Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian and the others were far ahead in the two awards of Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay and stood out as No.1 in the first round of voting. (As for the three awards for Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, they are also within the top five. The stunned performance of violent convulsions when encountering alcohol has won unanimous praise from Oscar members! Therefore, Emma ranked second in the best supporting actress competition! It can be said that it is very impressive I hope that Emma will win the best actress! Even if she doesn’t win, just let her enter the final 5 nominations at the Oscars, this is already the best praise and recognition for Emma! After all, she is a 14 year old girl!

Relatively speaking, the results of "The Promise" are not as good. In the first round of voting for the Oscars, such a film ranked seventh, and it was also the best foreign language film they were determined to win. In the selection process!Such a result is not too optimistic!You must know that in the first round of elections, only 7 places were selected by voting!There were seven in the first round, and then the jury added two more, making it nine.Choose 9 out of 5, and then these 5 will become the final Oscar nomination list.At the same time, one of the five must be voted out, and the final result of the selection will be the list of Oscar winners.

So from such a perspective, although "The Promise" passed the first round of voting, it only ranked seventh in the overall first round of voting.This is obviously a very dangerous ranking, and it is easy to be eliminated directly in the second round of selection!After all, in the second round of selection, 9 out of 5 were selected. No matter how they were ranked, this "The Promise" was likely to be ranked around seventh, so wouldn't it be rejected?Seeing such a result, Chen Kaige was a little anxious at that time!He has always felt that the famous directors in mainland China used to be him and Lao Mouzi, but now Jia Hongjian and Ang Lee are the most added.Ang Lee mainly received professional education in the United States, and he also mixed in the United States, so I won't talk about it.Just within the territory of the mainland.He thought it was the remaining three.

For example, Chen Kaige swept the world's film festivals in 93.Even in Cannes, his "Farewell My Concubine" won the best picture!In 94, his films came to America.It was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film!It can be said that before Jia Hongjian showed his talent in film.The best directors in mainland China are Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, two directors who have been nominated for Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and won awards at Cannes or Berlin Film Festival abroad.So Chen Kaige's self-demand is quite high.Although after coming to Hollywood, he was introduced to various aspects by Jia Hongjian, making Chen Kaige seem like a newcomer.But Jia Hongjian was like a senior.But to be honest, Chen Kaige still felt that he wanted to not be too far behind by Jia Hongjian in the Oscars!

If it is said that Jia Hongjian and his films will sweep the Oscars, then Chen Kaige thinks that no matter what his film is, let alone sweeping it, at least he can win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, right?Even if he can't win the best foreign language film, at least he can get a final nomination on par with his previous results, right?The final nomination is to get the top five votes in the second round, and their current film seems to have problems even getting into the top five in the second round!Now it is only ranked seventh!It can be said that such a move immediately made Chen Kaige a little anxious, and immediately made him feel that it would be a bit embarrassing to continue like this!And he felt ashamed, and at the same time, the Weinstein brothers became anxious!

Although they didn't spend too much money to buy the broadcast rights of "The Promise" in North America, Australia, the UK and other places, the problem is when did the two brothers make a loss-making business?Even if it's a European movie bought for $30 million, they must at least be nominated for the best foreign language film!For other more ambitious films, they are low-cost and aimed at winning the best film!Just like the earliest "The English Patient", "Shakespeare in Love" and "Chicago", these are all Oscar-winning films!Even character films like "Kill Bill" belong to them!Can two brothers like them accept that when they started to develop Chinese films, they didn't even get nominated for the best foreign language film?

They obviously can't accept it!Even if there are many competitors in this year's best foreign language film, even if other films are really strong in the market, they can't stand the fact that the film they fancy doesn't even get a nomination for best foreign language film!Don't forget that they promised the Chinese Film Association that there would be at least one best foreign language film!Isn't it too embarrassing that he didn't even get nominated?So at such a time, the Weinstein brothers really have to go all out!They are going to start all kinds of canvassing!After all, if "The Promise" wins the title of Best Foreign Language Film, it will not only win the honor, it will not only allow Weinstein to fulfill their promise with the China Film Association, but it will also allow them to earn a lot of money!

And you have to know that they paid a lot of money for buying the copyright of "The Promise" in such three regions!Originally, it was said that more than 200 million US dollars, that is, 2 million yuan, would be used to buy the copyright, although after playing tricks, it became more than 100 million US dollars.But this is more than 1 million yuan!As a result, it has been released in North America until now, and the box office is only 40. It is estimated that if it does not win any awards, the final box office will be more than 50!Such a fart at the box office?In the end, it is not bad to be able to return 30 yuan, and then lose 100 million yuan!Plus Australia and the United Kingdom... Can these two places compare with the United States at the box office?So in the end, it is definitely a loss for such a film!

They can take this?And it was with Jia Hongjian's help that they reached such a new high loss?In the end, when they originally wanted to disgust Jia Hongjian and snatch Jia Hongjian's movie agency rights from his hometown, they not only failed to make money, but also lost a lot?Don't be ashamed!Don't let this be a joke?Don't let Jia Hongjian die laughing at this?With such a series of thoughts, the Weinstein brothers are really fighting hard at this time!They began to mobilize all their strengths. On the one hand, they continued to write soft articles, and on the other hand, they really tried every means to solicit votes!They even learned from what Jia Hongjian and the others did in previous years. They went to places where members spend a lot of time on vacation, played movies for them, and proactively canvassed votes.What else is there to call various Oscar members one by one and talk to them about life and ideals!

Yes, Oscar is a relatively fair place, but this fairness is only for outsiders to see, it's just a gimmick!As long as you really dare to make a deal, is there still a ticket you can't get?Don't forget that as long as there are people, there are rivers and lakes, even in the United States!As for the Weinstein brothers, they just refused to ask Jia Hongjian for help. Even when Jia Hongjian offered to help, they refused!According to them, now this is a battle of honor, this is the time to fight for face, let Jia Hongjian help, and they will never even think about raising their heads in front of Jia Hongjian in the future!At that time, when others see the Weinstein brothers, the first film sent to the Oscars for the first time after they went solo, passed the first round of voting, and later won the award with the help of Jia Hongjian...the Weinstein brothers Are the two still mixed up?

Holding back their breath, besides soliciting votes for their films, the two brothers would of course also have various tricks out of the box—such as slandering their competitors' films!That's right, who said that if a movie wants to win an award, it must be of a particularly good quality?In addition to being a better world than anyone else, this world is also a worse world!Yes, the quality of "The Promise" may not be as high as that of several other competitors, but who said that a movie with high quality will definitely win an award?If the reputation of so many competitors' films is stigmatized, won't "The Promise" win the award in the end?As soon as they thought of this, the Weinstein brothers immediately started to act.The first thing they aimed at was the film that ranked first in the first round of voting results-"Deep Sea Eternal Sleep".

A film like "Sleep in the Deep Sea" was selected by Spain, and it was adapted from real people and real events—a film about the struggle for the right to euthanasia!In short, it means that a 26-year-old young man died in an accident when he was diving at the beach. As a result, his cervical spine was broken and he was paraplegic at a high position.Then he didn't want to live anymore, so he applied for someone to end his life, because he was not married yet, and he had to rely on his sister-in-law, brother, and parents to take care of him. He felt that life was meaningless.Of course, the Spanish government will not allow him to die because there are many other influences behind it—for example, will murder be labeled as euthanasia?As a result, in order to be able to die, he fought for 30 years, but in the end he failed to win.However, he managed to win over a young girl who was willing to help him on his last journey, and it was this young girl who poisoned him to death in the end.Then the Spanish police were unwilling and arrested the girl.As a result, more than 3000 residents of the town turned themselves in, saying that they helped the girl kill the boy who had been paralyzed for 30 years.

Originally, it seemed that this film was quite humanistic, right?Logically speaking, people should be qualified to end their own lives, right?Why is the government not allowing it?So such a film in such an era is definitely thought-shocking!So such a film has been ranked far ahead in the previous votes!As for the Weinstein Brothers, they want to start with such a top-ranked film!He just wants to make such a film so that it won't win an award! (To be continued..)