Chapter 365. [11 Oscar nominations]
It is said that Jobs originally founded Apple with his friends, but later due to the conflict between his business philosophy and many people in the company, the veteran and founder, the technology developer, was kicked out of the company he founded, and staged a tragedy of Qiao Daxia being expelled from the beggar gang.
Later, without Jobs, Apple's business declined sharply, but at the same time, Jobs set up a Pixar animation studio, which became a well-known 3D computer animation company, and in 1995 launched the world's first fully 3D stereoscopic animated film "Toy Story", which became famous and worth $1 billion.
But Jobs is worthy of a heroic style, or came back in the crisis of Apple, after the return of Jobs drastic reform, stopped unreasonable research and development and production, ended Microsoft and Apple years of patent disputes, and began to develop new products, especially in the last two years and has developed iTunes and iPod, but also began to open stores in prime locations and great success.
With such a thriving company, you want to buy it, and you are undoubtedly a fool's dream!
Acquisition negotiations for Apple Inc. for Steve Jobs. There is no doubt that fantasy entertainment was rejected. In the words of Steve Jobs, "Apple will never be acquired!" Not now, not in the future! ”
A very bullish company.
In fact, today's Apple also has such strength.
Yi Feiyang is not a brute force, and after research, he found that if Dream Entertainment really wants to buy Apple. Then there is only one way. That's digging the foot of the wall!
The biggest drawback of digging the foot of the wall is that you have to pay a lot of digging fees. Because talent is difficult to measure with money, and everyone's degree of greed is not the same, conservative estimates that if you want to dig up a lot of Apple's talents, you need at least hundreds of millions of dollars in poaching costs, plus Apple's strength, like a war, you must besiege each other with ten times the strength. This is the only way to win, and the five-percent stake that Apple puts on the market is about $1.5 billion in market value, and ten times the power must be $15 billion, which is simply an impossible task according to the current strength of Dream Entertainment!
In fact, in less than a year, Dream Entertainment, which claims to have assets of up to 8 billion, frequently used the sufficient capital chain on hand to acquire New Zealand's Weta Digital Company and India's Giant Elephant Pictures Company. And now the American AMC TV station, this series of actions down. Dream Entertainment's empire has expanded a lot, but in terms of liquidity, there are only about $1 billion left. Now it is very difficult to take the $1 billion and acquire a 5% stake in Apple worth $1.5 billion.
In the face of such a hard bone, Yi Feiyang, who was focused on shooting, originally planned to give up, anyway, he had established a strategic partnership with Samsung, and Apple was not bad, but unfortunately, Jobs's words reached Yi Feiyang's ears.
I don't know on what occasion Jobs said this, he said: "Yi Feiyang? That Chinese-American director, Hollywood careerist? Constantly acquiring companies and treating the United States as their own backyard! God, I can say with great precision that Apple will never allow such a tyrant to interfere, yes, I don't like this Napoleonic dwarf! Unless I fall! ”
Americans are actually very gossipy, and these words quickly reached Yi Feiyang's ears, Yi Feiyang's first reaction was that he and Jobs, the old man, had no grievances and no hatred, why was he so jealous and hateful? Also, it's okay to scold yourself as a careerist, and it's okay to be a tyrant, but why slander yourself for being a Napoleonic dwarf? Are you short? Although it is a little lower than those American men, the height of 1.85 meters is still very tall!
Yi Feiyang, who has always been very rational, became a little irrational, especially the indescribable arrogance of Jobs, which made Yi Feiyang very unhappy. He felt the need to fight back against the other party's arrogance.
So Yi Feiyang ordered Dures and Alex to start poaching!
In the United States, there are many well-known "headhunters" that specialize in helping other companies dig into the wall. The biggest advantage of these headhunters is the accuracy of the intelligence, they can collect accurate information about the employees of any company, such as his personal history, his mortgage situation, car loan situation, and any problems with his funds. Then, these headhunters will conduct all-round and three-dimensional lobbying for the employee's personality loopholes, until he is lured and decides to resign and join the new company.
When Yi Feiyang was busy filming the first season of "The Walking Dead", Dures and Alex were busy approaching headhunters to poach Apple's technical talents.
So a silent storm unfolded in two different fields.
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"CUT! This shot doesn't work, try it all over again!"
“CUT! This angle is wrong, try it all over again! ”
"No! Still no! Yi Feiyang roared irritably.
But I tried it all over again, and the result was still unsatisfactory. So Yi Feiyang scolded: "Stupid! Do you know how to act? Grasp the connotation of the character, understand?! I want you to play the role well, not for you to walk the dead here! ”
People who know him well know that Yi Feiyang's temper is like this on the set, and those who don't know think that this person is really difficult to serve.
In short, those who come into contact with Yi Feiyang for the first time are silent.
As the actor, Colin was also scolded and scared by Yi Feiyang, especially when Yi Feiyang was angry, he would tremble all over his body, and even forgot the lines in his mouth.
This makes the situation even worse.
Not to mention the delay in shooting, the shooting effect is even less than Yi Feiyang's requirements.
In fact, Colin's performance as a TV actor is already very good, especially in this play, it can be said that he is completely extraordinary. However, Yi Feiyang's requirements are too high, and the filming of this scene is completely based on the method of shooting movies, so the requirements for actors are also the requirements for filming movies.
And Colin, for a moment. Unable to do this.
Here it is necessary to mention the difference between the shooting methods of television and film. When filming TV. Because the story plot is long, the requirements for the actors are to take their time and not to fully interpret the character's personality traits in a short period of time, while the movie requires a story to be told within an hour or two hours, so the character is required to be accurate, quickly establish the character type in a short time, and let the character stand up.
Colin has long been accustomed to this kind of filming technique in TV dramas. Therefore, in Yi Feiyang's eyes, it seems that the wire is "scattered" and "not in the state", so it will keep N machine.
As the so-called bystander is a fan of the authorities, Tom, as the assistant director, saw that Yi Feiyang scolded a dry actor, and no one dared to speak out, so he stiffened his head and said to Yi Feiyang: "Director, I think it may be that your shooting technique has not ......been well adapted to their habitual interpretation methods."
This sentence is very tactful and subtle. But it calmed down Yi Feiyang, who was thunderous.
yes, he was smart enough to figure it out quickly. It's not that these actors are too stupid, it's because they are too demanding.
For a long time, almost all of those who can become the leading actor in Yi Feiyang's movies are acting characters with a few brushes, such as Cage, Robert Downey Jr., Johnny Depp and so on. These people have cooperated with Yi Feiyang a lot, and they can understand it at one point, which is like Colin's gang, who has never received formal acting training, and is completely a performance method exercised by playing tricks and soy sauce in TV dramas, which is inevitably a little exaggerated.
After figuring out everything, Yi Feiyang calmed down and felt that if this drama was to continue filming, then he must give these actors some guidance on acting skills.
So Yi Feiyang finally decided to give these people three days to enter the fantasy entertainment company to receive hellish training, or acting training.
Yi Feiyang believes that if these people are really talentable, then they will definitely be reborn in three days!
The reason why Yi Feiyang is so generous and gives the actor three days to train, in addition to laying the foundation for the smooth filming of the TV series, the important thing is that he has received an invitation from the North American Oscar organizing committee to participate in the 2003 Oscars as a nominee!
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Long before Yi Feiyang was busy filming "The Walking Dead", the nominations for the 75th Academy Award for Best Picture that fans around the world were looking forward to had been announced, "Chicago", "Artificial Intelligence", "The Pianist", "Gangs of New York", "Slumdog Millionaire", these five movies that have thrilled fans in the past year, and a lucky person will be born in the history of film, who will be the real winner in 2003? The enthusiasm of the fans began to rise over time, and they were all speculating about who would have the last laugh.
Let's take a look at these five films and learn about their legendary stories.
"Chicago", although it lost miserably to the sci-fi blockbuster "Artificial Intelligence" directed by Hollywood director Spielberg in box office results, and even couldn't catch up with the underworld blockbuster "Gangs of New York", which was hurriedly produced a few days before the screening, but the Oscars favor this film, and the nominations for it include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Prop Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup, These 13 best sounds!
This epic blockbuster, which combines Hollywood's favorite love, song and dance, has become the strongest contender for this year's Oscars, with 13 nominations, which is easily reminiscent of "Titanic", which won 11 statuettes in one fell swoop at the 70th Oscars.
The same love theme, the same outstanding grandeur, and the same thrilling and gorgeous scenes make people willing to believe that this masterpiece of Disney's Miramax Film Company will be recognized by the Oscars as much as its predecessors.
"Artificial Intelligence", won six nominations for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Original Music. Especially Spielberg, as the award-winning king, this play is full of spirit to succeed in the Olympics, and the whole aura makes people feel that they should not be underestimated
"The Pianist", won four high-value Oscar nominations such as Best Picture and Best Actor, and this great director Roman Polanski's painstaking work is extremely favorable, although there is no war scene. But the scenes of life during World War II were sorted out by him in an orderly manner. And he also set a record. Because before that. He has won the Palme d'Or at the 55th Cannes Film Festival for "The Pianist". It can be said that this drama is full of honor, and it doesn't matter whether it can win in the end.
"Gangs of New York", a famous American director, is also a veteran director, and the most experienced Martin Saxes's Olympic work, this film lived up to expectations and was nominated for several awards such as Best Picture and Best Director! Although the box office of this film is as high as 300 million. The reputation is also very good, compared with several other epic films, the demand for this film to win awards is not very high.
"Slumdog Millionaire", a work directed by Chinese director Magic Yang Yi Feiyang, a film shot with less than 10 million US dollars, has become the biggest dark horse that everyone expected, and beyond expectations. At the same time, it also made fans addicted.
This time, Yi Feiyang went crazy again and won the best director in one fell swoop. There are 11 nominations for Best Picture, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Music, Best Original Song, Best Original Sound Effects, etc., and the nominated projects are second only to "Chicago"!
When the academy excluded a large number of white directors from the finals for best director, the five finalists were representatives of the academy, the old and strong director Martin Sheixes, the representative of American directors Spielberg, the director of the epic blockbuster "The Pianist" Roman Polanski, and the Hollywood revue director Bob Forss, and of course, the youngest and most qualified Chinese director Yi Feiyang!
For a time, the eyes of the entire East were attracted, and this Oscar ceremony, which was originally in low ratings, was sought after by countless fans in Greater China because of the mysterious Oriental director Yi Feiyang, and even the high-flying CCTV also sent special reporters to Los Angeles to show this Oscar event that will surely go down in history in front of fans all over China.
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On May 11, 2003, the 75th Oscars began their official debut.
This year is the second year that the Oscars have officially moved to the "Kodak Theater" built by the Academy of Cinematic Arts.
As the second time the Oscars were held at the Kodak Theater, the organizers took great pains, and the invited guests were also very face-saving, with 2,800 well-known movie stars from Hollywood and even the world attending, creating the lowest absentee rate in the history, and the Walk of Fame opened 30 minutes earlier than in previous years, so the number of entries through the red carpet and into the Sylangor Theater is also the largest in the history. Hundreds of celebrities, movie stars, and singers are all showcasing and competing for beauty, which can be called the world's largest fashion show.
Later, according to the authoritative statistics of the "Los Angeles Times", due to the arrival of star actors scattered all over the world to participate in the event at the same time, more than 2,000 sets of dresses were ordered or rented by various stars, and more than 1,300 extended limousine rental services were in short supply.
The red carpet is full of celebrities in suits and leather shoes, smiling and smiling as reporters flock to take pictures, or show off their superstar style under the lens of the camera.
Yi Feiyang was still satisfied, holding the noble and elegant, generous and bright Anne Hathaway, and smiling slightly at the starry camera light, but this time, he couldn't just stay by Hathaway's side.
"Hey, two celebrities, can you please take a look here?" Some reporters shouted and hurriedly took pictures, and Yi Feiyang and Hathaway turned their bodies very cooperatively, so that all fans in the world could see the sweet figures of the two.
Afterwards, let go of Hathaway's hand, Yi Feiyang walked to the members of the crew of "Slumdog Millionaire" and took a photo with them.
"Dear Yi, this is the third time your film has been nominated for an Oscar, don't you want to say something to the people who follow you all over the world?" The reporter of ABC TV, which has been broadcasting the Oscars for four consecutive years, ran over and interviewed Yi Feiyang, the brightest star among the 2,800 stars, with a microphone, and the cameraman with the camera hurriedly aimed the camera at Yi Feiyang's well-defined face.
"Hah! Anyway, I'm very excited...... Yes, I'm very excited, no matter how many times I've been nominated, I feel like it's the first time I've been to a ceremony like this, seeing so many friends and so many admirable and respectable competitors, all I can do now is to calm my excitement and take on a new challenge! After Yi Feiyang said these words, he squeezed his eyes narrowly, giving people a very friendly feeling.
"Haha, I didn't expect our favorite miracle director to be nervous!" The reporter was very excited to catch Yi Feiyang's words and said exaggeratedly.
At this moment, suddenly a crisp voice shouted: "China Yi!" ”
Yi Feiyang looked back, but it was a super beauty. (To be continued......)