Chapter 319: The Best Buddy
I don't even know how to judge the awards I have been shortlisted for, so I have ushered in a new problem. Pollack turned his head from his seat and asked Mo Fei: "Mo, which movie do you think tonight's best picture will be given to you, your "The Silence of the Lambs" has a very good response in all aspects, although I am very confident in my own film, but your one also has the strength to win awards." ”
Mo Fei was a little suspicious that this old guy came to comfort himself on purpose, and smiled: "I don't think so, no matter how I say that I am a beginner at the Golden Globe Awards, not only the Golden Globe Awards, but among all the film awards in the world, there are very few newcomers who can win the best picture and the best director, and I don't think I'm that lucky." If nothing else, I think "Out of Africa" has the best chance of winning the award. ”
To say that Pollack really thinks so, "Out of Africa" is his brainchild, and the public relations business in advance is also very good, and the possibility of winning awards is indeed very high, but "The Silence of the Lambs" is a one-sided praise in industry reviews, and this movie does make him feel a bit big. As soon as he said this, he was relieved, at least Mo Fei didn't tackle these two awards, and other movies were still easy to deal with.
"What about other awards, do you think Meryl is more likely to win Best Actress?" Best Actress in a Drama, this is one of the most important film awards, not only a proof of the actor's strength, but also a reflection of the director's ability to train the actor, Polllack cares about this award as well. And for Best Supporting Actor, he didn't ask again. Even if Mo Fei's movie can't win that award, he can't deny it all, it's too hurtful.
Best Actress has nothing to do with Phoenix Culture. Meryl Streep was nominated for Best Actress for her role as Karen Brickson in "Out of Africa", but she still failed to win this award in her memory, although Aunt May's acting skills are not the best in Mo Fei's opinion.
After secretly sighing in his heart, he picked up the wine glass and touched it with Pollack, took a shallow sip, and said in a low voice: "If it is at another time." "Out of Africa" is not a big problem to win this award, but tonight is a little difficult, and there is a special existence among the shortlisted actors. ”
"A special being?" Pollack repeated Mo Fei's words. counted the five actors who were shortlisted for the Best Actress in the drama one by one, and there was really a special actor among them, and the performance that was nominated this time was also quite good. Nodding his head, he said, "Well, the situation you said is indeed very likely. To reflect fairness. There is also a need for this. ”
After finishing speaking, he turned his head and looked around, and happened to see a black actor not far away, if nothing else, he should be the winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Actress, Whoopi Goldberg, the actress of the heroine Celie in the film "The Color Purple", is one of the most powerful black actresses in Hollywood.
After winning the Golden Globe Award this time, the actor began to enter a period of fluctuation in his career. Her pinnacle work, "Nuns Are Crazy", has been advanced to Hong Kong in advance; "Ghost", which helped her win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, is also the Chinese translation of "People and Ghosts", and the next fate is the same. There aren't many black actors in Hollywood. There are even fewer who can be successful, and they are also reminding themselves in their hearts. When filming the European and American versions of "The Love of Ghosts", you must give the supporting role of the goddess to Whoopi Goldberg.
"Out of Africa" is an adapted movie, which is indeed a very good film, and Aunt Mei's performance is also perfect. But the Golden Globe Awards are to put it bluntly, it is impossible to win too many awards for a film, so the Foreign Correspondents' Association will not have a good time in the future, and if it wins the best picture, the best actress will of course consider some other contestants.
While eating and drinking and awarding awards, such a time really passed relatively quickly, as if it was just a few glasses of wine, and the dinner was about to end, and the awards were almost finished.
Sure enough, as Mo Fei remembers, the best actress in the drama category still fell into the hands of Whoopi Goldberg. The Best Actor was awarded to Sean Voight, the actor of "Runaway Train", who is also a well-known and powerful actor in Hollywood, a double Oscar and Cannes winner, and a future Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor. Now he certainly can't imagine that he will have such a notorious daughter in the future, although he has taken a relatively good path later.
Polllack won the best director steadily, and "Out of Africa" also won two awards for Best Film and Best Film Score in the drama category, which can be said to be the biggest piece of the cake.
Phoenix Culture is not a complete foil, Best Director, Drama, Drama Actor and Supporting Actor, as well as Best Screenplay and Best Foreign Film (it was only called Best Foreign Language Film in '87), these six shortlisted awards magically won three.
Could it be that being shortlisted for the best director is basically showing his face, and the chance of winning the award is at least ninety percent or more than ninety-five without a play; The award for Best Feature Film is no show, and Phoenix Culture's public relations work has not been done there. The Best Actor is even more so, although Yongjiang has long been a member of the Screen Actors Guild of America, but he only made Hong Kong movies and won a Best Supporting Actor, or because the film "The Silence of the Lambs" is too influential, and the performance is indeed in place, but he did not win the Best Actor, so "Soul Catcher", which also performed very perfectly, cannot but express it. But this is a pity for Klaus Brondall, the supporting actor of "Out of Africa", the award that originally belonged to him was taken away by "Soul Catcher" that appeared out of thin air, fortunately, this guy doesn't know the truth, otherwise he wouldn't be so easy to face.
With "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Soul Catcher", the two Oscar Best Screenplay works, this award must not run, as long as it is shortlisted, it is basically difficult to fail, no matter what kind of black-box operation, no matter what public relations impact, it is impossible to let ten lose to five, and that kind of cheating is too obvious. But the judges still used their rights, and "The Silence of the Lambs" was ultimately defeated by "Mindcatcher". Lose in this competition.
When it was Mo Fei's turn to take the stage to accept the award, many people congratulated him along the way, and Mo Fei also thanked him for the past. It took almost three minutes to walk from the seat to the platform for a few tens of meters.
After receiving the trophy from presenter Jessica Lange and thanking her, Mo Fei began to give his acceptance speech, having already won awards in Berlin before, and winning the Ballon d'Or was no big deal.
He walked up to the microphone and said, "First of all, thank you to the Foreign Correspondents' Association for being able to present this award to me, a foreigner." At the very least, it shows that we are all the same. ”
After everyone burst into laughter, Mo Fei continued: "Although I am also a producer, I have to say. The screenwriters are really hard, the initial form of each movie or TV series is the script, and all the crew members such as the director, actors, props, etc., have to do their own work through the script. In this way, the screenwriter is actually controlling everyone's behavior. Belch. Well, I have to admit that I actually work as a director sometimes, and I really shouldn't say that about myself. ”
Everyone in the audience burst into laughter again, but when everyone had laughed, he continued: "Actually, I should thank every member of the crew, the director, actors, photographers, lighting engineers, props, etc., for your hard work." Turning my script into a movie and bringing it to life. With the opportunity to embody the value, without everyone's efforts and cooperation, the script is nothing. ”
This is the real testimonial part, and it also makes everyone in the audience think a little more, every member of the crew is great, everyone works hard for a movie, and finally comes up with a satisfactory work, not because of who has made the results, no one in a bureau group can have a complete movie, everyone understands this truth, but how many really do it.
As people thought, the music of the reminder also sounded, and Mo Fei shrugged his shoulders and said, "Oh, it's time, isn't it, then I'll talk about the last game." I would also like to thank Mr. Howard Zinn for this award and apologize to him; In the dialogue of "Soul Catcher", I mimicked parts of the book "A History of the American People", which also added a lot of highlights to the film. This is a debt of affection, if Mr. Zinn is willing, I think I can agree to him a condition that does not violate the principle, of course, it cannot exceed my profit in this film, and I also have an identity as a producer, so I have to calculate the cost. Thank you! ”
In the joyful laughter of everyone, Mo Fei walked off the stage with the trophy, and said in his heart that it was fortunate that he didn't overdo it, and forgot the most important scene in the end, but he didn't know how much effect it could have, I hope there will be a good effect.
What Mo Fei didn't expect was that the last part of the performance, which was originally his digging pit, became the reason for the outside world to praise and affirm him. The next day, there was a related content in the newspaper, and because of that kind of behavior, it was just a parody of the dialogue in someone else's book, and it was necessary to formally express gratitude and admit that he owed the other person a favor, and such a person was absolutely honest and trustworthy.
Maybe for the sake of average, to divide the cake more artistically, "The Silence of the Lambs", which did not win the best screenplay, unexpectedly won the best foreign film, which Mo Fei didn't dare to think about before, it was simply a big accident in the accident.
Could it be that he came to the stage again to accept the award, and when he gave a speech, he even made a joke with everyone, only opened his mouth into the microphone and didn't make a sound, making the audience think that there was something wrong with the microphone or line, this is the live broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, and it is embarrassing to do such a thing.
In just a few seconds, everyone just reacted a little, and Mo Fei officially spoke: "Well, I tried it, the quality of this microphone is very good, if you don't make a sound, it really won't say anything casually; So I can assure you that the microphone is one of your best and most trusted companions......"
After today, it is estimated that Mo Fei will have another impression in everyone's hearts, he is definitely a funny genius, and his words are always so coke, so people can't help but laugh.
"Okay, let me introduce myself, I'm a director, and I'm the guy who won the screenwriter award just now, and the person who was in his charge, I felt very uncomfortable listening to that sentence, so I came to accept the award." Seeing that there were already people in the audience laughing so much that they couldn't sit still, Mo Fei eased up a little and said: "Thank you again to the Foreign Correspondents' Association for letting me win two awards, I have to say, you are really tasteful, you are definitely the most appreciative group of people in the world."
Indeed, I should thank many people, thank everyone in my life and in my life, whether it is good for me or bad for me, each of you has enriched my life, lit up my wonderful, let me know that I am not fighting alone, make the world colorful, make every day colorful, make life more fun, thank you! ”
(I just got sick from Hunan, maybe it's a performance of not adapting to the soil and water, but now it's finally completely better, and I'm going to update it from today.) In fact, every time I think that Xi Da and his daughter-in-law are probably secretly paying attention to my book, and even voting and rewarding, I always feel a little blushing, heartbeat, embarrassed, and even shy. Well, promise Xi Da that I will never be a eunuch! (To be continued)