First published on the public account "Detective"
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Author: Huang Shiro
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The prosperous and rich Netflix (Netflix) has finally declared war on Hollywood! The weapon used is precisely what they are best at - American TV.
Yes, in the face of the rejection and criticism of traditional movies, Netflix finally couldn't bear it anymore.
In just seven episodes, Hollywood was hacked out of Xiang——
"Hollywood"
The title of "Hollywood" is very freehand and romantic.
At midnight, a group of young Americans climbed on a giant light sign.
During this period, various unexpected situations continued to occur, but they worked together to help each other.
In the end, they stood side by side to the top of the light sign and watched the rising sun together.
This huge light sign is the Hollywood logo (sign) located on the top of the hill in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
In just a few tens of seconds, this film explains directly:
This is the story of a group of young people chasing their dreams in the film and television industry.
But behind the inspiring positive energy on the surface, there is also a hidden edge.
Because these young people are very particular about their identities: gay screenwriters, black actresses, poor boy actors from the countryside, and directors with half Asian descent and a black girlfriend at home...
In short, in Hollywood at that time, they were all disadvantaged groups with no name, no background, and excluded because of their status.
If the inspirational plot is chicken soup, then this layer of setting makes the word "poison" in front of the chicken soup.
This is destined to be a dream-chasing road full of hardships.
The beginning of the plot shows us their difficulties with a multi-line narrative: Jack from the country is a veteran, tall and handsome, and is a typical handsome American image.
At that time, just after the end of World War II, he returned to his homeland and brought his pregnant wife to Hollywood to pursue his star dream.
He has no professional training, and some are just his own blood.
Every day I come to the studio door to seek an opportunity to play a role in the role, but I have few opportunities, and I am often dissed.
Depressed Jack often goes to bars to drink to relieve his boredom, but accidentally meets Ernie, the owner of the gas station .
Ernie admired Jack's appearance very much, and immediately said that Jack was talented, and he was willing to hire him to work at his gas station.
Jack didn't understand the causal relationship between cheer and appearance, but he had no choice but to need a job, so he agreed.
On the first day of work, Ernie said, we are an unusual gas station.
Jack was very confused.
Ernie said, we don't refuel the car, we refuel the customer; other gas stations, the cars humming, and our gas station, the customers wailing.
At this time, a rich woman in her 60s drove a luxury car to the gas station, Ernie patted Jack on the shoulder, young man, do you want to fight for ten years less?
Go! Jack stepped forward, the rich woman said the secret code "Dreamland (Dreamland)", Jack immediately got in the car, and the two of them drove to the tender township that wanted to die, to experience the great harmony of yin and yang. Since then, Jack has lived the life of Luo Zhixiang.
Compared with Jack's singing every night, Roy , who is also a low-level actor, is even more desolate.
He was born in a poor family, and he does not have the potential to become famous all the way, and at the same time, he is inferior and timid because of his gay identity. Finally, an invitation came to him, and it came from the most powerful agent in Hollywood, Jim Wilson .
Are you familiar? This may be the biggest actor in the show.
Jim said that his intuition told him that Roy would be a superstar of tomorrow, so he specially offered him a contract. But don't worry, before signing the contract, there is one more condition——
In this way, Roy entered Hollywood. If Jack's poverty and Roy's sexuality are internalized, then Camille 's disadvantage is even more obvious - her skin color.
Because of this, no matter how high her acting skills are or how hard her training is, she will never get a good role. She can only hide her strengths and bide her time, but fortunately, she is very hardworking. Even if there are only a few supporting roles, she will have to study it before she can play it. Sometimes she will change her lines by herself to make the characters appear more logical, and even the leading role praises, but the director directly scolds.
In desperation, she could only change her role back to her original stereotype and play a funny clown. Selling meat for a living, same-sex sexual harassment, and stereotypes about minorities, these three simple characters basically cover the ills of Hollywood throughout the ages. But these little people do not believe in this evil.
Together, they decided to make a film about the underprivileged, "The Meg." The next chapter is to tell the story of the behind-the-scenes production process of this film, the double harvest of box office word-of-mouth after its release, and the story of sweeping the Oscars.
"Hollywood" is directed by Ryan Murphy.
The "American Horror Story" series he created is a well-known American TV drama evergreen.
The American dramas planned by him, such as "The Enemy" and "Pose" , are also masterpieces that have been ranked nine points all the year round.
The American dramas planned by him, such as "The Enemy" and "Pose" , are also masterpieces that have been ranked nine points all the year round.
The American dramas planned by him, such as "The Enemy" and "Pose" , are also masterpieces that have been ranked nine points all the year round.
But if "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is about a Hollywood dream, then "Hollywood" is its dark, wild history. After all, Ryan Murphy's Hollywood is full of irony and irony.
Of course, the show "Hollywood" is not completely real, it is equivalent to a parallel time and space, both real and fictional. There are many Easter eggs about mid-century Hollywood buried in the film. For example, Roy, who was just mentioned, was later renamed Rock Hudson and has since entered the stardom. Romantic films such as "The Heaven and Earth Can't Get Old" and "Deep Locking Spring in a Courtyard Sorrow" are his representative works.
The agent played by Sheldon is indeed someone who has been in Hollywood for decades, discovering the superstars of the year such as Tab Hunt and Guy Madison.
Ernie, who pimps the prostitutes, is not a real person in history, but according to the details, it can be inferred that he is the most famous pimp in golden Hollywood - Scoth Powers. He roamed the upper class on the West Coast of the United States, and Hollywood celebrities such as Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and even senior officials of the FBI were his guests.
In addition, there are many Hollywood celebrities in and out of the major receptions in the film. Such as "My Fair Lady", "A Star Is Born" director George Cook.
And "Gone with the Wind" heroine, a generation of superstar Vivien Leigh .
However, the storyline of the entire play is fictional, and there is no movie called "Meg" in this world. And the 20th Oscar in the real world finally won the " Gentleman's Agreement" directed by Ilya Kazan , not it.
So, what does Ryan Murphy mean? In Shiro's view, he just wanted to use a certain fiction to form an ingenious intertext with reality. There is a poster in English introduction, translated into Chinese means: " ? If you could rewrite the story of the words" implies with respect to the real world, play the same situation, but it will be different results. Electric film is the art of dreams, and the drama that vast flat fame, will only appear in the drama.
When Hollywood became bigger and bigger and became the most profitable film industry park in the world, this play mercilessly exposed all kinds of Hollywood's dark history. The scary thing is that the darkness of that year not only existed in the past, but the shadow hidden behind the light has always existed throughout the ages. In the play, Vivien Leigh, who has entered middle age, is restored, and her bipolar depression, alcoholism, and casual sexuality are restored. And all of these have nothing to do with the drunken fans who have been immersed in Hollywood for many years. In the casting of "Gone with the Wind" that year, Vivien Leigh took a different approach and entered the box naked and sent it to the producer's house. Only through such a "surprise" did she get the role.
Every time I see it, it is really sad. Polanski , the director of "The Pianist" and "The Bitter Moon" , had a scandal of sexually assaulting underage girls in his early years.
The case is quite controversial, and Polanski has been complaining about himself: her mother wanted her to go to Hollywood and let me sleep with her, and she agreed to it. How can you call it sexual assault? Even if that were the case, and even if Polanski was to blame, the Hollywood environment was to blame. Not to mention the sensational Weinstein unspoken event a few years in advance .
Harvey Weinstein, a powerful Hollywood PR mogul, has been in the film industry for more than 20 years. But in recent years, he broke out more than 80 scandals of sexually harassing actresses, and finally went to jail. And according to people familiar with the matter, this is just the tip of the iceberg of his decades of crimes. And as shown in the show, same-sex sexual harassment is not uncommon in Hollywood. In recent years, filmmakers who have been sacked due to the exposure of this crime include Kevin Spacey, who starred in "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "House of Cards," and Brian Singer , the director of the "X-Men" series .
Of course, the show itself has deficiencies that are hard to ignore. Obviously named "Hollywood", the audience must have come for a more dimensional and three-dimensional portrayal. Just complaining about the disadvantaged groups often lowercases this big proposition. This is also the reason why some viewers of the show think it is not worthy of the name. But in Shiro's view, anyone can commit such mistakes, but perhaps this is the only one to describe the dark side of Hollywood so nuanced.
At the end of the show, the filmmakers who worked so hard for "Meg" all won a lot of Oscars, breaking the stereotypes.
One of the awards was the record-breaking title of the first black actress in Oscar history.
But in reality, it wasn't until 2002 that Halle Berry achieved zero breakthrough with "Dance on Death Row."
The reality is more than fifty years later than the story.
In Hollywood, the splendid Vanity Fair, the status of disadvantaged groups is still not optimistic.
Without a background and without the so-called high-quality "innate conditions", it is difficult to enter this circle.
What is even more terrifying is that even if they struggle to squeeze in, the materialistic desire under the spotlight will make people with lofty ideals who pursue their dreams in art lose themselves.
The harder you work, the more you fall.
When we appreciate Hollywood's film and television works, don't forget to look behind it -
There are no fairy tales here, only a cruel history of blood and tears.
Text / Huang Shiro
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