The domestic film critics have always been biased against commercial films, and this prejudice has existed for decades, and with the rise of the commercial tide in recent years, commercial films have received more and more attention. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info However, the prejudice of the critics against commercial films has never weakened, as long as the directors of commercial films are almost all criticized by the old experts and professors in the critics.

These commercial film directors have long been dissatisfied with these so-called experts and professors, and now when they see Zhang Ran coming out to call out, they all come out to support Zhang Ran, and they are all beaten one by one.

The first to come out was Ning Hao, the few movies he has made so far are not well received by critics, and "Crazy Stone" was also named and criticized by Professor Huang Shixian of Nortel, saying that it is not a comedy, it is a farce, and "Crazy Journey" is scolded even harder. Ning Hao has long been dissatisfied with these critics: "The thinking of experts and professors in the domestic film critic industry is still stuck in thirty years ago, and they can't stop Godard and Bergman at every turn, saying that light is not keeping up with the times, and the key point is elm head." These are the mainstream of Chinese film theory, and you can imagine the extent to which Chinese film theory is lacking!"

Feng Xiaogang's films have not been treated by critics for so many years, and the grievances against critics can be said to be as big as the sky: "Zhang Ran is right, many people in the Chinese critics pretend to be wolves with big tails, and they talk about ideas and theories at every turn, but in fact, they don't understand anything, and they beat people with ideological and cultural sticks all day long, they are a bunch of cultural Nazis!"

Of course, the cultural circle and the film critic world are not monolithic, and there are many people who support Zhang Ran's views.

Zhou Liming, a famous film critic, said: "There are art films and entertainment films, and each has different standards for criticism. If we say that for a film that is mainly aimed at entertainment, it is not good for the entire film industry to raise the stick of art and culture and beat it to death without talking about the success of entertainment means and not studying the reception effect. ”

Rao Shuguang, director of the China Film Critics Society, said: "This controversy reflects two problems that cannot be ignored, the first is that China's current film criticism system is seriously lagging behind the reality of the development of China's film industrialization, and has not established a criticism system that is compatible with China's film industrialization. Secondly, it reflects the lack of corresponding evaluation scales and standards for commercial films by most people, including critics. If the evaluation system and standards for commercial films cannot be constructed, then the healthy development of Chinese commercial films, especially Chinese blockbusters, will still be greatly restricted. ”

Zhang Ran's influence in the film industry is already great, and now it is the Spring Festival, everyone is not working, relatively free, more and more directors, more and more experts and professors have stood up, expressed their opinions, and pinched up on the Internet.

Just when Zhang Ran was sitting in front of the computer, leisurely browsing various comments, he suddenly received a phone call. After connecting, the voice on the phone startled him: "Zhang Ran, hello! I'm Xie Jin!"

Zhang Ran was taken aback, the old man was over eighty, he didn't expect to call himself, and hurriedly said: "Director Xie Jin! Hello, I didn't expect you to call me, I'm really flattered!"

Xie Jin said with a smile: "I have seen your arguments in the past two days, I called, I have a few words to say to you, in the past, the storytelling ability of our Chinese films was very good, leaving many popular masterpieces, but now, the storytelling ability of Chinese films is degrading." Hollywood is particularly good at storytelling and respect for the audience, and we can't do enough to learn about Hollywood. So far, it is still the first Hollywood film in the world cinema, which is worth exploring and studying. You're doing the right thing now, you're doing a good job, don't be swayed by those critics, you have to stick to it!"

Zhang Ran was quite moved when he heard this, it turned out that the old man called to encourage himself, so he said: "I have seen the power of Hollywood, and I also know where our problems are, I believe that what I am doing is right, and I will not be easily swayed by others." To be honest, I don't care at all what the critics say, now the level of domestic critics is horribly low, and their comments are of little value. What I really care about is that this kind of thinking that ignores the entertainment of movies and blindly pursues artistry still dominates the education world, and this kind of thinking is the great enemy of Chinese films. I came out to speak out in the hope of arousing everyone's attention to this issue!"

Xie Jin nodded and said, "That's why you established the Asian Film Academy and trained directors in the Hollywood way, right?"

Zhang Ran said: "Yes, although Nortel has also begun to attach importance to commercial films in the past two years, many teachers still despise commercial films in their bones, and more importantly, commercial films are much more difficult than art films. Nortel's current teachers are mostly theorists, and there are almost no successful directors in commercial films. I don't know how to attract the audience and how to teach the students? If I want to change this situation, then I can only cultivate it myself!"

Xie Jin felt a little emotion in his heart, there are many people in the film industry who are dissatisfied with the status quo of Chinese films, and from time to time someone will come out to scold, but often they are all scolded, few people are willing to fundamentally change, only Zhang Ran is doing this, he said: "The magic capital was originally the highland of Chinese films, but now it is getting farther and farther away from the movie, and the magic capital should establish a film school to learn from Hollywood like you." Yes, that's how it should be, I'll talk to the leader!"

After Xie Jin hung up the phone, Zhang Ran was still a little stunned, this old man was over eighty years old, and he was still in a hurry. Before Zhang Ran's rebirth, Modu cooperated with North American colleges to set up a film school, but I don't know what the final effect will be, and now that the old man Xie Jin is out of the house, I am afraid that this film school will appear a few years in advance.

For Chinese films, this is undoubtedly a great thing!

If there are two more film schools that standardize Hollywood film work as teaching content, then the industrialization process of Chinese films will inevitably be greatly improved!

This is perhaps the most valuable thing about this controversy!

On the morning of February 11, the box office of the week was released. "Tangshan Earthquake" did not meet any opponents in China, and easily won the championship with 76 million. It's not that this first-week result can only be described as bleak for a blockbuster with an investment of 300 million yuan. You must know that the investment of "The Assembly" is only 80 million, and it has achieved 80 million in the first week with almost no big-name actors joining.

Therefore, many media are shouting that ""Tangshan Earthquake" failed at the box office and "Zhang Ran suffered Waterloo", and the film critics also seized a point to criticize Zhang Ran and quickly launched an attack.

Zhu Dake also took advantage of this opportunity to fight back against Zhang Ran: "The box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" in the first four days was only 76 million, and the box office failed miserably. Zhang Ran responded to me rudely, this is not the style of a really big artist at all. The most important aspect is the lack of cultural upbringing, and the lack of a minimum of self-restraint in the face of public opinion. As soon as you encounter something negative, you can easily lose your self-restraint and scold others, how can you embarrass the public? How embarrassing is it for those people of all walks of life who admire you? The box office fiasco of "Tangshan Earthquake" may show in a certain way that it is difficult for an artist to make a good film if he lacks self-restraint and cultural cultivation. It's not a good movie, and it's understandable that it failed at the box office!"

Zhang Ran is relatively calm about the box office with "Tangshan Earthquake", although the total box office does not look very good, but it has been a reverse decline for two consecutive days, and the recovery trend is becoming more and more obvious.

On this afternoon, "Tangshan Earthquake" was released at the box office in Japan, earning 740 million yen in the first four days of the week, second only to the popular "Death Diary: L Changing the World" with 846 million yen, ranking second in the Japanese box office list, and in South Korea, "Tangshan Earthquake" became the box office champion in South Korea with 550,000 people.

The situation in Xiangjiang is relatively similar to that of the mainland, the audience is busy with the Chinese New Year, and the first two days are not good, but by the third day of the new year, it began to pick up, and it achieved 6.45 million in the first four days, ranking second.

In North America, "Tangshan Earthquake" attracted a large number of Chinese audiences into the movie, and the movie theaters in Chinatowns in various cities were crowded, and finally achieved a score of 14.1 million in the first week, second only to the comedy "Gold Rush" starring Matthew McConaughey, with a box office of almost no doubt exceeding 20 million.

In addition to these major countries and regions, the box office of other regions where "Tangshan Earthquake" is released has achieved good results. After statistics, "Tangshan Earthquake" achieved nearly $50 million at the global box office in the first week!

For a Chinese film that is not selling dramas, it can be said to be a historic breakthrough.

The reputation of "Tangshan Earthquake" in these countries and regions is also very good, which will inevitably drive more audiences into the cinema.

"The year before last, Toei remade "Japan Addicted", which was hyped up in China and said that the movie was a masterpiece. Now that I have watched "Tangshan Earthquake", I feel that it is too far behind, whether it is film techniques or the depiction of emotions. In the past, there were very many directors in Japan, and they were able to make movies with amazing momentum. But now there are no such directors in Japan, and even young people are mothers, and Japan has no future!

"Zhang Ran is a world-class director, and Chinese films are getting stronger and stronger because of him! When will our Korean films produce a director like Zhang Ran, it would be nice if he were Korean!" -- Korean netizens.

"The development of mainland films is too fast, and now it is possible to make this kind of pure Chinese film that is not inferior to Hollywood. What are the directors of Xiangjiang making now? Except for costume films, that is, police and gangster films, can't you shoot anything else? Xiangjiang movies are being made into the streets by these film directors who do not want to make progress!" -- Xiangjiang netizens.

"The film is very powerful, emotional and touching. Zhang Jingchu gave a professional-level performance, so talented. You guys will absolutely love her performance in this movie. I don't want to give too many details, but I can say this: I cried several times, but luckily I brought tissues. -- American netizen.

In addition to some experts and professors in the mainland, both fans and ordinary audiences have a very high evaluation of the movie, the score of "Tangshan Earthquake" on Time.com has become 8.6 points, and the score on Douban Movie Network has reached 8.8 points;

Shortly after the start of the "News Network" at 7 o'clock in the evening, a report of "Tangshan Earthquake" appeared on TV, and the theater was crowded with people: "Chinese director Zhang Ran's epic film "Tangshan Earthquake" was released in North America a few days ago, causing a sensation among the local Chinese community......