Chapter 871: After the Oscars
Leonardo looked at Zhang Ran and smiled: "The only thing I care about is when we can start filming!"
Zhang Ran spread his hands and said: "I can't shoot it in a short time, the next two movies I want to make are Chinese films, which have been planned for a long time, and the script is almost the same." He looked at Leonardo and said, "But what to shoot with you, I've probably already thought about it!"
Leonardo asked curiously, "What to shoot?"
Zhang Ran said slowly: "Ten years ago, you framed your friend, causing him to spend three years in prison, and even his wife committed suicide because of it. Ten years later, this man and his brother-in-law seek revenge on you and put you in an abandoned prison. The whole movie is about how a villain with a strong heart is defeated. This is a film with a special plot, it has been a one-man show in a closed space for a long time, similar to "The Aftermath of a Desert Island", but the performance is more difficult, and it is a huge test of the actors' acting skills. ”
Hearing that it was a work that tested the acting skills of actors, Leonardo's eyes lit up: "I'm looking forward to this movie!"
After chatting for a few minutes, Leonardo left, knowing that there were many people waiting to greet Zhang Ran, and at this moment, Nolan walked over to Zhang Ran.
Nolan is about 1.8 meters, blonde and blue-eyed, habitually squinting at people, looking a little unruly, he doesn't look like a director, but a bit like a Wall Street financier. He smiled and stretched out his hand to Zhang Ran and said, "Zhang, it's a pleasure to see you!" "A Person's Lights" is one of the best movies I have ever seen, whether it is the story, the director's technique, or the ideology and artistry are impeccable!"
Zhang Ran smiled and shook Nolan's hand: "Hello, Nolan, I'm very happy to see you." I love your Fragments of Memory, and I love Inception, you're the best storyteller I've ever met. ”
As time went on, more and more people appeared at Summit Entertainment parties, and celebrities from all walks of life rushed over after their appearances at "Vanity Fair" parties or other parties. Summit Entertainment is no longer a small company now, and last year's box office revenue in North America surpassed Fox, Disney, Sony and Universal, ranking third. In addition, today is celebrating Zhang Ran's award, so celebrities from all walks of life rushed over to congratulate him.
Everyone else is coming for himself, as the owner, Zhang Ran can't help but give others face, he can only helplessly put down the food in his hand and greet him with a smile. So, on this night, Zhang Ran was hungry until two o'clock in the morning, and he finally had a full meal until the party was over.
The Oscars have passed, but the discussion about this Oscar is far from over, and in the following days, the global media continued to produce various comments.
For Zhang Ran's award, whether it is the media, film critics, or ordinary netizens are unanimously applauded, this film swept the world awards last year, and even some media and film critics praised Kane, a citizen of the 21st century, and winning the best director is expected;
The New York Times sharply sarcastically stated: "It wasn't 'The King's Speech' itself that really beat The Social Network." Most of the Oscar judges are well-known for their conservative and puritanical spirit. Therefore, "The King's Speech" is based on the construction of a classic and affectionate, clumsy and courageous image of a leader, with a little bourgeois-like drunkenness, to move the Oscar jurs, with an average age of more than 45. IN CONTRAST, THE SPIRIT OF ZUCKERBERG AND THE PURELY TECHNICAL OTAKU IS NOISY, AND ALTHOUGH FACEBOOK IS ALSO A NATIVE AMERICAN CHILD, THE STORY IS CLEARLY FAR FROM THE CONTEXT AND REALITY THAT THE VETERANS OF THE FILM SCHOOL CAN ACCEPT. ”
Gerald Pirry, National Association of Film Critics, said: "I thought they would be more professional, but they disappointed me, because both The Social Network and One Man's Lights are of a higher artistic standard than The King's Speech, and maybe these two films are too trendy for the jury." ”
Kenneth Turan, a film critic at the Los Angeles Times, said: "The economic crisis is not over, and now that the US economy is sluggish and unemployment is high, people need psychological comfort and support. In this context, "The King's Speech", which overcomes its flaws and overcomes itself, gives everyone the most perfect psychological haven, which is very relevant to the present. This is true of "The Millionaire of the Slums", and so is "The King's Speech!"
Some media even believe that "The Social Network" is actually losing emotionally, and when "The King's Speech" is canvassing for votes, at the end of every film shown to members, director Tom Hopper will go over to chat with everyone and ask what he feels after watching, which is a very plus and very cordial move;
There are also many media and film critics who are aggrieved by "One Man's Lights", who believe that "One Man's Lights" is the best film last year, but the film industry will never award the best film award to a foreign language film. Tom Shears, a veteran critic at The Washington Post, said: "The film industry and the mind-wrecked should have a discussion about the real reason why 'The King's Speech' won the Best Picture award, whether it's the film's high value, or whether the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences doesn't think it needs to be awarded to 'One Man's Lights' and that it was given to it by chance."
On the Internet, netizens have never stopped complaining about "The King's Speech": "The judges of the Oscars definitely don't use Facebook." If the Oscars can introduce online voting, the big winner may be "The Social Network". ”
"Yes, the Oscar judges are very old, traditional and conservative, and they can't understand the value of "The Social Network" at all!"
"It's Harvey's dead fat guy again, last time he hacked my favorite "Saving Private Ryan", and this time he hacked my favorite "The Social Network", I changed my name to Weinstein after watching the Oscars!"
"My poor David Fincher, I thought you could snatch the Best Picture award!"
"I can't say that the academics have coaxed again, I can only say that their path to establishing authority has been crooked. "The King's Speech" is very good, but the question is where the better works are, "The Social Network" or "One Man's Lights", which is not better?"
In China, this Oscar can be described as a national concern. CCTV first carried out a one-and-a-half-minute report on "News 30 Minutes", and then "News Network" conducted another one-and-a-half-minute report in the evening. The next day, the "People's Daily" also published a special article, taking "A Man Putting on a Lantern" as an example, and made an in-depth comment in simple terms on the strategy of Chinese culture going global.
When "One Man Shines the Light" was released in China, the film received enthusiastic support from the directors, but there were many criticisms in the critics, and it was even nominated for the Golden Broom Award by Chen Qingsong and was named one of the bad films of the year. To this day, these so-called experts and professors, as well as film critics, have forgotten their criticism of "One Man Puts on the Lights", sang praises to the movie, and said that "One Man Puts on the Lights" as one of the best movies in China's history.
Netizens and fans all remember how these people criticized "One Man Puts on the Lights" at the beginning, and now I see that they praise the movie as rare in the sky and the earth, and almost everyone has the same sentence in their hearts, what about the discipline of you experts and film critics?
Two days later, DT is somewhat similar to MTC, but MTC is based on the evaluations given by different media outlets, populates into the calculation model, calculates a final score, and calculates different scores based on the weight of each media outlet in the industry. Although there is some controversy about the methodology, overall, the credibility is quite high.
TSPDT collects the list of films given by major media and well-known filmmakers around the world, and fills these lists into a computational model for sorting, among which authoritative media such as "Sight and Sound" and "Movie Manual" will have a higher weight, so as to count the 1,000 greatest films in film history and the 250 greatest directors.
As the TSPDT counts 3,648 film menus from film critics and film experts, and 2,543 comprehensive lists of various types. It can be said that it is a comprehensive list of film critics, film experts and directors around the world, which to a large extent represents the views of global industry insiders and film critics, and basically reflects the status of these directors in the history of world cinema.
In the latest version of the TSPDT rankings, due to sweeping the world's major lists last year, it also won the first place in the double lists of "Sight and Hearing" and "Film Manual", "One Man Shines the Light" directly entered the top 1,000, ranking 743, and "Aviator" also advanced 5 places, ranking 542, and in the ranking of the 250 greatest directors, Zhang Ran also soared directly from 177 to 98. This ranking not only allows Zhang Ran to surpass Zhang Yimou and Ang Lee, but even surpass Almodovar, James Cameron, and Clint Eastwood, and rank behind Jacques Demy and Hayao Miyazaki.
Among all the directors who have been born in the film for more than 110 years, Zhang Ran can be ranked in the top 100, which is the positioning of Zhang Ran in the entire film industry now!
Almost everyone who follows this list believes that as Zhang Ran continues to grow and release new works, his status in film history will become higher and higher, and eventually he will become an existence side by side with masters such as Akira Kurosawa and Bergman.
Zhang Ran didn't particularly care about the comments in the media, and he didn't have time to care. As soon as Oscar was over, he began to get busy with the acquisition of Motorola. He made a special trip to Brazil to meet with the Minister of Commerce of Brazil. Because there are factories in Motorola, Brazil, where there are thousands of Brazilian workers. After the acquisition, Zhang Ran must make it clear to the Brazilian side how to deal with Motorola's factory in Brazil and whether there will be large-scale layoffs, otherwise if it fails to pass the review of the Brazilian Ministry of Commerce, the entire acquisition will be aborted.
After meeting with the Brazilian Minister of Commerce, Zhang Ran assured that Motorola's factories in Brazil would not be closed or laid off, and that he would increase investment in Brazil in the future, and the Brazilian side also guaranteed that it would approve the acquisition of Motorola by Century Summit.
Just as Zhang Ran returned to Los Angeles from his trip to Brazil, the acquisition of Motorola by Century Summit was jointly opposed by 12 U.S. senators. Their way of doing so was simple and efficient: they sent a joint letter to the US Treasury Secretary asking the government to step in to block the Summit's takeover.
In the joint letter, senior senators such as Senator Ryan Willydon, Democrat of Oregon and Republican Senator Rob Brownman of Ohio, stressed: "This acquisition will directly damage U.S. national security, and China's state-owned enterprises may have ties to the Chinese military, which increases the risk that advanced U.S. technology will fall into the hands of people who shouldn't own it." ”
Century Peak's plan to acquire Motorola was not favored by investors, and now it has encountered resistance from relevant departments of the US government, and many people are worried about whether this huge acquisition can be successfully implemented.