Chapter 684: Mirror
After the Oscars, Hollywood throws all sorts of parties. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It was a night of revelry.
To celebrate the four awards for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, American studios hosted a celebration dinner at Kuyce Restaurant on Santa Monica Street.
Although they did not win heavyweight awards, especially Best Director and Best Picture, letting a Chinese-language film from Asia win four awards shows their strong public relations skills.
After all, the Oscar is the Oscar of the Americans, and it is impossible to award an important award to a Chinese-language film.
The celebration banquet was very lively, and many domestic reporters came, interviewed and took pictures, and everyone talked about the award just now, and the excitement was overflowing.
This shows that the American media is extremely realistic.
Most American reporters stared at the crew that won the Best Picture and Best Actor and Actress awards, and most of the interviews who came to the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" celebration banquet were domestic reporters.
After the banquet, everyone walked out of the restaurant and got ready to return to the hotel.
At the door of the restaurant, Lin Zixuan and Li Yu shook hands and separated.
There is no feast in the world that will not be dispersed.
The group of Good Dream Company will return to the capital tomorrow, and the influence of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will continue, but his cooperation with Li Yu ends here.
Back at the hotel, a group of people gathered in Lin Zixuan's suite and ordered a bunch of food and drink.
The Oscars will be admitted in the afternoon, and there is no need to think about dinner, and there is no chance at the celebration banquet.
In order to maintain her image, the actress basically does not eat and rarely drinks water, and if she is photographed eating ugly, she may be ridiculed by the media for a whole year.
Now they are all their own people, so they don't have to scruple.
After eating and drinking, everyone leaned on the sofa, watched TV, and a lot of reports about the Oscars kept replaying the Oscar winning pictures.
The most talked about are Best Actor and Actress, Best Director and Best Picture.
Watching the replay, it was a lot of fun.
For example, before the Best Director Award was announced, before the winner was announced, the camera was facing Li Huan, and as soon as the list was announced, the camera instantly swept over Li Huan and turned to the winner.
Director Li Yu prepared the acceptance speech for the best director, but unfortunately it was not used, his previous voice was very high, and he won the best director for several major awards. Xu Jinglei said with emotion.
"As far as I know, the voting rules for the Oscars are more complicated, and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has only one company to do public relations, which does not have an advantage in terms of votes, and it is not comparable to the films supported by the two major Hollywood studios. Yu Dong explained, "American public relations people have said that if this is an American film, Li Yan's chances of winning the award can be increased by 20 percent, and Americans are very conservative and will not vote for an important award for a Chinese-language film." ”
It is not accurate to say that it is conservative, it should be arrogant.
Americans feel that the United States is a world superpower and that their own things are the best, and they do not pay much attention to things outside the United States and live in their own world.
For this, Lin Zixuan was deeply touched.
He has not been idle in the past two days, and has been in contact with the heads of several Hollywood film companies, and the other party is very interested in investing in the sequel to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
At present, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has grossed more than $50 million in the United States and exceeded $100 million worldwide.
I believe that after the Oscars, there will be a significant increase in the global box office.
It's just that the conditions they put forward are more harsh, not only do they want to get the copyright of the movie, but they also don't give in to the box office share, and their attitude is quite strong.
Like "Little Snow's Big Adventure", Hollywood's big studios are used to taking the initiative in cooperation, they want to lead the project, and they ask Good Dream to cooperate with them.
Moreover, they also thought that Lin Zixuan's conditions were too harsh.
Hollywood has always done things this way, and there is a sense of psychological superiority in the face of film companies in other countries, and it will not change because of Good Dreams.
This is the main reason why the two sides cannot reach an agreement.
Fortunately, Lin Zixuan did not put his hope on Hollywood film companies, and started from the United Kingdom to shoot "Xiaoxue's Big Adventure" and release it in Asia and Europe.
As for North America, wait a minute.
Without enough influence, there is no bargaining chip, and in this world, in the end, it is still strength.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won four awards, and Chinese people frequently appeared at the Oscars, one time Li Yu accepted the award, and the other Yu Feihong presented the award, sang the theme song, and played the cello......
It seems to be infinitely beautiful, but it is of little significance to improve the overall production level of Chinese films.
There is still a long way to go to catch up with Hollywood and reach Hollywood's industrial level.
It is unrealistic to think that a "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" can make Chinese films enter the mainstream film circle in the United States and be recognized by American audiences.
Of course, that's not to say that winning an award isn't important.
At least let Western audiences know about Chinese films, which boosted the morale of Chinese films, and felt that Chinese films could also go out of Asia and into the world, with greater symbolic significance.
Mr. Lin suspended negotiations with Hollywood studios.
Even if the negotiations are reached now, it will be the result of a compromise, and it will not only be the benefits that will be lost, but also the basis for equal cooperation.
It's not that he can't compromise, but what he compromises has to be valuable.
Participating in the Oscars ceremony this time, I saw the glitzy and realistic side of Hollywood.
It's like a mirror, not only reflecting the various states of life, but also seeing where you are.
Lin Zixuan believes that in the future, the gap between the domestic film industry and Hollywood will gradually narrow, the global market pattern is taking shape, and the company will have a bigger stage.
On TV, the picture of the actress walking the red carpet is being played, and Xu Jinglei and Yu Feihong also appeared.
Xu Jinglei wore a blue dress with a necklace and earrings.
The dress is not very valuable, only about 100,000 dollars, but the value is jewelry, which is worth millions of dollars, and some Hollywood stars wear jewelry worth tens of millions.
That's where the luxury of the Oscars lies.
A female star's dress is hundreds of millions of yuan, and the entire awards ceremony is equivalent to a moving vault, which is sponsored by jewelers, and the dress and jewelry must be returned after the Oscars are over.
Jewelry sponsors send special people to follow the celebrities, and they can't let the celebrities run around with tens of millions of dollars of jewelry.
Everyone talked about the big directors and big stars they met, and in the middle of the night, they dispersed.
Waiting for everyone to leave, Lin Zixuan made a phone call.
At this time, it was noon on Monday in the capital, Mu Shanshan was working in the company, and the two chatted a few words on the phone.
The domestic news has come out, and it has been reported on TV and newspapers, and a Chinese film has won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for the first time, setting a record, which is worth rejoicing.
Hanging up the phone, Lin Zixuan lay on the bed and fell asleep quickly.
Anyway, this year's Oscars are over, and they will return to the capital tomorrow to continue to live their lives and make their own films.