Chapter 399

The world is prosperous, all for profit; The world is bustling, all for profit. The ultimate goal of making a film is to make money. As long as it is profitable, no matter how much money, some people dare to invest. If it is only for name, it is better to make a small-cost work, and try not to exceed 30 million.

"Infernal Affairs" has invested 70 million, plus 20 million public relations expenses, but it has reached an amazing 90 million. Now it is selling at the box office, not making much money. When will it be?

Xiao Li doesn't take over the big IP, doesn't take over the series of commercial blockbusters, and is the only actor who doesn't take over the series of IP commercial blockbusters but can often get $20 million in film pay plus points.

Little plum is the only actor who won the 20 million club in Hollywood by relying on independent films without relying on popcorn commercial films, assembly line commercial comedies or series of IP commercial blockbusters.

Little plum is one of the most attractive actors at the box office in Hollywood today (the peak of the four kings has passed, and their glory is in the previous era.

The box office of films starring Xiao Li in North America has exceeded 100 million, of which the strictly commercial blockbusters are Titanic and Batman. This refers to the publicity and distribution mode of commercial blockbusters only according to the arrangement of publicity and distribution, and only big ships and dreams are regarded as commercial blockbusters. Xiao Li has raised the biographical blockbuster "cat and mouse game" to 240 million North meters (of course, it is also the credit of old Thomas) 。

Little plum is the last superstar in the superstar era. He caught up with the end of the superstar era and became famous with the divine work Titanic. Since the Lord of the rings in the new millennium The success of box office awards for such special effects commercial films has comprehensively accelerated the rise of the Hollywood special effects era. Film special effects have replaced actors as the guarantee of the box office. In the special effects era, almost no actors have absolute box office appeal, and the new generation of male actors basically rub IP (Depp, Downey, 007, etc.).

In terms of acting skills, little plum is not in the top ten. Why can only he get 20 million? It's not because he can make money and has box office appeal.

Mark has invested so much money in Infernal Affairs. It's not enough to just get a few awards. In this share, cinema operators are divided into 30% and plan B company. Therefore, if it is less than 150 million, there is no profit. In order to make a profit, we must add profit from the market outside Shanghai and DVD.

So today Scorsese is destined to come in vain. Not only did he come in vain, but mark also asked him to go on the program to promote the film. Anyway, Scorsese is also idle. It is very good to promote the film. Strictly speaking, the Gotham independence award, which announced the list of awards on November 26, indicates the curtain of this year's Hollywood award season. There will be 15 awards in succession in the next three months Xiang announced that if the nomination list is included, the audience will see no less than 30 films and lists. How can so many "indiscriminate" information flow in? How can they stand out?

From a work with limited popularity that can only be exposed in the media and critics to a film nominated for the Oscar, it is definitely not a great undertaking that can be completed in one night, but after three months of award season and multiple rounds of "intrigue" In order to successfully fly to the branches and become a Phoenix, since Scorsese is free, let him lead the team to publicize it?

What? More than a month early? It doesn't matter. We don't need money. Let's warm up in advance.

In fact, it is not too early. In a narrow sense, it refers to various Film Awards held from December to February every year. They end with the issuance of Oscar Awards, that is, the general concept of Oscar season. In a broad sense, it can include various Award activities and film festivals such as Toronto Film Festival in September, fantasy film festival in Austin, Texas, AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles Incorporated into it, you can start doing things now, which is better than letting the film go offline.

Since Scorsese is worried about gain and loss, let Daniel lead him to the award season?

Scorsese had to accept Mark's decision. Bi Jing is all for his good. As an old bird in the circle, he certainly won't have the naive idea of "making a good film and waiting for the little golden man", which needs publicity and promotion.

In the coming months, he will be trapped in the sea of Party meetings for promotion and publicity. What he has to do every day is to eat and drink, and then recommend movies to relevant people. This is not only a competition in the vanity fair, but also the rules of the game for winning the Oscar, which is an amazing thunder with the talent show on TV.

Scorsese admires lofty filmmakers like Woody Allen. He doesn't care about making or losing. He only makes movies he likes. He will never participate in any publicity activities or attend parties to please those professionals in order to win awards.

But Scorsese can't do this. He is the loser of Oscar. Oscar always doesn't call him, while Woody Allen is the favorite of Oscar. He kneels and licks. If he doesn't do public relations, he will give you the same award. Who knows that he won't come yet.

Allen's films are often favored by Oscars, but Allen almost never participates in the film award ceremony including Oscars. Allen's public explanation is that he will participate in the clarinet performance on Monday night. However, as early as 1974, ABC News Network quoted Allen as saying, "It's very stupid to give awards to movies. I can't stand other people's judgment. If you win the award he gives you this time, you have to admit it next time he says you don't deserve it."

The only exception was that at the 74th Academy Awards ceremony in 2002, Allen unexpectedly appeared at the venue and petitioned the filmmakers not to give up New York because of 9 / 11. Allen stated: "I don't have to give or accept anything. I just want to talk about New York City." When Allen appeared, the whole audience stood up and applauded. Then a short film edited from many New York viewfinder films was broadcast on the big screen. The first and last parts of the film were from Allen's film Manhattan.

Scorsese and Allen are very similar in appearance. They are both short and thin. They wear big glasses and talk fast. Allen likes jazz and plays clarinet. Martin seems to like blues. Their film theme style is so big. One of them focuses on women's drama and the other on men's drama. They are extreme in Hollywood, But his life experience is completely different. One was expelled from New York University, and the other graduated from New York University with a master's degree and stayed in school to teach.

Scorsese's films are mostly about gangs, violence and crime, but each film is permeated with a lingering religious atmosphere. The charm of Scorsese's career, like his films, is itself a film fable in the post golden age.

Allen's works are mostly comedies and there are few tragedies, but the tragic consciousness in his bones has become the aesthetic ideological support of all his works. If we deeply explore the tragic elements in Woody Allen's various works, it is not difficult to see that his tragic style is a school of its own. Due to the tragic consciousness of helplessness, suffering and pessimism, he has made a large number of films to survive, live A film with love as the tragic theme and women and intellectuals as the tragic protagonists. Different from other film directors' naked rendering of the tragic atmosphere, his tragedy is infiltrated in the poetic atmosphere of comedy and illusion. The special double-line narrative and circular structure makes his tragic film more tension and appeal. Some people call it New York intellectual film.

They all have the title of film master. Allen has won the best director for a long time, and Scorsese also won it. It's just a Lifetime Achievement Award (1997), not the best director award he values most.

They are all called Movie Masters. In Hollywood, a circle full of artistic bubbles, they worked in Hollywood for many years, but they never shot a blockbuster for commercial purposes. While Spielberg, Lucas and others rely on hundreds of millions of dollars and computer stunts to attract the audience, they always calmly analyze all kinds of stubborn diseases of society and mankind with their own unique perspective and films; In the environment where Hollywood only advocates commercial results, it has always adhered to its own will and spared no effort to pursue the exploration of film language.

But in recent years, things have been high. Scorsese is eager to get the recognition of Oscar and draw a successful end to his career. His films have never been made to please the audience, so the box office is not good, but this time he is a little too hard. The box office is too good, which makes him a little worried about whether it will have negative effects, It's not beautiful to form the impression of self-reliance in the eyes of filmmakers and smash the signboard for more than 30 years.

However, with the launch of the public relations activities led by Daniel, this uneasiness has come to an end. With the support of the media platform of MM group, their works have entered the list of major awards, and various films, newspapers and weekly magazines have also been highly praised. They call it the best gangster film after Scorsese's good guy.

In all kinds of Oscar popular lists, "Infernal Affairs" ranked among them and topped the list. Daniel told Scorsese: "it used to be a time for free public opinion, but now we dominate public opinion!"

Scorsese helped the spectacle frame and said, "it's a bit like raping public opinion, which affects the people's right to choose freely, you know..." as a film master, Scorsese is actually a broken mouthed and wordy person. When he was on the set, heath said one thing and he could say three words.

Daniel smiled: "this is the case in all kinds of elections in our country, including the presidential election, but we just package and sell ourselves and will not attack and discredit our opponents."

Scorsese smiled modestly and said, "it's different, it's different!" as a director who loves gangster bloody films, he was handsome when he was young, and the older he was, the more kind and harmonious he was. On the contrary, Allen, the "only intellectual in America", was ugly and obscene when he was older.

"That's it!" Daniel said. "It's the same as the road to the peak of power in the White House. A lobbying people all over the country, a lobbying college, 6000 judges. Let me help you ascend to the throne, my majesty!"