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At a cost of 388 million yuan and 10 years, the Oscars opened the world's largest film museum in Los Angeles.
Here, we can touch the real Oscar little golden man and experience the red carpet road that a handful of love beans have walked.
Standing on the museum's huge Dolby terrace, you can enjoy the view of the Hollywood set.
Of course, there are also exhibits that may not be seen for three days and three nights.
Zhang Ziyi's wedding dress, Bruce Lee's double knuckle stick, Huang Liushuang's hair ornament, Aries 1B spaceship model in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hitchcock's typewriter used to write "Horror", the ruby shoes worn by Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz"...
Red shoes from The Wizard of Oz
The Academy began collecting video materials in the 1930s and now has a permanent collection of more than 12 million photographs, 190,000 video materials, 80,000 scripts, more than 60,000 posters and more than 100,000 film art works.
Pritzker winner Renzo Piano personally remodeled the design on the site of the May Department Store in Los Angeles, USA, and finally completed two main buildings.
For movie buffs, this museum can definitely serve as the first stop on a pilgrimage.
Now let's take a look at what is worth visiting in the museum.
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Zhang Ziyi's wedding dress,
Bruce Lee's double knuckle stick,
Witness the pinnacle of Chinese cinema
The museum consists of two main buildings.
The one near the road is the main exhibition area, with 5 floors, 6 exhibition halls, 1 souvenir shop and 1 restaurant.
Another building features interactive experiences, consisting of a cinema that can accommodate up to 1,000 people and a giant domed terrace on the roof.
David Geffen Theatre in the Oscar Museum
Among them, the part of the Chinese exhibits in the museum is very exciting, and many traces of top Chinese film stars can be found here.
For example, the clothes that Bruce Lee wore in the movie "Dragon Fight tiger fight", the double knuckle stick props used, and some hand-drawn manuscripts in the storyboard.
The film, the final work of the "King of Kung Fu", was filmed less than 2 months after his death. Long-term accumulation of pain and emotional problems has always tormented Bruce Lee, suffering more than 7 headaches on the set, and 1 direct fainting, only to wake up a few hours later.
Bruce Lee Stills from Dragon Fights Tiger Fight
But these did not affect the quality of the film.
Bruce Lee's real punches, coupled with cleverly scheduled montage shots, were extremely rare in kung fu movies of the time.
Bruce Lee died unexpectedly in Hong Kong, China in July 1973. After the release of "Dragon Fight" on July 26, the box office soared to $230 million, beating many of the hugely funded films produced by A-grade productions at the time, and its investment cost was only $800,000, which can only be regarded as the scale of C-level productions.
Later, Time magazine listed Bruce Lee as one of the "100 Greatest People of the 20th Century" and "Heroes and Icons of the 20th Century." At the Oscar Museum, perhaps you can glimpse his meteoric life in this work.
Another exhibition area exhibits yellow willow cream makeup and hair styling and related supplies.
In Hollywood circles, she is a superstar who can almost be as famous as Bruce Lee, and the first Chinese to leave a star on the Walk of Fame.
Yellow willow cream
It's just that compared to the kung fu king who became famous early, her star path is much bumpier.
When the sharp horns first appeared, Huang Liushuang was only 17 years old. With her appearance in the movie "The Sea Gone", audiences and critics alike quickly noticed this beautiful Asian girl. However, due to Hollywood's prejudice against Oriental women, she left the United States for Europe.
When Huang Liushuang returned to Hollywood in the 1930s, her name was already very loud in the film industry.
Acting became a part of her life. She also used her celebrity status to travel and give speeches to make more voices for the Chinese and change the stereotype of Asian women in the West.
A silk wedding dress worn by Zhang Ziyi in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is also exhibited here.
The film won four awards at the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Score.
Director Ang Lee said in an interview that Chinese martial arts is actually a dance. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon allows the world to see the beauty of the balance that Chinese martial arts achieve between fighting, narrative and humanism.
This wedding dress is handmade entirely by Tim Yip and embroidered with more than 100 flowered butterflies.
In classical Chinese literature, butterflies have symbols of freedom, love, and death. The designer specially chose the butterfly to hint at the fleeting happiness and tragic ending of the jade dragon.
Zhang Ziyi's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" stills
Walking to the central area of the museum, you can look up and see the protagonist of "Jaws" suspended in mid-air, which is 7.5 meters long and weighs half a ton.
Director Spielberg also set off a disaster film frenzy in the United States.
If you're a Miyazaki fan, don't miss the fourth floor space of the Exhibition Building.
Manuscripts from Miyazaki's works and related props are on display, including The 2001 Oscar-winning Spirited Away.
At the time, it overtook Titanic to become the highest-grossing film in The History of Japanese Cinema, and the Los Angeles Times lamented "seeing an unprecedented imagination."
After shopping for this, I seem to have fallen into a living film history.
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Walk the red carpet overlooking Los Angeles,
Don't miss out on these experiences
There are also many places in the whole building that are worth punching fans.
A must-see is the Dolby Terrace of the Spherical Building.
It is covered by a concrete and glass sphere weighing up to 1.2 tons and covers an area of about 4200 square meters. But the thick material does not affect its futuristic temperament. This structure also makes it easier to conduct premieres, screening events and other forms of performance.
Designer Renzo Piano said, "This dome with a floating feeling is our architectural representation of another world (the world of cinema)."
Several glass bridges connect the terrace to the Saban building not far away, which can also be accessed directly via the Barbara Streisand Bridge. Standing here, you can clearly see Santa Monica Mountain, Los Angeles Street View and Pacific Ocean View.
Stand on the Dolby Terrace and look into the distance
Also inside this spherical building, visitors can get hands-on with some of the experiences.
Even if you're not an Oscar fan, you definitely remember the highlight of the year – the awards ceremony.
When you come to the Dolby Theater, you can not only watch the whole process of the festival, but also be a movie queen yourself.
Once you enter the theater, you'll get a real Oscar trophy. After putting on VR, AR and other technical equipment, the audience seems to be full of audiences, waiting for you to go on stage to deliver an "acceptance speech".
From the gate to the slow walk up the red carpet, everything is recorded by the camera and sent to the experiencer's mailbox.
When you come to the film museum, you can't miss the movie.
In the sphere-built Geffen Theater, one can experience the feeling of watching a movie in the last world theater.
Old-fashioned 70mm film is played on giant screens, and it's hard to find a few of these types of screening halls across the United States right now.
Standing elsewhere and looking at the Oscar Museum, it is like a spaceship flying from somewhere else, but at the same time it is surrounded by the whole city of Los Angeles, merging with each other.
As critics have said, cinema can take humans to another place, and that world was created by our secular world.
Wait until the next time you go to Los Angeles to play, after seeing the Hollywood studio, you will definitely arrange it here and go inside to feel the fantasy world created by the filmmakers.
Text, Editor/Itsuki
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