Hollywood Road

The iron door outside closed with a bang, and the independent visiting room returned to silence. Murphy took out a pack of cigarettes and took one from it. Rose was still in shackles, so he simply stuffed it directly into Rose's mouth Inside, he took out the lighter from his pocket and helped Rose light the cigarette. A wisp of smoke immediately rose up along Rose's face.

Rose took a deep breath, exhaled smoke from his mouth, looked at the cigarettes and lighters on the table in front of him, and said, "Have you learned to smoke? I remember you never smoked."

"No." Murphy shook his head, "This is the top-quality cigarette that Donnie asked me to bring you specially."

"It's not bad." Rose wrinkled his nose, "It's just that the smell is a little weaker."

Murphy stood up and stuffed the cigarettes into Rose's clothes, "I've already got through with someone, and I'll send you a batch in a while."

Rose shook his head, "Forget it, you can't get it into my hands even if you send it in."

Murphy thought for a while, knowing that this situation was likely to happen, so he didn't insist, and asked, "How are you doing recently?"

"It's been very comfortable." Rose stretched his waist, looking very comfortable, "You and Donny have transferred all those boys here, and I am now No.1 here, and no one dares to provoke me. "

Prison gangsters in the United States are rampant, and Murphy has personal experience of this, so he spent a lot of effort to get all of Rose's subordinates who were scattered in other prisons to the state prison, so as to ensure that Rose would at least not pass through in it. It's very sad, although Ross used to be a tyrant here, but the age is a bit far away after all.

"You stay at ease first." Murphy lowered his voice slightly, "I'm working with people to reduce your sentence as much as possible."

Rose shook his head again, "Don't do this. A felon like me, even if his sentence is commuted, he will be 70 years old. He can't keep up with the times. What are you going to do?"

"Remember what you said when we were in jail together last time?" Murphy reminded, "You said you would be my child's godfather."

"The question is do you have faith?" Ross said deliberately.

Murphy spread his hands helplessly, "I, like you, am a believer in Satan."

"Okay, stop joking." Rose asked solemnly, "Even if I want to be your child's godfather, you have to get married first, will you get married?"

Although he knew that Murphy had a regular girlfriend by his side, he still clearly remembered that Murphy called out to sleep with all the beautiful female stars in Hollywood, and now he has the capital to do so.

"I'm engaged." Murphy said lightly.

Ross asked curiously, "With Gal Gadot?"

"Yeah." Murphy nodded, "I haven't had time to tell you what happened last month."

"Congratulations." Ross touched his body back and forth a few times, and said embarrassedly, "I don't have anything, so I won't give you a gift."

Murphy leaned back on the chair, folded his hands on his chest, and said, "It's okay if you don't send it, I'll wait for you to send it to my house in person in the future to make it up!"

"You..." Rose shook his head lightly, "Murphy, there are some things, let's just let things take their course."

Murphy also shook his head, "If things had gone their way, I might have died in this prison more than ten years ago."

At that time, he was not as strong as he is now. It was this year of tempering that made his character tough.

There are some things that Rose can let happen, but Murphy can't. No matter what Rose says, he will still do what should be done, so he simply changed the subject.

"Did you get the mp4 that was sent in?" he asked.

Before Christmas, he asked Robert to send in a digital version of "Diego Ross" through his relationship.

"Well, I watched the movie, and the copy was deleted after watching it." Rose gave Murphy a thumbs up directly, "The filming is very good, 80% of the time is real!"

Murphy smiled and said, "It's good that you can admit it."

Like this kind of film adapted from real people,

For the sake of dramatic tension, it is inevitable that certain artistic processing will be carried out. Even if his narrative in the film "Diego Ross" is relatively gentle and does not have the intense turning point of traditional Hollywood movies, there are still some places where it is appropriate exaggerated.

However, as Roth said, the whole film is entirely based on Roth's real experience.

"The day before yesterday, the nomination list for the new Academy Awards was announced."

Murphy will of course tell Rose about such news, "Our biopic has received ten Oscar nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture."

Hearing this, Ross immediately became interested, "Ten nominations?"

Even if he doesn't know much about Hollywood, as a native of Los Angeles, he still knows that ten Oscar nominations is a very remarkable thing.

Rose thought for a moment and asked, "How likely is it to win?"

"It's not very difficult to get a technical award." Murphy said truthfully, "No one can guarantee the three important awards I just mentioned."

"Yeah." Ross nodded, "Your movie is my last wish."

Just like what he told Murphy at the beginning, he didn't want to die in prison in obscurity. Even if it was notoriety, he wanted the world to know that there was a man named Diego Ross who walked through this world.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, followed by a reminder from the guards, "It's time!"

Murphy glanced at his watch, stood up and said, "Donnie and I are working hard on this film to hit the Oscars. You can wait for our good news."

After speaking, he turned and walked outside. After leaving the heavily guarded reception area, he joined his bodyguards and left the state prison.

In the next few days, Stanton Studios and 20th Century Fox made frequent fuss in the media, and various reports boasting about the film "Diego Ross" emerged one after another, probably because they really like this slow-paced, long-shot Very artistic film, Roger Ebert, who is far away in Chicago, used his column in the "Chicago Tribune" to publish an article saying that if Oscar still ignores Murphy Stanton and his film this time , is definitely a big scandal!

The public opinion of the media and the situation created by Catholicism are very beneficial to "Diego Ross".

Therefore, on the weekend when the Oscar nominations were announced, 20th Century Fox once again expanded its screening scale, and the number of North American screening theaters for "Diego Ross" more than doubled to nearly 1,600.

With the addition of the Oscar nomination halo, the film also performed better than the previous on-demand screenings and small-scale screenings. In the three days of the weekend, it received another US$19 million from the North American market, plus the previous US$20 million. Cumulative box office, the North American box office of this film has successfully passed the production cost line of 35 million US dollars, reaching 41.56 million US dollars!

The market effect of Oscar and the previous series of publicity plans is quite obvious.

Even, 20th Century Fox internally believes that if the film can win two of the best actor, best director and best picture awards, the North American box office can hit the $100 million mark.

Although "The Artist" is more in line with the tastes of the old men in the academy, there are still nearly 20 days before the final voting deadline for the Oscars, and everything is possible.

Even though the situation is still favorable for "Diego Ross", Murphy did not relax at all. Although the academy stipulated that it is not allowed to conduct public relations with the judges at this time, it did not stipulate that the director or the film should conduct self-promotion.

In addition to 20th Century Fox, CAA and Bill Rosses also made a series of self-promotion plans for Murphy, in order to win the favor and support of the academy judges, including giving speeches and donations to the North American Film Academy. The school affiliated to the American Film Institute has produced many famous film practitioners and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, such as David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Edward Ziwei Ke, Janus Kaminski and Carl Franklin, among others.

In terms of the number of well-known filmmakers, this school even surpassed the USC School of Film.

The so-called public relations are not just lobbying the judges and promoting in the media, there are many ways.

Murphy fell into a very busy stage, catching up with different announcements every day, maybe he was still participating in a program recording in Los Angeles in the morning, and appeared in a promotional event in New York in the afternoon, almost completely becoming a trapeze.

He is very clear about the fact that if you work hard, you may not be able to guarantee that the film "Diego Ross" will win a heavyweight award. If you don't work hard, the possibility of winning is undoubtedly very low.

At the same time, the media on the Internet and 20th Century Fox are still clinging to Catholicism, especially the Catholic believer who attacked Murphy in Santa Monica's commercial plaza, who will jump out from time to time to stand on the side of Catholicism. It's hard to make people in Hollywood ignore Catholicism.

Under such circumstances, when many people in the circle mention "Diego Rose", they can't help but think of the aggressiveness of Catholicism towards Hollywood...

Catholicism makes people feel disgusted, and by the way, they will have more or less good feelings for "Diego Ross". No one can underestimate this little good feeling, which can often directly determine the voting choice of an academy member.

In less than a week after the announcement of the 84th Oscar nomination list, "Diego Ross" was in the limelight. It had the momentum of those films that had swept many heavyweight awards at the Oscars, and it also attracted many people. look sideways.

Murphy plans to keep the "Diego Rose" buzz going until the final voting date.

But what he didn't expect was that just after "Diego Ross" became popular, a pair of wonderful siblings jumped out and stole a lot of limelight. 8 For more exciting novels, welcome to visit our Reading Academy