Chapter 1174: A catastrophe

The sky is indeed falling!

Meyer never dreamed that what he thought had been handled perfectly by himself would come to an unbelievable super reversal in half an afternoon!

Just now at the press conference, he condemned the scum who leaked the script, and announced that Warner would never bow to the wicked, which won the support and appreciation of the media and the public, but I didn't expect that as soon as I turned my head, Warner completely aroused public anger on the Internet!

After Meyer learned about the situation on the Internet, he was a little overwhelmed!

I never imagined that the American people would suddenly unite to boycott Japanese bushido, and as soon as bushido was boycotted, "The Last Samurai", a super-large film being filmed, became the target of the whole United States.

No way, "The Last Samurai" was originally extremely flattering to bushido, it can be said that every word in the script is in the service of bushido, and every penny of the $140 million budget is also in the service of bushido, coincidentally, this script has just been completely leaked, and Warner just admitted the authenticity of the script at a press conference, which is to confirm the guilt of glorifying the spirit of bushido, how can it not be resisted by the public?

In the face of patriotism and nationalism, almost all the media have betrayed Warner and stood with the American people, and only a small number of media controlled by the Japanese chaebol have not yet expressed their position, that is because they are now studying the crisis public relations plan, but in the current form, the possibility of relying on crisis public relations to turn the situation back is very small.

Tom Cruise's agent in Hollywood was almost out of his mind after learning the news, the popularity of Hollywood's first-line big names has always been stable, and there has never been a case like him who was suddenly criticized and scolded by countless netizens, and his career path was greatly affected.

What worries the agent even more is that an extremely powerful whirlpool of public opinion has been formed on the Internet, which is involving more and more fans who are neutral and even biased towards idols, and once these people are involved, they will be quickly assimilated, maybe ten minutes ago they were still hardcore fans of Tom Cruise, and ten minutes later, they have begun to take the initiative to scold Tom Cruise.

The agent realized that if he didn't find a way, he would be treated like a street rat and everyone would shout at him when Tom Cruise came back from New Zealand!

Immediately, the agent immediately called Tom Cruise, who was far away in New Zealand.

At the filming site in New Zealand, because the director temporarily returned to the United States to deal with the leakage of the script, the entire crew did not start work, but Tom Cruise was extremely dedicated, even if he did not work, he did not rest, but communicated the script with Japanese actors such as Ken Watanabe, and he, like these Japanese actors, hoped to do his best to make this movie the best.

Coincidentally, what Tom Cruise and several leading actors are communicating with is the next major shot that will be filmed - the scene where Ken Watanabe dies in the charge.

Tom Cruise read the script in detail, and couldn't help but sigh: "This is the biggest flashpoint of the whole play, Mr. Watanabe's burden is very heavy! ”

Ken Watanabe smiled slightly and said, "I've been waiting for this scene for a long time, and I will definitely do my best not to disappoint everyone!"

Saying that, Ken Watanabe looked at Tom Cruise again and said seriously: "Tom, in this scene, your role is also very heavy, you are the first foreigner to wear a bushido uniform and appear in the movie as a samurai, our investors want to make bushido more acceptable to Westerners, and it is mainly up to you to impress those Western audiences." ”

Tom Cruise nodded hurriedly and said politely, "Mr. Watanabe, please rest assured, it is my honor to be able to play such a role, and I will do my best!"

If you talk about coffee positions, Tom Cruise's status is far higher than Watanabe's Ken, but Tom Cruise knows very well that from the perspective of the investors behind this movie, Watanabe Ken is the actor they value the most, because in this movie, the real bushido spirit depends on his performance to carry out the most in-depth interpretation, and he, the so-called male lead, is actually serving him.

In fact, in the plot structure of the film itself, Ken Watanabe's character is the one who is truly supreme, not only has he been interpreting the so-called bushido spirit, but also full of various human aura, almost no shortcomings, and countless loyal followers.

Even the male number one like Tom Cruise has to be impressed by his human brilliance in the play, willing to become his subordinate, and do everything for him, and what's more interesting is that in this movie, even the Japanese emperor is his student and respects him very much, which shows the supremacy of Ken Watanabe's character in this movie.

Tom Cruise also knows very well that Ken Watanabe is the most valued actor of the Japanese chaebol behind this movie, and the only irreplaceable actor in the whole movie, so although Tom Cruise is the male lead, he still respects him very much.

At this time, Ken Watanabe sighed, "I hope that through this film, the world can better understand the Japanese spirit of bushido, which is a treasure of Japanese culture and the essence of the Yamato nation." ”

Tom Cruise nodded and said with a smile: "I believe that this movie will definitely spread the great spirit of bushido all over the world." ”

The best way to win a market is to sing the praises of the people living in this market and their culture, which is what every Hollywood movie star knows, Tom Cruise may not really like Japanese culture and bushido spirit, but he knows very well that after labeling himself like this, he will be able to better enter the Japanese market, so that Japanese audiences will be sought after, Japanese film and television companies will pay, and even be familiar with Japan's super chaebols.

But he never thought that this seemingly shrewd decision and approach would bring a huge storm to himself!

Tom Cruise was so happy when he received a call from his agent that he even sent an invitation to his agent on the phone, hoping that he could come to New Zealand to relax for a few days, because the environment here is so fantastic.

The agent almost vomited blood, and said with hatred: "When is it, you are still so idle, do you know that the domestic Internet is about to scold you now?!"

Tom Cruise frowned, "Scold me?

The agent sighed: "I don't understand one sentence or two sentences, in short, it was your participation in this movie that caused the trouble, are you convenient to surf the Internet now? I sent you some links on YY, you can take a look for yourself." ”

Tom Cruise glanced at several Japanese actors across from him and said, "I'm exchanging scripts with a few Japanese actors, what's going on, just tell me on the phone." ”

At this time, Tom Cruise didn't realize how serious the matter would be, and he thought it was nothing more than a fan scolding, which didn't hurt at all.

As soon as the agent heard that he was exchanging scripts with Japanese actors, he almost collapsed, and said again and again: "I'm-begging-you (I beg you) Tom, don't get so close to those Japanese, if you still want to keep your acting career, hurry up and go back to your residence, turn on the computer, board YY, and take a look at those links I sent you!"

Tom Cruise became alert at this time, although the agent usually likes to joke, but he has never used the word Begging, which is very unusual when he hears it.

So Tom Cruise said to Ken Watanabe and the others, "Guys, you talk first, and I'll go back and use the computer to check something." ”

The others didn't pay much attention to it, and after Tom Cruise left, they began to communicate in pure Japanese.

After Tom Cruise returned to his residence, the first thing he did was to open his notebook and log in to his YY, and as soon as he went online, he found that his agent had sent him more than a dozen messages, and each of these dozen messages was a URL link.

Tom Cruise clicked on the first link, and when he entered, he was a little dumbfounded.

"Why are they all a bunch of old photos?" Tom Cruise, who was amazed, continued to look at it, and it didn't matter what he saw, and suddenly his heart rose to his throat!

This is the post that Li Mu first posted in Tom Cruise's fan community, and now there are more than 10,000 replies to it, and after Tom Cruise read it, he felt uneasy, what's going on? Who wants Black Bushido, or is someone deliberately going against him? To make a movie, does it need to be on the platform to the height of patriotism and nationalism?

Looking at the link behind again, Tom Cruise was dumbfounded!

The posts that followed were all aimed directly at themselves!

The tone is better, all of them are questioning why they want to take on this movie and why they want to wash the ground of the extreme bushido spirit, while more people directly scold themselves in the most vulgar language, some people say that they are bastards who only care about making money, some people say that they are lackeys of the Japanese, some people say that they will do anything to make money, and some people say that they are simply a brazen traitor......

And almost every post that is responsible for oneself has a large number of netizens who are fanatically following, and the replies to any post are more than thousands, and even more than half of them are more than 10,000 replies, so that the entire Internet is full of scolding Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise has been looking for a long time, and he has not even found a person to speak for himself, even if he is just an explanation for himself.

This sudden change made Tom Cruise panic in front of the computer, and he couldn't even hold the mouse steadily, he never thought that he would take over the filming of this movie, and his daily public remarks about liking Japanese culture, would cause such a catastrophe for himself!