707 Disappointment
The curtains were gently pulled up, and the reporters on the street outside the window were bustling. Mark just now said that 200 reporters were present today, but now there are at least 500 people on the street. Such a grand occasion is one of the best even in the premiere of the summer season, but now it appears in his driveway.
George Clooney felt extremely ironic.
Just half a month ago, the preview of "Good Night, Good Luck" caused a sensation in the entire North America, and riding on the east wind of the "eavesdropping gate", it was as strong as the sky and unstoppable. Such a powerful attention was rare, and it seemed that the whole world was already within reach. But now, those attention has become a death talisman. The heat of the previous discussion was so surging, and the influence of the "plagiarism gate" was so fierce.
Imagine that as the pioneer of condemning the "eavesdropping gate", "Good night, good luck" carries the expectations and instructions of countless audiences, but now this work itself is involved in a plagiarism storm, and it seems that it is difficult to protect itself, let alone as a medium to suppress the "eavesdropping gate". This undoubtedly makes the audience angry, shame, hatred, complain, and negative emotions increase in twice or three times, and then vent to "Good night, good luck".
The most incredible thing is that the popularity of online discussions hit a new high. The search popularity of more than 40 million within 48 hours almost caused Google’s servers to become congested. The frequency of discussions in major communities has crossed the threshold of one million, and the discussion areas of several major portals are even more lively.
From standing at the peak and pointing out the country to falling to the bottom of the valley, everything happened in the flash. How energetic "Good night, good luck" was, George Clooney was so heartbroken at this time. Now it seems that the past half month is more like cooking oil with fire, flowers, and everything is paving the way for the collapse and fragmentation now.
Ridiculous, sad, and lamentable.
George looked at the extremely crowded crowd outside the window. He did not read the news or the Internet, but just this scene in front of him made him feel the breath of despair. But George knew more clearly that all this was just the beginning. After the press conference was over, the whole world would be destroyed and everyone was waiting to see his jokes.
George's fist couldn't help but clenched quietly, and his muscles were so tight that they began to tremble slightly. What was even more shameless was that in the past two days, Lance had never contacted him from beginning to end, had not called to show off his power, nor did he shout in any form, as if... as if he was just a trivial shameless person, the understatement was far more ruthless than the real fist, which made him feel that kind of contempt and contempt deep in his soul.
Things are not over, everything is not over. Since Lance wants to play this game, he will stay with him to the end. This is Hollywood, and the turnaround is only a moment, and so is Lance. However, this time he will not take it lightly, nor will he show mercy anymore. He will watch Lance lose his reputation and be crushed to pieces. He will watch Lance fall into hell and burn fire, and he will watch Lance's cherished things disappear bit by bit.
In order to make a comeback, he must calm down and overcome the current crisis first.
The fist slowly loosened, but it twitched a little because of being too hard. George calmly put his right hand into his pants pocket, concealing his panic, and then walked to the door with his head held high and his chest raised. Mark held the door handle in his hand and asked, "Are you ready? George, you know, we can't make mistakes, we can't make any mistakes!"
George just looked at Mark calmly and nodded slightly. No defense is needed, practical actions are the best evidence.
Mark looked straight into George's eyes, looked carefully, then pressed his right hand down, and the door lock opened. Then Mark opened the door panel, and the flash like a waterfall vented. George walked out with his head held high, and his whole figure was swallowed up by the silver halo.
The newspaper has not been released yet, and Percy has already taken the lead in getting the internal premiere version at midnight, "Los Angeles Times", "New York Times", "Wall Street Journal" and "San Francisco Chronicle", which is enough to represent the views of mainstream American media. The ink in the newspaper has not dried yet. Percy was covered in ink and quickly walked into Reims' apartment.
At this time, Lance sat cross-legged on the sofa, with five or six storyboards placed in front of him. He was looking down and concentrating. He did not look up when he heard the door opening. Percy hesitated for a moment and stopped opposite the coffee table, "Lance, is this our plan?"
Lance still didn't look up, but the pencil in his hand paused slightly. Percy knew that Lance's attention had come. He continued, "George held a press conference. He said that all this was just a misunderstanding. The script was indeed co-written by you and him. However, in the final version, the part of your first draft belonged to you was only about 30%, so he wrote your name behind him and Grant-heslov. As a result, when registering the copyright, the assistant missed the document that belonged to you, so he did not declare it. God, he was spraying all over his mouth, and the reporters believed it. This sounded like an extremely ridiculous lie! Is there something missing when reporting? He might as well say that he found the wrong hole when he was doing/love/!"
Percy could no longer bear it, venting his anger violently, but only to see the corner of Lance's mouth chuckling, which made Percy speechless, "You are still laughing? Jesus Christ, haven't you noticed his conspiracy? Push all the mistakes on the assistant and then you can escape?"
"He apologized, right?" Lance said with a smile, looking up.
Percy looked at Lance's blue eyes and was stunned, because a comfortable smile flashed in his eyes, as if he was not affected at all, "Yes, but... but just apologize?" Percy felt that his lungs were about to explode, "Didn't you hear what I said? George actually pushed all the mistakes on his assistant!"
"The rest of the crew will probably be shocked when they see you like this." Lance's answer was wrong, which made Percy pursed his lips awkwardly, and watched the curve of the corner of Lance's mouth rise slightly, "If I'm not wrong, at the end of the article, Grant was mentioned... I'm not sure, all the past three works were collaborated with George?"
Percy paused for a moment, looked down at the top of the "Los Angeles Times" with a look of shock, "Yes, the past four consecutive works have been... and mentioned... "Batman and Robin" were also a match made by Grant, which allowed George to enter the Warner Bros. "
"Oh, I don't know this." Lance raised his eyebrows. He really knew nothing about the inside story, "but I know that George and Grant are good friends wearing pairs of pants."
Grant was an actor and entered Hollywood in the 1980s. However, he was average in strength and appearance, and never had much achievements. But Lance knew that Grant and George were very good friends. After entering the 21st century, Grant participated in the filming, production, and screenwriter all the works involved in George.
"But...so what?" Percy said in confusion. "I haven't seen the media condemn him. It seems that everyone has accepted his apology. It's ridiculous!"
"George has written my name on the screenwriter list and registered copyright. In other words, my appeal has been achieved, and George has apologized. George, who has a lot of connections, took the initiative to bow his head. So, what are you looking forward to?" To be honest, George did not get into that loophole, and Lance was indeed a little disappointed.
The reason why Lance did not directly take out his first draft was to lure George to stand up and call him "unjust". As long as George quibbles, Lance immediately puts forward evidence and truly makes George unreasonable. By then, George will be truly ruined. But obviously, George is not that stupid, and the team behind him is not that stupid, stop the loss immediately and reduces the damage to within the control range. This crisis public relations are indeed excellent.
But Lance did not expect to defeat George in one breath because he knew clearly how deeply rooted George's connections were in Hollywood. So Lance had an attitude of speaking with facts from the beginning, not only to win public sympathy, but also to refuse to be aggressive and show his professional attitude. In this way, everyone in the circle knew that Lance was at a disadvantage. Even if George could get rid of it, the balance in everyone's heart would be tilted.
Since George's connections are deeply rooted, Lance uprooted it bit by bit!
"Believe me, the next step is to come over and apologize to me, and offer the copyright fee to do the whole show." Lance knew that since the crisis public relations have begun, George's team would not leave any talk, and would even force him to take the initiative to relieve the negative impact. "However, things are not like George's words. The media are hinting at the relationship between George and Grant, which is actually hinting that George did it intentionally and used Grant to replace me and deliberately register the copyright of the two of them. Although on the surface, George took the initiative to back down, admitted his mistakes, and took over the matter, the news media will not give up."
There are smart people in the circle. They have not pursued each other continuously, but they just don’t have enough benefits.
"So, let's just forget it?" Percy still felt unwilling to give up and couldn't calm down.
Lance smiled lightly, "Of course not." After waiting for this day for so long, he naturally would not let George get rid of it easily. He not only wanted George to be ruined, but also made George isolated! Since the media did not continue to explore, he would give the media some benefits and make them reluctant to forgive him.
Chapter completed!