Hollywood Road

The Fox TV interview program has long since ended, the TV has also been turned off, the living room is silent and no sound can be heard, Daisy stands there motionless, her white face under short blond hair is as cold as Antarctica, which has never melted for thousands of years. The ice and snow are common, and the whole house may be frozen at any time.

Traitor! There was only one thought in Daisy's head, Murphy Stanton is a traitor!

More than ten years ago, when she was a girl who was just sixteen years old, she fell in love with his movies crazily, and then crazily worshiped his dark and evil thoughts. He spent ten years with her, She also walked with him for ten years. She admired him so much, thinking that he was her belief...

Until this moment, Daisy realized that she was wrong.

Her original intention has not changed in the past ten years, but Murphy, who has gone from an unknown newcomer to a super director, has changed.

He is no longer crazy, no longer dark, no longer evil, no longer maverick, he has become like everyone else in Hollywood, without a mind, without a soul...

If it's just like this, then forget it, anyway, now that she has a new belief, she will just be a passerby in the future, but he openly accused her on the TV show, if this is not a traitor, what is it?

He betrayed his original ideas, his dark thoughts, his evil nature, and more importantly, he betrayed... her!

Thinking of this, Daisy felt a throbbing pain in her heart, the kind of spiritual pain, the kind of loss of being abandoned by her own beliefs, was more painful and uncomfortable than breaking bones and cutting flesh, and it also drove her crazy!

Daisy felt her body trembling inexplicably, she couldn't stand anymore, squatted on the ground, supported the floor with both hands, opened her mouth and made a retching sound, and two lines of tears flowed down her white cheeks slowly.

She squatted here, tears dripping down, the pain in her heart flowed out with the tears, and the worship of Murphy in the past also disappeared.

I don't know how long it took, almost all of Daisy's tears were drained, and she finally felt a lot better. With a little force on the two hands on the floor, she stood up slowly, and then raised her hands to wipe away the last tears from the corners of her eyes. Teardrops, the expression on his face hardened little by little, as if he had completely turned into a cold stone.

I was betrayed! she muttered to herself, I was betrayed...

After muttering a few words, Daisy turned around and walked towards the basement, talking to herself while walking, The traitor must pay the price! The price is life!

She walked through the corridor to the entrance to the basement,

Open the mechanical lock on the door, and walk down the stairs step by step, each step is extremely slow and heavy.

Entering the basement, Daisy looked up at the huge magician photo frame on the wall, Only you will not change, you are my... faith!

She went to a corner of the basement, rummaged through the shelves, and found a huge poster of Murphy, which she had posted at home before.

Daisy unfolded the poster and saw Murphy Stanton with a faint smile on it, her eyes instantly became extremely sharp.

Traitor! A sentence jumped out of her mouth unconsciously, Damn...traitor!

Resisting the urge to tear up the poster, Daisy stuck it on the basement wall, took out a bright red lipstick, and wrote traitor on the poster.

She stood opposite the poster and looked at it for a while, then raised the hand holding the lipstick again, and drew a red X symbol of a project on Murphy Stanton's head on the poster!

In this case, let that black, crazy and evil Murphy live in his memory!

After the TV interview, although the controversy and criticism of Dark City were still loud, Murphy's fans, who had only counterattacked sporadically before, united. How can a scattered attack be compared to an overall battle? With a large number of voices supporting Murphy and Dark City, plus the media under 20th Century Fox and News Corporation, public opinion was divided into two factions for a while.

Led by some media that support Catholicism, one faction crazily criticized Murphy and Dark City, and even Hollywood movies and their self-censorship system; the other faction firmly stood on the position of Murphy and the film industry.

Especially the media related to the six major Hollywood companies, after some remarks made by Archbishop Marquez Costello were exposed, they all faintly sided with Murphy.

To a certain extent, they share common interests with Murphy and 20th Century Fox, and the Hollywood film industry has developed to the current prosperous situation, and no one wants the power of the church to get involved.

Who likes to make money and be happy when someone suddenly jumps out and puts a pair of handcuffs restricting the freedom of movement?

Murphy also commissioned a professional survey company to understand the public's views, to be precise, the position of ordinary people.

The results of the survey were quickly fed back to Murphy. Among the more than 6,000 people that the survey company asked from the streets and alleys of major cities across the United States, nearly 85% of them had the same opinion—Shut my ass thing!

In detail, after the shooting at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood and the subsequent murder in the park, and when the media frantically criticized Dark City, how should these people eat, drink and drink? How to sleep and how to sleep, how to play or how to play, just treat these as some chatter after dinner, just stand aside as a pure bystander and watch the fun.

As for the so-called negative impact of Dark City or Hollywood movies? These people don't care at all.

How to think and how to act are two different things. Many times, it is not the head that determines a person’s position, but the position of the buttocks. For example, the Catholic Church, why they hold on to this incident is only because there are Catholics among the victims. Christian?

It is impossible to say that movies cannot affect society. Just like movies themselves are deeply affected by social and environmental conditions, popular movies will also affect society in turn.

Gradually, many mainstream media quietly sided with Murphy.

At any time, movies should not give up the promotion of mainstream values. These values ​​have nothing to do with ideology and are of universal value. Movies should not become aspirin that paralyzes the audience and ignore reality, nor should it become a place in the hearts of the audience. Fresh formalin from the dark side of dark rot.

The most charming feature of the movie is that she can create a dream world for people, temporarily forget their own troubles, and find their own happiness and satisfaction in the illusory world.

Of course, this kind of happiness and fulfillment cannot be based on other people's suffering.

It's too much to let movies pay for real social phenomena.

When the Archbishop Marquez Costello and the Catholic Church showed their ambitions for Hollywood, many media suddenly changed their positions, from criticizing Murphy to supporting him.

Most of these media come from NBC Universal Group, News Corporation, Walt Disney, Comcast and even Time Warner. They all have a common feature. They all have a powerful Hollywood film production and distribution company under their umbrella. , these film companies are insignificant in the huge industrial composition of these media groups, but they are the most important content providers. It is with these contents that the media groups can derive even larger industrial groups.

For example, Walt Disney and Time Warner are the most representative companies among them.

However, the controversy over City of Darkness in the media did not stop there, and some forces behind the media did not want to stop there.

The reason why Murphy Stanton and his works are scary is that you can feel the great provocativeness brought by the movie. It evokes everyone's sense of rebellion against the established social rules. The audience often sees the last You will start to expect the villains to kill the good people, and the good people have become the biggest obstacle to the social revolution, and these villains have become heroes who smashed the state machine, causing people to follow suit.

This is pretty good, and some of the remarks are directed at Murphy himself.

In this world, only a lunatic director like Murphy Stanton can create a perverted **** character like a magician, and thus produce a crazy killer who imitates a magician!

Some so-called well-informed sources revealed to the media, Murphy Stanton is also saying in private that so many things have happened, and I don't know whether to blame the murderer or myself...

Public opinion is often the vanguard of some actions!

With the occurrence of the second murder case, the situation became more and more complicated, and even some moral organizations and religious figures successively appeared in front of the Fox Tower in Century City and the Wave Manor in Beverly Hills after the Independence Day holiday. Nearby, not only protested with various slogans and flags, but also suggested that the federal government should force the release of Dark City.

It is very difficult for these so-called organizations to actually accomplish anything, but no one can ignore their ability to wreak havoc.

Especially religious organizations dominated by the Catholic Church, even though they have little influence in south-central California, they have many believers. It is not true that they gathered hundreds or even thousands of devout believers to protest in front of Murphy's house. Difficult.

Although the pressure was enormous, Murphy and 20th Century Fox would never agree to their unreasonable request to release Dark City early.

And those people not only aimed at Dark City, but also wanted Murphy to apologize publicly, especially to the Catholic Church, reflect on his own filmmaking philosophy, and his past actions of slandering Catholicism.

Faced with this complicated situation, Stanton's party members who had been filming films all over the world rushed back to Los Angeles one after another to support Murphy in various forms.