Chapter 242. 【Million Screenwriters】
As time went by, after awarding some technical and post-production awards, the Oscars gradually came to the main part, first of all, two screenwriting awards, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay.
Among them, the best adapted screenplay with a slightly lower gold content was won by the inspirational film "There is Always a Sun".
Sadly, the dream of nominated Stephen King fell through. But for him, this blow of losing the Oscar has numbed him. Poor guy, although the horror novel is well written, he has no chance of winning awards, as for the judges who have been raised by the Oscars and bitches before, they have been "raped~raped", but "rape", "rape", Stephen King has been used to "rape", such as his "Ten Days of Danger", such as his "The Shining", and his "The Shawshank Redemption......
Alas, if you want to talk about Stephen King's history of Olympic bid, it is difficult to explain. He had already expected the current ending, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.
The wife who felt most distressed about him held Stephen King's hand tightly, although she didn't speak, but the concerned eyes and expressions had already expressed the meaning obviously: Husband, it's okay, it's a big deal, let's come back next year!
Stephen King patted the back of his wife's hand, and pretended to smile easily, but he was very depressed in his heart, I'm afraid I won't be able to come next year, do you think this is McDonald's, I'm hungry, I want to come......
But at this moment, Stephen King still has an expectation in his heart, that is, the best screenplay in the following way, yes, this award must not fall to ...... Fall on someone's head.
For the first time in his life, Stephen King began to pray somewhat vilely. Because he really doesn't want to see someone look proud after winning an award.
"How so, am I thinking too much? Even if that guy is really talented, the Oscar judges won't award such an important award to a Chinese, right? Stephen King thought silently.
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"Okay, everyone, please be quiet, the upcoming award below is a very important award! Let me ask, what is the most important thing in a play? The acting skills of the actors? Music, props, sets? Or investors' money? Oh, neither! It's the script! Yes, it's the script! Dear ladies. Gentlemen. The script is the book of a play, it carries the soul of a play, and it is the foundation of the story of the movie! So it's important! Therefore, the upcoming awards below are also important. It's the Oscar for Best Screenplay! Host Steve Martin said loudly.
Apparently. With Martin's inflammatory language. The nominees for Best Screenplay were all getting their blood boiling, and the audience, guests and fans were all feeling the scorching atmosphere around them. A sense of tension began to permeate the entire Hauska Awards ceremony.
In fact, among the various awards at the Oscars, except for a few awards such as Best Actor and Actress and Best Film, this Best Screenplay has the highest gold content and has received the most attention. The reason for this is not unrelated to the industrialization of the Hollywood film industry.
It is important to know that Hollywood movies are different from Hong Kong in that they do not belong to workshop-style production, but to industrial assembly line production.
When filming starts, from the screenwriter, director, actors, to other members of the crew, every link is very important along the way, and every link must be checked by professional talents.
The reason why Hollywood film companies make so much profit every year is because they can produce good movies and movies that are popular among the people!
How did a good movie come about, to put it bluntly, it is still the excellence of the film industry, strict control, refusal to accept bad movies, and huge bad films!
As the most important story of the movie, it must be attractive and resonate with the audience. Therefore, a good story must be written by a good screenwriter, and a good screenwriter can produce good benefits.
To put it more bluntly, the story written by the screenwriter dominates the ultimate success or failure of a play!
Therefore, Hollywood regards screenwriters as very important, and their status is second only to directors, and even higher than actors, some people may say that this is not too exaggerated...... So let's shift our attention and look away from Hollywood, but only at South Korea, the rising film power in Asia in the future.
The rapid development of Korean films in the future is recognized by the world as fast, and the popularity of Korean TV dramas around the world is also obvious to all. Don't say anything else, just talk about the popular "The Man from the Stars" in the previous life, as well as "The Inheritors", these two dramas exploded directly in the Celestial Empire!
It's red, it's so red!
It's on fire, it's so hot!
But who knows how dominant the screenwriters of these two dramas are in the whole filming process, as long as they say a word, they can replace the actors, as long as they say a word, even the director has to reshoot.
Once the most popular actress in South Korea was disrespectful to her screenwriter after becoming popular, as a result, she was directly banned by this screenwriter for many years, and after getting the worst, she had to kneel on the ground to give tea to the screenwriter!
This shows how important the position of screenwriters in TV series and movies is. Although Hollywood is not South Korea, Hollywood's attitude towards screenwriters is also the most respectful, especially those gold medal screenwriters, almost all of whom are millions of screenwriters! The million here does not mean that the box office of the movies they write is millions, but that they are paid at least millions of dollars for each play they write!
Yes, it's true, the best screenwriters in the United States can even get paid $200 to $4 million! It's not a joke, it's a fact! And some screenwriters participate in box office dividends, if the box office of that drama exceeds 100 million, then it is possible for the adaptation to get tens of millions of dollars at one time.
Of course, the screenwriters of Hollywood in the United States have also come from the trough and are currently facing a grim situation. Especially after the increase of industrial production, the sacred word "screenwriter" has been transferred from one person to a team. For example, this year, Columbia is filming "Breaking Bad", a total of 17 screenwriters participated in this play, and they wrote the basic story framework of the film, love scenes, and action scenes...... All dialogues are also divided into love, humor, and action.
In this way, in fact, screenwriting has become the title of a team, so Hollywood is very much looking forward to the emergence of independent gold medal screenwriters and millions of screenwriters in the true sense...... This has not been the case for many years, and Hollywood has become accustomed to having a lot of people and writing a script...... Oscar is even more difficult, especially when encountering those scripts written collectively, I really don't know which lucky person in the team should send it to.
In short, the changes in Hollywood have made the Oscar Best Screenwriter more and more expensive and important, and the audience, fans, and even the CEOs of those film companies are calling in their hearts - gold medal screenwriters, come out!!
Now, the Oscar for Best Screenplay is about to be announced, and everyone is holding their breath and waiting to see what happens.
In a thunderous applause, Angelina Jolie, the guest in charge of the award, walked out of the left side of the stage with a white envelope, she smiled and said: "It's an honor to present this award, the screenwriters have shaped the story and characters, and our acting skills have been displayed...... In the guest seats in the audience, Stephen King became focused; The Wachowski brothers have cynical smiles on their faces; Yi Feiyang, who was not far away, finally changed his expression, and his face was calm without a smile, but he was very nervous in his heart...... Although he has long lost hope for this award.
The five nominees are, Alan Ball, screenwriter of "American Beauty"; Nate Shyamalan, the screenwriter of "The Sixth Sense," ......"
As Angelina Jolie pronounces a name, the big screen flashes the location of the person in the guest seat, and then the spotlight cleverly hits it and becomes the target of everyone's attention.
On the stage, Angelina Jolie, who was dressed in a white suit, continued to read: "There is also Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter of "Puppet Life", and Yi Feiyang, the screenwriter of "Dance Floor Competition......" The crowd burst into significantly increased applause.
Suddenly, "Oh my God......" At the moment when the spotlight hit Yi Feiyang, Angelina, the lottery guest on the stage, suddenly covered her mouth and exclaimed, then glanced at Yi Feiyang in disbelief, and continued to announce: "God, the last one is the screenwriter of "The Matrix 2", and he is still ...... Easy to fly! ”
Outcry!
Collective uproar!
Everyone was stunned by this answer!
What is a miracle?
That's it!
One person turned out to be shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Screenplay for two plays!
Isn't this a miracle or what?!
"Is there something wrong? Aren't the writers of The Matrix 2 the Wachowski brothers? ”
"Don't you know, man, that play was written by a mysterious Neo, for which the Wachowski brothers spent a lot of money on advertising to find someone!"
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"Is there any mistake that Oscar actually changed the list of candidates halfway?!"
"yes, that's unprecedented!"
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Faced with this sudden result, everyone couldn't help but start talking.
Behind the scenes, those very bitter Oscar judges are helpless, who let the aching Wachowski brothers temporarily run to change the nomination, as they uphold justice and truth, they can't put the real creator out of the door, alas, so it's not easy to do anything.
At this time, the Wachowski brothers were smiling evilly, China Yi, I didn't expect it, our brothers still have this hand? Not ours, we are by no means rare! This is our moral bottom line!
Yi Feiyang, in the face of everyone's stunned, surprised, and suspicious eyes, he could only smile bitterly.
Those who originally sang the decline and won the award were also a little dumbfounded this time, how did they break it, one person nominated twice, and beat himself among the five candidates? At least double your win rate! (To be continued......)