Hollywood Road

No matter how you pay tribute to the past, nostalgia is a sweet sentimentality, gilding the past, to express a certain dissatisfaction with reality and worry about the unknown future through twists and turns. Nostalgia is not driven by a few movies. It has been in the art world and fashion industry for a long time. The film is only a side test of the undermining collective unconsciousness. In this period when the Western economy is in recession, many people miss the good old days even more.

"Artist" can be said to have a natural advantage in this respect.

After the nomination lunch, everyone came to the front lobby of the Regent Hotel to prepare a super big group photo that is indispensable for every Oscar nominee luncheon.

"This time is the best opportunity."

Standing together, waiting for the staff to arrange a position, Robert Downey Jr. whispered to Murphy, "We are sprinting with all our strength, there is still a great chance."

Murphy nodded lightly, "At this point, we don't need to stay any longer."

If the film is awarded, it will not only fulfill the wishes of him and Robert Downey Jr. for many years, but also realize the wish of his friend Ross. Regardless of the reputation, the name Diego-Ros can spread all over the world, and the future will continue. Was mentioned.

He roughly understands Rose's mentality. After turning to this road of no return, Rose can be said to have nothing to fear, the only fear is to be forgotten.

Robert Downey Jr. also knew that this was his best opportunity, and said, "Old Robert has already started a relationship with him. Just talk about what you need."

Murphy was not polite at all, "Do your best."

"Director Stanton..." A staff member walked over and greeted, "Please here."

The couple nodded to Robert Downey Jr., Murphy followed the staff and came to the photo area, and then more people came over. He quickly found that his position was quite in the middle.

This kind of group photo is not about standing where you want to stand. Those who stand relatively forward in the middle are all prominent in the circle and the big winners on the nomination list this time. Murphy is undoubtedly in line with these two points.

Murphy looked around, and across Meryl Streep, it was Tom Sherak, the current chairman of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

"Attention, everyone look ahead!"

The voice of the photographer came, Murphy retracted his gaze and looked at the front lens. The flashing lights flashed three times, and the group photo ended.

Meryl Streep turned and walked away, but Tom Sherak on the other side of her turned her head and beckoned to Murphy.

"Hi Tom."

Murphy walked over on his own initiative and shook hands with Tom Sherak, who had seen him many times before in Twentieth Century Fox.

"Congratulations." Tom Sherak's smile is much more sincere than Harvey Weinstein before. "This time I won ten nominations."

"But you have to work hard if you want to win," Murphy said casually.

Tom Sherak laughed, and walked outside the hotel with Murphy, and when there was no one around, he said, "The situation is very good for you. Many people in the college stand and support me, including me. "Diego Rose" is the position of the film."

Murphy knew that he was talking about the dispute between the film and the Catholic Church. "I didn't expect the Catholic Church to be so sensitive."

"They have become a habit of interfering with the secular." Tom-Sherak obviously lacks a good impression of Catholicism, "I thought I could interfere in Hollywood affairs like the last century."

He didn't say much, and patted Murphy on the shoulder, "Come on."

Murphy nodded, walked through the open glass door, and left the hotel.

In his car, he looked at the Regent Hotel. No matter how you looked at it, this time was the best opportunity.

Tom Shirack was born in Twentieth Century Fox and has been an executive at Fox before. He has known him for a long time. If his position is not biased towards Twentieth Century Fox, I am afraid that few people will believe it.

He can be regarded as a relatively tough figure among the successive rotating chairpersons of the academy. During his tenure as the chairperson of the academy, he has made many attempts, especially the number of nominations for the best film, which has been implemented for 66 years since 1944. The five-piece system was expanded to ten-piece, and the voting mechanism was revised. In addition, the Academy Council Award Ceremony was established in 2009 to separate the honorary awards of the Oscars.

Needless to say, Tom Sherak has already implicitly expressed his support for his position in private. Although the power of the rotating chairman of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is quite limited, no one can deny that they have considerable influence.

The phone rang, and Murphy took a look at it. Gal Gadot was calling.

He pressed the answer button, "Hi, dear."

"Is the nomination list out?" Gal Gadot asked concerned, "how many did we get?"

"Ten nominations." Murphy said simply, "Best supporting actress, best actor, best director, and best film, all."

"Good!" Gal Gadot asked again, "Where are the two Weinstein films?"

Murphy switched the phone to his left hand, "The Artist has also received ten nominations, and it will be our biggest opponent."

"What about the second episode of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"?"

Hearing Gal Gadot's words, Murphy shook his head, "The little wizard also got some nominations, including the best picture, but you don't have to think about them, they are not rivals."

"That's good." Gal Gadot was probably very busy, and said, "You go home first, I have a lot of things here, and I might have to go back later."

Murphy then hung up the phone and fell into thinking again. There is indeed a saying on the market that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will use heavyweight Oscar awards to affirm the status and status of the series at the end of the "Harry Potter Series". It works, but this kind of statement means that laymen will believe that insiders like him are actually very clear that this is Warner Bros. propaganda.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will not get any heavyweight Oscars, it is not "Lord of the Rings" after all, and Joanna Rowling is not the recognized father of modern fantasy literature like John Tolkien.

Moreover, Oscar's discrimination against this type of film will not change because of the summit of "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King".

In addition to technical awards, magic and sci-fi movies in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" are basically no Oscars, and very few actors are nominated for their performances in sci-fi movies. The number of male and female protagonists is similar. I'm afraid I can't get enough of a hand. So far, outside of Peter Jackson, no director has won an Oscar for best director for magic and sci-fi movies. The Oscar judges have no love for these two types of movies. Yes, this is due to historical reasons, and there is basically no solution at present.

Among them, as a typical commercial fantasy movie, the "Harry Potter Series" is even more disliked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. If Murphy remembers well, the entire "Harry Potter Series" movie has been nominated for many technical awards. But he has never won even an Oscar statuette.

Therefore, there is no need to consider that "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will cause trouble to "Diego Rose".

After the nomination list was announced, all public relations actions must be stopped in accordance with the regulations of the academy, but Murphy was not prepared to stop. He knew his competitors would not stop either. He just turned public relations from the open to the dark. .

He did not go back to Wave Manor directly, but asked the driver to go to Century City first. Anyway, the Regent Hotel was also in Beverly Hills, quite close to Century City.

Murphy came to the Fox Building and met with Carla Firth. Due to Carla Firth’s busy work, the two sides did not say much, but only exchanged opinions on the next public relations promotion. Twentieth Century Fox will continue to use its banner. The resources to run the film "Diego Rose" hit a series of Oscar awards.

To achieve the desired result at the Oscars ceremony next month, the support of the film company is very important.

In addition, Twentieth Century Fox is also urging Murphy to start the preparations for the second part of "City of Chaos" as soon as possible. James Murdoch also went to Carla Faith's office to meet him.

Murphy is very clear about the truth. If you want a horse to run, you have to feed the horse, so he promised James Murdoch that the second part of "City of Chaos" will be held at the 84th Oscars. Before, the previous preparations began in Los Angeles.

Such a promise undoubtedly refreshed the high-level spirits of Fox in the 20th century. Their cooperation with Murphy was not for artistic films such as "Diego Rose", but for those commercial businesses with a dark epic temperament. Giant system!

Only commercial giants can bring real huge profits and maximize the industrialization advantages of Fox in the twentieth century.

To this day, whether it is Carla Firth and James Murdoch, or other high-level 20th Century Fox, it is clear that one thing is that as long as Murphy can maintain the quality of the film, the sequel to "City of Chaos" There will be a great outbreak of terror.

This is because several survey data from different institutions simultaneously show that "City of Chaos" ranked first among all the DVD sales and leasing of Hollywood movies last year and the Internet online on-demand!

In other words, outside of the cinema, this film has had a huge influence and attracted a large number of viewers.

These are the foundations of future films!

After staying in the Fox Tower for more than an hour, Murphy left, got in the car, and ordered the driver to go home. On the way back, he called the lawyer Robert.

After he got connected there, he said, "Make arrangements as soon as possible. I'm going to see Rose at the State Penitentiary."

Since Christmas, Murphy has been busy with various jobs and has never been to a state prison again.