The movie "Milk" tells the legendary life of San Francisco gay politician Harvey Milk.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors member is well known for his fight for gay rights.
Before Harvey Milk, homosexuals in North America had almost given up pursuing their own rights through politics.
It was Harvey Milk's success story that brought them immense hope.
But like all political pioneers, Harvey Milk was eventually assassinated by conservatives.
Time magazine once named him one of the 100 heroes of the 20th century.
Nanaya didn't have much feeling for this politician who pursued his own happiness and the legitimate rights of his group throughout his life.
After all, whether in the previous life or this life, this politician is too far away from Nanaya.
Apart from knowing that the other party was a tragic figure who was murdered, Nanaya didn't even know his political stance.
So far, Nanaya's only understanding of this guy is that the biographical film based on his deeds has become his biggest rival for the Best Original Screenplay.
Although the other party's deeds are indeed touching, and his heroic and fearless spirit of sacrifice is much stronger than those politicians who talk a lot but hide at the back when things happen.
But Nanaya had no intention of giving up the award.
It's just that the off-field bonus points of "Milk" are indeed very advantageous.
Although the current Oscars have not yet fully formed the three politically correct elements of blacks, feminism, and homosexuality (plus black cornrows).
But as long as the voting judges have a favorable impression of the gay community, they will definitely vote for the other side.
Of course, the other contenders for Best Original Screenplay should not be underestimated either.
Whether it is "No Holiday for the Killer", "Carefree" or "Wall-E", they are more likely to win awards than "Inferno".
Putting aside the movie box office factor, among all the nominated candidates, "Inferno" undoubtedly has the lowest chance of winning.
Apart from the subject matter of the film itself, the more important reason is that the nominee for "Inferno" Gen Urobuchi has too little experience in the Screenwriters Guild.
Although at Washimine's request, Urobuchi became a member of the North American Writers Guild.
However, he was incompatible with the North American screenwriters' group in every aspect and had hardly participated in any union activities.
Don't even think about having good personal connections.
If the box office performance of "Inferno" had not been so high that it was hard to ignore, no matter how much public relations Washimine did, it would have been difficult for him to get this nomination.
Gen Urobuchi himself doesn't care. As a Galgame screenwriter, it's a great honor to be nominated for an Oscar.
He doesn't expect to win any awards.
However, Nanaya and Washimine don't think so. Since they have come to this point, they must go all out.
At least you shouldn't let the award slip away due to inadequate public relations.
On the other hand, with the announcement of the Oscar nominations.
Regardless of whether they are currently being shown or have been taken off the screen, all movies on the nomination list have expanded their screening scale in theaters.
Everyone is scrambling for awards, isn't it so that the film can generate profits by leveraging the fame of the awards?
The so-called fame and fortune, after all, complement each other.
Even "Inferno", which had been taken off the screens for a long time, has been reopened for screenings.
The weekend after the nominees luncheon, "Inferno" was specially scheduled to be re-screened, and the screening scale was 1,345 theaters across the United States, including almost all IMAX theaters in the United States.
With the momentum of a large number of award nominations, "Inferno" actually achieved a box office revenue of 11.82 million US dollars.
The film grossed $543 million in North America.
This box office result finally surpassed the historical record of "The Dark Knight" of 533 million US dollars, which made Nanaya proud.
You say re-screening to increase box office is shameless?
Sorry, it's not like "The Dark Knight" hasn't been re-released before. The box office of 533 million is itself the result of multiple re-releases.
Therefore, Nanaya felt at ease with the result of surpassing the opponent's box office.
Just as "Inferno" was exerting its final commercial value, Nanaya's new movie "Madoka Magica" also began to be promoted in North America.
In fact, the day before the Oscar nominations are announced is the annual carnival in the United States - the Super Bowl.
As in previous years, Washimine secured a 30-second advertising time for "Madoka Magica".
For this trailer, Nanaya directly cut 20 seconds of content from the completed post-production footage, and then added various titles to integrate it into a 30-second Super Bowl special trailer.
There isn't much content in this trailer, just five magical girls showing up and using a skill.
But the gorgeousness of the picture made many viewers imagine.
"As expected of a work by Kiryu Nanaya, no matter what the plot is, the special effects are really amazing."
This is probably the first reaction of all the audience after watching the trailer.
Naturally, the trailer received unanimous praise from fans.
However, this is not the part that really surprised the audience.
After the Oscar nominations were over, Inferno was re-released.
In order to review the features of the IMAX version, many old fans bought tickets to go back to the cinema to relive the highlights of the movie.
What no one expected was that this time the re-screening of "Inferno" actually had an extra 1-minute trailer.
The content of the patch is an extended version of the Super Bowl trailer of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica".
The only difference from ordinary movie trailers is that this time the movie trailer has 3D special effects.
Although the audience who came to watch IMAX had already experienced the charm of the IMAX 3D versions of the two FZ movies.
But in the final analysis, there is still a huge gap between the 3D effects of FZ and Madoka Magica.
The most obvious difference between the 3D effects of the two films lies in the objects of special effects production.
In order to maintain cost, most of the three-dimensionality of FZ is reflected in the characters' weapons.
This certainly left the audience with a deep impression of FZ's battle scenes, but the handling of details was not so good.
For example, in the first battle scene of FZ, the three-dimensional effect of the tip of Diarmuid's gun and Artoria's Wind King barrier was done very well.
However, the three-dimensional sense of trivial objects such as the dust raised and broken stones when the two of them fought can only be described as average.
This time, Nanaya of "Madoka Magica" paid special attention to this aspect.
What he wants to bring to the audience is real and shocking special effects.
This kind of immersive experience requires that all objects on the entire screen have a good three-dimensional sense.
Especially small things like smoke, rain, fog and broken glass must be perfect.
In order to let the audience watching the re-released version of "Purgatory" feel the shock brought by this picture at the first time.
The clips selected by Nanaya are all shots with the best 3D effects.
This time, the audience who watched the IMAX 3D re-release of "Inferno" were immediately excited.
Although the 60-second trailer only gives people a glimpse of it.
But audiences who are familiar with Nanaya Kiryu's directing style know very well that since Nanaya Kiryu dared to choose such shots, it means that at least the most exciting part of the movie will definitely maintain this level.
"I'm already looking forward to Madoka Magica! The 3D effect is really amazing."
After watching the trailer, many fans excitedly praised the awesomeness of the "Madoka Magica" trailer in the chat room.
These loyal fans of Nanaya Kiryu have already listed "Madoka Magica" on their list of must-see movies this year.
But to their regret, the slogan [Released in 2009] told them that the release date of the film has not yet been decided.
This made the fans feel very unhappy.
This reminds me of the delay of "Avatar" from Fox next door.
Everyone subconsciously thinks that the post-production special effects of 3D movies will be very slow.
"I wonder if Madoka Magica will also be postponed to 2010?"
Many fans have expressed such concerns.
But Nanaya himself couldn't explain this matter for sure.
You have to know that it took him less than half an hour to complete the film.
Although Nanaya can guarantee that the film can be completed and released in 2009, it is hard to say when it will be released.
"I just hope it doesn't clash with Avatar during the Christmas season."
Nanaya thought helplessly.
The promotion of "Madoka Magica" started after the Super Bowl weekend.
However, the film that Washimine Entertainment has invested the most promotional resources in is not this film, but "Tsuki-hime" directed by Matsuno Shiki.
In the eyes of most viewers, this movie is not only the first non-Fate series movie in the Type-Moon Video Universe, but also the first movie not directed by Nanaya Kiryu.
Obviously, the "Kara no Kyoukai" series has been deleted from the memories of most fans who got into Fate.
I don't know whether there will be a debate in the future between Japanese fans and American fans about who is the first person with the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception" between Ryougi Shiki and Takashi.
For Nanaya and Washimine, the movie "Tsukihime" is naturally very important.
The success or failure of this movie has long transcended the movie itself; it represents the success or failure of the Type-Moon film and television universe as a whole.
After all, in the subsequent FGO plan, Nanaya will use a lot of other directors.
If Type-Moon's fans can accept Shiki Matsuno's style, it means they should be able to accept other directors' styles as well.
In this way, Type-Moon Films will become more diversified.
This is a very critical and important part of the development of the Type-Moon film and television universe.
In the next few days, Nanaya rushed back to North America from New Zealand.
This time he had two main tasks, one of which was to attend the premiere of "Tsukihime".
And another was attending Doria's Secret Fashion Lingerie Show in 2009.
Although the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is very popular, especially among male compatriots.
But Nanaya did not attend this year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show to look at lingerie.
Last year, Victoria's Secret and the crew of "Puella Magica" officially reached an agreement.
Not only was a unit added specifically for the Madoka Magica crew, but it also allowed for all five magical girls from Madoka Magica to appear together.
Of course, Rin and the others were walking the runway in magical girl clothes.
As for the underwear version, Nanaya thought it was enough for him to watch alone.
He doesn't want to share this resource.