The end of the year always seems to be extremely exciting, with parties, preview screenings, charity galas, major award ceremonies...... Christmas, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day...... It is not only a moment to sum up the year, but also a moment to welcome the new year, the jubilation of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new year is always overwhelming, even in the Namibian desert of the African continent, you can also feel the joy of the new year, not to mention the North American continent as the entertainment center of the world. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, for Hollywood studios large and small, this is the harvest time, and the only measure of time is the Oscars - two months away, the Golden Globes, the bellwether of the Oscars, ended just five days ago, the Oscar nominees will be announced tomorrow, and the Producers Guild nominees are still ten days away...... Etcetera.

The Oscar statuette is not necessarily the most authoritative award ceremony in the world, because it does not represent everyone's aesthetic taste, but there is no doubt that it is the most influential film award ceremony in the world. What a little golden man represents is not only honor, but also commercial value and additional benefits, so every film practitioner is willing to go to the soup to win a little golden man.

The end of the year was particularly noisy.

The reason is simple, but it is also complex. It can be summarized simply as, a dispute of interest; The explanation is more complicated, and it can be summed up that one person has messed up the whole chess game, so that the major film companies are tied, and the strategy of the awards season seems to have to look ahead.

Lancelot-Strello, the name really makes many people hate it.

Not long ago, major film companies joined forces to squeeze the living space of Chaos Pictures, and it seemed that the whole of Hollywood was united, so that Chaos Pictures had to leave Africa and flee in embarrassment. But during awards season, the situation is quite delicate: on the one hand, Chaos Pictures is everyone's common rival, and no one wants to see the mid-sized studio continue to rise, or even continue to challenge their dominance; At the same time, no one underestimates the strong strength of Lance in artistic creation, which has been vividly played in the past two Oscars.

On the other hand, they have to be careful of each other's opponents, suppressing Chaos Pictures but achieving their own opponents to stand on the podium, that is the real gain outweighs the loss, for some companies, they would rather Chaos Pictures rise than direct competitors win, after all, Chaos Pictures still has a long way to go to reach their level, even the height of DreamWorks is not so easy.

Another aspect that cannot be ignored is that during the awards season, major film companies can provide strong public relations resources, but what really maintains the awards is personal appeal - for example, Lance and Martin Scorsese compete for the best director of the Golden Man, then no matter what the power ratio behind the two people is, Martin will have an absolute advantage, and the academy public relations is naturally twice the result with half the effort, and if Lance wants to complete the counterattack, it is definitely twice the result with half the effort. In other words, companies are limited in what they can do.

What's more, no one can ignore the pressure generated by the public opinion situation. In the process of public relations of the college, it is necessary to use public opinion to build momentum, but at the same time, it has to worry about the negative impact of public opinion - Lance avoids Africa, "Fruit Hard Candy" is silent, and it seems that all signs are that Hollywood's powerful people are standing behind George Clooney in "Scrapyardgate", so that the real victims have disappeared, which sounds like a repetition of the true story of "good night, good luck". Therefore, the major film companies have temporarily died down, and "Lancelot-Strello" seems to have become a sensitive/sensitive, hot potato.

It's all intricately intertwined, and it's not at all enough to describe in a few words, which makes this year's awards season especially lively, but the truth is that this chaos leaves enough room for Chaos Pictures to survive, which is precisely the real reason why the Weinstein brothers were able to rise in the first place.

The pattern of the awards season, like a woolen group, is still unclear until multiple weather vanes have announced the nominations and even after the awards are awarded, even after the Golden Globe Awards are over, things are still shrouded in a layer of fog, which makes people cry out incomprehensible.

For example, Warner Bros., they were originally the biggest seeded players this year, "Good night, good luck" can almost be said to be overwhelming, and it can be called "the right time, place and people", as long as this momentum continues, it is a sure thing to win the Oscars, and it is not impossible to win the best picture while taking advantage of the situation, but as a result, this work not only failed to lead the awards season, but almost dragged Warner Bros. into the water, which made Warner Bros. have to shift their energy to "Xinrena", "History of Violence", " Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Northern Vice" and other works, but the momentum is obviously not comparable to "Good Night, Good Luck".

Another example is Focus Pictures, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, the seed players include "Brokeback Mountain", "Pride and Prejudice", "The Immortal Gardener", etc., almost every work has the ability to hit the Oscar nomination for Best Picture, so they don't have time to pay attention to how Chaos Pictures is, they just need to do their best, pick out the right works, and then build them with heart, it is not difficult to defeat Chaos Pictures, which makes Universal Pictures begin to take aim at Warner Bros. and Sony Classics - the latter owns"Capote", "Gold Medal Producer", "Memoirs of a Geisha/Prostitute" and other masterpieces.

Another example is Chaos Pictures, a rising star that has made a triple jump in just three years, and this year it has become a formidable rival to Focus Pictures, with "Hard Candy" and "Squid and Whale" firmly occupying Chaos Pictures a place in the awards season. Although both works are small and low-cost, the excavation of the social core and life of the two works is amazing, even compared to last year's "glass of wine life" is not inferior, and it can even be said that "fruit hard candy" is better. This also means that Chaos Pictures participated in the awards season independently for the first time, and actually began to challenge the throne as a freshman, disrupting the whole situation.

In addition to the above-mentioned works, DreamWorks' "The End of the Game" and "Munich Massacre", Twentieth Century Fox's "Walking with Song", Universal's "Iron Fist Man" and "King Kong", Paramount Pictures' "River Rush", ...... These works have occupied a place in the melee of the awards season, and the chaos has become more and more charming, making it impossible to see the direction of the entire awards season.

But what is certain is that Lance, who has been burning fire throughout Hollywood in recent times, is still the enemy of the public, as long as it can suppress Lance and the Chaos Pictures behind him, and at the same time do not hurt their own interests, I am afraid that every film company is very happy to come over and step on it. Among them, Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures can definitely be said to be gnashing their teeth - showing a very different determination and determination from Universal Pictures.

Warner Bros. killed the decisive strong man and broke his wrist, abandoned George Clooney and "good night, good luck" for the first time, and the ruthless gesture of cutting through the chaos showed Barry Meyer's domineering, this work, which was hailed as "this year's top seed" at the beginning of the screening, completely disappeared after entering the awards season, and it can be said that it is completely out of the public eye in almost every aspect, and it has not been seen at major award ceremonies, even if it is a low-level film critics association. The evolution from heaven to hell is embarrassing, and more importantly, no one in the news media even mentions it, as if "good night, good luck" has never been the case, and the good reviews that were once just a pile of bubbles.

This decisiveness is unmatched in the entire Hollywood. Barry not only killed the fate of "Good Night, Good Luck" and George's future, but also stifled the possibility of Lance's resurgence with the help of this work, almost completely blocking the entire production in a gesture of cutting the grass and roots, and affecting the entire crew - especially the actor David Strassern, after he won the title of best actor in Venice, many people thought that he could be shortlisted for the Oscar race, but now ...... It's all over.

At the same time, Warner Bros. sent "Xinruina" to the throne, a move that implies many deep meanings.

Although "Xinruina" has George participating, it is different from "Good Night, Good Luck" almost every link is closely related to George, so it encountered a succession, George is just a supporting actor in the "Xinruina" crew, even if people still complain about George, but they are embarrassed to implicate others - Matt Damon, Chris Cooper (Christ-Cooper), Christopher Plummer (Christopher-Plummer), Stephen-Gaghan, who is a representative of good popularity in the circle, will have more sympathy for the "Xinrena" crew because of the bleak situation caused by "good night, good luck", which makes "Xinrena" have a strong position in the awards season.

Once "Xinruina" can break through the shackles and George can stand in the spotlight again, his good popularity, his good eloquence, and his good demeanor will definitely be able to bring back the disadvantage little by little. At that point, the situation will be unpredictable.

Looking further, as a political thriller, the temperament style of "Xin Ruina" and "Fruit Hard Candy" have wonderful things in common, cold, solemn, depressed, cruel, bloody, the award departments of the two works in the awards season are also quite similar, the best picture is estimated to be a bit hanging, best director, best original screenplay, best supporting actor, and best editing will be direct and head-on opponents. In other words, the two works will face off directly in multiple departments, even a life-and-death duel.

One move, Warner Bros. only used one move to regain control of the whole situation. The Golden Globe Awards ceremony, which just ended last week, proved this. (To be continued.) )