Not only did "Saving Private Ryan" and "Braveheart" very coincidentally receive the same Golden Globe nominations, but the similarities between the two films abound, the same epic, the same deep themes, the same excellent war scenes, and even the soundtrack of the film is two of Hollywood's top musicians, John Williams and James Horner, so the popularity of the two films in the awards season is almost equal, and recently in the media, "Saving Private Ryan" and "Braveheart" The supporters of the two films are also full of gunpowder.

If Firefly and Fox were very simple competitors, then this year's awards season will be ostensibly and privately for the most important film awards, and this situation will undoubtedly lead to unnecessary spending on both sides in terms of public relations budgets, and even the final award results are not in their best interests.

However, because of the relationship between Eric and Elizabeth, the two sides have formed a certain tacit understanding a long time ago.

"Eric, as things stand, it's in the best interests of both of us to separate Best Picture and Best Director," Harvey Weinstein said seriously: "The global release of Private Ryan is coming to an end, and North America released a videotape of the film two months ago, so I think the best director would be the best for this film." Although the film is masculine, Catherine is a woman, and in the more than 60-year history of the Oscars, although there have been several female directors who have been nominated, there has never been a woman who has won Best Director, so. If "Saving Private Ryan" won the Best Director award. The sensation is definitely no less than that of a best picture. After all, the Oscars already have sixty-six Best Pictures, but there is not a single Best Female Director film, and even in the next few decades, the best female director will only be Catherine, as long as "Saving Private Ryan" wins the Best Director award, the film can maintain a lasting influence for many years to come. ”

Eric nodded. Harvey Weinstein didn't mention anything about film revenue, but he was actually analyzing the pros and cons of the awards from a commercial point of view.

Once Catherine becomes the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director, "Saving Private Ryan" will have a very special place in film history, which means that "Saving Private Ryan" will be unique until the second Oscar for Best Director for Women appears. DVDs and other peripheral channels bring Firefly far more profits than other films that won the best director.

Notice Eric's approving look. Harvey Weinstein continued: "Braveheart is still in theaters, so the Best Picture title is a little bit more important to us. If we both do PR on our own. With the equal strength of the two films, the final result will be difficult to predict, and even, I personally think, the final result is likely to be the opposite of what we expected. Because "Saving Private Ryan" is an American-style war film with the main theme, compared with "Braveheart", which tells the history of Britain, "Saving Private Ryan" undoubtedly has a better chance of winning the best picture. As for Best Director, there are not many women in the Directors Guild at all, and most of them are old men with strong male tendencies, and Mel Gibson has a much bigger chance of winning than Catherine in this regard. If we want the results to go the way we want them to, we have to have some tacit understanding in our PR strategies in advance after the Oscar nomination. ”

Although "Braveheart", which was released at the end of the year, has taken up the time compared to "Saving Private Ryan", which has been out of schedule in North America for a long time, and can easily create the greatest media impact during the awards season, if you carefully analyze the Oscar potential of the two films, "Saving Private Ryan" has the two advantages of American theme and extreme orthodox correctness, if the two sides go their own ways in the next Oscar public relations, the result is really unpredictable.

After Harvey finished speaking, Eric nodded and said, "So, Harvey, I'll call Katzenberg in the evening and ask the person in charge of public relations for the Firefly Awards to contact you tomorrow, and you can communicate privately." ”

Harvey Weinstein is here to hear the promise of cooperation from Eric, after all, the best win-win situation is when everyone happily divides the 'cake'. Otherwise, either the end result is exactly the opposite of what Weinstein just said, or one side will be completely defeated, which is certainly not what the two companies with a very good relationship want.

Identifying the main problem, Harvey Weinstein also easily talked about some details: "Eric, Ms. Bigelow is also the main producer of "Saving Private Ryan", but I heard that she doesn't seem to have been involved in too many public relations activities for the Golden Globes recently, of course the Golden Globes don't matter, but if "Saving Private Ryan" wants to win the Oscar for Best Director, she should show more face, even if she doesn't attend too many public relations parties in private, I think she should be interviewed by the public media a few more times and so on." ”

The most important steps in the public relations of the awards include media publicity and private public relations to the judges, and the ultimate goal is actually like the election, which is to pull the award judges to vote through various influences.

Weinstein's suggestion was of course very pertinent, and although Eric agreed very much, he still smiled and said, "Harvey, you may not know, Catherine has some ...... Well, it's idealistic, she doesn't like this kind of activity very much, and I can't force it. ”

Harvey Weinstein was stunned, if it is operated properly, the post-production videotape and TV broadcast license of "Saving Private Ryan" can continue to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in net income to Firefly, such a big business, how can Firefly let her do things perfunctory because of the director's unbounded idealism.

However, Harvey quickly remembered some rumors in private, and Catherine's pretty face had no trace of age at all, and smiled knowingly, not planning to mention it again.

Elizabeth, who had been silently listening to the two talk about things, suddenly muttered sourly: "In her forties, you are still idealistic, and you should be your own little girl." ”

Eric almost choked on a sip of coffee, and quickly placed the coffee cup carefully on the table, and looked up at Elizabeth, who was suddenly jealous, but was glared back unceremoniously.

Harvey Weinstein sensed that the atmosphere was starting to get a little distorted, and he got up and left with great interest. After getting a firm promise from Eric, of course, Eric didn't need to worry about the follow-up award PR details, and Harvey would communicate with the relevant person in charge of Firefly.

Getting up to see Harvey off, Eric and Elizabeth sat down again.

There were only two people left, and Elizabeth also realized that her little temperament was a little out of place, but she was not willing to take the initiative to give in, her eyes did not dare to look at Eric, and she looked into the distance, as if she was counting the number of mansions on the hillside.

Eric beckoned the waiter to change a pot of coffee for the two of them, and followed Elizabeth's gaze into the distance.

After being quiet for a moment, Elizabeth suddenly became a little angry again, stared at Eric and said, "Julia is right, you bastard, you don't know how to accommodate us at all. ”

Eric felt a little puzzled: "Your Royal Highness, what did I do wrong again?"

"You should have taken the initiative to speak first, and you even asked me to break the silence. ”

Eric couldn't help but laugh and cry: "I didn't bother you because you were thinking about life just now, and you're not a little girl, why bother with this." ”

"Why can't some people be little girls in their forties? ”

Eric could only surrender: "Okay, you continue to be a little girl, so maybe you can be as beautiful as Catherine when you are the same age." ”

"Yes," Elizabeth suddenly felt a little smug, "When I'm forty, hehe, imagine what she'll be like." ”

Eric could imagine it now, because he had seen it at all, and more than a decade later, Catherine would be no different from what she is now.

If this woman can live as a goblin for the rest of her life, she will not be in vain to walk in this world.

Elizabeth noticed the smile on Eric's thoughtful expression, and pretended to shiver with a chill, and said, "It's so amazing that you can really imagine and laugh, no wonder someone says you have that complex." ”

Eric didn't plan to discuss Catherine with Elizabeth anymore, so he took the initiative to divert the topic and said, "I saw that Mel Gibson was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globe Awards, and it was a little reluctant for his performance to be nominated for the Golden Globes, so you don't plan to run an Oscar nomination for him, right?"

Eric and Harvey didn't talk about the PR of the Golden Globes at all, mainly because the Golden Globes seemed inconsequential to "Saving Private Ryan", and the impact of the Golden Globes was often only before and after they were awarded, and then quickly overwritten by the Oscars. For films released, the media attention of the Golden Globe Awards may play a role in promoting the box office, but this promotion effect is not so influential for films that have entered the post-operation stage.

For "Saving Private Ryan", the most important thing is the Oscar, after all, when "Saving Private Ryan" news appears in any media in the future, it is often mentioned that this is the Oscar title of the film, and when "Saving Private Ryan" sells overseas videotapes or TV broadcast rights, buyers often only care about the Oscar. Most of the time, even if it is just an Oscar nomination, the gold content is much higher than that of the Golden Globe awards, and this difference is even more obvious in the actor awards, like Xiao Lizi, who has been chasing the Oscar winner for many years in the original time and space, many people don't even know that Xiao Lizi was already the Golden Globe actor ten years before he won the Oscar as he wished.

Elizabeth heard Eric change the subject, and was very smart not to continue dwelling, and said: "Speaking of which, Mel Gibson also quarreled with Harvey because of this nomination." (To be continued.) )