun and his group of seniors.

However, after listening to Li Yanqiong playing Zhou Yan every day for a long time, Zhao Zhang actually started to get used to it.

The news that Zhou Yan won the Oscar for Best Score quickly spread throughout the building.

Not only the music studio, but the movie studio also got the news quickly.

Zhou Yan was sitting in the office, and when he heard the voice coming from the film studio opposite, he couldn't help but curl his lips, "Zhao Zhang's voice is really powerful."

Han Sanping said with a smile, "Let them be happy with such good news. How old is this boy Zhao Ga this year?"

"Fourth grade."

"Oh, you will graduate in one year. I remember your composition major is a five-year program, right?"

"Well, it's a five-year program, but he graduated early this year."

Han Sanping smiled and said, "Sure enough, the five-year program in your composition department is prepared for ordinary students. So after he graduates, will he continue to study for graduate school, go abroad for further study, or stay in school to teach like you?"

"The school contacted him with the Central Chinese Orchestra, but he plans to come to my studio."

"Did he come on his own?"

"Well, although this kid looks frizzy, he actually has a lot of ideas. His father actually still wants him to join the folk band."

Han Sanping nodded, "Teacher Zhao's idea is understandable."

Although times have changed now, parents still attach great importance to preparation.

The Central Chinese Orchestra is already a very good place for music students.

Because of this matter, Zhao Jiping and Zhao Gao chatted for a long time, but in the end his father was convinced by his son.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Third brother, this guy's skills are pretty good. Look at what kind of jobs there are in the factory and think of him. He's definitely capable of doing ordinary small jobs. If it's really not possible, I can give him a name."

Han Sanping also narrowed his eyes and laughed, "When that boy was here, you acted like a strict teacher. Now that he is no longer around, you start to work for him. Don't worry about this. Whatever projects you encounter in the factory later will be suitable for you." He, I’ll tell you.”

"Then I'll thank you in advance."

"You're welcome. I know how good this guy is. He won't be able to do anything wrong." Han Sanping stood up and said, "I've finished the tea and heard the news. It's time for me to go back to the factory."

Zhou Yan also stood up, "Don't you want to stay for lunch?"

"Forget about lunch, I'll wait for you to buy me a drink sometime."

"It's easy to say. When Sister Feng comes to Yanjing in two days, I will call you to dinner."

"Okay, I'm leaving." Han Sanping waved to Zhou Yan as he walked out, "Stay, don't see him off."

…

After Han Sanping left, Zhou Yan was going to call Yu Hua back and tell him about the award.

Before he could pick up the phone, it rang.

"Hello."

"How's it going? Has the news come out?" Chen Kaige's voice came from the other side.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Take it."

Chen Kaige sighed, "Oh, I'm jealous. When I was twenty-six years old, I was still doing odd jobs in the factory."

"How about you bring the Palme d'Or and trade it with me?" Zhou Yan joked.

"Okay, if you can make me go back to twenty-six years old, I will give you any award. This Best Score Award is also a belated birthday gift, but will you not regret walking on the red carpet?"

Zhou Yan chuckled, "It's okay, I'll leave next time."

"Scare, can you keep a low profile? I heard that "Sense and Sensibility" has a global box office of over 100 million, right?"

"You are behind on the news. The box office of this movie exceeded 140 million US dollars a few days ago."

"Then the scale of the projects you are involved in is getting bigger and bigger."

"Where is this?"

"If you say you're fat, you'll be out of breath. That's almost it. If you're crazy, I'll curse you."

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Has "Feng Yue" been sent to the Cannes Film Festival? What's going on now?"

"It's okay. I'm just waiting for the film festival to announce the shortlist."

"Then I wish you another success at the Cannes Film Festival this year."

"Don't talk about it yet. When are you going to invite me for a drink? I won such a grand prize and I don't want you to bleed. I'm really angry."

"Wait until Sister Feng comes to Yanjing."

"Okay, I'll wait for your news and chat back."

Chen Kaige just hung up the phone here, and Xu Feng called again.

After that, Zhou Yan answered several calls in a row, basically without stopping. It was as if these people had discussed it.

Many people hear that the line is busy when they are on the phone, and then call another one after a while, so this situation occurs one after another.

…

Although it won the Best Score Award, "Sense and Sensibility" received very little at this year's Academy Awards. It was nominated for eight awards. On the surface, it seemed very good, but in the end it only won the Best Score Award and the Best Adaptation Award. The screenplay awards are two not very important awards.

"Braveheart" became the biggest winner at this year's Oscars. Not only did it win the best picture, Mel Gibson also won the best director for this movie.

There are also awards for best makeup, best photography, and best sound editing.

However, An Li and the others were not disappointed because they did not win the grand prize.

The overlap between the Academy Awards and the three major film festivals is very low. For various reasons, the three major film festivals and the Academy Awards focus on very different things, and even give people a sense of incompatibility.

Over the years, only three movies have overlapped.

The first one was "The Lost Weekend" in 1946, which not only won the Oscar for Best Picture, but also won the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival.

The second film was 1955's A Gentleman, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The third film was "Rain Man" a few years ago, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture and the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear Award.

Apart from these three, no other film has achieved this feat.

Therefore, the possibility of "Sense and Sensibility" winning the Best Picture Oscar is too low.

Now that it can win the best adapted screenplay and best soundtrack, Colombia is actually satisfied.

Anyway, the Golden Bear Award is already in the bag, and the box office performance is so good, they have already achieved their goal.

It is worth mentioning that at the Academy Awards in previous years, the audience only paid attention to the best picture, best director and best actor and actress, and did not pay much attention to other awards.

Among the many Oscar awards, although Best Score is not the one that receives the least attention, it is definitely not ranked among the most concerned.

But this year, many viewers paid special attention to the best soundtrack. Most people paid attention because of "Sense and Sensibility".

The soundtrack to this movie is so popular this year, and a large part of those paying attention are Mariah Carey fans.

Mariah Carey fans are naturally very happy that "Sense and Sensibility" won the Oscar for Best Score. Although this award was awarded to Zhou Yan, from the perspective of Mariah Carey fans, this is not the same as Giving them an idol makes no difference.

From now on, her fans can brag that the song sung by our Mary won the Oscar for Best Score, so just say it’s awesome or not.

The key point is that what they said cannot be considered a lie.

The most important thing is that the organizing committee is also very knowledgeable, and they directly invited Mariah Carey to sing a song during the midfield, and she sang "Young and Beautiful".

The popularity of this song has just dropped a bit recently, but it has come back up again because of the Oscars.

After the award ceremony, Mariah Carey was interviewed by reporters. She congratulated Zhou Yan from a distance.

A reporter asked, "Are you going to have any other collaborations with Y?"

Maria smiled and said: "Of course I hope to cooperate with Y again, but there is no good opportunity yet. In fact, I am very interested in another song in "Sense and Emotion", and I don't know if I will have the opportunity to sing it. "

When Maria said this, the reporters' eyes lit up. This was something they could write about.

"Excuse me, which song are you talking about?"

""Someone Like You", I particularly like this song."

The reporters were not surprised to hear that Mariah Carey liked this song, because there are a total of three popular songs in this movie.

One is "Young and Beautiful" that Mariah Carey has already sung, and there are "Someone Like You" and "Previous Life", and "Someone Like You" is indeed more of a complete song. song.

"Billboard" has previously published a relevant analysis report, specifically mentioning this song.

"Maybe after reading today's interview, Y will agree to give you this song."

Mariah Carey smiled and nodded, "Then I hope you can help me promote it more."

…

Zhou Yan took a lot of calls and made a lot of calls in the morning. At noon, he finally stopped for a while, and he hurriedly went to the canteen to eat in his free time.

After going to the canteen, Zhou Yan looked at the plates with food on his face and said with surprise, "The food is so good today."

The food in the studio cafeteria has always been very good, with meat included in the meals and a very reasonable mix of meat and vegetables, but today's food was a bit too good.

The first row is braised beef brisket, roasted chicken with potatoes, stewed pork belly with vermicelli, and fish head tofu. There are eight other dishes in the back, four semi-vegetarian and four vegetarian.

There is also winter melon and pork ribs soup. When you take a spoonful of it, it is all pork ribs and winter melon, not much soup.

Kong Chao said with a smile, "Mr. Liu told me yesterday that we would arrange more dishes today and said that Mr. Zhou, you are going to win the prize."

Zhou Yan smiled. Liu Hang was quite considerate and had arranged to buy groceries in advance.

"Well, let's buy less food tomorrow."

Kong Chao was stunned for a moment and thought to himself: Could it be that Teacher Zhou thought that there were too many dishes today and it was a waste?

Sure enough, Teacher Zhou is a person who doesn't like extravagance and waste.

If it were a different boss, Kong Chao would definitely think that the boss was cheating, but Zhou Yan definitely wasn't. Zhou Yan was the most generous boss Kong Chao had ever seen.

Seeing Kong Chao in a daze, Zhou Yan added, "I'll treat you to a big meal at the hotel tomorrow night, so you just need to prepare a meal tomorrow."

When other people eating in the cafeteria heard this, they started to boo.

"Long live my brother."

"Teacher Zhou is awesome!"

Zhou Yan smiled and waved his hands, then found a seat to eat.

…

The next afternoon, Zhou Yan received another call from Chen Kaige.

After picking up the phone, before Zhou Yan could say anything, he heard Chen Kaige's voice, "I just said that you were so crazy on the phone yesterday. Now you have found the reason."

Zhou Yan was confused by what he said, "Master Kai, what do you mean by this?"

"Are you pretending to be stupid with me? Fox has announced the news and officially hired you as the soundtrack director of "Titanic". Good guy, this is a big project with a budget of 1.5 billion US dollars. No wonder you can't even get more than 100 million US dollars." The U.S. dollar box office is worth it.”

"So that's what you're talking about." Zhou Yan smiled, "Master Kai, you are quite well-informed. You found out so quickly."

"It happened that I learned the news while chatting with a friend in the United States. I heard that the news had just been announced."

"Well, it was decided before, but I kept it secret until now."

"This is a good calculation by Fox. They announced the news just when you won the Oscar for Best Score, and this wave of popularity has come to their hands."

"They didn't know that Sense and Sensibility would win the Best Score Award."

"Anyway, it's nominated. If you get the best, they won't lose anything if you don't get it. The budget of this movie is so high, you took such a big step." Chen Kaige couldn't help but sigh, "Looking back now, you were It was the right move to score Sense and Sensibility.”

In fact, when he knew that Zhou Yan was going to participate in a Hollywood project, Chen Kaige advised Zhou Yan to stop getting involved in Hollywood things and accidentally make a mess.

In Chen Kaige's view, their paths are actually the same. The main track is the film festival. As long as they can win awards at the film festival, they can finally stand on the international stage.

Zhou Yan has been on a good path before, he just needs to follow the original path step by step.

In today's era, we cannot say that Chen Kaige's idea is wrong, because in recent years, Chinese films have indeed flourished at film festivals and gained a certain amount of international attention.

This makes many Chinese filmmakers believe that as long as they follow this route, they can create a bright future for Chinese films.

But Zhou Yan felt that this track was too narrow and it was impossible to achieve what he wanted.

Facts have proved that Zhou Yan made the right move.

Previously, his music only made some splash in Europe and the United States with "Flying Piano Boy", but he is still far from completely opening up the European and American markets.

And this time with "Sense and Emotion", his music directly made waves in Europe and the United States.

It was precisely because of "Sense and Sensibility" that he attracted the attention of James Cameron and Fox, and then took on the soundtrack of "Titanic".

Everything is developing in the direction Zhou Yan envisioned.

"It's just asking for food. It's the same whether in Hollywood or in China." Zhou Yan said with a smile.

"That's different. Now your price is so high. If I come to you in the future, I won't be able to pay you."

Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes and smiled. I'm afraid it would be difficult for him and Chen Kaige to cooperate, not because of the price, but because he didn't like the movies that Chen Kaige made later.

As long as it's a domestic movie he can watch, he doesn't care at all about the pay.

But Zhou Yan still saved face for Chen Kaige.

"Master Kai, aren't you slapping me in the face by saying this? Don't worry, as long as I have a schedule, I won't charge a dime for your movie."

Hearing Zhou Yan's words, Chen Kaige was quite happy, "Your words are enough. I also know that you are busy. I'm afraid it will be difficult to cooperate with you later."

"Even if I'm busy, I have a studio now. If you make a movie later and I don't have a schedule, you can hand it over directly to my studio. Their level is not low." Zhou Yan also did not forget to promote his studio.

"Okay, no problem. I'll make a movie later and I'll find you as soon as possible."

…

Shizuka Kudo was putting on makeup backstage at TV Asahi when Nangong Matsuko suddenly ran in excitedly.

"Shizuka, Mr. Zhou Yan won the Oscar for Best Score!"

Shizuka Kudo made a surprised expression, "Wow, is it true? It's amazing."

"Yeah, that's awesome."

Seeing Nangong Songzi's amazed expression, Kudo Shizuka traced a smile on her lips.

She knew yesterday that Zhou Yan won the best soundtrack. She had been happy about it all day, but she also held it back all day because she had no way to share such good news with others.

Now that the news has reached Neon, she can discuss it openly with Nangong Songzi and the others.

"The soundtrack of "Sense and Sensibility" is really nice. I listen to "Raining Ring" every day."

The makeup artist also smiled and said, "Yes, Mr. Zhou Yan is so talented in music, and the few songs he wrote for Miss Kudo are also very nice. I heard that he will come to Neon to hold a concert this year. I don't know when it will be. If It would be great if I could buy tickets.”

Kudo Shizuka said with a smile, "If you want to listen, I will give you two tickets when the time comes."

"Wow, is it true? I heard that Zhou Yan's tickets are more difficult to buy. Of course, Miss Kudo and Mr. Zhou Yan have such a good relationship, it must be very easy to get two tickets."

After being complimented by the makeup artist, Kudo Shizuka was very happy and almost lost her temper, "Of course, we have a good relationship."

Seeing Shizuka Kudo's proud look, Nangong Songzi pursed her lips, and then shared another piece of news, "I heard that Mr. Zhou Yan will also score "Titanic"."

"Wow, is it that movie with a budget of more than 100 million US dollars?" Kudo Shizuka expressed surprise again.

This time her expression was even more exaggerated. She had known about Zhou Yan's role as the soundtrack for "Titanic" earlier.

"Well, the director is James Cameron." Nangong Songzi nodded.

The makeup artist also said, "Doesn't that mean we can hear Mr. Zhou Yan's new music again?"

"Yes, it is."

…

The news that Zhou Yan won the Best Score Award and served as the soundtrack director of "Titanic" quickly spread in the country.

For a time, all major media outlets were full of relevant news.

Many people couldn't help but sigh when they saw the news. Zhou Yan's popularity has been too high for more than a month.

In early February, Zhou Yan frequently appeared on TV because of the Spring Festival Gala.

Before the popularity of the Spring Festival Gala has subsided, it is reported that Zhou Yan won the Berlin Film Festival Special Jury Award.

The popularity of these two incidents has not subsided, and now Zhou Yan has won the Oscar for Best Score.

It seems that in this month, you can hear news about Zhou Yan everywhere.

Many people who didn't know Zhou Yan before were surprised that this kid suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

But after getting to know him, he discovered that Zhou Yan didn't appear suddenly at all. His movies and music had already spread widely.

It was only after watching the Spring Festival Gala that Fang Heyuan learned about Zhou Yan. However, after watching the Spring Festival Gala at that time, he only thought that Zhou Yan played the flute very well.

Later, I heard one after another that Zhou Yan had won the Special Jury Award at the Berlin Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Score, and I slowly got to know Zhou Yan.

This understanding made Fang Heyuan feel like he had discovered a new continent.

Zhou Yan's works have actually penetrated deeply into his life.

For example, he had gone to the cinema to watch the movie "The Sixth Sense" with his friends before, but he went to see it because of Tony Leung Ka-fai and Joey Wong. He also liked the movie very much, but he did not find out who the director was.

As for Zhou Yan's music, Fang Heyuan often heard it on the roadside, but he never thought about the author of this music. He even heard some music and thought it came from the West.

What surprised Fang Heyuan the most was that the songs he liked to listen to before, such as "If Love Has God's Will", "Little Hands Holding Big Hands", "First Dream", were also written by Zhou Yan.

The more I get to know him, the more he discovers that Zhou Yan's talent is like a bottomless pit that cannot be fully explored. (End of chapter)