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Cheng Lan looked at Xiang Huaqiang, then at Xiang Huasheng, and asked with a gloomy face: "I didn't expect Zhang Ran to come out for Zhou Xingchi, what should we do now?"

Originally, according to the plan, Li Lianjie and Chow Yun-fat would come out one after another to stand on the platform, and even most of the people in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry would come out to stand home. In this case, Zhou Xingchi will definitely stink. She didn't expect Zhang Ran to stand up and help Zhou Xingchi speak, and she didn't expect that half of the mainland entertainment industry would come out to support Zhou Xingchi, so things would be more troublesome.

Xiang Huasheng has recently joined forces with four mainland film and television companies to invest at least 500 million yuan to shoot 10 films within five years, and he has named the project "5510 Film Project". Zhang Ran is a mainland film and television giant, with great energy, and Huayi has the support of the Beijing circle behind him, but now he has become a lost dog, not to mention that he is an outsider. He absolutely didn't want to offend Zhang Ran, so he said: "Don't say anything again, just treat it as if nothing happened." ”

Cheng Lan couldn't swallow this breath: "This is too cheap Zhou Xingchi!"

Xiang Huasheng said: "Then what else can we do, kill him? We are now going to carry out the mainland market, and Zhang Ran has a lot of energy in the mainland, not only has a cinema chain in his hands, but also has a very good relationship with the government, not only can we not offend, but also strive to have a good relationship with him." ”

Cheng Lan snorted and said, "If it had been twenty years ago, I would have had a relationship with him with a gun." ”

Xiang Huasheng shook his head and said helplessly: "The era of fighting and killing has long passed. Now we are serious businessmen, and we do things for money. Now the Chinese film market is so good, the box office exceeded 10 billion last year, and I estimate that it will reach 50 billion within five years. What a big market this is! In the past, we could make 18 movies a year at Yongsheng, but now as long as we do a good job, it is entirely possible to make 28 movies a year, or even more, and then our stock price can be pulled up again!"

Xiang Huaqiang nodded slightly: "Huasheng is right, we are now seeking wealth." I know Zhou Xingchi too well, he is too greedy for money, and his personality is eccentric, and he can't cooperate with anyone for a long time. Lin Xiaoming also supported him at the beginning, but later he didn't turn against him, I believe that it won't be long before he and Zhang Ran will have a falling out, and then find a chance to clean him up. ”

Cheng Lan felt that this made sense: "Then it will be cheap for him for the time being!"

Many people are very much looking forward to the follow-up development of the inverted week movement, especially those who have listened to the Internet jokes, and feel that Xiang Jia is so awesome, even Cheng Long has been punished by them to kneel, and this matter is definitely not over. When discussing who is awesome between Zhang Ran and Xiang Jia in the post bar, netizens overwhelmingly feel that Xiang Jia is more awesome.

However, to everyone's surprise, Xiang Jia was silent and did not make any further comments on this, which disappointed many people who were waiting to watch the play; Zhang Ran and Zhou Xingchi did not make any further comments, and the vigorous anti-Zhou movement ended in silence.

Soon to the end of April, a large number of new films began to be released, the most notable of which is Lu Chuan's new film "Nanjing".

Lu Chuan's previous two films "Looking for a Gun" and "Ke Ke Xili" were quite average at the box office, but the reputation was excellent, and Lu Chuan became a very eye-catching young director in China; and the theme of the Nanjing Massacre has a special feeling for Chinese, which is the deepest scar and biggest shame of the Chinese in modern times, so the movie has not yet been released.

Before the release of the movie, Lu Chuan and the filmmaker carried out a series of hypes, such as exposing the stills of the comfort women starring female college students naked, such as criticizing "Rabe's Diary" with a similar theme to "Nanjing Nanjing" as a domestic domestic theme film, which whetted the audience's appetite.

On April 22, "Nanjing, Nanjing" was officially released nationwide. Although the theme of the movie is relatively heavy, it won 15.4 million box office in the country on the first day by virtue of the topic effect, which is close to the box office figure on the premiere day of "Red Cliff". However, while the box office is hot, the movie's word-of-mouth is seriously polarized.

Many viewers said that the movie was very shocking, with the brutal massacre and abuse, the Chinese soldiers who desperately resisted, the ordinary people who desperately survived, the Japanese and Chinese women who were tragically ravaged, the Germans who rescued refugees, and the Chinese traitors who survived secretly, everything was shown extremely calmly, and it was a shocking masterpiece.

But at the same time, many viewers think that "Nanjing, Nanjing" is a failed work that reverses the concept of right and wrong and values. Film critic Wei Junzi said that the technology of "Nanjing, Nanjing" is very powerful, and each scene is very awesome when it comes out alone, but it is very fragmented as a whole. Professor Cui Weiping of Nortel even issued a bitter criticism, saying that "Nanjing Nanjing" is a science fiction film with a theme first and only a conclusion!

"Nanjing Nanjing" has many controversial points, such as the dwarfing of Rabe, such as using the Japanese as the main perspective; and the biggest controversy of the movie is at the end, the Japanese officer Kadokawa not only released two Chinese, but also committed suicide to apologize. This ending with ambiguous human logic has caused a lot of criticism, and many viewers think that it is too glorified of the Japanese. Grandma Zhao Zhengang, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, said she could not accept it: "I have never met such a kind Japanese soldier. Such treatment is not only historically inconsistent, but also smacks of forgiveness. ”

Zhang Ran absolutely supports making movies about the Nanjing Massacre, and he has always believed that this theme should be filmed more. How many concentration camps and Holocaust films were made by Jews, and similar films came out almost every year. If we had movies like Schindler's List and The Pianist to show the world the sins of the Japanese, would the Japanese right wing still run rampant?

Although Zhang Ran watched "Nanjing Nanjing" and felt that the movie was really average, after the movie was officially released, he still brought the entire crew to the Jiahe Cinema in Shapingba Three Gorges Square to watch the movie collectively to show his support for the movie.

During the movie, the theater was silent, and every audience fell into silence. Zhang Jingchu kept holding Zhang Ran's hand, and in the process of watching the movie, her hands trembled from time to time, and when the movie ended, she shook Zhang Ran's hands painfully.

The crowd that walked out of the cinema was silent except for silence. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, as if they had a lot to say, but they didn't know where to start.

The crowd walked silently for a few minutes, when suddenly someone shouted: "Down with Japanese imperialism!" Immediately afterward, someone shouted: "Japanese, I will grass you!"

Although it seems a little inappropriate to scold in public, Zhang Ran feels completely understandable, and it is a very normal reaction to scold Japanese people to vent their inner emotions after watching such a movie.

However, Zhang Ran didn't have the urge to scold, at this moment he remembered Zhang Chunru again, four years have passed, and he hasn't written the script of the movie yet, and he hasn't even figured out how to shoot it. It's just that he knows that he will make this movie one day, because some people should be remembered by us.

After walking for a while, Zhang Ran turned his head to look at Wu Ershan and asked, "What do you think of this film?"

Wu Ershan thought for a while and replied: "I think the shooting is okay, Lu Chuan has a lot of ideas, but he made a particularly big mistake, that is, to let Lu Jianxiong die." Lu Jianxiong's death interrupted the perspective of the Chinese in the film, resulting in the Chinese perspective being divided into the soldier's perspective in the first thirty minutes, and the female perspective of the refugee camp in the back, which are fractured and never unified together. Although there are many people behind, due to the lack of a unified perspective, the perspective of the Chinese is scattered and fragmented, while the perspective of the Japanese is only Kadokawa, which is very complete, so when the audience watches, the experience of the Japanese soldiers overshadows the experience of the Chinese, which will make the audience very acceptable. ”

Zhang Ran nodded with satisfaction: "You see the crux of the problem, in fact, this drama is not as many people say, it is to wash the floor for the Japanese from the perspective of the Japanese, he actually wants to give two lines to tell the massacre from two different perspectives of China and Japan." I just don't know what Lu Chuan thinks, when the movie was more than thirty minutes into the movie, he actually cut off Lu Jianxiong's line, causing the Chinese perspective to break back and forth, and failed to knead together, resulting in a series of problems. ”

Wu Ershan nodded and said: "I have seen that many media have reported that the film has too many descriptions of rape, which is also caused by a single perspective. The second half of the movie is basically a female perspective in the safe zone, and the narrative angle is very single, if Lu Jianxiong does not die, let him enter the safe zone, and use it as the main line to string together all the lines of sight behind, then the whole movie will be much more complete. Another problem with this movie is that many places are more abrupt, such as the Japanese army entering the city and capturing the prisoners, and the Japanese army directly begins to massacre the prisoners in the next scene. He didn't explain why, he didn't explain the motives behind it, so many things seemed more superficial. ”

Zhang Ran laughed: "These are Lu Chuan's old problems, "Ke Ke Xili" has this problem, that is, there is a problem with the narrative, I said it when I quarreled with him on the Internet last year, I thought he would change, but it turned out to be the same." Lu Chuan is a little talented, but his ambition is too great, and the ambition of this movie is especially obvious, that is, he wants to make a huge production like "Schindler's List", so he designed a lot of characters in the movie, but because there are too many characters, each of them can only be tasted superficially, resulting in many problems in the portrayal of the characters. So, it's better to be down-to-earth in making a movie, don't be so ambitious, otherwise when your ability can't support your ambition, the whole movie will collapse!"

Wu Ershan knew that Zhang Ran was saying this to himself, and nodded silently.

On April 28th, the weekly box office rankings were released, "Nanjing Nanjing" was released for 5 days, achieved a box office of 65 million, and won the weekly box office champion; the movie "Fast and Furious 4" directed by Lin Yibin ranked second with 30 million, and Paramount's animated film "Aliens" ranked third with 26 million.

According to the current trend, the final box office of "Nanjing Nanjing" will definitely exceed the 150 million mark. However, due to the high investment of 80 million in the film, even if it ends with a box office result of 200 million, it will not be able to fully recover the investment cost.

Although Zhang Ran doesn't like Lu Chuan and has had conflicts, he doesn't want this movie to fail miserably at the box office, otherwise no one will dare to shoot this theme in the future. Therefore, Zhang Ran plans to send a Weibo to call on everyone to go to the cinema to support this movie.

However, after Zhang Ran opened Weibo, he saw Lu Chuan announcing on Weibo that if the movie broke 150 million, he would run naked. Zhang Ran immediately closed his Weibo, and it is normal to be happy to see that his works have been affirmed by the market, but with such a heavy subject, you use this kind of three-way method to hype, this face is too ugly.

After that, Zhang Ran didn't pay attention to this movie anymore and concentrated on making his own movie. The time soon came to the end of May, and Zhang Ran had just finished filming that day, and when he returned to the hotel, he received a call from Han Shanping: "Zhang Ran, the drama on our side is finished today, when will the filming of the part you direct?"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "After the filming of tomorrow, we are ready to leave for the magic capital!"