After a warm-up, the 62nd Academy Awards ceremony officially began.

At the beginning, the competition for the technical awards was not very fierce, and it was not until the best soundtrack that there was a bit of a sense of competition between you and me.

There are a total of five nominations for Best Soundtrack, the animated feature film The Little Mermaid produced by Disney, as well as three live-action films such as the comedy film Warm Family and Reincarnation of Pretty Langjun, and one is the animated film Mulan produced by DreamWorks Animation Studios.

The battle for the best soundtrack is on the two animated feature films.

These two animated feature films can be said to be on par in terms of the quality of the soundtrack, the investment in the film, and the box office revenue.

The Little Mermaid was Disney's last hand-drawn cartoon, which used a thousand different colors as a background for more than a million drawings.

It was also Disney's biggest animated film since Fantasia (1940), in which the two-minute scene of the storm alone took 10 special effects artists more than a year to complete.

The director insisted that millions of bubbles had to be drawn by hand, not copied. It was a very human work, and in the end the work was undertaken by a Chinese company in Beiping.

At first, Disney wanted to shoot the film with a special camera at the same time, but all efforts failed because the world-famous multi-faceted camera was too large and bulky.

In the end, this particular camera had to be subleased to another company.

In the 1980s, Broadway-style musical and dance films gradually faded with the replacement of the mainstream of the film market, and Disney animation featuring music songs also faced a major bottleneck.

Before the production of this cartoon, there was a heated discussion within Disney, and many executives felt that musical-style cartoons had gradually lost the market, and The Little Mermaid expected that the investment was too large and it would be difficult to recover the cost.

But in the end, there were more high-level people who were reluctant to end Disney's traditional advantage project and supported the Little Mermaid project.

In order to stand up to the dilemma faced by musical-style films, Disney enlisted musical theater writers Alan Menken and Hoard Ashman to find the real problem, which was the unity of the song's music and plot.

Therefore, the plot and music are closely integrated in the production process of "The Little Mermaid", rather than working separately from each other and finally coming together.

And in terms of plot, Disney changed the original tragic ending to a happy reunion, and added many vivid characters, shaping the Little Mermaid Ariel as Disney's first heroine with a modern personality.

The Disney staff even joked that a girl like Ariel would never be allowed to run away from home if Walt Disney was alive.

As for Sebastian the Red Crab, Disney was originally designed to be a serious and upright court minister, but after Alan Menken and Hoard Ashman joined the assignment, he changed it to a funny and talented musician, which is a successful expression of the close work of music and story, creating a satisfying effect.

The result of this production was a huge success after the film was released.

In North America, it grossed $111 million at the box office and $211 million worldwide.

And the Mulan produced by DreamWorks Animation Studio is also well-made and has achieved remarkable results.

To make the film Chinese-style, DreamWorks animators carefully studied the moves of Chinese martial arts.

The company has hired a large number of writers, historians and artists from Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan to repeatedly study and review the script, scene and shape of the film to maintain its Chinese characteristics and the spirit of the original work. The whole film has a strong style of Chinese ink painting.

In terms of role arrangement, the clown supporting role of Mushulong is equivalent to the monster in "Aladdin", while helping the protagonist to gag, he also supports a contrasting haha mirror for the drama structure.

The two major war scenes in the second half of the film belong to the children's version of the action movie, and the fights are fierce but not the slightest smell of blood.

The film's soundtrack features a variety of oriental instruments and many Chinese melodies. This is the first time that Hollywood's animation field has used Chinese elements as the theme of a film.

Of course, considering that the investor and screenwriter Qiao Feng is Chinese, it is not surprising to use Chinese elements as the theme.

In the end, the mysterious and ancient oriental story and the strong feminist consciousness embodied by Mulan's father's military service made the film a great success when it was released last summer.

Mulan cost tens of millions of dollars, lasted two years, and gathered the efforts and talents of hundreds of artists to complete, and cut a box office of 150 million US dollars in North America alone, and the global box office is more than 300 million US dollars.

These two blockbusters did not collide on the schedule, but they collided at this Oscars.

And this award for Best Score is the only Academy Award nomination for both films.

You can imagine how fierce the competition between the two films is for this award.

"I listened to it, and it seems that everyone is more optimistic about the Little Mermaid winning the award." When Steve Martin, who had played the new father-in-law, took the stage to present the Best Score Award, Gong Li whispered into Qiao Feng's ear when the camera couldn't shoot it.

"Cut, disgusting." Qiao Feng pursed his lips in disdain.

"Uhhh Gong Limeng circled, thinking what's wrong, even if it's a competitor, you can't say that people are disgusting and so ungraceful.

Seeing Gong Li blinking at himself with big eyes and confused, Qiao Feng leaned over to her and said, "Fairy tales are all lies, you don't know the origin of this little mermaid story, if you know, you will also say disgusting."

Qiao Feng smiled very maliciously, he just couldn't get used to it, why did he think that Mulan couldn't win the award, why could the Little Mermaid win the award?

Why?

Is it just because it is the daughter of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale sea?

Hmph, what a fairy tale, that's all a lie. Lao Tzu is a person who has been baptized by Disney's anti-fairy tale movies in the 21st century.

Gong Li continued to blink, meaning you tell me what is the origin of this story, why is it disgusting.

Qiao Feng looked down on the stage and saw that Steve Martin was still introducing several candidate films, and the camera lens was also facing Martin, so he said to Gong Li: "The Little Mermaid is actually a love letter written by Hans Christian Andersen to a man. Hans Christian Andersen fell in love with this man named Edward Collin, but failed to confess, so he wrote "The Little Mermaid" to hint at this relationship. The Little Mermaid can't be with a human just like he can't get Colin........."

"What, a love letter to a man?" Gong Li suddenly felt that his three views were ruined.

Thanks to the book friend Little Tiger in the Demon World for a reward of 100 coins.