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What is Hollywood?

Monroe wrote in her autobiography "My Story": "Falseness and failure are all they have. Some people have reached the level of evil and distortion, but who makes people closest to the movie."

This is a gathering place for freaks, liars, megalomaniacs, drug addicts and sex offenders. Crimes happen almost every day, but punishment is unheard of. Men who hold more than 85% of the voice in this industry have carefully created a " Happy Valley," of which they are the uncrowned kings.

As for the women.

Either choose between being Joan Collins or Elizabeth Taylor, or put on suit pants and live like a man, like Shirley Lansing, Martha Miller, et cetera.

But can they really sit on an equal footing with men?

Of course not.

Sumner Redstone has never really trusted Shirley Lansing. After Shirley Lansing changed her family, her colleagues in Tianshen-Universal have already tacitly huddled together to "give this woman in pants some Look at the color", Jeffrey Katzenberg repeatedly suppressed it.

And female stars are another creature.

Any man with little power dares to abuse his power. Even popular actresses like Nicole Kidman cannot escape being harassed. This year, when she was filming "Dogville" in Sweden, she was harassed by director Lars von Trier After repeated embarrassments, Lars von Trier was warned to stay away from all the actresses in the crew until Lauren Bacall, who was in the same crew, made a phone call.

It was this phone call that became the fuse of the anger of some people in the circle.

They thought she interfered with a director's precious creative freedom.

The so-called freedom means that a director of the opposite sex still hugs an actress on the premise that she clearly expresses her discomfort?

Or is this director trying to break into the trailer of an actress who is changing clothes?

This is still the tip of the iceberg suffered by the biggest heroine of the entire cast.

Oh freedom, what a ridiculous freedom!

Josie's counterattack came fast and hard.

That night, Andrew Morgan received a call from Clint Eastwood himself.

"Good evening, Clint." At this point, the producer hadn't realized the seriousness of the matter.

"No, I'm not fine at all." Clint Eastwood's voice was low and cold, without any joking elements in his tone, "Damn it, you played me, you made me lose face, Andrew, Our contract is void!"

Andrew Morgan was shocked, and quickly asked: "Wait! Clint! What are you talking about?"

Clint Eastwood on the other end of the phone sneered and said, "Don't be fucking stupid, why do you think I'm interested in this project! We're done, and my assistant will contact you tomorrow morning Office, that's it."

"Don't—" Before Andrew Morgan could react, the other party had already hung up the phone very roughly, and if he called again, it would be a busy signal.

For a while, the all-powerful producer didn't know what to do.

To be honest, Andrew Morgan has long been aware of Clint Eastwood's famous bad temper in Hollywood, and he also expected that the other party would have objections to the replacement of the heroine.

But what is surprising is that Clint Eastwood's reaction would be so great, even directly tearing up the contract.

Is Josie Horton really that important?

A young man who has been popular for less than ten years, when will he be able to influence the decisions of people like Clint Eastwood?

Would you even hesitate to turn against old friends like them?

——He selectively forgot that the scripts sent to Clint Eastwood's office by these "old friends" were put on the shelf until Josie Horton made a phone call in person.

Andrew Morgan couldn't help rubbing his temples.

In the end, he still looked at the time and decided to call his partner to discuss the matter.

the other side.

Clint Eastwood originally didn't want to make this phone call so soon, but who let his brother-in-law Ron Howard slip up when chatting with his brother-in-law Ron Howard at the family dinner tonight, and was heard by his niece Bryce Dallas Howard is wearing...

This young girl who was studying acting at NYU's Tisch College and was spoiled with a somewhat naive personality didn't understand at first, but then she began to ask questions repeatedly, and finally stood on the moral high ground and accused her uncle.

Well, although Bryce should be thrown into the bottom of Hollywood's small crew and be beaten by life, she was right in saying one thing. It's a bit shameful for a group of men to unite to make things difficult for a little girl.

At least Clint Eastwood thought that he would never need to be so ashamed.

"Yeah, someone I called," said Clint Eastwood. "They thought Shirley Lansing and Martha Miller needed to get out of their current jobs, or the same thing would still happen again. .”

And his answer: Fuck it.

There is no need to tell the girl in front of you about this.

As he spoke, Clint Eastwood glanced at his niece who had finished the phone call, and said angrily, "Is there anything else you want to ask? If not, I, an old man, will go back to my room to rest."

"One more question!" Bryce asked hastily, "Why do you have so much hostility towards the 'certain people' you mentioned?"

Clint Eastwood looked at Bryce like a fool, not knowing what to say to her for a long time.

Finally, he yelled into the yard: "Lang, you should go!"

Go away, go away.

He also had to return a call to Kevin Costner and Lauren Bacall in New York so as not to affect the lady's sleep tonight.

Frankly speaking, this matter is no longer simply a matter of temporary replacement of movie heroines, but is related to a new round of standing in Hollywood.

And, Washington's new round of standing.

of course.

The replacement of the heroine will indeed affect the quality of the finished film, but from the point of view of the director, Clint Eastwood believes that Hilary Swank, who succeeded Josie Horton, is unexpectedly suitable for the film. role, so the impact on the completion of the role will not be too great.

The biggest influence is still the overseas distributors and movie audiences attracted by the name "Josie Horton".

Especially the younger audience.

According to Bryce's description, within five hours of Josie Horton's public relations team posting the news on social platforms, angry movie fans had hacked the official website of Fox Films.

Hilary Swank, who replaced her, was even worse. She was ridiculed to the point of arguing with fans on social platforms, and even got on that damn TT real-time hot search list. Once you open it, you can see that she won the Oscar that year Thanks to Josie Horton for her acceptance speech for Best Actress.

"...I want to thank Josie especially!"

Early the next morning, the gossip magazine "NOW" also chose the award-winning photo as its headline today, with a bold dialogue design.

At the same time, the same emoticon package has become popular on major bbs and instant messaging software in North America.

At this time, as long as you enter the name "Hilary Swank" in the search engine of your browser, a series of related topics will appear below, such as "Hilary Swank Traitor", "Hilary Swank Special Thanks", "Hilary Swank Million Dollar Bitch", etc.

Her name went viral overnight, online and in real life, in a way that she and her team never intended.

Hilary Swank was almost on the verge of breaking down.

If her publicist hadn't been watching her at her house and cut off her internet cable in the first place, she didn't know what she would do.

"We have to find a way." The woman finally regained her composure after last night's loss of control, "Rudy Morgan is a bastard, they don't care about my life, I only have you, Robin."

Robin, her public relations director, moved her lips and didn't answer right away.

Should you thank your customers for their trust?

After Hilary Swank signed the damn performance contract, she didn't immediately replace her original public relations team—of course, it's more likely that she didn't find a new one—you know, her agent Ren took the client directly to CAA.

But the problem now is that CAA doesn't value Hilary Swank very much, just like Rudy Morgan and Fox, she is just a tool for them to deal with Josie Horton.

Robin felt unusually powerless.

Heck!

She shared an office with Eve, Josie's public relations director, early in her career. No one knew better than her how difficult they were to deal with. Want to compete with them on the Internet to control public opinion?

Oh, don't be funny!

The SkyEye Network, which created the largest social platform and instant messaging software in the United States, was originally owned by Josie Horton herself... Josie Horton is now the largest individual shareholder of the media group Tianshen-Universal!

Rudy Morgan and those two old men may not understand the influence of online public opinion on traditional media. They are still living in the era when paper media ruled everything. You, a young man, don't understand?

So, it is obvious that the giant (Tenshin-Universal) and the giant (Fox) are fighting, and Tenshin-Universal is choosing to stand in line. Why do you, a young actor, jump out and join?

Robin looked at Hilary Swank with indescribable gaze.

After about two or three minutes, she finally spoke amidst the other party's pleading: "My personal suggestion is that maybe you should apologize to her directly, and then fully cooperate with the other party's public relations team. In short, what do they ask you to do? Just do what."

That is to say, just lie down and let yourself be ridiculed.

"What the hell?" Hilary Swank thought she heard it wrong.

"This is the simplest and most effective way." Robin couldn't help sighing, "Believe me, Hilary, I definitely know Josie better than most people in Hollywood, as long as you put all the blame on that agent, do it. She will not embarrass you too much if you show a sincere attitude of enlightenment."

In fact, it was the agent who had been pushing Hilary Swank to take on "Million Dollar Baby," but in the final analysis, the decision was hers to make.

The reason why Robin thinks that Josie will not kill Hillary Swank is that the latter is not a key person and has not had much contact with Josie; the second is that public relations work is about win-win, and she visited herself before coming. The tone of her colleague Eve and the attitude of the other party have already explained a lot of things.

By the way, under the influence of Josie Horton, Eve's status in the company has risen. She has become one of the partners and has an independent office.

Hilary Swank frowned fiercely and said, "Impossible. I stole her role. Even if she doesn't care about the role itself, her status does not allow her to let me go."

The whole of Hollywood is closely watching the development of this matter.

It is conceivable that if Josie treats her lightly this time, similar troubles will definitely come to her in the future, and no one will take her seriously.

Thinking about it in another way, Hilary Swank thinks that the other party has the heart to find someone to assassinate her.

"You know, Hillary, her PR head is a colleague of mine," Robin said, "and he's willing to answer my calls after it happens, and you know what that means? room for negotiation."

Hilary Swank was immediately cheered up.

Quickly asked: "Then what? What should we do?"

Robin asked without answering: "First of all, I want to ask you a key question: Are you determined to win the role of "Million Dollar Baby?"

Hilary Swank hesitated visibly, and did not answer directly: "To be honest, all I wanted at first was to audition for the role of "Black Widow", but the script of "Million Dollar Baby" really moved me. "

Not just scripts.

The main creative team made her very satisfied.

"Okay." Robin continued to ask with a blank expression, "If they are willing to give you this role, are you willing to jump out and sell it to the public, and blame the whole thing on the culprit?"

Now Hilary Swank didn't hesitate anymore, and quickly said: "No, Robin, this won't work, that's Fox and Rudy Morgan, that will completely ruin my career!"

Smart people are not scary.

Stupid people are not scary either.

For public relations, the most frightening thing is stupid people who think they are smart, and smart people who are conservative and greedy, because the behavior of the former is unpredictable, while the latter can't tolerate the slightest risk, wishing to always have both fame and fortune.

"I can only say, my dear, there are not too many good things in this world that have the best of both worlds." Robin said helplessly, "Also, I really can't handle this matter. Bar……"