Sure enough, the seed that Ronald planted in little Bronfman's heart began to sprout and grow in his heart.
Edgar Bronfman Jr. is worthy of being a nouveau riche with a bank full of cash. He contacted the Wall Street Journal again and accepted an exclusive interview again.
This time, he first said a lot of good things about Japanese people, saying that he is a supporter of Japanese business philosophy. When he is not doing anything, he reads "My Youth and Enterprise" by Akio Morita and "Panasonic" by Konosuke Matsushita.
Konosuke’s business philosophy”.
Then he talked about some ideas about investing more money in the media industry, and praised Hollywood greatly, saying that his brewing industry is a bit boring and not as passionate as the entertainment industry.
This formal interview also reached the ears of Panasonic. Suddenly, their impression of the prince of the brewing industry became much better. They also felt that he was not the ignorant person they originally imagined and was worthy of further investigation.
contact.
At the same time, Ronald began his journey to award ceremony for various awards before the Oscar nomination.
The first awards presented this time were the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards. Surprisingly, Ronald's Forrest Gump failed to win all the awards, from Best Screenplay, to Best Actor and Actor, to Best Director, and
Best picture, all failed.
The Film Critics Association Awards usually announce the second runner-up in addition to the winning film. So after getting the list of winners, Ronald was quite angry. His Forrest Gump didn't even win second place.
to one.
The best picture was awarded to "Pulp Fiction", and the runner-up was "The Shawshank Redemption." The best director was Quentin Tarantino, and the runner-up was Robert Redford, who directed "Quiz."
The best actor was John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, and the runner-up was Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption. The best actress was Jessica Lange, and the runner-up was Jodie Foster. Even the best screenplay
It was also awarded to Pulp Fiction, with the runner-up again being The Shawshank Redemption.
At this year's Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, these two films took most of the awards.
It is worth noting that the Best Screenplay Award for Pulp Fiction was awarded to Quentin Tarantino and Avery. Ronald’s previous offensive gesture was still effective. Harvey Weinstein
Roger Avery's name had to be added, allowing him to share this honor with Quentin.
Ronald was depressed and wanted to find someone to find out the reason. He had spent a lot of public relations expenses, but how could he fail so badly at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the earliest Film Critics Association award?
Michael Gray, Ronald's public relations consultant, after seeing the announced list of winners, also rushed to Ronald's office and said that he had neglected his job and hoped that Ronald would allow him to find out the cause of this mistake.
Don't fire him right away, he doesn't want to end his work for Ronald with a big failure.
Ronald admired Michael Gray's professional ethics, but his attitude also made Ronald feel uncomfortable. Gray obviously said that he didn't know why such a big mistake happened.
Ronald waved his hand and said that he would not fire him. Ronald had participated in many awards and was already familiar with the process of producing each award.
This kind of local film critics award is actually selected by a small circle of film critics from several big newspapers in a certain city. The level of these people is not necessarily very high, maybe someone is very influential in it.
This kind of accident may happen when a film critic strongly recommends one movie and bad-mouths another.
In fact, this kind of award, whether it is the selection process or the frequency of upsets, is similar to the small jury system like Cannes. Cannes also often gives out some inexplicable awards, and sometimes the awards are not based on the quality of each film.
We will also give a replacement award to those who should have won the award in the past but did not win for some reason.
Specific to the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, it is likely that Harvey Weinstein has paid more than him and has done more meticulous public relations work than he has.
However, in any case, it is not appropriate to lose everything. There must be a hidden secret here, and Ronald asked many people to find out what was going on.
This fact is quite inexplicable. Richard went to investigate and could not find any reason. This is also very embarrassing for him, a powerful agent of CAA. David Simkins, Ronald in the daytime
The script supervisor of Dream Pictures also relied on his good relationship with film critics to ask many people. The answers they received were unanimously that this year everyone felt that Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption were easier to write from a film review perspective, so they
Most people voted for these two movies.
In short, when people from all walks of life went out to inquire about the news, they either found nothing or some perfunctory lies that they knew were perfunctory.
Ronald was not discouraged and continued to call his friends in the industry. Including Spielberg and Katzenberg, the two big bosses of DreamWorks, they also felt baffled. They just comforted Ronald that the Film Critics Association awards did not represent
What, not as indicative of the Oscars as the Guild Awards.
Ronald also knows that it is unfounded to worry about the Oscars now. But if there is an accident at the Film Critics Association Awards, who can guarantee that there will be no accidents in the more important best selections of various unions?
Finally, after two days of vague worry, an unexpected old friend brought Ronald the real reason why Forrest Gump failed at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
"Roger, I have found several important people to write letters of recommendation for you to the Oscars. You deserve an Oscar commemorative award... In short, I, Francis (Coppola), Marty (Scorsese)
), Jonathan (Demi), Jim (Cameron), and Jack (Nicholson) work together. The executive committee members of the Hollywood Institute of Technology and Arts can no longer ignore your outstanding contributions to Hollywood.
The person who came to Ronald's home to talk to him was Ronald's first noble person in Hollywood, Roger Corman, who promoted him. This time Ronald teamed up with a large group of celebrities who had been favored by him.
Ask the Academy to consider awarding him an honorary award this year.
"Ronald, you are always so kind to me, and I am very grateful. Being able to contact you at the beginning of your career is the best compliment for me." Roger Cole
Mann adjusted his glasses and said with a smile. Among the people who have benefited from him, Coppola, Cameron, Ronald and Demi were the best to him and often asked him to play guest roles.
"But that's not what I came here for today... Can you find a private place to talk?" Roger Coleman said in a low voice.
"Of course, go to my study." Ronald glanced at Coleman in surprise. The two of them went upstairs, entered the study with anti-eavesdropping facilities, and closed the door.
"Have you been wondering why the Los Angeles Film Critics Association didn't give your Forrest Gump any recognition this time?"
"Yes, do you know the reason?" Ronald was shocked.
"Yes, they are going to award a special honorary award this year to one of your famous film critics in New York."
"Pauline Carr?"
Ronald was surprised. He didn't expect that this legendary film critic, who had come out to speak out for himself, a fellow New Yorker, when he was besieged by critics when he had just made his first two films, was ruining his own business.
?
Ronald is now very capable in the media world, and with Roger Corman's tips, he knows where to go to get the information he needs.
After sending Roger Coleman away, Ronald immediately called his confidants, trying to figure out why Pauline Carr was going against him, and whether he had unintentionally offended her on something?
However, these efforts did not have much effect. As a film critic, Pauline Carr had retired at the end of 1991, and she rarely wrote film reviews for The New Yorker magazine. This time there was no reason for Forrest Gump, and
Pulp novels make an exception.
Therefore, no one in the media knew that she was going to be awarded an award by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Most of the New York film critics had a good relationship with Ronald, and they had no idea why Pauline was dissatisfied with Ronald.
.
Finally, Ronald's people found several influential members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and finally found a reason that was not the cause.
The reason why this award is not worthy of Forrest Gump is because Pauline Carr launched the "with him without me" stunt and expressed that she would be awarded an honorary award. If she were to receive the award, then it would not be possible.
Any honors given to Forrest Gump for best film, writing, and directing.
"Why? I didn't offend her? My newspapers, TV stations, and radio stations have always respected Pauline and never said anything disparaging about her. She also has many enemies in the New York film critic circle. My media
I have always said good things about her, so why am I here instead of her?"
Ronald thought about it all day and night at home, but he couldn't figure out why Pauline did this. After retiring, Pauline lived in seclusion. The notice of the award was also mailed to her, and she responded by fax.
For a while, there was really no way to contact Pauline Carr on the phone and ask this seventy-year-old old lady what happened. It seemed that we had to wait until the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were presented before we could ask her on the spot.
Pauline herself is also coming to receive the special lifetime achievement award.
"Ronald, look at Entertainment Weekly... there's an interview with Pauline Carr."
Before the day of award presentation, Ed Bastian suddenly called Ronald. As the CEO of DDH, a regional media group, generally speaking, if he wanted to get some news content, he would get it before it was published in the newspaper.
It will be delivered to his desk.
But this time, regarding the boss Ronald's matter, he waited until "Entertainment Weekly" published it before he saw the interview. He was so angry that he immediately hung up the phone with Ronald and scolded his assistants.
One pass.
"Shxt, didn't you say that Pauline Carr lives in a simple life and can't be found on the phone?" Ronald hurriedly found this issue of Entertainment Weekly from his mailbox, opened it and searched through the catalog. Sure enough, this issue
A weekly interview with Pauline Carr.
The title of the interview is "Enter Carl's Vortex - Eyes fixed on the screen, past and present..."
Ronald was also so angry that he cursed. He had so many employees and so many experts serving him. Why didn't he even have a chance to talk to Pauline Carr about any misunderstandings? Entertainment Weekly could give him
How about a long interview with Pauline?
"These are not the best times to go to the movies," Pauline Carr commented, "action movies have taken over...[and] after you've admired the special effects, what's there to say?"
At 75 years old and in declining health, the world's most fearless film critic still has enough energy to watch almost every movie in theaters.
“Damn it, you have the energy to watch all the movies that come out, but you just don’t have the energy to answer my phone call?”
The first paragraph made Luo Jian tremble with anger. The reporter first came up and praised Pauline Carr's courage and fighting spirit, which immediately made those remarks about her lack of energy after retirement and closing the door and thanking guests behind closed doors a joke.
"There's always hope because film is a great medium," Pauline Kael, who took her privacy seriously, said in an interview conducted mostly via fax machine.
She points out that even the bad movies being released now won't lose their audiences forever. "There's something attractive about the medium of film that will attract people no matter what."
"Oh, it turns out that the interview was done via fax..." Ronald's anger subsided a little. This is consistent with the news given to him by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Now Pauline Carr is unwilling to talk to people on the phone.
For requests that must be communicated, a copy of her answer is usually sent via fax machine.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Pauline Carr made ruthless criticisms of the movies released last year. She only criticized one starring Meryl Streep
"Wild River" praised it and said that he and his grandson enjoyed watching it.
This is actually an "action movie" that she just criticized. Meryl Streep plays the role of a mother who is rafting with her family on the Mississippi River. Two criminals hijack the family and ask them to slide into a more dangerous place.
Dangerous watershed.
The mother played by Streep not only has to protect her family, but also works hard to escape from the control of criminals and lead everyone out of danger safely.
It is not surprising that Pauline Carr likes such thrilling action movies with family elements. She has always liked movies that the whole family can watch together.
But then Pauline Carr surprised Ronald again by criticizing an all-ages movie like The Lion King.
"I didn't go see The Lion King," Pauline Carr said, then added, "I've drawn a line under Disney."
"Huh?" Ronald picked up the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards list and looked at it. Sure enough, there was no Disney either.
"Pulp Fiction? I love it very much...but it's so overrated, it doesn't deserve to be taken seriously."
Oh, now Pauline Carr has directed her fire at Pulp Fiction again, but well, the intensity of this criticism is much weaker than others.
But since Pauline criticized all movies, why target herself in particular? I wonder how she commented on Forrest Gump.
"What did she think of Forrest Gump?"
"I absolutely hated it," Pauline Carr said, citing much of Forrest Gump's "old Ronaldo era" perspective on the "rebellion culture" of the sixties.
"Totally disgusting?" Ronald was stunned. Is this the same Pauline Carr who encouraged her to make big-time stories?
"Pauline, Pauline, I want to hear why you said that in person." Ronald felt hurt. He called his assistant and asked them to notify the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and said that he would attend their awards ceremony.