director of the millennium

Chapter 73 "The Undertaker" Released

["Beautiful Mind" was not affected by adverse rumors at all and became the biggest winner of this Oscar! 】

[Winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay, "A Beautiful Mind" won the Oscars this year! 】

[Denzel Washington Yixue the shame of the 73rd "Hurricane" and won the Best Actor Award in one fell swoop! 】

[The first black Best Actress in Oscar history was born, and Halle Berry was crowned Oscar queen! 】

["Juno" won one of four nominations and won the Best Original Screenplay Award! 】

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Judging from the results alone, the audience still had some surprises about the awarding of the 74th Academy Awards.

In the past, although the Academy Award was one of the most authoritative film awards in the world, it was actually the same as the Golden Rooster Award, and it was hard to escape the habit of sharing cakes.

But this year, the academy actually awarded the two most important awards of best film and best director to "A Beautiful Mind", which is really surprising.

It's like a miracle that both the Golden Bear for Best Picture and Best Director in Berlin were awarded to "The Undertaker".

A professional film critic spoke on the Internet after the awards ceremony: "The Oscars are no longer the Oscars. Maybe the audience is growing, maybe the movie is declining, maybe there are other reasons, people who understand the rules of the game I will make my own choice..."

Some people also commented dissatisfiedly: "It's really a coincidence that two blacks won the best actor and best actress award."

But all of this has nothing to do with Wu Yuan.

Fox Searchlight was pretty awesome, and they really got the PR award for Best Original Screenplay.

Although Wu Yuan knew that "Juno" would win this award in its original trajectory, after all, this is not the same year, and it faces different opponents, and the format and situation are also different.

In the end, "Juno" still won this award, which made Wu Yuan feel a little lucky.

It’s just that this movie was produced and released by Fox Searchlight after all. The mainstream media in Hollywood, celebrating the award-winning report of “Juno”, mainly praised Fox Searchlight and praised Fox Searchlight for its insight...

Don't ask, the question is that Fox Searchlight spent a lot of money to bribe reporters, but Wu Yuan didn't spend a dime.

So most of this Oscar honor, at least in North America, goes to Fox Searchlight.

On the contrary, in China, the news that Wu Yuan won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay spread across the streets and alleys of the country overnight.

Just after the Spring Festival holiday, Wu Yuan once again occupied the front pages of newspapers of all sizes across the country.

Wu Yuan, who was originally only a little famous in the country, has truly become the world's no one knows the king this time. From grandpas and aunts in their fifties and sixties to teenagers, they all know that Huaxia has a A very powerful director who has won many awards abroad
The picture of Wu Yuan holding the statuette once again massacred domestic newspapers.

If Weibo existed in this era, he would definitely occupy the top spot on Weibo for a week!

Unfortunately, Internet entertainment in this era is still relatively poor, and people mainly obtain information through TV sets and newspapers.

But thanks to the constant news on TV and newspapers about Wu Yuan winning an Oscar, "The Executioner", which was released in China for half a month, once again ushered in a wave of movie-watching craze!
When Wu Yuan was still in the United States, "The Embalmer" was officially released in China.

Carrying the title of the best director's work in Berlin, "The Undertaker" won a box office of 750 million in its first week of release.

In the literary film market, this result is already very impressive.

The total box office of "Happy Time" brought to Berlin by director Yimou is less than 700 million. This is still a film directed by Yimou.

That is to say, with the news enthusiasm of the Berlin International Film Festival, which attracted enough attention and curiosity, "The Undertaker" achieved a box office of 750 million in the first week.

Of course, this movie itself is indeed better than "Happy Time". Director Yimou's first commercial attempt failed.

Moreover, generally, when a movie is released, the box office must be the highest in the first week, and then the box office data begins to decrease. By the fourth week, there is basically no box office to be released.

But "The Undertaker" is different!
After the movie received 750 million box office in the first week, the audience who watched the movie, friends and relatives and the Internet all praised the movie as a good one!
"Although this is a literary film, the director didn't use any mystery or stream-of-consciousness plots in the film. He just told a good story that is simple but touching!"

"After watching this movie, I realized that there has always been a profession and group called "department masters", who silently do the finishing work for people at the last stop of their lives."

"The son who wanted to be a woman was accepted by his father, the grandmother who wanted to wear stockings put them on at the funeral, and the woman who had been a poor wife let her husband know her beauty after death. Thinking that all these dreams come true after death, I suddenly felt I feel like crying even more!"

"The most touching part of this movie is not about death and separation, but about reconciliation, reconciliation with the past, reconciliation with family members, and reconciliation with oneself."

"It was very humorous in the early stage and very tender in the later stage. I burst into tears in the cinema."

Perhaps 20 years from now, Chinese audiences will have seen too many movies that make people cry, and they will already be immune to it, and may even be somewhat resistant to it.

But at the moment in 2002, the last movie that made Chinese audiences cry to tears was called "Titanic". The box office of this movie in the mainland reached 3.6 million yuan.

The current Chinese audience really like touching movies with tears in them!

And the crying stories in "The Undertaker" are not only love, but also family, father-son, mother-daughter, healing and heart-warming!

After the first week of word-of-mouth fermentation, "The Embalmer" ushered in a box office explosion in its second week of release, earning a total of 1800 million at the box office, more than double the first week!
And in the third week, the news that Wu Yuan had won the Best Original Screenplay Award at the Academy Awards spread back to China.

The movie "Juno" cannot be seen by domestic audiences!
If domestic audiences want to understand Wu Yuan, why he won the best screenwriter award, and why he was able to make movies with hundreds of millions of dollars in box office abroad, then they can only go to the cinema and watch "The Embalmer"!
All these will find the answer in "The Undertaker"!

Ever since, when Wu Yuan took a plane back to China and set foot on the ground in the capital again, the mainland box office of "The Embalmer" had already exceeded 4000 million yuan!

This box office result is only 10 million short of breaking the 800-year box office record for mainland literary films held by "Farewell My Concubine"!
And the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies is still exploding, and the box office can increase by 300 million every day!

It can almost be said with certainty that this record, which has been maintained for ten years, will definitely be broken by "The Undertaker"!

Director Han, who came to pick up Wu Yuan at the airport, said excitedly after receiving Wu Yuan: "Director Wu, you are really the most popular director in the country now. Director Kege asked me to give you a message to praise your greatness. Woolen cloth!"

"Farewell My Concubine has kept the record for so many years, and finally someone can break it!"

"Where." Wu Yuan pursed his lips reservedly: "It's still incomparable with Director Ke Ge."

"Back then, a movie ticket for "Farewell My Concubine" was only 4 yuan, and the box office in the mainland was 4800 million, which is equivalent to mobilizing 1200 million people to go to the cinema to watch this movie!"

"The current ticket price of "The Undertaker" is 15 yuan a ticket, which is nearly four times the price of "Farewell My Concubine" at that time."

Although "The Undertaker" is sure to surpass "Farewell My Concubine" in terms of box office results, but in terms of the number of viewers, there is still a big gap between the two.

Wu Yuan is very clear in his heart, but he does not think that the box office performance of "The Embalmer" exceeds that of "Farewell My Concubine", which means that "The Embalmer" is more powerful and has more artistic value than "Farewell My Concubine".

Although the next few films that Director Kego will make are not very good, "Farewell My Concubine" is still worthy of Director Kego's lifetime praise as one of the top [-] films in global film history.

Han Dong smiled and looked at Wu Yuan, his eyes full of appreciation and approval.

This young man is good, he has not been dazzled by the hot results, and still maintains his consistent humility and calm character. He is really a beautiful treasure given to the Chinese film industry by God!

"By the way." Han Dong remembered something, and said with a smile: "Zhang Guorong's "Stealing Heart" has started, and the producer is not going to help out?"

(End of this chapter)