I don't know why someone compares "Black Swan" with the 1951 Oscar Best Picture "Comet Beauty". I can't see the comparability of the two films. What I saw in "Black Swan" is the purgatory torment that the artist has experienced in the perfect state of art, and "The Comet Beauty" is not about the performance itself, but the conspiracy and betrayal of being a star on the stage. Struggling with yourself, with others, duel, being a star is really not easy. Think about it. For example, actors such as Zhang Ziyi and Xu Jinglei, who acted in movies proved that they would never be good actors, and they directed movies to prove that they would never be good directors. What kind of popularity, unless luck hits like a tsunami, Otherwise it will be exhausting. Movies have power and move people because they come from real life. For example, the most impactful part of "Let the Bullets Fly" is that the bad guys slandered the good guys who ate 2 bowls of jelly, and the good guys had a laparotomy and opened their bowels to prove to death that they only ate one bowl. If you think this is artistic exaggeration and bloody, isn't there such a bloody living example in reality? Workers who open the chest and lung for the lung test repeatedly open it. Isn't it as bloody and miserable as taking a knife to cut the stomach and dig out jelly? "I know you only ate a bowl, you were fooled." Chen Kun's expression at that moment made me feel that even his performance has improved. "Comet Beauty" is more exciting outside than in the play. Baxter played the role of an ambitious rookie who tried his best to squeeze the popular female star off the stage. Outside the play, Baxter did not know what he did in the Oscar competition for the best actress. Davis, who played the leading actress, was also nominated for the Best Actress Award, not the Supporting Actress Award, which is very rare in Oscar history. In the end, the votes were split, and Betty Davis, who had an impeccable performance, failed to win the Best Actress Award of the year, and neither did Baxter. Art is very crafty, and life will always be more crafty than art.
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