The release of the Golden Globe Awards is also equivalent to sounding the countdown to the arrival of the Oscars. This article was first published and at this Golden Globe Awards, it is reasonable that the two movies Saving Private Ryan and Angel Amelie lived up to expectations and won the most honors.

Of course, awards season doesn't end there, and besides, there are other things to do. Generally speaking, after an award is awarded, many people like to complain about a movie that did not win an award. For example, after the Oscars in 1994, many people shouted for Shawshank's redemption, but they didn't know that that year's Oscars were simply Forrest Gump's true story and vulgar competition, and Shawshank's redemption was simply accompanied. This kind of shouting is not necessarily better if the loser is necessarily better, but when several movies are very good, even if the ones that are compared are slightly worse, there will be many people who like them, and if they don't get the honor, some people will naturally complain.

And after the Golden Globe Awards this time, Winona was also ready, and if someone shouted for Shakespeare's love history, she quickly fought back, so as not to affect the awarding of the award when the Oscars arrived, but after the Golden Globe Awards were awarded, the situation was very surprising.

"Angel Amelie won a Golden Globe, which was expected. Among this year's romantic comedies, several movies are all excellent. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks' e-love letters are sweet and lovely, and I'm Crazy for Mary is hilarious and a box office miracle. In contrast, Shakespeare's love history can be called a drama like life, a perfect combination of drama and love, but the best movie is still the angel Amelie. This is the most perfect movie for girls, it tells people how to find happiness in loneliness, it is the kind of romantic fairy tale that can inadvertently touch everyone's hearts, such a movie does not win awards, what movie can win awards? ”

Apparently, what Winona feared didn't happen. Compared to Shakespeare's love history, the angel Amelie won an all-round victory. It's not just the awards that are in hand. And after the award was received, the media comments were also one-sided. The angel Amelie almost defeated Shakespeare's love history with a devastating momentum.

The victory came too suddenly, and Winona was caught off guard.

"I really can't imagine that the media comments are so one-sided." Looking at the comments in the media, Winona was also a little puzzled. Although she also thinks that Angel Amelie is better, she doesn't understand why the public opinion of Shakespeare's love history is so bad, and the counterattack she prepared is in vain, "Their movie can be regarded as an art film." Why is there so little in the media that they even speak for them. ”

"What kind of art are they," Levi just smiled at after reading the media comments, "and there is only one reason why this victory is easy: because the opponent's film is a dedicated flattering film, they don't pursue art at all." Their purpose is to curry favor with the Oscars, so the awards can be similar. But movies that please awards may not have good public opinion. ”

"Flattering films?" Winona was a little puzzled.

"That's when this kind of movie is filmed. is mainly to flatter the Oscars. Levy explained, "Oscar likes classical dramas, so he shoots classics, and Oscar has a lot of theatrical background. So I shoot the drama style, because the film industry is very respectful of the industry, so I shoot some master works, of course. This one has even been extended to master fandom.。 What kind of art is such a thing? Have you ever seen an artist who flatters someone? ”

Actually, every year. For any award, there will be this kind of film made specifically for the award. There are tastes in the selection of films, and people are naturally able to figure out the tastes to make movies. In fact, the United States is quite good, but it was called a murderer in China at the beginning: some people have been filming the country's badness for many years in order to win awards, and they use it to curry favor with foreign awarders, while some people have filmed for the sake of filming, and they don't even want to lose face, and they have filmed the palace as a red-light district, and they dare to openly claim that it is because 'Hollywood likes big breasts'. What Weinstein did was actually the same kind of thing, his brain was better, and he grasped the lifeblood of the judges more accurately, which does not mean how noble it is.

Levy doesn't think this kind of art is any kind of art. Art comes from life, is higher than life, pretending to moan, revealing its charm, what kind of art is it?

"Shakespeare's love history is actually quite good, but because its intention is to please the judges, it is inevitable that it will be a little out of touch with the public during the filming process. The style of the play is not appreciated by everyone, and Shakespeare should not be the protagonist of the movie, such a thing, it is okay to play fresh for a while, but compared with the real classic movies, they are not comparable. ”

"You think you're shooting classics?" Winona listened to Levy's words and replied, "Where do you get your confidence?" ”

"The confidence that the public gave me." Levy tilted his head, "My movies are appreciated by the public." ”

"You're making literary films." Winona reminded.

"So what? Literary films also need public support. ”

What is a movie? It's a hard question to articulate.

Some people say that movies are just to make money, with a high box office and a large audience, that is a good movie. But Levy has experienced a lot of bad movies after all, if he admits it, Fuchun Mountain Jutu, it's okay.

Movies are certainly not something that is shot entirely for the sake of making money. If anything is acceptable for the sake of money, it is simply to look down on the entire film industry. Moreover, Levy has witnessed the rise and fall of Hong Kong films, such a glorious past, but in the end it was ruined by a group of guys who did everything for money. One movie a week, or the TVB model of the grass platform team seems to make money, but it is actually overdrawing the future.

So, a movie is a work of art?

Not really.

Many literary film directors believe that movies are works of art, and like calligraphy and painting works, they require that not everyone appreciate them, but they require that films must show their own thoughts. Something that doesn't reflect thoughts, no matter how good it is, is nothing. These people's movies are not made for others, but for themselves.

Of course, this kind of person's movies don't make much money - Woody Allen's lifetime box office is only 50 million, and Wong Kar-wai's movies basically don't make money......

Is that right? Levy didn't think it was all right, or even worse. If no one understands the ideas you reflect, it probably means that either your movie is bad or your thinking is wrong......

"The French film master Truffaut once said that there are two kinds of directors, some directors will think of the public in their hearts, and some directors will not consider the public at all, for the former, film is a kind of performance art; For the latter, the film is a personal adventure," Levy thought for a moment before speaking, "Many people pay attention to the first half of the sentence and ignore the second half. Cinema is an expressive art, so what is art? If you put it carefully, art is an indirect way to express the classic content in real life. Cinema is a reflection of life, and nature is also a work of art. However, art must be divorced from the public and society, and no one wants to see it? If that's the case, then that's something wrong with art itself. ”

"If a work of art can't be seen and thought it's beautiful, and you don't have to look at its price tag and the author to think it's beautiful, then it's not a successful work of art. A movie has to see who the director is, what the reviews are, and even whether it has been officially banned to be considered a good movie, then the movie has failed. Seeing the statue of David, the Venus with the broken arm, even people who don't know how to sculpt will think it's beautiful - at least, people can see the fluidity of the lines and the perfection of proportions. In the same way, the Mona Lisa, or the slender man on the Volga, these classics, even people who do not know how to appreciate paintings, after seeing them, will be captivated by the solemn and elegant temperament of the Mona Lisa and the respective demeanor of the slender men, and their own charm is placed there. Not to mention music, good music transcends national borders, which has long been the consensus of the public. It's the same with movies - the public can't appreciate the deep things, the superficial things, they have to be able to be appreciated, right? In order to ignore the surface deeply, is that still art? ”

Levy's words made Winona understand something, and Levi himself continued, "Some movies are too niche. The director shoots something for himself, or for a small number of people. They don't care if the masses understand or not. It's like those so-called artists' exhibitions that we normal people don't understand at all, they don't care, they only show them to the big customers - I don't think this kind of thing can be compared with the Mona Lisa. Even if Picasso's works are abstract, there must be something that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and can resonate with the dove of peace to be regarded as a great artist recognized by the public. A film that doesn't reflect most people, it may be a work of art, but it can't be a classic......"

"What are we going after? Classic. So, we're making films that resonate with everybody -- Forrest Gump, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and they're perfect because they don't give up the standards of the masses while pursuing artistry. Art that is recognized by the most people is true art. It is a mistake to think that art is divorced from the masses. ”

Looking at Winona, Levy also laughed again, "Their one-sided pursuit of so-called artistry can be said to be a sacrifice. Why do we win? Why am I confident? Isn't it because our movies are better? Their films need an Oscar to glorify them, and our films can make the Oscars proud - that's what differentiates our films, and that's why our films are classics! (To be continued......) u