Rebirth In Hollywood

On the afternoon of March 23rd, Western Time, the seventy-fifth Academy Awards ceremony was staged on time, but it was destined to be the one with the most violent opposition.

From two days ago, at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, a large number of demonstrators for and against the Iraq War gathered at the same time. They were separated by the Los Angeles police and shouted slogans of wolves, and did not stage too violent conflicts.

Under the cloud of war, the tone of Hollywood's annual film event is decidedly solemn.

Today, the anti-war ranks have nearly doubled in size, flocking not far from the Kodak Theater, holding up posters that read 'Bush Betrayed America', 'Bush Is Dangerous' and 'Oscar demands peace'. The anti-war placard made a louder than louder sound.

About half a block from the entrance of the Kodak Theater, the number of Americans who supported the war against Iraq far outnumbered those who opposed the war. They sang the hymn of "America, America" ​​and held up the words "God Bless America". 's solidarity brand, with a greater momentum to suppress the wave of anti-war.

Due to the special situation faced by the awards ceremony, although the organizers of the awards ceremony set up a red carpet, they cancelled the red carpet and TV interviews and other entrance ceremonies. A brooch with a battle slogan.

Although individual stars and film directors refused to attend the Oscars to protest the ongoing Iraq war between the United States and the United Kingdom, they were only a minority, and the vast majority of those who received invitations from the Academy showed up at the Kodak Theater on time.

As for someone like Will Smith who openly refused to attend, he has basically missed the Oscar for best actor in his life, although he has never been welcomed by the Academy.

First, Ryan was threatened by al-Qaeda, and after this anti-war wave, security work naturally became the top priority.

Just days before the Oscars, a National Guard team and their mobile testing room were dispatched to the scene. Responsible for testing for suspicious substances, both the FBI and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deployed a capable force at the Kodak Theater, and even placed observation posts and snipers on top of several nearby buildings, just in case.

As the TV station that broadcasts the Oscars, in addition to constantly rolling out text news about Iraq, it will also insert war videos in due course.

Although the Iraq War has cast a shadow over the Oscars, and many industry insiders predict that the ratings of this Oscar will hit the lowest point since the 1990s, the TV station affiliated with Disney has become a big winner before the Oscars, just about Advertising for the awards ceremony alone made as much as $85 million.

Anyway.

The call for peace was another theme of the awards ceremony.

Although there is no red carpet, most of the stars will still say a few words to the media before entering the theater.

When Ryan arrived, a reporter asked him - what do you think about holding an awards ceremony under the current circumstances?

"This kind of question should be asked of Pearson's husband, the president of the academy, right?" Although he pushed the question out calmly, he still said, "At a time when our values ​​are being questioned all over the world, we should hold a culture like the Oscars. The event is very necessary!"

At this time, what personality to play is purely asking for trouble, and it is the most sensible choice to be consistent with the mainstream voice.

Although Hollywood's anti-war voice has always been loud, the real implementation of the action is still a lot of thunder and little rain. There were only two or three unnominated people who said they would drop out of Oscar night.

Moreover, there are a large number of stars like Bruce Willis and Harrison Ford who supported the Iraq War.

Almost all the activities before the awards ceremony were cancelled, and Ryan walked past the door where reporters gathered. While greeting people, I walked into the theater. After a general glance, I found the location of the "Every Moment" crew.

"Drew. Congrats not yet."

Gently hugged Drew Barrymore, who was sitting near the aisle, Ryan continued, "How does it feel for Best Supporting Actress?"

"Just a nomination." Drew shrugged. He said indifferently, "It's impossible to win an award."

She played the role of Julian Moore in her previous life, and through a series of operations, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress, but her baby face was an absolute flaw in winning the award.

"Hi, Annie." Ryan turned to Nicole and greeted her sister first, "I wanted to visit you while filming in Sydney, but I didn't expect you to be in Los Angeles."

"Yeah, you will be my boss from now on." Antonia Kidman also hugged him, she has joined the TV station.

In the end, Ryan took Nicole's hand. The Australian girl was wearing a black evening dress and her long hair dyed with honey gold was neatly tied behind her head, revealing her smooth forehead and fair face, showing her as much as she wanted. own beauty.

"Didn't I tell you not to come here?". Those golden eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and this occasion was a place where confusion and instability could easily arise.

"I always want to see you on that stage again with my own eyes." Ryan's eyes turned to the stage of the Kodak Theater.

"Okay, go back to your seat." Nicole also hugged him.

After passing the "Gangs of New York" seating area, and greeting Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan came to the seat of the "Lord of the Rings" crew, his seat again next to the big fat New Zealander Peter Jackson.

"Peter, the second Oscar nomination." Ryan said after sitting down.

"Do you need me to say thank you, Ryan?" Peter Jackson joked. "If I can stand on it, I will thank you very well."

"Hey Ryan, where's our Princess Arwen?"

Elijah Wood's hand stretched out from behind, and Ryan shook it with him, "Charlie's out on location."

After the filming of "Kill Bill", Charlize took over the next film. Because of the relationship with the Philippines, he had already made a greeting to the academy that he would be absent.

As Ryan has been in Hollywood longer and longer, the circle has changed more and more, such as Peter Jackson's second best director nomination for "The Two Towers", such as Billy Chris Too accepted the invitation again and became the host of this Oscars ceremony.

"I am very happy to see that the organizers have lowered the standards of this awards show, and even the traditional red carpet has been cancelled. If you don't know, I will bring you this message by the way."

What doesn't change is that after Billy Christo stood on the stage, he was still showing off his lip service, as well as the routine co-branding of nominated songs and so on.

Subsequently, another major change appeared at this awards ceremony. Perhaps it was because of Ryan's extra kick. The Best Animated Feature Film Award, which should have come out last year, officially entered the Oscars this year, but won the first The award for animated feature films has not changed.

"In the past few years, we have seen one excellent animated feature film after another come out, which has brought us countless joys."

A grinning sunny Cameron Diaz read out the list of nominees, "Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, Shrek, Jereph Katzenberg, Star Trek. "Chris Sanders, Ron Clemonds in "Silver Island"..."

"The winner is..." She looked down at the envelope, and read out the same answer as everyone thought, "Jerival Katzenberg from Shrek!"

The people at DreamWorks Animation Studio immediately boiled over, and before Jerevel Katzenberg took the stage to accept the award, he even came over to hug Ryan.

After Jerevel Katzenberg stepped onto the stage, Ryan turned his head to look at the Japanese side. Only he knew that the best animated feature film in his previous life this year belonged to the Japanese.

With Shrek, though, the Film Academy will certainly no longer consider outsiders.

The next few technical awards were mostly divided between "Chicago" and "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers", with the former winning Best Art Direction, Best Editing and Best Costume Design, and the latter winning Best Visual Effects and the best sound clips.

But what surprised Ryan the most was that Jennifer Lopez was once again the guest of honor at the Oscars. The Latin queen was obviously very capable. Fortunately, she did not continue to award the best original song...

As the opening highlight, the best supporting actor and best supporting actress unexpectedly fell to Chris Cooper and Catherine Zeta Jones. Compared with the last greeting, Mrs. Douglas stood up. pregnant.

Hmm... Since then, it seems that she never regained her previous figure.

Afterwards, Michael Moore took over the golden statuette for the best documentary from Diane Lynn, but his acceptance speech aroused applause and boos even bigger than the applause.

"We live in a time when false presidents are elected with false elections, and we live in a time when people are making us go to war for false reasons."

He took aim directly at the Bush administration and the Iraq war, to which others in the theater responded mixedly, with some applauding, some standing up, and most of all boos.

Ryan was completely unimpressed by the image of the fat director with glasses, but the other party's speech immediately reminded him of a documentary - "Fahrenheit 911".

Could he be the director of this documentary?

Holding his chin, Ryan felt that this possibility is very big. Although Hollywood has never taken the Washington government seriously, I am afraid that few people do it openly on this occasion.

Shaking his head, Ryan threw away these thoughts, so he wouldn't get involved in this kind of thing.

"Fahrenheit 911" reflects some truth, but is everything in the film true? In essence, the director is no different from the federal government, and in order to achieve his goals, he will not hesitate to use a lot of lies. (To be continued...) ()