As the biggest ticking time bomb in this year's awards season, the strength of "Hard Fruit Candy" is eye-catching, but considering various off-court factors, especially Chaos Pictures' almost abandonment of the academy's public relations management of this work, this also makes the prospect of the awards season of "Hard Fruit Candy" unpredictable. However, objectively speaking, the strongest competitiveness of "Hard Candy" is concentrated in the three departments www.biquge.info of Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay.

As a director, Lance has proven himself, but "Fruit Hard Candy" still allows people to once again see Lance's control and excavation of the lens language, from lighting to composition to positioning, what is hidden under the seemingly fancy lens is Lance's ambition and reflection as an artist, which is amazing. Compared with "Killing with a Knife", "Fruit Hard Candy" is a step closer to the use of space, especially the position transformation and space compression between characters, pushing the atmosphere of thriller, suspense and fear to the extreme, and at the same time excavating the profound connotation of the work, with a far-reaching aftertaste. People have witnessed the growth of Lance in the series of works from "City of God" to "Murder with a Knife" to "Hard Fruit Candy", and the voices of admiration are endless.

A week before the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the Directors Guild of America announced the list of nominees for this year, and Lance was once again among them with "Fruit Hard Candy", which also achieved his feat of winning the favor of the Directors Guild of America for three consecutive years, which can also be seen how highly regarded Lance's directorial talent is.

As a screenwriter, Lance is known as the most successful director since Billy-Wilder. Billy, who was born as a screenwriter, has won twelve Oscar screenwriter nominations and eight Oscar director nominations in the history of the Oscars, and in his list of works, "Passionate", "Double Compensation", "Sunset Boulevard", "Peach/Color/Apartment" and other masterpieces are all written and directed by him, which can be described as a generation of talents, and later Woody Allen, who also wrote and directed, was talented in screenwriting and directing, and his directing ability was slightly inferior. Now, Lance is being compared to Billy.

Not only because "City of God" and "Murder by Knife" have won Lance nominations for screenwriter and director for two consecutive years, but also because the black wisdom and social reflection shown by "Fruit Hard Candy" in a narrow space are impressive, Lance once again shows people the intricate relationship between law and morality, justice and crime from a unique perspective, and his line skills are indeed commendable.

It is not surprising that the Writers Guild of America has given "hard candy" a place in the list of nominees for Best Original Screenplay.

Most importantly, as an actor, Lance shook the world for the second time after "Killing with a Knife", "Rolling Stone" magazine commented on Lance's performance in "Hard Candy", "Strello's outstanding performance is a miracle of acting, he not only knows how Jeff is supposed to walk, talk, listen, and even know how he breathes." Strello gave Jeff a soul, and a reality. The restrained but explosive performance seems to have become Lance's trademark, and the changes revealed in his eyes are quietly completed in the characterization, making the whole story come alive.

It's hard to imagine that this is just Lance's second acting work. After last year's "Murder with a Knife" shocked countless people, people seemed to be mentally prepared for the "surprise", but now people realize that they are still too naïve, and the performance in "Fruit Hard Candy" is enough to go down in history, especially the expressiveness of the eleven minutes long shot, which completely detonated the Internet discussion boom, almost every man empathizes, shoots the case, and at the same time can't help but be curious - curious about whether the real castration is so, So much so that the experimental video about castration on the Internet became the top of the search rankings, which really makes people laugh and cry.

Objectively speaking, compared with the director and screenwriter, the core factor that really makes the soul tremble of "Fruit Hard Candy" is Lance's performance. The clamor for Lance to win Best Supporting Actor has been overwhelming and seems unstoppable.

As for the Best Actress in a Drama category on the Golden Globe Award nomination list, Alan Peggy won the nomination at the age of only eighteen. And the unexpected, the award for Best Film Score, in which "Hard Candy" has no competition in front of John Williams, the master of the score who has been nominated for forty Oscars.

Therefore, it is understandable to miss out on Best Director and lose to Lee/Ann, and before the awards ceremony, it was predicted that according to the principle of sharing the cake at the Golden Globes, "Hard Candy" should most likely win in the Best Screenwriting Department and the Best Supporting Actor Department. After all, having won six nominations, there's no way the Hollywood Foreign Press Club will leave "Hard Candy" empty-handed, but there is still a balance to consider, and it's clear that the screenwriter and supporting actor are the best options.

However, the Golden Globe Awards once again made a surprising choice, and the best screenwriting department favored "Brokeback Mountain", which "abnormally" focused all the focus on this work, achieving the supreme momentum of "Brokeback Mountain" this year's awards season, showing a strong posture that is completely different from the past; The Best Supporting Actor category went to George Clooney for ...... "Cinrena"!

There was an uproar.

Unexpected, but reasonable. With the advancement of the awards season, "Xinrena" gradually rose to the top under the promotion of Warner Bros., and faced off head-on with "Fruit Hard Candy" in many departments such as Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, and Best Original Screenplay, among which George, who was Best Supporting Actor, undoubtedly attracted much attention.

Because George, who had just experienced the baptism of plagiarism, did not choose to hide from the public eye, but stood up bravely and honestly, admitting his mistakes, while showing enough sincerity and low profile, and frequently carrying out public relations actions, which really won a lot of sympathy points; What's more, George has always been famous for his high-quality image, in addition to his tough stance on China's "anti-China, Tibet/independence", he is usually a personable and elegant gentleman's image, and has become the dream lover of countless women, and now George's calm attitude also makes people gradually able to accept that "the so-called plagiarism accident is indeed just an assistant's mistake".

Then gossip magazine broke the news that in order to shoot "Xinruina", George gained 30 pounds, and during the filming, he was unkempt, tortured, and suffered a lot, and even locked himself in a small dark room all day and night, just to figure out the role, so that he was emaciated, but in order to maintain the weight of the character, he forced himself to eat a lot, which finally led to stomach problems. However, George never told anyone about it, let alone complained, showing the dedication of an actor.

Gradually, the call for "Xinrena" to compete for Best Supporting Actor for George began to slowly climb, from the ignorance of the major award ceremonies in the early stage to occupying a place in the list of Screen Actors Guild nominees, George's winning momentum is rising rapidly, and even faintly has become one of the hot candidates.

In the list of nominees for the Golden Globe Awards, "Xin Ruina" only received one nomination for Best Supporting Actor, which is very low-key. But when the award was announced, it soared into the sky, and the nomination was strongly evolved into an award, allowing George to truly stand on the podium, which was also the first official appearance of George in public after the plagiarism, and his modest and low-key, deferential and polite demeanor successfully awakened people's previous impressions of him.

I have to say that this move by Warner Bros. is brilliant.

On the surface, Lance's avoidance of Africa created a situation of moral kidnapping, forcing the academy judges to pay attention to the "Hard Fruit Candy" work, a strategy that was undoubtedly successful - starting with the major award ceremonies and ending with the six Golden Globe nominations, this is ironclad; But at the same time, Lance's absence also created a huge gap, giving the most important part of the college's public relations in the awards season to competitors, Warner Bros. naturally did not let go of this opportunity easily, focusing all the firepower on the screenwriter and supporting actor department of "Xin Ruina", and in just three months, he successfully made George complete the salted fish turnover.

As for "Squid and the Whale," it's even more of a fish on the chopping block, with all three nominations in the musical comedy category losing out to the same competitor — "Walk with the Song," a production and release by Twentieth Century Fox that has become another critically acclaimed hit of this year's awards season. But in fact, the overall quality of the work can only be the same as last year's "Soul Singer", or even slightly inferior, but the current atmosphere is to push "Walking with Song" to the height of "Chicago", and it would be naïve to say that this is just the PR of Twentieth Century Fox.

This is the Golden Globes, and the musical comedy department is a unique department of the Golden Globes, and although Warner Bros. also has "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" competing for this department, the lack of overall quality has tied Warner Bros. hands. Therefore, instead of letting the strong rise of "Squid and Whale", they should add fuel to the fire behind the scenes and fulfill Twentieth Century Fox - "Walking with Songs" was originally the biggest hit in the musical comedy department, so that they could not only sell Twentieth Century Fox a favor, but also suppress Chaos Pictures by the way, and easily kill two birds with one stone, why not?

The result was a situation where the Golden Globes came to an end, Chaos Pictures, which had received nine nominations, was wiped out, Lance continued his record of no success at the Golden Globes, and to make matters worse, George used the subtlety of the awards season perfectly to achieve his goal of re-emergence, and is now the strongest contender in the Best Supporting Actor category.

In one month, just one month, Warner Bros. has completed the reversal of advantages and inferiorities, and its strong public relations strength has almost suppressed Chaos Pictures without breathing room. After this battle, Chaos Pictures really realized the intricacies of Hollywood, as a college public relations recruit, they do not have the advantage of foreign language films in the "City of God", and they do not have the advantage of Tom Cruise's connections and qualifications, and it is difficult for them to create another miracle this year.

This growth education is tragic and cold, and what is even more terrifying is that the Golden Globe Awards are just a midterm exam, and the Oscars are the ultimate test.

Growing up education is not over yet. (To be continued.) )