Korean entertainment superstar era

One of the biggest highlights of the 85th Oscars is that the Chinese director Ang Lee was elected as the best director for "Life of Pi", followed by Rebecca Howe, who has gained both fame and fortune from "Twilight" after the appearance of a double actress in this year's Oscars. Er and actress Jennifer Lawrence, who performed well in "The Silver Lining Behind the Dark Cloud", became the best actresses of this year.

The funny thing is that before the media generally believed that Enid Xia would be a movie star born after 90, the first actress to become an Oscar queen, but it is a pity that Enid Xia has been receiving commercial films for the past two years. She directed the movie herself, but the heroine was found by someone else.

"Twilight" received six nominations, and finally only won one Best Actress. Alan Rickman lost to "Lincoln" Daniel Day Lewis. Unfortunately, he did not win the Oscar for Best Actor.

Although there is only one award, it is also a consolation to Xia Zhen, at least it is much better than a filmmaker who does not win a single award and returns empty-handed.

The most important thing is that she has box office comfort. According to statistics before the Oscars, this year's Oscar has seven films with a box office of over 1.4 million, of which Twilight ranks at the forefront with a box office of 1.8 million US dollars. The total box office revenue was 3.2 million U.S. dollars, breaking the global record of 2 million U.S. dollars for "Ann and Angela".

The media referred to Xia Zhen as a "money printing machine", and Xia Zhen's script was also hailed as a "golden script". Many film companies came here admiringly, hoping that Xia Zhen could sell the script to them or shoot their movies.

2013 was a busy year for Xia Zhen. She had to write the script, promote Brad Pitt's new film "Doomsday War", and plan albums and concerts.

Xia Zhen couldn’t remember how long it had been since she entered the recording studio to record a song. At the beginning, she was too excited, and she performed abnormally, and her treble was out of tune, which caused a headache for the tuner, but soon she adjusted her state and sang herself The OST was reinterpreted again. These songs were composed by Xia Zhen himself and others.

The music has been re-arranged, re-interpreted, and full of new vitality. This English album of old songs and new songs has been given a very appropriate name, "New Life".

CAA and the company that released this album did not expect the album to make money. They mainly sold Enid Xia as a favor. After all, Enid Xia is quite famous in North America. A talented composer and lyricist, if he has a good relationship with her, whichever MV under his banner, Enid Xia can make it casually, it will be Oscar level.

It is really necessary to have a good relationship with her.

To the surprise of the record company, the album sold 80 copies in just three months.

The reporter confirmed at the Recording Association of America that the staff of the RIAA (Recording Association of America) were also very surprised. The global record market has been in a downturn for the past two years, and there are fewer and fewer platinum records. Thousands of singers debut in North America every year. Dreaming of stardom, and the number of platinum records certified by organizations every year may only be in single digits. Those singers who sell platinum records are either rookies who have become popular in the past two years, or evergreens in the music world.

Enid Xia obviously does not belong to this category. Although she is a famous singer in Asia, she is indeed an actor and a director in North America. She is recognized by the North American market and is also her identity as a filmmaker. There is no one in North America. One would think of Enid as a pure singer.

But her album sold very well. Because Enid Xia was preparing a new script for this album, she didn't even promote it much. She just yelled at it on Twitter and got a lot of support. According to the statistics of audiovisual stores, Asian overseas students bought the most, and many Asian overseas students bought more than 5 albums.

The reporter randomly interviewed several Asian-looking buyers who bought albums outside the audio-visual store. A boy who claimed to be a Japanese student said with a smile: "Enid is very popular in Japan, but there is no purchase channel in Japan. My friend asked me to Buy it on your behalf and give it to them when you return to Japan."

A South Korean student said, "My family and friends in Korea were very excited when I learned that Enid released an album. Enid has a high status in the Korean music scene. Almost no one in Korea does not like Enid. Every song of her They are all classics, many talent show singers will choose Enid’s songs to prove that they have a really good voice, it will be a pleasant surprise to give Enid’s album as a gift to friends.”

There are many Korean radio stations in the United States. In order to help Xia Zhen promote the publicity, the major Korean radio stations continue to play the songs that Xia Zhen sang. Although Americans can’t understand Korean, the music is interlinked. Even if they don’t understand Xia Zhen No matter what is sung, American audiences still think the singing is very good, especially Xia Zhen's debut and famous work "Metamorphosis", which is very popular in the United States.

After a lapse of seven years, "Metamorphosis" unexpectedly became popular in the United States, especially the number of hits on the MV.

The Hollywood media lamented that it really is Enid who can do everything to the extreme.

After seven years, Enid Xia finally became a powerful singer recognized by the North American record market, but unfortunately she did not plan to stay in the music scene for a long time.

Even if she held a small concert.

She likes singing very much, but she doesn't want to regard it as a skill to make money. Xia Zhen is no longer short of money. Singing has become a ticket for fun, and dancing has become a hobby. Although countless business event organizers handed her olive branches, Xia Zhen didn't take it seriously at all, but she accepted the charity performance, and that was the basis of her happiness.

Because of the unexpected popularity of the music scene, Xia Zhen became even busier and didn't even have much time to sleep.

Blake, with a big belly, looked at Xia Zhen's packed schedule, and exclaimed again and again, it is impossible for a person to have so much energy to do so many things.

Xia Zhen felt that she had suddenly returned to the time when she was in Korea, and she was as busy as that time.

I was so busy that I even forgot that my boyfriend Kim Jong-hyun was going to serve in the military.

On the day Kim Jong-hyun left, it was raining lightly. Xia Zhen was wearing a white dress and a pink coat, and stood outside the cordon with an umbrella. She looked at Kim Jong-hyun, who had cut her hair into a crew cut, and didn't know what to say.

She's not a romantic, and Kim Jong-hyun doesn't seem to be either.

"Wait for me." Kim Jong-hyun said with a smile.

"En." Xia Zhen nodded.

Kim Jung Hyun stretched out his arms, and Xia Zhen asked her boyfriend to hug her obediently, "Eat well and take care of yourself, two years, soon."

"Well, I know." Xia Zhen continued to nod, she sniffed, the temperature in South Korea dropped suddenly due to the rain in the past two days, Xia Zhen, who was used to staying in the warm Los Angeles, was a little uncomfortable, her nose was red, and her face was red. Also flushed.

Kim Jong-hyun suddenly had a feeling of time staggering, as if she was still sitting behind him, the girl who didn't go to class very much, dressed a lot when she was in class, and was shivering from the cold.

"Hee-jin, let me tell you something." Kim Jong-hyun said suddenly.

After a pause, he continued, "Actually, I have liked you for a long time. I have had a crush on you since you were a trainee."

"You must wait for me, don't like others, no matter how handsome or talented you are." Kim Jong-hyun urged again.

Xia Zhen nodded vigorously in Kim Zhengxian's arms, "Don't worry, it's only you."

This time, let me wait for you.

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In 2013, the vast majority of Xia Zhen’s big-screen works were commercial films. In May, the film "Doomsday War" co-starring with Brad Pitt, Marvel's "Thor 2", and Brad Pitt's impact An 20-minute guest appearance in Oscar's new film "8 Years a Slave".

In December, fans were surprised to find that Enid Xia was missing from the list of directors this year when they took stock of the directors' Olympic masterpieces.

【"Without Enid Xia, I'm not used to it."】

【"It feels like the world has suddenly evaporated in recent months, and there is no news of her."】

【""12 Years a Slave" is only 8 minutes long, don't be popular."】

【"Come on, Enid Xia in "Doomsday War" is worth over ten million, how could he not be popular anymore!"】

【"Couldn't it be that she's preparing to enter the music scene, she's pretty good, she can do anything well."】

Not only the movie fans found out, but also the media found that after October, the Asian filmmaker Enid Xia seemed to disappear out of nowhere, and she didn't know where she went. However, the media also found that although Enid Xia made a lot of noise this year, But she seldom appears in public. She seems to be concentrating on writing scripts as she said.

But her absence doesn't mean that others don't want her to appear. As a rare first-line Asian movie star in Hollywood and a talented director who has already attracted much attention, she has a very high popularity and popularity. At the end of the year, invitations to various events have been thrown in. olive branch.

However, Xia Zhen refused all these activities because she had "no time".

In this regard, Xia Zhen's manager Cui Chengxu said that Enid Xia is very busy, very busy, she is busy writing new scripts, and has no time to rest.

The Asian business man did not disclose the progress of Enid Xia's script creation. The media couldn't help but speculate, could this script be like "Ann and Angela", which took three or four years to write?

On January 2014, 1, the 16th Oscar nominations were announced. A few hours later, Enid Xia tweeted that the new script had been written and the film would be invested and shot by Universal Pictures and WTitle Films of the UK. The director It was her, but on Twitter, Enid Xia neither disclosed the cast nor the content of the script.

Even Enid Shah, who announces the progress of her new movie just as the Oscar nominations are announced, will soon be lost in Oscar-related news.

Even so, most of the media still gave Xia Zhenxin a small promotional space for the film, and the media of various countries also reported the matter accordingly. However, compared with the previous massive publicity, Enid Xia Xin's film is really low-key.

There is also a reason why it is so low-key. Xia Zhen's new movie cannot find an actor.

This film of the same name, Mrs. Warren's occupation, is adapted from the script written by the British dramatist George Bernard Shaw in 1893-1894, Mrs. Warren's occupation.

It is one of the masterpieces of the British dramatist George Bernard Shaw. So far, there is only a stage play of the same name, and it has not been adapted into a movie and put on the big screen.

Before Xia Zhen, it is said that there were many great directors who wanted to put this masterpiece on the big screen, but they couldn't do it.Because the subject matter is too sensitive, involving indecent, money and body transactions, the most important thing is that the work itself is too well-known, with heavy traces of the times, and a bad shot will be infamy.

This new movie was full of difficulties from the very beginning of script creation.

When Xia Zhen decided to put this stage play on the big screen, Jonathan Gliman thought she was crazy, which was as crazy as an inexperienced director trying to make a remake of "Gone with the Wind". What is crazy about Liman is that the only thing the young collaborator knew about Shaw's works was Audrey Hepburn's 1964 film "My Fair Lady" except "Mrs. Warren's Career".

"You must be crazy Enid, I will definitely not play with you this time, you can't do it at all!" Jonathan Gliman couldn't help splashing Xia Zhen's cold water, and by the way dispelled her crazy thoughts, "You You are a Korean, you are not British, your knowledge of the UK is only a few films made there, your knowledge of this country is only from history textbooks, and the knowledge in history textbooks is superficial and one-sided, you I don't know how adventurous you are, you might as well shoot a Korean historical film, maybe you can win a best foreign language film!"

For Jonathan Gleeman's cold water, Xia Zhen only had one sentence, "There is no result yet, how do you know I can't do it?"

Almost everyone who is familiar with Xia Zhen's film is trying to persuade her to give up this idea, including directors, producers, screenwriters, and actors.

Even Blake advised Xia Zhen not to try to adapt "Ms. Warren's Occupation", because the risk is too great:

"Enid, you're going to lose all the good name you've built up from your first two movies."

Xia Zhen's parents didn't know Bernard Shaw, and they had never read "Mrs. Warren's Occupation". Career, they are not afraid that their daughter will ruin the movie, but they are afraid that their daughter's hard work over the years will be ruined.

Only Kim Jung Hyun and Choi Sung Wook supported Ha Jin.

"If you want to do it, do it." This is what Cui Sung Wook said.

Kim Jong-hyun said with a smile, "If you don't try it, how will you know, besides, you are not only good at being a director."

This is the first time that Xia Zhen has been under pressure from all sides. In order to complete the script, she rented a small apartment of more than ten square meters from the UK. This small apartment is very different from Xia Zhen's villa in Beverly Hills. The humid British climate is very different from the sunny Los Angeles. The only advantage is that it is very close to the library. In order to get as close as possible to the original work, Xia Zhen spent more than half a year doing nothing, looking for the background of the times and the author's creation materials. During this period, she almost reconstructed the history of Britain in the last century and the life of George Bernard Shaw.

In addition, she also needs to understand all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation in that era, and must ensure the rigor of the work. For this reason, Xia Zhen even went to Oxford University to visit professors in history, humanities, sociology and other related disciplines.

Finally, Xia Zhen finished writing the script in November 2013, but because the subject matter was too sensitive, she was rejected by many film companies, and even the film companies that had worked with them were unwilling to invest in it.

Xia Zhen's operation team had to find a new film company. After several twists and turns, CAA found the well-known Universal Pictures and WTitle Film Company for Xia Zhen. The two companies will jointly fund the film with Xia Zhen himself. CAA has invited another client of the company for Xia Zhen, Greg Shapiro, the producer of "The Hurt Locker", as the producer of the film. He is the only producer among the countless invitations from Xia Zhen's team A producer who agreed without hesitation, the reason is that he has a good impression of Enid Xia. This affection comes from another female director, Katherine Biroger, Shapiro's friend, who told Xia Zhen Lots of good things to say.

In addition to Greg Shapiro, Tim Bevan, one of the founders of the British WTitle film company, one of the producers of "Les Miserables", he is also the producer of Xia Zhen's new film, and he is also the Video producer.

Of course, besides being the director, Xia Zhen is also the executive producer of the film.

Even if the funds are in place and the filming team is in place, there is no way to film without actors. Xia Zhen found many friends in private, either because the other party did not have a schedule, or because they were frightened by Xia Zhen's upcoming subject matter, they politely refused. It is an important reason why Xia Zhen did not announce the content of the new movie on Twitter.

The Actors Union is actively looking for suitable actors for Xia Zhen. Everyone is looking for actors, either because of poor acting skills, or because of the subject matter, and another is the salary.

Xia Zhen's good friend Emma Stone is very interested in this movie. She can act in her friend's movie at a reduced salary, but her schedule is really tight, but she recommended her boyfriend to be the new "Spider-Man" "Andrew Garfield plays a supporting role in this film named Frank.

"He should have a schedule, and his salary should be acceptable to you." Emma Stone said with a smile.

When Andrew Garfield starred in "Spider-Man", his film salary was only 50 US dollars. Although his film salary has risen to 1000 million US dollars in the past two years, it is normal for feature films to be low in salary, and it is normal for actors to get paid discounts. What's more, Garfield The character played by Hall is not the protagonist.

As for the heroine, due to the delay in finding a suitable candidate, she, like the director of "Escape from Tehran", Ben Affleck, took up the banner of the leading role by herself, playing the role of Mrs. Warren's daughter Vivi, and the script another The heroine, Mrs. Warren, and Xia Zhen, through the film union, found the actress Julianne Moore, who has the reputation of "Queen of Independent Films", to play the role.

In addition, the British acting actor Paul Bettany, Benedict Cumberbatch, the veteran British actor Bill Nighy whom Xia Zhen valued a long time ago, and Shirley Hand who had worked with Xia Zhen Sen also plays an important role in this play.

It was already the end of February 2014 when the cast was finally finalized by the crew, when Xia Zhen announced that Bernard Shaw's masterpiece "Mrs. As soon as the news came out, public opinion was in an uproar. Some said that Xia Zhen was not afraid of tigers when he was born, and that young people dared to try it.

【"After making two movies, do you really think you are a master?"】

【"How many books did she read before she dared to shoot "Mrs. Warren's Occupation"!"】

【"I'm quite optimistic about it. Enid Xia's movies are of good quality. She is also very responsible, and the actors are also very good. I still believe in her strength. At least she has more real talents and real learning than many directors who make a name for themselves. "]

【"Support, why can't I make it, why is she not a film master, stop looking down on people!"】

"Ms. Hualun's Occupation" is the highest production cost of Xia Zhen since he became the director, with a production cost of 4500 million US dollars. This work, which was praised by the media as possibly destroying all the honors of Xia Zhen's directorial career, was launched amidst controversy .

Actors' remuneration only accounts for a small part, and Xia Zhen spends most of it on the film itself, costumes, sets, mission props, the film even has a special consultant, asking if the sets and props fit "Mrs. Warren's Occupation" Relevant social background.

To say it is perfect is not an exaggeration.

Two professors at Oxford University spoke well of Xia Zhen’s new film. After all, she spent a long time preparing for this film and had a good attitude. However, she was ridiculed by a group of people for saying “there’s no guarantee for late festivals” and “professors don’t have a bottom line these days.” Yet"?

Every day in the British film-related forums, people will complain about Xia Zhen and the "Mrs. Warren's Career" she is filming. .

There are also people who slander Xia Zhen's impressive achievements in the past as fakes, and I don't know how much water has been mixed in.

Even in South Korea, there are some people who are not optimistic about Xia Zhen, who thinks that Xia Zhen is overreaching, "It's really embarrassing for South Korea, and they don't know their own weight."

No matter what others say, Xia Zhen never gave up, but became more and more frustrated. When others said she couldn't do it, she insisted on making a show to show everyone whether she could do it or not.

The entire crew was infected by Xia Zhen, and the entire crew devoted themselves to their work, treating themselves as British in the last century.Julianne Moore, who plays the other protagonist "Mrs. Warren", has read a lot of books contemporaneous with "Mrs. Warren's Occupation" and watched many movies that tell the stories of that period.

Every actor in the crew was asked by Xia Zhen to speak British English instead of American English, and their pronunciation should be correct.

In this way, at the end of April, the film was fully completed and officially entered the post-production stage.

During the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014, "Ms. Warren's Profession" had its world premiere, and won the Toronto International Film Festival Award and the People's Choice Award in one fell swoop, and was screened at the London International Film Festival that year as the closing film.

The British Guardian believes that "Ms. Warren's Occupation" is not only a masterpiece of dramatist George Bernard Shaw, but also a masterpiece of Enid Shaw's career as a director and actor. Maybe she will have more excellent works in the future, but none of them can overshadows "Mrs. Warren's Profession"".

In fact, this is indeed the case. Xia Zhen’s long film career has produced many excellent big-screen works, and her masterpieces have changed one after another. The piece "Ms. Warren's Occupation" has never been deleted from the column of her masterpieces. Going forward, this film, which marked the complete maturity of Xia Zhen's director's style and a new level of acting skills, was not only rated as "the most legendary film of 2014" by film critics that year. "The Best Movie N2014 in 0.1" won several honors and became one of the must-see films for countless film-related majors.

In terms of box office, "Ms. Warren's Career" won a box office of 5.3 million US dollars in one fell swoop. It was not only the top ten box office list in North America that year, but also the top ten box office list in the world. Blockbuster, one of the best films at the box office.

With this movie, Enid Shane won the award with hand cramps, not only won the big and small Film Critics Association Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards in the bag, but also won the 72nd American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards in one fell swoop the following year. Best Director Award, Best Feature Film Award, Best Actress Award, and the 67th British Academy Film Awards for Best Film and Best Adapted Screenplay.

"Ms. Warren's Occupation" was nominated for 87 Oscars at the 9th Academy Awards, and finally won five awards for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Makeup, and Best Editing. In the bag.

It is worth mentioning that although the actress came from "Mrs. Warren's Occupation", she was not Enid Xia, who directed and acted herself, but another heroine, Julianne Moore. This result obviously surprised everyone. Unexpectedly, because before that, Enid Xia was considered to be the most powerful among the several actress candidates.

The exit of Enid Xia also made her the most proud loser of the Oscars that year.

The media originally thought that, according to Enid Xia’s level, it was only a matter of time before she won the best director or Oscar queen. Some media even boldly predicted, “Enid Xia will get her wish and become an Oscar winner in at least two years.” Actress, as long as she plays normally", but to the surprise of the media, Enid Xia has won one Oscar after another in the screenplay category, and all the movies she directed, without exception, were the most popular Oscar-winning movies of the year. Both the storyline and the acting skills of the actors are impeccable.

However, neither Enid Xia as an actor nor Enid Xia as a director could win the final Oscar award, and she herself has changed from "the darling favored by Oscars" to "The object that the Oscar judges least expect to see", this strange phenomenon will continue until 2023.

That year, Xia Zhen was 33 years old.

The author has something to say: Oh yeah, the next chapter will be a counterattack, hahaha~~

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