In Lan Li's view, "Nightcrawler" is the best performance of Jack's career, and may even be a monument that cannot be surpassed.

And now that the script of "Nightcrawler" has come to Lan Li, then, things should be looked at separately in two parts.

On the one hand, if the role of Louis is played by Lan Lilai, his performance style and presentation content will inevitably be different from Jack's.

In his view, Louis is not just a nightcrawler, but a product of the fast-paced life of contemporary society, a combination of entertainment to death, profit first, and indifference, in the face of sufficient interests, all morality can be destroyed, even the law can be broken. The coldness rooted in the blood was precisely the important reason for the fall of the uncrowned king.

In contrast, Jack gives Louis more of a madness, a madness, where all moral and legal boundaries never make sense, and he always wanders and plays with everything. When the opportunity to break the bottom line came, he crossed the line without any hesitation, this kind of darkness from the bones has nothing to do with society, but more of a personality formation.

In a way, Jack's version of Louis is closer to the Joker in "Batman: The Dark Knight", while Lan Li's understanding is closer to the two-faced man in "Batman: The Dark Knight".

There are two different ways of interpretation, not to mention the high and low, but the temperament given to the film by the actors is completely different, and the final product is bound to be different.

Objectively speaking, if Lan Li is playing, he hopes that Dan Gilroy can modify the second half, otherwise the whole theme will seem a little wrong, and Jack's version of Louis is exactly what Gilroy wants to see and hope to present.

From this point of view, Lan Li doesn't think that his performance will be inferior to Jack, but he also doesn't think that his performance can surpass Jack.

On the other hand, the importance of the work "Nightcrawler" and the character of Louis to Jack is indescribable.

In Lan Li's personal opinion, this is a work that changed the direction of Jack's career.

In the last life, after the release of "Nightcrawler", the overall word-of-mouth performance was good, although the overall praise of the work reached a certain height and then stopped, and was not able to go further, but Jack's performance went all the way up, rave reviews, and even surpassed "Brokeback Mountain", becoming the best seed player in the entire awards season.

In fact, Jack has been nominated for the American Independent Spirit Award, the National Review Association Award, the Golden Globe Award, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Award and many other outposts, and has received countless accolades throughout the awards season, and has launched a high-flying attack on the Oscars.

It's an accident, but it's also reasonable, so far, Jack has only won one nomination at the Oscars, Best Supporting Actor in "Brokeback Mountain", that was a distant 2005, but since then, Jack has never been favored by the academy again, and almost everyone thinks that "Nightcrawler" will bring Jack a second nomination.

But......

When the Oscar nominations were announced, "Nightcrawler" received only one nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and Jack was unfortunately out at the last minute.

Bradley Cooper of "American Sniper" was not favored, and almost no actor nominations were won at the outpost, but with the strong PR of director Clint Eastwood and Warner Bros., he squeezed out Jack, who was not escorted by a major film company, and replaced him with a strong shortlist, which caused a big upset.

After the list of nominees was announced, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, not only fans, but also many industry insiders and college judges have expressed their strangulation. This can also be called the biggest pearl of the 87th Oscar nomination stage.

The result is indeed very surprising. Although Jack tried to keep his mind calm and didn't pay much attention to it, it can be seen from the trajectory of his subsequent career that this work and this lack of flaws still had a huge impact.

The following year, in the three works of "Broken Life", "Iron Fist" and "Desperate Altitude", Jack chose a more explosive character in the relatively academic style, and slowly began to exert his strength, but unfortunately none of them were able to break out of the encirclement.

Later, Jack starred as the male lead in Tom-Ford's "Nocturnal Animals", which is also a gloomy and dark character, Jack managed to fully present that sense of horror and weirdness, and after the release of the movie, his performance once again received numerous praises, but ...... There are still no Oscar nominations.

Then there are works such as "Strong", "Tamaki", etc., it can be clearly perceived that Jack is following in the footsteps of Leonardo DiCaprio, and the performance is becoming more and more ferocious, maybe even excessively fierce, and the pursuit of Oscar is ruining his persistence, and at the same time the performance is also entering the trap.

Until Lan Li was reborn and crossed, Jack was not able to change his situation, and seemed to have imprisoned himself in a cage like this, and the path of performance became narrower and more extreme, unless he could break and stand up, otherwise the future would inevitably go downhill.

The root of everything is still back to the "Night Stalker", and the unwillingness and regret that are close at hand but pass by will inevitably have an impact after all.

In the case of Lan Li, he firmly believes that Oscar owes Jack of "Nightcrawler" a nomination.

On the one hand, he is not necessarily the best choice, and on the other hand, he is shackled and imprisoned by his friends, although Lan Li really likes the work "Nightcrawler" very much, and he is eager to try it, but he still has to refuse.

Missed works and characters will always be found, but missed friends and lives may be missed forever. Lan Li really doesn't have many true friends in Hollywood, Jack can be regarded as one, not to mention, as an ordinary movie fan, Lan Li also really hopes to see Jack win an Oscar nomination for "Nightcrawler", which should have belonged to him.

In this life, I don't know if the existence of Lan Li's little butterfly can change the previous trajectory, but no matter what, Lan Li still hopes to see Jack's version of "Nightcrawler" on the big screen.

Lan Li has never been an indecisive personality, and since he has made a decision, he will cut through the mess quickly. After reading the script seriously, he raised his head, and then saw Andy's confident eyes, which made Lan Li's eyes can't help but show a shallow mischievous smile.

"No, I don't like it. Lan Li said neatly, put the script back on the coffee table, and leaned back with Shi Shiran.

Then, Lan Li could clearly see that the expression of ambition on Andy's face froze little by little, and the face that was still smiling was full of confusion and confusion.

"Why? I thought you would really like this project, from the structure of the script to the character image to the level of acting, it's a very interesting project, didn't you say before that you want to challenge some special roles, break the constraints and frameworks of acting? Are you sure?"

The panicked Andy in front of him is really rare to see, faintly revealing a sense of anxiety and urgency, not only because the script of "Nightcrawler" was shot by Lan Li, but also because his understanding of Lan Li has deviated, does this mean that there is a problem with their cooperation?

This time, Lan Li didn't answer or make a sound, just quietly watching Andy.

Andy's words fell in mid-air, and he couldn't continue, he took the initiative to meet Lan Li's gaze, carefully and slowly looked at Lan Li's expression, but found nothing, but gradually, Andy tasted a little different, if according to Lan Li's usual habits, he would not let the silence continue like this, he was very happy to share his views on the project with himself, this is the way to continue the partnership.

Suddenly, an inspiration flashed through my mind.

Andy couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and then couldn't help but laugh dumbly, shook his head slightly, raised his gaze again, and looked at Lan Li quietly, he didn't speak, he didn't speak, the two of them remained silent like this, as if a child who didn't grow up was competing.

But in the end, Andy was defeated, and shook his head helplessly, "Lan Li, I'm serious, I'm not joking." I'm not Roy, I'm not Nathan, your pranks aren't working. ”

This time, Lan Li didn't insist any longer, and when he saw that he was good, he closed the ground and raised the corners of his mouth.

Andy was actually still a little nervous, and his mood was raised high, and now he fell heavily, relieved, his conjecture was finally confirmed, but he couldn't help but chuckle, "Jesus Christ, you did it on purpose, right?"

Lan Li shrugged his shoulders slightly, noncommittal, "Andy, I like this script very much, but I can't take on this project. ”

"What?" Andy blurted out in question, "Why? You like this script, is there anyone stopping you from going next?" ”

"As you said, it's a very good script, and personally, I love it very, very much, from the character to the story, and it would be interesting to play the role of Louis. As she spoke, Lan Li couldn't help but imagine it again, cutting love, cutting love, really you still need to give up, after all, it is not an easy task.

Lan Li decided not to think about it any further, "But I think there is someone more suitable for this role than me." I'd be sorry if he missed out on this role. If I could, I would recommend this actor to the producers of this project and endorse him personally, and believe me, he is more suitable than me. ”

"Who?" Andy said bluntly, "I don't think there's anyone better suited to Hollywood right now." ”

"As my broker, your confidence is the best affirmation. Lan Li was still unhurried, and he was in the mood to praise Andy, which made Andy cry and laugh, and then Lan Li revealed the answer, "Jake Gyllenhaal." I would recommend him to star in this production. ”