Under the anticipation of the Oscar committee, as well as the disdain and curiosity of the global media, the first Daqian International Film Award Ceremony, which was destined to go down in film history, began.
This award ceremony was also broadcast live around the world. According to incomplete statistics, when the ceremony began, more than 500 million viewers were watching this live broadcast.
Of course, among these 500 million viewers, 450 million were probably here for the Crown Princess, and the other 500 million were here to see how the award ceremony would embarrass itself.
Anyway, among these 500 million viewers, only a few had good intentions.
But no matter what, the award ceremony began. The first thing that caught everyone's eyes was a huge golden dragon winding around a vermilion pillar.
This was the Golden Dragon Trophy of the Daqian International Film Award Ceremony. It was different from the other awards in the world, which were all in human form. The Golden Dragon Trophy was a real Hua Xia Golden Dragon. Its overall shape was a golden dragon circling around a pillar. It was extremely cool and completely defeated all the previous trophies. When the audience saw this trophy, they couldn't wait to hold it in their hands.
"Ridiculous!" Seeing this trophy, the chairman of the Oscar committee said disdainfully, "Film is an art based on people. All films are meant to show people as the main body, and all kinds of thinking and art are at the core. The trophy of a film should naturally be in human form, but he made a dragon. This guy is completely a bastard who doesn't understand film! "
"That's right!"
"That's right!" The other committee members expressed their opinions one after another, expressing their agreement with the chairman's opinion.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Golden Dragon Award Ceremony of the Beijing International Film Festival. I am the host today, Jia Yapeng!"
That's right, the host who appeared on the stage at this time was actually our Boss Jia. Originally, this rich man with a net worth of tens of billions had surprisingly become the host of the award ceremony. This was something that no one had expected and had never happened before.
Of course, in a few years, in the United States, there would also be a billionaire who became the host of a program. He even went to the fighting arena to fight, and in the end, he even fought with the referee. Boss Jia was still somewhat inferior to him.
"Sensationalist! He doesn't have any status at all! "The Oscar chairman complained again.
"Not bad!"
"That's it!"
"Throughout 1997, the film industry workers all over the world presented one classic film after another to audiences all over the world. The staff of the Imperial Capital International Film Festival has also worked hard to select the best movie and author in the world for the past year! "
"I believe everyone has already noticed that in the past year, many cinemas around the world have undergone unusual changes. Behind their seats, there is a small ballot, a small pen, and a small ballot box."
"Countless viewers have gathered their views and choices on the movie onto each small ballot and finally put it into the ballot box …"
Along with Boss Jia's explanation, the screen behind him began to play the promotional video that had been prepared long ago.
This promotional video was about 10 minutes long, and it was also a documentary. It recorded how the staff of the Daqian movie tried their best to negotiate with the staff of cinemas all over the world, and how they put the ballots and ballot boxes into the screening rooms of the cinemas.
How hard they worked to collect the votes, how they counted the votes, and so on. Some of the audience's voting process and their own experiences were also included.
Anyway, this 10-minute documentary recorded the entire voting process of the movie and showed it to all the audience at the scene and in front of the TV.
The documentary also showed the huge difficulties and how the staff of the Daqian movie overcame the difficulties and finally collected a large number of votes.
This segment of the documentary was actually shot by the world's top documentary director, the kind that had won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was shot to perfection, and it was very empathetic. Many viewers were affected by the staff in the documentary and were touched by the hardships they had suffered in their work. Some people who were easily moved even shed tears.
In any case, after the documentary was aired, the audience understood the entire process of collecting votes for the Golden Dragon Award. They knew that the votes were indeed collected from the hands of every real moviegoer, and not the results of the so-called expert jury.
This made many of the audience members who had come to see the Crown Princess or to watch the film festival embarrass themselves involuntarily feel moved. They were moved that there was actually a film festival in this world that relied on the votes of all the moviegoers.
At the same time, they began to be curious about the final results of the voting.
Especially now that the Academy Awards ceremony had ended, the winners of each award had been decided. However, this was the answer given by the so-called expert judges. The audience was very interested to know which answer the world's audience would give in the end.
Out of the 500 million viewers, at least 200 million had changed their interest from the crown prince consort's embarrassment to the announcement of the award ceremony's results.
"In the end, we will send all the votes to Hua Xia. Then, 1,000 vote-counters in Hua Xia will manually count the votes and come up with the final results!" This was the last sentence of the documentary. After the documentary ended, the camera returned to Boss Jia on the stage.
"Thank you for your trust and votes in the Daqian movie this year. From March 1997 until December 31, 1997, the Daqian movie collected 372,866,132 votes in 5632 cinemas around the world. Among them, 1,326,072 votes couldn't be identified because the traces were unclear. In the end, they could only be treated as invalid votes."
"The final number of valid votes is: 371,540,000 votes!" Finally, Boss Jia announced the number of votes. Such a huge number made the audience speechless.
There were nearly 400 million votes in the world. What kind of result would the votes of so many voters be?
This result must be the fairest, most indisputable, and most in line with the choice of the people! The audience couldn't help but sigh.
"Everyone, please look behind me!" Just as everyone was sighing in their hearts, Boss Jia suddenly spoke. The audience was stunned. Isn't there a big screen behind you? What's there to see?
At this moment, the big screen behind Boss Jia slowly opened, revealing a pitch-black, empty night.
"What's going on?" The audience didn't have time to ask questions. In the next second, countless lights lit up. These lights were very strong, the kind that could pierce through the night.
This was the light from at least 100 searchlights. Along with the searchlights, they finally discovered that behind Boss Jia was, in fact, a huge football field!
At this moment, everyone remembered that they were sitting in the Olympic Stadium of the Imperial Capital.
However, because the Daqian spent a large sum of money to build a huge temporary auditorium in the stadium, everyone entered the stadium and went through the tunnel directly into the temporary auditorium. It gave people the feeling that they were holding an award ceremony in a theater.
But in fact, everyone was sitting on the basketball court in the stadium.
As the projection screen behind Boss Jia slowly opened, the searchlights in the stadium gradually converged on one point. Everyone was surprised to find that behind Boss Jia, there was a huge square glass box about five meters in length, width, and height. This box was filled with small pieces of paper.
"What are these things?" The audience curiously muttered to themselves. Then, the camera zoomed in and finally, everyone saw clearly that the small pieces of paper in the box were small votes.
"The three hundred and seventy-one million and five hundred and forty thousand and sixty votes cast by the world's movie audiences over the past year are all here. They are all behind us!" Boss Jia said in a loud and clear voice.
The number of votes was more than double the number of votes cast in the history of the United States' general election.
When these votes were all placed in a glass box and appeared in front of everyone, everyone, including the members of the Oscar organizing committee, was completely shocked.
"This guy … has already won half of it …" the chairman of the organizing committee muttered to himself. He suddenly realized that even if no one received a single award, this Golden Dragon Award was probably already a success.
Although no one from the crew came, more than three hundred million votes were here. That was enough!
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