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Chapter 270 Oscar Begins

Guanshan Province, Yulin City, Hongshixia.

There is a crew here, they have been here for a long time and are still here.

The crew members were all gesticulating on the spot, the only strange thing was the lack of a director.

At this moment, director Wang Jiawei was reporting to the crew's boss in the guesthouse, "Boss Deng, it's not that I don't want to shoot, I just don't have any inspiration! Filming requires inspiration. If the result is not effective, it will be bad for both you and me."

"Give me some more time. Once I get inspiration, I can shoot it quickly."

"Yeah!" Deng Guangrong, who had a slicked-back hair, originally wanted to come over and get angry. After all, Wang Jiawei had been away with the crew for half a year, and in the end, not even half of the filming was completed, but most of the budget had been spent.

If the director doesn't lose his temper, he won't know how to continue.

But after learning about Huang Ze's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the hope in my heart quickly suppressed my anger.

Wang Jiawei used to be Huang Ze's assistant director and also won three major awards, receiving high praise.

The two films Wang Jiawei made before also made huge profits.

Wang Jiawei also shot an oriental martial arts film similar to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Wang Jiawei is roughly equal to Huang Ze.

This equation should be true, right?
Since "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was able to earn tens of millions of dollars at the North American box office, and may even break 100 million, and won so many awards, then even if our "Ashes of Time" is slightly worse than "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", it shouldn't be difficult to get one-fifth of the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", right?

It now seems that "Ashes of Time" is worth looking forward to in the future.

Moreover, he has already invested 30 million Hong Kong dollars and spent 25 million. He has no way to regret it. He might as well trust Wang Jiawei and give it a try.

Create a prosperous and flourishing world!

In order to avoid disturbing Wang Jiawei's creative mood, he could only adopt a strategy of comforting Wang Jiawei, patting Wang Jiawei's knee and saying, "It's okay, Jiawei, just shoot well and don't be disturbed. I absolutely trust you."

"Also, I think the crew doesn't have enough money. I'll give you another 5 million!"

"Don't worry about the rest, just take good pictures, money is not a problem."

"After filming is finished, I will take this film to North America to seek distribution. We will also try to go to the Oscars! Just thinking about it is awesome! Hahahaha"

……

While everyone is setting their sights on Huang Ze and preparing to make it to the Oscars like Huang Ze, Huang Ze is stepping up his public relations efforts.

When others had not yet started to pay attention to the public relations judges, Huang Ze was quite considerate.

I learned everything from Harvey in my previous life.

For example, invite the judges to watch movies and give them gifts. Of course, you can't just give them money, as that is too vulgar and the judges will think you are vulgar.

The key point is that there are more than 6,000 judges at the Oscars. How much money do you have to give to satisfy them? One thousand dollars per person would cost about 10 million.

And can a thousand dollars really make a judge choose you?
So, the gifts Huang Ze gave were all small things, such as the videotape of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and so on.

The main purpose is to give the judges a better impression of your film.

As for the money spent, I don't feel sorry at all.

The more you spend, the more you earn.

If I can win a few more prizes, then they will be full of green dollars!
That little bit of money was earned back in a matter of minutes! After more than a month of busy work, March 3th finally arrived.

The 63rd Academy Awards was held on this day.

Because "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was ostensibly a co-production between Huang Ze's Xinghai Film and Shanghai Film Studio, and it also used the mainland quota for its Oscar submission, it was naturally a major breakthrough for mainland films!
Moreover, now is the time to open up and enter deep waters. This award is of great significance!

It represents an important step for domestic film and television to go global.

CCTV paid for the domestic live broadcast rights and sent a recording team to broadcast the entire Oscars live.

As for the live broadcast channel, the most suitable one is of course the Sixth Princess.

Unfortunately, "Six Princesses" will not be available until 95. Now there are only CCTV-58 from 86, CCTV-87 from , and CCTV- from .

One of them is so exclusive that it would be impossible to take out a few hours to broadcast the Oscars live.

Channel 2 is a financial channel and is not suitable either.

Channel 3 broadcasts music and singing and dancing programs, which is relatively relevant, so he was asked to broadcast it live.

Two directors were specially invited to explain this.

One of them was the veteran director Xie Jin, and the other was Huang Ze’s classmate, Zhang Yimou, who is also very famous in China.

Before the live broadcast began, the two started chatting in the studio in advance, and while chatting, they explained this year's Oscars to the audience.

By the way, let me explain some things that happened during the filming.

"Huang Ze gave me a story that I thought would be interesting to film, but the script wasn't out yet, so I followed him to the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon crew, planning to polish the script at night, so I could help him during the day."

"Originally I wanted to prepare for the new film as soon as I got the script, but after watching him shoot a few clips, I realized something was wrong!"

“This is not a martial arts film in the ordinary sense.”

"It contains criticisms of feudal ethics and explorations of human nature. It's really interesting. I couldn't help myself from reading it. I asked you to let me be your assistant director and help you finish the film."

"Did you think that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would achieve such success?" Xie Jin asked with a smile.

"How can that be possible!" Zhang Yimou shook his head repeatedly.

"I thought this film was interesting, but I didn't expect American audiences to like it so much!"

"The box office has now reached 86 million US dollars. What a concept! It is very likely to be among the top ten in the North American box office charts last year."

"You have to know that this is a film with an original Mandarin soundtrack. Previously, in the North American market, the highest-grossing foreign-language film was only 20 million US dollars. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has raised this record by who knows how many times."

"I think it will be hard for any foreign language film to surpass this record in the North American market in the next ten years."

"What about awards? How many do you think you can win this time?" Xie Jin asked again.

"With eleven nominations, I think we can win at least three or four awards, right? Of course, no one can say how many awards we can win. Our competitors at this year's Oscars are also very strong. But to get so many nominations for a Chinese-language film is already a win in itself." Zhang Yimou also had to consider the worst-case scenario, so he took out an insurance policy first to prevent Huang Ze from being affected by the final result.

He knows very well what the audience likes and dislikes. When you win, they will praise you to the sky, but if you fail, they will also scold you the most harshly.

He has to consider the worst case scenario.

"Hey, look, the crew of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is starting to get out of the courtesy car!" As they chatted, Zhang Yimou and Xie Jin's expressions became a little more serious when they saw Huang Ze's figure begin to appear in the camera.

(End of this chapter)