Chapter 1218: Digging Your Own Grave
When Li Mu arrived in Hollywood with Wei Lan, Paul Keane had already published the article written by his friend through many media.
Although the article was written by Paul Keane's friend, it is written in the first person by Paul Keane himself, and the content is very simple, that is, Paul Keane apologized to Li Mu and the American people, and took all the responsibility on himself, claiming that his son did not know, and everything was his own momentary confusion.
Paul Keane's information delivery ability is not even one-tenth of Li Mu's, so after this article was published, it did not cover a large number of users in the first time, but Paul Keane made a second-hand preparation, he made a phone call to Elon Musk, a famous broker and calf king in Silicon Valley, the purpose is very simple, knowing that he still has some friendship with Li Mu, so he asked him to help mediate and intercede in front of Li Mu, and did not ask Li Mu to make any concessions, only asked Li Mu to stop.
Elon Musk's reputation in Silicon Valley is indeed not very good, mainly due to the big mouth of his buddy who can never be controlled, and often makes nonsense in public, and no one wants to take his words seriously until he is really successful.
If it was placed before, with Paul Keane's status, he would not take the initiative to ask Elon Musk for help, but now there is no way, except for Elon Musk, he really doesn't know who to ask for help, before this, Paul Keane wanted to ask Spielberg for help, but Spielberg refused him without hesitation.
Spielberg sees the problem very thoroughly, he knows very well that if he wants to maintain a close cooperative relationship with Li Mu, he must unswervingly stand in Li Mu's camp, and he will never do this kind of thing to speak for his opponent.
Elon Musk also feels that Paul Keane is a bit of a fuck to find himself in this matter, he is very proficient in human feelings, and knows that human feelings are the most afraid of consumption, if he speaks for Li Mu's opponent, then Li Mu's attitude towards himself will first change, and if the matter is not resolved, he will not be able to get benefits from Paul Keane.
But Elon Musk couldn't refuse.
He is different from Spielberg, the latter is the godfather of the entire Hollywood, and has great fame in the entire United States and even the world, in his social impression, even if he rejects Paul Keane, Paul Keane does not dare to take him, compared with himself, it is nothing more than relying on PayPal to earn some wealth and small fame, and there is no strong foundation in the United States, if Paul Keane targets himself in the future, it is really a big trouble.
So Elon Musk thought of a compromise trick, he readily agreed to Paul Keane, and immediately got in touch with Li Mu and took the initiative to go to Hollywood to meet him, but he did not mention to Li Mu that Paul Keane entrusted him to make peace.
Li Mu still has a good impression of Elon Musk, although he now looks like a fool who only talks every day after he has achieved something, but for Li Mu, this buddy's future development prospects are no less than Mark Zuckerberg.
Elon Musk's advanced thinking represents a future that ordinary people can't imagine, not to mention, Tesla alone is a company with infinite possibilities, Tesla was born at the beginning of the vast majority of people in the eyes of a chicken rib product full of science fiction, but, Elon Musk Musk has accurately seen the trend of strengthening environmental protection in countries around the world in the future, as more and more countries have introduced a ban on the sale of fuel vehicles, Tesla's development space is also increasing, in Li Mu's view, if he wants to become a major shareholder or even owner of Tesla in the future, he can't do without Elon Musk who has extremely avant-garde ideas.
Li Mu, who arrived in Hollywood, politely declined Spielberg's invitation to live in his home, and asked Li Ziwei to book four ultra-luxury suites on the top floor of a five-star hotel in Hollywood in advance, which are isolated from several other rooms on the same floor, and have an exclusive elevator, so privacy and security are very good.
The distribution of the room is very simple, Li Mu, Li Ziwei and Wei Lan are all one set per person, and the three bodyguards led by Wang Yuanlang live in the remaining set, as for the one that Wei Lan lives in, it must be empty at night.
After checking into the hotel, the first person to visit was Spielberg, as well as other DreamWorks executives, as well as the three American stars of "Flying Tigers", namely Tom Hanks, Leonardo and Anne Hathaway.
Li Mu's time is tight, the press conference of "Flying Tigers" will be scheduled to be held tomorrow morning in the grand ballroom of this hotel, after the press conference, Li Mu's special plane took off directly from Los Angeles to Huaxia that night, because the itinerary was too hurried, including Spielberg, these people rushed to the hotel to meet Li Mu as soon as possible.
In the living room of the hotel suite, Li Mu once again met with these "old friends" who had met at least once, starting from Spielberg, everyone shook hands and hugged Li Mu cordially, and when it came to Anne Hathaway, this girl who was about the same age as Li Mu became extremely shy and twisted, and the gentle hug made her cheeks float with two red flowers.
Since the last time she was isolated for many days due to an accidental blood infection in Huaxia, Anne Hathaway still has some lingering palpitations every time she recalls that experience, but in addition to her lingering palpitations, what makes her heart miss is the Li Mu who has sown some kind of tenacious seed in her heart.
During the time she returned to the United States, Anne Hathaway often thought of Li Mu, and always unconsciously added some uncontrollable fantasies on the basis of missing him, and always assumed what would happen if he became her boyfriend.
After dreaming of Li Mu countless times in her dreams and having many indescribable events with him in her dreams, Anne Hathaway knew clearly in her heart that she had fallen in love with that mysterious and charming Oriental man.
After missing for so long, finally meeting again, and he hugged himself like an old friend, which made Anne Hathaway's girlish heart burst, and she was a little shy, and she didn't know what to do.
Li Mu did not pay attention to Anne Hathaway's shyness, Spielberg quickly introduced the topic to the topic, he said: "Mr. Li, we have done all the preparatory work for the press conference, in order not to be surprised, we set up the venue one day in advance, and it was fully accepted yesterday, and we have notified all the media in advance, this press conference with your participation will definitely be the grandest and most high-profile press conference for new movies in Hollywood in recent years!"
Li Mu said with a smile: "Steven, with you as a great director, the attention of the entire Hollywood will be attracted, not to mention that Tom, Leonardo and Anne are in charge this time, even if there is no me, this press conference will definitely attract great attention." ”
Tom Hanks said with a serious face: "Mr. Li, if you talk about social attention and influence now, I don't think anyone in the whole Hollywood can compare with you, not to mention that YY is now the most commonly used software for netizens in the United States, I believe that our movie will definitely become a phenomenal film." ”
Li Mu smiled slightly: "I hope everyone can do their best to make this movie better." ”
Spielberg said: "Our "Flying Tigers" also has a very big advantage, that is, our film respects history, and the three views are correct, "The Last Samurai" had such a big situation before, which led to the film industry's tampering with history, has become the most disgusting and rejection of people all over the world, at this time, our "Flying Tigers" is just launched, just can borrow from the "Last Samurai" incident, and "The Last Samurai" as a negative teaching material, "Flying Tigers" It will become a positive teaching material for the entire Hollywood and even the world film industry. ”
Li Mu nodded approvingly, and as soon as he remembered the textbook-like destruction of "The Last Samurai" that he secretly manipulated, Li Mu secretly sighed in his heart the skills and importance of public opinion guidance.
This movie was touted by so many people in the previous life, including in the minds of Chinese netizens, it has a very high rating and status, but after being attacked by the Achilles heel of it, this movie immediately became a street rat that everyone shouted and beats, which fully shows the great difference between the two sides of the event, and sometimes, there is only one thought difference between life and death.
Li Mu asked Spielberg with interest: "Those people related to "The Last Samurai", how is the situation now?"
Spielberg lamented: "Basically all the people who have something to do with this film have suffered heavy losses, Warner has been boycotted by the people, several films that Warner has been working on have now temporarily changed their distributors, Warner has begun to replace Warner's original role with externally controlled shell companies and small and medium-sized film and television companies, and in the future, these films will ostensibly be as disconnected from Warner as possible, in order to avoid audience boycott." ”
Speaking of this, Spielberg said: "But the worst thing is Edward Zwick and Tom Cruise, the original contracts of the two have now been terminated by the investor, and this is because there is a major problem with their own reputation, and there are terms on reputation in the Hollywood contract, if the actor and director have problems with their own reputation, the investor has the right to directly terminate the contract, so the two of them have a very big loss, especially Tom Cruise. Cruise, now almost all the ads he endorses have been stopped, and many advertisers are about to sue him for compensation. ”
Li Mu raised his eyebrows in surprise: "In this way, in the next two to three years, I am afraid that the two of them will fall into the quagmire of a sharp decline in income." ”
Spielberg nodded and said, "That's right, in two or three years, most of their income should be cut." ”
Saying that, Spielberg sighed lightly and said, "But it's also their own fault, before the accident of this movie, they have been promoting their obsession with Japanese culture to the outside world, and now it seems that their original remarks are simply digging their own graves......"