Ronald and Cameron talked about bets. Ronald wanted Cameron's Harley motorcycle, and Cameron wanted Ronald's Ferrari. Of course, the two couldn't agree, so they exchanged several bets.
In the future, because Ronald's toys were too expensive, he never succeeded in gambling.
In the end, the two made a gentleman's agreement. The winner could make a reasonable request within the scope of the movie, and the loser had to cooperate unconditionally.
"Hey, are you watching OJ Simpson's show too?"
After the bet was made, both Ronald and Cameron heard the voice of the live TV broadcast on each other's phone. OJ Simpson was imprisoned in the Los Angeles County jail for the past two days. The prosecutor also identified two senior prosecutors.
Martha Clark, and William Hodgman as the lead prosecutors.
The defense wanted a speedy trial, and elected District Attorney Gil Garcetti decided to file charges in downtown Los Angeles rather than in Santa Monica, where the crime occurred.
The two ideas were submitted to the Los Angeles Superior Court, and the court decided that the Japanese judge Ito would draw a lot to hear the case.
Today happened to be the day when the chief of the two prosecutors, Martha Clark, came out for an interview.
"The Los Angeles Prosecutor's Office will not include those who sell stories to the gossip media on the witness list. This is a trial, not a TV series. I have made a decision..."
"Yeah, I'm watching Martha Clark. She changed her hairstyle and looks like Sigourney Weaver in the camera..." Ronald began to complain. This prosecutor seemed to care more about her personal image than the case.
itself.
The so-called not cooperating with those who broke the news in the media, is she afraid that others will overshadow her? Or is it a measure taken due to the rare exposure of the case?
Ronald didn't know, but among the exposed evidence, there were two that Ronald really felt were very beneficial to the prosecution.
One is that a short time after the crime occurred, a witness saw Simpson driving his car at an intersection near Nicole Brown's home, running a red light and almost hitting a trash can on the side of the road.
Another was at the airport. A witness saw Simpson, who was going to Chicago, throwing a large bag of clothes-like items into the airport trash can.
Under Martha Clark's new policy, these two very powerful witnesses will not be called by the prosecution. Does she have any more conclusive evidence?
"She should get a more fitting suit and custom-made skirt..." Cameron felt that the female prosecutor looked a bit half-like. If she really wanted to improve her personal image, she should directly hire a Hollywood image consultant? Maybe?
Is the prosecutor's salary not enough to pay for it?
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Soon, in the third week, Forrest Gump's word-of-mouth spread among the audience became even more powerful. Ronald connected the phone line to the modem and went to the Use news group to read the comments on the movie section.
Since AOL America Online launched a relatively cheap Internet package, more and more users have flocked to the Use news group, which originally wanted to be an elite, mainly college students and some middle school students with talents in IT technology.
Every summer, newly graduated high school students and newly enrolled college students will flock to Use. They don’t know much about the etiquette discussed on online BBS. It often takes a summer of familiarity before they can be educated, influenced and abide by the old users.
There is a set of discussion etiquette left over from the time BBS was founded.
However, this year AOL has significantly reduced Internet tariffs. This summer, millions of AOL users will have the right to use Use.
With so many new users coming in all at once, the original polite discussion etiquette of always bringing in new users could not be continued at all. On the forum, various sections began to have a lot of meaningless discussions and quarrels, swearing, and personal insults.
attack.
Ronald, who had just opened the BBS software, saw that the computer screen started to refresh every minute. Unexpectedly, the post he wanted to read was moved several pages later.
It turns out that more than half of the posts contain some very useful information. Now after browsing more than a dozen pages, you may not be able to find a single piece of useful information.
Many of the original intellectual elites who were keen to share on the Internet were very angry at these new users who were not high-quality and would curse when they opened their mouths. Ronald, who was so angry, also wanted to turn off the computer and no longer care about this mess.
It’s a toy.
But because of this, the new movie section here has more ideas for ordinary viewers than before.
Ronald was a little more patient and found a section called REC.ARTS.MOVIES. This has become a place where a considerable number of movie fans come to seek real feedback on the movies currently being released.
From the moment Life and Death was released, reviews of every popular movie will densely occupy the BBS layout. Once a post with the title of Life and Death in the title is opened, you can press the page turn button dozens of times, and you can still
Didn't see the bottom.
Ronald discovered that Roger Ebert's reputation here is very high, and many people are accustomed to discuss based on his film reviews. Some people have collected his film reviews over the years and put them together.
On a server, you can download and save it by yourself after linking to it.
No other famous American film critic received such treatment, and even Pauline Carr was only mentioned sporadically.
Ronald thought that maybe a few decades later, new movie fans would go to video rental stores to search for popular movies that had already been released based on Roger Ebert's movie reviews.
Not only that, when there are more people, every detail and topic will be discovered.
For example, in Life and Death, someone found a lot of scenes of gangsters in it, and even made a list of the time points in the movie where gangsters were involved. Generally, viewers who go to see a movie for the first time will not do this.
Come and find someone to wear casually and elegantly.
Only those experienced movie fans who buy the video tapes and watch them over and over will be able to find these things for fun.
Under this misleading post, many viewers responded saying that they had seen the places he pointed out and expressed their gratitude to him. Some people even wanted to write to the director of the film, asking him to re-edit it.
This new discussion environment where movie fans gather, if the base of people on BBS is further expanded, may also make some unexpected changes to Hollywood movies ten years from now.
At that time, would there be directors who deliberately buried some plots in movies that were not easy to find, leading movie audiences to actively discover and discuss them, and then go to the cinema over and over again, seemingly to confirm their guesses?
If there is a director who can do this, his movies will definitely have a high box office.
Finally, Ronald, who kept flipping the pages, found a forum discussion when Forrest Gump was released. Someone used his connections to find a ticket to watch the movie when it was previewing, because he was going to travel abroad soon.
Seeing someone so passionate about the movie he directed, Ronald immediately replied below, "You are definitely not wrong with this choice. This is also the best movie directed by Ronald Lee in ten years, in my opinion."
."
After watching it, someone was so excited that he typed 17 Forrest Gump in the title. He said that he also liked Tom Hanks' performance in the past, but in Philadelphia Story he only acted well.
In Forrest Gump, when Forrest Gump discovered that Jenny's so-called performance was a striptease on stage, the expression on his face made people feel so real and pitiful. He wanted to invite Forrest Gump to his home.
I made pancakes for him inside to comfort the poor child.
Ronald hadn't seen this kind of direct communication from movie fans for a long time. He immediately replied below, "Man, you are so right. I think after Forrest Gump came back from Vietnam and reunited with Jenny under the Washington Monument, the director immediately
Cut to Jenny being with the hippie anti-war leader, becoming his girlfriend and then leaving Forrest. Jenny later returned to her hometown, lived with Forrest for a while and then left without saying goodbye. In these two scenes, Tom
·Hanks also did a great job. Like you, I think this is one of his best performances since he became famous."
About 80% of the posts commenting on Forrest Gump are positive, and they strongly recommend to friends on the forum to watch it in the cinema.
But there are good things and bad things. It is precisely those old Use users, a group of people who claim to be the elite, who are not too fond of Forrest Gump.
A person signed by Scott Renshaw from the Stanford University Legal Counsel's Office imitated Roger Ebert and gave his own movie review. Obviously, such a convenient publishing channel allows all intellectual elites to
I feel that I can lead the audience's movie-watching trend just like those famous film critics.
This Renshaw believes that "Forrest Gump" confused him in this way. While watching the movie, I was transported into an original and stunning experience and had a lot of fun with it. But almost the moment the credits started rolling
, I felt something was wrong.
Forrest Gump is deliberately exaggerated in many places to achieve some entertainment effects. For example, he taught Elvis how to dance, and how he exposed the Watergate scandal? This is a bit too much, destroying the tone of the original fairy tale.
He believes that Tom Hanks' performance is not as natural as Robin Wright's performance as Jenny, and many parts are very deliberate. Forrest Gump's famous lines are like the Chicken McNuggets in McDonald's, they have been deliberately made.
Okay, you can use it anytime.
Forrest Gump is a very flat character. From the beginning to the end of the movie, there is almost no character arc of his own, and there is no personal change. On the contrary, the characters surrounding him have their own characters, and the arc of evolution is very impressive.
3D is considered a relatively failed work of Tom Hanks.
Finally, Renshaw, who claimed to be a lawyer from Stanford University, said that Forrest Gump was a flawed work and he only gave it seven out of ten points.
Ronald was very familiar with this very strong imitation of Albert's style of writing. He immediately replied: "I guess being in law school at Stanford and working as an intern in the editorial office of the Stanford Law Journal must be relatively free.
, giving you the opportunity to refer to Roger Ebert's film reviews, and then imitate and write this so-called film review. (I guess you definitely don't have a Stanford film critic certificate that allows you to watch this film for free in advance)
After you graduate from Stanford Law School, work as a lawyer for several years, and come into contact with real life, I think you may have different feelings about this movie and Tom Hanks' performance.
Forrest Gump is certainly not a flat character, and his own perception of the situation he finds himself in has changed very obviously in the movie.
At the beginning, people around him were not nice to him and even threw stones at him. At that time, Forrest Gump had no idea what he had done wrong.
After that, he himself also came to understand his repeated failures in love from scratch, and realized that his intellectual status had brought huge obstacles to his life, work and love.
He is definitely not a consistent character from beginning to end. Tom Hanks' superb acting skills, in these subtle and subtle aspects, allow audiences who have had similar experiences to resonate greatly.
We are not gods. We all regret our stupidity and feel dissatisfied with our lives. Forrest Gump is the common denominator of such a large group of people, a classic screen image gathered together.
Which of us has an unchanged view of life when we are 20, 30 and 40 years old?
Maybe the flat character you are talking about refers to the original novel by Mr. Winston Groom, in which Forrest Gump is a clown from beginning to end. Many times in the novel, you feel that Forrest Gump’s behavior is unusual.
It's ridiculous. But in movies, similar plots will make you feel a kind of warmth in the cruel reality.
Renshaw, maybe you should take the time to watch this movie again. You will have a different feeling then.
Another: The vast majority of film critics are not able to live the life they dreamed of and win the Pulitzer Prize like Roger Ebert. I suggest you continue to be a lawyer, this very promising profession...
"
After mocking Renshaw, Ronald laughed heartily and pressed the send button with satisfaction.
In the next few days, this post became a popular post in the forum. Every day when Ronald went home and turned on his computer, there were dozens or hundreds of replies, which were automatically sent to his reminder box.
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Many people agree with Ronald's statement. This movie must be savored carefully by people with certain life experience. The more people who have encountered setbacks and hardships in life, the more they can appreciate the content contained in the movie.
Without revealing it, I only said 30% of my inner words and subtext.
What made Ronald laugh the most was that there was a reply from a viewer who had obviously read the original novel.
He said that he had read the original novel and the movie, and they were two completely different stories that looked the same.
When watching the movie, the most impressive sentence that the audience may remember is that Forrest Gump's mother told him that life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what it will taste at the next moment (because there are many chocolates in America).
mixed flavors).
But if you have read the original work, this very bitter, cynical satirical novel, you will know that the line in the novel is that life is definitely not a box of chocolates...
I prefer movies!
Ronald laughed out loud when he saw it, so he replied with a "good, like, thumbs up!"
Who would have thought that there would be another reply from the poster below:
"Many of my friends who watched the movie together have similar feelings. The movie is definitely better than the novel. But Winston Groom, the original novelist, seems to disagree with our point of view. When he was interviewed, he said about the movie
He expressed great anger and dissatisfaction with the spiritual adaptation of his novel, and said he would sue the producer and director."
"Huh? Uh..." Ronald quickly picked up the phone and called Shirley Lansing at Paramount. I heard that Winston Groom was going to sue us?"