Seven Hundred and Sixty-Four - Respect the Damn Success

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Judging from the Academy's practice over the years, unless a movie has such a huge impact like "Forrest Gump" or "Schindler's List", the Academy will never easily give it an Oscar. Too many awards for one movie.

Just like the fairness and justice that the college has always advocated, we can find from the public relations lobbying that these so-called fairness and justice are only relative terms. In fact, the concept that the college has always followed is to divide the cake and strike a balance.

Practitioners who are basically invited into Chandler Hall know this very well, and this has almost become Oscar common sense.

It is against this background that those who belong to the crew of "Saving Private Ryan" will inevitably have better expectations.

So far tonight, the Oscar ceremony has reached its final and most important stage. Before the Best Director was awarded to Steven Spielberg, the biggest winner was undoubtedly "Shakespeare in Love", but when Steven Spielberg stood on the stage with the statuette in his hand and announced his award, During the speech, it is not certain who will be the big winner tonight.

Generally speaking, if the academy still pursues a balanced approach this year, then it is very likely that "Saving Private Ryan" will be used as the final grand prize. This is the true view of most people at the scene.

"DreamWorks will soon become the seventh giant in Hollywood."

Looking at Steven Spielberg on the stage, Wayne muttered softly.

If he remembered correctly, starting from the past two years, DreamWorks' movies will not only overcome obstacles in the theater market, but also continuously achieve unexpectedly good results. It will continue to shine with dazzling brilliance on a stage like the Oscars.

In the following years, DreamWorks' popularity was extremely strong. Whether it is in terms of box office, awards, or even revenue figures, it must surpass the one or two companies at the bottom of the six major ones. In the eyes of most ordinary people who don't know the situation, DreamWorks seems to have really become the seventh largest giant in Hollywood.

Turning his head, Wayne glanced at the crowd around him, and the corners of his mouth slowly turned upward, revealing a meaningful smile.

Some things will still happen as usual, but some things have been fundamentally changed by him. If there is anyone in Hollywood who represents the established forces of film capital and hopes that DreamWorks will develop better and better, then it must be Wayne himself.

"Will you go up and receive the award?"

As a woman who knows Wayne very well, Cameron Diaz is contrary to what everyone around her thinks. In her opinion, the best picture award will definitely go to "Shakespeare in Love" in the end. Given "Shakespeare in Love".

Of course she didn't understand the operating rules of the Oscars, and she had never understood which film was more favored by the judges, but she only believed in one thing: the man beside her paid, and he paid a lot of money.

As a woman who has been fooling around with him for several years, she knows better than anyone else that the reason why this man is willing to pay a lot of money is definitely to fulfill the Australian bi**h’s dream of becoming a movie queen. After all, Nao M. Watts didn't even touch the statuette.

Then there is only one reason left. With the selfish nature of this man under his tough and sunny appearance, the reason why he would pay a lot of money can only be because he can make more money. …

"No, this kind of glorious moment should be given to those who work hard." Glancing at Cameron Diaz beside him, Wayne grinned.

Just after he finished speaking, the old cowboy on the stage happily announced the result of the best picture into the microphone. "Shakespeare in Love, Harvey Weinstein, Wayne Greenberg."

The moment the sound fell on the stage, everyone in the "Shakespeare in Love" crew stood up and hugged each other wildly in celebration. Yes, the best picture is theoretically awarded to the producer, but under normal circumstances, this is also a recognition of the entire crew.

If you have watched the Oscars ceremony, you will find that

Whenever the last and most important award is awarded, it is often not just the producer who takes the stage to receive the award, but the entire crew.

The whole theater was in jubilation, and the guests around Wayne, both familiar and unfamiliar, were giving him instructions from a distance.

However, he just smiled and nodded to these people, without any intention of getting up on stage to receive the award.

As he said, this film, to put it mildly, has two names written on the producer column. To put it bluntly, Harvey Weinstein did all the work. He was just a hands-off shopkeeper who paid and waited for the money.

With Wayne's current pride, he wouldn't even go to the stage to try to take advantage of this honor.

Besides, his plan has not changed since "Blair Witch" back then. As long as it is a project cooperating with that big fat man, he will never take the lead. His idea is to downplay his own influence. Could it be that in silence? Doesn’t it feel good to make money?

The crowd booed together on stage, taking photos and being interviewed. The 71st Academy Awards ceremony also ended with a lot of discussion.

But this does not mean that it is completely over. As another continuation of the Oscars ceremony, the celebratory cocktail party held by "Vanity Fair" became the next gathering place for everyone present.

In recent years, this cocktail party has become more and more influential in the hands of Tina Brown. It can be said that basically all Oscar-nominated guests will attend. Here, regardless of whether you are the big winner tonight or a bystander who has been standing in the audience, you will always show your face.

Compared with the winners of Oscar statuettes, more practitioners in the industry should actually pay more attention to this reception.

Vanity Fair usually invites guests in the name of rewarding practitioners for their hard work for a year, but it still cannot change the social nature of the reception. Besides this Vanity Fair cocktail party, it is difficult to find another occasion where all the big names in the industry can be gathered together.

Nothing at the Oscars? It doesn't matter, "Vanity Fair" has grandly laid out a red carpet in front of the Hilton Hotel. As long as you receive the invitation, regardless of whether you are successful or not, you can walk on this red carpet surrounded by many media.

More importantly, the reason why everyone is unwilling to miss this cocktail party is because on this occasion, no one knows whether they will find another opportunity to gain fame and fortune.

"There are many people who want to enter this celebrity cocktail party. I heard that the opportunity to enter the Vanity Fair cocktail party has been sold to five figures privately."…

Cameron Diaz followed Wayne and walked out of the elevator while smiling and whispering: "You know, I'm not talking about the opportunity to come in from the red carpet at the front entrance of the hotel."

"I'm afraid you have to ask the host of the reception in person. Here, it's coming."

After responding casually, Wayne just stepped out of the elevator and saw Tina Brown walking towards him.

"God, what a surprise, Wayne, it's such a surprise that you can come!" Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, extended her right hand enthusiastically with a smile on her face.

"Hi, Tina."

Wayne stretched out his hand equally politely, shook it with the other party, and joked with a smile: "Just now, Kami was telling me how precious a ticket to the reception is, how could I miss it so easily."

"Good evening, Ms. Diaz, good evening, Ms. Klein."

Being able to sell the magazine "Vanity Fair" throughout North America, and also being able to tie this cocktail party to the Oscars, Tina Brown's brain is certainly far smarter than the average person. Faced with Wayne's teasing, she just smiled, immediately looked at the two women behind them, and said hello politely.

"Do you want me to take you around?"

After some simple greetings, Tina Brown looked at the man in front of her and asked.

Wayne shook his head. "I can wander around as I please, Tina, you're too polite."

"Okay, if you need anything, you can call me through the waiter at any time."

Since they arrived early, many of the Oscar-winning guests were still being interviewed by the media, so there were not many people in the reserved hotel banquet hall.

Wayne greeted people along the way and found a seat near the balcony to sit down. Looking at the celebrities coming to the banquet hall, he leaned on the chair and lit a cigarette.

"As far as I know, the list of people who can enter this cocktail party is divided into two types within Vanity Fair."

Behind her, Nina continued the topic just now, chatting with Cameron Diaz beside her. "The kind of money you heard about coming in, strictly speaking, is not included in these two types of invitations. It can only be regarded as taking advantage of some loopholes tacitly approved by Vanity Fair."

"Two kinds?"

"That's right."

The assistant lady shrugged and explained: "The first type is those people who are actively invited by Vanity Fair magazine, such as those who have been nominated for Oscars. They have been invited to the Vanity Fair cocktail party since they received their nominations. List.

The latter type, like the boss, don't need an invitation at all. "

The reason is simple. For people like Wayne, Spielberg, and Big Tom, their faces are the strongest pass. Even if such a top celebrity in the industry did not receive any Oscar nominations, he would still be a guest of honor at this reception.

The essence of a Hollywood reception is socializing, but what is the purpose of socializing?

No doubt, of course, to look for opportunities. Actors are looking for opportunities to join big projects, producers and film company executives are looking for opportunities to cooperate with each other, and even those handsome guys and beautiful models who always find a way to appear are undoubtedly looking for opportunities to take shortcuts to get promoted. . …

For example, there is a phenomenon that happens frequently. After the Oscar night, some little-known people suddenly appear on the covers of some well-known magazines or appear in the list of some big productions.

Such lucky people undoubtedly found their opportunities on such occasions. Of course, many of the suddenly announced projects and collaborations were actually reached at such cocktail parties. This is why people love to socialize.

After all, no one knows whether he will be involved in the next project that brings both fame and fortune.

More obviously, when Wayne sat down with the two ladies, he naturally became a social target for many people.

Although Nina would always signal to people coming over from time to time that Mr. Greenberg did not want to be disturbed, when Harvey Weinstein led the crew over, the assistant lady had already collected a thick stack of business card.

"Sorry, can I have a word with Mr. Greenberg? I swear, I only need five minutes."

When another young man in a suit and leather tie was blocked by Nina who got up early, Wayne, who had been smoking in a trance, showed a rare expression of extremely obvious interest in his eyes.

He glanced at the crew of "Shakespeare in Love" surrounded by crowds, and instead of rushing over to say hello, he waved to someone not far away. "Nina, let him come."

"Well, you're in luck."

The assistant lady shrugged, turned around and got out of the way, and took the lead to walk towards her boss.

"Hello, Director Greenberg, I'm your fan."

The young man who came over was about the same age as Wayne. It could be seen that he was very nervous and excited. While saying hello, he was still rubbing his hands together.

"Hey, what do you want from me?"

Seeing this extremely familiar face, Wayne had a warm smile on his face and motioned for the other person to sit down and chat. "Man, don't tell me that you went through all the trouble just to get an autograph from me."

"Well, it's like this. I have a script in hand and I want you to read it."

The first time she heard the man's explanation, Nina raised her hand and slapped her forehead helplessly. That's right, this is probably another self-righteous screenwriter or director who naively thinks that with a script, he can attract investment from them.

In the past two years, she didn't know how many similar things and people she had to reject every day.

I'm afraid what makes these people sad is that even if Nina accepts the so-called script or idea, 99% of these things will not reach Wayne's desk.

"Would you mind introducing yourself?"

Something surprising happened. Wayne, who has always been indifferent to similar things, although he did not express his desire to read the other party's script, he rarely wanted to continue chatting. Nina could tell that her boss's tone was not perfunctory, but that he really wanted to continue chatting with the other party.

"Of course, I'm Christopher Nolan, I'm from London and I just came to Hollywood."

There was a clear surprise on the man's face, and he quickly introduced himself, but before he said a few words, he changed the topic again to the so-called script. ""Memento" is a script I adapted based on my brother's short story "Symbol of Death"."…

"Mr. Nolan, this may not be an appropriate occasion."

Wayne waved his hand and interrupted the other party's intention to continue the introduction. After thinking for a while, he said: "Well, I don't care whether you want to attract investment or you want me to help introduce a production platform. Tomorrow morning, If you haven’t changed your mind, you can bring the script to Greenberg Manor and we’ll have a good chat then, okay?”

"Okay, of course, I mean of course it's no problem. I'll go there with the script early tomorrow morning."

Christopher Nolan was stunned after being interrupted, thinking that his sales pitch would be rejected impatiently again. But when he heard Wayne's words, he immediately nodded gratefully. He knew that he was definitely making the right bet by trying his best to get into this party.

"Okay, let's do this for today, and we'll see you tomorrow."

"Thank you, Mr. Greenberg."

Watching the man leave excitedly, Nina turned to look at her boss, with disbelief written on her face.

In recent years, she had helped Wayne reject countless self-righteous young people. At least a situation like today has never happened before. Is there anything special about that British guy from London? Nina didn't notice anyway.

"We won, Wayne."

Before Nina's doubts could be solved, Harvey Weinstein finally finished dealing with the people who came to say hello. After coming over with a wine glass, he directly touched Wein. "We're the biggest winners this year, Wayne."

"That's right, Harvey."

After drinking down the champagne in the glass, Wayne looked at the fat man in front of him with the same smile on his face.

Harvey Weinstein suddenly asked: "Who was that kid just now?"

"A director from London probably wants to get my investment." Wayne shrugged and said casually.

Harvey Weinstein's tone was frivolous, he spread his hands and said with a smile: "Ha, that's really not an easy task."

While they were talking, several key members of the "Shakespeare Affair" crew also came over at the same time, including Cate Blanchett, who was holding the actress' statuette tightly in her hand. As they gathered around, they happened to hear an interesting conversation between the two.

"Harvey, do you know why so many people want to be successful in Hollywood and want to be a big director here?"

"Oh, because a big Hollywood director can sleep with female stars?"

"no."

Wayne held up the fingers holding the cigarette and waved it back and forth between the two of them. "That's just a reason you want to keep succeeding."

"What?"

"Those people came to Hollywood because they were chasing their dreams, their movie dreams."

Harvey Weinstein waved his hand with disgust. "Come on, Wayne."

"Okay." Wayne also sneered, then quickly put away the smile on his face and stared seriously into Harvey Weinstein's eyes. "Harvey, how much money did they (capital) spend the first time to make you give up your ideals?"

"Seventy-five thousand dollars."

"You deserve a higher price."

"So, I will sell "Shakespeare in Love" for a good price, a price that is enough to make up for my dream of making a movie!" Harvey Weinstein said, and he and Wayne looked at each other and laughed together. "Aha, this is a big deal, we're going to get busy again, Wayne."

As he spoke, he raised his glass. "Let's honor damn success."

"Here's to damn success."

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