Chapter 366 The villain still needs the villain to grind
"Let me just say that I can't be angry anymore!"
When the news came that the Oscar nomination list was announced, Li Qian smiled.
How can a director who makes international jokes and has a box office of 1.6 billion become obsolete so easily?
"Isn't it an exclusive interview half a month ago? How come it was only reported the day before yesterday? This reporter is so unprofessional." Tong Liya complained.
Li Qian shook his head, "This is called professionalism!"
"What's the point of being professional?"
"Look, the news was released just the day before yesterday, and Zhang Weiping just responded, but the results of the Oscar nominations came out last night, and there was not a single nomination. Is he embarrassed?"
"But what if I am nominated?"
"Then I'll be out of luck." Li Qian smiled.
This reporter has a very bad conscience. No matter whether he is nominated or not, one party will be in trouble.
However, fortunately, I didn't make a mistake. Hollywood is not very interested in films about topics that they are unfamiliar with and don't care about, and that don't involve their standpoints and three views.
The five films nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film are "A Separation" from Yin Lang, which is about a wife who wants to leave Yin Lang and go to other developed countries for the sake of her children's education.
But the husband has to stay in his own country to take care of his paralyzed father and cannot just leave.
So the wife filed a lawsuit against her husband in court, demanding a divorce, and returned to her parents' home sadly.
The husband's life was in chaos without his wife, so he hired a nanny to take care of his father. However, the nanny not only neglected to take care of his father, but also tied him to the bedside.
In anger, her husband pushed the nanny out of the door. Reitz slipped and slipped down the stairs, causing an accidental miscarriage, and a series of events that followed the lawsuit.
This film is quite strong. Yin Lang's literary films are not bad, they can even be said to be very good. This film already won the Berlin Golden Bear and Silver Bear Best Actor last year. It is very famous.
It seems that the story has no connotation, but in fact it alludes to the current situation of the entire Yinlang society, vividly showing the entanglement between family affection and ethics, morality and law, tradition and modernity.
The Polish movie "Darkness" tells the story of a plumber and a group of Jews who hid in the dark sewer pipes for nine months during the war until the Nazis left.
There is nothing wrong with the nomination of this theme, which is in line with the preferences of the Oscar judges, not to mention the depiction of human nature in the underground world during these nine months.
There is also "Zara Teacher", which has some similarities with "Springtime in the Cowherd Class" and "Dead Poets Society", but it is relatively conservative. The latter two were nominated for Best Film and Best Foreign Language Film respectively.
Another Belgian movie "The Diehard" is a bit weird. The male protagonist is a farm employee who is tempted to help a group of people give growth hormone to the cattle on the farm where he works, and also uses it on himself.
The story behind it is that the male protagonist peeked at the heroine with his friends when he was a child. As a result, he was bullied by the heroine's gangster brother several times. The most serious one was that his penis was smashed with a stone.
After that, the male protagonist was often accompanied by hormones.
The twist of fate is that the heroine is gay, so she is not angry, but feels very guilty towards the hero. When she grows up, she realizes that the hero has become tall, innocent and handsome, and she falls in love with him. Later, she helps him avoid the police at all costs.
Hunt.
Quite a bullshit movie.
To put it more literaryly, it is a tragic song about fate. After innocence passes away, only the cycle of retribution remains. The whirlpool of tragedy swallows up the beauty in people's hearts, and they can only become slaves to fate.
After the nominations came out, Li Qian watched four of them. For Hollywood, the theme was much stronger than "The Thirteen Beauties".
If "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" were replaced by protecting the Jews, there would be a high probability of being nominated.
Li Qian was able to watch a few movies carefully, but most of the audience didn't have much interest in these movies and were busy criticizing Zhang Weiping.
"Haha, I'm laughing so hard. Is this the so-called international style? There are only a few dollars at the North American box office, and there are no Oscar nominations. If you flatter others, they won't want to talk to you."
"I've told you a long time ago that this film has been criticized in North America. It was screened in a few cinemas and was not even available in mainstream theaters, so it was trumpeted."
"You're a multinational force, going international, you're not going to be ignored by Hollywood."
"This slap in the face came just in time. There wasn't even a single nomination. Now Zhang Weiping can't brag."
"Maybe, Zhang Weiping is so thick-skinned, Ni Ni, a new actor, can be praised as an international superstar, what else can he not dare to boast about?"
"Lick the dog properly, lick it until there is nothing left!"
"Go away, don't insult the licking dog!"
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"Snapped!"
In the office, the newly purchased ashtray was damaged again. Like its predecessor, it was pitifully broken into several pieces and lying alone on the ground.
This loud noise made the young female secretary outside tremble in her heart, but she did not dare to go in. She just thought in her heart that she could no longer buy glass or ceramic ashtrays.
Not even crystal ones.
Can marble withstand being dropped?
Or simply metal?
The female secretary started typing on the keyboard.
In the office, Zhang Weiping looked like an angry bull, almost with the word "anger" carved on his forehead.
Last night, the Oscars announced the nomination list, which slapped him in the face.
I tolerated it at that time, and I didn’t pay attention to the noise on the Internet all day today.
However, when I was about to get off work, I reluctantly clicked on Weibo again.
So, Zhang Weiping, who had been holding back his anger for a day, sacrificed an ashtray again.
However, the sacrifice of the ashtray failed to calm Zhang Weiping's anger.
Jingle Bell...
At this time the phone rang.
"Hello."
"...Okay, Director Wang, wait a moment, we'll see you later."
"Snapped!"
The phone once again bore a weight he shouldn't bear.
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Weiping's face was gloomy and almost dripping with water, thinking bitterly.
"The tiger fell down and was bullied by the dog!"
It was Director Wang who had given him a loan from Minsheng Bank. This time, instead of urging him for a loan, he invited him to dinner.
To be precise, he pays the bill and is responsible for a series of activities after the meal.
With a gloomy look on his face, Zhang Weiping called the director of the artist management department and went to find an agency to arrange for a few eighteen-year-old models to deal with it.
At the same time, the publicity and marketing director was called to discuss public relations matters.
There was no direction, so in the end, I decided to just leave the blame to Hollywood.
So, the next day, there were more other voices on the Internet.
"Mainland films have been competing for the Oscars for 20 years to no avail. The Oscars discriminate against mainland films!"
"The Thirteen Beauties" failed to receive a nomination because the Oscars discriminated against mainland films. These remarks gradually became more common.
""The Thirteen Beauties" is definitely a classic. Not being nominated for Best Foreign Language Film is just Hollywood's political correctness. Don't forget that the Japanese are now Mi Lijian's younger brother. Of course they will protect their younger brother!"
"Since the 1990s when Guo Shi's "Ju Dou" has been competing for Oscars for more than 20 years, mainland films have been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film four times, but failed sadly all four times. Now there is a curse circulating within the Oscars:
The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film “Blocks” Mainland Directors!”
"Stop making excuses and talking about conspiracy theories all day long. What about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?"
"Li An is a mainland director? He has long been one of his own and has blossomed in Hollywood!"
"I think banning it is still possible. It was outrageous that "Farewell My Concubine" did not win the Best Foreign Language Film. As a result, the Oscar explanation turned out to be that "Farewell My Concubine" had already won too many awards and did not need an Oscar."
"Proper discrimination, "Farewell My Concubine" was hacked!"
"... Speaking of discrimination, the relationship between Yin Lang and Mi Lijian is even more tense. Isn't there a Yin Lang film nominated for the best foreign language film this time?"
"The character of the priest in "The Thirteen Hairpins" is too empty and not explored enough. If it really takes the priest as the protagonist and digs deeper, I think it will be stable. Don't mention the ban. When the bald eagle and the polar bear have a cold war.
, "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" both won Oscars."
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This move is quick. Although most people don't believe that Oscars ban mainland films, it can be regarded as changing part of the topic.
Zhang Weiping breathed a sigh of relief, but he did not dare to appear in front of the public and the media anymore. He planned to keep a low profile for a while to avoid the limelight and talk about it later.
However, this farce all revolves around "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", but as the director, Zhang Yimou has always remained silent.
"Why!"
At home, Zhang Yimou sighed deeply. His wrinkled face, which already looked older, became more and more gloomy.
Ever since "Hero", Zhang Weiping has been able to pull off some tricks in every movie.
In the past it wasn't too much, he said it was for publicity.
Zhang Yimou himself was not good at publicity and marketing, so he acquiesced.
However, Zhang Weiping later went too far and began to interfere in the film.
In "The City of Gold", it was said that Jay Chou was included for the sake of box office.
"Three Guns" insisted on using Xiao Shen Yang, a master and apprentice who was very popular at the time. As a result, after filming started, in order to balance the style of the film, the original heroine duet actor Wang Xiaohua was replaced with Yan Ni, otherwise it would really be a two-person movie.
"Thirteen Hairpins" changed his script again, adding war scenes, love scenes, and using his actors at will.
Moreover, every time Zhang Weiping hired an actor himself, he would end up having a falling out. On the contrary, he was reluctant and had a good relationship with the actors he didn't want to use.
For ten years, Zhang Yimou has given in again and again. He doesn’t know how these ten years have passed, and he has lost even the bottom line he has always insisted on.
"It's time to end this."
Zhang Yimou sighed inwardly, and felt much more relaxed after making the decision.
I simply stopped thinking about it and dug out the passage about Oscar selection from Li Qian’s previous interview on my computer. I squinted and read it carefully.
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As the saying goes, when some people are sad, others are happy.
"Hahaha......"
Regarding Zhang Weiping's experience, Huang Zhongjun was still happy to see Qi Cheng. He pointed at the news and said with a smile, "It's okay to open your mouth too much. It seems that evil people must be punished by evil people!"
When Zhang Yimou was at the height of his power, the entire film industry, major film and television companies, and major theater chains were all angry with Zhang Weiping.
More than a thousand years ago, Cao Cao coerced the emperor to order the princes. In his early years, Zhang Weiping pretended to be a tiger and acted like a tiger, dominating the industry. Everyone, including Huang Zhongjun and Yu Dong, was sprayed by him.
Now that he finally made a big fall, even if it was because of Li Qian, Huang Zhongjun felt very relieved!