One Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-Three Industry Concerns

"Renly, may I ask you, are you ready to start shooting again when you return to New York this time?"

Finally, Renly's footsteps finally stopped, and someone immediately asked the most curious and most anticipated question; under the attention of all the people, Renly didn't hesitate or pause, and simply gave an affirmative answer, " Yes." One sentence immediately detonated all the excitement of the reporters.

"Excuse me, is it the 'Boom Drummer'?"

"Several consecutive works have chosen independent films, what about commercial films?"

"Are you thinking about Marvel movies?"

"Will you be at the Tony Awards?"

"Are you looking forward to the possibility of EGOT?"

"Choose an independent film with a big male lead again, are you ready to hit the Oscars for the second time?"

"Is this a work selection that impacts awards season?"

"Do you feel sorry for missing this year's summer battle?"

"Are you willing to increase the performance opportunities of commercial films in the future? Or still stick to the line of independent art films?"

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The reporters didn't give Renly any breathing room at all, and question after question poured out like a torrent of questions, seemingly without any thought to how Renly should answer.

Ren Li stood on the spot with a smile, did not speak, but did not leave. Gradually, the surrounding noise finally calmed down, all eyes were focused on Ren Li, waiting for his response. Boiling dust remains, so the noise just now seems to have never happened at all.

"For the next period of time, I will focus on the preparations for 'Boom Drummer' and the subsequent filming. This is the only core and focus of my work. Thank you for your concern and enthusiasm, and thank you for coming to the airport to welcome me back. Thank you, everyone." Renly's words were still gentlemanly and decent, but they were all-inclusive.

After he finished his statement, Renly took another step forward. Amid the stunned eyes and the turbulent questions again, he quickly walked towards the outside of the airport pick-up hall.

The reporters followed step by step, only to notice that a row of big men in black suits was blocking their steps; moreover, there were not only one or two, there were eight in front and behind, and Renly was surrounded by them. , like the Great Wall, an insurmountable wall gradually formed between the reporter and Renly.

So, they could only watch as Ren Li's figure disappeared into the jet-black van, and finally slowly walked away.

The reporters who stayed in place stomped their feet angrily and scolded, "Now Renly has also learned to play big names? There are actually eight bodyguards? How can I start to act like the so-called superstars in Hollywood! Damn it!"

Those foul words and rants unreservedly vented their inner dissatisfaction and anger.

But this time, he failed to win over his colleagues.

"So, what are you expecting? He just stood there obediently, let us strip all his clothes off, and interviewed him as we wanted? The literary and artistic youth should give up resistance and ask for anything? Greenwich Village is full of streets. They are all young people, why can't I see you interviewing them specifically? Why can't I see that they need to hire bodyguards to guard against the intrusion of reporters? You can interview them as much as you want, and they will show you the real audacity, just like Woody- Just like Ellen!"

"You..." There was a voice attacking and complaining. The reporter tried to refute it, but before he could finish his words, more complaints were added one after another, and then he fell into the predicament of being embattled on all sides. Among them, completely isolated.

"Ignore him, as if Renly didn't have a bodyguard and he was able to complete the interview. Maybe he wants to be the second Cornell McGregor, attacking Renly with a slander,

Then it becomes everyone's talking point. "

"Who knows, maybe the uncrowned king has such a face, so this will always be uncrowned and cannot be crowned, because the appearance of eating is really ugly."

"If you're so awesome, why don't you just make an appointment with Andy Rogers for an exclusive interview. When someone hangs up, you can only scold you behind your back. That's a real shame. Now because of the internet, it's okay to be a cat, a dog, or a dog. Calling myself a reporter; I finally understand why Renly is so at ease every time he confronts reporters."

The jeers that swarmed over from all directions left the reporter no room for rebuttal, so he could only grit his teeth fiercely, then turned around and left in a daze.

In Vanity Fair, media reporters are a tail that can never be shaken off, always annoying and even hateful; but from another perspective, media reporters are also an indispensable part of the spotlight, and they can become a mirror , projecting the current situation and future of every industry insider.

It's not just superficial phenomena such as popularity and popularity; it's also thinking and exploration from within the industry.

Even in the Internet age, the title of "uncrowned king" has been dead in name only, but the role of journalists is still irreplaceable.

This time too.

The fact that the pickup team at JFK Airport in New York was so large and they asked so many questions was, in fact, a reflection of the current state of Renly in the entire film industry — questions that were definitely not just casual questions. "The New Yorker" magazine published an in-depth feature, which can be seen as a microcosm of the internal thinking of the entire industry.

This article from Chinese blog film critic Emily Chen presents an analysis report from a relatively objective perspective.

The whole article is eloquent, from the Oliver Award to the Tony Award to the possibility of EGOT, from Cannes to Venice to the possibility of winning the Grand Slam, from "detachment" to "Booming Drummer" works selection...all-round to Renly The career was analyzed, and Emily put forward a very realistic, very common and very sharp point-

"Is Renly Hall, who will turn twenty-four in November this year, heading for a dead end?"

This is not a bashing, but an assessment.

In the article, Emily uses Marlon Brando and Nicole Kidman as examples to analyze Renly's career options.

Marlon Brando is undoubtedly the top actor in the golden age of Hollywood. From 1950 to 1960, when Marlon was twenty-six to thirty-six years old, he conquered the whole of Hollywood for four consecutive years. A total of five Oscar nominations for best actor, performance and box office win, he was the absolute top star at that time.

But after entering the 1960s, he faced the biggest crisis of his career.

For twelve years, only "Mutiny Blood" can be considered a success, but the film's long shooting cycle and expensive production costs overwhelmed MGM, and then a film. The lawsuit left Malone eccentrically lonely, taciturn, and almost isolated.

At that point, he became cynical and became Hollywood's most famous "prodigal son".

He once founded a film company and planned to let Stanley Kubrick direct a new film, but the two had different personalities. They had serious differences in the script writing stage, and a fierce quarrel broke out. In a fit of anger, Malone fired Kub. Rick, and soon after the studio also failed. For three full years, he almost disappeared completely.

After entering the 1970s, no one could have imagined that Ma Long, who had been declared a box office poison, would regain his former glory. In 1972, when he was forty-eight years old for the filming of "The Godfather," he not only agreed to pay $250,000—about a fraction of what it was before, he even agreed to an audition that was an insult to an actor of his caliber.

As a result, the work was an unparalleled success and helped him win his second Oscar.

After that, works such as "Last Tango in Paris" and "Apocalypse Now" have become classics.

The same goes for Nicole Kidman, whose career has been in limbo since 2002, when "The Moment" successfully landed her an Oscar nomination.

Subsequent "Cold Mountain" and "Dog Town" also achieved good feedback, but the box office failure of "Copy Wife", "Fairy Wife at Home", "Golden Compass" and other works made her wear the "box office" Poison" hat, after that, she returned to the field of independent film and embarked on a no return in the art film.

"Australia's Troubled Times", "Nine", "Rabbit Hole", "Newsboy", "Stoke", "Princess of Monaco", "Desert Queen", "Mysterious Eyes"... You can watch it almost every year To Nicole's figure in the awards season, but from 2008 all the way to 2016, it was like a ghost hitting a wall, constantly spinning in place.

It was not until the TV series "Big Little Lies" in 2017 that her career had a second spring.

In 2013 in Emily's article, Nicole was still at a low point in her career, and she never saw the dawn of hope.

What the two actors Malone and Nicole have in common is that after creating the peak of their careers, they lost their future direction and began to dig into the horns in the selection of works. The exhaustion of artistic creativity made them fall into a dead end. A clear direction ends up in a long and painful trough.

There is no doubt that these two are excellent actors, but they have both experienced a low period of about ten years, and the road to rejuvenation is extremely difficult.

Now Renly seems to be facing the same situation.

After the huge success of "Love Crazy", Renly's selection of works began to become paranoid, "The Cancer-fighting Me", "Transcendence", "Drunk Town Ballad", "Gravity" and the stage version of "Les Miserables" "Wait, almost all of them continue a routine: the level of extreme performance is gone forever, except for a "Edge of Tomorrow", all of which are like this.

Now, Renly has once again chosen an independent work such as "Boom Drummer", which also means that he is repeating the same mistakes and embarking on the path of Malone and Nicole again, which is the part that Emily is most worried about. 8) For more wonderful novels, welcome to visit our school