new kung fu king

Chapter 352 An Unexpected Award

In any awards ceremony, some less important awards are given out first, and the 46th Oscar is no exception. The host David Niven first announced the science and technology awards, and no one cares about the first prize of science and technology this year. , but the second prize has a lot of tricks.

In simple and easy-to-understand words, there were four major breakthroughs in film science and technology last year, namely Aliflex Buhler film camera, high-speed hybrid recording system for film production, flow valve system for film printer, film optics Effect of the [-] type optical printer.

Among these four inventions and innovations, Wang Xiaohu has only heard of the Aliflex Brown camera, because this camera is so famous that the famous "First Blood" was shot with this big guy. The big guy has dominated for decades and can be called an evergreen tree in the film industry.

"Boss, it would be amazing if our company had such a big guy!" Xie Dongshen said enviously: "But it's too bulky, and it needs two camera assistants to operate smoothly."

"It's only 20 US dollars. I will buy six sets for the company later, two sets for you to disassemble and study, two sets will be shipped back to Hong Kong, and two sets will be used for Stallone and the others to shoot movies." Wang Xiaohu laughed, although he has "Industrial Light & Magic" ", but some good things in memory cannot be realized, and we have to cooperate with these large distribution companies to purchase their photography products to improve the quality of the company's filming, and then arrange for "Industrial Light and Magic" professionals to conduct research and develop Belong to their own products.

"Boss, this seems a bit immoral, right?" Old Xie Dongshen blushed, thinking that even if we want to disassemble and research, we have to do it secretly, don't we?

"What's the point of this? Isn't it just copying and then DIY?" Wang Xiaohu pouted and said disdainfully, this kind of copycat technology has always been very popular in China, even airplanes and cannons can be copied, let alone a camera.

When the two were discussing whether they had a sense of public morality, they suddenly heard the host David Niven say: "Guys, what I'm going to announce next is the third-class science and technology award. These two small inventions are relatively The structure of the four items is simple, even extremely crude, but their appearance has provided a lot of convenience for photography and shooting. It is very interesting that the two winners are from a company, and they are the invention of the remote control shooting elevator. The author - Wang Jiaxin, the inventor of the camera stabilizer - Xie Dongshen, they are all from the Hong Kong Concord Film Company!"

There was thunderous applause in the auditorium of the Los Angeles Music Center. They were not applauding for these two things, but because of Wang Xiaohu's face. Even though the oriental hook is a third prize, not everyone can get it. It also requires a certain level of skill, so more people stretched their necks to watch Wang Xiaohu.

"Boss, there is nothing wrong with my ears, right? Why did I hear the host calling my name?" Xie Dongshen picked out his ears uncertainly, and then asked Wang Xiaohu.

"Master, that's right, what the host said just now was your name, and Lao Wang's name!" Li Qingsheng didn't wait for Wang Xiaohu's answer, and said excitedly, "Your camera stabilizer has won an award!"

"God, Guanshiyin Bodhisattva, Mazu." Xie Dong worshiped all the gods in the world incoherently, he hugged his apprentice Li Qingsheng excitedly, and tightly held Wang Xiaohu's hand and said: "Boss, boss, my gadget has won an award." !"

At this moment, Xie Dongshen was so excited in his heart. He was very grateful to Wang Xiaohu. He was grateful to Wang Xiaohu for purchasing the invention right and signing his name when he registered. Now this award is not so much his own as Wang Xiaohu's. of.

Wang Xiaohu smiled casually, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Old Xie, stop dawdling here, hurry up and get the prize, and remember to bring back Lao Wang's share!"

Wang Jiaxin was researching the launching and blasting tools of some weapons in "Star Wars" in "Industrial Light and Magic" today, and did not follow to participate in the award ceremony. In fact, even Wang Xiaohu did not expect such a surprise in the first award. I hope Lao Wang will not fight himself desperately because he missed the opportunity to receive the award on stage.

"Tiger, I finally understand that the two people you sent to Industrial Light and Magic are elite soldiers!" George Lucas said enviously, "I'm curious where you recruited them, and What happened to the small camera model that Xie Dongchen made some time ago?"

"As I said, these are all low-end gadgets. What I'm more interested in is the perfect post-production system you are researching. If it can be successfully developed this year, it will allow the effective combination of virtual sets and shooting images. "Wang Xiaohu shrugged and said.He knew that after Lucas established Industrial Light and Magic, he made a lot of tools to make the pictures of "Star Wars" more realistic. In this movie, Lucas also created many far-reaching inventions: he invented A mechanical device can easily synchronize the real shot and post-synthesis images, which improves the efficiency of manual hard-coated film descriptions for many years by dozens of times.This mechanical device is definitely a milestone in the development of the film industry.
"I hope what you said will come true." Lucas nodded with a smile.

At this time, the host on the stage announced the awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary Feature Film, Best Live Action Short Film, Best Animation, and Best Original Song in sequence. None of these awards had anything to do with Wang Xiaohu. Thirteen hundred guests clapped their hands to congratulate, and listened to the winners on the stage saying many similar acceptance speeches, which were nothing more than words of thanking their parents, thanking Hollywood, and thanking the judges.

Or he just laughed along with the audience, because the three male hosts on the stage are all well-known Hollywood emcees, they are very good at how to control the atmosphere of the awards ceremony, and they say humorous words from time to time to amuse all the guests laughing out loud.

After everyone laughed, the host had been replaced by John Huston. He stood on the stage and held an unopened envelope to announce the best art, props and scenery awards, best actor and actress awards, best costume design, best Sound effects and several other awards.

Among these award lists, the biggest winners should be "The Exorcist" and "Cheat". The best sound effect award was won by "The Exorcist", while "Rocky" was only nominated, and "Cheat" Lie" took away Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction/Props and Sets.

It is worth mentioning that "American Graffiti" directed by George Lucas was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Lucas finally took a breath, raised his eyebrows and said, "Thank God, I was worried about tonight It will be fruitless."

"Man, there will be bread, be patient." Wang Xiaohu was very calm, even though Burgess Meredith was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for "Rocky", but these things came later It seems too insignificant for the awards to be handed out.

Wang Xiaohu looked at the hostess Diana Ross on the stage and opened the envelope and read out: "The works nominated for the best film editing include "American Graffiti", "Assassination of Charles de Gaulle", "The Deception", "The Exorcist" And "Rocky"." At this time, the big screen behind the supporter began to play the classic scenes of the five nominated films, of course, it is the best to show the effect of film editing. Every time a film is played, the venue There will be loud applause.

"Who do you think the best film editing award will go to?" Lucas clapped his hands and asked with a smile when he heard that both his and Wang Xiaohu's films had been nominated.

Wang Xiaohu curled his lips and said, "I feel that "The Exorcist" has more elements."

"Why?" Lucas asked with a frown, "Why don't you talk about your "Rocky" or my "American Graffiti"?"

"Because, because "The Exorcist" scared the shit out of the audience, in a sense, there is a good reason for him to win the best film editing." Wang Xiaohu speculated based on outside comments. He knew very well that if it wasn't for his "Home Alone" "Intercepted "The Exorcist", then tonight's statuette will be divided between "The Exorcist" and "The Exorcist", and the award in my memory is in "The Exorcist" and "The Exorcist" The winners and losers.

"Now I declare that the winner is" Diana held her voice, and unexpectedly used her usual cliché at this time: "Rocky!"

"What? It turned out to be Rocky!" Wang Xiaohu was dumbfounded, which meant that, as the chief editor of "Rocky", he had to step onto the stage to win the statuette.This is simply too unexpected, right?He blinked his eyes a little in a daze on the spot.

"Boss, what are you still doing, hurry up and hug Angel!" Stallone said anxiously from the side.

"Tiger, congratulations, but your expression seems to be very surprised!" Lucas and other familiar people around him all sent congratulatory words.

"Impossible?" Wang Xiaohu's murmurs were drowned out in the thunderous applause. Could it be that "Home Alone" accidentally took away the award that "The Exorcist" deserved?But even so, Wang Xiaohu's astonishment did not last long. He quickly came to his senses. First, he embraced tightly with Zhao Yazhi who was equally excited beside him, then shook hands with Stallone and Lucas, and finally stood up under the envious eyes of a group of guests. He got up, walked through the long aisle, and walked to the stage.

"Tiger, as the first Chinese to walk on the Oscars stage in history, what do you think?" Diana asked with a smile. She was very curious about the magic of this oriental man, who actually broke this award. history.

(End of this chapter)