After confirming the eyes, not giving Glenn Close a golden statue is not because the Oscar judges are blind, but because the good acting is dragged down by the mediocre script.
This year is a small year for the Oscars, and almost all the awards are in the wind. If there is any upset, the award for Best Actress may be a bit of a surprise. Just a little bit. After all, Olivia Colman of "The Favourite" also swept the nominations all the way through the awards season and won the Golden Globe Award (music/comedy). Nominated for the Oscar for the first time, and "The Favourite" is the three major actresses in the drama, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz also shared a lot of glory.
I can't bear the theme of "The Favourite". It's the story of Queen Anne of England (all 17 children are short-lived, and there is no one else). The British royal family can also be regarded as the Oscar IP. Katherine Hepburn ("The Lion in Winter") and Helen Mirren ("The Queen") won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and Judi Dench won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. (Shakespeare in Love), while Cate Blanchett has played the Queen twice and has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress on both occasions (Elizabeth, Elizabeth II: The Golden Age). It is said that Meryl Streep also won an Oscar for her role as the British Prime Minister.
Glenn Close's advantage in "The Wife" is that she is an old Oscar acquaintance. She has been nominated for 6 Oscars before, and has 3 best actresses: 2012 "Heroes", 1989 "Dangerous Relationships", 1988 "Fatal Attraction"; 3 Best Supporting Actress: 1985 "Born to Be Good", 1984 "Big Chill", 1983 "Gap's Eyes of the World". But the advantages and disadvantages are also dialectical. Although on the one hand, the Oscars may have to sell their favor after being nominated several times (Leonardo DiCaprio was once a classic Oscar talk), on the other hand, Oscar wants to Since there are so many times that you have not given it, it is okay to have one more time (there are also 11 nominations that have not been awarded, guess who).
Glenn Close won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Movie for "The Good Wife", as well as Hollywood Film Awards, Critics' Choice Film Awards, American Independent The Spirit Award, the Golden Satellite Award... are regarded as the most popular after this year's Oscar.
Speaking of 72-year-old Glenn Close, she is not well-known in China. Most of her Oscar-nominated films are very old. She has played "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Warcraft". She is not the main role. Did not notice.
After a lot of gossip, back to the movie "The Good Wife" itself.
When I first heard the name, I thought it was a strong woman like "The Good Wife". In fact, the film tells the story of a "shooter".
The 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to American author Joseph Castleman, while Glenn Close played Joseph's wife, Joan.
Joseph was in his twilight years, but he was still very interested in the matter of bedding, and he would speak dirty words to add to the fun. When the news of the award came from the phone, the old couple jumped up on the bed happily, but Joan was disappointed after a brief excitement.
Joan assisted her husband in all kinds of congratulations and prepared to go to Stockholm to accept the award in winter. It was not unheard of to take care of her and accompany her smiling faces, but there was a hint of sadness between her brows. She expressed her gratitude to her husband for his many years of accompanying her in public speeches. Not comfortable. It's not like the wife of the husband who just won the jackpot would reveal it.
They have a son and a daughter, the daughter is pregnant, and the son loves to write, but his talent is not high. The son wanted to gain the approval of his father, a great writer, but he was unhappy, but he still accompanied his parents to Stockholm. The film gave a foreshadowing, Joseph did not even remember the names of the characters in the pen, and his son knew that it was from his works.
In some of Joan's flashbacks, the film takes viewers back to 1958, 1960, and some of Joan's past with Joseph in 1968.
Joseph and Joan are in a teacher-student relationship, and Joan is the junior third. Joseph's demeanor as a professor, and Joan's literary talent, make the two of them spring breeze and jade open air. After abandoning his wife and children and reuniting with a female student, Joseph left the university to work in a publishing house and wanted to be a writer himself, while Joan worked as a tea girl in a publishing house to assist her husband.
Joan saw Joseph's fatal shortcomings in literature. Joseph thought that his wife didn't worship him enough and threatened her to divorce. Although Joan had high literary attainments, it was difficult for female writers to make it out in that era. She was discouraged by her own prospects, In order to win over the relationship with her husband, she helped her to write for her husband. As a result, the more she wrote, the more she wrote, and the more she wrote, she was considered by critics as "a breakthrough and innovation in the form of novels, redefining novels and prose writing." The essence of it”, until he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
After having a child, Joan is still locked in her room for 8 hours a day and writing, the book is naturally signed by Joseph, and the fame belongs to Joseph.
After winning the Nobel Prize, Joseph naturally swelled up, flirting with flight attendants on the plane, teasing a female photojournalist in Stockholm, uh, an old playboy. The method of picking up girls is still very simple. Joseph recited an American essay by James Joyce in class, which moved Joan. When he was old, he read this sentence to a female photographer; he wrote on walnuts to his ex-wife Showing love, Qiong saw him and thought he was very romantic. Now, he took out walnuts to write and wanted to give them to female reporters, an old trick to seduce female Wenqing.
A reporter who wanted to help Joseph write a biography but was ignored by Joseph. Joseph's limited level was written by his wife, who not only covered Joan's words, but also asked Joseph's son to make a breakthrough.
On the night of the Nobel Prize, Joan listened to Joseph's disregard for her advice. The acceptance speech was full of mentions of her, and it became increasingly difficult for her to control herself. She left the venue regardless of etiquette. Joseph followed her back to the hotel, and the two erupted violently. Quarrel, complete showdown.
Joan has drawn material from her husband's life for more than 30 years, turning his story, his cultural background, his family, his creativity, even his frequent derailment, and turning her own pain into subject matter and inspiration , wrote "The Teacher's Wife", wrote "Walnut", and other "experiences are heartbreaking, and the image is deeply rooted".
But Joan could no longer bear to be a foil beside her husband, a great writer, helping him with clothes and arranging the time for his husband to take medicine.
But the husband told his flattery that his wife could not write, which Joan regarded as humiliating.
Joseph only did editorial work, but he always believed that he and his wife had created a series of literary works, none of which was terrible, shameful or immoral. He rubbed his wife's back, served tea, and cooked food. , Bringing children, allowing his wife to write wholeheartedly, he contributed. In a rage, Joseph even said to Joan: "You are just a little woman who enjoys the writing privilege I gave you and only cares about small things." Joan replied: "You are so shameful."
Later, when Joseph asked Joan: Since I am what you think is a waste of ignorance and no talent, why did you marry me?
Joan could only say: I don't know.
Joseph was so excited that he died of a heart attack in a hotel bed.
On the return flight, Joan said to the reporter who had been entangled before: Your assumptions are not true, if I find out that you dare to slander my husband's talent, I will go to court to sue you.
But then she also told her son that she would tell the siblings everything when she got home.
The film ends here.
There are also many rumors about ghostwriting in the history of Chinese and foreign literature. Dumas was rumored to have a team to write for him, and Shakespeare had ghostwriting and even spawned a "Shakespeare Drama Writers Research Group". Fang Zhouzi also questioned that Han Han was ghostwritten by his father...and his wife ghostwritten for her husband for 30 years, representing a Nobel Prize in Literature. Such a dramatic story has many secrets and depths to dig. The whole "Good Wife" "After looking at it, I only feel that it is unreal and very thin. Although even the Nobel Prize ceremony, the Swedish King's banquet and other high-level scenes are presented, it still makes people feel "small".
As we all know, last year the Swedish Academy of Literature was involved in a scandal involving sexual assault and leaking the Nobel Prize, which led to the suspension of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Chinese people have a complex relationship with the Nobel Prize in Literature, and it was only relieved in 2012 when Mo Yan won the prize. Such a Nobel Prize-winning literary master in "The Good Wife" was written by his wife for decades. What a sensational story, not to mention hunting for novelties, but the plain shooting is a waste. I guess this is why "The Good Wife" The Nominations or Awards for "Wife" are all female lead performance awards, but have not been recognized for best picture or director and screenwriting awards.
At the beginning, Joan thought that "writers must write", as long as they kept writing, it was a mission and satisfaction, but a frustrated female writer told her that "a writer's works must be read to make sense." In those days, it was all men who wrote the afterthoughts, managed publishing houses, and edited magazines, and famous writers were all praised by them. Men looked down on female writers and would not really recognize a female writer. Joan's life choice thereafter was to mix the two, she kept writing so that her work would be read by many people - by signing her husband's name. Combined with the current feminist voice, "The Good Wife" could have digged more at the level of personal sacrifice or the tragedy of the times.
There is another layer, like in the current entertainment industry, the husband and wife are one, the interests are tied, the husband cheats, the wife forgives, the wife has a scandal, the husband refutes the rumor, and it doesn’t matter whether he slaps the face in the future, because the substantial benefits brought by the relationship between husband and wife have overwhelmed the conflict between husband and wife. Playing with each other, the name of the husband and wife still has to be adhered to. If one party has committed a scandal or violated the law, he will jump out and say: Oh, in fact, we have divorced a long time ago, and it has nothing to do with me. There is a relationship between Joan and Joseph. Joan’s ghostwriting is voluntary, and their children are both happy. The fame, status and wealth brought by the cooperation of husband and wife support their family’s good life. Why endure it after 30 years? Can't go on, is it the impact of the Nobel Prize for Literature? After Joseph's death, Joan still chose to hide the truth from the outside world, not wanting her husband's reputation to be damaged, but she was willing to tell the truth to her children. Is this selfishness or courage? "The Good Wife" seems to have no intention to delve into it. Arranging for Joseph's sudden death is a very lazy approach, because there is no way to make it happen, whether it is the Nobel scandal that broke out, or Joan just divorced and rediscovered herself.
In addition, Joseph attributed the reason for his frequent derailment to his wife's talent far higher than the inferiority complex and oppression he brought, which also has empathy in terms of social reality. This is especially true in celebrity families. The public with strong men and weak women say that women's lives are on the line. The public with strong women and weak men say that men eat soft rice. It is a sin to always be mismatched, and the weak side always seeks Psychological balance, some people will choose to seek a sense of existence from a third party. Even for ordinary people, if one party makes more money, the other party will think that the other party is not paying enough for the family, and if one party makes less money, it will be useless by the other party. In "The Good Wife", Joseph's derailment was really oppressed by his wife's talent, or was it due to the inertia of a scumbag (he kissed Joan first when he was a married man), and the screenwriter and director were too lazy to care.
In "The Good Wife", Glenn Close's acting style is quiet and restrained because of the role, and most of the time, he uses subtle facial expressions to express psychological activities. Maybe this does not have much emotional ups and downs (only the last quarrel scene can be regarded as letting go ), did not impress more Oscar judges.
But she moved me.
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