Regarding women, Li Bihua has a sentence that is very in place:
If I could pick and choose in the next life, I wouldn't want to be a man because I wouldn't want to love women. Such complex animals, sinister, jealous, stingy, gossipy, poisonous, arrogant, domineering, sensitive, hateful... I can't love it.
Three women in one play, two shadow queens fall out of the sky.
Recently, Ryan Murphy has produced another divine drama that makes Tomato Jun worship.
"Old Enemy"
Douban scored a frightening 9.2 points.
Netizens are excited to throw ten stars out!
The first season of "Old Enemies" pointed to the torn history of 30s actresses Betty Davis and Joan Crawford, both of whom are the most famous Oscar queens in Hollywood history.
(AFI "Greatest Actress of a Century" Ranking)
In the American Film Institute's (AFI) "Greatest Actress of a Century," Betty Davis came in second and Joan Crawford ranked tenth.
Betty Davis, 11 Oscar nominations, 2 awards, Golden Globe Lifetime Achievement Award, American Film Institute AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award, first female president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Joan Crawford, 3 Oscar nominations, 1 win.
The feud between the two is definitely the most exciting epic tearing war in the Golden Age of Hollywood.
(Old Enemies: Betty and Joan)
"Old Enemy" chose betty and Joan's only cooperation after their old age, shooting the story behind the stage in the movie "Blue Girl".
They fight to marry the same man in order to vent their hatred.
In order to grab the role of the unspoken rules director.
In order to fight the baby, the child is bought as a commodity.
In order to compete for headlines, it has caused a well-known storm of grabbing the C position in Hollywood history.
In short, they grab everything they can!
When the stage is like this, you can imagine how much fun one of the parties has when filming the scene.
The play opens with Marilyn Monroe winning at the 1961 Golden Globes for "Passion like Fire."
Watching Monroe rejoice on the stage, Joan Crawford's eyes shot poisoned arrows.
My breasts are also very good-looking
But I don't show off everywhere
Someone saw that there was a drama to explode, so they tried to interview Joan.
You know my readers will be wondering
What do the big stars think
Popular big star
As a result, Joan did not have the slightest intention of backing down, but instead took the opportunity to announce the news that she was going to make a comeback.
Before that, Joan was married to the CEO of Pepsi And was supposed to live a luxurious and comfortable life, but the CEO's husband unfortunately died.
Even the debt was left to her, for which she had to fire the gardener and hoe the grass herself in the sun.
In order to stand at the top of the Oscars again, and to achieve the purpose of making money, she decided to make a comeback.
Unfortunately, she is already in her 50s, and the role left for her is already a supporting role at the grandma level.
So she decided to find her own script and turn the original book.
The result -
Joanie I can't play Elvis's grandmother
Eventually, Joan found a book called "Lan Boudoir", and the story in the book was perverted and curious.
It tells the story of a pair of sisters Jane and Blanche, Jane was a child star, and when she grew up, she became a star in Blanche, and then one day Blanche was knocked off her legs, and some people said that Jane did it...
Years later, the sisters are both old and living in the same house, interdependent and tormented.
(It was this original work that was not known at that time)
Joan first approached Robert Aldridge, a second-rate director, and the two had collaborated on "The Most Poisonous Woman's Heart" in their early years.
Robert is now making some bad films of Roman history, and he is also in urgent need of a good work to turn over and gladly accept.
But unexpectedly, Joan actually chose to go to Betty, a nemesis she hadn't seen for many years, and let her be the other heroine of the film.
At this time, Betty also left Hollywood because of her past, and her life was forced to play a small supporting role on Broadway.
Hearing that Joan had come to look for herself, Betty's reaction was:
Who is it
Joan Crawford
You're kidding
But after reading the script, Betty understood that this was a good opportunity to turn around and accepted Joan's invitation.
After all these years, she still can't forget Joan's history, and the first thing she said when she called the director was:
Have you ever been on Joan Crawford?
In order to calm Betty's mood, the director finally slept with her, which is perhaps the most helpless in the history of the director's "unspoken rules".
"Old Enemy" restores many scenes at that time like a documentary, such as the group photo storm caused by the position grabbing at the signing ceremony of "Lan Boudoir".
According to the rules of the day, the actor sitting on the left must have been the front page of the newspaper the next day.
Although Betty grabbed the position, Joan was not reconciled, and went around behind her to carefully create a "harmonious" picture.
The photos taken when the two were talking and laughing on the set of "Blue Girl", were also restored with the same costumes, props and actions in "Old Enemies".
When filming begins, the two perform very differently, and Joan, who comes from a humble background, knows how to dot every staff member in the studio.
Even if it's just for good lighting, good props, Betty disdains these, and only wants to make a good movie by her own efforts.
Betty's first day on the set saw Pepsi's machine, apparently brought by Joan, even though Joan's Pepsi CEO husband had died.
Not long after, Betty also got a Coke machine to put on the set, but it was Coca-Cola.
Joan watched Betty wearing her old hood and making a big splash on the set, scolding but helpless.
Betty doesn't like Joan and keeps talking about her 34D prosthetic breasts.
Of course, they also have times of harmony, and their front line is united in the face of young actors.
The two also worked together to solve a beautiful-looking little girl who was afraid that she would be robbed of the limelight.
Can you please sign me a name?
It was for my grandmother
She's loved you since she was a kid
But the seemingly heartwarming scene didn't last long.
In the second episode, it is the tearing drama that finally begins.
Warner's boss found that the use of the duo to tear up can make the topic continue to hype, ignoring the original intention of director Robert to borrow the work to promote.
And Robert does not want to be suppressed by the two old women all the time, so he cooperates with the reporter Heda and breaks the news behind their backs to destroy the relationship between the two.
The two of them competed for their position in relation to Robert, but they didn't know they were being taken advantage of.
Old Enemy is Ryan Murphy's third self-written and directed work after American Horror Story and American Crime Story, and is also dubbed "American Tearing Story".
It is most suitable to hand over such a scene to a gay director.
(Ryan Fuf)
And "Old Enemy" is enough to book a place in the Performance Awards category of the Golden Globes and Emmy next year, as far as the episodes have aired so far.
In addition to the wonderful story, the wonderful acting skills of the actors have become the biggest attraction of this drama.
Joan's actor Jessica Lange, known as Aunt Lan, has won the Oscar for Best Actress and Supporting Actress.
Come and feel aunt Lan's divine acting skills.
(Joan Crawford)
(Jessica Lange)
Betty's actor, Susan Langdon, was also awarded the Oscar, and when she appeared with a flaming red lip and pink face, many viewers exclaimed that Betty Davis was possessed.
(Betty Davis)
Because the protagonists of the film are two old women, the director does not forget to arrange small fresh meat to hold the "old rotten meat".
The degree of beauty made Tomato Jun feel in love for a while.
Betty and Joan's history of tearing
Betty Davis is a red miaozheng academic school, the image temperament is very changeable, the study of acting skills is almost harsh, out of the mind.
At the age of 28, she won an Oscar for "Woman Woman".
(Woman Woman 1935)
It's no secret that Betty herself isn't pretty.
At that time, the Universal Film Company people went to pick up Betty at the train station, and they passed by.
Later, the other party said:
After watching the train station for half a day, I didn't find a single star-like person.
Yes, Betty is not beautiful.
Joan Crawford is a beautiful embryo, she will spoil, she will throw winks, she will show off sexiness, she will seduce men.
Joan Crawford came from humble backgrounds, and before becoming a star, Joan worked in a laundromat, danced stripteases, married a man who blew a saxophone, and divorced a few months later.
I've made, slept with the producer first, slept with the director in order to grab a role...
Joan's mother has been hovering between men, and at its most exaggerated time Joan has three fathers.
However, none of them were his biological fathers...
Betty's favorite irony is Joan's acting skills, saying that her best role is herself.
He said: "We act to be a good actor, and Joan is just a big star. ”
And Joan's response was: But I'm beautiful!
The real struggle the two began in the '40s.
Betty's fame began to decline, and her overvalued stature and very difficult temper made Warner executives very dissatisfied.
It just so happened that Joan and MGM terminated their contract because Joan had been dissatisfied with the role, and signed a low-priced contract with Warner, which was just used by Warner to contain Betty.
Joan soon won an Oscar for "Sea Of Desire" and played a beautiful turnaround battle.
Perfectly, the script was chosen by Betty because she felt the character was too low.
Betty's actor, French Towne, who played in the movie "Woman Woman", is Joan's boyfriend.
Betty, in order to get revenge on Joan and Frankie, did something to kill Joan.
And Joan is furious and marries Frankie! marriage! finish!
But four years later the two divorced hastily.
Joan is unable to have children for physical reasons, but loves adoption.
Once she saw in the newspaper that Betty's biological child was better looking than her adopted daughter, she adopted two more beautiful dolls in a fit of rage.
Betty's first reaction to this was:
"What, she went to the supermarket to buy the baby again?"
Even after Joan's death, Betty didn't let her go.
When the reporter went to interview Betty, she said:
"You shouldn't say bad things about dead people, you can only say good things... Joan Crawford is dead, well. ”
As explained at the beginning, Betty and Joan's feud did not stem from hatred, but from pain.
Although they are superstars that no one can match, they all have aspects that are not recognized.
What pains them most is that their shortcomings are the strengths of the other party that are worth showing off.
Betty has acting skills but craves beauty, and Joan has beauty but craves acting.
It's not so much about hating each other as it is about hating your own inadequacies.
In the play, the director Robert went around looking for a distribution company, and the result was either asked to change actors or asked to change directors.
In the end, they are helpless to find their old club, Warner, and are scolded and ridiculed by the Warner boss (the second episode mentions some of the entangled black history of Warner boss with Betty and Joan), and finally compromises with Robert willing to pay the advance.
It can be seen how realistic Hollywood is, and interests are supreme.
The anime in the opening scene of Old Enemy is joan and Betty being manipulated by a huge boss, like puppets.
It is both an allusion to their father who manipulates them in the story of "The Blue Girl", and a metaphor for Warner and Hollywood behind Betty and Joan.
Hollywood is a vanity fair, it is difficult to jump in and out, and many stars have killed each other for many years like Betty and Joan, but they can't find the real source behind it.
Hollywood gave them happiness and pain.
This poster of Joan and Betty in chains illustrates this point.
No matter how they struggled, they were canaries in a cage.
There is a line in "Old Enemies":
"You two have so much in common, and no one else on Earth is as similar as you are."
It is precisely because they have enemies in their hearts that they can transcend their shortcomings and reach the position of the superstar behind the shadows.
The enemy is the most "interesting" partner of their life.
The second season of "Old Enemies" has been booked by FX, and the protagonists of the story are Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
After watching "Old Enemy", Tomato Jun found that a woman lived in her body, and the fire of gossip was already burning.
Say nothing and sit back and wait for the update.