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Chapter 633 The revival of Hong Kong films?

The Academy Awards ceremony has begun!
When countless movie fans are looking forward to it, wanting to witness Li Yi winning the best director or the best foreign language film again.

"Paradise Cinema" received five nominations, Best Sound Editing, Best Soundtrack, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, and Best Foreign Language Film.

As a result, before the Oscars, "Cinema Paradise" won consecutive awards for Best Sound Editing and Best Score!

Let all the fans in the country cheer.

However, Li Yi and James Dean looked at each other with a wry smile!
Because, the Oscars are also divided into pork, and five nominations are actually not many, and it is rare to say that they are 100% winners.

Giving two music awards in a row is definitely not a good sign for "Paradise Cinema"!

Sure enough, next, the Best Supporting Actor was directly lost, the Best Director was also lost, and the final Best Foreign Language Film was also lost again.

Although Li Yi was a little disappointed, he was also expected.

However, this year's Oscars is destined to be another year full of controversy.

Because the best film and the best foreign language film, the special meows are all related to LGBT!
Obviously, this year's gay theme is the mainstream of this year's Oscars!

Because it only won two innocuous music awards, and "Cinema Paradiso" was hyped as a favorite for winning awards.

Therefore, Dean Films' plan was immediately implemented.

As a big hit, "Cinema Paradiso" actually only won two music awards that were not painful, which naturally made many domestic movie fans very dissatisfied.

But it's useless.

And in Hollywood, with Dean Films' award-losing plan set in motion!
So, after the Oscars ended, various media outlets complained about "Cinema Paradiso" one after another!
"The Hollywood Reporter" reported in a sarcastic tone: "Movies seem to be more than simple movies. It is a pity that everyone knows that the Oscars are no longer the Oscars of the past, because the current Oscars must be politically correct! Everyone knows that "Paradise Cinema" "is a good movie. Its overall quality is definitely higher than all the movies nominated for the best foreign language film this year. Love ends in vain. The theater collapses and disintegrates. It's not perfect; The two music awards, and the best picture and best foreign language film are awarded to LGBT-themed films, maybe "Paradise Cinema" should add a little same-sex love, then it is a certainty to win the award!"

"Los Angeles Times": "It's no wonder that the ratings of the Oscars are not as good as the previous ones. The Oscars have long been reduced to the stage of political correctness. LGBT, female boxing, the artistry of the film itself, and the quality of the film are no longer the key to the Oscars. Art The supremacy has become a joke, when Oscar, which proclaims the supremacy of art, has repeatedly let art lose to politics, Oscar has also lost its former glory, this is the tragedy of an era!"

In fact, there is an award-winning publicity method for winning an award, but there is a publicity method for not winning an award.

To put it bluntly, this is a business, and the Oscars are also a business.

If "Cinema Paradise" wins the award, then it will be the turn of those failed films at this time, and the media will complain about it.

This is already a routine that everyone has played through.

But the routine is really not afraid of getting old, as long as it works!

Don't look at "Paradise Cinema" did not win the award, but the Oscar effect is still reflected.

Originally, there were only a few hundred thousand dollars left at the daily box office, and there were only about [-] screens left for "Paradise Cinema", but after the Oscars, it quickly expanded to more than [-].

And the box office also has a skyrocketing visible to the naked eye.

The daily box office directly rose to more than three million dollars!

It can be said that don't look at what the media said about Oscar's influence, but in fact, they are the top.

Just someone pays the bill!

Li Yi returned to China after Oscar.

Different from the hustle and bustle of the Academy Awards, the Hong Kong Island Film Awards are becoming more and more deserted, and the gold content is getting lower and lower.

It can even be said that the attention of the Hong Kong Island Film Awards has fallen to the bottom.

The Hong Kong Island Film Awards once had a chance to regain its glory, that is, to accept mainland films and mainland filmmakers.

It is a pity that a group of Hong Kong Island filmmakers who lived in the glorious history of Hong Kong films in the past control the right to speak for the Hong Kong Island Film Awards, which completely lost the opportunity for the Hong Kong Island Film Awards.

Nowadays, even if there is a top director from Hong Kong Island like Li Yi, Hong Kong Island filmmakers and Hong Kong Island movie fans have complicated perceptions of Li Yi.

On the one hand, although many of Li Yi's movies are set on Hong Kong Island, everyone knows what's going on.

It can be said that so far, except for "The King of Comedy", Li Yi has hardly made any other real Hong Kong films!

However, no matter what, Li Yi's grades and achievements are there.

This year's Hong Kong Island Film Awards, it is natural for Li Yi not to be absent. After all, he is indeed a filmmaker from Hong Kong Island, and it can be said that "The Gift of Room No. [-]" won a group of veteran filmmakers from Hong Kong Island. support.

However, even with Li Yi joining, this year's Hong Kong Island Film Awards has become a lot more lively. At the same time, because of Li Yi's position, mainland films accounted for half of this year's Hong Kong Island Film Awards.

This is also the compromise of Hong Kong Island filmmakers. Unfortunately, Li Yi has seen the films shortlisted for this year's Hong Kong Island films, and to be honest, they are really lackluster.

And when chatting, it is natural to inevitably talk about a topic, "Is there really no possibility of revival of Hong Kong Island movies?"

A group of Hong Kong film directors expressed their opinions. When it was Li Yi's turn to speak, everyone's eyes were on him.

There is no way, Li Yi's current coffee position can really beat everyone present.

In terms of box office, the box office created by Li Yi alone is more than the total of the dozen or so Hong Kong directors present.

In terms of awards, Li Yi is only short of the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival to achieve a grand slam.

And the most important thing is that the scary thing about Li Yi is that he has never missed a movie, and this is the scariest thing.

Even a real literary film like "Cinema Paradise" can earn 2 million at the box office, which is outrageous anyway!

In fact, Li Yi really had some ideas.

"When it comes to this point, I have actually thought about it deeply. First of all, we need to know what advantages Hong Kong films have over mainland films?" Li Yi asked after pondering for a moment.

"Where are the advantages?" Many Hong Kong Island film directors and film stars are lost in thought.

"For example, the genre films that are missing in the Mainland!" Li Yi said directly, without any excuses.

"Genre films that are missing in the mainland?" Everyone had mixed reactions, some people's eyes lit up, while others frowned.

"Yes, did you find that there are no films of what type and subject matter that are most lacking in the mainland market? Of course, I'm talking about commercial films!" Li Yi asked.

(End of this chapter)