said that a popular American drama - "The Enemy",
"The Independent" said it well -
"This drama has reached the G-spot of the story, focusing all the firepower on women for the sake of Belittling the amazing talents possessed by the opponent."
Well, this ripping story
is about the golden age of Hollywood, two hall-level actresses,
from the front to the backstage, a protracted fight.
▲Betty Davis and Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford has been at the forefront of the list of actresses
in the history of film for a hundred years.
Bette Davis, the most talented actress of all time. Marilyn Monroe was nothing more than a ninth-line young actor
when she was making waves in Hollywood with "The Comet Beauty" . Joan Crawford came from humble beginnings, the kind of actress who rose to power by entertaining men. Betty Davis has been ridiculed, sleeping all over the MGM male star invincible. He is good at hyping up rumors about gossip with men. The crooked way is called a slip. Bette Davis is highly educated in art and has great acting skills. Has always been an artistic elite fan. If Joan Crawford is the kind of bitch star who plays dirty tricks, then Bette Davis is more of an orthodox heir to the art of cinema. The feud between the two began when Joan Crawford spoiled the career of Bette Davis. Whenever Bette Davis holds a press conference to make a splash, Joan Crawford isn't announcing a love affair with a man and stealing all the limelight. Just announcing the divorce, and instantly burst the media headlines. Today's traffic Xiaohua sees Joan Crawford, and she has to kneel and say, grandmother. The two of them never concealed their hatred for each other, and they teared at each other in public and spat at each other through the media. The anger of the two shooting each other has exploded the headlines of Hollywood gossip. The content of the torn, from grabbing men, to grabbing film resources, to grabbing Oscar awards,
Even adopting a child has to be compared...
This is the biggest scandal in the history of Hollywood in the 20th century, and
now someone has finally filmed it.
This person is the famous American TV producer - Ryan Murphy.
Emmy-winning works "Glee," "The Surgery Room,"
and the astonishingly large "American Horror Story" are all by him.
Most of the episodes he shoots focus on realistic themes,
"American Crime Story", like a dagger, cut open the scars in the hearts of Americans.
The realistic restoration of the case is like a replay of the events of the year.
Women and marginalized people are the groups he prefers to photograph.
"Enemies" is consistent,
also focusing on real events, female characters.
Surprisingly, the
show bypasses the peaks of the two superstars' acting careers and captures
a period of their decline in Hollywood.
In 1961, Marilyn Monroe had just won the Golden Globe Award, and
Hollywood was gradually occupied by the young and beautiful new generation.
Joan Crawford is over fifty years old,
no matter how brilliant she has been in the past , the only
thing waiting for her in the future
is to slowly fade out of the big screen.
As soon as her husband died, Joan was in debt.
So embarrassed that he can't even pay the gardener's salary.
Even the former media friends have to step on it,
threatening to kick the star's abject life and
squeeze her residual value as a star.
The old rival Betty is not much better,
a generation of Hollywood queens, actually reduced to Broadway to play for others.
The major filmmakers who once begged them to film, now shook their heads and waved their hands when they heard their names.
Hollywood is so ruthless.
Olivia de Havilland (Betty's friend, who plays Melanie in "Gone with the Wind") in the opening line of the interview has a good saying:
feuds, not hatred, but pain.
What pain?
Celebrities worry about getting old and being abandoned by the big screen.
In fact, this is a dilemma that every star has to face.
Especially for female stars.
Director Murphy was approached more than once by female stars who were crying and complaining that they had no more drama appointments.
"'Just because I'm old and people aren't interested in me anymore' makes me particularly sad that they're fighting so hard to prove they're worthwhile." (Interview with Murphy)
Therefore, the purpose of his filming of this scandal
is to dig out the cultural reasons behind the "discord" that the actresses are driven by this pain.
How did the Hollywood mechanism and the audience members play a role in fueling the flames?
At the beginning of the episode, it was pointed out that the
audience members like to tear up gossip.
"For nearly half a century, they have hated each other, and we like them because of this."
Since audiences are keen to tear up gossip,
then the news media follows the needs of readers and
chases hot spots to hype them.
In the same way, film companies
are constantly adding fuel to the fire in order to sell better movies, making them fight more and more fiercely.
You see, it's a closed loop like a food chain.
Each group played a role in fueling the flames.
Even if Betty and Qiong couldn't get to this point,
there was a time when the two of them had a united front.
For example, at the same time feeling the threat of the young actress, they
joined forces to force the director to kick her out.
The story is like this, constantly using multiple relationships to create dramatic conflicts, which makes
people want to stop.
They maintain such a vigorous fighting force,
work to exhaustion, and
strive to defend their status
because Hollywood is too cruel to women.
In the series, when the female assistant introduces her plan to becoming a female director to an acquaintance,
everyone thinks she is crazy, and
no one believes that a woman can play a leading role.
In reality, when the studio boss heard that he was going to invest money for the filming of two former actresses who were over fifty years old,
he said this:
"You want those two old prostitutes to play "The Surprise of Langui". ",
I won't give a dime."
And if you want to find novels about middle-aged and elderly women in their 50s,
it's even more difficult,
"All books about women can be divided into three categories, innocent and innocent. Girls, mothers, and ugly girls." The
actress is getting older and unwilling to be a mother,
and wants to play a rich middle-aged female role.
Sorry,
Hollywood doesn't offer this kind of role.
More than just Hollywood in the 1960s?
In the Chinese film and television industry decades later,
we have heard more than once that
talented actresses Gui Yalei and Pan Hong,
except for the roles of mother-in-law and mother, can
not receive other roles.
In people's eyes, middle-aged and elderly women, in addition to the length of the family,
What wonderful life can you have? When I saw Gui Yalei playing a disgusting mother-in-law
in "Back to 20" , I felt deeply sad. What a waste of her talent...
What about male actors of the same age?
In "In the Name of the People", a group of middle-aged and elderly actors with an average age of more than 50 are popular,
Wu Gang, Zhang Zhijian, Li Jianyi...
Chen Daoming appeared again,
in the popular "My First Half of Life",
playing a Japanese food store boss.
I have to admit that in the show business world, women are more difficult than men and are
more likely to be abandoned on the big screen.
In today's Hollywood, it has been revealed more than once that
a big star who is an absolute heroine
complains that his salary is not as high as that of the male actors in the group.
Can you imagine?
In today's Hollywood, the absurd reality of unequal pay for equal work between men and women is still staged.
Richards Theron's personal experience
Therefore, "The Enemy" is about Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s, and
at the same time it is using the past to satirize the present and
judge today's Hollywood mechanism.
Scream for an unfair environment.
A voice for women.
On the other hand,
on the screen,
Betty was watching, and her baby Jane ("The Surprise of Langui") looked in the mirror and
saw that her appearance was so old that she was as strong as Betty
when she broke down and cried
bitter tears.
It's so sad.
Not to mention, at the
end of the film, after Joan Crawford's death, at
the Oscars ceremony,
watching the commemorative film made to pay homage to the deceased star,
Betty sighed:
"God, 50 years of acting career,
I only gave her two seconds . The picture of the clock,
and all of us will be."
This is the fate of actors...
This classic line from "Blade Runner" came to my eyes in an instant:
All these moments will eventually pass in time.
Like tears,
disappearing in the rain...
View more about Feud: Bette and Joan reviews
