Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The premiere in London was reported by many media the next day. London's media density may be the highest in the world. With fierce competition, any news related to the royal family will be broadcast from various angles.

"Her Majesty the Queen watched her favorite Hollywood director Ronald Lee's new film and had a good chat at the premiere." This is the title of the photo of Ronald greeting the Queen.

"The two princesses and the two Hollywood actresses greeted each other..." This is another title after the two princesses and the two heroines were photographed.

"Prince Charles disapproves of working women", this is another title framed by the media using "mind reading" after poor Prince Charles showed his unique crooked smile.

Ronald was very happy to see these reports. The box office and attendance in Britain were satisfactory. The audience on the European continent is more interested in the story that happened in America than the local audience.

However, Ronald also had something uncomfortable. In the Oscar nomination battle announced last night, his "Working Girl" was overshadowed by someone else.

Working Girls received five awards and six nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress Melanie Griffith, and two nominations for Best Supporting Actress, Sigourney Weaver and Joan Cusack who played a secretary. Ronald also won the Best Director award, which he hoped to see the most. The last award was Best Original Song for Carly Simon.

However, two key awards, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing, were not nominated. Oscar tradition, the four awards of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing are very closely linked.

Those who have won the Best Director award in the past will also win most (if not all) of the other three awards. This is because, in many cases, it is difficult for outsiders to distinguish the contributions of the three positions of director, screenwriter, and editor.

In a certain plot, the actors' performances are excellent, the camera scheduling is smooth, and the story is touching. Is it because the director directed it well, or the script was originally well written, or was it because the editor fished out the waste film and edited it into the final outstanding work?

Since it is difficult for outsiders to understand, they often recognize all the awards when voting to express their appreciation.

This time, "Working Girls" only received two nominations, and Ronald couldn't help but worry, was I being treated as a consolation prize?

In addition, "Working Girls" only received five nominations in total, and many other works that Ronald thought were very good, such as the best photography in the helicopter, the seamless long-shot grafting in the editing, and the very realistic clothing configuration of Manhattan working women, were not recognized.

At the same time, several movies that Ronald was not optimistic about received more nominations.

For example, "Rain Man" received eight nominations. Regardless of those major awards, even the mediocre director of photography and art director were nominated. Are the images reflecting suburban life better than Ronald's images of Manhattan?

For example, "Dangerous Liaisons" also received seven nominations. Even Michelle Pfeiffer, who was troubled by scandals, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Although period films generally have an advantage in the Best Costume Awards, the costumes in this film are all old-fashioned Hollywood styles, squeezing the actresses' breasts and matching them with large skirts with crinolines.

This kind of costume, which has nothing in common with the costumes of the time in the country, can also be nominated, which really makes people feel the low artistic level of the judges.

Another film that received seven nominations was "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" directed by Robert Zemeckis. This film, which combines real people and animated images, was nominated for Best Editing and Best Photography in addition to a large number of technical awards, which also broke many conventions of animation.

What made Ronald most unhappy was another film that received seven nominations, "Mississippi Burning".

British director Alan Parker was the "famous" director of the film that Ronald entered the industry and joined the Writers Guild. They also have a long "history" to trace back.

In addition to being nominated for Best Picture and Best Director. This film, which reflects the brutal oppression of black people, also has the leading actor Gene Hackman, the supporting actress Frances McDormand, and two important nominations for Best Cinematography and Best Editing.

Ronald is still upset about Gene Hackman's refusal to transfer the filming rights of "The Silence of the Lambs" to him. When he thinks that he and Alan Parker may both win the award, Ronald feels unhappy.

The Oscars ceremony is broadcast live. Before the TV station announces the winners, it will also make a picture-in-picture special effect.

When the presenter reads the name of each nominee, the nominee will be given a close-up of the nominee's face. At the moment of the announcement, the facial expressions of the five nominees will be displayed side by side on the TV screen to hundreds of millions of viewers around the world.

In order to keep the standard of demeanor that has been passed down for an unknown period of time, Ronald will have to put on a standard smile that says "I am happier when my competitor wins the award than when I win the award myself." Such behavior is simply a torture for Ronald.

On the plane flying back to New York, several female stars were still happily discussing the dresses that Princess Diana's personal tailor, the designer of Im-Manuel Tailor Shop who designed her famous wedding dress, had made for the three of them to wear at the Oscars.

"Let me see, your skirt styles are very elegant..." Diane looked at the design renderings of Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith's skirts, both of which were white off-shoulder designs. A low-cut silhouette highlights the figure, and a sloping shoulder accentuates a tall frame, both of which can reveal their respective advantages.

"Let me take a look at your..." Sigourney Weaver looked at Diane's design. The lace design captured her from the youthfulness of a girl to the temperament of a mature woman. good.

"Oh...oh..." Melanie Griffith suddenly retched a few times, "I have to go to the bathroom."

"Are you okay?" After retching for a long time in the small bathroom of the business jet, Melanie Griffiths was greeted with concern by two fellow actresses.

"Don..." Melanie waved her boyfriend Don Johnson over, who handed her a piece of chocolate.

"Huh?" Sigourney Weaver was very sensitive. Actresses were not allowed to eat these freely. She looked at Don Johnson.

"Yes, Melanie is pregnant."

"Oh, congratulations, congratulations..."

During the premiere in London, Melanie Griffiths felt nauseous several times. Unexpectedly, after a check-up at the hospital, it was confirmed that she was pregnant.

This made Sigourney Weaver extremely envious. She has always wanted to have a child, but she has postponed it many times due to her busy acting career. Seeing Melanie and Tang looking at their unpregnant bellies with happy expressions on their faces, the envy in her eyes was almost overflowing.

"Oh...congratulations", Diane was also watching, she had never thought about this.

Melanie Griffiths just made some career progress with "Working Girl." But when it comes to this future child, there doesn't seem to be any concern about the impact of childbirth on her career.

"Being a mother is a happy thing." Diane tilted her head and looked at Ronald...

"This guy..." Diane saw Ronald tilting his head and falling asleep on the flat chair, as if he was still talking in his sleep.

"Someone once wanted to investigate me, and I ate his liver with broad beans and eggnog..."

When Ronald fell asleep on the plane, he was prone to dreaming about movie clips. But this time the dream seemed to be a thriller. A man with meticulously combed back hair, charming ears, and two eyes that reminded people of a mouse elegantly recounted his criminal experience in a Shakespearean dramatic tone.

The camera shows a short, but strong-chinned woman with short blond hair, opposite the man, staring at him in horror. The two were separated by a glass wall and could see each other, but they could not have any physical contact.

Even so, the woman was quite frightened. Ronald felt that he was also brought into this emotion, and the tension of this scene was created very well.

This actress is very familiar to Ronald, it is Jodie Foster who also won the Best Actress nomination for "The Pear Blossom". In that movie, she played a very vulnerable victim.

In this dream movie, although I was very scared, I could see the stubbornness and persistence in the eyes of this FBI detective.

"As expected of a Yale graduate, there is indeed something extraordinary about playing a woman with such a high IQ," Ronald applauded secretly. The heroine Clarice, in addition to being an excellent police detective, is also a psychologist. I'm afraid no other actress would be able to portray the temperament of such a highly intelligent woman.

"Hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss..."

The actor who played the criminal looked at the camera and suddenly made a creepy tongue-sucking sound, as if he was savoring the victim's liver.

"Ah..." Jodie Foster was startled by him in the movie, and she shrank back in shock.

"Ah..." Not to mention, even a weak woman like Jodie Foster, Ronald, as an audience member, was also frightened by this sudden performance. Goosebumps stood up all over his body, as if a very disgusting caterpillar was crawling in his collar, and then crawled out onto his face.

"Ronald...what's wrong with you?" Diane came over, held down Ronald's hands that were waving in the air, and touched his face with her hands.

"Ah..." Ronald yelled and almost rolled off the flat chair. He opened his eyes, saw Diane's concerned eyes, and let out a sigh of relief. Everyone felt much more at ease.

"Who made this movie? It's so scary..."

"Are you okay?" Sigourney Weaver also came over to see.

"I'm fine, I just had a nightmare. I often dream when I'm on a plane." Ronald unbuckled his seat belt, then took out a notebook and pencil from his bag, and began to draw pictures of himself on them. Script of the scene seen in the dream.

This scene is very special. To show the dialogue between the two protagonists, an over-the-shoulder shot was not used, but a frontal close-up, but strangely, the entire picture was better able to convey the thrilling emotion.

"Ronnie..." Diane saw Ronald so frightened and wanted to step forward to comfort him.

"Don't bother him, it's the artist's 'Eureka' moment, the kind of inspiration that's so hard to get him to write down." Sigourney Weaver knew it was the muse kissing the artist's performance, many The great directors in Hollywood all have this kind of moment when they suddenly discover incredible creative techniques.

"Hmm... So that's how it is..." Ronald analyzed the language of the lens and knew that this was a method different from the Hollywood tradition and closer to the Japanese editing style. When used in this kind of thriller, facial expressions and reactions were better.

This movie was obviously "The Silence of the Lambs" that Ronald wanted to buy last time, but Gene Hackman was unwilling to sell. This made Ronald even more resentful. When he closed his notebook, the sound of closing it was very loud.

"Have you taken notes?" Diane held her chin and looked at Ronald. She had been silent for half an hour and finally came back to her senses.

"Sorry, I have some inspiration, so I just wrote it down..." Ronald apologized to the passengers who were looking at him.

"Melanie is going to have a baby..." Diane immediately told Ronald that it seemed like a play.

"Wow... Congratulations..." Ronald glanced at the sweet Melanie and Don. He didn't know whether this baby was a boy or a girl, and whether they would inherit the looks of their parents and become actors?

…

“I feel like Ovitz has a hidden plan…”, the plane stopped in New York for a while, and then flew Ronald to Los Angeles.

The first thing he did was to call Niceta and Richard for a meeting. Ronald was a little worried because there were only five nominations, and no nominations for script and editing were missing.

“Paula is also very dissatisfied. Tom (Cruise) did not get a nomination for Best Supporting Actor. I plan to protest against Michael (Ovitz) together!”

Niceta was not very calm either. None of his agents won all the nominations in this Oscar nomination.

I have to say that this result is very interesting. You say Ovitz did not try his best? Not really. After all, “Working Girls” received five and six nominations, and the awards that Ronald cared about, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress, were all nominated without any surprise. The Best Supporting Actress also took up two places.

But you said you got full support? Compare “Rain Man” and “Mississippi Burning”, you feel that you don’t seem to enjoy that kind of support.

"I'm worried that the lack of nominations for Best Editing and Best Screenplay will affect the performance of Working Girl in other awards..."

Ronald is most concerned about Best Director...

"This is not absolute...We still have several awards, the Film Critics Association Award, the Directors Guild Award, the Boston, New York, and the newly established Chicago Film Critics Association Award..."

Nicita refused to admit defeat. In the past five years, the Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Screenplay often come from the same movie, and it is not always accurate. In addition to last year's The Last Emperor and Platoon, there have also been cases where the Best Director and Best Editing, and the script belong to several movies.

"What's wrong with Tom? Isn't his performance in Rain Man worthy of a Best Supporting Actor nomination?" Ronald asked again.

"Among actors, many people are still jealous of him..." Nicita said and stopped talking.

The so-called jealousy is of course a possible reason. Only experts can see Tom Cruise's performance, unlike Dustin Hoffman's fool, which ordinary actors can also appreciate.

However, the blond handsome man River Phoenix, who was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor, played the son of an unconventional couple who escaped from the FBI in "Unlimited Wanted". There were not many challenging scenes.

Dean Stockwell, who played a gangster boss in "Join the Gang" starring Michelle Pfeiffer, did not have a very eye-catching performance. He was also nominated for the Best Supporting Actor.

Could it be that the reason why Tom Cruise was selected for his acting skills was because both of them were of Jewish descent?

I don't know!

This kind of thing is disgusting here, it is vague, it seems to be true, and it is difficult for you to question it. Everyone in the Hollywood circle has a consensus, but if you want to protest, you have no handle to bring up, and you may be accused of discrimination.