Chapter 1657

The whole Hollywood is a tangled body of closely related interests. Sometimes, personal interests are just personal interests; But sometimes, individual interests can be used as leverage to leverage collective interests, such as "20 million club" by Kim Carrey and "box office bonus" by Johnny Depp. The beginning of the story is only personal interests, but the development of the story has changed the whole industrial structure.

It's the same with today's blue rite.

The reason why the whole film industry has described lanli as a "phenomenal figure" is not because of egot, nor because of the box office of two consecutive 500 million films, but because lanli's choice and attitude are changing the framework of the whole industry, from independent films to art films to commercial films.

The internal rumors about "Star Trek" and the cooperation between Lanley and universal pictures are just sparks. However, Hollywood hopes that these Mars will become a raging fire, once again leverage the Wall Street capital in Hollywood, and win more benefits for the film production team headed by actors and directors.

For Thomas, Langley just hit the muzzle of the gun, he chose to attack in order to protect his own interests; For Langley, Thomas happens to be a barrier in his transformation process. He chooses confrontation in order to win more freedom and rights. But now the confrontation is getting bigger and bigger!

As I said before, the higher you stand, the greater the responsibility; The stronger the ability, the heavier the responsibility. As an ordinary staff member and as a chief executive officer, the power and responsibility in hand will be different. Now lanli is entering a new world. No matter whether he wants to or not, there is no turning back now.

It is against this background that not long ago, the Hollywood Association of foreign journalists announced the nominations for the 71st Golden Globe Award, and Langley has once again become the focus of attention!

Lanli won the nomination of best actor in the drama and Music Comedy departments without any suspense; In addition, "gravity" and "drunken folk songs" are both in the fight for the best film of plot and musical comedy, which is even more fierce than the trend created by "crazy love" and "anti-cancer me" in those years!

First, the plot department.

"Twelve years of slavery" has become the biggest winner, with seven nominations, including best film, best actor, best supporting actor, best director, best screenwriter and best score. This work, which won the people's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival not long ago, is becoming the top seed of this year's award season.

Fox Searchlight is responsible for the distribution, Brad Pitt is the producer, plus a strong star studded cast, as well as a black theme film escort, "twelve years of slavery" can be said to be a model work in the Oscar thesis. This year's awarding season has been a steady and smooth journey, Even film critics have given praise to this year's comprehensive media review, which is second only to "gravity".

Objectively speaking, "twelve years of slavery" is a well-made assembly line work. The coldness and sharpness shown by director Steve McQueen in his "hunger", "shame" and other works have been worn away, but he successfully created "twelve years of slavery" with his artistic concept, which "everything is just right"——

Not too sharp, not too gentle, not too publicity, not too low-key, not too gorgeous, not too mediocre, everything is smooth; Even if they don't like it, they can't find too many faults. Even if they don't have much discussion significance from the perspective of artistic value, they perfectly fit the aesthetic of Oscar.

In short, it's not artistic creation, it's proposition writing. Moreover, this is a full score proposition work, and the college has no reason to refuse or ignore such a work. "Twelve years of slavery" almost perfectly interprets the concept of "Oscar department work", even more in line with "King's speech" and "artist".

Of course, it's more boring; But that's Oscar.

Since the Toronto Film Festival, the momentum of "twelve years of slavery" has gone all the way up, easily surpassing all competitors, breaking out a strong posture of riding on one's own feet and rushing to the Oscars.

The nominations for the Golden Globes have also been confirmed.

In addition, "gravity", "Philomena", "extreme wind" and "Captain Phillips" all entered the final competition for best picture. Among them, "gravity" and "Captain Phillips" are all four nominations, keeping abreast of each other.

Relatively speaking, "Captain Phillips" and "extreme romantic" are both biographical films, which are in line with the college's aesthetic standards, but the former's pseudo documentary style is not consistent with the college's style; The overall quality of the latter is still not outstanding, the script and performance are relatively weak, and the nomination of the Golden Globe award may not be able to lay a strong foundation for the follow-up.

"Philomena" is a warm sketch, a bit similar to the "beginner" in 2010. If you want to transform into this year's "Juno" or "Sunshine beauty", you need to continue to work hard in the future.

It's a surprise that "gravity" entered the final showdown circle as a commercial film. Despite the high praise, the strong commercial attribute may be like "Avatar", which has become a stumbling block to prevent the film from achieving good results in the Oscars. The weak script is the common ground of the two commercial films, But the wonderful performance has become the unknown factor of "gravity".

Now, on the whole, "twelve years as a slave" has almost no rival, "gravity" and "Captain Phillips" need to break the ice before they can turn over; The real opponent of "twelve years of slavery" comes from another work, which is classified as Music Comedy department above the Golden Globe Award.

The second is the music and comedy department.

"American hoax" is the best movie, best actor, best heroine, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best director, best screenwriter, and so on seven nominations, keeping pace with "twelve years of slavery". This work, which was officially released in December, is becoming the third seed of this year's award season, disrupting the situation.

Columbia Pictures is responsible for the distribution, directed by David o-russell. The cast is as bright as stars. It continues the style of the director's past two works "fighter" and "happiness line behind the dark cloud". It is also a typical healing work in the Oscar season. After the release, it has been climbing all the way. It has already preempted the reservation of this year's Oscar seed seats.

All aspects of "American hoax" are reminiscent of last year's "happiness line behind the dark clouds". It seems like a comedy sketch, but in fact, it shows the big from the small. Excellent production, joking attitude and the return of weightlessness make "American hoax" the best representative of Oscar series comedy.

David o-russell is like the sunshine version of the Cohen brothers, or the positive version of Alexander Penn. But this is the most regrettable part. The Cohen brothers are dark enough to uncover the dark side of society. Alexander Penn is petty bourgeois enough to analyze the problems of the middle class incisively and profoundly. What about David o Russell? The core idea is always like a scratch. The last round is still the chicken soup of American dream.

From "fighter" to "happiness line behind the dark cloud" to "American scam", David o-russell's works are always like this. They easily gain the love of the Academy, but they still shine in the aspect of actors after all. The whole work and the director themselves still lack the real attack power.

To some extent, "American scam" and "twelve years of slavery" are the same kind of works. They are mellow, smooth, harmonious and exquisite, but with less sharp sense; But the difference is that the black theme of "twelve years of slavery" gives the work an inborn aggressiveness, which also makes the latter slightly ahead of "American fraud" in the competition of award season.

As can be seen from the list of nominations for the Golden Globe Awards, "twelve years of slavery" and "American scam" are both seven nominations, but the latter's awards are more concentrated on the performance part, while the former also has a technical nomination. Not surprisingly, the prospect of the award season of "twelve years of slavery" should still dominate.

In addition, "Nebraska", "drunken folk", "Wall Street wolf" and "she" also won the best picture nominations.

It's also a sign that the "wolf of Wall Street", who has been creating a lot of topics throughout the awards season, has appeared on the nomination list of the Golden Globes among all the curses.

There are so many topics about "the wolf of Wall Street", but to sum up, the values advocated by this film just hit the pain of Hollywood.

Jordan Belfort, the protagonist of the film, is a real character. In real life, he is an existence that pricks the nerves of countless Americans. His wealth is as famous as the crimes he committed. His history of prosperity also represents the black history of many capitalists; But the film does not criticize Jordan, but shows the whole character in detail in a comic situation.

This absurd and relaxed way of handling makes the audience feel "violation" -- flaunting money and status, trampling morality and law. Although everyone knows that this is the social reality, it is really fruitless to see on the big screen that the values and outlook on life are severely challenged.

The authoritative magazine "variety show" commented that Jordan, the hero of "Wall Street wolf", seems to be a big star. In real life, the real Jordan Belfort has never been punished by "justice". He was released only after 22 months in prison and made a big profit again through his autobiography, Everywhere they went, a large number of fans flocked up to ask for autographs.

It's hard to agree with such values.

All these make the "wolf of Wall Street" controversial, and the college judges show strong dissatisfaction.

To some extent, the situation of "wolf of Wall Street" is the same as that of Langley. They are both fighting against Wall Street capital. The former even reveals the dirt and darkness under the bright surface of Wall Street. But why are Hollywood's attitudes subtly different?