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Chapter 943 Because he is worth it
Zhang Yang, Nolan and others saw that Quentin brought a beautiful woman with him. As expected, she should be Daniela Peake, but he brought his girlfriend to the movie viewing party. Quentin, you are really depraved.

"Our movie 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' is currently being filmed in Hollywood. He came here specially today to attend the screening. Daniela is also an actor in this movie." When Leo saw the expressions of Zhang Yang and others, he hurried to explain for Quentin, even though he might not care.

As they were chatting, Jim came over with a group of people.

Leonardo DiCaprio and others looked at those people from afar with puzzled expressions. If they were not mistaken, these were members of the Academy, and there were also some famous film critics. It must have cost Paramount a lot to invite so many people at once.

It also serves as a reminder that the annual Oscars PR season has begun.

The so-called PR season is from mid-to-late October to December 10st every year. These members of the academic school will often appear in high-end Western restaurants and eat free meals.

Hollywood's public relations people are eager to take charge and explain to the judges in detail every detail and sublimation point in the movie.

After a meal, you may not be able to successfully obtain votes, but you can effectively interfere with the judges' final choice.

It is said that the total public relations expenses for the Oscars are as much as $500 million.
Paramount promised Zhang Yang that it would spend $100 million on publicity and public relations for the movie "Oppenheimer". You can imagine how good the effect was.

When Zhang Yang and his friends met the people from the academy, they all exchanged a few pleasantries as usual. Then the group of people sat down formally.

Today was an internal film screening. There was no process for the actors or creators to speak. The lights in the hall were simply turned off and the movie began playing.

At the beginning of the film, raindrops are hitting the lake, and then Leo's silent face appears. Then the camera turns, and a group of microscopic world explosion scenes appear in front of everyone.

Nolan was excited when he saw this scene, and he watched the screen carefully.

Along with the explosion, there was a sound similar to that of an old train whizzing past.

For a full minute and thirty seconds, the movie had not yet shown any substantial content. Zhang Yang could clearly feel that the entire screening room had become completely silent. They had been immersed in the movie.

The main film begins with the scene of Oppenheimer holding a hearing. There is also a small chapter title on the left side of the screen, Chapter 1 Fission.

When the security hearing ended, the screen switched to Strauss's nomination hearing for Secretary of Commerce, and the chapter title appeared on the right side of the screen: Chapter 2: Fusion.

Moreover, the distinction between the two character angles, shot in color and in black and white, is particularly clear.

Next, the first chapter focuses on Oppenheimer’s early years studying in Europe, mainly talking about the poisoned apple incident.

Who would have thought that Oppenheimer had once poisoned someone, and the person he wanted to kill was a future Nobel Prize winner.

Ordinary audiences would be shocked if they saw this scene, but for these academicians and a group of film critics and famous directors, it did not cause any ripples.

After the poisoned apple incident, there was a gorgeous medley that summarized Oppenheimer's time as a student at the University of Göttingen. In his spare time, he read the famous book "The Waste Land", Picasso's famous painting "Woman with Crossed Arms", and listened to the famous song "The Rite of Spring".

Academic breakthroughs also followed.

Just when a group of people were watching Oppenheimer's youth with great interest, the film suddenly switched to the second chapter from Strauss's perspective, where he and Oppenheimer first met in college, and the famous Einstein also appeared.

That's how misunderstandings arise.

Let’s go back to Chapter 1 again, when Oppenheimer taught at the university, using his fluent Dutch to break down Europeans’ contempt for the United States.

At that time, the United States was not the father of Europe, but a backward player in the eyes of Europeans.

After his teaching term ended, Oppenheimer returned to the United States and taught at Berkeley and California Institute of Technology at the same time. Talent was so popular.

As the plot continues to advance, the theory of mushroom bombs is finally discovered, and the movie also enters the stage of making mushroom bombs.

When watching the movie "Oppenheimer", the making of the mushroom bomb is definitely the scene that everyone looks forward to the most. In the 3-hour movie, the mushroom bomb finally exploded successfully at 1 hour and 58 minutes.

Everyone felt a little strange when seeing this scene. There was no sound of any explosion in the movie, only the breathing of the actors.

Along with the breathing sound came Oppenheimer's narration:
"Now I am the god of death, the destroyer of worlds."

When Zhang Yang heard Oppenheimer talking, he immediately covered his ears.

His action was silent and only Jim, who was sitting next to him, noticed it. Jim didn't think much about it and subconsciously covered his ears.

Suddenly, a deafening explosion was heard from the speakers in the screening room. Even Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and others who had experienced it during the filming wondered why the sound was so loud.
The same sound feels completely different in the wilderness and in a closed environment.

These actors were all shocked, and one can imagine how those old-fashioned academics would react, but after they got over the shock, they felt that this way of handling the situation was quite interesting.

Everyone knows that the speed of light is faster than the speed of sound, but most directors don't take explosions so seriously. This is a bit of a self-serving thing.

After watching this scene, the old antiques looked at Zhang Yang's back in the front with different eyes.

What a dedicated director! This kind of extreme explosive presentation requires courage and extreme control.

No wonder Zhang Yang can win so many awards, his real-life shooting feels much more powerful than Nolan's.

We must give him a fair judging at next year's Oscars, even though he has already won two golden statuettes, because he deserves it!

This bunch of old-timers couldn't help but become sentimental during the movie screening, but they would probably forget most of it after two expensive Western meals.

After the explosion in the movie ended, when the scene of Oppenheimer celebrating came, the people at the scene showed a look of sudden enlightenment.
It turns out that the sound at the beginning of the movie was not the sound of a train, but the sound of a group of people stomping their feet in celebration.

The plot then took a sharp turn for the worse. Oppenheimer was disliked by the American boss because he disagreed with the development of the blue bomb. Under the conspiracy led by Strauss, he faced a hearing.

At this point, both the first and second chapters of the movie have come to an end. In the first chapter, Roger Robb interrogated Oppenheimer in the same way as he interrogated a prisoner. As his questioning became more and more intense, Oppenheimer began to have hallucinations.

Roger Robb asked: "Won't the big Mao try every possible way to increase their strength?"

Oppenheimer responded loudly, somewhat defensively: "If we build it, they will build it too. Our efforts will only encourage their efforts, just like the mushroom bombs before."

Oppenheimer had fallen into a state of logical confusion, or in other words, his moral integrity was broken. It is said that in his later years, he himself admitted that his judgment of the situation was wrong.

At this point, Oppenheimer's security hearing came to an end, and as expected, his security license was revoked. He also disappeared from public view.

In Chapter 2, Strauss's ministerial nomination hearing also ended with his rejection because what he had done to Oppenheimer before had caused too many people to be disgusted. It was like a cycle of cause and effect, and his retribution had come.

Finally, the content of the conversation between Oppenheimer and Einstein by the lake is officially revealed, and the movie ends here.

The film screening was still quiet. After several minutes, the sound of applause suddenly came from the back. It turned out that the old-fashioned people from the academic school were applauding.

The first person to react was Jim. When he saw the group of people from the academic circle applauding first, he felt that "Oppenheimer" would definitely win an Oscar next year.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp and others all smiled brightly, which made it difficult for these old-fashioned people to accept their opinions.

Seeing these people's reactions, Zhang Yang stood up with a smile. He had been sitting there for three hours, and now as soon as he lost focus, he suddenly felt numbness in his body.

His standing up was like a sign, and others also stood up one after another and came to him to say words of blessing.

Bodyguard Xiao Zhao hurried to Zhang Yang's side. The scene would be too chaotic if people gathered together, so he had to follow his boss closely to feel at ease.

"Zhang Yang, it's such a pity that you didn't use film to shoot this movie." After congratulating him, Quentin said to Zhang Yang in a regretful tone.

Nolan also nodded. Among the big directors in the world who are still obsessed with film, Quentin, Nolan and Spielberg are the most famous.

"I never insist on this. I use whatever is appropriate. It may have something to do with the era I live in."

When they heard Zhang Yang's words and looked at his young face,
Hmm, why does your face look a little pale?

What's the reason for the jet lag these days?

Everyone was chatting when Zhang Yang remembered something. He waved to his assistant who was not far away and walked over quickly.

"Take out the USB drive with the extras."

The assistant nodded and took out a USB drive and handed it to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang took it and handed it to Nolan: "Here, I wish you a good sleep after reading it."

Nolan got what he wanted and laughed out loud: "In fact, during this period, my visual effects team was preparing for the shooting of "Tenet".

Otherwise, I will definitely let them study how you took the photo." He still had a bit of stubbornness in his voice.

The people around him nodded, as if they believed what he said.

After a group of people exchanged greetings for a while, the people from the academy left first, and other actors and directors also left one after another. Only Leo, Depp, Matt, Scarlett Johansson and others stayed.

They went to an office of Paramount with Zhang Yang. It was a rare occasion that all the actors in the movie were present, so they wanted to discuss the publicity of "Oppenheimer".

Everyone sat around a round table with Zhang Yang as the center. He then looked at the employees of Paramount.

After receiving Zhang Yang's eye signal, the employee immediately began to explain that their film would release the final trailer on the 15th and the special effects shooting highlights on the 20th.

The previews will begin on the 21st. After the previews begin, they will hold several roadshows and finally hold the premiere on the afternoon of the 25th, the day before the release.

After he finished talking about all this, Zhang Yang added: "I know you are all very busy. Except for Leon and Depp, you just need to attend the premiere." He was very understanding in this regard.

These actors can also see that, apart from the director, the only two people who can win an award for this movie are them.

Matt Damon and the others were not polite either. Even Leo was filming a movie among this group of people. They were really busy.

The next day, the biggest news in the American entertainment industry was, as expected, "Oppenheimer".
Although no media was invited to yesterday's internal film screening, there were nearly a hundred people at Paramount Studios. Who would be blind?

In addition to those big-name film critics, the media reporters are all very familiar with him.

Reporters from major media outlets can get the answers by interviewing them directly.

As a result, a flood of media reports appeared, all of which were film critics' reviews of the film, and they were all positive.

Director Zhang Yang used two hearings to shoot Oppenheimer in a way that was beyond everyone's expectations. ——Variety film critic

Leo is very restrained in the movie, even though the character he plays changes the world.

But just by looking at the hesitation in his words, we can feel the meaning of the achievement of "Oppenheimer", and his performance is almost perfect. - "Collider" film critic

Only a genius who has made "A Beautiful Mind," "Parasite" and "Joker" can make a biopic about Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. -- Film critic of "New York Post"

(End of this chapter)