Chapter Seventy-Three: Eighty Million...
"I see how charming Qingshan is, what should Qingshan be when he sees me?" Qingshan: No, get out!"
The cinema is a vehicle of consumption, and the audience enters it either in search of entertainment, solace and expectation. The ticket price of 50 yuan is not a luxury for most Chinese people at this stage, but it is also a very high-end enjoyment, and it is definitely necessary to look back at the ticket price.
A good commercial film, a film that can be accepted by the public, is the feeling that a mainstream director should bring to the audience!
The supply of directors and the demand of the audience must be equal, otherwise, even if you are a master, the audience will not recognize it!
In a market economy, no one buys a ticket means no one invests...
No one invests, no matter how good you shoot, you can only please yourself, and it is clear that the movies shown in the cinema are meant to please the audience!
Recently, a person named Zhu Dake scolded me for "A Chinese Ghost Story", saying that I sold erotica!
This assertion is very neat and thorough. If this is true, the relevant authorities have every reason to arrest me, and at least they should prohibit me from continuing to make films.
Fortunately, a bluff cultural thug and pseudo-humanist like Zhu Dake does not have the power to kill and seize in his hands.
Frankly, I completely disagree with Scholar Zhu's views.
"A Chinese Ghost Story" is based on "Liao Zhai", what is "Liao Zhai" about?
"Liao Zhai" is also known as "The Legend of the Ghost Fox", what did Mr. Pu Songling write?
Through the love between the flower demon and the fox charm and the person, the author's ideal love is expressed...
Yes, I'm shooting love!
Maybe in Mr. Zhu's eyes, the people who make movies are a group of sinners!
Especially those who make Chinese movies!
filmed a travelogue, and he was told to leak state secrets;
Filming history is to use the past to satirize the present;
filming war scenes, it may be said that he instigated rebellion.
Let's shoot some stories about gods and monsters, and say that they lead people to superstition and sell eroticism...
I admit that "A Chinese Ghost Story" has an erotic plot, but these are inherent in the story, the story needs it, why should it be deliberately avoided?
What's more, lust is not a blind destruction, but an outward manifestation of the power of resistance.
Isn't the love between Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen touching enough?
Should female ghosts stay in the cage honestly, be obedient, resign themselves to fate, and not think of resisting, so that they can be just, reasonable, and noble?
Scholar Zhu, aren't you helping those with vested interests in the established order? Isn't this a kind of disguised and latent violence?
Mr. Zhu Dake's point of view represents that he is one of the 'ugly' people in his mouth - meanness is the pass of the mean!
"A Chinese Ghost Story", I shoot beautiful, classical, traditional scholars and female ghosts, how did it become 'selling erotica' in your mouth?
The most important thing to evaluate a movie is to look at its core content and what it wants to express, rather than simply a picture!
I see how charming Qingshan is, and I expect Qingshan to see me like this.
What is in the heart, what is seen in the eyes, in the face of true greatness, some people can't look directly, so they must be distorted. Speak of those who are criticized as being promoted.
Does Aoyama know who you are?
If I were Qingshan, I would reply directly: Uncle, let's not make an appointment, get out!
I once saw a sentence: The master's laughter is wise, self-deprecating, and compassionate.
For me, the words "pornography" and "vulgarity" in my films are absolutely rejected.
What kind of movie is called "erotic"? What kind of movie is called erotica? Is it called erotica when it depicts hooligans, prostitutes, and gangsters in the market? Does "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" also mean pornography? Is "Farewell My Concubine" also erotic?
Scholar Zhu saw lust, but I didn't notice it, and the "A Chinese Ghost Story" I noticed was a tragedy, singing about love!
Those who only keep their eyes on women's feet are either too complex in the erotic structure of their brains, or they are deliberately slandered, in short, they are never at ease.
This kind of human spirit is itself extremely morbid, so what right do you have to accuse my work of being pathological?
You also mentioned to me "Dead Poets Society", that movie is a Hollywood three-stage structure, people use it, it is a good movie, I use it, it is pornographic?
How many movies have you seen dare to say that you are a film critic?
Huaguo, the title of film critic is too simple!
Hehe, Chinese movies are bad, but Chinese movie reviews are worse than movies!
As soon as a group of people saw a movie that was a big seller, they immediately rushed to it, saying that they were degenerate...
These neurotics say all day long that Chinese movies are going to die, and when writing film reviews, they must talk about Bazin or Eisenstein's original words, and say two sentences that many people can't figure out the cold knowledge as if they know movies very well!
I'm here to say responsibly that most Chinese film critics don't understand movies!
My books have sold more than 30 million copies, but I dare not say that I am a scholar, at most I can say that I am a best-selling writer!
What about Zhu Dake?
Well-known scholars, writers...
Where is your work?
Tongji University actually invited such a person to be the director of the Institute of Cultural Criticism, which shows that it is not enough.
……
Directly scolded together with *Ji University!
Most of Zhang Junsheng's fans are teenage boys and girls, and the idol has taken action in person, how can there be any reason not to comply!
Directly discharge all kinds of formations, fancy abuse.
"The old immortal, the stinky idiot, he understands movies and art, you ask him what art is, they have a wisp of beard: if it is black and white, if it is serious, it needs to be taken off, if it is something that the common people can't understand and only my professor can understand, in short, I say that art is art!"
"Trash Zhu Dake, fuck off!"
"The most annoying thing is that this so-called expert pretends to be a gesture, thinking that he understands movies. It's not that I look down on you, if you really talk about movies, Zhang Junsheng will dump you eight streets!"
"Jump, why don't you jump?"
……
Of course, Zhang Junsheng is not an idle egg, he has been running propaganda for the past few days, and he is almost soft, and he can still find time to respond, of course he wants to hype!
The movie is released, how to maintain the popularity?
Ma Xiaokang told you, find someone to spray!
However, you must not find people who stand very close to the audience, you have to find the kind of people who have an unclean foundation and are full of loopholes!
Zhu Dake is obviously this kind of person!
Zhang Junsheng scolded him, which can be said to have scolded many people's hearts.
Especially Zhang Weiping.
directly wrote an article to express his support for Zhang Junsheng, Zhu Dake has encountered Zhang Yimou in various ways in recent years, and every time Lao Zhang goes to a movie, Zhu Dake scolds him, and even denies Zhang Yimou from the root.
He said that "Red Sorghum" is a bad movie, and said that Lao Zhang's film represents the sick aesthetics of Huaguo...
As for the Olympics, he didn't scold - at least not a fool, knowing that some things can't touch porcelain...
"Zhu Dake is a fool, a garbage literati, deceiving the world and stealing fame, I don't understand that such a person is still a scholar and a professor!"
Some people also persuaded Zhang Junsheng, for example, Zhao Yijun, who is also the publisher of "A Chinese Ghost Story".
On the fifth day of the movie's release, at the propaganda point of Shudu Station, before going on stage, Zhao Yijun persuaded: "Zhu Dake's biggest problem is to criticize everything in the world, but there is no solution, because he is a critic, and you are also criticizing, and there is no solution to the problem, so whether what you say is right or not, what's the use? Unless you kill Zhu Dake or find another way to solve it, what is the difference between you and Zhu Dake..."
"Then I'll just put up with it?"
“… Let's find someone to talk to!"
"Hehe, I'm not used to him!"
"Why bother? For the sake of a movie to offend film critics? Zhu Da is a representative of Songjiang film critics!"
“… Lao Zhao, how much is the box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story"?
“… It's almost 80 million, what's wrong?"
Zhang Junsheng smiled: "I dare to say that half of them know that I scolded Zhu Dake, and they only know about "A Chinese Ghost Story", so only by scolding people can they have attention!"
Zhao Yijun was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to respond...
If the movie sells well, of course, it is made well, what does it have to do with scolding?