Chapter 1948 1950【Advice】
This year's Oscars, "The Shawshank Redemption", "Leaving Las Vegas", "The English Patient" and "Fargo" are all popular for winning awards.
Except for "The English Patient", the other three films are all invested and produced by Xiang Nan. The precision of investment vision is beyond the reach of Wall Street speculators.
Then the Oscars officially opened, and various awards were awarded one after another.
The Coen brothers won the best original screenplay, the screenwriter of "The English Patient" won the best adapted screenplay, best photography, best editing, best art direction and best sound effects, etc., were also taken by this film.
Losing several awards in a row made the crew of "The Shawshank Redemption" a little bit depressed.
But then, Morgan Freeman won the Best Supporting Actor for "The Shawshank Redemption", which immediately opened the door to the film's awards.
Immediately afterwards, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture were successively won by it. In this way, although it lost several technical awards, it won all the most important awards, and it was still the biggest winner in the game.
And Nicolas Cage won the Oscar for Best Actor for "The Shawshank Redemption", which also proved his strength and officially joined the acting school.
However, at the party after the awards ceremony, Xiang Nan still secretly suggested to him, "Cage, don't spend your money recklessly in the future, either buy some shares of Coca-Cola, Intel, Microsoft, or buy one or two Beverly Hills buildings." Don’t buy the mansions in other places indiscriminately.”
After Nicholas Cage got rich, he spent money lavishly. There are four yachts alone, and the most expensive one is worth 20 million US dollars.
In addition, there are more than 50 expensive sports cars, more than 30 motorcycles, a private jet, and even bought two private islands in Panama...
Because of spending money without restraint, he ran out of money before he died. In order to pay back the money, he had to accept a large number of bad movies, which caused him to become the king of bad movies from an Oscar winner, which is a pity.
And there are many people like him in Hollywood.
Such as Johnny Depp, Michael Jackson, John Travolta, Kim Basinger, Lindsay Lohan, etc.
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 wealth at all, and it is easier to spend money lavishly.
On the one hand, because these artists have no professional knowledge, they are easily deceived by their financial managers and let them embezzle their own funds at will.
For example, Nicolas Cage sued his property consultant, saying that he lost so much money because of the wrong guidance of the other party.
Xiang Nan didn't want Cage to repeat the same mistakes and go bankrupt because of spending too much money. Then he would receive a lot of bad movies and waste his talent, so he gave a suggestion.
Nicolas Cage nodded and decided to accept Xiang Nan's suggestion.
Because not only his achievements in the field of film are unmatched, but also his talent in the field of investment is frighteningly high.
In a few years, he went from a star to the boss of Universal Pictures. Anyway, he has been in Hollywood for more than ten years, and he has never seen a similar example.
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At the party after the Oscars, Xiang Nan finalized two more projects.
One was recommended by Ben Affleck, and there is a project "Good Will Hunting" planned by his good friend Matt Damon.
"Good Will Hunting" was co-written by him and Matt Damon. They thought that this project might be possible, so they tentatively found Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan has never seen this movie, but he has heard of it, and it seems to be a good work, so he agreed to their request.
One is the science fiction film "Starship Troopers". This movie is adapted from Robert Heinlein's well-known science fiction novel "Starship Troopers". This novel once won the World Science Fiction Award Hugo Award and has a great influence on subsequent science fiction movies and games.
For example, in "StarCraft" launched by Blizzard, many Zerg settings come from this novel; in addition, the power armor mentioned in the novel is also used in movies such as "Halo" and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" Shown.
Xiang Nan has watched "Starship Troopers" before, and he still remembers the alien bugs gushing out like a tide. And, if he remembers correctly, the film was supposed to be Dennis Richards' famous work.
She played the actor's ex-girlfriend in it, and became famous in one fell swoop because of her beautiful face and figure.
Xiangnan then arranged for Nicole Kidman to replace Dennis Richards in the role of "Men in Black" and assigned her to play "Starship Troopers".
Dennis Richards has been preparing for "Men in Black" for almost two months, and now he suddenly changes roles, so he is naturally very dissatisfied. But she couldn't hold back Xiang Nan, so she could only obediently accept the arrangement.
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In April, "The Matrix" was officially ready to start shooting.
Xiang Nan discusses the shooting of the film with the director Wachowski brothers, heroine Angelina Jolie, supporting actor Laurence Fishburne and other main 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 open-minded story, so her admiration for Xiang Nan cannot be increased. The Wachowski brothers were even more amazed.
Because the two brothers also had this kind of idea before, they were planning to make a film of "Brain in a Vat".
The so-called "brain in a vat" is a hypothesis expounded in Hilary Putnam's 1981 book "Reason, Reality, and History".
He assumed that the human brain was taken out and placed in a nutrient solution, and the brain nerves were connected to the computer. The computer is programmed to send messages to the brain to maintain the illusion that everything is normal.
Then the question arises, how do people determine whether they are in this predicament.
After this hypothesis was launched, it was quickly sought after by novelists and the film and television industry. Many science fiction novels and film and television dramas have begun to use this setting to create.
The Wachowski brothers also want to create such a script, and they are still in the process of conception. Unexpectedly, Xiang Nan has 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 much to their liking, it was exactly what they thought, and it was more mature, more specific, and more exciting than their ideas.
Because everyone co-produced, the process of "The Matrix" was very smooth.
The filming will officially start in June.
Before that, Xiang Nan and Angelina Jolie had already hooked up.
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(end of this chapter)