After successfully winning the best director, it seems to be a sure fact that the film "Love" will become the best picture. Because "Love" has almost lost a city in all the previous outposts, the producer, screenwriter and director guild award has been won in the arms, not to mention the Golden Globe Award.

Just as everyone was cheering for Mulder to win the Best Director award without any suspense, Jack Nicholson turned around and announced with his wicked smile that the biggest winners of today's Methno night were not the two handsome cowboys who died in the green hills of Wyoming, but the various races of people who lost and hoped in life on the streets of Los Angeles.

Producer Cassie Schulman, who won Best Picture "Crash," took the stage to speak: "Thank you all for your love for this film, this film about love, tolerance and truth. Before the other nominees, we are ashamed that you have made this year one of the most exciting, exciting and unique films in the United States. Thank you."

After the host John announced, "The award ceremony is over, good night everyone", the three-and-a-half-hour award ceremony finally came to an end. The audience at the scene and in front of the TV experienced three hours of dreary "expected", and then in the final half hour of suspenseful suspicion, they witnessed two dark horses kill from the oblique spurs. "Three Fools" took home the crown for best foreign language film, while "Collision" won best picture. There are already people, this can be called one of the biggest upsets in the history of Mesno.

This Mesino, there are tears in the eyes of the successful. It is also the regret in the hearts of the losers, but these will soon dissipate, and only movies can bring everyone eternal memories, as the veteran director Robert Altman, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, said in his speech: "Castles built with sand on the beach must be washed away by the waves." The process of making every movie is the process of building a castle on the beach, and beauty can only remain in memory. ”

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A week later. Chen Feng was invited to the base of Hasbro in Rhode Island, and on the way he chatted with his fellow Sperger.

"I had an interview after the Mesno Awards Ceremony that day. I didn't have time to congratulate you. Spurg held out his hand, "Congratulations." ”

Shaking hands with him, Chen Feng didn't have that smug and excited expression on his face: "Recently, I have also seen a lot of good news about you in the newspaper. You seem to have recently been inducted into the Science Fantasy Hall of Fame, and I would like to congratulate you as well. ”

Spurg smiled and waved his hand, "Do you know why I like sci-fi stories so much? ”

"Because it's a space where you can push your imagination to the limit."

Because of this answer, he was very satisfied with the answer, and Sperger decided to mention Chen Feng: "It was for the reason you said that I showed a strong interest in the filming of the live-action version of "Transformers". There are a lot of directors who are good at making sci-fi films, but do you know why I chose Michael Bay over others? ”

"Because he has a very good feeling for this type of story, he can rub fictional characters into reality and give them a real humanity." In front of this world-renowned director, Chen Feng has no need to hide his clumsiness. He boldly voiced his thoughts: "And the theme to be highlighted in the live-action version of the Transformers story is also human nature, whether it's 'madness' or 'Bo faction', you definitely don't want them to be just a bunch of cold machines in the film, fighting for the sake of fighting." ”

Sperger lifted his glasses and looked at Chen Feng with a very formal look. "If the film is made in five years, you will definitely be the best director of the film."

Chen Feng smiled: "But if I wait another 5 years, I don't think I can play the leading role at my age." ”…,

This humorous answer amused Sberg, who smiled and nodded, "yes, what we need now is a young lead actor." But I still keep the idea just now, if the film shoots a sequel in the future, maybe I will really ask you to be the director. ”

At first, Chen Feng just took that proposal as a joke, but now it seems that Sberger is serious.

Seeing that Chen Feng's expression was a little cramped, Sperger patted him on the shoulder: "I agree with the kind of point you emphasized in your acceptance speech, for a young person, too early and too high an honor is not only an incentive, but it may also stifle your potential and creativity, since you understand this truth, then don't worry, the future entertainment industry will eventually belong to you." ”

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At the entrance to Hasbro's base, there stands a model of Optimus Prime more than ten meters high, which can be seen from a distance. When the car came closer, Chen Feng found that there was already a person standing under the model. When they got out of the car, the guy in the blue T-shirt and sunglasses was looking up at the giant Autobot model in front of him.

This person is naturally the Michael Bay that Sberger talked to Chen Feng about on the road. Chen Feng is no stranger to this director, who has shot many blockbuster commercial blockbusters. When the two sides met, Chen Feng and Michael Bay made the same action, took off their sunglasses, and hung them on the open collar.

"Looks like you've found common ground between you," Spear noticed the detail, and then used it as a starting point for the conversation, "You two should know each other, right?" ”

Michael Bay and Chen Feng shook hands amicably, "This should be our first meeting, but we should know each other." ”

"That's right," Chen Feng nodded, "I've basically seen all the movies you made." ”

"I've also watched a lot of your movies, especially the "Dusk", which is really good."

"It should be my honor to be recognized by you," Chen Feng said with a smile: "Most of the movies I have acted in before are youth campus movies, and I always thought that a director like you would not like that type of movie." ”

"To be honest, I'm not really interested in that kind of movie, but I'm very interested in myself," says Michael Bay very frankly: "Actually, when I was preparing for my last film, "Get Out of the Psychedelic Island", I considered asking you to be the lead role in this film, and I watched most of your films carefully. Although most of your characters are a bit naïve, your acting style is very mature. Later, because of some other factors, I didn't go to you. It turns out that my judgment was correct, and you have now won the Best Actor and Best Director award to Mesno, and I should congratulate you here. ”

Last year's "Get Out of the Psychedelic Island" failed to be the expected success, attracting bad reviews and a box office fiasco, but Michael Bay didn't have too many taboos when it came to the film. For a director like him who has become famous, people will not be completely denied his ability because of the failure of a film.

When the two met for the first time, they chatted about some topics that were of interest to each other, and Sperger watched that the two had a lot of common topics, and a stone hanging in his heart finally landed. After they chatted for a while, Sperger got the conversation back on track.

"Michael, I saw just now that you were watching the big guy at the door before us, do you have any thoughts on that?"

Michael Bey, of course, understood what Sperger's words meant, but he shook his head and said regretfully: "There is nothing that inspires me yet"

Sperger was not discouraged, "Then let's go and visit first, I promise there will be a lot of you inside..."He first looked at Michael Bay, and then pointed to Chen Feng, "And you, childhood toys that are very familiar to you." You will find out how authoritative and serious this company is when it comes to producing toys. ”…,

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When they entered the base of the "Hasbro" company, the staff inside was designing a new Monopoly game, and Chen Feng saw the drag doll "Mr. Potato" and the "Special Forces" soldier dolls, each toy here represents a childhood memory. Although Chen Feng did not inherit the memory of this body, he still had a natural sense of intimacy with toys. And Michael Bay has been silent since the beginning of the visit.

After the tour, they met Hasbro's CEO, Brian Goldner. The 40-year-old head of the company is like a child, and his words show an irrepressible excitement about being able to reinterpret a successful toy product in the form of a live-action film.

When Goldner came to Hasbro, the company was making ends meet with a loss of $144 million. This year, the sales performance of Lucas's movie "Star Wars Prequel" and the island nation Nintendo's "Pokemon" game licensed toys was not too "smart". Hasbro is starting to wake up to the dangers of being overly superstitious about Star Wars mania and ignoring its own classic toy brand.

In the past three years, Hasbro has promised at least $590 million in royalties to obtain toy licenses for Star Wars movies such as Lucas's "Phantom Crisis", but the subsequent toy sales performance has not been as good as expected to turn a profit. They needed a young and creative mind to start a toy renaissance.

Godner, the new CEO, fits this condition, and he likes to go against the convention, which is that toymakers are fighting to win the license of movie toys, while Goldner starts to think backwards, turning passive into active, licensing existing toy brands to DreamWorks Studios to shoot movies, and using movies as the best marketing medium for toys. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )