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This year's awards season is particularly interesting. After entering the new year, the war gradually began to intensify. However, as the Golden Globe nomination list shows, Babel and The Departed are undoubtedly the focus of discussion. Both works have their own advantages and disadvantages. , but for the academy, they are both suitable choices; more importantly, both works have an all-star lineup, and the topics and hype are effortless, and they easily attract the attention of all audiences. It is like a duck to water.

At the same time, the momentum of Dream Girl suddenly began to skyrocket, and the shouts were the same for a while, and there were a lot of praises. They thought that this work is the real winner of this year's awards season. Compared with Tiantian Tower, it is too obscure. The Departed is too commercial, and Dream Girl, which perfectly combines dreams and freedom, is undoubtedly the best choice. What's even more rare is that Dream Girl alludes to the Motown Music Company in the United States in the 1960s The real story of Sunset Boulevard and Beauty of the Comet, which satirize the Hollywood industry, always win the Academy's full house.

Quietly, Paramount has grown into Warner Bros.' biggest competitor this year in a way no one expected.

Relatively speaking, the discussion of Fury Road seems to be slowly cooling down.

On January 10th, Fury Road officially surpassed Titanic and became the new box office champion in North America. For a time, the whole North America was rejoicing, and congratulatory messages were flying all over the sky. With the concerted efforts of people, an R Super-rated movies actually made history and broke the shackles since the grading system was implemented. This is even more incredible than the sensation of Gone with the Wind-the latter firmly holds the position of the champion of film history when inflation is calculated. Even 2015's Star Wars Episode VII couldn't top it.

But behind such brilliant achievements, the sound of the Fury Road awards season has gradually settled down. It's not that it disappeared or retreated, but that professionals in the Hollywood industry have begun to cool down intentionally or unintentionally. When it comes to the number one hit of the awards season, Fury Road has already fallen behind Babel, The Departed and Chasing. Behind Dream Girl, she can only be regarded as the fourth seed. This situation forms a strong contrast with the enthusiastic pursuit of the audience and the media, which makes people feel incomprehensible.

News about Fury Road seems to be everywhere these days. When people mention The Departed, they always mention Fury Road's great success at the commercial box office; I will think of Fury Road's wonderful setting of different ethnic groups in the wasteland; when people are arguing whether Dream Girl is good enough, the madness and persistence of chasing freedom like moths to a flame in Fury Road are more It makes people excited... No matter which work is mentioned, Fury Road follows closely, but the sound of the film's Oscar prospects has obviously begun to cool down.

It’s incredible to describe—how could it be possible that the work with the most heated discussions, the most popular topics, the best word-of-mouth feedback, and the best box office performance is not the number one hit in the awards season? It is puzzling, but in fact, it is not surprising that this is the case.

There were rumors in the circle for a while. Some people believed that Fury Road touched the bottom line of many men. It will be affected in terms of salary, casting, influence, added value, etc., which also means that the film has lost the support of a large number of male votes, and its prospects in the awards season will naturally decline all the way.

Some people think that Fury Road may be difficult to please in the eyes of feminism. The movie does not mention a single word about how Felosa went from slave to general, but the comparison between Felosa's past tribe and Undead Joe's tribe is true. The insinuation expresses discrimination against women, which is unacceptable for feminists. Therefore, the number of women's votes seems to be fluctuating, and they have not fallen to Fury Road as expected.

Others believe that the rise of Chaos Films has not only impacted the interests of the six major film companies, but also impacted the authority of the academy—after all, the top forces in the Hollywood pyramid have been in power for many years, and change means that someone must hand over part of the film industry. Benefits, this will inevitably experience some pain. Therefore, those leaders who hold power and reap benefits are bound to be unwilling to disarm easily. They will do everything they can to suppress Road of Fury, even if the price is to pursue the Queen—although the latter is also produced by Chaos Films, But it is a standard awards season work, in line with the current trend.

These rumors are not only circulated in Hollywood. When the major news media reported on the awards season, they also revealed relevant meanings. Although they did not say it explicitly, they still awakened people's memories of the summer controversy. , Fury Road does not seem to please both sides, and is always on the cusp of controversy. It has been five months since the incident, but the controversy brought about by the movie still seems to have not dissipated-the R-rated movie has become the box office of film history. Champion, is the data here really not filled with water? A cult film has become a mainstream icon, but can it really rival a classic like Star Wars? The title of the top-seeded contestant in the award season is resounding, but it is not worthy of the name. The prospect of the work in the major award ceremonies is obviously not that good. Isn't Chaos Films selling itself?

Because of this, the impact of Fury Road on the awards season is obviously weakening. What is even more contrasting is that this year Chaos Films appeared more frequently in the public relations of the academy, showing a different posture from previous years, but it seems that the harder Chaos Films works, the worse the situation is, now not only Just Fury Road, even Queen has been affected.

What does such a result explain, what does it mean, and what can be changed?

Amidst the controversy, the attitudes of the people reflected on the Internet are quite different. Just like the controversy in the summer, as long as people walk into the cinema and watch this work, they will naturally get their own judgments and opinions. This is precisely the reason why Fury Road is so good. It is just commercial popcorn, but it is a work that can make people think and discuss. Its artistic height depends on the depth of thought of the audience.

Needless to say, this is a far better work than Star Wars. Whether men, women, mainstream media, minorities, professional film critics, or amateur audiences, people should actively express their opinions, but more importantly, they should actively express their support. A work that finds a high balance between film and art will become a crucial stroke in the long history of film, and no one should ignore it. Oscar once missed Citizen Kane, missed 2001 Space Odyssey, also missed Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction, and then missed Saving Private Ryan and Brokeback Mountain. Still missing Fury Road now?

On the top of the IMDB 250 rankings, Fury Road ranks high on the championship throne, and the number of ratings has exceeded 1.2 million, which clearly shows what is meant by people's aspirations. However, no matter how loud the voices of ordinary people are, so what? They're not eligible to vote, they can't change the judges' decisions, they can't even sway the media.

Just before the opening ceremony of the Golden Globe Awards, a rumor spread like wildfire in Hollywood: the best film in the drama category will belong to Babel, and the best film in the musical comedy category will go to Dreamgirls. The best director will be fulfilled by Martin Scorsese.

There are countless predictions during the awards season, not only the media, but even the film companies themselves will make internal predictions and judgments; but this news is so convincing, as if the result of the Golden Globes has been predicted, which is indeed true. Not normal, especially in this year's scrimmage.

Among the major media's predictions for the Golden Globe Awards, the best film is currently The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine are slightly more popular, while the best director Clint Eastwood and Martin Stanley There is really a dilemma between Kossis, and no one can make a judgment. But this rumor directly made the final choice, and the decisive decision made people smell something abnormal; what is even more peculiar is that the breadth and depth of the rumor's spread far exceeded imagination, and it seemed that someone was behind the scenes. This rumor was mediocre. Even Warner Bros. internally believed that it was news from within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and many people expressed their congratulations to Martin in advance.

It's not normal, it's really not normal. Although it is said that the major film companies have racked their brains for the academy's public relations, using all means; but they have spent so much effort just to promote a rumor? What the hell is this for? In order to discredit competitors, or to promote themselves? This really doesn't make sense, even if it implies that the results of the Golden Globe Awards have been manipulated by insiders, but this rumor is also wrong: because the three works in the prediction are from different teams, even Paramount's Babel and Dreamgirls is also divided into two departments, the former is the advantage of Paramount, and the latter is the headquarters of Paramount. Could it be that Warner Bros. has released rumors in order to discredit Paramount?

The rise of this rumor is really a bit unreasonable. In a blink of an eye, the whole Hollywood knows about it, but it seems to have no purpose.

However, rumors are just rumors after all, and similar news is updated several times a day. No matter how hot the rumors are, it is not surprising; moreover, the rumors are only circulated in Hollywood, and the news media have not reported them, so everyone is just Laughed it off and didn't pay much attention.

The 64th Golden Globe Awards kicked off in this weird atmosphere.