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Chapter 218: The not-so-glorious Oscar

Chapter 218: The not-so-glorious Oscar

The list of nominees for Best Sound was announced, and the list of nominees for Best Sound Editing was immediately announced, also adhering to the principle of preferring lack to abundance, and there were only three nominations, namely "Star Wars Prequel: Phantom Danger Duel Club" and "Legend of Doom". Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Two nominations." Liang Long's mood is also much more relaxed, there are more awards in music, if you can't get good results in this area, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make a big difference at the Oscars.

"There's also one best music, so it should be fine, right?" Jessica asked with a smile.

"Let's see how it goes." Diplodocus is still very confident, and the next thing to be revealed is the list of nominees for Best Music, this award is divided into two, drama and comedy (musical) category, "Legend of Doom" belongs to the former, there are a total of five nominations, namely "Legend of Doom", "Angela's Ashes", "Red Violin", "Rules of the Cider House" and "American Beauty".

It is worth mentioning that the film "American Beauty" revolves around a strange family: his father, Leicester Burham, has lived less than a year, and there seems to be no sign of it now......

His family lives on the outskirts of the calm city, and he has a beautiful wife, Caroline, and a minor daughter, Jenny. However, his family is not as happy as outsiders seem. His wife had a successful career, already owned a real estate company of her own, and he had achieved nothing in his own work, he had worked for an advertising agency for fourteen years, and he was tired of his job because he hated the customers he had to stammer with and the self-righteous bosses of the company. He believed that his wife must have thought he was a loser because they hadn't touched each other in years. Caroline spends all her energy on her career, she looks like a confident career girl, but her feelings are longing for comfort. Her daughter, Jenny, hated her parents because she felt that they almost never really paid attention to her, so she circled around her girlfriend Angela all day, and one day her new neighbor, Richie, was filming her on camera, which made her daily life full of thorns.

Finally, one day, when his father Lester met Jenny and Angela, who had just finished playing basketball cheerleading in middle school, he was immediately deeply moved by Angela's beauty, and the feeling of being dead for a long time seemed to be rekindled in his heart. Since then, his father Lester's life has changed: he bravely faces his boss and fires his job, he begins to pay attention to his image, he buys back some fine marijuana from Richie, and he falls into the love trap of an underage girl after middle age. At the same time, her mother, Caroline, reacts to Lester's changes, and she begins to communicate with the real estate dealer "The King", and things gradually take a very interesting but unpredictable direction, until one day Richie's father raises his gun and aims it at Lester.

The story is actually not complicated, and the fun xing doesn't seem to be too strong, but those who have seen the film generally think that it is a great work. Intuitively speaking, the film sharply reveals the "appearance of all beings" in daily life in the United States. It uses a typical middle-class American family as an example to show the various "cancers" hidden in the skin of American society. The film is permeated with a strong spirit of mockery, and all the characters are based on real-life evidence.

For example, the protagonist Lester is a 'alienated' and 'anti-alienated' person, although modern society has a high degree of industrial civilization, but with the industrial civilization people lose a lot of valuable things more and more, and gradually be enslaved by the industrial civilization cast by people. For example, in order to pursue reputation, some people lose their integrity, deceive or even hypocrisy, and for the sake of money, many people sell their dignity by any means. In such a situation, the emotions between people become indifferent, and conscience and credibility become pale. In the United States, this is even more pronounced. So I can understand the way of life he chooses, when he is not happy at work, he will change to a happy job, and then his life becomes his own way, isn't it his rebellion against the "alienation" of people?

Another example is Jenny, the daughter of the owner Lester, who grew up in a repressive environment, has parents with misplaced roles, and sees the ugliness of unrestrained people from their parents. The view of life, life, is inevitably gloomy. After meeting Richie, her heavy black eyeshadow is gone, and she still feels love because there is someone with her who supports each other. For life, she is a little numb. She, like her father, was neglected, even by her parents. The sensitivity and change of the heart, the loneliness that no one cares about, and Angela who has only one companion. She has always been the role of listening, but who will listen to her heart......

and Jenny's only friend, Angela, the cheerleader of the varsity basketball team, who uses her self-righteous "maturity" to make herself "different". She is the father who seduces, teases, and seduces her classmates...... For her, the temptation of sensual prickly sting, and this is a proof of self-worth and charm (pitiful), but in fact, it is also a simple, "ignorant so fearless" challenge to the ethics of society.

The most ironic of all is the character of Ritchie's father, whose identity can be seen in a plate that his daughter sees in her new neighbor's house, the back of which is a German Nazi symbol. Regardless of the true identity of this neighbor, it can be assumed that there is a German Nazi temperament in his xing. Whereas, traditionally, German culture and American culture are two different types of culture. German culture is a rational cultural model, and the most outstanding thinkers in history are from Germany, such as Kant, Hegel, Marx, etc. The United States, on the other hand, is a typical cultural model of pragmatism, and the pragmatism of the late 19th and early 2O centuries originated in the United States. As a result, this neighbor seems to be inferior to the people around him, and he can't get used to anything. And in the end, he can't get used to it, so he attacks the things he is not used to. There are two main people he is not used to, one is his son, and the other is Lester. At first he got into a fight with his son, and then his son ran away from home. Leicester, on the other hand, was believed to have taken his son and was shot dead by his neighbor. (Actually, it's not because Lester took his son badly, but because he himself is a homo-sing lover, and after misunderstanding that Lester is also in a homo-sing relationship, he confessed to him, and after understanding that Lester was not in a homo-Xing relationship, he killed the other party out of shame)

is such a film that is not strong in entertainment, but after its release, it frantically won $34.7 billion at the box office and caused a strong response from all walks of life. The reason for this is that it provides an in-depth depiction of the living conditions of middle-class families in the United States today, and a complete satire of this attitude towards life.

Liang Long remembered that although there were no heavyweight films at the Oscars in his previous life, "American Beauty" still won the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director with a strong satirical spirit. If "Legend of Doom" wants to make a difference at this Oscar, it must beat "American Beauty".

There are also five nominees for Best Music (Comedy and Musical), which are: "South Park", "Psychosong", "Magnolia", "Toy Story 2", and "Tarzan of the Apes".

At this point, the list of nominees for the music section has come out, and "Legend of Doom" has received three nominations for best sound effects, best sound effects editing and best music, that is, all those who have been announced and can be nominated have been nominated.

The next thing to be revealed is the best short film (live-action), the best short film (animation), the best long documentary, and the best short documentary, which have nothing to do with "Legend of Doom". And, in the best costume design analyzed, "Legend of Doom" also failed, and the five films nominated were "Anna and the King", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Mr. Ripley", "Titus" and "Soul World".

It is worth mentioning that the film "Anna and the King" is starring Brother Chow Yun and Jodie Foster.

The film tells the story of Anna, a British fu girl, who is invited to work as a tutor in the Siam royal palace. Due to the differences between Eastern and Western cultures and their respective personalities, she had conflicts with the king's children and even the king himself, and was even almost driven away. But as the understanding deepened, especially in the process of crushing a coup d'état plot by the hostiles, Anna's fearlessness and the king's loyalty to his country impressed the other party, and the king realized that women could be his equals; And the children sincerely regard her as their mentor and friend. Just when the king loved her from the bottom of his heart, she thought that she had completed the task of coming to the palace to solve her doubts, and resolutely returned to her homeland. Forty years later, the protégé of that year has inherited the throne, devoted to his country like the old king, and ready to lead the people into the twentieth century.

The film, which cost $700 million, is based on historical facts, and is full of this mysterious romance, which is indeed worth going to the cinema.

Missing out on the nomination for Best Costume Design, "Legend of Doom" immediately rose to prominence again and was nominated for Best Visual Effects. There are only three nominations for this one, namely "Legend of Doom", "Star Wars Prequel: Phantom Crisis" and "Elf Mouse Brother". In this regard, Liang Long is full of confidence, if "Legend of Doom" can't win this award, it can only be said that the Oscar judges have a problem with their eyes.

Indeed, "Legend of Doom" can almost be said to be absolutely superb in terms of visuals, it is the pinnacle of this era, and there is almost no film that can be compared. In this regard, other filmmakers are also very helpless, who made Liang Long willing to spend money? With a production cost of $2.8 billion and a total investment of nearly $400 million, are you willing to change to other film companies?

Many filmmakers have already scolded behind their backs: Compared with the captain, Hollywood is the iron man. No, the iron men can still leave a little rust, they are all stainless steel men.

ps:I watched a video today.,Shocked.,Interested friends Baidu can find the video by "two cars have run over a 2-year-old girl 1o more than passers-by who don't save them when they see death", after watching it, don't blame me, blame the driver, blame the passerby...... Sometimes I really want to ask what is wrong with this society. Don't mind if you get sao!