hollywood draw

The TV suddenly turned completely black, and at the same time attracted the attention of agent Royd Connor. He stopped his voice and looked at the TV involuntarily.

The darkness flashed by at this moment, "Dun!" As a sound of low background music sounded, the TV lit up instantly. Almost all movie fans who have watched Batman's previous work were familiar with this background music, especially those who have watched it more than once. It was from the hands of another Hollywood soundtrack, Hans Jimo.

The whole piece of music is low and empty, like a classical symphony, which easily gives people a passionate feeling. The first shot of the trailer directly replaces the audience's angle with the camera, and uses a downward perspective to see most of Gotham City in the dark.

The next second, Batman in dark armor appeared at the center of the camera. The camera did not give Batman's face, but instead followed his back and jumped down from the upper floor.

The camera's perspective closely follows Batman who jumped down, and also shows the audience the brilliant lights of Gotham City. The signal transmission is very clear. This is a prosperous Metropolitan Reunion, a giant city shrouded in the dark.

A short shot flashed by, and the time lasted only three or four seconds, but through the wide-angle lens and the towering space layout in the darkness, it brought a strong shock to the audience in front of the TV.

The screen suddenly darkened again, and this time it was even shorter. In less than a second, two huge letters suddenly appeared in the middle: DC.

"How should I talk about it?"

The voice-over and bright images appear at the same time. When Officer Gordon opens the car door, the brightness reaches its peak. The trailer is exactly the same as the main film design. Wayne deliberately sets the scenes that Officer Gordon appear in a relatively bright way, which has a clear visual difference from others.

The reason is also very simple. Although this is a film with dark tones as the main body, he is also constantly using the camera tone changes to tell the audience that Gotham, a sin-filled metropolis, also has a touch of light that cannot be ignored, and the representative of light is Officer Gordon.

"A year ago, the police and lawyers didn't dare to touch you. What happened later?"

The clown's back flashed by, the image of the bat chariot with a full sense of technology breaking through everything flashed by, the camera of the two-faced man flashed by, the camera switched continuously and quickly, simply explaining the theme of the movie.

At this moment, another voiceover sounded. "What are your good ideas?"

"It's very simple, kill Batman!"

When the answer appeared, the camera suddenly rotated, showing the face of the speaker to the audience in front of the TV around the world. Yes, it was no different from what people guessed, it was a clown with white makeup, dark circles and long red lips!

The trailer did not give the audience time to react. After showing the main characters through the flash of shots, darkness flashed by again. This time, what appeared on TV was a straightforward big explosion. The fire snake flew wildly with the flying fragments of the building, just like this huge explosion happened in front of you.

Seeing the big explosion in front of him, agent Royd Connor's face instantly turned dark red, with the extremely contagious low background music and super special effects combined, his emotions were incited and excited, and at the same time, he also had a deep sense of expectation for the film.

After the big explosion, the camera switched rapidly again. Batman rode a motorcycle chariot and fired violently, flying quickly in the dark Gotham City. The clown wore a mask and held a submachine gun to rob him. The car was blown directly into the sky. Batman fell from the sky and smashed the car...

Various exciting scenes kept flashing, leaving no breathing or thinking time. At the same time, the background music also entered the high nest part, and the drum beats began to become deeper and more intense, forming a good cooperation with the exciting scenes that flashed quickly.

Suddenly, the background music suddenly stopped, and the night-long streets of Gotham appeared in the camera. The clown came to the center of the camera in his iconic windbreaker, and his monologue appeared again.

"The show is coming!"

“go!”

"This city should have higher-level criminals, and I will give them good looks!"

For seven or eight seconds at the end, all of them were scenes of clowns causing chaos, creating explosions, and committing crazy crimes. Finally, as the clown tilted his head slightly and patted his hands together, a more violent explosion filled the TV screen!

Just like at the beginning of the trailer, the screen returned to dark again, with several lines of huge and dazzling blue words arranged on it: 1997.5.9 (Friday), and Majestic returns to the big screen! "Batman 2: The Dark Knight"! Wayne Greenberg's work!

In just thirty seconds of trailer, although the fast switching cameras are filled with various explosions, crimes, actions, car chases, etc., full of visual feasts, as long as you observe carefully, there is enough information revealed.

"Excellent production! It's like a damn dark epic opera, it's so shocking!"

The Dior commercial that had already started later could not attract Royd Connor's attention at all. He was immersed in the wonderful scenes just now and various vaguely guessed information. What made him suddenly alert was that he was unknowingly incited by a short trailer, which made him feel excited and excited.

"I'm willing to fall! Hum!"

A cold snorkeling interrupted the thoughts of the agent Royd Connor and made him react. He was sitting in the living room of his client's luxury villa.

"I guessed it without seeing the film. Even though I could use an excellent villain to better explore the people of the bottom class of North American society and dig deep into the disasters brought by corrupt human nature, I like to add too many vulgar and low-level methods such as explosions, car chases and special effects to attract the attention of the audience and degenerate themselves!"

The agent shrugged. In fact, he did not agree with the so-called evaluations of his customers. Without those wonderful explosions, action shots and large special effects scenes, would the audience sit down and watch the slow scenes of the two-hour opera? Can such a DC comic-adapted super blockbuster? It is better to just shoot a low-cost independent art film directly, so as to avoid being scolded by the audience as a sheep-headed and selling dog meat.

"Roger."

Finding that his client's face began to turn flushed, he hesitated for a moment and persuaded again: "He has no fundamental conflict of interest with us. If it weren't for the favors of Michael Orwitz that time, and help "criticize" "The Walker of the Skies" on the column, there was no conflict between us. Roger, maybe, we can try to let go of everything..."

“shut the f**k up!”

Roger Albert's angry voice sounded like a poisonous snake, and his face was even more flushed, and obviously the anger reached its peak. "If it weren't for that damn guy who asked Warner Brothers to help me and squeeze me from various channels, I wouldn't have been defeated by the disease, let alone cancer was found. What would you say? Ahha? Tell me!"

"hey-hey."

Royd Connor immediately raised his hands and made a surrender gesture, and said in a hurry: "You know Roger, I will always stand with you, we are on the same boat."

In contrast to the atmosphere in the distant Chicago villa, in Greenberg Manor in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Naomi Watts held Little Fendi in his arms, and amid the "giggling" laughter, holding his daughter's two snow-white fat hands kept slamming.

"Fendi, let's congratulate Dad, look, he did a great job, right? You should be proud of him."

Unlike the Super Bowl two years ago, in addition to Sergey and Hela, the living room today, the Cruise couple was also invited. Obviously, Wayne is a person who knows how to get back and forth and have basic human relationships. He can take the initiative to show kindness, and he is not stingy with his friendship.

Although we know that the couple has many complaints, who can say that they are a real little white flower in this circle?

"Damn it, it's so shocking!" Tom Cruise slapped the arm of the man sitting beside him and raised the beer bottle in his hand. "Congratulations, Wayne, I knew that this must be a dark epic that is destined to shock everyone."

The two of them touched the beer bottle with smiles, raised their heads and took a few big sips together, and did not watch the second half of the game that began soon.

Tom Cruise is very satisfied with the relationship between the two, and seizing the opportunity to show goodwill with him, which has played a good role. In Hollywood, who can guarantee that he will always be glorious? In fact, in the history of Hollywood's continuous development, even a superstar, the fortune of Xingda has risen and fallen.

Although he is now one of the biggest box office guarantees in the circle, as the most box office appeal superstar, his sense of crisis will never disappear.

Yes, the styles of the two people do not match, and the possibility of cooperation is slim. But when one day their faces are not as popular as they are now? No one can tell what this is. Once there is a day when there is really a need for transformation, at least the other party can give themselves a better choice.

In the eyes of most film critics and professionals, Tom Cruise seems to know how to be handsome and sell his face in front of the camera, but those people would not consider that his face was the most recognized box office guarantee by movie fans in the 1990s. In fact, will the existence of being able to reach the superstar status really lack subjective acting skills?

If he is willing to see his performance in "Rain Man" in the first two years, most viewers will be surprised to find that his acting skills are just covered up by Dustin Hoffman's superb performance.

“The nomination for "The Walker of the Skies" is OK?”

As the second half of the Super Bowl continued, Tom Cruise leaned on the sofa with his arms wide open and took a sip of beer from time to time, and the two chatted casually.

“Normally, it’s not a big problem.”

Wayne shook his head with a wry smile. "I have been attending public relations and cocktail parties for this period of time, and there should be no problems with nominations, but the difficulty is behind it."

“I will call on my friends to vote for you.”

"Thank you, Tom."

He raised the bottle and signaled, Wayne smiled and nodded, clearly indicating that he had accepted the favor. When everything was still uncertain, he would not let go of even a vote that could be won. After all, the matter of going to the Osaka will probably not happen to him again in many years.

The finished production of "Dark Knight" and the promotional budget have exceeded 200 million US dollars. The more a huge investment project, the more resources the production company usually invests in publicity and marketing.

Before the Super Bowl, the film had already used the leak incident to win the sympathy of most ordinary audiences. When the Super Bowl midfield advertising show ended, the influence of "The Dark Knight" reached another level. Unlike the marketing strategies of other summer commercial blockbusters, "The Dark Knight" began to bombard the entire North American region through various media channels early on from the end of January.

Wayne himself knew very well that compared to the production style that he was more appreciated by the academy members on the surface, he was actually a commercial film director, and even he himself would not deny this.

It is because of this that even though he has a considerable advantage in the entire awards season, he has never relaxed in public relations lobbying. As long as he is needed to appear, even a small internal movie-watching meeting, he will nod and say hello to the invited guests without getting tired of it.

Especially at this critical time in early February, he simply gave up the post-production work of "The Dark Knight", allowing Charles Rowan to temporarily stare at it, and devote all his energy to various social networking.

For example, Warner Bros. and Greenberg Studios jointly held a movie-watching party in three to five days. The target group of people who can receive invitations is very wide. Local film critics in Los Angeles led by Kenneth Tulan, members of the academy in the circle who have voting rights, and media journalists who have a lot of help in promoting the film, as long as the people related to the Oscars event appear on the invitation list one after another.

Of course, those guests invited through various relationships can get more than a good social platform. Some people like hot girls models and some people like spirits, but what satisfies these people the most is that everyone who comes to the movie party will not come home empty-handed.

Perhaps the hardcover video tape of "The Walker of the Side" will not attract most people, and there are many people who have not watched this video so far. However, the latest video tapes used to play these video tapes are definitely sought after by most people. These batch of fun things specially customized by Warner Bros. were all sent out in the name of "borrowing".

It should be noted that this is a large-scale public relations method, which has actually touched the bottom line of the academy's expression of the spirit of free competition. Oscars is indeed a game with special rules, but the fancy operations of Wayne's public relations team have made people in the circle feel the lack of offline operations of the Golden Yuan offensive.

Many competitors who also have ambitions for this year's Oscars did not wait for the warning from the academy. The public relations parties there continued to be held one after another. The big guys in the academy seemed to have seen nothing, and they agreed that such a strange existence full of money-stealing smell appeared in this year's Oscar's public relations feast.

"Academic Chairman Frank Pearson has hinted that Bruce has been announced. After the official nomination is announced, we hope that we will stop all the actions of crossing the line."

Wayne leaned tiredly on the sofa, but the sarcasm on his face was undisguised. Those powerful old men did make guarantees to themselves more than once, but the reason for keeping them silent was not because of their bloodline and surnames, but the luxurious audio-visual studio that was completely renewed at home, and the satisfaction of various slightly extravagant hobbies.

Nina raised her hand and pushed her glasses. After looking up, she didn't answer the topic of her boss. She lowered her head again and flipped a few pieces of printing paper, which were densely printed with dazzling names and numbers.

"I feel like a disgusting fly now, and those people should be so annoyed by me."

After confirming it again, Nina teased her with some self-deprecating words.

The phone calls on it were all home phones for some college members living in remote cities. In the past two days, she had almost dialed all the phones and promoted "The Walker of the Stop" to the other party. The phone bombing was Wayne's idea. Although she didn't know if it worked, she still did it.

Everything has reached the most critical time point. The assistant lady doesn't care about the impatient responses of the judges, or even the swear words with a bit of a bad temper, assuming that all these actions can play a sufficient role.

“no,no,no.”

Wayne shook his head funny. "You are not a successful fly yet. The work is not over yet. You know, there is no way for others to do this kind of work."

The assistant lady stood up with her fate, her mouth twitched twice, and she walked towards the second floor with the printing paper. The job below was to bombard the mail. As long as she confirmed that the member of the academy had an email, she had to ensure that she would send an email to the other party's email.

This is also the idea that Wayne came up with. No one can tell whether it is shameless or not. Anyway, everything must be done before the nomination list is announced the day after tomorrow.

It was not until Nina's back disappeared on the stairs that he turned his head and leisurely lit a cigarette, looking at his daughter who was having sex with three puppies on the grass outside the window, the nanny and the Australian actress, muttering to himself: "Phone bombing, email bombing, manipulating the media, Kim Won's public relations... Harvey, I have to admit that your set is really useful!"

The only thing that made him laugh was probably the trick he hadn't had the chance to use to discredit his competitors. Now his "The Walker of the Stop" is in an advantageous position, and such a method is not needed. The vicious Bruce Rosenblum took the time to find a lot of things for Miramax before the Oscar was over. Now that fat man should be so busy that he can't stop.

As the Warner Bros. distribution director said, since you want Wayne to be busy and unwilling to care about the Oscars, then keep you busy too.

The awards season every year, especially the days before the official announcement of the Oscar nomination in early February, the whole Hollywood will enter the atmosphere of demons dancing. It can be said that public relations teams and public relations agents are everywhere. This is the last chance to get tickets in the most valuable publicity show in the entire Hollywood.

No one in the entire circle is willing to lose this ticket, whether it is a first-tier business superstar or a newly emerging young actor.

The stars who hope to follow the crew to enter the award ceremony are all good. Those big and small stars who have no works this year or who will definitely not appear on the list. Their agents are like ants on a hot pan, frequently appearing at various public relations parties to find favors, and running around crazy before the list is finally announced.

The significance of Oscars to people in the circle is not just the small number of participants who have the potential to win the awards. Becoming special guests, award presenters, etc. is the hope of these celebrities participating. Whether they can show up in this show is a test of their own status and relationships within the circle.

This year is different from previous years. Almost every year, at this time, some celebrities or crew will receive hidden warnings from the college, which is a reminder for those who have PR methods through line behavior. If you don’t know how to converge at this time, the college will likely expose you directly to the media to show your fairness and justice.

But the situation this year is just the opposite. It seems that the entire Hollywood was shocked by the Golden Doll offensive of Wayne's team. When someone started to realize that the academy did not warn of these actions, it was actually too late.

On February 6, 1997, the organizing committee announced the nomination list for the 69th Academy Awards nearly two months in advance as usual. At the same time, it was notified that the award ceremony would be held at the Los Angeles Temple Grand Theater on March 24. When the nomination list was seen, Wayne's half-hanging heart was completely overwhelmed.

Nothing happened. He had almost won all outpost awards and had won most of the internal union awards. He also won 9 award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, etc. It can be said that the early efforts were not in vain and he won a great victory in the first battle.

At the same time, all the crews involved in public relations in the early stage of this Oscar grand event secretly praised Wayne's team's operations. It was like a battle switch that lowered the bottom line of the Oscar. His team taught everyone step by step what the spirit of "free competition" is.

Putting aside the public relations method, strictly speaking, Wayne is obviously different from Lao Ding in the shooting language of the entire movie "The Walker". However, compared with the award-winning environment that Lao Martin encountered at that time, he was much better and had too many advantages.

As the leader of "The Walker", his influence is much stronger than the low-key old Martin in the same period. He spent Hollywood in the 1990s. He was one of the banners of the entire North American film. In the context of the continuous production of the environment with assembly lines, his success is more like a road that cannot be replicated.

Now when people mention Hollywood movie noir, they will think of Wayne at the first time. When they think of him, they also have to admit that he has successfully put the movie noir, which is so niche that it cannot be more niche, in front of the public movie fans, and there is a vague trend of moving closer to the mainstream.

As this process is realized, his dominance in business has even led to a superhero series with more amazing business prospects. So objectively speaking, as long as the interests are not involved, no one in the circle does not recognize his contribution to the entire Hollywood.

Of course, this is also the main reason why the old European film circles that criticized Wayne several times were disdainful of Hollywood and Oscars. In the hearts of those guys who insisted on art, Oscars are like a watchword, enjoying the so-called art halo, and also bowing their heads to commercial influence from time to time.

But in Wayne's eyes, he also did not think that the three major European film festivals were so artistic, and even more commercialized in some aspects than Oscars. Everyone divided the cake, but the rules of the game were different.

503-If you do it, you may not be able to get it. If you don’t do it, you will definitely not get it.