Chapter 462 Cake Distribution
Facts have proved that when Su Yun was busy with work, she basically only had these few small candies to quench her lover's thirst, and then she would just give them to her lover who was worried about her, and then she would shake her hand and go back to work without looking back.
If he hadn't known that Su Yun liked to admire beauty but wasn't really interested in women, Zhuang Long might have suspected that she was so eager to run away just to meet a new lover...
After all, the crew of "Birds of Prey" is full of beauties recruited by Su Yun. Zhuang Long feels that he is as good as any of them in terms of quality, but he is obviously inferior in quantity.
And Su Yun has a bad habit of seeking convenience. The more beauties/friends she can visit at one time, the greater the probability that she will subconsciously choose this option.
No wonder many people with ulterior motives have formed an alliance overtly or covertly - especially the three girls from Japan. The three-in-one alliance, plus Su Yun's regular visits to inspect Nintendo's research and development work, has taken up a lot of Su Yun's free time!
Compared to Zhuang Long's resentment, Bo Ji's resentment was no less: "Are you willing to come back?"
Su Yun was chewing a sandwich, instructing the photographer on the next scene and responding vaguely a few times, which at least calmed Brooke's resentment.
Seeing her choking on the sandwich, Brooke sighed and handed her the thermos cup she had prepared: "Time is indeed tight over there, so I'll spare you this time."
She also graduated from Princeton as an honors student, and has more sensitivity in business operations than ordinary actresses. The reason why Su Yun is so active and busy is simply to contribute to the film industry.
Acting is hard, but people working behind the scenes basically have it harder, especially those in Su Yun's position, who have to take care of countless matters, big and small, not to mention having to juggle multiple roles and handle both front- and back-stage work?
It's almost November now, and the Golden Globe Awards dinner is mostly held a few days before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences votes for the major Oscars. So next year's Golden Globe Awards will announce the nominations in December of this year, and then hold the awards dinner in mid-to-late January.
"The Last Emperor" chose this time to be released in North America instead of squeezing into more profitable popular periods such as the Christmas season. Anyone with a little bit of common sense can guess what the film is aiming for.
This battle is Su Yun's second attempt at an international film award after a long time.
Although their current film "Birds of Prey" is also under the name of "novelty" and is attacking the Venice Film Festival, next year's Venice Film Festival will not start until the summer of July or August. In comparison, the Golden Globe Awards in mid-to-late January and the Oscars in late February next year are undoubtedly more urgent and important.
Furthermore, she had heard about the quality of The Last Emperor. Although she was busy filming with the second crew and could not go to the scene to see it in person, based on the recognition and confidence of Su Yun and so many people, she expected that this would definitely be a big production that had been prepared for a long time and aimed at Oscars.
"That's right. The director of this movie, Bernardo Bertolucci, and the producer, Jeremy Thomas, basically mobilized all the resources they could to make it a success. If Zhao and I hadn't stepped in at the right time to increase the investment, they might have really planned to borrow money to finish the filming." Su Yun happily drank the honey water prepared by Brooke while explaining to her as simply and clearly as possible.
In fact, in the beginning, the crew of "The Last Emperor" was reluctant to accept the investment from the Hong Kong company - because this was already a three-party cooperation, and with the addition of China, which is known for its "award-winning slowdown", and Su Yun, whose image and audience in the United States are quite polarized, their chances of winning awards might be reduced to a certain extent.
But the problem is that if they do not accept this part of the new capital injection, the loan amount that these two people will get will be a very scary number both in appearance and in sound.
If this movie bombs at the box office, they will have truly achieved the feat of "dedicating themselves to art"...
Considering this, Bernardo Bertolucci and Jeremy Thomas, two people who have been focused on art most of the time, had to begin to bow to reality.
After all, Su Yun has spent most of her time in this circle, so she wouldn't do anything like an outsider directing the insiders. She can also understand and support some expense reviews that outsiders can't understand... Of course, the most crucial point is that Su Yun's company CAA in the United States is one of the top choices in the industry for major awards such as the Oscars!
With the power of Su Yun and Hong Kong Zhao's, not only can the public relations and promotion expenses be reduced, but some resources can also be allocated to Zhuang Long, the male lead of the movie.
Yes, although Bernardo Bertolucci and Jeremy Thomas initially went for the film award and technical award, there is never too many awards. It is actually more difficult to win an award for Zhuang Long, an oriental face, than for other awards.
But judging from the rewards, it is quite worth it: the film awards and technical awards are their advantages and "privileges", but equally excellent leading actors suffer due to their bloodline and appearance. At the beginning, they all wanted to give up the acting awards...
No matter how hard they try, they can only send Zhuang Long to the nomination stage. Why allocate some PR resources to him? It is better to go all out and impact other more advantageous and "favored" awards - after all, most of these types of awards have an unspoken rule of "dividing the pork", and it is difficult to win the best film or best director if you win the best acting award.
It's not that there aren't exceptionally good movies that can break this unspoken rule, and even they themselves believe that "The Last Emperor," on which they put so much effort, is an excellent movie that breaks the unspoken rule and will go down in film history; but the problem is that they need to make a choice between being adventurous and conservative.
If Su Yun hadn't suddenly intervened, Zhuang Long might have been forced by all of them and himself to give up the competition and just lie down.
But after Su Yun joined the production team so strongly, Bernardo Bertolucci seemed to think that maybe he could just give it a try. Even if he couldn't help Zhuang Long win an unprecedented Oscar, at least with the efforts of them and Su Yun, he should be able to win him a Golden Globe for Movies.
After all, Zhuang Long was almost fooled by himself at first: Zhuang Long was the first candidate for audition at the beginning, but unfortunately as a director, I felt that the perfect leading actor was too easy to get, so I sent him away and continued to interview everywhere for several months. Finally, I resigned myself to my fate and contacted Zhuang Long again... Thanks to Zhuang Long's not minding, Su Yun also generously expressed her understanding and was willing to let him go, which made this the perfect "last emperor" in the director's mind.
With such a previous connection, and Su Yun later finding another way to treat Zhao's capital injection as China's "investment" and proposing to help with public relations and publicity, after exhausting all these roundabout offensive methods, they successfully joined this unprecedented and unlikely to be surpassed joint production.
Facing the ending where this dream ultimately succumbed to reality, Su Yun was quite calm: after all, compared to those directors who tried every possible way to make money just to make movies, Bernardo Bertolucci and Jeremy Thomas were very lucky.
Not to mention that they had a "visionary" sponsor like them to invest in them in times of crisis, just the fact that they were willing to take risks and were able to borrow enough money for filming already made them better than many directors in the industry who have truly "dedicated themselves" to art...
Su Yun is not making this up. She has seen and heard of many cases of how miserable the directors were before they rose to prominence: Kubrick fleecing his family and friends, Spielberg bravely making the "shark eagle movie" and so on are all small matters. There are also those who pick up scraps to make money to make movies in pursuit of their artistic dreams, serve as guinea pigs for pharmaceutical companies to raise funds and trick their "drug friends" into joining their crews, and even reluctantly sell their beloved dogs that have been with them for many years to convenience stores in order to raise enough funds to make movies... Of course, after the brother finally succeeded in his last-ditch effort, he also paid dozens of times the selling price to redeem the dog that sacrificed everything for him.
As for why Su Yun knew the latter so clearly?
Because the brother who fought a last-ditch effort to sell his beloved dog to make a movie, his movie was the classic movie "Rocky" starring Sylvester Stallone, which was knocked out of the 1977 North American box office by her "retirement work" "Failure".
At that time, the box office of "Rocky" seemed to be more than 13 million less than that of "The Fault in Our Stars", but the filming cost of "Rocky" was only one-tenth of that of "The Fault in Our Stars".
Although she couldn't appear in front of the camera due to political reasons, she could still go to award ceremonies and other banquets, and she was still paying attention to the things in the circle. She saw the scene of Sylvester Stallone, who swept the box office and won awards, crying while holding his lost and found dog, Meng Nan. She saw it in the newspaper with her own eyes...
It has never been easy to enter or leave this circle, and for those dreamers who rush in to pursue their dreams, the chance of success is even lower than one in ten thousand.
But no matter what, even if capable dreamers are temporarily suppressed by various factors, time will eventually prove everything - in future generations, whether in the East or the West, there will still be people who speak out about the "discrimination" issue at the 1988 Oscars.
It’s just that in the 1980s and 1990s, many gods were competing for supremacy, and the channels for people to express their opinions were narrow. So when faced with occasional gains and losses, people’s voices were not as grand and loud as imagined.
However, in the years after the country became prosperous and strong and the people were endowed with confidence, those old things that had been intentionally or unintentionally guided the direction and attention once again became the voice and wave of unity when the opportunity came.
Su Yun didn't want to see a future where it was too late and nothing could be done, so when he had the power, he wanted to take a big bite out of the cake that those people were reluctant to share!