"It's the most entertaining of all my films."

In front of the theater, after Scorsese said this to reporters, he lowered his head and got into the car, and the black sedan drove to the hotel where the crew was staying, followed by a van pulling cattle.

The cow will be sent away overnight tonight.

The three Martins were not interviewed and got into the same car.

Nicholson, who has been with the director for decades, said: "Scorsese is in a good mood, he's happy with the film. ”

Martin sighed.

Nicholson asked, "Do you think the film is bad?" ”

"It's not." Martin thought back and said, "Just the three of us, we scolded more than 200 haircuts in the film, right?" ”

Leonardo thought for a moment: "Just more, no less." ”

Martin said, "Any idea why I'm sighing? I'm ashamed of the barren swearing. ”

Nicholson shook his head: "Your focus is really different. ”

Martin said, "Cursing is also an art. ”

Back at the hotel, the three of them went to Leonardo's room to drink together, and before half a bottle of whiskey had been drunk, three different text messages rang out at the same time.

Martin took it out and looked at it, but it was Warner Bros. who did the results of the questionnaire score for the audience at the premiere.

Leonardo laughed: "The average score of the audience at the premiere is A+, the best result." ”

"It's really good." Martin said in all seriousness: "I think I'm going to get a high positive rating. ”

Nicholson chimed in: "It's mainly Leo's stupid foil. ”

The next day there was a propaganda campaign, and the three did not drink too late and soon left separately.

Warner Bros. was very confident in "The Departed", and lifted the ban on various ratings of the film that night.

By the next morning, Rotten Tomatoes had formed a freshness rating of 95%.

Subsequently, in the comprehensive media score released by MTC, the average score of the Departed was 87.

Roger Albert, a well-known film critic who participated in the premiere, gave a quick comment in his column: "This is Martin Scorsese's best film since 1990's Goodfellas, and one of the best films of the year." ”

The quality of the film is guaranteed, and Warner Bros. only exerts a little force, and the media reputation rises.

Another point is that Martin Scorsese has not made too bad films for so many years, and he has not been overly commercialized.

This has kept him in the critical circles a good reputation.

In contrast, Martin's side has not yet been released on a large scale because the film has not yet been released on a large scale.

What I didn't expect was that because he chose a literary film like "The Reader", the critics in Los Angeles had a pretty good opinion of him.

Especially the Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan.

He also attended last night's premiere and was the first to write a review of the column.

Unlike Roger Albert, Kenneth Turan has his focus on Martin.

"The Los Angeles critics have always considered Martin Davis to be a talented and artistically minded actor, as evidenced by his choice of The Reader in the first half of the year, as evidenced by last night's premiere of The Departed."

"Martin plays a criminal who goes undercover in the police, and his superb performance shows us the inner complexity of the character, showing us a complex character made of desire, power and betrayal, and this complexity makes it easy for the audience to empathize with the character and understand the character's decisions and actions deeply."

"There have been so many talented actors in Hollywood, and Martin is bound to be one of them, and he has put a special magic into Scorsese's new film with a brilliant role, and he deserves something this awards season."

On the streets of Toronto, during a promotional event, Leonardo saw the Los Angeles Times sent by the crew.

He asked Martin, "Honestly, did you have an ass deal with that Kenneth Turan?" That old bastard has scolded me all these years, but he licks you like this! ”

Martin's tone was deep and his eyes were long-sighted: "No way, my artistic pursuit is higher than yours." ”

Leonardo was dismissive of this: "Do you have artistic pursuits? ”

Martin told the truth: "It doesn't matter if I have it, the critics and the college judges think that I have it!" ”

Leonardo couldn't help it: "Those people have a problem with their heads, I didn't look down on the Oscars back then, they disliked that I didn't value the Oscars and didn't respect art." Later, I actively moved closer to the Academy and the Oscars, and actively rushed for the awards every year, but they felt that I deliberately won the awards, but I still didn't respect art. ”

He asked Martin, "Is there something wrong with their heads?" ”

"No, there's nothing wrong with them, they just don't look down on you." Martin uncovers a bloody fact: "If a black frustration pursues you, no matter how you behave or what you say, do you have a hundred ways to reject her?" ”

Leonardo said, "I can find a thousand ways to do it casually. He then reacted, pointed to his nose and asked, "Am I a black frustration?" ”

Martin shrugged: "Kate now understands what it takes to be their white moonshine." ”

Leonardo looked down at his stomach, pinched his increasingly widening face again, and understood what the white moonlight was.

Secretly sighing is really a bunch of perverts, isn't it good to appreciate beautiful things?

Nicholson came over from the side at this time and said, "What are you afraid of, even if you become what I am now, the woman who should pounce on me will still pounce." ”

He looked at Martin and decided to stand with Leonardo: "Although you are 11 seconds, although you are not as big as him, you are ...... than him"

Leonardo interrupted him: "Stop! Jack, don't say it, if you keep talking, I'll be ashamed to jump off the building. ”

Martin immediately criticized Nicholson: "You are so bad, how can you say Leao 11 seconds?" Leao is a 100-meter sprint of 11 meters, which is much better. ”

Leonardo nodded at the two: "The day I get the Oscar, I will give each of you 50 black frustrations, even if you cry, you have to finish those things!" ”

…………

Los Angeles, Pacific Film and Television Productions.

Louise, accompanied by her assistant, saw off Wu Maoting, an investor from Asia, and turned into another reception room.

Thomas was waiting here, saw someone come in, and said: "The Departed premiere was a huge success, the word-of-mouth response was excellent in all aspects, Martin's performance was praised by critics, is it time for us to launch?" ”

Louise said: "Critics who have a good opinion of Martin, the relationship has always been taken care of by you, and you will continue to come forward, and the judges of the academy will leave it to me." ”

There are more than 1,300 judges in the actor category, and according to the experience of previous years, after applying for nominations, as long as 200 of them are obtained, the nomination can basically be guaranteed.

Not every judge will vote in the nomination process.

Louise asked, "How are you talking about the few people I circled?" ”

"They made it clear that they would support Martin, and by the way, they would mobilize some resources," Thomas said. ”

Louise nodded slightly: "We can't do less work." ”

Knowing that Louise and the rich Atlanta woman had hired a professional PR team together, Thomas said: "The resources invested by the WMA have been handed over to me, and when it comes to the key pull-out meetings, Ali Emmanuel will personally attend to help canvass votes." ”

Louise felt that it was not enough: "At the critical moment of nomination voting, it is better to have news that can attract attention, there are too many judges who will not watch the film no matter how much you push it, they will only choose to vote with their feet and vote for people who are familiar with the near future." ”

Thomas said: "Martin did some preparation. ”

Louise nodded, and said, "The touting of well-known people can also influence many people's choices. ”

"These Martins will do it themselves," Thomas said. ”

Louise also said a key: "You also have to pay attention to the opponent's smear, Martin has gone smoothly in recent years, and he has stepped on others in the process of climbing up." ”

The two also discussed this.

Since Harvey Weinstein joined the game, not only has the amount of money spent on PR increased exponentially, but every year there have been scandals with popular films.

At that time, the city's smearing of soldiers was a classic example.

After Thomas left, Louise returned to the office, dialed a phone number, and said, "Rita, let's do it." ”

Rita Public Relations is a special company that specializes in providing publicity and public relations services for the entertainment industry, and the annual awards season is the busiest time of business.

Its company's founder and largest partner, Rita Baker, was a friend of Louise's when she was in college.

After receiving a call from Louise, Rita immediately instructed her assistant: "Let the first group act immediately, and send out all the emails and mails prepared in advance." ”

On the same day, many members of the Screen Actors Guild and the Film Critics Guild, as well as other outpost award judges, received an email in their email addresses.

"The new film "The Departed" directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Martin Davis will be released in North America on October 6......"

A few days later, these people had another physical email with the same content in their mailboxes.

…………

Four Seasons Hotel Beverly Hills.

Romelu Lukaku, from the News of the World, sat in the lobby lounge, seemingly reading a newspaper, but kept his eyes on the hotel door.

The automatic doors opened, and a familiar obese figure entered the hotel.

Lukaku whispered: "Harvey Weinstein is here. ”

Hazard picked up his bag and walked towards the lobby, followed Xavi into the elevator, glanced at Courtois who had followed, and said nothing.

The elevator clanged open, and Harvey stepped in.

Hazard and a few others followed up the elevator.

He pretended to go to choose a floor, but found that the button light on the same floor was on, and withdrew his hand.

The elevator went up quickly, and when it stopped, Harvey got out of the elevator.

Hazard followed, turned out of the elevator and walked in the opposite corridor to Xavi, took out a special mirror from his pocket, and secretly observed the situation behind him.

Some of the reporters of the News of the World have very criminal skills.

Seeing Xavi stop in front of the door and open the door, and then go in, Hazard turned around and came back, determined the room number of Xavi's long-term private room from the room distribution map, and hurried downstairs.

Determine the room, so that it is convenient to do the rest of the work

(End of chapter)