Years later, when people mention the epoch-making films that are enough to make history and create a new Hollywood film trend, many people will think of "The Genius Ripley", which was born at the dawn of the millennium at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Queer cinema is gay cinema, in fact, as early as 1895, when cinema was first born, gay cinema was born, but for nearly 100 years, gay cinema has not been able to become a significant genre sector, while Hollywood is still hating and belittling such films, there is gradually a strange wind in Europe. If it weren't for the fact that gay films still have a place in European cinema, they would have been retired from the film scene long ago.

So it's no surprise that the term "queer cinema," which can be used in general terms for "that kind of film," was only officially proposed in 1992, despite the fact that gay films have been around for a hundred years, and have outlived even some other genres.

While Hollywood can't deny the existence of queer movies, that doesn't stop them from taking ignorance and prejudice to the extreme. This kind of film has suffered much more obstacles in major awards than ordinary films, and the attitude of insiders who do not admit or deny them has always put them in an embarrassing position that cannot be up or down. "Midnight Cowherd" won the Oscar for the "Stonewall riots" that gay protested for □□the first time, and it was not enough to really change the status quo of Hollywood films.

Until the appearance of "The Genius Ripley", many people who experienced that "revolution" will never forget how fierce the quarrel was at that time.

All the previous small complaints and small arguments erupted the day after the film's release, and the battle between the opinionated academic conservatives and the unconventional nascent art school reached its peak at this moment, and all the colliding volcanoes erupted at this moment The argument magma swept almost everyone around, and it is no exaggeration to say that the entire film industry was in turmoil.

If you put aside its gay elements, "The Genius Ripley" is indeed an indisputably good movie, just as there is no doubt about the acting skills of its leading actors, especially the actor Theolod.

But it is precisely because of its homosexual elements that many academics seem to have been provoked - they can't recognize the status of this film, if they admit it, and even let the Oscars accept it, then there will be one "Talented Ripley" after that, challenging the authority and status of orthodox films!

People who adhere to the supremacy of film art do not care whether the legitimacy of your academic film will be attacked or not, if the strict adherence to the rules of the academic school has turned the so-called art into a program, then these new art schools are a group of "deviant" and "deviant from tradition" "blasphemers". They don't care whether a movie is shot in accordance with academic norms, what they care about is the quality and content of the movie itself, they think this is the meaning of the existence of the movie, and "Genius Ripley", whether it is in terms of concept, light and shadow shooting, actors' acting skills or directorial skills, is worthy of the word "art".

If film art is put on all kinds of restrictions and shackles, is it still called art?

The battle between these two opposing schools of thought is almost all over the major newspapers, and the uninformed people are dizzy and confused for a while -- is this "The Genius Ripley" "sensational, protracted, superficial, and light-eyed", or is it "picturesque light and shadow, high/tidal waves, deep analysis of human nature, and profound depression"? Although it is said that there are thousands of Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, what is the matter with this almost world-wide of opposing evaluation? Is this movie good or bad? Didn't it mean that it was seen as one of the Oscar candidates before it was released?

I really can't understand whether these film critics are singing or chasing after the onlookers, so they have to sweep these scolding battles at a glance, and instead look at their evaluation of their actors or directors, as a result, the two genres that are inseparable in one second and want to kill each other, and the next second they unbelievably change their faces, and praise the leading actors in unison and pleasantly praise that the leading actors are almost above the horizontal line, and they shine in their performances.

In particular, their evaluation of the actor Theolod Lecht, even the evaluation of "actor-level performance", which is extremely easy to offend other Oscar candidates, did not hesitate to use, and even did not feel insensitive, and used various contrasting depictions to illustrate how good Theolod's acting skills are.

And among these evaluations, the most numb is Roger Ebert, the first brain remnant of Theorod-

"If someone had told me a day ago that I would have been so shocked by Theorod's performance that I would have been up all night, even if he was my best friend, I would have laughed at his exaggeration – I've been used to and enjoyed his visual feast over the years. I thought that I had learned all about his acting skills, and I thought that I would never be so frightened by this genius's performance that I could not help myself, but now, I know that I was wrong, Theolod Recht is an actor who never has the limits of his acting skills, who can always surprise people, who has an unlimited future, and whose existence represents infinite possibilities. ”

"If you hadn't watched 'The Genius Ripley', then you would never have been able to understand my feelings, and you would never have imagined that the proud actor would become that pathetic little person like mud on the street, from image to temperament. You can't imagine that little guy you can't even look at will take away every bit of your attention, his smile will make you smile, and his pain will make you angina. You can't imagine the pain and distortion in his inconspicuous heart, you can't imagine that the gentleman who shines on the surface in the second half of the film is the same person as the ugly and cowardly little person at the beginning of the film, and you can't imagine that the brilliance on his surface corresponds to the inner ...... that is becoming more and more lonely and dark."

Roger Ebert's long "You Can't imagine" proves that he himself could not have imagined that Theorod's acting skills could have done such a step at first, and he even took it upon himself to divide his performance into three stages:

The first stage is to become a character. True, he thinks that the second or even the third stage in others is only the first step in front of Theorod, because his talent allows him to do it easily.

The second stage is to control the script. Under normal circumstances, controlling the script should be the job of the director or screenwriter, but in the eyes of Roger Ebert, as far as he knows, the crew with Theorod's participation controls the ups and downs of the plot, the advancement of the sense of □□, the revelation of the script's intentions, the play of other actors, and even the work of guiding other actors.

The last stage, to conquer the audience. Note that here is "conquest" and not "influence", influencing the emotions of the audience is easy for a good actor, this is a must for every actor. A great actor can make the audience laugh or cry out loud in the theater with their acting skills, but when the movie is over, when the audience walks out of the theater, it doesn't take long for them to forget the feeling. can make them unable to forget the shock at that time a few days later, is the capital that makes an actor really break away from the excellent category and enter the top ranks, a capital that will endure for a long time.

"In my mind, an actor who can have that ability and do the above three points is a well-deserved actor or actress. There is no doubt that Theolod already has all three, and even his Ripley has reached a 'fourth stage' that I can't define and touch. Forgive me for being stupid, I don't know how to pick a thorn in this kind of acting, and I don't know if his performance can't be called 'actor-level', then who's can?"

Of course, Roger Ebert's film criticism is characterized by the fact that he never confined himself to one aspect of a film, and he could not pick out the thorns in Theorod's acting, but he could pick out the thorns in the film itself, such as the first half of the film being too procrastinating, "the lazy Italian townscape makes Minghella 'lazy' too".

Rao is so, and that long section of praise is enough to make many people's eyes widen. What makes their eyes out of the frame is that more and more film critics are pursuing Theolod's acting skills, supporting actor Jude Law, and some people even say that they can win the Best Actor and Supporting Actor at this Oscar!

This made the onlookers who had seen these film critics spitting and flying without any image, rolling up their sleeves and scolding them in the air, and had to wonder if these people had split personalities.

Even Theolod's fans are a little uncomfortable -

“…… I'm a little unaccustomed to it, in the past, when Theo's movie came out, there were always so many people who jumped up and picked up the bones in the eggs with a magnifying glass, why now...... I'm not saying I don't like it, I'm a big fan of Theo! It's just, really, where are those people?"

"yes, where's that Shaun Thorpe? Mr. Thorpe, where are you going again? Did you get too hard in the face in Fight Club before, and you didn't dare to go out?"

"Hahahaha...... Yes, what about Mr. Thorpe? It stands to reason that he should have jumped out at this time, even if he couldn't pick the bones, he would pick the thorns of the movie, is it really that the lesson of "Fight Club" is too big so he is afraid and pretends to be stupid and pretends not to have seen "The Genius Ripley"?"

"Don't you say, I looked for photos of the premiere, and it seems that he really didn't go?"

Yes, our poor Mr. Thorpe did not even attend the premiere this time, of course, not that the lesson of "Fight Club" scared him a little - that lesson only made him more and more frustrated - but that the filmmakers, this time, did not invite him at all, no!

Although it is impossible to invite all the critics to the premiere of a movie, Sean Thorpe still feels that he is being targeted and treated specially, and he is so angry that he almost has high blood pressure, and he immediately decides that he will not pay to go to the cinema to watch it for himself in the future.

Okay, you won't let him go, will you?

It's just that...... Looking at the boiling "Genius Ripley" in the newspaper now, no matter which newspaper can see the shadow of this movie, needless to say that the public also likes to watch the two genres tear/force, as far as he knows, the sales of newspapers have increased by more than a few percentage points recently, and several of his friends have also earned a lot of money with this scolding war, which makes him a little depressed.

No, he has no regrets, never regrets!

Sean Thorpe looked at the list of Golden Globe nominations, looked at the names on the list that made him want to grit his teeth, he almost choked to death from a mouthful of his own old blood -

Best Picture Nominee: "The Genius Ripley".

Nominee for Best Director: Anthony Minghella.

Best Supporting Actor nominee: Jude Law.

Best Actor Nominee......

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