At this year's Oscars, "The Shawshank Redemption," "Leaving Las Vegas," "The English Patient" and "Fargo" are all favorites to win.
Except for "The English Patient", the other three films were invested and produced by Xiang Nan. The precision of investment vision is beyond the reach of Wall Street speculators.
Then the Oscars ceremony officially opened, and various awards were awarded one after another.
The Coen brothers won the best original screenplay, and the screenwriter of "The English Patient" won the best adapted screenplay. This film also won the best photography, best editing, best art direction, and best sound effects.
Losing several major awards in a row made the crew of "The Shawshank Redemption" somewhat unmotivated.
But then, Morgan Freeman won the Best Supporting Actor for "The Shawshank Redemption", which immediately opened the door for this film to win awards.
Immediately afterwards, it won the best actor, best director and best picture. In this way, although it lost several technical awards, it won all the most important awards and was still considered the biggest winner in the game.
Nicolas Cage won the Oscar for Best Actor for "The Shawshank Redemption", which also proved his strength and officially joined the acting class.
However, at the party after the award ceremony, Xiang Nan still secretly suggested to him, "Cage, don't spend it randomly when you have money in the future. Either buy some stocks in Coca-Cola, Intel, or Microsoft, or buy one or two Beverly buildings." Don’t buy luxury houses in Shanshan.”
When Nicolas Cage got rich, he spent money lavishly. There are four yachts alone, the most expensive one worth 20 million US dollars.
In addition, there are more than 50 expensive sports cars, more than 30 motorcycles, a private jet, and even two private islands in Panama...
Because he spent money uncontrollably, all the money was spent before he died. In order to repay the money, he was forced to accept a large number of bad movies, which caused him to go from Oscar winner to the king of bad movies. It is a pity.
And there are actually many people like him in Hollywood.
Such as Johnny Depp, Michael Jackson, John Travolta, Kim Basinger, Lindsay Lohan and so on.
The reason why there are so many is that on the one hand, most of these artists are out of school and have not received a good education. Therefore, after becoming famous, they have no ability to control their own wealth and are more likely to spend money lavishly.
On the one hand, because these artists have no professional knowledge, they can easily be deceived by their financial managers, allowing them to embezzle their funds at will.
For example, Nicolas Cage sued his property consultant, saying that he lost so much money because of the other party's misguidance.
Xiang Nan didn't want Cage to make the same mistake again and go bankrupt due to excessive spending. Then he would take on a lot of bad movies and waste his talents, so he gave the advice.
Nicolas Cage nodded and decided to accept Xiang Nan's suggestion.
Because not only is his achievements in the film field unparalleled, but his talent in the investment field is also terrifying.
He went from star to boss of Universal Pictures in just a few years. Anyway, he has never seen anything like this in his more than ten years in Hollywood.
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At the party after the Oscars, Xiang Nan finalized two more projects.
One was recommended by Ben Affleck and included the project "Good Will Hunting" planned by his good friend Matt Damon.
Ben Affleck and Xiang Nan have collaborated on "Honey, I Shrunk the Children" and "Daredevil", so they have some friendship.
"Good Will Hunting" was written by him and Matt Damon. They thought this project might be possible, so they tentatively found Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan has not seen this movie, but he has heard about it and it seems to be a good work, so he agreed to their request.
One is the science fiction film "Starship Troopers." This film is adapted from Robert Heinlein's famous science fiction "Starship Troopers". This film once won the Hugo Award, the world's science fiction award, and had a great influence on subsequent science fiction movies and games.
For example, in Blizzard's "StarCraft", many Zerg settings come from this film; in addition, the power armor mentioned in "Halo" and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" are also used in movies such as "Halo" and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars". reflect.
Xiang Nan has watched "Starship Troopers" before, and he still remembers the alien bugs gushing out like a tide in it. Moreover, if he remembered correctly, this movie was originally supposed to be Denis Richards's famous film.
She played the role of the male protagonist's ex-girlfriend in it, and became famous because of her beautiful appearance and figure.
Xiang Nan then arranged for Nicole Kidman to replace Denise Richards' role in "Men in Black" and assigned her to star in "Starship Troopers".
Denise Richards has been preparing for "Men in Black" for almost two months, and now he suddenly changes roles, so naturally he is very dissatisfied. However, she couldn't defeat Xiang Nan, so she could only accept the arrangement obediently.
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In April, "The Matrix" was officially prepared to start filming.
Xiang Nan discusses the filming of the film with the director Wachowski brothers, heroine Angelina Jolie, supporting actor Laurence Fishburne and other creative teams every day.
Its story, its theme, its spirit, its meaning...from dialogue to action, from photography to editing...
Angelina Jolie has never heard such an imaginative story, so her admiration for Xiang Nan cannot be increased. The Wachowski brothers were even more amazed.
Because the two brothers had this idea before and planned to make a film "Brain in a Vat".
The so-called "brain in a vat" is a hypothesis elaborated by Hilary Putnam in her 1981 book "Reason, Truth, and History".
He hypothesized that the human brain would be removed and placed in a nutrient solution, and the cranial nerves would be connected to the computer. The computer is programmed to send messages to the brain so that it maintains the illusion that everything is normal.
The question then arises, how do people determine whether they exist in this dilemma?
After this hypothesis was launched, it quickly became popular in the film and television industry, and many science fiction and film and television dramas began to use this setting in their creations.
The Wachowski brothers also wanted to create such a script and were still conceiving it. Unexpectedly, Xiang Nan had already written it. After reading Xiang Nan's script, the two of them immediately fell in love with Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan's script was too suitable for both of them. It was written exactly what they thought, and it was more mature, more specific, and more exciting than their ideas.
Because everyone worked together, the process for "The Matrix" was very smooth.
Shooting will officially begin in June.
Before that, Xiang Nan and Angelina Jolie had already hooked up.
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