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- It was almost six o'clock in the afternoon in Toronto. After school, Nina went home. When it was almost time, she headed to Parsons International Airport to go to Los Angeles.
In the bustling airport terminal, Nina was sitting on the waiting chair waiting to board the plane. A linen travel handbag was placed on the chair next to her. She looked at the mobile phone in her hand. There was no text message yet and she did not know the status of the appeal meeting. how's it going? It will be fine! There's nothing that Yunique can't handle.
At the same time, it¡¯s almost three o¡¯clock in the afternoon in Los Angeles, and Harvard-Westlake High School is getting out of school. Various activities and gatherings are about to take place. An exciting day for the students has just begun. Many students are concerned about and talking about the outcome of the LMS appeal.
"The media, the people, and the filmmakers all support us, and Brother Wei personally takes action. We will definitely win."
¡°VIY will not let us down!¡±
¡°One hundred thousand people responded to the online petition, so why should they worry about it?¡±
"Is it more than 100,000?"
The number of petitions online is still increasing rapidly, from all over the United States and around the world, and will soon exceed 110,000! Everyone involved in this matter is very excited about this. Did you see that this is how all changes in the world begin? Make your voice heard, fight for your rights, and unite to break the rot!
Just looking at the news and the messages of support from ordinary people will make your blood boil.
But, have you seen that there are so many people supporting you, you are not fighting alone!
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Armand1990: "What does the MPAA think of us? Fools? I'm 15 years old, and I just think that old man is funny. Can you do it after listening to his words? Don't be stupid."
KEN05: "Whoever thought Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Streep would star in a family film with pornographic content must have something wrong with their brains. I've seen almost all of their films, Ye It¡¯s true that they won¡¯t do such a thing.¡±
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. I am more worried about violence than a few swear words, because there will be no swear words in life, but Violence can ruin your life and the lives of others.¡±
Maria-Dodd: "I will not tolerate appearing in children's movies. I can accept some minor foul language in a PG-13 rating, especially for artistic purposes. The MPAA's accusations against "Little Miss Sunshine" are unreasonable and baseless. Life experience, it requires you to be a person living in a vacuum. Our whole family is looking forward to watching the best LMS, and I wish it can get a PG-13 rating."
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? Three o¡¯clock in the afternoon, MPAA headquarters appeals court.
During the one-hour debate, members of both sides took turns speaking. On the LMS side, Ye Wei alone spoke 80% of the time. Every time he finished speaking, the reporters applauded. He refuted the arguments of the rating committee members one by one. The laughingstock, by the end, Joan Grave was sweating profusely.
CARA ended by saying, "This is a clear rule and no exceptions will be made for any film." LMS ended by saying, "Unreasonable criticism under an unfair system is only wrong."
Who wins and who loses in this storm involves too many things.
Journalists all know that if LMS wins, it means that the MPAA cannot withstand the pressure of public opinion, and may also intend to use this to start changes, such as issuing a complete rating manual, improving the entire rating system many things will change from now on, and it will be unfair in the future. The number of films with favorable treatment will gradually decrease, because if LMS can win, other films can also win.
If LMS loses, it will mean that the MPAA refuses to admit its mistakes, clings to authoritarian power, and shows the world how corrupt it is.
No matter whether you win or lose, it will definitely trigger an earthquake, and Ye Wei will definitely become a key figure in the history of film ratings.
While waiting for the 18 appeal committee members to deliberate and vote in the committee room, the court was completely silent, with no conversation and almost no sound of pen scratches. Everyone sat there quietly, not knowing what they were thinking.
Fifteen minutes seemed quite long. When the time reached around 15:15, the passage door to the left room opened with a bang, and the appeals committee members filed out. Their faces had different expressions, and they had all made a decision. A tall man headed by the committee member walked to the judge's table and handed the secret voting results to Judge Drole.
Everyone watched intently, and a tense atmosphere enveloped the space, which seemed to have become very narrow.
Under the gaze of people, with the attention and expectation of countless people inside and outside the court, Judge Drole looked at the results written on the white paper, his expression did not change, and he read out numbly.?
"Thirteen people voted not to overturn it, but five people voted to overturn it."
??That is "Little Miss Sunshine" lost the lawsuit and was still rated R.
The voting ratio of 13:5 is almost the same as that of the six major studio members, theater operators and other members.
That is to say In fact, the result has already been determined. No matter what Ye Wei said or what he took out, he had already lost from the moment he entered this "court".
"Hush!!!" Before I could hear the first half of the sentence, excited boos had already resounded throughout the place. Many of the reporters blushed instantly, some stood up, and some shouted, seriously did they get this moment? All people with a conscience feel so heartbroken and sore in their noses.
Although the LMS side won the public opinion and the truth, even though Ye Wei made everyone in CARA mute, even though the light of fairness and justice once dimly illuminated this place
It was the MPAA that ¡°won¡±.
The rating committee members all looked a little weird. They were not very happy, and certainly not sad. They were weird and strange, like a group of ghosts. Jean Grave seemed to be relieved, with a look of calm on his old face. Maybe they all already knew that this would be the result. Although they would be embarrassed, the only winner would be the MPAA.
The six people on the LMS side did not boo or say anything, and continued to sit there. Cindy, the secretary, wiped her tearful eyes, and Arndt suddenly choked up.
Lawyers Peter Heller, Price and Salton all looked lonely.
¡°It sucks!¡±, ¡°You suck!¡±, ¡°This is such a shame!¡± the reporters were reprimanding excitedly.
The boy in the sports coat leaned against the back of the chair and looked up, as if he had expected it, but also as if he was wandering away, thinking about something.
"Quiet, quiet!" Judge Drole shouted several times and announced the verdict: "Please be quiet! This appeal meeting has already produced a result. "Little Miss Sunshine" has lost the case and maintained its original R rating. Even if everyone is not satisfied , the results will not change. We will no longer accept appeals from the current version of LMS.¡±
"Ashamed of you!", "The whole country is ashamed of your despicability!" The reporters were still excited, and some even dropped their pens on the ground.
Several security guards were nervously preparing to deal with possible chaos.
?????????????????????? Several of the appeal committee members over there had clearly angry faces, while others were as silent as ghosts who did not belong to this appeal meeting
"Please respect the result!"
"Shhh!!!"
Just as the boos roared again, Ye Wei stood up with his right hand raised high, and the audience immediately fell silent, and everyone looked at him.
"I'm sorry to see this result." Ye Wei looked around at the members of the MPAA, with a stern expression, eyes as sharp as blades, and a deep voice: "You have fully proved that you are irredeemably rotten. The most regrettable thing is The only thing is, we still have to deal with you and figure out how to get that PG-13 rating that is supposed to be ours.¡±
Judge Drole was about to say something, but he stopped him loudly: "I don't want to come to this fake court again, so now I want to ask clearly, Ms. Grave and fellow rating committee members, in a non-pornographic context, can you use Four times of FUCK, right? I want to ask, except for the one with DeWine, the other three times were all after Grandpa 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 FUCK sounds, the entire audience was stunned. Judge Drole, Joan Grave, and almost all MPAA members¡¯ faces suddenly turned green with anger.
"With your professional, experienced and impartial ears, can this line be rated PG-13? Please tell me." He was not joking or insulting, he was asking seriously.
The reporters suddenly understood that "when emotions cannot be expressed using ordinary words, we say FUCK", and everyone looked at the CARA seats, waiting for answers.
"" No rating committee member was willing to answer. Joan Grave's face was more embarrassed and angry, and her tone was as calm as possible: "Okay. But it's very rude."
"OK." Ye Wei nodded slightly, "Then you will see it, and it will not only be seen by 100,000 people, but at least one million, 10 million people! See it and hear it."
He paused again and said seriously, louder and louder: "Fuck MPAA! Fuck MPAA!! Fuck MPAA!!!"
"Fuck the MPAA!" Suddenly a reporter shouted, and the sound immediately became a loud voice. Almost everyone in the small room raised their hands and shouted: "Fuck the MPAA!"
Amid these passionate shouts, Ye Wei turned around and left his seat, strode out of the room, passed through the rows of shouting reporters, opened the wooden door, and disappeared into the corridor.??
Some reporters followed, and some reporters were not ready to leave to interview the MPAA people. They no longer needed to ask the young man anything.
VIY, he is so talented!
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Ye Wei left the MPAA headquarters building all the way, and some photographers waiting outside the building gathered around to take photos and asked what the result was. He just flatly replied with the same sentence: "We-blew-it."
Being surrounded by reporters, he arrived at the parking lot and drove away in his second-hand Volkswagen.
It only takes about 15 minutes to drive from the MPAA headquarters to Harvard-Westlake High School. He drove to the school and paid little attention to the two cell phones that were ringing and vibrating. After parking the car, he suddenly realized that he didn't know where he was going. School is over and he has no activities today.
At the moment, Ye Wei was walking casually in this beautiful and huge campus. When someone asked excitedly, "Hey Wei, how is things going?", he also replied, "We messed up." Well-meaning people were all surprised, regretful and a little sad when they heard this and said, "Is everything okay?"
"Maybe."
Instead of going to the high school headquarters of the Dream Chaser League, Ye Wei looked at the sports field to the west for a while. The boys of the football team and baseball team were training. He looked uninterested and walked to the Holy Savior Church in the northeast. Go, look here and there along the way, and buy a bowl of ice water from the girl's sweet water stall on the roadside.
Arriving at this small classical church, which is a cultural relic in Los Angeles, Ye Wei heard the choir singing from inside, but turned around and left without going in.
Gradually he wandered to the rugby theater. He walked into the theater and sat on 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 or so people sitting in the auditorium that could seat more than 300 people. Most of them were sitting there. In the front row, there were some students rehearsing some unknown drama on the small stage.
Ye Wei sat there, submerged in the darkness, looking expressionlessly at the stage in front of him and the big screen.
"Good Men Come Soon" and "Dance of Angels" were both screened on that screen. The scenes of that night at the first Harvard-Westlake Film Festival are still before my eyes.
"Little Miss Sunshine" will have an on-campus screening here, but
Which version do you want to play?
My thoughts were racing, I closed my eyes, and after an unknown amount of time, someone suddenly came and sat down beside me. The familiar girl¡¯s fragrance, the familiar ¡°Wei¡±.
"I'm sleeping"
"No, you didn't."
"I'm just talking in my sleep."
"When you're asleep, your brows won't be so wrinkled."
Ye Wei opened his eyes and turned around to see Lily's face with a smile. She was wearing a red jacket with white sleeves and light blue trousers with the HW logo, and she was sitting very handsomely.
He smiled and asked, "How did you know I was here?"
I always know where you are. Lily rolled her eyes without answering, which made the tenderness flowing even more like water, "I know the result of the appeal, everyone knows it."
"Yes, we messed up." From the so-called appeal meeting to now, Ye Wei suddenly sighed. Looking at Lily, something suddenly came to his mind, causing his brows to furrow and his face to show pain. Let the words become messy: "I tried my best, butLily, I tried my best, I don't want to give up, but"
He scratched his head and leaned forward, his face drooping in pain, "I will fight to the end, but I don't have the final say. This matter is not my business alone Lily, I can't stick to the current version. I have to compromise, I hate the MPAA so much, but I still have to do what it says This sucks, no matter what you say, I hate this But I have to damn well do it, Lily Lily, I don¡¯t want to give up¡¡±
Listening to him, Lily frowned, her eyes blinked, and she clenched her hands tightly, "You didn't give up, that's why you didn't."
His words stopped, and her words sounded firmly: "The Wei I know never gives up. He is a person who can die for his dreams This is not a compromise, it is a person who has fought until death It's just ¡¡±
She didn¡¯t know what to say as she talked, saying, ¡°It¡¯s just, it¡¯s just¡±
"On the way to chasing dreams, people will die, and then live again, and then die again, and then live again. If you don't continue, you will really die forever." He took over.
"You won't."
Neither of them said anything else. They leaned back on their chairs and looked at the screen and stage in front of them.
Time passed, second by minute, the two of them watched the students on the stage rehearse at the end,They packed up and went backstage, and then the audience in the front row got up and left.
"Thank you, Lily." Ye Wei said loudly and looked at her.
Lily stood up, suddenly stretched out her left hand to press his right shoulder, and said warmly: "He is not a hero unless he wins everything. Sometimes he is a loser, like you."
Ye Wei looked at her bright eyes and smiled, "You are so interesting."
"Sometimes." Lily smiled, tightened her hand on his shoulder, and then pulled it back, "Come on." She turned and left.
"You are so interesting" Ye Wei looked at the big screen in front of him again, his eyes full of determination.
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At about three o¡¯clock in the afternoon, as soon as the result of LMS¡¯s defeat was announced, it quickly hit the Internet and spread rapidly.
Major film and entertainment websites, blogs, and mainstream media websites are all vying to report on it. Not only the results, but also the entire process of the appeal meeting and Ye Wei's many court remarks, humorous, moving, and angry, are all being exposed by the body.
So people all saw reports like, "Ye Wei was unstoppable at the grievance meeting." He completely refuted MPAA members, including CARA Chairman Joan Grave, and he received unanimous support from all the reporters in the room, " Every time VIY finished his speech, there would be a burst of applause." However, in this case, he lost the vote by a huge margin.
After learning about this result, many well-known filmmakers immediately expressed their great anger and disappointment to the media or on the Internet, as did movie fans.
The Internet is full of voices of grief and indignation!
What may be a little comforting is Ye Wei¡¯s final declaration of invincibility. For a time, the Internet was full of ¡°FUCK-MPAA¡±, and even many mainstream media used ¡°F-word-MPAA¡± as part of their news headlines. The actions of the MPAA are so disappointing and disgraceful!
The MPAA knew that it was doomed in public opinion. Spokesperson Howard Gantman did not say much, but continued to insist: "We have clear regulations on how a film can be rated PG-13. We have not done so before, now and in the future." An exception will be made for any film unless the rules change."
As for DreamWorks, Terry Price expressed his attitude to reporters on the spot, "It's very regrettable and sad. Things shouldn't be like this, but we will continue to strive for the PG-13 rating."
Everyone is waiting for Ye Wei¡¯s official response to the lawsuit. From three o¡¯clock in the afternoon to seven o¡¯clock in the evening, reporters and fans refreshed his blog over and over again.
Just after seven o'clock, people finally arrived! Ye Wei updated a new blog post.
But after reading this article, people were not as excited as before, but they sighed and mourned it because of the heroic sadness.
¡ºWe messed up¡ª¡ªYe Wei
As everyone has seen in the news, yes, it is a very regrettable result. "Little Miss Sunshine" once again lost the lawsuit and can no longer appeal or retrial. I don't want and I don't want some families to think this is a movie that's not for them, but if we want to get a PG-13 rating, we have to make some ridiculous changes.
Today at the grievance meeting, I quoted a passage from "Twelve Angry Men", which was the ending I sincerely hoped for.
How I wish I could be like Henry Fonda, who could pursue the truth of things with a fair and strict attitude, careful and meticulous observation, and unbiased inference. How I also hope that angry men can put aside their prejudices and other bad things, dare to change their attitudes, and chase that flash of light.
But all hopes are in vain. I am not Henry Fonda, and those people are not angry men. There may be five of them. I don¡¯t know whether it is true or not. If it is true, thank you! But those ¡°Not-Guilty¡± voices eventually drifted away from the expectation and were neither heard nor spoken.
Now, the sentence I want to say the most is the last sentence of Henry Fonda's son Peter Fonda in "Easy Rider":
"We're screwed."
We messed up because we were too willing to believe in the movie dream and too willing to believe that people are kind and just.
We messed up because we were too obsessed with the breath of freedom and a free life, but we couldn't understand some people's fear of true freedom.
We messed up because we have always had some extravagant hope. We have been looking for a heavenly world on earth, but the fact is that we will never find it.
We always rely on the courage of youth, the courage of confusiona certain kind of courage, something that has not yet been wiped out, to embark on an unknown road. Along the way, we suffer inexplicable contempt and inexplicable sneak attacks from those "good people". In fact, from the beginning, we already know what is at the end of the road, there is nothing.
?The filmmaker I respect very much, Paul Schrader, once said, "As long as youIn the movie business, you have to be selective in your memory, otherwise it will be very painful. "
I¡¯m thinking, should I choose to forget this? Just pretend it never happened, all this stuff about ratings, to make yourself feel better?
I thought about it again and again, and decided to remember it. Because I don¡¯t want to forget how I messed up, because after all, I still like messing up like this.
Because we messed up. ¡»
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??At nearly nine o'clock in the evening, Los Angeles time, Nina got off the plane and headed from the airport to Brentwood. At nearly ten o'clock, she arrived at Ye Wei's. She stopped by first and then went to the hotel not far away.
"Yunique!" At night, while still on the porch of the house, Nina threw down her travel bag, hugged Ye Wei tightly with both hands and comforted her, "You tried your best, I know you tried your best." Then he couldn't help but yelled angrily, "How can the MPAA be so mean? It makes me so angry. It's so unfair! Those people are so mean. It's so irritating!"
She gasped, suppressed her anger, kissed him, and said softly: "It's okay, I know you're okay, this just gives you strength."
"Nina." Ye Wei put his arm around her and stroked her face that couldn't suppress the anger with one hand. Seeing her, his mood completely improved. There are still some beautiful things in this world. He smiled and said: " Yeah don't worry, it won't defeat us."
"I know even if you don't tell me." Nina nodded with a grin. There was still a lot of work to do to comfort him this weekend.
"Go in, Duoduo will fall asleep waiting for you." Ye Wei picked up the travel bag on the porch and walked into the house holding her hand.
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"Easy Rider", right? People were suddenly surprised to find that Yunik Kuhler! He seemed to have seen clearly, foreshadowing the failure of LMS's appeal from the beginning.
Will Kuhler say something today? When it was almost midnight this night, the people who refreshed Kuller's blog over and over again were waiting! The sixth diary!
Still a one-sentence style, this sentence makes people laugh. If VIY's article is sad, Kuhler makes people smile in every possible way.
When the media reported and fans dug up, people all knew that these were lines spoken by Jane Fonda, Henry Fonda's daughter and Peter Fonda's sister, in "Barbarina" (1968). She said this when she was attacked by a flock of birds. Ye Wei and Kule are really holding on to the Fonda family this time.
Culler's use of the film "Barbarina" is even more interesting and profound. It is the originator of heroic films and feminist films. It is the first time that a woman has played a big role in turning the tide on the screen; on the other hand, in the film It has a lot of erotica and is the originator of showing off sexiness and ecstasy.
This is an unrated film, and it's a female-dominated film.
Regarding the MPAA¡¯s bizarre harshness and differential treatment of sex and female-dominated sex scenes, "Barbarina" is really a kind of ridicule, but also a kind of resistance.
People understand Yunik Kuhler's self-deprecation and dry humor, and people sigh with emotion at the level of these two film geniuses.
We lost, but we are heroes.
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Yunik Culler:
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