Chapter 633

Such a typical commercial drama as house of cards can't touch the general taboo of most audiences. Murphy can't get along with anything, nor can he get along with the market and revenue. It wasn't until after the new year that he decided on the final version of the script, and the preparations for the first season of house of cards officially began.

Most of the behind the scenes staff who worked with Paul Wilson on "game of Thrones" will continue to work with Stanton studio. A small number of vacant positions can also be solved through recruitment. Hollywood will never lack people who are waiting for opportunities.

In addition to the fact that Gail Murphy has just set up a new year's production team, Paul doesn't have to worry about the basic situation.

With the coming of 2012, the new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is getting closer and closer. On the last day of 2011, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences mailed votes from the Oscar nomination list to nearly 6000 members. Naturally, Diego rose, which has passed the registration examination, is also on the list of candidates.

After the new year, the screening scale of "Diego Ross" has expanded to 20 cinemas, and the media reputation and professional reputation are still outstanding. Although the audience reputation is still the same as before, there is no significant decline under the painstaking efforts of Murphy and 20th century fox. In particular, the arrest of daisy has led to a great increase in the fans' favor for Murphy, and even more With this film also received a wave of praise.

However, the box office of the film has never been a big hit. The latest weekend's box office did not even reach 20000 US dollars. Even though the film critics touted the film strongly, and even most of the top ten films of the year 2011 selected by the Film Critics Association, "Diego rose" was among them, but it hardly promoted the box office.

Faced with this situation, Murphy really felt that the times had changed.

In today's era, professional film critics are actually not very instructive to the audience, which affects the box office of the first week at most. After that, the audience is more willing to trust the comments of relatives, friends and even some fan rating websites on the Internet.

In Murphy's view, there are two kinds of film reviews in the United States: one is for ordinary audiences, the other is for scholars. The vast majority of film critics work for mainstream newspapers, magazines and TV stations, and they have countless ties with the film industry, which can be called the mouthpiece of Hollywood.

In the United States, it is often reported that film critics praise films against their will for accepting various benefits. This kind of review, which is not from an objective point of view, but involves personal interests, is often of little value, so that it will mislead the audience.

However, in recent years, Murphy can clearly feel that the views expressed by professional film critics are not instructive to the audience. Many times, many film critics agree that a film is poor, but the audience ignores it, and the box office of the film is still very good. Movies like "Diego Ross" are popular, but the audience doesn't buy it .

This is not only related to the development of the times and the prosperity of the Internet, but also has something to do with the commercial effect of the professionalization of film critics.

For example, people who make film reviews on TV programs must consider the ratings of the programs, attract the audience in the form, and constantly find humorous and interesting words in the comments to win the favor of the audience, rather than how profound the views are. This makes him have to take a positive attitude towards most films. If he constantly denies the films, it is easy for the audience to have an aversion to the programs .

In order to please the public, in the process of commenting on films, film critics themselves are acting. At the same time, their vision is also greatly limited. They can only comment on most mainstream films. As long as film reviews involve commercial interests and are inextricably linked with the film industry, it is impossible to make independent, calm and objective comments.

The film reviews written by scholars are very different, but they can only be popular in the small circle of intellectuals or become teaching materials, and there is no reference value for the market.

From its release in mid December to the end of the new year, in the more than half a month after the three weekend, Diego rose has received numerous praise from the media and critics. The total box office of the ordered films is only a little more than 600000 dollars. As far as the box office results of the ordered films in the award season are concerned, they don't belong to the poor group, and they are not very good. In general, they are Above average.

At the same time, CAA, Stanton studio and 20th Century Fox did not stop their publicity work for the award season. Diego rose also began to win a series of Oscar outpost awards. At the photographer union award, which announced the award-winning list at the beginning of the new year, Felipe Raschel won the annual award with the brilliant long lens of "Diego rose" Best photographer award.

In addition, the film was nominated for best screenplay by the writers union and best actor by the actors union.

The only pity is that because Murphy quit the directors' Union in his early years, the film was not qualified to participate in the directors' Union awards, but was nominated for best picture in the producers' Union award.

Up to now, the film's public relations promotion is not only Murphy and 20th century fox, but also one of the most popular films in many media forecast lists that will win many Oscar nominations this award season.Of course, the media also generally believe that Murphy may win the Oscar nomination for best director again, but can not avoid the fate of running with her.

Some professional media also analyzed the reasons for Murphy's nomination. First of all, "Diego rose" is really good and has the qualification to be nominated as the best director. Second, some social news media inclined to Catholicism have attacked Murphy's films since before Christmas, which infringes on the so-called Catholic rights and interests. Hollywood bigwigs are abusing foreign forces Interference in the freedom of Hollywood filming is quite dissatisfied, may make tit for tat strategy.

The most important reason is that Murphy is too young. Now that the average age of College members is getting closer to 60, the possibility of a young director who is less than 32 years old or a commercial director who wants to win the best director Oscar is limited.

In addition, Murphy is also a bit strange, the Archbishop of Marquez Costello, far more patient than he thought, has not taken the initiative to say anything up to now.

However, he soon understood the key point. Archbishop Marcos Costello is not a Hollywood star, but a highly respected regional religious leader in the traditional sense, who easily won't appear in the media!

After staying in a circle for a long time, it's easy to form habitual thinking. He's just an ordinary person, and it's hard to avoid vulgarity.

To understand this, Murphy immediately adjusted her strategy and asked grace and bill rosis to take the initiative to contact the media for the first media interview after the start of the Oscar nomination vote.

On the one hand, it is to increase his exposure and make the final sprint for Diego Ross to appear on the final Oscar nomination list. On the other hand, it is to remind some people that Murphy Stanton is never a person who can only be beaten but does not know how to fight back.

The interview was put in the news Hall of CAA in the Death Star building, and Murphy was faced with reporters from Hollywood Reporter, which has a great influence in the award season.

The question was also worked out by bill rosis in consultation with the Hollywood Reporter according to the meaning of Murphy.

The layout of the interview site is very simple, with two chairs standing opposite each other and a small glass coffee table in the middle for recording equipment.

Due to the limited time, the reporter's question by the name of Kelly Mallat came to the point at the beginning of the interview.

"The media, the Internet, because of" Diego Ross "and your attack, are now full of controversy about the authenticity of the film." Kelly Mallat looked at Murphy and asked, "do you regret choosing such a subject?"

"No!" Without any hesitation, Murphy said directly, "everything I shoot is responsible to the audience, to the archetypal character of the film's hero. Even if I do it again, I will still choose to speak with facts!"

Kelly Mallat mixed a question of her own, "do you think that since the film is responsible for the audience, which is more important, entertainment or ideology?"

At other times, Murphy will definitely say that commerciality is more important, but this interview is aimed at the award season. Of course, we can't say that.

Different situations give different answers. This kind of thing is very simple for Murphy.

Murphy thought for a moment and replied, "different directors will always make different choices. Even if someone makes rigid rules, they can't limit the emergence of all kinds of films. There will always be films made for different purposes."

"When I discuss with people on the Internet, the most difficult point is to let them understand the intrinsic value of film as an art form, because film is generally regarded as entertainment in social life, which everyone ignores."

To a certain extent, Murphy is basically speaking freely now. "The intrinsic value of film is reflected in the following aspects: line bar, color, editing means, lens use, etc., as well as the values represented and to be embodied by producers and directors, as well as the culture and values represented by their society and country. These different values are intricately divided Integration in the film, sometimes not at a glance

"Like" Diego Ross " Kelly Mallat asked at the right time.

"Yes Murphy nodded. "I think Rose encountered many misfortunes at the critical moment of forming the most important values and world outlook, which seriously affected his future choice!"

"Including Catholicism?"

Hearing this question, Murphy nodded her head hard, and Kelly Mallat asked, "there are voices in some media and on the Internet saying that the content you shot about Catholicism is not true, so that you can delete the controversial part. What do you think?"