1106 Out early
With "Crazy Love", he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the age of only 22. At that time, people speculated that Renly's awards season journey would be difficult in the next few years. This was to be expected; But people did not guess that the impact would come so quickly..
“After "Detachment" won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival, it is naturally considered to be the most important work to be ignored during this year's awards season. Compared with the previous year's "Buried Alive", last year's "Crazy Love" and " "Fighting Cancer", "Transcendence" is the work that truly reflects Renly's absolute strength, and is undoubtedly more in line with the preferences of the Academy judges..
But now, he died before he started. The awards season has just begun, and the war has not even had time to ignite. "Detachment" seems to have withdrawn from the competition for various awards..
In fact, professional film critics still have nothing but praise for Renly..
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 impressed me the most?" There is no restriction on gender, nor on protagonists and supporting roles. Roger gave his answer with almost no hesitation, "Renly Hall.”
Because the answer was too simple and too affirmative, it caused a burst of exclamations among the reporters..
Roger later added in the interview, "Personally, when I watched the work 'Transcendence', the quality of Renly's performance left a good impression. We all know that he is a great actor, so I thought, well, this is no big deal, he gave another great performance.”
“But after that, for a long time, I mean, more than three months, I couldn't help but think about his performance in my mind, savoring the emotions, the aftertaste, not only It’s the character Henry Bart, and the fate and life of this character. To be honest, I made a special trip to Queens to visit the education situation at the bottom, and the shock I felt continued to surge over me..”
“Sometimes, I can't tell whether this is the power of the movie or the power of the performance. But there is no doubt that one of my personal favorite movie scenes so far this year is the ending of "Transcendence", in the ruins , Renly's poetry reading. God, that's so beautiful.”
Roger did not hide his love and admiration for Renly at all. Such a long speech can let people see his affirmation, and he is not the only person in the industry who holds such a view..
In the two cities of New York and London, people's general view is this: excellence, this is absolute excellence, unparalleled excellence. Renly's absolute strength has once again been recognized, with the Almeida Theater version of "Tragedy" world" complement each other, truly making people feel the excellence of this young actor.
Gradually, Renly is breaking down the barriers of age and experience, gaining recognition from those who are true professionals..
For practitioners like Tony Kaye who devote themselves wholeheartedly to the creation of film art, what they care about is not reputation, awards, box office, or profit, but pure strength. Good is good, bad is bad, and so on. If you need to work hard, you still need to work hard, everything is so pure.
But Oscar season is never that simple.
Strictly speaking, any award ceremony or film festival is not that simple, because they are not mathematical problems. One is one, two is two. The aesthetics and judgment of art need to refer to too many standards..
The reason why the three major European film festivals are relatively simple and relatively independent is that they adopt a jury system. The final selection results reflect the preferences and preferences of a small number of judges. Therefore, the chairman of the jury every year is crucial. Important; but the disadvantage is that almost every year the winners of the three major film festivals will attract crazy complaints from the media..
The Oscars reflect the comprehensive voting results of more than 6,000 academy judges. As a result, things become more complicated, and the academy public relations during the awards season was born..
Nominations depend on strength, and winning awards depend on luck. This is not just talk..
In fact, in the information explosion environment that has arisen with the Internet age, the golden sayings that the wine is not afraid of the dark alley have long lagged behind the times. Now even the nomination stage needs to rely on effective college public relations to carve out a bloody path. , the intensity is no less intense than 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, only three Oscar-winning films among the best films failed to cross the 100 million threshold in North American box office, namely "Crash", "No Country for Old Men" and "The Hurt Locker" , the lowest box office was "The Hurt Locker", which only had a box office of 17 million US dollars..
In the last decade of the 20th century, among the best picture Oscars, there were also three winners with a North American box office of less than 100 million US dollars, "Schindler's List", "The English Patient" and "Braveheart". ", the lowest box office among them is "Braveheart", with a box office data of 75 million.
Furthermore, in the past two decades, there has been only one Oscar-winning best picture winner with a cumulative box office of less than 50 million in North America, "The Hurt Locker" - in addition, last year's best picture "The Artist", The final box office in North America was 44 million.
“Variety magazine once calculated that for any film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, the North American box office must reach more than eight million US dollars. In the past ten years, only "Letters from Iwo Jima" has not been able to meet this requirement. standard——
Because Clint Eastwood shot two sets of films at that time, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letter from Iwo Jima", which interpreted the same battle from the perspectives of the United States and Japan respectively..
Warner Bros. originally planned to compete for the Oscars with "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima" will compete again next year. As a result, the reputation of the former was far lower than expected. Seeing that it was about to miss the awards season, Warner Bros. made a hasty decision. During this time, the latter was promoted to theaters. Only then did this happen.
In other words, if you want to win an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, you must have enough publicity and mass base, and you must also have enough media topics and publicity content. The box office is the most direct manifestation. Those high-brow works cannot be nominated. stand out at stage.
This is true for Best Picture nominations, and so is the nomination for other projects.
Academy public relations during the awards season is not only a war of connections, public relations, and publicity, but also a war of money. In the final analysis, this global carnival of the film industry is closely related to interests..
Now, "detachment" is falling behind.
Renly's reputation in the industry is gradually rising and taking root. If the Tony Awards or Olivier Awards were held now, Renly would definitely be a popular candidate; but during the awards season, poor reputation, sluggish box office and strong resistance from the audience tendency, but this work lost attention early.
If nothing else, "Detachment" may be eliminated during the nomination stage.
For an art film that won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, this performance is really disappointing..
Objectively speaking, Tony Kaye and Renly Hall never planned to compete in the awards season. From the screening stage, Tony's interest was waning and he had no intention of joining in the fun; and Renly, who was filming in the UK, was even less interested. They were passive and did not launch any publicity. They had no regrets at all about missing the excitement of the awards season..
But the media reporters were unwilling to give up and started shaking their heads one after another..
On the one hand, they all began to regret Renly's failure. This was the first work since Renly's emergence to suffer a comprehensive blow. The results after screening were far lower than expected, and perhaps it would not become Renly's. A turning point in career, but the miraculous journey came to an abrupt end, which is still unforgettable..
On the other hand, they all regretted that Renly disappeared and missed another confrontation with the Weinstein Films..
At the end of last year, the awards season confrontation between Renly and Harvey Weinstein was full of ups and downs, thrilling moments, and twists and turns..
Most of the time, the "artists" had the absolute upper hand, and even showed the power to crush thousands of armies; the rise of "Hypegate" pushed Renly into a desperate situation, and he was in danger..
But in the end, Renly completed a desperate counterattack, making history and winning the Oscar in a jaw-dropping manner..
This big scene is absolutely wonderful and stunning..
Rumor has it that after the awards ceremony, Harvey flew into a rage at the Sunset Tower Hotel. He and Renly were truly sworn enemies..
At the end of this year, Harvey led the Weinstein Pictures to make an extremely strong comeback. "Silver Linings Playbook", "Django Unchained", "The Master", "Quartet" and many other works have covered various awards. The battle for the title continued their consistent strategy of operating the college’s public relations while allocating resources. When entering the sprint stage, they concentrated their firepower to attack the statuette..
It is worth noting that among these works, Bradley Cooper, Joaquin Phoenix, and Jamie Foxx are all strong contenders for Best Actor..
It can be seen from just this subtle action that in the process of purchasing the copyright, Harvey's priority was the impact of the best actor, not the best picture and the best director, otherwise he would not have won the award in the first place. I missed "Hunting the **" and chose "Silver Linings Playbook" instead..
No one knows what happened between Renly and Harvey. The copyright deal for the work "Crazy Love" does not seem to be enough to completely anger Harvey, but what is certain is that Harvey and Renly are definitely not close friends. The two have not collaborated on any work so far.
Unfortunately, this year's war between Harvey and Renly seems to have come to an end early because of "Transcendence"'s early elimination before it even started. This is really disappointing..
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