Chapter 806: Chapter 665: Life of Pi Part 2

“Yes.”

Lin Yuan nodded, not denying it.

He indeed wanted to achieve something at the Dragon Awards.

The jokes and teasing online had indeed made him a bit depressed, and even angry to the point of puffing out his beard and glaring.

But the real reason was that he had a related System task.

Yes.

The System task made it very clear, as long as he could win an award at the Dragon Awards, he would get a treasure chest and the offered Prestige Value was very enticing; as expected, the bigger the award, the higher the Prestige Value.

“As expected.”

Ol’ Zhou smiled, “Actually, I felt that even without this next special movie, you could have achieved something at the Dragon Awards next year. ‘Truman’s World’ really is a work worthy of making the Golden Dragon Awards bow down. It’s a pity the art film market was too bustling this year, and you faced quite a few competitors, especially that art film from Qi Continent…”

Lin Yuan said, “Qi Continent, ‘Nightfall’?”

Ol’ Zhou nodded, “It seems you know about this film.”

At the beginning of the year, netizens were teasing Xian Yu about consistently being a runner-up at the Dragon Awards, which enraged Lin Yuan and he immediately demanded his company rush the release of ‘Truman’s World’.

After this film was released, the response from the audience was huge!

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Everyone believed that this film would definitely secure some major awards at the Dragon Awards, and Xian Yu would officially break the embarrassing position of consistently being a runner-up without winning major awards.

However…

In May this year, suddenly an art film from Qi Continent exploded.

That film was called ‘Nightfall’.

After watching that film, the audience was stunned, ‘Truman’s World’ obviously had met its match!

The industry evaluation of ‘Nightfall’ was too high!

It could definitely compete with Xian Yu’s ‘Truman’s World’!

Even very likely causing Xian Yu to fail again at the Dragon Awards!

Because ‘Truman’s World’ still contained many elements of a drama.

And ‘Nightfall’, although not emotionally strong, had a richer artistic atmosphere!

According to the tastes and standards of the Golden Dragon Awards judging committee over the years, a film like ‘Nightfall’ seems to better fit the judges’ tastes!

And as a part-time filmmaker, Lin Yuan, of course, also knew about ‘Nightfall’.

He still paid some attention to the movie market.

Whenever there was a blockbuster release, he would be curious and even go to the cinema with his family to watch.

Including the critically acclaimed ‘Nightfall’.

He had to admit, ‘Nightfall’ truly was an excellent art film with various metaphors that could be interpreted from different perspectives, profound in meaning.

Very meaningful and thought-provoking.

If it came up against ‘Truman’s World’, it could indeed achieve the effect of targeting Lin Yuan, causing him to miss out on the major awards once again.

Keep in mind.

In his past life, ‘Truman’s World’ also didn’t stand out in terms of awards because it was released in a year of fierce competition.

Those interested could check how many masterpieces were released that year.

It’s also destiny.

Blue Star still has many top artists.

Ol’ Zhou smiled a bit slyly, “But none of them could have guessed you had prepared a fallback. The release of ‘Truman’s World’ at the beginning of the year was just one of them.”

Yes.

Lin Yuan had prepared a fallback!

This film, ‘Life of Pi’, was also an art film!

An art film that led the Chinese director Ang Lee to win an Oscar for Best Director!

Compete in metaphors?

How many films have more metaphors than this one?

Interpretations?

‘Life of Pi’, which millions of people had interpreted in countless ways, even sparking massive controversies, was not a joke.

This was a film tailor-made for winning awards!

The major awards at the Dragon Awards were something Lin Yuan was determined to win!

Moreover, even if only ‘Truman’s World’ was released, who would win was still uncertain, as tastes are the most mysterious.

With ‘Truman’ in his left hand and ‘Life of Pi’ in his right.

Double insurance.

After discussing the situation of the films with Ol’ Zhou, Lin Yuan logged onto his blog account.

Just as Ol’ Zhou had said.

There was already some promotion for ‘Life of Pi’ on his blog, but its influence had not yet spread.

“Share.”

Lin Yuan proceeded to share the promotion and added an official-looking tagline:

“The new movie is about to be released, please look forward to it.”

He didn’t need to say much, the promotion itself already provided some information about the movie.

[Xian Yu’s brand new movie “Life of Pi: An Extraordinary Voyage” is about to be released.]

[Did you know, he survived 229 days at sea with a tiger!]

[A survival challenge drifting on the sea: The untold story between Pi and the tiger!]

[The highest-budgeted work among Xian Yu’s screenplays: A fantasy masterpiece that will shake your soul!]

[…]

A sea survival challenge!

This was the apparent theme of the movie.

Actually, the film had deeper themes internally, but they couldn’t be outright stated in the promotion.

You can’t exactly say in the promotion how many metaphors this movie has…

These elements must be discovered by the audience within the movie itself to be meaningful, otherwise, the surprise would be lost.

And as Xian Yu also began promoting, the movie finally garnered widespread attention!

The comment section became lively:

“Survival at sea? Not interested. What? Fish Papa’s movie? Hmm, survival at sea sounds fun.”

“Hahaha, the comment above is so true!”

“Looks like Fish Papa has completely given up on the Dragon Awards, new movie and it’s not an art film!”

“Wasn’t his previous ‘The Truman Show’ a kind of art film? I think that movie could have won Fish Papa some Dragon Awards.”

“It’s not as simple as you think.”

“Why? Wasn’t that movie good?”

“The movie was indeed good and could indeed have won Dragon Awards, but this year ‘Nightfall’ was too popular, I feel that it will be the favorite at next year’s Dragon Awards.”

“Have to admit, ‘Nightfall’ was indeed great.”

“Who needs the Dragon Awards? The excellence of Fish Papa’s films doesn’t need awards to prove it.”

“In my heart, ‘The Truman Show’ is the best.”

“About this new film by Fish Papa, I can imagine the plot: Pi and the tiger outsmarting sharks, eventually feasting on shark meat and drinking their blood!”

“Sounds like a big special effects commercial movie.”

“Pi? The protagonist is a guy? No bikini beauties? Fish Papa really doesn’t follow the usual patterns! Aren’t these types of movies supposed to have a great white chasing the male protagonist and several bikini girls, providing all kinds of benefits along the way?”

“…”

The audience took this movie as one of those sea shark-fighting commercial films, which are quite common in the market.

A commercial film, indeed.

These kinds of movies generally feature a brave and clever hero, plus one or two buffoons, and a few vase-like bikini girls.

The buffoons are there to drag things down, making the hero look awesome.

The bikini girls scream, get scared witless by the shark, then have their clothes ripped, providing a feast for the audience’s eyes, and finally, the hero saves them to find love amidst the disaster.

A few people might even die in the process to augment the atmosphere of despair.

Anyway, that’s how these commercial movies are usually made.

The difference in the routine of Lin Yuan’s movie was that it didn’t mention bikini girls and long legs, just the protagonist and a tiger on the ocean, and it was uncertain whether the tiger was male or female, but if it was male, it definitely needed to be kept in a zoo.

Was this meant to stage a battle between the land’s alpha and the king of the seas?

The protagonist in charge of commanding the tiger?

Everyone’s thinking had already gone off track.

Their imagined scenario was miles apart from the content of the movie.

But Starlight didn’t explain.

Letting them think so wasn’t a problem, after all, it sounded fresh.

This was the gimmick.

If they told the audience it was actually an art film, probably the anticipation would diminish.

From any angle, a commercial film drew more attention from viewers than the rare art film.

Only when the audience walked into the cinema would they find:

This movie was actually far beyond their imagination!

An extreme horror series!

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PS: Quietly filling the plot hole, finally got to this movie, asking for monthly votes on the last day.