This result was expected by Xu Wangqiu: "The advantages of long shots are obvious, very realistic, but the defects are also very obvious, and some meaningless actions and processes cannot be cut, which will lead to a slow rhythm of the film and a lack of substitution in the film." For the vast majority of audiences, they are reluctant to watch movies with a slow pace and a lack of a sense of substitution. ”

Xu Wangqiu glanced at Li Tuo and them: "In fact, several representatives of the French New Wave, such as Truffaut and Renais, have returned to tradition and started to make commercial films. Because they know very well that to continue to follow the path of the New Wave in cinema is a dead end. ”

Li Tuo frowned, and finally said what he really thought: "But there are still many people who continue to follow the path of the New Wave, I think the film industry is very important, but freedom is more important, is there anything more important than freedom?"

Xu Wangqiu didn't expect Li Tuo to say this, and immediately retorted: "Of course there is, life is more important than freedom." For human beings, there is nothing more important than being alive, and everything is possible only by being alive. If there are no living people, is there still a meaning to freedom? The same is true for movies, if the audience does not go to the cinema to watch the movie, the entire film industry will collapse, and even the film will be gone, will the so-called creative freedom of film still be meaningful?"

Li Tuo sneered: "You are alarmist, as if you are learning from European art films, and if you are dominated by the long-shot theory, Chinese films will die." ”

Xu Wangqiu thought to himself that although the Chinese films in the late 90s were not dead, there was only one breath left, and even more so for the employees of the film system, where can you experts and professors experience the hardships of ordinary people's lives, and couldn't help sighing: "The American film industry was in trouble due to the impact of television in the 60s, Dongying films were in trouble at the end of the 60s, and France and Italy are also in trouble. The impact of television on movies is a historical trend, and it is not subject to human will. Our country is relatively poor, but the country is also vigorously introducing TV production lines. In a few years, TV opportunities will flood thousands of households, which will have a huge impact on movies. Art cinema did not save Dongying, French and Italian cinema, and only the United States really came out of the shadow of television. ”

Xu Wangqiu paused and said heavily: "I don't want to say anything esoteric here, nor do I want to say anything profound, what I want to say is the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people in the film system in the future!"

Many Nortel students are children of the film system, and they were shocked when they heard this sentence. When it comes to the survival of the film system, is this really that serious?

Li Tuo stared at Xu Wangqiu and shook his head slowly: "Since you said so, then I will also make it clear." Whether it's montage or long shots, it doesn't really matter, the most important thing is creative freedom. What guarantees our creative freedom is good. ”

A few of the experts and professors on the scene nodded slightly, which was also their voice.

Xu Wangqiu only felt a chill in his heart: "As long as you can ensure creative freedom, it's good? Then you don't care about anything else, even if you push the film industry into the abyss, it doesn't matter, right? Even if you smash the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people in the film system, it doesn't matter, right?"

Li Tuo said disdainfully: "Life is precious, but love is even more valuable." If it is free, both can be thrown. ”

Shu Xiaoming, who was next to him, added: "This is a revolution in artistic aesthetics, a revolution in the poisoning of Chinese films by the Gang of Four." Taizu once said that revolution is not a dinner party. Since it is a revolution, there must be sacrifices, and some sacrifices are necessary. However, we must believe that as long as there is creative freedom, the future of Chinese cinema is bright. ”

Anyone familiar with the history of Chinese cinema knows that in the early 80s, there was a serious misreading of Bazin's theory in the film industry. Xu Wangqiu always thought that this was due to the fact that Bazin's theory had not been systematically translated into China and that everyone had limited access to and grasp information, but now he realized that this was not a misreading, but a deliberate misinterpretation of Bazin's theory by the theoretical circles.

The purpose of these people is to use long shots and documentary aesthetics to eliminate the forced intervention of ultra-"left" policies in film creation. In their view, the long-shot theory advocated by Bazin can preserve the original reality to the greatest extent and give the audience the right to choose and interpret meaning, which is tantamount to supporting creative freedom in disguise. In their view, documentary aesthetics emphasizes objective truth, focusing on seeing is believing, which can exclude politics from the film, so as to maintain the independent status of the film.

In fact, this kind of thinking is understandable, after all, the movement has just ended, and it is normal not to want the creation of films to be disrupted again. But they know that doing so will push Chinese films into the abyss, but they don't care, which is unacceptable.

Xu Wangqiu remembered that his teacher once said that after Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, many people in the domestic comment circle were very disdainful of it, and they made a melodrama if they said no. After Zhang Yimou's "Alive" was filmed, there was a lot of scolding in the circle, and there was almost no good talk. These two films are scolded because they are genre films and belong to commercial films. After the new century, this situation has not changed, as long as it is a commercial film, there is no one who will not be scolded.

In the past, Xu Wangqiu didn't understand why the Chinese film market was collapsing, Chinese films were dying, and they needed excellent commercial films to support the Chinese film market, but these people were still hostile to commercial films and constantly attacked commercial films.

Now Xu Wangqiu completely understands that these people don't care about the life or death of Chinese movies at all, they only care about themselves. They do this for the so-called creative freedom, but also to really grasp the right to speak in Chinese films.

Commercial films have the final say at the box office, the audience has the final say, and everything has nothing to do with them, so they would rather see Chinese films struggling in the quagmire than commercial films becoming the mainstream of the market.

Li Tuo's words reminded Xu Wangqiu of the sentence that Huang Hong shouted on the evening of the Spring Festival of 99, "I will not be laid off, who will be laid off", Xu Wangqiu still remembers that day, his good-tempered father scolded the TV: "Huang Hong, I will grass your eighteenth generation ancestors!"

A wave of anger and chill rushed straight to the Tianling Gai, and an invisible hand tore the scar on Xu Wangqiu's heart, dripping with blood. The pages of memory instantly turned to January 23, 2003, the day when Xu Wangqiu was forever burdened with sins.

In the early 80s, Chinese films flourished for a while, but in the late 80s, film studios gradually fell into difficulties, and the film reform in 1993 did not keep up with the supporting policies, not only did not let Chinese films get out of the predicament, but pushed Chinese films into the abyss; coupled with the impact of television and VCD, the contradiction between the cultural system and the radio and television system, and the lack of excellent commercial films. By 1999, the annual box office of Chinese films was only 850 million, and only 150 million Chinese-made films were watched, and the number of moviegoers was only 7.5 million.

In the late 90s, Dongying Studio could not pay salaries, and laid-off workers only received 200 yuan per month. Not only East Film Studio, but also several major domestic film studios are in a similar situation. For example, the Modu Film Factory could not pay full wages, a large number of workers were laid off and unemployed, and the income of workers dropped from the original one or two thousand yuan to only more than 200 yuan for living expenses. So much so that the famous actor Da Shi often spit out his bitterness at the political association, saying that he has worked all his life, and now he only gets a salary of more than 200 yuan a month, and he really doesn't know what to do in the future.

The difficulties of an enterprise are a disaster for the workers, but for some people, it is a good opportunity to make money, and they can sell their state-owned assets by various means. In October 2002, when Xu Wangqiu and his sister Xu Wangyue went to pay the heating bill, they were told that the heating of their building would be stopped this winter. The staff of the heating company said that Xu Wangqiu's community was within the scope of demolition, and the main pipe valve for heating had been closed due to the demolition notice from the government department.

Xu Wangqiu and everyone in the community know that the heating company and real estate developer are actually the same. Because the demolition price offered by the demolition company was too low, they had not negotiated with the residents, so they openly and covertly used various means to drive the residents away, and cutting off the heating must be a new trick they came up with to drive everyone away.

Dongying Studio is located in the northeast, and the temperature will be as low as minus twenty or thirty degrees Celsius in winter. Many people were forced to leave due to the lack of heating, but many residents persisted. Xu Wangqiu and his sister Xu Wangyue are one of them. Xu Wangqiu's father and mother were filming in the south, and after they knew that the heating at home was cut off, they sent Xu Wangqiu and Xu Wangyue a sum of money to let them temporarily rent a house outside. Xu Wangqiu and Xu Wangyue didn't move, they knew that it was not easy for their parents to make money outside, and many crews were in arrears of wages, so they felt that they could save a little bit and wait for their parents to come back.

The temperature on January 22 was exceptionally low, and it was the coldest day in Xu Wangqiu's life. Xu Wangqiu and Xu Wangyue shivered with cold and walked around the house to keep warm. Xu Wangqiu really couldn't stand it, and said to Xu Wangyue, why don't we go to the same school for two days, my parents will come back soon, and we can move when they come back. Xu Wangyue said, "Brother, you should go to the same school!" I will stay and look after the house! Xu Wangqiu said, "How can you do that, how can you stay at home alone?" Xu Wangyue said with a smile, there can't be no one at home, or you go to the same school today, and I will go tomorrow, and we will rotate. Xu Wangqiu agreed, and went to the same school in the evening.

At 11 o'clock that night, the demolition company cut off the power supply to Xu Wangqiu's community, and the entire community fell into darkness. Residents panicked, and the white light of flashlights lit up in many houses. The demolition personnel took advantage of the chaos to clear the site, kicked the door to investigate, and drove the residents out of the building, but the investigators unfortunately missed Xu Wangqiu's house.

His father, who was working in Hengdian, received a call from Xu Wangyue saying that the demolition had begun. Father asked Xu Wangyue to come out quickly. Xu Wangyue cried and said that she couldn't get out, the stairs had been damaged and blocked, and no one answered when she called 110. My father was in a hurry at the time, and immediately called Dongying's friends and asked them to save people.

My father's friend found the demolition workers and told them to stop quickly, saying that there were still people in the building. But the other party didn't listen at all, insisting that there was no one inside. The excavator continued to work, and the unit building fell to the ground, and Xu Wangyue was buried in the building.

A year later, the demolition was found to be an illegal demolition, and many people were sentenced to prison for it, but what was the use? My sister will never come back. Xu Wangqiu has always believed that if he hadn't gone to his classmates that day, if he was at home, his sister would not have died. The death of his sister left an immortal mark on Xu Wangqiu's heart, and he could never forgive himself.

At this moment, the torn mark began to bleed outward. The blood flowed out of his heart and spread into his eyes, dyeing Xu Wangqiu's eyes red. He gritted his teeth and said in a cold voice that seeped through the cracks of his bones, "Is it necessary to make a little sacrifice?" Even if the film industry collapses, you can still talk about it, and even go abroad with a slap in the ass, but what about the film system? What about hundreds of thousands of people in the film system? You are really a bunch of bastards with no heart and lungs!"