Entering December, it has also entered the preparation period for the annual awards season in the entertainment industry.

The organizing committees of the major awards have begun to make efforts, inviting celebrities from all walks of life to determine whether they have time to attend in advance, and at the same time announcing the time of the award ceremony, the host and the preliminary list of awards, etc.

Some of the world's most important film awards are no exception.

On December 7, the Oscars of the United States took the lead in announcing the time of this year's awards ceremony, which will be held on February 19 next year, and the host is also determined to be Morrison, who has hosted it for the third consecutive year? Hunter; Immediately after December 11, the Japan Academy Film Awards confirmed that the award ceremony will be held on February 24; On December 16, the Huaxia Magnolia Award was determined to be awarded on February 29, and the host was a candidate who surprised Sun Peng, Kobayashi Jiahui, who had played the role of Mo Yan in "Dragon Gate Inn"!

Sun Peng remembered that Kobayashi Jiahui was Japanese!

"So, the organizing committee is very bold this time!"

When chatting about this matter together, Wei Xiaolin couldn't help but exclaim: "There is no doubt that this is determined to internationalize the Magnolia Award!" And Kobayashi Jiahui's candidate is also very good, if you invite Hollywood actors to come, one is that there are very few big names who can speak Chinese, and the room for selection is too small, and second, with the strength and influence of the Magnolia Award, it is slightly weaker to expand to Europe and the United States now. ”

After listening to Wei Xiaolin's words, Sun Peng frowned and said, "So they want to start with Asia first?" ”

"Yes, start with Japan, Asia's largest market!"

Nodding, Wei Xiaolin said with a smile: "In the past few years, our domestic films have done well at the box office in Japan, especially your script, which can achieve good results every time!" So I also heard that this time not only will Kasui Kobayashi be the host, but the entire award ceremony will be broadcast live on Nippon TV...... Tsk, it was recorded in previous years, but this year it was broadcast live for the first time, so you can think about it! ”

“……”

After listening to Wei Xiaolin's words, Sun Peng couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Of course, he couldn't help but be excited!

If he hadn't stepped into the entertainment industry, he wouldn't have paid attention to these things at all. But just as he always paid attention to the status of Chinese medical technology in the world in his previous life, the world naturally shifted to movies and music.

Again, China's cultural industry has reached a critical point.

If we continue to go up, even if the domestic market is already huge, it will still not be able to meet the expanding appetite of the giants. And not only them, at the national level, Huaxia also needs the domestic cultural industry to match the speed of political, military and economic expansion, and cannot always lag behind!

Essentially, this is an inevitable result!

Of course, the scale and income of the cultural industry cannot be compared with many industries, not to mention that one oil industry is enough to crush it. However, the reason why it is considered by many to represent the ultimate embodiment of a country's strength is that in addition to creating value for itself, the cultural industry can also export values to the outside world, improve the country's influence, and promote the overseas expansion of other industries.

This point, presumably the Chinese on the earth should feel the deepest.

From the recognition of car brands to the small hellokitty hairpin in a boutique, almost everywhere is full of cultural influences from Europe, America, Japan and South Korea; And those so-called ancient brands of luxury goods in Europe can sell tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of bags that cost hundreds of dollars to the Chinese people, relying on the same cultural background!

In China, the situation in this world is much better, but it is not the same as the old developed countries!

How can this make China, which has become strong and strong, embarrassed?

So don't think that only ordinary people are unhappy when they see this situation, in fact, the most anxious should be at the national level, because they know better how important the prosperity of the cultural industry is!

Merely......

They understand more that the so-called "soft power" is strong and must be based on the country's "hard power", and if cultural influence wants to break out of the country and sweep the world, it will take far more time than any other industry to sing, and it will be much more difficult to maintain!

Hollywood culture on the planet is the best representative.

In Asia, including the popularity of Japanese dramas and songs, the rise of the Korean Wave all occurred during the period of rapid development of their own power. Of course, the same is true when Hong Kong movies are glorious. But when the mainland's economy grows rapidly, or the Internet era arrives, more and more young people can see the farther and broader world, at least in the film circle at the top of the pyramid, only Hollywood is worth looking up to.

Therefore, if there is no strong national strength and national influence as support, the rise of the cultural industry is impossible to talk about, even if one or two classic works occasionally come out, it is nothing more than a flash in the pan, and the glory of a few filmmakers will not have any impact on the overall situation at all.

This is also the reason why Chinese stars on the earth are flocking to Hollywood......

Far from it.

In short, for Kobayashi Jiahui as the host of the Magnolia Award, and the idea of Chinese filmmakers consciously expanding to Japan, Sun Peng is definitely 120,000 points of support! If at the beginning, he just decided to participate in the award ceremony after considering various factors, then after listening to Wei Xiaolin's words, he decided that he had to take this matter seriously.

There is no doubt that he is now the most influential Chinese filmmaker in Japan.

A "Spirited Away's Hide" is still at the top of the Japanese box office rankings, and "Howl's Moving Castle" is also in the top ten! As for other films, such as the three animated films in collaboration with Hollywood, the Little Wizard and Little Wizard series, and even the animation and several songs of "Slam Dunk", they were all very popular in Japan!

Of course, we can't forget "The Undertaker", which makes the name Lao Bai regarded as "a friend of the Japanese people"!

"So, I also have to pay attention to the award ceremony of the Japan Film Academy Awards!"

After pondering for a moment, Sun Peng suddenly spoke: "Lao Wei, "Hero" was shortlisted for the Japanese Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and then you will go with me!" ”

"Japan, ......"

Scratching his head, Wei Xiaolin said with some distress: "But I'm preparing for "Terminator 2" now, and when I'm busy in February next year, I only planned to go to the Oscars once!" ”

Among this year's Chinese movies, "Hero" is undoubtedly the most influential.

It's not that it has the highest box office, but as a combination of Chinese costume blockbusters and martial arts, the impact of "Hero" is unparalleled - for overseas audiences, this is undoubtedly the genre they are most familiar with, and at the same time it has a freshness that the "braised pork" that they are tired of eating before does not have, so it is not surprising that it was nominated for the Oscars.

Even if he is only shortlisted for the preliminary list now, Sun Peng believes that it should not be a problem to enter the ranks of the final five films.

As one of the co-directors of "Hero", Wei Xiaolin is naturally eligible to attend the Oscars. It's just that because of the preparation of "Terminator 2", he kind of wants to give up going to Japan.

"No, you have to go!"

This time, Sun Peng rarely expressed a tough attitude in front of Wei Xiaolin, and said with a straight face: "Brother Wei, this year is different, come with me!" ”