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Especially Tom and Brad, the lovers who fell in love and killed each other.

Twenty years ago, in "Night Visits to Vampire", Tom received far more praise than Brad, especially Tom created the classic screen vampire Lester with his image of evil and seductive charm, which lasted for a long time; twenty years later, the collision between "Borrowing a Knife" and "Twelve Arhats" once again presented a similar ending.

Putting aside the huge differences in box office and reputation between the two works, Brad has disappeared directly now. With Brad's status and qualifications today, it is impossible to be banned. Even refrigerated cannot be said to be. But it is undeniable that Brad, who has been at the forefront of negative topics for a long time, will definitely need a period of cooling down to let the news settle and calm the public down. Otherwise, this will have an immeasurable impact on his image and his career planning.

But Tom is just the opposite. He is ushering in an excellent opportunity for his acting career.

After the broadcast of "Tonight Show", the audience began to notice the chemical reactions injected by the two actors into "killing people with a knife". Objectively speaking, the stylized and distinctive lighting use, calm and atmospheric picture scheduling, and sharp-tempo camera editing can be felt by even laymen; now people are gradually beginning to pay attention to the actor's performance, which coincides with the comments of previous film critics. As time goes by, the discussion on acting skills has gradually become lively.

No one should forget that this is awards season.

This year's awards season has not yet entered the real one, but works have begun to stand out one after another. In terms of actors, actors such as Don Chandel of "Rwanda Hotel", Johnny Depp of "Looking for Dream Island", Jim Carrey of "Eternal Sunshine of Beautiful Heart", Paul Giamati of "Glass of Wine Life", Javier Baden of "Late Sea", and Liam Neeson of "Kinsey Professor of Sexology" have all become the subjects of heated discussion.

But objectively speaking, none of these candidates can really trigger the awards season boom. At present, Don and Johnny are temporarily in the lead.

Thanks to the particularity of the theme of "Rwanda Hotel", Tang has a natural advantage in the moral commanding heights. In addition, he has attached great importance to eliminating racial discrimination in the past two years, and both awarded the best actors and actresses to Denzel Washington and Halle Berry the year before yesterday. Tang has indeed attracted a lot of attention. Especially recently, he played the "Twelve Arhats". Even though the film's performance was not as good as expected, thanks to the grand and grand publicity, his appearances were frequent not only in front of the media, but also in various parties in the circle, and his exposure rate has risen sharply.

Unfortunately, the box office performance of "Rwanda Hotel" is average, and the discussion among film critics in the circle is high, but it is slightly inferior in terms of public recognition. In the long publicity process of the awards season, this will be their main direction.

After Johnny unexpectedly won the Oscar nomination with the Pirates of the Caribbean, this actor with distinctive personality and unique style ushered in the best time of his career after entering middle age. "Looking for Neverland" is currently being screened, and it achieved a box office of 140 million US dollars in five weeks of release, with outstanding performance. The film tells the creation story of Peter Pan, a household name in the United States, and has laid a strong mass base. It can be said to be the leader in the current heat of discussion.

But it cannot be ignored that the great success of "Pirates of the Caribbean" made everyone shocked everyone to win Johnny's first Oscar nomination in his career, which actually caused a lot of controversy. Because Johnny's performance focuses more on personality breakthroughs and breaking traditions. In terms of the depth of performance and the thickness of his skills, it is not enough to match the Oscar nomination. Therefore, in the eyes of industry people, it is up to be discussed whether Johnny can win the acting nomination again.

The two actors who are currently gathering a lot of calls have their own advantages and disadvantages. The long awards season has just begun, and everything is possible. Now, "killing with a knife" is here.

The box office of 96 million US dollars in two weeks won the hearts of the audience for "killing with a knife", and the heat of discussion remained high; at the same time, the praise of film critics escorted Tom, allowing Tom to rise up strongly in a silent manner.

“This is the hardest performance in my career.”

Tom repeatedly emphasized this point in previous publicity. People originally thought that Tom was talking about physical expenditure and treated "killing people with a knife" more as "Mission Impossible"; but now people have found that "killing people with a knife" may be "despair". Tom not only endured a lot of action scenes in the movie, but also raised severe challenges with his delicate and profound performance.

"People" Weekly commented in a latest issue of the magazine published in December, "Maybe this is the hardest performance of Tom Cruise's career, and the most exciting one."

The magazine conducted an exclusive interview with the crew of "Borrowing a Knife to Kill" and focused on the performance. It talked about the communication and practice between Lance as a director and Tom, talked about the difficulties faced by Tom during the performance, and talked about the difficulties between Lance as an actor and Tom. "Tom was honest and it was very painful to walk out of his own comfort field. Even under the pressure of Lance, the mental pressure reached the extreme, but often after rest, the habit will return to the body again, and then we must experience the previous pain again. Lance kept pressuring, I kept struggling, and then escaped from the comfort field again, giving the performance Lance wanted. Habits, this is a terrible thing, and getting rid of habits is a very painful thing."

At the end of the interview, "People" Weekly commented, "When the white-haired, vicissitudes of face, and ruthless professional killer appears on the big screen, the audience is easily confused: Who is he, he is not Ethan Hunter, not Tom Cruise, or even an actor, but a lone wolf galloping in the night of the chaotic city, and a professional killer who abandons his name and self."

From newspapers to magazines, from radio to television, from media to audiences, there are more and more discussions about Tom's acting skills. Some people agree, naturally some people oppose it, and some people always maintain the prejudice of "idol vase". But it is undeniable that this time, more people still look at Tom with the eyes of "actors". This is a difficult but perfect change, which seems subtle, but is actually great.

As the awards season progresses, Tom is chasing forward step by step. Don and Johnny not far away don't look far away, which makes Paramount excited and they really do it. They really do it.

At the beginning, almost everyone thought Lance was crazy. Even Brad Gray, but in the end he chose to take a gamble and voted for Lance. Not only was it just an investment of 60 million, but it was also his development prospect in Paramount and his competitive capital with Shirley Lansing. Now, it is time for a bumper harvest.

"Borrowing a knife to kill" not only achieved a huge breakthrough in box office, but profit is basically no problem. The only problem now is how much can you make. At the same time, Tom's call for awards season is slowly rising at a stable pace, and the situation is getting better and better. Maybe Tom can really win the Oscar nomination again; maybe Tom can really win the Oscar nomination; maybe Tom can really win the Oscar Little Golden Man; maybe "Borrowing a knife to kill" can really win both fame and fortune.

Of course, it is too early to be complacent now. Not to mention that the awards season has just begun, even the nomination list for the Golden Globes was not announced last year's "The Last Samurai". After the movie was released, Warner Bros. forced Tom to be nominated for the acting skills, which won Tom the Golden Globes nomination, but returned empty-handed on the Oscar. Instead, Ken Watanabe was nominated for the best supporting actor and failed. In the long awards season, everything is possible. Now, any carelessness may lead to all efforts being wasted.

However, "killing with a knife" is indeed in a virtuous cycle at present.

Not only Tom, unexpectedly, the voices about Reims suddenly rose. "As a director and a screenwriter, Strello once again showed us his mature and precise control. The pace was slow but extremely explosive, the colors were bright but cold. The exploration of social connotations once again made people think. After the City of God, Strello once again dedicated classic works."

This is from the comments from "Movie Review". They believe that Lance has hope to hit the nominations for Best Director, Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, etc. again. However, this is not a surprise. After all, "City of God" has won the nominations for Lance and has won three Little Golden Man. Interestingly, many people believe that Lance should also win corresponding recognition in performance.

"Restricted and calm, profound and timeless, with proper advancement and retreat, and easy retention. Strello's performance has an indescribable spirituality, and every move is full of stories. His solid performance skills and profound interpretation ability allow us to witness the emergence of a genius actor with our own eyes."

The critics’ praise for Lance is no less than Tom. Some even believe that Lance is the first male lead to "killing with a knife" because Max maintains the core idea of ​​the entire movie; some people believe that Lance and Tom are the two male leads in the whole movie, and should not be divided into supporting roles, because the collision between the two runs through the entire story structure. But no matter what, as a new actor, Lance has won more than unimaginable attention.

This is indeed an unexpected surprise for the crew of "killing with a knife". To be continued.

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