England 1986

Chapter 340

In theory, it doesn't matter if Anthony Hopkins knows Allen or not.

But as a human being, it is inevitable that there will be a bit of local feelings.

Especially for some elderly people, this kind of thinking is more serious.

As an actor who was born in Wales, grew up in Wales, and then had to come to the United States to develop, it would be a joke to say how much Anthony Hopkins likes America. He doesn’t like America at all. After the first filming, Anthony Hopkins will return to his hometown to rest as soon as possible.

He called his good friend, that is, 007's predecessor Bond, and the two went fishing, chatted, and discussed the domestic situation by the way.

The entertainment industry in Great Britain is difficult to describe in one word. The United States has the Oscars, while in the whole of Europe, France has the Cannes Film Festival, Italy has the Venice Film Festival, and even Germany has the Berlin Film Festival. But what does Great Britain have?
There is an academy award, the Great Britain Award, which is the Empire Award that only locals have heard of.

But how bad is this award?

It was closed last year, but it seems to have resumed this year. Anyway, it is half dead.

As long as the film and television industry in Great Britain is mentioned, the most famous one is the film industry in Hong Kong, a colony. Even the Indian film industry, which is a former colony and has now become independent, is more famous than the film industry in Great Britain.

This has caused Daying to be extremely poor in the film and television industry. Young actors have no chance to make their mark, high-level directors have no resources, and the overall box office market is not big. Every movie is losing money. You have to count on the entire Commonwealth to be released in order to protect your capital. Opportunity.

Over time, a large number of talents have been lost in the film and television industry, and many people have to leave their hometowns, either to develop in other European countries, or to come to the United States and work in Hollywood.

But there are too many local actors in Hollywood, and the competition is very fierce, and not all opportunities can be reserved for actors from Daying.

Under such circumstances, some people, who are not determined at this time, simply grit their teeth and become American citizens, and the situation will improve in this way.

And many actors from the older generation from Great Britain do not want to become American citizens, even if the United States and Great Britain both recognize dual nationality, that won't work!
In this general environment, some of the actors who came to Hollywood from Great Britain began to form a group, and the old Karl's work in Los Angeles in the past few years also exacerbated this situation.

Anthony Hopkins only met Karl the Elder last year. At the beginning, Karl the Elder didn’t communicate much with him. On the contrary, Anthony Hopkins liked to visit Karl the Elder. After getting acquainted, I feel that the two parties are very appetizing, and the relationship has gradually become stronger.

Under such circumstances, Anthony Hopkins was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor this year!

This is also the first time the Oscars have nominated the lead actor of a thriller R-rated film for best actor.

And the chances of winning are great!

Anthony Hopkins had an award, so he finally had the confidence. He cautiously asked Old Carl if he could introduce him to the Earl of Carmarthen after he returned to Wales.

It would be even better if he could make another movie under that person!
In the past, due to psychological shadows and lack of channels, he didn't dare to meet that Your Excellency. Now that he is about to have the heavyweight honor of Oscar for Best Actor, Anthony Hopkins dared to imagine a little bit.

For most ordinary Welsh people, the Hill family is heaven!

The reigning earl of their family sometimes speaks better than the queen in Wales, after all, the county magistrate is not as good as the present.

"Haha." Old Carl turned his body slightly, swayed his right index finger at Anthony Hopkins a few times and said, "My master can't be seen by anyone who wants to, let alone an old guy like you, who looks so tall not good looking"

"Haha." Anthony Hopkins smiled dryly and looked at Old Carl's face in embarrassment.

"However. It's always good to be concerned about your hometown. After I go back this year, if I have the opportunity, I will mention it. As for whether I want to see you or not, it depends on the Earl's will."

"That's it, that's it! Then thank you Sir first." Seeing that Old Carl finally agreed, although there is no certainty, as long as Old Carl agrees to help with the message, Anthony Hopkins is already very satisfied. The presenter had already started to warm up the scene, said a few words casually, and then began to tease this year's economic situation.

Allen only knew that because of the financial turmoil in 87, the economic situation in Great Britain had been bad in the past few years. In fact, the outside world was similar. Except for slight differences, the situation in various places was generally not good.

The same is true for the United States. Since 87, there have been one or two small economic crises every year.

The unemployment rate is rising rapidly, not to mention the high deficit and high national debt. In short, the financial problem is very serious. This is also one of the important reasons why the United States started the Gulf War. It transfers internal conflicts and expands the market and output value of domestic military enterprises.

As of the day of the Academy Awards ceremony, the United States has experienced the eighth domestic economic crisis since the financial crisis in 87, and the situation is still getting worse.

And the host caught up with this kind of topic on the stage to further complain, saying that Hollywood is not easy, and the major film and television companies are not easy. Last year's box office was not very good. This kind of party was broadcast live. He said so here , seems to be doing useless work.

But every time he makes more complaints now, it is one more brainwashing for many ignorant people who watch the live broadcast.

The major film and television companies can also better make false accounts, change the income, and then... less dividends!
The entire Academy Awards is a huge vanity fair. The scene belongs to the actors who showed their faces and the behind-the-scenes production team who had little chance to show their faces before. Where they are invisible, they belong to the film and television company behind them.

Everyone has to rely on this market to eat, and learn to sell miserably. Through such hot events and the opportunity of high ratings at award ceremonies, this kind of concept is exported to the public, so that the public feels that the film industry is about to die, and then...
The subconscious message to the audience is: the film industry is dying. Those of you who like to watch movies, don’t you rush to buy more tickets and go to the theaters to support the film industry? !

The host made complaints on the stage, and the following guests, no matter they were sincere or made up, all smiled and clapped and booed. The singing and dancing continued to warm up the scene. In this regard, Americans are sometimes very similar to Indians, and they have to insert a dance at every turn.

"Are you all ready?" Li Zairong was wearing a black hooded coat, holding a binoculars and looking at the distant neighborhood. About 400 meters ahead of him was the main gate of Korea Town, which he was already very familiar with.

The supermarket a little while ago has been cleaned up, but the owner of the supermarket just cleaned up the facade, and there are still some black smoke marks on the surrounding walls, which represent things that have been experienced here not long ago.

"It's all ready, we made four big guys, just wait for them to come."

Next to him, a Korean who followed from Wales approached Li Zayong and whispered a report.

After this period of training, this young man has already transformed a bit, from a useless good-for-nothing with a slightly cowardly personality before, to a scumbag who can command actions with a deadpan expression.

"Where are they?"

The subordinate looked at his watch, pondered for a moment and said, "It's about half an hour before the parade approaches."

"Um"

Following the directions, Li Zairong saw a van slowly parked near the streets of Koreatown, and a huge cardboard box was unloaded from the car. The text on the cardboard box showed that the carton should contain a refrigerator.

But in fact, there is no refrigerator at all, but something more interesting than a refrigerator.

Bags of flour and firecrackers were mixed together and packed in huge refrigerator boxes, one every tens of meters, and four were placed on the street in front of Korea Town.

Flour stuff.
You can buy it in a supermarket, but this thing is actually very dangerous. Under normal circumstances, no matter whether you add water and other things, use flour to make bread, make pancakes, noodles, etc., it will be fine!

But when dry flour is in a granular state, especially when it is extremely dense, it will explode when it encounters an open flame!
Power.
It depends on whether you are far or close to the center of the explosion. It’s okay to be far away. Standing hundreds of meters away like Li Zarong is now, the impact will be very small, but if you are within a dozen meters, even if you are not dead, at least you will die. You have to suffer a wave of shock wave damage, and after the flour is stuck on your body, there will be secondary damage.

For example, when cooking, sprinkle a large amount of flour directly on the open flame on the stove, which is absolutely as dangerous as holding a large two-foot kick in your hand and directly igniting it.

And now, each of these four large refrigerator boxes contains four bags of about [-] kilograms of flour, which means a total of about [-] kilograms of flour, plus the firecrackers bought from Chinatown. , especially when the group of little sunspots pass by, the effect will be great.
Although Li Zairong was terrified to death, but now that he had come to this point, he had no chance to retreat, he could only follow the plan step by step, and looked at his watch, the time was now 10:30 in the evening.

Don't ask why black people like to come out to parade in the middle of the night. If they say it's a parade, they look up to them. They just take advantage of the night and use the parade as an excuse, but they are actually planning to play zero yuan shopping!
Buying for zero yuan during the day is not as convenient as buying for zero yuan at night. As far as their skin color is concerned, after picking up the things, they can find them in any street or alley, who can find them?
Even if there is a video recording, the ordinary portable video recorder these days can't clearly take a picture of their appearance at night!

Just to highlight one unscrupulous, this is what they have done most often in the past month or so. Every few days, they will organize such a large-scale event.

This time, the heavyweight Oscar movie "The Silence of the Lambs", as a horror R-rated film, has received a total of eight nominations, and the previous six nominations have passed, and their crew won six nominations and three out of six sweeps. Next, the big screen began to play the data of the actors who were nominated for the best actor this time.

When Anthony Hopkins appeared on the big screen wearing a mask, there was a slight commotion in the audience. This image was the most popular image last year. Does anyone know about Hannibal?

After the highlights were played, the two award presenters walked onto the stage with smiles and took over the host's microphone. They didn't even have time to congratulate each other. The gap was too great. Compared with Anthony Hopkins, other Several male actors are more like making up the number.

"The winner of the 64th Academy Awards for Best Actor is - Anthony! Anthony Hopkins!"

"Wow!"

There was thunderous applause. Even though Anthony Hopkins had already made preparations, he still couldn't suppress his excitement. He stood up and excitedly hugged the left and right crew members, and walked sideways from the second row. Anthony Hopkins also deliberately He ran to the side of old Karl in the first row, and gave him a hug under the tired eyes of old Karl.

"Sir, there will be a little surprise later!"

"Oh?"

Before Old Carl could figure out what Anthony Hopkins meant by the little surprise, the guy had already let go of his hand and turned around to go on stage.

Like an old gentleman, Anthony Hopkins first bowed in three directions to the audience, which made the applause even more enthusiastic.

After the applause calmed down a bit, Anthony Hopkins evened out his slightly wrinkled jacket because of bending over, and then walked to the two moving guests with a calm pace to greet and hug them.

"Congratulations Anthony!"

"haha, thank you."

Anthony Hopkins received the Oscar statuette, looked down at the trophy in his hand, and an emotion that he didn't know how to express filled his heart.

As usual, I took the trophy and gestured to the audience, and then began to express my gratitude routinely, thanking the organizing committee, thanking the judges, thanking Hollywood, thanking the director and crew members, thanking the fans and so on.

In other people's territory, if you win an award, you have to say something nice, and everyone praises each other.

After finishing his acceptance speech, the host came up with the microphone and joked a few more words: "Anthony, I thanked so many people just now, which was a little too deliberate. At this moment, do you have anyone you want to thank the most? Is there anything you want to say to the audience in front of the TV?"

"I'm really grateful for this."

Anthony Hopkins seemed a little serious, with a little bit of honesty in his smile, which was very different from the image of Uncle Ba in her movie.

"Oh? Then you won the Oscar for Best Actor after filming this movie. May I ask Mr. Anthony, what is your plan for the future? Will you continue to bring any surprise roles to fans?"

Anthony Hopkins raised his eyebrows and finally asked the question. This is the process that every winner will go through after the heavyweight awards are awarded. The acceptance speech talks about the past and the present, but now the host asked is the future plan.

"Haha. I am planning to return to China recently. My hometown Wales is a very beautiful place. In recent years, my hometown has also made great progress, and even produced an internationally renowned director."

(End of this chapter)