Lin Xin was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor. In addition to the fact that the jury of the Oscar Film Festival recognized his acting skills, it was also closely related to the operation of the entertainment company behind the 556 Agent series.
Although the 556 Agent series of films has achieved great commercial success, it has hardly won any major awards.
Even commercial films have awards to pursue, but if it doesn't meet the taste of the organizing committee, there is nothing they can do.
Now that Lin Xin, who plays the "Girl with a Thousand Faces", has had her acting skills recognized by professionals and audiences alike, she may be able to win a non-technical award for the film.
For a movie, a Best Supporting Actor is a breakthrough award; for the jury, a Best Supporting Actor is just a recognition of the actor, and may not have much to do with the subject matter of the movie itself. Although commercial films are less likely to win awards, they can still be awarded for outstanding supporting roles.
After arduous public relations, the entertainment company that produced the film and Universal Studios, which is behind Lin Xin, finally gave Lin Xin a nomination for Best Supporting Actor. As for whether Lin Xin can win the award, it is still unknown.
This year, a very good art film received multiple nominations, including the Best Supporting Actor. Although professionals believe that the actor's acting skills are not as good as Lin Xin's, if the judges pay more attention to the type of film, then the award should go to that actor.
The other party’s public relations are equally strong, and the final result will not be known until the last minute.
Although Lin Xin was looking forward to the Best Supporting Actor award, which would bring him considerable achievement points, he now had to work hard for the foreign fairy tale that he co-invested with Gu Meng.
The story of this fairy tale is very simple. A child who loved fairy tales when he was young forgot the fairy tales he once loved as he grew older. Until one night, he dreamed that the characters in the fairy tales asked him for help.
He remembered the fairy tale characters he once loved and reached out to them for help. Then he was sucked into a different world belonging to the fairy tale kingdom and began his adventure.
From then on, he lived a life of entering the fairy tale kingdom from dreams at night as a hero and being an ordinary student during the day.
He saved the fairy tale world, and also saved the dreams of children who love fairy tales. During the battle, he met many reliable friends and gained friendship and love.
The characters created by the author are very consistent with the personalities of today's children. The process from childhood to growth makes children feel very involved. The fairy tale world she created is colorful, and if listed separately, they are all wonderful stories that children will love.
The rich imagination, interesting story, and rich character design have made this modern fairy tale a great success since its publication. Gu Meng and Lin Xin put a lot of thought into buying the copyright.
But since it's for money laundering, the waste of money doesn't matter.
This fairy tale movie must be divided into several series. If it is well managed, both the series of movies and the peripheral products will bring considerable profits.
Since it is money laundering, it must make money. A sincere movie must be well considered from the script to the team and investment. The entertainment companies and investors that cooperate with it must also be carefully selected.
Although they were not the directors, they had to build up the crew first. Only after the crew was built up could they be lazy.
But money makes the world go round, so this isn't a difficult thing to do.
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When the crew of this fairy tale was formed, the selection of the Oka Film Festival came to an end.
In the end, the Oscar Film Festival still valued movies more than actors, and it was a pity that Lin Xin missed the Best Supporting Actor award this time.
The media finally has the chance to speak ill of Lin Xin, which is really rare.
Every time I badmouthed Lin Xin in the past, I would get slapped in the face by Lin Xin. It was so satisfying to finally see Lin Xin get slapped in the face.
Watching the media reporting extensively on Lin Xin's failure in the Best Supporting Actor award, I really felt that Lin Xin was doomed.
There are only very few media that give objective and fair evaluations. The fact that Lin Xin was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for a role in a series of purely commercial films, which is the most rejected by the Oscar Film Festival jury, is enough to prove how superb his acting skills are. If he is willing to participate in a film of the type that the Oscar Film Festival jury likes, he will definitely gain something.
"So in the next few years, we should focus on movies that have the potential to win awards," Meng Lan said. "Awards and box office are not in conflict. As long as it's not a pure popcorn movie like the 556 Agent series, as long as it has some substance, it's possible to win an award. Now the three major film festivals are also beginning to demand commercial breakthroughs. Giving awards to art films that the audience can't understand all the time will reduce their ratings a lot."
Lin Xin asked: "Then should I focus on the Yumei Award or the Oka Award first?"
Meng Lan said, "Since you missed the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Oscars this time, and people in the industry feel sorry for you, then you should strike while the iron is hot and continue to strive for the Oscars. I have three more suitable films here, take a look."
Lin Xin took a look at the general plot of the script. The first script was a pure art film, telling the difficult life of a person with gender identity disorder living in the slums of a big city. It was full of topics such as racial discrimination, drug abuse, crime, pornography, and the gap between the rich and the poor. In the end, the protagonist died of a drug overdose. It was a dark art film full of depressing plots.
The reason why the director chose Lin Xin as the leading actor is naturally because Lin Xin is a crossdresser.
The second script is the biography of a mathematician. The mathematician suffered from gender identity disorder and was also a homosexual. These were "diseases" that were rejected by the public at that time. In the end, the mathematician was locked up in a mental hospital. He completed his greatest achievement in the mental hospital, and then underwent a lobotomy "treatment" a week after completing this achievement. The operation failed and he became a dementia.
Lin Xin happens to be a cross-dresser and a mathematician, so it is very appropriate for the director to choose him as the leading actor.
The third script is adapted from a famous love novel. During World War II, an Allied paratrooper made a mistake in his parachute jump and fell into the heart of the Axis Powers. He was hidden in the home of a kind-hearted girl who hated war. The two fell in love with each other over time, and the story ended in tragedy.
Lin Xin was surprised: "It's actually a romance movie? They actually wanted me to act in a romance movie?"
Meng Lan said, "After you directed and starred in "The CEO Chasing His Wife", you have gotten rid of the shackles of not being able to act in love scenes. In the novel, this Allied paratrooper is a Chinese, about the same age as you. Among the Oriental actors of your age, you have the best acting skills and popularity. But they also invited Oriental actors of other ages."
After all, age is not a limiting factor for most actors.
For the first two scripts, as long as Lin Xin was willing to take them, the roles would be his. But for the third script, he had to compete with a large group of people.
Meng Lan sighed as she watched Lin Xin couldn't put down the last story.
In fact, he was not optimistic about Lin Xin playing this role. This kind of love movie has a high chance of winning the best movie, but the probability of the actor winning is not as high as the first two scripts.
The first two films focused more on character portrayal, and it can be said that the plot was driven entirely by the characters.
The last movie incorporates a lot of thoughts on war, hatred, and forgiveness, and reflects the tragedy of the entire society at that time through a love story. Love is secondary, and the portrayal of the social background at that time is the most important.
The movie may be good and has a great chance of winning awards, but the actors are just tools to advance the plot and cannot show the actors' acting skills.
Moreover, in this movie, the hero's character is also very simple. He is passionate, brave, and loyal. He is like a symbol of beauty, which deeply fascinates the heroine. The heroine struggles between her conscience and loyalty to the country, love, and guilt towards her family, which makes human nature more complex and the image more concrete.
But Lin Xin is always obsessed with romance movies, so he will definitely not give up this invitation.
Meng Lan thought, forget it, just choose this one. Even if he didn't get nominated for Best Actor, being the leading actor in the Best Picture was still a good resume.
Lin Xin read the script several times, nodded with satisfaction, and then called Gu Meng: "Hello, Gu Dameng, I finally found a movie that you might be interested in. But his requirements for the male lead are a bit high, and you have a lot of competitors."
Meng Lan: ???
After Lin Xin explained the script to Gu Meng in detail, he put the script aside, picked up the mathematician's script and said, "This can be considered."
Meng Lan was stunned for a while before she reacted and said, "I thought you would like that romantic movie more."
Lin Xin said: "I like it very much, so I will definitely go to see it when it is released."
Meng Lan felt that Lin Xin's words about liking the movie were not the same as what he said. However, he was still very happy and satisfied that Lin Xin had chosen the script that he most recommended.
"A biographical movie may not necessarily win the Best Picture, but the probability of an actor winning is very high." Meng Lan said, "You should be able to resonate with the character, and it may not be difficult to play him well."
Lin Xin said: "I think it's quite difficult. My life is not as hard as his."
Meng Lan: “…” What you said makes sense. I’m a little worried.
Lin Xin asked the optical computer to send him the biographical information of this mathematician. After browsing through it, he said, "Since he is a homosexual, why does he have offspring?"
Meng Lan said: "His family was considered upper class at the time. In order to hide his 'illness', his family helped him find a wife and then got him drunk... um..."
Lin Xin said: "He let that woman rape him? And then they had a child? That's really amazing."
According to the information retrieved from the optical computer, it was doubtful whether the child was his. However, so many years had passed, and the child had already died. It was meaningless to pursue the matter.
Meng Lan said, "Don't say such things in front of others. This movie was invested and filmed by the grandson of that mathematician."
Lin Xin said, "He was sent to a mental hospital by his wife and parents, and the lobotomy was his wife's request. If these circumstances were to be filmed truthfully, then the mathematician's wife and parents would inevitably become villains. Does his grandson really want to film it? Does he want the whole world to know about the absurd things his family did? Or does he just want to use the movie to whitewash himself and cover up something?"
The script is not very detailed, it just says that it is a biographical film about this mathematician.
Meng Lan frowned and said, "I didn't think about that. Don't answer it yet. Let me ask first."
If the other party's purpose is actually to "whitewash" the family, then the movie is ruined. Lin Xin may not win an award, and may even be attacked by public opinion.
Lin Xin said: "If the film is shot according to the facts, I will accept this script. If it is not according to the facts, just turn it down. The first one is turned down directly. His investment distributor and the director have conflicts. Although the director is very talented, the final editing rights may not be in the hands of the director."
Today's movies are no longer in the era of big directors, but in the era of capital. When investors are very powerful, the editing rights may not be in the hands of the director, which means that the director cannot control the final product. The quality of such a movie can only depend on the purpose of the investor and the skills of the editor.
So many famous actors choose their scripts very carefully, but the final movie is a bunch of incomprehensible shit, which drags down their reputation and makes them ridiculed by the public. In many cases, this is the fault of the editing.
Lin Xin is not willing to take this gamble.
Meng Lan knew that Lin Xin had many sources of information, so he didn't ask any further questions and just passed on the script.
"I have a few more scripts for you to check out." Meng Lan said, "The plots of these scripts are good, but the directors and screenwriters are not particularly famous."
Lin Xin nodded.
After Meng Lan left, Lin Xin reviewed the mathematician's life again and sighed deeply.
It's really pitiful.
Fortunately, I didn’t live in that era, otherwise, because of my different thinking from ordinary people, I might also be locked up.
No, maybe there is no need to think so much. The medical level at that time was so low that when he became a vegetable, he was already beyond help.
Lin Xin shook his head to shake off the strange feelings in his mind, picked up the scripts left by Meng Lan and started reading.
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A few days later, the information Meng Lan found out made Lin Xin very disappointed.
The mathematician's grandson did not intend to interpret the mathematician's life according to facts. He wanted to glorify the behavior of his family, especially his grandmother.
He hoped that his grandmother in the movie did this out of love for his grandfather, and she did not intend to ruin his life. It was only based on the ignorance of that society that led to all these tragedies.
In fact, if it is really shot like this, there may not be any big problems with the movie. A movie about social issues is also quite popular with the jury.
If we push everything onto society, it might make people feel even more regretful.
It’s just that Lin Xin has a bit of a temper and he doesn’t want to play this role.
According to the information collected by the optical computer, everything that happened to the mathematician was not entirely the fault of society. Maybe that era was very ignorant, but he didn't need to go to a mental hospital.
After his parents colluded with his "wife" whom he did not know to get him drunk and raped him, the mathematician left home in despair.
He lived alone in a small town at that time, teaching children in the town and doing some handicrafts for a living. From the mathematician's diary and other people's description of him, we can see that his life was very peaceful and he was in a calm mood during that period.
But in the end, his wife and children found him more than ten years later and sent him to a mental hospital.
The reason for this was definitely not because his behavior caused his wife pain. Apart from that embarrassing night, they had never been together, so how could they be in pain?
Judging from the wife's subsequent series of actions, it may be related to property inheritance.
No matter what, there was definitely no love between them. Now he insisted that his wife's behavior was out of love, which made Lin Xin, who had just enjoyed the fruits of love, feel very uncomfortable.
He felt this was a blasphemy against love.
For this willful reason, he rejected the script.
Not only was he rejected, he also sent the information he collected to the mathematician's grandson: "If the mathematician knew about this, he would be very painful. He was killed once, and a hundred years after his death, he would be disgusted again."
It is said that the mathematician's grandson was so angry that he smashed his study after receiving Lin Xin's email.
However, he did not cause trouble for Lin Xin, but he also did not terminate his plan to make a movie.
After that, Lin Xin stopped paying attention. This was someone else's own business, and as long as he didn't participate, it had nothing to do with him.
After Lin Xin rejected that script, he was not very satisfied with the other scripts in his hand.
Although these scripts are the type that the Oka judges like, Lin Xin thinks they are all routine. The judges are not stupid, and even if they are willing to be flattered, they still need to look at the quality of the film.
At this time, Gu Meng contacted him and recommended a movie to him.
"I got the role. As a return gift, I think you might like this script." Gu Meng grabbed the position that many first-line stars competed for, and said in a very proud tone, "Then we will walk the red carpet together."
Lin Xin said: "Don't dream about it. If two actors from different crews walk the red carpet together, the director will go crazy."
Gu Meng laughed and hung up the phone.
Lin Xin received the script in her mailbox.
This script is also based on an original novel, and is a story about family relationships.
The male protagonist has been rebellious since childhood. He is disgusted with his old-fashioned father and nagging mother. He ran away from home at a young age and has been making a living by doing odd jobs in the big city.
Even after his parents died, he did not return home.
He always believed that his parents hated him, just as he hated his parents.
Then one day, he returned to his hometown for other things and got his parents' belongings from his relatives. Among the belongings, he got his parents' diary.
Instead of looking through the diary, he burned it.
He stubbornly believed that this diary must contain a record of his parents' resentment towards him.
When the diary was burned, he suddenly fell into a coma, and when he woke up, he went back to the past.
Then, with his now mature mind, he relived the life that he once hated, and understood his parents' painstaking efforts and his own childishness and ridiculousness.
He repaired the rift with his parents and decided to be a good and filial child.
At this time, he fainted again. When he woke up, he returned to his adulthood.
His relatives took him to the hospital in a coma, where he woke up.
Everything that happened before seemed like a dream, a clear dream.
He began to follow the scenes in his dream, looking for traces of his parents in reality, and then confirmed the love his parents had for him in the dream.
In the end, of course, I regretted it deeply.
Lin Xin needs to play two roles in this script, one is his adult self, and the other is his father in his "dream". Each of them takes up about half of the screen time.
After reading the script, Lin Xin fell into deep thought. He asked Xue Fei beside him, "Brother Fei, what on earth is going on with this dream?"
Xue Fei said: "Why don't you care what happens? Just act according to the instructions. He asked you to be the protagonist, not to do scientific analysis."
Lin Xin muttered, "But I can't understand the logic behind it, and I feel a little confused."
Xue Fei asked: "Of all the movies you've acted in, which one follows logic completely?"
Lin Xin was immediately convinced.
He read the script again and said, "Didn't the police call to find this child after he ran away from home? Since his parents love him so much, they would definitely call the police, right?"
Xue Fei said helplessly: "Of course, in real life, if a rebellious child runs away from home, the police will definitely be called. Even if the police are not called, he did not bring a penny with him, and he will definitely come back obediently and dejectedly. It is impossible for him to wander around outside without any illness or disaster for more than ten years and live well in a big city. But this is a novel. Don't dwell on these details, otherwise you won't be able to act in many scripts."
Lin Xin was immediately convinced again.
He read the script again and said, "In short, this is a story about a loving parent and a child who is not a bad person but who unfortunately missed each other due to poor communication. But the parents loved their child but did not look for him or call the police after he ran away from home... Well, I can't dwell on this, otherwise I can't perform this script."
Lin Xin paused, and said with tears in his eyes: "But I'm still so conflicted."
Xue Fei didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Then don't accept this script."
Lin Xin read the script over and over again, tangling himself up in confusion: "But apart from this biggest logical error, the rest of the plot is good. I can even ignore the scientific reasons behind the dream."
Xue Fei looked at Lin Xin rolling around on the lazy sofa and could only shrug and ignore it.
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