Chapter 75 Oscar Nomination

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the passage formed by hundreds of scarlet bird houses looks like a magnificent fantasy in mythology. Running along, the mottled light and shadows passing through the eyes give people an inexplicable sense of peace and tranquility.

As long as she can perfectly portray "Chiyoko" and complete this trip, her scenes in the movie will be complete.

Thinking of this, the smile on Su Yun's face, which was meant to be a part of the plot, became even brighter. She used a combination of positioning and photography techniques to try her best to present the most perfect interpretation of this scene in the camera.

After confirming that the images captured this time had far exceeded the original plan in his mind, Kurosawa Akira finally decided to accept the project and told the entire crew to prepare to call it a day.

However, even though all the scenes for the movie have been filmed, Su Yun still can't leave immediately: in addition to waiting for the footage shot in the early stages to be developed and edited, she also needs to participate in various post-production stages.

For example, the pupil color of the teenage heroine played by Yamaguchi Momoe and the geisha heroine played by Yoshinaga Sayuri was changed to the same light gray, blue and purple mixture as Su Yun - to those who don't know the truth, this is already a huge project.

Of course, for Su Yun, who has his own system cheating plug-in, this is not a big project, the main problem is that it is cumbersome and troublesome to install it.

The 4004 microprocessor she had obtained before was definitely not up to the workload, so when the filming was about to begin, Su Yun had already negotiated with Kurosawa Akira and Iwasaki Mineko, and spent a high price to customize twenty Intel 8080 chips from Intel.

What's funny is that this future CPU giant, whose core business is currently memory, was quite reluctant to accept this order.

As for why such a big memory manufacturer would turn to developing central processing units, we have to mention the Bus computer company that was once slapped in the face by Su Yun.

Initially, Intel's product sales were not ideal due to two reasons: the market's inherent thinking did not accept new technologies and the product's process level was not high enough and the yield rate was low. As a result, Intel had to rely on investments to support itself, that is, it only managed to get orders from Bus by using connections to survive.

It is not known whether Intel passed the order to Bus through MFC. After the chip was developed, Bus ran into financial problems and had to give up the chip monopoly to waive part of the payment. Then, by chance, Intel sold chips to compensate for the losses.

But Intel still failed to catch this favorable trend and is still stuck in improving the MOS memory production process, unable to get out.

When Su Yun heard that Intel had abandoned the third CPU, the Intel 8080, which was about to usher in the personal computer revolution, and left the Altair 8800 in her hands as a low-spec modified version, she cried out that it was a waste of talent and almost flew over in person to catch those short-sighted executives and give them a good scolding...

After searching for a long time and finally gathering all the materials, Su Yun immersed himself in the task of building computers, using these first-generation personal computers as a cover for the system's cheat codes to fish in troubled waters.

After taking advantage of the situation to catch fish, she can also get some "kickbacks" from these machines, and keep the materials of a few machines for her own use in building machines in the future...that would be great!

When Su Yun was thinking about this happily, Pu Chi Fuzi suddenly opened the door breathlessly: "Mary, they said there is some big news, and asked you to come out quickly!"

Su Yun was dragged out of the hotel lobby by Fumihiko Kamachi in a daze, and immediately discovered that Kurosawa Akira had rarely stopped his busy filming and was sitting in the lobby with most of the crew.

Hearing the footsteps, a group of people looked over in unison with an indescribable complex look.

Su Yun's feet paused, and she was so shocked that she almost spoke in Chinese.

Fortunately, she was in good spirits and stopped where she was, trying to calm herself down. Then she asked in Japanese, "What happened?"

"The nominations for the 46th Academy Awards have come out." Kurosawa Akira replied slowly.

"So?" After hearing this news, Su Yun became much calmer.

"You were nominated for Best Supporting Actress, the youngest among all the nominees!" Zhuang Long added.

Su Yun was calmer now: "Oh."

"Don't you feel anything?" Tomokazu Miura couldn't help but ask the question that everyone in the audience wanted to ask but were too embarrassed to ask.

"I'm quite surprised. I thought they wouldn't give it to me." Su Yun said, waving her hands nonchalantly, "But I guess it will just be a nomination, so I already know the outcome, so there's no need to think about it anymore."

Seeing her nonchalant look, I wonder how many resentful husbands and wives who have been fighting for that Oscar statuette all their lives will be furious...

But Su Yun really didn’t feel that much of a surprise: Artificial Intelligence was such an advanced and popular commercial film that mixed up its artistic core, and many people predicted that she would be able to win an Oscar nomination for her outstanding performance in it - if she were white, it would basically be a done deal.

Unfortunately, the legendary Mary Sue was a yellow-skinned Asian.

Therefore, those predictions have become just a wait-and-see approach rather than support and encouragement.

It was not until the announcement of this year's Oscar nominations that people realized that this year's Oscars had a lot more innovations.

The first is to suspend the awarding of visual effects awards.

As soon as this news came out, the speculation that most people had previously believed that Su Yun would be able to tie with Kubrick and win an award such as the "Best Special Visual Effects Award" was immediately shattered, making the public, who were originally amazed by the special effects scenes of "Artificial Intelligence", quite regretful.

The second one is "The Exorcist", a horror movie that took up a huge amount of box office and became the North American box office champion in 1973. Not only did it become the first horror movie in history to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, but it also received as many as ten Oscar nominations in a row, which is the same as the ten nominations of the popular drama "The Sting".

The third is that there are three child stars in the nominations for Best Supporting Actress: Linda Blair from "The Exorcist" was born on January 22, 1959, and is 15 years old this year; Tatum O'Neal from "Paper Moon" was born on November 5, 1963, and is 10 years old this year; and Mary Sue from "AI Artificial Intelligence" was born on October 1, 1964. Although she is said to be 10 years old, according to the Western algorithm that does not add one year to one's age before his birthday, she was strictly only 9 years old when she was nominated!

There are too many other small innovations to mention one by one, but these three alone have already shocked countless people who have learned about the content of this nomination list.

Although Chinese photographer Wong Chun-chim won the Best Black-and-White Cinematography Award in 1955 for "The Rose Tattoo", to be honest, Wong was a Chinese American when he won the award; and although Su Yun was born in the leased British Hong Kong, she is still Chinese!

So this is the first Chinese to be nominated for an Oscar in an acting award!

For various reasons, even if Su Yun really doesn't have much to say about this nomination, those at home and abroad who have heard the news are already ready to make a move.

For example, Zou Yunhua, the boss of Jiahe, who was far away in Hong Kong, took a plane that night to kidnap people.

However, what he did not expect was that Kurosawa Akira and Iwasaki Mineko had already arranged a vacation for Su Yun: her post-production work on "Memoirs of a Geisha" was completely suspended, hoping that she could devote herself wholeheartedly to the 46th Academy Awards ceremony to be held in April.

After all, just based on this one nomination, Su Yun's value has surpassed that of two other leading actresses from different periods.

If they could produce the youngest Oscar-winning actress, their film "Memoirs of a Geisha" would be truly star-studded.

If their boss Zou Yunhua had not come over in person, they would have planned to help themselves - and even so, Kurosawa Akira, who had won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the Golden Lion and Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Best Film at the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival, gave Zou Yunhua a lot of advice and suggestions based on his past experience.

This "Memoirs of a Geisha" is the work that Kurosawa Akira created after he experienced the brink of death and recovered. With his mentality of striving for perfection, it is natural that he wants to do his best.

Whether it is commercial box office or artistic reviews.

Now that Su Yun has the opportunity to greatly increase the box office and other reviews, won’t they have to try their best to output?

This shows how much an international award of sufficient weight can affect various aspects of a movie, especially the box office.

So much so that many people in the film industry are going crazy about it.

Among a group of crazy people who were excited, Su Yun, the most important core figure, was the calmest: because she knew that even if she spent a lot of money, it would be difficult for her to defeat other nominees and win a little golden man.

Besides, besides the fact that she was calm because she knew the chances of winning were too small, the fundamental reason for her calmness was that the Oscars, which were considered very important in the eyes of outsiders, were nothing to her.

Perhaps those true actors who take the acting career as their lifelong goal would regard the Oscar statuette as a perfect ending to their acting career; but for Su Yun, whose goal is to become a behind-the-scenes chess player in Eastern Hollywood, this is at most a nice side quest in the journey of life, and completing it will only give her some memorable plot CGs and title props.

Just like chicken ribs, it is tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away.

If I want to make it work, I have to spend a huge amount of money to compete with other nominees, and there is a high possibility that I will not win, and in the end, I will get nothing. I will be the one who makes a fool of myself at the Oscars ceremony...

If it doesn't work, you will have to watch helplessly the rare titles such as "the youngest Oscar winner" or "the first Chinese to win an Oscar for acting" slip away.

"Why not?" Zou Yunhua gritted his teeth as he brought Su Yun back to the meeting room of Xiangjiang Jiahe Company. "Although Warner is very likely to promote the young leading actor in "The Exorcist", it's such a rare opportunity. I will never give up if I don't fight for it!"

Since the day he left the Zhao family, his life over the years has been a competition of luck.

Fortunately, from Lu Shaolong to Su Yun, he won the gamble with great risks.

Now that such an opportunity is before him, he will take this chance even if it means exhausting all the company's available liquidity!

With Zou Yunhua's full support, Su Yun sighed and nodded.

"Then, let's fly to the United States right away to make a plan." Since he had agreed to fight, Su Yun naturally entered a fighting state immediately.

"Okay, go home immediately and pack your things and get ready. I'll ask someone to book the tickets." Zou Yunhua also started his preparations very efficiently.

When leaving, Su Yun suddenly saw Zou Yunhua, who was tidying up his desk, accidentally turned to her side and faced a photo display.

The picture above shows two men leaning against each other with bright smiles on their faces. They look like very good friends and brothers.

One of them was Zou Yunhua, who looked much younger than he is now, and the other one...

Was it the man she had met in the Yinshan Hot Spring Town that time, the one who was extremely taciturn, with a gloomy look on his face?