Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Xueer had no choice but to make this misunderstanding become bigger. She was very anxious. The Oscar acceptance speeches were all very similar, they were just thanking some people who should be thanked.

Only a few actors, such as the actress Shirley MacLean a few years ago, can say memorable speeches.

Cher's speech follows the rules. In fact, what she says is not important. What she doesn't say is more important. Tomorrow this will definitely become one of her award-winning sideshows, appearing in the news at various points in time. Maybe even gossip tabloids will fabricate news about her quarrel with the director overnight.

Xueer felt very remorseful, why didn't she prepare a small note and read it accordingly? Or the reason why I didn’t expect to win the award. He looked over from the backstage, wishing that the presenter would pause and let her go up and correct her speech.

The award for Best Director was presented to comedian Robin Williams. He wore a mustache and started his own stand-up comedy show.

He was also nominated for Best Actor this year for "Good Morning, Vietnam" directed by Barry Levinson. In the movie, he plays a DJ at a US military radio station who is famous for his passionate morning show hosting.

Today, he also borrowed the style of the protagonist in the movie on stage and began to perform passionately. Perhaps secretly he was unhappy about losing to Michael Douglas, but Robin Williams worked very hard.

Some viewers appreciated it and burst out laughing. But not Ronald.

From the moment Robin Williams came on stage, he had been telling jokes and imitating various cartoon characters for a full three minutes. By the end, he didn't know what else to say and began to roll his eyes like cat and mouse...

Ronald pressed the root of his nose with his hand and rubbed his forehead, which was about to explode. This is so devastating. Is this presenter sitting down waiting for him to announce the winners? I wonder if there are five other nominated directors?

"The nominees for the Best Director Achievement Award are..."

Robin Williams finally gets to read the nominations.

"Bernardo Bertolucci"

Footage of Bertolucci directing actors in Qing dynasty official uniforms in the Forbidden City began to play on the big screen.

"The Last Emperor, one of Lord Commander Ronald's favorite movies" Robin Williams still doesn't give up on joking.

Bertolucci lowered his head and frowned at what he said.

As an Italian left-wing filmmaker, what I hate most is right-leaning leaders.

"Lars Hallström, The Dog-Face Years"

On the screen were shots taken a few days ago by the organizing committee. The young Swedish director was looking at the scene in front of the camera's viewfinder.

"Why are they all looking at the camera? Oops, the lens cap isn't even on yet..." Robin Williams has a joke attached to each one.

"The winner of the Academy Award for Best Director is..." Robin Williams announced the four nominees, then skipped Ronald and went straight to announce the winner.

The camera lens had already moved to Ronald. When he saw the red light of the camera and knew that he was on camera for the live broadcast, Ronald suppressed his nervousness and wanted to give the audience a relaxed smile and show off his demeanor.

Suddenly, the photographer didn't know what was going on. Why only four of the five nominees were named? He hesitated and didn't know whether to pan the camera away from Ronald or to Stop here and wait to catch Ronald Lee's reaction.

When Ronald saw this situation, he was even more shocked. What is this? Was my nomination temporarily canceled?

Diane next to her didn't understand what was going on. She turned her head and saw Ronald's raised eyebrows. This definitely didn’t look good on camera, so I immediately used an actor’s line skills, and while keeping a smile on my face, I squeezed out a sentence: “Smile, pay attention to the camera.”

The director did not ask the photographer to move away from the camera and continued to let the camera focus on Ronald.

"The winner of Best Director is... Oh, by the way, in addition to the Oscar statuette, the Academy is also planning to give a green card to the final winner."

Robin Williams went on to joke that none of the four directors in this year's nominees are from America.

"Did they cancel your nomination?" Donna couldn't help it anymore. She gently turned forty-five degrees from the right and asked Ronald what happened. My cousin is now a junior investment manager at a Wall Street fund and knows not to be too expressive on such occasions.

"I don't know...no one told me. There's no need for this, right?" Ronald also tried to stay calm. The organizing committee wouldn't do such an outrageous thing, right? Why did you cancel your nomination? Could it be that the secret of his time travel has been discovered? Do they feel like they didn’t make the movie on their own merit?

"No, Robin forgot about you..." Diane discovered that the frame-decorated screen on the stage was playing the documentary clips shot by MGM for "Moonlight". Ronald was in Sitting next to Cher and Dukakis at the dining table, they were talking about something, as if instructing them on the details of their performance...

"Oh, sorry, I forgot, there is another...Ronald Lee, the moonlight is sultry..."

Ronald immediately breathed a sigh of relief, what's going on? Can you forget to nominate? Did this guest just make impromptu jokes for too long and his brain is not very clear?

“He has just been signed to film the sequel to the sultry Moonlight, ‘Sunrise Three Rods!’ We all know that after being enchanted by the moon, you will wake up very late the next day.”

"Hahaha..." The audience burst into laughter.

"This guy did it on purpose..." Ronald gritted his teeth while maintaining a smile to show that he had no bad feelings after being teased. He squeezed out a few words through his teeth and complained to Diane.

This Robin Williams must have noticed that he was young and deliberately prepared jokes to make fun of himself.

"Stop talking, it will be revealed soon. The photographer is zooming in on you." Diane is an actress. She is particularly sensitive to the camera. She quickly held Ronald's hand to remind him not to speak out loud and have his lips read. language.

Sure enough, the photographer was ordered by the director in the headset to zoom in and give Ronald a close-up.

Ronald didn't dare to make a mistake, so he had to show a cute smile, then turned to Diane and pretended to be relaxed, and then pretended to wipe the sweat with his hands.

Who knew that when he turned his head, he saw Bertolucci over there, gritting his teeth and pretending to be generous. This Robin Williams gave a normal award and made all the nominees very nervous. He is really not a good choice.

The two exchanged glances, then both held their chins with their hands and smiled at each other. This award will be announced soon!

"The winner is...Bernardo Bertolucci - the last emperor."

"Sure enough," Ronald deliberately clenched his fists, cheered for Bertolucci, and then began to applaud. These close-up shots would be made into a picture-in-picture by the television station and hit the screen at the same time. Although I didn't win the prize, I was proud of my competitors, and Ronald had also practiced it.

"As an Italian and European, the Oscars are very far away and mysterious to me. But The Last Emperor received nine nominations, and I suddenly became the most enthusiastic audience, calculating the probability of winning the award every day... "

"Hahaha..." Ronald really laughed now. Bertolucci's acceptance speech was quite sincere and interesting.

"I want to thank many people. First of all, I want to thank China for allowing me to go to their beautiful country to shoot this movie."

Bertolucci was obviously very excited. He even said that he was willing to kowtow to the members of the academy! Because now is the most emotional moment in his life, and he doesn't know how to express it.

Ronald applauded with everyone. After listening to his speech, he finally regained his composure after being overwhelmed and frustrated. Tonight, The Last Emperor has received eight awards out of nine nominations. Only the last one left for Best Picture.

As the Last Emperor theme played a dozen times tonight, Donna asked Ronald, "Do you have any hope for Best Picture?"

"Almost none. Generally, movies that win Best Picture will have Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing for most of the categories. They will also usually have one of the Best Actor or Best Actress winners." Ronald knew clearly. , the final grand prize has no great fate with me.

Before the final awards are awarded, there is a few minutes of rest time for the TV station to play commercials and give the audience some time to adjust.

Ronald looked at Bertolucci. His seat was in the back, which was different from the front row in most popular movies. Maybe it's because of his shy character, which is rare among Italians? Ronald took a look for himself. It seemed that producer Jeremy Thomas was nowhere to be seen. The crew of "The Last Emperor" seemed to be particularly low-key today.

"Ronald...is it convenient?" Someone seemed to be calling him.

Ronald turned his head and saw that it was Cher's manager, a woman standing outside the aisle. The expression on his face was very anxious, and he asked Ronald to come out and say a few words alone.

"What?" Ronald walked a few steps with her to the aisle on the side.

"Cher is very sorry for not thanking you alone on stage. She did not expect that she would win the award and did not prepare a speech. You may have noticed that she got stuck several times because she was nervous."

"It's okay, I know she forgot her words on stage, and the time is short. The average acceptance speech of a heroine is much shorter than that of a hero." Ronald said this before he could recover from the emotion of being teased just now. The expression on his face was very serious.

"Xueer originally wanted to come over and apologize to you in person, but she has the obligation to be interviewed by reporters, so I came here on her behalf... Please forgive me. She said she would explain it clearly to reporters. It is all her fault."

"I'm Eddie Murphy..." The guest who presented the award for Best Picture has already come on stage.

"Okay, just let Xue'er explain things clearly to them." Ronald signaled that she was fine and sat back in his seat.

"I only have sixty seconds to say my words. I should thank Ronald and Shanley, but I'm a little nervous. I didn't even thank my boyfriend." Cher later accepted a joint interview with reporters to explain the situation.

…

"How was it? What did Ronald say?" After Xueer accepted a round of interviews, she waited until her manager came to report the news. She tried her best to explain the situation during the interview.

"Ronald's face didn't look good. He was very serious and said it didn't matter. I just want you to explain it clearly when answering reporters' questions."

"Oh my God! Ronald and I are done. I said bad things about him during the filming and said she didn't know how to direct actors. Today it seems he is not ready to forgive me. There are actually no people in Hollywood. Accept that I was older and I didn’t look like a Hollywood woman, and only Ronald gave me the opportunity to play the lead role.”

Xueer held the statuette and was discussing countermeasures with the manager. Although after winning the Best Actress, there will definitely be invitations to various high-priced scripts, but if the news spreads that you are not grateful to the director after winning the Best Actress, no high-level director will invite you to do such artistic and commercial roles in the future. It's a high-level movie with excellent sex.

"What should we do?" Xueer asked the manager.

"What Ronald said is for you to make amends and let most people know that you really appreciate him. This is good for him, but in the final analysis it is also for your own good. The ungrateful actress, in Haolai Wu has no future."

"How can I make up for it? I just rushed in and apologized." Xueer covered her face, "Those reporters will definitely not put my apology on the headlines. They will definitely report that Ronald and I are at odds for the sake of sensationalism... …”

Unexpectedly, the great joy of winning the Best Actress award has now become a problem due to an oversight.

"Reporters and editors decide TV news headlines, but newspapers and magazines..." The manager gave Cher an idea.

"Let everyone know... let's do it..."

…

"You applauded every winner, and now you should also applaud the losers. I know what it is like to lose an Oscar. You must feel very stupid..."

Award guest Eddie Murphy is also a comedian, and as usual he has to make a joke before announcing the best picture winner.

Ronald thought to himself that if he could give Cher more time for such an extremely stupid impromptu joke, it wouldn't be the wrong thing to say.

"Actually, the organizing committee asked me to be a guest, but I didn't really want to come. My agent asked me why I didn't come, and I said, because the Oscars don't recognize black actors..."

"Huh...?" A big question mark arose in Ronald's mind?

Isn’t Morgan Freeman nominated for this year’s Oscar for Best Supporting Actor? Why are you being pretentious? Before the awards night, no one knew who would win the award except for two staff members from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

"It's been sixty years since the Oscars. Let's count the Oscars that black people have won? Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind, Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and The Officer in previous years And the gentleman Louis Gossett, just three..."

Ronald shook his head below, seemingly approving of this pretentious black number one star. In fact, apart from black people, other ethnic minorities are not recognized by the Oscars. John Lone was not even nominated this year.

And he was talking about only three awards, and he was talking about the acting award. Since the establishment of the Best Original Episode Award, basically black people have won the award every year. "Famous" by Erin Cara. Stevie Wonder and Lionel Richie all have statuettes.

"On average, there is one award every 20 years. Based on this calculation, the next black person to win the award will not be until 2000."

"So I finally agreed to come and present the award for the best picture, but I did it for black people. I hope Hollywood will give more recognition to black people..."

Eddie Murphy started to complain a lot about black people being discriminated against and not being treated fairly. Everyone couldn't stand it anymore, and then he ended his complaint, "The ones who won the Best Picture are..."

"Broadcast news..."

"Fatal Attraction..."

"Hope and glory..."

"The Last Emperor……"

"The winner is..." Eddie Murphy began to open the envelope. At this time, on the frame screen, there was also the last nominee for best picture, which was "Moonlight" produced and directed by Ronald.

"Huh?" Ronald looked at the stage. Did he win the award?

Everyone in the audience had the same idea as Ronald, what does Eddie Murphy mean? After he said that the winner was... then "Moonlight Sultry" popped up on the screen. Did he forget that there was another movie nominated, or did he mean that the staff was ready to show the winner?

"Did you win the award?" Donna grabbed Ronald's hand tightly. She was an outsider. According to common sense, her cousin must have won the best picture... right?

"No, Eddie Murphy forgot..." Diane knew that all the winners were only known by the award presenters when they opened the envelopes. Eddie Murphy might have been too enthusiastic about it, so he forgot to mention Luo Nader's film was also nominated.

The entire audience was silent, everyone was staring at Eddie Murphy.

Maybe he was frightened by this silent silence, or felt something was wrong on the audience's face, or maybe he deliberately set up a joke. Eddie Murphy acted as if he had just reacted, "Sorry, there is another one." Nominated film, Moonlight, produced by Ronald Lee."

"Are there any other nominated movies that haven't been mentioned?" Eddie Murphy added after he finished speaking, as if Ronald's movie was competing to get in. "If not, I will announce it. I have already seen the name..."

"Rumble, rumble..." The drums sounded.

"The Last Emperor……"

As the theme song of The Last Emperor played for the last time, producer Jeremy Thomas finally appeared. His eyes were swollen, as if he had been punched twice, and he came on stage to receive the statuette.

"I would like to thank everyone who worked on this movie. Thirty thousand people in China worked on this movie. In the end, the movie was a success. Thank you to them and everyone."

Ronald applauded mechanically, he had not just felt a little weird about Eddie Murphy once again "forgetting" about his own movie nomination.

It might have been an accident once, but it happened twice. Who is this person? Do you want to give yourself a signal?

…

"You seem to be worried. In fact, they all say that nominations are based on strength, and winning awards are based on luck. Are you already a winner in my mind?"

There was no one to interview the loser, so Ronald returned to the hotel with his family and friends. Donna went to her room, and Diane took off her expensive dress, put on her pajamas, and made herself coffee. Seeing that Ronald was still frowning and thinking about something, he came over and kissed him, trying to comfort Ronald.

"I'm not sad because I didn't win the award." Ronald said it wasn't because of that. "You go to bed first. I have to make a few more calls..."

"Okay, I'm going to bed first." Diane touched Ronald's arm.

"Hello? Rick? Were you and Richard present at today's award ceremony? It's strange, isn't it?"

"I was at the scene and Richard was outside watching the live broadcast. We had to be careful and take some measures. This is an unusual thing."

"First help me monitor tomorrow's news reports, including all newspapers, magazines, and TV media. I will read everything about the Oscars tonight."