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Oscar.
Tomorrow morning Beijing time, the curtain will be opened on the 90th Academy Awards, and the major awards will be announced one by one.
Last year, @Cido from North America predicted that the best picture would belong to "Philharmonic City".
Snap.
This year, the "God Stick" is here again.
Sir admired his courage in losing and fighting.
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Two of the major Oscar awards this year have been "awarded in advance".
One is Best Animated Feature Film.
The quality itself is hard, and the opponent is generally soft.
"Dream Quest" is in hand.
The other is the Emperor of Shadows.
I'd like to gamble on five packs of spicy strips, not "Dog Daddy" Gary Oldman.
No better than the best animated feature film, there are assists from peers, Gary Oldman's opponents are strong, both Daniel Day-Louis's "Phantom Sewer", Denzel Washington's "Mr. Roman, Hello" and other recognized gods, but also popular young student Timothy Chalame "Please Call Me By Your Name" and so on...
"Dog Daddy" can outperform them, 100% is the top strength.
It can even be said that his performance supports the entire movie of "Darkest Hour".
Have you found that playing Churchill is a compulsory test for British actors.
Before Oldman, five British actors, including Dumbledore (Michael Gunburn), Peter Pettigrew (Timothy Spaugh), and Mad-Eye Moody (Braidan Gleason), had played Churchill.
Who is superior and who is inferior has a different opinion, but Oldman's version has never been seen before.
He portrayed a "tyrant" who was both strong and vulnerable, savage and elegant.
In "The Darkest Hour", Oldman's "plastic surgery acting" has reached the point of "only seeing Churchill, not Oldman".
Needless to say, the shape is self-explanatory.
A historian who has been to the set mistakes Oldman's makeup photos for historical data.
Makeup is indispensable.
In order to accurately restore Churchill's body shape, Oldman personally visited two Oscar-nominated Japanese prosthetic artists Kazuhiro Tsuji and asked him to design a weight-booster outfit.
Tsuji decided to quit the film industry as early as 2012, but Oldman decided that if Tsuji refused the invitation, he would refuse to play Churchill.
Tsuji and Hiroshi were finally moved.
Before the film began, he and the makeup team spent more than 5 months successfully designing and manufacturing these exquisite makeup and prostheses.
Every day, Oldman spends at least 4 hours applying makeup.
It took almost 50 days to shoot, every day.
In other words, with makeup alone, Oldman dedicated more than 200 hours.
Kazuhiro Tsuji put on Makeup for Oldman on set
To this end, Oldman worked an average of nearly 18 hours a day during that time.
He often went to the set at two or three in the morning, and by the time the rest of the crew arrived, "Gary Oldman" had disappeared.
For a person in his sixties, this is definitely a physical work that cannot be underestimated.
This is just the shape.
Even harder is God.
Oldman set himself the rule of creating his own image of Churchill.
What stands out from the arrogant, domineering prime minister we are familiar with in the past is the bitter temperament of Oldman's version of Churchill.
His appearance is like this —
Amid a series of unfriendly comments around him, the new secretary plucked up the courage to push open his bedroom door.
It was pitch black.
A match was lit, and the light of the fire illuminated the face of an old man with thinning hair, a confused look, and a large belly slumped on the bed, in front of him were all kinds of utensils.
Then, the match goes out, and the picture slides into darkness...
This opening perfectly establishes the uniqueness of The Oldman's version of Churchill.
It takes us through a vulgar, damp tunnel before it shines dazzlingly on the great man.
Throughout the film, we see at a glance how Churchill was bullied and wronged.
The country elected him prime minister not because of his ability, but more because this position is a hot potato, and no one dares to take it.
There is the schadenfreude of "see how you die", there is the sigh of "the imperial court chose you only if there are no soldiers", and more importantly, there is the suspicion of hiding in the shadows and turning the gun head whenever the wind blows.
Even his most solid ally.
Highly recommend that you pull the middle of the movie, Churchill and US President Franklin on a call.
Churchill turned to Franklin for help.
From borrowing 50 naval ships to 40, after being rejected, he humbly asked whether he could send aircraft carriers to transport back a few fighters that Britain had spent money to buy last year, but the request continued to be denied...
In the process, Oldman's eyes gradually fell out of focus, the muscles around his mouth trembled more and more intensely as he spoke (saliva had to be left), and finally, the eyes that were almost shrouded in mist.
When Roosevelt proposed that Britain could send a convoy of horses to transport fighters back to England from Canada, Churchill showed this expression:
The lower lip kept trembling, trying to respond and not knowing what to say for a while.
Then he frowned and asked in disbelief at the other person's proposal: Are you talking about (God) horses?
Notice the look in your eyes at this time: swaying from side to side, frowning while your eyebrows and bags are slightly trembling.
From the shallowest disappointment in each other, to the despair of losing the straw of life, to the instinctive fear that comes with it.
Small, but precise.
At this moment, Oldman not only played Churchill, but also lived churchill.
Yes, as one of the greatest orators of the 20th century, Churchill also had the weakness of a large tongue and occasional indistinct speech.
It is with this schism that Oldman conveys the humanity and divinity of a madman.
Human nature is that he also has fears.
The divinity was that he finally triumphed over instinctive fear.
That's where the final speech was so exciting.
His literary and oratorical achievements even earned him the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature.
For his mastery of the art of history and biography, as well as his glorious speech defending the noble values of humanity.
We will fight to the end. We will fight in France, we will fight in the sea, we will fight in the air with greater and greater confidence and with increasing strength, we will defend the homeland at all costs, we will fight on the beaches, we will fight at the landing sites of the enemy, we will fight in the fields and in the streets, we will fight in the mountains.
We will never surrender, even if our island or most of it is conquered and starved.
I never believed that would happen.
Our subjects of the Empire abroad, armed and protected by the British fleet, will continue to fight until the New World, when God deems it appropriate, will bring forth all its strength to save and liberate this Old World.
Eric Ferner, one of the producers of "The Darkest Hour," recalls that when Oldman finished his first live speech, the actors couldn't help but give a standing ovation.
Such a highlight moment, Oldman's acting career of more than 30 years, in fact, has been completed many times.
Oldman has played real historical figures many times.
And these characters, there is a little bit... Neuroticism.
In 1986, Oldman starred in the biographical film Sid and Nancy as Sid Weshers, the bassist of the famous British punk band Sex Pistols in the 70s.
Gary Oldman vs. Sid Vischez
According to Oldman, when he got the role invitation, he refused.
Because he didn't like either the script or the punk music.
He finally took it, because the film was well paid.
Rao was so, and Oldman, who was under 30 years old at the time, still gave a profound performance.
For the sake of the role, Oldman conducted a lot of research on Sid's life and made a special trip to visit Sid's mother.
It was also after the two exchanged that Sid's mother decided that Oldman could play her son well, and gave Oldman's necklace to him to wear when filming.
In reality, Sid was gaunt, thin, addicted to drugs, and died of drug overdose at the age of 21.
In order to get close to Sid's posture, Oldman desperately dieted for a period of time and was hospitalized for malnutrition.
In the end, he portrayed Sid as skinny and withered, but as soon as he stood on the stage, he sang and reveled in extreme madness.
Like a musical beast performed with life.
In 2006, the film magazine Premiere selected the "100 Greatest Performances in Film History", and Oldman's Sid ranked 62nd.
A few years later, Oldman starred in Oliver Stone's The Assassination of Kennedy, where he starred lee harvey Oswald, the suspect who shot president Kennedy.
The film focuses on the re-investigation of kennedy three years after the assassination, after Oswald had only scattered some video material.
In order to act well, again, Oldman did a lot of homework.
Read books and documentaries about Kennedy's assassination, visit the crime scene, and even visit Oswald's family.
In the end, as an Englishman, not only did he spit out a standard American Texas accent, but he also actually caught Oswald's seemingly calm, but actually weak pretense.
In his acting career, Oldman has maintained the characteristics of a "chameleon", shuttling back and forth between a wide variety of roles.
Especially his changeable voice.
In "Four Hundred Years of Thrills", he played the vampire Count Dracula, in order to make his voice sound more "ominous", he specially hired a vocal teacher to help him lower his voice by an octave.
This difficulty... You can try it yourself.
Not to mention "This Killer Is Not Too Cold."
He plays stanfield, a rogue cop with chilling madness.
The most classic scene.
He shouted angrily at his men: Everyone.
This rage has exploded to the point where you can see the GIF and feel that you can hear a sound.
The performance was improvised by Oldman.
In a previous performance, Oldman said in a normal voice, "Bring me everyone."
However, he was not satisfied with the effect, so without informing the director Luc Besson, he reminded the on-site monitor to take off the headphones, and then shouted in his loudest voice: "Everyone!"
This improvisational performance eventually became one of the classics of this film and even film history.
Fully research the characters and inject your own thinking.
Every time he performed, Oldman adhered to the principle of "only bad movies, no bad characters", and played two hundred percent of his efforts.
However, he always seems to be forgotten.
Oldman, who turned 60 in March this year, has been in the film for more than 30 years and has hardly been affirmed by any acting awards.
It wasn't until 2012 that he received his first Oscar nomination for George Smiley for "Even The Back" in The Pot Maker, the Tailor, the Soldier, the Spy.
Going around, being forgotten and missed.
I have to say that this year, he finally ushered in his "glorious moment".
With winston Churchill in The Darkest Hour, Oldman has won Best Actor in almost all outpost awards, including the Washington Film Critics Association Award, the Critics' Choice Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Golden Globe Award.
At the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, Oldman quoted Churchill as saying:
My tastes are simple, and the best things can easily satisfy me.
For many years, he practiced it himself.
"Hopefully, one day, the film industry will be able to correct one of the most enduring and absurd mistakes in the film industry: Gary Oldman has never won a major award for his performance."
That's enough.
This sentence will become history on March 5, 2018.
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