John Ford declined Victor's invitation for a very direct and defensible reason.

"Victor, I appreciate your kindness. I can't do that, at least, not right now. I've never doubted your abilities, on the contrary, I think there are really few people who can compare to your talent in movies, and you will definitely be able to make a name for yourself in Hollywood. But I'm old. Victor, really, I'm old. Hollywood is a fucked place, this place doesn't talk about people, it only values money, don't look at my scenery today, I'm still a little famous, once I don't have any use value one day, they can let me get out of here. Griffith was a lot of bulls back then, and the result? ”

"At Twentieth Century Fox, it's true that I'm tied up a lot of times and can't make the movies I want, but at least, I can still make them, and that's lucky enough. If I come to you, firstly, I can't guarantee that my movies will make you money, and even, it is very likely to add a burden to you, and secondly, if I am poached by you, neither Fox nor Zanuk will spare you, and you have already provoked Meyer, and if you provoke them again, you will not be able to eat and walk away. ”

"I can't come now, there's a lot of good to it, at least I'm a fucking spy, am I?" John Ford smirked and said, "Do your job well, and when you get bigger, I'll definitely come to the door myself, and when the time comes, I'll talk about it." ”

John Ford patted Victor on the shoulder, left, walked to the door, and stopped: "By the way, pay attention to the newspaper, when I was watching a movie in the evening, the Hollywood Review asked me to write an article, and besides that, I heard that there are quite a few other people, among them, you are a bond." ”

With that, John Ford strode away.

Victor sat down in his chair, sorted out his thoughts, and called Leo and the others over.

"Starting today, all journalists and media will refuse to cover them."

"What? What are you doing here? Leo's eyes widened: "How many people want to beg people to come back?" ”

"It's just a matter of getting away with it." Victor smiled evilly and said, "Other than that, the most important thing is that I have to prepare well for a bigger crisis." ”

"What crisis?" Leo Tract.

"A storm, a storm in Hollywood against me." Victor sneered.

Victor slept well, and this time, he slept very soundly, and did not wake up until noon.

When I came to the office with my stomach growling, I saw Leo and the others reading the newspaper together.

"What's wrong?" Victor smiled when he saw the angry faces of the guys.

"See for yourself! Fuck it! Leo pushed a stack of newspapers over.

Victor took it and looked at it, his brow furrowed involuntarily.

It seems that his prediction is not wrong at all.

On this day, in the Los Angeles area newspapers, "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" occupied a huge space, which was fundamentally different from the previous kind of non-existent reporting.

Among them, the most eye-catching is the "Hollywood Review".

This is the most authoritative film newspaper in Hollywood and even in the whole of the United States, and it is extremely authoritative in the hearts of filmmakers and ordinary readers.

On the front page, the poster of "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" is impressive, with a line of titles in super bold font - "A dark horse is born!" 》

"Last night, the first film of a small company that had just been established set off a movie-going frenzy throughout the United States. No one can say whether many viewers go to the cinema in the spirit of that cunning lottery marketing or the movie itself, but this movie is indeed very good. Victor Ferro, a young man in his early twenties, had a new feel in his first film. This kind of refreshment, not in the general sense of the word, but this movie is incompatible with any Hollywood movie now or before, there is no similarity, it is simply an anomaly, a monster, but it is so attractive. ”

The Hollywood Review uses the words heterogeneous and monster to describe a movie, which is really rare.

Next, the newspaper spent two pages to introduce the entire film, from the investment, to the legendary film company, to Victor Ferro's own identity, experience, to the film's actors, story, etc., extremely detailed, it seems that the reporters have bothered to put a lot of thought into it.

In the following, there were three editions in a row, all of which were reviews of the film.

Moreover, there is no shortage of names on it that shocked Victor.

The first is Charlie Chaplin's. Chaplin's article has a gunpowder-flavored name -- "Movies, Not Everyone Can Make Movies!" 》

"I've been making movies for decades, and I've played many roles, and these roles have been widely praised by audiences. I think the greatest beauty of movies, and the most precious thing, is to promote truth, goodness and beauty! It's the most beautiful thing in the world. And these things, I can't see at all in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold"! Killers, bullets flying, flesh blurring, drug trafficking, teenage girls pulling the trigger, and an inexplicable fucking aiqing between an old man and a little girl...... These things actually appeared on the screen naked, and they were enthusiastically praised! I really can't figure out how this movie passed the censorship! I really can't figure out what impact our youth, children, will have if they see this!? Movies, not everyone can make them! He asked filmmakers to have at least a conscience! I don't see a trace of this conscience in Mr. Victor Ferro! ”

Next, Chaplin used himself as a glorious model to criticize Victor from a moral height, and simply scolded Victor as a moral scum.

For Chaplin's article, Victor couldn't cry or laugh, he and Chaplin's shijie views were not at all the same, and they couldn't talk about it together.

The second is Alfred Hitchcock. This later film suspense event is now infinite in Hollywood, and his articles are purely from the movie to discuss.

"The essence of a movie is actually a story. Nothing is more important than a story. In this film by Mr. Victor Ferro, the story is so simple that it can be explained in one sentence - the story of a cold-blooded killer who kills without blinking an eye and is awakened by a little girl. In terms of the progress of the story, Mr. Fellro's ability to tell the story can only be said to be just passing, the story is incoherent, and most of it is completed with situational fragments, which makes the whole film very loose and not compact enough. ”

"Mr. Ferro's biggest failure is in the use of the camera. Film is the art of editing, which does not mean that it can be cut randomly, but that each shot must be edited and combined after the meaning is constructed, and in Mr. Ferro's films, many films are simply pure empty shots, and these shots of scenery and atmosphere are full of them, and the narrative jumps too much. It can be said that our Mr. Fello is too young to understand the film at all. ”

In all fairness, Hitchcock knew cinema and was a master of cinema at a very high level. But he has the limitations of his time, and judging Victor's cinematic approach with his vision and experience has obviously surpassed Hitchcock's epistemic view.

The third is an old man in the movies, Sisy Dimir.

This article gives Victor the most headache!