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"Hugo Lancaster's fiery temper refused to be interviewed, saying that 'Life and Death' refused to cooperate with the media."

The headline of the "New York Post" the next day was very sensational, attracting the attention of countless people. All the news media know that it is impossible to hide what happened in the hospital yesterday - and they are not willing to hide it. What a major explosion point, it can definitely boost sales; but the problem is that they How should it be reported?

No media would foolishly pour dirty water on themselves. Of course, they would not be able to take the blame for "hospital noise" on their own initiative. Hugo, the natural scapegoat, was naturally the best choice. But the problem is that the media all know that under the aftermath of the "witch trial", empty words will definitely not work, so how to report, what angle, and what kind of wording is the most effective will become the most effective way of reporting. The focus of the media is seriously considered.

Although the "New York Post" was severely damaged in the previous "Witch Trials", they have always been the top ten largest newspapers in the United States by sales, and the precipitation of the past two centuries has given them enough background to quickly recover, so , they naturally focused their firepower on Hugo.

"Lancaster came to a hospital in Burbank for a routine check-up. His arrival plunged the hospital into chaos. The gathering of medical staff, patients and visiting relatives made the quiet hospital extremely noisy and even disturbing. When it comes to the rest and resettlement of other recuperating patients, this undoubtedly has a huge adverse effect.

When the reporters arrived at the hospital and tried to interview Lancaster to understand the reason for Lancaster's routine inspection, Lancaster showed an extremely bad attitude and shouted at the reporter directly in the hospital, not only refusing to cooperate, He also severely reprimanded the reporter, claiming that he would never accept any interviews, and even rejected the media's interview on behalf of the "Life and Death" crew, with an extremely bad attitude. This undoubtedly made the noise at the scene to a more terrifying level, attracting more people's attention and discussion, which seriously affected the rest of other patients, and may even lead to irreversible serious consequences.

Lancaster shied all these responsibilities to the reporter, believing that the reporter entered the hospital and created the chaos, but Lancaster ignored it. His refusal to cooperate made the situation even more confusing and caused direct This is undoubtedly an irresponsible performance.

As a public figure, Lancaster's sunny, gentleman, and humble image undoubtedly has a positive meaning to the public. He also shoulders the responsibility of maintaining a good image and needs to be an example to spread the correct information to the public. But undoubtedly, Lancaster's actions today did not play such a role.

After the success of 'Schindler's List' and the band, Lancaster is undoubtedly one of the most high-profile entertainers now, but the media's pursuit has made him lose his patience and attitude, hot temper and bad The personality makes people recall Lancaster two years ago, and the out-of-control under the spotlight chase once made Lancaster into poison. Amid the scourge of bad taste, alcohol, violence and drag racing, and now that Lancaster is mired in a grumpy quagmire, his horrific refusal to cooperate with the media is likely to have unpredictable negative consequences for the rest of his career. "

I have to say that the "New York Post" is experienced and experienced. The content of their reports is basically in line with the facts. The only loophole is that they did not tell the reporter's noise and provocation. This is the most brilliant lie, 90% of them are true and 10% are false. , which is very likely to cause the whole fact to show a very different trend.

The "New York Post" summed up all the faults on Hugo's hot temper, believing that Hugo was disoriented by the spotlight, which led to the relapse of his temper, and they even expressed their deep concern at the end of the report.

But in fact, as long as readers of the New York Post have finished reading, they will think that the fault lies in Hugo, and that Hugo is indeed playing a big temper. Readers could not see the reason why Hugo entered the hospital, nor the noise made by the reporters, nor the efforts Hugo made to keep the hospital quiet. They would only notice the only key word, "temper". .

In this way, public opinion will naturally develop in the unfavorable direction of Hugo, and the "New York Post" will not involve itself in the suspicion of "witch trials". This trick is really clever.

The "New York Post" report is undoubtedly the best. Relatively speaking, the "National Enquirer", which did not arrive at the scene to interview, also wrote news based on the tip, and their report appeared to be several paragraphs lower, which is also related to them. The taste and positioning remain the same.

The "National Enquirer" focused its report on "The 'Life and Death' crew refused to interview", and the "New York Post" blurred this focus when they reported that when they said that Hugo refused to be interviewed by the media, here The "media" used in the singular is actually talking about themselves, but they didn't point it out.

The "National Enquirer" highlighted that Hugo was grumpy in an interview and said angrily that the "Life and Death" crew would also refuse all media interviews. "Mr. Bond" Anthony Stewart, who wrote the news, said that Hugo would be a provocation to all the media, believing that "Life and Death" can still be successful even without media publicity.

Anthony then made a news link, referring to the "Los Angeles Times" report not long ago, and he once again discussed the possibility of the box office of "Life and Death" passing the 100 million threshold. But obviously, Anthony thinks this is a very difficult wish to achieve, not only because the movie "Life and Death" itself does not have any bright spots to look forward to, but also because Hugo's current big-name attitude is unable to provide any help.

At the end of this report, Anthony also proposed again, "Can the North American box office of 'Life and Death' really pass the 100 million threshold? I doubt, strongly doubt."

The "National Enquirer" report is obviously not smart enough. After all, the topic of "the entire 'Life and Death' crew refused to be interviewed" is easily exposed, and once the "Life and Death" crew stands up, even the 20th Century Fox station behind them Come out, the whole situation will change immediately.

However, the National Enquirer's report still attracted a lot of attention, because Anthony cleverly brought the topic of box office into the public's attention again, and the box office issue of "Life and Death" once again became the focus of heated discussions. More importantly, the possibility of "Speed ​​of Life and Death" breaking through 100 million at the box office is still not optimistic.

The two reports in the New York Post and the National Enquirer undoubtedly shifted the anger completely, the former shifting the focus to Hugo's bad temper and playing big names, while the latter once again put "life and death" The box office problem evolved into the spotlight.

The ability of the news media has been witnessed again. They are always able to complicate a simple thing and develop a complex thing in a direction that is beneficial to them, not to mention their remarkable ability to confuse right and wrong. .

When these two reports came out, people's discussion immediately became noisy. Public opinion seemed to be developing in a direction unfavorable to Hugo. The box office discussion about "speed of life and death" became lively, but the current general trend of public opinion is still that , "Life and Death", a work without any bright spots, is almost an impossible task to get 100 million US dollars at the box office, and even the "Chicago Tribune" mocked, "This film can get 3,000 US dollars at the box office. , to maintain the balance of costs, you should be lucky."

Obviously, from a normal point of view, "Life and Death" does not have any bright spots worth betting on, but this is also one of the charms of Hollywood. No one can predict the success or failure of any work, whether it is box office or word of mouth, It's all like that, and that's the normal law of the mature movie market.

Therefore, from another point of view, "Speed ​​of Life and Death" has just started filming, and it has already caused so much discussion, which is undoubtedly good for the promotion of the film after its release. The law of "the fragrance of wine is not afraid of deep alleys" is obviously not applicable in Hollywood, and publicity and exposure are the truth for the works to create good results.

At the same time, the discussion about Hugo's bad temper has become more and more lively. It is generally believed that the attention of the spotlight is likely to make Hugo lose his sight again. It can be seen from this that even though Hugo's image in the past two years It has always been very good, and the image of being gentle and polite has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but the black history of the "bad deeds" before will still make people involuntarily guess: Is he back to his old ways?

To make matters worse, the Chicago Tribune offered a fresh take, "Missing out the 36th Grammy Award for Rookie of the Year, obviously putting Hugo out of tune."

This not only invisibly confirmed people's speculation-Hugo's mentality was out of balance, but also ridiculed Hugo. The "Chicago Tribune" believed that Hugo had firmly stated that he would not attend the Grammy Awards before, but now he really missed it. After winning the award, his mentality was unbalanced. This was undoubtedly a self-contradictory and duplicitous performance, which gave the "Chicago Tribune" a strong point of attack against Hugo.

The "Chicago Tribune" is the real genius in shifting the focus. In an instant, a whole new discussion started again, even surpassing the focus created by the "New York Post" before, attracting many professional music magazines. attention.

Although reports in the New York Post, National Enquirer, and Chicago Tribune have sparked heated discussions and a wave of negative information, Hugo is now in a very different environment than it was last year. , now the news media willing to stand behind Hugo is not only more and more powerful, but also more powerful. Therefore, no matter how strong the negative public opinion is, there will be some media willing to stand up to clarify the facts and speak for Hugo, and this time is no exception.