Hollywood Domination Chapter 288: Arrogance

Supporting role reporting...

It’s just such a few simple words, but Harvey broke out in cold sweat all at once—it’s not that he really did something wrong, or that he was afraid of something. The reaction is roughly equivalent to the feeling of being overwhelmed by someone when playing chess. This is a natural reaction of being too involved in an intellectual game: After all, the four words of the supporting role reporter have already explained that Jennifer has already understood Harvey's intentions. All strategies, and even all his movements are completely in the palm of his hand.

——If it is said that the annual Oscar battle starts in the summer, then the final outcome of this war will actually not be known until the end of the year, or even the beginning of the second year There are clues, because only after December 31 of each year, the films that are eligible to compete for this year's Oscars will be finalized, and which category of awards each film has applied for will be truly implemented on paper. To some extent, this kind of registration game can even determine who can get on the podium in a crew. Come to think of it, if the film studio is not so optimistic about the director's award, in order to win an extra Oscar, they may instead focus on the screenwriter and give up the director. It can be said that every year there is an award but not an award, which can be seen from the registration.

Specifically speaking of acting awards, the leading role application is also a common method to avoid competition. For example, this year, Jennifer Jefferson won the awards and film critics with her "A Week with Marilyn". Overwhelming all the Austrian films this year, my own performance was reborn, and everyone was stunned - Harvey also watched "Monroe", he only had the feeling of "terrible" for Jennifer's acting skills. Jennifer abandoned the old performance system in one play and completed the shaping of a new performance system. Although her previous performances were amazing, they were not without minor problems: excessive details, heavy traces of the play, and the connection between fragments A little unnatural... These are all here to remind the audience and film critics that she is entering the show, she is acting, and her acting skills are good. Of course, her performance is really good, but this feeling seems to be a bit worse. Compared with Meryl Streep's tone of voice, which is light and smooth, it gives people a jerky feeling.

However, in this play, all her minor problems are gone, and several silent scenes are also cadenzas. From the technical level of performance, it is to use the fewest lines and the most natural expressions, the most accurate It conveys the most information, which means that the information is not lost in the translation. This kind of acting skill is already perfect and belongs to the textbook level. Even if Harvey is not her agent this year, but as a professional filmmaker, he I also have to admit that this year is definitely Jennifer's year. No film critic can refuse her performance, and of course no judge can do this. Jennifer's progress and changes are obvious to all. She has arrived Approximate the height of the true color show. ——If you capture the clumsy performance of Marilyn in "Monroe" when she played "You Long Xi Feng" even though she worked very hard, you will think that Jennifer is probably only at this level, and if If you take the clip of Marilyn crying, you will probably think that Jennifer is so fragile, innocent and beautiful in real life. She just faithfully presents herself on the screen. , just like her partner Simon Roemer.

Of course, whether it is Harvey, Hollywood, or even the entire United States, they still know Jennifer's true character very well, and they all know that she is completely different from Marilyn Monroe on the screen. The contrast, the sudden improvement and the vivid performance, plus the beauty beyond her usual level, the temperament and makeup that are completely opposite to her usual style (but usually, a beauty achieves this by acting ugly, while Not a beauty dressed in another style), all of which are the favorite elements of the Oscar judges, which makes this year's awards season there is no other actress who can compete with Jennifer, and also makes this year's Oscar for best actress. Many actresses who intend to win an Oscar to add luster to themselves choose to apply for the leading role. Only those actors who think that they have no hope of winning an award and are satisfied with a nomination will tell the crew to apply for themselves. On the heroine column, they are all nominations anyway, so of course it would be better to blog about the nominations of the heroine.

For ordinary film crews, it is unlikely that they will know the registration ideas of all competitors. A long-time Olympic award expert has both enough experience and keen intuition. After watching "Monroe" in August, he realized that this year's Oscars may have a lot of supporting roles, and the competition for the protagonists is relatively less intense. Therefore, For the past few months, he has been waiting patiently, and he has never submitted the Oscar entry form for "Life and Death Reading", just to verify his conjecture and see if Kate Winslet has a chance to fish in troubled waters and report to the owner for a supporting role.

In "Life and Death Reading", although Kate is the female character with the most roles, from the perspective of the whole film and the overall focus of the statement, her role is between the protagonist and the supporting role - and because she has a She is an undisputed heroine in this drama film "Revolutionary Road", so at the Golden Globe Awards, her "Life and Death Reading" was reported as a supporting role. As for the Oscars, Harvey, as Jennifer's first The behind-the-scenes manipulator of the two awards at the 2019 and 2019 awards is also very clear. After that session, the judges have become frightened birds. If Kate is to be given a double nomination, the frightened judges will not vote for any one. Kate Both are doomed to be disappointed, and the cake of "Revolutionary Road" has nothing to do with Harvey, and the quality of the film itself is not as good as "Life and Death Reading", so Kate's team has long decided to abandon "Revolutionary Road" and focus on Doing "Life and Death Reading" has provided enough motivation for Kate's newspaper owner. She herself does not object to this decision. The only worry is whether she can get nominated under heavy pressure. After all, there are still quite a lot of outstanding actresses this year , Kate is by no means the most outstanding person. If there are disputes about the number of roles and role positioning, and the selection of different reporting departments for different awards, it is indeed possible to miss the nomination process.

It is now December 25th. In the past month, most of the candidate films have successively met their requirement of 'showing in a commercial theater in the United States before December 31st' and sent out their The application form, and the form seems to be favorable enough for Harvey: most of the actors who think they are hopeful to win the award have given up the leading role, and only those actors who really can't change the leading role are left, such as Anne Hesse Wei's "Rachel's Wedding" and Angelina Jolie's "Switching" - in these movies, they are the only protagonists. If they are supporting roles, who are the protagonists? For the film "Change of Suspicious Clouds", it can't be that 'son', right? Maybe they don't want to change, but they really can't change, so they can only stay in the protagonist department helplessly...

Therefore, Kate’s path to being a news reporter has also been revealed. It seems that at least in the nomination stage, it will be smooth, and Harvey has no longer paid attention to the publicity war in the nomination link, but has begun to carefully prepare for the voting month. A heavy blow to Jennifer's combination: In terms of fame, accumulation of popularity, consistent reputation of acting skills and performance in the film, he thinks that Kate's overall score should be the second this year. After getting rid of Jennifer who is far ahead, The Oscar is very likely to fall to Kate, and this will also allow him to once again single-handedly become an Oscar queen, allowing Weinstein Films to continue to flourish in the new year and earn a lot of money.

As for how to deal with Jennifer, he already has an idea, but it's just not the right time yet. Harvey doesn't worry too much about this, because although Jennifer is strong, she is not without weaknesses. Although her one-year double award has achieved an unparalleled legend, it has also become her biggest weakness. The newspapers launched a round of fierce attacks on this point, and wildly speculated about a round of shady scenes. The judges were very likely to avoid suspicion, and, although he also knew, the death of Sidney Pollack had a negative impact on Jennifer. Very beneficial, but this is not Jennifer's unique advantage-Sidney's network legacy "Life and Death Reading" can also be inherited, because Sidney Pollack and Anthony Minghella are both producers of this film, Both of them died before the completion of the film, which made it possible for "Life and Death Reading" to play the tragic card and win a lot of sympathetic votes. It is not impossible to even compete for the best film—— If Jennifer still reports herself as the producer this year, it will undoubtedly reduce the chances of "Monroe" winning the award. If she cleverly hides behind the scenes, or becomes one of the three, the chances of "Life and Death Reading" will be lower , because the box office of "Monroe" will obviously be many times higher than that of "Life and Death Reading". , This is also out of commercial and popular considerations, and "Monroe" is indeed a good movie, Harvey can't deny this anyway.

However, Harvey has long been aware of Jennifer's energy, and he is determined not to take it lightly and reveal his strategy prematurely. Until tonight, he carefully made everyone think that Kate would Joined the melee of the Best Supporting Actress department, and also submitted the entry form for the Golden Globes early, and let the media know. ——He knows that, with his prestigious name, once Kate is nominated for the leading role, no one will believe that he will be satisfied just by getting one nomination, and he is already determined to win the leading role, and he will smash the company on PR Harvey really dare not say what method Jennifer will use to ensure that he wins the prize - his Weinstein equity structure is quite complicated, which is his weakness, and even if it is not said that Jennifer has always been invisible (Harvey suspects that he may have broken up with Jennifer), and it is true that this scary little girl recently managed Ron Perelman, which is indeed not something he can compete with. If Ron wants to If the Weinstein film industry is acquired, Harvey may have to leave the company he founded with a broken heart again, and make a comeback again-not to mention whether he can withstand such a toss, this matter The most annoying thing is that he is really not sure if Ron will do this, or if Jennifer will make Ron want to do it, although it is unlikely according to common sense, but, in Common sense and common sense never seem to work on Jennifer Jefferson...

Just like the current phone call, Jennifer called immediately after Lu De hung up, what does this mean? Lude is already hers? Is this a game they deliberately made to let him understand Jennifer's energy? Or maybe Lu De didn't know about it, but Jennifer got hold of her phone by some means, and she heard the content of the call?

Also, how did the strategy of the supporting actor leak out, that Jennifer was ambushing someone in his core team? You know, he never talked about it on the phone, and even Kate's team, only Kate and her agent knew about it...

At this moment, the shaken Harvey almost doubted his wife—why did Georgina come to the study? Is she there all the time? ——But, he is Harvey Weinstein after all——

After a short period of confusion, Harvey quickly cleared his mind and quickly returned to the fighting state-not only did he not show any frightened and angry emotions, but he laughed loudly, "It seems that you are really I really, really want this year's Oscars, dear Jennifer, you already have so many statues that you almost regard that statuette as your exclusive toy-have you forgotten that other girls are still doing it for you? It desperately wants to get her own Oscar - and doesn't she deserve it, Jennifer?"

Of course Harvey would not foolishly ask where Jennifer received the news, nor would he deny it to death without grace. The purpose of the phone call, and quickly seized the moral high ground: You, Jennifer, have three Oscars, and now you are fighting so ugly for the awards, and even directly threatened by calling, isn't this gesture a bit ugly? They are already legends, so it’s time to make room for the younger generations. Kate’s acting skills may not be inferior to yours, and she became famous earlier than you. Don’t you just want to win an Oscar actress now, even if you use some strategies? , you don't have to act as if she touched your cake, and make a special phone call to complain, right?

"I didn't say Kate didn't deserve it." Jennifer's calm chuckle came from the other end of the phone, and the girl even seemed a little surprised by Harvey's sharp tone——Harvey suddenly realized that no matter who How beautiful the woman is, she is quite annoying, "Actually, Harvey, believe it or not, I really like Kate very much. Her "Titanic" will be the classic of the century, and I would also love to see her get her first Oscar - that's why I called you."

She took a breath and said calmly and confidently, "Because, this year's Oscar for Best Actress belongs to me, and Kate will end up with nothing if the supporting role is awarded. This is not the result I want to see Harvey, whether it's because of my affection for Kate or because of our friendship, I'm calling to discuss with you how to achieve a win-win situation for me and you under the current situation... …After all, we are in a strategic partnership, aren't we, Harvey."

In the end, she still had enough courage to show a little bit of grievance, as if she was hurt by Harvey's defensive attitude-like she said, "This year's Oscar for Best Actress belongs to me." ’ The same calm and affirmative tone as before, Jennifer’s brazenness tonight even made Harvey a little unacceptable, he opened his mouth, wanting to act impulsively, and quickly refuted her fallacies one by one—

However, Jennifer's indifferent sentence "this year's Oscar for Best Actress belongs to me" lingered in Harvey's ears like a spell, making him unable to chew this sentence over and over again : she's so calm, so sure, it's almost like saying 'I'm going to have a bowl of salad tonight' as if it even happened and she's just repeating it, she's useless The emphasis on "must belong to me" did not use the "I will win, get" that represents chasing and fighting, and did not even use the "will" that represents the future tense. She simply said, "This year The Best Actress Oscar belongs to me".

And how can he - how - from what angle can he - refute...

Thoughts were interrupted several times, and Harvey had to admit that he was extremely distraught. He took a deep breath again, trying to cheer up and revive his momentum. When he reached the limit, but he still couldn't organize a witty and sharp counterattack, the veteran for many years sighed dejectedly, and his shoulders finally collapsed completely.

"Okay, just for reference." He still retained a little bit of his dignity after all, "just think of it as telling me a bedtime story—Jennifer, you can say it, but I don't I don't promise to listen to..."