Chapter 415 The first Oscar nomination in ten years!
"The box office of "The Truman Show" exceeded 1.7 billion, and Li Qian once again set a new box office record in mainland film history!"
"Two exceeded 1.6 billion, and two movies had a box office of 3.4 billion. Li Qian created a legendary record that no one can match in Chinese films!"
"Li Qian is the only one in the billion-dollar club, but "The Truman Show" is already hitting the box office of 2 billion!"
"The only one who can break Li Qian's record is himself!"
"An incredible movie with incredible box office results, "The Truman Show" single-handedly boosted the sluggish Lunar New Year market!"
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With a box office record of more than 1.7 billion, even with the 1.6 billion "I'm Not the God of Medicine" leading the way, it is still a sensation in the domestic film market.
There were no new films released during the New Year's Day holiday. The only one that exceeded 100 million on the first day was the animated film "Legend of the Golden Cudgel."
It’s the golden cudgel in Sun Wukong’s hand. It tells the story of a plot in which the four masters and apprentices were resting in a ruined temple. The honest man Sha Monk was keeping vigil at night. As a result, he died suddenly after working hard for days.
Sun Wukong went to ask for the elixir to revive his soul, but after he got the elixir, Tang Seng, who was proficient in medical skills, couldn't help but show off his skills and used cardiopulmonary resuscitation to bring Sha Seng's soul back.
The elixir retrieved by Sun Wukong accidentally spilled on the golden cudgel. As a result, the golden cudgel turned into a woman.
The news that Sun Wukong had lost his golden cudgel spread like wildfire. The Bull Demon King immediately summoned monsters from all walks of life to form a subcommittee to denounce Journey to the West for Buddhist scriptures. The girl turned into a golden cudgel also wanted to kill Tang Monk under the instigation of the traitor.
It's a story that everyone can't help but complain about after watching it, but the attention is too low, with only 1.5 million box office on the first day, and animated movies are mostly watched by children, so no one complains about it.
Of course, no media bothered Teacher Liu to ask his opinion.
The topic of movies is still focused on "The Truman Show". Due to Oscar publicity, CDs and small gifts were sent to thousands of judges last week.
This directly led to the emergence of high-definition piracy on the Internet.
It's something that cannot be avoided, unless there is no public relations, in which case, just don't sign up.
However, the box office is still relatively stable. Many people go to the movies not just for the sake of watching movies, but also as an entertainment activity.
Whether it's a date or something, I was going to watch a movie. There were no other movies to watch at this time. "The Truman Show" has received a great reputation and response. I will definitely not regret watching it, so that part itself is important.
Audiences who go to the cinema will still go.
It’s not that there is no impact at all. If it weren’t for the New Year’s Day holiday, this week’s decline would not be so good.
The movie has been released for almost a month, and high-definition pirated copies are available all over the Internet. Li Qian also finished his road show and returned to the capital.
I first came to the company to see if there was anything I needed to deal with.
The few movies we have invested in are either in preparation or have already started filming, and the announcement of "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" is also in preparation.
In addition, it is the expansion of the company.
"Recently I have contacted Zheng Xiaolong, Zhang Guoli, and Liu Zhenyun. Zheng Xiaolong has the intention to cooperate. Zhang Guoli and Liu Zhenyun have not responded, but they have children and are developing in the film industry. I guess the problem is not big." Du
Foreign way.
"Forget it, this group of people, don't force it." Li Qian shook his head. The circle of these people is also commonly known as the Beijing circle.
People like Wang Wei, Ye Jing, Ye Ying, Liang Jia, Ying Jia, Song Xuanxuan, Ge You, Fan Wei, etc., before Li Qian entered the industry, these people basically controlled all the network resources in the mainland film and television industry.
The characteristic of this circle is that it does not accept others and excludes dissidents.
Of course, it's not necessarily true. Back then, Zhao Wei, who was at the height of his popularity, was accepted into the film "Heroes of Heaven and Earth".
Li Qian has never been in contact with this circle, but he doesn't have much favorable impressions either.
Du Yang explained, "They still have a wide range of connections in the entire literary and art circle, especially in the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, which is what we lack."
"Literary Federation?"
Li Qian smiled, "Today, when the market is fully commercialized, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles cannot rest on its laurels. At last year's Hundred Flowers Awards, Vice Chairman Kang contacted me to ensure that I would bring people to the event. The film and television industry is no longer the literary and art circle it once was.
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Vice Chairman Kang took the initiative to find Li Qian?
Du Yang was a little surprised, she didn't know this.
The Federation of Literary and Art Circles is not an inconspicuous organization, and its impact on the film and television industry is not much worse than that of Optoelectronics.
The top leaders of the previous Federation of Literary and Art Circles are much higher than the top leaders of Optoelectronics.
The current head of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles was the head of optoelectronics 19 years ago, and is now a deputy national leader.
The vice chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles took the initiative to find Li Qian. This is a good signal. At the very least, it means that the relationship with the Federation of Literary and Art Circles is established, and there will be a lot of room for maneuver in the future Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, and Golden Eagle Awards in the field of TV dramas.
If this is the case, then except for Zheng Xiaolong, the others are insignificant.
"By the way, I got together with my friends before and met Song Xunxuan. She seems to be praising her son and has filmed three movies with her in a row." Du Yang said and explained, "In the future, we will become bigger.
I must have a lot of contacts with the business community. Having a relationship like her will make many things easier."
Song Jue, she was the princess of Beijing back then.
This princess from the Beijing Circle is not a vase in name only like Xu Qing, she is a real princess with stars holding the moon in her arms.
However, it had nothing to do with Li Qian and he still shook his head, "Didn't his brother just resign from the Federation of Industry and Commerce? And whether it is the film and television industry or the business world, these things are secondary. As long as the company maintains its current development momentum, any
Resources and capital will come to us on our own initiative."
Du Yang thought the same thing. He had already received offers from many investors. Those people who couldn't contact Li Qian all came to her.
At that moment, he also reported the matter to Li Qian.
"Let's just deal with it. We won't talk about financing until the Spring Festival movie "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" is released. If there's nothing else, I'll leave first. There's an event at Communication University in the afternoon."
It's okay. Li Qian didn't stay in the company any longer, got up and left. As long as his movie can be a hit, then everything else won't matter.
Seeing Li Qian leave the company less than an hour after coming to the company, Du Yang was also a little helpless. As he said at the beginning, he was completely indifferent to the company.
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After returning to the capital, I couldn't stay idle. The planned activities were to meet and chat with the students at Communication University and Beijing Normal University, and then I would go to Beijing Satellite TV and the Movie Channel, and there would also be a media interview.
This is not the first time. Li Qian has been to Peking University and given speeches. He is very familiar with any event.
To a certain extent, college students are relatively simple. They can chat casually and talk about some big principles that they don't know whether to believe or not, and then it's over.
This Communication University activity, that is, a chat, was originally a speech, and Li Qian was too lazy to prepare a manuscript.
The chat was about movies, and most of them were things that we had talked about many times during previous road shows.
But people, you never know what is going on in everyone’s head, there will always be something new.
A communication psychology student asked Li Qian a question that he had not answered so far.
"Hello Director Li, there is a scene in "The Truman Show" that I have never understood. It is after Truman and his wife fled Taoyuan Island in a car and were finally sent back by the police.
Even though she knew Truman was suspicious, his wife continued to sell coffee to the public. As a professional actor who has been acting in this show for more than ten years, didn't she know that this move would cause
Will it arouse Truman's suspicion even more?"
As soon as the question came up, the students in the audience also agreed. If we want to talk about the most touching plot in the movie, then Wang Ou's performance in this section can definitely be counted as one.
No one had asked about this before, but Li Qian also opened his mouth and said, "This classmate is studying communication psychology, so I think he should have a certain understanding of the audience's mind, so I will talk about it from this aspect.
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This scene can be regarded as a climax. Adding a blunt advertisement will make the overall plot further appear scary and absurd. At the same time, from the perspective of advertising, the audience in front of the TV is most focused at this time, so the advertising effect is implanted at this time.
Well, as a professional advertising salesman, Truman’s choice of wife doesn’t have much problem.”
After saying this, the students in the audience were suddenly stunned.
"Not to mention, the scariest scene in The Truman Wife is there. I used to think that Wang Ou was pretty and feminine, just a bit green tea. But this scene just scared me and I shuddered.
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"The people around me suddenly read out the advertising slogan stiffly at a certain place. It's really scary when I think about it. It's so scary when I watch it, let alone The Truman."
"I think she must have panicked herself, or maybe she confused Truman?"
"The horror effect of this section is no worse than that of ordinary horror movies. No wonder some people have always said that this is a horror movie."
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However, the girl who communicated psychology was not persuaded by Li Qian's explanation, but continued to ask, "But, as far as the movie is concerned, it is abnormal for this character to behave like this!
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"You can understand it as fooling Truman and making him confused and unable to think independently, or you can interpret it as that she feels danger and fear, hoping to let the outside world intervene through this blunt plot to guide her and save herself.
Or maybe she has been accustomed to stylized acting for so many years, dealing with Truman and advertising every day. She is used to this kind of life, and is at a loss when facing emergencies, so she wants to use advertising to express herself.
Get used to things and calm yourself down."
Li Qian explained it again, and he could understand it in any way. He even guessed whether she was reminding Truman in disguise.
The female classmate suddenly understood and said with a little excitement, "Actually, the role of wife also reflects ordinary people. She is another Truman. She is also trapped in the show crew, playing the role of wife to deal with Chu Man day after day.
Door, then advertise, and repeat these things every day, just like many people in reality, repeat the same things every day.”
When other students were told this, they understood instantly.
I see!
Li Qian is awesome, I never noticed it before.
Say what you like, Li Qian doesn't matter. Zhang Wei was called another Truman by the audience before, and now Truman's wife has become another Truman. Everyone is a Truman.
Then the next student who was called stood up excitedly, "Director Li, I watched "The Truman Show" four times and made a major discovery. The two security guards in the movie are different from other viewers in the movie.
Likewise, they are not the audience of this show, but the audience of the movie "The Truman Show," right, just like each of us."
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This was like a tongue twister, which made Li Qian a little confused.
However, I still kept smiling, acting like I knew everything.
The other students in the audience didn't understand what he was talking about, and they all looked at him strangely.
Li Qian motioned for him to continue.
The student continued, "I observed it carefully. Finally, the two security guards said, are there any other programs? This program does not refer to this show, but to the movie "The Truman Show". At that time,
The movie was playing on TV, and the security guards were exactly the same as the ones we saw in the movie, except that there were two of them missing."
Now Li Qian understood. What he meant was that in the movie, the restaurant, the old couple, and the uncle in the bathtub were all the audience for this show in the movie "The Truman Show", and those two security guards were
People watching movies.
In real life, the audience is watching the security guard watching the movie "The Truman Show."
It’s a bit convoluted, it’s almost like this, other viewers are watching the show, the security guard is watching the movie, but in real life the audience is watching the security guard watching the movie.
Li Qian straightened out his words, while the classmate was still analyzing with excitement.
"There is no scene in the movie that indicates that the two security guards are watching a TV show. Compared with the audience in the restaurant, the audience of the old couple reacted the least, which means that they are not watching this live reality show, but just watching a movie.
, so there wasn’t that much of a reaction.
Moreover, I took screenshots of security scenes from pirated websites and observed a lot. In several scenes, their hairstyles, sitting positions, and background lighting did not change. The surrounding environment was also exactly the same. If it lasted for several days, how many scenes would there be?
If you watch the live broadcast for ten days, there will be no changes at all.
The only possibility is that they watched the two-hour movie "The Truman Show" instead of the reality show "The Truman Show"!"
After saying that, the student looked proud, as if he had discovered something!
The spectators around him were also stunned by what he said, thinking that was what happened.
"Damn it, I didn't realize it had such a profound meaning!"
"So, those two security guards are actually talking about us, the audience?"
"It's horrifying to think about it. The security guard is watching a movie, and we are watching the security guard watching a movie."
"Is there anyone watching us watching the security guard watching a movie?"
"That's really the case, so the two security guards weren't too excited. They just wanted to change other channels after watching the movie, just like us doing other things after watching the movie!"
"Li Qian is awesome, he even included us in the photo!"
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Hearing the shock of the students in the audience, Li Qian's lips twitched when he looked at the proud student.
Haha, after all, he is a young man, so he really can pull off some bullshit.
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Time passed day by day, and Li Qian was running back and forth in Beijing. On January 10th, the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were finally announced.
"The Truman Show" was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film along with four films from Norway, Chile, Canada, and Odili.
Since "Hero", this is the first time in ten years that a mainland film has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film!