Chapter 207: The Golden Globe Awards that created history!

Harvey Weinstein was encountering this kind of thing for the first time in his long Hollywood career, which could be called an unsolved mystery.

All the evidence in his hands now shows that the person who made him fall into this not-so-big, not-so-small crisis is precisely this young man from the other side of the ocean.

The reason is naturally that stupid Chinese peer who did things so roughly, making their cooperation not only fail to achieve the desired effect but instead making him turn from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.

But how did he do it?

Counterattacking so quickly, and hitting his vital point in one blow. Making him have to make such a plea for peace call in the middle of the night.

At first, when hearing Chen Nuo say he was in class, Harvey Weinstein was still somewhat skeptical.

But by this time, he had already determined that the other party was indeed humiliating him.

This feeling, for him, I don't know how many years he hadn't felt it, and for a while, it actually made him somewhat unacceptable.

He took a deep breath and said: "Chen, then I'll say it again. Please listen clearly. Can you tell me how you knew about my affairs?"

This time Chen Nuo heard clearly and immediately laughed.

Of course no problem, although you fat guy are both wretched and disgusting, and want to finish me off...

But I will definitely tell you, I am reborn from 2024, so hurry up and finish me off, otherwise sooner or later you will be finished off by me, right.

These American foreign devils. Why does everyone always treat others like pigs? Are they crazy?

"The reason is very simple, I just have a few more friends, and the news is a bit well-informed. And, Harvey, the things you did are actually not secret, right?"

Harvey was silent for a while on the other side, and said with relief: "You are right, Chen. It is indeed not secret. In fact, the headline of that article was not wrong at all. From 1990 to now, do you know how many times I have been sued for sexual harassment? 86 times. Do you know how many finally entered the trial stage? It's 0."

"Every woman, no matter how angry she appears on the outside, no matter how much she wants to put me to death, I know that in fact, making her sign the waiver of prosecution and confidentiality agreement only requires two things—enough money, or one or two plays where she is the female lead."

"So, why should I keep it secret? I don't lack money, and plays... haha, one or two bad plays are enough to satisfy those Hollywood bitches."

In front of Harvey Weinstein's bragging, Chen Nuo performed very calmly from beginning to end.

There is no way not to be calm. In front of the whole class, could he act like a rascal, with an ugly face, and give Harvey two "fuck you, son of a bitch"?

But this is not a way, there will definitely be some language unsuitable for children next.

So Chen Nuo said to Huang Lei: "Teacher Huang, I'd better go out to answer."

Huang Lei nodded very reasonably: "Go."

When Chen Nuo stepped out of the classroom, he heard him saying to the whole class: "Students, don't say I only give Chen Nuo special treatment, letting him go out to make calls during class. If one day you can also receive a call from Harvey Weinstein from the US. Raise your hand at any time. You can go out at any time..."

Hehe, just an old rascal, Teacher Huang takes it quite seriously.

Harvey Weinstein, he is not worthy!

Just stepping out of the classroom door, Chen Nuo, as a friend of women, began to speak for his female friends: "Don't be too self-important, Mr. Weinstein. Even the smallest ants, as long as the quantity is enough, can bite an elephant to death."

"Just like me, how could I be in your eyes before this? Doesn't it look like an ant you can crush at will, but now, is your butt swollen from my kicking?"

"Tonight, it should be exceptionally long, right? You shouldn't have waited until this time to call me on purpose, right? Can't you sleep? Dear Harvey."

"You should be glad that you are in Hollywood, not in China, otherwise I wouldn't just kick your butt. I would stuff your fat face into your ass. Do you hear me? You son of a bitch bastard."

As soon as Chen Nuo finished speaking, Harvey Weinstein started spraying various filthy language on the phone in an exceptionally crazy tone: "You &$~#"

Chen Nuo hung up the phone without a word.

He didn't return to the classroom either, but leaned on the corridor looking at the campus outside.

Today's weather is not bad, the thick smog finally dissipated, and the school looks like it has a kind of withered beauty in winter.

Two girls downstairs are passing by arm in arm. The one on the left glanced in his direction unintentionally, and her eyes stayed on him without moving.

Chen Nuo smiled at the other party and waved.

His acting class classroom is on the 2nd floor, and he can also see the other party's facial features clearly.

It is a freshman in his acting department, and also a friend recently made by Wen Yongshan. If there is no accident, this girl will also be a quite famous actor in the future, and I heard that she is a goddess in many people's hearts.

That big-eyed girl saw him waving and was clearly startled. Afterward, she didn't move, didn't give a response, just looked at this side blankly.

At this time, the phone rang again.

Chen Nuo turned around and continued to answer the phone.

Just now, a deliberate provocation, so now he is 80% sure,

Harvey Weinstein, this obscene pervert, not only has exhibitionism, but is also likely to have manic-depressive disorder, and his emotions are extremely easy to lose control.

Undoubtedly, this is a surprising discovery.

If necessary in the future, it can be fully utilized.

Chen the Scumbag has as many minds as a sieve, and scolding someone is a calculation, but Harvey Weinstein is not an ordinary character.

This time on the phone, from Harvey Weinstein's voice, one couldn't hear at all that just a minute ago, he seemed to want to tear Chen Nuo into pieces.

"Chen, let's reconcile." This was Harvey Weinstein's first sentence, his tone as calm as a piece of ice.

The second sentence was: "You know, you can't kill me."

Chen Nuo sneered without showing weakness, as if he still had more than 10,000 hole cards in his hand, saying: "Harvey, do you want to try?"

The phone was silent, and after a while said: "Although I am 90% sure that you should be bluffing. But it doesn't matter, I agree to your conditions."

"Do you know what my conditions are?"

Harvey Weinstein laughed: "I won't interfere with this Oscar again. So, we have no problem, right?"

Chen Nuo didn't hesitate for a second and said: "Yes."

He was so straightforward that it silenced Harvey Weinstein again.

After another while, the voice on the phone was gentle and soft, like a different person from before.

"If I remember correctly, you are 21 years old this year, right? So young, you remind me that I also founded Miramax when I was so young."

"Little boy, you are very similar to me at the beginning, crazy, regardless of everything, emotional but knowing when to stop. I appreciate you very much. I hope that next time we meet on the Oscar stage, it will not be as opponents, but as friends."

Chen Nuo certainly won't drink this bowl of soul-stealing soup.

People like Harvey Weinstein don't have blood flowing in their blood vessels, but foul water in the gutter.

If he really dreams of becoming friends with the other party, he is the biggest fool in the world.

And the only reason he easily reached a temporary truce with Harvey is that Chen Nuo knew that this time it was indeed as Harvey said, and he couldn't put the other party to death.

Because Facebook, Twitter, etc., have just appeared, and smartphones are only in their infancy, the scale of websites like blogs is far from enough for the general public to make their voices heard.

The right to interpret major and minor matters is still firmly controlled by those few media giants.

With Harvey's energy and ability, as well as the connections he has operated in Hollywood for so many years, he can 90% calm the storm through various means.

At the same time, that 2017 New York Times investigative article from the previous life was written by Jodi Kantor and Evans Nissen after more than half a year of investigation,

at that time, they also found a former secretary of Harvey who was willing to stand up and expose Harvey's ugliness, and finally set off a MeToo whirlwind on Twitter.

And this time, what does Jodi Kantor have in her hands?

Only Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow, who were mobilized by him. And these two were only willing to stand up and make anonymous accusations.

MeToo or something, although it spread on blogs somewhat decently, as long as the media doesn't report it, it will be extinguished immediately.

Not to mention the differences in other era backgrounds and public opinion environments.

Therefore, Chen Nuo advised Jodi Kantor not to be impatient. At the beginning, he only needed to release a vague report, which was a small warning to Harvey, and also made him dare not mess around again.

Investigate slowly in the future, master more physical and human evidence, and finally wait for the rise of social media, when Harvey Weinstein can no longer use his connections to cover up, and then give him a fatal blow.

As a result, this friend of women's opinion, that woman didn't listen, and he had no choice.

Perhaps this is the limitation of the era,

however...

Without some limitations, after the financial crisis next year, why would the stocks of Berkshire Hathaway and Apple be so cheap, right?

In the following week, in America, the development of Harvey Weinstein's situation was dazzling.

A week ago, Jodi Kantor was already fantasizing about this year's Pulitzer Prize.

She didn't know how many times she laughed at that Chinese boy in her heart, actually trying to make her give up such good news material, making her lose the opportunity to become famous in one fell swoop...

But now, a week later, she hugged the cardboard box containing sundries, walked out of the New York Times office building, and suddenly her nose was sore, and tears flowed down all at once.

Why did it become like this?

Originally, everything was so smooth at the beginning, but just a week ago, first, News Corp's Fox TV reduced news reports about Harvey,

then others like CBS, NBC also slowly began to focus on other hot spots.

The New York Times, where she worked, although still continuing to follow up on reports, also continued to guide public opinion to condemn Harvey.

However, I don't know when it started, the focus of the public shifted from whether Harvey Weinstein really did those things to more specific details. For example, men began to discuss the sexual harassment techniques that sounded very interesting on the internet.

In the name of official business, first invite the lady to the room, at this time generally wearing a bathrobe to receive, chatting and chatting, then say sorry, my shoulders are a bit sore, can you help me massage...

Afterward, start playing some tricks of acting according to circumstances and inserting needles.

Actually, it's not very novel, nor very exciting. If it weren't for happening in Hollywood, perhaps it wouldn't have the value of appearing on the newspaper layout.

But it just happened in Hollywood.

Once the male and female leads inside were changed to film company bosses and some blonde, blue-eyed, big-breasted, long-legged screen goddess, everyone suddenly felt that this matter became fragrant and exciting.

Afterward, the tone changed again, and the public actually began to discuss why Harvey Weinstein could order those women around?

Why didn't they resist, didn't call the police?

Could it be that they themselves were actually half-pushing and half-accepting? Wanting to use this to cling to Harvey's power?

When things developed to this point, Jodi Kantor felt something was wrong. Unexpectedly, a video that didn't know where it came from later gave her a heavy blow.

In the mottled and old video footage, a woman dressed sexily was posing, and Harvey Weinstein was waving his hand to let her leave.

This is not over yet.

The second day after the video clip spread on the internet, Harvey Weinstein held a press conference, claiming that the recent slander and defamation made him unable to sit peacefully in the position of Miramax board chairman and CEO.

Therefore, he will resign from all positions at Miramax with his brother Bob Weinstein, withdraw from the board of directors, and sell relevant shares to prove his innocence.

Harvey Weinstein also accused some unscrupulous reporters at the press conference of publishing articles without hard evidence in order to gain attention.

He claimed that he reserved the right to sue relevant media and reporters for defamation and hoped that the New York Times would immediately sweep away relevant people without professional ethics.

When Harvey Weinstein held the press conference,

not only the senior management of the New York Times watched it and made the decision to sweep Jodi Kantor out.

Lori Eisner also watched it, and at 12 midnight LA time, she made a transoceanic call to Chen Nuo, telling him that this time Harvey Weinstein was completely escaped.

"OK, got it."

"Why, I hear your tone doesn't seem to feel disappointed?"

Chen Nuo is of course disappointed!

Although he knew the possibility was not great, Harvey Weinstein really escaped like this, and he had to admire the other party's decisiveness.

The Weinstein brothers left Miramax, started a business for the second time, and established The Weinstein Company in Hollywood. If he remembers correctly, it should be two years later.

It was from that time that Harvey slowly stepped down from the altar, and his momentum was not as good as before. Finally, he was overthrown in 2017.

It seems that in this life, The Weinstein Company is going to be established ahead of schedule.

From that day's call, Chen Nuo could hear that Harvey Weinstein was definitely still the Harvey Weinstein who was self-willed.

He thought that after leaving Miramax, he could also start another stove and create brilliance again.

Little did he know, with the development of the era, everything is different.

Chen Nuo was still talking about things, so he didn't say much to Lori Eisner, perfunctorily said two sentences, and hung up the phone.

"So, you told her, Harvey Weinstein told me personally on the phone that Huayi moved first this time. Don't blame me for being cruel. What did that woman say?"

Qi Yuntian said: "Said she would go back and consider it for two days. Maybe she still wants to wait for the final result of the Golden Globe Awards. However, looking at her appearance, she should be quite tempted. After all, the 'MeToo China Leader' you proposed should be exactly what she wants. But her contract won't expire until 2010. She said she can pay the liquidated damages herself, but she wants to enter Hollywood, asking if you can give..."

Before Chen Nuo finished listening, he interrupted directly: "Give what? I won't give anything!"

"What Golden Globe, Silver Globe, one yard is one yard."

"She either waits to die with Wang Zonglei, or jumps back for me. Anyway, the woman who was sexually harassed by him is not one or two..."

"There is no third choice. Liquidated damages or something, let her slowly go to court with Huayi. Wang Zonglei slept with her, doesn't he pay money?"

"You call her later, tell her to look at the news, the MeToo on the US side has already made Harvey Weinstein step down. How are Wang Zongjun and Wang Zonglei brothers compared to the Weinstein brothers?"

"One day, give me an answer immediately!"

"Tell her, I said it, if she is not willing, I will immediately let Fan Bingbing hold a press conference!"

When Chen Nuo was getting angry at Qi Yuntian,

on the other side of Beijing, Wang Zongjun was also scolding his brother in the office, hating that iron could not become steel: "What are you in a hurry for? Harvey, such a big Hollywood boss, will he betray us? Besides, so what if Chen Nuo knows? What can he do to us? What are you afraid of him for?"

Wang Zonglei said: "Brother, I'm not afraid of him... I mean, should we guard against him? Their company also keeps internet water armies. If they also... on the internet... I'm afraid it will affect our company's reputation."

Wang Zongjun waved his hand and said: "You think too much. If spreading rumors on the internet was really useful, we wouldn't have to spend a lot of money to find Southern Weekly and Wen Wei Po. The internet's claims have no credibility and are not to be feared. However, you really have to restrain yourself during this period. Do you hear me?"

Wang Zonglei said: "Yes, I know, brother."

Then he laughed again, "Actually, I really want to see Chen Nuo know it's us, but can't do anything about us, hahahahaha."

"That idiot, he must still be in the dark now. Qi Yuntian was asking around everywhere before, but brother, you still have a way. When contacting those water armies, all used fake names and fake accounts, making them untraceable."

Wang Zongjun also laughed: "Small means only. You don't have to be too proud, still be careful. By the way, did Bingbing come today? I want to talk to her."

Wang Zonglei thought for a while and said: "Seems like I haven't seen her since yesterday. I'll ask Li Xue later to see where she is."

As a result, Li Bingbing's sister Li Xue asked for leave today and didn't come either.

Wang Zonglei called Li Bingbing, and her phone was always turned off.

He had to ask the agent arranged by the company for Li Bingbing, and the result was that the two sisters returned to their hometown in the Northeast together, and it is estimated that they will be back in two days.

Wang Zonglei didn't take it to heart after hearing it.

The next day, he also listened to Wang Zongjun and came to the company to work.

At 10:30 in the morning, he was sitting on the boss chair in his office, with his feet on the table, talking on the phone.

On the other end of the phone was a small actor surnamed Tang he had just met these two days.

"That, no problem... I'm very familiar with Director Yimou, it's easy to arrange for you to run a torch or something... Let's do this, tonight, I'll find a place, and then I'll call you... hehe, what do you say? When the time comes..."

He was saying with a lewd smile, but before he finished speaking, the office door was pushed open by someone; it was his most trusted subordinate, Tian Zewen.

Wang Zonglei was spoiled, and scolded: "Don't have hands? Don't know how to knock?"

Tian Zewen held a mobile phone in his hand, his face pale, and said: "Wang Zong, a reporter I know called me, and a press conference is being held over there."

"Listen."

After speaking, he turned his mobile phone into speakerphone and put it on Wang Zonglei's table.

Wang Zonglei forgot to hang up his phone, because in Tian Zewen's mobile phone, a familiar female voice mentioned his name: "... Yes, in Huayi for many years, Wang Zonglei has always had this style. Female artists in the company, as long as they want to take a role, they have to accompany him to dinner, or even be harassed by him. Many people, under his power, have to succumb."

"This time, I decided to stand up, also because I was inspired by the MeToo movement abroad."

"I want to be worthy of my identity as a woman, I want to help my sisters, and get rid of the clutches of some despicable bastards in the entertainment industry."

"I hope all the girls watching here know that in the past, many times, we girls were perhaps those who would not appear in books."

"The place where we live is the white edge part of the book page."

"Our lives are only in the gaps of stories."

"But now, the era is different. As long as we are brave, take our own steps and walk out."

"Then we will become the story itself."

"A brand new day is already on the horizon, my dear sisters."

"In this brand new day, everything is bright, there will be no more darkness, there will be no more bastards like Wang Zonglei, and there will be no more need for anyone to say: MeToo."

"And I, Li Bingbing, guarantee that as long as we stand shoulder to shoulder, fight together, and bravely and resolutely say no to those dirty unspoken rules, this day will eventually cast the first ray of light."

"Because it is already right in front of us."

Wang Zonglei listened in a daze, completely unable to believe his ears.

But it was indeed the voice of the person he was familiar with, saying it so emotionally, so sincerely, almost surpassing every play and every line she had in the past.

Similarly, Li Bingbing, sitting behind the press conference rostrum, also sighed in her heart that this speech draft was written really well. No wonder it was specially provided from that side, letting herself read it according to it.

It's just that the signature of the author of this article is also too earthy, called something like "Friend of Women."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 208 =====