Chapter 281. 【Confrontation】

It can be said that the film with the most awards at this Academy Awards is "Gladiator", with a total of 12 finalists. It is also a big favorite for this Oscar.

In contrast, Yi Feiyang's "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is a bit "weak", and it has only received a total of five nominations, but being nominated is competitive, and being competitive is hopeful, if you want to rely on pure fantasy entertainment to get an Oscar nomination, such as "Chainsaw", it is really a funny thing, even the song and dance film "Dance Floor Battle", which created a new era of song and dance, cannot be fully accepted by the mainstream Oscars, so it can be shortlisted for the Oscars, In fact, it is already a victory.

The host of this year's Oscars is talk show star Steve Martin. This famous talk show host and comedy film actor still continues his humorous genius at the moment, playing tricks on stage. In fact, the main reason why this style of hosting has always been popular is that it can make the atmosphere relaxed and entertaining enough. This is also different from the hosts in suits and serious faces in the previous Celestial Empire - in a word, American programs pursue entertainment, and Celestial Empire programs pursue politics. Polarized, very serious.

With the start of the awards ceremony, compared to the smaller awards, the best soundtrack nominated for the dream "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" did not win, on the contrary, the best soundtrack nominated for "Gladiator" won the Oscar, it can be said that Universal Pictures took the lead and won a game.

After the award of Best Costume, Best Music, the next prize is the Best Original Screenplay.

The shortlisted for this award are still "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" and "Gladiator", in addition to "Love Chocolate". "Never Compromise". "Almost famous". As for the fantasy old rival Colombia's "Boxing King Ali", it was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

As for who will win this time, there is some suspense.

As the director and screenwriter of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door". Yi Feiyang is inevitably a little nervous, although he has already won the award for Best Screenplay last time, but as the saying goes, who would think that he has won fewer awards. If he can win the award for the second time, then he can directly push his screenwriting career to the peak, and now is the final sprint stage.

Steve Martin, the host on the podium, was playing with his mouth: "Recently, I went to Starbucks for coffee and met a lot of acquaintances, and the first thing they said to me was no longer "Hi." Martin, your hair is bald again, haven't you used Green Olive brand shampoo again?! Instead, it became, hey Martin, who will win this year's Oscar for Best Screenplay? ”

"I said, how can I know the way, and the other party graciously called the waiter, and bought me a large cup of cappuccino, and a sweet little pudding. And then say, man. It's all yours, you can eat it, as long as you do a favor when you award the best screenplay! ”

"I said, how can I help, and he said, it's simple, man, if the best screenplay for this year's award is 'Gladiator', you would shoot a gladiator to the camera, yes, the kind of posture with a sword and a shield and a tiger fighting...... If it's "When Happiness Knocks," you blink a Will Smith-like electric eye...... If it's neither, then you don't have to do anything, just announce the results! ”

Steve said this and smiled, "Now I just want to know, the next guest to present the award for Best Screenplay, Hollywood 'Old Cowboy', Mr. Eastwood, can you give me a hint first, is it a sword and a shield, or a charming electric eye?" ”

With Steve's joke, the presenter, former Oscar-winning Eastwood, took the stage.

Eastwood is one of Hollywood's most charismatic actors, and although he is almost 70 years old, he is still personable, and when he takes the stage, some fans even scream for him.

Eastwood stood in front of the podium and said with a smile: "I'm glad that an old man like me is still welcomed by everyone, especially those screams, it seems that I only heard them forty years ago, but now, thank God, I have relived that wonderful moment!" ”

After a heartwarming speech, Eastwood opened the large envelope with the best screenplay secret, and the atmosphere became tense as his hand opened the envelope, especially the people in the "Gladiator" camp who were all sweating in their palms.

I already won just now, and if I do it again, it will be even more popular!

As one of the nominees, Yi Feiyang made a calm appearance, his expression was flat, and he seemed to have no quarrel with the world, but his heart was extremely excited, especially his hot eyes had betrayed him, at this time he was like the protagonist in danger in his own horror movie, waiting for God's verdict.

In fact, at this time, the crew members of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" are even more nervous than Yi Feiyang, you must know that the best screenplay is a very valuable award among the five nominations for this play, if Yi Feiyang can score twice, then it will undoubtedly bring a good omen to this play.

But will Oscar?

Would such an important award be given to the same person?! And still Chinese?!

In the words of some Hollywood folks, man, you've already won the award once, and Lady Luck is never going to be your big aunt!

……

After everyone's waiting, the award envelope was finally opened, and Eastwood glanced at the envelope and said: "Now I announce that the person who won the Oscar for Best Screenplay this year is - "Almost Famous" - Cameron. Crowe, congratulations! ”

As Eastwood's words landed, Cameron Crowe, a fat man with brown hair who was not favored by others, stood up excitedly like a child, clenched his fists and shouted, "yes——! ”

The applause rang out, and everyone shifted their attention to this dark horse who suddenly came out, his appearance was not good, and he was not noticed by everyone before, but he defeated "Gladiator" and "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", which have the greatest hope of winning the award, and won the Best Screenwriter Award this year!

Heterogeneous protrusions!

The dark horse is highlighted!

As a not very famous director and screenwriter in the United States, this brown-haired little fat man didn't seem to believe that he really won the award, in addition to being excited, he kissed the people around him frantically, and made the poor eggs around him saliva all over his face, until the award presenter called him to hurry up on stage to accept the award, the fat man ran up, probably because he was too excited, and when he went up the steps, he accidentally slipped and fell. But that didn't stop the brown-haired fat man's excitement, and after hugging the host and presenter Eastwood, he accepted the award, kissed it, and said a very fucked-up Oscar speech: "Our damn cat can't eat my pizza anymore!" ”

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing why. Afterwards, people found out that this Cameron Crowe was also a wife slave who was oppressed by his wife, and because he couldn't write a good script, he was always punished by his wife and threw his pizza to the family cat......

Therefore, every successful screenwriter has an unforgettable sad history behind it.

The unexpected award of the brown-haired little fat man greatly encouraged those nominees who were not much concerned about the winners, and it turned out that we guys with low popularity also had spring! At this moment, I saw them rubbing their fists one by one, and they became high-spirited.

As for "Gladiator", the Universal boss bit his lip and muttered softly, "It's a pity, but we still have a lot of opportunities to ......" his eyes narrowed.

After the award for the best screenplay, in order to liven up the atmosphere, the organizers specially invited famous singers from the United States to sing several of their famous songs.

What rock, lyrical, country, and varied tastes, but it is a feast for the ears.

As soon as the lively atmosphere on the stage ended, the host Steve stood up again and gaged, which made everyone laugh. I have to say that American-style humor, as well as this unique talk show, is really popular.

Yi Feiyang, who lost the best screenwriter, was also groaned by the smiling face of the talk show in front of him, and he even thought that every Oscar uses this type of host as the emcee, the purpose of which is probably not only their wit and humor, but also to heal the unlucky ones who lost the award.

The awards continued, and then a series of small awards such as best sound effects, best visual effects, and then it was the turn of the best adapted screenplay, and this time the Colombian company, which had been unknown, won the award with "Ali", the king of fighters.

You must know that in the previous life, this award was won by "Drug Network", but now it has changed!

Yes, everything has changed!

When Yi Feiyang was shortlisted for "Happiness", this year's Oscars were different from the original, without "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but with "Boxing King Ali...... Everything is out of its tracks.

Colombia won the award, Abbas, who was the person in charge, smiled happily, and did not forget to throw a contemptuous smile at Yi Feiyang, who still had zero egg results, the implication is self-explanatory, damn guy, how about it, lost a game, right?!

In fact, it is true, Yi Feiyang's "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" won five nominations, and now the best soundtrack and best screenwriter have been lost, leaving the three with the highest gold content, not to mention, the danger factor is too great, can it be said that this time there are really zero balls?!

Yi Feiyang was very depressed, super depressed.

No matter how funny the talk show on the stage was, it couldn't make him laugh. Anne Hathaway, who was sitting next to him, seemed to see his mood, so she took his hand with her jade hand and said, "Yi, don't be discouraged, I support you, we still have a chance, don't we?" ”

Yes, there's still a chance, and although the chance is slim, I'm not going to throw in the towel!

Yi Feiyang regained his spirits and waited for the next awards.

Compared with Yi Feiyang's resurgence, the rest of the "Happiness" crew was obviously a little discouraged, whether it was Will Smith, who was nominated, or Bill Clinton, who came to see the excitement, they all felt lifeless around them, "Oh, God, do you really mean that we will really lose badly this time?!" (To be continued......)