Three Hundred and Fifty-One-Ninety-Six Batman Parade

The uproar in public opinion is not without any benefit. No matter what the media's original intention is, it is inevitable that Wayne's new film "The Departed" will be frequently mentioned before it is finished filming.

Perhaps the various rumors in recent times have aroused a lot of excitement among some female members of the public, and at the same time, it has also made many male movie fans gradually raise their expectations for "The Departed".

Many people want to know what it will be like if Wayne has Oscar ambitions this time and shoots a gangster film that is almost exclusive to men's romance.

Time was advancing slowly day by day, and the crew in Boston seemed not to be affected in any way. Groups of footage were shot at a leisurely pace. As the three male protagonists became more and more accustomed to their roles, the shooting speed increased. It is also improving unconsciously.

During this period, Warner Bros.'s public relations department, which had been in a wait-and-see mode, finally began to refute the reports that were unfavorable to Wayne.

And through its media and parent company media, a notice was issued stating that any inappropriate remarks about Wayne will be pursued by the Warner Bros. Legal Department. People need to be responsible for their remarks, whether it is the media or women's rights organizations.

So in the last few days of late 1995, the biggest gossip news in North America had been various comments about Wayne. Even sober ordinary people have discovered that the current entertainment reports on the market are completely different.

A large part of the media is sparing no effort to promote Dark Wayne, and at the same time, they are constantly guiding public opinion, overtly and covertly persuading ordinary movie fans to boycott his films.

There is another part of the media that is constantly refuting all kinds of dirty information about Wayne, especially the claim that he abused women. They have deliberately dug out interviews with several women and said that all of this is completely lies. .

Vanity Fair once conducted a survey. In the past two years, Wayne has been ranked at the top of North American women's fantasy boyfriends. After various controversies during this period that are difficult to distinguish between true and false, it has been found that there are indeed many elite white-collar women. , indicating that he is no longer an object of desire.

What's ridiculous is that ordinary women don't care whether he abuses women or whether he has mental illness. They only see his terrifying net worth. Many women even express their opinions and they don't mind. Abused by a billionaire boyfriend.

Before the New Year, various reports about Wayne have always occupied the largest space in entertainment news.

When CAA's agent contacted Cameron Diaz and Halle Berry again, the two women, under Nina's command, first pretended to agree to each other's conditions, and then learned that they agreed to the conditions. After hearing the name of the project, he simply cut off communication with the other party.

For Nina and Warner Bros., it was enough to know the name of the project and analyze which companies were involved. This kind of thing never needed to be fully understood and never needed evidence.

So when Wayne heard the names of Universal Pictures and Sony Columbia, he didn't show the slightest surprise. He just silently wrote it down, and then in his spare time during filming, he kept thinking about how to stab the knife back. .

On January 1, 1996, "Batman Begins", which had stayed in the North American theater market for more than half a year, officially left the theaters and ended this magical theater journey.

On the day when this film was released, the North American box office figure stopped at 313.2 million US dollars, and the global box office was about 790 million US dollars. There is no doubt that it has become this year's annual box office champion.

It was also on this day that CNN, a television station owned by Time Warner, set its sights on a group of Batman fans in Los Angeles.

On January 1, 1996, thousands of Batman fans took to the streets of the Avenue of Stars. Most of them wore bat armors or bat capes, and some even wore black masks.

The leader of the march was a black man. He held a homemade sign in his hand. In addition to a bat symbol, slogans supporting Wayne were clearly written on it.

"Justice born in darkness is never afraid of attacks from darkness!"

It started out as a silent parade of die-hard movie fans, but no one expected that more and more young people would join along the way. Many people saw their costumes and went back home to take out the iconic items they bought while watching the movie.

When the crowd entered the Avenue of Stars, the queue inevitably grew larger. The crowd following Schroeder and Daisy was conservatively estimated to have exceeded 3,000 people.

This situation aroused the sensitive nerves of the Los Angeles Police Department. It was only two years since the riot occurred. Most importantly, the leader of the march was a black man.

The police station temporarily mobilized hundreds of police officers. On this day, many police officers were cancelled. They all received an emergency notice and went to the Avenue of Stars to maintain law and order.

The only thing that can make the police department breathe a sigh of relief is that these fans wearing Batman gear have never done anything extreme. They didn't even shout a slogan during the whole process. Especially the fans who were walking in front were just silent. Follow the leader and move forward.

After this rare situation occurred, it attracted a large amount of media attention in a short period of time. CNN News TV Station, which had been well prepared, quickly drove over the satellite live broadcast truck and directly sent the live footage to all over North America. Thousands of households.

"This is CNN Global Report, and behind me is the famous Avenue of Stars." A female anchor wearing a skirt held a microphone in her hand, facing the camera in front of the satellite broadcast vehicle, and began to broadcast in real time in a very fast but clear tone.

"We can see that the number of people in this "Batman" parade has exceeded 3,000. There were no quarrels or chaos at the scene. The fans have always remained calm and are using their way to express your opinion..."

Satellite signals broadcast live images to countless families watching TV. This rare scene also attracted the attention of a large number of ordinary people. The ratings of CNN TV station soared during the same period.

"Who came up with this idea?"

In a hotel suite far away in Boston, Wayne was watching TV with his hands on his shoulders, and suddenly turned his head to look at the assistant lady beside him.

No matter what the outside world talked about during this period, he didn't deliberately care. He just focused on the filming. He knew better than anyone the ultimate purpose of the dirty water, which was to make his film fail.

So the most important thing now is not to pay attention to various rumors, but to control the quality of the film. Doing things is far more convincing than saying them.

"It's Daisy and the leading black man, Schroeder." Nina raised her hand to push up the glasses on her nose, and said directly without caring about Jennifer Connelly, who was sitting next to her boss.

"These two people contacted local movie fans in Los Angeles, hoping to have a voice channel of their own to express their support for you. Warner Bros. agreed to this and contacted the parent company Time Warner in advance, and then dispatched CNN's satellite live broadcast truck. "

The scene on the TV was still going on, but Wayne was not in a good mood. In fact, there was not much meaning in doing this. Since those women refused the temptation behind the scenes, the popularity of this matter would not last long. .

There are not many ways to target him. As long as the woman around him doesn't stab him, all kinds of unfounded speculations and one-sided words from Katie won't do much harm to him at all.

It is true that a large number of female movie fans will abandon his films because of various rumors during this period. This situation is inevitable. However, Wayne's films have not always been very friendly to women, so the impact is far less. As big as you can imagine.

He and Warner Bros. have long figured out these things, and he is very confident that he can regain the temporarily lost fans through Batman Part 2. You know, ordinary people are very tolerant of this circle, and they are also relatively forgetful.

Looking at the TV, Wayne shook his head helplessly. "Doing this will only deepen people's memories and make my name be discussed for a longer time. But let's do it for now, at least let some people know that my fan base has never wavered."

He doesn't care if someone targets women's issues. No matter how intense the hype is, it will only make his name stink among certain groups.

We are now in the mid-1990s, and feminist consciousness is just in its infancy. Whether it is social consciousness or ordinary people's ideas, they are far less radical than later. Even Hollywood movies have always avoided scenes with female protagonists, so completely There is no audience.

If the time were moved back twenty years, perhaps under the social atmosphere at that time, the super rich would be taboo about the MiTu group. After all, there were indeed many Hollywood bosses who fell to the bite of those women. At that time, Warner Bros. CEO Kay Ven-Tsuhara was hammered.

At the same time, Boston’s Wayne and others were not the only ones watching TV. Sony Columbia executive Paul Knight was also staring at the parade on the TV screen.

It wasn't until CNN switched to other news that he frowned and picked up the phone on the table, hesitated and dialed.

He didn't wait for too long. The moment the call was connected, he said directly into the phone: "I'm Paul. Don't contact the woman from CAA. Since the agent used "Black Clothes" Neither actress took the bait for the role of "People", so forget it. Yes, just pretend this never happened."

For a long time after hanging up the phone, he kept looking out the window in trance. If a good opportunity arises, Sony Columbia won't mind stepping on that director and Warner Bros., and I believe others think so too.

And all of this is definitely useful. The director's reputation has indeed been greatly affected, and among some specific groups of women, the impact may be even greater.

It's just that the most important step was not taken, which made him feel very regretful. If those two actresses could step forward, the effect would be dozens of times better than now.