Birth of an actor

The Internet is not very popular in this era. American college students are more passionate about outdoor sports, such as basketball, tennis, rugby, hiking and mountaineering, or even just lying on the lawn to bask in the sun. Most of the campus BBS forums are only "Nerd" in the mouths of other students Only with computer enthusiasts.

However, Harvard students have always claimed to be at the forefront of the times. They are keen on new things but cannot accept that they are behind others, so no matter whether they love the Internet or not, every Harvard student has a forum ID, and from time to time Go up and browse some school news.

On the Harvard BBS forum, the popular posts that often float on the homepage are also topics that students are most interested in, such as which professor's course is better than which professor is the most demanding, what is the most popular course for students in the four grades, Yale Massachusetts How fucked up, internship information from major law firms in Boston and Wall Street, as well as gossip news such as which beauties are hotter.

When William and a few boys from the Phoenix Club had a big fight in the library under the noses of a dozen Harvard students who were studying at night, and almost knocked down a row of bookshelves, the matter could no longer be covered up.

Campus bullying is not uncommon in any school. Harvard, a famous school that seems to be the favorite of heaven, but has serious class divisions and cliques, actually has more discrimination and humiliation incidents. The real data shows that Harvard has every year. Many students voluntarily proposed to transfer or drop out, and a considerable number of them are students from poor families or people of color, because they have never been able to integrate into the mainstream circle or have no friends, so they can no longer stay in school.

Among the students who transferred and dropped out, a considerable proportion had to leave Harvard because they were bullied by fraternities. The departure of people has never attracted widespread attention.

But when it came to William's turn, everything was different.First of all, whether it is a freshman or a sophomore, William is the one who receives the most attention among all Harvard students, even if he is not at school for nearly half a year; I don't mind being known by others that I have messed with the Phoenix Club.

"William Bradley angered the Ultimate Club and singled out the entire Phoenix, is this true?!" Overnight, users with different IDs posted dozens of similar posts on the forum, with extremely messy words , the tone was extremely shocked.

Harvard's on-campus BBS exploded, literally.The homepage began to be filled with countless posts related to this matter for a long time, including passer-by posts, question posts, insider posts, etc. Too many people flooded into the forum all of a sudden, and many of them basically didn’t join after registering an account, or Students who didn't register an account at all also came in to join in the fun, so that the forum finally went on strike on Friday night due to network overcrowding, and it didn't return to normal until Saturday afternoon.

Most Harvard students doubted the authenticity of this incident at first, but when more and more witnesses came out, students from the Dunster dormitory where William lived also came out to testify, saying that the room between William and his dormmates was destroyed on a certain day. In the afternoon, after being smashed by someone, and now both of them are living off-campus, this incident has officially escalated to the most popular incident at Harvard recently.

William and Fenghuang, one is a famous man on campus, and the other is a famous campus club. The former lives in Hollywood and Harvard are not in the same world, and the latter is only eligible for a very small number of Harvard students. Now the two are actually on the same page. , It's simply the big show of the year!

More and more people began to pay attention to the movements of William and Phoenix members. If anyone witnessed either of the two parties, they would immediately post on the forum.

Interestingly, many of the new posts about a student's excited description of seeing William confronting members of the Phoenix Club at a certain location are illustrated with photographs, and most of them are still They are all very good. Not only are the locations, characters and events clear, but the composition of some photos is also very artistic. For example, a photo of William surrounded by four Phoenix members in the stands of the stadium. Walking through, four tall men separated from four directions and did not stop him. William turned to the camera and leaped across a row of seats. Under the backlight, his shirt was blown up by the wind, and his hair was flying in the air. It almost looks like a still film shot of some sort.

The photo shooter directly stated in the post that he is a member of the Harvard Photography Club. The members of their club have often taken photos of William picking N when they were collecting pictures on campus recently, and the words in the words have the meaning of aggrieved William. , many replies praised these photography enthusiasts for their great potential in the journalism industry or as photographers in Hollywood.

When the whole campus boiled up, it was impossible for Fenghuang to keep the incident under wraps. Soon, the whole of Harvard knew that William was invited to Phoenix's Fat Qi party, but for some reason, he was in the party. There was a conflict with Jasper Bloom, the president of the Phoenix Association, and he beat him up. Jasper Bloom ordered the entire club to help him avenge him in order to vent his anger.

In a day or two, the truth about why William and President Phoenix had conflicts was revealed: it turned out that William Bradley's father was the president of the Phoenix Club in the 70s, but Jasper Bloom All of the old Bradley's trophies went to the basement.

Before the truth was revealed, all the girls at Harvard were on William's side, but the men's positions were somewhat different. Some people regarded him as Robin Hood, some were indifferent, and some people thought that William was stunned by his own fame. Thinking that Harvard is the ultimate club for Hollywood to try to single out is simply overpowering.

After the truth was revealed, the Phoenix Club began to realize that something was wrong-their reputation and status at Harvard suddenly became precarious.

First, on the campus forums, more and more people began to post that the examinations of the Phoenix and other ultimate clubs are trampling on people's self-esteem. Freshmen will not be allowed to join the ultimate club, because these fraternities also have to assess everyone's family wealth and social status, the poor and people of color want to join the ultimate, especially Posilian Phoenix, which is almost all owned by the family. A fraternity of white men is too hard, too hard!Then these posters strongly demanded that the Harvard school start to intervene in the management of the ultimate clubs, and even abolish their various privileges in the school, and the voice of approval in the reply was also very high.

——Although no matter the poster or the replyer, there must be bitter words from students who have been eliminated by the Ultimate Club, but the fraternity claims to be a privileged class in Harvard, behaves wildly and arrogantly, and has angered many other weak people The student group is also an indisputable fact. Once some people really start to rebel, there will be a huge wave of support for the rebels.

The LGBT community launched the "Anti-Privilegeism! Anti-Campus Bullying!" collective signature campaign in Harvard Square, which received more than 2000 signatures in one day, more than they launched on the anniversary of the "Stone Wall Movement", a symbolic event in the history of the gay movement last year. The number of signatures is four times higher.

The Association for Computing Machinery hacked the internal website of the Phoenix Club and replaced the monogram bird on the homepage with a delicious roast chicken.

The Phoenix Club had already contacted a sister club at Harvard for a fellowship, but the night before the event, the president of the sister club suddenly called to cancel the event because "the girls have a bit of a bad impression of you recently. Well, as for the reason, you should know. I am very sorry, but I cannot force all of them (to attend)."

Then at the second and third Pangea parties held in Phoenix, some people actually started to quit the election voluntarily. This has never happened in Lido in the past 100 years.

In fact, this incident not only affected the image of Phoenix, but also affected other ultimate clubs by the way.

Phoenix, Persleng, Owl, Flying and other seven clubs are both independent and integrated. Independence means that the Phoenix Club independently recruits members, selects management personnel, operates independently, and establishes various rules and regulations. However, because Harvard only The remaining eight fraternity clubs have private real estate and various privileges on campus. They are collectively known as the "Eight Ultimate Clubs" in name, and they often associate with each other and hold various activities together. Therefore, in the eyes of many Harvard students, the Eight Big or even It is one, one is good so all are good, one is bad and all are bad.

The eight ultimate clubs of Harvard, which have always been low-key, have finally become famous in the school like Oxford's Burlington Club and Yale's Skull and Bones.

The only good news is that unless there is special permission, Harvard has always prohibited the media from bringing photographic equipment into the campus. The most lively stories are circulated on the campus BBS forum where only professors and students are eligible to register. All Harvard students are very concerned about maintaining the school Image, so there are no reporters reporting this matter yet.

The Harvard campus BBS forum has been lively for several days, and the server has been paralyzed three times due to overwhelmed load, which finally alarmed the school. The school’s response——William and the Phoenix Club were interviewed by the principal’s office one after another. The school hoped that they could “sit down and talk with each other in a friendly way before more serious incidents happen, so as to resolve the conflict as soon as possible and not to discredit Harvard. .”

The Phoenix Club had a truce with William the next day. The incident seemed to be resolved, but both parties knew that the resolution was only temporary. William was already on the Phoenix Club's blacklist—who let him completely ruin the opponent's reputation? .

Although it is impossible for William to have a real fight with the Phoenix Club from now on, there will definitely be no shortage of wrestling behind the scenes. Jasper Bloom and his fraternity members were too arrogant and conceited before. As members of the Ultimate Club, they have never encountered any unsolvable troubles on campus, so this time they yelled at William without any cover and without thinking, and in the end they ignited the powder keg all of a sudden, causing All of Harvard was outraged.

If the target turns from the bright side to the dark side, Phoenix has more ways to make anyone feel miserable during his Harvard career, as for William?It seems that he has nothing but civil affairs.And public opinion is not always reliable, because public opinion is easily influenced and cannot be immediately converted into support.

There are only two possibilities for ending this chaos - either someone more powerful orders Phoenix to stop completely, or William is expelled from school.

No matter how you look at it, the second possibility is more likely to become a reality.

William didn't want to let himself fall into such a miserable situation, so he planned to act first.

It all started and ended with Jasper Bloom.

Of all the relatives and friends, William only downplayed the incident and told Lance about it, and he heard an anecdote about the Bloom family from Lance, and he thought of a not bad idea.

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Pulling his thoughts out of the memory, William licked his lower lip, and first comforted his PR: "It's really okay, Barbara, Hollywood is much more complicated than the Harvard campus, I can stay here forever, you have to believe that no matter the school I can fix anything, but—” and then, “Maybe I need your help.”

"What's the matter? Only I can do it."

"Help me find a reporter who works for The Washington Times. It's best to cover Capitol Hill news. It's best if you don't have anything to do with Hollywood. I want to give him a big gift."

"Capitol Hill? God, are you still going to insist that you haven't gotten into any trouble Will?" Barbara Wilson's expression was flustered for a moment, but she quickly calmed down: "Which fucking congressman is coveting Your flesh? No matter what he threatens you, don't be afraid, Will, I will mobilize the tabloid reporters all over the United States, and make him the butt of late-night talk shows for a whole year."

"Relax, Barbara, relax. No member of Congress is interested in me, I swear to you. The reporter is just, uh, a backup." William looked at his exaggerated PR with a helpless smile, and then glanced at He glanced at the make-up artist who was adjusting the concealer and calmed down as if he didn't hear anything, and hinted with his eyes: "We will discuss this topic later. Now, can we go? I have an appointment with Leo and Kate Those who ride to the theater together, they are probably all ready."

"Give up, Will, I won't let you leave now, I don't care what other people look like, I won't let you leave this room unless I make you shine." Baba La Wilson carefully looked up and down William again with critical eyes, raised her chin and told the makeup artist: "Perhaps we should put on another layer of powder? Not too heavy, just light."

William closed his eyes and felt the fluffy makeup brush sweeping from his forehead to his collarbone, and then the makeup artist applied lipstick on him. William couldn't help but licked his lips. It wasn't too sticky or smelly. for refreshments.

Barbara Wilson gasped, "Don't do that!" and she repeated, "Don't! Lick! Mouth! Lips! Will, at least not when you're this close to me, This picture, my God, is so powerful."

"I can't take it anymore." Another voice, probably a makeup artist, said, "Wait ten or eight years later, when Will has wrinkles around his eyes and forehead, then call me to do his makeup, Barbara, it's so shameless now." It’s challenging. I once spent three full hours to make the wrinkles on Harrison Ford’s face disappear, and I felt like I was 30 years old again in front of the camera, but this time, the difficulty was too low, and I couldn’t show it at all my level."

William opened his eyes, and saw the make-up artist suddenly jumping away from him like a rabbit, with a dizzy expression as if he was frightened: "Barbara, you are right, such a human-shaped aphrodisiac should be watched from TV." It's a little less forceful, face-to-face contact is completely uncontrollable, oh my God, can I just recommend myself to be your girlfriend Will?"

"……no."

The make-up artist clutched her chest and stepped aside dejectedly.