Although "Crash" didn't win a Golden Globe Award, Lionsgate didn't give up.

The Golden Globes are the Golden Globes and the Oscars are the Oscars.

"Brokeback Mountain" has become the biggest winner of the Golden Globe Awards, but at the Oscars, it may not have all the advantages of "Crash".

Lionsgate has summarized internally that compared with "Brokeback Mountain", "Crash" has three major advantages in the Oscars!

First, the film takes place in Los Angeles, and most of the Oscar judges live in the Los Angeles area, so they have a deeper understanding of car culture and racial conflict than anywhere else.

Los Angeles is a city that pushes the planning concept of "spreading the pie" to the extreme, and "Crash" as a group drama can be said to be a kind of "spreading the pie" with the distribution of characters, and there is a natural tacit understanding between the two, and the car is the main tool for face-to-face interpersonal contact in such a place.

In this film, the crash is not only a car accident, but also a symbol of social and cultural significance. Before the first shot of the film appears, the main line is already in place - "It's a touch. In any city, people need to walk, rub shoulders, and even bump into each other. But in Los Angeles, no one is going to hit you because everyone is hiding in cars made of steel and glass. We lose that normal friction, and when we collide, it's a crash, and that's when we realize. ”

The second factor is group play.

There is no absolute protagonist in this movie, but there are more than a dozen outstanding supporting characters. The previously announced winner of the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement is Robert Altman, who is also a top master of group drama films.

Precisely, "Crash" inherits the essence of Ultraman, and evolves the difficult group with many people and few scenes into specialties, not only there are many characters, but each character is shaped into flesh and blood, and even several of the characters have undergone major changes in the course of the plot. Such a film can use many actors at the same time, and use relatively few scenes to give everyone a stage to give full play. Therefore, from the perspective of the actor's profession, the film has a special charm.

Therefore, the film has a very high rating in the Screen Actors Guild!

It just so happens that the Screen Actors Guild is the most influential union in Hollywood.

The third factor is that more and more Hollywood films are being shot outside the United States because of the higher production costs in Hollywood. A large part of "Brokeback Mountain" was filmed in Canada.

This kind of "loss" of film crews has caused a great negative impact on the film and television industry in the Los Angeles area, and all types of jobs are facing more and more severe unemployment pressure.

In this situation, films like "Crash" shot in Los Angeles can have a kind of "patriotism" and "support for domestic products" effect. It is not surprising that every country in the world has a populist tradition of "supporting domestic products" to a greater or lesser extent.

From the content point of view, the most remarkable thing about "Crash" is that it breaks the precepts of Hollywood on the moral division of characters, and creates characters with both virtue and evil deeds. There are no absolute good guys or bad guys in the film, everyone has more or less racial prejudices, creating misunderstandings and conflicts between different races, among which the "bad cop" played by Matt Dillon came forward to save and the "good cop" played by Ryan Phillip caused a tragic plot, which makes people sigh at the accidents and accidents of life.

The crash is accidental to a certain extent, and you don't have to go online every time to dig out the ugliness of human nature, let alone use the logic of overturning a boatload of people to look at a group.

Although the film is gray, it is very bright in its bones, very in line with the mainstream values of the United States, and it clarifies the truth that no matter what language we speak, what different customs we have, or what strange opinions we hold, in fact, most of us are kind in our hearts.

At the end of the film, there is an unmistakable hint that this is a delusion that the unity of the peoples is utopia, but as long as everyone takes a step back, puts themselves in each other's shoes, and is more tolerant, there is nothing between people who can't get along.

This is probably the most admired value in the United States.

In contrast, What does Brokeback Mountain exalt?

Film is art, and art should not have fixed values, but should present colorful and different ideas.

But Oscar is different.

The Oscars are not film art awards, but film industry awards.

If it were at the Cannes or Venice Film Festival, "Brokeback Mountain" would have won indisputably over "Crash", but at the Oscars...... Political correctness and the role of the U.S. Propaganda Department must be fully embodied.

Lionsgate is ambitious.

There is still a month left before the Oscars, and voting in half a month.

After the Golden Globe Dinner, Lionsgate began to expand!

Within a day, Lionsgate sent out more than 60,000 DVDs of "Crash" via FedEx!

Counting the previous ones, a total of 160,000 tickets have been distributed!

Compared to the number of judges at the Oscars of less than 6,000, this number is terrifying.

Such an enthusiastic behavior really "moved" many old judges.

Well!

Lionsgate is very persistent about the Oscars and respects the judges!

Especially the movie "Crash" is also really good.

Then, something happened.

The Oscar organizing committee conveyed a document to Lionsgate, clearly telling them that this excessive large-scale distribution of DVDs has seriously violated the guidelines of fair competition and fair selection of the Oscars, and is suspected of bribing the judges!

This letter poured cold water on Lionsgate's fanatical disc.

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"Warning? just warning?"

Donn was a little dissatisfied when he heard that the Oscar organizing committee had only sent a warning letter to Lionsgate.

The MPAA's advice to them was to disqualify Crash!

Unexpectedly, Oscar adopted a gentle approach.

They want to calm things down, and Don En definitely can't give this opportunity!

The wording of the article could be harsher, reporting on the catastrophic aspects of "Crash" and the connection between Lionsgate and the Oscar judges. I'd like to see how thick-skinned those judges can be!"

When Tosca Musk heard Donn's words, he couldn't laugh or cry, "How can it be so exaggerated? Lionsgate...... It's not Down Pictures. ”

"Huh?" Donn's eyebrows moved.

Tosca Musk laughed: "After receiving the notification from the Oscars, Lionsgate immediately launched an investigation. Later, it was found that it was the MPAA's complaint, and it was found that it was the proposal of New Universal. ”

"So what?"

"Just now, we received a fax from Lionsgate, and they told us that 'Crash' will be out of the Oscar race. At the same time, I apologize to us. ”

"Oh?"

This time, Don was surprised.

Tosca Musk said: "There is only one Donn in Hollywood, and only you dare to single-handedly take on Hollywood." Lionsgate is just an independent studio, and it's annoying the MPAA, so what can be done but to back down?"

Don smiled, "I know the times." ”

"And what about this?"

"Since they took the initiative to admit their mistake, forget it this time. Tell them that I don't mean to target Lionsgate, they can continue to develop in Hollywood step by step, but they must abide by the rules of Hollywood, don't do what they shouldn't do, don't even think about it!"

Tosca Musk nodded, "I see." ”

After she left, Don curled the corners of his mouth, a little funny.

yes, Lionsgate is just a small role.

Even giants like Disney and Warner don't know how many times they have been cleaned up by New Universal in the past few years, let alone Lionsgate?

For them, admitting their mistakes is probably the best outcome.

Now the new Universal, it really makes Hollywood tremble with a stomp.