"Save Private Ryan" and "Brave Heart" not only coincidentally won the same Golden Globe nomination, but the similarities between the two films are everywhere. They are both epics, the same profound themes, and the same excellent war scenes. Even the soundtracks of the film are both Hollywood's top musicians, John Williams and James Horner. Therefore, the popularity of the two films in the award-winning season is almost equal. Recently, in the media, the supporters of the two films "Save Private Ryan" and "Brave Heart" are also full of noise.

If Firefly and Fox are just very simple competitors, then this year's award-winning season will be arguably over the most important film awards, both companies will compete for the most important film awards, and this situation will undoubtedly lead to unnecessary expenditures on public relations budgets by both parties, and even the final award results will not be the most beneficial to each other.

However, because of the relationship between Eric and Elizabeth, the two sides had formed a certain tacit understanding a long time ago.

"Eric, from the current situation, splitting the Best Picture and Best Director is the most beneficial for both of us," Harvey Weinstein analyzed seriously: "The global release of "Save Private Ryan" has come to an end, and North America also released the videotape of the movie two months ago, so I think the best director should be the Best Director. Although this film is full of masculine atmosphere, Catherine is a woman. In the Oscar history for more than 60 years, there have been several women.

The director was nominated, but never a woman has ever won the Best Director. So, if "Save Private Ryan" won the Best Director Award, the sensation will definitely be no less than a Best Picture. After all, the Oscar has already had sixty-six Best Pictures, but not even one of the Best Female Directors. In the next few decades, the Best Female Director will only be Catherine. As long as "Save Private Ryan" won the Best Director Award, the film can maintain its lasting influence for many years to come."

Eric nodded. Although Harvey Weinstein did not mention any words related to the income of the movie, his words were actually analyzing the pros and cons of the award from a commercial perspective.

Once Catherine becomes the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director, Save Private Ryan will have a very special status in film history, which means that before the second Oscar for Best Director, Save Private Ryan will be unique. Whenever someone thinks of Best Director of the Oscar, they will often quickly notice the only woman and follow the film. This means that in the future, "Save Private Ryan" will bring Fireflies far more profits to other best directors in videotapes, DVDs and other peripheral channels in many years to the next.

Noting Eric's expression of agreement, Harvey Weinstein continued: "The Brave Heart is still in the release stage, so the title of the best film is more important to us. If both of us conduct public relations, the final result will be difficult to predict with the equal strength of the two films. Even, I personally think that the final result is likely to be completely opposite to what we expected. Because "Save Private Ryan" is an American-style main-melodged war film,

Compared with "Brave Heart" which tells British history, "Save Private Ryan" has a higher chance of winning the best film. In terms of best directors, there are not many women in the Directors Association, and most of them are old men with serious patriarchal tendencies. In this regard, Mel Gibson's winning odds are much greater than that of Catherine. If we want to make the results develop in the direction we want, after the Oscar nomination, our PR strategy must reach some tacit understanding in advance."

Although "The Brave Heart" released at the end of the year has taken up all the time compared to "Save Private Ryan", which has been out of the North American market for a long time, it can easily create the greatest media influence during the awards season. However, if the Oscar potential of the two films is carefully analyzed, "Save Private Ryan" has two major advantages: American main theme and extreme correctness. If both sides do their own things in the next Oscar public relations, the result is really unpredictable.

After Harvey finished speaking, Eric nodded and said, "So, Harvey, I will call Kasenberg tonight and ask the head of Firefly Awards PR to contact you tomorrow, so you can communicate in private."

Harvey Weinstein appeared here and wanted to hear this cooperation promise from Eric. After all, the best win-win situation is for everyone to happily divide the "cake". Otherwise, either the final result is just the opposite of what Weinstein said just now, or one side is completely defeated. This is definitely not what two companies with very good relationships want to see.

To determine the main problem, Harvey Weinstein also easily talked about some details: "Eric and Ms. Bigelow are also the main producer of "Save Private Ryan", but I heard that she has not participated in many Golden Globes PR activities recently, so the Golden Globes doesn't matter, but if "Save Private Ryan" wants to win the Oscar for Best Director, she should show her face. Even if she doesn't attend too many PR parties in private, I think she should accept several more interviews from the public media."

The most important steps of the award's public relations include media hype and private public relations for judges. The ultimate goal is actually like an election, pulling from the award's judges to voting through various influences.

Weinstein's suggestion was of course very pertinent. Although Eric agreed very much, he still smiled and said, "Harvey, you may not know. Catherine is a little...well, it's idealistic. She doesn't like this kind of activity very much, and I can't force it."

Harvey Weinstein was stunned. If the operation was done properly, the post-production videotape and TV broadcast authorization of "Save Private Ryan" could continue to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in net income to Fireflies. With such a big business, how could Fireflies let her do it because of the director's irrelevant geographical idealism?

However, Harvey quickly remembered some rumors in private, and Catherine's beautiful face with no trace of time appeared in his mind. He smiled knowingly, not intending to mention this matter again.

Elizabeth, who had been silently listening to the two people talking about things, suddenly muttered sourly: "I am still idealistic in my forties, and I am a little girl."

Eric almost choked out with a mouthful of coffee, and quickly placed the coffee cup carefully on the table, looked up and glared at Elizabeth who was suddenly jealous, but was glared back without any hesitation.

Harvey Weinstein keenly felt that the atmosphere began to distort, and he stood up and said goodbye and left with tactfulness. He got a certain promise from Eric. Of course, Eric didn't need to worry about the details of the subsequent awards' public relations. Harvey would communicate with the relevant person in charge of Fireflies.

Get up and send Harvey away, Eric and Elizabeth sat down again.

Only two people were left. Elizabeth also realized that her little temperament just now was a bit out of place, but she was unwilling to give in. She did not dare to look at Eric, and looked into the distance in a flash, as if counting the number of mansions on the hillside.

Eric waved and asked the waiter to change the coffee for the two of them, and followed Elizabeth's gaze to the distance.

After a moment of quietness, Elizabeth suddenly became a little angry again, staring at Eric and said, "Julia is right, you bastard, don't know how to accommodate us at all."

Eric felt a little confused: "Your Highness, did I do something wrong again?"

"You should have spoken first just now, and you even asked me to break the silence."

Eric was a little amused and laughed: "I'm not disturbing you because you were thinking about life just now. You are not a little girl either, why bother with these things?"

"Why can some people still be little girls in their forties? I can't do it."

Eric could only surrender: "Okay, keep keeping the little girl mentality, so maybe you can be as beautiful as Catherine when you are as old as Catherine."

"Yes," Elizabeth suddenly felt a little proud: "When I am forty, hehe, imagine what she would look like."

Eric can imagine it now because he has seen it at all. More than ten years later, Catherine is no different from now.

If this woman can live a fairy in her life, she will not be able to walk in this world for a moment.

Elizabeth noticed that Eric Sense had a smile in his expression, pretending to be chilling, and said, "You are really imagining that you can still laugh. It's so changeable. No wonder someone said you have that complex."

Eric did not plan to discuss Catherine with Elizabeth anymore, so he took the initiative to distract the topic and said: "I saw Mel Gibson win the Golden Globes nomination for Best Actor, and his acting level was a bit reluctant to win the Golden Globes nomination. You are still planning to run an Oscar nomination for him, right?"

Eric and Harvey just now didn't talk about the PR issue of the Golden Globes, mainly because the Golden Globes are irrelevant to "Save Private Ryan". The influence of the Golden Globes is often only before and after the award is issued, and then it will be quickly covered by the influence of the Oscars. For the released films, the media attention of the Golden Globes may play a role in promoting the box office, but this promotion effect is not that great for films that have entered the later stage of operation.

For "Save Private Ryan", the most important thing is the Oscar. After all, when news about "Save Private Ryan" appears in any media in the future, it is often mentioned that this is the Oscar title of the film. When "Save Private Ryan" sells overseas video tapes or TV broadcast rights, buyers often care about the only Oscar awards. Most of the time, even if it is just an Oscar nomination, the gold content is much higher than that of the Golden Globe Awards. This difference is more obvious in actor awards. For example, Little Li, who has been pursuing the Oscar winner for many years in the original time and space for many years, many people don't even know that Little Li was already the Golden Globe Awards ten years ago when he won the Oscar Awards.
Chapter completed!