Chapter 700: Black Mirror (1)
After many years, the work in which he participated as the protagonist finally came out, which should have been a great joy for Wang Qingjun. But Wang Qingjun is not happy at all now.
He flipped through his phone, and the news he found on Weite was like this:
[The actors expressed regret for starring in Han Jue's movie: I didn't expect Han Jue to be such a person!]
[Zhang Zishang angrily reprimanded the media for having no bottom line]
[Han Jue's new work "Black Mirror" was boycotted on a large scale]
【……】
The media used the words "suspected", "probably", or added a question mark at the end of the sentence, like a group of hungry leeches, using all their might to suck more blood before Han Jue fell.
Some marketing accounts eat two melons with one melon, open two accounts with opposite opinions, hedge risks, and harvest two waves of leeks. This time, some people also operated like this, one number was used to scold Han Jue angrily, and the other number called on everyone to calm down, saying that the video was strange. But the former is much more popular than the latter, because everyone can't calm down. Once a person is caught up in a collective, the reason of the few will not play a role at all.
Whether it is a marketing account or a media and opinion leaders who remain neutral and call on everyone to wait for the police to report, anyone who does not denounce Han Jue will be labeled as "collected money", and the comment area will be muddyed and smoky.
It's not that there are no rational people, but those who want to be reasonable are as loud as those who want to mess around.
Wang Qingjun dared to swear with his 20 years of experience in the industry and 10 years of proficiency in observing words and looking at the wind, and this matter evolved like this, and there was definitely a driving force behind it.
But others are soft-spoken, a small shrimp, they can't say anything, and it's useless to say it.
Encountering a shocking melon like this has always had nothing to do with a small person like him who is struggling on the edge of the circle, but this time because of "Black Mirror", he ate melons and ate them, and was forced to eat them to the center of the stage.
The group of friends around Han Jue have already gone through a round of questioning and have been asked to express their position, and now it is their turn to be forced by reporters and public opinion to stand in line.
Either believe in Han Jue or don't believe in Han Jue. There are no intermediaries.
When Gu Yu was asked by a reporter what he thought of Han Jue's matter, he just asked the reporter with a sympathetic face, "Have you ever thought about whether your actions have caused trouble to the world or made the world a better place?", "Do you really care about the truth?", "Do you think you are worthy of the profession of [reporter]?", the reporters were still chattering. Gu Yu didn't bother to talk nonsense, and turned around and walked away directly.
Millie was controlled by the agency and was not allowed to speak, but she also had a way to accidentally "slip her hand" to give a "problematic video" micro-feature to someone else, although the like was quickly canceled, but it has been screenshotted and spread.
Jack and Jennifer have the most distinct attitudes, and they don't believe the video.
Jack said that he knew Han Jue's character, and he dared to swear by his career that Han Jue was by no means such a bad person.
Jennifer said that she had also been deeply affected by power, had seen the shadows, and the wicked should be punished, but catching a person and blindly attacking without saying anything was just from one extreme to the other, "Because in the era of big data, the noise of the Internet has become something you have to listen to, but noise is not the truth." Jennifer's statement was regarded as a betrayal by many women at home and abroad, although she was scolded badly, she still did not change her attitude, and was unmoved.
In addition to them, there are also some actors who have worked with Han Jue who choose to support Han Jue, such as the actors of "Dark Web", such as the actors of "Time and Space Traveler".
But there are also those who take the opposite position. For example, there are several famous and popular actors in "Black Mirror", and they jointly stated that they didn't expect Han Jue to be such a person, if they had known earlier, they would never have participated in Han Jue's works, and then they decided to "donate all their salaries to the Children's Protection Foundation". The move won a round of applause from the outside world.
These people also called Wang Qingjun and invited him to denounce Han Jue together.
Wang Qingjun discussed with his agent early, he should have joined those people and made the most appropriate move at the most appropriate time: turn around with public opinion to criticize Han Jue, and then donate all the small amount of salary, stand on the opposite side of Han Jue - that is, the side of the masses, and after earning fame and benefits, he turned over his salted fish that had been exposed to the sun for nearly ten years.
But just before agreeing, Wang Qingjun rejected the invitation of those people.
"What are you thinking?" The agent was very puzzled by Wang Qingjun's decision, and called Wang Qingjun to ask, "Do you think it's like this, Han Jue can still get up?"
"I just think it'......," Wang Qingjun didn't know what to say.
Wang Qingjun flipped through the computer and saw a "Black Mirror" actor forwarding a female director's support for [Me Too]. The fame of the actor of "Black Mirror" is not low, and yesterday he sent a long article to denounce Han Jue through Weite, which received a lot of attention, and he is in the limelight.
Wang Qingjun is not smart but he is not stupid, seeing the wind and rudder for a long time, he can also perceive some "wind direction" in advance, he knows that after this [Me Too] movement, there will be a large wave of female-led works in the film and television industry. As the leading actor of Han Jue's new work, if he turns around and attacks Han Jue, he earns his eyes and hands in his name, even if he can't get into any feminist circles like this popular actor, but he can jump from a big ship that is about to sink to another speedboat that sets sail, it is already lucky, and the rest is even better to be able to rub a little bit of resources. It's just that a voice in his heart has always appeared, stopping him and telling him not to do it.
"What's that?" the agent asked over the phone. Standing in line has never been a gentle and consequence thing, and the agent is very worried about what Wang Qingjun is doing.
Faced with the agent's questioning, Wang Qingjun didn't dare to say that it was his intuition or his lost conscience that stopped him, he could only say: "Yes, I just think it...... Things don't necessarily end like this, Han Jue ......"
The agent scoffed, "What if? in case he can get back, or if he can get out of the way?"
Wang Qingjun said: "Some people on the Internet said that there was a problem with that video. ”
"There is a problem...... "missed the opportunity to change his career, and the agent seemed to be helpless, and his voice was a little weak at this time, "The analysis of those people on the Internet is useful." He gave an example, saying that some time ago there was a picture that was very popular, and the content was shocking at first glance and suspicious at second sight, so a group of masters jumped out and analyzed that the pictures were processed and fake. As a result, the picture is true, but those masters who swear by it instantly pretend to be dead, and they are not responsible for their past remarks, and the fans below are also "everyone makes mistakes" posture.
"If you pin your hopes on those melon-eating people on the Internet, you are very wrong. The broker said.
Wang Qingjun squinted his eyes: "Aren't the police also analyzing? They can't be mistaken." ”
The agent had already heard that Wang Qingjun's rhetoric was quibbling and raising the bar, and he said: "I don't know when the analysis results will come out." After waiting for a few seconds, he added, "Even if the results come out, it's too late." ”
Wang Qingjun was silent and could not refute. For he quickly thought of several incidents that would prove that the late truth is meaningless.
Once those rumors about celebrities spread, if the official refutation of the rumors did not follow up immediately, the "reversal" will be slow, and the three of them will become tigers, and it will be difficult to change everyone's first impression after it is stable. When the heat of this matter is overshadowed by the next thing, everyone's attention is diverted, and then run out to say what the truth is, no one cares anymore. The media is one of the "accomplices" in this kind of feast, and they will not report the truth with their faces, and the benefits are not large, so in the end, it often becomes that after the truth is revealed, only fans run around to forward and refute the rumors, and passers-by don't care, they only feel that their humble appearance is very ridiculous, and they feel that their "noisy" messages occupy their attention and waste their time.
Something like what happened to Han Jue is not something that can be reversed in the short term. By the time ten days and a half months had passed, everyone's attention had dissipated little by little, and by the time the truth came out, no one had seen it. Once prejudices are formed, they cannot be eliminated. Unless Han Jue can do another thing that has attracted global attention, draw the attention of netizens again, and then announce the detailed and reliable truth to clarify, and this will only save some fans and allow his career to continue.
But don't talk about the result, just say that [Han Jue has another thing that has attracted global attention and brought the attention of netizens together], is this possible?
"Are you going to use your future to bet on whether Han Jue can get up?" the agent asked.
Wang Qingjun did not speak.
"Or ......" on the phone, the agent's tone was solemn, "You can't do it?"
It was said that it was in the heart. Wang Qingjun's lips opened slightly, wanting to say something, but all the words finally turned into silence.
“……”
No one spoke on either end of the phone.
The wordless silence pierced like a needle, causing Wang Qingjun to twist his body uneasily.
After all, conscience is a rare thing for him that has long been discarded.