The first alumnus of Zhu Dake to jump out to respond, Li Zai, who is also a member of the Xigong film critic team. This person is not a parallel commodity like Zhu Dake, he has real talent and real learning, but he is very extreme.

In the previous life, after Zhu Dake published "The Flaws of Xie Jin's Film Model", Li Zai threw out an article "The Xie Jin Era Should End", criticizing the films represented by Xie Jin as politicized and "abusive". This time, he published the view that "Xu Wangqiu's films should end" in Wen Wei Po, and the article pointed out that the popularity of Xu Wangqiu's films in China is "a tragic phenomenon of Chinese films", and this "closed steady-state model" should be "broken and surpassed".

On October 20, Wen Wei Po published Yang Xiong's "The Bright Twilight of Classicism", which argued that Xu Wangqiu's film lacked modernity and was a classicist work. Xu Wangqiu's movie looks very beautiful, but "the sunset is infinitely good, but it is just near dusk", and Xu Wangqiu's works have no future.

On October 22, Wen Wei Po published an article "Xu Wangqiu and Hollywood", which analyzed the source of Xu Wangqiu's thoughts. The article believes that Xu Wangqiu is Su Zhensheng's apprentice, and Su Zhensheng was born in the magic capital and was very influenced by Hollywood movies. Under the teaching of Su Zhensheng, Xu Wangqiu developed a standard Hollywood-style aesthetic vision and habits, because of Xu Wangqiu's outstanding talent, his films seem to be very Chinese, but the spiritual core is Hollywood.

Wen Wei Po successively published articles criticizing Xu Wangqiu for attracting the attention of export companies, saying that the state set up export companies to earn foreign exchange, and at the same time hoped that Chinese films would go out to publicize and display Chinese culture; this determined that the films of export companies could only follow the route of commercial films and follow the Hollywood model.

In the eyes of the export company, this criticism is ostensibly aimed at Xu Wangqiu, but in fact it is aimed at the export company.

Wang Lanxi attached great importance to this and called Xu Wangqiu to the office. He saw that Xu Wangqiu's face was relaxed, and he was completely depressed and angry by being criticized, so he said: "Recently, "Wen Wei Po" has continuously published articles criticizing the line you represent, don't you know?"

Xu Wangqiu said with a relaxed face: "I know, because Su Bai said something about me." She said that because of you, even my dad was criticized. I said that this is too normal, this is called fighting tiger brothers, and going into battle with father and son. ”

Wang Lanxi saw that Xu Wangqiu was still in the mood to joke, thinking that he didn't know the seriousness of the matter, so he said, "Wangqiu, this matter is not as easy as you imagined. Although only a few articles have been published in Wen Wei Po now, this is a prelude to the coming storm. Not only many people in the film industry are extremely repulsive to the Hollywood line, but also the entire cultural world. It's just that the export company is run by the Ministry of Culture, and I am also the general manager of the company. Many people have scruples about this, and they have never dared to openly criticize it. But now that someone has made this head, they have no scruples, and mass criticism will soon come. ”

Xu Wangqiu knew that large-scale criticism would come soon, and the trend of the whole thing was almost a copy of the criticism of Xie Jin in the previous life. Zhu Dake, Li Zao and others, who criticized Xie Jin in the previous life, have already jumped out, and in the future, the entire film industry and cultural circles will be involved one after another, and it is only a matter of time before various scholars and intellectuals jump out to criticize and dissect Xu Wangqiu in the name of culture.

Xu Wangqiu knew that there would be this day, but he didn't expect this day to come so early. He thought that the wave of criticism would not come until around 85 or 86, because by that time Western liberal ideas had begun to proliferate, and the garbage of reverse racism such as "The Ugly Chinese" was widely circulated. He didn't expect this criticism to come so early, three or four years in advance.

Xu Wangqiu was not fully prepared, but not completely unprepared, and said lightly: "I know." This criticism will come sooner or later, and it is better to come early than later. We have discussed it in the art center, and our point of view is that since people want to fight, then we will accompany them to the end. Dean, leave this matter to us, you don't care. If you come forward, those people will say that we use power to oppress people, and even if it is reasonable, it will become unreasonable. If they want to fight a lawsuit, we will accompany them. Spelling literary theory, we definitely can't fight them, but in the field of film, we can press them to the ground and rub them. Someone once said that film critics talk about movies like eunuchs talk about lovemaking. We're not going to lose to a bunch of eunuchs!"

Wang Lanxi couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Why is your kid talking so badly! This is a rod that overturns a boatload of people." This word is going to get out, and all the critics are offended by you. It's okay to say this in private, don't take it out and say it, it's too offensive to people, and you should pay attention to unity. Since you have the confidence to handle this matter, then I will leave it alone, and you will handle it yourself. ”

Xu Wangqiu said confidently: "Don't worry, Dean." We're going to make these people laughing. ”

As Xu Wangqiu expected, in the next 20 days or so, there will be more and more criticism of Xu Wangqiu's films and Hollywood's line, and many newspapers in China have participated in the criticism of Xu Wangqiu and Hollywood's line. First critics, then scholars and avant-garde intellectuals, Li Tuo, Zhou Jieren and others wrote articles to analyze and dissect Xu Wangqiu from different angles, and comprehensively repudiated Xu Wangqiu and the Hollywood line.

However, it is not that he did not stand up to speak for Xu Wangqiu, Shao Mujun has always believed that movies have commercial attributes and cannot be separated from the audience, and he has always been a supporter of Xu Wangqiu and the Hollywood line. After the great criticism campaign against Xu Wangqiu and Hollywood began, he immediately published an article "A Debate for Xu Wangqiu's Movie".

In the article, Shao Mujun secretly ridiculed Zhu Dake's criticism as "grandstanding nonsense" because he lacked "factual analysis and irrefutable arguments." At the same time, he refuted Zhu Dake's view that Xu Wangqiu's films take sensationalism as the highest goal, cater to the audience everywhere, have tear-jerking skills, and lack the afterglow that makes people think".

Shao Mujun said that in order to serve the people, the popular art of film cannot fail to take into account the needs of the audience, and it should not engage in the kind of things that are divorced from the masses and self-appreciation, nor can it be done in the kind of things that accommodate the unhealthy appreciation habits of a small number of people; the high and low and the tendency to despise kitsch are all taboos in popular art. Art is emotional, and the audience will always be moved, infected or inspired to think about life. Watching a movie is not reading a philosophy textbook, it only makes people think and not move, it is preaching, and in the case of the audience's rebellious mentality, it is difficult to think about what you are guided by.

Dai Jinhua had a good relationship with Xu Wangqiu, and after graduating from the Chinese Department of Peking University, she was assigned to teach in the Department of Literature of Nortel. After the big criticism of Xu Wangqiu began, she soon published "Refuting Zhu Dake" in the Journal of Peking Film Academy. The article sharply criticized: "Zhu Dake held the whip of the 'May Fourth' spirit in his hand and beat Xu Wangqiu, who still adheres to the tradition of Chinese film and drama. Who knows, the spirit of 'May Fourth' is a progress, but it is also a 'persecution' of Chinese culture that has gone too far. Zhu Dake, who keeps saying that he wants modernization, ignores the diversified value tendencies in the process of modernization. The cynicism of the elites made him merciless to Xu Wangqiu, who represents popular culture, and his verbal and written criticism was a 'persecution' of the Chinese film tradition. ”

This wave of criticism soon spread from the newspapers to workers' film critics across the country, and the workers' film critics had a heated discussion about Xu Wangqiu and Hollywood's line.

In the worker-led film critic group, Xu Wangqiu has received unprecedented support, and everyone thinks that Xu Wangqiu's films are popular with the people, which are wonderful and moving, but you intellectuals say that it is not good here, where it is not good, you are old.

The Xigong Film Criticism Group, a film criticism team dominated by cultural elites, is a one-sided criticism of Xu Wangqiu, although many people are enthusiastic and moved to tears when they watch Xu Wangqiu's movies, but they are merciless when they criticize Xu Wangqiu.

Because Xu Wangqiu has great influence among young people, this influence is ten times or even more than Han Han's influence among the post-80s. There are many post-80s generations who have not read Han Han's articles, and there are really not many post-60s generations who have not watched Xu Wangqiu's movies and never heard Xu Wangqiu's songs. The criticism of Xu Wangqiu soon spread to various universities, and college students began a lively discussion about it.

Different universities have different ways of dealing with this criticism, with universities like Peking University, which are relatively strong in liberal arts, being more heavily influenced by the cultural elite, and criticizing Xu Wangqiu a lot; universities like Tsinghua University, which are relatively strong in science and engineering, have an absolute advantage in supporting Xu Wangqiu. However, in general, the majority of college students support Xu Wangqiu, and those who oppose Xu Wangqiu are in the minority.

Many college students wrote long essays refuting the views of criticizing Xu Wangqiu. However, after their articles were sent to newspapers and magazines, they were basically lost, and only a small number were published. And what is published are all the kind of articles that are more extreme and have a relatively low level, which makes people feel that those who support Xu Wangqiu are radicals with little culture and a very low level.

Since Zhu Dake's publication of "Xu Wangqiu's Four Treatises" set off a wave of criticism, letters from all over the country flew to export companies like snowflakes, and the masses wrote to Xu Wangqiu one after another to express their support. In just one month, he received nearly 10,000 letters from all over the country. The letters came from all walks of life, workers, self-employed, doctors, university students, middle school students...... The vast majority of letters have the same sentence: "I love your films, I support you!"

A letter sent from Northwestern Polytechnical University was written by a graduate student named Yang Wei, who said that he was deeply shocked after reading "A Game of Chess That Didn't End", and I cried when I saw the students in Japan singing the national anthem. I have seen many movies about the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression before, but there has never been a movie that shook me so much and made me understand that national defense is so important. I don't understand why those critics are so targeted at you, saying that your movies cater to fun, is it better that the movies should be ugly and the audience can't understand them?

An old man who had come from the war years wrote in a letter that in recent years, there have been many literary and artistic works about "friendship", but these works often only emphasize the friendly side and avoid talking about the grim historical facts that have happened. The film showing the friendship between China and Japan forgets the extremely serious suffering and disasters caused by the Dongying invaders to the Chinese people. "A Game of Unfinished Chess" not only describes the suffering brought by the Dongying invasion to the Chinese people, but also tells us that the Dongying masses at that time supported the war. This is undoubtedly a good work full of courage and conscience, why has it been criticized so much? I really don't understand.

Xu Wangqiu read these two letters from readers at a conference at the art center, and said to everyone present: "Taizu said that only the people are the driving force behind the creation of world history. Our films are made for the people, we are on the side of the people, and the people support us. As long as the people are on our side, we will be invincible in this struggle against elitism!"