Chapter 141: Western Zombies Appear
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On April 1, April Fool's Day, the traditional Western holiday, when Fang Jianhui was still in France, in the advertising campaign of Fox Records, the MTV channel of Fox TV Network took the lead in broadcasting the MV of 'Thriller'.
This unprecedented shooting technique, unbridled creativity, and Fang Jianhui's superb dancing skills, as soon as the MV was launched, it immediately caused crazy followers all over the world!
In the end, MTV, under the pressure of the audience, at its peak, played this 14-minute MV on average twice an hour in a day! That is to say, in a day, half of the time is playing this MV repeatedly! In this way, the audience is still not happy, and they are still clamoring for a few more broadcasts, but MTV really can't play more, no matter how much, it is not like talking.
Not only did the MV cause a sensation, but the launch of the MV also greatly boosted the sales of the album "Thriller", reversing the trend of the album in one fell swoop, and it turned around from seventh place on the Billboard album chart, and regained the championship two weeks later.
For an album that has been on the market for more than a year, it is almost an impossible task to return to the championship, but "Thriller" has done it, and Fang Jianhui has done it! Not only that, after "Thriller" returned to the championship, it was out of control, and in the craze set off by Fang Jianhui, it miraculously won the championship again for 15 consecutive weeks! The total sales volume exceeded 30 million copies during the year!
Counting the previous year of 1983, the album was an incredible 37 weeks of consecutive weeks, selling over 70 million copies in two years!
Vinny Marino: I think it's the greatest music video of all time.
Gil Kaufman: It's an iconic music video that reflects Fang's talent for innovation and trend-setting.
Patrick Kevin: This music video revolutionized the history of music music and will be remembered for a long time.
This MV not only drove the sales of the album and received one-sided praise, but also the zombie dance led by Fang Jianhui has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon.
Major game companies have launched a variety of games with the theme of Fang Jianhui, such as Space Step Doudou, Dancing King Zombie, and so on.
Hollywood producers have asked Fang Jianhui for permission to make Fang Jianhui's zombie movie.
All kinds of games, movies, books, comics, peripheral dolls, etc., Fang Jianhui's image of the dancing king zombie was popular all over the world for a while!
During this time, the secretary's office headed by Bai Annie was busy dealing with various authorization requests all day long, and even the underwear manufacturer wanted to print Fang Jianhui's image as the dancing king, so Fang Jianhui had to shake his head and smile bitterly.
This MV has been named the "No. 1 Most Influential MV" many times in various MV selections in later generations, and has been inducted into the Library of Congress under the name of "Cultural Heritage of Humanity". This MV is also regarded as a watershed moment in the industry, and after that, excellent MVs have sprung up one after another, which also makes the MTV channel of Fox TV Network stand out and gradually become the leader of the music TV industry!
This music video, which cost less than one million US dollars, brought Fang Jianhui direct revenue - the income from the sale of MV DVDs - more than 200 million US dollars, and the indirect income is estimated to be as much as 1 billion US dollars!
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On April 9, in the zombie dance craze, Fang Jianhui, Teresa Teng and Sophie Marsso attended the 56th Academy Awards ceremony together.
This year's Oscars, Fang Jianhui's "Lightning Dance" was nominated for 'Best Cinematography', 'Best Film Editing' and two 'Best Original Song'.
At this time, the 'Thriller' MV was popular, and when Fang Jianhui walked on the red carpet, many fans wore zombie masks and welcomed him with teeth and claws. Sophie, as the frightened girlfriend in the MV, also has a lot of faith. Walking on the red carpet, when Sophie rises, she makes a frightened expression in front of fans from time to time, and her cute appearance is very pleasing.
At the award ceremony, Teresa Teng once again performed 'Flashdance... hat A Feeling', and Fong Kim-fai also sang 'Maniac' live, both of which were nominated for 'Best Original Song'.
In the end, "Lightning Dance" only won the 'Best Original Song' (Flashdance... hat A Feeling)', and the rest are all in vain.
However, Fang Jianhui was not depressed, originally, he didn't have any hope, he just took the woman to brush up on his faith.
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Two days later, on April 11, the 3rd Heung Kong Film Awards was held at the Heung Kong Lee Stage.
In this year's Academy Awards, the organizers changed and added one, and the original "Sing Tao Newspaper" was withdrawn and replaced by Fang Jianhui's "Cheng Pao". The addition is Heung Kong Radio, plus the original "Film Fortnightly" and Asia Television, a total of four organizers.
This time, accompanying Fang Jianhui was replaced by Zhong Chuhong, Lin Qingxia and Ye Qianwen, this is not Fang Jianhui's intention to show off his own woman, everyone is from a formal identity: Zhong Chuhong is the award presenter of "Best Editing", Fang Jianhui and Lin Qingxia are the main creators of the movie "The Wrong Car", and Ye Qianwen is the singer of the song "The Wrong Car".
Fang Jianhui has been in the United States and Europe for two months, and has successively won the Grammys and Oscars, and the recently filmed 'Thriller' MV, together with "Mr. Zombie", a Western zombie, an Eastern zombie, one is popular in the world, and the other is proud of Asia. The fame is so prosperous that it can be said that all the people of Xiangjiang are crazy about it.
Fang Jianhui's appearance on the red carpet of the Academy Awards is the biggest proof of the influence of the Academy Awards. Considering that Fang Jianhui basically attends the Oscars every year, in order to ensure that he can be there, the Academy Awards Organizing Committee specially arranged the ceremony two days after the Oscars. Since then, this article has been inherited as an informal rule by successive Academy Awards.
At this year's Academy Awards, the popular films are "Half the Man", "Listening to Politics" and "Fighting in the Ring", which received 9, 8 and 7 nominations respectively, and "Shushan" and "I Love Night Fragrance" produced by Angel Pictures received five nominations each.
The first award was presented to the Best Newcomer Award, and the candidates were Lucy Cheng, Liang Jiahui, Xu Suying, Mo Shaocong and Yu Jiaxi.
Fang Jianhui was a little strange and asked Zhong Chuhong, "Is Zheng Yuling also a newcomer?"
Lucy Zheng is nicknamed DoDo, became famous very early, is an important actor and host of TVB, and has starred in many popular TV series.
"According to the rules, count. Zhong Chuhong said: "Although she has been famous for a long time, all the movies she can make are TV series, and this is the first time for a movie." ”
"Oh, that's right. ”
The guests took the stage to announce that it was Zheng Yuling who won the Best Newcomer Award.
After that, technical awards began to be awarded, and two awards in succession - Best Film Score and Best Film Song - were won by Fang Jianhui's "The Wrong Car".
Fang Jianhui has been in the film industry for several years and has made a lot of movies, and the most awarded ones are soundtracks and movie songs, and it is estimated that there are one or two dozen of them, and he has no feeling at all. Fang Jianhui went up and chatted a few words in a stylized manner, and then came down.
Then, Ye Qianwen took the stage to perform the best movie song 'If the Wine Sells Nothing'.
After the performance, the awards continued, the best editing - Qiu Mu Liang and Wu Jinhua of "Half of the People", the best cinematography - Huang Zhongbiao of "Flower City", the best art director - Song Hongrong of "Listening to Politics with the Curtain", and the best action director - the unique award of the Academy Awards, which was won by Hong Jiaban of "Five Lucky Stars".
It was the turn of 'Best Actress', and Fang Jianhui was in good spirits, because the name of 'Lin Qingxia in Shushan' was also among them. Also nominated is Liu Xiaoqing of "Listening to Politics with a Curtain", the one who made Fang Jianhui quite jealous because of hosting the Spring Festival Gala.
What Fang Jianhui didn't know was that this Liu Xiaoqing was caught in the whirlpool of public opinion in China at this time, and what reselling gold, selling trophies, committing suicide, homicide, being sentenced, being disfigured, divorced, and having an undecent style of life came from all over the world.
In June last year, Wenhui Monthly published her autobiographical essay "My Way", in which she began with a clear message: 'It's hard to be a man. It's hard to be a woman. It's harder to be a famous woman. It's hard to be a single famous woman. The repercussions of this article have made her the center of national public opinion.
Fang Jianhui cares about Lin Qingxia, and he doesn't care much about others, and in the end, it was Ye Tong who won the award in "Seven Days of Wrong Love", which made Fang Jianhui feel very sorry. In fact, he cares about chaos, among the five nominees, Lin Qingxia has the lowest probability of winning the award, whether it is Ye Tong, Liu Xiaoqing, or Xu Suying of "Half the People", they are all more qualified for this award than her.
followed by 'Best Actor', and the winner was Liang Jiahui, the actor of Xianfeng in "Listening to Politics".
"Not bad!" Fang Jianhui commented: "I won the actor for the first time in the starring role, and director Li Hanxiang has a good vision!"
Zhong Chuhong said with a smile: "Let me tell you something, this Liang Jiahui is dragging with Director Li's daughter." ”
"Ah, is there such a thing?" Fang Jianhui said: "That can only say that he has one more chance than others, and it depends on whether he can seize this opportunity." Now it seems that he is indeed quite talented. ”
Lin Qingxia suddenly said: "Winning this award is not necessarily a good thing for him. ”
Fang Jianhui wondered: "How do you say this?"
He followed Li Hanxiang to the mainland to film, which the Taiwan authorities did not want to see. Lin Qingxia said: "If you keep a low profile, the Taiwan Island Taiwan Bureau may open one eye and close one eye, and now you have an actor, and the impact is not small, it is estimated that you will be shot out of the head by the Taiwan Island gun, and you will be banned." ”
Lin Qingxia is not only the number one star in Taiwan, but also the owner of Fang's Sisters Film Company, holding a lot of money, and she is also Fang Jianhui's sister and Fang Jianhui's spokesperson, she is very influential on Taiwan, and her words should be inseparable.
"That's right. Fang Jianhui said: "Let's take a look, this person is good, if he is really in trouble, we will pull him." ”
"Hmm. ”
The last two heavyweight awards, Best Director and Best Film, were both won by Fang Yuping's "Half of the People".
At this point, the award ceremony ended. Among the twelve awards in total, Fang Jianhui's company won four, namely two for "The Wrong Car" and two for "Seven Days of Wrong Love", which is a big regression compared with the previous one.
However, Fang Jianhui believes that this is the norm, and it is unhealthy to always be a dominant family.