King of Hollywood

"I am deeply shocked by your cruelty and cruelty, Dufresne, I feel the chill even in your presence. On behalf of the Supreme Court of Maine, I sentence you to two life sentences, in order, one for each, Immediate execution, no parole, no above mentioned!" As the judge pronounced the sentence coldly, Andy Dufrey's face turned pale.

The next step is naturally to be imprisoned. What kind of blow is more serious than this? When passing through the prison gate, the looking-up camera made the viewers feel suffocated, and the warden's naked sentence "give your faith to God, and give your body to me" gave people a preliminary taste of the despair in the prison.

However, surprisingly, most people—whether Reid in the film or the audience in front of the big screen—thought that Andy, who would hug and cry on the night of his imprisonment, accepted his situation very calmly. As Rhett said during the briefing, he was like a free man among these prisoners.

The story continues to develop. Reid's success in the prison, the brutality of the prison guards, and the abnormality of the "three sisters" are revealed one by one along with the plot. The audience is worried and indignant, but also wonders whether Andy killed himself. wife?

The answer to this question seems to be revealed in the part when the roof is being repaired. Andy risked being pushed downstairs by the prison guard captain to exchange three bottles of beer for each of his companions. In the morning sun, the prisoners drank refreshing beer, and Andy smiled and watched them, as if normal workers were resting.

As Andy helped the captain of the prison guard to evade taxes, he began to come into the sight of the warden, and then he was transferred to the library to be with the old cloth, and then he began to launder money for the warden. He is like the old cloth who hanged himself in the room after being released from prison on parole. He began to be institutionalized slowly. He wrote a letter to the State House to ask for funds to build a library. It seemed that he was dying until "The Wedding of Figaro" The prison rang.

"I didn't understand what those two Italian ladies were singing that day, and I didn't even try to understand..." Rhett's narration sounded, but another line began to echo in the audience's mind: Some birds are destined to be different. Will be caged, for every feather of theirs shines with the brilliance of freedom!

Finally, the climax is approaching. Tommy, who was imprisoned for theft, has cleared Andy's suspicion. Unfortunately, the warden does not intend to appeal for him. How could he let a prisoner who holds his own secret out of control. Andy angered the warden and was finally put in confinement. Although he fought, it was a pity that he failed, and even cost Tommy's life.

Is it all about to end? When they learned that Andy took a few feet of rope from his friend, when the camera stayed on Andy sitting quietly on the bed for a long time, when Reed said "everyone can't get over it", the audience screened Hold your breath. At this point, no matter who it is, they don't want to see the end of the tragedy.

They did not see it, the plot suddenly turned around, when the camera stretched out from the cave where Andy escaped to shoot the twisted face of the warden, when Andy carefully planned to crawl desperately in the stinking sewer, when Andy stretched out in the rain When looking up at the night sky with both hands, in the thick and passionate music, the audience's emotions that were suppressed to the extreme before were released to their heart's content, and long breaths were everywhere in the auditorium.

At the end of the movie, all the villains were punished, and Red, who was sincerely repentant because of Andy, was released on parole. Then, the two reunited and embraced on the sunny beach.

The lights in the auditorium were turned on, and after a few minutes of silence, there was a burst of applause. At first, there was only one person, but soon there were two more people, and more people joined in. In the end, the warm applause was almost enough Blow off the roof.

"It seems that everyone still likes this movie very much." Adrian, who was sitting in a special private room, looked at the scene in the screening hall and said with a little satisfaction. Lavern glanced at him without speaking, and lowered his head on his notebook Start writing.

Soon, a staff member fed back the information of the preview screening, and Adrian couldn't help but whistled while holding the statistical form: "Look, Laffer, the evaluations are basically 8 to 9 points, and there are also 10 points. A few, as for the opinions raised, they are all within my expectations and can be ignored."

"This is indeed an excellent movie." Laverne nodded in agreement with this statement.

"Then, I will notify Universal, and leave the publicity work to you." Adrian stared at him without blinking.

"I understand." Lavern stopped what he was doing, raised his head and nodded seriously again.

He knew the reason why Adrian spoke so solemnly, Oscar! As the most influential film award in the United States, the honor represented by the Academy Awards is unmatched by other awards—whether it is the Golden Globe Award, the Directors Guild Award or the Film Critics Association Award. All film companies will do their best to promote and publicize the films they produce and the actors who star in them, from nominations to awards.

As Adrian said, all awards ceremonies are nothing more than sharing the cake—whether it’s a European film festival or an Oscar—as long as you are eligible to participate, you can expect to get a piece of it. As for whether you can share it or not? It depends on the means of publicity and public relations.

Generally speaking, for a movie or an actor to be nominated and win an award, publicity and public relations must account for at least 40% of the credit. Especially for an award, this ratio will increase by 5 percentage points. Unless the film or actor has an indisputable advantage, for example, 90% of the film critics and the public agree that the film or the actor should win the award, or the gap between other films, actors and actors nominated that year is too large.

This sounds unacceptable. Shouldn't the review of such a well-known film award be fair and fair? However, the reality is such a pity that people will be affected, and people will be biased. Of course, the judges cannot be non-human, so it is certain to be influenced or have subjective opinions on certain movies.

As long as the publicity is in place and the public relations are strong, the judges will naturally favor certain movies and certain actors unconsciously, and then vote for it. It's not that the film academy has thought of a way. All 5,000 members are judges is one of the measures, which indeed guarantees fairness to a certain extent. After all, compared to the Golden Globe Awards with only 99 judges, it is not easy to influence 5,000 people.

But this fairness is only to a certain extent. The 5,000 members of the Film Academy seem to be quite large, but less than half of them can really influence the judges. Just like those European film festivals, the judges of the country always have a lot more right to speak . Therefore, after the quality is guaranteed, competition other than quality becomes the main factor in determining the outcome. If you have a huge publicity tool in your hands, which can be seen, heard, and noticed by the judges at any time, then you are almost invincible. This is the power of the media.

Of course, ordinary people will not see these, they will only see the various predictions of the critics, the various shows on the Oscar red carpet, and those beautiful and gorgeous pictures, but not It is also impossible to notice all kinds of things behind it-this is also the power of the media.

Therefore, Adrian has fulfilled his promise to produce a film that is eligible to be shortlisted, so whether he can get tickets for next year's Oscars depends on Laverne's promotional work.

"Okay, then let's talk about another issue," Adrian immediately changed the subject, "The preparation of the new movie."

Lavern suddenly showed a wry smile. He really didn't know what to say about it. Adrian's steps were too fast and too big, which made him feel like he couldn't keep up. It is undeniable that since he acquired the Bosworth film company, the two small-budget high-grossing films he produced immediately changed the company's current half-dead situation. "Memento," in particular, grossed only a few million less than "Two Smoking Barrels," yet earned a critical acclaim, something that Bosworth Films last saw years ago.

In addition, he has an exceptionally keen eye for investing in movies. For example, "Terminator 2" in July has a global box office of more than 400 million, and several countries have not yet released it. The final global box office Possibly more than 500 million!

Now that it has made a good start, it should naturally develop steadily, but Adrian chose to rush forward. Before "Memento" was offline, preparations for "The Shawshank Redemption" with a medium-scale investment began, and this time the goal was no longer a film festival, but an Oscar! In addition, director Spielberg was invited to produce "Jurassic Park", and he is also preparing to cooperate with Disney to produce a live-action version of "Ghost Horse Elf".

Well, Laverne admits that "The Shawshank Redemption" is an excellent movie, fully qualified for the Oscar. He also admitted that with the lessons learned from "Terminator 2", if "Jurassic Park" can really make realistic dinosaur CG, it might make a lot of money; It is possible for directors and producers to seize selling points and make a fortune. But Adrian not only did not stop, but ran even more crazily. The post-production period of "The Shawshank Redemption" has just ended, and he is about to prepare a new movie, and he will make three movies in the next year. Supporting an actor and actress on stage, and being nominated for the best director!

As a veteran in the entertainment industry, Laverne has seen many arrogant, paranoid, and eccentric directors and producers, but this is the first time Adrian is like this. He's neither bigoted nor paranoid and well-resourced, but when it comes to movies he becomes incredibly confident, as if he's always right. Indeed, Adrian's ability is unquestionable, he has been correct so far, but the question is can he continue to be correct?

Maybe... can? The wry smile is the wry smile. Although he had expressed his opinions on Adrian's approach a long time ago, Lavern now deep down in his heart does not want to see another miracle.

(Okay, I admit that I am still digging a hole, no wonder someone said that my book is a bit slow, but fortunately, the hole in the first chapter will be filled soon, and the protagonist will also initially establish his own status .)