British 1986

In theory, it doesn't matter whether Anthony Hopkins knows Allen or not.

But people, it is inevitable that they will have some rural feelings.

This is especially true for older people.

As an actor who was born in Wales, grew up in Wales, and later had to come to the United States to develop his career, it would be a joke to say how much Anthony Hopkins likes the United States. He does not like the United States at all. After filming every time, Anthony Hopkins will go back to his hometown to rest as soon as possible.

He called his good friend, the previous generation Bond of 007, to go fishing, chatting, and discussing the domestic situation.

It’s hard to describe the entertainment industry in the UK. The United States has the Oscars, and throughout Europe, France has the Cannes Film Festival, Italy has the Venice Film Festival, and even Germany has the Berlin Film Festival. But what does the UK have?

There is an Academy Award, the Britannia Award, which is the Empire Award that only locals have heard of.

But how bad is this award?

It was suspended last year, but seems to have resumed this year. Anyway, it is half dead.

When it comes to the British film and television industry, the most famous one is the film industry in colonial Hong Kong. Even the Indian film industry, a former colony and now independent, is more famous than the British film industry.

This has led to the fact that Great Britain is extremely poor in the film and television industry. Young actors have little chance to succeed, high-level directors have few resources, and the overall box office market is not large. They lose money on any movie they make, and they have to rely on the entire Commonwealth to be released in order to protect their profits. Opportunity.

Over a long period of time, the film and television industry has lost a lot of talent, and many people have to leave their hometowns, either to develop in other European countries, or they can only come to the United States and work in Hollywood.

But there are too many local actors in Hollywood, the competition is very fierce, and not all opportunities can be reserved for actors from Great Britain.

In this case, some people, who are not determined at this time, simply bite the bullet, become American citizens, and suddenly become Americans. In this way, the situation will be improved.

And many actors from the older generation who came from Great Britain don’t want to become American citizens. Even if the United States and Great Britain both recognize dual citizenship, that won’t work!

In this general environment, some British actors who came to Hollywood to work in Hollywood began to form a group, and Karl Lao's work in Los Angeles in recent years also exacerbated this situation.

Anthony Hopkins only met Karl Lao last year. At the beginning, Karl Lao didn't communicate much with him. Instead, Anthony Hopkins rushed to visit Karl Lao, which lasted a long time. Once we got to know each other, we felt that both parties were compatible, and the relationship gradually became stronger.

Under such circumstances, Anthony Hopkins was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor this year!

This is also the first time that an Oscar has nominated the protagonist of a thriller R-rated movie for Best Actor.

And the probability of winning is extremely high!

With the award at hand, Anthony Hopkins finally felt confident. He cautiously asked Old Carl if he could find an opportunity to introduce him to the Earl of Carmarthen after he returned to Wales.

It would be even better if I could make another movie under that man!

In the past, due to psychological shadow and lack of channels, I didn't dare to meet that gentleman. But now that he is about to have such a heavyweight honor as Oscar for Best Actor, Anthony Hopkins dares to think about it a little bit.

To most ordinary Welsh people, the Hill family is heaven!

The reigning earl of their family sometimes speaks better than the queen in Wales. After all, the county magistrate is not as good as the current one.

"Haha." Old Carl turned slightly sideways, feinted a few times with his right index finger at Anthony Hopkins and said: "My master is not something everyone can meet, let alone an old guy like you who looks so good. Not good-looking”

"Haha." Anthony Hopkins smiled dryly and looked at Old Karl's face in embarrassment. Everyone was indifferent, so no one could criticize anyone.

"However, it is always good to be concerned about your hometown. After I go back this year, if there is an opportunity, I will mention it. As for whether I want to see you or not, it depends on His Majesty the Count."

"That's it, that's it! Then thank you Sir first." Seeing that Old Karl finally agreed, although there is no certainty yet, as long as Old Karl agrees to help carry the message, Anthony Hopkins is already very satisfied, Taiwan The host had already started to warm up the show, said a few words casually, and then began to tease this year's economic situation.

Allen only knows that because of the financial crisis in 1987, the economic situation in Great Britain has been bad in recent years. In fact, the outside world is similar. Apart from slight differences, the situation in various places is generally not good.

The same is true for the United States. Since 1987, there have been basically one or two small economic crises every year.

The unemployment rate is rising rapidly, not to mention high deficits and high national debt. In short, the financial problem is very serious. This is also one of the important reasons why the United States started the Gulf War, in order to divert internal conflicts and expand the market and output value of domestic military industrial enterprises.

As of the day of the Academy Awards ceremony, the United States has experienced an economic crisis for the eighth time since the financial crisis in 1987, and the situation is still getting worse.

The host caught this topic on stage and further complained, saying that Hollywood is not easy, and major film and television companies are not easy either. Last year's box office was not very good. This kind of party is broadcast live, he said here , seems to be doing useless work.

But every time he complains now, it is another brainwashing for many ignorant people watching the live broadcast.

Major film and television companies can also better make false accounts, change earnings, and then pay less dividends!

The entire Academy Awards is a huge vanity fair. The scene belongs to the actors who show their faces and the behind-the-scenes production team who had little chance to show their faces before. But in the invisible place, it belongs to the film and television companies behind them.

Everyone must rely on this market to make a living, and must learn to sell poorly. Through such hot events and the opportunity of high ratings at award ceremonies, this concept can be exported to the public, making the public feel that the film industry is about to die, and then...

The subconscious message for the audience is: The film industry is about to die. Those of you who like to watch movies, why don’t you buy more tickets and go to theaters to support the film industry? !

The host complained on the stage, and the following guests, whether they were sincere or just making up for the numbers, all smiled and clapped, and the atmosphere was joyful. Then, the official award ceremony will have to wait a while, and there will be a song first. The singing and dancing continue to warm up the show. At this point, the United States is sometimes very similar to the Indians, and they have to insert a dance at every turn.

"Are you all ready?" Li Zairong was wearing a hooded black suit, holding a telescope and looking at the neighborhood in the distance. About four hundred meters in front of him was the main entrance of Koreatown, a place he was already very familiar with.

The supermarket a little while ago has been cleaned up, but the supermarket owner only cleaned the front. There are still some black smoke marks on the surrounding walls, which represents what happened here not long ago.

"Everything is ready. We made four big guys and are just waiting for them to come."

A Korean who followed from Wales came to Li Zairong and reported quietly.

After this period of training, this young man has undergone some transformation. He has changed from a good-for-nothing young man with a slightly cowardly character to a scumbag young man who can now command actions with an expressionless face.

"Where are they?"

The subordinate looked at his watch, pondered for a moment and said, "It's about half an hour before the parade approaches."

"Um"

Following the guidance, Li Zairong saw a van parked slowly near the streets of Koreatown, and a large cardboard box was removed from the van. The text on the cardboard showed that the box should contain a refrigerator.

But in fact, there is no refrigerator at all, but something more interesting than a refrigerator.

Bags of flour and firecrackers were mixed together and packed in huge refrigerator packaging boxes, one every few dozen meters, and four were placed on the street in front of Koreatown.

Flour.

You can buy it in supermarkets, but this thing is actually very dangerous. Under normal circumstances, whether you add water and other things, use flour to make bread, pancakes, noodles, etc., it will be fine!

But when dry flour is in a granular state, especially when it is extremely dense, it will explode when exposed to an open flame!

So powerful.

It depends on whether you are far or close to the center of the explosion. Far away is better. Like Li Zairong, standing hundreds of meters away, the impact will be very small, but if you are within a dozen meters, even if you are not dead, at least you will be affected. He was injured by a shock wave, and after being covered in flour, there was a secondary injury.

For example, when cooking, sprinkle a large amount of flour directly on the open flame on the stove. This is definitely no less dangerous than holding a large two-kicker in your hand and lighting it directly on fire.

Now, each of these four large refrigerator packaging boxes contains four bags of about 50 kilograms, which means a total of about two hundred kilograms of flour, plus the firecrackers bought from Chinatown. If it suddenly ignites later, , especially when the group of little black men were passing by, it would have such an effect.

Although Li Zairong was scared to death, now that he had come to this point, he had no chance to retreat. He could only follow the plan step by step. He looked at his watch again and saw that the time was now 10:30 pm.

Don't ask why black people like to go out to parade in the middle of the night. Calling it a parade is just to look down on them. They just take advantage of the darkness and use the parade as an excuse, but in fact they are planning to do zero-dollar shopping!

How can zero-dollar shopping in broad daylight be as convenient as zero-dollar shopping at night? With their skin color, if they just find a street after taking their things and sneak into an alley, who can find them?

Even if they are recorded on video, ordinary portable video recorders these days cannot capture their faces clearly at night!

Just highlight one unscrupulous thing. This is what they have done most in the past month or so. Every few days, they will organize such a large-scale event.

This time the Oscar heavyweight film "Silence of the Lambs", a thriller R-rated film, received a total of eight nominations, and the previous six nominations have passed. Their crew won three out of six nominations. Next, the information of the actors nominated for Best Actor this time began to be played on the big screen.

When Anthony Hopkins appeared on the big screen wearing a mask, the audience was slightly commotion. This image was the most popular image last year. Who doesn't know Hannibal?

After the highlight clips were played, the two award presenters walked onto the stage with smiles and took over the host's microphone. They didn't even have time to say a few words of praise. The gap was too big. Compared with Anthony Hopkins, the others The few male actors are more like making up the numbers.

"The winner of the 64th Academy Award for Best Actor is-Anthony! Anthony Hopkins!"

"Wow!"

There was thunderous applause. Even though Anthony Hopkins was well prepared, he still couldn't suppress his excitement. He stood up and hugged the crew members on the left and right excitedly, and walked sideways from the second row. Anthony Hopkins also specially I ran to Old Karl in the first row and gave him a hug with his somewhat disgusted eyes.

"Sir, there will be a little surprise later!"

"oh?"

Before Karl Lao could figure out what Anthony Hopkins meant by the little surprise, the guy had already let go of the hand holding him and turned around to go on stage.

Like an old gentleman, Anthony Hopkins first bowed in three directions to the audience, which made the audience applaud even more enthusiastically.

After the applause subsided a little, Anthony Hopkins deliberately adjusted his shirt, which was slightly wrinkled due to bending over, and then walked calmly to the two moving guests to greet them and hug them.

"Congratulations Anthony!"

"haha, thank you."

Anthony Hopkins received the Oscar statuette trophy and looked down at the trophy in his hand. An emotion that he didn't know how to express filled his heart.

As usual, he held the trophy and gestured to the audience, and then began to express his usual thanks, thanking the organizing committee, thanking the judges, thanking Hollywood, thanking the director and crew members, thanking the fans, etc.

When you hang out in other people's territory, you have to say something nice when you win a prize, and everyone compliments each other.

After finishing his acceptance speech, the host came up with the microphone and joked a few more words: "Anthony, I just thanked so many people, and it was a bit too deliberate. At this moment, is there anyone you want to thank the most, or is there anyone you want to thank the most?" Don’t you have anything to say to the audience in front of the TV?”

"I'm really grateful for this."

Anthony Hopkins seems a little strict in his speech, and there is a hint of simplicity in his smile. This is very different from the image of Uncle Ba in her movie.

"Oh? So after you finished filming this movie, you also won the Oscar for Best Actor. May I ask Mr. Anthony, what are your next plans? Will you continue to bring any surprise roles to the fans?"

Anthony Hopkins raised his eyebrows and finally asked. This is the process that every winner will go through after the heavyweight awards are awarded. The acceptance speech talked about the past and the present, and now the host asked It's a future plan.

"Haha. I am planning to return to China recently. My hometown, Wales, is a very beautiful place. In the past few years, my hometown has also made great progress, and even produced an internationally renowned director."