Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 429 The old Oscar
Cheng Qingsong's exclusive interview with Zhang Yuanjun was compiled and posted on his personal Weibo three days before the opening of this year's Oscars, titled "Conversation with Zhang Yuanjun—Oscar Game Rules."

The scale of the article is slightly larger, and Zhang Yuanjun’s vague disdain for the Oscars particularly attracted the attention of netizens.

In particular, Zhang Yuanjun's sentence "In terms of pure image expression, European art films are better than Oscars" was highlighted in bold by Chen Qingsong.

At that time, Zhang Yuanjun explained to Chen Qingsong the "rules of the game" of the Oscars in detail, including 200 million yuan to buy the shortlist, 1000 million yuan to buy the award, and 2000 million yuan to buy the grand prize, as well as criticism of the "Artist" movie itself and Harvey Weinstein behind it. The article said nothing about it.

At the end of the article, Zhang Yuanjun’s personal predictions for the five Oscars this year include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Actor, and Best Foreign Language Film.

Chen Qingsong is not a big V. Netizens paid attention to his article. Although they had some opinions on some of Zhang Yuanjun's views, it did not cause any turmoil on the Internet.

Every year before the Oscars, many people will make two predictions and two comments, and netizens are not surprised.

But Zhang Yuanjun couldn't help but smile bitterly after reading the article.

There is now a mysterious admiration for Oscars and overseas markets in China, as if whoever can achieve success in overseas markets, especially the American market, has become the pride of Chinese-language films.

There are too many people leaning on this big tree to eat. Even if Zhang Yuanjun, a child, unveiled this new layer of shame, no one would admit it, and the public would consciously forget it.

In fact, more often than not, it’s like this article. You said it, but I don’t post it, or I cut off the beginning and end, and delete the content I don’t want to read. It’s as if you didn’t say it.

Zhang Yuanjun finished reading this article, and he didn't care at all.

However, he still accepted Weibo's invitation and promised to write a special review for it after the Oscars.

Weibo promised that as long as Zhang Yuanjun does not curse in the article, they will publish the full text without changing a word.

At 27 a.m. on the 8th, East Eighth District time, the 84th Academy Awards ceremony opened.

Kodak, which had filed for bankruptcy protection, was unable to pay the high theater naming fee. It was called the Kodak Theater for 10 years and had no choice but to change its name to the Highland Center in a few years.

Zhang Yuanjun has no interest in this year's Oscars. He has made good guesses about the awards. He has already written the article and is waiting for the awards to be awarded before sending it directly to the editor.

Seeing him leaning on the sofa and reading a book, Liu Yifei asked curiously: "Isn't it Oscar? Don't you want to read it?"

"It's not interesting if you don't look at it."

But Liu Yifei wanted to watch it. It was rare to get up so early today just to watch the award ceremony.

Turn on the TV, and on the screen the handsome old man Michael Douglas is awarding the Best Director award:
"The Oscar goes to Michel Hazanavicius."

"Look, I guessed it right." Zhang Yuanjun put down the book, "The best director was given to "The Artist", and it can't win the best picture. According to Oscar convention, the best director and the best picture are not separated."

After the Best Director award, this year's Best Actress nominee Meryl Streep took the stage to present the Honorary Award and the Humanitarian Award, and then Billy Crystal introduced a session to commemorate the deceased filmmaker.

Then, Natalie Portman, who won the Best Actress Award last time, came on stage to present the Best Actor Award: "The winner is Jean Dujardin, "The Artist."

"Another one." Zhang Yuanjun said.

Jean Dujardin is a Frenchman. This is his first Oscar nomination. He was very happy when he won the first nomination.

His first words on stage were: "I love your country." The audience laughed.After Jean Dujardin gave a speech and left the stage, the previous best actor Colin Firth came on stage to present the Best Actress Award: "The winner is Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady."

"There's no surprise." Zhang Yuanjun stood up and wanted to leave.

"Sit down and watch it with me." Liu Yifei said.

The live broadcast said that this was her 17th Oscar nomination and her third win.

"She is so amazing." Liu Yifei exclaimed.

"It's very powerful." But for some reason, Zhang Yuanjun just didn't like her.

There is no doubt about Meryl's acting skills, and she can be said to be one of the best actresses in the world. However, in Zhang Yuanjun's evaluation, there are at least 4 actresses in the international film industry who can compete with her. They are: : France’s Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche, Britain’s Helen Miller, Australia’s Cate Blanchett.

And his favorites are the two from France.

The awards ceremony came to an end, and Tom Cruise announced that the best picture belonged to "The Artist".

Zhang Yuanjun set a timer to send in his mailbox and went out to rehearse at the theater.

"Ah, it's really boring. There's no surprise at all." Liu Yifei felt bored after reading it.

At 2:[-] p.m., Weibo Movie published Zhang Yuanjun’s article.

This is an article that expresses emotions and is full of aggression.

The title is called "Oscar is Aging: Bored and Peeing Too Much".

Zhang Yuanjun set the tone for this Oscar in his first sentence: "This is another Oscar without any suspense. There are no surprises, no dark horses, no surprises, and no bright spots."

Zhang Yuanjun attacked the taste of old white men in the article: "The average age of Oscar judges is as high as 62 years old, and less than 40% of the judges are under 2 years old, and 60% are over 54 years old. The Academy has a total of 5783 judges , including 3122 judges over the age of 60. How can we expect these more than 3000 old people to appreciate "The Social Network"? Therefore, the 83rd Best Picture is "The King's Speech" instead of the more popular "The Social Network" " won the award. Similarly, these 3000 old people are unlikely to like films that are more suitable for young people's tastes such as "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "A Dangerous Method" and "Drive". The latter two films did not even receive an Oscar nomination. "

Then he criticized "The Artist" for speculation: "Because it caters to the psychology of old men in many ways. For old men, the silent film era is not far away from them, and it is easy to feel close to them psychologically. The kind of 'a' in the movie The situation of men suddenly not adapting to this era particularly touches the hearts of older men."

Then he insinuated that the United States is uneducated: "Americans' worship of Paris is the most serious. "The Artist" is a French movie with a strong French accent. The Oscar-winning film "An American in Paris" and "Zola" "Biography" and "Kiki" are all purely Parisian films. Part of the scenes of the first Oscar-winning film "Wings" are also in Paris. The spirit of "Spy" is in Paris, and the food of "Ratatouille" is in Paris. It is also said in American movies 'We'll always have Paris.'"

He then analyzed why the actress gave the film to Meryl Streep: "Meryl Streep's performance is the same as her previous performances. People who like her feel that she has penetrated into the soul of the character. People who don't like Her people will think that she is artificial and pretentious. You know, it is precisely the 'pretentiousness' and 'pretentiousness' that can convey the flavor of that bygone era, which is what those old men like and cherish. And the other On the one hand, both the Iron Lady and Henry V are important evidence of the old days of these old men.

"So, even if you don't watch the movie itself, you can definitely know that "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" that interests young people is unlikely to win an award. It may scare old people. And "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", which also plays the nostalgic card, will not win the award. "My Week with Marilyn" is also unlikely to win an award. Filming Monroe in such an ugly way completely destroyed the beautiful memories of these old men."

Zhang Yuanjun wrote at the end of the article, "Refuse to live in the old man's memories." However, he expressed pessimism about Oscar's future and predicted:

"The Oscars will not be better. Now the old man's memories are dominant. There will definitely be another wind that affects film creation later."

All the above views were published under the pseudonym Gong Changzhang, and his identity is "Weibo Film Special Writer".

(End of this chapter)