Hollywood Road

"This is the first commercial masterpiece in which you really play the leading role."

In a mansion in Beverly Hills, a black man with a bald head is persuading a black woman who does not look like a black man, "Harry, the Oscar winner is glory, because you can get Catwoman and 20 million dollars foundation, but don’t forget how realistic this circle is, and don’t forget how difficult it is for a black man to maintain his current status. If this film falls too hard, you will never find a second independent role You'll never be a superstar if you don't have the chance to make a big hit!"

Halle Berry paced back and forth in the living room, seemingly deliberating the words.

She knew that it was a fluke that she won the Oscar for Best Actress, and it was more due to the external environment. The industry itself did not take her as the Best Actress seriously, after all, the circle knew something well.

Regardless of the opposition of Twentieth Century Fox and Marvel Comics, temporarily throw away Storm and switch to Warner Bros. and DC Comics, and take over the role of Catwoman. What is the reason?

Other companies and producers would never give a black woman the chance to take the lead. Only Warner Bros. reached out.

To be exact, she spent a whole few weeks of hard work in exchange for this opportunity, a chance she had pinned on to truly become a first-line superstar.

Everyone knows that an Oscar heroine will give an actress a big step forward in her career, but it does not guarantee becoming a superstar. Winning an Oscar and the market appeal that a superstar must have are completely different things.

But this opportunity... Halle Berry walked back and forth faster, and also showed some impatience in her heart. The test screening of "Catwoman" was really bad.

"Is there any hope for this film?" Halle Berry seemed to lose confidence, "All the preliminary scores are too bad."

"Test screenings and public screenings are two different things." The bald black man encouraged, "Test screenings failed, and there are many successful public screenings. Now we need to attract the attention of potential audiences and draw their attention away from "Deadpool". "

Halle Berry sighed, walked over and sat opposite the manager.

The bald black man coughed in a low voice and continued, "Taking a step back, even if "Catwoman" could really fail, it can't be a big failure like the trial screening, then your career will be over, and you will be banned for the rest of your life." Confined to the role of Storm, don't think about making more breakthroughs."

"So..." Halle Berry understood the agent's meaning even though her mind was not very bright, "I will fully cooperate with Warner Bros. and Bruce Berman,

Step on "Deadpool" as much as possible, hold "Catwoman" up, and attract public attention. "

"That's it." The bald economic man nodded.

Halle Berry was still a little puzzled, "Is this really okay?"

"Don't forget, we are black!" The bald black man sneered, "In Hollywood movies, black people play important roles as a matter of course, otherwise it is racism!"

Halle Berry scratched her head, can racial discrimination be understood in this way?

The bald black man came over and patted Halle Berry on the shoulder, "We cannot afford the consequences of a serious failure."

With the beginning of a new week, the topic between Murphy and DC comics can be seen everywhere on the Internet. After "Deadpool" easily gave "Hellboy" a cliff-like box office dive, it is also constantly being used by the media to compete with it. When comparing the upcoming Catwoman, it's inevitable that both sides will be superhero movies.

Just on Monday afternoon, a new force joined the battle group.

Halle Berry's personal blog was updated, and the content inside pointed directly at Murphy.

"Some people should really shut up. When a movie sells well, they get carried away and attack other people's hard-working movies. The quality is too low! I want to remind everyone that this director is still a problematic director. Please recall , "Fruit Candy", "Chain Saw", "Planet Terror", "Sin City" has an important role played by a black actor? It is said that in these crews, Murphy Stanton really has the right to decide the actors! "

Once this heartbreaking blog was published, it immediately attracted the attention of the media.

On the entertainment pages of many media outlets on Tuesday, a specially bold news headline was added in a prominent position-Murphy Stanton suspected of racial discrimination?

In Hollywood, racial discrimination not only exists, it can even be said to be quite serious, but it is one thing to actually exist, and another to show it.

Just like this so-called free and democratic country, anti-discrimination slogans are shouted loudly, but the actual situation is known to the whole world.

Such topics must be answered positively.

"Some people say I'm involved in racism? It's really funny."

Murphy immediately accepted an interview, "Go and count how many Asian actors, Latino actors, and other non-white actors are in my film and crew!"

Under the contact of Bill Rossis, Jessica Alba immediately stood up to defend Murphy, "I have never heard anything funnier than this, look at me, am I a white actor ? May I ask if the heroine of "Sin City" and "Deadpool" is me?"

Chen Hu, who is well-known in North America, also accepted the interview, "I don't know what some people think. Are all the important jobs in the crew reserved for blacks? It would be racial discrimination if we don't do this?"

He pointed to himself, "I want to ask, if all of us should be replaced by black people, are they also suspected of racial discrimination?"

Indeed, because he had stayed in a certain province in the southeast for a long time, although Murphy did not discriminate against black uncles, he would not think of them as black brothers with the feelings of Our Lady Bosch. Some concepts are often It's ingrained, and it doesn't change when you come here from the other side of the Pacific.

But Murphy also knows that in the Hollywood circle, the theories of black people are very weird, and they cannot be measured by normal people's way of thinking.

It is racist for a large production team not to add black characters to important actors; it is racist to add important characters but it is a villain; Shooting their scenes casually is racism; there are no blacks in the Oscar nomination list, it is racism; there are too few blacks in the nomination list, it is racism; the number of nominations is enough, it is not nominated for the Oscar performance award, it is race Discrimination; being nominated for an acting award, but not getting a statuette, or racism...

These are the status quo of Hollywood. Since the 1990s, a considerable number of black actors have understood it this way, and there are many famous figures like Will Smith and his wife among them.

It seems that in the circle of Hollywood, as long as black people want but can't get it, it is racism.

Sometimes, Murphy really doesn't know where they put the Asian and Latino actors who have a lower status in the circle.

Therefore, as long as some roles can use Asian or Latino actors, he will never use black actors.

He never denies it in his heart, and prefers Asian actors, rather than the so-called politically correct black glass hearts in Hollywood.

In addition to "Hard Candy" with only two main actors, Murphy has used a large number of Asian and Latino employees in the crew since "Chain Saw", especially in the later efforts to train Jessica- Alba, a Latino super big vase that has begun to be famous in the United States, is partly because he is afraid that some people will take the hat off and put it on his head.

Think about it, even Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan", a typical American-themed film, because there is no black person in the rescue team, can be attacked by those black people with unique ideas in the circle. Videos that discriminate against color.

And they never considered that this is a realistic film of World War II, what was the actual situation at that time.

As for Asian and Latino actors, black people often ignore them. They always treat actors of these ethnicities with a sense of superiority, and they seem to dismiss them at all.

Murphy is not surprised that Halle Berry ignores the Latino and Asian actors in her films, which is very in line with the thinking characteristics of some black people in the circle.

Such racial discrimination is of course untenable in the face of facts. CAA and Bill Rosses only contacted several long-term cooperative media, and easily resolved the so-called racial discrimination.

But coming and going has never been Murphy's style.

However, he did not stand up on his own. Both 20th Century Fox and CAA have a large number of trolls at their disposal. In addition to continuing to stir up topics and promote "Deadpool", they also suppressed "Cats" without hesitation within the scope of the rules. Female".

Once the box office of "Catwoman" breaks out, not to mention the audience's choice, just the screening rate in theaters alone will impact "Deadpool". After all, the exclusive screening mode can only be used in a few theaters in certain regions. May become a mainstream distribution model.

This is a very simple truth. If the quality of a film is not too bad, the wider the scope of screening and the more screens it will be shown on, the more audiences it will attract, and the greater the possibility of getting a high box office.

Without film schedules and screens, no matter how good a film is, it is impossible to see explosive box office growth.

"The theaters will not cut our number of theaters," Bill Rossis said to Murphy, who was sitting crookedly, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office. At the beginning, it will be shown in nearly 3,200 theaters, and the schedule of "Deadpool" will definitely be affected."

This is inevitable, although the number of screens in North America is growing, but the total number is so many in the short term.

"Have you thought of an appropriate counterattack?" Bill Rossis asked.

Murphy stood up and raised a finger, "The feedback from the test screening of "Catwoman" has made it very clear, we just need to catch a little bit!" (to be continued)). If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please read here. )