Super entertainment red envelope

Chapter 740 Oscar Awards Ceremony!
"Hi Lee!"

From afar, John greeted Li Zhifan.

This is the second time that Li Zhifan has met John. The two of them are not even acquaintances, but John still remembers his name.

"Hi!"

Li Zhifan didn't mean to go over, but out of politeness and gentlemanly attitude, he still stood at the periphery of the crowd, waved to John, and nodded.

John is not just an athlete or a newly added actor. The most important thing is that he is a thorough businessman. As early as when he won the NBA rookie king, he has already started to engage in business activities outside. Currently, there are more than a dozen companies in his hand. At home, most of the brands are clothing and sports equipment.

Naturally, from his point of view, he must handle all the relationships around him well, even if he is already a god-level celebrity.

Especially the foreign filmmakers present today, these people will be of great help to him in his overseas business activities in the future.

After clinking wine glasses in his circle, John walked straight to Li Zhifan.

"plum!"

He opened his chair and sat down, holding a wine glass in his big hand, and greeted Li Zhifan.

"Oh! Chels!"

Li Zhifan picked up the goblet containing champagne in front of him, touched the other party, and took a sip.

The same is true for John, who only took a sip, but no matter how you look at it, he is not the kind of person who drinks champagne. In life, he should be the kind of person who drinks heavily and hugs girls, and about his scandals in private life, It has lasted for more than ten years. According to statistics, there are more than 2000 female stars who have had relationships with him, whether it is true love or one-night stands, spanning different nationalities and races.

This number can constitute the audience of a medium-sized basketball game.

Of course, for black people, that's a lot of talk, and Li Zhifan couldn't be more envious.

"Li, what happened to the last time I talked to you?"

John didn't beat around the bush, he came up and asked directly, "If it goes smoothly, it will be very smooth for my brand to enter Asia, and I will also pay you a certain service fee at that time, thank you for your help."

He teamed up with a world-renowned sports shoe brand to create a sub-brand called John. Last time he mentioned to Li Zhifan that if he wanted this brand to enter Asia, the first stop would be China.

Because it is a new brand, and this sub-brand is going mid-range, John wants to make it more grand and sensational, so that more users will pay attention to it, so he wants to hold a few large-scale commercial performances, such as star platters. will also be present.

Of course, he would not ask Li Zhifan to help him with the operation, but hoped that Li Zhifan could act as an intermediary contact person for him, contact a powerful Huaxia performance company, and at the same time manage the list of guest invitations for the concert.

Li Zhifan drank a lot last time. He thought that what John wanted to do was just his idea. It would take a few years to implement it. After all, if a brand wants to enter the market and successfully occupy a share, it has to go. It's a long way to go, and everything needs to be considered before and after. It's not a platter commercial performance that can handle everything.

"The idea you put forward is very good, but the concert is not enough. If you can participate in a star basketball game with the stars of the Chinese entertainment circle, the effect will be even better."

Li Zhifan said casually, "You know, there are many celebrities in the Huaxia entertainment circle, but they are all your fans. If you raise your arms, they will definitely come to stand for you for free."

"really?"

What makes John happy is not the words "free platform", but because he actually has a strong appeal in China. He has never been to China, and usually only sees some Chinese fans' messages on social platforms.

"Of course!"

Li Zhifan said, "You can leave it to the company to investigate. As for the stars who like you, I'm not sure. You can consult with Huaxia's entertainment company level brokerage company."

"Your opinion is very good, star basketball game? Why haven't I considered this?"

John played with the goblet in his hand and said, "This kind of competition may also be used in the United States. I believe many fans are still very happy to see this kind of competition."

"Don't you guys have the NBA Masters?"

Li Zhifan said, "Isn't that a team where entertainment stars and basketball stars combine to compete against each other? The game I'm talking about is also based on your celebrity game system."

"Oh! That's an entertainment game held by the NBA. I mean, this kind of game accompanied by commercial promotion is just like a commercial concert. It can be made into a model, which city can be promoted, and which city it can be played. Every time Invite different stars to play together!"

John said complacently, he felt that he seemed to have discovered a new continent, which broadened the commercial value of basketball players. In the future, it is not necessary to only invite entertainment stars to sing and dance, and midfield basketball stars to sing and dance on the field. It is completely possible to engage in projects that they are familiar with.

John even thought: "We can also ask the audience to come up and play together on the spot. The rules are flexible, just like street basketball, with a performance nature, oh! My God, this idea is simply too genius!"

Li Zhifan touched his forehead and subconsciously said something in Chinese: "Dei, Dei, Dei!"

"What do you mean?" John naturally didn't understand.

"I said your idea is great!" Li Zhifan said and gave a thumbs up.

After chatting here for more than ten minutes, John left. He is a busy man, looking for people to chat with, nothing more than to promote the commercial performance basketball game model he just "proposed", in order to find more people to support and agree with. his thoughts.

Li Zhifan didn't just sit still. In fact, he wandered around the restaurant, introduced each other and exchanged business cards with many filmmakers.

This is the first time that Li Zhifan has made physical name tags, each of which is a hard plastic card with his introduction and contact information written in English.

Now that they are all here to participate in the Oscars, Li Zhifan naturally has big plans, not to mention breaking into Hollywood, but also to make more connections with the filmmakers here. There is an old Chinese saying: It is easier to travel when you have more friends!
07: 30.

All were taken to the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, where the Oscars are being held.

It takes about an hour and a half to walk the red carpet, but for celebrities who walk the red carpet, it only takes a few minutes. On today's red carpet, you can see many Chinese female stars will also appear, but they just come For those who watched the awards ceremony, as for how they got here, there are many channels, some are paid by themselves, some are invited by sponsors, and some are invited by officials. The ratio is 8:1:1.

When Li Zhifan entered the venue, he went shopping with Angkes who came with him. The organizer arranged a lounge and a cafeteria on the second floor of the theater, but no matter whether it was the lounge or the cafeteria, everyone was holding wine glasses or The cigars and cigarettes were exchanging, which was the complete opposite of how they were walking on the red carpet before.

Angkers is good at communication, so he took Li Zhifan to chat with everyone, but after meeting a few people, Li Zhifan went to the lounge to find a corner to sleep, because what Angkers saw him were all actresses, which made him feel like The feeling of a blind date is extremely uncomfortable.

At [-]:[-], the Oscars finally started.

Li Zhifan and a group of filmmakers went downstairs noisyly to find their respective seats. All the nominees were in the first four rows, so it was easy to find, and it was also very convenient to move around if they needed to go on stage if they won the prize.

The host of the Academy Awards is the well-known American talk show host Mark Smith.

Mark Smith is also well-known in China. Most viewers who watch foreign talk shows have seen clips of his shows. On some domestic Two-dimensional houses, there are many videos of his ghosts and animals, which are loved by domestic netizens. It is called "horse shit".

At today's Oscar awards ceremony, Mark Smith's host was a little more formal, but it was inevitable that he would ridicule the filmmakers in the audience. Why did so-and-so accompany him for six years, and this time he was nominated again. I hope good luck bless you, but Your opponents are still very strong, what other actress, I have been following your social account, you said that this time you won the lottery, you will run naked on the spot, if the dream comes true by then, don’t forget to do it, etc. .

His jokes are all American and Western. To Li Zhifan, an oriental person, the jokes are not very high, especially some American slang. When the audience is full of laughter, Li Zhifan can only grin Clapping to match—even if he knew the story behind the slang, he didn't think it was funny.

The opening ceremony of the award ceremony was quite grand, and there were laughter and laughter during the process, but there were also many uncomfortable places.

For example, when the host tried his best to be funny, he used jokes to satirize Asians and Latinos, and even used ridicule to directly piss off Canadians.

So much so that at first Li Zhifan clapped along with the innocuous jokes and jokes, but later when he heard these ironic jokes, he became expressionless and indifferent.

Looking at the people of different skin colors around, except for the black people who laughed happily, most of them showed helpless and speechless expressions, especially some white people, who might be Canadian stars, frowned and showed dissatisfaction.

The reason why black people laughed out loud is because no one dared to mock them publicly. The so-called crying children have milk. Discriminating against black people is politically incorrect. There will definitely be public criticism and complaints. Apologize and admit your mistake, and it is very likely to ruin your career.

But for other races, there is no need to worry, especially Asians and Latinos. They have been considered as the type of people who will swallow any dissatisfaction. Even with the support of a large number of netizens, things will not last long.

Li Zhifan didn't pay much attention to the various award presentations before, and all his energy was spent observing the terrain of the stage and the position of the host Mark Smith, thinking about how to fix him later.

Mark Smith is more than 1.9 meters tall and big. He is a standard Western body shape. It is still difficult to deal with this person secretly.

When Li Zhifan was thinking about the method, Angkos who was next to him suddenly pushed his arm and told him, "Hey, it's your turn! Hurry up and get ready!"

"Ok?"

Li Zhifan looked up at the big screen, the next one was not an award presentation, but he came on stage to sing the theme song "Remember-me" of "Coco".

The five shortlisted best original songs will be performed interspersed throughout the award ceremony. There has already been a performance of another shortlisted song before, and Li Zhifan is ranked second. Although he did not walk the stage, the stage design is It has been prepared in advance, and Li Zhifan even saw the schematic diagram of the scene effect, but it was made in 3D, which only gave him a certain idea.

Li Zhifan fastened the buttons of his suit, straightened his cuffs, withdrew his thoughts, stood up and left his seat.

After the previous awards were presented, an actor named Jeffrey came to the stage and said, "The next piece is the nominee for Best Original Music, from the animated feature film "Coco", composed by music from China. Created by Li Zhifan, the director of "Coco"!"

"Oh!"

The filmmakers and audience below applauded and made noises.

But Li Zhifan couldn't hear clearly in the background, because he was already wearing earphones.

Jeffrey waited for everyone's applause to subside, and continued: "In this movie, this song takes a 12-year-old Mexican boy through the realm of life and death, from the land of the living to the world of the dead, and this is all about the For the love of family, because we are worth it, there are no barriers in the world of the dead, whether it is a sweet lullaby, or a cheerful carol, this song shows the power of music to connect generations and bring the dead back to life , both literally and figuratively!"

"Now, please enjoy "Remember-me"!"

Jeffrey said in a melodious tone, "The performer is the original singer who contributed to the soundtrack of the film and the film director, Li Zhifan!"

Finally, amid applause and cheers below, Jeffrey shook his fist and said, "Long live Mexico!"

At this time, Li Zhifan was ready on the main stage. As the lights came on, he appeared in the center of the stage with a guitar in his arms. On the left and right sides, there were two white musicians, also holding acoustic guitars. accompaniment.

When the familiar voice sounded, many people who had watched the movie instantly recalled the plot.

And Li Zhifan didn't show any technical bias because of the foreign country or because this is the Oscar stage. On the contrary, Li Zhifan sang more interestingly than in the recording studio.

The first guitar accompaniment is sung in English.

When it comes to the cheerful style of the second paragraph, the melody is the same as the first paragraph, but changed to Spanish.

The Spanish-speaking filmmakers in the audience immediately cheered and whistled continuously.

The original setting was to use both English and Spanish, but Li Zhifan suddenly made a decision to change it. In the third verse, he sang in Chinese.

This is the first time that Chinese singing has appeared on the Oscars stage. In the previous dozens of editions, there have only been Japanese singing, and the organizers knew about the situation in advance, but this time it was entirely Li Zhifan's impromptu idea.

However, when the Chinese singing sounded, the applause from the audience became even more enthusiastic.

(End of this chapter)