Source: Global Times New Media
Recently, the domestic network began to circulate a heavy news claiming that the well-known Hollywood movie star Nicolas Cage was "bankrupt", and was forwarded by many media.
However, after checking, Geng Zhige found that this news was actually an old news from more than 10 years ago.
But why has this old news become "news" on the Chinese Internet?
The cause of all this stemmed from a "trouble" caused by Nicolas Cage in the American casino city of Las Vegas on September 13.
Judging from an "exclusive" report on the matter published by the British "Sun" on September 23, Cage drank excessively in a high-end restaurant in Las Vegas on the 13th, not only drunk so drunk that he could not even wear his own slippers, but also went around drinking crazy and shouting at people.
Moreover, his clothes for the day were quite sloppy, and his hair was messy.
Screenshot from the Sun's report on Cage's drunken rampage at a las Vegas restaurant on Sept. 13
As a result, according to The Sun, the restaurant's service staff mistook the Hollywood star for a "homeless drunk," "invited" him out, and banned him from entering the restaurant again.
It wasn't until later that the restaurant staff was surprised to realize that this "drunk" was Cage...
However, the Sun also introduced that this kind of drunkenness and drunken madness is not a new thing for Cage, who is nearly sixty years old.
For example, in 2019, Cage had a wedding with a woman in Las Vegas under the condition of severe drunkenness, and then divorced her 4 days later... (Note: Counting this 4-day marriage, Cage has been married a total of 5 times)
The picture shows the US media reports on Cage's 4-day marriage in 2019
The Sun also mentioned that Cage said in a 2018 interview with the media that he was the kind of person who would go into "self-destruction mode" if he didn't divert his attention from work, including binge drinking and trouble.
However, the Sun did not mention anything related to his "bankruptcy" when reporting on Cage's September 13 "troubles." None of the other Western gossip media that also watched the incident mentioned cage's recent "bankruptcy" or that his "trouble" was related to "bankruptcy.".
So, why are many Chinese media reporting the "news" of Cage's "bankruptcy" one after another, and still "have a nose and an eye" to claim that this news comes from the British "Mirror"?
In this regard, Geng Zhige further checked and found that when the British gossip tabloid "Mirror" watched Cage's "drunken madness" incident on September 24, in order to enrich readers' understanding of Cage, it also published a "retrospective" article introducing Cage.
The "retrospective" article was titled: How Niculas Cage lost his $150 million fortune by buying an island, a car, and a zoo, and eventually went bankrupt.
The picture shows the British "Mirror" when reporting Cage's "drunken madness" incident, in order to enrich people's understanding of him, an additional "retrospective" report on Cage was published
And then the point is. According to this "retrospective" article, Cage, 57, was "bankrupt" in his 40s for profligacy and poor investment. At that time, Cage had also confronted his accountant and wanted to push the responsibility for bankruptcy to the latter.
In other words, Cage's "bankruptcy" is not a new "news", but an "old news" more than 10 years ago.
In fact, as early as 2009, U.S. and Western media outlets such as CNN and Business Insider had widely reported on his bankruptcy due to financial problems.
The picture shows extensive reports in the Western media in 2009 on cage's failure to destroy the family property
Not only that, but in the 12 years since, whenever Cage is on the news again — for good or bad reasons — the Western gossip media will re-issue a "review" of his profligacy and ruin of his family property.
For example, in 2018 and 2019, cnBC News Network in the United States had "repeatedly whipped the corpse" of him for 2 consecutive years.
In fact, some domestic self-media bloggers are also very aware of Cage's "bankruptcy" past more than 10 years ago. On domestic video platforms such as Station B, some bloggers have specially produced a program to introduce Cage a few years ago, which details his "bankruptcy" past, and how this incident has made him from a top Hollywood star who has won an Oscar to a "king of bad films" who can take any film and only to pay off debts.
But perhaps because the people or institutions that publish the news of "Cage's bankruptcy" on the domestic network today do not know about Cage or his "bankruptcy" case more than 10 years ago, or perhaps there is also a mistranslation and understanding of the "retrospective" report of the Mirror, and as a result, an "old news" from 12 years ago has become "news" on the Chinese network...
Finally, it is worth mentioning that in recent years, Cage's career and life have made some improvements. Although there are still occasional bad films released, he has also starred in a number of critically acclaimed films. In a character report about Cage in July, vanity fair magazine said that cage was eager to be "taken seriously" again.
But today's drunken madness incident makes people have to wonder whether he has really "reformed".