MTL - American Fame and Fortune-Chapter 795 Breach of ban and mailgate

 Chapter 795 Violation of the Ban and Mailgate

Santa Monica, in the house that Martin gave to Bruce, Jodi made dinner and called Bruce over for dinner.

Bruce wore a tight-fitting swimming trunks, as if it were a joke, with more than a dozen thermal patches on them, which looked quite weird.

Jody couldn't understand: "What's wrong with you?"

“Pelvic pain.” Bruce has been to Chinatown many times to buy things like Fengyoujing: “Someone told me that when bones hurt, you should keep warm.”

Hearing such words again, Jody subconsciously touched his butt, became very angry, and said bitterly: "You took the initiative this time!"

Bruce is a bastard, full of lies: "I'm worried that you are not good for Martin."

Jody finally understood why she fell in love with Bruce and felt that he was the right one, because he was as shameless as her.

 Bruce sat down to eat and said while eating: "You only enjoyed enjoying the words I said when I was doing business, and you didn't give me a reply."

Jodi rearranged his golden brown hair and tied it into a high ponytail. He sat opposite Bruce and said, "I have been in the industry for more than ten years. I may not remember some small things clearly, but I always remember the big things very clearly. I never forget important news." There has been no fraud.”

Bruce believed these words because he knew Jody: "I didn't ask you to report fake news, but to use the way you are best at."

 …

As a reporter and business editor with professional ethics and journalistic principles, Jody absolutely disagrees with TMZ reporting false news. This goes against her principles!

Reports that are made up of things that did not happen are called fake news.

In the early morning of the day when the Academy mailed Oscar ballots, someone used hacking technology and a lack of supervision of public equipment to send a heavyweight email to many members of the Academy.

Lalph, who lives in North Hollywood, joined the Art Directors Guild as early as 1999. A few years later, he received an invitation from the Film Academy and became an Academy member, also qualified to vote for the Oscars.

 When all this was over, Bruce and Jody got down to business.

  He became a poster child for fair voting, often publicly demonstrating responsible voting methods such as voting with eyes closed, throwing stones, and voting with a pen on the second floor.

Both Bruce and Jody have done this many times, without any mental barriers at all, and they are extremely skillful in doing it.

After breakfast, Ralph came to the study and turned on the computer to prepare a blog post. This year's Oscars has reached a critical moment again. The media reports are in a mess, and it is another extremely bad year.

Jody's fiery eyes stared at Bruce with red eyes: "Do you know what I am best at?"

 The content is not to criticize other Oscar contenders, but to praise Ang Lee and "Life of Pi".

 She also publishes articles in the media and blogs from time to time, criticizing the Academy for letting publicity and public relations go, causing the Oscars to be in shambles.

 So, before reporting, you must first create news.

　　In the beginning, before each Oscar, Ralph would carefully watch the nominated films, discuss them seriously with publicists or relevant filmmakers, and finally cast his crucial vote.

Bruce didn't answer and continued eating.

 Neither the film academy nor the art directors' union welcomed him very much.

For Martin, he made the sacrifice for the Nth time.

 When something happens and it is reported, of course it becomes real news.

 After several consecutive Oscars, he found that none of the films he liked had won major awards, and Ralph's heart gradually faded away.

Bruce stood up directly and walked around the dining table to Jody.

“If you want something, you have to pay.” Jodi suddenly laughed: “Brother, don’t you want to see news beneficial to Martin appear on TMZ?”

Although he is not young, Ralph can be regarded as an angry young man in the film school.

At the same time as he opened his blog, he logged into his work email, and his email prompted that there were three new unread emails.

The first two emails were work contact emails. Ralph deleted them directly after reading them. However, the third email piqued his interest because it was related to Oscar public relations.

 The email was sent anonymously.

“Dear Mr. Ralph Jackson, we apologize for the intrusion and hope for your understanding.

We are writing to you, and what we want to say is that we hope you will like the film "Life of Pi". If you like it and want us to win, please vote for us and forward it to your Oscar judge friends, Retweet to actors, directors, crew, art directors, special effects people, if everyone could retweet to one or two of their friends, we could win an Oscar..."

This is an obvious canvassing email!

Ralph's face became extremely ugly, because according to the rules of the Academy, any crew participating in the Oscar competition is strictly prohibited from sending emails to any judges to solicit votes.

Just like public relations such as canvassing parties and breakfast meetings, you can send various materials, carry out various side lobbying, and even give small gifts to the judges, but it is strictly prohibited to directly canvass votes from academy members.

 You can say how good the movie is, but you can’t say you voted for me.

Of course, the rules of the college are one thing, but the actual implementation is another.

 For example, in private, it doesn’t matter what friends say among themselves, such as the Bastard Trio.

For example, the Academy also stipulated that gifts given by the crew should not exceed US$35, so the crew "lent" gifts to the judges...    According to the regulations of the Academy, information or comments related to the film, as well as various compliments, can be sent by mail or email. Soft articles are sent to academy members, as long as there are no voting-related content in them, there is no problem.

Even if it occurs, there will generally be no problem under normal circumstances.

 As long as you don’t say it, I won’t say it.

 But the Ralph that Nicholson, the old bastard, specially found was different. He was a cynical old angry young man who had been dissatisfied with the sluggish Oscar public relations for many years.

 In the past, Ralph had turned a blind eye to anything that had never happened to him.

Now someone actually sent a canvassing email directly to his work email, and Ralph couldn't bear it.

“These **** are getting more and more outrageous!” He thought about it for a moment, came up with an idea, and immediately took a screenshot of the email content, logged into his blog, and quickly wrote a blog post.

"Some crews and films have blatantly violated Oscar public relations. Is there anyone at the Academy to take care of it?"

Ralph added a screenshot of the email content and posted a blog post.

This is not over yet, Ralph also @ the official blog of the Film Academy and the blog of Academy President Tom Sherak, forwarded the blog post he just sent with pictures to them, and posted it again.

“I, Ralph Jackson, report someone for Oscar PR violations!”

After posting the blog post, Ralph's depressed mood improved a lot, but when he looked at the blog that had no activity, he felt sad again.

　　Do the college bosses really not know about these things that happen in private? The current president of the Academy, Tom Sherak, is a producer, the vice president, Tom Hanks, is a superstar, and the female vice president, Kathleen Kennedy, has been Spielberg’s assistant for many years.

These people have all experienced Oscar competition and must understand what is going on.

Suddenly, a message alert sounded on the blog.

Ralph thought there was a reply from the college, so he quickly opened the message and found that it was not the case at all.

 A media outlet sent him a message.

“Hello, Mr. Jackson, I am a reporter from TMZ. I just saw your blog post and pictures. Could you please give me a few minutes? Did you receive these yourself?”

With a thought in his mind, Ralph replied: "Yes, this is the email I just received this morning. The other party clearly violated the academy's ban and directly solicited votes from me through email."

The reporter there waited for a while before replying to the message: "I checked the college's rules and called the college to ask, and it was indeed a violation of the ban. Mr. Jackson, can TMZ interview you about this matter? We It won’t take you long.”

Ralph did not answer immediately, but clicked on the blog and took a look. Tom Sherak and the official blog of the Film Academy still had no movement.

Although he knew that it was impossible to give him a clear answer so quickly when it came to college officials, after careful consideration, Ralph still replied to the reporter: "Okay, you can come to Laurel Valley Avenue in North Hollywood at ten o'clock. Moon Bay Cafe.”

The other side immediately replied: "Okay, I'll leave now."

 Ralph waited for more than ten minutes, but still didn't get a reply. He turned off the computer, put on his coat, and drove to the appointed place.

 Of course doing this will cause some criticism, but he doesn't care.

  Ralph is about to retire, and with his pension and dividends from his previous works, he can live a good life.

 As for the film school, what can be done to him?

Ralph has no official or position in the college. He is a pure member of the college. Membership of the college is lifelong and membership will not be revoked.

To be precise, in the past hundred years since the establishment of the Film Academy in Hollywood, only one person has been expelled from the Academy.

That man’s name is Harvey Weinstein!

Ralph arrived at the appointed location on time and accepted an interview with the TMZ reporter.

 After obtaining the consent of the former, the latter interviewed Ralph via video on this matter.

At noon that day, TMZ broadcast the video of Ralph’s interview and included screenshots of Ralph’s emails and blogs in the news.

 At the same time, the college’s rigid regulations on this aspect were also noted to avoid confusion among the melon-eaters.

The Film Academy had just mailed out the ballots, and it was the time when the United States was most concerned about Oscar voting. This incident immediately exploded, and was retweeted on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, and it climbed up the trending search list that day.

 Subsequently, an academy member from Hong Kong City and another academy member from South Korea also posted pictures on Twitter, revealing that they had also received similar emails.

Although the emails were all sent anonymously, and the TMZ report did not mention the crew or film title, the beneficiaries are clearly visible.

 When such things are hidden below the water surface, it will naturally be calm.

 But someone appeared one after another, and the water immediately started to boil.

 With the success, dozens of academy members also exposed the same email through various methods.

Media expecting hot news followed suit one after another, and the Oscar "email scandal" broke out!

 (End of this chapter)