Hollywood Domination Chapter 145: Oscar ecosystem

Although they are all mixed in the same circle, the emotional world of the big names in the entertainment industry, even for colleagues, is actually a blurred vision, which makes it difficult to see clearly. Of course, the most common way is not to ask at all. So as not to provoke right and wrong, so when filming "The Fifth Sally", the story between Christopher and Jennifer is not unnoticed, but no one has ever talked about it with Jenny The problem, after all, for big names, firing a staff member is just a matter of words.

The incident of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is the same this time. Josh started to touch marijuana. It must be no secret in the crew, but Jennifer heard the news and came over to make a fuss and kicked out all Josh's 'pilot' buddies In the room, Josh himself was soaked in a cold bathtub to suffer 'waterboarding'. Of course, it is impossible for only Mary and Nicholas to know. However, even the unlucky ones who were kicked out of the room, no one dared to comment on this matter - after this incident gets out, they will definitely be fired from the crew, and may even face high compensation. After all, the industry also has strict rules. Although there is Johnny in the crew, so the control is not strict, but there is still a public opinion on who is right and who is wrong.

The filming work continued step by step, and no one in the crew invited Josh to those private parties again. There were even rumors about the relationship between the two in some tabloids: It is said that the reason why Josh only visited Jenny once was that It was because she couldn't stand her desire to control, and took advantage of the good time when Jennifer was admitted to the hospital to have a big tobacco party.

Fortunately, Josh's level of death can still be suppressed by Disney. The news that somewhat contains some truth does not include photos, and the publications are all low-grade gossip tabloids, so in public opinion No waves were stirred up. Under Judy's instruction, the two royal paparazzi went to Santo Domingo to take some photos of Jenny and Josh dining and talking. They didn't have too intimate movements, and they were still preparing for the breakup, but it was enough to kill those' Rumors' gone.

As for Josh's manager... It's inconvenient for Jenny to interfere in this matter. She just conveyed Josh's wishes to Cesare. Jenny has no right to continue interfering in any choice. After all, she can't give Cesare a guarantee that "the big dream will definitely be prosperous". Should she spend her energy on the agent's side, or should she spend more time managing some big dreams? In the future, it depends on Cesare's own judgment.

However, in her opinion, Josh and Cesare are more suitable than her and Cesare. Jenny herself has a very assertive personality from time to time, so she and Cesare have also gone through a period of running-in , to find the current mode of getting along. And Josh's personality is actually very soft, he belongs to the type of 'push, push, move', otherwise he would not be manipulated by Anna and Claudia to be like this, Cesare's initiative and manipulation and Josh's passivity , Accepting it actually fits well, the only problem is that Cesare may not be very optimistic about Josh's acting skills...

In all fairness, Josh's previous acting skills were really mediocre. It's not that he was insincere, but compared with talented actors, he always fell short. It’s just mediocrity——Actually speaking, his debut resources are better than Christopher’s. Christopher’s popular work "Thrilling Lover" is only a medium-sized production, and the publicity is only average, but he just relies on his extraordinary personal charm. It became popular all over the United States and became an ICON-like male **** of the times. Josh, the resources are not bad. He caught up with two hit productions in a row, but his charm is limited, so the popularity of the feedback is just like that, and he barely squeezed in with the box office. After the A-list, there was a feeling of lack of stamina. It was not like Christopher, who stood firmly on the A-list, and it was probably a matter of time before he entered the Super A.

However, it is probably the same as "Article Hates Mingda", maybe acting skills are destined to belong to men with stories, or in other words, men with stories are the most beautiful. During the few days of filming in Santo Domingo, Jenny had just recovered because of her health, so she played soy sauce in group scenes, and she still had time to observe other people's performances—she really saw signs of Josh's acting improvement, at least Now in the role of Will, his emotions are very real, and he has an eye-catching trait. How should I put it, this character finally has a sense of reality. It stands up, and Josh's outstanding With the blessing of appearance, it looks even more charming...

Even Josh's eyes, after the toss of this love accident, seem to be much deeper than before. I have to say that temperament is really unclear. Anyway, Josh's beard shape before Somewhat nondescript, a bit juvenile and funny, but now, he is very manly and seductive with a beard, and that kind of melancholy and deep temperament is enough to make any woman arouse the desire to comfort him. Mary, who has no details, couldn't hold back several times, and started a **** towards him.

"Claudia deserves to be the person who loves Josh the most in the world." She half-jokingly said to Jenny, "It feels like Josh's key steps in life are all driven by her. "

"Who said no?" Jenny grimaced, "This is such a classic story, the big star and his secret girlfriend, in the end the big star got everything, the heartache made him achieve more, and he My ordinary girlfriend has nothing but wasted time and returned to an ordinary life.”

"It sounds like you are being sarcastic." Mary looked at Jenny suspiciously.

"I do think that Josh should give Claudia some financial compensation, but maybe my idea is not mainstream." Jenny also admitted this frankly-probably this is also the difference between Eastern and Western cultures, in her opinion Come on, without Claudia, there would be no Josh today. With the ups and downs of the two of them, Josh should split half of the property to Claudia. But neither Mary nor Jim seemed to have the idea that Josh should compensate Claudia. Perhaps in Hollywood where prenuptial agreements are the mainstream, there is no engagement, no marriage, and even the cohabitation relationship has been terminated for several years, and the relationship has not even been made public. □ home. In short, American culture in marriage is a bit 'frankly selfish'. Don't look at Josh's life and death for Claudia, but if Claudia wants to come to the first house, the two will hire lawyers to fight each other and fight each other. Jenny wouldn't be surprised if she didn't fight.

Mary seemed a little unimpressed, but instead of arguing with Jenny, she changed the subject wisely, "Do you want to be at the screening tomorrow night? Jane, Judy suggested that we'd better go, but then It may interfere with your work and rest."

"Let's see the result of tomorrow's re-examination." Jenny hesitated, she was indeed a little uncomfortable, but... "Try to go, if we go back to Los Angeles but don't attend the screening, maybe the film critics will be left with arrogance impression."

She smiled self-deprecatingly—"Now I am more eager to please them than my lover."

"Funny, I'm sure Christopher thought the same thing." Marie giggled, "Jack just contacted me, they're at Heathrow - Chris just stayed up all night trying to make time to go home Finish his part."

"Yes." Jenny said heavily, "Who dares to offend the film critics now? Whether or not "Sally" will be nominated depends 80% on their mood tonight."

How does the so-called Olympic film win the Olympic Games? In other words, the four major performance awards are selected by more than 1,000 people from the actor branch, and the script award is also selected by more than 300 people from the writer branch. Therefore, there is a big difference between technical awards, acting awards and behind-the-scenes awards. Generally speaking, technical awards are the least watery. After all, you can’t fool insiders. Besides, the basic worth of technical people who can be nominated will rush to this industry. At the top level, even if you win a prize, your worth will not be higher - no matter how high you are, no one will invite you. So winning an award or not won't have a big impact on one's worth, and there are very few moths who vote—there are almost no such awards as corporate public relations. Even in the awards for visual effects, there is a strange phenomenon that almost all award-winning companies are in crisis of bankruptcy. Imagine a special effects company that can hardly maintain its own survival, how can there be rich public relations awards?

As for the behind-the-scenes awards, screenplay, camera, music, makeup...these awards are relatively clean, because among the 5,000-strong Oscar jury, there are very few members belonging to these branches, and some branches have only 100 or 200 members People, there are also some big cows who have repeatedly won Oscars by virtue of their own halo effect and extensive connections, which reflects the preference of the Oscar jury. It can be said that there are very few scandals and election bribery incidents. All the shady scenes and controversies are almost concentrated on the performance awards, director awards and best picture awards. Those various public relations tricks are actually based on these awards. The core is running. In these public relations biological chains, the core position is undoubtedly the film critics who have no influence on the performance awards and director awards.

This is not only because film critics manipulate public opinion, but also because film critics can directly affect how much the judges attach to this film. You must know that compared to the nomination-winning stage voting, the registration-nomination stage audition It is the step with the highest elimination rate. Needless to say, how many films are registered for the selection each year. The judges have to vote for five nominations out of hundreds of films, so normal people know that many of the films that have been submitted will be directly discarded. Those who go into the trash can will be taken seriously unless they are famous actors and highly acclaimed films, and they will have the right to play the entire film.

So, how to influence these more than a thousand actors? These actors and judges are also human beings, and they also have access to the media. If an actor’s performance is well received by film critics, they will watch it carefully even if there is no public relations pusher, lest the actor’s performance is really amazing but not selected. Therefore, it was ridiculed by the public, which reduced Oscar's credibility and influence.

I have to say that after years of operation, Oscar has indeed found a balance between political correctness, pushing hands and relative fairness. Under this set of rules, really outstanding actors may not win Oscars. But few fail to get nominated. The reason why Weinstein was able to win Oscars repeatedly was not how much he turned his hands into clouds and rain, but because he had a wide network of contacts, and he also understood the appetite of those aging Oscar jury members. Produced for them an Olympic film that is politically correct, has relatively good commercial performance, and is close to the judges in terms of three views-to put it bluntly, he has done better than anyone else in terms of big data for the Olympic Awards, and even in the later stages, maybe a work he By reading it once, you can tell how many supporters you can win among the more than a thousand judges, and how many hopes you have for nominations and awards. After all, the annual changes and information of the more than a thousand people are all in his mind It's in it.

So, on "The Fifth Sally", he earned more than just a small amount of money for future investment and dividends. The public relations fees for the male and female protagonists were all earned by his Weinstein Films. Just the money that Christopher poured into it may be more than the box office dividend that Weinstein Films can get. But on this point, the two sides are willing to fight and suffer, and the willingness to give is open, because the old man is in a unique business. In Hollywood, apart from him, it seems that there is really no second person who knows Oscar so well. . In his eyes, the Oscar is a formula, there is no surprise award, after you enter the data, the error of the result will not exceed 20%.

Compared with Christopher, Jenny spent less on public relations this year. On the side of "Sally", she invested a medium amount suggested by Weinstein, unlike Chris, who directly put After the film studio's budget was raised to the limit, they invested several million more intentions in it-the possibility of her winning the award is almost zero, and Jenny herself knows this very well: Although she has won the Tony Award, she started out as a hit with a commercial film , has risen to the top of popularity in a few years, and she is not an artist at all when she is on the show and stirs up topics. She is still acting in a thriller. It is no wonder that those seniors from the Actors Guild will vote for her. Let me get a few nominations first. Let's talk about style.

——Even Weinstein is helpless on this point. After all, the judges are not chips in his pocket. Most of them are successful people with affluent lives and high status. It is impossible for Weinstein to control them , can only be pleased by him.

However, in addition to this money, she also invested a fee, entrusting Weinstein to run Andy's supporting actress in "The Devil Wears Prada" for her-the protagonist dare not dream, Oscar has never At an awards ceremony, one person monopolizes one award and two nominations, which cannot be done without spending a lot of money. After all, the first round of nomination ballots was a ballot, and Weinstein could only do a certain amount of public relations. Two films she starred in were written on one ballot. And if you choose to split the vote, it is more likely that neither film will be nominated.

So, now there is a very funny, or a bit ugly situation, that is, Jenny's Andy is obviously the protagonist, but he applied for a supporting role, while Meryl's Miranda is obviously a supporting role, but Jenny personally Please call, and under Cesare’s public relations with Fox, he reported the protagonist—with no hope of winning the prize, in fact, this is a naked profit maximization plan. The arrangement made by several nominations, Jenny and Fox’s eating situation is indeed a bit ugly, so Jenny’s public relations fee for Weinstein Films is not much, and Weinstein Films does not dare to play big, but just conservatively promises She fights for about 200 tickets—this is the chip that Weinstein has firmly held in his pocket, and it is also the basic set that "Sally" will get. As for how many tickets can be won outside the basic set, Whether it's Sally or Andy, it really depends on how many actors the public opinion led by film critics can influence. At least, that's all Jenny can do. It's very indirect, but this is the only way to work hard.

Compared to Sally, who has almost a 50% chance of being nominated (if Weinstein judges that there is no chance, he will not propose operation at all), Andy's hope is even more remote, because "The Devil Wears Prada" has already released It’s been a long time—the DVDs have come out, and it has brought a lot of income and stable financial resources to Dameng—although Andy has roles such as acting ugly, breaking down, and having a gimmick with Meryl, But that was half a year ago, and for Hollywood, it's almost a lifetime. Jenny can only evoke the memories of the judges through Sally's momentum, and try to win their appreciation for herself, so as to try to fight her way out of thousands of troops and get nominated—even with those 200 votes guaranteed , This is also a very difficult task. Unfortunately, she has been injured recently, and she is not suitable for high-profile publicity activities everywhere—that is, Cesare, who has now given up this somewhat unrealistic idea...

The author has something to say: Note: The relevant rules of the Oscars are true, and the part about Weinstein is almost true except for the specific data of 200 tickets...

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