Chapter 411 Unintentional insertion
From the perspective of the timeline, "Spider-Man" is a ready-made explanation, and everything is logical.
However, it is not.
Edgar still couldn't hold it back and muttered, "In my opinion, you should be on a talk show."
"It would be a waste if you don't show off your eloquence, but obviously, Sony Colombia doesn’t think so. They were worried that you, a newcomer, might mess up the promotion, so they didn’t contact the talk show at all..."
"Captain, the important point." Anson looked at Edgar who kept complaining and had to remind him.
Edgar did not stop there, "They will regret it. They missed a good publicity opportunity, and the distribution department needs to review their strategy."
There is no doubt that every summer season From magazines to talk shows, all publicity platforms need to face fierce competition.
However, for a work of the magnitude of "Spider-Man", as long as Sony Columbia is willing to formulate a publicity strategy, magazines and talk shows are not a problem.
However, this time it was Sony Columbia who was cowardly and played it safe during the promotion period. It did not dare to take risks or try, and was prepared to open up the situation mainly with print media; not to mention talk shows, even radio stations There is no trace of the program at all, and this kind of publicity strategy is simply dumbfounding.
Essentially, Sony Columbia is still hesitant.
First of all, they didn't believe Sam Raimi.
Secondly, they don’t believe Anson and Kristen Dunst.
Thirdly, relying solely on Willem Dafoe’s propaganda is still not enough.
All in all, Sony Columbia believes that television or radio publicity may still expose shortcomings and may even cause harm. After comprehensive consideration, it is simply converted to paper media publicity.
After all, this was 2002, print media still played an important role, and the promotional effect of newspapers and magazines was not necessarily any weaker than that of TV programs.
In this regard, Edgar said that he was blind.
Sony Columbia has already taken such a bold risk with Sam Raimi as director and Anson and Kristen in the lead roles, why not go one step further?
Why not just continue the adventure to the end? Why not play the youth card? Even if you don’t believe in the appeal of Anson alone, you can at least bundle the three actors Anson, James, and Kristen together to create a topic?
Unfortunately, Edgar can't help here because he has no say in Sony Columbia, so in the end he can only act according to the contract.
It’s fine if you don’t mention it, but you’ll get annoyed if you mention it.
In a rare moment, Edgar looked at Anson with wide eyes, "They will regret it."
Anson laughed dumbly and nodded seriously, "Okay."
Only then did Edgar feel relieved. He picked up his briefcase and took out a stack of paper, "Is that the one above?"
——Original.
There is no computer or mobile phone, but it is printed out honestly with a color printer. Even because the original picture is not clear, the printed picture is slightly blurry, and you can even see the mosaic grid.
Nevertheless, Anson recognized it.
It should be a video, and these printed photos are screenshots of the video.
Anson was a little surprised, and a smile crept up the corner of his mouth, "Ha, there is actually a video here, how come I didn't know about it? Was someone filming a home video at that time?"
What if it was twenty years later? , the existence of smartphones has made taking photos and videos a part of daily life, and it is not surprising that anything is recorded; but now, cameras are still bulky, cameras still need to be carried, and home handheld cameras have just become popular, so things are naturally different. .
It was enough for Edgar to say, "This is really you. Oh, God." Anson wondered, "Is this a positive 'Oh, God,' or a negative 'Oh, God'? Let me Guess, this should be a positive exclamation?"
Edgar nodded repeatedly, but did not respond to Anson. He stood up with clenched fists and shouted, "Oh yeah", happy He raised his eyebrows and then explained.
The thing is like this -
Before the emergence of social networks, it was still the era of BBS forums.
At the beginning of last year, a post attracted attention in the Yahoo community. The content of the post was a video shot with a home handheld camera.
The picture quality is not clear, and the lens is slightly shaky. You can tell it is an amateur shot at a glance. The poster also confirmed that this was a street performance I shot in Manhattan, New York. Everything was purely accidental; but because I like it very much, so I uploaded it to the forum and look forward to getting more discussions.
The content of the video is a performance by a four-piece band. The most special thing is that there is a cello in it, which is completely new.
At first, because of the quality of the picture and the cello, the post did not make a splash on the forum, it was just a small-scale discussion; I did not expect that as time went by, the small-scale discussion would slowly brew. and quickly spread among senior music fans.
Grown from a dozen discussion posts a week to thousands of discussions a week.
What is incredible is that the post lasted for a long time and eventually evolved into a hot post in the Yahoo community for a whole year. Currently, the post can no longer leave comments. The discussion floor is fixed at around 337,600 posts, but the post has reached a high number of Highlighted at the top of the list, it has become a hot topic in Chang'an.
What needs to be noted here is that all the people discussing are music fans, and it is still a hot discussion in a small circle. It has not spread to all directions like it did twenty years later. The discussion continues quickly. Out of the circle, at the end of the day, it’s always music lovers talking about videos.
They analyzed the band members, they analyzed the performance music, but never got any news——
Nearly a hundred cover versions of that song have appeared, but the magic is that the original singer The version has still not been released, but everyone knows the original song is from that video.
A magical scene just happened.
Until last month, the "Tonight Show" program team discovered this post and became very interested after understanding the ins and outs. They hoped to contact the band in the video and invite them to perform on the "Tonight Show".
“Then they found me.”
“God, they still couldn’t trust their own judgment, Anson? That actor Anson? Why was he in an indie band’s video? "
"Because the picture quality is not clear, they are not 100% sure, so they sent screenshots to confirm with me."
"Don't tell them, not even me. I’m sure.”
"Jesus Christ, we're going to be on the 'Tonight Show,' Anson, we're going to be on the 'Tonight Show.'"
"But wait, why are you in this video? Are you becoming What happened to the actor before?”
The amount of information was so large that Edgar was also a little incoherent.
There were too many questions, and Anson didn’t know where to start. Even he himself was very surprised. He didn’t expect the past to reappear in such a way.
After thinking about it, Anson asked, "Has the program team contacted the other three people?"
This was a question that Edgar had not expected. He couldn't help but blink, "Aren't they your friends?"
Anson laughed dumbly, "No, it was just a one-time relationship. If it weren't for the fact that you took these screenshots "Bring it here, I won't have any more encounters with them."
Edgar: Huh?
(End of this chapter)