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Flying around. Lina said in a low voice, The movements are beautifully designed and beautiful.

She thought for a while, and added: It's like dancing.

Li Zi lowered his voice and said, The movement design is very characteristic.

Speaking of which, he is also a die-hard movie fan, he has watched a lot of movies, and he has a little analytical ability.

After Yu Jiaolong steals the sword for the first time, the chasing scene with Yu Xiulian on the eaves fully highlights the martial arts characteristics of the two characters in the three-minute long action sequence.

Yu Jiaolong's lightness skill is better than Yu Xiulian's, but her ground movements are no match for Yu Xiulian.

So Yu Xiulian tried her best to drag Yu Jiaolong to the ground, her strategy was: Get down for me!

Yu Jiaolong flies upwards gracefully, Yu Xiulian pursues clumsily but resists powerfully, which just shows Yu Jiaolong's lightness and elegance, so lofty, and Yu Xiulian's simplicity, honesty and down-to-earth.

Which company released this film? Li Zi was a little curious: You have a good vision.

After the fight scene ended, Li Zi found a blond white man next to him very excited, muttering: This sci-fi movie is amazing!

sci-fi movie? What the hell? Li Zi's head was instantly covered with black lines.

Li Zi took a closer look and found that the ghost elders nearby were all watching the film seriously. Didn't they say that ghost elders don't like watching movies with subtitles? Can you understand the lines? Can they understand the film?

Ronan never worried that American audiences would not understand.

This film is about the Great Health... No, it is a tragedy caused by the Great Sword.

It is said that there is a peerless divine weapon called the Qingming Sword. Li Mubai, a hero of the Wudang School, wants to retreat into the world. He has followed him for many years and has won countless blood. To the powerful and respected Lord Baylor, to express his determination to retire.

But the big sword that has been stained with countless bloods is too attractive. Yu Jiaolong is so hungry and thirsty that he decides to steal the sword for himself. As a result, a big sword caused a lot of trouble in the world. Maybe the sword was stained with his own blood. The blue-eyed fox, Yu Xiulian and others Never forgetting the sword, which leads to a love-hate relationship.

This film fully reflected the dangers of the big sword, and also provided a theoretical basis and practical case for the subsequent comprehensive ban on the big sword.

The person who played with the big sword in the film, Li Mubai died, and Yu Jiaolong also died.

What does this mean? The great sword is infinitely dangerous,

Kill people at every turn.

During the screening, each long martial arts scene received warm applause from the audience.

The excitement was maintained until the end credits, when the spotlight fell on Ang Lee, who still had his usual shy and gentle smile.

When the name of the martial arts instructor Yuan Heping appeared in the subtitles, Ronan stood up, raised his hands, and signaled the audience to applaud Ang Lee. The audience stood up and applauded for several minutes.

Compared with Ang Lee, who is more reserved, Ronan's style is more ostentatious.

This is also the need for publicity.

After the premiere, there was a press conference, which was the moment for the main creators of the crew to play. Ronan asked David Villa to accompany him, and the rest of the company retreated.

Although he has been busy with extremely important tasks such as finding projects, attracting investment, and negotiating copyrights, Ronan has also paid attention to the embassy film industry. For the release of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the entire company invested far more than Human Purge 2 time and energy.

After all, it has successfully released several horror and thriller movies, and the release of The Purge 2 can be regarded as familiar, and the award season is the first time for Embassy Pictures.

Ronan asked the embassy film staff to go back and get a good night's sleep, as there was still a meeting to be held the next morning.

The release of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon also marks the most critical sprint stage for the first Oscar competition of Embassy Pictures.

Not to mention the main creators of the crew and the publicity personnel of the Embassy Pictures, even Ronan turned his energy to the Oscars.

On December 30 every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will mail out the nomination ballots of all academy members, and collect them one week before the announcement of the nomination list. very critical.

In the conference room of the embassy film industry, Ronan finally integrated all aspects of publicity and public relations work.

Ronan looked at Garcia-Rodriguez, the direct person in charge, and said: First of all, there will be a video conference. Starting tomorrow, you and the producer will organize more than five video conferences, invite members of the academy to watch, and hire Critics touted the film...

There are also various promotional activities, media public relations and public relations banquets. Ronan said as simply as possible, In short, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and An-Lee cannot be kept away from the sight of the media, film critics and Oscar judges.

Garcia-Rodriguez immediately complied, even though he knew it would be more troublesome than what Ronan said.

This is not over yet, Ronan continued, Public relations are not only aimed at the Oscars, but also the wind vane awards before the Oscars, including the Golden Globes, focusing on the Producers' Union Awards and major trade union awards, which can increase nominations and even the odds of winning.”

Garcia-Rodriguez looked down at the list. There are so many outpost awards in the awards season, American Film Independent Spirit Awards, New York Film Critics Association Awards, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, Producers Union Awards, Directors Guild Award...

Of course Ronan knew that Oscar's public relations would be troublesome, but Embassy Pictures had already made preparations.

The Ballon d'Or and the union awards are the focus.

Ronan picked up his water glass and took a big sip, If we can get the nominations for the Golden Globe Awards and trade union awards, plus some necessary public relations measures, we can at least guarantee the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon nominate.

Leave it to me, Garcia-Rodriguez said. I promise nothing will go wrong.

Ronan thought for a while, and then said: Find someone to talk to Zongheng International, and ask the producers to work harder. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has gained something at the Oscars, and it will also greatly stimulate markets outside North America. effect.

What Embassy Pictures got was only the North American distribution rights.

An executive in charge of direct communication with Zongheng International said: Zongheng International has already mobilized 500,000 US dollars, which will be invested in publicity before the Oscar nominations.

Very good. Ronan nodded to the executive, and said, Your next job is to lobby them to spend more money on the Oscars.

The supervisor replied: Yes.

Ronan said again: I will find time to talk to these two people as soon as possible. He turned to ask: Where are our competitors? What are the competitive films?

Thomas, director of theatrical distribution department, said: According to the current information, Mexican director Alejandro Inarrito's Love is a bitch, the Czech film Parted Ways, the Belgian film People Rising to Fame both applied for the best foreign language film.

Ronan asked: There's not much coverage about these films in the media? I hardly ever see them.

Thomas replied: These films have limited investment in public relations and publicity, and the distribution company is worried that they will not be able to recover the cost after investing too much.

Oscar does have a pulling effect, but there is always a limit. If the investment is too high, it is not uncommon to lose money.

Ronan was more confident. After all, the competition for the best foreign language film was far worse than the best director and best film awards.

Nominations for the latter two awards are wins.

The meeting was over and everyone else left, except García-Rodriguez, on Ronan's cue, to stay.

There were only the two of them left in the conference room, and they didn't have so many scruples about talking about some secret things.

How's the film critic job going? Ronan asked.

Garcia-Rodriguez said in a low voice: We have sent all the wishes that should be expressed. However, some people replied that if the film is not good enough, they should still criticize.

Ronan said: It's okay, we can't buy public opinion, it's too difficult.

I believe that film critics who like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will not be stingy with praise. Garcia-Rodriguez is still confident about this: Those who don't like it will be a little more tactful when criticizing.

Facts have proved that the work of the embassy film industry is very good. One day after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was screened, comments from major media and film critics came out one after another, most of which were positive, even if there were negative reviews, it was not Very sharp words.

Many of these critics were not from Embassy Pictures PR, but the film still won their praise.

Avis Michel, a full-time film critic of the New York Times, was deeply amazed by the perfect combination of various types of films in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. After watching it, he praised it in the film review column of the newspaper the next day : Action films are characterized by their exuberant vitality and a large number of movements hitting the screen, and Mr. Ang Lee has created a crystal clear surface meaning, injecting this type of film with a new vision and depth, which is unprecedented in the same type of film in the past. Nowhere else in the movie.

Hollywood Reporter film critic Todd McCarthy commented in the column: Ang Lee shows Martin Scorsese's approach and Steven Spielberg's style, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Not only is it the best kung fu movie in history, it is also a romance movie with a Jane Austen literary style, not just a movie, but also an art!

Under the activities of the embassy film industry with a large sum of money, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became one of the most common names in the film media for a while.

After Ronan said hello, Tom Cruise also specifically mentioned this film in the interview.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was very successful. Director Li has the ability to make a spectacular Kung Fu movie that is not only good-looking, but also has artistic emotion and depth, and makes the audience accept it. I had a special discussion with a few friends who have watched the movie. So, each of them can find something in this film. It is obviously different from the formulaic routines of Hollywood films, which is refreshing.