Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1539 The Hollywood Awards Are Going Sour
The Christmas atmosphere was very good, and now the whole family was celebrating. Little Bud and several other drivers, security teams, maids, gardeners, and other staff, many of whom lived nearby, and Ronald also paid for their families to come and spend a day of celebration at his home the day before Christmas Eve.

The children and the spouses of the employees all received a gift that was not expensive but very impressive. On this day, Ronald and Diane also symbolically cooked a few big turkeys and baked a few biscuits for the employees who had been busy serving them for a year. This was also a kind of oriental-style fun for the people.

Aunt Karen's recipe was really good, and the employees were all very happy. They took some turkey and biscuits home to cook for Christmas Eve. Of course, they still had to go back to celebrate Christmas Eve with their real families.

When it came to Christmas Eve, only little Bud's family, Aunt Wang who had no family, and a few other people were there to celebrate with Ronald and the others.

This family reunion holiday was becoming more and more interesting. The only thing that made Ronald feel incomplete was that Helen was spending the holiday with her youngest daughter Linda in New York. He had to make a phone call secretly. Fortunately, Diane didn't take it seriously.

As usual, a movie was shown in the evening. Ronald borrowed a copy from his own DDH cinema. He put the film into the projector himself and acted as a projectionist for his family.

The movie I borrowed today is the popular movie, Jim Carrey's "Dumb and Dumber". The whole movie tells the story of two fools, Roy played by Jim Carrey and Harry played by Jeff Daniels.

Roy is a limousine driver and Harry is a dog groomer. One day Roy was sending Mary, a beautiful woman he fell in love with at first sight, to the airport, but he saw that she had "forgotten" a bag at the airport. So he "snatched" the bag from a couple and drove to Aspen, Colorado with Harry to return it to Mary.

But the truth is, Mary deliberately left the bag at the airport. It was the ransom she gave to the kidnappers.

The format of the whole movie is a typical road movie, but the performances of the two leading actors are really hilarious. Ronald and Diane make you laugh from the beginning to the end.

The two are characterized by exaggerated body language and hilarious dialogues, making the audience laugh non-stop. However, this movie is not a completely vulgar comedy. Roy and Harry seem stupid, but the sincere friendship between them runs through the whole film, bringing a warm touch.

Especially Jeff Daniels. Ronald didn't expect that this actor who played the typical cowardly white-collar worker in "Shotgun Lulu" could become such a funny fool.

Jim Carrey still gave a high-level comedy performance as always. After Ronald packed the copies, he found a poster with him as the protagonist on the bottom of the box.

"He's really amazing..." Diane saw the poster that Ronald brought back. Jim Carrey's facial expressions are his unique skill. Not to mention ordinary actors, even other comedy masters can rarely achieve such an exaggerated level.

Moreover, Jim Carrey has first-class control over facial expressions. He can even change the appearance and combination of some facial features in a short period of time, and can instantly transform into a different person.

"Hollywood has never seen anyone like him..."

Ronald was also very emotional. An actor and a director made a box office hit movie and made a fortune for the producer. This kind of thing is not uncommon in Hollywood.

However, it is rare for two movies starring him to be released at the same time in one year and both of them are box office successes. Actors who can do this will be considered as popular young actors (or actresses) in Hollywood, and they can expect to receive a salary of 5 to 10 million yuan, plus various benefits.

But if you release three box office hits in one year, then you must have met Jim Carrey.

In early 1994, his "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" grossed over 1500 million at the domestic box office with a filming cost of only million U.S. dollars, making Hollywood take notice of him.

In the middle of the year, "The Mask" was released. Jim Carrey's special comedy, combined with computer special effects, worked together to great effect. The domestic box office exceeded 110 million and it was a huge hit around the world.

At the end of the year, "Dumb and Dumber" had another strong start, with a box office of $16 million in its first weekend, ranking first and second with "Rumble in the Bronx." It suppressed a number of more artistic films that were released at the end of the year to win awards.

Only one classic American film, Little Women, which is remade every other year, is good enough to make it into the top five box office charts. This is a novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott in 1868 based on her own experience.

With "Little Women," Hollywood has the power to challenge its British counterparts. On the other side of the Atlantic, they also remake Jane Austen's works every once in a while. American male novelists and playwrights can compete with their British counterparts.

Many of Mark Twain's novels are often remade by Hollywood, just as Dickens' novels are often remade in Britain.

However, the adaptations of female novelists seem to be a little less impressive. Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" can be compared with Jane Austen, the three Brontë sisters and other female novelists. But perhaps the 1939 "Gone with the Wind" was too popular, and no one thought that they could find male and female protagonists comparable to Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, and this classic novel has never been remade since then.

So, when it comes to launching a classic adaptation or remake centered on many female characters, Hollywood does not have as many choices as Britain. It can only remake "Little Women" at the right time when a generation of young actresses has grown up.

Every time there is a remake of Little Women, Hollywood tacitly promotes some young female stars to show that they are not only good-looking, but also have "acting skills". This is the moment for them to officially debut as an acting talent.

One only needs to look at the previous actors who have played the leading lady of "Little Women", the most outstanding daughter Jo March, to know what kind of performance this is.

Not counting silent films from ancient times, the first actress to play Jo March in a Hollywood talkie was Katharine Hepburn, who later won several Oscars for Best Actress in the 1932 version directed by George Cukor.

In the color version of "Little Women" directed by Marvin Leroy in 1949, Amy March was played by Elizabeth Taylor, who later became the center of Hollywood's topic. This was a plot modified specifically for her, and the prettier Amy was modified to be older than Joe to suit Elizabeth Taylor (because Joe was a tomboyish girl).

When it came to the new version of the movie released this year, it was indeed a version that gathered handsome men and beautiful women to escort the several female protagonists.

Mrs. March was played by Susan Sarandon, and the male lead Laurie was also played by Christian Bale, whom Ronald had met in Xujiahui. Now he has left behind the immaturity of the Empire of the Sun period and has become a tall and handsome man.

Jo March is a Hollywood darling, played by Winona Ryder. Her past image has always been a bit tomboyish, so it is very suitable for her to play the eldest daughter who cuts her long hair and sells it to pay for her mother's travel expenses to visit her father who was injured in the war.

Amy March, who was played by Elizabeth Taylor, returns to play the role of the younger sister in the original novel. The role of this little girl is played by Kirsten Dunst, who had a wonderful performance in "Interview with the Vampire".

Beth, the third sister who is frail and talented in piano, is played by a fledgling actress, Claire Danes. Although she has just played some roles in TV series, her first TV series as the leading role, "My So-Called Life", won her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress (Drama).

It seems that this year's award nominations are destined to be given to a large number of movies that did not perform well at the box office. This is different from the situation in the past decade, when box office blockbusters and films with good artistic quality and good reviews received poor scores in major awards such as the Golden Globes and Oscars. Whether this is a changing trend or a coincidence this year remains to be seen.

In short, as the budget for awards gets bigger and bigger, the effect of nominations on boosting movie box office is getting bigger and bigger. The past practice of giving awards to the best movies is gradually breaking down, and there may be a new phenomenon that only those who win awards will perform well at the box office.

Ronald flipped through the Golden Globe nominations, and Jim Carrey was nominated for the Golden Globe Best Actor (Comedy/Musical) for "The Mask".

This also made Ronald feel very unfair. The Golden Globe Awards have begun to show some "discriminatory" phenomena against box office success movies.

For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger was competing with Jim Carrey for the best actor in a comedy. Arnold was nominated for "Junior," a comedy about a man getting pregnant. However, his acting was really good, and the box office hit "True Lies" did not get a nomination for best actor in a drama. Instead, Brad Pitt was nominated for a lot of close-up shots and long hair in "Legends of the Fall."

Jamie Lee Curtis, the heroine of "True Lies", was also nominated for "Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical". Obviously, her performance in "True Lies" was more of a drama, and she performed many action stunts herself, but she did not win a nomination for the more critically recognized drama actress.

Ronald didn't quite understand how "True Lies" was a comedy. Perhaps it was because the people in the Hollywood Foreign Press Corps felt that Jamie Lee Curtis's erotic dance in the movie and the tango with Schwarzenegger at the end were already at the level of a classic musical?
In Ronald's opinion, Jim Carrey should be nominated for three Best Actor in a Comedy category for his three box office successes this year.

In just three comedies of the same genre, Jim Carrey's three performances show completely different character personalities and appearances. Although his iconic exaggerated facial expressions are unforgettable, the three characters are highly distinguishable and the audience will never confuse them.

Ace, a private detective who looks for lost pets in Pet Detective, often uses humor and joking to solve cases while working.

Stanley, a bank clerk in The Mask, is introverted and shy, bullied by his colleagues, but he still has the spirit of helping others.

Roy, a naive, stupid but very optimistic taxi driver, has a low IQ and makes jokes everywhere, but he has a very warm, simple and pure friendship with his friends, which is enviable.

The three characters use the same exaggerated expressions and actions, which allow the audience to delve into the core of the characters, understand why they have become the way they are, have sympathetic understanding for them, and even discover some of the same qualities in themselves.

In addition, comedy is very demanding on the control of rhythm. After a funny action makes the audience laugh, it often does not have the same effect when used in the next movie, and new actions and jokes have to be thought of to please the audience.

Therefore, the difficulty of Jim Carrey's three roles is much higher than that of being nominated for three dramas. Not to mention that these are three movies released in one year. If Ronald was the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, he would simply let him take up three nominations, and let The Mask and Dumb and Dumber be tied, and Jim Carrey and Jim Carrey share the 52nd Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

However, Ronald's opinion obviously does not count. The Ballon d'Or prefers stars who can get exposure from broadcasters.

Although Jim Carrey is very popular with the audience, he was not a major factor in boosting the ratings during the Golden Globe Awards telecast.

People loved watching him perform, but they didn't love watching him accept the award. This wasn't Jim Carrey's stand-up comedy show. A serious Jim Carrey who gave his acceptance speech was not as popular with TV audiences as the other two nominees.

They are Hugh Grant, the leading actor of "Four Weddings and a Funeral". You should know that the main audience of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony includes a large number of women. This British actor is really too pleasing to the eye.

Michael Caine, a famous British actor in his early years and also a handsome guy when he was young, once released a film acting teaching video. One of the key points is that film actors should not blink when shooting close-ups, otherwise the audience will think that you have no core and are not strong enough.

But Hugh Grant's characteristic is that he always blinks in front of the camera, even blinking more than ten times in a close-up shot, but the audience still loves him. They also think that Hugh Grant's shyness and lack of confidence are extremely cute and sexy, and it is natural for the heroine played by the beautiful Andie MacDowell to fall in love with him.

This is the privilege that comes with being attractive to female audiences.

The same is true for another nominee, Johnny Depp. His nominated film is the biographical drama "Ed Wood" (also inexplicably classified as a comedy). Ed Wood is a real-life producer in Hollywood. His lifelong dream is to direct and star in a movie and win the love of the audience.

As a result, all the movies he made were terrible bad movies, but he didn't realize it. As soon as they were released, the audience threw tomatoes and eggs at his head, but he didn't change his original intention.

Ronald didn't know why Johnny Depp made this movie. He only knew that the movie "Ed Wood" suffered the same fate as the movies made by the real Ed Wood in history and became a bad movie.

But it doesn't matter. Johnny Depp's melancholy smile was on TV news after he was nominated. The Golden Globe Awards was indeed accurate. It doesn't matter if it awards the wrong category or a bad movie. The key is that the nominee must be handsome and promise to attend the awards ceremony.