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    "News: "The Departed" unexpectedly wins Best Adapted Screenplay"

    As real-time news came out one after another, the global media expressed surprise, and social networks were also in chaos. There were shouts of joy from gamblers who had tried their luck in betting on Monaghan, cheers from black people, and even more from movie fans.  Indignant: "Oscar made a big mistake that no fool would make!"

    Maybe this will be the biggest dark horse tonight, maybe not, but regardless, this is one of the biggest controversies of this year.

    After Hanks announced the result, guests everywhere in the Kodak Theater were whispering, and people in the backstage and in the backstage passage were talking louder: "He is too young, he still has to run with him for a few more years.", "Ye Wei has it."  Talent, but he is a newcomer and does not have enough friends in the academy. "Look at Peter O'Toole, this kid has nothing to complain about."

    The public relations staff had mixed emotions. The hearts of some guests in the main hall, including the big shots of "The Departed", were pounding. This was not the upset they wanted to see.

    "Ye Wei lost this award. It was a failure. People who hate him can laugh as much as they want?"  Half and half.

    ¡°Oscar is not a one-on-one boxing, it is a series of Lego.  In a year where there is no dominant film, and it is not the separate awards for animation, documentary and foreign language film, there are too many things involved behind every upset, and this one has changed the balance formed from the beginning of the awards season to the present, and the success of this Oscar.  All expectations were shattered.

    You must know that Ye Wei came today with 13 nominations for 3 movies. He will definitely win one. With the investment and ability of the public relations team, this is almost certain.  The Academy knows very well that this is also one of the selling points this year, internationalization, diversity, whether Scorsese and Otto can realize their dreams, Leonardo and Winslet, Ye Wei and the genius girl

    Among all the 7 films nominated for more than 5 categories, "Dreamgirls" and "Pan's Labyrinth" have won awards as expected, "Babel" has been booked for best soundtrack or best original screenplay, and "The Queen" has been booked for best actress.  For the protagonist, "The Departed" is booked for Best Director, "The Lovely Bones" or "Winter's Bone" should have won Best Adapted Screenplay. If Winter Bone had won it, then Kegu would have won the Best Score or Cinematography, and "Tower of Babel" should have won the Best Original Screenplay.  script.

    "Letter from Iwo Jima", which had 4 nominations including film, also won the Best Sound Editing as expected.

    In this way, no matter who wins the best picture in the end, all the favorites will win the award, and the academy can communicate with the industry and the outside world.  This is what the media audience predicted, what the filmmakers psychologically accepted, and what the academy expected. That's it. Hanks was also arranged to present the award to Ye Wei.

    An upset made everything shake. Which one did viy movie win?  Best Supporting Actor has also been ruled out.

    Soundtrack?  photography?  Supporting actress?  Heroine?  director?  Film?  The two bones always have to take away one item!  This side is upset, and their probability of upset is also increasing.

    If there must be any losers, TLB public relations leader Herman Wright must be one of them. He lost the Best Picture nomination battle before, and now he has lost the adapted screenplay, which is a sure win.  What's going on!  ?  Wright was watching TV in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel. Everyone around him was dead silent. How could he attend the Paramount celebration party afterwards?

    Wright wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, the signature problem occurred, Ye Wei, this idiot!

    Originally, the Screenwriters Guild stipulated that 33% of the adapted script must be jointly signed. He asked Arndt: "How much work have you done?" Arndt said: "It shouldn't be 33%, so I just did some polishing."  Ent even agreed to put his name on it.  However, it was already too late when he took over the award-winning stage. As early as the pre-production stage, Ye Wei generously signed Arndt's signature, but suddenly he took it away and it became a scandal. This signature was awarded to the Oscar, and this signature was  Signed off the award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

    And because Arndt¡¯s last name is A and Ye Wei¡¯s is Y, unlike the producer, there is no distinction between the first and second names of the screenwriters, and Ye Wei has to be listed alphabetically.  When others look at it, they think it mainly depends on Arndt.

    Wright ran LMS last year to win Best Original Screenplay, and the winner was Arndt, two years in a row?  This isn't momentum, it's obstacles.  The award budget also includes money to publicize and explain the situation. The tlb script was created by Ye Wei, and he could account for 90% of it, so Arndt polished it up.

    If tlb¡¯s screenwriter column only had Ye Wei, there wouldn¡¯t be these problems.  But Arndt was there. When the judges took a look at the list of nominations, who did they check?  Because of this, the Golden Globe Awards chose to bet on Winter Bone: Ye Wei would win the adapted screenplay, but it would be Winter Bone with his sole signature.

    Wright has been frustrated this year. If the promoters of Winter Bone were not the Weinstein brothers, if it had not conquered global critics, if it had not been "completely non-ideological, one of the greatest feminist works in the history of film."  , then tlb can still win, just if.

    The problem is, if the Weinstein brothers compete for this award, "Nothing""Walker" is impossible to be an upset

    Thinking of something, Wright shuddered a little and felt that his moral skills were still a little shallow. He believed that many public relations people now feel this way.  God!  The idea of ??those two bitches from the very beginning was not to adapt the script but tobest picture.

    As the saying goes, "Oscars is a game about who has the most friends." This sentence breaks down the fundamentals.

    The more friends you can win, the more money you spend. Spend money to make friends.  But all the more than 5,000 and almost 6,000 Oscar judges are the best among the best in various positions in the industry. It goes without saying that Ye Wei will be recruited as a judge in a few years.  When a film wants to persuade people like Ye Wei, Hanks, and Spielberg, can the small gifts included in the preview DVD influence their choices?

    The goal of public relations is just to win their favor and make them willing to choose to watch this movie among a pile of DVDs. When the movie takes up their precious time, the probability of it being appreciated and voted for will be increased.  But this good impression is unreliable and can easily be knocked down by real connections such as good friends and old friends.

    No matter how much "The Departed" persuades Hanks, he is probably unwilling not to vote for Ye Wei.

    The Weinstein brothers have been working hard in Hollywood and award season for so many years. They have many, many friends. They have so many friends that they have created the shocking case of "Shakespeare in Love" and "Chicago", they are all the most famous.  Best video.  The latter actually happened in 2003, when Harvey Weinstein personally received a film nomination for "Gangs of New York".

    They also have a cooperative relationship with Lionsgate Pictures, such as the hugely controversial but profitable "Fahrenheit 9/11".

    Last year, Lionsgate unexpectedly won the best picture with "Crash". In addition to its public relations stunt, its connections are the soil where miracles happen.

    Lionsgate was originally a company founded by Canadian Frank Gusta in 1997 with 16 million of his own money and another 40 million in financing. It suffered serious losses for several years.  If Paul Allen hadn't closed down long ago, the co-founder of Microsoft would have no place to spend his money, so he would invest in independent films, such as DreamWorks and Lionsgate.  In January 2000, investors including Paul Allen and former Sony Entertainment Television Group president Jon Fillheimer injected $33.1 million into Lions Gate's account, and Fillheimer took over Lions Gate.  In June of the same year, it acquired Triangle Film and Television Production Company in the form of 50 million in stock, cash and 36 million in debt, thus expanding Lionsgate's scale.

    With Paul Allen as the financial backer, Lions Gate is not short of money, and with Fillheimer, Lions Gate is not short of connections and talent, but what is missing is reputation.

    This reputation can make talented and mediocre independent filmmakers come to seek refuge one after another, and they can continuously buy independent films, no matter what the quality is, buy them!  Because it wants to establish a film and television resource library to achieve the long-tail effect and a comprehensive long-term strategy of establishing a TV network and an online on-demand network, hoping to first become the overlord of independent film companies, then become a mini-mainstream, and finally become a mainstream film and television entertainment company.  group.

    Now six years later, Lionsgate has established its brand image as independent, unconventional, unconventional, and hungry for movies.  Documentaries include "Fahrenheit 9/11", dramas include "Crash", commercial horror films include the "Saw" series, and commercial comedies include the "Dark Lady" series If you have a good movie, come to me, and I will let you go to heaven.  .

    All the big shots in the Lions Gate family are social butterflies, and among them, Ye Wei, who created huge benefits for Lions Gate and allowed Phil Helmer to kick his former employer Sony's ass in the exorcism battle, is regarded as a god.  , an insider of the Wall Street Journal said: "Jon Feilheimer can't wait to give his daughter to Ye Wei in exchange for a movie."

    Lionsgate has made many achievements during the awards season in recent years, which is inseparable from Filheimer¡¯s network resources.

    Wright has always known that Ye Wei was a little fox. He split his bets, giving "Soul Surfer" to Lionsgate and giving Winter Bones to the Weinstein brothers.  Suffering from the suppression of film critics, Lionsgate was surprised to get two nominations, but its power is far more than that, and it is absolutely, absolutely, absolutely in Ye Wei's camp, "Winter's Bone".  If Winter Bone were also released by Lionsgate, there would be no help from the Weinstein brothers, but nowthese two forces were twisted together by Ye Wei.

    "Is this Viy's revenge on me?" Wright came up with this terrible conspiracy theory idea. They had a bad time because the producer of LMS wanted to sign the award. Could it be that Ye Wei has been holding a grudge against him since then?  On the surface, they are cooperative and friendly, but secretly they want to take Herman away from the position that LMS has won.  If tlb walked out of the kodak theater empty handed.

    This is a big plan?  Including letting Arndt sign tlb?  No way Yui doesn't look like that kind of person He has this kind of talent, but he is not so ruthless

    "Wright is not a newbie in the industry and knows that this is possible, and it is too weird.

    This year¡¯s best moviesThe film situation is very complicated. There is no big hit. Anyone who takes it can be said to be an upset.

    "Letters from Iwo Jima" has a chance, and its three signed producers, Eastwood, Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, are the guarantee.  There is a chance for "Tower of Babel", and there is a chance for "The Departed", especially the latter, which has a very large network of connections. Just one Jack Nicholson has countless friends.

    But it was not a big hit precisely because it lost the support of the Weinstein brothers.

    It was signed only by the name of the first producer, Graham King.  This group of people have collaborated in "Gangs of New York" and "The Aviator" in recent years, both of which dominated the awards season that year. However, they did not collaborate again in "The Departed".  If those two bitches were idle this year, they might help "The Departed", but now they have Winter Bones.

    "The Departed" has nothing to do with them except "friendship". The person who zero-blocked "Gangs of New York" with "Chicago" was also Harvey Weinstein.

    Praising yourself and belittling others is a way to win the Olympics.  It dawned on Wright that recently nominated films were sniping at each other in the media, but Winter Bone had avoided the fire.

    "The Departed" was criticized for being a remake and compensation. Why didn't "The Departed", which competed for the best foreign language film on behalf of Hong Kong, China, not even get a nomination?  Compensating Scorsese with a Best Director award isn¡¯t enough?  Even Best Picture has to be compensated?  "Goodfellas" is neither.

    "Tower of Babel"?  Last year, "Crash" became a big hit, so why not follow suit with a movie with the same theme that intertwines multiple races, languages, and threads?  Just a nomination is enough!  Didn¡¯t you see that even the film critics said it was not good? It was opportunistic, contrived, and designed for Oscars. It only had a 69% freshness rating. Why fight for it?

    The problem with "Letter from Iwo Jima" lies with Japan, and the problem with "The Queen" lies with Britain.  They just don't fit!

    And "Winter's Bone" is a pure American film, 100% fresh, an independent art film with character, a rare feminist film "Million Dollar Baby" just won it two years ago, but Winter Bone's  Feminism is different!  It is not just about women¡¯s rights, it also pays very deep attention to poor areas, disadvantaged groups, etc. It is the most suitable to end this year¡¯s melee.

    With the protection of film critics, independent film circles, and feminist circles, it is difficult for opponents to attack the film itself. Take for example the scandal between Ye Wei and the actress, the fact that it is a non-union project, and that it was simply made on the fly.  .  It was enough to slander him, but since he didn't have much firepower, he thought he was satisfied and concentrated on fighting for the script with TLB.

    "The Battle of Bones" has been very popular. Paramount and Warner Bros. are constantly going back and forth, but they have not paid attention to the secret development of Winter Bone.

    A definite problem with Winter Bone also makes people careless, Ye Wei is too damn young!  He is only 19 years old. Regardless of his ethnicity, he is too young. If he were the only one to sign, Donggu would have no chance of winning the award.  But it was signed with two names, Ye Wei and Peter Heller.

    Heller is a middle-aged Jewish man.

    Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Ye Wei did not participate much in the promotion of this year¡¯s awards season. He was busy on vacation and playing football.

    Wright still complained about this, but Harvey Weinstein seemed to take advantage of the opportunity. They asked "viy's butler" Peter Heller to take the lead.  Some media have long said that Heller was so busy working on the Girls Trilogy last year that his hair turned gray. It is said that Ye Wei left all the dirty work to him.  This time, Heller took the film to attend film festivals and award ceremonies to promote and promote the film. The outside world did not pay attention, but in the industry, Peter Heller has been really prosperous recently. Today he attended the ceremony with his wife and daughter.

    Unconsciously, it seemed that Heller was the first producer, and it was he who led the genius kid to make this movie, this middle-aged Jewish man!

    On the other side, Ye Weixiying is hotly speculated, especially since this kid actually signed a contract with Manchester United and is willing to stay away from Los Angeles.  It seems like Winter's Bone is his farewell film. He will never make a movie again. If it is not given to him, he will not be able to give it to him in the future. This kind of death atmosphere is a big killer during the awards season.

    This is definitely a plan!  Ye Wei may have known about it all along, maybe not.  Because in fact, his interests were harmed. Originally, the adapted screenplay was a must-win, and once he won it, he became the youngest Oscar-winning screenwriter. But now he loses nothing in the huge gamble.  On the other hand, even if Winter Bone wins the screenplay award, the Weinstein brothers are not interested in it. They don't need to win a must-win award to show their ability. Best Picture is different

    Ye Wei¡¯s playful expression towards the live broadcast camera was not just trying to be cool, maybe he really realized that Harvey Weinstein had used his usual tricks to play with people¡¯s hearts again.

    Wright swallowed in shock. Before losing the best adapted screenplay and having the chance to win the best picture, "Winter's Bone" was ready to take the throne.

    I¡¯m afraid everyone is nowI wonder, where are all the votes for the girl trilogy?
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