Chapter 180

In a twinkling of an eye, two-thirds of the 35th Toronto Film Festival has passed, with only the last three days left, and the annual event will come to an end. After entering the second half, the festival finally ushered in the climax of long absence!

First, "burying alive" unexpectedly became a hot topic, and pressing "city robbers" became the focus of attention. Then, the call for extra shows rose. The Organizing Committee of the Toronto Film Festival immediately responded by offering extra treatment to meet the needs of more audiences as much as possible. Although it is only a breakthrough, it is especially valuable.

Then "127 Hours" attracted the focus of the whole North America - there was an audience who vomited and even fainted because of the bloody picture of the hero amputating himself with a knife on the way to watch the film, and there were more than one or two of them, which not only caused a heated discussion, but also attracted more attention and curiosity from the audience. Of course, what's more important is that the film itself has also received unanimous praise from film critics, who think that after "Slumdog Millionaire", Daniel Bauer has once again dedicated his Oscar level works.

Then, the global Premiere of the Danish film "a better world" set off a frenzy of media pursuit. Together with the previously released "scorched earth city", it formed a foreign language film alliance and instantly became the first two seeds of the best foreign language film of this year's award season, attracting much attention.

It seems that we can feel the emergence of new hot spots every day, pushing the atmosphere of the Toronto Film Festival to the peak step by step. Today, "black swan" is about to premiere, and people are mobilizing.

The film is absolutely heavyweight from director to actor. It attracted a lot of firepower in the preparatory stage. It was unanimously affirmed at the Venice Film Festival before. The crew members just arrived in Toronto and were welcomed by the highest level. How can the audience not be excited when the film premieres in North America?

Hidden in the glory of the premiere ceremony of "black swan", the discussion of "buried alive" and "127 Hours" ignited the enthusiasm of the audience.

There are many similarities between the two films. They are both independent films, stories of desperate survival, stage of monologue, and brilliant works of director and actor.

On the whole, the "127 Hours" are one size larger, with only about two-thirds of the parts of the one-man show, and quite a few other actors appear; The investment cost is not at the same level at all, and "127 Hours" is about six times of "buried alive"; The fame and reputation of the director and the leading actor have also risen several steps... However, when the two works premiered one after the other, people still can't help discussing the two works together.

Especially after the praise for James Franco's acting began to rise.

Among the "127 Hours" of official magazine reviews, ten media gave seven favorable comments, two medium comments and one poor comment, and the overall reputation was slightly better than "buried alive". It coincides with Langley's opinion, and critics praise him all the time. They think that the director has once again handed in excellent answers and brought a story that is almost impossible to adapt to the big screen; And for James performance certainly also many, but it is the director and script away a lot of attention.

"Hollywood Reporter" believes that "the talents of Bauer and Franco guarantee the success of the film."

"The Wall Street Journal" said, "Franco plays this role undoubtedly needs great courage, but the result is gratifying."

Among them, "Los Angeles Times" affirmed most directly, "this is the most outstanding performance of Franco's career as an actor! Every expression gives life to the character on his happy face. "

Although he was robbed of a lot of publicity by Denny, James also gained some affirmation. Some local media in Toronto even began to exclaim, "Franco, all the way to Oscar!"

Naturally, Langley and James are put on the same page

Both of them are young people. Although James is 31 years old this year, they are both small characters in the Oscar system; Both of them are the only protagonists in the film. They show extraordinary courage and delicate performance under the camera; Not to mention, both of them received unanimous praise from the media for their performances, and also mentioned the Oscars... Which also means that they are likely to become direct competitors in this year's award season.

In the process of Oscar selection, it is self-evident that the judges' inner limitations on youth, especially the competition for best actor. Although every few years, a new person or young person will appear on the best actor nomination list to express the Academy's praise for the younger generation, the nomination has already won, and a seat is the limit, It's rare for two young people to be nominated together.

In other words, there is a high probability that Langley and James will be in a "life and death" situation. Only one person can be shortlisted for the nomination - of course, both of them are more likely to lose the election.

In addition, the selection of Oscar performance awards is not a mathematical problem, there is a fixed formula, more often is a comprehensive result of professional judgment and psychological bias. For example, in last year's Jeff Bridges, due to the double factors of credit vote and guilt vote, plus the affirmation of many film critics, maybe the members of the Academy did not even watch "crazy heart" and directly voted for Jeff. This is not unusual. When "Brokeback Mountain" was defeated by "crash", many judges openly admitted that they had never watched "Brokeback Mountain".

Generally speaking, if you want to win the nomination, or if you want to have outstanding acting skills, it is very likely that the performance of the work itself is mediocre. But the acting skills of the actors are really blockhouse and shocking, which makes people ignore the mediocrity of the work and marvel at the wonderful performance, such as Meryl Streep of "Iron Lady".

Either the works are outstanding, and the performance of the actors may not be surprising. They just finished their work in a proper way, but the works they took part in are very popular, even the best picture is very popular. When people choose the best picture, they also choose the relevant actors, Let's take Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams, who are in focus.

It's rare to meet two conditions at the same time. Throughout the history of Oscar, the works that have reached such a standard are also in a countable range.

This is what the two young people are facing now. The integrity of "buried alive" works is slightly worse, but lanli's performance has been more appreciated“ "127 Hours" is reversed, James's light is robbed by Denny, but the overall quality of the work has gained higher praise.

This leads to the same result, and the judges may need to choose between Langley and James.

What's more, the award season hasn't started yet, and the real strong players haven't appeared yet. Maybe after October, the voices of the two young people are fleeting, and no one remembers that there was such a period at the Toronto Film Festival. So, who should choose one out of two?

"I haven't watched 127 Hours yet." I believe James is an excellent actor. But as far as I'm concerned, I'm shocked by lanli's performance in "buried alive." This is what Ryan Gosling said in an interview. When the reporter mentioned the opportunity of "blue Valentine's Day" in this year's award season, Ryan laughed happily, "thank you for someone remembering me as an actor. However, between me and lanli, I am willing to choose lanli. "

Joe Hamm also expressed his own view: "there is no doubt that James Franco is an excellent actor. You can see his excellence in both pineapple express and milk.". This time, Denny Bauer gave him a stage, and then he shocked everyone. Of course, we should not forget this year's howl. "

Inadvertently, more and more people began to join the discussion of this topic. The stars of Toronto Film Festival have become the object of inquiry. Obviously, James, who has been wallowing in Hollywood for ten years, has won most of the support; Only a small number of people mentioned the recent Emmy Awards, and they are looking forward to the performance of Langley. Of course, no one really, we are just as a spare time conversation, add some interesting news for the film festival.

However, with everyone's talk, the speed of topic warming is far beyond imagination“ After the screening of "buried alive", a fire was added to the discussion.

The audience's response to the work far exceeded expectations. Most of the audience said that the film was more exciting and exciting than expected, especially when the official magazine gave more praise to "127 Hours", The roller coaster like process of "buried alive" won the audience's favor. "127 Hours" spent a lot of time to flash back and build characters, which is not as good as "buried alive" in terms of viewing fluency. This also won a lot of public praise for "burying alive".

At the same time, thanks to the existence of hot topics, lanli has become the core of everyone's discussion, "excellent! It's amazing“ It's hard to imagine that he's still a newcomer. "“ In fact, I think he is the only reason for the success of the whole work

Among them, many audiences took the initiative to mention the competition between lanli and James, "I personally think lanli is better, and the level of the whole performance is richer."“ I like Langley's performance. His performance has a kind of shock. "“ I really like James, but Langley really surprised me this time

From the perspective of visual impact and script frame structure, Lan Li of complete one-man play really has a little advantage. But more importantly, originally just a topic of gossip, it spread at the Toronto Film Festival. The twinkle of Langley and James even eclipsed Ryan.

Under the blessing of this trend, "buried alive" has once again successfully attracted the attention of the public. How wonderful is lanli's performance? Can Movies be compared with "127 Hours"? Is the discussion triggered by the film pure hype or real material? However, these questions are doomed to be unanswered.

Because, there is no film arrangement for the Toronto Film Festival.