Chapter 150: Culture Wars
Hearing that Xu Wangqiu asked everyone to rest, Commander Wu ordered the troops who were on guard to continue to be on guard, and at the same time let each cooking squad light a fire and cook. Then he went to a green military tent with Xu Wangqiu and the main creator of the movie to rest. The crew and soldiers also went to their respective tents to rest in their own units.
Sitting in the tent, Tang Guoqiang and the others excitedly discussed the fiery scene of the bombardment of the hillside, and kept asking Regiment Commander Wu about the situation during the war with Vietnam. Regiment Commander Wu told Tang Guoqiang and the others about the rush to cross the Red River last year, and that our army opened the warehouses in Vietnam and was indignant to find that there were mountains of spoiled and moldy rice, white noodles, canned biscuits, and even frozen pork. Tang Guoqiang and the others were all angry when they heard this, and scolded the Vietnamese for being white-eyed wolves, eating our food, using guns and ammunition supported by our army, and still violating our territory, which was extremely shameless.
Xu Wangqiu sat next to him and chatted with the political commissar. The political commissar told him a joke that there were two artillery regiments involved in the filming this time, their regiment was playing our army, and the other regiment was playing the Vietnamese army. The soldiers of that regiment were particularly unhappy, and they complained that we were no worse than their regiment when we were fighting, so why did our regiment play the role of Vietnamese? In the end, the political commissar pulled out the whole regiment and did the work for them: "Let us play because we have captured the prisoners of the Vietnamese army, and we are more familiar with the Vietnamese army than others, and we will definitely act more like it." This is a political task, and you are not allowed to drop the chain for me, and you will play it for me. We don't exalt the Vietnamese, we don't spoil him, we really act like that. ”
After listening to the story told by the political commissar, Xu Wangqiu laughed, he thought these soldiers were too cute. After laughing, he said to the political commissar: "Actually, we are also fighting against the enemy when we make movies, and the enemy we have to deal with is much more difficult than the Vietnamese." ”
When the political commissar heard this, he said curiously: "What do you mean by this?"
Tang Guoqiang and the others also stopped, and they all looked at Xu Wangqiu curiously, wanting to hear what was going on.
Xu Wangqiu did not explain, but asked: "There is a sentence in the national anthem, the Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time, do you know why it is sung like this in the song?"
The political commissar had an expression of "you are a primary school student": "Because the Dongying people called." ”
Xu Wangqiu nodded and said: "In our history, we have encountered countless crises, we were conquered by the Mongols, conquered by the Manchus, and the country perished, it seems that the situation is more serious than the invasion of the Dongying people, why did the Dongying people fight when the Chinese nation reached the most dangerous time?"
The political commissar felt that this question was a bit complicated, and thought for a while: "Because the Mongols and Manchus are their own compatriots, and the Dongying people are foreigners. When the Dongying people call, we are in danger of destroying the country and extinction. ”
Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "You are right, when the Dongying people call, we have the danger of destroying the country and extinction of the species, but have you thought about it, why do the Dongying people call us and we will have the crisis of extinction of the country and the species?"
The political commissar thought about it and said with a wry smile: "I really can't say this clearly." ”
Xu Wangqiu nodded slightly, in fact, many people didn't think about it, nor did they realize the seriousness of this problem, and said: "The key to the problem is culture. When we were defeated by the Mongols and the Manchus, we were militarily weak, but culturally strong. We have been defeated militarily, we have been conquered, but our culture is still there, and our culture is still alive. We know who we are, we know the splendid civilization created by our ancestors, and we are unwilling to be subservient to others in our hearts. When the Mongols and the Manchus declined, a group of warriors who were not afraid of death stood up and shouted, expelling the Hulu and restoring China. The Jews wandered for thousands of years and finally succeeded in recovering their country because their culture was not lost.
Unlike our war with Dongying, Dongying is not only militarily stronger than us, but also culturally stronger than us after absorbing the advanced culture of the West. In the Tang Dynasty, it was the Dongying people who came to our China to study, but before the Anti-Japanese War, it was we who went to Dongying to study. If we lose the war with Dongying, then Dongying culture will completely crush our culture, and with the Dongying people promoting imperial education, our culture may be acquired. After decades or hundreds of years, our descendants will forget their own culture, who their ancestors were, who they were Chinese, and eventually become Dongying people completely.
The Chinese nation as a race will completely disappear, and this is the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species!"
Almost every Chinese knows that China was facing the crisis of national extinction during the War of Resistance Against Japan, but many people did not really understand the meaning of this sentence. After listening to Xu Wangqiu's words, many people present suddenly felt enlightened, and only then did they understand what was going on.
Tang Guoqiang couldn't help but say: "I always thought that the extinction of the country and the extinction of the species was a propaganda slogan, but I didn't expect that we were really facing the crisis of the extinction of the country and the extinction of the species." It's good that we won, otherwise we would have been in real danger. ”
The political commissar understood what Xu Wangqiu meant: "You just said that making movies is also a war against the enemy, that is, fighting against the invasion of foreign cultures, right? ”
Xu Wangqiu gave a thumbs up and said: "Now we are strong enough militarily, we dare to fight with the United Nations led by the United States in Korea, we can clean up India, and recently beat Vietnam, the Soviet Union is so strong militarily, and it doesn't dare to do anything to us." Militarily, we are not afraid of the United States and Dongying, but culturally, we are in a weak position when facing the United States and Dongying. ”
Speaking of this, Xu Wangqiu looked at Tang Guoqiang and said: ""Manhunt" is a very ordinary movie in Dongying, but after its release in our country, it has been wildly sought after, and Takakura Ken has become a model for men. Lao Tang's performance in "Little Flower" is obviously very good, but many people say that he is a cream boy and attacks him in various ways. ”
Tang Guoqiang sighed helplessly when he heard this, he received a lot of attention after the release of "Little Flower", but many people said that he was slimy and unmanly. And Xu Wangqiu's "Hoe Rape" is considered a masculine movie, and the main actors in the movie are considered to be real men. Therefore, after hearing that Xu Wangqiu's new film "Falcon" was a movie of the same style, he immediately expressed to Xu Wangqiu through Yu Ze that he hoped to be able to star in "Falcon".
Xu Wangqiu continued: "A few days ago, the TV station broadcast the American TV series "Visitors from the Bottom of the Atlantic", which attracted thousands of empty alleys. The sunglasses worn by the actor Mike have been imitated by countless young people. There are also bell bottoms, swing dances, etc., these American pop culture have been wildly followed by young people. So much so that in the minds of many young people, American and Japanese culture is advanced and good. If it is allowed to develop, it will become reverse racism, think that Chinese culture is garbage, think that the Chinese race is garbage, and become spiritual American spiritual Dongying people. This is the crushing of the weak culture by the strong culture, and the weak side does not have many effective means to fight back.
In the decades of this year, it is unlikely that our country will face large-scale wars, while wars in the cultural sphere have been the norm. In other words, the biggest war we have faced in China in the decades of this year is the culture war. Film, television, music, video games, and other fields are all battlefields, and in these fields, we are lagging behind the West in all aspects, so it can be said that we are completely in a situation of being passively beaten. After eight years of fighting the War of Resistance Against Japan, we finally drove the Dongying people out of China. And this war in the cultural field will be fought for eighty years, or even a hundred years, and it will be a long war that will take several generations. ”
Everyone at the scene was shocked by Xu Wangqiu's words, a war that will last for a hundred years and will fight for several generations, is this too exaggerated? They all looked at Xu Wangqiu dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.
Tang Guoqiang swallowed his saliva and said in a trembling voice: "Then can we win?"
Xu Wangqiu remembered that Zhang Jizhong's "Smiling Proud Jianghu" was scolded when it first came out, and the Internet was full of all kinds of abuse of this TV series, and some people even said that the best performance in this TV series was the donkey inside. However, by 2020, Zhang Jizhong's version of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" has been evaluated above the Xiangjiang version.
Why was Zhang Jizhong's version of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" so bad at the beginning, because netizens at that time basically grew up watching Xiangjiang martial arts films and couldn't accept Zhang Jizhong's style. First of all, this drama is really awesome, and it is a continuation of Hu Jinquan's ink painting style; secondly, the younger generation has become the mainstream of the Internet, they grew up watching Zhang Jizhong's version of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", and they are not so interested in Xiangjiang martial arts films.
Xu Wangqiu imagined that the influence of Western culture on China would gradually decline with the rise of the mainland's economy and culture, like Xiangjiang Film and Television, and firmly said: "We can win." Because we have a population of 1 billion and a history of 5,000 years, we have a strong enough foundation, and this is the capital that we have to fight with the West. As an important means of cultural media, film is a very important battlefield in the culture war. In the past, we had a very bad impression of Dongying people, but a "Pursuit" has changed the impression of countless young people on Dongying people, which is the influence of movies. An important way for the United States to export its culture to the outside world is through movies, and Hollywood movies have played a role in spreading American culture around the world and are the vanguard of promoting the American spirit and universal values.
When we make movies, we fight against the enemy and compete with the enemy for people's hearts. Most of the actors selected by the members of our Falcon Squad are handsome guys. Why do you choose so many handsome guys? I just hope that the audience will feel that the PLA is very good and handsome after watching "Falcon". When "Falcon" is taken abroad to be released, such as in Dongying, the audience in Dongying sees Tang Guoqiang and Zhou Lijin and thinks that the Chinese are so handsome and the PLA is so mighty. If there are several such movies every year, after more than ten years, the concept that the Chinese are handsome and the PLA is mighty will be firmly imprinted in the minds of Dongying people. Suppose one day, the Dongying government wants to go to war with China, and the people of Dongying will think that the People's Liberation Army is so powerful, how can we win, we can't fight, we can't fight! This is the influence of culture, and this is the meaning of our films!"
After hearing this, the political commissar looked at Xu Wangqiu and said sincerely: "Actually, when I first received the performance, I felt that it was a bit of a waste of time, but now I understand the significance of this matter! If we lose the military battle, we can come again; if we lose the cultural war, then we will be really in danger." ”
At this moment, the people from the cooking class came to inform everyone that breakfast was ready and it was time to eat breakfast. Commander Wu said to Xu Wangqiu, you go to eat first, and we will sing songs first. After saying that, he asked the warriors to assemble and then began to sing.
In the past, when there were wars, there were many different formations of armies eating on the same stove, and because there were too many people, there would be a situation of grabbing food. When Marshal Liu Bocheng saw this, he ordered the soldiers of his unit to line up and sing a song first, and then go to eat when the fraternal troops had finished eating. The fraternal troops followed suit, which later evolved into a tradition of the People's Liberation Army, singing a song before each meal.
The crew knew that the soldiers were singing to let themselves eat first, so they quickly took out their lunch boxes and lined up to eat.