Hollywood Road

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"The 84th Academy Awards ceremony will start soon, and anyone with a discerning eye should know one thing: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and a bunch of handsome and scumbag stars in Hollywood are actually all The veritable secondary, the big boss who really dominates the overall situation, is the fat guy hiding behind the crowd——Harvey Weinstein!"

"Because, a very serious fact is: from last year's "The King's Speech" kicked out "Social Network" and won the three awards of Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture all the way, to this year's "The Artist" It is almost a complete copy of the 'King''s glorious road to the Olympics, and it is bound to be invincible and win a lot of applause!"

"Oscar awards are controlled by the invisible hands of Harvey Weinstein. It has become a clear rule that can be written into publications. Every Hollywood actor, from today, should probably put 'Follow Harvey Weinstein' Ernstein has meat to eat' as a creed in life!"

Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Howard Rodman shook his head and said to his old friend next to him, "Oscar is about to change his surname to Weinstein.? ≠"

"Is it so exaggerated?" The old friend was somewhat disapproving.

"Isn't it?" Howard Rodman reminded. "Remember how much controversy Harvey Weinstein created for the Oscars, starting with The English Patient?"

The man sat there thinking for a while, and finally nodded, "I made Oscar a joke a few times."

Howard Rodman put the newspaper on the table, "Oscar is not named Weinstein, and has never been named anyone!"

After thinking for a while, Howard Rodman said to his friend, "Oscar can't go on like this. If it goes on like this, the Weinstein brothers will become the spokespersons of Oscar. I will try to persuade people on my side not to vote. Tickets to Weinstein Films."

The old friend took a look at the newspaper and said, "What is said above is very reasonable. Many actors have no limit to flattering the Weinstein Brothers in order to win the Oscar, but they have never placed the authority of the academy on them." In my eyes, isn’t the Academy’s Oscar really belonging to the Weinstein Brothers?”

After snorting coldly, he said again, "I'll take my leave first, I'm going back to communicate with people."

"Okay." Howard Rodman nodded, "I won't send you off, I'm going to make a few calls."

He has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1989 and has the right to vote. As the vice president of the Writers Guild of America, he is a representative figure of the screenwriter rights organization in the academy. It can be said that he is a very influential figure in the academy. One of the core characters.

Outside of private activities, Murphy teamed up with 20th Century Fox to instigate this media report, but unlike Harvey Weinstein's smearing of him and "Diego Ross", the media reports did not discredit Weinstein. The Ernstein brothers sang praises, and listed his great achievements in the past Oscars one by one, reminding many academy members, especially those old men who cherish their feathers as they get older, Oscar is no longer their Oscar, but changed their surname to Wayne stan.

Under the instigation of Murphy and 20th Century Fox, some media praised Harvey Weinstein to a considerable degree.

"Harvey Weinstein, the one who can really decide who belongs to the Oscar!"

"What factors can make a film a big winner of the Oscar? Analyzing the past two decades, it is not difficult to find that if you follow Harvey Weinstein, you can win an Oscar!"

"Oscar changed his surname to Weinstein, who will explain the unspoken secret?"

The remarks made by these traditional media can affect the Oscar judges to some extent, especially those academy conservatives who cherish Oscar feathers.

In addition to paper media, as the live broadcaster of this year's Oscar Awards Ceremony, aBc TV Station affiliated to Walt Disney is also in the prime time of the channel with the highest ratings in the United States.

The Oscar preview program was broadcast for two consecutive nights, focusing on the analysis of the brilliant achievements of the Weinstein brothers in the previous Oscars, proving that Oscar is really going to change his surname to Weinstein soon.

"Harvey Weinstein's repeated trials and failures in Oscar public relations have led those global movie fans who are getting more and more familiar with the Oscars to have a terrible misunderstanding of 'the Oscar judges are a bunch of idiots': from the earliest "The English Patient" " swept the Oscars, until the end of the century "Shakespeare in Love" surpassed "Saving Private Ryan", and then "Chicago" surprised all four, Harvey Weinstein is always playing public relations tricks!"

"Of course, you also have to admit that Harvey Weinstein's way of manipulating the Oscars has also evolved with the times: when "The English Patient" he liked to advertise his film as 'the greatest moving film in years', but When running "The King's Speech", he publicly expressed his dislike of this kind of label propaganda, alluding to the impetuousness of "Social Network"; It’s ugly to give gifts, but after seeing “The Hurt Locker” encounter the producer’s e-mail canvassing incident, he immediately narrowed his ambitions to win the award, focusing on the best supporting actor and forgetting about it.”

"By the time of "The King's Speech" last year, he knew that film critics are a bunch of pretty annoying guys, so he publicly stated that 'the Oscar judges have their own aesthetic judgments, and of course they will not be swayed by the tastes of film critics." People from the Academy of Film and Arts, and spared no effort to get the three major trade union awards, and realized the final comeback of this film."

"Besides, this year's "The Artist" came out, and you could almost see a Harvey Weinstein in the making, implementing a more perfect plan than ever before: never claiming that this film is a tribute; claiming that it will never Crack down on opponents and improve yourself, but let people completely forget "Diego Ross" and "Tree of Life" touted by film critics when the trade union awards are presented, and pass it again and again. The media said that he is a person who "respects the art of film." "

Just like the media said that Murphy has connections with drug cartels, this is indeed the truth. Murphy can't justify it. Even though he has no economic relationship with Rose, let alone exchange of interests, he can't explain clearly. Harvey Weinstein The other party can't explain everything they have done in the past. The more Harvey Weinstein stands up and explains, the more members of the Academy will see his unreasonable influence on the Oscars.

This kind of influence is fine in the dark, but on the bright side, those conservative old men with strong self-esteem must be unhappy.

Among the few old judges that Murphy came into contact with, some even had the idea that we are all a bunch of old fools at the mercy of the Weinstein brothers?

Although he could vaguely see the effect, Murphy did not stop. The voice of praising Harvey Weinstein in the media ran through the entire voting period.

Especially on the "Hollywood Reporter", which has a huge influence in the circle, after the voting time entered the middle, Murphy directly spent huge sums of money to buy important pages one after another, and continued to report on Harvey Weinstein's Oscar career.

"The Artist, Harvey Weinstein's tailor-made gift for the Oscars!"

What the core members of the academy hate the most may be different for each person, and it is impossible to guess, but there is one thing in common. They have always hated the extremely obvious behavior of attacking Oscars for the sake of impacting Oscars.

"As early as last May at the Cannes International Film Festival, Harvey Weinstein found that the film was a tailor-made gift for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters, whose average age was 56 years old. : Black and white, silent, simulating the gestures of stars in the classic Hollywood era, and a logically simple and appropriate 100-minute film length, all of which are very suitable for him to carry out Oscar operations."

"More importantly, the time difference between the screening date and the release date is set exactly the same as "The King's Speech": the praise of "The King's Speech" was from the Toronto Film Festival in September of the previous year. However, the large-scale release was scheduled before the Oscars, and its competitor "The Social Network" had already been dried up; The audience rushed into the theater and found that it was a silent film, and they were fooled and asked to refund their tickets, but this news itself was a selling point, which further made voters feel: Oscars should pay more attention to taste, ordinary audiences are uneducated..."

"Harvey Weinstein has now become the manipulator behind the Oscars. If you want to know the Oscar winners in advance? It's very simple. Just check the project schedule of the Weinstein Film Company, and it will be clear."

At the same time, Murphy has not ignored the influence of the critics on the Oscars.

Well-known critic Stephen Colbert ranted publicly on his "Bert Time" program, accusing "The Artist" of being "disgusting" flattery, and that the film changed its original intention of shooting in order to show favor to the academics, "despicable "Cut the video into a black and white silent film!

Subsequently, professional film critics in the Los Angeles area, led by Todd McCarthy and Kenneth Turan, also criticized the film "The Artist" in their columns.

""The Artist" was full of tendency to show favor to the Hollywood academy during the entire selection process, and its work itself did not meet the usual selection criteria of the Oscars!"

"If I have to pay to watch black-and-white literary works, I would rather choose to watch The New York Times. If the Oscar gave the award to "The Artist", it would be better to award it to "Transformers". At least it is more enjoyable."

All kinds of fancy hype continued until mid-February. With the arrival of the academy voting deadline, the media and Hollywood suddenly returned to silence, and everyone was waiting for the start of the Oscars ceremony. 8 For more exciting novels, welcome to visit our Reading Academy