Hollywood Road

"The one who won the Oscar for the best art direction..."

On the stage, Emma Watson opened the envelope in her hand, looked down, and immediately said, "Helena Espola, "The Dark City"!"

Applause sounded in the Dolby Theater, Helena Espola stood up, hugged Murphy and others in the crew, and quickly walked onto the stage to receive the award.

"First!"

When Helena Espola started her acceptance speech, Gal Gadot whispered, "The first figurine is here!"

Murphy, who was sitting on her left, nodded slightly. The awards ceremony lasted for more than forty minutes, and the "Dark City" crew won the first Oscar statuette tonight.

This is not that "Dark City" has a bad start, but that the previous awards are for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Costume Design. "Dark City" has no nominations at all, not even nominations. Naturally, there will be no Oscar statuettes.

"We have the first..." Margot Robbie to the right of Gal Gadot was confident. "There will be a second soon!"

It seems to confirm her words, at the next best photography award, Philip Raschel, who just won two years ago, once again stood on the Oscar podium.

The best photography and the previous best art direction seem to have opened the award-winning account of "Dark City". In the next fifty minutes, Murphy's drama composition became a veritable award harvester and won the best Sound effects editing, best sound effects, best art direction, best makeup, best editing and best soundtrack six Oscar statuettes.

"Eight nominations, eight statuettes..."

Leonardo DiCaprio turned his head to look at Murphy's side, "Is he really going to be the big winner tonight?"

Although he really didn't want to see this situation, he couldn't stop it from becoming a reality step by step.

"Eight in eight!"

On the other side, Angelina Jolie frowned and said to Brad Pitt next to him, "Does the college really want to give Murphy Stanton the biggest piece of cake?"

"These are just eight technical awards. Together, they are not much better than the best supporting actress we got." Brad Pitt is full of confidence. "The best film is definitely ours. Don't forget our film. theme!"

Black subjects, this is the most powerful weapon he used to attack the Oscars, and before the nomination list came out, he also instigated some black people in the circle to make trouble. Those without heads could not see clearly, even if the so-called black film won, The final winner is not the people who invested in making movies?

The 100% shooting rate seems quite amazing, but the Oscar is not a tragedy without first winning and then losing. After all, the eight gold medalists won can be said to be technical awards, and no one can guess whether the college will divide the cake.

But Murphy believes that "Dark City" will definitely be the biggest winner!

On the one hand, the host Alan DeGeneres aimed at Catholicism in the opening, and even deliberately ridiculed that Los Angeles had a sudden rainstorm before the Oscars. Some people deliberately prayed and wanted God to punish Hollywood, but Hollywood will not stop. , So the award ceremony started again.

On the other hand, it is the theme of this year's Oscars that radiates a breath of praise for heroes.

What are the artistic criteria for Oscar's selection of films? Throughout the past 86 years of history, it can only be said that Oscars are still very fickle, especially in the past ten years. Sometimes it likes heavy iron and blood topics, sometimes likes a noisy and positive atmosphere, sometimes wants to be close to young people, and sometimes I feel that the rivers and lakes are old, it is not suitable for pretending to be tender, sometimes funny, sometimes sensational, sometimes shouldering social responsibility, sometimes thinking that art is better for art itself...

To put it simply, many times, in Oscars, the most important award in the American film industry, the theme is more important than the standard. A theme is set every year and the film is selected according to the theme. For Oscars, this may be the most appropriate. It is relatively Many other film awards are more mainstream and commercial. Finding the most prominent annual entertainment trends and annual collective values ​​from a large number of films every year can also be a valuable summary.

Shortly after the opening ceremony of tonight’s awards ceremony, there were scenes of animated heroes introduced by Kim Carrey and real heroes introduced by Harrison Ford, revealing the tone of this year’s Oscar: the world needs heroes, let We praise these people who dedicated themselves to the world.

"Dark City" is a movie that reflects heroes with strong realism and philosophical thinking. To a certain extent, it just reflects the spirit of this Oscar.

Even Murphy is speculating that because of the previous social situation, those old men in the academy wanted to express the independence of the Hollywood film industry, and in order to support him and the "Dark City", they deliberately released such an Oscar theme.

Indeed, there are close to 6,000 judges for the Academy Awards, and no one can guarantee that they will affect most of them, but the reason why the old men at the core of the academy are extremely important is because of their opinions and positions that will affect them. Voted by many people.

These views and positions often become the theme of the Oscars.

The theme of this session is particularly obvious, showing the importance of real heroes.

Murphy sat calmly on the seat, watching the host Alan DeGeneres joking on the stage.

Seth McFarlane, the host of the last Oscar, used his spoof skills and sang "I've seen your Mimi" to many Oscar queens at the beginning, ridiculing Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman. After waiting for people to keep their faces darkened and hold their foreheads, Oscar hurriedly reflected: Oscar is not a Tucao conference, not all stars are willing to be written into the taste of the story.

Therefore, Alan DeGeneres, the host of this year's Oscars, has promised long ago that she will not take the stars out.

In fact, Alan DeGeneres’ special identity and unique female affinity made her laugh at someone—for example, in the previous jokes, she used the age of the oldest Jun Squib. But it is also the effect of a smile and grudges, and it is harmless.

But this does not mean that this year's Oscars ceremony is very interesting.

In the words of Gal Gadot next to him, the Oscars tonight is more like a test of patience, the process is tedious, and the design is very bad.

Even an excellent host like Alan DeGeneres can't make the somber Oscars ceremony full of fun.

Although she has made a lot of efforts, the effect is very mediocre.

Even the best comedians sometimes perform badly, especially on the most difficult Oscar stage to host.

The few highlights of Ellen DeGeneres basically appeared in the audience. For example, she pulled out a lot of big Hollywood stars to take selfies, and then posted them on Twitter, even though it looked more like A Samsung ad, but crazy Twitter clicks still aroused the interest of many people.

On the stage, Ellen DeGeneres was joking about Jonah Hill’s JJ again, and then ran into the crowd again, causing some topics. She tried to recreate the impromptu performance of the talk show, but she The "magic" is no longer.

The cruel fact lies here. Every funny stalk at the award ceremony will make the audience and even the audience in front of the TV look up at the clock-there is still a long, long time before the end of the whole award ceremony.

That's right, it is the super lengthy rhythm, and the dragged Allen DeGeneres is also powerless.

The pace of the whole awards ceremony was very slow. The process of giving out the first award took a lot of time, and then again for the second award.

Nowadays, some major awards ceremonies will exceed the live broadcast time, but no awards ceremony before will spend so much time on awards, like tonight’s Oscars, until 11:30 PM Western time, even the best original screenplay. No awards were awarded.

Among them, the most time-consuming thing is nostalgia. As a tradition of Oscars, some clipped videos are often played at the award ceremony.

But this year’s awards ceremony was filled with too many unnecessary and time-wasting clips. Most of these clips are about how great the actors in the past and how great the films in the past were. This is too boring, forcing the audience to watch. table.

Let alone an ordinary audience, Murphy turned his head and looked at it. Most of the younger generation of directors and actors were also a little impatient, that is, when the camera lens swept over, they would squeeze out a smile.

In fact, this is not difficult to understand. Oscars and the Academy always miss the past and praise the golden age, as if the directors and actors are weak.

Although the college does not have this kind of awareness, it is hard not to let people have this bad association.

The constant nostalgia led to a slow rhythm, which also made some of the host Alan DeGeneres's jokes ineffective. She even sat in front of the stage with the guitar on her own once, but nothing happened.

Long nostalgia sessions and boring old film reviews took up a lot of time, and Murphy even doubted whether the Oscar organizing committee was still counting votes in the background.

The show dragged on for too long. Fortunately, the male guests said that many women are about to suffer. For example, stars like Margot Robbie would not eat dinner at all for the effect of walking on the red carpet. They became popular in the middle of the afternoon. The carpet has been dragged to the present midnight, and the taste is not good.

Especially Ellen DeGeneres also made a big pizza on the stage...

Towards 12 o'clock in the evening, a long old video finally ended, and the awards ceremony also came to the final six awards. After Robert De Niro first awarded the award for best adapted screenplay, Jessica- Alba came to the stage, ready to award the best original screenplay award!