"Flash: "The Departed" upset and won the best adapted screenplay"

Instant news is coming out, the global media are surprised, and social networks are also in chaos, there are the joyful cries of gamblers who bet on Monaghan before, the cheers of the black, and the indignation of fans and fans: "Oscar made a big mistake that no fool makes!"

Maybe it's going to be the biggest dark horse tonight, maybe not, but in any case, it's one of the biggest controversies of this tournament.

After Hanks announced the results, the Kodak Theater was full of guests whispering, and the people in the backstage and backstage passages were talking a little louder: "He's too young, and he has to run with him for a few years." "Ye Wei is talented, but he is a newcomer, and there are not enough friends in the academy. "Look at Peter Otto, this kid has nothing to complain about. ”

The publicists had mixed emotions, and the hearts of some of the guests in the main hall were pounding, even including the big names of "The Departed", which was not the upset they wanted to see.

Ye Wei lost this award, he was a failure, and people who hated him could laugh to their heart's content? half and half.

Oscar isn't a one-on-one boxing, it's a chain of Lego. In this kind of year when there is no dominant film, and it is not the individual awards of animation, documentaries and foreign language films, there are too many behind-the-scenes behind each underdog, and this one has broken the balance formed from the beginning of the awards season to the present, and the expectations of this year's Oscars.

You must know that Ye Wei came today with 13 nominations for 3 films, and he always has to take one, with the input and ability of his public relations team, this is almost a certainty. The Academy knows that this is one of the selling points of this year, internationalization, diversity, whether Scorsese and Otto can make their dreams come true, Lenando and Winslet, Ye Wei and the talented girl......

Of all the 7 films with more than 5 nominations, "Dream Catcher" and "Pan's Labyrinth" are now winning the award as scheduled, "Babel" is booked for best soundtrack or best original screenplay, "Queen" is booked for best actress, "Departed" is booked for best director, "Lovely Bones" or "Winter's Bones" should have won the best adapted screenplay, if Winter Bone did, then Ke Gu won the soundtrack or cinematography, and "Babel" won the original screenplay.

"Letter from Iwo Jima," which was nominated for four films, also took home Best Sound Editing as scheduled.

In this way, no matter who wins the best picture in the end, all the favorites will win the award, and the academy can communicate to the industry and the outside world. This is what the media audience predicted, the filmmakers psychologically accepted, and the academy expected, and that's it, Hanks was also arranged to present Ye Wei with an award.

An upset made it all shaky, which award did the VIY movie win? Best Supporting Actor has also been ruled out.

The soundtrack, the cinematography, the supporting actress, the heroine, the director, the film, and the twin bones always have to take one of them!

If there must be any losers, TLB PR lead Herman Wright is certainly one of them, having previously lost the Best Picture nomination and now losing the adaptation. Wright was watching TV in the hall of the Hilton Hotel, and the crowd around him was very silent, how could he attend the Paramount celebration party afterward?

Wright wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, the problem of signature happened, Ye Wei is a fool!

Originally, the Writers Guild stipulated that 33% of the adapted scripts could only be co-signed, but he asked Arndt, "How much work have you done?" Arndt said, "There should be no 33%, so I did some polishing." Arndt even agreed to sign his name. However, it was too late for him to take over the award stage, as early as the pre-production stage, Ye Wei generously signed Arndt, and suddenly deprived it of it, and it was signed to the Oscar, and this signed the Best Adapted Screenplay Award.

And because Arndt's surname is A, Ye Wei is Y, unlike the producer, there is no first or second signature of the screenwriter, and Ye Wei has to be ranked back in alphabetical order. At first glance, others thought that it was mainly based on Arndt.

Wright ran LMS last year for Best Original Screenplay, and it was Arndt who won it, for two years in a row? There is still money to be spent in the award budget to publicize and explain the situation, and the TLB script was created by Ye Wei, and he can account for 90%, and Arndt will polish it.

If TLB's screenwriter column only had Ye Wei, there would be no such problems. But Arndt was there, and the judges looked at the list of nominees and who to check? Because of this, the Golden Globes chose to bet on the winter bone: Ye Wei would win the adapted script, but it was the winter bone signed by him alone.

Wright has been frustrated this year, if the Weinstein brothers hadn't been the driving force behind the bones, if it hadn't conquered the global critical world, if it hadn't been "one of the greatest feminist works in film history in a completely non-conscious-morphological way", then TLB would still have won, but if it had stopped at the if.

The problem is that if the Weinstein brothers were to rush for this award, "The Departed" would not have been an upset......

Wright shuddered a little at the thought of something, and felt that his Taoism was still a little shallow, and he believed that this feeling would be felt by many publicists now. Oh my God, those two-sons raised from the beginning with the idea of not adapting the screenplay, but... Best Picture.

As the saying goes, "Oscar is a game to see who has the most friends", this sentence breaks through the fundamentals.

If you have more friends, you can win more money, and you can spend money to make friends. But all the more than 5,000 Oscar judges are all elites in various positions in the industry, and in a few years, needless to say, Ye Wei will also be recruited as a judge. When a film wants to lobby Ye Wei, Hanks, Spielberg, and others, and try to give small gifts to the DVD, can it affect their choice?

The goal of PR is simply to win their favor and make them willing to choose to watch the film on a bunch of DVDs, and when the film takes up their precious time, the chances of it being appreciated and voted on will increase. But this good feeling is unreliable, and it is easy to be knocked down by real connections such as good friends and old friends.

Just as no matter how "The Departed" lobbied Hanks, he was most likely unwilling not to vote for Ye Wei.

The Weinstein brothers have been in Hollywood and awards season for so many years, and they have very, so many friends that they have created the shocking case of "Shakespeare in Love" and "Chicago," which are all best pictures. The latter was actually in 2003, when Harvey Weinstein also took up a film nomination for "Gangs of New York".

They also have a partnership with Lionsgate, such as Fahrenheit 911, which made a lot of money with a huge controversy.

Last year, Lionsgate won Best Picture with "Crash", and in addition to its public relations tricks, its connections are the soil for miracles to happen.

Lionsgate was originally just a company founded in 1997 by Canadian Frank Gusta who paid 16 million and refinanced 40 million by himself, and ran it for several years with heavy losses. If it weren't for Paul Allen, he would have closed his doors a long time ago, and one of the founders of Microsoft would have had money and nowhere to spend it, so he would have invested in independent films, DreamWorks and Lionsgate. In January 2000, investors such as Paul Allen and former Sony Entertainment Television Group president Jon Fillheimer poured $33.1 million into Lionsgate's account, and Fillheimer took over Lionsgate. In June of the same year, Lionsgate acquired Triangle Film and Television Productions in the form of 50 million shares, cash and 36 million debts, and Lionsgate increased its scale.

With Paul Allen as the financial owner, Lionsgate is not bad for money, and with Philheimer, Lionsgate is not bad for connections and talents, but bad for reputation.

It's a reputation that allows mediocre independent filmmakers of genius to come and buy independent films, no matter what the quality, because it wants to build a library of film and television resources to achieve the long-tail effect and establish an all-round long-term strategy of television networks and online on-demand networks, in the hope of becoming the hegemony of independent film companies first, then the mini-mainstream, and eventually a mainstream film and television entertainment group.

Now, six years later, Lionsgate has established its brand image, independent, off-the-beaten-path, and thirsty. Documentaries include Fahrenheit 911, dramas include Crash, commercial horrors include the Chainsaw series, and commercial comedies include the Black Mad Woman series...... You have a good movie coming to me, and I'll let you go to heaven.

The big names of the entire Lionsgate are courtesans, and Ye Wei, who created huge benefits for Lionsgate and made Fairheimer kick the ass of his former club Sony in the exorcism dispute, was worshipped as a god, and an insider from the Wall Street Journal said: "Jon Fairheimer can't wait to give his daughter to Ye Wei for another movie." ”

Lionsgate has had a lot of success during the awards season in recent years, and it is inseparable from Firmheimer's network resources.

Wright always knew that Ye Wei was a little fox, so he split up and gave "Soul Surfer" to Lionsgate to do, and Winter Bone to the Weinstein brothers.

SS was trapped in the suppression of film reviews, and Lionsgate was stunned to get two nominations, but its power is far more than that, and absolutely, absolutely, absolutely in Ye Wei's camp, "Winter Bones". If Winter Bone had also been released to Lionsgate, there would have been no help from the Weinstein brothers, but now ...... These two forces were twisted together by Ye Wei.

"Could it be that this is VIY's revenge on me?" Wright came up with this terrible conspiracy theory, they had an unpleasant quarrel because of the LMS producer's signature for the award, could it be that Ye Wei had been holding a grudge against him from then, cooperating amiably on the surface, and secretly wanted to take away the position that Herman had won from LMS. - If TLB walks out of the Kodak theater empty-handed.

It's a big plan? including having Arndt sign TLB? But it's not like that... He has this talent, but he doesn't have that ruthlessness......

Wright, who is not a rookie in the industry, knows that such a possibility exists, and it is too weird.

The situation of this year's best picture is very complicated, there is no big hit, and whoever wins it can be said to be an upset.

"Letter From Iwo Jima" has a chance, and its three byline producers, Eastwood, Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, are a guarantee. "Babel" has a chance, and "The Departed" also has a chance, especially the latter radiates a very large network of relationships, and Jack Nicholson alone has countless friends.

However, it was not a big hit, precisely because of the loss of support from the Weinstein brothers.

It was signed only by the name of the first producer, Graham King. These gang have collaborated on "Gangs of New York" and "The Aviator" in recent years, all of which dominated the awards season that year, and did not cooperate again in "The Departed". If those two were idle this year, they might have helped "The Departed", but now they have winter bones.

"The Departed" has nothing to do with them except "friendship", and the person who defeated "Gangs of New York" with "Chicago" was also Harvey Weinstein.

Praising oneself and belittling others is a way to play the Olympics. Wright suddenly discovered that the recent nominees had been attacking each other in the media, but Winter Bone avoided the fire.

"The Departed" was attacked as a remake and compensation, why couldn't "Infernal Affairs", which competed for best foreign language film on behalf of Hong Kong, China, not even get a nomination? It wasn't enough to compensate Scorsese for a best director? Even the best picture had to be compensated? "Goodfellas" was not.

"Babel"? Last year, when I saw "Crash" in the limelight, I followed the trend and came to such a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-threaded film with the same proposition? It's enough to give nominations! Don't you see that even film critics say it's not very good, opportunistic, contrived, designed for the Oscars, 69% fresh, what to fight for?

The problem with "Letter from Iwo Jima" is with Japan, and the problem with "Queen" is with Britain. They just don't fit!

And "Winter's Bones" is a pure American local film, 100% fresh, an independent art film with a backbone, a rare feminist movie... Two years ago, "Million Dollar Baby" was just won, but Winter Bone's feminism is different! It is not only feminism, it also has a very deep concern for poor areas and disadvantaged groups, and it is most suitable to end this year's melee.

With the escort of the film critics, independent film industry, and women's rights industry, it is difficult for opponents to attack the film itself, just take some scandals between Ye Wei and actresses, it is a non-union project, and it is simply rushed out. It's enough to grab the smear, but the firepower is not great, so they think it's satisfied, and concentrate on arguing with TLB for the script.

The "Battle of the Two Bones" was very hot, and Paramount and Warner Bros. kept going back and forth, but they didn't pay attention to the secret development of Winter Bone.

A definite question about Dong Gu is also paralyzing, Ye Wei is so young! Only 19 years old, no matter what ethnicity he is, he is too young, if he is just his signature, Dong Gu has no chance to win the award. But it was signed by two names, Ye Wei, Peter Heller.

Heller is a middle-aged man of Jewish descent.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Ye Wei did not participate much in the promotion of this year's awards season, he was busy with vacations and football.

Wright still complained about it, but Harvey Weinstein seemed to take advantage of the opportunity, and they let Peter Heller, the "steward of VIY", take the lead. -- Some media have long said that Heller was so busy with the girl's trilogy that his hair turned gray last year, and Ye Wei allegedly threw all the dirty work to him. This time, Heller brought the film everywhere to attend film festivals and award ceremonies to promote the publicity, and the outside world did not pay attention to it, but in the industry, Peter Heller has been really beautiful recently, and today he brought his wife and daughter to the ceremony.

Before you know it, it seems that Heller is the first producer, and it was he who made this movie with a genius boy, and it was this middle-aged Jewish man!

On the other hand, Ye Wei is hotly speculated, especially this kid has really signed a contract with Manchester United, and he is willing to stay away from Los Angeles. It seems that Winter Bone is his farewell work, he will no longer make movies, and he will not be able to give it in the future if he doesn't give it to him, such a breath of death is a big killer in the awards season.

This is definitely a plan! Ye Wei may have known all along, or maybe not. Because in fact, his interests were damaged, and the adapted script was originally a must-take, and as soon as he won it, he became the youngest Oscar for Best Screenwriter, but now he has lost nothing in his big gamble. On the other hand, even if Winter Bone wins the Screenplay Award, it is not interesting for the Weinstein brothers, they don't need to win a must-win award to show their ability, and Best Picture is different......

Ye Wei's playful expression towards the live camera was not just playing cool, maybe he did realize that Harvey Weinstein played with people's hearts with his usual tricks.

Wright swallowed in astonishment, before losing the best adapted screenplay and having the opportunity to win the best picture, "Winter's Bones" was ready to ascend to the throne.

Now I'm afraid everyone is wondering, where did all those votes for the girl trilogy go?