Text | Zhang Hailu
The 79th Golden Globe Awards of 2022, without a red carpet, without live broadcasting, or even anyone attending, announced the winners of the awards through social media on the morning of January 10, Beijing time, without anyone cheering. Hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association (HFPA), the Golden Globe Awards have always been the biggest weather vane before the Oscars, attracting the attention of film fans around the world. The reason why it has fallen here is, of course, due to the daily surge in the number of new crown cases in the United States, which has forced the cancellation of various entertainment activities; on the other hand, because the organizers have been exposed to a series of problems such as long-term sexism, sexual harassment and the lack of black people in the jury, which have been collectively boycotted by the Hollywood industry.
In any case, for audiences trapped at home during the pandemic era and viewing a large area from theaters to streaming platforms, the Golden Globe nominations and their list of winners can always be used as a guide to watching the film. Unfortunately, "West End Story", directed by Spielberg and adapted from the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, won three awards in the musical/comedy category: Best Supporting Actress, Best Actress and Best Picture.
West End Story
The contemporary era of rampant disease, closed country, economic downturn, and stagnant communication is reminiscent of the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s. From Warner Bros. in 1927, when warner Bros. launched the first sound film in the history of world cinema, "Jazz Singer", to the "Secret History of the Red Man" when the song and dance performances and plot development were intertwined and matured two years later, until a few years after the end of World War II, the song and dance film became an ideal place for people to escape from the reality situation during the Great Depression and the World War. These effortless productions often leave the audience daydreaming. In 1961, the Broadway classic "West End Story" was adapted and filmed by United Arts Pictures as a big-screen film and won the 34th Academy Award for Best Picture. In the film, the scene of manhattan's "rocket gang" and "shark gang" fighting with knives and weapons is still a film and television song and dance ceiling that is difficult to break through.
Perhaps it is really because people need music and dance to decompress, and in the past year, Hollywood has produced many corresponding works. Aside from West End Story, the most prolific and high-quality is lin-manuel miranda, a contemporary musical genius nicknamed "Lin Juju" by Chinese audiences. His first film "Countdown", "In the Highlands", which composed and participated in the writing and cameo performance, and "Full House of Magic", which dedicated a number of Latin-style golden songs from beginning to end, were all shortlisted for the Golden Globe Awards. In the end, Full House won Best Animated Feature, and Andrew Garfield, who played the selfish musician in Countdown, won Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy category.
Full House of Magic
The beginning of "Full House of Magic" can make people guess that the ending story is low, but the scene set in the Colombian coffee district Of Cocora Valley is very charming, and the magic setting of the protagonist family, the Maliga family, is really brain-opening. Lin Juju obviously learned the essence of the tropical capital Bolero and Salsa, and can participate in the art to outline the exquisite magic town in the film when quiet, but can definitely make people sit still when happy, and one of the lyrical "Dos Oruguitas" was also nominated for the best original song, which was unfortunately defeated by the new 007 theme song of today's most popular singer Billie Elish, "No Time to Die". The non-vocal singing score award, the voters still adhere to the inertia of recognizing the big names, and give the best to the award-winning professional Hans Zimmer, of course, the drum beats, metal sounds and overtones of folk instruments in the soundtrack of "Dune" did help director Villeneuve create a dangerous alien desert.
Among the authors of the film nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, in addition to the Finnish director Yuho Kuosmanen, the other four (Paul Sorentino, Pedro Almodova, Asha Farhati, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi) are the absolute darlings of the three major European film festivals. In the end, after winning best screenplay at Cannes, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Driving My Car" also unexpectedly won the Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Film. The Korean producer in the film, who is proficient in Japanese, Korean, English and dumb language, said that "silence is gold", which really made the film successfully gilded.
"Driving My Car"
Two years ago, at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, Bong Joon-ho said in his speech for "Parasite" to receive the best foreign language film, "Once you overcome the barrier of that centimeter size, subtitles, you will find that there are so many excellent movies in the world." Then, it seems that those North American audiences who have never been lazy and proud have obediently become accustomed to the "one centimeter", and the Korean drama "Squid Game" has become the top Netflix American ratings work. Along with that, other non-English-language films and televisions with subtitles were also stained. In fact, there is a lot of time in "Driving My Car", and the characters in the film are not silent, but one by one they are concise and concise, and the sentences are really golden, just like the dramatic characters in the rehearsal of "Uncle Vanya" in the story.
Perhaps the most unconvincing of the winning list is "Belfast", which won the best screenplay. This family story, which was placed in the early stage of the civil strife in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, deliberately avoided the conflict of the times, and chose the nostalgic tone of the author of "Roma", although it tried to enter the theme of the line "Irish were born to leave", but in the end it was only a family trivial matter that could happen in any corner of the world, compared with the opponents of "Don't Look Up" and "The Power of the Dog", which are tightly woven with plots, it is really impossible to see any shining point in the creation of the screenwriter.
Belfast
The six winners of the acting awards, in addition to "West End Story" that I have not seen, the only one that I personally feel may leave a classic moment in film history is Lucy's actor Nicole Kidman in "The Ricardo Family". "The Ricciardo" is about a couple on America's most popular television show in the early 1950s, when the McCarthy Act prevailed, and they faced the problems of "political correctness" and "love correctness" in that era. After FBI leader Hoover personally endorsed Lucy's political colors, the TV star, who had never made a lavish mistake on the recording scene, suddenly lost his mind when his husband, who had accompanied him for too many years in his career and life, called himself. Thanks to the screenwriter of Alan Sorkin, at this moment, Nicole Kidman, who is not good at facial muscle performance, has a multi-layered look and successfully freezes the moment of love loss that is far higher than politics.
The Ricardo Family
Best Director and Best Feature Film belong to New Zealand female director Jane Campion and her masterpiece "The Power of Dogs". In this era play that replaces the background story of Montana with the scenery of the South Island, Aunt Jane both looks back at her "Piano Lesson", lets Herfu play the banjo, mocks Dunster's clumsy "Radsky March", and pays tribute to "Call Me by Your Name" on the saddle. The secret emotions she personally excels at expressing and the western classic genre of love are perfectly unified. The characters in the play are outstanding, the time ratio is appropriate, and several star actors have also completed their work well. The story of this anthrax threatening farms has been told very well, and it has put a sad background on the era of the pandemic.
The Power of Dogs
The full list of winners of the 79th Golden Globe Awards
【Movie】
Best Picture - Drama: "The Power of Dogs"
Best Picture - Musical/Comedy: West End Story
Best Non-English Film: "Driving My Car"
Best Animated Feature: Full House
Best Director: Jane Campion, "The Power of dogs"
Best Actor - Drama: Will Smith, "King Richard"
Best Actress - Drama: Nicole Kidman, "The Ricardo Family"
Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy Category: Andrew Garfield, "Countdown"
Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy Category: Rachel Zegler, "West End Story"
Best Supporting Actor: Curtie Smit-McPhee, "The Power of Dogs"
Best Supporting Actress: Ariane DeBos, "West End Story"
Best Screenplay: Belfast
Best Original Score: Hans Zimmer, "Dunes"
Best Song: "No Time To Die", "007: No Time to Die"
【TV】
Best Drama Series - Drama: The Battle of Succession
Best Drama Series - Comedy: The Desperate Writer
Best Limited Edition Drama/TV Movie: "Underground Railroad"
Best Actor - Drama: Jeremy Strong, "Battle of succession"
Best Actress in a Drama Category: MJ Rodriguez, "Pose"
Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy Category: Jason Sudakis, "Football Coach"
Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy Category: Jane Smart, "The Desperate Writer"
Best Actor in a Limited Series/TV Movie: Michael Keaton, "Addiction Dose"
Best Actress - Limited Drama/Television Movie: Kate Winslet, "Nightmare in the East Side"
Best Supporting Actor: Oh Yong-so, "Squid Game"
Best Supporting Actress: Sarah Snuck, "Battle of Succession"