"The story is simple, George Valentine is a superstar of the silent film era, his fame is unmatched, and he is the guarantee of the box office. However, the advent of the sound film era shattered all this, and he insisted on the art of silent films, refusing to make his voice heard, so he fell from the throne without accident, becoming impoverished and not in glory.

He struggled hard, his heart was full of confusion, and he even wanted to commit suicide by swallowing a gun. But the girl he once helped, who idolized him and became famous by being the first to speak out in sound films, tried everything for him, and finally pulled him out of the haze and re-established his own business.

It sounds like a very cliché inspirational story, and it actually seems to be, but Michael Hazanavicius, along with Sean Don and Naomi Watts, give this old-fashioned movie a different kind of freshness.

When it comes to silent films, everyone should think of Chaplin's films the most, the great actor who created an era, but in the twenties of the last century, the prosperity of silent films was not much worse than today. In an era when soundtracks needed to be performed live, the actors used their body language to bring out uplifting, moving, and sad pictures on screen.

Sean Don and Naomi Watts successfully recreated this scene on the screen, this film has no rich colors, no gorgeous techniques, but with a nostalgic atmosphere, with superb acting skills to put the starting point of Hollywood in front of people. "The Artist" and "Avatar" are two completely opposite extremes, the latter fully demonstrates the extreme of modern film industry technology, while the former shows the beginning of everything, and for that, I will at least give a thumbs up. ”

- Roger Albert

Albert's film review came out long after the test screening of "The Artist" and gave a pretty good review, so after the official release, Weinstein took it out again and hyped it up, after all, Albert is the only film critic who has won the Pulitzer Prize.

Even though he has now undergone surgery due to illness and can no longer speak, he still writes hard and constantly writes film reviews.

Basically, any critic who reviews "The Artist" is good, especially those who are older, think that the film is full of beauty, as Le Figaro says, full of poetry.

The older a person gets, the easier it is to be nostalgic, especially now those who are seventy or eighty years old, have not really experienced the baptism of silent films, when they grow up to the age where they can understand movies, sound movies have become popular, and silent films usually know several masters, including Chaplin, so they are somewhat curious about silent films.

And after experiencing the baptism of various blockbusters, such a movie suddenly appeared retro, just like big fish and big meat are used to suddenly resembling a dish of small vegetables, which is extraordinarily refreshing.

Coupled with Sean's targeted actions at the beginning, he even insisted on making some adjustments to the script, reducing the interaction between the hero and heroine in love, making their relationship blurred and ambiguous, and highlighting the hero's love for movies - for example, when the heroine heard about the hero, she came to the hero's house on a rainy night and wanted to tell him that your movie is still wonderful, and the focus here is on film and art.

"That's a great movie, that's art, and you shouldn't give it up." The old subtitles say just that.

Similarly, when the actor set fire to the film after being drunk and wanted to burn the film film, he suddenly woke up and reluctantly hugged those copies and cried loudly. And in these scenes, Sean and Naomi both performed extremely well, coupled with the excellent soundtrack, which touched many nostalgic critics.

"It's a work that pays homage to the Eighth Art."

"Sean Down brings Clark Gable back to life on the big screen."

"It's a silent film, but it's more passionate and energetic than most films."

Such comments abound, and even if there is some noise, they are quickly pressed.

Of course, there are gains and losses, although the reputation is very good, don't count on the box office, the audience is not a critic, even if someone wants to try the little greens, it will not be too much. After all, most people prefer big fish and meat, and it is still commercial movies that make a lot of money, and it is no longer the era of silent films.

But that's nothing, Sean didn't expect the movie to make money in the first place, and everyone knows what the purpose of the movie is.

And "The Artist" did not live up to Sean's expectations, although he only won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in the Sentinel Awards, but after entering 10 years, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor again!

"Thank you, thank you Journalists' Association, I don't know what to say anymore, I really didn't expect to get another one in such a short time." Holding the trophy of the Golden Globe Awards, Sean stood on the stage and delivered a speech, "Thank you to the crew of "Sherlock Holmes", thank you to Guy and Jude ......"

He wasn't wrong, because he didn't get Best Actor in a Drama, but Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy nominated for "Sherlock Holmes".

At this year's Golden Globe Awards, Sean was nominated for two acting awards, one for Best Actor in a Drama and one for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy.

Of course, this is Weinstein's suggestion, one for Best Actor in a Drama and the other for Best Musical/Comedy Actor, and try to be nominated at the same time, and it's not like no one has ever done that at the Golden Globes anyway. And once this goal is reached, with a little effort, you should take one of them anyway - of course, it is better to win them together, but unfortunately it is basically a dream.

Now it turns out that he is right, that is, the award is not right, Sean prefers to be the second Best Actor in a Drama, but it has only been a year since he last got this, and the Journalists' Association is also cheeky, not to mention, if it weren't for the great acclaim of "The Artist", he might not have won this Best Musical/Comedy Best Actor.

"This is actually better, not only letting people know that the journalists' association values you, but also putting some pressure on the film school, and not letting you be too showy." At the celebration party that followed, Weinstein said.

"Okay, you say yes," Sean could only shrug, "I'll leave it all to you, and I'll do whatever you want me to do." ”

"It sounds like I'm out of work." Frederick immediately interjected.

"Sounds like you've never been unemployed." Sean immediately retorted, and then they all burst out laughing.

The party was held in Sean's mansion in Beverly Hills, so a few of his closest friends were here, but some of them didn't show up for some reason, so he had to call to say hello.

"Yes, I know, and I understand...... No problem, it's all up to you...... Well, let the little one answer the phone. Standing in a no-man's corner, Sean made the phone with a smile on his face.

"Daddy!" Suri's milky voice soon came.

"Hey, little sweetie, just hearing your voice makes me happy." Sean's smile widened

"Mom said, you won the prize tonight, I want to ...... I'm going to...... I'm going to ......" my daughter was over there and "I wanted" for a long time without "I want" coming out, and Sean could almost sketch out her pouting mouth in his head.

But Suri finally "I want" to come out: "I want to congratulate you!" ”

"Thank you, dear, I am very happy to hear your blessings." Sean laughed.

"What about you...... Will you come and play with me tomorrow? The little one immediately asked again.

"Of course, my dear, we said okay, let's go to Disneyland together, Dad is not a man of his word." Sean said immediately.

"Yes, yes!" The daughter immediately cheered over there.

After a few more words, Sean hung up the phone, sighed lightly, and after a few minutes, he started calling again, this time naturally to Naomi and Alexander.

The reason why they did not attend his celebratory party was naturally because they did not want to see each other, and although it was not uncommon for them to see each other, they were very cold to each other, most notably Katie, and barely spoke much. What's worse is that if the two little ones are also there when they are there, even if they are already very affectionate to each other, they will become cramped.

In that case, it only minimizes the number of times Naomi and Katie meet, so they basically don't come to a celebration party like this.

However, then again, even if there was no such thing, Zoe and Emily, as well as Camilla and Haydn, would not have attended. Camila and Haydn aside, they never met his other women, because then he belonged only to them, and Sean never commented on such naïve or distorted ideas.

As for Zoe, well, she always has her own way and sends Sean off with a "I don't want to participate", even though she's still his wife, and it's a legal wife.

Maybe I should think of a way, like make her belly bigger. Evil thoughts popped up in Sean's mind, but he quickly shook his head again, as he thought of Kate's three, who did not belong to him but were indeed his children.

After making an agreement, Sean did not inquire more, and Kate also sent a few photos of the child from time to time, not directly to him, but posted them on Twitter, for which Kate had to break her previous low-key style.

"It's a real annoyance." Coming to the yard, breathing in some cold air, Sean looked at the sky and muttered this, but unfortunately because of the light pollution, he couldn't see the stars, otherwise it must be wonderful.

It has been more than ten years since he entered the entertainment industry, and he is about to reach thirty in this life, and he may even be about to reach the peak of his life, he can tell himself loudly that no matter what happens in this life, he has done what he wants to do, but ...... And then what?

This question only lasted for a few seconds, and Sean laughed, he hasn't reached the top yet, what do you want to do so much? And, even if you do climb it, there are even higher, higher peaks that no one has been able to climb before, isn't it?

Then, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, trouble came to his door.

"Sean, I have something to tell you." Emma's voice rang out.