In New York, Warner's CW TV station, in the studio, Li Qian is participating in an interview with the TV station.
It was all arranged, and Li Qian tried his best to talk about the impact of modern media and entertainment industry on people's thinking and freedom.
"Generally speaking, the situation in the movie "The Truman Show" is almost impossible to happen in reality. After all, this kind of reality show is illegal in any country. It is just a reality show.
An extreme of the program is also an extreme of the entertainment industry."
First of all, let’s deny the authenticity of this situation. Li Qian didn’t start by saying how abominable the entertainment industry and the media are now. He had to pay attention to a rhythm when speaking.
Immediately afterwards, the host caught the loophole in Li Qian's words at the right time, "Li, you are saying that it is almost impossible to achieve now. Do you think that one day in the future, a program like "The Truman Show" will appear?
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"It's not impossible."
Li Qian shook his head, "Truman is pitiful. He has lived in a huge lie for thirty years, but who contributed to the birth of this lie? Is it the TV station? Or the government?
It is all the viewers who watch "The Truman Show". Their presence can bring huge profits to "The Truman Show". Not only the program itself, but also the products that appear in it will also gain extremely high attention.
Other actors may also get more work.
Driven by huge profits, the entertainment industry is destined to keep moving forward, and various programs are getting closer and closer to the bottom line. Finally, one day, extreme situations will occur naturally, and it is not a strange thing."
Compared with interviews in China, Li Qian has relatively few bottom lines. If he were in China, he would definitely add that the core of the entertainment industry is the audience. Although the wealth created has nothing to do with the audience, it serves the audience.
This is the core of the entertainment industry, everything depends on the audience.
If the audience didn't watch it, there would be no such program, but this is impossible. It is impossible for no one to watch such a program full of voyeuristic desire.
Just leave the blame to the media and TV stations. The audience is innocent.
"Lee, many of us are concerned about what will happen to Truman after he leaves the studio. Will he become a superstar?"
The host did not directly ask about the topic of freedom, but started from the movie itself.
Li Qian sighed, "Actually, when the audience gained freedom for Truman, they were already controlled by the TV station. When they left the studio, the ratings of the TV show would reach its peak, and it would also bring more viewers.
Topic, this is what the audience does automatically and unknowingly when they are excited.
Truman has accumulated extremely high popularity after thirty years of live broadcasting. Of course he will become a superstar. After he goes out, he will still exist in the public eye. It is difficult for him to escape the control and consumption of him by the TV station.
Even if there was no TV station, people would still talk about it in the streets and alleys. The live broadcast has been smooth and uneventful for so many years. His awakening is undoubtedly the biggest bombshell in "The Truman Show". This bombshell has naturally become the talk of the public.
When people discuss him, they are actually increasing traffic and commercial value to the program, the TV station, the actors in the program, and the products he has endorsed.
It seems that Truman has gained freedom, but in fact he is still controlled by the television station, but this control is invisible, and the same is true for the audience.
This is the saddest thing. People can never escape the control of television and the media. Sometimes without you knowing it, they can subtly change your thinking through various programs and news."
The host nodded repeatedly, expressing deep agreement, "However, compared with Truman, people in reality have long been submerged in the information, entertainment, and culture provided by the media, but they are still immersed in the anesthesia of the media.
A lot of the reality they come into contact with may be manufactured, and the "facts" they hear are sometimes designed facts. People seem to be more willing to accept the changed life, and are controlled by the media without complaint, becoming slaves to the power of the media.
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A host, who is also a media person, criticizes the media on a TV station for turning the audience into slaves of the media. It seems a bit ironic no matter what.
However, the audience in the audience did not feel disobedient at all. As a program that mainly criticizes the current social situation, this seems to be normal.
People begin to think that they are affected by the media every morning starting from reading the morning news or newspapers.
I don’t know whether any of the news above is true or false. I can only read what the media writes.
Then when I go to work and get information online, most of it comes from the media and chats with my colleagues. My colleagues also learn about it from the media.
After get off work, when I get home, it’s the evening news again.
All day long, except for the things around me, everything else is obtained through the media. It is a bit scary to think about it. I have no idea when I have been deceived.
The entire talk show is centered around the control of the people by the media and the entertainment industry. To put it bluntly, the people have become slaves of the media.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s right or not, just stick to it.
After recording the show, Li Qian flew back to Los Angeles.
There are too many people who cannot participate. After all, he is a foreigner. If he preaches on TV every day, it will probably disgust the Mi Lijian people.
Flying back and forth from east to west is also a tiring job.
However, after returning to Los Angeles, Thomas told Li Qian some good news.
"As criticism of the media and entertainment industry has become an important topic today, some judges feel that "The Truman Show" is more worthy of a Best Foreign Language Film statuette, and are willing to vote."
"That's great, the public relations will trouble you." Li Qian said with a smile.
In fact, the main purpose is not to make a lot of box office. The box office has already reached 90 million US dollars, and it will soon exceed 100 million US dollars. It is estimated that it will take up to two days.
The box office has not exceeded 100 million in a single day. After all, several days have passed. As a Chinese film, the box office limit is too great.
However, it is still stable to break the North American box office record of Chinese-language films such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
The box office of more than 100 million US dollars is not the main goal, but the Oscars. The main public relations goal is also the Oscars.
For a highly entertaining movie, there must be a topic that can cover up this shortcoming. Nowadays, criticizing the media and entertainment industry is a good starting point.
Even though Oscar judges are also members of the media, only by criticizing their own industry will they appear more noble and elevate themselves.
After all, it is mainly academic, and most of them are filmmakers from the older generation. The biggest characteristic of the old people is their stubbornness.
Unlike the Golden Globe Award, the Golden Globe Award is an award selected by less than a hundred journalists from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. It is essentially a media award or an audience award for those who understand film and television.
However, at least the current big hit is not only the Odile movie "Love", but "The Truman Show" has also become a big hit for the best foreign language film.
In the following days, Warner's publicity and public relations did not stop. Following the demonstrations in Los Angeles and New York, a small-scale demonstration took place in a large city every two days.
TV stations and media are all criticizing the invisible manipulation of the public by the media today, criticizing the entertainment industry for guiding the audience, leaving the audience without the ability to distinguish themselves.
These reporters, newspapers, hosts, and film critics all come out to criticize the industries they are engaged in.
To be honest, Li Qian's biggest feeling after this period of time is that the media people on Mi Lijian's side are much more professional than those in China.
After all, Mi Lijian's entertainment media industry developed early, and he rarely talks nonsense. Even when he talks nonsense, it is very true.
This is called professionalism, and all kinds of quotations from scriptures are at your fingertips.
Some film critics take as an example the movie "Simone" that Al Pacino once starred in. The movie tells the story of a Hollywood director who got into big trouble because the heroine of the movie suddenly left. In the end, he used a computer to create a
A three-dimensional virtual character appears in the movie instead of the heroine.
Created with computers and perfected in every aspect, the heroine who kills men, women, old and young has become a popular idol in one page, with countless admirers.
People ignore the art of film and pursue a perfect "woman".
There is a plot in the movie where the news of Academy Award nominations overshadowed the news of the war in Zhongdong and the school bombing.
The film critic used this as a basis, saying that in this society, this phenomenon is completely accepted by people, and entertainment is more important than anything else.
Media people working in the media are criticizing the media's control and guidance of the people, and people are thinking about it after watching "The Truman Show". After being bombarded by media people, they are convinced and feel that they are being reduced to the media.
Slave of rights.
Milijian people continue to protest and criticize the media and television stations.
At the same time, "The Truman Show" is also continuing its influence. Suddenly, the business of Milijian's psychological clinic has improved a lot. Many people once suspected that they were Truman, a plaything kept in captivity by others, and that all this was not true.
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Psychiatrists say that more and more people are affected, and there are such patients almost every day.
Psychologists analyzed this and discovered a psychological disease of the heart, which they named "Truman Syndrome."
Day by day, "The Truman Show" has become more and more influential, and its box office has successfully exceeded US$100 million.
On February 20, the Oscar voting ended, and everything was finalized.
On the evening of the 24th, the 85th Academy Awards will also be held at the Dolby Theater.
The Dolby Theater, formerly the Kodak Theater, has long been the venue for the Oscar Awards.
The Kodak Theater previously paid the theater nearly $80 million for naming rights for 20 years.
However, with the decline of film movies, Kodak, which was not operating well, applied for bankruptcy protection, and naturally also applied to the court to terminate the naming contract.
So, starting last year, the Kodak Theater became the Dolby Theater.
There are some Dolby cinemas starting to appear in China, and the main reason is that the sound effects are inferior to other cinemas.
After waiting for so long, it was finally time to announce the results. Li Qian, Deng Chao, and the others also attended the Oscars ceremony in their best attire.
After walking on the red carpet, Li Qian saw Li Yin, who was leading the crew of "Pi".
"Director Li."
"Director Li."
After saying hello with a smile, he entered the venue.
One is competing for Best Picture and Best Director, and the other is competing for Best Foreign Language Film. It should be the only time in the history of the Oscars for two Chinese directors to appear together at the Oscars.
With a "click" sound, a Chinese reporter recorded this moment with excitement on his face.