my time as a director

"Don't guess, Truman's world is just a comedy on the surface, and it's not the kind of comedy that laughs out loud. Have you ever seen a scary comedy? This should be a realistic movie!"

"It's just the best foreign language film. If you don't take it, you can't justify it. Douban's score has stabilized at 9.3!"

"Li Qian just made Truman's world look better. It can be made into an art film."

"Li Qian is a duck, no domestic film has ever won the best foreign language film!"

"If Li Qian can't even get it, who can we count on? Those underground directors will definitely not be able to count on it. In terms of artistry and connotation in the new generation, those directors who make art films are not as good as Li Qian!"

"I would trade three roommates for three years of being single in exchange for The Truman's World to win the Best Foreign Language Film."

.....

Looking at the heated discussions among netizens, they all have great expectations for Truman's world.

Li Qian is tired, carrying everyone's expectations on his shoulders is not a comfortable thing.

The 417th Best Foreign Language Film!

"The ending of Truman's World is perfect at first glance. Truman finally broke the cage set by the producer, walked out of the huge studio on Taoyuan Island, and came to the real world. Weeping with joy and excitement for his success, it was as if they were also Trumans and felt the joy of being truly free for the first time in their lives.

But is this the real ending?No, one second, the whole world was still cheering for Truman's freedom, but the next second, after the Truman show was completely off the air, the conversation between the two security guards was "there will be more What show to watch?" Then everything went dark.

These two lines of dialogue were like pouring a basin of cold water on my head, which made me feel icy all over. Truman's world used the last five seconds of dialogue to subvert a seemingly perfect ending. The movie is satirical from the first second to the last, a bad satire of commercialism, consumerism and entertainment to death in today's media world.

And through the audiences who have been paying attention to Truman in the movie, it satirizes the dark voyeurism in human hearts. Those audiences in Truman’s world seem to care about and support Truman, but when Truman leaves Taoyuan Island, the show stops broadcasting Finally, the most concerned thing is: what to watch next?Concern is a disguise, an assumption made to satisfy one's voyeuristic desire. "

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It's noon on the 12th, and Li Qian brought four leading actors, Tong Liya, Deng Chao, Wang Ou, and Zhang Wei, to Mi Li Jian, preparing to attend the Mi Li Jian TV Movie Golden Globe Award Ceremony tomorrow evening.

I came a day early, and I was jet-lagged.

Li Qian is currently reading newspapers, all of which are newspapers from New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Variety Show, and Hollywood Reporter half a month ago.

The readers of these newspapers overlap highly with the Oscar judges, and their readers are middle-aged whites.

These media are also the main battlefield for Oscar PR.

Robot Story five years ago spent $70 on advertising in the New York Times alone, and that was just this one media.

The Truman Show has received quite good reviews in these media during this period, and the reviews on two mainstream websites, Rotten Tomatoes and IMBD, are also very good.

Rotten Tomatoes has a score of 91, which means that out of every 100 reviews, 91 are positive.

The IMBD score is also as high as 8.0 points.

Even though the score of 8.0 is not high, it is much worse than Douban's score of 9.3, but this score is definitely a score only for classic movies.

For example, the first part of Transformers only scored 7.1, while the classic movie The Spring of the Cowherd Class only scored 7.9, and Li Yin's Life of Pi also scored 7.9.

Titanic scored 7.8 points. When it was released, it was only 7 points. It has increased by 0.8 points in the past ten years.

The scores and Rotten Tomatoes index are quite high, but the box office is very mediocre.

It grossed US$1300 million in the first weekend, and after more than a month of release, the total box office was only 3600 million.

[-] million yuan may seem like a lot, but for a movie that is screened in mainstream theaters on a large scale, this is a huge blow.

There is nothing unexpected about Li Qian at the box office. There are too few people who will watch a Chinese-language comedy drama movie. It is similar to domestic audiences watching Indian movies.

Fortunately, since these audiences choose to watch Chinese-language movies, there will be no strong discrimination, so the scores are quite high.

"Is the copyright of this movie sold to Warner, or is it divided?" Deng Chao asked.

"The share, if it wasn't for the Olympics, I would have bought it out."

Tong Liya said with some pain, "For 3600 million US dollars, then Warner will take more than half of it, and there is not much left."

"It's like this now. Warner announced that it will advance 600 million yuan, and then divide the distribution into a lottery, 3600 million US dollars, leaving 700 million yuan."

"So cruel?"

Li Qian shook his head, "It's nothing strange, Hollywood distributors are like this, and the share of imported films in China is about the same."

"3600 million box office, only a fraction."

Although it was not his own money, Deng Chao also felt a pain in his flesh.

Tong Liya also felt distressed, "No wonder everyone says that the distributors in Hollywood are vampires. Everyone will lose money, but the distributors will not."

The same goes for Wang Ou and Zhang Wei. Although they have become famous after starring in The Truman Show, they have kept making appointments, but hundreds of millions of dollars is a big sum for them.

"Actually, it's mainly after the Oscars. If it wins, it can bring in at least 1000 million at the box office. It's no problem to break through 5000 million. Besides, DVDs, online on-demand, and TV on-demand are also big things. Of course, the premise is to win awards."

"I don't know if it will be rewarding this time."

Tong Liya, Deng Chao, and the others were all looking forward to it. After all, it was an Oscar. The film they starred in won an Oscar, which is definitely the most glorious stroke on their resume.

I didn't chat too much. Although I slept on the plane, the jet lag of more than ten hours still made me uncomfortable.

I took a break during the day, attended a dinner hosted by Warner at night, and then continued to rest the next day.

......

At 6:7 p.m. local time, which is [-]:[-] a.m. in China, there are still two hours before the awards ceremony. Li Qian and the others changed their clothes and began to prepare.

Li Qian said with a smile, "All ready, the Golden Globe Awards will be broadcast live all over the world."

"Isn't it just walking the red carpet? It's fine for some people to rub the red carpet all the time." Tong Liya said that she didn't care, but she was still a little nervous.

"I don't pay much attention when I'm a man." Deng Chao laughed.

"Me too." Zhang Wei echoed.

"Ready." Wang Ou said excitedly.

"Calm down, no one in Hollywood knows us anyway."

After finishing speaking, Li Qian led everyone out of the hotel and got into the car that Warner had prepared.

The award ceremony is held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the whole process is not much different from other award ceremonies.

Walking the red carpet is also essential.

This is a technical job, especially for female stars, finding a suitable place and posing in a suitable pose, so that the media can take beautiful photos at the most suitable angle.

However, compared to those celebrities who rubbed the red carpet, Li Qian was much more casual.