1132 It's hard to put into words
From the perspective of the next five or ten years, looking back at the 85th Academy Awards, everyone knows that Jennifer Lawrence made history, with the "happiness line behind the clouds" after successfully reaching the top, and quickly rising, becoming a new generation of leaders, in the next few years, ushered in the peak of her career, fame and fortune.
However, the controversy about Jennifer after the closure has never subsided. Not because Jennifer wasn't good enough, but because there was an even better actor that year: Jessica Chastain.
Jennifer and Jessica are both friends with Lan Li, and they are both very close friends. After stripping himself of his identity as a friend and abandoning friendship considerations, from an objective standpoint, Lan Li is willing to vote for Jessica - after winning the Oscars last year, Lan Li is now a member of the academy jury and is eligible to vote.
In "The Line of Happiness Behind the Dark Clouds", Jennifer's performance has a pungent and refreshing temperament, and at the same time hides the fragility and complexity of the heart under the surface, surging secretly, all of which gives the character a unique style, which is perfectly integrated with the story and the character, which is indeed eye-catching.
But in "Hunting Ben**", Jessica's performance has both fragility and strength, dazed and difficult, struggle and suffering, decisiveness and cruelty, and truly combines the gentleness of women with the toughness of soldiers, showing a kind of sharp tenacity, rich layering but weightless, just a few simple shots, and the delicate performance of the eyes is amazing.
From Lan Li's personal point of view, among the top five Oscar nominees that year, Jessica of "Hunting Ben**" was far ahead and unbeatable; Emmanuelle-Riva of "Love" followed closely behind, with old strength, and Jennifer ranked third with "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds", a rising star, unlimited.
After that, there is Naomi Watts of the "Tsunami Miracle" and Quvenzhane-allis of the "Beast of the South".
Purely from the point of view of absolute strength, Jennifer's career best performance is still the "winter bones" that hit the ground off when she debuted.
In this work, Jennifer's smart eyes are full of tenacity and depth, fragility and strength, and the whole performance, the gestures are telling the story, which is really eye-catching, but this spirituality gradually fades in the subsequent performances.
Especially in "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds", director David O. Russell is a creator who is good at capturing group dramas, but he is not good at digging into the details of the actors' individual performances.
Jessica, on the other hand, gave her career-best performance in "Hunt Ben **", beating other contenders of the same year in a strong second.
Not only because the character itself has more layers and connotations, giving Jessica more room to play, but also because director Catherine Bigelow is a woman, and the lens language is mixed with the toughness of men and the profundity of women, which successfully captures Jessica's performance texture.
After that, Jessica's best performance was probably "Ms. Sloan" in 2016, but the latter still couldn't surpass the pinnacle of "Hunt Ben".
However, this is only on paper, everyone knows that in the Oscar season, the last person to reach the top is not necessarily the strongest one, but the one who occupies the right time and place, luck and public relations are the key to stand out, which has also become Weinstein's 20-year great cause of dominating Hollywood.
In the 2012 awards season, Jennifer led the way in the first half and had a clear advantage, and in the second half, Jessica rose strong and came from behind. The two actors battled it out among the outposts, splitting all the awards almost equally, and incredibly, Jennifer had a slight advantage in terms of quantity, while Jessica had the advantage over quality.
The two face off, Thin Ice wins or loses, and in terms of overall momentum, Jessica's winning chance is slightly larger.
In the final sprint, Emma overtook and sprung up, disrupting the whole pattern.
Interestingly, on the day the nominations were announced, Emma was already 85 years and 321 years old, while Kuiwen Zani was only 9 years and 135 days old.
In the decisive stage, Emma won countless support with her Austrian work "Love", which was shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Picture at the same time, which shows the enthusiasm of the academy and film critics, so that Emmaniu's call for the award broke the pattern of the showdown between the two for a while, and surpassed the two young students in one fell swoop, becoming the biggest favorite to win the award.
For this reason, the grandmother, who has always been in poor physical condition, even rushed to Los Angeles from Europe to attend the award ceremony.
It is under such a pattern that Jennifer fought her way out and successfully won the Best Actress of the 85th Oscars.
Today's Mount Sinai Hospital may be just one of Harvey's many public relations tactics. Although Jennifer is uncomfortable inside, she doesn't have much choice.
Harvey is an absolutely strong, absolutely tough ruthless character, with endless means, and there is always a way to get others to follow his orders and completely take the initiative. This is true not only for actors, but also for writers, directors, producers, etc., and even Michael Eisner, the king of Disney's domineering, high/central/power generation, has been deflated under Harvey.
In this way, Jennifer's performance today is explained.
However, Lan Li knows Jennifer well.
They officially met at Mount Sinai Hospital because of Heather, but also because of their empathy for volunteer work, and because of their love and dedication to performing work.
For a long time, Jennifer has never mentioned her volunteer past in the media, and even after the Heather Cross Foundation related matters were exposed, Jennifer did not use the east wind to publicize her great achievements. Because deep down, Jennifer is still concerned about these children, and truly feels their hardship and pain.
Therefore, even if he learned of the existence of the reporter, Lan Li would not doubt Jennifer's sincerity and sincerity. If Jennifer is willing, she can complain about today's event with Lan Li, and then laugh at herself, perhaps, the two of them can also make fun of the old-fashioned and boring of the college's public relations.
But, Jennifer chose to remain silent. Although she doesn't know the specific reason, Lan Li still respects Jennifer's choice.
Retracting his gaze, Lan Li ignored the reporters, pushed open the door of the activity room, and at the moment when his palm touched the door panel, Jennifer's anxious figure standing at the elevator door resurfaced in his mind, and a sudden inspiration quickly slipped by.
Harvey Weinstein.
Lan Li didn't really work with Harvey, and the only time he had a confrontation was at the Sundance Film Festival, where he went head-to-head on the distribution rights of "Love Crazy", but Harvey's domineering, strong hand, and self-respecting left a deep impression on Lan Li, and it continued in the subsequent encounters.
What's more, Harvey's level of grudge is also top-notch, starting with Sundance, and he has been holding grudges until now, so his memory ability is also admirable.
The only speculation is that Harvey has never been accustomed to rejection, even before the "Shakespeare Love History" was born, since he successfully excavated the "vulgar", and was rejected by Lan Li and Drake, who were unknown at the time, and even this rejection became a moment of shame, and on top of last year's Oscars, Harvey completely became a bystander and stepping stone to witness history.
For Harvey, this should be an unacceptable fact.
If—just a hypothetical assumption in the situation, if Harvey is still in a-for-tat confrontation with Lan Li, not only during the awards season, but also in Hollywood, he hopes to isolate Lan Li in Hollywood, completely cut off Lan Li's connections that have not yet fully grown, and further cut off Lan Li's entire career Oscar prospects.
It's entirely possible, and look at Adrien Brody, who topped the Oscars with "The Pianist" as the best example.
So, what is the easiest and most effective means?
On the one hand, it is difficult and picky to slowly spread Lan Li in the circle, and it is almost impossible to cooperate, so that top directors are gradually alienated from it, after all, there are countless actors in Hollywood, which makes Lan Li step by step away from the list of "actors who want to cooperate the most", and the quality and quantity of film sources will decline invisibly, and finally completely out.
On the other hand, he used Harvey's own connections and means to divide Lan Li's circle of friends. Originally, Lan Li was not an actor who was happy to make friends, so far, the friends in the industry who are often contacted are those who have been turned over and over again, and in the process of "Ice Bucket Challenge", Lan Li's friends can get a glimpse of the clues.
So, is it possible that Harvey ordered Jennifer to distance herself from Lan Li and draw a line?
Further, Jennifer's crampedness and anxiety just now was not because she was worried that Lan Li would find out about the reporter, but because she was worried that the reporter would find out about Lan Li, and then Harvey found out that Lan Li and Jennifer had private contact?
Thoughts slipped like lightning in an instant, but in an instant, this was a possibility, just a possibility, all of which were Lan Li's own whims.
Before his thoughts could stretch out his tentacles further, a cheerful voice rang out, "Lan Li!" The crisp and bright shout, like a dazzling halo of light, crashed into Lan Li's embrace.