Chapter 508: Steamed Bun Turmoil
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"The Lunar New Year file is a war, if you don't die, I live, if you don't discredit the opponent, the opponent will also discredit you, so it's better to strike first, and killing the opponent is the right way!" said an old reporter.
"Isn't it good for everyone to win together, why do you have to live or die?"
"You're so young!"
Not long after the old reporter's voice fell, someone suddenly shouted in front of him: "Zhang Ran has come out." ā
The shout was like a stone thrown into a lake, and it instantly made a splash, and the crowd waiting at the airport couldn't wait to rush forward.
The intense flash flashed wildly, countless microphones and voice recorders were handed in front of Zhang Ran, and many reporters threw similar questions one after another.
"Director Zhang, what do you think of Director Chen Kaige's bombardment of you?"
"Director Zhang, is "A Bloody Case Caused by a Steamed Bun" really made by someone you found?"
"What do you think about director Chen Kaige suing Wu Ge, the author of Century Peak and "Steamed Buns"?"
Zhang Ran thought that the reporters came to interview because "Three Fools" was sought after by young people in Japan and South Korea, but he didn't expect the reporters to ask "A Bloody Case Caused by a Steamed Bun", and said that Chen Kaige bombarded himself, which made him feel inexplicable.
As a reborn, Zhang Ran naturally knew "Steamed Buns", and also knew that "Steamed Buns" discredited Brother Chen Kai, but he couldn't figure out how Brother Chen Kaige could feel that he was related to "Steamed Buns" and fired at himself.
Before figuring out what was going on, Zhang Ran was not good at commenting: "I'm promoting abroad these days, and I don't know what happened, so I can't comment on this matter now." ā
Zhang Ran didn't stay long and squeezed out of the reporter's encirclement. At this time, he saw Gao Jun's deputy Ye Lin and hurriedly walked over. Ye Lin was originally Wanda's person, but not long after the establishment of the peak of the century, Zhang Ran dug him up at Wanda and asked him to follow Qiu Yuanxu to do film and television. After Qiu Yuanxu went to Jiahe Jiahe, Ye Lin became Gao Jun's deputy.
Coming out of the airport, Zhang Ran got into Ye Lin's car directly and asked, "What's going on?"
Ye Lin briefly introduced the matter, and on the 28th, a young man named Wu Ge uploaded a short film called "A Bloody Case Caused by a Steamed Bun" to several video sites such as Century Peak, Youku, and Tudou. It's a spoof short film, and despite the level of editing that is too flattering, it's very hilarious. After watching it, the editor of the peak of the century felt that it was good, and he could also invisibly discredit the opponent of "Wuji", so he put the video on the homepage of the website.
Unexpectedly, this video quickly became popular on the Internet, triggering a carnival among netizens.
Chen Kaige thought that Zhang Ran was stabbing the knife of "Wuji", and in an interview with Xinlang a few hours ago, he fired at Zhang Ran, thinking that Zhang Ran was deliberately smearing "Wuji". Chen Kaige thinks that "Wu Ji" is an excellent movie, and now that the reputation is so bad, someone is deliberately smearing it behind his back, and he also broke the news that someone gave money to the media and asked to take down the article that praised "Wu Ji" and replace it with an article with a bad review.
Chen Kaige couldn't hold back his excitement: "I have sued Wu Ge and Century Peak, and I will use legal means to sue to the end!" After speaking, he added unsatisfactorily: "Some people's behavior is a harm to the entire industry, and they don't even want to lose face for the sake of the box office, I don't think people can be shameless to such a point!"
After listening to Ye Lin's words, Zhang Ran said coldly: "Didn't I say that the promotion of the movie should not attack the opponent, if everyone smears each other, everyone can't be white in the end, why don't you understand?"
In the last life, when domestic films were released, the filmmakers often hired water armies to brush up their reputation on Weibo, Douban, Time.com and other movie interactive platforms, smear competitors, and manipulate the market. This vicious competition has led to a very chaotic order in the domestic film market, without a valuable film evaluation system, and it is difficult to effectively analyze the data of films.
Zhang Ran has always hoped that China's film market can compete as benignly as the United States and work together to do a good job in the market, so even if he had a scolding war with Zhang Weiping, he did not say that "A Thousand Miles Alone Ride" was not good, but called on everyone to watch this movie.
Ye Lin hurriedly said: "The editor of the recommended video has been fired, but what should we do now?"
Zhang Ran has already offended the Beijing circle, and they began to secretly ban Zhang Ran's students, at this time Zhang Ran doesn't want to offend Chen Kaige, the great director. Although Chen Kaige is not from the Beijing circle, nor does he have as much power as the Beijing circle, he was born in a film family, and the older generation of filmmakers are all his uncles and uncles, and his energy cannot be underestimated.
In the previous life, when Yang Fan was filming the movie "Search", Chen Kaige was angry and replaced Yang Fan with Wang Luodan, and since then Yang Fan has been banned by the big director circle, no matter how popular she is and how famous she is, she can never receive a decent scene, so she can only roll in bad movies.
This is Brother Chen Kai's energy!
"I'll call Brother Chen Kai, ask him to have dinner in the evening, and make things clear when the time comes, although he is a bit stubborn, but he is not an unreasonable person!" Zhang Ran took out his mobile phone and dialed Brother Chen Kai's phone, but there was a busy tone on the other end of the phone.
Zhang Ran thought about it and dialed Chen Hong's phone again, but it was still a busy signal. He frowned, afraid that his phone would be blocked, so he said to Ye Lin: "Pick up your mobile phone and use it!"
Ye Lin hurriedly took out his mobile phone and handed it to Zhang Ran.
This time, Brother Chen Kai's phone got through: "Director Chen, I'm Zhang Ran." ā
The other end of the phone snorted heavily, and then hung up.
Zhang Ran's brows furrowed even tighter, why was he so angry? He thought about it, turned his head to Ye Lin and said, "I'll talk to Han Shanping in the evening, you can send a statement in my name to clarify the matter and send it out as soon as possible!"
Two hours later, Xinlang published Zhang Ran's statement in full.
"Today, director Chen Kaige released in an interview with the media that he concocted "A Bloody Case Caused by Steamed Buns", and bribed the media to smear "Wuji", and the above remarks were forwarded and spread in a large number of short periods of time, resulting in serious damage to my public image, personal reputation and personal dignity, and serious disruption to my normal work and life.
In order to clarify the truth and protect my public image, personal reputation and personal dignity from illegal infringement, I hereby make the following statement to the public:
1. I oppose peers dumping against each other, and always believe that the real enemy of Chinese films is Hollywood, and only when Chinese filmmakers unite can it be possible to confront Hollywood, and I have been working hard in this direction. The special effects of "Wuji" directed by Chen Kaige are produced by my company, and I believe you can see how the level of special effects is. If I regard Director Chen Kaige as an enemy, it is necessary to do the special effects so well? Isn't this arming the enemy to fight myself? I don't know about "A Bloody Case Caused by a Steamed Bun", and I am deeply sympathetic to Director Chen Kaige's experience.
2. Director Chen Kaige's remarks have no basis, the content is purely false, and has seriously infringed on my right to reputation and personal dignity, and the infringer is requested to immediately stop the infringement and eliminate the impact.
3. I sincerely ask my colleagues in the media and the public to understand the facts and the law, and refrain from reprinting, disseminating and spreading the above rumors in any way.
Here, I would like to thank my family, friends and fans for their continued support and care, and I will continue to work hard to improve my film career and dedicate better works to everyone. ā
After Zhang Ran's statement was issued, it was quickly reprinted by major portals. Everyone on the Internet has a lot of discussions about this, and netizens are basically on Zhang Ran's side, because Zhang Ran's movie is really good-looking, and his words are very reasonable.
"That's right, how can Zhang Ran make the special effects so good? Brother Chen Kai just can't pull out the and blame the earth's gravity problem. That's it, what about the masters?
"Three Fools" is not only popular in China, but also in Xiangjiang, Japan, and South Korea, while "Wuji" is terrible regardless of Xiangjiang, Japan and South Korea. Could it be that Zhang Ran is also smearing? You can't be too infinite, you can't be too Chen Kaige!"
Before the release of "Wu Ji", Chen Kaige was asked by the hostess if the movie was not as successful as you expected, and he was unhappy and accused the other party of being very unfriendly to this question! After the release of "Wu Ji", a newspaper published a large article criticizing it, and the drama party of "Wu Ji" actually called the newspaper to apologize. I can't use a master to describe Brother Chen Kai anymore, he can now be called the emperor of Chinese films!"
"The audience has paid for the box office, and everyone is not allowed to have fun?
In the evening, Zhang Ran asked Han Shanping to have a meal, and through Han Shanping, he agreed with Brother Chen Kai to meet the next afternoon, preparing to explain things clearly at that time.
However, the situation changed unexpectedly the next morning, and "Xinjing Daily" interviewed Wu Ge, the author of "Steamed Buns", about Chen Kaige's lawsuit.
In the interview, Wu Ge admitted that someone found him and asked him to make a short film of "Wuji", but he didn't know who the other party was. After making the short film, he uploaded it to several video websites such as Century Summit and Youku as required. He didn't expect that things would be so big that he would even be prosecuted. At the end of the interview, Wu Ge solemnly apologized to Director Chen Kaige, hoping that Master Chen Kaige would not remember the villain and not sue himself.
After this interview came out, public opinion and netizens immediately exploded, it turned out that Chen Kaige didn't tell a lie, someone was really secretly hacking "Wuji", and everyone pointed their suspicions at Zhang Ran. The biggest competitor of "Wuji" is "Three Fools", who else but Zhang Ran would do such a thing.
"I didn't expect Zhang Ran to be this kind of person, this is too shameless!"
"The movie is obviously very well made, why do you use such indiscriminate methods? It's so disappointing!
However, Zhang Ran's fans are not vegetarians, and immediately refuted it.
"I'm sick, why do I suspect Zhang Ran? The Lunar New Year file is not a movie called "Three Fools", why can't it be done by the new picture? Zhang Weiping can play the pirated version of "Three Fools", and he can also play "Wuji"!"
"That's right, don't wronged my family Zhang Ran, he won't do this kind of thing!"
On the afternoon of this day, "Youth Daily" published an article ""Wu Ji" North America was returned, and the release was doubtful", the article pointed out that at the Cannes Film Festival in May 05, the Harvey brothers of Weinstein Pictures directly sold $900,000 after watching the "Wu Ji" film, and wanted to buy the overseas rights of "Wu Ji". But a few months later, Harvey, who had watched the finished film of "Wu Ji", was disappointed in the quality and insisted on returning "Wu Ji", not even asking for a deposit. Because "Wu Ji" was returned, Hollywood became suspicious of the quality of China's costume films, and even Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang's new films were also implicated.
After this report was forwarded by the media, it caused an uproar among netizens. Chen Kaige has been promoting that "Wu Ji" will be released on a large scale in the United States, and it will hit the Oscars, but it was not returned by the United States.
At the same time, there are many people who think that this news must have been released by Zhang Ran, because apart from Zhang Ran, how could anyone else know that "Wuji" was returned by the United States? )