Chapter 180: The Outpost (3/5)
Catherine is well aware that "Vulgar" has always been the biggest opponent of "Bomb Disposal Unit" at the Oscars.
As for Avatar?
Sorry, it's a sci-fi movie!
In addition to technical awards, science fiction movies basically have nothing at the Oscars...
Have there been any science fiction movies in history that have won the Oscar for Best Picture? Tell you, the answer is 0!
Even Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Dr. Strangelove" were PK;
"Blade Runner", "Terminator 2", "Star Wars", "Forbidden Planet" and other sci-fi classics have not won an Oscar, how can "Avatar" get it?
James Cameron, he is a typical technical commercial film director.
Even Spielberg faked several art films such as "The Color Purple" and "Empire of the Sun", while Cameron has always played with what interests him.
Except for "Titanic", which won the Oscar for Best Director once - because the film happens to be the epic and love route that the Oscars also prefer, Cameron is basically not the cup of tea of the Oscars.
Looking at this year's nominations, "Avatar" and "District 9" are science fiction, and cartoons like "Flying House" are naturally cannon fodder;
Left "Cherish", "In the Clouds", "Growing Education", "Weaknesses", "Serious Man" and "Bomb Disposal Unit"!
Except for "In the Clouds" and "Serious Man", several other films are weak, small in pattern, and have no unique artistic qualities.
"Serious Man" can only be regarded as low-class in the Coen brothers' films, and it belongs to the sketch style. "In the Clouds," while good, still lacks the kind of overwhelming power that an Oscar for Best Picture requires, and it's also a sketch film with a light comedy feel.
Before the Oscars, "Bomb Disposal Unit" had swept the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the Golden Satellite Awards, and the Gotham Independent Film Awards, among others, and was selected for the American Film Association's annual top ten list, Time magazine's annual top ten films, and the French "Cinémathèque's annual top ten lists".
The limelight is extremely strong.
Therefore, if "Vulgar" wants to win the Oscar, the only chance is the union award!
After analyzing it, I communicated with Zhang Junsheng for half an hour, and decided to bet on the director's union - the director of "Bomb Disposal Unit" is not of high standard!
However, Kathryn Bigelow has one of the biggest strengths - she is a female director!
If the Oscar awards Best Director to her, she will be the first woman in history to win Best Director!
Originally, Zhang Junsheng also had the opportunity to compete for the first place in history, but unfortunately, Li An has already taken the lead to become the first Asian to win the best director - Akira Kurosawa won the Lifetime Achievement Award!
One less gimmick, big impact!
And Catherine Bigelow's words to win the award are in line with the law of conservation - Cameron and his ex-wife, there will always be one who will win the award...
It's like the law of conservation of singleness: the total number of singles always remains the same, and singleness neither comes into being nor disappears out of thin air. It will only move from one person to another.
However, Zhang Junsheng is very popular, especially his speech at the Golden Globe Awards, which made many old American viewers completely fascinated by him...
Lao Mei's audience generally feels that he is very real...
I can only say that the old beauty aesthetic is more bizarre, you think they like Jennifer Lawrence's 'not pretending'...
Director Zhang's words are very popular...
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After the Spring Festival, Zhang Junsheng led Yuehua's public relations team to meet Catherine!
The union award is about to be awarded, and the firepower is in full swing!
"In fact, a movie like "Bomb Disposal Unit" that claims to be anti-war, watching 10 films feels the same as watching 1 movie, it's hard to imagine that such a movie can get so much praise, if the director is not Cameron's ex-wife, can "Bomb Disposal Unit" still get so much praise?"
"Frankly speaking, "Bomb Disposal Unit" is too mediocre! War is drugs, we are all victims, the movie is realistic but not profound, the pace is too slow and lacks climax, and the Iraqis in the eyes of the US military are still cruel and incomprehensible, not as profound as "Excerpt Revision". The last 20 minutes are hypocritical, I don't like Iraq war films, but this is indeed Kathryn Bigelow's best work, but her films are always flawed, and it would be a blasphemy to give her an award for this!"
"It's not that I'm discriminating against female directors, at least this movie is a bit watery, and it feels like it's completely missing the point. I understand that the director wants to play realistically, but the pace is too slow, lacking climax and change, the tension and cruelty of the war are basically not filmed, and there is no power in the creation of several characters. Inexplicable persistence, inexplicable sacrifice. During the period of watching, I almost fell asleep several times. I don't understand why I was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, shouldn't the movie be watched in itself?"
"To be honest, 'Bomb Disposal Unit' is pretty bad..."
The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, in addition to traditional media, also the Internet!
Directly smashed 20 million dollars!
Paralys, even if Lao Tzu spends money to buy it, he has to buy a best director!
Lao Tzu is rich, what are you afraid of!
Are you embarrassed to say that your father is not high?
"In Cannes, Zhang Junsheng used a "Crazy Stone" to show all filmmakers that the narrative technique of the film is far more than a single-line narrative! "Vulgar" also tells all the audience that the story is king, and the movie should be interesting!"
"I don't understand why some people say that "Vulgar" is boring, a movie is a movie! If you want to watch a good story, who cares about the connotation. The deconstruction of contemporary popular things is narrated with popular voices. And what underpins these banters is nothing more than violence, sex, and cold jokes. Jokes in absurd settings are always fascinating. ”
"The narrative is subtle and not artificial, and the dialogue is so flurry that you can't help but want to listen and even talk to the characters. The script is cool enough, the characters are personality enough, and there is an alt-rock flavor from beginning to end!"
Once the main competitors are identified, public opinion will be much easier!
Fight the "Bomb Disposal Unit", by the way, elevate yourself.
Yuehua's consistent routine, first occupy the high ground in public opinion!
Then it was time for Catherine to shine.
Using her connections, Catherine organized a panel of judges to watch the film, which cost an average of $100,000 for a private screening.
Not only that, in order to cooperate with the awards, "Vulgar" was re-screened again, and there were not many theaters that opened the picture, 700, and the box office in two weeks was less than $8 million...
The Oscar voting committee has 6,028 members, of which 77% are men and only 23% are women, with an average age of 62.
Catherine is targeting the men among them, and not the ones who are over 70 years old...
She knew that most of the people who voted for "Bomb Disposal Unit" were women!
If you are over 70 years old, you must not be used to watching "Vulgar"...
Then don't go for it!
She chose to be between 30-50 years old, and most of them are people who have a voice in the industry!
The effect is significant.
The three major union awards, the directors guild awarded the best director to Zhang Junsheng, and the actors guild awarded the best supporting actor and the best actress to Samuel L. Jackson and Natalie Portman respectively...
As for the producers' union, the time was too rushed to get it done...
Zhang Junsheng is already very satisfied...
Therefore, in addition to the US dollar, there is also the RMB that defeats the world!