Chapter 1691： Screenwriters Guild

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With the release of "Michael Clayton" in October, another awards season has come to a close. M However, compared to last year's grand occasion, this year has obviously settled down a little. This is the third Oscars ceremony after Sid Ganis came to power. After the renovation of "Brokeback Mountain" in the first year, the second year In the chaos of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, everything is gradually finding its original track this year. Maybe there will be some confusion and confusion this year, but at least the situation of last year will not be repeated again.

As of the moment when the Gotham Awards are presented, the situation of the entire awards season is still unclear.

Joe White's "Atonement," starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley; Julian Gerrard's "Becoming Jane Austen," James McAvoy's name reappears The second is to join forces with Anne Hathaway; the "No Country for Old Men" of the Coen Brothers, Heath Ledger, Blake Lively, two rookies, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem; Tim Burton again "Sweeney Todd," with Johnny Depp; "Tower," which won the grand prize at the Toronto Film Festival, directed by David Cronenberg; "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," from France, at Cannes After the film festival was well-received, it was airborne for the American awards season; "Michael Clayton" directed by Tony Gilroy found George Clooney to play and Steven Soderbergh to supervise...

These works are actually very good. There are no seed players who stand out, so I have to say something. "Michael Clayton" and "No Country for Old Men" clearly have some advantages.

And after Evan Bell's "Wild Survival" won a good review, and at the box office - especially at the single-hall box office - "powerful", the voice of impacting the awards season is quietly rising. There is quite a bit of momentum to catch up with George Clooney and the Coen brothers.

In addition, Eleven Studio announced that Evan Bell's other director's work "The Blood Will Come" this year is also scheduled for a limited release on December 26, to meet the audience before the arrival of 2008. Currently from the two-minute trailer that has been released. "There Will Be Blood" has already won the highest praise and is widely regarded as Evan Bell's best work so far, and Leonardo DiCaprio has given a performance that shocked everyone. , Some media have undoubtedly listed "Blood Will Come" as the number one seed of this year's Oscar front.

Just relying on a two-minute trailer to achieve such an effect, I have to say Evan Bell's powerful aura.

It can be seen that before the awards season officially started this year, the whole situation was still unclear, although it was much better than last year's melee. However, we still have to wait for the announcement of the winners one by one before we can see the development route of the awards season.

Of course, what is surprising is that Evan Bell is amazing again - everyone thought that Evan Bell was accustomed to the sky, but when things happened, it was inevitable that they would be surprised. mouth. First, "Wild Survival" achieved good results, and then "Blood Will Come" is highly anticipated. This boy who just turned twenty-five in November is really too tough, this is unscientific!

The boom in "wilderness survival" was not big news in the second half of 2007. After all, the prosperity of the entire awards season has just kicked off, let alone. In the second half of 2007, another earthquake-level event broke out, which may even have an impact on the entire film industry.

First, dial back the time to September 20th, which is just after the Toronto Film Festival ended and before "Wild Survival" was released. Evan Bell was still conscientiously completing his role as an actor on the "Batman: The Dark Knight" crew.

That afternoon, Evan Bale had a role in the scene, and it was another opposite scene with Christian Bale, so he was always highly concentrated on the set, and the scene was filmed until two o'clock in the morning. . Evan Bell has time to remove his makeup and prepare to go back to the hotel to rest.

When the makeup artist was helping Evan Bell remove his makeup, he couldn't help but close his eyes and began to recall the shooting process of today's scene, not only his experience of the performance process, but also Christopher Nolan's control of the whole situation on the set , has a lot of inspiration for Evan Bell.

At this time, Teddy Bell came over and said directly, "Patrick Varone wants to see you, do you see him now?"

Hearing this, Evan Bell frowned slightly, but he still didn't open his eyes, "This time?" Patrick Valron, of course, is the president of the Writers Guild of the American West.

The Writers Guild of America, founded in 1921, is now divided into two organizations: the Eastern Writers Guild of America and the Western Writers Guild of America, with a total of 12,000 screenwriters members. It's Michael Winship. Like the other four major trade unions, they are united in the interests of screenwriters. Evan Bell is also a member of the Screenwriters Guild. Of course, he is also listed in four organizations, including the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild, and the Actors Guild, in addition to the Editors Guild.

Patrick Valron, Evan Bell just knows each other. After he won the Best Adapted Screenplay Award for "Perfume" at the Oscars at the beginning of this year, there was a brief exchange at the banquet, but the two were not. on the familiar. And today, at this point in time, Patrick Varone came to the door, what's the matter?

"In fact, he came over in the afternoon, but you have been filming, and he stayed on the crew." Teddy Bell explained that maybe for others, Patrick Varron's personal visit is a A very important thing, but for Teddy Bell, the younger brother is in full swing at work, and the most important thing does not care about this afternoon. So Teddy Bell never interrupted Evan Bell's work. Surprisingly, Patrick Varone has waited patiently until now, which is why Teddy Bell made a special mention, otherwise at this time, Evan Bell would have to go back and prepare to rest.

Evan Bell frowned and thought for a while, this time he opened his eyes and looked at his brother, "He went down and stayed in the crew? Didn't he do anything else?"

Teddy Bell thought about it, "He talked a lot with Jonathan and David." Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan's younger brother, he and David S-Goyer are both "Batman Prequel: Darkness" "Knight" writer.

Evan Bell nodded slightly, indicating that he knew, "I'll go after I change my clothes. Should we talk with the crew? Let's go back to the hotel and take a seat at the coffee shop on the top floor."

Watching Teddy Bell leave, Evan Bell vaguely guessed an outline.

In the last lifetime, in Evan Bell's memory, there have been two major events since the founding of the Screenwriters Guild of America for nearly a hundred years: one was the 1988 general strike, which lasted for 22 weeks and caused the entire American film industry to $500 million. One is the general strike that started at the end of 2007 and lasted for 100 days, and this time it cost American films as much as 3.2 billion US dollars. Now, isn't the end of 2007 just around the corner?

The Writers Guild of America went on strike for nearly 100 days from November 2007 to February 2008. The areas involved were too wide, from the suspension of American TV series, to the suspension of awards ceremonies, and even to the postponement of filming. , the entire US entertainment industry chain has been affected. The reason is very simple. Any program or work will be linked to the screenwriter. TV shows need screenwriters to write lines. TV dramas and movies cannot be done without screenwriters. What’s more, American TV shows are still in the mode of filming and broadcasting. Once the screenwriter strikes, almost the entire The TV industry will be paralyzed.

Evan Bell has a very deep memory of this screenwriter's strike in his last life, for no other reason, because all the classic American dramas such as "Prison Break" and "Lost" have been suspended because of the screenwriter's strike, which is really a shock to the audience. Bad news. In addition, the Golden Globes were canceled and the Grammys escaped, but even so, the entire American film festival suffered a heavy blow.

However, Evan Bell has limited understanding of the reason for the screenwriter's strike. After all, it is an American screenwriter, not a Chinese one. Evan Bell just knows that there is a huge difference in the treatment of screenwriters, so the American Screenwriters Guild has no choice but to Fight for rights through strikes. The final result of the strike, on the surface, is that the Writers Guild of America stopped the strike and won the benefits they wanted. It’s just that whether this benefit has met expectations, this is the relationship between groups and groups, companies and companies. The contest of personal power is very insignificant in this process of competing for interests.

Today's visit by Patrick Varoun made Evan Bell suddenly realize that the writers' strike that was very far away in his last life This life is closely related to him. First of all, I am a member of the Screenwriters Guild, and at the same time I am a director, producer, and actor. This involves too much scope, and it is impossible to stay out of it; Film and TV production companies are also members of the opposite interests of the Screenwriters Guild. Therefore, I am afraid that in this writer's strike event, Eleven Studios will still play a very important role.

However, Evan Bell didn't know the inside story in his last life, he only knew that it was mostly about interests, so he didn't know what role he could play personally, and what would be the position of Eleven Studios Unable to judge. I'm afraid, today's meeting with Patrick Varron is unavoidable.

"Evan, all the makeup is removed, do you want to drink some water?" the makeup artist said to Evan Bell easily while standing beside him.

Evan Bell rubbed his tired temples, "Thank you, it's been hard work. Go back to rest quickly, I'll have a drink after I get back to the hotel." After a busy day, now I have to deal with these group interests, Evan -Bell still needs to cheer up.

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