Chapter 23 "Leave" Hollywood Awards Season (Part 2)
Chen Lin recorded "The Departure" on the crew without avoiding the other people, and started the lecture on the spot.
Anyway, he has no manuscript, so he can talk about wherever he thinks, just focus on a topic, and there is no such thing as off topic.
As the show progressed, many behind-the-scenes creators and actors gathered around, and even Zhao Baogang became interested and sat aside and listened slowly.
Chen Lin did not have any stage fright, but instead became more interested.
"There is another major awards ceremony, including the Performance Guild Award, the Director Guild Award and the Producer American Producer Guild Award."
"I guess some viewers may ask me why the awards season is concentrated in winter. At this time of year in the United States, it is called Award Season. It is translated into Chinese. It is the slack season. Only during this period can Americans watch awards ceremony. In the United States, they usually play big movies in summer and big American dramas in autumn."
"By the way, let me tell you, Oscars have a basic standard, and all participating films must be released before October of the previous year!"
"Why have these awards, led by Hollywood, become more and more popular in recent decades? I think it should be people's own psychological understanding."
"Movies were born in Europe, Cannes, Berlin, and Venice, but European film awards are generally elite awards due to the aristocratic tradition. There are only a few people who vote, and those movies must be released without a single one and premiered there."
"In contrast, North American film festivals are awarded some slings, and there are many people, such as the Oscars, with more than 6,000 judges voting, and even the Golden Globe, which has the least number of people, there are 90 people."
"The Oscars are getting bigger and bigger, and they are also catering to the psychology of the penis defeating the nobles."
"Guizhou Awards, only the United States has this thing. The so-called Guild Awards, which are professional awards, are selected by the most professional people. The awards selected by 5 or 7 people in Europe cannot represent all the personnel! Therefore, European film festivals have been very controversial in recent years, and have become increasingly declining."
"The Oscar is the most professional award. The best film right guild votes together, the best director guild votes, and the best costume guild."
"Many bosses are keen on major PR awards, because this thing is directly linked to box office results. Everyone knows that the awards selected by the Oscars are mostly art films, and the box office of this thing is definitely not much higher. The theaters are rarely willing to be played for a long time. Only through the awards season can the nominated movies be re-showed in theaters. The box office results of these movies are mostly received later. The same is true for actors, including directors. Those who have won the awards and those who have not won the awards are very different, especially young actors. I guess our Jewish girl Natalie Portman will be able to double the pay this time!"
"The awards season we are focusing on is mainly focused on films. In fact, the North American awards season should be music and film and television. You hear it right, TV series is also a major category!"
"To put it aside, American dramas have been much better than American movies in the past two years. In the next issue, I will analyze the reasons for you and recommend a few American dramas I like to watch the most."
"Why am I so sure that the King's Speech wins the award is based on its performance during the awards season."
"On the entire awards season, "The King's Speech" was nominated 110 times and 63 times. Before the Oscars were included, the Directors Guild gave the Best Director to Tom Hober. Although "Social Network" also received 147 nominations, it completely lags behind "The King's Speech" in major guild awards. As for actor awards, it is also based on the winners of the Actors Guild."
"Every nominated movie must abide by the unspoken rules. What kind of unspoken rules is that I nominate you. You must give me face. You must spend money on mainstream media to buy a full version of the advertisement, and publish who will nominate you!"
"This is not a small amount of money. The advertising spaces of mainstream media are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars!"
"The Oscar trophy itself is not valuable. Basically, its market price is around $350, made of Zion alloy, and wrapped in two layers of gold foil. The cheapest Oscar trophy in history was during World War II, when the United States controlled strategic metal materials such as tin and copper, and could only be replaced by gypsum!"
"The organizers of the Oscars ceremony are very stingy. Not only do they not provide guests' appearance fees, they even don't even cover food! During the three or four hours of the award ceremony, many people can put their chests on their backs so hungry!"
"Also, although the Oscar is also a non-profit professional award, it makes money, and this year's advertising expenses have been crazily sold by nearly $120 million!"
"Actually, looking at the 10 movies nominated this year, everyone found a very strange phenomenon, the soundtracks were reduced a lot! In the era of large-scale films, when Hollywood superstars gathered, the soundtracks accounted for 80% of the entire movie. Big movies must have theme songs, because theme songs are for money! To give the simplest example, in the year when "Titanic" was released, Sony surpassed Warner Music, which ranked first at the time because of Celine Dion's song "Myheartwillgoon", and became the world's largest music production company!"
"That's an industry, and movies must have theme songs!"
"But now there have been huge changes in Hollywood movies, and I can't just say that they are retreating. But if you just go and watch them, we can clearly find that many movies, especially these 10 nominated movies, have not even exceeded 20% of the total movie duration!"
"Although I'm not going to make music anymore, I used to be a musician after all. I still want to talk about this, but the duration is limited. Let's talk together next issue."
"There is another huge change in the past two years, that is, the critics are a bit alienated from the masses."
"We can look through the resume. Except for the popular ones, such as Colin Feynman who won the most male lead last year, it is considered popular, but other awards, professional awards and film critics have almost no overlap. What does this mean? It means that the Oscar judges hate film critics pointing fingers at them."
"The reason for this is to mention our PR master Harvey Weinstein. This guy obviously used this message ahead of time than others, so he said in major public places: 'Our judges don't need some self-righteous film critics to point fingers'. In a simple sentence, it caters to the tastes of most judges!"
"Okay, the above is the content of today's "Just Departure" about the Hollywood Awards Season. See you next time. I will use big data to analyze the gap in entertainment between China and the United States!"
Chapter completed!