Hollywood Domination Chapter 425: The Butterfly Effect

Yes, compared to the male and female leading roles, the most suspenseful thing in this year's Oscars should be the best picture - Colin Firth is almost invincible in the best actor, taking all the outpost awards, and There is indeed nothing that can compete with him. Jesse Eisenberg and James Frank are both nominated for the first time, so they are familiar with each other. Javier Bardem just won the award a few years ago. Best Supporting Actor, Jeff Bridges was the previous best actor, so his election is expected. As for the heroine, Natalie Portman also took advantage of the right time, place and people. "Black Swan" is also full of momentum, and it is almost impossible to be upset. Only the selection of the best picture may be a little twists and turns. "The Social Network" and "The King's Speech" are the focus of suspense. As a masterpiece, his changes and improvements in style are very obvious. Compared with "The Fifth Sally", the style of "The Social Network" is more mainstream, but "The King's Speech" is traditionally Oscar's favorite genre, Regardless of the excellent shooting, biopics and historical films have rich meanings and traditional values. Although the box office of the two sides cannot be compared, it is difficult to say who has the upper hand in the Oscar competition.

"Who do you think will win?" When the introduction of the best picture was shown on the screen, Cesare took a bite of a fruity carrot, "The Social Network or The King's Speech—— Or guess more boldly, "Inception"?"

"I've never seen you eating snacks while watching TV before," Jenny said with some surprise, without immediately answering Cesare's main question, "Although this snack is also very characteristic of you--well , I think... I don't know, of course it can't be "Inception". Lan and Oscar are very far away. But "The Social Network" and "The King's Speech" ... it's hard to say."

For biopics that do not reflect reality, Oscar's choices and preferences have distinct characteristics of the times in terms of ideology, and political correctness is also a very important element-at least this is a very popular view, Cesare thought for a while , "According to your thinking, "The King's Speech" may win more, after all, this is a movie that concentrates all politically correct elements, and in terms of age, it is very suitable for the judges."

"Yes, I think he will get at least one of the final awards." Jenny also took a carrot and chewed it, "Whether "Social Network" can win or not depends on the judges After last year, has the way of thinking changed? ——This year, "Social Network" is also emphasizing its own box office and evaluation among young people, which is a very smart move."

"That's why we're sitting here watching the Oscars, isn't it?" The work of preparing for the Olympics should be completed by us and Warner.”

"The movie hasn't been filmed yet, so let's talk about the Olympics." Jenny shook her head, she changed her position, kicked off the house shoes on her feet, and found a more rascal position to lie down almost in retaliation. Well—seeing the well-dressed movie stars with decent expressions on the screen, she thought of the tense sit-up nights in the past six years, so tonight she was doubly indulgent. "I don't want to think about this issue now. You know, this is Salvi's movie. If you think about it a lot before shooting, you will almost feel sorry for him."

"Okay." Cesare shrugged, "Is he with Leo now?"

"Well, you know, Leo just finished filming "Hoover," Jenny said, "Have you seen the finished film? Salvi watched it a bit, and it was obvious that Leo's performance did not satisfy him. So he took him away and didn't even let the Oscars in - **** knows where they went, I just hope Leo comes back with all his limbs."

"You know, what you said will make me wonder what happened to you when you were in New Zealand." Cesare paused, and then said with a worried tone.

Jenny laughed, "Why don't you worry about what happened to Heath? He's the one who hiked with Salvi, God knows what happened on those cold nights-oh, Inception It won the best visual effect."

She applauded softly, "I thought it would be "Alice in Wonderland" or "Codename Shero"."

In 2010, the two films she starred in also won some technical awards, but for big names like Jenny and Leonardo, unless they are invited as award presenters, it is difficult for them to win such awards. They personally appeared on the platform. For example, "Inception" was nominated for the best movie, and Leo's absence would become a topic, otherwise it would be a matter of course. And "Alice in Wonderland" was nominated for the three technical awards of best make-up, best costume design and best visual effects. Two nominations for sound effects, and now regrettably lost one.

"The visual effects of "Inception" are more ingenious," Cesare commented fairly, "more artistic, more ingenious, and it is only natural that it is more in line with the appetite of the judges-you talk about Sal Vivi made it sound like you don't have any special relationship."

"We haven't been in touch for a few weeks," said Jenny, who has become comfortable talking to Cesare after meeting her new yoga instructor—in Cesare's aesthetic, she Of course, her new coach is not bad looking, and she is indeed the kind that people can trust, because she is also serving the wife of the president of General Electric, and Jenny didn't hear her talk about her other side during the whole class. a patron. "Are you saying that we have no special relationship? Perhaps, this is not an exchange aimed at deepening the understanding of both parties."

"You artists." Cesare said, and he laughed, "You can always portray friendship and playful scenes so beautifully."

This is the first time they have talked about each other's love life so directly. In the past, they always carefully avoided this topic, making it almost a taboo, which in turn exacerbated the accumulation of tension. The atmosphere is much more relaxed now, and clearly, the definition of their relationship and the delineation of boundaries make them both feel safe enough. This made Jenny feel a slight excitement, like enjoying a dividend, but also a slight sense of alertness: this was the first time they had a real chat since July last year, and there was no cross-office, not a harmless co-worker topic , she could feel herself and Cesare wandering in a precarious balance, trying to redefine each other's boundaries. It is impossible for them to avoid each other. If they don’t talk about anything but business affairs, it will become an embarrassing breakup. They have not enjoyed the dividends of love, but they have to pay for it. discomfort? Did Cesare rarely talk about these topics before because he just didn't like talking about them with his colleagues, or was he aware of the tension between the two by then?

"Okay, then try to describe the difference between the nurturing service and the period in which one couple supports the other," she finally did not choose to stop here, but responded bitterly, "Think about it, you are an urgent Students who are short of living expenses, you get 2,000 yuan of living expenses from a person every month, you and that person meet regularly, travel together, and have no other sexual partners except each other, talk about the two What's the difference between?"

"Okay, you've knocked me down," Cesare thought for a while, and simply raised his hand to admit defeat. "So what you're trying to say is that feelings make all the difference?"

"Emotions make all the difference," agrees Jenny, "so, friendship, flirting, or a relationship? The only difference is the emotion—it's just that not all relationships are the same, and at that point I Agree with you."

"I still think friendship guns—or philandering sounds more innocent," Cesare commented. "Oh, best song, I hope Tangled wins."

"I didn't know you were actually watching Disney's animated movies." Jenny said mockingly, "—and of course you'd like friendship guns more, think about what kind of family you are. Emotionally, it's a complete mess, really, completely."

"Listen to your tone, as if you are an exception." Cesare shot back sharply.

"Well, maybe I'm the same," Jenny shrugged and admitted generously, "This is nothing to be ashamed of, I decided to talk to Maggie about it tomorrow."

"Talk about how you and Salvi will settle down?" Cesare complained.

Jenny laughed, "No, talk about how I'm going to choose a boyfriend who's going to want to settle down—talk about how I'm going to want to settle down."

Cesare also laughed. He was indeed very relaxed tonight—after the relationship between the two was finally determined and the possibility of ambiguity was ruled out, it seemed that he could finally stop suppressing and hiding his emotions. He talks more than before, and even his expressions are more natural than before.

"Yeah, that's a problem for both of us," he said, "but it's a bigger problem than the idea of ​​'you want to settle down with Salvi' after all, so you're not screwed." Too bad."

It's a pity that "Tangled" still lost out to "Toy Story 3" in the best song - no one doubts that this film will win the best animated feature film, if it is not "Code Shero" , it can win the annual box office championship. Whether it's box office or film reviews, it's a notch better than "Tangled".

"Speaking of which, I thought you wouldn't stay in Hollywood for so long," Cesare continued quietly until the award speech was over, "Shouldn't you also lock yourself up somewhere. "

"Salvi didn't ask me so. You know, Daisy's role in "Gatsby" is limited after all. After the audition, he felt that I was enough to complete the role." Jenny said, "He needs For a period of private time, on the one hand, he has to polish Leo's state, and on the other hand, he also has to think about the script—you know, he wants the final cutting rights of "Gatsby."

"Warner has already promised him." Cesare said, "Basically, Warner will agree to everything now, you know, especially now that "Hip-Hop Empire" has such a high rating."

For Warner, the pain in their hearts is that they do not have a strong TV station. The former WB TV station had serious financial problems. Facing the vicious cycle of audience loss and low ratings, and once this decline is formed, it will not be a matter of time to boost up. The current situation has deteriorated to the point where Warner, as a major production company for TV dramas, has been able to sell TV dramas outside for a long time, and they can't even produce and broadcast them themselves. They urgently need a genius who can solve this mess that is slowly bleeding Warner, and make up for the only weakness of this multinational company. ——This also makes Dameng, who has just set foot in the field of TV dramas and achieved good results, more juicy and delicious in their eyes. Jenny can draw this logical chain without too much effort——Warner especially wants Dameng, especially She was happy, and Salvi, as the director recommended by her, could of course easily obtain some privileges that were difficult to obtain before.

"And you knew about it earlier than me?" What she didn't understand was why Cesare knew about it earlier.

There was an inscrutable smile on Cesare's face, Jenny stared at him for a while, and suddenly realized.

"Ah——" she said loudly, a little dumbfounded, "Warner started pursuing you so soon? They really—"

She didn't know how to describe her feelings, so she had to put on a grimace, and said a little sourly, "If I show courteousness to you now, after we divorce, your phone will be blown up, right?"

"It can only be said that in the past, what Warner wanted was you first, and the film library of Dameng second. As for me, I was a dispensable bonus-but now the situation has changed. After the divorce , Objectively speaking, if I still retain the CEO position and publicly get the equity, both of our phones will be blown." Cesare said, "The people who think you may leave the company may be more likely than those who think I will." More people left the company, after all, according to the timeline, you should have left to shoot "The Avengers" by then."

"That's just a twenty-day work schedule." Jenny said defensively, "I'll still come back to take power——I'm going to fight you to make sure I own the company, hmph."

That being said, she is still happy with Cesare's achievements - the outbreak of "Empire of Hip Hop" made her a little sour, because so far, she has not done it in an environment that completely abandoned Goldfinger. With such a big hit, even the success of "Codename Shero" is based on the advantage of foresight, but Jenny is not likely to have a rift because of this. After making a joke, she still raised a carrot to do He made a gesture of toasting, "In any case, you should share the news with me as soon as possible—congratulations, Chesa, you did it again and proved yourself in a brand new field."

Cesare's expression softened. He didn't mind the absurdity of this move, but picked up the carrot and touched Jenny, "Thank you, but this is not enough."

"Isn't that enough?" Jenny laughed, "What else is enough?"

"Career success?" Cesare asked back, "You know the standard answer—"

Jenny and him said the standard answer at the same time: "—— never enough."

She couldn't help laughing, "—In any case, Warner's performance also showed us that in the next period of time, Big Dream may have some advantages in certain areas, and Now that Salvi can seize the opportunity to realize it-this cunning British guy-do you have any ideas? Should we take advantage of this to squeeze more benefits from Warner?"

"To be honest, I really can't think of any benefits that Warner can extract from us," Cesare said, and amidst Jenny's laughter, he continued, "However, since Warner's needs are very urgent, So maybe now we can try to talk about the need to form a new TV network, or the linkage platform of Internet TV-you know, platform operators are the most profitable at any time, but without the help of big companies, big dreams cannot be realized Up to this point..."

Aside from their identities as producers, the current Cesare and Jenny will definitely not be able to manage the internal affairs of the company so deeply. It is enough to keep informed. The first thing they have to decide is some The second is to continuously bring high-quality content to the film and television company, maintain the company's profitability, the company's financial security, and cash flow are now handled by senior executives who have been working for many years. Bound together, that's how a mid-sized company works. And when the company expands again, it will eventually become the model of a large company, that is, content production will also be decoupled from Jenny and Cesare, and it will be able to operate on its own and produce content. At that time, the company's listing or refinancing will also be inevitable It must be done, but that is still a long way off. There is an insurmountable obstacle in front of the two of them: if the two of them are decoupled, can the production model of Dameng continue to produce good films? Do they have a set of standardized evaluation methods to avoid losses?

Of course the answer is no, so at present, both of them are still willing to maintain the roles of producers and managers, taking on several times the workload. After discussing the possibility of the film, it was finally difficult to return to the role of the audience when the Oscar for Best Director was awarded-although it was not pure.

"This is the most noteworthy award tonight," Jenny said, pouting thoughtfully. "It's also the last chance for The Social Network. Best editing goes to The King." Speech, it has very little chance of winning Best Picture.”

"It sounds like you really want The Social Network to win," Cesare commented.

"It's a really cool movie, and I'm David's friend," Jenny said, "What about you?"

"Of course I support "The King's Speech" faithfully," Cesare said. There is hope, isn’t it? The Olympic awards also need to be balanced.”

"From a strategic point of view, it is indeed the case," Jenny laughed, "but I still support "The Social Network" - there is still one year left in 12 years, there are always variables, this year is a cutting-edge movie, next year is Traditional movies, cutting-edge movies in the next year, such a rotation is not bad."

"Sentimental." Cesare said, he was unexpectedly talkative in a relaxed state, but it was expected that he would love to rant and have a venomous tongue, ""Journey of Life" is also a cutting-edge movie, you should stand on its side— —”

He suddenly let out a surprised 'euh', and Jenny also stood up in surprise, neither of them spoke, but quietly watched David Fincher take the best director award on stage, of course, The famous director who has been shortlisted for many times also couldn't put it down for his first Oscar, and his acceptance speech also attracted a lot of applause several times.

"The Social Network" actually won the best director? Compared with Cesare's slight surprise, Jenny's feelings are much more complicated-she is very impressed with the loss of "The Social Network" at this year's Oscars. This year's Oscar is a victory for the conservatives. The King's Speech originally won three awards.

"And the best film will be awarded to-"The King's Speech"!" When Spielberg looked at the card in her hand and announced the final winner of tonight's grand prize, her breathing finally eased Come down: There is no total fall to "The King's Speech". Like last year, the Olympic Award chose to divide the pork, and "The Social Network" benefited from it-however, even if it is only from being completely conservative to praising the previous " Non-mainstream' movies, for Oscar, a behemoth in his 80s, such a reform has not been easy.

Since she came to this world, of course Jenny knew that she had brought great changes to the timeline, but she still deeply felt that stirring feeling at this moment—like seeing the butterfly effect From nothing to something in front of her eyes, from the flapping of wings to a hurricane on the sea, this wonderful feeling of unintentionally changing history made her immersed in it for a long time, unable to extricate herself, until the end of the live broadcast, she let out a long breath With one breath, he forced himself to escape from that mysterious and ethereal state.

"So." She patted her pants, stood up and said to Cesare, "This should be the last time we talked face to face in a long time—at least in a few months, what else do you want to do? Did I say? Before I went to film The Avengers?"

Cesare thought for a while, then shrugged, "You and Salvi—be careful not to be photographed by reporters." He said, "This will be detrimental to the next two films."

"You and Fiona have to be careful too." Jenny wanted to say it in a half-joking tone, but in the middle of speaking, she couldn't help but become serious. "You know, this may be detrimental to your personal safety."

Cesare nodded, and he stretched out his hand to her, "So, happy divorce?"

Jennie laughed, she took Cesare's hand, and suddenly remembered an unrelated fact: this seemed to be the second handshake they had held in nine years—how strange that they lasted two years Marriage, even almost misfired, and talked about love, but in the two full years, they didn't even hold hands once.

"Happy divorce," she said, shaking his hand up and down, "good luck to us."

"To end a much-anticipated marriage?" Cesare said, his fingers slid over the thin calluses on her tiger's mouth - the traces of boxing, "Yes, at this moment we definitely need a little luck .”