My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 1414 Lost in the east, harvested mulberry

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A well-known old-fashioned cafe in Beverly Hills, St. Laudo, you can often see paparazzi guarding the door.

After a Christmas holiday, Harvey Weinstein, who has obviously gained weight again, raised his Patek Philippe watch on his wrist from time to time, frowning.

“This coffee is really good.”

"You know~~ I've been doing research on coffee..."

"Dodgers catcher Mike Scioscia is about to retire, do you want me to get you a VIP annual ticket for the season at home in March?"

"Remember Steven? He screwed up Kafka. He and Universal came out with King of the Hill, and a lot of people in the industry didn't like it.

I just said, this bastard who forgets his roots will never go on forever... Facts have proved that without you and me, Cannes that summer was a 'lottery event'! "

Harvey tried to lighten the boredom by bringing up topics.

On the opposite side, Wu Xiaozu was sitting inside against the wall, with his legs crossed, sipping coffee at a leisurely pace.

Wu Xiaozu didn't pay much attention to his gloating over Steve Soderbergh.

The success of "SEX, Lies, and Videotape" itself has great significance for independent films.

It opened the major film festivals to attach importance to independent films.

Until Wu Xiaozu moved out of "Pulp Fiction", it can be regarded as directly bringing independent films into the mainstream world.

but--

Although independent small-budget films are dazzling, for Hollywood, this has not really brought about earth-shattering effects.

To be precise, it was the rise of independent films in the first two years from the 80s to the 90s that weakened Hollywood's control over the world film industry to a certain extent——

Small-cost movies have a high profit ratio, but they cannot crush regional movies.

But this year is about to be different.

A Jew will take his dinosaurs to devour the whole world, and the European movies that are just about to rise will cry to his father and mother. As for the Asian market, sorry, everyone here is rubbish!
Hollywood will really start to show its ferocious face to devour the world's movie markets one by one!

Thus began their own cultural export journey.

That's why Xiaozu Wu couldn't wait to come to Hollywood to make movies—especially big-budget movies.

The day to cross the river by feeling the eagle sauce is coming~~~~
"You've checked your watch 7 times and it's obvious that this dude won't be coming."

Wu Xiaozu smiled and relieved the coffee cup, took out his wallet, took out two 20 yuan face value knives and pressed them under the coffee cup, put down his legs, stood up, turned his head and said: "In fact, not everyone likes a Chinese to show off. Isn't it? My friend?"

Harvey laughed but couldn't hide his embarrassment.

This time, he specially won the award season job of "No Man's Land"... Wu Xiaozu didn't want to participate in the Golden Globe competition at first, but he still participated under Harvey's arrangement.

Participated in the competition for the big cake of the North American awards season for two consecutive years.

obviously--

Not everyone buys it!
The reason is probably inseparable from his skin color.

Of course he can continue to be successful, but in this foreign country, discrimination is always there and everywhere.

For this, Wu Xiaozu was not more angry.

With his achievements and status today, he doesn't need to prove anything... Those people can only bark incompetently, and they are useless except for disgusting people in this old-fashioned way.

In this case, why is Wu Xiaozu angry?
“I love the coffee here.”

Wu Xiaozu smiled and patted Harvey on the shoulder, "Put more thoughts and resources on the Olympic Games of "Raise the Red Lantern".

I think this is a good choice. "

After speaking, he turned and went out the door.

Not far away, Ah Wen ordered someone to check the details of the film critic who hadn't attended the appointment.

Bosses can't be angry, but they can't be careless.

The Lord humiliates the minister to death.

They may really be used to being superior. In this capitalist society, they seem to have forgotten the power of capital.

Oh, what a coincidence, Wu Xiaozu is richer than all of them, and much more.

The experience of "No Man's Land" in this awards season was neither bad nor bad, and it won the "respect" it deserved. Of course, there were also some people who were ignored.

This is normal.

Anyway, what Xiaozu Wu shot was a non-kung fu movie with a yellow-skinned person as the main character.

It is difficult for them to accept this kind of movie because of their movie-watching habits... This is different from "Pulp Fiction".

That movie is an American story in itself.

"No Man's Land" is not.

Of course, there is no shortage of people who raved about the film.Recently, many film critics who have accepted the movie in advance have praised the movie.

I think this is a rare masterpiece.

Wu Xiaozu himself did not pursue too much. This movie will shine in this year's awards season.

After all, this is not an American story like "Pulp Fiction".

On the contrary, Wu Xiaozu is very optimistic about "Raise the Red Lantern".

Historically, this film set the highest box office record for a Chinese-language film in North America at that time.

If it weren't for the fact that the public relations were really overwhelmed, this film won the best foreign language film, which is basically Wang Zuzhen's chest-it is a certainty!
At the beginning, the main reason was that I was really not good at public relations during the awards season.

But now it's different.

Although "No Man's Land" is likely to take a formality, under the operation of Harvey, the film "Raise the Red Lantern" first achieved a box office performance in North America far exceeding the previous life, especially Harvey's main niche market , At the same time, the color promotion completely made Zhang emo come into the eyes of many academics.

Many art students and audiences who are interested in art and color suddenly discovered that there is a director who is so good at using color in the East.

In the film, he is committed to the pursuit of bright colors and strong visual impact. In order to achieve this artistic effect, many American audiences were surprised——

The huge movie market, even if it is a niche market, "Raise the Red Lantern" also sold nearly 400 million US dollars at the box office.

Absolutely great money.

This naturally made Harvey work more attentively. After all, even if the movie is released, he still has part of the rights to the videotape copyright income...

What's more, Wu Xiaozu is willing to use the film proceeds to help Ah Mou realize his dream.

Mouzi is actually very loyal, he was once bullied like that by Zhang Weiping and didn't say anything... Naturally, Wu Xiaozu would not treat him badly.

After all, he is his own.

Siblings and friends!

Facts have also proved Wu Xiaozu's judgment. "Raise the Red Lantern" is among the foreign language films. With the investment of resources, it does have a dark horse attitude.

At the same time, due to the stagnation of the awards season, "No Man's Land" is going to be officially released before the Golden Globes and Oscars after many considerations and Zhang Jiazhen's suggestion!

(End of this chapter)