Cultivate a male god: After listening to persuasion, I became a top-notch

Chapter 547 Come, strengthen America!

In Li Youzhi's memory, the movie "Parasite" is definitely a landmark Oscar-winning work in his time and space.

Why do you say that?
Because this film won four major awards at that year's Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Film, as a foreign language film!

It can be said that this film, at its core, fully meets all the expectations of the United States and the West for excellent films.

What does an excellent film look like in the eyes of the American and Western literary and art circles?
If we simply summarize it, there are roughly these few points:

The narrative should be mainstream Western, but the characters should be marginal. The story perspective should be unique, but the ending should be abstract!
It may sound hard to understand, but if you break it down, even a fool can understand it, that is...

First, don't try to talk about cultural subtlety with Hollywood. They stubbornly believe in the Western drama structure and don't like anything that deviates too much from their cognition. Therefore, the narrative structure follows the three-act structure of commercial blockbusters, that is, the event, development and ending!
Second, you should not put a normal person as the protagonist in the story, you have to incorporate some social scraps into it, so that you can reflect the so-called struggle of human nature and conflict of ideas!

Third, you can’t openly talk about universal values. Can something that is accepted by the majority be called art? That’s just vulgarity!
The fourth thing is... the ending of your story cannot be too happy. You have to make the characters struggling in the story die a miserable death or even be unable to live or die in the end. Only in this way can your story reflect its depth!
Well, this is the basic framework of a story that Oscar likes.

What a coincidence.

The movie "Parasite" perfectly meets all the criteria of "a story that Oscars will love"!

What does this movie tell? In simple terms, it is about a poor boy from a low-income family who accidentally enters the living environment of a rich person by chance. Then, through scheming and deception, he brings his whole family into a rich family, and lives like a parasite in this rich family, which eventually leads to a tragedy, revealing the huge gap between the rich and the poor in Korean society.

The structure is typical enough, the characters are marginal enough, the story perspective is unique enough, and the ending is abstract enough!
Through the comparison between Ki-woo's family and President Park's family, the film explores social issues such as the gap between the rich and the poor and class conflicts. By comparing the living conditions of the rich and the poor, as well as the mutual harm among the poor, the film deeply reflects social reality.

In terms of artistic expression, the film uses a very obvious Western perspective to tell the fusion of Asian stories, and uses a lot of audio-visual features and artistic techniques that Hollywood audiences and critics like: for example, the contrast of light and color is used to show the living conditions of the rich and the poor, and a lot of classic Hollywood lens language and composition are used to convey the theme... It can be said that this film is aiming for an Oscar.

But for Li Youzhi, can he win an Oscar with this?
too young too simple!

The fact that "Parasite" won an Oscar that year was actually more of a rebellious trend in the Hollywood Academy. But at the same time, it also contained the mentality of white people looking down on the lower-class foreign people and showing them some sympathy like zoogoers do to monkeys, and by the way, showing off how loving they are.

In Li Youzhi's opinion, it is not safe to win an Oscar with just these.

Apart from the story, the most important thing, the most important thing... is that you have to be politically correct!
What is so-called political correctness?
The sensitive topics in American society, the market demand that can attract attention or make Hollywood stars kowtow, the idea that capital needs the film industry to give way...it's very complicated.

For example, let’s take the 82nd Academy Awards; the films nominated for Best Picture include "The Hurt Locker," "Avatar," "Inglourious Basterds," "Love Actually," "Unresolved," "An Education," "District 9," "A Serious Man," "Up," and "The Blind Side."

Among these films, the one with the best audience reputation and the most beautiful story is definitely "Up", which topped all the Hollywood word-of-mouth lists that year. The best box office is definitely "Avatar", which has a global cumulative box office of nearly 3 billion US dollars and has set several box office records in one go.

But in the end, the Oscar for Best Picture was given to "The Hurt Locker".

Do you think "The Hurt Locker" is good? It's just so-so. Do you think it has any substance? It's just a rehash of the same old tune.

But that year, anti-war was the main social tone in the United States, and withdrawal of troops was the call of the American public, so "The Hurt Locker" had to win the Oscar.

For example, at the 89th Academy Awards, the films nominated for Best Picture include "Moonlight", "Arrival", "Hacksaw Ridge", "Hidden Figures", "Lion", "Fences", "La La Land", "Hell or High Water", and "Manchester by the Sea".

In terms of IP popularity and artistry, La La Land is almost unrivaled. In terms of spiritual promotion, Hacksaw Ridge, adapted from historical facts, can be said to be the king of American mainstream music. In terms of exploring human nature, Manchester by the Sea has almost reached the ceiling in this area.

But there was no way out. That year, the tanning movement and topics about minority groups were rampant, and "Moonlight", which had the triple buffs of [ethnic minorities], [youth], and [gender identity]... could only sweep away everything and wear the yellow robe.

Isn’t it awkward?
Oh! It's just so awkward.

This is the so-called Western values ​​of independence, democracy and freedom, the unstoppable political correctness.

With this idea in mind, Li Youzhi began a bold and crazy rewrite of "Parasite";

In the original story, the protagonist Ki-woo is a poor boy living in a semi-basement. His parents and sister Ki-jung are unemployed and live on odd jobs. Every day they have to endure drunks peeing against their windows, use the WiFi upstairs, and always have to be wary of toilets that back up sewage. Their life is so difficult that there is no hope in sight.

The other family, that is, the family of President Park in the original novel, lives in a super luxury house designed by a famous architect. It has a beautiful and elegant wife, a well-behaved daughter, a smart son, and a driver and a nanny.

In the original novel, these two families represent the two extremes of Korean society, but in American society, Li Youzhi feels that this is not enough!

Is the poor boy representative? No! He must be given a minority identity that suppresses his true orientation, and let the male protagonist live in the double oppression of material and spiritual!
Is it a problem in American society for a sister and a father and mother who don't have stable jobs? There shouldn't be too many people like this on the street, okay?
It would be much more reasonable to simply label the sister as a cynical LGBT fighter who wants to fight against society but is oppressed and unemployed for a long time!

As for her father and mother... her father had served in the military and suffered from PTSD. He was an alcoholic with severe post-war trauma and a long-term alcoholic. Her mother was an EMO aunt who was depressed and flirted every day because her husband was away from home for a long time and she was out of tune with American society...

As for the other rich family, they were simply portrayed as an upper-class white family that made a fortune from financial transactions on Wall Street, and the audience naturally hated Yara.

In another movie, which did not appear until the second half, Ki-woo's family was parasitic on the hidden family of a rich family. They were directly portrayed as a black couple who had to live in the hidden basement of a rich family to avoid high debts due to investment bankruptcy.

What the hell!

After a lot of typing, an hour and a half later, Li Youzhi was shocked when he saw the finished script in his hands.

If a script like this, with so many buffs and even overflowing elements, doesn't win an Oscar... that would be really unfair.

After all, this is the first time I feel scared when reading a script I wrote myself...

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After saving the script, Li Youzhi directly opened the core management group of Heguang Tongchen and sent it out!

Although it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening, based on Li Youzhi's understanding of his group of rebellious sons, he was sure that no one would be asleep at this time.

as expected,

Not long after Li Youzhi sent out his script, the group became lively.

Agricultural University Storm: Brother Zhi, are you going to make a new film? I was thinking whether I should call you. My friends from Tongchen Society and Heguang and I have been working on the Oscar official website all night. Don't worry, I will definitely get you back! Damn it, let's work on him for a week to vent your anger!
The godfather is gone, the original god starts (Zhou Yuan): Brother Zhi, didn't you say you were going out for dinner with Mr. Tu tonight? I saw the status you posted on your mobile phone. Don't take the matter of "Buried" seriously. It's just an Oscar. What's the big deal if you win it or not? Have a good rest and work on the new film later. What's the script for this new film?

Wang Stephen Hui: Oh shit, I spent the whole day packing. I’ve been in Los Angeles for a month, and my waist is a little sore from going to nightclubs. The American big V8 is just very fuel-consuming. I can finally go back home for maintenance.

Wang Stephen Hui: I am in distress. For someone like me who has lost his virginity, how can I get along with all you pure love gods when I go back?

Wang Stephen Hui: Oh, it's a pity that you didn't come... What kind of script is this godfather? Wright took a look... Damn! This script is so exciting, if it is filmed, won't it make a sensation in Hollywood? Brother, when are you going to shoot this movie, and where are you going to shoot it?

Li Youzhi chuckled as he saw several rebellious people in the group coming online one after another.

Seeing that Liu Meng was still leading his friends to compete for the Oscars, Li Youzhi felt warm in his heart.

Although I’m busy with work now and can’t hang out with my friends every day like before, my friends are always paying attention to my movements, and when there’s something... my friends are really there to help!
After looking through the avatars of several friends, Li Youzhi finally fixed his eyes on Liu Meng.

Now the division of labor in Heguang Culture is quite clear. Zhou Yuan is responsible for the operation of the branch company. He is in Shanghai to handle matters including Heguang Culture's external liaison, public relations, business communication, securities and the operation of Heguang's audio-visual division.

He is the core steward of the company and cannot be easily moved.

Wang Hui is now in Hollywood. According to Li Youzhi's idea, he wants this guy to take charge of the company's future overseas market operations, copyright exports and other business frameworks.

As for Liu Meng, he is more responsible for the coordination of film and television production, as well as the personnel management of the internal team.

As for Tu Su Su, he is basically just a brick that is moved wherever he is needed.

If we want to make "Parasite" this time, the filming location must be in the United States.

Li Youzhi definitely doesn't trust the team in Hollywood. It has nothing to do with their status. The main reason is that the working atmosphere and team there are not easy to lead. There are too many problems. And they are restricted by various unions.

What kind of temper does Zhige have?

Revenge is not the end of the page!

This time we have been targeted by the Oscar jury, so let’s resolve this matter before this year’s selection.

There are still four months left until this year's Oscars. If we use time and hire the production team of Wako Culture, "Parasite" can be easily produced.

With this idea in mind, Li Youzhi directly clicked on the avatars of Liu Meng and Wang Hui.

Don't disturb me if you don't have anything to do. If you have something to do, call me: "Mengzi, you should prepare yourself. Take a good look at the script and prepare a team for me as quickly as possible. We are going to the United States to shoot this time. After you have selected the people, tell the brothers. We may be away for one or two months. Huizi, you should also take a good look at the script. Before our team arrives, you and Subona should sort out the shooting and framing issues over there."

Seeing that Li Youzhi was talking about serious matters, the two rebellious sons who were named quickly responded with an OK gesture.

At eleven o'clock, the Chengdu Agricultural University staff housing building and the Heguang Culture Dormitory were still brightly lit.

Wearing a vest and shorts, Liu Meng returned to his room and silently opened the script of "Parasite" in the group.

Wearing noise-cancelling headphones to block out the noise and shouting from his friends outside who were organizing an attack on the Oscars official website, Liu Meng quietly lit a cigarette and concentrated on reading the script.

After reading the script carefully from beginning to end, Liu Meng blinked his eyes... Damn, this script story... It's awesome!

It’s just… there seems to be a pit in Bilibili, there seems to be shit in the pit, and the shit seems to be damn poisonous!

What does Zhige want to do?
With this doubt, Liu Meng silently clicked on Li Youzhi's shaking hand. His eyes fell on the comments section of the latest dynamics, and the comments of several silly people who liked the most;

"...Even if Buried is nominated, it doesn't meet the criteria for this year's Oscars. How can we play with such a version? Otherwise... the guy goes to Thailand to change his personality?"

“Pfft! You were such a clever fellow before… But in this version of the Oscars, piling up buffs on yourself is a very effective way to win an award. If you want to win an Oscar, I suggest you turn yourself into an LGBTQIA+ first, like a heterosexual bisexual woman or a Wal-Mart plastic bag or something, hahahaha!”

"Don't just do it alone! Look at how the Oscars rules have changed. How can a guy succeed alone? I suggest that all LGBTQIA+ members of Wako Culture collectively transform into armed helicopters. This way, the chances of winning an Oscar will be at least 50%. Haha!"

Staring at these highly praised comments with his small eyes for a while, Liu Meng suddenly waved his hand and slapped the two strong hairy legs!

"I understand! Zhuo! Godfather, I understand! Wonderful, wonderful! Hahahaha..."

Suddenly figuring out something, Liu Meng stood up, opened the core group leader group of Heguang Tongchen on his phone, edited an announcement directly, and sent it out; "@Everyone, new work has come. Zhige's new film is a drama, and the filming location is in the United States. It will take about two months to go abroad on a business trip. Hurry up and organize the best people, and go to apply for passports together tomorrow!"

Late at night, seeing Brother Mengzi’s announcement, the group and the team leaders of various departments of Heguang Culture instantly became excited!

"What a big job! Going out to the world and seeing the world, I have to go. The camera crew is fine, they are all here!"

"Fuck Genshin, I'm going to play with foreign girls! Brother Mengzi, please take me with you! All of our costume team is on standby!"

"Me, me, me! Brother Meng, I can do it! The props team is waiting to be called at any time!"

Ok……

Seeing several core team leaders expressing their opinions, Liu Meng nodded with satisfaction.

Then, the text editing box opened.

"Very good, very motivated. But this time when we go to the United States, we need an elite team, with quality people in each group rather than quantity. Here, I would like to make a few requests. If you feel qualified, go private, and if you can't, stay at home and defend the tower."

Looking at the large number of "Brother Mengzi, please give me instructions" that suddenly appeared in the group, Liu Meng took a deep breath.

[If you are introverted, have a sense of shame, or are not perverted enough, please don't come... I need a neat team! ]

"..."

Seeing the specific requirements that Liu Meng had bolded and enlarged, the group instantly fell silent.

(⊙⊙)(⊙ω⊙)(⊙⊙)(⊙ω⊙)
However, this silence only lasted for two seconds.

Two seconds later, the core management group of Heguang Culture’s WeChat and Liu Meng’s WeChat private chat interface… were in an uproar!

……

Time flies, and the days when we can't pretend to be cool pass by in a flash.

In a blink of an eye, ten days passed.

At the exit of Los Angeles International Airport, Wang Hui, standing on tiptoe, looked expectant and anxious as he watched the bustling crowd.

Due to his lack of height, he had to hold the pick-up sign in his hand high up, for fear that people coming out of the exit would not be able to see the words "Young people of Wako Culture, gather here" written in Chinese characters.

Beside him, Subona, who was leaning against the door of a minibus that was picking up the airport, smacked his lips at Wang Hui's anxious look.

"Hey, Hui. There's no need to be so nervous. There's a banner on the car. I guarantee that everyone who comes here this time will be able to spot us at first sight. And don't you have their WeChat? Even though we're abroad, we're still in contact. The security in Los Angeles during the day is still very good, so you don't have to worry about them getting lost."

"You know nothing!"

Turning his head and glaring at the foreigner holding a glass of iced American coffee, Wang Hui curled his lips, feeling sad that even his gender had been confiscated by Li Youzhi.

"My brothers are usually used to staying at home. Going to the mall to buy clothes is considered a long trip. I don't know how nervous they must be when they go abroad this time. How would they feel if they don't see their relatives when they go out to a foreign country?"

"Besides, I've seen what the airport staff here in Los Angeles are like. When we first arrived, they asked me all sorts of questions when they saw that I was Chinese, making me feel like I was undercover in America. If they get harassed, they can just send me a message when they see me here, right?"

"uh-huh,"

Hearing Wang Hui say this, Subona shrugged his shoulders.

Although in his opinion, Wang Hui's concerns were still a bit chaotic, they did make some sense.

Strictly speaking, he is now also a non-staff employee of Heguang Culture. He had met those young people of Heguang Tongchen before when he was in China. Indeed... Just like what Wang Hui said, they are all very introverted.

Even though the domestic entertainment industry unanimously agrees that Heguang Culture's business standards are surprisingly high, in Subona's opinion, these guys who follow Li Youzhi around and protect him are more like kids who haven't graduated from school, rather than top practitioners in the entertainment industry - this is completely different from any domestic entertainment company he has ever come into contact with.

"Hey?"

Just as Subona was thinking this, he suddenly saw a crowd of people moving inside the airport exit door.

It seems that some kind of riot is happening.

"What's wrong? Hui, are your classmates coming out?"

In response to Subona's reminder, Wang Hui slapped his thigh.

"Cou, judging by the time, it should be. Maybe they are being harassed by the airport police again. Are these guys being stubborn? Old Su, come with me and take a look!"

"OK."

As Wang Hui waved, Subona quickly threw the coffee in his hand into the trash can beside him, held the sign, squeezed through the crowd, and walked to the front of the airport exit.

However, just as he squeezed to the front row amid the national curse of "FK", the scene in front of him... shocked Subona!

I saw... a group of people... wearing colorful and strange clothes, with cyber-style eye shadow and nails... at the exit, they were surrounding the two Los Angeles airport patrol officers.

The leader was a bearded man who was about 1.9 meters tall, with muscular body and nails painted in rainbow colors!
He, she, it... was now looking down at the chest of one of the inspectors, his eyes wide open and spit flying;
"Please repeat what you just said to me, your father? What did you call me?"

Faced with the bearded man's aggressive accusations, the patrol officer who was a whole size smaller than him, her, it... was about to cry.

"Sir... I don't mean anything else. I just want to temporarily check your carry-on luggage. As it's your first entry, this is a necessary procedure..."

"Fuck you! How can you define my gender?! Ah? Based on my passport? I'm telling you, this is America! In China, they call me sir and I don't say anything. But now I'm in America, take a good look at my features, why are you calling me that?"

"..."

The inspector could no longer hold his breath as the bearded man grabbed his collar tightly.

Faced with the pitiful look of the poor guy begging for mercy, the big man pushed him away.

"Remember! My fucking gender is Type 055 destroyer! FKoff (get out of here)!"

"OK\OK..."

As the inspectors breathed a sigh of relief, the big man adjusted his feather vest that looked more attractive than a peacock and picked up his luggage.

"Yo!"

It was not until this time that he saw Wang Hui and Su Bona holding pick-up signs.

"Brother Hui, Lao Su! Hey, I thought you two weren't here yet! Come on, family, this way, this way! Brother Hui, where is the car? We are so damn tired, hurry up and get us a hotel. Didn't you say you have sublimated here these few days? Please, Pure Love God of War, this lunch is on you!"

"what……"

()
Wang Hui was completely confused when he saw Liu Meng leading a group of monsters and demons striding towards him.

On the side, Subona also swallowed hard and looked silently at Wang Hui's distorted profile.

"Hui, this is what you call an introvert. This is what you call... a stay-at-home?"

"I think the genders my boss assigned to me are fancy enough. They should look... more unrestrained... right?"

Hearing Subona's sigh of feeling unwell, Wang Hui smacked his lips.

Minato,

I originally wanted to meet this group of rebellious guys to show off and talk about the driving experience of the American big V8 here, but now... I seem to be a little behind the version, damn it!

Brother Zhi...my dear father!

What the hell is going on! ?
……

Beep!
Received the additional surprise value of [Chaos] and [Crazy] from Wang Hui, 68 points, 68 points, 68 points...

Shanghai International Airport.

VIP waiting lounge.

Sitting on the sofa in the VIP waiting area, Li Youzhi, who was wearing a baseball cap, a refreshing casual outfit, and sunglasses, raised his eyebrows when he heard a clear prompt from the system.

Looking at the WeChat message from Wang Hui that was sent almost at the same time as the system prompt, he couldn't hold back his smile.

Come on!
This wave of brother Mengzi...6 wow!
I just said a few days ago that I would stand on the path of the best version this time, but now it seems that I am not standing on the path of the best version at all...

This is definitely aimed at leading the version to the peak!
Looking at the group photo sent by Wang Hui, which was comparable to the style of the demon cave in Journey to the West, and the friends with broken legs, Li Youzhi downloaded the photo with a grin and opened his own Douyin.

[According to the suggestions of netizens, a team has been formed with all members standing on the American version of T0. I am also waiting for the flight and will leave for Los Angeles soon. I would like to ask the almighty netizens online, what should I do next to win the Oscar? Waiting online, it’s urgent. ]

Shaking hands.

In the middle of the day, after seeing Li Youzhi’s team-building photo that looked like a bunch of monsters, I argued with the Koreans on the Oscars official website for ten days. By the way, the netizens who had been following the Oscars for ten days... were furious!
(End of this chapter)