Chapter 250 I may not be a human, but you are a real dog!
"Nine years ago, a strange blond boy broke into our sight on Christmas Eve."
"He has a mischievous personality, but is innocent and kind. He often brings all kinds of troubles to his family, but he yearns for happiness and harmony in his heart. He is the condensed body of everyone's growth process, and he is also a beautiful childhood that the public has experienced. It is precisely because of him It evoked the childhood memories of countless people, captured the hearts of peers, and satisfied their expectations and desires. Therefore, we remembered the name that brought laughter and good mood to the public—Roland-Ai Len."
In the early morning of March 1st, when the people of America turned on their televisions and selected the morning program of the American National Public Broadcasting Station, they could hear Kenneth Turan commenting, "Since the big screen in 1990 , Roland Allen has been on the rampage. Judging from the box office results, every movie he shoots is a gold-eating behemoth, wielding a big stick and sweeping all opponents. Because of this, many film critics, including myself , all criticized him for only caring about business and only having money in his eyes.”
"The establishment of the "Titanic" project has made us firm in our views."
"Roland Allen and James Cameron spent a combined $100 million on Spider-Man, and the next year they burned another $200 million on Titanic, when I learned When the news came out, I really thought that Roland and James were crazy, Fox was crazy, and those film companies who thought Roland could make money back were all crazy."
""Home Alone", the production cost was 18 million, in exchange for a box office of 500 million; "Terminator 2", the production cost was 10.2 billion, in exchange for a box office of 520 million; " Home Alone 2 spent 30 million in exchange for 400 million; "Jurassic Park" spent 70 million in exchange for 1 billion; "Spiderman" exchanged 100 million for 8 points Eight hundred million."
"Except for Roland's famous work "Home Alone", his other projects are all high investment and high box office. According to this law, it is not a big problem for "Titanic" to burn 200 million yuan."
"However, if burning money equals success! Then "Cut Throat Island" will not cut its own throat! The tragedy of "Future Water World" will not be staged! "Cleopatra" has long surpassed "Ben-Hur" Already!!"
"It cost 100 million to make a movie in 1995, and 200 million to make a movie in 1996. After that, will Roland's movie cost 300 million? 400 million? It's hard for us to imagine that in the production While the cost is soaring wildly, what kind of pursuit is Roland in his heart for the movie box office? We really want to know if he has lost himself in the continuous success? During the journey, did you lose your way?"
"For a long time, he has only taken commercial blockbusters, and people's evaluation of his performance is fair, but with the continuous skyrocketing production costs, many people, including me, feel that he has gone astray! "
"Yes, I have criticized Roland's performance in "Home Alone 2" before. Compared with the first one, his acting skills have not improved at all. Coupled with the clumsy imitation of the plot, I think that cute Being naughty is pretty boring."
"I also criticized his performance in "Jurassic Park". The calmness he showed in the face of Tyrannosaurus rex made me think everything was so ridiculous. When a child is facing creatures that are much stronger than himself, The first reaction in his mind was not to be afraid to scream, not to be timid, but to bravely protect his sister? This kind of mentality is too strong, okay?"
"I even criticized "Spider-Man", the gorgeous special effects made his performance extremely dazzling!"
"Plus that with the high box office that every movie has to offer—"
"The deepest impression he gave me was that he didn't polish his acting skills, but only cared about his appearance!"
"It was with this kind of indignation that when I walked into the screening room of "Titanic", I was actually irritated in my heart, and I thought at the time, 'Oh my God! I'm going to be bombarded by visual effects again', But after watching the movie for more than three hours, I realized that in the past nine years, I have been using colored glasses to look at Roland..."
"The role of Jack Dawson made me know Roland Allen again."
"I found in him the fond memories of my time in love."
"Roger Ebert once published a review of 'Peter Parker is Roland Allen' after the release of "Spider-Man". In that review, he explained that Roland was just being himself, not at all. In the acting point of view.”
"Before, I agreed with it, but after watching "Titanic", I felt that he was wrong."
"What is a performance?"
"The performance we are talking about is not that the actors use their facial expressions, body movements, and emotions to let the audience watching the movie immerse themselves in the world that the director wants to create?"
"If "Home Alone", "Terminator 2", "Jurassic Park", "Spider-Man" were not obvious, and all kinds of problems stole Roland's limelight, then now, "Titan "The Nick" let us see his level."
"Jack Dawson's every move fully interprets the dream lover that young people long for. The image full of youth, passion, full of beautiful yearning for love, and defending his promise with his life deeply attracted me. , Let me go back to the 1980s, when I was just working, at that time, I greeted a better tomorrow with a smile every day."
"In other words, when watching a movie, what we see is not Jack Dawson, but our own youth. It is some people's fond memories, or some people's yearning. It may be what is happening now. It may also be the direction that peers are eager to pursue, but no matter what the situation is, the soul interaction that contains goodwill, vitality, passion, and love makes Jack Dawson shaped by Roland Allen full of unique charm. "
"Girls, including my niece, say that he is handsome every day, and that he plays well every day, but if you really ask them why Jack is handsome, why he still looks good, why he acts well, and what attracts them, they can't help it." Give a relatively uniform answer."
"This is because Roland's performance has surpassed his own barriers. He has combined his appearance and his own charm into one!"
"The former is a means to attract the attention of the audience, while the latter is the root of the audience's inability to extricate themselves."
"He made Jack Dawson into Roland Allen!"
"Some people may refute me. What is the difference between my theory and Roger? The beauty shown by Jack and Ruth is just the love between Roland and Kate on and off the screen. A good actor."
"If you have this kind of thinking, then I actually want to ask you a question. According to your theory, in order to interpret a good role, other actors have to experience certain work first-hand, so they also become bad actors?"
"Why do the preparations that other actors do before filming make them more dedicated, but the preparations that Roland does before filming can only make him bear the name of acting himself?"
"Is it because he is young? Is it because he is handsome?"
"Is this statement fair to Roland?"
"Because of a face, all the preparations he made before filming will only become his burden?"
"Because of his face, he can only accept bad comments from everyone in terms of performance?"
"Why?"
"Are you jealous of his handsomeness?"
"Still jealous of his youth?"
"Or is it jealous that he has gained the love he longed for both in and out of the play?"
"If Titanic was Roland's first movie, then I'd definitely think Roger was right, but the thing is, we've seen a million different kinds of him—Kevin the laugh— McAllister, the lovable John Connor, Tim Hammond who protects the weak, Peter Parker who upholds justice...these are all the characters created by Roland Allen, if every character is Himself, if he has been playing himself, then I would like to ask, how many identities does Roland Allen have? How many faces? Why hasn't he been sent to a mental hospital?"
“It is precisely because we have seen him countless times that I feel scared. If those roles before are just perfect, then the naturalness of Jack Dawson has made it difficult to distinguish between true and false.”
"Under his interpretation, it seems that on the Titanic decades ago, there really was such a person. He talked with Ruth about a short but beautiful love, and finally fell into the cold sea forever. .”
"Before, when I learned that Roland Allen had failed to win any major awards, I was shocked."
"I never thought that the guy who made countless audiences cry bitterly in the theater would only get this kind of evaluation. Couldn't the judges see the sincerity he brought to the public? The audience who brought him into it , is it really impossible for the judges to see the perfection of Roland's interpretation? But after thinking about it, I was relieved, because this kind of thing is too common."
"Roland is young, handsome, able to compete at the box office, and loved by others."
"If you let him win the prize, isn't this the perfect winner in life?"
"I am not a winner in life, why should I make him a winner in life?"
When Kenneth Turan ended the show with a rhetorical question, the Oscar-related marketing officially kicked off.
In fact, Kenneth Turan is not under the control of the Big Six.
He is a film critic for the Los Angeles Times, a film critic for NPR's morning show, and has nothing to do with Disney, Warner, Fox, Paramount, Universal, or Sony.
However, it was because it didn't matter that he was chosen to lead the battle.
Kenneth Turan is not affected by the Big Six, but the "Los Angeles Times" behind him has a hard time.
Because of this, News Corp., which knows the inside story, asked them to show their influence.
The way of expression, of course, is to let them give their own money and endorse it.
How widespread is NPR America?
In this way, after the morning show aired, the concept of 'Roland was jealous of the judges, so he couldn't win the award' was passed on—no way, it's really troublesome to make Roland popular.
Because the idea of winning the prize was sudden, and there was no preparation in the past nine years, so the first step to create what everyone expects is that someone must jump out and break the inherent impression that Roland brought to the public before.
It's not that Roland doesn't want to win the prize! It's not that Roland has no desire for awards! But Roland knew that even if he was working hard! Under the arrogance and prejudice of those judges! He can't win the prize either!
When this idea was thrown out, Roland Allen, who had achieved nothing and did not express anything in the previous awards season, instantly entered the public's sight. Fans who previously thought that Roland did not win the award was his own choice. When it came to the exception thrown by the capital, not only that, but they also understood Kenneth Turan's hint, and immediately after, these fans exploded.
Roland didn't fight for the award because he knew that he was deeply envied by the judges?
Fuck you!
It is not once or twice that major awards are selected based on age and appearance. Turning forward, in the era of big studios, those actors who were suppressed had nowhere to speak out and had to accept their fate. Afterwards, with the cable TV network There are countless actors who want to seek justice, but now, with the popularization of the Internet, more and more people find that only MTV and the People's Choice Awards can give reasonable feedback to the public. In this mysterious As the veil is gradually lifted, the public is becoming more and more aware that those high-profile awards in the past were nothing but insiders' self-entertainment, and they used their influence to impose their own preferences on the audience to satisfy their own interests. What I like is the behavior of the sick heart that the world likes.
However, even if there is such a concept in the minds of the public, since there are no famous people who stand up to agree with their point of view, and there are not some celebrities with enough influence to speak out about all this, so all kinds of things are still in the "concept". above.
But now, Kenneth Turan is breaking the sky.
'I am not a winner in life, why should I make him (Roland Allen) a winner in life? '
This sentence directly hit the pain point of Roland fans, and made those guys who could swipe multiple times on "Titanic" very angry-it turns out that this group of stupid judges also knew that Roland played well, and the result was because of jealousy, so Do not vote?
Before when Roland had no harvest, they just beeped in private, complaining about the preferences of the judges of the major awards, but now, since the matter is on the table, it is unbearable, and there is no need to bear it anymore!
In less than half a day, abusive posts flooded all major Internet communities.
On IMDb, Yahoo, and MSN, there are all posts about defending Roland and fighting against injustice.
【It turns out that the better a person is, the more he will be treated maliciously by the world! 】
【Jack and Ruth touched me and the world, but they couldn't touch the jealousy in human nature! 】
【Are they only satisfied if the box office hits the street? Shaking and cold! Tears flow! Can the world be good? Hell is empty, and demons are in the world! 】
The fighting power of Roland fans is not covered!
Back then, when all the film critics were raving about "Home Alone 2", they forced the box office to buy up and slapped those people hard. Now they can also go crazy in order to help Roland get justice. Diss judges.
Although none of these fans knew, which judges were jealous of Roland.
But it doesn't matter, the judges are a whole after all, wouldn't it be over if they sprayed them all with a sip of salt soda?
Of course, if it's just these things, then Roland's fans will shout as much as they want, it's useless.
Just like when Mark Zuckerberg went to Congress to testify, many lawmakers didn't know what Facebook was.
The Internet in this day and age is not even considered a new media, and it can't get out of the circle at all.
But after all, Roland is going to rush to the Austrian, it is impossible to mess around!
Mobilizing public opinion and making them feel that Roland should win the award is the basis of the six major hypes.
So, while the online community was crazily swallowing those effective public opinions, FOX followed suit and let its own news station repost and report the online comments on IMDb, Yahoo, and MSN.
As the producer and distributor of "Titanic", they are of course Roland's staunch supporters.
The online comments reproduced are all beneficial to Roland.
But the most taboo thing to hype about one thing is that the public opinion is one-sided. What everyone has to do now is to let Roland win an award naturally, instead of using the power of the media to make the Oscar worthless. Therefore, in After seeing FOX supporting Roland, Disney, who received the money, asked ABC to fight FOX.
FOX reprinted those favorable comments for Roland, and ABC dumped some negative news.
In this world, the surname is Zhao, but Roland is not Zhao!
So, if there is support, there is opposition.
But more often than not, those opposing voices have been resolved by real support before they come out.
But it doesn't matter, if there is no opposition, create opposition.
Isn't it easy to fake some angry comments?
IMDb, Yahoo, and MSN are either controlled by Roland or operated by Microsoft. It is too easy to write a few comments.
Acting and doing a full set!
With the involvement of ABC and FOX, things are different.
If we say that at the beginning, people did not have the concept of whether Roland would compete in the Olympic Games, but now, under the tossing of all parties, it has become whether Roland should win the award. Similarly, in the "fight" between Disney and Fox At the same time, Warner, who received the money, did not watch from the sidelines anymore. CNN was responsible for objectively reporting the progress of the matter. Come up with a show that film critics tear up in person...
When the five major TV networks that can cover the American people countless times are all gone, whether Roland can win the Oscar is no longer an internal issue of the industry, but directly rises to a social issue.
For this kind of coquettish operation of the Sixth National Congress, Roland, who originally wanted to cash in on his popularity and ran away after making a fortune, was stunned, and when he found out, these TV networks directly made this social issue a reality. After becoming a business, each temporary column is specially designed to attract independent investment, attracting advertisers to advertise. Not only did it cost no money, but it was because Roland's fans took the initiative to watch the program after discovering that the topic they were discussing was out of the circle. The rate is going up slowly, after making a lot of money—
He even admired these guys who tried their best to squeeze him dry.
He thought that the idea of selling everything by himself was enough to make him inhuman.
But I didn't expect that this group of capital swarming up, they are real dogs!
As long as there is influence, anything can be realized!
Those who were more speechless than Roland were the judges who had voting rights.
In fact, after Kenneth Turan jumped out very abnormally and said that Roland could win the award, these judges had already noticed something was wrong, and when the five major TV networks were torn apart, the lobbying calls flocked to.
Regardless of whether they are inside or outside the circle, as long as they are alive, they can receive calls. Under the invasion of capital, the list of judges announced by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is strictly confidential, which is like a joke...
Note: ①Kenneth Turan is a film critic of the Los Angeles Times and also the chairman of the Book Awards of the Los Angeles Times. However, due to the impact of the Internet, it became more and more difficult for local newspaper giants to do business. Coupled with stable employment, the Los Angeles government did not allow the "Los Angeles Times" to lay off a large number of employees (there were 13,000 employees at the time), so the operation Unable to continue, they sought a buyer in 1998 and were eventually acquired by Tronc in 2000. ②1619 refers to the first black slave trade in the United States, and now specifically refers to racial discrimination.
(end of this chapter)