In another world, Harvey Stann, the famous Oscar promoter, had become famous because of "The Love Story of the Shakespeare."
Back then, Harvey Stann had spent more than $5 million to promote "Shakespeare's Love" to the top of the Oscars. He had won a total of six Oscars.
In this world, because "Saving Private Ryan" and a large number of other films had been banned, "The Love Story of the Old Sandman" did not have many strong competitors. In the end, it still swept the Oscars in this world and won nine Oscars. This result was simply magical.
In Feng Yu's previous life, there was no sudden competitor like Da Qian, so the status of the Oscars was as stable as Mount Tai. However, it was also because of 'The Love of the Sandman', which was obviously a bad film, that the Oscars suffered a great blow.
Its credibility was also greatly questioned. For the first time, the audience began to doubt whether the Oscars were still fair.
As a result, since 2000, the number of people who watched the live broadcast of the Oscars began to fall from its peak of 48 million viewers. Except for one later year, when everyone was focused on whether Xiao Li would win an Oscar, it was difficult for the rest of the Oscars to reach the peak of 1999.
In his previous life, the Oscars, which were arrogant and unrivaled, had a shocking reversal because of this.
Not to mention, in this world, with the huge competitor of the Golden Dragon Award, the Oscars would be seriously affected because of this incident.
The audience was angry because "Saving Private Ryan" and a group of other excellent films had not been nominated, and they doubted the fairness of the Oscars. However, at least there was an understandable reason to ban competitors.
However, among the remaining excellent films, "The Love Story of the Shakespeare" was still selected. Were they taking advantage of the fact that Shakespeare had been dead for hundreds of years and had no descendants to sue the producers for defamation?
When Boss Jia saw this result, he was very surprised. He had thought that the Oscars would try their best to maintain their fairness at this critical juncture. It was impossible for them to do something as ridiculous as "The Love Story of the Shakespeare" in the other world.
In the end, Boss Jia realized that he had underestimated the inertia of history. Or rather, he had underestimated the bottom line of the Oscar judges. Even in this decisive battle, the Oscars still made this arrogant, stupid, and greedy decision.
"Are the heads of these committee members filled with sh * t?" Boss Jia muttered to himself.
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"I've said it before. Don't pay attention to that bastard Harvey Stann. Don't be bewitched by him. This is the most critical moment in the history of the Oscars. We are already standing on the edge of the Hell Volcano. We need everyone to pull us back together."
"But what did you do? You've pushed our Oscar into the lava again! " At the meeting of the Academy Award committee, a member of the committee spoke angrily, while the other members lowered their heads helplessly. After all, none of them thought that "The Love of the Czar" could cause so much damage to the Academy Awards.
"Mr. Saunders, please watch your tone!" The chairman of the Academy Award committee finally spoke. "We didn't do anything wrong. This result is also the result of the voting of more than 2,000 people. Our committee just announced this result. This is not the result we want to see!"
"Hehe, you know that this is the result we don't want to see, but you still let this film go to the top!" Sanders said coldly. "It's not like you don't know Harvey Stann's tricks. It's not like you don't know how many members of the entire academy, including all of you here, accepted Harvey Stann's lobbying fees and personally went to persuade your students and friends to vote for" The Love of the Czar "!"
"Oh right, there's also the party held by Harvey Stann, and the hot little girls at the party. I think at least half of you here appeared at that party at the same time. Is this a coincidence?"
"Also, who handed over the mailing of those movie samples to Harvey Stann's department, so that he could easily put" The Love of the Czar "in the first place of all the movies, which is the default position of the committee's recommended movie?"
"Anyway, our more than 2,000 members of the committee are all people with precious time. They only look at the names and synopses of these movies, then look at the first step of the committee's recommendation, and then directly write down the name of this movie!" Sanders pointed out all kinds of tricks in this without hesitation.
"Mr. Sanders, that's enough!" The chairman of the Presidium slammed the table hard and scolded loudly, "This is not a place for you to talk without thinking. Besides, it's useless to talk about these things. What we need to do now is to find a solution to the problem, not to blame anyone here!"
"Well, since you said a solution, then I'll tell you, Mr. Chairman, I really do have a solution!" Sanders sneered and said loudly.
"Oh! What should we do? " The chairman's eyes lit up. Although he hated Sanders very much, if he really had a solution to the problem, then there was no harm in listening to it.
"That is to resign, all of us resign!" Sanders raised his head proudly and said, "Everyone here, including myself, will collectively announce tomorrow that we are resigning because of our mistakes, and then reform the committee mechanism to introduce a fairer judging method that can't be manipulated by others!"
"This way, the audience will definitely believe us and know that we are still the fair Oscars, the Oscars awarded to the best movies in the world!" Sanders said loudly.
"Lunatic! You're a lunatic! "The chairman was completely dumbfounded, and then he cursed.
"Hehe, I don't know if I'm crazy, or if everyone here is crazy!" Sanders laughed until tears flowed out of his eyes. "The Golden Dragon Award, the prize money for any award is 10 million US dollars, just to beat our Oscars!"
"But you guys, for a total of 5 million US dollars in bribes, you sold out the Oscars. In your eyes, the whole big Oscars is not even half the value of a single Golden Dragon Award. We deserve to become the dust of history! "
"Everyone, we'll meet again if fate wills it!" After saying that, Sanders directly broke the door and left the conference room, leaving the others who were as silent as death.
Just like that, the last member of the committee who still had a conscience left.
"Everyone, let's adjourn!" After Sanders's interference, the others probably did not have the mood to continue the meeting. The chairman waved his hand helplessly, and the committee members got up and left the conference room one after another, although this meeting did not even reach a solution to the problem.
"Sigh, I know I was wrong, I, I shouldn't have gone to Harvey Stann's party!" On the way out, two committee members who had a very good relationship walked together, and one of them said helplessly.
"Yeah, I shouldn't have gone either!" The other committee member nodded, also very helpless.
"I thought that with only a few votes from me and my disciples, it shouldn't affect the final result, and 'Shakespeare's Love' wouldn't be able to win. But I didn't expect the others to be so despicable, they actually all voted for 'Shakespeare's Love'. It's really not my fault!"
"Yeah! Yeah! Me too, the few of us added up to only a dozen votes, and there were more than 2000 votes in total. It didn't affect the overall situation at all, but the result … "The other person also shook his head helplessly.
Obviously, it should be impossible for them to realize their mistakes.
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