Chapter 384 Public Relations Launch
It goes without saying that "Infinite World" starts in the world of "Resident Evil".
As a result, Chen Linfeng met Milla Jovovich again and came to make a cameo.
In fact, it is a guest appearance. Strictly speaking, it is almost the same as a special role or a small supporting role.
Bruckheimer invites people, but it costs money.
For these actors, although they don't have many roles, their presence is not low.
As important characters and even protagonists in "Resident Evil", the Russo brothers gave them a lot of scenes.
This is part of the feeling.
There is one more thing I have to mention about the shooting.
The crew invited Yuan Heping's team to serve as action director.
According to the plot, the Zhongzhou team in the biochemical world are basically ordinary people, and Zhang Jie is also pretending.
Therefore, their movements cannot be too neat.
Later, it will slowly improve as the attributes grow.
How to reflect this improvement and let the audience see it depends very much on the level of action guidance.
Of course, special effects are also key.
Chen Linfeng, the screenwriter, and the Russell brothers worked together to specifically differentiate the special effects for different levels of force.
In addition, in terms of expressiveness, it will also be matched with the efforts of the blasting team and the props team.
It is impossible to have a situation where the special effects are blown up for a long time and the surrounding environment remains unchanged.
Moreover, this kind of expressiveness is constantly changing as the level increases.
The further back you go, the more exaggerated the expression will be.
The entire film, if the original setting could be clearly described through special effects and actions.
Like "Lord of the Rings", it gives people the feeling that this is the real world.
Coupled with the blessing of the original fame, the feelings of movie fans involved in the mission world,
Don’t worry about the movie being unpopular.
Starting from November, Chen Linfeng concentrated on filming on the set.
At the same time, because of the loose schedule in Hollywood, he will write something after the show is over.
I haven’t published any books this year, and I’m about to stop updating them.
At least to give book fans some hope, he has promised to release a new book in the first half of next year.
I have considered before how to fill in the holes for "Destiny".
Today, I can finally put pen to paper.
In the second book, Chen Linfeng left some foreshadowings.
The evil in this world possesses evil people all over the world, called the supernatural faction, who want to start a long-term battle with the magician camp.
In this case, the protagonist of the previous film has become a boss and is not suitable to be the protagonist of the third film.
Chen Linfeng reset a protagonist and unfolded the story from his main perspective.
The tone of "Destiny" has long been set. These masters are all tool men, and the heroic spirits who have reappeared in history are the protagonists that readers like to watch.
And when it comes to people’s favorite historical and mythological figures.
None other than Erlang Shen and Monkey King.
Chen Linfeng drew on the content settings of some later online novels that are similar to the myth of Eastern heroes.
The big camp confrontation and protagonist setting in "Apocalypse Forecast" have been stitched together again.
Chen Linfeng's current stitching skills have already been tested by domestic and foreign audiences.
He imagined that this set of stories had been told for at least half a year, and now it was effortless to write them.
Occasionally on weekends, I would play with Liu Qianqian, or sometimes she would come over.
The days were quite fulfilling.
In the middle of the month, Sister Mei reported to Chen Linfeng the latest sales volume of the "Sherlock" novel.
Stimulated by the TV series, sales instantly rose to one million per month, which lasted for three months, before falling back last month.
But it's still much higher than in the past.
Since the TV series only contains the content of the first novel, many people who want to read the follow-up plot after watching the TV series buy the novel.
As fans, they usually buy the whole set, causing the overall sales to skyrocket.
Chen Linfeng is thinking that the third novel can be released along with the second season of the TV series, and readers who can't resist will buy the novel.
Capitalists win big!
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On the 28th of the month, the Golden Horse Awards ceremony will be held on Bay Island.
Chen Linfeng and Liu Qianqian didn't go because they had to film.
However, "Sunset" was filmed by him and Zhang Yimou together, so missing him would not be considered a slight by the Golden Horse Awards organizing committee.
On this night, "Sunset" became the biggest winner.
"Sunset", which had already received 8 nominations before, won 5 awards for Best Film, Director, Actress, Screenplay, and Art.
Chen Linfeng suspected that if he had not already won too many heavyweight awards, he would also have won the best actor.
Li Binbin of "The Wind" and Mr. Lu Zhong of "Sunset" won the Best Actress together.
Zhou Xun still became that miserable person.
The chain reaction of this was that Zhang Jiahui failed to win the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor with Huang Bo like in his previous life.
Domestic media have already spread the news, and everyone knows that directors Chen and Zhang are going to jointly compete for Oscars.
After the Golden Horse Awards, this call and expectation became more intense.
It’s December and awards season has arrived.
In fact, the so-called awards season mainly refers to various awards such as the Oscars and the vane.
Most of these awards are awarded in December and January.
So these two months are generally called awards season.
For this reason, Zhang Yimou rushed to Hollywood specially.
His "Three Guns" has already been filmed. Chen Linfeng has seen the unfinished edited version and can only say that it is not good or bad.
The original work itself is not particularly good, as it is the director's debut after all.
After Zhang Yimou adapted it, the rhythm problem still exists.
It's just that without the duo, it's a little more serious.
The black humor came out, but it was a pity that the key problem - it was not good-looking, could not be solved. All in all, it shouldn't be Lao Zhang's worst series.
With his reputation now even more exaggerated than in his previous life, as long as he doesn't overturn particularly hard, the audience will still have confidence in him.
Lao Zhang, wait for me to crush you head-on.
Zhang Yimou didn't know that the other party had bad thoughts in his mind.
He was enjoying the spring breeze and no longer had a sad face. He was smiling all day long.
Zhang Weiping came with him.
He always has a bad look on his face.
Somehow this time, she even smiled at him from time to time.
Chen Linfeng felt a chill in his back.
In addition, You Benchang and Lu Zhong also arrived. They are the protagonists of this prize competition.
Speaking of which, he is a better winner than Chen Linfeng and Zhang Yimou.
Chen Linfeng is the one who is simply holding him back, he is too young.
At the Cannes Film Festival, I was blocked by Zhang Yimou and won the Palme d'Or.
This time it was quite embarrassing.
After all, he is no longer a nobody.
During this time in Hollywood, when I occasionally attended cocktail parties, there would always be people coming forward to show their courtesy.
Newspapers often compare him with some Hollywood directors.
On December 13, the 35th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards took the lead in holding the awards ceremony.
This is one of the four major Oscar awards.
Because they were very close, Chen Linfeng, Zhang Yimou, You Benchang and others went to participate.
As expected, "The Hurt Locker" came out on top, winning Best Picture and Best Director.
"Sunset" only won the best screenplay. The better thing is that Teacher Lu Zhong won the best actress.
Also, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association will rank a second place winner during the awards process.
Often when "The Hurt Locker" wins awards, "Sunset" comes in second place, which is somewhat good news.
This shows that other competitors are not very strong.
"The Hurt Locker" is more or less produced by Chen Linfeng's company, so it is good for him to win the award.
Chen Linfeng could only think so.
On the second day of the awards ceremony, the shortlist for the Golden Globe Awards came out.
"Sunset" leads the nomination list with 5 nominations including best drama film, director, actor and actress, and screenplay.
Compared with "The Hurt Locker", "Sunset" has an advantage in nominations for male and female protagonists.
After all, the performance of the two teachers is really good, and the plot of "Sunset" itself also highlights the acting skills of the actors.
In addition, "Avatar" also entered the nomination list.
The film hasn't been released yet, but it's clearly, in some ways, great.
It is impossible for the Golden Globe Awards organizing committee to ignore the truck driver.
In the evening, Liu Qianxi called to congratulate him.
Chen Linfeng was not very happy.
"What's wrong? You're a finalist and a winner. Aren't you happy?"
Chen Linfeng said, "I'm wondering if I should still strive for the Best Director Award."
Liu Qianqian asked strangely, "Why don't you try for it? It's not like we have no chance to win the award. We have already won the Palme d'Or.
You're not telling me that Oscar is not better than the Palme d'Or. ”
"That's it, the key point is that there has never been a best foreign language film that also won the best director award in the past. Breaking through history itself is difficult.
When the time comes to invest in public relations fees, it will be completely wasted. There is indeed hope to win the main actor award. If you invest in this area, the results may be greater. ”
It’s not that he’s a coward, but it’s really difficult to win the Best Foreign Language Film and Director Award. It’s never happened before.
If we win an Oscar winner or best actress, it will be a historic breakthrough.
It's not much worse than the Best Director award that Li An has already won.
"You can't say that, you always have to fight for it." Liu Qianqian refused. In her opinion, Xiaofeng was worthy of any award he won.
Moreover, the quality of "Sunset" is so high. In the past six months, many foreign reporters and media have praised this movie to the sky.
Called one of the best movies of this decade, it is a classic that ended the first decade of the new century.
Liu Qianqian always likes to collect this content, and she can agree with these comments from the media.
"Yes, I'm not sure yet. I've only passed one outpost. Let's take a look first." Chen Linfeng was still a bit greedy when it came to names.
On the 15th, the New York Film Critics Society Awards were announced.
Chen Linfeng didn't go because he was far away and had to film a movie himself, so he asked Zhang Yimou to do it for him.
As a result, there was no one to accept the awards on behalf of others. The awards were almost the same as those in Los Angeles.
Best Picture and Director went to "The Hurt Locker".
Teacher You Benchang won the best actor and best photography.
Not surprisingly, the best foreign language film went to "Sunset".
The limelight is still second only to "The Hurt Locker".
Chen Linfeng had already had a premonition, but he didn't pay much attention.
But the rest of the team was a little unhappy. In their opinion, "The Hurt Locker" was not as good as "Sunset."
Forget about the best picture, at least one director award should be given.
The prizes were given out twice in a row, but I was squeezed both times, and I felt like my luck had been cut off.
In terms of media, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times gave different accounts.
One said that given the quality of "Sunset", it should have been the biggest winner, and "The Hurt Locker" should not be stronger than it.
Another explanation is from the political level. "The Hurt Locker" is a work that praises American military personnel and describes their dedication to duty, loyalty, friendship and unity.
It is of great significance to contemporary society and should have been commended.
This is a bit much. I don’t know if I’m talking about “The Hurt Locker” or if I’m being serious.
(End of chapter)