Javier discovers that his life has changed dramatically. Since Sundance ...... No, everything has changed since he started on the City of God crew, since he blogged.

Two weeks ago, the editor-in-chief of the New York Times called him specifically to ask him to evolve his personal blog into a blog officially instructed by the New York Times; Three days ago, the New York Times issued another order to transfer him from Rio de Janeiro back to New York and back to headquarters.

It happened so fast that it always felt like a dream.

Javier knew that the New York Times saw the huge popularity of the blog right now, so he wanted to expand his territory. For the "New York Times", it is not necessary to spend a single soldier at all, you can harvest the mature blog that he has been running for half a year, and sit back and enjoy the success, even if the follow-up fails, it is Javier who is responsible, and the "New York Times" has little impact. Two weeks ago, Javier's private blog was receiving 60,000 views a day; Now, two weeks later, the number of daily views has exceeded 100,000.

No matter how you look at it, the "New York Times" is sure to make a profit.

Javier had two options: leave the New York Times and become a freelance writer based on the blog's popularity; Returning to the New York Times, he left the Social Department and joined the Entertainment Department to reopen his career.

In the end, Javier chose the latter, for the simple reason that blogging as an emerging medium still has a long way to go in the future, and his entry into the unfamiliar entertainment department has almost no roots, and the road to freelance writing is full of thorns. But if he had brought his blog into the entertainment department of The New York Times, he would have made quite a bit of a bargaining chip, and he wouldn't have to really start from scratch.

Javier is a smart guy.

Arriving at The New York Times' brand new office in the New York editorial building, the first thing Javier did was open the blog and start reading yesterday's reply. "City of God" was his first official job after moving to the entertainment department.

Soon Javier was surprised, and yesterday's comment from New York netizen Chloe Moore had already topped the real-time hot spots of the portal Yahoo and AOL. Less than twelve hours after the review was posted, it had already attracted 80,000 views and more than 5,000 comments.

"The 'City of God' has exploded the 'New York Gangsters' from every corner and every aspect, without dispute!

Full shots, neat editing, and brilliant scripts, Lancelot, who is also a director and screenwriter, uses his amazing talent to tell a deep and cold story, depicting vivid and full characters, definitely the most perfect film in recent years, there is no one.

The 'City of God' seems hopeless, as if the entire area is shrouded in endless slaughter, the unbreakable darkness that envelops the area, and the cold and point-to-point narrative makes the film reveal a kind of coldness. However, it is precisely this restraint that leaves us with infinite room for thinking: why does the little overlord want to be the king, why does the little ghost gang repeat the mistakes of the past, why Benny and Shuained die, why the police/inspector can't do anything here, why the fate of the three young heroes is completely different, and why is it that at the end of the story, Ah Cannon walks out of the city of God?

The movie doesn't seem to give any clear answers, but in fact, all the answers are hidden in the movie. Savoring it carefully, we can find that Lancelot makes full use of all 130 minutes, there is hardly a single waste shot throughout, almost every scene is carefully designed and painstakingly attained, and the huge amount of information swarms in, so that we can't think at all during the viewing process, and can only passively follow the progress of the movie. But when the film ends, a strong afterglow of reflection floods in, which can provoke infinite thoughts.

Is it a disaster of lack of education? Is it the disaster of poverty and sin? Is it the disaster of apathy and distancing? Maybe not, maybe both, but at least it's fate, but it's not fate, either, because the choice is in your own hands from beginning to end. Shuai Ned has chosen, Benny has chosen, and Ah Cannon has also chosen, as if Ah Mao, Ah Jia, and Ah Dumb have all chosen.

What's even more terrifying and profound is that if they all have a choice, then why did they choose this path, is it because it's easier? Or is it for some other reason?

It's like the war of the United States against Iraq, does Iraq really have weapons of mass destruction? Is war really inevitable? Is it true that there is no other way to oppose terrorists than to counter violence with violence? Or even say...... Are terrorists really in Iraq? Whether there is no choice, or whether the U.S. government wants to make such a choice.

This reminds me of the ending of the movie.

It's a perfect movie, and my only problem is that it's too short, and it's still not enough for me to deeply appreciate Lancelot's rich and vast world of ideas, and to see the world through his eyes. ”

Chloe's appreciation of the "City of God" is undeniable, and most importantly, she provides an in-depth reading of the film from the perspective of a general audience, making a powerful response to the criticism of the "City of God" in recent times. In particular, the extension of the war in the last part completely detonated the debate of everyone on the Internet.

In just twelve hours, the article became the most watched and most popular one since the start of the netizen comment campaign, and as a person who witnessed this qiē, Javier was more shocked than anyone else, he thought he knew enough about the power of the Internet, but now it has been refreshed to the limit again.

Javier couldn't help but think: Is it a coincidence that Lance wrote his own blog in the first place?

The battle of netizen debates sparked by Chloe has only just begun, and as time progresses, things have become more and more intense, and the attention of Javier's blog has skyrocketed, but it has finally reached its peak when the most famous morning news show in the United States, "Today", reported on the incident.

It's not just that blogging, as an emerging medium, is showing its power; is also because of the frenzy of discussion caused by a movie, which refreshes everyone's fixed cognition. What people see is not the slow climbing process of Javier's blog influence in the past six months, but the madness and heat that exploded in popularity in a short period of time after the release of "City of God", which has made the "Internet" mysterious and unpredictable.

Due to the strong influence of the blog, the "City of God" originated in the spotlight again, and Lance, who is also a producer, director and screenwriter, has become the focus for the first time, and the "Tonight Show" hosted by Jay-Leno has invited Lance to record a special guest to record a show about "City of God", talk about blogging, and talk about war......

This is a direction that no one expected, and it is the first time for an independent film to receive such strong attention from the mainstream media. Even the "pulp fiction", which has created countless histories and has become a classic, has not been treated like this.

What's more, it was the "Tonight Show" that invited Lance - the top talk show of today's talk show, the only talk show that can compete with the "Oprah talk show", even if the broadcast time is late at night, it can still attract an average of 6 million viewers, and completely explode David Letterman's "Late Night Show" from all aspects.

This qiē makes the development curve of the "City of God" a myth, and almost no one expected that this Portuguese-language film would attract so much attention in North America. Regardless of where the final box office of "City of God" will end, this can be called a miracle in the history of propaganda strategy, and Lance became famous overnight as a director with the halo of "genius" on his head.

While everyone is giving credit to The New York Times and Paramount Pictures, only a handful of people know – Javier Ulliel and Brad Gray – for example – that there is only one real person behind it: Lancelot Strello.

When Lance received a call from the "Tonight Show" program team, he was in a daze in front of a lot of information, "City of God" has been released, all the plans have been arranged, and the rest has to wait for the public's feedback, so Lance must plan for the next development of Chaos Pictures.

Since Lance has no agent and only an assistant, Percy, the "Tonight Show" calls him directly. When Lance understood the intention of "The Tonight Show", he was stunned for a second, which was unexpected - although Lance had a thorough plan, he never thought that a non-English independent work like "City of God" could be on the stage of the mainstream media, and he borrowed the power of the Internet more in the hope of attracting more audiences to the cinema and contributing to the box office; But now, an accident happened, and he actually got the opportunity to land on the "Tonight Show".

Lance wasn't quite sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

The media is always a double-edged sword

, when used skillfully, can bring unimaginable positive effects, such as the attention that the "City of God" is receiving now; But one is not careful, it may cause fire**, compared to Wall Street, where interests are paramount, the ruthlessness and ruthlessness of the uncrowned king who turns his face and denies people are not inferior.

But Lance didn't hesitate, and nodded directly. Because he knows better than anyone that living in Hollywood is the same as living under the spotlight, and that even the most low-key screenwriter or cinematographer must deal with the media if he wants to succeed, and this is the way to go. What's more, he is not only a director or producer, but also the helm of Chaos Pictures. He had only one choice, and he always had been.

"The Tonight Show", which will be the first round of Reims' confrontation with the media!