Chapter 129: Before the Golden Ball
There are bigwigs in the fan base, brainstorming, and soon found out the most real reason for Xu Hui in the United States.
At the same time, a series of award-winning information of "Cinema Paradiso" was also found!
directly posted a series of awards won by "Paradise Cinema" in the awards season so far into the 'Xu Hui' bar, and put it at the top by the way.
Fans probably understand what Xu Hui is doing - pointing at the Oscars.
In fact, the mainland media has already paid attention to the fact that "Paradise Cinema" won four nominations for the Golden Globe Awards, but Huiwen remained silent.
Low-key character...
However, there are still many media reports on the news of "Cinema Paradiso" in North America.
Compared with Ang Lee, Xu Hui is what we look at!
Especially the news that Feng Xiaogang scolded film critics in the Lunar New Year file, there is no comparison, there is no harm, and more and more people feel that there is only Xu Hui who is likely to set foot on the mainland as a big director!
At least Xu Hui never swears!
So I am looking forward to the release of "Cinema Paradiso" more and more.
In fact, most of the people who eat melons are not optimistic about Xu Hui's Oscar trip...
The main thing is that it's a little numb...
There are Olympic movies every year, but unfortunately, none of them can win awards.
At the beginning, "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" made such a big fuss, and I didn't see any gains!
Zhang Weiping directly took over the hot search on Weibo, celebrating that "The Thirteen Faces of Jinling" was nominated for the best foreign language film, and the result is known to everyone!
In 2013, the work that represented Chinese films to hit the Oscars was "1942", uh, there was no sound.
Websites such as NetEase and Whoosh Fox will report on it, and by the way, despise a wave of movie garbage in your country...
"The Hollywood Reporter" commented: The huge visual effects of the movie present a multi-clue plot scene, but there is not much emotional impact, if there is not much understanding of this history, Western audiences will feel tired in 2 and a half hours of watching the movie...
So, without any waves...
It is normal for the suffering of the Chinese nation to do things to the Americans, and they can't understand it!
Why do Chinese films repeatedly hit the Oscars and fail to win?
The main reason is that the values of the East and the West are different, and some traditional concepts in China are more derived from Confucianism and are not accepted by Western teachings, so it is difficult for Chinese filmmakers to grasp the core of the so-called universal values, and it is difficult to feel the pulse of Western audiences and film critics.
But the reason why we are Chinese is because we have Confucian genes.
A gentleman is born between heaven and earth, he should cultivate righteousness, read the books of sages, imitate the virtues of heaven and earth to love others, and follow the aspirations of sages to achieve success!
To be honest, with the progress of domestic films, many people have become less and less serious about the Oscars, and the most common point of view is that the Oscars are the feast of American films, and it has nothing to do with us...
That's the case with the Oscars, not to mention the Golden Globes...
If you know a little about it, you will talk about it, public relations is done well, or what kind of Golden Globe Awards is not the Oscars...
Of course, there are also those who support Xu Hui.
After all, he has a lot of fans, and "Paradise Cinema" has not yet been released in the mainland, but there are already many download links on the Internet, and many people have already had a sneak peek.
And left a bunch of movie reviews.
"A whole bunch of kisses, maybe about love... Movies are just carriers, carrying memories!"
"I really can't imagine that Xu Hui can make such a movie, it's so beautiful, only the word classic!"
"Life is different from movies, life is much more difficult than movies..."
Tsk, the movie hasn't been released yet, and it's already set off a small discussion.
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December 28th, Los Angeles, sunny.
The North American Film Academy 'invited' Xu Hui to give a lecture.
Xu Hui and "Paradise Cinema" Compared with other competitors, the weakest link is undoubtedly popularity!
What's more, Xu Hui's previous movies were too unacademic, which is to subtract points...
The PR team still has a litmus test, and the best way to think about it is to throw money at it!
You can't make a mistake by throwing money, let's say you throw money at the New York Film Academy, which has always advocated that all genre films in Hollywood are garbage...
It's tantamount to saying that it looks down on Hollywood...
Why is Woody Allen's film so slow to be recognized by the Oscars?
It's because his films are typical of the New York School, where intellectuals are scared...
Of course, old Woody is a weirdo, and everyone knows that!
The North American Film Institute, one of the branches of the American Film Institute, and a large part of the Oscar judges are from the Film Institute...
The title of Xu Hui's speech was 'The Vitality of Cinema. ’
"I'm a Chinese director, a successful commercial film director. Cinema Paradiso was my first slow-paced, less commercial film. ”
"Many people may not know that the average age of China's main moviegoers is 21.7 years old, which is very young. ”
"In China, the films I shoot are aimed at this part of the population, and many directors, including some who have been famous for a long time, will encounter such a problem, and will worry that their films will no longer meet the taste of the audience, because young audiences have grown up in the Internet era, which is very different from previous movie audiences. Before I decided to make Cinema Paradiso, I struggled for a while and didn't make a film for a year!
"Directors will have such fears, especially if you have been on the cusp for many years, directors will be afraid that new people like new ways, and they should pay more attention to post-production, but movies have a kind of omnipotence and can become epoch-making, so we should continue to have a spirit to protect our love for movies, as long as we keep this love, we will get the love of the audience. ”
"Later, I took the script to Mr. Al Pacino, and if he didn't agree, I probably gave up the project, but fortunately, he liked the story very much, and even helped me find Matt Silly!"
"The most essential structure of a movie is a story!"
"You want to connect with the audience, through the plot, the music, laughing, crying, or taking everyone through the ups and downs of emotions. No matter what kind of journey it is, the most important thing is how to give your work to the audience, and how the audience will imagine it after watching it, which is the most important thing. I can't find any answers in life, and the Tao is very Tao. If you have to tell a story that is entertaining and inspiring, you need a story. ”
"Celebrities are attractive, everybody likes to watch gossip, it's part of the culture, and it's understandable, it's going to make movies hot, and that's a good thing. But as a filmmaker, you have to know in your heart, and the last thing to see is their touching quality, whether it is thoughts, emotional ups and downs. Because the audience doesn't watch MTV for two or three minutes, he sees himself in the movie, so he has to shoot things that have something to do with our feelings and thoughts. ”
"From this point of view, the movie "Paradise Cinema" is about the vitality of the movie, at the end of the movie, I watched the clips of the old movie and cried with emotion, I think most audiences who like movies should also have telepathy..."
At the end of the presentation, a few questions from several students were answered as usual.
are all questions about the movie "Cinema Paradiso", and Xu Hui answered them very decently.
After getting off the stage, Keller, the public relations manager, glanced at Xu Hui excitedly: "The speech is great, I will get this speech on the "Hollywood Reporter" tomorrow..."
“… Got it. ”
Xu Hui nodded, and then followed Keller Bai to pick up a cadre of leaders from the North American Film Academy, these people are all bigwigs who have the right to vote...
It was tossed until four o'clock in the afternoon before the trip was over.
Only when he returned to the car, Xu Hui couldn't wait to dial the domestic phone.
"Charlotte's Troubles" was released the day before yesterday, and Xu Hui is of course very concerned about the works that his company bets on in the Lunar New Year.
Hanging up the phone, Xu Hui showed a not too surprised expression on his face.
"Charlotte's Troubles" was released for two days, with a cumulative box office of 140 million, a box office of 60 million on the first day, and 82 million yesterday, directly squeezing "Police Story 2013" and "Private Custom" to more than 20 million in a single day...