Tucker Toure whistled out of the elevator, walked briskly towards the office, saw the reception staff at the front desk, and showed a graceful smile, "Sweetheart, you are really beautiful today, are you interested in having dinner with me in the evening?" ”

"Mr. Toure, you're late, and both Mr. Kavarag and Mr. Berkeley have arrived at the company." The reception lady answered the question, but there was no panicked expression on her face, obviously used to Tucker's behavior.

Tucker didn't mind, clutching his chest and playfully saying, "Your rejection has broken my heart. After getting a roll of the eye, Tucker turned around and moved on. I joked with the staff all the way, and by the time I entered the office, it was already twenty minutes later.

Picking up the coffee prepared on the table, Tucker took a long sip, and then took off his coat and began to flip through the stack of newspapers in the corner of the table, but before he could sit down, a frightened glance made Tucker stand up suddenly, and the coffee almost spilled on the table. But he didn't have the heart to pay attention to these details, and pulled out the newspaper he had just accidentally glimpsed, originally he was still praying that he was dazzled, but when he saw the picture in the newspaper, Tucker only felt that his head suddenly began to numb, like ten thousand ants rolling on his head.

Tucker held the newspaper tightly, walked out of the office quickly, gritted his teeth and pressed his right hand, the door of the room "slammed", slammed the wall, and the whole door panel was in pain, making everyone in the office look up, and then saw Tucker like a tornado, sweeping towards Ryan's office.

Everyone looked at each other - what was going on? One minute before it was sunny, a minute later the sky was falling apart.

Ryan sat at his desk, thinking about the release plan for Lost in Translation, and he needed to have a meeting with Focus Pictures next week, so he had to come up with a plan that worked. Suddenly, he heard a loud noise, and a wave of air rushed to his face, giving him the illusion that someone had broken down the door, and when he looked up, he saw Tucker with an ugly face.

Tucker slammed a newspaper Ryan's desk, causing the entire table to tremble slightly. Ryan looked at Tucker's slightly green face and chuckled, "What's wrong?" You look like Shrek right now. ”

Looking at Ryan's calm expression, Tucker patted the newspaper on the table, trying to explain, but found that there was no way to talk about it, and finally could only say, "Look, look! ”

"Calm down, calm down, the whole company is watching you, you have to be calm." Ryan frowned slightly, obviously unhappy with Tucker's panic, but after all, he looked down at the newspaper.

This is a "San Francisco Chronicle", which is not ranked in the top 10 nationally, at most it can only be considered a top 20 newspaper, but on the West Coast, it is the only newspaper that can compete with the "Los Angeles Times", and its influence can be among the top three on the West Coast.

The date is today, September 13th.

In addition to the headline on the first anniversary of 911, there were three other stories on the front page, the first of which was information about the midterm elections...... These news are really normal, there are almost no surprises, Ryan raised his head and glanced at Tucker, his eyes were full of puzzlement, but Tucker pointed to the bottom, Ryan looked down suspiciously, and then saw a text news:

"The crew of the American 'City of God' was threatened by gangsters in Rio de Janeiro! - See page 24 for details."

Ryan only felt that the temperature of all the blood in his body had faded in an instant, his limbs became cold and cold in a blink of an eye, and his head didn't even have a way to turn around, but he subconsciously turned the newspaper to page twenty-four, and then saw a magnificent picture.

It's a vast yellow playground, and it's easy to give the illusion that this is a desert. There were a large number of black actors gathered around, two floor-standing cameras and a boom camera standing out in the crowd, and all eyes were focused on the figure in the center - the man was wearing a dusty shirt, a headphone around his neck, his hands were gesturing the structure of the shooting scene, and the calm eyebrows were incomparably focused, but even the overwhelming yellow sand could not hide the light.

It's Lancelot-Strello!

Ryan's breathing stopped for a moment, and he quickly read the report, which was far longer than he had imagined, and he could even catch up with the feature.

In the report, it was mentioned that the crew of "City of God" made a special trip to Rio de Janeiro for on-site shooting, with the aim of presenting a real slum and giving people a glimpse of the real life behind that prejudice. The whole report is a detailed introduction to the "City of God", from the creative idea to the ideological core, to the details of the shooting, all of which are displayed in front of the readers.

At the end of the report, it was even mentioned that a reporter was now stationed on the crew, updating the shooting diary of the "City of God" in real time in the form of a blog, and this new way of reporting has been enthusiastically sought after by the younger generation.

"Blogging?" Ryan's mind was full of question marks, and of course he knew what it was.

Last year's 9/11 incident was the first to provide a live photo report from a blog in New York, and since then, people have realized the power of the Internet, and blogs have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. However, due to the rapid growth of the number of blogs, but the effective information in them is only a handful, so the power of blogs as a source of news is being weakened, and more of a power as a leader of opinion is rising.

However, blogging and the entertainment industry don't have a half-cent relationship!

"How is that possible, how can things be like this?" Tucker anxiously paced back and forth in his office.

All along, Lance's ability to show is in film production, and his weakness in publicity, distribution, management, etc., not to mention company management. Originally, they thought that even if Lance was put into the filming of "City of God", it would disappear for a long time, and it would be even more difficult for independent films to win media attention. With a gentle push behind their backs, the "City of God" would be submerged in countless independent films, with the film left in the storage room to accumulate dust, and perhaps not even finished.

But now, not only is Calvin's sabotage plan bankrupt, but the movie is getting the attention of the mainstream media in the United States!

Ryan forced himself to calm down, and looked at Tucker walking around in front of him and felt a little dizzy, "Stop! Now there is only one 'San Francisco Chronicle', and the other mainstream media are not paying attention, right? Tucker thought for a moment, and finally shook his head, "That's right, an independent movie, no matter how much it can't make any waves, let's not mess with ourselves!" ”

Hearing this, Tucker gradually calmed down, thought about it carefully, and couldn't help but nodded, "Unless Lance has the courage to directly make a bomb incident, no one will pay attention to them." After saying that, Tucker was in a more relaxed mood, "No, even if he really had the guts, people's eyes would have shifted to the terrorist attack, not his garbage movie." ”

This is a fact, not a disparagement.

It is an impossible task for a non-English-language independent film that has not been shot in the United States with a big investment, no great cast, no strong backstage, or even shot in the United States to attract the attention of the American press. Every year, if not 1,000 or 800 such films, even if they appear on the stage of the Sundance Film Festival, most of these independent films are still unpopular.

Ryan didn't take it lightly, "Even so, Lance managed to take his place here. Ryan waved the San Francisco Chronicle in his hand, and the more he understood the difficulty of the matter, the more the shock grew. Ryan could scarcely imagine how Lance did this, "Blog! What's going on with this blog? ”

Ryan suddenly realized this, Tucker took the newspaper, searched for it, found the relevant information in a hurry, and then quickly tossed around on the computer, and then opened the blog.

Minimalist blog style, with little to no frills, and the title box simply reads "Javier Ulliel's blog, the 'New York Times' correspondent in Brazil."

The New York Times, which stunned both Tucker and Ryan, clicked on the latest blog post, and it was a diary — titled, "September 11, a year later." ”

"When I arrived at the set, Lance had just finished filming a scene, and he was communicating with the young actors, and he seemed a little unhappy with the performance. Before I could find a place to sit down, Albert suddenly shouted, 'Transfer! Transfer! Everybody was immediately busy, and I was no exception.

I expertly carried the camera equipment on my back, then helped put away the light shield next to it, ran quickly to the truck on the side of the street, dropped the things up, and then went back to help Hayden dismantle the camera equipment and load it back onto the truck. I ran back and forth three times.

In just six minutes, the entire crew got into the truck and quickly moved the filming location.

It's not the first time I've experienced this, and we've had to go through it almost every other day or two for the past month.

Filming in the City of God is a very dangerous job, and there are many small ** forces gathered around, they are not organized and disciplined, and they are also unable to negotiate. From time to time, they would go to the crew to harass them, from stealing to robbing to stopping the crew from filming. In the case of unavoidable circumstances, the crew now has to randomly change the filming location every day, and under the full alert of the police/prosecution authorities, this ensures the safety of the entire crew at present.

It reminds me of a year ago today, when a tumultuous New York city was plunged into a great tragedy, and similar tragedies are happening all around us, unseen and uninterrupted......"

The content of the blog is still not over, and it is recorded freely, but Ryan doesn't want to read it anymore, he only feels a throbbing pain in his temples, and there is an urge to smash the computer screen directly!