Birth of an actor

"Although Gwen is my goddaughter, to be honest, her performance is not as good as yours. If she can win the actress, I can't understand why Miramax would give up on you. Obviously, if Weinstein won the If the youngest Oscar winner in history is a native American, he can get more benefits..."

William didn't attend the post-Oscars dinner party, but before he left the Dorothy Chandler Theater, Steven Spielberg approached him specifically, saying he didn't want to attend the party or any press releases either. Yes, but he wanted to talk to William.

What are you talking about?Of course Oscar.But William hasn't figured out why Spielberg is looking for him. Is he simply looking for someone who has the same failure experience to complain about, or is he trying to form some kind of front alliance?As Spielberg himself said, Gwyneth Paltrow is his goddaughter, and the subject of the Oscars is too sensitive, so before he can figure out what the other person thinks, William has to make sure that any sentence he says The words are all within the safe range: "Roberto Bernini deserves his name. Even if someone is doing PR for me throughout the awards season, it may not be possible to win a trophy from him."

"But you haven't ruled out that possibility," Steven Spielberg pointed out sharply.

"Is there any use in saying it now, Steven? The Oscars are over. Maybe you should just tell me what you want, and it won't hurt either of us to be less devious."

"I feel unfair, and angry." Steven Spielberg looked William in the eyes and said: "Dreamworks is going to fight back, and I don't want Weinstein to sleep too comfortably on his credit card. Do you want to join in?"

William didn't expect that a legendary director like Spielberg, who should have been indifferent to the gains and losses of honor and shame, would be aggrieved by a failure. Looking at it, it is not surprising that Spielberg would be angry-in order to win the best picture from DreamWorks, Weinstein did more than just advertise his own film. There are many clues to prove that in In the month before the Oscar vote, there were a lot of news reports in the city that smeared "Private Soldier", and the masterminds behind the scenes all pointed to the Weinstein brothers.

However, without Weinstein's smearing, would "Saving Private Ryan" definitely win the best picture?Not necessarily, the reason why "Private Soldier" was very popular before the awards was because its main theme of political correctness was so popular that almost every American liked it, so it was generally believed that members of the Academy would also love it and vote for it One vote, but couldn't the Academy favor other films? "Shakespeare in Love", a semi-biographical film full of artistic atmosphere, has always been favored by the Academy, not to mention that not every member of the Academy is American and likes war-themed movies.

It can only be said that Dreamworks and Steven Spielberg have already regarded Oscar as their own, but the trophy did not fall into their hands in the end, but flapped their wings and flew away, Spiel Angry and dissatisfied, Berg blamed himself for being too mean, so he blamed the enemy for being too mean—and, coincidentally, their enemy was also really mean.

It can be seen from the conversation just now that, emotionally, Steven Spielberg has obviously regarded William as a "Weinstein victim" like him. William is indeed, but how resentful he is It's okay to dislike Weinstein, because William clearly understands that Weinstein's public relations methods are only one of the reasons why he can't win the Oscar winner, not the whole thing.

However, after carefully considering Spielberg's proposal, William nodded: "I will join."

Steven Spielberg immediately showed a smile, and he looked at William with a little more friendship in his comrades.

William thought that Spielberg probably misunderstood, and he misunderstood that he agreed to join forces to fight back because he was upset about losing Oscar.

But, that’s not the case. William will agree because he knows that he and Weinstein are not the same people. They are too different in character and behavior. Since they can’t be friends anymore, they will become enemies sooner or later in the future—— As the largest independent film company in Hollywood, Miramax's ambition for Oscar is also the biggest besides the seven major film industries, and the original intention of William and Lance to establish Willlott is not to be in the seven major film industries and other small and medium-sized film companies. The producers are trying to survive in the cracks. Although Willlott mainly shoots commercial films, sooner or later he will have his sword in the Oscars. Miramax and Willott will become real competitors sooner or later. In various senses, since that day is destined to come, William doesn't mind stumbling his future opponents in advance.

However, since Spielberg has misunderstood, William is not going to explain, he just added: "However, Steven, I am not even as old as you or Weinstein. Can't cause any trouble."

Steven Spielberg laughed meaningfully: "Do you think I would casually find a young man to talk about cooperation, just because he is the most popular movie star in Hollywood? I know Steve Jobs, Will, and Paul Allen, from them, I heard a lot of things that I never heard in Hollywood, about an amazing young man, some said he was the next Warren Buffett, others said he The next Bill Gates, he could even go straight to Rupert Murdoch if he wanted to. But in Hollywood, in the freest and most closed city, there are still many people who think he is just a Isn’t it amazing how lucky a movie star is? It’s unbelievable that this young man, living in the most spotlighted place in the world, can still retain so much shadow for himself.”

After listening quietly, William returned the other party with a half-hearted smile: "Then what do you think of this young man?"

"I think this young man is very smart. He is high profile when he should be high profile and low profile when he should be low profile. What he wants people to focus on is never the most noteworthy in him. He should be subject to the same as any public figure. The media, however, the media is subject to him not knowing it, such a clever method makes me want to be his friend, not his enemy."

"I think you're already friends," William said.

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Although far away in Europe, the atmosphere of the Cannes Film Festival in France has just been stirred up, but in North America, the annual Oscars have ended, and all the awards have been settled, which also declares the end of the entire North American awards season—and so on , the end is only for Hollywood film practitioners, and for the media, there is still a lot of news that can be hyped.

This is almost a fixed drama after the end of the Oscars every year: in the minds of the judges of the major award ceremonies, they have already selected the best of the year in their minds. The winner will become the darling of the media, the most lovable sweetheart in the world, and even be promoted to the altar, but if the best choice for the Oscar is unexpected and a shocking upset, then the following will be overwhelming. Questioning and criticism, there are some media who are really complaining about those film critics and movies that can win awards but get nothing, and there are also media that follow suit and join in the fun to gain attention. In short, even the Oscars have completely ended, and the public is not short of excitement in newspaper news. look.

The No.70 Academy Awards Ceremony is destined to become the most lively Oscar in the [-]th century, no, it can even be called the last carnival of the American media at the end of the century——

"Once again, the Academy made an incomprehensible choice. Steven Spielberg, who directed the masterpiece "Saving Private Ryan", won the best director, but missed the best picture, which is the first in Oscar history Rarely, in the past 70 award ceremonies, there were less than 20 winners of best director and best picture who did not coincide, and most of them happened to directors who were inexperienced and fledgling. As we all know, Steven Spielberg has been very active in Hollywood since the [-]s, and has produced countless excellent films as a director and producer for more than [-] years. Is it because the academy chose this way because it is just tired of letting Steven Spier Berg wins again?"

"However, although "Shakespeare in Love" is not as pleasing as "Saving Private Ryan", it can also be regarded as a masterpiece. The British style of the fifteenth century portrayed in the film is authentic and believable. Shakespeare's real life trajectory and fictional stories The combination of plots is seamless and just right. The audience can find the director's unique answers to almost every doubt about Shakespeare in history. The beautiful and sad love of Romeo and Juliet is also vividly reflected. William Bradley His performance is even more charming. He is the most recognized actor who played Shakespeare himself in all film and television works. In the past year, William Bradley not only increased the sales of Shakespeare's works worldwide by 30.00%, His photos are directly used as Shakespeare himself or Romeo in many countries, such as Japan and China, and William Bradley has become synonymous with Shakespeare, no matter how much Shakespeare is related to him in the future "Shakespeare in Love" is also one of the past films that could not be popular with movie fans."

"But because of this, Gwyneth Paltrow's actress is even more puzzling. After the awards ceremony, some members of the academy said in an interview that 'Gwyneth Paltrow's performance is natural and conquered most people. Academy members, that’s why they won Best Actress.” So, if the Academy rejected Cate Blanchett for Gwyneth’s natural performance, and Meryl Streep, why didn’t they do it for a better actor? Like Shakespeare's William Bradley rejecting Roberto Bernini and Ian McKellen?"

The first to question the results was the media in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. These areas are closely related to Hollywood, and many Hollywood rights figures are based here. After the Oscars ceremony, the media bombarded "Save Private Ryan' got a bad rap, blasting Gwyneth Paltrow for not getting Best Actress.

"San Francisco Chronicle" even said: "If Gwyneth Paltrow's performance in "Shakespeare in Love" is also worthy of an Oscar queen, William Bradley should be the best actor, and the Academy should give Even if William reissued a statuette, even if it resulted in the birth of the youngest Oscar winner in history, it must have received less criticism than Gwyneth Paltrow?"

This is the strange thing about public opinion. Before the Golden Globe Awards, the public was always pessimistic about William's ability to win the best actor award, which symbolizes the best actor, because his age was too old for the best actor. Young, but after the breakthrough at the Golden Globes, William did not win the Oscar, and many people accused the academy of being unfair-part of this is due to Gwyneth Paltrow, although Paltrow Trout is a few years older than William, but it is not difficult to distinguish between the two's performance in "Shakespeare in Love". Most readers will not compare Rob To Bernini or William Bradley, who is more qualified to be the best actor, but would think, since Gwyneth Paltrow can win the statuette, why can't William Bradley?He looks even better than her in the movie!

There are also some reasons, and William thinks one of them must be fueled by Steven Spielberg. The other party must think that "Saving Private Ryan" and William are tied together, and they have a better position to protest the injustice of Oscar.

The wave of bombardment of the academy started in the Los Angeles area. Although the scale seems huge, it is nothing new, and it is difficult to have any long-term impact on the academy and Miramax. After all, every year after the awards season, there will be A similar drama, whether it is Hollywood or the public, has long been tired of watching. At most, when people talk about this Oscar a few years later, they will have such an impression: "It is the best picture, the best man and woman in that year." Is there an Oscar where all the actors are criticized?"

——But criticisms are criticisms, and those who get the statuettes will still have the last laugh. Those criticisms are just some lace news that accompanied the Oscars.

If there is no series of events that happened next, the follow-up of the No.70 Oscars will really only stop at the level of public opinion, and the academy will still insist that each of their choices is transparent and fair, Mira Max and Weinstein are still the biggest winners of the last Oscars of the [-]th century --

I don't know when, maybe right after the Oscars ceremony, in some website forums where movie fans gather, some posts about digging into the inside story of Hollywood film companies and Oscars suddenly appeared, and it became popular overnight on the entire Internet.

These posts are all named after "Who Helped Gwyneth Paltrow Become the Oscar Queen? Hollywood Gold Medalist Weinstein" or "Oscar Insider Revealed: The PR Game Between Film Companies". While how Lamax helped its films win Oscars, it also cited examples of how legendary Hollywood actresses Mary Pickford, Louis Reiner, and Joan Crawford became queens in the golden age of Hollywood to demonstrate that the Since the second Oscar, there have been public relations activities targeting student members, and since Miramax was born and joined this game that was originally only played by major studios, the domino effect has appeared—— In the first few years of playing games, Weinstein relied on investing more and paying more than other film companies, and reaped rich returns. After other film companies reacted, of course they had to keep up with Miramax The scale of public relations has increased, so the investment has increased step by step, turning into an Oscar "arms race".

"Harvey Weinstein turned 'How to Get an Oscar' from a mediocre PR exercise into a hard-fought political campaign, and he deserves to be the winner of this campaign because he changed the Oscar’s rules of the game.” The poster seems to be very fond of Harvey Weinstein, and in addition to revealing the inside story of the Oscars, the post also talked about various secrets of Hollywood stars, many of which were in the next few days. This has been corroborated by tabloid reports such as USA Today, the New York Post or the National Enquirer, which has led many netizens who saw the post to believe that the person who posted the post must be very familiar with Hollywood, or simply did not want to reveal his real name The reporter of "Variety Show" or "Hollywood Reporter" because only the reporters of these two newspapers can grasp so many secrets about Hollywood.

Two days later, "Rolling Stone" reprinted part of the content of the post, and two days later, "Boston Globe", when the Sunday edition of "New York Times" also had "Weinstein and Oscar PR" as the headline, in the entertainment After a column was published in the magazine, the name Harvey Weinstein has gone from being a hot topic among netizens to being resounding all over the United States.

In the eyes of ordinary people who live far away from Hollywood, the name Harvey Weinstein has become synonymous with supernatural powers. This Jewish man who owns a film company is omnipotent, and even the results of the Oscar selection can be manipulated! ——I have to say that this is really exaggerated and untrue, but the more people are concerned about the unknown world, the more people are not stingy with their rich imagination. This is how the so-called rumors were born.

As I said before, "Oscar PR" has always been a "hidden rule" in Hollywood that people in the industry never say publicly. Journalists who don't write entertainment news don't even know its existence, and they can't grasp its rules. Now, this The rules have been completely overturned and put on the table, and the major media in the United States have also found it strange, watching, and joining in the fun at the beginning, and now they are gradually able to taste it-these flattery, no, it seems on the surface It is touting Weinstein's report, in fact, it is touting!

Think about it, if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is once again accused of being unfair in the selection of the Oscars, if every Academy member who voted for Miramax is deeply suspected of being manipulated and bribed...

As for those media who are originally located in the heart of Hollywood, have strong connections, and know many secrets, such as the two major Hollywood media "Variety Show" and "Hollywood Reporter", they have already begun to speculate on each other: it is the opposite newspaper that is in the whole Weinstein?And which company was instigated by it?Warner?Sony?Or the most motivated DreamWorks?

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"Is the phone connected? What did Clint Eastwood say?" Bob Weinstein asked his brother anxiously.

"His daughter picked it up and told us the old guy wasn't home," Harvey Weinstein said with a dark face.

"How many times is this? The one who didn't answer the phone, the one who accused us of messing up, and the one who directly stated that he would not attend any Miramax receptions next year! Damn this group, they were a month ago Why didn’t you say you want to sever ties with us when you don’t spend a penny to eat, drink and have fun in Las Vegas?” Bob Weinstein angrily circled his brother’s office: “Who is blackmailing us? Spielberg?"

Weinstein had fought a stunning PR battle for Miramax during awards season, only to lose one by negligence after the Oscars — initially, when the media started buzzing about Weinstein and his The Weinstein brothers were originally proud of their public relations energy. They thought it would be good for their reputation, and they might be able to attract more partners for Miramax, but gradually the public opinion became uncontrollable. , those rumors touting Weinstein became more and more exaggerated, so the Weinstein brothers realized that this was not an accident, but an organized operation against Miramax.

These days, the number of directors, actors, and screenwriters who have expressed their affection for Miramax has increased, but without exception, they are all newcomers, and they all expect to become famous overnight after hugging Miramax's thigh , Get an Oscar statuette sooner or later.Even people in the industry have been bewitched by rumors. It is conceivable what these inside stories and revelations outside of Hollywood have been preached.

Ever since they realized something was wrong, the Weinstein brothers have been trying to make amends. They are busy asking the media to refute the rumors to maintain the reputation of the Academy and the fairness of the Oscars. They are busy complaining to the seven major film companies, especially the parent company Disney, that they are being accused Revenge—but they were warned by Disney that they need to be more restrained in the awards season next year—busy in contact with close academy members to dispel their prejudices caused by watching the news, and busy looking for clues to find out which competitor is messing with it the ghost.

But Weinstein paid a lot, but achieved little, especially many members of the academy who had received benefits from Weinstein and had a close relationship with them. Now almost all of them have changed their attitudes. They either took the initiative to distance themselves, or pretended I don’t know them well, and a few members of the academy who have really good personal relationships even secretly said in private: “There are more than 5000 people in the academy, Harvey, there are many factions, you are Jewish, and so is Spielberg. We worked so hard before You canvassing votes, now that the limelight has changed, almost all of them have been unfairly controlled...God testify, we didn't take a penny from you, at most, at most, we went to Las Vegas to play a few times... ..."

"No, it shouldn't be DreamWorks." Facing his brother's question, Harvey Weinstein replied: "Steven Spielberg, even if David Geffen has the ability to manipulate public opinion, mi Lamax is still going to be a big Oscar winner? Unless—”

"Unless what?"

"Unless Spielberg has a tacit collaborator, who would it be? Warner? Universal? Gwyneth Paltrow took the actress and pissed these people off?"