Hualiu Director

Chapter 297 Entering the Mainstream View of Hollywood

Although Lin Hong didn't have a movie released on New Year's Day in 2018, he took a day off on New Year's Day, and then started busy on the [-]nd.

Because "Hello, Li Huanying" has been confirmed to be released during the Spring Festival, Lin Hong seized all the time to do post-production.

However, Lin Hong's advantage over other directors is that he already knows how to edit, and the targeted shooting allows him to find the most desired shot clips among the effective materials.

Therefore, the average director can go as fast as ten days and a half a month, or as slow as two to three months or even half a year. Lin Hong only took four days to complete the editing work here.

The work of color correction, subtitles, rendering, dubbing and soundtrack was handed over to Zhang Wentong and Zeng Shuming by Lin Hong. Mature.

This is the benefit of having a team. Lin Hong can safely hand over things that he could only do by himself to his teammates, and then he can board the plane with confidence.

After a year, when the plane landed in Los Angeles again, Lin Hong's state of mind was completely different from last year.

"The Truman Show" is Lin Hong's most ambitious film so far. Hua Liu's applications are all international A-category film festivals, and the first one to open is the Beautiful Country Golden Globe Awards in January.

Last year, Lin Hong won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film with "Life Kiss Me Badly", but this year because "The Truman Show" was released in English in North America, it was also released in Los Angeles and other states across the United States. release.

After 1436 days of release in 25 theaters in North America, it was released, earning a box office of 8365 million US dollars.

According to regulations, "The Truman Show" is eligible to apply for the Golden Globes and Oscars. In fact, Hualiu Film and Television did apply for "The Truman Show".

Although the best foreign language film award has been lost, Lin Hong and "The Truman Show" have received more attention this time, because "The Truman Show" has been shortlisted for several drama film awards, among which The most important awards are shortlisted.

Best Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Cheng Daoming was also nominated for Best Actor in a Drama.

This is not to say that Huang Xiaoming's performance this time is worse than Cheng Daoming's. On the contrary, Lin Hong feels that Huang Xiaoming, as the leading actor this time, will definitely not lose to Cheng Daoming in performance.

The reason why Huang Xiaoming was not nominated was that starting from this year, the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars have a new rule, that is, the four awards of Best Actor and Actress and Best Supporting Actor and Actress must be dubbed by himself.

The organizing committee believes that dubbing is also part of the performance, and if the level of dubbing is not good, it cannot be considered a good performance.

In all fairness, this new rule is not aimed at anyone deliberately, and the reasons are completely reasonable.

And if you want to be nominated for the Golden Globe and Oscar for awards other than Best Foreign Language Film, you must release the English version in at least 38 theaters in the beautiful country. This is also a mandatory requirement of the new reform.

"The Truman Show" meets these requirements, but it's a pity that Huang Xiaoming gave his best performance since his debut, but his English level is not as smooth as in "Huaxia Partners", so it's a pity that he missed this nomination up.

Fortunately, other international A-category film festivals do not have such regulations, otherwise Huang Xiaoming would have to learn English while beating tofu.

Another person who encountered the same problem as Huang Xiaoming was Zou Xun from the crew of "Eating and Drinking Men and Women". Her performance was evaluated by Ang Lee as natural, but it is a pity that her English level is not much better than Huang Xiaoming's.

At this time, the advantages of Cheng Daoming's cultural courses are reflected. His father is a college English teacher. Cheng Daoming has been much better at English than his peers since he was a child. Girlfriend, you are fully qualified to dub yourself in English.

At this time, Lin Hong felt lucky for Chen Ru. Although he didn't win Best Actor last year, it was not easy for him to be nominated. If he were to be nominated this year, he wouldn't even be eligible for the nomination.

But even if he failed to get nominated, Lin Hong still invited Huang Xiaoming, Wang Ludan, Liu Fei, Tong Liya and others to come to the beautiful country together, and Hualiu Film and Television paid for all their itineraries.

And these actors are of course happy to be able to come to this much-anticipated TV and film festival. Not only them, but also the team and sponsors behind them also attach great importance to it. They started preparing dresses and jewelry almost as soon as the itinerary was confirmed.

So on the left of Lin Hong are Cheng Daoming and Huang Xiaoming, two handsome mature men in well-fitting suits, and on the right are three oriental beauties with their own characteristics, followed by the young producer Kong Xiao. This combination is considered luxurious in the Chinese entertainment circle. up.

Of course, there is no doubt that the biggest name in this team is not Cheng Daoming, nor Huang Xiaoming, but the director Lin Hong.

He must have received the most attention, because in the predictions of the Golden Globe Awards by the national media before the awards ceremony, there was an award with the most intense competition in history, and that was the Best Screenplay Award.

Among the five nominees for this year's Best Screenplay Award, except for "The Shape of Water" and "Three Billboards", the other three nominated films are all from Lin Hong, namely "The Truman Show" and "Eating and Drinking Man and Woman" and The Silence of the Lambs.

It is no exaggeration to say that these five films were eligible for the best screenplay in any previous year, but they all collided this year, and three of them were written by the same person. How could this not excite the media.

Coupled with the nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, Lin Hong is so sought after like a Hollywood superstar.

"Director Lin Hong, please look here, can you please pose as a frame!"

"Lin, you are amazing, give me a little smile!"

Lin Hong's current popularity can be seen from the crazy shooting of photographers on both sides of the red carpet. Although Lin Hong doesn't like to take pictures, in order to cooperate with other actors, he will take the initiative to stop, so that everyone can be noticed by the camera.

Others, including Cheng Daoming, couldn't help feeling that no matter how good we are, we are only in the Chinese-speaking circle, while Lin Hong has already entered the mainstream Hollywood vision at a young age.

It's just a pity that Song Xiaohan refused to walk the red carpet together. As Lin Hong's female companion, she should have accompanied Lin Hong on the red carpet and at the awards dinner in the evening.

It's just that Song Xiaohan felt that walking the red carpet was the glory of the crew, and she didn't want to appear on the red carpet abruptly.

But she had to attend the awards dinner because she wanted to witness the glory of Lin Hong, who was her man.

This year's Golden Globe Awards has really changed a lot. Apart from the changes in the selection rules for many awards, Lin Hong did not expect that even the dinner party has changed.

Since this year, the Golden Globe dinners have all been changed to vegetarian food in response to environmental protection.

In fact, Lin Hong is quite speechless about this point of reform. Your environmental protection is only a meal away?And looking at the fat man on the beautiful Guoman Street, how many people will really respond to your call?

Fiddled with the fruit salad on the plate, Lin Hong was really not interested at all, and Kong Xiao even complained directly.

"Don't talk about last year's foie gras and snails, let's have a vinegary sausage this year, don't be stingy!"

Everyone in the crew at the same table was amused by him and laughed, you want to be jealous in the beautiful country?No, no, it is impossible to have this dish in domestic film festivals.

Lin Hong's laughter immediately attracted the attention of many celebrity guests and crew.

Different from sitting at the back table last year, this year because of the most important nominations for "The Truman Show", it can be regarded as the big hit movie tonight, so they sat directly in the first row under the stage, although Not the tables in the middle, but this has already made countless people almost drool with envy.

Hearing the laughter, an unshaven white old man looking at Lin Hong raised his glass to salute Lin Hong, and Lin Hong also raised his glass to thank him.

The action of the two toasting each other across a few tables was quickly photographed, and the organizer even thought that this photo would definitely be able to issue a sympathetic press release.

"Who is that person?"

Huang Xiaoming was very curious. When he saw the other party, he also hugged him, but he was not the Hollywood superstar or big boss in his impression.

"Jonathan Demme, a master who is good at filming thrillers, he filmed "The Silence of the Lambs" written by Lin Hong, and today's best film, best director, and best actor and actress are all on their table nominate."

Kong Xiao knew about Jonathan Demme, not only because he was a direct competitor to accept the award on stage tonight, but also because he knew Lin Hong's future plans, so he had been paying attention to the Hollywood scene for a long time. In the surrounding situation, many people and things have already been arranged in advance.

"Wow, look over there, it's Spielberg!"

Wang Ludan was a little excited. Spielberg was her idol. He didn't come to walk the red carpet today. Wang Ludan thought he wasn't coming, but she didn't expect to show up now.

"Tonight's "Washington Post" only has two nominations for Best Director and Best Actress, but you can see that he is still sitting in the middle of the first row. This status in the world, tsk tsk..."

This is also impossible, just like a domestic film festival, if Zhang Guoshi is present, the organizer will arrange him in an inconspicuous seat?

While this table was tasting the red wine of the Australian wine sponsor, tonight's awards dinner officially began.

Tonight's audio-visual feast was opened by a short film connecting many shortlisted films this year. The two hosts were Andy Samberg and Korean actor Sandra Oh.

The two hosts jokingly told each other some jokes about the movie, and the audience in the audience laughed out loud, while Lin Hong and the others could understand some of the jokes, while others really didn't know what was so funny.

However, Lin Hong noticed that Andy Samberg obviously kept his jokes, otherwise how could he be overwhelmed by Sandra Wu with his eloquence, let alone he didn't even tell a joke about women, even in the movie When it comes to roles, I always pick male characters to make fun of.

It seems that female boxing in this time and space is about to become popular. In the next ten years, female boxing will continue to grow and develop, eventually forming a wave.

Hehe, doesn't that mean that those super heroines and Alice will have extra buffs added.

The first award tonight is Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series, and Laura Dern won the award for her outstanding performance in "Big Little Lies".

It's just that even he, the coffee guy, just said thank you to the Golden Globe Organizing Committee and his family after accepting the award on stage, and hurriedly stepped down.

"The Golden Globe Awards are similar to the Shanghai Film Festival, because there are too many awards to be awarded, and the dinner time is short. Except for the winners of the last few awards, there is no time for other small awards to speak at all."

Kong Xiao was a little apprehensive. Tonight, "The Truman Show" has a chance to win the best picture. Although it is very, very difficult, it is a chance to be nominated.

He knew that Princess Six would be live broadcasting the whole process tonight. If he could be on stage, shouldn't he thank his girlfriend Cheng Xi?

"Don't worry, the people of Paramount have spent their money this time, and there are still opportunities."

When Lin Hong comforted Kong Xiao, he was actually comforting himself. The Golden Globe Award has always been regarded as the wind vane of the Oscars. The nominations that were shortlisted this time were also nominated for the Oscars. There will be some gains.

Lin Hong is not Zhang Guoshi, he has no obsession with Oscar, and he doesn't want to kneel and lick it, but when all the people in the industry regard it as a ruler, Lin Hong feels that he still needs to use this ruler.

"Best Series Musical/Comedy - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Season [-])!"

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"The winner of Best Actress in a Television Series is - Nicole Kidman, congratulations!"

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"Andy, you are an actor, screenwriter and director who are very successful in TV and movies. I want to ask what is the first step to the success of a perfect movie?"

Sandra Wu asked seriously, but Andy Samberg thought about it carefully and said, "Investment!"

The audience burst into laughter, but I have to say that Andy's answer is not wrong. If there are no investors in Hollywood who are willing to pay, the movie can only expect a miracle if it wants to be released.

"Damn it, can't you just say it's the script, and then I can just mention the awards we're about to hand out?"

Sandra Oh feigns anger, and Andy realizes his mistake right away.

"Oh, I'm sorry, just now I saw that Daniel's pants seemed to be unzipped, so I was distracted, please ask again!"

The audience applauded wildly and laughed, and Daniel Day Lewis, who was named, immediately stood up to prove that his pants zipper was fine, and it must be Andy talking nonsense.

As the nominee for best actor in a drama movie tonight, Daniel's popularity is very high. Everyone expressed their support for him with applause. Just looking at his crotch, well, the zipper is fine.

Then it must be Andy talking nonsense, who knows if he just peeked at that beautiful woman's deep v.

As for Sandra Wu on stage, forget it, this Korean is really ugly.

"Okay, I'll ask you again. A perfect…"

"The script, it must be the script!"

Andy rushed to answer without waiting for Sandra Wu to ask another question, which made Sandra Wu look helpless, as if to say, please, can you stop being so fake, we are professional actors.

There was nothing strange about the interaction between the two hosts this time. Lin Hong and the others heard it too, and each of them laughed and applauded, and the tension in their hearts seemed to have eased a little.

The award for the best screenplay was the legendary Hollywood star George Clooney, a handsome guy who is always gentle and personable, and also the benchmark figure of Hollywood actors in Lin Hong's mind.

"The 75th Golden Globe Awards nominated for best screenplay in drama category: Lin Hong -- "The Truman Show"."

There was a lot of applause from the audience. Most of the people present have seen this movie. Although they left the theater depressed and hopeless, they have to say that this is really a masterpiece.

"Martin MacDonald - Three Billboards!"

The applause from the audience was even more intense. Although this movie is also very good, it has to be said that it is the one with the lowest probability of winning tonight.The reason for such loud applause was entirely due to Martin McDonald's popularity.

"Lin Hong-"Diet Man and Woman"!"

The applause was also very strong. Ang Lee's good temper in Hollywood won him a lot of goodwill, and of course Ai Wu and Wu also liked "Eating and Drinking Men and Women".

At Li An's table in the distance, He Lei and Zou Xun all applauded in Lin Hong's direction. They were really surprised that this young man had grown to such a level.

"Guilmore Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor Co-Written - The Shape of Water!"

The applause was louder this time than the previous ones. Although "The Shape of Water" has a bit of a heavy taste, Hollywood likes this tone.But if you really want to say how good the script of this film is, that's not necessarily the case. It is nothing more than eating the trend of zz correctness that is emerging in Hollywood, that is, minority correctness.

It's clear that trans is more of a minority than trans, and rightly so.

However, this does not mean that it must win the award, because the wind has just blown up, and it has not yet reached the point of letting her (he/it) pick the fruit regardless of the facts.

"Lin Hong - "The Silence of the Lambs"!"

"Wow", the applause that erupted from the audience was not smaller than when Nicole Kidman came on stage just now. Although "The Silence of the Lambs" was not released in China, this film caused a great sensation in North America. A ruthless character who can stand up to any movie, Hannibal's terrifying image is enough to make the silly catfish in "The Shape of Water" tremble.

When George Clooney opened the envelope, the special guest Guan Hu who was far away in the six princess studios in Beijing was also very excited.

"I think "The Silence of the Lambs" has the greatest chance. Although several other scripts are excellent, especially "The Truman Show", the beautiful Chinese people don't like "The Silence of the Lambs" which is full of blood. There's little resistance to a human story, and it's based on true events, which is also helpful for the Best Screenplay award."

Guo Wei beside Guanhu was also very nervous. Although she couldn't be by Lin Hong's side like Song Xiaohan, she still hoped that Lin Hong could come to the stage to receive the award. Anyway, as long as he succeeds, Guo Wei will be very happy.

But Lin Hong, who was on the scene, was not nervous anymore. Three of the five were nominated by him, and all of them could be awarded the award, which only shows that he was targeted.

However, if Lin Hong himself is not nervous, it does not mean that the people around him are not nervous. The other people sitting at the same table looked at George Clooney on the stage. Song Xiaohan was even more nervous and grabbed Lin Hong's hand. She caressed and comforted her catkins.

"The winner is Lin Hong - "The Silence of the Lambs"! Kang Guleite Lei Xuan!"

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