Chapter 787: The Golden Globe Awards are coming
It's a lively Christmas scene, with three controversial films that bring different feelings and impacts to audiences, some are boycotts, some are protests, some are discrimination against the same sex, and some want to change the evolution of this discrimination.
Those Leila didn't care, for her these were things that were going to exist in history, she had seen them once in her previous life, and there was nothing worth noting.
There is only one thing that she will still want to know even though she has experienced it - the box office!
She wondered if Peter Jackson, who had lost the opportunity to direct the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, could barely keep "King Kong" alive, and whether Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" had achieved more than $170 million at the box office amid the controversy, just like its previous life.
As for Steven Spielberg's Munich Massacre, well, she didn't pay much attention. The main thing is that this film is not too outstanding in the life of a director of a big director. At least that's what she thinks.
The film may reveal something, and it may also make the audience understand something, but in her opinion, a movie that even fans are not interested in watching is of little value.
Outside film critics have been shouting that the box office doesn't mean anything, that's. She doesn't think it's bad to add something deeper to the movie, but she just thinks why not find a way to make the audience feel good while adding what she wants to convey to it?
In the midst of many controversies, Christmas has passed, and people have ushered in 2006 with the ringing of New Year's bells.
With the release of several movies, the box office was finally settled. is similar to the result of the previous life, "King Kong" has won a global box office of more than 500 million, which is about tens of millions less than in the previous life. And "Brokeback Mountain" rose by 20 million, almost breaking 200 million by a few million.
With a production cost of 14 million, this is a very beautiful box office, and I'm afraid even the investors and directors themselves didn't expect such good results.
Leila was not surprised by this, because she knew that in her previous life, the film had a good reputation and box office. And because the director is an Oriental, she also asked Moran's media to invite the crew of "Brokeback Mountain". invited the director and a few actors to participate in a few programs with good ratings, and also asked several newspapers and magazines to give some special reports.
First, she thinks that the East has produced such a director who has stood firm in Hollywood for so many years, and who does he support if she doesn't support him? There was already a lot of talk about it before the movie was released, and even more so after the movie was released, so many times that even the police were dispatched.
Readers and viewers love topics like this, and they want to see them in the media. That's why Leila will take the lead and invite the crew to do the show when other media are just reporting on some movie-caused events.
In Leila's view, she did what she should have done and she didn't lose money, but to others, it was a bit like she was expressing some ideas on behalf of her family, that is, she was supporting the same sex.
This is a misconception that is both beautiful and not good.
In those days, the discrimination against the same-sex community was very strong, otherwise it would not have attracted so many boycotts because of the release of "Brokeback Mountain". At this time, the media under Leila and Moran reported on them from an objective and even faintly supportive position, which made many same-sex groups have a great favor towards them.
But at the same time, there are also some anti-same-sex people who have also issued some warnings to Leila. Most exaggeratedly, someone sent her a bloody stripped-off cat carcass wrapped in a rainbow flag representing the same-sex community.
The package was sent to the Dragon Soul Company, and of course such an unsigned suspicious thing would not be delivered directly to Lyra, so the little girl at the front desk who opened the package on behalf of Lyra became a victim and fainted with fear of the contents of the package.
Given that there was a threatening warning in the package, Leila handed it over to the police station. She didn't have the time or energy to play guess and guess games with those boring people, and if she dared to send something like this to her, don't blame her for doing a good job.
If you want to blame it, you can only blame the person who sent it for not having a brain. It is estimated that there are too many similar threats, and no one has come to investigate his relationship, so he is bold step by step, and even Leila dares to send it. He forgot that Leila's surname was Moran, and as soon as the old man of the Moran family spoke, it was impossible for the people in the police station to deal with things like ordinary people.
So the contents of the package were immediately sent to the best laboratories in order to find all the traces left by the criminals inside. It can be seen that it will not be long before people can be arrested.
These things are only a small episode in Leila's life at best, and she is more concerned about the arrival of January, and the Golden Globe Awards ceremony is also coming.
The year before last, she didn't have a movie released and had been filming "The Lord of the Rings", so she didn't attend any awards ceremony, and even invited her to appear as an award presenter.
Last year was different, she once again swept the summer season with the momentum of dominating the world, and many people believe that she will continue to sweep the entire awards season with this momentum.
The so-called awards season is from the end of November to the end of February and the beginning of March of the following year. During this period, there were not only international awards such as the Golden Globe, but also some awards issued by trade unions, independent film awards, and so on. In short, before the Oscars, there will be many awards large and small to warm it up.
Leila received an invitation to the Golden Globe Awards early on, and although she was not very optimistic about the authority of this award, it was an international award anyway. And she also wants to take this opportunity to meet Director Ang Lee, if she can talk in person, it would be better. She has always admired this great director since her previous life!
The '06 Golden Globe Awards officially kicked off on January 17 at the Hilton Los Angeles Beverly Hills.
This time, "The Lord of the Rings" was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Music and Best Film Score, which is much worse than the seven nominations for "Brokeback Mountain".
Leila also knows that in her previous life, they won four of the seven nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.
But it's hard to say if it will be like this now, because she brought The Lord of the Rings to this time. Will she continue to follow the development of history and let "Brokeback Mountain" sweep the Golden Globe and Oscars, or will she intervene and steal the awards from other people's hands?