Chapter 1154: A Good Show Appears

"'Pulp Fiction,' Sally Monk."

Before Steve Martin's voice sounded, Quentin was the first to jump exaggeratedly, jumping in place like a child; It was only a beat slower, and when Steve's words were finished, Hugo and Cameron also stood up with the movements of all the other audience members.

Hugo's eyes widened, his face full of astonishment and surprise, and the turmoil in his heart was stronger than anyone else's, because Hugo not only knew that "Pulp Fiction" had not won this award in history, it had only been recognized for the best original screenplay; All the more because Hugo also knew that now was not the time for independent cinema to make a breakthrough.

Independent film productions like Miramax Films have struggled to gain any advantage at the Oscars, although there have been preceded by the emergence of films similar to Orion. pictures, which have produced Oscar-winning films such as "Field Platoon," "Dances with Wolves," and "The Silence of the Lambs," have been working with Warner Bros. for their distributions — and it's the PR of the big studios that plays a role.

This is also the reason why the eight major film companies can be called "top large companies". Not only do they occupy more than 60% or 70% of the market share, but they also have absolute advantages in the Oscars, video distribution channels and other fields, not to mention their huge intertwined connections within the academy.

Independent film studios are able to produce great works, but they don't have enough distribution channels to further promote their works, and they don't have strong publicity capital to make a breakthrough at the Oscars.

The first work to break this situation was "The English Patient", which won the title at the 69th Oscars, which was also from Miramax Films; However, the weakness of independent production companies has not been completely reversed until the 21st century, thanks to the emergence of multi-channel publicity methods such as DVDs and the Internet, many independent films can have their own promotion channels even if they do not cooperate with large film companies, and then achieve good results in the Oscars.

Even if it was the "English patient", that would be two years later, at least not now, not "pulp fiction".

Historically, it was the power of "pulp fiction" that opened the way for independent film studios, and Miramax Films, which launched the production, rose to prominence – and was then acquired by Disney, resulting in the victory of the "British patient". From this point of view, the breakthrough of the "British patient" is not the first in history, because the role of Disney cannot be ignored, although in fact it is the Weinstein brothers who really contributed to the work.

Today's Hollywood has become a film industry, and any change, breakthrough, and progress is in line with the development and promotion of the times, and there are internal and external reasons to promote, and it is impossible to change inexplicably. This is the essence of history.

So what does it mean that "pulp fiction" has now made a further breakthrough? Does it mean that the breeze flapping the wings of Hugo's little butterfly has unconsciously formed a hurricane?

If Hugo is not mistaken, then if he follows the historical trajectory, it should be "Forrest Gump" who won the Best Editing Award, but now, "Pulp Fiction" has relied on its unparalleled strong influence to win this little golden man in the melee. Does that mean that the rest of the night could change as well? The direction of history is really interesting.

While thinking about it, Quentin pounced and gave Hugo a hard hug, and then walked over again without waiting for Hugo to react, but after seeing Tom Hanks in front of him, Quentin realized: It's not a friend who goes there, but a competitor. Quentin slammed the brakes, and then gave Hugo a big hug again to hide his embarrassment.

Hugo couldn't help but laugh at Quentin's exaggerated celebration, temporarily collected the thoughts in his mind, and gave his own applause to Sally, who walked on the stage to pick up the little golden man.

For the guests at the scene, for the audience in front of the TV, they don't have the complicated ideas of Hugo, but they also know that "pulp fiction" is making history, and they are witnesses to history!

After a long wait, tonight's awards ceremony finally began to be exciting.

In the ensuing sparkling competition for Best Adapted Screenplay, "Forrest Gump" finally won its first major award tonight, after defeating "The Shawshank Redemption", "Behind the Scenes", "No One Is a Fool" and "Mad King George".

Hugo, who was nominated for his first Best Adapted Screenplay in a daze, also missed his first screenwriter statuelin in a daze.

Relatively speaking, although the competition for the best original screenplay is fierce, "Bullets over Broadway", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", and "The Red of the Blue-White-Red Trilogy" are not weak, but even so, the winner of "Pulp Fiction" is expected. In every sense, "Pulp Fiction" was the biggest discovery of 1994, and Quentin's ingenious design and conception of the script can be said to have inspired countless screenwriters and directors.

Some people even joked that even if the ten nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay were stacked, the final winner should still be "Pulp Fiction".

Therefore, the award of "Pulp Fiction" was unanimously applauded by the audience!

The awards ceremony is really getting more and more exciting, "Pulp Fiction" won two heavyweight statuettes, "Forrest Gump" also beat "The Shawshank Redemption" in the best adapted screenplay, in terms of the number of trophies, "Pulp Fiction" and "Forrest Gump" caught up with "Speed of Life and Death" and "The Lion King", tied for the most awarded works so far tonight.

"The Shawshank Redemption", which has been several positions behind since the starting stage, obviously lacks influence, and even many college judges have not seen this work at all, and they are completely inferior in the head-to-head showdown. But at this moment, it is still impossible to say the outcome, and "The Shawshank Redemption" was able to overtake a group of competitors at the last moment, not only winning the nomination, but also going hand in hand with "Pulp Fiction", which left a suspense for the final result.

Even Hugo began to be interested, and he couldn't help but start wondering, the 67th Oscar, which was praised by countless people as the strongest after the 90s, will history really change?

But at least the winner of Best Director has not changed, and Robert Zemeckis, the director of "Forrest Gump", was nominated for the first time in his career and won the Golden Man in one fell swoop, which is undoubtedly much luckier than Martin Scorsese, who is still struggling to pursue the Golden Man. To win the award, the right time, place and people are indispensable, this is the truth.

Robert won the Oscar for Best Director with his unique "Forrest Gump", but ironically, it was also the only Golden Man in his entire directorial career - and the only nomination, although he also dedicated "Cast." away)" and "flight", but compared to his directing strength, it is always the actors who get attention.

Objectively speaking, Robert is not a talented director, and the directing skills of "Forrest Gump" can only be said to be flat, but this is Oscar, he launched a right work at the right time, so he achieved success that is difficult for others to achieve.

Compared to the likes of Woody Allen, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Robert Redford, Quentin Tarantino, who was born out of nowhere, won the nomination for the first time - which is actually the same as Robert, but more people are smothering Quentin's defeat.

After the announcement of the all-important Best Director Award, it also added a chip to "Forrest Gump", and now the trend of the entire awards ceremony is gradually becoming clear. Whether it is "The Shawshank Redemption" that got nothing, or the "Pulp Fiction" in the hands of the two important golden people, or the "Forrest Gump" with a slight advantage in danger, if you want to win the best picture, the best actor must be won!

Once you miss Best Actor, it will be a difficult situation for all three works to compete for Best Picture: "The Shawshank Redemption" will go home empty-handed and completely out; "Pulp fiction" with poor origins and cold subject matter will be sentenced to death; "Forrest Gump", who won the third prize with trepidation, can only hope that even if it is not themselves who wins the award, it is better not to be two direct competitors, otherwise the odds of winning will plummet.

With the gradual advancement of the award ceremony, it is really a good show, even the "Shawshank Redemption", which has not won the first prize so far, still retains the last hope, not to mention the "Pulp Fiction" and "Forrest Gump" that compete to the death, as expected before the award ceremony, the three-legged pattern detonated all the hot spots.

In such a situation, the Best Actress category, which was "abandoned" by the Best Picture nominees like the Best Supporting Actress category, seems to be in the mood.

"The indulgence of the heart (blue. Sky)" Jessica Lange (Jessica. Lange), Jodie Foster of "Neil's Heart", Miranda Richardson of "Tom and Viv", Winona Ryder of "Little Women", and Susan Sarandon of "The Ultimate Witness" are in the final competition.

The topicality of the five works is not enough, and the only one that can attract the audience's attention is the "ultimate witness"; The comprehensive strength of the five works is not enough, even if it is expanded to the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture shortlist, only one work, "Neil's Heart", has barely been nominated; Most importantly, none of this year's five nominees have performed well enough to be convincing.

The work is weak, the performance is weak, the topic is weak, and compared with the three-legged hot scene, the competition for the best actress is really not interesting. In the end, Jessica Lange won her second Golden Man - she once won the Best Supporting Actress Golden Man for "Mr. Duss" at the 55th Oscars, and it was also the first time she was nominated for five actresses!

Although the persuasion is still a little less, Jessica still received a standing ovation from the audience, paying high tribute to the actress who has contributed countless masterpieces.

Subsequently, the winner of the Best Actor Award will be announced!