The media, which was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, reported the news of Scorsese's bombardment of film critics at the first time, first online media, and then traditional media quickly followed up "Scorsese sent a long article to bombard film critics and justify the name of Zhang Ran's new film "Angel of Justice"", "Scorsese denounced the film critics, and the war of words was about to break out", "Scorsese denounced film critics for not understanding art and strongly supported Zhang Ran's new film"......

Scorsese's words were supported by Zhang Ran's fans and many movie fans, who frantically retweeted Scorsese's article, while Zhang Ranhei and some Dongying supporters refuted Scorsese's words from various angles, and the two sides quarreled on the Internet, and soon sent the matter to the hot topic of many social networking sites.

It's not new for directors and critics to clash, and almost every director has made a complaint about a critic. Orson Welles once wanted to take Pauline Kyle to court, and in Fellini's masterpiece "Eight and a Half Films", a film critic talked about psychoanalysis and philosophical theories around the director, and Fellini hanged the film critic directly.

In the Cannes 60th anniversary short film collection "One Movie for Everybody", the film critic sitting next to Lars von Trier kept pointing fingers, and the unbearable Feng Maniac directly pressed the film critic's head and slammed it into the front chair, causing the film critic to faint on the spot, and then Feng Maniac copied an axe and cut off his head!

This is not the first time Scorsese has written a critical escaping film critic, having published a long letter in the British literary criticism magazine The Times Literary Supplement in April this year to fight back against critics who maliciously attacked him.

Zhang Ran originally planned to wait until November, after the awards season began, to fight back, but he didn't expect Scorsese to stand up and speak out for "Angel of Justice". But no matter what, Zhang Ran had to admit it, so he dialed Scorsese's movie and thanked Scorsese.

Scorsese said very politely: "Angel of Justice is a very good movie, but these people give the movie a bad review for political reasons, which is simply inexplicable." A good review should show enough enthusiasm and knowledge of the film to help young filmmakers find their movie dreams and let many viewers find their own film beacons. But today's film critics are committed to pure criticism in order to see a film and its creator rejected, ostracized, and even torn apart. ”

Zhang Ran also felt that there were fewer and fewer valuable film reviews now, and sighed and said, "Now is the Internet era, everyone can write film reviews, everyone is a film critic, and the boundary between professional film critics and amateur film critics is becoming more and more blurred." In this era, there are too many film reviews and too many film critics, and in this case, the more extreme and poisonous the film reviews, the more eye-catching and easy it is to be favored. However, this is not the case encountered by "Angel of Justice", and it should be related to the Dongying forces in the United States. ”

Scorsese was a little puzzled by Zhang Ran's calmness: "You don't seem to be worried about the bad reviews of film critics at all, and movies like "Angel of Justice" that opened on a small scale in art theaters are very important for the praise of the media and film critics. If the media and film critics do not have a high evaluation, it will be difficult for the film to be released on a large scale, and it will be released soon. ”

In the era of traditional film critics, most of the famous professional film critics in Europe and North America worked for film magazines such as "The Film Handbook", "Variety", "The Hollywood Reporter", etc., or a newspaper film column, and their comments had a great influence on the film, and a famous film critic like Roger Ebert could even affect the fate of a movie.

However, in the 80s, the influence of film critics began to decline, and in the late 90s, with the rise of the Internet, the influence of traditional film critics quickly collapsed, and the influence of film websites such as Rotten Tomatoes on the audience was gradually increasing, but it could not play a decisive role in the box office of the film, especially the influence on commercial films can be said to be minimal.

Adam Sandler is the prime example, and in the eyes of film critics, he is the king of super bad movies. There are almost no films starring Adam Sandler that have been praised by critics, and even films such as "The Magic Remote Control", "50 First Loves", and "The Longest Code", which have a good reputation in the eyes of the audience, are also big bad movies in the eyes of film critics. But Adam Sandler is a well-known king of over 100 million in North America, and so far he has starred in 17 movies that have grossed more than 100 million in North America, most of which are his monoclonal antibodies.

Of course, film reviews are not without any impact on the box office of movies, at least for art films, film reviews are very important, and even related to the life and death of movies. Because most of the art films are small-budget independent films, without too much publicity and distribution funds, it is impossible to advertise as much as Hollywood blockbusters, and the audience wants to understand a movie, often through film reviews.

Art films in North America are often released on a small scale to win word of mouth, and then through word-of-mouth fermentation, they spread from art theaters to commercial theaters, so as to make money and high profits with small and large profits. If the movie has a poor reputation and an average attendance rate, then there is no chance to expand the scale of the release, and the movie will be released soon after the screening. After Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Halftime Fight" premiered in New York, the word of mouth hit the streets, and Sony decided not to invest in spending money on publicity and released it directly, which is equivalent to a death sentence for the movie. Therefore, for art films, the media and film critics' word-of-mouth is related to the life and death of the film.

However, the situation of "Angel of Justice" is different from "Halftime War", "Halftime Battle" is a double hit by the media and the audience's word-of-mouth; More importantly, Zhang Ran has a very high status in the hearts of Chinese in North America, and the Chinese have always been very supportive of Zhang Ran's films, and this movie is about Zhang Chunru and the Nanjing Massacre, so Chinese audiences will naturally be more supportive.

Just the day before yesterday, Ding Yuan called Zhang Ran to tell him that when "Angel of Justice" is released, the members of the Shi Wei Association will support this movie and will send an email to recommend this movie to friends around him. He also told Zhang Ran that he had communicated with some other Chinese communities in North America, and that when the movie was released, these clubs would support "Angel of Justice".

With the support of the North American Chinese, Zhang Ran is naturally not worried about the screening results of "Angel of Justice" in the first few weeks.

Zhang Ran smiled and comforted, "Before the start of the film, I knew that some people would want to prevent Zhang Chunru's book from going on sale smoothly and prevent the release of "Angel of Justice" in North America, they will definitely give this movie a bad review, make this movie a bad movie, and quickly disappear from the public eye, but I dare to make this movie, and I am confident that they will crush their conspiracy." ”

Scorsese was confident when he heard Zhang Ran, and knew that he was ready to deal with these people, so he said, "That's good, I really don't want to see a good film ignored by the public because of factors other than the movie." ”

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Thank you, Martin." But you may be in trouble, and if you stand up for Angel of Justice, those people will definitely find a way to attack you. ”

Scorsese laughed and said, "I'm not afraid of their attacks, when I finished filming "The Last Temptation of Christ", I was criticized and boycotted by the religious community, and some people even sent me death threats, I'm not okay now!"

However, Scorsese underestimated the shamelessness of the other party, and soon a film critic named Horn Guyle slammed back at Scorsese's criticism on the Internet: "Scorsese is old, and his films are no longer popular, but Scorsese is a person who likes to make movies, and if he can't make movies, it will be very painful." So, he found a long-term meal ticket for himself and worked for Zhang Ran and Zhang Ran's Netflix. In August of this year, Scorsese sold the rights to his new film "The Irishman" to Netflix, and the film had enough money to start. So, we should understand Scorsese, he is too old to make good movies, he is just speaking up for his long-term meal ticket. ”

After Zhang Ran saw this article, he felt that he had read it too much, saying that Scorsese wrote the article in order to please Zhang Ran and Netflix, which was completely insulting to his personality. Zhang Ran hurriedly dialed Scorsese's movie, wanting to comfort the old man a few words.

However, Scorsese's tone sounded very calm: "When I watched "Angel of Justice", I saw many experts and professors attacking Zhang Chunru, I think it is a bit exaggerated, is it really that powerful in the United States? Now I know that all this is true. ”

Zhang Ran didn't know if Scorsese was really calm or pretending to be calm, so he comforted, "Martin, you better go and get busy with your new film! Intellectuals like you are not good at spraying with people, so you should leave it to me and watch me spray them so that they can't take care of themselves." ”

Scorsese knew that Zhang Ran was ready to fight those people a long time ago, and he believed that Zhang Ran would beat them to the ground, and chuckled, "Okay, then I'll wait to see a good show." ”

Zhang Ran sneered, "You just have to wait and see, I will make them regret everything they have done." ”

After hanging up Scorsese's phone, Zhang Ran quickly typed a long article and posted it on Fly, responding to those comments that criticized "Angel of Justice", accusing these so-called film reviews of being worthless and completely political.

Zhang Ran wrote in the article: "The right wing of Dongying has been denying the crimes of the Japanese army for many years, and as long as there are works that reflect the crimes of the Japanese army, they will be attacked and smeared. It's not a once, it's not a single thing.

After the release of Angelina Jolie's film "Unbreakable" last year, many Dongying nationalists bombarded the film as "anti-Japanese" and demanded that the film be banned. The movie is based on a true story, and these people didn't even watch the movie, but accused everything in the movie of being fabricated. Many American film critics also criticized the film's depiction of the Japanese army's mistreatment of prisoners as a "meaningless torture marathon", and some media even said that "it may stimulate anti-Japanese sentiment in China".

At the beginning, Zhang Chunru's "Nanjing Massacre" was subject to various obstacles from the beginning of its publication, and after the publication of this book, Zhang Chunru and her book were violently attacked and criticized.

There are so many vivid examples in front, and I know very well that after the release of "Angel of Justice", these people will definitely jump out and criticize the movie, and their accusations must be inseparable from these words "political propaganda film", "scandalizing the Japanese army", and "anti-Japanese propaganda". In fact, the current criticism of "Angel of Justice" is basically inseparable from these few words.

Actually, I don't care about these reviews, because they are worthless, they are not film reviews at all, but political reviews. I remember a comment that said, 'If Warner Bros. Entertainment had directed a film like Angel of Justice in 1942, it might have been an effective anti-Japanese propaganda film and it would have been very profitable.'" But today, "Angel of Justice" is just a low-level gimmick'. I think that if these articles were published in the Asahi Shimbun in 1938, they would be very good political reviews, and they might even be awarded medals by the Toei government, but as a film review, forget it, don't insult the word film review!"

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