1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 509, Annie’s Diary (4)

“This picture? But…this is a picture of a boy!” Dasco Popov glanced at the picture and said in surprise.

Indeed, this is a picture of a boy, as can be seen from the pants he wears underneath. The boy in the photo obviously died of lack of nutrition. His face was as dry as a skeleton. What’s more frightening was that his eyes were all pecked off by the foraging crows, leaving only two black ones. The bloody hollow, his lips had also been pecked off by the crow, and his teeth were missing for some reason.

“Yes, but if we only give a photo of the head, who can tell that this is a boy?” Scrooge replied disapprovingly, “As for this person and Annie at all, that’s also It’s not a problem. The bigger the difference, the more it shows that the abuse Anne suffered in the concentration camp is outrageous… Just use this photo to deal with it. In addition, the child’s diary needs to be re-polished. The text is too flat now. In fact, although it is considered smooth, it does not show much talent. This is not good. We must decorate her as a died George Sang. Of course, this matter does not need you to take care of, ah, Dasco, Call Grey Stone for me…”

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A few days later, the New York Times first serialized the diary of the little girl Annie who died in the Shire concentration camp. The language of these diaries is timeless and vividly depicts what happened to a little girl in the war. Its publication has attracted the attention of the entire United States and the entire world. The great French writer Zola praised these series of diaries for “the tension of beautiful novels”, and the famous short story writer Ou Henry also praised it as ” From the soul, it can also shock the soul” masterpiece, and after seeing the Russian translation of these diaries, the great Russian writer Lev Tolstoy specially wrote an article to recommend it to the Russian people. It can be said that the serialization of this diary was a huge success.

A week after the diary was serialized in the New York Times, Le Figaro in France, and some newspapers in Germany and Italy also began to report. Finally, even British newspapers began to serialize these diaries. Some young or petty-bourgeois literary and artistic youths or older literary and artistic people even came to Downing Street to demonstrate with signs bearing Annie’s head, chanting slogans like “Stop the Massacre” and “We are all Annie.” These reports naturally put great pressure on the British government, so the British took two-handed work.

First-hand work is of course to prevent the further spread of rumors. It includes two routines, soft and hard. The hard thing, of course, is to directly prohibit the spread of rumors, so that the newspapers and periodicals involved in the report will temporarily shut up. Of course, there is freedom of speech in the British Empire. Of course it is not good for the police to close the publications directly, but for any publication, you should always pay taxes to Her Majesty the Queen honestly, right? For example, letting the tax department find trouble, or even temporarily shutting down publications, is more effective than using the police. And to be honest, the enforcement power of the police department has always been compared with that of the tax department.

As for the second hand, of course it is a confrontation of public opinion. The first is to “refute rumors.” Although it is always very passive to refute rumors, because according to the definition of some guys who have a hobby and expertise in spreading rumors, the so-called rumors are “distantly leading prophecies.” Is it “prophecy” not to mention, just the attribute of “far ahead” will inevitably bring about the problem of “spreading rumors and opening their mouths, dispelling rumors and running and breaking their legs”. What’s more terrible is that the rumors circulating on the market today are not rumors at all, at least a considerable part of them are not rumors, and it is naturally more difficult to dispel facts as rumors.

But for such things, the British Empire still has a way. In other words, any powerful country must be proficient in the skill of how to point facts to rumors, and the United Kingdom is naturally no exception. The first trick here is to grasp the details. The so-called “the devil is in the details.” In most reports, in order to attract readers, some exaggerated methods are always used intentionally or unintentionally. There are bound to be loopholes in serious investigation. Moreover, the media must seize the timeliness, which will inevitably lead to some details too late for careful scrutiny. This will inevitably bring more loopholes. Those media that lean toward the government can seize this loophole and make a fuss.

The second common trick is to use rumors to counter rumors. This can be a rumor of an opponent, such as degrading the opponent’s character, questioning the opponent’s aptitude and conscience, etc.; or taking the initiative to be a pig teammate for the opponent, ostensibly standing on the side of the opposition camp, but deliberately A lot of buggy things came out. It’s like some fishing essays in later life.

But these are not avenues. The real avenue lies in controlling the pocketbook of the media. For example, in United States, the New York Times would never say anything bad about Scrooge, because Scrooge paid their money. And they will never go against the United States government in such matters as fighting the Spanish, fighting the Filipinos, sending Filipinos into study camps, etc. Although they usually have nothing to do, they will scold the government or something, but this At that time, they would firmly stand aside with the government, because the government is helping his boss make money at this time. In a sense, the media and the government are the same. They both work for Scrooge, Morgan and more carnivores. Generally speaking, it is very common for employees to scold each other in order to compete for favor, but once the boss needs them to cooperate, they must “united sincerely”.

In the UK, the basic situation is similar. Although there are indeed some small media screaming from the standpoint of anti-colonialism, the major media can still grasp the main theme. Moreover, nowadays, conquering the Boers is in the interests of the vast majority of British financial owners. Therefore, even if it is an opposition party, although it usually criticizes the government, the tune is not too high. So the British government first calmly waited and watched for a day, and then decisively dispatched elite mounted police to quickly restore the order of Downing Street. The main media generally adopted the “I saw nothing” attitude towards this approach of the British government.

However, these tactics of the British government can only be carried out in the territory of the British Empire. Throughout Europe and North America, there are still waves of criticism of Britain. A month later, the separate book of Anne’s diary was first published in United States. Several senators personally participated in the release ceremony of this diary and spoke violently against the crimes of colonialism. Colonialism)-parliamentary democracy is good. In many cases, when the government is inconvenient to directly express its stance on many things, it can allow members to go out and talk nonsense.

Following the rhythm of United States, this book has also become popular in the European market and has become the best choice for young artists to decorate their own. Just like many years ago, young German youths had to have a copy of “The Troubles of Young Werther” or many years later, a lot of Europeans always liked to print Che Guevara’s head on T-shirts.

Then, another piece of news broke out from the United States, saying that it was a newly established film company-DreamWorks Pictures announced that it would shoot an audio film version of Annie’s Diary.

Unlike the previous small film companies, this company obviously has strong capital. (It is rumored that the Boer’s government in exile is an important investor in this film company.) The company announced that the entire film was filmed. The budget is as high as 50,000 US dollars, and the length of the movie is as long as two hours. Such a large investment and such a long period of time were simply astronomical when the movie just appeared.

Although there is nothing about MacDonald in the list of shareholders of this film company, the holdings are all messy investment companies. (What? You ask the shareholders of these investment companies? Naturally, there will be some other banks. Then, peel off a few more layers like bamboo shoots. In the end, you can see McDonald Ventures, or The names of other companies.) However, it is said that Mr. MacDonald, as a famous anti-war peace person, a person with very good achievements in science and technology, served as a certain technology in this movie. The role of guidance. Of course, Mr. Scrooge McDonald is not a flaunt person, he has never mentioned this matter. People’s understanding of Scrooge’s work in this classic work that later became a classic in film history comes from the director of this film and one of the founders of DreamWorks Films, Edmundo. recall.

“Speaking of the establishment of a film company, it is entirely thanks to our actor Vera. My troupe just finished “Cuban Girls” that day, and everyone was changing clothes on the back stage. The theater manager, Mr. Buick, was chatting with me. At that time, he accidentally mentioned “Anne’s Diary.” He said to me: “Edmundo, have you noticed the little girl holding the wedding dress for the heroine in your last scene? She looks good The Annie in “Anne’s Diary” is very similar.’

When he said this, I really realized that our little Vera really looks a bit like Annie. You know, at that time, “Annie Diary” was hot, and its popularity was almost like “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, so I immediately thought, why didn’t I make it into a drama? So I got into action, and a week later, the stage version of “Annie’s Diary” was rehearsed.

During the rehearsal, there were also a few spectators, mainly people in the theater, but this time, in addition to those in the theater, there are also a few people I don’t know. After the rehearsal, Mr. Buick found me again and said to me: ‘Edmundo, have you heard of a movie with sound? ’”