Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1542: Opponents in the Dark

Later, Forrest Gump also won the Best Picture and almost all the awards for key public relations. So this Golden Globe Award basically achieved all of Ronald's intentions.

At the 52nd Golden Globe Awards, except for the key award involved in Forrest Gump, other Golden Globe awards gradually returned to normal standards. Whoever spent more budget on public relations for the jury composed of foreign journalists, whoever booked a big party in a luxury hotel, and whoever had celebrities personally attend to take photos and get autographs from the judges, would have a higher chance of winning.

Jessica Lange won the Best Actress in a Drama Award for "Blue Sky," a story about nuclear tests in the desert and the nuclear radiation exposure of nomadic cowboys living there.

She won the award, beating out Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh and others, and her superb acting skills won the judges' praise (the other nominees did not try as hard to please the judges as she did).

Most of these nominees have won Oscars or nominations, and Jessica Lange has also won the Oscar for Best Actress. Before that, she had already won the Golden Globe twice, so she didn't need to work so hard.

However, the fate of the film "Blue Sky" was ill-fated. It was originally planned at the bankrupt Orion and finished filming in 1990. Director Tony Richardson died in 1991, before the film was released.

Originally, this film was a project that Ronald and I were deeply involved in, "Dances with Wolves" and "The Silence of the Lambs". However, because Orion fell into bankruptcy reorganization, they were very optimistic about this film and never sold the distribution rights of the film.

It was not until 1994 that MGM, which liked to collect financially junk studios to create themes and try to get good performance in the story, officially completed the legal procedures for the acquisition of Orion, and then used the Orion label to re-release Blue Sky in China.

Orion had no additional budget to promote this release, so Jessica Lange had to do the promotion herself.

In fact, the story of this movie has some connection with Hollywood. Howard Hughes, the aircraft manufacturing tycoon, entered the film industry and produced a film called "Conquest of Heaven" which tells the story of Genghis Khan.

The film was shot not far from the Nevada nuclear weapons test site, and as a result hundreds of workers were exposed to radiation, with a high rate of illness among them.

Howard Hughes felt guilty and took back the film copy, and never showed it in theaters again. The film became a cursed work. However, the film "Blue Sky" was recognized by many Hollywood unions, accusing the military of being irresponsible for the safety of nuclear tests.

The Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) award went to Jamie Lee Curtis for True Lies. She was so excited that she was a little incoherent. It was a pleasant surprise that she won over Emma Thompson, Andie MacDowell and others with a commercial film.

The two supporting actors and actresses showed more realistic acting skills. Ed Woodley, who played an out-of-date horror film actor Martin Landau, and Dianne Wiest, who played an alcoholic and out-of-date female star in "Bullets Over Broadway", won the awards without much controversy.

There is only one award for supporting actor and actress, regardless of drama or comedy. The influence of this award is very small, so basically you have to rely on your real ability to win the recognition of the judges.

In the end, Harvey Weinstein failed miserably in all three of his films. His most promising film, "Pulp Fiction," lost in the Best Actor (John Travolta), Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson), and Best Supporting Actress (Uma Thurman) categories. Quentin also lost the Best Director award to Ronald.

In the end, Quentin Tarantino, sweating and looking embarrassed, finally won the Best Screenplay Award.

Finally relieved, he was no longer stressed on stage, smiling for several seconds after saying a word. With beads of sweat dripping down his forehead, the audience felt that he was "high".

This caused the NBC broadcaster to curse and they had to stop showing him in close-ups and just show a distant medium shot.

The most unexpected thing about the entire Golden Globe Awards, and the one that made Harvey Weinstein the most angry, was the Best Picture in the Comedy/Musical category. Neither Stormy Weathers nor Ed Wood won. The final award was not given to the dark horse of the night, Four Weddings and a Funeral, but to Disney's animated film, The Lion King.

The only animated film nominated for the Golden Globe Best Picture was Beauty and the Beast in 1991. It is generally considered a symbolic move to show that Disney's animated films have achieved a high level of artistic achievement and can be compared with live-action films.

Who would have thought that this year's Best Picture in the Comedy/Musical category would actually be awarded to "The Lion King." As we all know, the Lion King is adapted from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" story.

So, he won the award for a musical, not a comedy. If you think about it this way, it seems to make some sense.

After all, Hans Zimmer, the composer of "The Lion King", also won the Best Original Score Award at this year's Golden Globe Awards. Two of the three arias in the movie, written and composed by Elton John and sung by different cartoon characters, were nominated for the Best Film Song. One of them, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?", a duet between Simba and Nala, also won an award.

Therefore, it makes sense that such a strong film score won a musical award, after all, Hollywood has not seen a new hit musical for many years. This award is not Disney bullying, but the other so-called comedies are really not competitive.

"Hi, hahaha, hello everyone, hahaha, OK..."

After the Golden Globe Awards, the winners will come to a small hall at the back, which is the interview area for journalists. Quentin Tarantino seems to be really "high", not only speaking incoherently, but also often making meaningless laughter, which just fits the stereotype that "geniuses have some unusual habits".

Some reporters also had bad intentions and deliberately asked questions that were full of traps.

"Quentin, do you think that after winning this award, you have gained more recognition and become more 'mainstream'?"

"Actually no, I always think I'm very mainstream. Pulp Fiction, which I filmed, is, at least I think so, a mainstream movie. I hope this award can change other people's impression of me. Of course, I also know that this is unlikely to happen...hahaha..."

Quentin Tarantino really fell into the trap. He still didn't have much experience in accepting interviews with reporters. He admitted that "Pulp Fiction" was a non-mainstream art film that could only be successful at the box office thanks to the praise of film critics.

Now, the reporters who were drowsy after the routine answers of the previous winners became alert. They arranged their order through eye contact and began to prepare to ask Quentin some "explosive" answers that might make the news.

"Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump, Quentin, what do you think of the matchup between these two movies?"

Finally, a reporter from the Los Angeles Times asked the most important question. The duel he was talking about was the evaluation of two movies that many media outlets had hyped up before the Golden Globe Awards in the past few days.

Everyone thinks that Forrest Gump represents conservative values, while Pulp Fiction is a film that completely subverts everything. Everyone is looking forward to the upcoming Oscars, when Ronald and Quentin will compete again.

"You know? Everyone is talking about the competition between our two movies. Forrest Gump is here..." Quentin Tarantino didn't seem to understand the competition the reporter wanted to stir up, and he still commented from a director's perspective.

Quentin drew a line on the right with his hand, indicating that this is the value represented by Forrest Gump, and the location of the small-town youth, a representative type of male protagonist that Hollywood highly praised at the time.

Then he swiped his hand across the far left corner, “Here’s Pulp Fiction, as if our two films are really diametrically opposed in every way.

“Hahaha…” Then Quentin laughed heartily, “Actually, I was sitting at the next table to the people who worked on Forrest Gump just now, and I talked to each of them. I asked them, did everyone misunderstand your movie?

In fact, this is a very satirical movie, which is more satirical than any other mainstream Hollywood movie I have ever seen in my life. This is not a movie that promotes the values ​​of fools, but a black comedy movie with superb skills. "

Well, when this was said, the reporters looked at each other in bewilderment. This was even more interesting than Quentin directly attacking Ronald. It directly turned Forrest Gump from a movie about mainstream values ​​into a black comedy that satirized mainstream values.

Reporters who had read Winston Groom's original novel were even happier and were about to ask Quentin some more questions, completely igniting this topic.

At this time, Ronald also came over to be interviewed after receiving the award. Quentin's interview took a long time, and he had been talking for more than ten minutes. At first, Ronald was just watching from the side, but when he heard this answer, he knew he had to intervene. He walked out quickly from the side and back where the reporters couldn't see him.

"Ronald, Ronald..."

The reporters dispersed and immediately came to surround Ronald. In terms of interview value, interviewing Ronald was much more important than Quentin.

"Hi, Quentin..." Ronald went over to shake hands with Quentin first, then gently patted his arm with his other hand, taking the initiative to show an attitude of a senior looking forward to the junior.

"Ronald, what do you think of Quentin's Pulp Fiction..." While both of them were there, the reporters immediately started asking questions.

"It is undoubtedly a work of genius. When I watched this movie in the cinema, I couldn't help but sigh every few minutes. The techniques of the classic Hollywood masters are quietly waiting for you to discover. To be honest, it is very rare to be able to show such talent in the second part... the second part, right?... the second film..."

"Oh... Ronald, I'm your fan... Hahaha..."

Quentin was extremely happy to hear Ronald's evaluation of his talent. He laughed foolishly, came up to Ronald and hugged him, then pointed at Ronald and said to the reporter, "Do you know? This man is the most talented person in Hollywood..."

"Okay, let's stop flattering each other and give the reporters a chance to take pictures..." Ronald, holding the Golden Globe, posed with Quentin, who also held the Golden Globe, and the reporters pressed the shutter dozens of times.

Ronald skillfully changed the subject and smiled as he talked happily with Quentin. Just now, he was actually secretly teasing Quentin for "paying tribute" to too many classics. After almost every shot, a familiar master jumped out from behind the screen and shouted, "It's me, it's me..."

Anyway, it's not that people who are knowledgeable in the industry don't understand what's said. When reporters send it out, ordinary readers will just take it as a compliment. Only senior directors in the industry (who have a lot of experience in watching films) will smile knowingly when they see it.

After answering the two questions, Ronald said he had other official business to attend to and asked for everyone's forgiveness, but he still held Quentin's hand and led him out.

In short, we can't let Quentin continue the topic of Forrest Gump. This guy is expected to be the biggest competitor for the Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture. Any comments from him will be reprinted by the media.

By then, the ambiguous strategy I adopted in the promotion of Forrest Gump might fail. I can no longer insist on the current interpretation that everyone has their own interpretation and Americans with all values ​​can find resonance in Forrest Gump.

Quentin, who was cheered up by Ronald all the way, also laughed and walked out of the interview room with Ronald.

When they got outside, Ronald immediately let go of Quentin, picked up Diane and left immediately. Quentin smacked his lips for no apparent reason and wanted to go back and continue chatting with the reporter, but there was already a new interviewee behind him.

He was hesitating whether to go back and continue the interview when Harvey Weinstein rushed over.

"What the hell did you tell him?"

"Who? Ronald, nothing much? We were just chatting about our opinions on each other's movies."

"Never, ever talk to Ronald alone when I'm not around..." Weinstein said heavily.

"Ah, I see..." Quentin was a little dissatisfied, but he couldn't help but lower his head. Although he won the Best Screenplay at the Golden Globe Awards and the Palme d'Or at Cannes, if Weinstein hadn't raised the funds, to be honest, no other producer in Hollywood could provide him with the resources to make the movie he wanted.

This strategy of first winning an award and then using the award to do free marketing, thereby gaining better domestic box office, is a unique ability of Weinstein in Hollywood.

"This is a scary person. You are still far from him. You are several levels behind him. After you make a few more movies and win more prestigious awards, it won't be too late to compete with him head-on." Harvey Weinstein patted Quentin on the shoulder. Many of his own award-winning techniques were learned from Ronald.

Besides, I lost the Golden Globe Award today for no apparent reason, and I don't know where the problem lies. The resources promised by the ally did not play any key role today. I still lost miserably in front of Ronald.

The so-called "big guys" in these industries often take credit for their subordinates' success. This is what happened to Guber from Columbia. Isn't he about to be kicked out now?
However, the imminent Oscar nomination battle is about to begin, and I have to urge him to provide more resources. If I want to lead the charge myself, I will need more ammunition.

"Hello, it's me. Did you see the live broadcast? We got nothing but the best screenplay... If you can't help with the Oscars..."

"Don't worry, there are only a few thousand Oscar judges, and no one knows how to drive them better than me."