After Joseph and Denzel left, Peng Yichen found someone to bring a notebook and opened the most popular Star Flag Country website in recent years-Facebook.

He clicked directly on the Oscar-nominated movie popularity voting column on the front page of Facebook.

One of the Best Foreign Language Films was shortlisted for the Film.

It is clearly marked that at present, "Mysterious Eyes" has received 250,000 votes from fans of the Star Flag Country, and "Beautiful Life" has a box office of 210,000, and the two films are basically the two most competitive films in this award at present.

But in terms of Best Picture, I don't know why there are so many films shortlisted this year that it makes people wonder that this is not the Oscar's Best Picture shortlist, but the Niulanshan Best Film Shortlist.

"Weakness", "District 9", "Growing Education", "Bomb Disposal Unit", "Inglourious Basterds", "Cherish", "Serious Man", "Flying House", "In the Clouds"

There are as many as nine of them.

Among them, "Bomb Disposal Unit", "Weakness", "Inglourious Basterds", "Cherish" and "Serious Man" are all award-winning favorites.

To describe the fierceness of the competition for this year's Oscar for Best Picture in one word, it is miserable.

On Facebook, "Bomb Disposal Unit" and "Inglourious Basterds," which received the most votes, now have 2.6 million and 2.4 million votes, respectively.

It can be said that fans are most concerned about the attribution of the best picture this year.

Seeing that the number of votes for these two movies has been so much, Peng Yichen is still a little uncertain about the plan to mobilize Chinese fans to vote for "Beautiful Life".

He made a transatlantic phone call and asked Sun Yizou: "Old Sun, I'm Peng Yichen." I just looked at it, and the movie with the most votes on Facebook for Best Picture has already received more than 2.6 million votes. If we want "Life is Beautiful" to win the first place in the best picture vote, we must call on more than this number of Chinese fans to help us send an email to vote. Do you think we can do it?"

"Absolutely. Sun Yizou said affirmatively: "You have not been in Huaxia for a while, you don't know how high the media and fans in Huaxia have praised you now."

I feel that if you can win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this time, those fans will be able to push you to the position of 'No. 1 Director in China'. You think about how appealing you are right now. ”

When Peng Yichen heard Sun Yizou's words, he felt a little relieved, but he still had some doubts: "But after all, I haven't won the award for the best foreign language film yet." ”

"But it's not just your fans who are willing to vote for you. Sun Yizou's confident voice came from the other end of the phone, "In the next two days, I will contact all your friends in the Huaxia entertainment industry and ask them to help you launch a fan vote together." ”

"Friend?" Peng Yichen was stunned for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "That's not good, for my movie to win the award, let them mobilize their own connections and fans to help me, so that I owe too much favor." ”

Peng Yichen has many friends in the Chinese film industry, but "Beautiful Life" is his own work after all, and he doesn't want to owe such a big favor just because he is striving for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

"What kind of debt is this?" Sun Yizou said as a matter of course: "This is something that is also good for them, how can you be regarded as owing them a favor." As long as you can successfully enter the Star Flag Country market this time, for filmmakers across China, it is equivalent to paving a way for them to enter the Hollywood and international film markets. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Yizou suddenly sighed with emotion: "When I was an agent in Hollywood, I thought I was no worse than any white agent, and I tapped no fewer stars than them, but in the end, I could only be a second-rate agent forever."

Mr. Peng, don't think that winning the Oscar and conquering the North American film market this time is a matter for you, this is your representative of our Chinese filmmakers, competing for a breath in the Star Flag Country and the international film market. It is to tell others that we Chinese filmmakers are no worse than filmmakers from any country. ”

Hearing Sun Yizou's words, Peng Yichen finally remembered why he wanted to cooperate with Hua Na, and why he wanted to desperately strive for the success of "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" and "Beautiful Life" in North America, isn't it just to let Huaxia films really gain a foothold in the international film market.

From this point of view, his plan to launch fan voting this time is indeed not his own business, but something that the entire Chinese filmmakers should support.

In this regard, Sun Yizou's overall view and his view of the entire Chinese film industry are indeed much deeper than his own......

"Old Sun, you're so right. When I used to study abroad, those white students looked at me with a look of contempt and condescension that every Chinese person has ever felt. The success or failure of my film this time is indeed not my own business.

I immediately posted an update on Weibo. Mobilize all my friends in the entertainment industry to help me launch fan voting. You asked the company's publicity staff to stay in Huaxia to pay attention to follow-up, and strive to let more media and fans know about our actions this time. ”

"Understood!" replied Sun Yizou energetically. "I'm going to arrange these things right away. ”

After the two hung up the phone, Peng Yichen immediately sorted out the content of the conversation between Sun Yizou and himself just now and posted it on his Weibo.

Then he @ all the friends in the circle and asked them to forward it for him.

The publicity and distribution department of Chen Jing Film Company also immediately took action and contacted all the media that could be contacted to promote Peng Yichen's Weibo.

Subsequently, Sun Yizou forwarded the Oscar voting strategies sent to him by Joseph and Denzel on various websites of the Star Flag Country to the designers of the Propaganda and Development Department.

Let them specially design a delicate "Beautiful Life" Star Flag Country website voting strategy poster, which left the voting mailboxes of these websites.

In this way, teach all fans how to vote for these websites, and let everyone vote for "Life is Beautiful" to win the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor and Actress in the mailbox of these websites.

Subsequently, Peng Yichen called Brother Fang Long and Zeng Zhiwei again, hoping that they could mobilize the Xiangjiang Artists Association to help issue it, calling on fans in Xiangjiang to also vote for "Beautiful Life".

And Zhao Jianguo, Zhang Guorong, and Mei Yanfang, good friends, took the initiative to contact him directly after Peng Yichen used Weibo @ them.

Send the voting posters produced by Chen Jing Film Company to all the celebrity friends he knows to help Peng Yichen launch more fan voting.

Mei Yanfang also registered a Weibo for this purpose, and published an article on her Facebook (for Xiangjiang) and Weibo (in the mainland) respectively:

"Dear fans and friends, director Peng Yichen is a very good, very good friend of mine. Now he is weak in the Star Flag Country, and his film "Life is Beautiful" cannot be promoted by the mainstream media in North America, and cannot get a fair chance to compete for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

I hope that all my friends who like me can help vote for "Life is Beautiful". The voting method is in the poster below this Weibo poster.

I hope that with everyone's help, "Life is Beautiful" can finally win the Oscar. Win glory for our Chinese films. ”

Mei Yanfang has countless friends in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry, and hundreds of Xiangjiang stars such as Sammo Hung, Tan Yonglin, and Chen Baixiang immediately followed the same example and reposted her Weibo on Facebook and newly registered Weibo.

Fans on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places in China almost all knew about this matter in the morning.

As soon as everyone heard that Peng Yichen's "Beautiful Life" lacked publicity channels in the Star Flag Country, and could only be promoted through website voting, they immediately began to vote for "Beautiful Life" spontaneously, and at the same time continued to promote it to the people around them, so that they could also vote for "Beautiful Life".

""Beautiful Life" is so classic, can't it win a best foreign language film? Peng Yichen's film must be supported!"

"Although I hate Peng Yichen's new movie "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" when it premiered in North America, it was not released in China. But I've watched "Life is Beautiful" and I'm moved by the tears that made me laugh and cry at this movie, and I will definitely vote for this movie. ”

"Life is Beautiful must not lose the opportunity to win an Oscar because of publicity. ”

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In just one day, fans who will go over the wall first directly increased the number of votes for "Beautiful Life" to an astonishing 5.7 million in the "Best Foreign Language Film" option on the three major websites of Star Flag Country.

threw the votes for "Mysterious Eyes" out of sight.

Peng Yichen took Yu Jing and other main creative members of the "Beautiful Life" crew, under Robinov's arrangement, to accept interviews with a group of professional media owned by traditional Hollywood filmmakers such as "Premiere" and "Filmmaker's Weekly", and at the same time rented theaters in major cities across the United States to screen "Beautiful Life" for free publicity and promotion.

Although Warner's Bix didn't know that Robinoff was about to be kicked out of the company, how could he still have time to engage in Oscar PR for "Life is Beautiful".

But he didn't dare to relax, and focused his attention away from David Ellison and Ivy Nivo, two private shareholders of Hua Na, and focused on Oscar PR.

He arranged for his henchman Kevin to further strengthen the frequency of "Mysterious Eyes" participating in various media interviews and promotions.

There was also a special behind-the-scenes show of "Mysterious Eyes" on CNN.

Even in Time magazine, news related to "Mysterious Eyes" was reported for three consecutive days.

even invited many well-known Hollywood film critics to give the film a platform:

"The monument in the history of the film "The Mysterious Eye" is the natural winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and the other participating films are far from being able to compare. —Gatus Padelor

After these countermeasures were arranged, Bix's mind relaxed.

I thought to myself that I had the resources of a whole media group.

And you only have the support of six or seven professional Hollywood niche media, even if your movie wins the "Best Foreign Language Film" vote on the three major social networking sites, do you think you can turn the tables?

In the evaluation report made by the Warner publicity and distribution department on Peng Yichen's publicity effect, even if Peng Yichen predicted in the final selection of "Best Foreign Language Film", the probability of winning "Mysterious Eyes" is more than 87%, while the chance of winning "Beautiful Life" is only 11%.

It's a pity that what Bix doesn't know is that Peng Yichen's plan has just begun......