Chapter 1721 1721 The Disaster of the Golden Ball

"Ding bell, ding bell..." The dense phone ringing kept ringing in the office, with a hint of irritability and urgency, unable to quiet down at all, people just wanted to quickly end the annoying ringing. However, Michael Roselle, who was sitting behind the desk, had no intention of picking up the phone at all, and concentrated on writing something on the document on the desktop.

If you take a closer look, you will find that the document is actually full of foul words "F**k", and Michael's left hand holding the pen is getting harder and harder, and finally he just raises his left hand, wanting to put The pen in his hand was broken - but there was no way to do it, on the contrary, his hands were aching slightly, which made Michael almost out of anger, and threw the pen directly. But at this time the phone was still ringing relentlessly, Michael stood up with anger on his face, unplugged the phone line, and threw the phone out.

The sound finally stopped, the world finally quiet.

Michael didn't give up, strode to the door, forced the office door open, and shouted to the outside, "I said it! Don't transfer any calls in, don't you understand? Any calls! I need to be quiet! Hell, don't even give me a moment of silence."

Michael's rude voice kept echoing in the hall, stunned the busy staff. Michael's assistant was even more shivering and sat on the spot at a loss. Fortunately, Michael didn't continue to entangle, and then he threw the office people away, leaving only a string of anger in the air, making everyone look at each other in dismay.

Everyone knows what pressure Michael is under recently. With the end of the 54th Golden Globe Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has once again become the target of thousands of people. As the president of the association, Michael has become everyone's attack. target, this taste is not good. Don't talk about Michael, even the members of the association have recently closed their mouths, lowered their heads, and behaved honestly.

It's just that none of them expected that Michael would lose control of his emotions in public... If there are undercover reporters from other media here, the headlines of tomorrow's newspapers can already be imagined.

In fact, even Michael didn't expect that he would lose control of his emotions. The nameless fire was almost uncontrollable, and the huge pressure on his shoulders almost made him unable to support it. At this moment, Michael finally knew why at the same moment last year, why Marjana Bryricon was so grumpy.

This time last year, Magna, who was then president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was on a tear — because of the controversy surrounding the Golden Globe winners, they awarded best actor in a drama to Nicolas Cage, and After winning four nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series, Best Actor in a Musical Comedy, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay, Hugo, who relied on "Death Row Walk", only relied on "Before Sunrise". "The performance in the show won the best actor in the musical comedy category, which caused a voice of doubt.

Originally, the awarding of awards was controversial, which is nothing, but the problem is that Hugo refused to attend the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, chose the Berlin Film Festival, and received a Best Actor trophy in cold Berlin, which is almost a gift A slap in the face from the Golden Globes. Later, Hugo relied on absolute strength to reach the top at the Oscars and achieved the peak of his career.

This makes the Golden Globes situation quite embarrassing.

Originally, these so-called disputes were nothing more than a media public relations crisis. As long as they were handled properly, subsequent troubles could be avoided, but at that time Michael and Marjana were fighting for the control of the association. Michael hoped to further commercialize the Golden Globe Awards and seek more benefits, but Marjana is unwilling. So, in the end, Michael pushed the fire a little behind the scenes and made things completely out of control.

It turned out to Michael's heart's content - Marjana stepped down and he succeeded in taking over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

After Michael took office, many changes have taken place in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The first thing is to complete the renewal of the contract with NBC TV station, which is bound to promote the commercialization of the Golden Globe Awards; then, Michael's series of policies have made the Hollywood foreign reporters The association is delighted. He has completed sponsorship contracts with many brands and renewed his contract with Hilton Hotel. He intends to hold the celebration dinner after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony more grandly and grandly-both in scale and influence to surpass "Vanity Fair" Annual Oscar night.

During the non-awarding period, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was still active and lively, and it also became a beautiful landscape in Hollywood in 1996. Until the release of "Independence Day".

Hugo starring aside, the huge success of "Independence Day" was a welcome addition to Michael, who had always hoped that the Golden Globes would speed up the commercialization process, and winning a nomination was more than just artistic. The achievements must also be works that can make a difference at the box office, such as "Forrest Gump" in 1994. Simply put, if Michael was in charge of the association a year later, he would have given "Seven Deadly Sins" a best picture nomination.

"Independence Day" can almost be said to have completely changed the position of computer special effects in the hearts of those stubborn and rigid investors in Hollywood, and it has completely reversed the influence of commercial films in the mainstream market - 300 million box office and 50 million yuan. The gap of 100 million box office is not just a difference in numbers.

This is indeed good news for Michael. In the future, he also hopes that more and more such works will appear. It is best to have a film like "Independence Day" that can sweep the global box office, and at the same time can rely on a more meticulous script to win film reviews People love the work, then the Golden Globes will not hesitate to award the best film in the drama category to this work.

However, the hero of "Independence Day" is Hugo, which makes Michael sigh.

At this moment last year, the conflict between the Golden Globes and Hugo was a good thing for Michael; but at this moment this year, it is a reminder.

Michael started thinking about it back in September when the "Independence Day" box office hit the historic half-billion mark, knowing that closing the gap between the Ballon d'Or and the Hugos was a priority, should Hugo be absent for the fourth year in a row. The Golden Globe Award is a fatal blow for them, and it affects the word-of-mouth trend of the media. This is only second, and most importantly, it has an important impact on Michael's "commercialization process" plan.

Michael was more eager than anyone for today's one-of-a-kind Hugo to be present at the Golden Globes.

So when the nominations for the 54th Golden Globe Awards were announced, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave a perfect answer -- at least in Michael's view.

For the second year in a row, Hugo has won a nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy -- for "Independence Day," and Hugo will join Tom Cruise of "Mr. Sweetheart," and Ai of "Professor Fatty." Dee Murphy, Nathan Lane (Fake Phoenix) and Antonio Banderas (Evita) compete for the award.

The Golden Globes move is undoubtedly a sensation!

When the end of 1996 arrived, all eyes were on "The English Patient", "The. People. Vs. Larry. Flynt", "Secrets & Lies", "Shining" (Shine)", "Frozen", "Mr. Sweetheart" and other works, the ideological impact and cultural experience brought by these works are discussed enthusiastically.

On the contrary, Hugo, who dedicated his three masterpieces "Before the Sunrise", "Seven Deadly Sins" and "A Walk on Death Row" last year, is a little quiet this year, with only one "Independence Day". Of course, just one "Independence Day" is enough to declare Hugo's current dominance, but obviously, Hugo and the major awards ceremonies at the end of the year are doomed to miss.

But now, the Golden Globes have given Hugo a nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, which is not only an accident, but has also left film critics a little confused. Of course, this isn't the first time the Golden Globes have done this, it was only two years ago that the Golden Globes nominated Jamie Lee Curtis in the "True Lies" for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy category. ——In the end, he actually won the award successfully! Despite this, the choice of the Golden Globes is still quite surprising.

It can be said without any hesitation - Hugo did not show his acting skills at all in "Independence Day", he just performed the basic duties of an actor. Everyone knows that the biggest protagonist of "Independence Day" is computer visual effects. , as the hero who saves the earth, Hugo doesn't have much room to play in it.

Of course, if you want to talk hard, Hugo still has two or three parts in the movie to show his acting skills, the most representative of which is the inspiring speech before the final battle. But this is still not enough to give Hugo an acting nomination.

In the face of such a ridiculous situation, there is no way for critics to say that Hugo is not worthy of this nomination - now Hugo is the only actor in North America who can keep pace with Tom Hanks in acting skills, and in "Independence Day" The performance still showed Hugo's personal charm; but to say that Hugo deserves its name is a little soft.

Roger Ebert's joke represents the mainstream view, "It is estimated that Hugo himself will not be happy because of this nomination."

Michael did not expect that he extended an olive branch to Hugo, hoping to ease the embarrassment and rustiness between the Golden Globes and Hugo, and hope that Hugo would be able to attend the 54th Golden Globe Awards Ceremony, when everything It can be negotiated slowly; but it seems to be self-defeating, the critics don't buy it at all, and it seems that Hugo doesn't buy it either. But the nomination list has been announced, and Michael can only bite the bullet and drive the duck to the shelves.

The night before yesterday, the 54th Golden Globe Awards Ceremony ended successfully. As expected, Hugo did not appear. To make matters worse, the reporter had no intention of letting Michael go after the awards ceremony, and the round-the-clock bombardment of phone calls almost drove Michael crazy.

The scourge left over from last year has begun to bite back this year.