At this point in the 2015 overseas film awards season, it is getting closer and closer to the much-anticipated Oscar. This year’s awards season, from the beginning of the skyrocketing "Carol", the loudest voice, in the end, the Golden Globe awards were not received, and now it has evolved into a "disgusting little plum" that was not favored before. "Wild Hunter" also succeeded in reaching the top of popularity because of the golden ball of Xiao Li, during which movies such as "Jobs", "Focus", "The Hateful Eight", "Big Short", and "Danish Girl" were all due to actors or The reason for the story itself has been talked about. On the contrary, although this "Joy Struggling" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress with the excellent performance of its big cousin Jennifer Lawrence, it still failed to capture more topics and eyeballs, even in the next There is still a place in the nominations issued by the Oscars, but in the self-media articles of many film websites, magazines and film critics, it is obvious that the film’s prospects in the awards season are not optimistic, as if it has become a passerby to accompany the Oscar in advance. .
In fact, this "Joy Struggling" is not bad in its own genes. Director David O. Russell himself has nominated three Oscars for best director. In recent years, we are all familiar with the works, such as "American Hoax" which swept the Oscars in the nomination stage in 2013, and the warm comedy "The Line of Happiness Behind the Dark Clouds" in 2012. ". It is worth noting that, with the addition of this "Joy Struggling", director David O. Russell's recent three films all have cooperation with the big cousin. Two of the big cousins act as the heroines, and the big cousin is even more dependent on " "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds" became an Oscar queen at a young age. In terms of actors, in addition to the big cousin who is in the limelight, "Joy Struggling" also has the big cousin’s old partner actor Bradley Cooper, as well as excellent actors such as Robert De Niro. The actor escorted him.
Such a production and lineup, facing the current results of this film, is obviously disappointing. So what is it that made "Joy Struggling" fall into the dust?
[Joy who struggled did not "struggle", but was a "lucky" genius]
At the beginning of the movie, we can quickly see how messy Joey’s life as a woman is-the grassroots jobs are constantly being run on by the boss, burdening the life needs of the two children, there is a full-time pair The mother who is rooting in the bed with the TV set, there is an old trouble maker father who does not reduce his debts, and a loser ex-husband who is divorced but still relies on his basement not to leave-such a setting for a single mother , It really gave Joey a lot of "struggle space", after all, life is harder than this. Oh, yes, Joey has a grandmother who kindly loves her deeply, but this grandmother is very strange and has always believed that Joey is a genius, and has been tirelessly instilling this kind of second-year in Joey for decades. thought of.
Then where did Joey start to fight? In the first half hour of the film, Joey has been kicked and kicked by the trivialities from all aspects of life, and her family has also dutifully pitted teammates, and finally fell in a daze after being overwhelmed physically and mentally. I saw my childhood self in the hallucinations. Little Joey said something to the big Joey. Don’t forget the original intention and always have your dream eaten by the dog. Do you still remember our agreement? Big Joey said that his heart was deepened. It was deeply shocked. At this time, a bell rang, and the big cousin woke up, her eyes changed immediately. The first sentence was to resolutely say to her ex-husband, "You should get out of here. divorced"! Then my eldest cousin always picked up her daughter's crayons and drawing paper as a teenager, and the magic pen Ma Lianggen started to create inexplicably like this! Without any warning, the giant mop that can be wrung out quickly in human history was born! right! It's your kind of mop that can be retracted and wrung out in minutes by holding the handle! It was invented by my big cousin! At that moment there were only three words in my heart-"I am proud"! But then I thought about it, this method was really too cheap, and it came as soon as it was said. A peculiar good idea came out as soon as it appeared, and it was still in a state where the family was extremely unhappy. Then the eldest cousin turned on the state of "people block and kill, Buddha block and kill Buddha", and at this time my dad also found a wealthy female ticket to participate in the investment, and Wenqing's husband, who has been idle, suddenly began to help Joey find marketing channels. . If there is no money, someone will invest, and the mop cannot be sold, and it will soon usher in a turnaround. At this time, the big cousin’s old partner Bradley Cooper played the TV shopping producer gorgeously. This is a very interesting role. Almost everyone thinks that something other than business is going to happen between him and Joey. At that time, he was out of play, um, yes, he was out of play. Before the final crisis came, Joey only faced one difficulty directly: TV shopping. Because he verbally offended the TV shopping salesman, Joey’s first TV shopping promotion ended dismal. Facing the disappointment of relatives and friends and the doubts of his partners, Joey could only take the pressure and go to battle in person, and the producer actually agreed. In order to let this housewife with no live TV shopping experience come on stage, even when Joey was on TV because of the dilemma of being nervous and unable to speak, some of her friends pretended to be the seller to call for guided interaction. Since opening Joey Yi's chatterbox, freely doing marketing and sales on TV. In this scene, the eldest cousin took Joey’s experience on TV, from the beginning of his stamina, to the power outage when he came to the stage, to gradually getting out of tension, and to the final voice. The whole process was expressed.
By the time Joey faced the biggest difficulty. When the patent was stolen by the processing party, Joey just collapsed. He stayed up all night like a tyrant and immediately found out the business loopholes of his opponent. Go to the negotiation, and finally settled the other party properly.
Although in the whole process of Joey’s entrepreneurship, the people around him were basically "more pits and less help", the collaborators were picky about Joey, his father was cowardly and irresponsible, and there was a darkened sister who was holding back in secret. Joey's difficulties were not. It's not much, but Joey solved these problems easily. Except for the initial street sales scene, it didn't give people the feeling of struggling to survive.
It can only be said that Joey in this movie is a "lucky" genius.
[Big cousin performed wonderfully, but it is hard to support it alone]
In fact, even if you put aside the film’s guilty expression in the core of the film’s creation, there is a guilty conscience. Looking at this film as a whole, although it has added some feminist concepts that are currently concerned by the society. , But it is difficult to conceal the truth that it is a more clichéd inspirational chicken soup story. Such a story itself is difficult to shoot well. Looking at the awards season this year, there are actually many movies with simple story structures. Although "Danish Girl" touches on the special topic of the first transgender person, it is actually very small in terms of the capacity of the movie's story. "It also tells a revenge story that can be said clearly in one sentence. However, "Danish Girl" has exquisite costume design and excellent art director. "Wild Hunter" pays more attention to shooting quality and visual effects. The panoramic performance of the vast nature in the film is shocking and touching. You can cut it casually. Each picture can be used as a desktop wallpaper, and the excellent performances of the Oscar actor Little Freckle and the "pre-Oscar actor" Little Plum are even better than their big cousin.
The performance of the big cousin in this movie has indeed maintained the level she has always been. Not only did she pass the performance task given by the director, but there are also many wonderful details that can be asked for extra points in the film. However, no matter what From the creative level, or the production level, it is difficult to compare with other awards season best films. Just wanting to rely on the acting skills and popularity of the big cousin to support a movie is really incapable.
It can be said that the struggling Joey was defeated by "Lucky Joey".
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