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

Chapter 557: You are so presumptuous!

There is never a shortage of marketing in the American entertainment industry.

In terms of commercialization, the United States, especially Hollywood, has always been leading the world. When it comes to marketing before a movie is released or at a premiere, Hollywood often comes up with classic cases that amaze and amaze audiences around the world.

But even in the American entertainment industry, which is so focused on marketing, the premiere of "Parasite", which turned the entire Times Square into a screening venue and was quite David Copperfield's magic show style, still seemed too advanced and explosive!
At Seventh Avenue and 48th Street, when Li Youzhi was seen on every big screen announcing that the movie would be shown for free for the next seven days, the scene was almost instantly engulfed by cheers and whistles!

Beep!
Received additional [surprise] and [excitement] surprise value, 712789 points!
On the stage of Seventh Avenue, as the entire block was bathed in cheers, Li Youzhi's ears were instantly alerted by the system's crediting of his stunning value.

Looking at every advertising screen in front of him, the opening credits of "Parasite" had begun to appear. Li Youzhi calmly turned off the lights and walked down from the stage, directing the attention of all the audience to the movie.

"Fuck, Brother Zhi is awesome! The atmosphere is so fucking exciting! It feels like... it feels like we've opened a large-scale film festival!"

"Wow, even the concert scene is not this awesome. Brother Zhi, this half a million dollars is worth it! When we make a movie next time, we will do the same thing when we release it in the United States!"

Wang Hui and Liu Meng, who had just stepped off the stage and were completely infected by the atmosphere, were so excited that their ears turned red, and they immediately rushed to Li Youzhi's side.

Hearing the two guys' excited shouts, Li Youzhi's handsome face drooped.

Minato,

You two idiots are fucking addicted. Do you really think Zhige is the richest man in the world?
Why is the scene so exciting tonight?
Is it because of the explosive premiere? Is it because of the unique format of the movie premiere?

Maybe this is one of the reasons... But the core reason why "Parasite" can catch the attention of these foreigners in such a short time is... It's free, Free!

Being held by the arms by his two extremely excited sons, Li Youzhi's heart was bleeding as he looked at the foreigners standing on both sides of Seventh Avenue and 48th Street, looking up and watching the opening scene of "Parasite" on the advertising screen...

Damn it, this is all the result of having money!

I am so heartbroken that I can’t even breathe!
Damn those old Bidens from the Film and Art Academy, they played dirty tricks on Zhi Ge, causing Zhi Ge to get fucked for free... I curse you all to have a collective orgasm tonight!!!
……

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Oscar Preparatory Committee did not collectively fail, but the situation has become a mess.

Upon learning that "Parasite" would hold its premiere in Times Square, Greens immediately called the review team of the Oscar Preparatory Committee to his office.

What are you doing?

Specialize in studying whether this wave of operations in "Parasite" is legal or not!

"How is it? Have you found any relevant regulations or previous cases?"

Seeing a group of old scholars in the review team with blurry eyes wearing reading glasses and flipping through the cases and amendment rules for understanding Oscar nominations, Greens was as anxious as a grasshopper on a hot pot.

No hurry,

He had already fully witnessed Li Youzhi's power before.

This guy is simply a troublemaker, and he is a troublemaker with a very purpose. This year's Oscars have finally gotten to this point. If this guy is nominated, who knows what kind of trouble he will cause!

Besides...

Although two months have passed since Li Youzhi's two previous incidents, the LGBTQ+ community in the United States is still venting their dissatisfaction with the Oscars and condemning the Academy on various social platforms.

Considering the current influence of LGBTQ+ on American society, Greens really did not dare to allow "Parasite", a film that has inherently won the favor of the LGBTQ community and ethnic minorities, to enter this year's Oscar selection.

If that were the case, it would be an absolute disaster for this year's Oscar selection!
Although the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the main body of the Oscar selection committee, the members of the committee all have their own opinions. In addition, 40% of the selection committee is not members of the Academy.

If such a politically correct film is really shortlisted and Li Youzhi, this big troublemaker, wins some award, then the Oscar, a golden signboard that has been shining for nearly a hundred years, will be tainted with shit!

Faced with Greens' anxious urging, several old scholars stopped turning the pages of the book, looked at each other, and shrugged their shoulders.

"Grins, I'm really sorry, we can't be sure whether the release of Parasite in this way complies with the rules. After all... there has been no precedent for this in the past few decades."

"Well, strictly speaking, the advertising screens on Seventh Avenue are indeed considered commercial screens. But when this rule was made, who could have expected that there would be such a lunatic who would broadcast his own expensively made movie on the advertising screens on Seventh Avenue?"

"In my opinion, Greens, you don't need to be so anxious. This director from China just held a gimmicky premiere. Even if he gets the nomination rules, it doesn't mean that his movie is eligible to be included in our nomination list. Movie fans all over the world know how high our Oscar nomination standards are. I mean, whether he can be nominated or not does not depend on whether he held the premiere according to the Oscar rules, but on the quality of his film, isn't it?"

Listening to the chatter of a few old scholars, Greens cursed inwardly, "Damn it".

But when he calmed down and thought about it, he felt that what these retired old guys who were slacking off in the Oscar organizing committee said made some sense.

Every year, Hollywood produces and releases thousands of films, but that doesn't mean that all of them are eligible to be included in the Academy Awards nomination list.

Thinking of this, he immediately picked up the phone and called Lindeman from the selection committee.

"Linde, where are you?"

The call was connected quickly, and when he heard Lindman's greeting on the other end, Greens immediately asked anxiously.

"Hey man, you should know it's 7pm now, this is not work time anymore. I'm naturally back to my private life, enjoying my well-deserved private time, what's up man?"

"Li Youzhi's movie is now premiering in Times Square in New York. I originally wanted to use the Oscar's screening rules to exclude him from the selection, but now it seems that he has found a loophole and exploited it. If you are like me and don't want to embarrass the Oscars and the Academy, you'd better organize your selection committee to go to Seventh Avenue to take a look, and use your selection committee's standards to exclude him from the selection!"

the other side.

"FK!"

In a high-end restaurant in Los Angeles, Lindman no longer cared about his manners when he heard Greens' reminder... or warning on the other end of the phone.

In front of his female companion across the table, he threw the knife and fork in his hand onto the table.

After decisively hanging up Greens' call, Lindman immediately opened the group of the film and television review group of the selection committee on INS.

"Members of the New York jury, I demand that you go to Seventh Avenue immediately to watch the premiere of Parasite and give me the film review score for this film as quickly as possible!"

"Please pay attention, gentlemen. Please cherish your praise. From my personal point of view, I don't want this film to be included in any of our nomination lists! Regardless of the content of the film itself or the technical level of the film!"

“Got it!”

"Sir, got."

Looking at the responses from several New York City film critics in the group, Lindemann let out a long breath and sat back in his chair.

But faced with a table full of delicious food, I just couldn't muster any appetite.

"Honey, what's wrong with you? What happened?"

Noticing that he looked troubled, the woman sitting opposite him put her hand over to him.

"I need to go to New York, you go back by yourself."

Faced with the tenderness conveyed by his female companion, Lindman could only give a forced smile.

Even though his female companion's high heels were touching his thighs under the table, Lindman was unable to concentrate.

He even felt that his heartbeat was becoming increasingly irregular, and in a trance he had an inexplicable premonition... a big pit filled with dog shit was gradually taking shape in his bright future.

……

Just as Lindman was feeling nervous, the story of "Parasite" had already begun on the big electronic screen at Seventh Avenue and 48th Street.

Amidst the upward gazes, the opening of the movie has been presented in front of every audience member!

The story of "Parasite" begins in a dark and damp basement;
In a dirty and messy neighborhood in Los Angeles, Ki-woo, a Korean immigrant family of four, lives in a basement so small that even sunlight can hardly get in.

In this country that did not belong to their family of four, they lived a poor and difficult life like mice.

In order to get free WIFI, Ki-woo and his sister Ki-jung even had to squat in the corner next to the toilet to search for the weak signal from their neighbors.

In order to make the basement cleaner, even if it is just psychologically cleaner, the family of four would open the window to let in the disinfectant smoke sprayed on the street.

The father of the family, Lao Jin, once served in the Marine Corps. After retiring, he became a taxi driver, but he lost his job because his taxi company went bankrupt.

Ki-woo's mother was once a shot put athlete, but because she only won a silver medal and was not taken seriously in her country, she was forced to retire and immigrated to the United States with her husband.

His elder brother Ki-woo failed the exams many times and had to review at home. His younger sister, who studied art, was unable to get a scholarship because of her family background and had to drop out of school because she could not afford the high tuition fees.

As one of many immigrant families, Ki-woo's family was in a terrible situation. The only stable job they could have was folding paper boxes and packaging them for the pizza shop upstairs.

Even for such low-paying jobs, wages are often deducted due to poor quality.

The fate of a family was completely changed because of a visit from Ki-woo.

On this day, a tall and handsome white classmate gave Ki-woo a "rock" that symbolizes good luck. But compared to the rock, a more practical thing is a job that a classmate who is about to study abroad introduced to Ki-woo - a math tutor for a rich family.

Faced with the lobbying of white classmates, Ki-woo was moved.

So, with the school certificate forged by his sister Ji Ting, Ji Yu came to the mansion where his classmates said "the salary is very good and the hostess is very easy to talk to."

The moment he entered the mansion, Ki-woo was deeply attracted by everything he saw.

Just as the classmates said, the hostess was indeed a very simple and easy-to-talk-to person. She easily believed Ki-woo's PS-ed school certificate, and after observing Ki-woo tutoring her daughter, she readily hired him.

But this time, the harvest is far more than that. After finishing the tutoring and chatting with the hostess, Ki-woo learned that the hostess's youngest son could not find an art teacher for tutoring because he was too naughty.

The little trouble that the hostess, Mrs. Lawrence, mentioned inadvertently gave Ji Yu a bold idea. Since he could get into this wealthy family and get a high-paying job by forging a certificate, why couldn't his sister Ji Ting?
So, a junior school girl who "once studied at the Department of Applied Arts at the University of Illinois" was recommended to the hostess, Mrs. Lawrence.

The opening of Parasite is not that great. Like all feature films, it introduces a lot of character relationships and lays the groundwork within the limited length of the opening.

But as a feature film, the film is thoughtful in its opening foreshadowing, and employs a lot of "tightrope walking" suspense film expression techniques.

This form of presentation is enough to catch the attention of audiences who are watching the movie for the first time!
"Please make way, please make way."

"Hey man, can't you just stand there and watch? There are dozens of screens here, damn, you stepped on my shoe!"

"Hey! You rude guy!"

"sorry Sorry!"

On both sides of the Seventh Avenue and 48th Street, while passers-by were watching the big screen showing Ki-woo's family celebrating his high salary, several figures in suits and ties hurriedly crowded in front of the largest screen.

Amid the complaints from the people around them, several people simultaneously took out their shorthand notebooks from their briefcases as they watched the movie that had just begun.

Amid the heavy breathing of several people and the sweat that kept oozing out of their foreheads, the plot of the movie continued;

With Ki-woo's introduction and assistance, Ki-ting, who disguised herself as a top student at a famous art academy, successfully won the trust of Mrs. Lawrence with her own artistic talent.

Even Mr. Lawrence, who had a successful career in the Wall Street securities circle, was quite impressed by her so-called "art therapy" which did not exist in any discipline at all, and specially sent his driver to take her home.

The characteristics of family members are inheritance and similarity in behavior and thinking.

On the way home, sitting in the spacious and comfortable back seat of the Maybach, feeling the luxury and style of the rich, Ji Ting's eyes were focused on the driver who was concentrating on driving.

She thought of her father who was unemployed and used to be a taxi driver.

So, while the driver wasn't paying attention, a pair of cheap underwear "accidentally" fell under the back seat of the car...

Soon, this "evidence" was discovered by Mr. Lawrence, and the driver was fired as expected.

Taking this opportunity, Keating recommended Lao Jin to the Lawrence family. Of course, his identity had been re-edited. He was no longer Lao Jin, who suffered from post-war stress syndrome and long-term alcoholism. Instead, he was "Mr. Jin", who had rich driving experience and had served several officials and dignitaries.

In this way, three of the four members of the family successfully parasitized the Lawrence family's mansion by using their forged identities.

Experiencing the luxurious and comfortable life of the Lawrence family firsthand, and looking at the only nanny in this wealthy family who did not belong to their own family, Lao Jin and his two sons naturally became interested.

When Ki-woo learned from Miss Lawrence that the black nanny in the family was allergic to peaches, a conspiracy jointly carried out by the father and his two sons began to be implemented;
First, Ji Ting secretly sprinkled peach fuzz into the nanny's collar, causing the nanny to have skin allergy and go to the hospital for treatment.

Then Mr. Jin lied to Mrs. Lawrence, saying that he saw the nanny in the respiratory department of the hospital and accidentally heard that she had contracted tuberculosis.

Then, it was Ki-woo who poured peach juice into the nanny’s water cup, causing the nanny to have respiratory allergies and start coughing violently…

The result of this series of perfect coordination was that the black nanny was quickly dismissed by the simple and sensitive Mrs. Lawrence, and she became the last idle person in the old Jin family... Ki-woo's mother put on the fake identity of the gold medal nanny and successfully broke into the Lawrence mansion, joined forces with the other three members of the family, and completed the parasitism of the whole family!

The story has reached halfway point.

In front of Seventh Avenue, Dyson Will, a senior film critic from the Oscar Content Selection Committee, frowned as he watched the Ki-woo family on the big screen successfully parasitizing Lawrence's mansion, enjoying everything in the Lawrence family with fake identities and expressing their pride with their eyes.

When he arrived, he had already received instructions from Lindemann.

It can be said that he ran to Seventh Avenue this time and watched the movie together with a group of pedestrians who had no movie-watching etiquette at all, just to find fault.

But he has already watched half of the movie, and so far... the notebook in his hand is still completely blank.

The reason for this is... in the first half of the movie, Dyson couldn't find anything to criticize!

Hollywood movies are now divided into two distinct camps: either commercial to the point of vulgarity or artistic to the point of aloofness. Marvel movies are very popular, but it is hard to say that such movies have any artistic value. Some academic movies are also very good, but this type of movie disdains any commercial expression and likes to use the camera to talk to itself, expressing the creator's personal views without any reverence.

Without commenting on whether these two types of movies are good or bad, we can only say that they express art while not giving up good commercial elements. This attribute is extremely lacking in Hollywood today.

But now, in Dyson's eyes, the "Parasite" in front of him has undoubtedly done it!

Looking at the first half of the movie, whether it is from the perspective of narrative, camera language, or character creation and expression, "Parasite" can be said to be extremely beautiful and exquisite!
It uses almost the most standard commercial film framework to tell a gripping and bizarre story, and at the same time...it also accompanies the film with a very sophisticated and artistic lens language.

What kind of feeling is this?

Let's put it this way, it's like a blind date. You go to the restaurant with the mentality of just showing your cards to your face, explaining to your mom, and then leaving.

It turned out that the blind date partner was a very beautiful girl, well-educated, with positive values, who was capable of both housework and housework, had a formal job and could support herself, and who did not ask for a dowry and was not picky!
This is so fucking embarrassing!
Jingle Bell,

Just as Dyson was absorbed in watching the movie, his cell phone rang.

Seeing that it was Lindman calling, he picked up the phone immediately.

"Hey, Dyson. You should be on Seventh Avenue by now, right?"

Hearing Lindemann's question on the other end of the phone, Dyson immediately perked up;

"Mr. Lindemann, I'm already forty minutes in. In fact, I just missed the beginning of the film. I'm watching it now, sir."

"Very good, Dyson. What do you think of this film? Is it technically OK if we exclude it from the nominations?"

"Forehead……"

Faced with Lindman's question, Dyson was speechless for a moment.

Just as he was thinking about how to explain his feelings about the film to Lindemann, the plot of "Parasite" on the big screen had already reached the first turning point of the story... and the climax!

Ki-woo's family successfully broke into the mansion and got high-paying and comfortable jobs.

But the youngest son of the rich family discovered something wrong with their family.

"Same, they all have the same smell! Teacher Jessica, Driver Kim, the nanny, and Teacher Ki-woo all have the same smell."

Little Lawrence's innocent words made the four members of the old Jin family break out in cold sweats.

But Mrs. Lawrence, who was simple-minded, did not take these childish words seriously.

To be safe, Lao Jin discussed using different soaps and washing powders to create different smells on their bodies. However, Ji Ting pointed out the impracticability of Lao Jin's idea.

"Dad, this isn't about the detergent and soap. It's the smell of this basement that's on us."

The family remained silent about the truth that Ji Ting accidentally revealed.

Little Lawrence's birthday is coming soon. In order to celebrate his youngest son's birthday, Lawrence, who is busy with work on weekdays, decides to take his whole family out camping.

Upon hearing the news, Lao Jin's family of four were secretly delighted - since the owner was not there, they could enjoy everything in the house as a matter of course.

After the Lawrence family left, they started the party.

After unscrupulously enjoying the bathtub that would never exist in the basement, the spacious bedroom, the comfortable bed and various facilities in the house, the family took out the most expensive-looking food in the refrigerator and talked about the Lawrence family.

"Although Mrs. Lawrence is a wealthy woman, she is still kind."

"Ha! What do you mean by being rich but kind? It should be said that I am kind because I am rich... If I had this much money, I would also be kind... Super kind! Look at the children from rich families, their clothes don't even have wrinkles. Money is like an iron... It irons everything flat, all the wrinkles... are ironed flat."

"This is our home now, and we feel very warm."

"Warm, do you feel warm? Well, if Mr. Lawrence suddenly comes back, you will immediately hide like a cockroach, right? Children, you know that as long as you turn on the lights at home in the middle of the night, all the cockroaches will hide, hahahaha... do you understand what I mean?"

"Fuck you, I can't stand it anymore. Cockroach? You said I'm a cockroach?"

"Um!"

Wow!

on the street.

Watching the big screen where Ki-woo's mother was drunk and complaining about the family's identity, Old Jin was obviously furious after being stung, but because he couldn't beat his wife, who was an athlete and was forcing a fake smile, Dyson was like being struck by lightning and was petrified in the crowd!

"Dyson! Hey, damn, can't you hear me? I'm asking you a question. Tomorrow morning, I need you to submit the committee's evaluation of this film. Do you understand me?

This movie should never be included in our nomination list, but given the attention paid to this movie by the damn LGBTQ community and those damn perverts, we need a professional and convincing reason to prevent those guys from making trouble at the Oscars! Hey, what's wrong with you? Is the signal bad? "

On the other end of the phone, Dyson's eyes, which still had a hint of surprise, flickered slightly as he listened to Lindman's questioning and urging.

Faced with the urging from the other end of the phone, he took a deep breath.

"Mr. Lindeman, I can tell you responsibly... this is a joke!"

"Oh? That's your take on the film? Great, Dyson, that's what I wanted to hear..."

Hearing Lindeman's delighted voice on the other end of the phone, Dyson shook his head and said firmly, word by word;

"Sir, the joke I mentioned is not about the movie itself. It would be a huge joke if this movie could not be nominated for this year's Oscars! Sir, if you ask me to evaluate it from a professional perspective, all the movies produced and released in Hollywood this year cannot be compared with this movie in terms of artistry, commerciality and core. I can even say now... the best way to make the Oscars shine again and get rid of the criticism of the credibility of the award in recent years is to give this year's Best Picture Award to Parasite!"

At around eight o'clock, after hearing Dyson's decisive evaluation, the smiling Lindemann felt... numb!
(End of this chapter)