That night, CBS's official Weibo administrator had no choice but to keep deleting negative comments, but he didn't expect it to trigger a stronger backlash from netizens, many stubborn netizens were angered because they were repeatedly deleted messages, and began to attack non-stop speeches throughout the night, and the next morning, Li Xiaole and Lei Ting got up and saw that the number of messages had reached 300,000, and they were all stunned.

These netizens began to change from "asking CBS to apologize" to: "Call on all boycotts of Sony's products~!" Don't buy a Sony Ericsson phone as well as any of its company's products from today. ”

The flood of comments on Weibo also made Sony Japan's head office feel the strong public opinion pressure from China, and immediately issued an order, CBS apologized soon after, and immediately hid the host George Best on the next day's show...... and made a public statement.

"We are aware that during CBS's recent coverage of Li Xiaole, the relevant personnel used inappropriate words many times, and our company has made the following decision in this regard.

1. The employee related to the manuscript has been dismissed;

2. CBS "Hollywood Boulevard" host George Best was suspended for 45 days;

3. This station will publicly apologize on the evening news.

Once again, we apologize, especially to Mr. Lee, who has made the Chinese community around the world extremely proud, including the Chinese employees of CBS. In the future, we will conduct self-examination, improve the training and control of editors, and respond to all constructive criticism, and we will do better. ”

After CBS issued this apology declaration, netizens on Sina Weibo fell into a carnival, and everyone was celebrating the victory, which was a rare victory for Chinese netizens in the face of foreign media, forcing CBS to apologize in just a few days, this kind of deeds in China, where the Internet is gradually booming, makes everyone extremely excited.

The biggest beneficiary of this matter is undoubtedly Li Xiaole and the novel "Slumdog Millionaire", a little-known Indian novel, which has also been copied in a short period of time, and Jason Landry, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, spoke highly of the original novel in his column:

"I read QA, the original novel of Ghetto Millionaire, and I thought it was an Indian realistic criticism, but after reading it closely, I was completely captivated by it, and the book is a novella with a Hollywood-esque smooth narrative, suspenseful and thrilling storytelling.

It has the romance and brightness of an American story, the temperament of a fairy tale, the grand pattern of an epic film, and the humanistic care of European films, which is a rare masterpiece. ”

Not only that, but what is unexpected is that CBS, which has just apologized for racial discrimination, has also begun to sing praises for Li Xiaole's new film "Slumdog Millionaire", and even Li Xiaole's undoubted singer, CBS "King of the Scene" Cronkite, has expressed great expectations for this movie.

"It will be a huge challenge for any director to make such a profound Indian film, and if he can master the subject matter and perfectly present the story described in the book, then I believe that he will be there at the next Oscars, and if I am optimistic about which film will be a strong contender for best picture at next year's Oscars, it is undoubtedly "Slumdog Millionaires."

Under the high praise of major media, the film's original novel "QA" has sold well in both China and the United States, and the Indian author of this book, Vikas Swarup, himself was shocked, in just one week, his novel sold more than 300,000 copies in China and the United States, and "QA" has only sold 18,000 copies in the whole of India......

In such an atmosphere, Li Xiaole's fans are extremely excited, this year's six major and black pearls are surging, not only super blockbusters, but even Oscar-level movies are endless, Paramount produced by the Coen brothers directed "Labor Dependent", Warner Productions, Christopher Nolan's "Batman: The Dark Knight", and David Fincher's "Rejuvenation" are all temporary choices, and now there is Li Xiaole's "Slumdog Millionaire", It's incredibly exciting just to think about the storm at next year's Oscars.

During this time, no matter who looks at it, Black Pearl Company and Li Xiaole have shown an unstoppable momentum, but this abnormal momentum is vaguely unsettling......

In the evening, Li Xiaole took the well-organized crew information, went to Fred's office again, and prepared to invite him as his art director again, as soon as he walked into the office, he rarely saw old Fred sitting at the window smoking, looking out in a daze with a serious face, and when he came in, Fred stood up:

"You're here, sit down first."

"You don't seem to be in a good mood, is there anything you don't like about Downton Abbey?" Li Xiaole asked curiously, I heard old Charlie say that Fred has some lung problems and has quit smoking for many years, why did this old man smoke again today,

"Oh?" Fred looked at him with those dim eyes, and shook his head as if he had another meaning: "No, the script of "Downton Abbey" is very good, if it is filmed according to your plan, the effect should not be worse than "Sherlock", I am worried about your ......"

"What are you worried about me?" Li Xiaole laughed, this is unusual, this serious old artist has always disliked himself, but today he actually worried about himself, and asked with a curious smile:

"Now everything is going well with Black Pearl, the crew of "Slumdog Millionaire" has been fully formed, and the Bollywood venue has also signed a contract, because I am Chinese, even the American media dare not belittle it wantonly, and also help us promote this film, I think everything is ready now, just send you as the art director.

"It's just that everything is going too well......" Fred asked, looking him in the eye and in a very cautious tone:

"Did you reject Todd Hardy's request for Black Pearl to cross-stake with the Big Six?"

"Hmm...... He wanted me to become an American citizen, I wasn't interested, and more importantly, I didn't want the financial power of Wall Street to influence Black Pearl's decision-making. Li Xiaole was very surprised, this kind of trade secret should be kept absolutely secret, how could Fred, the chairman of the drama council who usually looks chattering, know about it.

"You shouldn't say no......," Fred said with a rare sigh and shaking his head, "at least you shouldn't say no right away, leaving you with no buffer between you and those Wall Street investments." ”

"I don't care if there's a buffer." Li Xiaole has a relaxed face, the current Black Pearl Company is not a small role at the mercy of the six a year ago, several battles, whether it is a positive box office battlefield or a public opinion war, the six major studios have been beaten by him, and now he has a pirate TV station, one-fourth of the North American theater resources, Apple's technical team, and even a game company that can be promoted on the side, no matter what kind of challenges he faces, he has a way to deal with it.

"Do you know Todd Hardy as a person?" Fred asked, looking at him.

"I don't know......" Li Xiaole said frankly, for him. Behind the scenes, the financial capitalists who override Hollywood's huge movie machine only have a mysterious and vague face, and they don't know what they are doing, let alone the characters in it, and before that, the name Todd Hardy was unfamiliar to him.

Fred looked up at the window, as if recalling some painful memory, and said in a low and slow tone:

"Todd Hardy served as legal counsel to Wall Street hedge funds from 1985 onwards when they began to integrate the six major studios, and in 1989 they completed the cross-shareholding plan for the Big Six, and the lawyer-turned-bastard officially became the helm of the Hollywood League......

"In 1989?" Li Xiaole couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this number: "Is it this Todd Hardy who formulated Hollywood's global strategic expansion plan?" ”

Yes, it was he who decided that he would let the six major studios, which were originally committed to opening up all kinds of sensitive subjects only to please the North American market, begin to enter the blockbuster era, stripping away all the elements of blood, violence, horror, and pornography, and vigorously expanding the global market with the most popular stories and the injection of huge Wall Street funds...... Todd Hardy saw the limits of growth in North America early on, and began to explore other film markets in the world......" Fred described the story of the super-league-runner behind the major leagues, but his emotions became increasingly indignant:

In the name of free trade, when his financial team negotiates other financial support or investment projects with other countries, the attached condition is to let other countries open up the film market, so that Hollywood films can enter the markets of other countries without restrictions......

But those stupid politicians, in order to achieve short-term financial benefits, even sacrificed their country's film market and opened the door to these Hollywood locusts! Ahem......"

Fred was so emotional that he couldn't help coughing out of breath, Li Xiaole hurriedly came up and patted him on the back to let his breath flow through.

Fred gasped for a while before continuing with his words with a cold face: "Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan...... In all the countries that have opened up their film markets to them, local films have been devastated, and the politicians who advocate free entry into international competition simply do not understand the destructive power of Hollywood, a product backed by financial capital...... Now all mainstream movies are produced in the United States, and all young people's values are American......

As a result, we can't survive if we don't send the best filmmakers to Hollywood, and in the 80s, there were hundreds of homegrown films a year in the UK, and now the whole of the UK can't even make up 10 films a year......