Chapter 162
Zhang Jingchu won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and the award in the United States has just been awarded, and the news has spread to China with the almighty Internet.
"What? Zhang Jingchu won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress?"
"Really, just kidding!"
"Why is there no news about such an important matter in advance?"
"Golden Globe Award for Best Actress?
The last question is the most critical, it has won awards one after another, but many people in China don't know what kind of movie it is, and they actually won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best Actress in the Drama category.
"The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds" has also been released in China before, but because it is a literary film, even if it has achieved a box office of more than $300 million in the United States, it is still ignored in China.
In the first three weeks of its release, the box office barely exceeded 10 million, which has always been a record of high box office for works labeled by Song Zheng, which is obviously a failure.
At that time, there were still several domestic media shouting about what to say, and Song Zhengjiang was exhausted.
Of course, anyone who knows the inside story understands what is going on, literary films, as long as they are literary films, no matter how high the quality is, they will all be worrying at the domestic box office, this is a fact.
This time, the list of nominees announced by the Golden Globe Awards, the domestic media naturally knows, although it is really surprising to receive six nominations at once, but not many people think that this film can really win the award.
After all, there is the United States, Song Zheng is an outsider, and he is capable of getting a local hukou?
But now that the main drama of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony has just been sung, "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds" has won three awards, which makes many media who did not go to the United States to report on the spot can't help but regret it.
After the award for Best Actress in a Drama was awarded, the first highlight of the awards ceremony was the Best Actor in a Drama!
Although there are two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor, in people's hearts, it is obvious that the award for Best Actor in a Musical Comedy is purely a foil, and the status cannot be compared with Best Actor in a Drama at all.
There are five nominees for Best Actor in a Drama this year, namely Jeff Bridges for "Crazy Heart", George Clooney for "In the Clouds", Colin Firth for "Single Man", Morgan Freeman for "Success in People" and Song Zheng's "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds".
Among these four competitors, Jeff Bridges naturally goes without saying, the whole world knows that the Oscars owe him a little golden man, and the Golden Globes owe him a Best Actor.
Colin Fez, who is now not famous, later won the Oscars and Academy Awards for "The King's Speech".
Not to mention George Clooney, who is a dignified actor professional, and he is really a super celebrity who wins awards and gets soft hands.
The rest of the one is just as good, when it comes to who the best black actor is in Hollywood, there will be a standard for each one, but if you have to pick the best black actor, even if some people don't think he's the best, they will think he's one of the best, and that's right, he's Morgan Freeman.
At least, Song Zheng always thought that he was one of the best black actors in Hollywood.
No one would dispute Morgan Freeman's achievements in Hollywood, as a black actor, in white-dominated Hollywood, it takes a lot of effort and hardships to achieve such an achievement, anyone can understand.
Just like Westerners have face blindness to Orientals, in the eyes of Song Zheng, an Oriental, Westerners also look like a bird, let alone blacks, but the first time he watched "The Shawshank Redemption" in his previous life, he felt that the supporting role played by Morgan Freeman was not simple, and he felt comfortable in the movie, you know, before this movie, he really didn't know about this black old man, and later searched the Internet for some movies about him, only to find that this old man is really not simple.
His 1987 role in "The Legend of Flower Street" was his famous work, and until then, he was just a dead runner, in which Morgan Freeman was of course a supporting role, in which he played an angry pimp, and it was for this role that he was nominated for his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
In 1989's "The Iron Fist Principal", Morgan. Freeman finally became the male lead, this time he played the role of a teacher who was once expelled from the school, and now he is back as the principal, rectifying violent crime and drugs in the school, his determination and style caused dissatisfaction in the society and the police, but in the end he won and changed the image of the school.
Although this movie did not bring him any honor, it is impossible to have too high a box office, after all, at that time, obvious racial discrimination still existed, but it was indeed not easy for him to get to this point.
In the same year, Morgan Freeman also starred in "The Glorious Battle", which is a film about the American Civil War during the American Civil War a white officer led the "Massachusetts 54th Corps" composed of black slaves from the South, this group of people is a rabble, under the influence of the white officer Robert Gould Shaw's military complex and national dedication, after all, it became a disciplined unit, and finally played a decisive role in the decisive battle, the whole film is full of white supremacy feeling, but there is Denzel W. Sington in it and Morgan Freeman, two black actors, and it is these two black actors who add a bit of color to this clichéd and somewhat boring film.
Next, what made Morgan Freeman famous was the movie "The Shawshank Redemption", which was regarded as a classic, and this movie was also the most impressive movie in Song Zheng's memory.
Maybe it's too much to call it a classic, but "The Shawshank Redemption" is undoubtedly a good film, no action, no stunts, and even no beauty, but it can still deeply move the audience, and after more than ten years, the charm has not diminished.
So, what does this film rely on to attract audiences?
Some people say that it is because it reflects the "tenacity of human nature", indeed, with a small hammer, in the past 20 years, in the extremely strict personal control of the Fascist prison, digging a small tunnel to escape, this does not reflect the tenacity of human beings?
However, when Song Zheng watched this movie in his previous life, he felt that this plot was obviously dramatic, this was just the director's need for plot arrangement, and such an ending was just to reflect Andy's "self-redemption" that finally succeeded, otherwise the whole plot and theme would be unsustainable.
Therefore, some people believe that "The Shawshank Redemption" reflects how precious "hope" is to people.
However, for Song Zheng, "The Shawshank Redemption" moved him more than that.
The first is the character setting in the movie, a shark fort prison, and the prisoners and officials in it seem to be the faces of the society in which people live.
Warden Norton is a high-minded man who memorizes the Bible like a stream, but in fact grabs profit by any means, cruel, insidious, and greedy.
Prison Sergeant Haley and other police officers, fierce and brutal, act as Norton's thugs, disregarding the lives of prisoners.
There are also differences among the prisoners, in addition to the protagonist Andy, Morgan Freeman's Red is undoubtedly the most brilliant character, and Song Zheng even thinks that he is the clue of the whole film.
There is not much dialogue in the whole movie, and many of the things that the film wants to show are said through Rhett's monologue, most of which are Red's reflections on life in Shark Castle and his interpretation of Andy.
In the movie, Red is a wise man who mixes very well in Shark Castle, and the needs of the prisoners are "nothing he can't get". His wisdom also has insight into the essence of life in Shark Castle, and he says to Andy, "In Shark Castle, hope is a dangerous thing", which is the wise man's words.
Although Red saw through the essence of Shark Castle, he didn't think about fighting, let alone influencing and changing others, he just followed Shark Castle's rules in order to protect himself. Until Andy shows up, changes him, and finally leads him to the other side of freedom.
Tommy, the latest of the main characters in the film to Shark Castle, like Andy, is full of hope for life and works hard for it with Andy's help, but he is young and naïve and does not know how to protect himself, and when he is about to succeed, he is murdered by Norton and Haley because he knows the truth about Andy's wrongdoing.
Of course, there is also the librarian Brooks, this is one of the most shocking characters, Lao Bu's life, which deeply reflects the life of people under "institutionalization".
After spending most of his life in Shark Castle, he was finally paroled and freed, but once he left the familiar environment and familiar people, he couldn't feel his own value, he couldn't find his own place, he had physical freedom, but in fact, his soul had already been strangled by Shark Castle, and the world that belonged to him had been compressed to the minimum, and in the end he could only choose to disappear from this world that no longer belonged to him.
Why arrange such a character as Lao Bu?
Apparently the director wanted to tell people that if Andy didn't show up, Lao Bu would be the future of Red and the vast majority of other prisoners.
And Andy, as the protagonist, is a real person, he redeems not only himself, he also does everything to save the souls of the prisoners.
In fact, the whole film about him digging a tunnel to escape is so precious that the scene of Andy's escape will feel quite abrupt, which shows that the godlike escape from prison is not the theme of the film.
And Red had already told everyone that Andy didn't run away immediately after digging the tunnel, and that he finally left because of Tommy's death, which made him see the cruelty of the Nortons and his inability to redeem the other prisoners.
In other words, although Andy was ready to escape from prison, he did not run away immediately, although he had a great desire to embrace freedom, after he escaped from the shark castle, the overhead camera standing in the river embracing the wind and rain, I believe the audience will be impressed.
But he still stays at Shark Castle to help the "hopeless", which is what the film mainly depicts in this regard, which is why the film is called "The Shawshank Redemption" instead of "The Andy Duvery Redemption".
Andy used his expertise to launder money for the Nortons, and fought for the prisoners for a small amount of rights and mental space, for example, when Andy used his financial expertise to do things for Haley for the first time, all he asked was to let Haley invite his fellow refugees to drink, he didn't drink it himself, and looked at Red with a smile and they drank, no one else understood why Andy did it, and Red understood, because at that moment, Andy let himself and others enjoy the feeling of freedom.
Another example is building a prison library, teaching Tommy to read and helping him with exams, and so on. Song Zheng was most impressed by the scene where he used the prison radio to broadcast "The Marriage of Figaro" to everyone, which very appropriately reflected that Andy's redemption was indeed meaningful to the prisoners of Shark Castle, and Andy was also a real redeemer.
In particular, when Norton and Haley stood outside the door and warned Andy, Andy turned up the volume of the gramophone to the highest with a smile on his face, and the terrible punishment was outside the door, but Andy did not back down.
This is a real brave man!
So much so that Song Zheng would have this feeling when he watched it, Andy didn't come to Shark Castle as a prisoner at all, but as a redeemer.
Andy, as the leading actor, is already so brilliant, but even so, he still can't hide Rhett's light, isn't this a reflection of strength?
Morgan Freeman's performance in the film is very exciting, an old prison oilman, both realistic and kind, which makes people feel pitiful but cute, which is also the beginning of Song Zheng's memory of this old black actor.
Next, in 1995's "The Seven Deadly Sins", Morgan Freeman starred with Brad Pitt, the calm and capable old police detective, who always gives people countless confidence, and is also the mentor of the young police detective played by Pitt in the film.
From this character, it can be seen that an excellent supporting role is important to the movie, and it can even be said that after watching the whole film, it feels more like Morgan Freeman using his acting skills to force Pete away!
It was also from this film that Morgan Freeman's development in film was out of control, and he also played important roles in various commercial blockbusters and literary films.
In 2005, he won the 77th Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Million Dollar Baby".
In fact, Morgan Freeman already had the strength to win the Oscar, and it was not until 2005 that he first touched the golden man, which even made people feel that this award came too late.
Morgan Freeman is now in his seventies, but he is still active on the movie screen, leaving people with one memorable movie role after another.
Maybe he is not the protagonist in every part, but he is his own protagonist, and he takes every role he plays seriously, whether it is the protagonist or the supporting role, just because he believes that only what the audience affirms is a good role.
In "Success in People", which was shortlisted for the Golden Globe Award this time, Morgan Freeman once again picked an older age to play the leading role, playing his idol since childhood, South African President Mandela.
The story begins with Mandela's release from prison in 90, and then he was elected president of South Africa, the domestic political situation is turbulent, blacks are excessive, whites are panicked, and various national affairs such as economy, people's livelihood, and diplomacy are in ruins, and the first is the headache of racial problems.
The film begins on the day Mandela was released from prison, with white people practicing rugby on one side on the green training ground with tall hedgerows, and black people playing soccer in a desolate place just a few steps away.
Whites jokingly call football a gentleman's sport of hooligans, and rugby is a gentleman's hooligan sport, so how can a low-class black person be qualified to play a gentleman's higher sport, only to be segregated by the fence.
When Mandela came to power, the black South Africans were finally able to raise their eyebrows, while the whites were unconsciously uneasy and discouraged, like the father of the film's captain Francis Pirner, who said very directly, "Look at Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, the countries where the black people are in charge, and the next one will be our turn, and the black people will drive us into the sea." ”
Mandela was committed to the national liberation of South Africa in his early years, and was even imprisoned for 27 years, but when facing the new South Africa, he took the lead in putting aside personal grudges and racial hatred, not only using the white officials and bodyguards of the old government, but even despite the opposition of his family and the party, he stepped forward to protect the springboks.
In front of the committee, he made a generous statement: The white South Africans are no longer our enemies, they are our compatriots, our partners, this is a democratic society, and the Springbok is the wealth of the country, we in South Africa are waiting to be prosperous, we must unite all the forces that can be united, even the power of the white people is no exception, you elected me as the leader of South Africa, please let me be the master of this matter, who here agrees with me?
He received a pitiful 12 votes.
However, Mandela always believed that his decision was the right one, and his meticulous care and encouragement to the captain of the Springbok team and his team members finally helped the Springbok team successfully build confidence and fighting spirit, miraculously embarked on the road to the championship, and at the same time, South Africa's racial problems were solved and the situation was broken.
Morgan Freeman has been preparing for the role of Mandela for a long time, after all, every actor has a highest dream, and Morgan Freeman's highest dream is to play Mandela, his performance in the movie is wonderful, but compared with Ben Kingsley's Gandhi, Morgan Freeman's Mandela is a little less popular, or too Morgan Freeman, although the acting skills of the old drama bones are not picky, but the breakthrough is very narrow.
But even so, Morgan Freeman is still the most popular candidate for Best Actor at this year's Golden Globe Awards, on par with Jeff Bridges, as for Song Zheng, perhaps in the eyes of his competitors, he is just a running role.
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