King of Hollywood Chapter 62: Cyclonus
“Your cruelty and cruelty shocked me deeply, Dufrey, and I felt that chill even in front of you. On behalf of the Maine Supreme Court, I sentenced you to life imprisonment twice, in order, every Once, execute immediately, no parole, no above!" With the judge's cold sentence, Andy Dufrey's face became pale.
The next step is naturally to go to jail. What other blows are more serious than this? The looking-up lens made the viewers feel a suffocation when passing through the prison gate, and the prison warden's naked "give faith to God and body to me" made people initially appreciate the despair in the prison.
However, unexpectedly, most people—whether Reed in the film or the audience in front of the big screen— thought Andy, who would have a headache and cry on the night of imprisonment, accepted himself calmly Situation. As Reid said when he let go of the wind, he was like a free man among these prisoners.
The story continues to develop. Reed’s ill-fated prison, the brutality of the prison guards, and the perversion of the “Three Sisters” are revealed one by one with the plot. The audience is also worried and indignant. Kill his wife?
The answer to this question seemed to show signs during the patching of the roof, and Andy risked being pushed downstairs by the captain of the prison to get three bottles of beer for his companions. In the early morning sun, the prisoners were drinking refreshing beer, and Andy smiled and looked at them beside him, as if a normal worker was resting.
As Andy helped the captain of the prison guard to evade taxes, he began to enter the gaze of the warden, and was transferred to the library and old cloth as a companion, and then began to launder money for the warden. Like the old cloth that was released on parole and eventually hung in the room, he began to be institutionalized slowly, and writing to the State House for funding to build the library seemed to be dying, until "The Wedding of Figaro" There was a ring in the prison.
"I didn't understand what the two Italian ladies were singing that day, and I didn't want to understand..." Rhett's narration rang, but another line began to echo in the audience's mind: some birds Doomed not to be kept in a cage, because each of their feathers shines with the glory of freedom!
Finally, the climax is coming. Tommy, who was imprisoned for theft, has cleared Andy’s suspicion. Unfortunately, the warden does not intend to declare for him. How could he let a prisoner who holds his secrets leave control? . Andy angered the warden and was eventually imprisoned. Although he fought, he failed, and even took Tommy's life.
Is it all over? When he learned that Andy took a few feet of rope from his friends, when the camera stayed on Andy for a long time, and when Reed said "no one can survive it," the audience screen I took a breath. At this point, no one is willing to see the end of the tragedy.
They did not see that the plot suddenly turned around. When the camera stretched out of Andy’s escape cave to shoot the warden’s distorted face, when Andy carefully planned to crawl in the stench of the sewer without any consideration, when Andy was When stretching out his hands in the rain and looking up at the night sky, in the thick and passionate music, the audience's emotions that had been suppressed to the extreme immediately vented out, and the long exhalation in the auditorium was everywhere.
The movie is finally over, all the bad guys are punished, and Reed, who truly confessed because of Andy, was also released on parole, and then the two reunited and embraced on the sunny beach.
The lights of the screening room lighted up and it was quiet for a few minutes. The applause suddenly sounded. There was only one person at the beginning, but there were two more immediately, followed by more people joining in, and finally the warm Applause can almost turn the roof.
"It seems that everyone still likes this movie." The Adrian sitting in the private room looked at the scene in the auditorium and said slightly, La Verne looked at him without a word, bowed his head in the notebook. Write something on it.
Soon a staff member returned the information from the audition and took the statistical form to get the Adrian whistle: "Look, Laffer, the evaluation is basically 8-9 points, 10 points. There are also a few. As for the opinions I put forward, I expected them to be ignored."
"This is indeed an excellent movie." Lavern nodded and agreed with this statement.
"Then, I will inform Universal, let me give you the promotion work." Adrian stared at him without blinking.
"I understand." Raphine stopped the matter in his hand, raised his head and nodded seriously again.
He knows why Adrian speaks so seriously, Oscar! As the most influential film award in the United States, the honors represented by the Academy Awards are those other awards-whether it is the Golden Globe Award, the Directors’ Guild Award or the Film Critics Association Award-which is unmatched. There will be wars, and various film companies have done all the films for themselves to promote and publicize the actors in the film, from nomination to awards.
As Adrian said, all the awards ceremony is just to divide the cake-whether it is the European Film Festival or the Oscar-as long as you have the qualifications to participate, you can expect to be able to get a piece, as to whether it can When it comes, it depends on the means of publicity and public relations.
Generally speaking, a movie or an actor can be nominated and get an award. The credit for publicity and public relations must account for at least 40%. Especially for the award, this proportion will increase by 5 percentage points. Unless the film or actor has an undisputed advantage, for example, 90% of film critics and the public agree that the film or actor should be awarded, or that the other film, actor and the film and the actor who were nominated in the same year are too far apart.
It sounds unacceptable. Shouldn’t the judging of such widely-recognized film awards be fair and fair? However, the reality is so regretful that people will be affected and people will be biased. Of course, the judges cannot be non-human, so it is a certainty that they are affected or have subjective views on certain movies.
As long as the publicity is in place and the public relations are effective, the judges will naturally unknowingly favor certain movies and certain actors, and then vote for it in their hands. It is not that the film academy did not think about it. 5000 members are all judges, which is one of the measures. This does ensure fairness to a certain extent. After all, compared to the Golden Globe with only 99 judges, it is not easy to influence 5000 people.
But this fairness is only a certain degree. The 5000 members of the Film Academy seem to be quite large, but less than half of the people can really judge, just like those European film festivals, the national judges always have a greater say Quite a lot. Therefore, after the quality is guaranteed, the competition beyond quality becomes the main factor in determining the outcome. If you have a huge propaganda tool in your hand that can be seen, heard, and noticed by the judges at any time, it is almost invincible. This is the power of the media.
Of course, ordinary people will not see these, they will only see the various predictions of the critics, will only see the various shows on the Oscar red carpet, and will only see those beautiful and gorgeous pictures , But it is impossible and impossible to notice the various things behind it-this is also the power of the media.
Therefore, Adrian has fulfilled its commitment to make a shortlisted movie, so whether to get next year's Oscar admission ticket depends on the promotion of Laffern.
"Well, then let's talk about another issue," Adrian then changed the subject, "Preparation for a new movie."
Laffern suddenly showed a bitter smile, and he really didn’t know what to say about it. The pace of Adrian was too fast and too big, making him feel like he couldn’t keep up. It is undeniable that since he acquired Bosworth Films, the two small-cost, high-office movies that he produced by himself immediately changed the company's current situation of half-death. Especially for "Memento", the box office is only a few million less than "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", but it has won a high reputation. The last time Bosworth Films had this situation was several years ago.
In addition, his eyes on investment films are also extremely sharp, such as "Terminator 2" in July, and now the global box office has exceeded 400 million, and several countries have not yet been released. The box office may exceed 500 million!
Now that there is a good start, it should naturally develop steadily and steadily, but Adrian chose Cyclonus. When "Memento" was not yet offline, it began to prepare for the medium-scale investment of "The Redemption of Shawshank~IndoMTL.com~" and the goal this time is no longer a film festival, but an Oscar award! In addition, director Spielberg was invited to produce "Jurassic Park", and he is also preparing to cooperate with Disney to produce a live-action version of "Casper".
Okay, Lavern admits that Shawshank’s Salvation is an excellent movie and is fully qualified for the Oscar. He also admits that with the lessons of "Terminator 2", "Jurassic Park" can really make a realistic dinosaur CG, it will not make a big profit; and "Casper" has a cumulative popularity of animation, as long as the director and producer can It is possible to seize the selling point and make the same sum. But Adrian not only did not stop, but also ran wilder. The late stage of "The Redemption of Shawshank" actually had to prepare a new movie soon, and he had to produce three movies in the next year, and threatened to win one. A film emperor came to power after a film and was nominated for the best director!
As a veteran of the entertainment industry, Lavern has seen many arrogant, paranoid, and eccentric directors and producers, but this is the first time such as Adrian. He is neither arrogant nor paranoid and very recuperative, but when it comes to the movie, he becomes extremely confident, as if he is always right. Indeed, the ability of Adrian is unquestionable, so far he is correct, but the question is can he continue to be correct?
Maybe...can? A bitter smile is a bitter smile. Although I have made comments on the practice of Adrian a long time ago, Lavern does not want to see another miracle in her heart.
(Well, I admit that I’m still digging pits, no wonder some guy said that my book is a bit slow, but fortunately, the pit in the first chapter will soon be filled, and the protagonist will also establish himself. Status.)