Nolan was stunned for a moment, then he laughed and said, "You really don't have a dream to pursue. I thought you were going to say become the box office champion in film history."
Nanaya seemed particularly confident and satisfied: "There is no need to be the first in life. That would be too tiring."
"I have been the box office champion for four consecutive years now. I am successful enough as a director."
"That's true." Nolan had no reason to deny it.
With Nanaya's current achievements, no one except those from the academic circles would say that he is unsuccessful.
This is also the most unpleasant thing about the academic school watching Seven Nights.
You are already so successful, why don't you pursue an Oscar? ! As a director, you deserve to die!
Nanaya continued to boast: "Besides, I now have a net worth of hundreds of millions, and I live a life where I have money and women wherever I want."
"I couldn't even imagine such a good life before I was 20. Isn't this living in a dream?"
After hearing what Nanaya said, Nolan nodded.
"You're right. Not only in Hollywood, but also in the whole world, you are the envy of everyone."
"Compared to you, I am still far behind."
Nanaya laughed, seeming particularly happy about Nolan's compliment.
In fact, Nanaya really feels the same way in his heart, and his current life is exactly what he has always been pursuing.
Think about it, how many people in the world can eventually live up to their dreams?
Although it took Nanaya two lifetimes to achieve what he has today, it is enough to make him proud.
Maybe he was too arrogant, or maybe he was unhappy with the saying "If you want a woman, you have a woman."
Ziyuan suddenly asked Nanaya: "Nanaya, do you really have no other pursuits besides these?"
Nanaya pinched his chin and thought seriously for a while before speaking slowly.
"Yes! There are more than one, for example, every movie I make makes a lot of money, and for example, I make the Type-Moon and Marvel series even more successful."
"hehe."
Nolan on the side sneered twice.
It's not for any other reason, I just feel that Nanaya is a little bit cruel, even greedy.
Because he is a director himself, Nolan is very clear about the operating model of commercial films.
Now, Marvel and Type-Moon in Washimine's hands have become quite successful commercial film series in Nolan's view.
The Marvel series may still be a little short, but Type-Moon is clearly the movie IP second only to Star Wars.
Having achieved such results, does Nanaya plan to go further?
Kiryu Nanaya, are you trying to defy the will of heaven?
It's no wonder Nolan has such an idea.
Before "The Avengers", although everyone knew that there was such a thing as a movie universe, no one ever thought that it could be successful.
Similarly, apart from Nanaya, no one in the world has witnessed the commercial limits of the film and television universe.
But Nanaya knew that although Marvel and Type-Moon were very successful now, they were far from their most successful.
This is entirely the result of information asymmetry.
However, Nanaya did not explain further to Nolan.
After all, if they don't see it with their own eyes, it would be hard for them to believe it is true.
At this time, music sounded in the theater hall, marking the official start of the award ceremony.
Nolan also stopped talking, looked towards the stage, and quietly waited for the result of tonight.
The host of the 81st Academy Awards is the familiar "Wolverine" Hugh Jackman.
Uncle Wolf walked onto the stage with a smile and happily announced to everyone that the 81st Academy Awards ceremony was officially opened.
Don't be fooled by the image of Wolverine on the movie screen, which is a big, strong, rough man.
The actor Hugh Jackman is a representative of versatility.
You should know that apart from the X-Men series, the type of movie that Wolverine appears in the most is musicals.
Nanaya had seen many musicals in which he starred in his previous life.
Although Nanaya himself is not very fond of musicals, he still recognizes Wolf's good voice.
The only thing that made Nanaya interesting was that the Academy actually let Hugh Jackman host the Oscars this year.
Nolan muttered quietly, "It seems that the failed ceremony last year has given the academy other ideas."
"Yes."
Nanaya nodded.
Last year, he didn't come to the event in person, but watched the live broadcast on TV.
But the failure of last year's awards ceremony is still fresh in Nanaya's memory.
If Nanaya were asked to comment on last year's Oscars, he would only think of an old lady's foot binding - smelly and long.
The entire awards ceremony was full of problems such as rough detail design, hasty process and out-of-touch live band.
What's more, the show is extremely boring, and there is almost no suspense about all the awards.
Although there were many commemorative small units for the 1980 Oscars, almost no one was interested except those old guys.
So the audience who voted with their feet handed in their answers directly.
It was the 80th anniversary of the Oscars, but the ratings hit a new low.
This naturally made the Academy very anxious. After all, the ratings of the awards ceremony largely determine the influence of the awards.
Moreover, the Oscars are not only the Academy's signature award, but also the Academy's largest source of commercial income.
Under the pressure of God Money, even the most conservative members of the Academy now have to admit that the Oscars have reached the point where they must change.
Think about when "Titanic" swept the Oscars ten years ago. That was the Oscars' most glorious moment.
A total of 1 billion people around the world watched that awards ceremony on television, making it the undisputed pinnacle of the Oscars.
Looking at the audience numbers in recent years, which fluctuate around 30 million, it is enough to prove the gap.
But these people from the academic school were unwilling to make bold innovations, so they chose the simplest way to attract the audience - inviting well-known figures as guests.
For example, Uncle Hugh who is standing on the podium now.
The Academy, aware of the potential crisis of the Oscars, hopes to use Wolverine's own strong appeal to reverse the decline.
In Nanaya's opinion, the method to solve the ratings problem is actually very simple and direct.
Fill the shortlist with truly popular films that aren't just runners-up but have real worthy awards.
It doesn't have to be many, even just one or two awards can make a big difference to the Oscars.
This way, audiences will choose to watch the awards ceremony just to see their favorite movies receive honors.
But if you want to make conservative colleges make this choice, you can probably only do it over their dead bodies.
Therefore, the organizers of the Oscars can only look at other aspects and find ways to add highlights.
For example, making some subtle differences in the form of awards.
Then, in order to increase the compactness of the program, the time for this year's winners' speeches was clearly limited to 45 seconds.
As soon as the speaker opens his mouth, a 45-second countdown will begin. At 10 seconds, the numbers will turn yellow, and after 45 seconds, the background will turn red.
This is to avoid the embarrassing situation that the winners of the last award ceremony had to speak for several minutes.
At the same time, the manufacturers of this year's Oscar prizes were also very generous.
They gave each of the finalists and award presenters a luxury watch worth $8,000.
Not only that, in addition to high-end watches, there are also glass artworks and a full set of top-quality skin care products.
Adding up all the gifts, everyone can take home a prize package worth at least more than $15,000.
However, these gifts have nothing to do with Nanaya, because this guy did not receive a single award nomination.
Even though "Purgatory's Flames" received a series of nominations, there was not a single nomination for Nanaya personally.
[Well, luckily this guy is the same. ]
Nanaya glanced at the director who had killed his wife beside him, and suddenly felt much more balanced.
There are also some subtle changes to the awards process.
For example, the first award was for Best Supporting Actress.
Because the winner of the last Best Supporting Actor award, Javier Bardem, who won the 80th Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, is still working in Europe and cannot attend the awards ceremony.
The presenters for the Best Supporting Actress award were changed to five female stars who had won the Best Supporting Actress award.
When five female stars, Eva Marie Saint, Goldie Hawn, Anjelica Huston, Whoopi Goldberg and Tilda Swinton, walked out from under the big screen displaying their portraits.
There was warm cheering at the scene, it seems that this little surprise was indeed well done.
And that's what the so-called surprise was.
The following process was not much different from the past, whether it was speaking the introduction, introducing the nomination list, or presenting the Best Supporting Actress award.
Except for the countdown behind the winners when they gave their speeches, everything else was authentic Oscars.
Nanaya couldn't help but yawn after watching Penelope Cruz accept the Best Supporting Actress award.
[This is so boring... Why on earth did I want to attend such a boring award ceremony? ]
Nanaya picked the boogers out of his eyes with his hands, his face full of boredom and helplessness.
He wanted to talk to someone around him, but Nolan seemed to be very focused on the award and had no time to pay attention to Nanaya.
Shion wanted to talk to Nanaya, but the sound system in the award hall was bad.
They spoke in low voices, so neither party could hear clearly what was being said.
If you speak loudly, you will definitely be disliked by people around you.
[Those old guys must have designed it this way on purpose! ]
Nanaya thought indignantly.
[It's decided. In order to get back at those people in the academy, I'll just let IMAX fight for the name of the theater! ]
The academy would definitely not agree to use Washimine's name for the title.
After all, Washimine himself has to participate in the Oscar selection.
And [See Moon] is even more impossible.
You should know that Nanaya originally planned to use [See Moon] for a product placement, and let the award presenter introduce the sharing function of the [See Moon] website.
The proposal was rejected by the college on the grounds that there was no such tradition in the past.
Even the live broadcast on the Internet proposed by [See Moon] was also rejected. You should know that [See Moon] had already done the ideological work on ABC TV station, and it would be fine as long as [See Moon] broadcasted the live broadcast on ABC TV station.
But the old men in the college just refused to agree.
Nanaya felt that if the theater was named [See Moon], those old men would probably threaten to commit suicide.
However, IMAX does not have such concerns. It does not make sense that Dolby, a sound effects company, can do it, but IMAX, a visual effects company, cannot.
If monks can touch it, why can't Taoists?
[When IMAX gets the title sponsorship, I will change the sound system of the award ceremony to IMAX's 12.0 channels, and then scare all of you old men into having heart attacks! ]
Nanaya thought maliciously, and then he yawned again.
"Ha-yawn, this is so boring."