Beverly Hills, Davis Manor.

After an unusually intense workout and a shower, Martin, Lily, and Elizabeth went to the bedroom balcony for a drink.

Elizabeth swiped her phone, looked at the news about Life of Pi above, and had a particularly familiar feeling, and asked, "I remember Life of Pi as a competitor to Escape from Tehran, these?" ”

Martin didn't need to deny it, and said: "I also want to be calm, but the other crews are unwilling, so I have to compete, so I can only face it with dignity." ”

Lily leaned over to Elizabeth, looked at the news on her phone, and said, "Kill them!" ”

Elizabeth pondered and said: "When I was studying in the past, I also thought about being an actor, and I thought the Oscars were high, but in the past few years, I have found that in the competition for each Oscar, there will always be some messy things. ”

Lily answered: "The election is even higher than the Oscars, and there is a lot of blood in every election." ”

She looked at Martin and asked, "I've found that starting with Harvey Weinstein, people like to use demeaning methods to disparage their competitors. ”

Elizabeth nodded: "While touting yourself, you have to suppress your opponent." ”

"In fact, there is essentially no difference between this time and last year, and the core is still worse than rotten." Martin said simply: "A film work, such as last year's "The Martian" and this year's "Escape from Tehran", is of good quality, but it will definitely not be able to crush other competitors, and it is too difficult for the film to achieve this level and improve itself." ”

Lily agreed: "Just like my carving, it is not difficult to go from 1 to 90, but every step above 90, not only do you have to be talented, spend a lot of time practicing, but also have to invest a huge amount of money, which is rare to die." ”

Elizabeth deliberately rolled her eyes at Lily, "Are you boasting?" ”

Martin continued the topic just now: "If you want to improve yourself, the effort is not proportional to the gain, you may pay 10, and the gain is less than 1. But it is much easier to belittle competitors, especially in Oscar competition, where low investment yields quick results. ”

Elizabeth grasped the key point: "As long as the opponent is worse than us, we can defeat them with a lot of experience!" ”

Martin snapped his fingers: "So, while we are refuting the rumors, we are making the opponent worse than us." ”

It's also interesting to use lies to refute the facts that your opponent has revealed.

…………

The Film Academy is a very old, conservative and slow non-governmental organization, and its main members are more than 60 years old on average.

Just like the Academy's façade, the Oscars, ratings and influence are declining every year, and the Academy claims to reform and innovate before each edition of preparations, but when the Oscars are held, everyone will find that it is still the same.

The email gate broke out on the Internet and the media, becoming a hot search on the Internet, and the college slowly reacted.

The president of the college, Tom Sherrac, spoke to the media and said that the college would investigate the matter thoroughly.

Subsequently, someone from the academy's executive committee contacted Ralph and the others who received the email, as well as the Life of Pi crew.

If the incident is not exposed, even if the academy hears about it, it will turn a blind eye.

But now it has become a hot event in the United States, and it also involves dozens of college members, and the college must think about its own face.

At the same time, countless people's eyes turned to the crew of "Life of Pi".

This film immediately became the target of public criticism.

It is not easy for the media to wait for fresh and interesting news, how can it be easily let go.

North America has a mature media market, and there is no need to negotiate in advance, and the media is automatically divided into two factions.

One of the factions defended the crew of "Life of Pi".

"The anonymous forwarding of emails may not have been done by the crew of "Youth Pi"."

The media of the other faction automatically refuted.

"The Oscar ballots have just been mailed out, and many judges suddenly received canvassing emails, it is definitely not an accident and coincidence, the Oscars have become more and more public relations efforts over the years, almost equated with awards, in the face of huge honors and interests, is it strange to send such an email?"

The supporters appealed: "The crew of "Youth Pi" stated that they are innocent! ”

The opposition shouted: "For the sake of the fairness and justice of the Oscars, the academy must punish "Life of Pi" severely!" ”

In terms of public opinion, the opposition has the absolute upper hand, especially on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, which are becoming more and more influential.

The melon-eating masses on the Internet don't care whether the email is anonymous or not, they only know that once the email is not disclosed, the crew of "Youth Pi" is the biggest profiteer.

"Life of Pi must be expelled from this Oscar!"

"Disqualify Ang Lee and this crew!"

"The judges shouldn't have voted for this film anymore, they passed the line!"

"If "Life of Pi" becomes the winner of this Oscar, I will boycott the Oscars forever in the future and be black for the rest of my life!"

"Yes, boycott!"

"Boycott +1!"

In the era of the peak of the Oscars, the old man of the academy can directly ignore these.

No matter how loud the media and the audience shouted, when it was time for the awards ceremony to be held, they still had to watch it obediently, and even if the award-winning film caused a huge criticism, the subsequent sales of videotapes and DVDs, as well as TV broadcasts, were still very popular.

But today's Oscars are no longer the top three programs in North America.

The Academy could not ignore public opinion.

The same is true for the crew of "Life of Pi".

Century City Fox Tower.

In the producer's office, Ang Lee looked at the newspaper report with a sad face.

Jill Nate put down his phone and said: "Public opinion on the Internet is much more intense than in traditional media. ”

Li An raised his head and asked, "Can you find out who is behind us?" ”

"It's impossible to find out who it is." Jill Nate has already been investigated: "It's nothing more than our competitors in awards season. ”

This is obvious, and Ang Lee asked again: "Did our people send the email and it was exposed, or did someone else do it?" ”

Jill Nate couldn't be sure: "Since the film was released in North America, I asked the crew's publicity department and public relations team to send information to the email addresses of many judges, sent various invitations, and sent a lot of hot reviews, like most Hollywood crews, basically anonymously. ”

He had a headache: "Now that something is wrong, I asked the people below carefully, and the people below all said that they had not sent direct canvassing, but in the past few years of Oscar public relations, you should know that the lower limit is getting lower and lower, and I don't dare to guarantee that the publicity department and the public relations team have done such a thing in private." ”

Ang Lee was a little angry: "Many crews have done this in the past......"

"The problem is that they haven't been exposed, whether the email was sent by our people or not, the beneficiaries on it are us who are most affected," Jill Nate said. ”

"I originally thought that if competitors did us, they would also start with the movie itself." Li An didn't expect that someone would use such a despicable and shameless method: "None of the precautions we have prepared will be used." ”

Jill Nate said: "The crew of 'Escape from Tehran' is the most likely, keep engaging them!" Also, hurry up crisis PR! ”

Ang Lee said: "I contacted the senior management of Fox, and the media under Fox will speak for us, but the most important thing is TMZ, which is constantly breaking the news. ”

Jill Nate said: "You will communicate with you on the Fox side, and I will talk to TMZ on the side if it stops a little bit, and there will be less pressure on our side." ”

Li An nodded: "Hurry up." ”

This is not the first time these two have hit the Oscars, and they both know very well that if public opinion continues, many judges will give up voting for "Life of Pi".

Jill Nate contacts Jody, TMZ's business editor-in-chief, through a friend, and asks her to come out and meet with her to discuss the "emailgate" incident caused by TMZ.

Out of friendship, Jody and Jill Nett meet up at a café adjacent to TMZ.

The two of them each ordered coffee at the booth and exchanged a few polite words, and Jill Nate straightened his face and got to the point: "Editor-in-chief Jodi, "Life of Pi" has suffered great criticism in the media recently, and the origin is all from TMZ's false reports......"

"False reports?" Jody is no longer the original female paparazzi, and directly interrupted the other party's words: "I can't agree with Mr. Nate's point of view, TMZ is a principled and well-behaved media, since its establishment, has always insisted on the authenticity of news reports, and any news will be reviewed and verified by us before it is published." ”

Jill Nate understands that the entertainment media is like a stray dog, and if you are a little weak, they dare to ride on you to pee, and immediately take a tough attitude: "TMZ has actually investigated the series of news about the "Life of Pi" email incident? I'm the producer of Life of Pi, and I can tell you responsibly that the crew, producers, and distributors never sent those emails, and you went on to spread the news! ”

He couldn't help but sneer: "This is what you call the pursuit of truthfulness in journalism?" The crew reserves the right to pursue legal responsibility ......"

Jody interrupted him again: "There is no accusation, implication, or any directive content in any of TMZ's reports on this emailgate that you are responsible. ”

She is a principled person, and truthful reporting is the consistent principle: "All the emails we have published and all the people we have interviewed are all first-hand truthful information, and there is nothing false about it, and if you have any doubts, you can sue." ”

The remark reminded Jill Nate that he carefully recalled the TMZ reports he had read, as if there was no direction on the TMZ news.

For all the content related to the mailgate, TMZ is like a news porter, just putting the email content and interview videos of the people who received the email and were willing to be interviewed on the website.

As for the rest, there is no need at all, the content of the real email and screenshots published in the news, which clearly reads "Youth Pi".

The events are real, the emails are real, and even the interviews are real......

The two sides parted unhappily, and Gil-Nate said cruelly before leaving: "You wait to receive the lawyer's letter!" ”

(End of chapter)