Hollywood Lover

Watching Carl go away, Patricia looked at Zhang Dongcheng puzzled and asked, "Smith, what does Mr. Carl mean?"

The meaning is very simple, just to remind Zhang Dongcheng that he may be in trouble. Before The Matrix, no one could have imagined that a plan like the short-term film investment fund could really be implemented smoothly.

So much so that all the companies didn't react, and Dongcheng Pictures rose. Next, Dongcheng Pictures will be suppressed 100%.

It doesn't matter whether he has feud with the eight major film companies, after all, the cake in the film industry is so big, if there is one more person, others will eat less, and no one wants to be the one who eats less.

Then naturally we can only suppress the rising stars. In particular, the development momentum of Dongcheng Films is really frightening. It has only been established for one year, and it has countless copyrights under its name, a TV station, a special effects company, and the Marvel comics it bought not long ago. Who dares to underestimate such a company?

"Nothing." Zhang Dongcheng didn't tell Patricia his guess, but patted her arm and said, "Let's go, Patricia, let's go and congratulate Director Cameron!"

Seeing that the people on Cameron's side gradually dwindled, Zhang Dongcheng took Patricia and walked towards Cameron.

"Hi! Mr. Cameron." Zhang Dongcheng greeted Cameron before he reached Cameron.

Seeing Zhang Dongcheng approaching, Cameron's eyes lit up, and he said, "Oh, it's Smith, hello!"

The two shook hands, and Cameron half-jokingly said, "Smith, you are my opponent tonight!"

This is true. In the competition for the best director, the two are indeed rivals. But Zhang Dongcheng is very clear that there is no suspense for the best director this time.

"Mr. Cameron, you think too highly of me!" Zhang Dongcheng said humbly, "I think you will be a well-deserved protagonist at tonight's Oscars!"

When Cameron heard this, he immediately felt a confidant towards Zhang Dongcheng. He has been immersed in it for so many years, isn't it because of this blockbuster?

James Cameron, the truck driver, can be said to be a born director. He has never received any professional teaching, and has completely relied on self-study from the crew to become the current famous Hollywood director. It is not difficult to guess the hardships and efforts he has put in.

It failed to hit the Oscars several times in a row, especially "True Lies" received three Oscar nominations, and they were all small awards of little weight, and finally ended up empty-handed.

This made Cameron very dissatisfied! It took me so long to create the Titanic. It can be said that he is determined to win this Oscar.

Zhang Dongcheng's flattery completely touched his heart!

"Thank you for your compliment, my friend!" Cameron gave Zhang Dongcheng a big hug. It might as well give him some comfort.

Zhang Dongcheng's five nominations this time all collided with the Titanic. It can be said that the possibility of winning the prize is infinitely close to zero!

"Cameron, Titanic has been released for several months now, and the picture has not been released yet. I wonder when you are going to shoot your new movie?" Zhang Dongcheng asked curiously.

When Cameron heard this, he immediately said: "No! I don't think I will be directing a movie in a few years. This Titanic has cost me too much energy. I think in a short time I will It is impossible to recover!"

Zhang Dongcheng agreed with Cameron's words, being a director is not that simple. That's especially true when you're shooting something as grand as Titanic in general.

Although in outside reports, Cameron has always been portrayed as a paranoid with an eccentric character. He is a begging and domineering "patient" at the shooting location, a tyrant on the set. It can even be described as notorious, compared to Nicolas Cage, the king of bad movies.

But in Zhang Dongcheng's contact with him, Zhang Dongcheng clearly felt Cameron's happy mood at the moment, maybe he already had a premonition that he would become the absolute protagonist and focus of the Oscars tonight with the Titanic!

Recalling the 70th Oscars he had seen, James Cameron held up the statuette, stood in the center of the stage and shouted loudly, I am the king of the world! Even Zhang Dongcheng, the enemy, felt his blood boil.

I can't help but have a word in my heart, hurry up, the director should be like Cameron!

After finishing the communication with Cameron, Zhang Dongcheng continued to hang out with Patricia in the theater. From time to time, I meet actors who come to chat with him and leave their contact information.

Pacific time zone, at 18:00 pm, the 70th Oscars finally officially started!

What is different from the past is that this time the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has hired Jill Cates, a veteran Oscar telecast producer, to be the producer of the 1998 awards ceremony.

An awards ceremony celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Oscars. This live broadcast has caused almost one billion people to watch the 70th Academy Awards ceremony here on television.

As expected, the host was still last year's Billy Crystal.

Jill Cates, who is the producer of the Oscar program, said, ""Billy's performance last year can be described as unparalleled, there is no (other) anyone who can do it like him (excellent)"

Speaking of which, Billy is even more familiar than some of the winners, because he was also the guest of honor for the Golden Globe Awards not long ago!

As soon as Billy Crystal came out, he received thunderous applause. He first appeared on a ship model and jumped off quickly.

"Thank you, good evening everyone, and welcome to the Titanic. We're like this big ship, we're big, we're expensive, and everyone wants us to go fast. We'll do our best tonight!"

Amidst the roar of laughter, Billy Crystal said to the audience below: "Are you ready for the real party?"

Later, Billy sang an extremely funny song. In the lyrics, he unscrupulously teased that Cameron went over budget when shooting the Titanic. The tune is the tune of "Song of Gilligan's Island".

After the song, Billy said: "Glad I'm back. Well, Gloria Stewart is here, she's nominated for Titanic, what a story!"

Gloria Stewart is the old Ruth who first appeared in the Titanic. Gloria Stewart's real name is Gloria Francis Stewart. Born in 1910, American actress.

Her film and television work spans 70 years, and she once starred in "The Invisible Man" in Claude Rain's lover, and participated in two Shirley Temple movies. She announced her retirement in 1946, and made a gorgeous comeback at the age of 87, playing the role of old Ruth in "Titanic", and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress), her works have received widespread attention and had an impact within a certain range.

At 87, she is also the oldest nominee for the award.

The camera gave Gloria Stewart a close-up, beside her, Kate Winslet, the heroine of the Titanic, was sitting.

When the voices in the theater gradually subsided, Billy bowed slightly to Gloria and said, "Nice to meet you!"

Later, Billy began to introduce Gloria's identity to everyone at the venue, "Sixty-five years ago, Stewart starred in "The Invisible Man", and he is still working. Of course, the invisible man is still working, and "As Good as It Gets" is He directed it!"

This stalk only caused sporadic laughter, and everyone didn't respond much. Billy saw this kind of reaction a lot, and started to sing the perfect and ridiculing tune without paying attention. The lyrics are written by myself, and the tune invokes the tune of "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" from "Follow Me".

"As Good as It Gets" directed by James Brooks won seven nominations at this year's Oscars. Second only to "Titanic", "Good Will Hunting" and "L.A. Confidential", it is still ahead of Zhang Dongcheng's "The Matrix".

"What a night!" Billy returned to the stage after giving a hug to Jack Nicholson, the protagonist of "As Good as It Gets", and took a group photo, saying, "What a night, ladies , Gentlemen! The lineup of the best actor is incredible! Famous names and outstanding acting skills. But our Chinese director, Smith Zhang wants to tell you that all of this is fake!"

After a moment of silence in the venue, a roar of laughter broke out.

Indeed, according to the setting of The Matrix, everything in reality is a false image made by a computer, and everything is code.

The camera gave a close-up of Zhang Dongcheng, in the picture was Zhang Dongcheng's wry smile.

"Wow, to be honest, I admire Mr. Smith's whimsy. After watching his The Matrix, I instantly felt that my life was dark!" Billy reached out and stroked his forehead, making a dejected expression. With an expression on his face, he said: "The world is fake. Oh! God... no, even God is fake! I instantly feel that I am desperate for the world! This damn code world is terrible. We will burn all Programmer, abolish all computer tools, save yourself from this situation in the future, I don't want my body to be full of tubes. It looks like a lot of pain."

While talking, Billy strode off the stage, came in front of Zhang Dongcheng, and said, "Mr. Smith, do you know? After watching The Matrix for the sixth time, I made a decision instantly. You Guess what?"

On the camera that has been following Billy, a picture of Zhang Dongcheng appeared. Shaking his head, Zhang Dongcheng replied, "I don't know!"

"I want to kill you, you ruined my life!" Billy bared his teeth and claws, showing a hideous look.

Zhang Dongcheng could only be speechless...

After the joke, Billy said: "I'm very glad that I don't really live in that terrible virtual world. I hope that terrible AI won't really appear in the future!"

Without Mike's Zhang Dongcheng, he could only let Billy make fun of him.

Then Billy once again compiled a libretto about The Matrix. And the most frightening thing is that the libretto he compiled for The Matrix turned out to be an ode to joy! ! Beethoven's Ode to Joy.

Even Zhang Dongcheng didn't expect that this guy could do it to such an extent.

Naturally, Billy couldn't compose and sing all the nominated films. I made fun of several major movies.

Afterwards, Robert Lane took the stage to deliver an opening speech to welcome all the guests to the awards ceremony. The Oscar awards ceremony has finally officially begun.

The first award is the Best Supporting Actress. This award has nothing to do with The Matrix. The final award presenter, Cooper Gooding Jr., presented the award to Miss Kim Basinger of "L.A. Confidential".

Best Supporting Actress is followed by the Statue for Best Costume Design.

Zhang Dongcheng, who was sitting under the stage, was completely playing soy sauce during this period of time. And at this year's Oscars, neither Andy nor Adaman bet with Zhang Dongcheng to see who can guess the winner's mind.

After a period of time, after the guest singing, the best supporting actor and the 2000 best film award winner clips were played, it was finally the turn for the best audio award.

The guest of honor for the best audio is Miss Cameron Diaz, an American film and television actress born on August 30, 1972 in Long Beach, California. In 1993, after twelve auditions, he got the chance to star in the film debut "Ghost in Disguise".

"Oh! Here is the statuette for the best sound system. The candidates must be very nervous now. So who are they?" Billy smiled narrowly to the audience below the stage. "Look at the big screen!"

In the screen, clips of several movies flashed quickly, including The Matrix among them.

"Cameron Diaz is here to reveal the answer for us!" Just as Billy finished speaking, a staff member came up from the backstage carrying a tray with envelopes.

"Smith, do you think The Matrix can win the award?" Patricia asked Zhang Dongcheng in a low voice.

Zhang Dongcheng shook his head and glanced at Hans Zimmer who was sitting not far away. Shaking his head, he said, "I don't know, I'm just a director. If you ask me about other awards, I may have some guesses, but I'm really a layman for this sound effect!"

In Zhang Dongcheng's opinion, the award for best sound effect is not very hopeful for The Matrix. After all, it was something that Hans Zimmer rushed out in a short time. How can it be compared with the Titanic?

really. After Cameron Diaz opened the envelope, he glanced at the name on it and announced, "The winner of the best sound effect is... Titanic!"

Amidst the thunderous applause, Kerry Rydstrom came to the stage to receive the statuette.

"Mr. Hans, it's not your fault, it's because the Titanic is too powerful." Seeing Hans Zimmer's ugly face, Zhang Dongcheng persuaded.

After all, Hans Zimmer is the most famous soundtrack composer in Hollywood. He quickly recovered and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I'm fine. The Titanic is indeed very powerful. These are some of the best soundtracks I've ever seen. One of the movies. Smith, I think the best sound editing might still go to this movie."

"Oh?" Zhang Dongcheng felt a little disappointed. Although he knew it would be like this, whoever has been nominated, who doesn't want to take away the statuette in the end? "It's okay. We can only say that we were too unlucky to collide with the Titanic."

At this moment, there are countless people who have the same thoughts as Zhang Dongcheng at the Oscars ceremony.

After the best sound, it was the turn of the award for the best sound editing. The two awards are right next to each other.

The guest of honor for best sound editing was Mike Myers. Mike Myers' acting career began in the TV series "Saturday Nightlife", and he has participated in the show for six seasons since 1988. He is best known for his roles as Wayne in "Wayne's World" and "Wayne's World 2" in 1992 and 1993, and his major film credits include "Ace Powers" and "Married to an Axeman" , "The Cat in the Hat".

After this slightly fat man stepped onto the stage, the award for the best sound effect was announced soon.

No surprises, just like what Hans Zimmer said just now, The Matrix once again passed the statuette, and still lost to the movie Titanic.

The Oscar awards ceremony has just started, and the Titanic has already won the three statuettes for best costume design, best sound, and best sound editing.

You know, there are only five awards in total now, and the Titanic has won three of them. At the Oscars, this kind of situation has not never happened before, but at this moment everyone knows that the Titanic has only just begun to exert its strength.

Today's Oscars will undoubtedly become a special show for the Titanic, and any film is just a foil for it.

Sure enough, the following awards proved all this.

The awards fell into the hands of the Titanic one by one, making everyone present dumbfounded and speechless.

When the best visual effects will once again fall into the hands of Titanic, three of the five nominations for The Matrix have been killed, leaving only one for best editing and best director.

Best Director Jang Dong-seong never had extravagant expectations from the very beginning. As for the best editing, is there still hope for the award that still hit the disaster of the Titanic?

Zhang Dongcheng kept comforting himself in his heart. At this moment, he felt that his Matrix had run into Shawshank’s Redemption in Forrest Gump. Of course, he was much better than Shawshank’s Redemption, at least he didn’t have so many nominations .

You know, Shawshank's Redemption received seven nominations, but in the end it didn't get any, and the Matrix only had five. Even if you lose it, just lose it, just treat it as winning a little sympathy.

After losing three awards in a row, some people in the Matrix crew were flustered, and perhaps the only one who remained calm was Zhang Dongcheng.

"****! This damn film school! Fucking Oscar, obviously gave us five nominations, but lost three in a row." Adaman tugged on his collar, muttering dissatisfied.

"Smith, don't be sad, maybe the best editing will be ours later!" Patricia comforted softly.

At this moment, everyone can see that it is impossible for Zhang Dongcheng and the best director.

"It doesn't matter!" Zhang Dongcheng smiled very calmly, and said, "Actually, I guessed this result a long time ago. Besides, I'm still young. I don't think there is a director who can compare my age in Hollywood, right? At worst, come back tomorrow!"

In Hollywood, there are naturally directors who are younger than Zhang Dongcheng. But he is the most famous. Even Cameron won his best director in his forties.

Even if Zhang Dongcheng sets his goal at the same age as Cameron, there are still more than 20 years left!

After missing the best visual effect that was thought to be the most certain, Zhang Dongcheng and others sat idle in their chairs, waiting for the next best editing. During this period, Oscar took away several statuettes, which made the atmosphere of the scene completely boil.

James? Cameron did create a record, as if he would shout that sentence on stage later. "I am the king of the world!"

At this moment, he is indeed the center of the world!

Finally, after Alec Baldwin introduced the best picture nominee "LA Confidential", the award for best editing came.

Samuel Jackson, who was in charge of presenting the Best Editing Award, was born in Washington, USA on December 21, 1948. He is an American film and television actor and producer. He is a black man, but also Nicolas Cage's partner.

"The following is the award for the best editing. The six films that won this time are "The Matrix", "Titanic", "Air Force One", "Like Me in the Sun" and "Mr. Cat Shit"!" After explaining the five movies to everyone below, Li said, "Next, we will invite our Mr. Samuel Jackson to reveal the final answer for us!"

After Samuel Jackson took the stage, he calmly picked up the envelope and opened it. While watching, read: "The best edited movie tonight is... The Matrix!"

"Yes!!" Adaman was so excited that he hugged Zhang Dongcheng and said, "Smith, we finally didn't come in vain!"

A sentence is not in vain, how much ups and downs! The Matrix is ​​obviously a very good movie. Even before it was modified by Zhang Dongcheng, it still won four nominations at the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000, and all of them won!

But now, under Zhang Dongcheng's staff, it was a full two years earlier, but in the end they could only get one best editing, and even this consoling award was hard-won, almost missed it!

To apply an old saying, it's not that our side is too incompetent, it's that the enemy is too powerful!

Still the same sentence, hit the Titanic, no movie will have a good result. The Matrix is ​​no exception. Perhaps in terms of ideology and topicality, The Matrix absolutely surpasses the Titanic.

Cameron? One day, I will surpass you! , Zhang Dongcheng set a goal for himself in his heart.