Chapter 691: The 63rd Academy Awards (4200+ Chapters, Ask for Subscription~)
Several people followed Wu Jianye to the living room, and after seeing the decoration here, Chen Hao made a sound of admiration again.
"In the next few days, everyone can live here, if you need anything, you can tell the next person, I have already ordered someone to prepare a dinner party for everyone, now I will let the next person take everyone to their respective rooms to clean up and take a bath!"
Wu Jianye said with a smile.
Everyone else is gone, leaving only Lao Mouzi in the living room.
"The public relations fee for "Ju Dou" is gone, and it is not certain whether it can win the award in the end!" Wu Jianye asked his subordinates to bring two cups of tea and said.
When Zhang Yimou heard the public relations fee, his eyes revealed a trace of discomfort, and said: "I didn't expect it to be the same everywhere!"
Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Actually, if you want me to say, you don't have to care too much about the award, I am lucky to lose my life!"
Zhang Yimou smiled and said, "You naturally don't care about these now!"
Wu Jianye saw Zhang Yimou say this, so he stopped talking about the awards, and asked, "How are the preparations for the new movie?"
Originally, according to history, Zhang Yimou should have started filming "The Red Lantern Hangs High" this year, but this movie has been robbed by Wu Jianye, so he naturally can't shoot it, so Wu Jianye is very curious about what movie he plans to shoot this year.
"Originally, I wanted to adapt "A Place of Chicken Feathers", I had already gone to the mountain city to investigate, but then I found Chen Yuanbin's novella "Ten Thousand Lawsuits", I thought it was a good story, so I wanted to put this story on the big screen!"
Zhang Yimou said with a smile.
Wu Jianye immediately understood that what Zhang Yimou was talking about was the later movie "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit".
"Has the script been written?" Wu Jianye asked.
"It's been written, at Chen Yuanbin's place, after buying the copyright, I found Liu Heng, this is the first draft, you can take a look!" Zhang Yimou finished speaking, took out a stack of manuscript paper in his bag, and handed it to Wu Jianye.
Wu Jianye looked at it roughly for a while, and determined that this was the "Qiu Ju Lawsuit", but obviously this is only the first version of the script, and a lot of content in it is different from the plot in his memory.
There's even a lot of comedy!
Just looking at it made Wu Jianye frown slightly.......
If you want to say that in China, there are directors of the same generation, who makes Zhang Yimou admire from the bottom of his heart, it is Wu Jianye, so when he saw Wu Jianye frowning slightly, he asked worriedly: "What's wrong?"
"There is nothing wrong with this script, it's just that such a story, if it is filmed according to traditional shooting techniques, no matter how well you shoot, it will only be a traditional story, and it will not be too brilliant, and there are too many drama pieces and dramatic lines in it, which is a little distorted!"
Wu Jianye said, this is Wu Jianye's own opinion, not because he has read the original version of "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit".
At this time, Wu Jianye had already entered the stage of a master, and as soon as he read a script, he knew the advantages and disadvantages.
Zhang Yimou nodded and said, "Actually, when I read this script for the first time, I also had such an idea, but I haven't figured out how to get it yet!"
"At the same time, the style of the film, some people have suggested that they want to shoot this film in the same way as they did when filming "Old Well", but I think that with the current social environment and people's mentality, it is difficult to work as hard as "Old Well", and no matter how good the film is, it will not be able to shoot "Old Well", and the situation of the two works is also different. ”
Wu Jianye thought for a moment and said, "You can try to shoot this movie in the style of candid documentary, so that the script can be kept in a lifelike and loose state." At the same time, when filming, the main creators improvised some stories and added them, which can make the movie more life-like and easier for the audience to enter the story!"
Hearing Wu Jianye's suggestion, Zhang Yimou's eyes immediately lit up, thought for a while, and said with a smile: "I feel that there is a drama like this." ”
Wu Jianye smiled and said, "But if that's the case, this first draft of yours will have to be pushed to rewrite!"
Zhang Yimou smiled: "There is no problem with this, when I return to China, I will ask Liu Heng to write another draft!"
Wu Jianye continued to lecture for Zhang Yimou: "In your movies in the past, you still didn't pay enough attention to people, I think you can focus on the characters themselves in this movie, which can also exercise your ability to narrate the story itself in the movie." ”
"I have seen Chen Yuanbin's "Ten Thousand Lawsuits", this story takes place in a mountain city, but you are still not familiar enough with it, the movie itself must have a lot of real life details to compose, I suggest that you put the background of the story in the countryside of Shaanxi Province that you are familiar with, which will be more conducive to you to be familiar with this story!"
Zhang Yimou nodded again and again while listening, and said with a smile: "Yes, what you said is very good, I have memorized all of these, and I will let Liu Heng pay attention to these problems later!"
This film has nothing to do with court culture, with Zhang Yimou's fame in China, his film is not short of investors at this stage, and this movie is invested and filmed by Yindu Institution.
In this regard, Wu Jianye has no opinion, the Yindu institution is already semi-official, and the current situation in the country is that no matter how powerful you are, it is useless.......
After chatting about the movie, everyone else went back to the living room.
Seeing this, Wu Jianye and Zhang Yimou stopped the discussion and let the subordinates start serving.
After the old lady left, Master Chen's master and apprentice went to work again, but the people in the manor before were gone, only Wu Jianye, Dai Zhen, Chen Le, Dan Silan and others remained, among which Chen Le and Dan Silan still had to attend classes, and they would not often return to the manor, that is to say, only Wu Jianye and Dai Zhen were left here, and naturally it was not as lively as before.
With so many guests coming today, Master Chen is also showing his skills.
Chen Hao sat at the dining table and said exaggeratedly: "I didn't expect to be able to eat such authentic Sichuan cuisine abroad!"
Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Don't worry, during this time, you will definitely not let everyone eat that kind of fake Chinese food!"
Everyone laughed after listening to it.
Gu Changwei asked curiously, "Old Wu, will you go back with us this time?"
Wu Jianye shook his head and said, "No, I won't return to China until "Jurassic Park" is released here, and deal with the release of "Jurassic Park". ”
Chen Hao said: "Director Wu, in fact, in my opinion, wouldn't it be better for the movie "Jurassic Park" to be released directly in China at the same time?"
Wu Jianye smiled: "There are some procedures that need to be taken!"
This reason is naturally said by Wu Jianye at will, in fact, even Chen Hao himself knows that with Wu Jianye's achievements in the international arena and his connections in China, there is no problem for his movies to be released simultaneously in China and internationally.
However, although Chen Hao looks very arrogant and his personality is a little jumpy, it doesn't mean that he is stupid, on the contrary, such people are actually very smart and live very really.
So when he saw that Wu Jianye didn't want to say the real reason for this incident, he didn't ask anymore!
After everyone had a pleasant dinner, Wu Jianye took them to the manor's theater and watched a movie, so they went back to their respective houses to rest!
In the following days, Wu Jianye specially asked Lauren Donner to arrange for someone to take Chen Hao and Feng Yiting to visit Los Angeles, and Zhang Yimou and others, because it was the second time, did not continue.
Zhang Yimou also took advantage of this time, Wu Jianye had time, and kept pulling him to discuss his new movie "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit".
When the time comes to March 25th, the 63rd Academy Awards officially begin!
On this day, the Holy Citizen Auditorium in Los Angeles was brightly lit, and the entire red carpet was already filled with a lot of reporters, waiting to interview stars from all walks of life.
That is, the red carpet of this Academy Awards has also changed, no longer isolating reporters from the red carpet, but allowing reporters to enter the red carpet and interview stars who come to the awards ceremony at will.
But fans will still be isolated from the red carpet!
The crew of "Ghost Love" has also arrived, Wu Jianye, Isabel Adjani, Mel Gibson, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwin, and the people behind the scenes, shuttled on the red carpet and were interviewed by reporters from all walks of life.
There are two popular films in this year's Oskey, namely "Ghost Love" directed by Wu Jianye and "Dances with Wolves" directed by Kevin Costner!
The former set the highest box office record in North America and the world last year, while the latter was the most nominated film at this Oscars, with a total of 12 nominations, which is also the first few films in the history of the Oscars.
In particular, this is Kevin Costner's first film.
The two movies can be said to be the two most lively areas of the entire red carpet!
As for Zhang Yimou and others, forget it....... It's a small transparent one, and it's useless to say it.
At this time, Wu Jianye was being interviewed by a reporter from the ABC television network.
ABC Television Network, the exclusive live streaming platform for the Academy Awards.
"Director Wu, we all know that this time your "Ghost Love" and Kevin Costner's "Dances with Wolves" have several awards that are direct opponents, do you have any predictions for the awards this time?" The interview reporter of the ABC TV network is a blonde and blue-eyed, convex and backward beauty, wearing an OL suit, looking very intellectual!
Wu Jianye said with a smile: "There is nothing to predict, whether it is "Ghost Love" or "Dances with Wolves", I am very happy, after all, we can be regarded as a family!"
The ABC reporter laughed, she knew what Wu Jianye meant, these two movies were invested and filmed by Phantom Pictures, so it was indeed a family.
"Director Wu, this is not the first time you have been shortlisted for the Academy Awards, but it is your first time participating in the Academy Awards, I don't know what your impression of the Academy Awards is?"
Wu Jianye's previous filming of "The Red Lantern Hangs High" and "The Last Emperor" were both nominated for the Academy Awards, but Wu Jianye did not participate in those two nominations, this time it was indeed his first time participating in the Academy Awards.
Wu Jianye smiled: "I enjoy the atmosphere of the Academy Awards very much, in my opinion, this place is more like a big party, I just came to enjoy it!"
At this time, Kevin Costner suddenly rushed over to the side, leaned behind Wu Jianye, and shouted, "Director Wu, come on!"
Wu Jianye and the reporter of the ABC TV network also looked at each other and smiled, and then Wu Jianye chatted with Kevin Costner.
The two are actually not familiar with each other, but the behavior just now makes people think how close the relationship between the two is, which is actually just a propaganda method for everyone, so don't take it too seriously!
But anyway, fans love to see this scene very much.
The other two popular characters in the crew of "Ghost Love" are Isabel Adjani and Whoopi Goldberg, both of whom were nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, and they are both popular candidates for this award, and naturally many reporters interviewed them for their opinions.
Although Mel Gibson was not shortlisted, with his current super popularity, there are also many reporters interviewing, and the worst is still Tony Goldwin.......
In fact, at this year's Academy Awards, there are two other movies worth mentioning, namely "The Godfather 3" filmed by Francisco Polpola and "Life and Death" starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock!
The achievements of "The Godfather 3" are far inferior to the first two, but it still won nominations for six awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Song.
And "The Speed of Life and Death" was nominated for three awards: Best Sound, Best Sound Editing, and Best Film Editing!
It is precisely with the shortlisting of the three films "Ghost Love", "Dances with Wolves", and "Speed of Life and Death" that Phantom Entertainment has become the big winner of this Academy Awards!
Wu Jianye didn't delay too long on the red carpet, he never liked this, so he just hurriedly answered a few questions from reporters and walked into the auditorium.
As Wu Jianye said, this is a grand party for North American filmmakers, and all the people who can come here are people with heads and faces, and even if the actors are not nominated, the director will find a way to get a ticket to participate.
This will improve their compulsion, and of course, those who are really well-known don't need these, but Oscar invited them over.
In this way, the Academy Awards are actually a commercial act.
Wu Jianye's big party in Hollywood this time is very different from when he participated in other parties in Hollywood before, the success of "Ghost Love" made him a celebrity in Hollywood, and at this time there were also many actors and stars around him to talk to him.
In fact, this can also show a person's status in Hollywood, for example, there are not many people who have Wu Jianye's treatment now, Spielberg, Lucas, Francesco Pola and other top directors are counted as one, but they are together, so they also got together, in addition to them, it is Wu Jianye's side that surrounds the most!
Other places are also surrounded by circles of all sizes.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes!
This sentence is also not an exaggeration to put it here!
Wu Jianye politely chatted with everyone for a while, and at the same time received a lot of calls hoping to cooperate, but unfortunately they didn't know that Wu Jianye was ready to return to China after filming "Jurassic Park"!
When the time was about the same, everyone was back in their places, and when this year's host, Billy Christo, took the stage.
The 63rd Academy Awards have officially begun!
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ps: Recommend a book of grain and grass, "I Really Am Not the Carpenter Emperor", Author: The Rising Stone, the story of Zhu Youzhen's self-justification~