The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1305 Just Right
The Grammy effect is spreading across the entire North American continent in full swing.

The Oscar effect, calm and peaceful, nothing disturbed, and everything returns to calm in a blink of an eye.

Logically speaking, the Oscars ceremony came later and just ended, so the discussion heat and topic effect should have prevailed, but the Grammy Awards ceremony was a whole month ago, and the heat has long since disappeared.

However, the reality is not the case.

The news about the special deluxe edition of "Midsummer Midnight" and the digital audio source of "Another Ray of Light" occupied people's attention with an overwhelming momentum, and even competed with them on the day of the Oscars.

Not to mention that after the Oscars, the band occupied the front pages of major media on August 3st. Compared with the undoubted victory of "The Lord of the Rings ", the endless momentum of Anson and the band was the real highlight.

College senior management: It’s frustrating.

The more the academy tried to get rid of Anson's existence and highlight their own status, the more they were involved in Anson's star storm, highlighting their embarrassing situation.

Even though the media did not deliberately create a confrontation of "Anson vs. Academy", the tension in the air of Hollywood was still gradually becoming tense.

No one can ignore Anson's presence, not even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

So, what to do?
The college's top brass felt a lump in their chests.

In fact, these old foxes are more shrewd than each other. They all know that Anson and the college have no grudges against each other, and there is no irreconcilable feud between the two sides. As long as the college hooks its fingers and makes a gesture, Anson will be 100% ecstatic and will come running all the way like a big golden retriever to show goodwill.

Once he joins the game, what will happen to Anson?
Even Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks are the same. They have to play the game according to the game and rules of the academy's public relations, and Anson is naturally no exception.

By then, the college's top management will be able to turn the situation around without any effort and regain the initiative.

Desire is the key. As long as there is desire, it means there is a handle, and as long as there is a handle, it means there is control.

What's more, there is no reason for the academy to reject a topic like Anson.

Back then, Woody Allen repeatedly refused the Academy's invitation, until the year before last, when for the sake of his beloved New York, this nerdy director stepped onto the Oscars stage for the first time in his career. The Academy also opened its arms and warmly welcomed Woody Allen.

As long as there is a topic and a focus, the Oscars will not refuse.

The reason is just as simple: profit.

Award ceremonies require ratings, advertising sponsors, and traffic. After more than ten years of commercial development, the Oscars are no longer that simple.

In other words, the cooperation between Oscar and Anson should be a win-win situation.

However, the Academy refused to -

I can't swallow this breath.

Anson is not Woody Allen.

Although Oscar needs Anson, but...really? Does Anson really have such a level of appeal?
The group of stubborn old pedants in the college are blind. They see the elephant in the room but still stubbornly look for "where the elephant is".

In fact, from another perspective, it can also be understood that the academy needs an excuse and a way out. They can't just lick Anson's stinky feet, right?

This group of white men, with an average age of over 60, firmly refused such embarrassment, preferring to starve to death rather than accept charity. Anyway, there is still a whole year to go before the Oscars next year, so they can wait and see:

Who knows? Maybe this year Anson will have two or three consecutive failures. How fast he rose will be how fast he fell. In the blink of an eye, he may fall to the 18th line and disappear from the sight of Hollywood.

That's just right, the opportunity is right before our eyes, right?
"Warmth within and light within".

If "The Sun Is Shining" is not enough, there is also the highly anticipated "Spider-Man 2" in the summer.

Just as Spider-Man wrote so much glory two years ago, Spider-Man 2 now carries so much expectation and pressure. People are expecting not only a commercial blockbuster with box office success, but also a work that wins big at the box office.

Even if it can't surpass "Spider-Man", at least it shouldn't be too far behind.

The expectations far exceeded imagination.

However, the Academy's top brass thought: It's all right, isn't it? Didn't Anson appear in Spider-Man 2? If Anson is really a superstar, wouldn't it be natural for him to punch Leonardo DiCaprio, kick Johnny Depp, and surpass Tom Cruise and Will Smith in all aspects to achieve another box office success?

"Anson, you can do it, we believe in you!"

What's more, if "Spider-Man 2" cannot surpass the glory of its predecessor, it doesn't matter. After all, not all sequels can create miracles. Not every movie can surpass the box office of the first movie in the series like "Alien 2" and "Terminator 2", right?
Don’t be sad, don’t be depressed, you can always believe in the “warmth within”, right?
Some people may say that "Eternal Love" was written by Charlie Kaufman, and the box office of this eccentric screenwriter's works in his career has never exceeded the 20 million US dollar threshold. It is unrealistic to expect this movie to achieve box office success, right?

College senior: Haha, you talk as if I care.

Indeed, the North American box office of works written by Charlie Kaufman has never exceeded 20 million US dollars, but this time "Eternal Love" is different. Starring two "superstars" Anson Wood and Kate Winslet, shouldn't the final box office results easily write a good record?

Academy executives: Look, we are all civilized people. We must present facts and reason. We will not act unreasonably and expect "Eternal Love" to easily break $300 million in North American box office like "Spider-Man". That is the behavior of barbarians. How could the Academy be so rude?

But at least, fifty or one hundred million US dollars shouldn't be a problem, right?

After all, it was Anson, Superstar Anson! That was just the basic requirement, right?
Has the media forgotten?

Before the release of "The Butterfly Effect", people were generally not optimistic about the movie's box office success. The mainstream view in Hollywood was that Anson needed to continue to accumulate for a while, and the real explosion would have to wait for "Spider-Man 2" and at the earliest "Eternal Love of Dreams" -

Now that “The Light Inside” is here, isn’t it natural that expectations are rising?

For a while, the whole of Hollywood was filled with such a subtle atmosphere——

On the surface, it seems to be flattery, but deep down it is still condescending contempt and provocation. He sets up difficult problems and benchmarks, requiring Anson to complete them continuously, and only then will he give recognition reluctantly.

In fact, a similar atmosphere exists not only among the top academy executives, but also within film companies.

Sony Columbia was the first to be affected, with an attitude of joy and expectation, but the smiles hidden behind the applause and whistles contained a gloating feeling of watching a good show.

Everything came just in time. "The Warm Light Within" appeared at the right time and in the right place, standing under the spotlight and becoming everyone's...

Punching bag.

(End of this chapter)