FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: THEN and NOW

VANITIES

BRUCE FEIRSTEIN

When the screenwriter William Goldman famously remarked that “nobody knows anything" in Hollywood, he might well have added, “But that doesn’t stop everyone from having an opinion about everything" With the Oscars upon us, Vanity Fair compares the grand red-carpet pronouncements from the immediate past with their new, and improved, Oscar-season-2014 updates

THEN

NOW

COVETED SEAL OF APPROVAL

Rave review in The New York Times

Certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes

EXISTENTIAL THREAT

Online piracy

Netflix original content

SURPRISINGLY ENDEARING/ENDURING SCREEN ICON

Bruce Willis

Sylvester Stallone

ASPIRATION AL SHOWCASE

Premiering a film at Sundance

Going viral on Funny or Die

STODIO CHIEF’S 00TL00K

"We're increasing film production and starting an independentfilm division."

'We're cutting production by 50 percent and shifting our focus to television."

PRODOCER’S FIRST JOB

Trainee, William Morris mailroom

International arms dealer

ONBELIEVABLY TIRED CREATIVE TROPE

"It's not a sequel, it's not a remake, it's an origins story."

"He's a superhero with Personal Issues."

FINANCIAL SCHEME DO JOOR

Chinese

co-productions

Kickstarter-

crowdsourcing

OBJECT OF INDOSTRY CREATIVE ENVY

Avatar

Breaking Bad

BACHELOR NO. 1

George Clooney

Rupert Murdoch

AGENT BATTLE CRY

"We're all about building careers."

"Meet our new head of product placement and corporate branding."

CORRENT FILM CITED AS PARABLE FOR LIFE IN SHOW BOSINESS

The Hunger Games

All Is Lost

CAREER ADVICE

"If you want to change the world—by making movies that matter—come to work in Hollywood."

"If you want to change the world—without hearing the word zombies' or 'aliens'—go to work in Silicon Valley."

DOMESTIC

TORBOLENCE

"We're only staying together for the kids."

"I'd leave, but I don't want to give up the Oscar screeners."