Chapter 681 681 Questioning Inertia
James was standing less than ten yards from the crowd watching all this. He clearly watched the sharp confrontation between Hugo and the reporter. Hugo blocked all the attacks of the reporter just in the middle of talking and laughing. , and the reporter was not only powerless to attack, but also blocked by Hugo, making people applaud.
Even if James was just a bystander, he couldn't help but want to applaud Hugo. These reporters rushed over to contain Hugo with the mentality of trying to make things difficult for Hugo. They didn't expect that the result would be stealing chickens but not eating rice, which made James' mouth twitch. The smile rose naturally.
But after laughing, James looked at Hugo who always had a warm smile, but his eyes became complicated again, and then he didn't know whether Hugo was intentional or not, and just turned around, the eyes of the two of them were There was a momentary meeting in the air. James looked at Hugo's smile that seemed to melt the cold winter, and the corners of his mouth twitched to the sides, pulling out a smile that was uglier than crying. Then he hesitated, and chose to turn and leave.
Hugo didn't notice James' departure, his attention was on the reporters, and the smile on his face was one of the weapons to deal with the reporters, but if Hugo noticed, maybe it would be complicated for James. The eyes are puzzled, there are indeed too many strange things about James Franco.
After the conversation between Hugo and the reporters was over, the reporters could only stand there and watch Hugo and Leonardo walk away calmly. This kind of scene is not very common, but it also makes people believe that it will not be uncommon in the future. .
Generally speaking, in the confrontation between reporters and entertainers, the entertainers often run away in embarrassment, and reporters keep following and taking pictures with cameras, which is very annoying. But now when reporters face Hugo, whether they are closely following and shooting, or bombarding with intensive questions, they are unable to break through Hugo's line of defense, and they often end up in a disgraced situation, and finally watch Hugo leave Shishiran. ——I don't even need to drive as a cover, which is really frustrating.
However, in the short term, it is not easy for reporters to find Hugo's flaws. Therefore, the confrontation between reporters and Hugo in the future will surely become more and more unpredictable.
The gym where Hugo and Leonardo did physical training together was not far from Sunset Plaza, and it was only a fifteen-minute walk away. When the two returned to Sunset Plaza, Hugo saw him sitting in front of the convenience store at the intersection. Nicholas-Macron in the plastic chair, although Nicholas didn't say hello, Hugo knew that he was here for himself.
Hugo thought for a while and asked Leonardo to go back first. He was carrying his sports equipment backpack, walked in the direction of Nicholas, and sat down on the plastic chair opposite Nicholas. Nicholas saw Hugo a little. Not surprisingly, there was no greeting or politeness, and he just smiled and joked, "I heard that you made the nine reporters speechless just now."
"I swear, absolutely not." Hugo raised his right hand, expressing his innocence, "I just briefly discussed some issues with them that I couldn't understand, as if your reporter's job is to ask questions." Guo's rebuttal immediately made Nicholas chuckle, but Hugo glanced at the mobile phone on the plastic round table and sighed, "The speed of news spread is really fast now."
Nicholas also noticed Hugo's eyes, smiled and nodded his chin, "Our newspaper also sent people to surround you, but I think it's more cost-effective to wait for you here instead of besieging you. Missed the fun."
The group of reporters who had been besieged just now were all those who had attended the "Speed of Life and Death" press conference. They also knew that news had to be timely, so they all rushed towards Hugo, but no one expected such a result.
Hugo shrugged, "If you want, we can continue the discussion on the topic just now. Maybe they can't answer the question, you can give me an answer."
Nicholas leaned forward, picked up the phone and played with it, "I heard a little about it just now." Nicholas just had a simple communication with his colleagues in the newspaper office, and he didn't understand the specific content, but he still listened to Hugo's questions. Said, "I think it's actually very simple, you know the answer, it's just that you deliberately want to make fun of those reporters."
Hugo pursed his lips and smiled, without answering, neither admitting nor denying.
"You know that when people judge the prospects of a work, it is nothing more than those criteria, cost, script, director, cast, etc. If a work does not have these factors, it is naturally puzzling. So when you choose some Works that do not meet these expectations will naturally cause doubts." Nicholas did not intend to explain seriously, but simply summed up with a smile, "Especially when you can now earn 15 million US dollars, and Steve It's really incomprehensible that a director like Wen Spielberg has chosen an action movie with an investment of less than 30 million, and the writer and director are both debuts."
"So, you also can't understand?" Hugo didn't intend to explain, and asked back with a smile.
"Please, Hugo, I can't write an article with your answer." Nicholas was very dissatisfied with Hugo's response, "People responded to these questions by constantly praising their own crew, praising the excellent script, and praising them. Teamwork will be great, or complimenting the experience this time around will be very different. Couldn’t you give the same response?”
"Is there a need? You've said everything I want to say." Hugo's words made Nicholas weak for a while, and he could only laugh. Looking at Nicholas' expression, Hugo couldn't help but be very curious, "Why do you think that my choice of 'Life and Death' was the right decision?"
Although Nicholas didn't say anything, Hugo could feel it. Nicholas still planned to sing the opposite of all other media and choose to support Hugo just like the previous few times. This made Hugo very curious. You must know that before "smell the fragrance and know a woman", Nicholas always disliked Hugo.
Nicholas raised his eyes, looked at Hugo seriously, and then showed a smug smile, "Because this is my intuition." However, this sentence was broken by a sneer from Hugo, which immediately made Nicholas feel very uncomfortable. Depressed, "Hey, you should at least give me some face."
"Agents and actors may rely on intuition to choose works, but journalists cannot rely on intuition to write news. I am not a fledgling who has just entered the industry. If I believe you, then I am a real fool." Hugo's counterattack made Nicholas feel Very powerless.
Nicholas thought it was amazing. In the past two years, he was the real witness, witnessing Hugo's step-by-step growth from naive and ignorant to today's sharp, direct, calm and elegant. This kind of greatness and grandeur witnessed by his own eyes made Nicholas feel Life is really colorful, but at this time, when he was really upset by Hugo's counterattack, Nicholas still felt very unhappy.
"Hey, you know I'm habitually complimenting you now, but why are you asking so much, really! You want to poke me." Nicholas muttered dissatisfiedly, "You let me write the news, how to write it! "
After two years of ups and downs, Hugo has a new understanding of reporters, that is, they are habitual, habitually questioned or habitually praised.
Before the Golden Raspberry Award, Hugo had failed three consecutive works, and the "Dead Poets Society", which had achieved great success before, was not able to win an Oscar nomination for Hugo, and finally gave a fatal blow with the Golden Raspberry Award. Therefore, the reporters have formed a habitual thinking: the works chosen by Hugo habitually fail.
This also directly led to the constant doubts of the media during the period of "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman" and "Heroes of the Sea of Righteousness".
Originally, Hugo had gotten rid of the idea of habitual failure through the success of two works, but Hugo's next works are full of uncertainty, "Sleepless in Seattle", "Schindler's List" , "Pulp Fiction", and "Speed of Life and Death" are all "potential stocks" that cannot be finalized, so the inertia of questioning continues.
This is actually a kind of fixed thinking, people always think that Hugo will fail. In fact, the news media did the same to Michael Jackson. There were countless negative news about Michael throughout the 1980s. He even gave an interview to Oprah Winfrey at the beginning of last year to clarify one by one, so he was a prostitute. When the child crime broke out, people's first reaction was "this is all true".
It is as if the bad things in the class are done by the children with poor grades, and it is absolutely impossible for the children with excellent grades. This is a truth.
Similarly, once this inertia is broken and reversed, questioning inertia will evolve into praise inertia. For example, as long as Steven Spielberg's work is a box office guarantee, such as Robert De Niro, Jack -The works of actors like Nicholson are worth looking forward to. For example, the works that Tom Cruise participated in are bound to have an advantage at the box office... This kind of habitual praise will continue endlessly.
Therefore, when Hugo took up the filming of "Speed of Life and Death" this time, this inertia has continued, and people are habitually questioning, and there are indeed countless so-called "loopholes" in this work that are worthy of being brought out by reporters. , they will naturally not miss this opportunity.
Hugo looked at Nicholas who was complaining in front of him, and suddenly grinned, "You said, if I think the box office of 'Life and Death' will definitely exceed 100 million US dollars, what will everyone think?"
Nicholas looked at Hugo in front of him dumbfounded, his voice stuck in his throat for a while, and finally he said, "You are crazy!"