Chapter 431

As the 80th birthday of the Oscars, the award ceremony naturally needs some commemoration and review. Before almost every important award is presented, montage clips of past winners will be shown. In addition, clips of many famous winners will be interspersed, especially those Oscar couples.

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, for example, were chatting in front of the big screen on the stage. The organizers gave them more than a minute, which seemed to be setting up Hollywood model couples.

Among the people present, only Murphy knows that in a few years, the conflict between the couple will intensify, especially Michael Douglas's remarks almost push the couple to the point of divorce.

Murphy still vaguely remembers the biggest gossip in Hollywood around 2010. When Michael Douglas, who recovered from laryngeal cancer, was interviewed, he claimed that the main cause of his cancer was oral sex with women infected with HPV virus. He also said that continued oral sex was helpful to his illness, which made the outside world suspect that his movie star wife Katherine Zeta Jones might be infected with HPV virus, indirectly causing him to get cancer

And Michael Douglas's eldest son, who also seems to be a drug addict?

Looking at the couple on the Oscar stage, Murphy suddenly felt that this might be their chance?

What is the best way to start with drugs and return them?

Murphy frowned slightly. This kind of thing should not be done too quickly. Just as he told little Robert Downey, be calm.

Then, Frank Pearson, the rotating chairman of the Academy, stepped onto the stage and made a brief explanation of the Oscar evaluation process with the help of the large screen. In recent years, the voice about Oscar becoming a game of money and public relations has become more and more loud. It seems that the Academy wants to rectify its name in this way.

It is also interspersed with the words of many judges, such as George Clooney, John Travolta and Michael Bay. If we understand according to these people's words, the Oscar is absolutely fair and open.

Unfortunately, for people in the industry, we all know that under the bright appearance of Oscar, there are lots of transactions such as sex, money and contacts. Excellent works and characters are just the most basic admission conditions.

Brad bird, one of the interviewees in the video, also shows a funny scene. He covers his eyes and throws his pen at the list full of nominations

He explained the well-known voting method of voting with feet.

"A secretary prints out the final statistics, seals the envelope, pulls her out and shoots her. We take the envelope, and the result is absolutely confidential."

Amid the laughter, this session ended and the award ceremony was back on track.

The awards move out one by one. Although "body of steel" is limited to science fiction and superhero types, it is bound to be despised by the Academy. However, the film's reputation and box office results are here, and they can't ignore it at all. After all, it's Hollywood.

There is no accident. In terms of technology awards, "body of steel" has successively won the best visual effect and the best sound effect, which can be called the big winner of technology awards.

As for the heavyweight awards such as performance awards, there is no actor dead in "body of steel", so naturally there is no chance.

It's too difficult to expect a pure commercial film to win the Oscar performance award. Although the Academy continues to attract new members, it is an indisputable fact that the core group of old men are getting older day by day. In the future, they will only be more conservative. The results of previous awards also prove this.

They will be influenced by public relations and various exchanges, but only if they are in line with their aesthetics, or at least close to them.

Oscar's position is eccentric. It wants audience rating and keeps a distance from business. It wants art but does not dare to overdo it. It can only be ambiguous. They are called academies, but what is academies? Maybe ghosts know, or maybe they don't know.

Murphy only knows that they are also kitsch, just in a conservative way.

For example, the industry has been calling for an increase in the award of best stunt coordinator before. After all, this position has become an almost indispensable part of Hollywood movies, but the old men on the Executive Committee of the college never agree.

Although the old men at the core of the Academy always say that they appreciate the contribution of the stunt coordinators to the film, they are not willing to make any changes. Even if the stunt coordinator staff will make concessions and accept the award before the non live TV Oscar ceremony, they still insist that they will not set up this award.

Stunt coordinators play a very important role in the film, and have their own unique contribution to the film production.

In the troupe of Murphy's type of director, the stuntman is always a very critical existence.

They are specially responsible for designing all kinds of complex and dangerous action scenes in film and television works, including car chasing, fighting, blasting, underwater operation, high-altitude diving and so on, which are then completed by stuntmen or professionals.

Up to now, the awards ceremony has not been very lively on the stage, and the reaction from the audience is a little cold. If there were no cameras watching, I'm afraid many people would yawn.As time goes on, the judges who were still young in the 1990s are getting older. As a result, the 80 year old Oscar is getting older and older year by year. Perhaps the academy is aware of its own problems, so it specially recruited Jon Stewart, a popular host among young people, but still failed to save the award ceremony, which is doomed to be boring ceremony.

"The Oscar ceremony is going downhill year by year. The judges are not even willing to think about a better idea. They probably want to go home to sleep after the award."

Hearing Megan Fox's boring complaint, Murphy thinks it's not unreasonable.

If the academy and Oscar don't actively reform and save themselves in the future, it won't be long before they can even slip out of the top five or even top ten ratings in North America.

How embarrassing would this be for Hollywood?

After years of evolution and rehearsal, the Oscars have basically achieved the surface of wine and food. Every star seems to love peace and all mankind, and constantly thanks the judges and parents.

Under the procedural scene, the rules and hidden rules are unified to a certain extent, and people in the circle have nothing to say - even if a box office hit film fails to win, the winning art film will definitely win, and vice versa.

But the audience doesn't want to see these. What they need more is the stimulation of freshness and surprise. What they need is that the films and actors recognized by themselves can win awards.

However, the Oscar will not be changed by the audience's choice. It is not the "youth Choice Award" or "people's Choice Award" after all.

"Director Stanton."

A staff member came up and whispered to Murphy, "it's almost time for the award of the best art director."

"Thank you." Murphy stood up, buttoned his suit, followed the staff through the special passage and walked backstage.

He is the guest of the best art direction award tonight.

After entering the backstage, Murphy gets an envelope and a string of words from the director. He takes a look at it, quickly jots down the string of words, and then listens to the director explain a few points for attention. He follows the staff to the entrance of the front desk.

Just like the lines of a movie, what Hollywood guests say is carefully prepared by the program organizers. It's a taboo for Oscar to talk nonsense. Basically, all guests will interpret the prepared lines in their own way.

Many producers of the Oscars often warn those stars who have just become famous and are eager to show off that if they don't speak according to the prepared string, they should not be the awarding guests.

Hearing Jon Stewart's voice in front of her, Murphy stepped onto the stage at the right time. The classic scenes of gone with the wind appeared on the big screen in the background of the stage. Murphy waved frequently and walked up to the front of the stage full of vitality, turned slightly, looked at the background picture of gone with the wind, and said, "gone with the wind is the first film that includes the best and the most beautiful If a film wants to become an unchanging classic, it must show the story through the visual concept and design situation, and be given life by the art director and photographer.... "

He pauses a little and says, "then there are masterpieces such as Ben Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, Schindler's list and Titanic that won the three prizes..."

These are the words carefully prepared by the organizers, Murphy almost no change, "this year, there are four films nominated for more than three awards, so let's start."

His expression turned to seriousness. "The nominees for best artistic direction are Robert stomerberg of American Gangster, Stephanie Macmillan of barber Todd, Eve Stewart of blood is coming, Jess gondrow of golden compass and Helena espora of body of steel."

After reading the nomination list, Murphy opened the envelope directly. "The winner is Helena espora of" body of steel. "

It's a pity that Helena espora set up a venue in montage studio in Paris and didn't attend the award ceremony. Finally, her agent accepted the award on her behalf.

Murphy left the stage, walked backstage, and returned to his seat at the end of the ceremony. The Cohen brothers became the biggest winners of the Oscars. As he remembers, the two brothers won the best director and best picture awards for "no country for old men".

After the award ceremony, Murphy did not go home. For publicity reasons, he went to the Hilton Beverly Hills Hotel to attend the Oscar night party hosted by vanity fair, and continued to make a high-profile appearance in front of the media.

At the party, he also met Mr. and Mrs. Michael Douglas. (to be continued). )