Little Bronfman and Barbra Streisand, one is very happy to have an equal conversation with the long-famous Diva singer, and the other is also very interested in chatting with a rich man with 10 billion assets. They each have their own differences.
I had my own thoughts and seemed to be having a good time chatting for a while.
In addition, Paulson of Goldman Sachs is also a wonderful person. Several people brought out the interest of Little Bronfman. While chatting about the record industry and the movie industry, they also expressed their judgment on the latest industry trends.
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What Bronfman Jr. means is that today's media groups can actually be regarded as a combination of "content" and "distribution channels." Whether Eisner, Redstone, or himself, who did not say it explicitly but always hinted at it, everyone
The layout should be based on this principle.
No matter how fancy your mergers and acquisitions are, the most valuable assets in the end still fall into these two categories. Either you can provide content that the audience likes to watch, or you can provide channels for distributing this content.
Ronald also listened with rapt attention. Little Bronfman is indeed a rich man who received the elite education arranged by his father. These must be surveys written by top analysts in the industry, consulting companies and other institutions.
The report, from Little Bronfman's point of view, made sense.
He and Ed Bastian exchanged glances, and the other nodded, indicating that this analysis was indeed very insightful.
But since Bastian was listening carefully, Ronald said hello and ran out. There were other things to deal with here.
"Tom, our recent investigation found that your re-election as Best Actor this year does not seem to be a delusion..."
He first found Tom Hanks. Recently, when he was stepping up public relations for his Best Director Award, he suddenly discovered that many actors mentioned Forrest Gump in the Best Actor Award.
Although winning consecutive Oscars is almost impossible in this era, but because of this, this achievement is particularly convincing.
Even actors like Tom Hanks, who have a good reputation in the industry, find it difficult to resist the temptation of being alone. You know, there are many actors with box office appeal, and many have won Oscars. There are too many
There are many Oscar winners, but to win important awards consecutively is a monopolistic achievement.
Only Spencer Tracy had achieved this feat before, with Captains Courageous in 1937 and Boys Town in 1938.
With such achievements, Spencer Tracy's acting skills are also hailed as textbook models, and he himself is also known as an actor's actor. When the British acting star Laurence Olivier came to Hollywood,
He praised Spencer Tracy as "the best actor he had ever seen."
Later Marlon Brando, who is often praised as the best actor in Hollywood, also imitated Spencer Tracy's acting method at some point.
Frank Capra, three-time Oscar winner for Best Director and a famous director, also described Tracy's acting skills as "simple, direct, without unnecessary embellishments", which was "real genius".
Even Hitchcock, who always regarded actors as beasts and props and did not care about so-called acting skills, said that Tracy was a "silent genius" who performed naturally and delicately without relying on big movements or excessive facial expressions.
On the surface, it seems that Spencer Tracy is already recognized as the number one actor in Hollywood!
However, Ronald, who has been in the industry for more than ten years and has a lot of public relations experience, knows that these are just remarks made in front of the media, and there are many explicit praises and real criticisms of Tracy.
When British actors come to Hollywood, reporters often ask them what they think of the acting skills of Hollywood stars, because Hollywood actors have always had no acting skills in the eyes of their British counterparts and can only play similar roles in different movies.
They asked these people the same questions about the Hollywood stars at that time, but because Tracy had won the Best Actor title again, these comments were reported by reporters, and then someone collected and compiled them.
In the eyes of unlearned media reporters, the number of trophies and the difficult act of winning consecutive awards can be used to evaluate acting skills and even rank the acting skills of stars.
In Ronald's eyes, in Hollywood at that time, Tracy had some advantages in the naturalness of his performance, which was close to Stanislavsky's later acting theory, but he obviously lacked explosive power when expressing sudden and huge emotions.
For example, during the Nuremberg Trials, when the prosecutor needed to accuse criminals of atrocities, Tracy could only use silence and control instead of roaring.
James Cagney, his contemporary, has the advantages of natural acting and huge bursts of energy at critical moments. In the eyes of directors like Ronald, he is considered a star with high acting skills.
Orson Welles, who was always outspoken, did not like Tracy very much. He said that the reason why Tracy's performance was exquisite was that he chose the best script.
With Orson Welles's evaluation as a reference, and then looking at other people's evaluations of Tracy, you can taste some different flavors.
However, the fact that Orson Welles, who has always been unforgiving, can say such "tactful" words also illustrates the decisive impact that winning the Oscar for Best Actor for consecutive years has on Hollywood and the audience.
Tracy's acting skills have become a symbol and a legend. If you dare to say that his acting skills are not good, you will definitely be laughed at "You don't understand."
Ronald has studied this period of history and is very emotional about it. Although it is sometimes difficult to compare the acting skills of actors with each other, unless they have played the same role at different times, only limited comparisons can be made.
But the public doesn't care about this. They just like to gossip and rank celebrities. This seems to be a human instinct. They like to rate one, two, three, four, or the top ten acting skills.
And Tom Hanks' acting skills also tend to be of this type. He rarely plays roles like Al Pacino's that require explosive and angry spouting of long lines. And this type of acting skills, from Tracy Tracy
Initially, and later James Stewart and Henry Fonda all had this tendency.
This seems to have become an unspoken rule. In the language of Chinese Peking Opera, actors of this type can be classified as Zhenglu Laosheng. The best positive roles are played by them, and the heroes in the movie are all played by them.
James Cagney, or Al Pacino, whom many people consider to be his successor, can be classified as a second-tier veteran, often playing marginal characters.
Tom Hanks curled his lips and smiled, unable to hide his happiness. The achievement of being on par with Tracy is a very irresistible temptation for any actor.
"I can add some additional budget..." Tom Hanks also spoke. He wanted to use a small part of the high dividends he got from Forrest Gump and entrust Ronald's public relations team to do public relations.
.Anyway, everyone was nominated because of Forrest Gump, so it was easy to do the public relations work together.
"Hehehe..." See if it works.
Ronald found a sample ad to show Hanks, the kind of ad that would be run in industry magazines inspired by Jennifer Tilly, "Tom Hanks invites you to enjoy Forrest Gump."
"It is said..." The following also uses stills of clips from various movies that reflect his acting skills, which is equivalent to a report that "tells you in five minutes why Tom Hanks' acting skills are worthy of the second statuette."
No different than Jennifer Tilly, who has no money and can only do a US$500 page advertisement in an industry magazine. Forrest Gump's Oscar PR advertisement appeared in the Hollywood Reporter and the film review pages of many major newspapers.
Moreover, these stills are of Forrest Gump in various eras in the movie, with different hairstyles, but he is all wearing a blue plaid shirt, taking the audience back to key moments in America's history over the past few decades.
This can arouse great resonance from the audience, and also allow the Oscar acting judges to intuitively see Tom Hanks' acting skills. Compared with John Travolta inviting you to read Pulp Fiction on the other side of the page, and Morgan F.
Liman invites you to watch The Shawshank Redemption, which makes it difficult for those who have never seen the movie to understand.
It may be difficult for outsiders to believe that now that the nominations are announced and the final voting is in progress, there are still a large number of judges who have not seen the films of these nominees.
When they vote, they may just ask their friends or the maid at home who they like. An advertisement like Forrest Gump, which can give them an idea of what to play, is a big advantage.
However, if Tom Hanks really gets the chance to win the Best Actor again, it will be difficult for him to win this award no matter how superb his performance is in the future.
After Spencer Tracy won the Best Actor title in 1938, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor six more times, but never failed to do so.
Hanks didn't take it seriously. Anyway, he had already reached the top. It was very good to be nominated later. There was no need to compete with others for awards.
"Well, I still have some parties to attend over there, so I'll take my leave later."
Tom Hanks himself is also constantly doing public relations, attending many parties to canvass votes in person. He shakes hands, hugs, and exchanges smiles with the judges and actors, and then asks, "Will you vote for me?"
No one can tell how effective it will be, but as a rule, everyone has to do it. The most important thing is that if you don’t do it, and John Travolta does it, and Morgan Freeman does it, no one will
It’s hard to say whether the judges will vote for these two just because of this.
"Don't forget to talk to Mr. Bronfman..." Ronald sent away a smiling Tom Hanks.
There was also a winner of the Oscar for Best Director over there, Kevin Costner, who looked a bit sad.
"Kevin...how about the new movie?"
This time "Waterworld" starring Costner had another big problem. During the filming of "Dances with Wolves", someone once gave Dances with Wolves a nickname, called "Kevin's Gate"
"(Kevin's Gate, which rhymes with the biggest failure in Hollywood history, Heaven's Gate).
Dances with Wolves was a box office and award success that year, and Costner's directorial debut won Best Director and Best Picture. No one mentioned this nickname anymore.
But this "Future Water World" once again encountered shooting overruns and budget overruns, so the nickname "Kevin's Gate" has become popular again recently.
"It's very good. I feel like in the editing room, those difficult shots that were caused by the hurricane's high waves were all connected like magic."
"oh……"
Ronald didn't know how to answer the question. This answer revealed too much information.
Kevin Costner received artistic recognition after Dances with Wolves and achieved commercial success after "The Bodyguard". This made financing his new movie no longer a problem, so he did not seek out Luo
In cooperation with Nader, he led the entire financing and production of the future water world.
In the end, Universal also agreed to distribute the film and served as the basic producer. For this film, the shooting budget set before the filming started was comparable to Cameron's 120 million.
This also made Ronald feel very ridiculous. From what he learned, this movie tells a story about a wasteland.
Due to global warming, the base ice caps melted and the sea level rose by 7,600 meters. The remaining humans had to live on ships. The male protagonist is a mutant who has gills to breathe underwater and webbing to swim faster.
He had his own three ships and saved a woman's child in her custody. Legend has it that there is a last land in the world, and the map of that land is on the child's body.
This chapter is not over, please click the next page to continue reading! Kevin Costner is still talking about his editing ideas. This movie will be an ocean version of "Mad Max", integrating the most popular environmental protection concepts now.
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The reason why editing is needed to save the movie is because the filming of this movie was a catastrophe. It is comparable to Coppola's "Apocalypse Now".
No, maybe this is an understatement. The disaster in this future water world is ten times that of Apocalypse Now.
The movie's exterior scenes were shot on the Big Island of Hawaii, where a real trimaran sailed by Costner was built. An artificial atoll was also built using garbage-like materials as a future human habitat.
The movie was planned to be filmed for 90 days, but in the end due to the hurricane, the atoll was greatly damaged, and many props and sets were blown away without a trace. The trimaran was even worse, in the strong wind and waves.
It was also blown apart under the attack.
To resume filming, not only do the atolls and sailboats have to be repaired, but because the remaining atolls have been blown far away from their original locations, the shots previously shot at the original locations had to be discarded and shot again at a new location.
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This also added 60 days to the filming cycle. For half of last year, Kevin Costner was filming this movie, from summer to winter.
By the end of last year, when the final filming was over, 157 days had passed since the start of shooting. The budget also skyrocketed from 120 million to 175 million.
Seeing Costner still saying that he was inspired by "Mad Max", Ronald couldn't bear it anymore and asked: "Do you know how much the filming of Mad Max cost back then?"
"Uh?" Kevin Costner's face dropped. Nowadays, few people dare to talk to him like this.
However, Ronald obviously has this qualification. Ronald helped with many of the difficult filming of Dances with Wolves, which won Best Director that year. So Costner still maintained respect for Ronald.
"Let me tell you, the first Mad Max film was made by the director with 400,000 US dollars raised by himself, while the second one was more of a commercial film and only cost 4.5 million US dollars."
Costner was also amused by Ronald. This was the first time he laughed in recent months. Indeed, in the final picture, people cannot see that there is such a big investment gap. One is the desert and the other is the ocean.
, why is there such a big cost gap?
"It seems that I should listen to Spielberg. He told me never to shoot in open water, because when he was shooting Jaws, he encountered great production difficulties, and in the end it was seriously over budget and overtime. But still
Well Jaws’ final box office performance made up for it all.”
Costner didn't keep the film's dilemma a secret from Ronald, and now he's in big trouble. He also wants to ask Ronald how he should handle it.
"It's still possible for this movie to be profitable..." Ronald thought for a while and replied.
"You think so?" Costner himself doesn't quite believe it. Even if 50% of the box office results can be returned to the producer, plus various publicity and copy production, the film will probably need US$500 million in China to make back its original investment.
"The key is that you have to think so and say so. The movie is very good and the box office will be amazing." Ronald looked at the crowd and said something in Costner's ear. Universal is facing a sale, and this water movie
The world will be the biggest excuse for buyers to be picky, and during this time, Costner would be wise to maintain a particularly optimistic tone.