Chapter 299 We screwed up(1/2)
It was almost 6 pm in Toronto. After school, Nina went home. When the time was almost over, she went to Palson International Airport and went to Los Angeles.
In the busy airport terminal, Nina was sitting in a waiting chair waiting for boarding. A linen travel handbag was placed next to her. She looked at the phone in her hand. She had no text message yet. She didn't know how the appeal was going? It would be fine! There was nothing that Yunik couldn't handle.
At the same time, it is almost three o'clock in the afternoon in Los Angeles. Harvard-West Lake High School is over. Various activities and gatherings are about to take place. The wonderful day for the students has just begun. Many students are concerned about the results of LMS’s complaint and are talking about it.
"The media, the people, and those filmmakers all support us, and Brother Wei personally takes action, we will win."
“VIY won’t let us down!”
"There are 100,000 people responding to the petition online, and they have to worry about it."
"More than one hundred thousand, right?"
The number of petitioners on the Internet is still increasing rapidly, from all over the United States and around the world, about to exceed 110,000! All those involved in this matter are excited about this. Seeing that there is no, all changes in the world begin like this, making your voice, fighting for your rights, and uniting to break the corruption and obscene!
Just look at the news and these messages of support from ordinary people will be filled with enthusiasm.
But, have you seen it? With so many people supporting you, you are not fighting alone!
FAST-MAG: "After watching all the trailers, trailers and other information about "The Little Sunshine Beauty", MPAA was wrong. That conversation was nothing at all. I'm looking forward to this movie too much."
Armand1990: "What does MPAA treat us like? Is it a fool? I am 15 years old, and I just think that old man is funny. I can do it after listening to his words? Don't be stupid."
KEN05: "Who thinks Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Streep will act in a family film with erotic content, and who must have a problem with his brain. I've seen almost all of their films, and Ye Wei's, so do they won't do such things. The trailer confirms this."
Harlan-Murray: "I am a father of three children, a 10-year-old son, a 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter. Compared to a few swearing words, I am more worried about violence because there will be no swearing in life, but violence can ruin your life and others."
Maria-Dodd: "I will not tolerate appearing in children's movies. I can accept the small swearing of PG-13 level, especially the artistic purpose. MPAA's accusations against "The Little Beauty of Sunshine" are unreasonable and have no life experience. What it requires is like asking you to be a person living in a vacuum. Our whole family hopes to see the best LMS, and I wish it will successfully get the PG-13 level."
...
At 3:00 pm, the MPAA Headquarters Appeals Court.
During the one-hour debate, members of both sides spoke in turn. Ye Wei, who was on the LMS side, said 80% of them. Every time he finished speaking, he could make the reporters applaud. The arguments of the rating committee members were refuted one by one as a laughing stock. In the end, Joan Grave was already sweating profusely.
The CARA side still ended with "This is a clear rule and will not make an exception to any movie"; the LMS side ended with "unreasonable criticism under an unfair system is only wrong."
There is too much involvement in this storm.
Journalists all know that if LMS wins, it means that MPAA can't withstand the pressure of public opinion, and may also intend to start changes, such as releasing a complete rating manual and improving the entire rating system... Many things will change from then on, and the videos that are unfairly treated will gradually decrease, because LMS can win, and other videos can also win.
If LMS loses, it means that MPAA will never admit its mistakes, seize the power of dictatorship, and also show the world how corrupt it is.
No matter what wins or loses, it will inevitably cause an earthquake, and Ye Wei will inevitably become a key figure in the history of film ratings.
While waiting for the 18 complaint committee members to discuss and vote in the committee room, the court was silent, with no conversation, and almost no sound of pen tips. Everyone sat there quietly, not knowing what they were thinking.
15 minutes seemed quite long. When the time came to 15:15, the door of the room on the left slammed open, and the complaints came out one after another, with different faces and expressions. They had already made a decision. A tall man in the lead walked towards the judge's desk and handed over the unnamed voting results to Judge De Basil.
Everyone stared at it intently, and a tense atmosphere enveloped the space that seemed to have become very narrow.
Just as people were watching, and as the attention and expectations of countless people inside and outside the court, Judge De Basil looked at the results written on the white paper, and his expression changed no matter how he read it blankly:
"Thirteen people voted not to overthrow, five people voted to overthrow."
That is... "The Little Beauty of Sunshine" lost the case, and it was still R-level.
The voting ratio of 13:5 is almost the same as that of the members of the six major studios: theater chain merchants and other members.
That is... in fact, the result was already destined. No matter what Ye Wei said or took out, he had already lost since he walked into this "court".
"Shh!!!" When I heard the first half of the sentence, the excited boo had already resounded here. Many of the reporters blushed in an instant, some stood up, and some shouted that when I really got this moment, everyone with a conscience was so heartbroken and so sore.
Although LMS won the public opinion and the truth, although Ye Wei refuted everyone in CARA into a mute, even though the light of fairness and justice once illuminated the place...
The one who "wins" is MPAA.
The rating committee members looked a little weird, not so happy, and of course they were not sad, strange, weird, like a group of ghosts. Joan Grave seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and his old face looked calm. Maybe they all knew it would be the result. Although they were going to lose face, they could only win by MPAA.
The six people on LMS side did not boo or did not do anything, so they continued to sit there. Secretary Cindy wiped his tears in his eyes, and Arnte suddenly became even more choked.
Attorneys Peter Huller, Price and Salton all looked lonely.
"It's so bad!", "You guys are so bad!", "This is so shameful!" The reporters were scolding excitedly.
The boy with sports coat leaned against the back of the chair and looked at him, as if he had been expecting it, and he was wandering outside, thinking about something.
"Quiet, quiet!" Judge De Rosel shouted a few times and shouted the verdict and said: "Please be quiet! This appeal has already been achieved. "Sunshine Little Beauty" lost the case and maintained the original R-level. Even if everyone is not satisfied, the result will not change. We will no longer accept the appeal of the current version of LMS."
"Shame for you!", "The whole country is humiliated by your despicableness!" The reporters were still excited, and some even smashed their pens to the ground.
Several security guards were nervously preparing to deal with the possible chaos.
And the complaint committee members over there were a few of them obviously full of anger, and the others were silent as if they were not part of the complaint...
"Please respect the results!"
"Shh!!!"
Just as the booed again, Ye Wei stood up with his right hand raised, and the audience immediately became quiet, and everyone looked at him.
"I'm sorry to see this result." Ye Wei looked around the members of the MPAA, with a cold expression, his eyes as sharp as a blade, and his voice was a little heavy: "You have fully proved that you are hopelessly rotten. The most regrettable thing is that we still have to deal with you and find a way to get the PG-13 level that should have been ours."
Just as Judge De Rosel was about to say something, he shouted loudly: "I don't want to come to this fake court again, so now I will ask clearly, Ms. Grave, everyone rating committee members, in a non-sex-erotic context, can I use FUCK 4 times? I want to ask, except for Di Wyen, the other three times were used for grandpa after he talked about making a movie, and then he said..."
Ye Wei paused, glanced at the people around him, and said coldly: "'FUCK-MPAA!FUCK-MPAA!FUCK-MPAA!"
Hearing these three sounds of FUCK, everyone was shocked. Judges De Rosel, Joan Grave, and almost all the MPAA members' faces turned green.
"From your professional, experienced and fair ears, can this line PG-13? Please tell me." He was not joking or insulting, but asking seriously.
The reporters suddenly understood so much that "when we can't express emotions in ordinary words, we say FUCK". Everyone looked at the CARA agent and waited for an answer.
"..." No rating committee member was willing to answer, and Joan Grave's face looked a little more embarrassed and angry, and his tone was as gentle as possible: "Yes. But it was very rude."
"OK." Ye Wei nodded slightly, "Then what you will see, and not only 100,000 people will see, but at least one million people, ten million people! See, hear."
He paused again and said heavily, louder than before: "Fuck MPAA! Fuck MPAA! Fuck MPAA!!!"
"Fuck MPAA!" Suddenly, some reporters also shouted, and from a sound, it immediately turned into a large area. Almost everyone in the small room was raising their hands and shouting: "Fuck MPAA!"
Amid the intense shouts, Ye Wei turned around and left his seat, strode out of the room, passed through rows of angrily shouting reporters, opened the wooden door and walked, and his figure disappeared in the corridor.
Some reporters followed, some were not ready to leave and interview people from MPAA. They no longer had to ask what the boy had.
VIY, he's really enough to grow!
...
Ye Wei left the MPAA headquarters building all the way, and some photographers waiting outside the building surrounded him and took photos repeatedly, asking what the result was. He just answered the same sentence in a plain manner, "We've messed up (We-blew-it)."
Under the siege of reporters, he arrived at the parking lot and drove his second-hand Volkswagen car.
It only takes about 15 minutes to drive from MPAA headquarters to Harvard-West Lake High School. He drove to the school and ignored the two loud and shocking mobile phones. After parking the car, he suddenly found that he didn't know where he was going. He had already finished school, and he had no activity today.
At this moment, Ye Wei walked casually in this beautiful and huge campus. When he met someone who asked excitedly, "Hey Wei, what's going on?", he also replied that sentence, "We've messed up." The kind-hearted people were surprised and regretful when they heard this, and said, "Is that okay?"
"Maybe."
Without going to the headquarters of the Dream Chasing League, Ye Wei looked at the sports field west for a while. The boys from the football team and baseball team were training. He was not happy and walked to the St. Savior Church in the northeast. He looked here and there along the way. He also bought a bowl of ice water at the girl's candy water stall on the roadside.
When he arrived at this classical chapel that was a cultural relics in Los Angeles, Ye Wei heard the choir singing from inside, and did not go in, so he turned around and left.
Gradually wandering to the Rugby Theater, he walked into the theater and sat in a seat on the left side of the middle of the auditorium. There was obviously no activity in the theater today. There were only a dozen people sitting in the auditorium, mostly in the front row. There were some students on the small stage rehearsing some unknown dramas.
Ye Wei sat there, drowned in the darkness, looking at the stage ahead and the big screen expressionlessly.
"Good People Reward" and "Angel Dance" were all screened on that screen. The first Harvard-West Lake Film Festival, the scenes of that night were still in front of you.
"The Little Sunshine Beauty" will hold a campus screening here, but...
Which version to play?
Thoughts flew, and I closed my eyes. After a while, someone suddenly walked up and sat down. The familiar girl's fragrance was fragrant and the familiar "wei".
"I'm asleep..."
"No, you don't."
"I'm just talking in my sleep."
"When you fall asleep, your brows won't be so frowning."
Ye Wei opened his eyes and turned to look. Lily's face was smiling. She was wearing a white-sleeved infrared jacket with HW logo and light blue cloth pants. She was also handsome and handsome while sitting.
He smiled and asked, "How do you know I'm here?"
I can always know where you are. Lily turned her eyes without answering, which made the flowing tenderness even more watery, "I know the result of the complaint, everyone knows."
"Yes, we messed up." From the so-called appeal meeting to now, Ye Wei suddenly sighed, looked at Lily, and suddenly something surged into his heart, making his brows frown, making his face look painful, and making his words messy: "I did my best, but... Lily, I did my best, I didn't want to give up, but..."
He scratched his head, leaned forward, and his face drooped in pain, "I fought to the end, but it wasn't me who had the final say. This is not my own business... Lily, I can't stick to the current version, I have to compromise. I hate MPAA so much, but I still have to do what it says... It's so bad. What do you think I'm this? I hate these... But I want to do it damn again, Lily... Lily, I don't want to give up..."
Lily heard him say, her eyebrows also frowned, her eyes blinked, and her hands couldn't be hugged and she clenched, "You didn't give up, you didn't."
His words stopped, and her words were firmly and soft: "I know Wei, I never give up, I am a person who can die for my dreams... This is not a compromise, it is a struggle to die... It's just..."
She said as she said something, she didn't know what to say, "Just, just..."
"Just on the road to pursuing dreams, people will die, and then come back to life, and then come back to life. If you don't continue, you will die forever." He took the sentence.
"You won't."
Neither of them said anything more, leaning against the back of the chair, looking at the screen and stage ahead.
To be continued...