Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 285 White People's List
In 2013, the 85th Academy Awards was held as scheduled.

There are many wonderful films nominated and awarded at this year's Oscars, such as Ang Lee's "Life of Pi".

For example, Daniel Day-Lewis became the first artist to win three Academy Awards for Best Actor.

There were also many changes in the awards ceremony, such as the introduction of an electronic voting system this year and the change of the Best Makeup Award to Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

In addition, the preliminary list for best visual effects has been increased from 7 to 10, allowing more films to enter the judges' eyes.

But the biggest highlight of this year's Oscars is not these, but the list after the awards ceremony.

Although there were several black faces on the actor nomination list, the final list of winners was entirely white.

This has caused dissatisfaction among many black stars, especially Will Smith, who has been dissatisfied with the Oscars for a long time.

Despite many excellent works such as "Ali" and "The Pursuit of Happyness", he could only be nominated for an Oscar. If it were a white male star, he would have won the award long ago.

So he had long been dissatisfied with this situation, so after the Oscar winners were announced, he vaguely mentioned his dissatisfaction in an interview with reporters.

At the same time, more black stars also expressed their dissatisfaction with this. A black host on a TV show joked: "It is well known that I did not attend the Oscars this year. Why? Because I am black."

Many talk show hosts also went all out for the Oscars, using sharp jokes on their shows to express their dissatisfaction.

But in the public opinion field, many white people do not care.

Someone joked under the black star's speech seeking fairness: "Wow, there are more nominations than in 96, that's a good thing, man."

In 1996, only one black star was nominated for an Oscar, which was clearly a mockery of the black community.

"Asians and Hispanics are about to cry when they hear this, haha." Others mocked the dissatisfaction of black stars from the perspective of other ethnic groups.

In fact, the black community is not the worst off at the Oscars.

According to the survey, from 1980 to 2015, the distribution of Oscar acting awards was that white actors won 84% of the awards, black actors won 10%, and Hispanic and Asian actors each won 3%.

White actresses won 89% of the awards, black actresses won 9% and Hispanic actresses won 3%.

The distribution of Oscar awards does not reflect the population proportion of the United States at all. In this regard, Hispanic actors fare even worse than black actors - although Hispanics account for 16% of the US population, only 3% of Oscar winners are Hispanic.

But that's not the worst, the worst is the stereotypes of black characters and minorities in awards.

That is, there is a strange unspoken rule that if you don’t play a black person as viewed by white people, you will have no chance of winning the award.

Some scholars have even published papers on this phenomenon.

The scholar, named Carter, used McDaniels' award-winning "Mammy" character as an example. He wrote in his paper: "Respectable black women must serve white families, rarely mention their family background, and are usually portrayed as asexual, unattractive, and plump."

In addition, there are many similar fixed characters, such as the "magic black man" who helps the white protagonist out of trouble, the "loose woman" who seduces people into depravity, the dangerous and evil "villain", the noisy and careless "exaggerated woman", the passionate "Latin lover", the white protagonist's "best friend" or "noble savage".

These characters accounted for 55 percent of the awards, with only a quarter of the characters not fitting into this stereotype.

This phenomenon also includes minorities, the most typical of which is Asians, who are either villains or geeks in the protagonist group, which fits the Western stereotype of Asians. However, although black stars expressed their dissatisfaction, the Oscars did not respond and seemed to have no intention of making any changes.

Therefore, in the field of public opinion, these dissatisfactions ultimately did not cause any splashes, but only left a series of traces.

However, not long after this incident, Norton's Eye suddenly published a message.

Will Smith will star in the superhero blockbuster "Splinter: Dark Shadows".

As soon as the news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of many viewers. Although black people have appeared as heroes on the screen before, this is the first time that such a large-scale production has been made and is obviously a series.

So everyone is paying close attention to when this movie will be released.

Especially in the black community, many people have directly expressed their support for Norton Eye's new movie, and they will support it many times.

Of course, he just listened to this kind of talk. Tang De didn't pay attention to this kind of public opinion, he was more concerned about the trend.

Sooner or later, more intense conflicts will break out between the black community and the white community, and the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States will also emerge in a few years, although some people are now raising the slogan "Black Lives Matter, Too."

But due to the lack of landmark events, the power of the black community still seems too loose and weak.

Therefore, Tang De has been preparing for the big situation, intending to grab the fat meat belonging to Black Panther directly into his own bowl.

However, perhaps because Norton's Eye had produced a black superhero movie in advance and fueled public opinion, Marvel suddenly announced that it would put Black Panther on the filming schedule.

The response caused by this news immediately overwhelmed that of The Eye of Norton. After all, Black Panther has a comic fan base, and Marvel is more influential in superhero themes than The Eye of Norton, so this situation is not surprising.

Soon after, Marvel announced the start of the casting, and many fans immediately found photos of all the black male stars and analyzed one by one to see who would be selected in the end.

For a while, "Black Panther" was in full swing, but there was no news about "Split: Dark Shadows".

In Norton's Eye, many senior executives are also worried about this situation.

"Tang, come up with a great advertising idea and give Marvel a hard blow!" Jimmy punched in the office and said viciously.

Tang De crossed his hands in front of his chest: "It looks like you hate them very much."

"Of course. They kept talking about cooperation with us, but now they are challenging us. How can we tolerate this?"

Facing Jimmy's anger, Tang De seemed calm.

After taking a sip of water, he said, "It's too cost-effective to fight an advertising war right now. Let them run for a while. The most important thing for us is to make a good movie."

"This is not like you, Tang. Aren't you the one who likes to overtake on curves the most?" Jimmy raised his eyebrows as if he didn't recognize Tang De.

Tang De smiled and said, "It's cool to overtake on a curve, but it's also cool to hold them down on a straight line so that they can't move."

(End of this chapter)