Birth of an actor

On Sunset Boulevard's Famous Brand Street, William was shopping purposefully—Christmas is coming, and he wants to buy gifts for his friends and family.

Although William is not the type to make friends all over the world, the friends he makes are basically reliable. Even in Calgate School, where there are many rich and powerful children and snobbish eyes, he was inspired by Edwin Bradley's His identity changed drastically overnight, and none of his really good friends abandoned him all of a sudden. Those who changed their faces and stayed away in an instant were just those who were not indifferent to each other.

Bought a Tiffany diamond necklace for Madeleine and a Rolex watch for Amon, made of stainless steel, William can only afford this now, but he thinks he will have money to give his agent a gold watch in the future Yes, the last thing is to go to the biggest Nike store in the city and get the latest running shoes for Toby.

This running shoe is a collaboration between Nike and a New York painter. It is limited to 500 pairs in the United States, and 120 pairs are on sale in the Los Angeles area. Toby dreamed of this running shoe, and even went to line up at [-] o'clock in the morning on the day of the sale. Unfortunately, , there are obviously hundreds of people who went worse than him. They were waiting at the door of the specialty store in the middle of the night, or even the afternoon before yesterday. Toby failed to grab the running shoes. For the first time, I found that my roommate, who was friendly and easy to get along with, could become so noisy.

Fortunately, William happened to know that store. The owner's son is also a student of Santa Monica Middle School. He played games with William and had a good relationship. William got Demi Moore's autograph in exchange for the store. The sample shoes displayed in the inner glass window happened to be a size 11, the same size as Toby's.

Judging from Toby's eagerness for this pair of limited edition running shoes, he was about to go to the newspaper to buy them. William thought he wouldn't mind if these shoes had been dusted in the store for a few days, and they hadn't been worn by anyone else anyway.

Unlike the frigid New York, Los Angeles never snows in winter, and the sun shines brightly even at Christmas. On some days, the temperature in the city can even soar to around [-] degrees, making people not want to wear a coat when they go out.

Although there is no Christmas atmosphere in Los Angeles, where there is no snow, there are still great discounts in stores and many activities. In addition, Hollywood, which is famous all over the world, is very close to Las Vegas, so many, many people come from East Head over to the coast or midlands for some warm and crazy days.

People come and go on Sunset Boulevard, the accents of East and West meet, and the traffic soars to the highest level of the year.

If you don't look at the road when you take a step, you may bump into other people after a few steps.

William came out of Nike's store with a shopping bag in his hand. Before he had walked down a street, three blonde beauties walked up to him.

William avoided the door of a store down the street before they collided.

The beauty on the far left smiled at him as she passed by: "Hi, Will."

"...Hi?" William belatedly greeted the back, and suddenly realized: He doesn't seem to know each other at all?

And then a little happy again——

Everyone who lives in Los Angeles knows what it means to be popular?

Being popular means that you are walking on Sunset Boulevard, and everyone who passes by you is calling your name and greeting you kindly.

William thought of Leonardo again in a strange way.

When filming "Romeo and Juliet Modern Edition", once the male actors got together to talk about women. Some people were discussing what kind of method can be used to date high-quality blonde beauties without spending money. William remained silent. When the discussion failed to come up with a good solution for a long time, Leonardo spoke.

Leonardo, who was flirting with Claire Danes at the time, said in a very professional tone: "The private party is good, the bar and the nightclub are so-so, the women you meet there, you dare to pack their medical check-up sheets Tickets? The most environmentally friendly way is to go to Famous Brand Street after breakfast, and buy something casually, or don’t buy anything, anyway, just stay there, and when a woman recognizes you and greets you—she It must be because you have a crush on you that you call your name-just ask her for a cup of coffee, ask for a phone number, and call her at night. A woman who will shop in the famous street in the morning, with a good economy, is almost impossible to be a prostitute , and a regular life schedule, the perfect choice.”

William remembered that everyone, including himself, was a little dumbfounded.

Different from William's pure surprise, the expressions of others are more like: Get√, the new skill for picking up girls

But in the end, everyone just shrugged and said, "It's hard to do that on other people, man, of course the girls will like you, because you're Romeo."

Among them, the black actor who played Romeo's friend Mercutio also chanted in a very envious and jealous tone: "Oh, Romeo, why are you Romeo——"

William still didn't catch up to buy the blonde beauty a cup of coffee or something, he just looked at the back of the far away, turned and prepared to leave.

A faint fragrance wafted over, William rubbed his nose, looked back, and found himself standing in front of a perfume shop.

The salesperson in the store noticed William's gaze, and quickly smiled politely at him. After thinking for a while, William walked in.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the saleswoman in a black suit.

"I want to buy a bottle of perfume."

"Give it away or use it yourself?"

William looked at the rows of bright crystal bottles on the glass counter: "For personal use." After a pause, he added: "Don't want any smell related to pine trees."

"..." The salesperson's expression looked confused for a moment, but he quickly reacted and said professionally: "Okay, please follow me."

Ten minutes later, William walked out of the store carrying a new shopping bag. He chose a bottle of perfume for himself, a warm amber tone.

William actually doesn't like perfume. In his life, he likes to let his body exude a clean smell. The body has been fully cleaned but completely fragrance-free. However, he is an actor, and it is polite to wear antiperspirant and perfume on formal occasions. So a long time ago he bought himself a bottle of perfume, Prada or Paco, alpine cedar, it smelled like snow covered the vegetation on the mountains, and there was a moist and pure smell in the air.

But the last time he was filming in London, Lance approached William, frowned and said he smelled like a pine tree, and William thought it was time to change his perfume after that.

It's a brand new smell this time, Lance won't be picky about saying that he smells like amber, will he?

A week before Christmas, William received an early Christmas gift from his mother - a Christmas sweater with a dark green reindeer pattern, handmade by Madeleine, and a mother's love brand.

Even though he looks childish in a Christmas sweater when he looks in the mirror, William still wears it on all the days around Christmas that call for a sweater, and honestly, apart from the style and pattern, it’s the same color as His eyes fit well.

The love sweater is not only owned by William, Madeleine also knitted one for Lance. The low-key gray-blue color doesn't match Lance's eyes. "But it can make this child look less cold." Madeleine Lynn's original words.

When sending the sweater away by international express, William specially stuffed a card inside, writing a request for Lance to take a photo of the sweater after receiving it as a souvenir, "because Madeleine wants to see it" William said on the card "Madeleine said she hadn't seen the little Roderick boy in ages and she missed him so much," wrote.

The day before Christmas, the international courier from the UK arrived. In addition to the gifts for Madeleine and William, there was also a tightly wrapped package that looked like a photo frame.

The suspected photo frame was wrapped too tightly, and William took seven or eight minutes to unpack it, as if the person who packed it was very reluctant to see the contents inside—in fact, it should be.

Wearing a reindeer sweater and trying to put on a smile, but his brows are still slightly furrowed and his eyes gleaming with reluctance, Lance looks very...cute.

Maybe it's more appropriate to describe it as stupid and cute.

It was like returning to the feeling before the age of ten. After the age of ten, William seldom saw Lance put on a rich expression in the photo, and it was rare to see him wearing this ordinary but warm sweater.

William decided to keep this precious photo carefully. He wiped the dust off the photo frame with a towel, and then carefully placed it on the desk, together with the photos of his family members.

When it was time to unwrap the presents, Lance's Christmas present was placed in a palm-sized pure black box without a logo, and it was a little heavy to hold in the hand.

After opening it, there was a silver-gray rectangular crystal bottle lying on the black velvet cushion. There was still no LOGO, only the designer's signature was engraved on the bottom of the bottle. There was a clear transparent liquid flowing inside, which turned out to be perfume, just like the one William gave himself.

The smell of the perfume reminded William of the smell of old books in the library of Roderick's mansion, and it was like the tobacco leaves in cigarettes, with a hint of saltiness from the ocean.

It's similar to the amber perfume William bought, but it smells better, at least better than the Hermès perfume he bought for $187.

It is dragon birth incense, and it is natural dragon birth incense.

Natural Longanxiang is only formed in the body of sperm whales, and sometimes it will be discharged naturally. After soaking in seawater for a long time, impurities will float out and become precious spices. Therefore, natural Longanxiang is obtained either by commercial whaling or by fishermen accidentally. Salvaged from sea.

The former is too cruel, animal rights organizations have been protesting against commercial whaling, and the latter is too accidental, so there are fewer and fewer perfumes on the market that contain natural dragon incense ingredients, and more and more expensive, most of them are synthetic dragons. Christmas incense.

William was familiar with amber, and he had also smelled artificial dragon's incense, so he knew that this bottle of perfume contained natural dragon's incense.

Rare and expensive, typical Roderick style.

William found a card tucked into the box that said: Throw away your pine perfume, it was a disaster, my nose was sick from it for a week.Also, I love your Christmas presents, thanks bro.

The former sentence made William's teeth itch, and the latter sentence made him smile knowingly.

He knew he was a good gift picker, Toby loved the limited-edition running shoes William had given him, and Lance must have loved that Star Trek suit.

That's right, William's gift to Lance is the seven films currently released in the Star Trek series, all the DVDs of the three completed TV series/animations, and the "Spoel" that William collected from studios, parks, cafes and restaurants in Los Angeles. "Kirk" Leonard Nimoy, "Captain Kirk" William Shatner, "Dr. McCoy" DeForest Kelly and "Chief Engineer Scott" James Doohan .

By the way, there is also the tape of the first three seasons of Deep Space Nine that is currently airing-William helped record it, because he knew that Lance was far away in London and couldn't see it, and he must want to see it very much.

William and Lance liked Star Trek since they were young. Their favorite days were staying together on weekends to watch TV reruns and play role-playing. William preferred Captain Kirk, while Lance competed to be Spock every time. William sometimes wants to taste what it's like to be Spock, but because his Klingon language and three-dimensional chess skills are not as good as Lance's, so far he has no chance.

When he attends the Comic Con next time, William thought, he must play a game of chess with Lance and beat him thoroughly.

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"World Film Center" Hollywood has a brilliant and huge industrial chain, this cake is too huge, no one can swallow it alone, production, brokerage, public relations, distribution, each industrial chain has nourished several giants, so Hollywood is popular in cliques, producers and producers, actors and actors, screenwriters and screenwriters, media and media - in order to protect themselves from being bullied, and to fight for more benefits.

For example, the original intention of the establishment of the Screen Actors Guild of America was to unite actors across the United States and fight against capitalists for rights such as higher wages, better working conditions, and medical insurance.

And another explanation of Baotuan, isn't it just a passion for communication and sharing each other's connections?

——Of course, under the identity, people of the same ethnicity can always come together in Hollywood, such as British directors and British actors, Jewish agents and Jewish actors, Latinos and Latinos, etc.

Like to cuddle, perhaps it is one of the reasons why Hollywood has so many labor unions and film critics associations.

Screen Actors Guild of America, Federation of Television and Radio Artists of America, Producers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, Art Directors Guild of America...National Society of Film Critics, Radio Film Critics Society of America, New York Film Critics Society, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Chicago Film Critics Association, Boston Film Critics Association...

Almost every Hollywood person can find corresponding organizations according to their own industries and hobbies, and some of them are very influential in Hollywood and American movie fans because of their long history and large number of people, such as the American Screen Actors Guild Awards, although they are only now available The second session, but it has been predicted by the public that it will become one of the important trade union awards in the future (without him, with 10,000+ members, the mass base is too strong), and no director or actor dare not pay attention to the award from New York Comments from the Film Critics Association and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Counting a little, there are more than [-] influential trade union association clubs in terms of scale, maybe more.

In order to expand their influence and show their right to speak, each trade union and association is keen to release their own industry awards before the Academy Award nominations are announced. The public likes to call these awards "Oscar outposts". Implications (they do come out before the Academy Awards), and another reason is that some of these unions are themselves Oscar judges.

Ten days after the movie was released, that is, on Christmas Eve, the Screen Actors Guild Awards came out first, and "Sense and Sensibility" won five nominations including Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.

At the end of December, other union and association awards also come to join in the fun:

National Academy of Critics Awards, won the best film, best director, best actress;

American Society of Broadcasting Film Critics Awards, won the best film, best adapted screenplay;

Directors Guild of America Award for Best Director;

The University of Southern California Screenwriting Award, the British Writers Guild Award, won the best adapted screenplay;

New York Film Critics Association Awards, won Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay;

Entering January, major international awards are gradually announced:

On January 1, the nominations for the British Academy of Film Awards were released. "Sense and Sensibility" won the awards including Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Film, Best Director, Best Art Design, Best Makeup, Best Cinematography, Twelve nominations including Best Costume Design, Best Soundtrack, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

On January 1, the organizer of the Berlin International Film Festival announced the nomination list for the main competition unit, and "Sense and Sensibility" was shortlisted.

On January 1, the nominations for the American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards were released. nominate.

The world film industry was slightly surprised.

Especially audiences in European countries whose release date is scheduled after February, they can't wait to see the film.

The joint affirmation from the Berlin International Film Festival, the Screen Actors Guild of America, and the Golden Globe Awards has undoubtedly proved the quality of this film.

Although the Oscar nominations have not yet been announced, with so many awards unanimously optimistic, "Sense and Sensibility" will definitely win at the 68th Academy Awards, even if it does not win, it will definitely win a few Nomination, this is already recognized.

And the word-of-mouth in the movie is getting better and better:

"Although William is a bit too handsome, he is one of the reasons why many girls step into the cinema to experience Austen's literature. Those clear green eyes are really charming." There are many such comments on the website of the Jane Austen Association in North America.

"Emma Thompson has done quite a lot of surgery on the original, especially the male characters, but it's all good. Both Edward and Colonel Brandon are less guilty and arrogant, and more cute and Respecting women makes people understand why they deserve the love of Elena and Marianne, which is more in line with modern aesthetics." Austin scholar Denivan Luthor said.

"The film is full of talent from the director, screenwriter to the actors, and the photography, music and costumes are also perfect. Every frame of the picture reveals a strong British flavor, depressing in delicacy, bitter in joy, and pungent in plain. , a masterpiece worth savoring." "New York Times" film critic AO Scott wrote in his column.

The praise from professional film critics is almost overwhelming. More than 18 film review reporters gave high scores of more than four stars. Among ordinary movie fans, although there are quite a few comments that say "regular, ordinary, no surprises and no surprises." Charming", but on the IMDB website, among the 54362 ordinary movie fans, there are very few reviews below 5 points.

"Sense and Sensibility" has been released for one month, and has a comprehensive score of 82 (out of 100) on the IMDB website. Although this is not a stable score (with the increase of screening theaters and regions, more fans with different tastes will come. Score), but it can also slightly reflect the word-of-mouth of the film in the hearts of the public fans.

Columbia originally planned to gradually increase the number of theaters showing "Sense and Sensibility" after the announcement of the Oscar nominations, but seeing the momentum of the movie is now very good, and the single-house box office is also high, and fans from small and medium cities have been writing letters asking for it. Increased the number of screenings, and then boldly expanded the theater chain from a hundred or so to thousands of theaters for simultaneous screenings.

At first Columbia was a little apprehensive, but it turns out that they made the right decision. On the eve of the announcement of the Oscar nominations, "Sense and Sensibility" has been screened simultaneously in more than 1100 theaters across the United States, with more than 400 million viewers and a box office of 93 The final $2000 million gross of "Howards End" in [-] was flat.

Considering that the film is currently only released in North America, and there are still wider overseas markets that have not been released, and the DVD release has not been put on the agenda, the final profit of "Sense and Sensibility" may have a wider room for association.