Chapter 1107

With "crazy love", he won the Oscar title at the age of 22. At that time, people guessed that in the next few years, lanli's awarding season will be very difficult, which is predictable; But people did not guess that the impact came so quickly.

After winning the Silver Bear Award for best actor at the Berlin Film Festival, "chaotuo" is naturally regarded as the most important work in this year's award season. Compared with the "buried alive" the year before last, the "crazy love" and the "anti-cancer me" last year, "chaotuo" is the work that truly reflects the absolute strength of lenley and is undoubtedly more in line with the preferences of the college judges.

But now, I will die before I succeed. The curtain of the award season has just opened, and the war has not even been ignited yet. "Chaotuo" seems to have withdrawn from the competition for various awards.

As a matter of fact, the praise of professional film critics for lanli is still endless.

When Roger Ebert attended the New York Film Festival, a reporter asked a related question, "among the performances of many actors this year, which one is the most impressive", which is not limited to gender, nor to the leading role and supporting role. Roger gave his own answer almost without hesitation, "Langley hall."

Because the answer was too simple and affirmative, it caused a cry of surprise among the reporters.

Later, Roger added in the interview, "as far as I'm concerned, when I was watching the work" detached ", the performance quality of lanli left a good impression. We all know that he is an excellent actor, so I think, well, it's not a big deal. He gave another good performance. "

"But after that, for a long time, I mean, more than three months, I couldn't help thinking about his performance, savoring the emotions, the aftereffects, not only the character of Henry Bart, but also the character's fate and life. To be honest, for this reason, I went to Queens specially to visit the situation of those low-level education, and the shock I felt was still surging at all levels. "

"Sometimes, I can't tell whether it's the power of film or the power of performance. But there is no doubt that one of my favorite movie scenes so far this year is the poetry recitation of lanli in the end of "detachment" and in the ruins. God, that's beautiful. "

Roger did not hide his love and admiration for Langley. Such a long speech can let people know his affirmation, and he is not the only one in the industry who holds such a view.

In the two cities of New York and London, the common view is that excellence is absolute excellence, unparalleled excellence. Langley's absolute strength has been recognized once again, and the Almeida theater version of "les miserables" complement each other, truly let people feel the outstanding performance of this young actor.

Gradually, lanli is breaking the age and experience barriers and gaining the recognition of real professionals.

For the practitioners like Tony kayer, who devote themselves to the creation of film art, what they care about is not word of mouth, not awards, not box office, not interests, but pure strength. Good is good, bad is bad, still need to work hard is still need to work hard, everything is so pure.

But the Oscars season has never been so easy.

Strictly speaking, any award ceremony and Film Festival are not so simple, because they are not mathematical problems, one is one, two is two. There are too many standards to be referred to in the aesthetic judgment of art.

The reason why the three major European film festivals are relatively simple and independent is that they adopt the jury system. The final selection results reflect the preferences of a small number of judges. Therefore, the chairman of the jury every year is crucial; But the drawback is that almost every year the three big movie festivals will make complaints about the media.

The Oscar reflects the comprehensive voting results of more than 6000 college judges. As a result, things become more complicated, and college public relations in the award season are born.

The nomination depends on strength and the award depends on luck. It's not just talk.

In fact, with the rise of the information explosion environment in the Internet age, the golden words and sentences that are not afraid of wine and deep alleys have long lagged behind the times. Now, even in the nomination stage, we need to rely on effective college public relations to fight our way. The intensity is no less than that in the stage of chasing awards.

Simply list a set of data and everything will be clear at a glance.

In the first decade of the 21st century, the box office of only three Oscar winning films in North America failed to cross the threshold of 100 million, namely "crash", "no country for the elderly" and "bomb disposal unit". The lowest box office was "bomb disposal unit", with only 17 million US dollars.

In the last decade of the 20th century, there were also three best picture Oscars with a box office of less than 100 million US dollars in North America, "Schindler's list", "British patients" and "brave heart". Among them, the lowest box office was "brave heart", with a box office figure of 75 million.

Furthermore, in the past two decades, only one of the best picture Oscar winning works in North America has grossed less than 50 million. In addition, last year's best picture "artist" grossed 44 million in North America.

According to the statistics of "variety" magazine, the box office in North America of any film trying to hit the best picture nomination of Oscar must reach more than 8 million US dollars. In the past decade, only "letter from Iwo Jima" has failed to meet such a standard——

In those years, Clint Eastwood made two sets of films, "father's flag" and "letter from Iwo Jima", which interpreted the same battle from the perspective of the United States and Japan respectively.

Warner Brothers originally planned to attack the Oscars with "the flag of their parents", while "Iwo Jima letter" will fight again next year. As a result, the reputation of the former is far lower than expected, and Warner Brothers is about to miss the award season. In a hurry, Warner Brothers pushed the latter to the cinema. That's what happened.

In other words, if you want to win the Oscar nomination for best picture, you must have enough publicity base and mass base, as well as enough media topics and publicity content. The box office is the most direct performance, and those high and low works can not stand out in the nomination stage.

It's the same with nominations for best picture, and it's the same with nominations for other projects.

The academy public relations in the award season is not only a war of contacts, public relations and publicity, but also a war of money. In the final analysis, the film industry Carnival all over the world is closely related to interests.

Now, detachment is falling behind.

The reputation of lanli in the industry is gradually rising and taking root. If we start to hold the Tony Award or Oliver award now, lanli is definitely a popular candidate; But in the award season, the bad reputation, low box office and strong resistance to the audience make this work lose its attention early.

If not unexpected, "detached" may be eliminated in the nomination stage.

For an art film, which won the Silver Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival, this performance is really disappointing.

Objectively speaking, Tony Kaye and Langley hall never planned to enter the award season. From the screening stage, Tony was not interested in joining in the show at all; However, lenley, who was filming in England, was even more slack and did not launch any publicity. They are not sorry to miss the excitement of the award season.

But the media reporters are unwilling to give up, one after another began to shake their heads.

On the one hand, they all began to wriggle at the failure of lanli. This is the first work of lanli since he was born. The performance after the screening is far lower than expected, and may not be the turning point of lanli's career, but the miracle journey has come to an abrupt end, which is still unforgettable.

On the other hand, they also regretted the disappearance of lanli and missed another confrontation with Weinstein.

At the end of last year, the competition between lanli and Harvey Weinstein in the award season was full of ups and downs.

Most of the time, "artists" have the absolute upper hand, and even show a sweeping trend“ The explosion of "speculation door" forced Lan Li into a desperate situation.

But in the end, Langley completed the Jedi counterattack, with the gesture of creating history, to the top of the Oscar.

This big play is absolutely wonderful.

It's said that after the award ceremony, Harvey was furious at the Sunset Tower Hotel. He and lanli were really feuds.

At the end of this year, Harvey led Weinstein film to make a comeback, which was extremely strong“ The happiness line behind the dark cloud, the rescued Jiang Ge, the master, the Quartet and other works all cover the competition for various awards, and continue their consistent strategy. While operating the college's public relations, they allocate resources. When they enter the sprint stage, they focus on attacking the little golden man.

It is worth noting that in these works, Bradley Cooper, Huajin Phoenix and Jamie fox are all strong contenders for the best actor.

Just from this subtle action, we can see that in the process of purchasing copyright, Harvey's preferred choice is the impact of the best actor, not the best film and the best director. Otherwise, he would not have missed "hunting Ben * *" and chose "the happiness line behind the dark clouds".

No one knows what happened between lanli and Harvey. It seems that the copyright transaction of "crazy love" is not enough to completely enrage Harvey. However, it is certain that Harvey and lanli are absolutely not close friends, and they have not cooperated in any work so far.

Unfortunately, this year's war between Harvey and Langley seems to have not started yet, because of the early exit of "detachment", which is really strangling.