"Why did you ask me to play a peasant woman?" Gong Li asked dissatisfiedly, turning over the script.
"Do you think it's so easy to win the award?" Xiang Nan smiled and said, "If you don't go out of your way to break the judges' inherent impression and impress them, how can you make them vote willingly?"
In order to win the Academy Award, Leo suffered enough in "The Revenant". Unkempt, braving the wind and snow, suffering from hunger...he contributed disfigured acting skills, which satisfied the judges.
In order to win the Academy Award, Charlize Theron also sacrificed a lot in "The Devil Wears Prada". Not only did she gain thirty pounds, but she also went without makeup throughout the entire film, dressing herself up to look ugly and unrecognizable. It turns out that the ugly woman on the screen is Charlize, who is turning all living beings upside down.
After hearing this, Gong Li nodded, not feeling so resentful anymore.
"Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" was subsequently prepared to be filmed in the land of Sanqin.
Xiang Nan invested 8 million yuan for this, which is not a lot, but definitely a lot.
He also specially sent Ouyang Fenqiang to be the producer of "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" and be responsible for controlling the funds.
In 1988, Ouyang Fenqiang was admitted to Jinling Academy of Arts, majoring in drama and performance.
However, after a year of training, he felt that he had not made much progress in acting.
On the one hand, he has a baby face and is too short, so his acting skills are limited; on the other hand, his acting skills are already fixed.
During the three years of filming "Dream of Red Mansions", his acting career was all devoted to Jia Baoyu. Apart from this character, he doesn't know much about any other characters. But Jia Baoyu, who has lived for five thousand years, is only one person. It is impossible for him to meet such a suitable role again.
Therefore, in his sophomore year, he changed his major to directing, intending to work hard in this area.
After graduating from college in 1992, he was assigned to work at Jinling Film Studio. However, he finally went to sea and chose to come to the capital to make a living.
Because state-owned factories such as Jinling Film Factory are now based on seniority, as a young man who first joined the factory, if he wanted to take his turn to film, he would have to sit on the bench for at least ten years.
Therefore, after Ouyang Fenqiang thought about it, he decided to come to the capital to try his luck.
It happened that Xiang Nan's Qilin Pictures had just opened and was recruiting people, so he immediately came to join him.
Xiang Nan asked him to be the producer of "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" because he also wanted him to learn more from Zhang Yimou. Even if he learns just a few things, he will be able to work in the mainland entertainment industry.
In addition, Chen Kexu joined the People's Arts after graduation, and Yuan Mei was hired by the China TV Drama Production Center after graduation. Both are considered good jobs.
When Deng Jie and Zhang Guoli were cooperating in "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo", they fell in love due to the drama and got married in 1991. Now we are floating together in the capital.
After Xiang Nan founded Qilin Pictures, he planned to gradually bring these talents under his banner, so that they can make money together.
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In August 1993, Feng Xiaogang made a comeback and continued his efforts by directing the film "Forever Lost My Love" adapted by Wang Zhi. Wang Zhiwen plays the leading role, and Xu Fan and Ju Xue serve as the heroines.
This movie was invested by Haima Film and Television Company in cooperation with Wang Tie, Ma Weidu and others. The script is a fusion of Wang Tie's "Stewardess" and "Forever Lost My Love".
It tells the story of Su Kai, a passionate and humorous young man, who falls in love at first sight with stewardess Lin Gege. But just as the two were passionately in love, Su Kai suddenly learned that he was suffering from ALS. In order not to cause trouble to Lin Gege, he reluctantly broke up with her.
Gege’s friend Yang Yan was very upset with Gege at first, but later she learned the truth and fell in love with this brave and kind-hearted man...
Overall, this script is still very vulgar. Terminal illness, love triangle, all it takes is a car accident to cause amnesia, and the three major Korean drama clichés are all there.
However, Xiang Nan is more optimistic about this movie. After all, there are so many superficial people nowadays, and those who have that kind of affection and love must be popular.
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In October 1993, "Jurassic Park", written by Xiang Nan, directed by Spielberg, starring Sam Neill, Xu Qing, and supporting role by Gong Li, was officially released.
Due to the huge investment of 60 million in this movie, Universal Pictures did not hesitate to spend a lot of money on publicity before the official release in order to recover the cost.
Newspapers, magazines, TV, station posters, theater posters, and all major platforms are creating public opinion to let everyone know that the Tyrannosaurus Rex is coming!
The overwhelming publicity created quite a momentum. Therefore, when the movie was released, a large number of viewers flocked to the theater to find out.
And the high quality of the movie really lives up to everyone's expectations.
The story of "Jurassic Park" is thrilling, with climaxes one after another, making people's adrenaline soar at any time. In particular, the dinosaurs produced with computer special effects are all lifelike, giving the audience unparalleled audio-visual enjoyment.
Because of this, all the audiences who watched it cheered and cheered, and therefore its box office soared. The box office in the first week exceeded 70 million US dollars, breaking the box office record set by "Terminator 2".
In the end, it earned a box office of US$340 million in North America alone, and a box office of US$850 million overseas, making it the highest-grossing movie in history.
Although in the movie, dinosaurs are the real protagonists. But the botanist played by Xu Qing and the biologist played by Gong Li still gained a certain amount of exposure.
This also allowed them to start receiving some Hollywood film offers. But to be honest, most of them are supporting roles, and the characters are not outstanding. More importantly, even for such a role, they still need to audition and compete step by step.
Therefore, Xiang Nan directly refused for them.
"You can't be so humble, being picked over and over for a small role." He advised Gong Li and Xu Qing, "If you want to film in Hollywood, just come to me directly."
The box-office explosion of "Jurassic Park" has made him now the hottest screenwriter in Hollywood. If he wants to stuff a few people into a movie, it's relatively easy. Those movie companies are willing to sell him this face.
Hearing what he said, Gong Li and Xu Qing were very excited.
In all of China, Xiang Nan is probably the only one who has the ability to say this.
Later, with the help of Xiang Nan, Gong Li joined the crew of "Dumb and Dumber" and collaborated with talented comedians Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.
As for Xu Qing, he joined the cast of "Seven Deadly Sins" and collaborated with top Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman.
This was very satisfying to both of them.
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In December 1993, Feng Xiaogang's "Forever Lost My Love" was officially released.
I don't know if it was his bad luck or Wang Tie's misfortune. On the day the movie was released, the Hollywood blockbuster "The Fugitive" also happened to be released. This is the first foreign film released in the mainland to be distributed in a box office split format.
Hollywood blockbusters, action suspense themes, starring Harrison Ford... With so many BUFFs added together, it is obviously more attractive than Feng Xiaogang's "Forever Lost".
Therefore, "Forever Lost My Love" failed miserably at the box office, and ultimately achieved a box office of less than RMB 2 million. After deducting costs, it suffered a net loss of RMB 4 million, which made Feng Xiaogang cry again.
