"This is your first commercial masterpiece to really play the leading role."
In a mansion in Beverly Hills, a black man with a bald head was persuading a black woman who didn''t look like a black man. "Hally, the Oscar winner is the honor. It''s the basis for you to get the cat girl and 20 million dollars. But don''t forget how realistic this circle is. Don''t forget how difficult it is for a black man to maintain his current position. If this film falls too hard, You''ll never find a second chance to be a superstar on your own. You''ll never be a superstar
Halle Berry walked back and forth in the living room, as if pondering these words.
She knew that she was lucky to get the Best Actress Oscar, which was more caused by the external environment. The industry itself didn''t take her as the best actress seriously. After all, some things are clear in the inner circle.
In spite of the opposition of 20th Century Fox and marvel comics, we temporarily threw away storm girl and switched to Warner Brothers and DC Comics to take over the role of cat girl?
Other companies and producers won''t give a black woman a chance to take the lead, only Warner Bros. reaches out.
To be exact, it took her several weeks of hard work to get this opportunity, a chance that she hoped to become a real superstar.
Everyone knows that an Oscar heroine will make an actress''s career move forward, but it can''t guarantee to become a superstar. It''s totally different to win an Oscar and the market appeal that a superstar must have.
But this opportunity Halle Berry''s speed of walking back and forth is faster, which also shows some impatience in her heart. The audition of "cat girl" has a bad reputation.
"Can this film be saved?" Halle Berry seems to have no confidence, "all kinds of early scores are too bad."
"Trial and release are two different things." Bareheaded black people urged, "there are a lot of films that failed in the trial and were successful in the public. Now we need to attract the attention of potential audiences and draw their eyes from the dead man."
Halle Berry sighs, walks over and sits opposite the agent.
The bald black man coughed in a low voice and continued, "to say the least, even if" cat girl "really may fail, it can''t be a big failure like the audition, so your career will be finished, and you will be limited to the role of storm girl all your life. Don''t try to make any more breakthroughs."
"So..." Although the head is not very smart, but Halle Berry also understood the agent''s meaning, "I want to fully cooperate with Warner Brothers and Bruce Berman, as far as possible to step on the" dead man ", hold up the" cat girl ", attract public attention."
"That''s it." The bald economic man nodded.
Halle Berry was still puzzled. "Is this really OK?"
"Don''t forget, we''re black!" Bareheaded black people sneer, "in Hollywood movies, it''s natural for black people to play an important role, but not racial discrimination!"
Halle Berry scratched her head. How can racial discrimination be understood?
The bald black man came over and patted Halle Berry on the shoulder. "We can''t afford the consequences of a serious failure."
At the beginning of the new week, the topic between Murphy and DC Comics can be seen everywhere on the Internet. After the box office plunge of hell Baron was easily given by the dead man, the media constantly compared it with the upcoming cat girl. It is inevitable that both sides are super hero movies.
On Monday afternoon, new forces joined the regiment.
Halle Berry''s personal blog has been updated, and its content is directed at Murphy.
"Some people should really shut up. When a film is sold, they will be overjoyed and attack others'' painstakingly produced films. Their quality is too low! I would like to remind you that this director is still a problematic director. Please recall that black actors play an important role in "fruit candy", "chainsaw", "planet of terror" and "Sin City"? It is said that among these groups, Murphy Stanton really has the right to decide the actors! "
As soon as this blog was published, it immediately attracted the attention of the media.
On Tuesday''s entertainment edition of many media, a specially bold news headline was added in a prominent position: "is Murphy Stanton suspected of racial discrimination?"?
In Hollywood, racial discrimination not only exists, it can even be said that it is quite serious, but the real existence is one thing, and the manifestation is another.
Just like this so-called free and democratic country, the anti discrimination slogans are resounding. The world knows what the actual situation is.
Such a topic must be responded positively.
"Some people say I''m involved in racism? It''s really funny. "
Murphy immediately gave an interview, "count how many Asian and Latino actors and other non white actors are in my film and crew!"
Under the contact of bill rosis, Jessica Alba stood up for Murphy for the first time, "I haven''t heard anything funnier than this. Look at me. Am I a white actor? Is the heroine of "Sin City" and "dead man" meChen Hu, who is well-known in North America, also accepted the interview. "I don''t know what some people think. Should all the important jobs in the cast be left to black people? If you don''t, it''s racial discrimination? "
He pointed to himself. "I want to ask, if we should all be replaced by black people, are they suspected of racial discrimination?"
Indeed, because he had been in a certain province in the southeast for a long time, Murphy didn''t discriminate against the black uncles, but he didn''t think they were black brothers with the feelings of virgin Bosch. Some ideas were deeply rooted and would not change when he came here from the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
But Murphy also knows that in the circle of Hollywood, the theory of black people is very wonderful, which can''t be measured by the normal way of thinking.
It''s racist for a large cast not to add black roles to the important actors; it''s racist for a villain to add important roles; it''s racist for the director to denounce the poor performance of the black actors in the cast; it''s racist for the director not to direct the black actors and shoot their plays casually; there are no black people in the Oscar nomination list It''s racial discrimination; there are too few black people in the nomination list, it''s racial discrimination; there are enough nominations, but they don''t get the Oscar nomination for the performance award, it''s racial discrimination; they get the nomination for the performance award, but they don''t get the gold medal, it''s racial discrimination
These are the status quo of Hollywood. Since the 1990s, quite a number of black actors have understood this, including such famous figures as Will Smith and his wife.
It seems that in Hollywood, what black people want but can''t get is racial discrimination.
Sometimes, Murphy really doesn''t know where they put the Asian and Latino actors who are worse off in the circle.
Therefore, as long as some characters can use Asian or Latino actors, he will never use black actors.
He never denied that he preferred Asian actors to the so-called politically correct black glass heart in Hollywood.
In addition to "fruit candy" with only two main actors, Murphy has used a large number of Asian and Latino employees in the cast since the beginning of "chainsaw", especially after that, she has made great efforts to cultivate Jessica Alba, a Latin American Super vase that has begun to be famous in the United States. To a certain extent, she is afraid that some people will pull a hat and put it on the wall On his head.
Think about it. Even Spielberg''s Saving Private Ryan, a typical American theme film, can be attacked as a racist film by those black people with unique ideas in the circle because there is no black person in the rescue team.
And they never considered that it was a realistic film of World War II, what the actual situation was like at that time.
As for Asian and Latino actors, black people often ignore them. They always have a certain superiority in treating these ethnic actors, and seem to despise them at all.
It''s no surprise to Murphy that Halle Berry ignores Hispanic and Asian actors in her films, which is in line with the thinking characteristics of some black people in the circle.
This kind of racial discrimination can''t be established in the face of facts. CAA and bill Rossi just contacted several long-term cooperative media and resolved the so-called racial discrimination easily.
But coming and not going has never been Murphy''s style.
However, he didn''t stand up for himself. In the 20th century, Fox and CAA had a large number of water forces to use. In addition to continuing to stir up the topic and promote "dead waiter", he also suppressed "cat girl" within the scope of rules without hesitation.
Once the box office of "cat girl" breaks out, not to mention the audience''s choice, just the film arrangement rate in the cinema line will impact the exclusive screening mode of "dead attendants". After all, it can only be used in a few cinemas in individual areas, and it can not become the mainstream distribution mode.
This is a very simple truth. If the quality of a film is not too bad, the wider the scope of screening and the more screens it has, the more audiences it will attract and the more likely it will get a high box office.
No film layout, no screen, no matter how good the film is, it is impossible to have an explosive box office growth.
"The cinema will not cut down on our number of cinemas," bill rosis said to Murphy, who was sitting askew in front of the floor to ceiling window of his office. "After the Catwoman was put on the front stage on Thursday, it will be shown in nearly 3200 cinemas from Friday, and the layout of the dead man will certainly be affected."
This is inevitable. Although the number of screens in North America is growing, the total number will be so large in the short term.
"Have you come up with the right way to fight back?" Asked Bill rosis.
Murphy stood up and put up a finger. "The feedback from the preview of cat girl is very clear. We just need to grasp a little bit!" (to be continued). ）For mobile phone users, please browse and read for better reading experience.