1864 Autumn wind sweeps leaves
From a small scandal to a struggle for power within the entire industry, who would have thought that the work "Jurassic World" would ignite so many explosions?
The development process of twists and turns, intertwined and ups and downs, and even the heated discussion on social networks have not had time to spread, and many "Sherlock Holmes" have not had time to exert their ability to solve the case, and then things have reappeared in the latest state, so that the most frequent complaint on the Internet is, "Update the news, your analysis is wrong, and the current situation is different." ”
Everyone stared at all this dumbfounded, as if they were tracking the eight o'clock soap opera in Colombia, knowing that the dog was bloody, but they couldn't stop it, it seemed that after everything was linked to Lan Li, the situation was always easy to get out of control, and the result was always easy to get out of track, why is this?
TMZ was responsible for the revelations, and The New Yorker was responsible for the discussion, in which the latter made a very, very interesting argument, "What did Lan Li do wrong?"
Yes, "doing something wrong", that's the view of the New Yorker.
In this article, The New Yorker delves into the irreconcilable contradictions between Blue Rite and Hollywood's top brass. Because Lan Li just wants to concentrate on acting and become a pure actor, and refuses to play a more important role in power struggles and conflicts of interest, but the reality is the opposite, Lan Li's strength, influence and appeal are enough to pry the power structure, which means that even if Lan Li wants to stay out of the matter, the top of the power will inevitably force Lan Li to make a choice - either join them or be destroyed.
Does this scene sound familiar?
Switzerland, Switzerland at the time of the World War. Switzerland, as a neutral country, is alone and out of the way, but behind the surface of peace, it is the result of multi-party game and trade-offs, and now Lanli also hopes to become "Switzerland", but Hollywood is not Europe, and 2014 is not the beginning of the twentieth century, the situation is still different after all.
This is the essence of Wall Street capital's artistic creation: what they need is not a blue gift to devote themselves to art, but a cash cow to attract wealth and create profits. If they can't get it, they would rather destroy it, otherwise the opponent may have to benefit. ”
Admittedly, the analysis of the New Yorker's article is not comprehensive and incomplete, and they ignore many aspects of the problem, especially the existence of Sisyphus Pictures, but it is undeniable that they provide another perspective, so that the connotation of the event presents a richer and more varied way of interpretation.
Prior to this, although everyone knew that Lan Li was "a big tree", as evidenced by the negative remarks of the awards season at the beginning of the year, it may seem ridiculous in retrospect, but it was real at the beginning of the year, but people never knew that the jealousy and revenge found by Lan Li's aura were so bad and so terrible, and they even did not hesitate to destroy Lan Li's reputation.
For ordinary audiences, they may know that "interests come first", but they can't understand what they do to compete for interests, let alone how huge and complicated the interests and power that Lan Li and Thomas are fighting for, even industry insiders like Nina may not be able to fully explain it, let alone ordinary audiences?
Therefore, at this time, when they saw Lan Li's experience and energy, the only thought in their minds was: Why did the innocent Lan Li have to be treated like this? Why couldn't those businessmen who were full of copper smell let Lan Li film well? Why couldn't they cherish Lan Li's acting talent?
After the rise of this topic in the Yahoo community, it gradually spread to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other major social networking platforms, "Brando Mania" once again hand-painted a sketch of Lan Li holding a guitar and singing alone, which was from the opening moment of the "Dream Back to Kerosene Lamp Bar" concert, she used this way to express Lan Li's original intention and only thought:
"I just wanted to perform. ”
The sketch quickly spread on the Internet, and Don Quixote began to repost it, but then other ordinary netizens began to join the ranks to express their support for Lan Li in this way, as well as strong dissatisfaction with the top management who did not make their names publicly available.
At this point, it is clear that things have gotten out of control and changed their flavor - now it has developed into a protest against Wall Street by Hollywood or art creators and enthusiasts on both sides of the East and West Straits, and the whole development trend is unstoppable!
Subsequently, Universal Pictures took the lead in reacting, and the official expressed its position that it will thoroughly investigate the relevant matters within the "Jurassic World" crew, in order to ensure that the film can be successfully filmed, Lan Li will become the producer with the most voice on the shooting site, and other irrelevant producers will leave the shooting site to avoid interfering with the crew's work as much as possible.
It's clear that Universal Pictures is on the side of Blue Rite — or, rather, on the opposite side of Wall Street, in line with the trend of public opinion across the network.
Immediately afterwards, Lan Li also publicly said, "My only idea now is to be able to complete the filming of this film smoothly." The 'Jurassic Park' series was one of my biggest childhood fantasies, and I joined the reboot project, not to ruin it, but to re-infect a generation of audiences. I will fully cooperate with Colin in the filming work. ”
Lan Li did not take care of everything, but took the initiative to hand over the voice and control to director Colin Trevorrow, once again reiterating his position as an actor.
Finally, there was a series of personnel changes within the crew of "Jurassic World", and Universal Pictures showed a rare decision, simply and neatly handled everything, and cut off all the tumors about the crew with the most sincere and decisive attitude, at least all the branches related to the negative news about "Jurassic World" disappeared in this way. On top of that, the so-called top management didn't make any follow-up resistance, and seemed to be tied up.
Although protests against Wall Street are still spreading on social networks, the crew of "Jurassic World" has settled everything in the dust with the attitude of the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves.
From the gradual progress in the early stage to the rapid development in the middle and then to the continuous turning point in the later stage, when it finally entered the ending, it was ten times and twenty times faster, and everything was calmed down in one go, and the one-size-fits-all method was really too clean and too fast, but it made people feel a sense of top-heavy and serious loss, and all aspects revealed a ...... Uncanny.
Generally speaking, crew infighting is the most difficult problem, even if there are thunderous means, it may not be able to uproot all the follow-ups neatly and straightforwardly, on the contrary, because of the uncontrollable hearts of the people, those infighting will continue to spread endlessly, like invisible fleas, harassing the crew all the time.
But "Jurassic World" is an exception, the whole incident from the development to the end, before and after less than two weeks, especially the final processing stage only took two days, sweeping thousands of troops, a thousand miles of processing broke out of a thunderous momentum, and then all subsided, as if nothing had happened, which is a bit terrifying.
At least, from an outsider's point of view, it is, and the insider's perspective hasn't changed much, the only difference may be:
The end of cleaning up the mess is far from being called "autumn wind sweeping away leaves", and Thomas Toole can't be said to be tied up-
The only plausible explanation for the whole incident is that Thomas Toole really played against his opponent this time, and he lost the first head-to-head game between the two sides, not only by falling behind, but by being caught by surprise by his opponent, and completely defeated. It's not that Thomas doesn't want to refute, but his backyard is starting to catch fire, and he is now too anxious that he doesn't have time to worry about Honolulu, so he can only quickly return to the North American continent.
First up was Ron Howard's shot.
In fact, Howard is a good man, always known for his good temper and good attitude in the industry, rarely and rarely enemies with people, even if he encounters real trouble, he will rarely make things up;
But this time Thomas really annoyed Howard.
After hearing that Thomas tried to use Bryce to hype up the scandal, Howard personally confirmed the matter, only to learn that in the case of Lan Li's clear refusal, Thomas still forced to win the lottery regardless of it, if it weren't for Lan Li coming forward and blocking most of the attack firepower, I'm afraid that this time Bryce would become the target of Qianfu - a super idol like Lan Li, his scandal object is not as simple as imagined.
Howard, who was disgusted by Thomas's bad behavior and lack of integrity, made a rare call to Steven Spielberg, hoping that Steven would take care of the matter and not affect Bryce's career. This is something Howard would never have done before, but now that Pandora's box has been opened, he has no intention of stopping.
Howard expressed his strong dissatisfaction with many old friends through his connections, and made it clear that he would not take over any of the projects that Thomas participated in in the future.
If it were just that, Howard's influence didn't seem to be enough, but then, he made a move that was enough to scare Thomas into a cold sweat:
Howard threw a private party to Wall Street's top financial figures.