"The Lion: The Long Way Home", this kind of featureless pseudo-Indian film can get an Oscar nomination?
——Zhang Aifeng
"The Lion: The Long Way Home" was released in China, this film won the Oscar for Best Picture, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Adapted Screenplay, Soundtrack and other nominations, the world has won a total of 68 award nominations, 31 awards, in order to avoid "Transformers 5", the box office after the release of the file one night is only a few million. After watching it, I can't help but say that such a decent film without any novelty can also get the Oscar nomination for Best Picture? Fortunately, I didn't get best picture, otherwise the Oscar's face would have been lost!
I have a good feeling for Indian movies, Indian movies produce more than 1200 films a year, and there are a lot of bad movies, but because the total amount is large, the number of good movies every year is far more than Hollywood! But for the kind of pseudo-Indian films filmed in Europe and the United States, the so-called Indian films made in the United States, Britain and Australia, such as "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Fantasy Drift of the Young Pi", there is no good feeling, because the scripts made by Europeans and Americans to reflect social problems are too far behind indians. Take this "Lion" to see, in addition to the beginning of the childhood of the male protagonist in order to prove that he can do anything, struggling to lift the chair, bicycle that section, the other plot is almost lackluster, casually a Chinese screenwriter can write this kind of story without novelty. The director spent half the time talking about the protagonist's loss, to be adopted, it can be said that it is sleepy, there is no fresh excitement! What is the contradiction? Where is the plot conflict? Nicole Kidman also took an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and as far as her featureless performance in this film is concerned, a random Indian actress can blow her up.
Compared with the authentic Indian movie "Little Lori's Monkey God Uncle" with similar themes, that film grasped the contradictions between India and Pakistan in the script setting to structure the story, let love break through the political and religious shackles, and the kind of telling home many plot points are commendable, and finally the big reversal of the little girl spoke, it turned out that she was not dumb, surprising, but also created a climax! But this kind of film will not win the Oscar for best picture, because India's good films are disdainful to participate in the Oscars and berlin, Cannes, Venice film festivals, people's good films are only participating in the domestic people's choice awards, which has always made the arrogant American Oscar judges complain: Indians don't take good films to compete, but will you Americans take good films to India?
However, I have to say that the only highlight of this film is the performance of a little boy in India, and I can't imagine that such a small child's performance is in place, and it is a good seedling. India has never lacked good actors, only a lack of careful screenwriters and directors, but Europeans and Americans to make Indian films are basically not the same, far less than Indian filmmakers! Indian local directors such as Lakuma Hirani have four classics in hand, "Gangster Doctor Dream", "Gangster Gangster Peace Dream", "Three Fools Bollywood", "My God", which are much stronger than those Hollywood Coppola and Spielberg, while those Hollywood directors can have a classic! Therefore, in Indian movies or interviews with Indian actors, many people do not agree with Hollywood movies! In my eyes, in addition to "Artificial Intelligence", Spielberg's other films are too far from the classic, and can only be said to be decent and featureless!