Chapter 684 The audience’s demand for authenticity is increasing day by day
"Hey hey hey..."
He said he didn't like the Golden Globe Award, but after receiving the trophy, Ronald placed it in a more conspicuous position in the display cabinet, and then smiled and admired it for a long time.
"Don't you look down on the Golden Globe Awards?" Diane wondered. Could it be that men, like women, say they are calm and calm, but actually have a strong desire in their hearts?
"Ah, yes, I suddenly discovered that among these Oscars, a Golden Globe Award is needed to spice it up, hahahaha..."
Ronald is a little embarrassed. This award is indeed not authoritative, but this year the Oscar for Best Director, which he desires so much, is right in front of him. Winning a Golden Globe is still a good sign. As for those Directors Guild Awards, and Film Critics Association Awards from various places.
, are all on the lower floor of the display cabinet, and they are still incomparable with the Oscars and Golden Globes. Of course, if there is a Palme d'Or from Cannes or a Golden Lion from Venice, it can still be placed on the same floor as the statuette.
Ronald took out a jewelry box that his assistant had just delivered, and handed it to Diane. When he pressed the switch, the lid of the box jumped up, and a necklace made of sparkling diamonds appeared in front of Diane.
"What is this? Pretty Woman?" Diane had a gemstone necklace, which was the style worn by Julia Roberts in the movie Pretty Woman. The shape of the jewelry box was very similar. She smiled and stretched her head over to look...
"Ha..." Unexpectedly, it was a diamond necklace. The round brilliant cut made the necklace emit bright light under the light of the chandelier, which shocked Diane. Next to the large, flawless diamond, there were
Set with small diamonds, this necklace looks twice as expensive as the original one.
"What's wrong, why did you give me a diamond necklace?" Diane smiled, turned around and asked Ronald to help her put it on. But she still had to ask. Today is not a wedding anniversary, nor is it a birthday, could it be...
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"You forgot, honey, my first date with you was at the Oscars." Ronald smiled and closed the hinge. At the Oscars that year, Diane was Timothy Hutton's daughter.
However, the arrogant Hutton got into trouble with her, so Ronald snatched Diane over to be his female companion.
"Well..." Diane also remembered what happened back then and gave Ronald a deep kiss. This Oscar is the third time Ronald has been nominated for Best Director. He will definitely win the award. When the time comes, he will also give Ronald a deep kiss.
He earned a little face, so he went to order two sets of Armani haute couture early, and then picked the most outstanding one to wear. This necklace matched it perfectly...
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"The latest news is that the estimated number of injured in the Great Hanshin Earthquake has exceeded 40,000, and the number of victims cannot yet be counted. More than 300,000 people are homeless, and the estimated direct economic losses exceed 10 trillion yen (approximately 100 billion
Dollar)."
On the evening news, images of Osaka, Kobe and other places in Japan began to appear again. The victims were affected by this major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. It happened to happen at around 5 o'clock in the morning local time. About 140,000 buildings were damaged.
It was destroyed, and a 20-kilometer-long and 4-kilometer-wide area in the center of Kobe was completely destroyed.
Even after a few days, the tragic scenes on TV still frightened the audience. Ronald knew that Los Angeles was also in an earthquake zone. After the previous earthquake in Los Angeles, Ronald hired a team of experts to conduct an earthquake in Beverly Park.
The nearby fault zone was inspected, and fortunately his home was not on the Hollywood fault zone. In addition, the house was built according to the highest earthquake-proof standards, so there was no problem expected.
But the problems caused by the earthquake did not stop there. Kobe is an important trading port in Japan. Many automobile and electronic industry exports to the United States were affected by the port suspension. The Nikkei Index fell rapidly, and stocks in many American industries also suffered.
fall.
Hollywood's reaction was, not surprisingly: Do we have any disaster movies we can make?
Disaster movies have always been a genre that has a good box office, but not every era in history has excellent works. The Great Hanshin Earthquake has always been the focus of global news. These days, the pictures of CNN, NHK and other TV stations are also being broadcast by all countries.
The TV station broadcasted it, which made the audience's interest in disaster movies begin to rise again. Ronald was no exception, and began to look for remakes of disaster movies in the film library that might use computer special effects technology to upgrade.
However, earthquake movies were excluded first. It was too expensive to show earthquake scenes. Not only did a large number of buildings shake and collapse, but all buildings in a wide range collapsed together. The representation of ruins, whether using a computer,
Special effects synthesis or real-life set-up are both very expensive.
Therefore, Ronald is still looking for relatively cheap disasters. Such as fires, floods, avalanches, monsters, or alien invasions. These are relatively cheap expression methods that Hollywood can learn from.
"The first Chechen war that broke out at the end of last year continues. As of today, the Russian army continues to besiege the Chechen capital Grozny. The fighting is extremely fierce, causing the international community to worry about a humanitarian crisis."
This international news picture also attracted the attention of many viewers. Wearing Russian tank caps, driving T-72 tanks into the Chechen army, and hearing the sound of gunfire from time to time, it brought people back to the time of the Kuwait War.
However, unlike the war with Kuwait, which had a large number of airborne pilot strikes, there were more ground attacks and old-fashioned artillery preparations. This made the strength of both sides appear more even.
Ronald also noticed that news from Chechnya also received high ratings.
Will American and global audiences be interested in more realistic war films again? It’s hard to say what the trigger is for the popularity and decline of genre films. But there is no doubt that if there was any news that often appeared in front of the audience at that time
, this type of movie will also attract more viewers than usual.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! For example, the last land war blockbuster that used real swords and guns on a large scale was the Tank Battle in 1965. It happened to coincide with the escalation of the Vietnam War and the India-Pakistan War. TV
With comprehensive media coverage, images of various tanks and infantry following the tanks in action appear in the news all the time.
Therefore, this tank battle starring Henry Fonda was also one of the best-performing movies at the time.
Recently, the world has not immediately achieved peace with the end of the Cold War. On the contrary, various conflicts are still emerging in various places.
In addition to the several wars mentioned above, there were also humanitarian disasters in Rwanda, a melee between warlords in Somalia, and even the defeat of the US military. In Europe, there were also wars between the republics of Yugoslavia that succeeded the alliance.
In particular, the Bosnian War and the siege of Sarajevo once again brought cruel modern war to the people through television programs.
However, these battles are not armored assaults like World War II. On the contrary, the cruelty of various infantry battles is even more impressive. Especially urban street fighting. In addition to Sarajevo, it is said that the Russian army is also in trouble in Grozny. There are also
The Black Hawk helicopter in Somalia crashed, and the Marine Corps was fighting in the city with the Aidid militia.
Therefore, if Ronald wants to revive the genre of hard-core war movies, he must also consider the style of war. When was the last time such a war relied on infantry to fight on foot?
The Vietnam War? The paratroopers in World War II? The Normandy landing? Or the earlier Boer War, or the War of Independence?
"The jury selection in the O.J. Simpson case has been approved by the judge. In addition to the 12-person jury, there is also a 12-person substitute jury. They will observe the entire prosecution and defense cross-examination just like the formal jury.
Due to the high profile of this case and repeated media coverage, Judge Ito said that in order to prevent jurors from being forced to withdraw due to biased media reports, resulting in a mistrial of the case, the substitute jury this time will be supplemented by the official jury at any time.
A mistrial will be declared and a new trial will be held until the alternate jury is exhausted.
Early next month, the case will be held in court for the first time. The families of the two victims have stated that they will attend the trial until justice is served..."
The long-running O.J. Simpson case is finally going to trial. Media across the United States have been following and reporting on it for such a long time, and it is finally about to enter a trial that is even more interesting than the courtroom TV series "Law and Order."
Both sides make opening statements, the prosecution introduces evidence, the defense cross-examines, the defense introduces evidence, the prosecution cross-examines, and then the closing arguments of both sides, and then it is left to the jury to discuss a unanimous result.
People have long understood a lot of common sense about the court through court dramas on TV, which have never faded since their invention, but this is the first time they have watched a real court trial.
Fortunately, Judge Ito, because he was afraid of being accused of favoring a certain party and causing bad things like riots, allowed the trial to be broadcast live on television to ensure transparency and fairness to the greatest extent.
For this reason, major TV stations have set aside prime time for special programs. However, many court dramas that are now popular are not sure whether they will be more realistic and exciting live broadcasts of court trials and lose ratings.
In short, these events have provided Hollywood and the TV drama industry with some experimental directions and subject matter inspiration. In order to gain the maximum profit from this round of revival of old genre films, Ronald’s idea is to try his best
of reality.
TV satellite broadcasting technology and the rise of TV stations like CNN that broadcast news 24 hours a day have brought contemporary audiences closer to the "truth" than ever before. They have seen the Tomahawk launch and hit the target in the Gulf War, and the perspective of a fighter bomber.
After precision bombing and real shots of tanks racing wildly in the desert, it became difficult for the audience to tolerate the plot of setting fire to gasoline barrels to stop Tiger tanks in the "Tank Showdown". They demanded "authenticity", and
It is the most demanding audience in history.
Anyway, after watching the real thing, I have no interest in watching the fake one anymore. Either you try to make the photo as rigorous as possible, so that it is almost the same as the real thing. Or you take a photo that cannot be shown in the news, such as an alien invasion... so that the audience
If you haven’t seen it before, you won’t think you are fake.
Fortunately, the next few movies to be produced are relatively close to reality, or the reality imagined by the audience.
"Sweetheart" starring Tom Cruise tells the story of the life of a sports agent. This profession is far away from the general audience, which makes it difficult for the audience to discover the unreal parts of it.
For example, Jerry Maguire suddenly had a sudden impulse to stop deceiving his clients and making more money by manipulating them. He wanted to become an honest agent.
If this plot appeared in CAA, most agents would undoubtedly be fired by Ovitz.
After all, the biggest advantage of a young agent at CAA compared with other agents, such as William Morris, is that it can scare producers, saying that if you don't use CAA's services, then Ovitz will
I will call them personally and put pressure on them.
And the first words they say when vying for potential clients are also full of lies. How multiple brokers serve one client can make him more satisfied. This is purely to prevent Ovitz from setting up his own business with clients.
Precautions like what he did back then).
As for the packaging service that can bring more performance opportunities to customers, it is also a specious lie. It is true that from the perspective of CAA as a whole, there may be more performance opportunities, but customers must also be ranked according to seniority within CAA. Those who get
The role must first satisfy the old customers who joined CAA earlier.
Therefore, there are a lot of complaints from CAA's new clients. If there were an agent like Jerry Maguire, it would be a miracle to survive.
Fortunately, this movie is completely a daydream of Ronald and led by Cruise's CW Films. It was made for the sake of Diane's happiness and for Tom Cruise to expand his acting career and win awards. Otherwise, it would be left to him.
If CAA were to organize the project, many of Jerry Maguire's speeches and story directions would have been "guided" by Ovitz.
At least Maguire's boss in the script, a character who is immediately relatable to someone, must have gone through some revisions in appearance and tone of voice.
Speaking of which, another movie that Ronald agreed to invest in, Barbra Streisand's "Two-Way Mirror", starring a literature professor and a romance with a mathematics professor who has an undecided male lead, is also
An unknown industry, the life of a university professor.
However, compared to an industry like agents, which is somewhat mysterious and has little contact with ordinary people, university professors still have a lot of interactions with ordinary audiences. At least any audience who has attended university will have met university professors...
They have certain authenticity requirements for the profession of university professor. Ronald thought about this and was also worried that this growing demand for authenticity from the audience would also affect romantic comedies.
So he called Yang Yanzi, who wanted to see the final version of the script that had been revised by Streisand and rewritten by other screenwriters.
Soon, he got a response. Barbra Streisand was still continuing to revise the script. She hoped to completely revise the script before submitting it to Ronald, instead of hastily giving a half-finished product and disappointing Ronald.
As soon as Ronald heard this, he knew that Barbra Streisand was hiding something from him. "Well, send Barbra a bouquet of flowers and leave a message saying that I look forward to seeing the final draft...", Ronald
De told Yang Yanzi on the phone, "Also, find a way to steal a copy and let me take a look..."