I don't know why anyone compares "Black Swan" to the 1951 Oscar Best Picture, "Beauty on the Comet", I don't see where the two films are comparable. What I saw in "Black Swan" was the purgatory that the perfection of art made the artist go through, while "The Comet Beauty" is not about the performance itself, but the conspiracy and betrayal to get on the stage and become a star. Fighting with yourself, with others, and duel, being a star is not easy enough. Think about it, for example, actors like Zhang Ziyi and Xu Jinglei, they acted in movies to prove that they would never be good actors, and they directed movies to prove that they would never be good directors, so why would they be popular, unless luck hits like a tsunami, Otherwise, it will be exhausting.
Movies are powerful and moving because they come from real life. For example, one of the most impactful jokes in "Let the Bullets Fly" is that the bad guy slandered the good guy for eating 2 bowls of jelly, and the good guy cut open his stomach to prove that he only ate one bowl. If you think this is an artistic exaggeration that is too bloody, isn't there such a bloody live example in reality? "I know you only ate one bowl, you were fooled." Chen Kun's expression at that moment made me feel that even his performance improved.
"The Comet Beauty" is more exciting outside than inside. Baxter plays an ambitious rookie who tries to squeeze a popular female star off the stage in the play. Off-screen, Baxter does not know how to make himself and the best actress in the competition for the best actress at the Oscar that year. It is very rare in Oscar history that Davis, who starred in the leading actress, was also nominated for the Best Actress Award instead of the Supporting Actress Award. In the end, the votes were split, and Bette Davis, who had an impeccable performance, failed to win the Best Actress Award for that year, and neither did Baxter.
Art is very magical, and life is always more magical than art.
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