hollywood melon man

Chapter 409 Global Attention
Although many people on the Internet have said that Gilbert Jr. is on the road to becoming the king of movies, this is the first time that someone has publicly called Gilbert Jr. the king of movies.

When little Gilbert heard this, he felt a little touched and a little strange.

He almost thought that Kane Waxman was his guiding witch, making him the King of Elden.

But in fact, the role played by Kane Waxman is really similar to that of a guiding witch.

It can be said that it was Kane Waxman's help that helped Gilbert Jr. gain a foothold in Hollywood when he was still inexperienced.

In terms of importance, Kane Waxman is no less important than Spielberg, who introduced young Gilbert to the industry.

It's a pity that such a producer announced his retirement today.

But the road still needs to go on. Little Gilbert has grown up, and Kane Waxman feels that he has completed the mission given to him by God and can retire with peace of mind.

At the end of the award ceremony, all the winners came on stage and took this group photo of the 75th Academy Awards winners, which was still talked about many years later.

The award ceremony ended successfully, but Gilbert's glorious moment had just begun.

Although Gilbert has won the Oscar for Best Director before, it feels like the attention he received this time is much greater than last time.

Gilbert Jr. even overshadowed tonight's Oscar winners for Best Actor and Best Actress, Adrien Brody and Charlize Theron, and stole most of the media's attention.

The reason is not difficult to guess. Past winners of the Best Film Review and Best Director awards often face a problem.

They did win an award, but the work wasn’t impactful enough.

When "Titanic" won the award, James Cameron was the talk of the town and became the most eye-catching person in the whole audience, because "Titanic" had such a huge influence.

Similarly, The Lord of the Rings trilogy is also a film series with a wide influence. The series has grossed more than $45 billion worldwide and has a direct output value of more than $ billion.

The last film, "The Return of the King," was not only a box office hit, it also won big at the Oscars, winning thirteen Oscars.

How could little Gilbert, who created this miracle, not become the focus of media and public attention?

It’s still okay for those traditional media that are slow to react, but on the Internet, netizens’ public opinion has exploded at this time.

"Great, Director Gilbert Jr. can only be called great."

"From 1991 to now, Little Gilbert has brought us countless joy and touched us, and will continue to do so in the future."

"Celebrate guys, I'm going to have a drink tonight!"

"The bar party is ready. Is there anyone from Chicago? They are all sexy and hot beauties!"

For the "Lord of the Rings" crew, Oscar night was a pinnacle night.

At the Vanity Fair celebration party that followed, the Lord of the Rings crew became the focus of attention.

However, the center of attention, little Gilbert, left the party shortly after it started.

Everyone wanted to toast, but couldn't find anyone. Finally, Charles Rowan said that little Gilbert had gone back.

Everyone had to express regret that they could not congratulate little Gilbert in person and get closer to him.

At this time, little Gilbert had returned home and the trophy had been solemnly placed on the display stand.

You can see dozens of trophies of various sizes on the display stand.

There is also Naomi Watts' Best Actress trophy, Jennifer Connelly's Best Supporting Actress trophy, and now Charlize Theron's Best Actress trophy.

Of course, the largest collection of trophies in the display cabinet is actually Gilbert Jr.’s own trophies, including not only the Oscar but also some others.

Naomi Watts looked at the display cabinet with satisfaction and said to Little Gilbert, "It seems that we need to order a few more cabinets. I'm afraid this cabinet won't be able to accommodate all the space in the future."

Little Gilbert held Naomi Watts's hand and said, "Next time when guests come, take them here for a tour first."

Naomi Watts agreed: "Sure, it would be better to develop a photo-taking project. How about ten dollars a time?"

"Not bad," Little Gilbert actually thought this was a good suggestion: "If I run out of money in the future, this is a good way to make money."

Naomi Watts rolled her eyes at Gilbert Jr. and said, "It would be better to sell the trophy. The trophy of the famous director Gilbert Jr. should be worth a lot of money."

Little Gilbert chuckled, and seeing that it was getting late, he helped Naomi Watts back to the bedroom to rest.

And the discussion about tonight's Oscars has actually just begun.

The next day, the front-page headlines of all entertainment media newspapers were about the overwhelming victory of "The Return of the King" at the Oscars last night.

"Compared to the previous sessions where there were many dark horses, the 75th Academy Awards was an Oscar without suspense and surprises.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final film in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, swept the Oscars and became the biggest winner.

The film won 13 awards including Best Picture and Best Director. This is a perfect ending." - Los Angeles Times

"This magical epic produced by Warner Bros. and Disney has more than two dozen main characters, although it was not nominated for any acting awards.

But such an achievement can make one stand out in the film industry and go down in film history.

The most calm and talked-about Oscar this year may be "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", which is the domineering winner." - Variety

"The first two films of The Lord of the Rings only won a few technical Oscars, but The Hobbit, which succeeded in its success, ended up destroying The Lord of the Rings, completely subverting the tradition of fantasy films doing nothing in the most important Oscars.

It became the first film of its kind to win the Best Picture award. It is foreseeable that more films of this kind will appear in Hollywood in the near future." - Movie

In addition to the American media, the British and Chinese media are also paying close attention to this year's Oscars.

The reason why the British media pays attention to it is because the original work of "The Lord of the Rings" is a work of British literature.

There are two reasons why the Chinese media paid attention to this film. One is that "Hero" was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.

Another reason is the special relationship between "The Lord of the Rings" and China. After all, this series of films has created impressive box office in China, and the filming location is in China.

In view of the influence of "The Lord of the Rings" in China, the news broadcast at 7 o'clock every night even gave dozens of seconds of reporting footage, allowing Gilbert Jr.'s name to be widely spread in China again.

If we were to choose the most famous Hollywood director in China, Gilbert Jr. would undoubtedly be the undisputed number one.

Not only that, China Central Television also broadcast the award ceremony. When the award ceremony came to an end, the host commented:

“Director Gilbert Landellini Jr., beloved by our country’s moviegoers, has won a great victory at the Oscars.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" won 13 nominations and 13 wins, breaking the record of "Ben-Hur" and "Titanic".

The trilogy received a total of 33 Oscar nominations and won 19 awards, making history at the Oscars.

Later, Film Weekly commented: "In his twelve years in the film industry, Gilbert Jr. has brought fourteen films to the audience, including such masterpieces as Saving Private Ryan, The Matrix, and the Lord of the Rings series.

Today, Gilbert Jr.'s total box office revenue has exceeded 8 billion U.S. dollars, surpassing Spielberg, George Lucas and others to become the number one in Hollywood.

And now, he has won the Best Director trophy twice at the Oscars, which undoubtedly makes him one step closer to dominating the world.

Considering that he has not yet turned 33 this year, he is also in the golden period of his directorial career.

We have reason to believe that this beloved super director will continue to shine."

Indeed, compared to other Hollywood directors, Gilbert Jr. has become the most popular director among Chinese movie fans because of his legendary status and strong connection with China.

Discussions on the Chinese Internet are even more lively than those on the North American Internet.

Chinese netizens are very eloquent and even composed a limerick for little Gilbert, which goes like this:

“Movies have been around for nearly a hundred years, and mediocre talent has passed by like shooting stars.

If I, Gilbert, had not been born, the Hollywood director world would have been dark forever."

Although it doesn't rhyme, doesn't seem to be very easy to pronounce, and the name has some homophonic puns, this doggerel fully reflects the love of Chinese movie fans for Little Gilbert.

It was also for this reason that the Shanghai International Film Festival held in early June invited Gilbert Jr. to attend the Shanghai International Film Festival with his new film "Pirates of the Caribbean".

In the past two years, the influence of the Chinese market has gradually expanded, and many Hollywood films have also begun to pay attention to promotion in the Chinese film market.

When The Return of the King was released, Gilbert Jr. went to China to promote it. This time he was attending the Shanghai International Film Festival, and Gilbert Jr. did not refuse and accepted the invitation.

However, the premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean" was not held at the Shanghai International Film Festival, which was at most the Chinese premiere.

The real premiere will be held at Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean.

This can also be considered an advertisement, using the movie to advertise Pirates of the Caribbean Park to attract tourists and increase revenue.

The afterglow of the Oscars has not yet died down, and while it is still hot, Warner and Disney have released the DVDs of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

In order to attract movie fans to buy it, this version of the DVD has added a lot of never-before-seen content and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.

In addition, the trailer of "Pirates of the Caribbean" was inserted into the deluxe edition DVD. Because of the trailer, the deluxe edition DVD was in a rush to buy.

In fact, Gilbert Jr. said that Warner and Disney were greedy. The DVD of "The Return of the King" was released not long ago, but they couldn't wait to release the DVD of the trilogy.

But even though the way the money is spent is so ugly, movie fans are happy to accept it and empty their wallets to support the movie.

Among them, the content of "Pirates of the Caribbean" surprised movie fans the most.

The means of releasing trailers these days are quite limited, basically they are broadcast on TV or on a big screen in a commercial plaza, such as Times Square.

One characteristic of this type of advertising is that you cannot study the details, you cannot pause at will, and some ads can only be seen once, after all, there are other ads on TV.

There is no such worry with DVDs, you can watch as long as you want.

In fact, Gilbert Jr. has long been planning to develop the future Internet video industry. The Internet is closely related to the activities of young people, and this will be an important propaganda platform in the future.

It’s a pity that the clarity of online videos is not high nowadays, and putting trailers on them may bring negative effects.

Now we can only wait for further development of technology. At least the image quality must reach 720P to meet the needs of Internet publicity.

Similarly, if Internet videos want to replace DVDs, the image quality requirements will be higher, otherwise people might as well watch DVDs!
With the development of the film industry today, what’s important when a movie leaves the cinema is not just the director and the stars, or simply the plot.

As technology advances, picture becomes an important dimension.

This is also the reason why Gilbert Jr. continues to embrace new technologies. He is not an old-school director.

If you don't embrace new technologies, you will be eliminated by them sooner or later, and this is something Gilbert Jr. cannot accept.

(End of this chapter)