After Zhang Ran's article was issued, it was immediately forwarded by many fans and fans, and quickly sent to the top of the hot search list. In just two hours, the article was retweeted more than one million, with more than 540,000 likes and more than 100,000 comments: "Film critics are a group of idiots who don't know how to pretend to understand, and their articles are worthless!", "Film critics talk about movies are eunuchs talking about love!", "Film critics are a meaningless profession, do movies need to be told by others?......

The media was very surprised by Zhang Ran's counterattack, and Hollywood filmmakers generally remained silent about the vicious attacks of film critics. Because they all understand that sharpness is the signature of film critics, and sarcasm is part of the style of film critics. They thought that Zhang Ran would definitely not respond, and there was no need to deal with these film critics as Zhang Ran, but they didn't expect Zhang Ran to respond, and he fought back with the most violent attitude.

For the media, Zhang Ran's response to film critics is simply their dream, and it is completely to send big news to their door. As a result, all major media reported the news in large pages in the entertainment section, and the meaning of the headline fanning the flames was particularly obvious: "Zhang Ran denounced the film critics as a group of idiots who don't know how to pretend to understand!"

The domestic media also reported the news of Zhang Ran's criticism of film critics for the first time, but the attitude of the report presented two different forms. Most of the domestic media strongly supported Zhang Ran, because the West has long liked to 'politicize' the interpretation of China, and they can get involved in politics no matter what the issue, while Zhang Hei's media, led by Xinjing Daily, sneered at Zhang Ran, shouting that if criticism is not free, praise is meaningless.

Experts and professors such as Zhu Dake and Xiao Ying were even more excited, they knew that for film critics, when they scolded the movie, they would like the filmmakers to respond, so that they can show their film skills and eloquence. They believe that film critics will soon fight back against Zhang Ran, and they also believe that Zhang Ran is not the opponent of these film critics, and they can't wait for the entire film critics to rush up and scold Zhang Ran to death.

As Zhu Dake expected, the film critics' counterattack soon began.

The first to jump back was the well-known film critic Shelly Kreser, who knows Chinese films very well, has lived in Peking for ten years, and has a Chinese name Xie Feng. The reason why he was the first to jump out was because he wrote the film review of "Empire", and this article was scolded by Zhang Ran too badly, saying that he did not write a film review but a political review, which simply denied his qualification as a film critic. Imagine that an article written by a film critic is considered a political commentary, so is he still qualified to be a film critic? Therefore, he must fight back, and he has to fight back.

Shelly Kreizer continues to pull "Angel of Justice" politically: ""Angel of Justice is a soft political propaganda film. Chinese films have always emphasized publicity, and there is a special genre of Chinese films called 'main theme' films, which are sometimes translated as 'theme' films. These films are meant to reinforce the positive values established and recognized by the government and to guide the audience. In a film system like China, which is completely controlled by the state, all films that pass the censorship and can be shown in commercial theaters are, to some extent, state-sanctioned, and can be said to be the main theme of the film. The same is true of Zhang Ran's film, although "Angel of Justice" is different from the traditional main theme movie, but in essence it is still a main theme movie, which is to cater to the anti-Japanese needs of the Chinese government. ”

The second one who jumped out was Horn Guy, who scolded on the Internet: "Zhang Ran is a celebrity of the Chinese government, filmed "Tangshan Earthquake" for the government, and directed the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games for the government, and now the anti-Japanese sentiment in China is high, so Zhang Ran immediately made the anti-Japanese movie "Angel of Justice". Zhang Ran jumped out angrily to fight back, indicating that the criticism of him by the film critics poked at his weakness, so he was scared!"

Horn-Boyle said in an excited tone: "Zhang Ran is an opportunist, a clown who sees the wind and steers, and an idiot who curries favor with the government, and this kind of person is called the best of the new century by the film critics, it is simply a joke." A director like Zhang Ran can only be glorious for a while, and will not be remembered for a long time, and will eventually be swept into the dustbin of history. Maybe "Angel of Justice" will do well at the box office, but it is impossible to do anything during the awards season, such a politically charged and clichéd film can only be spurned by the entire critics, and the only thing Zhang Ran can get is Jin Sumei!"

Some other film critics who were scolded by Zhang Ran also wrote articles on Fly, blogs, and media columns to criticize Zhang Ran, devaluing "Angel of Justice" as worthless, and even scolding Zhang Ran as a lackey of the Chinese government.

There are also many film critics who stood up to defend Zhang Ran and strongly supported "Angel of Justice". "Angel of Justice" is a very good film, top-notch in every way, but now it is being attacked for political reasons, which is unacceptable to them.

Famous film critic Tony Wren said: "It's normal for everyone to have different opinions about how good or bad a movie is. However, many film critics have a 'politicized' way of reading Chinese films, and if they are not included in the category of "**", they will be included in the category of "propaganda for the government". Judging a film by such a simple concept is obvious in its naivety and one-sidedness. ”

The media doesn't want this show to be over like this, and continues to fan the flames, eager for Zhang Ran to pull film critics into the boxing ring for a bloody fight like Uwe Bauer.

Some media outlets shouted: "It's normal for a film to be criticized by critics, Zhang Ran overreacted, he was spoiled by critics, he thinks he is the best director in the world, and he can't listen to any criticism at all." Other media outlets chanted: "Film critics can criticize Zhang Ran's films, and Zhang Ran certainly has the right to criticize film critics' articles." ”

Overseas media are also paying attention to this war of words, and they are all waiting for a new round of showdown with anticipation.

Zhang Ran did not disappoint everyone and fought back again. This time he wrote a long article called: The Seven Deadly Sins of Film Critics. "In 1955, at the age of 23, François Truffaut published an article in the prestigious French magazine Art in which he pointed out the 'seven deadly sins' of film critics. Sixty years later, and now re-reading Truffaut's article, I find that the problems that Truffaut criticized have not disappeared, but have intensified. Today, I will continue to talk about the 'seven deadly sins' of today's film critics.

First, film critics are ignorant and fearless.

Sixty years ago, Truffaut said that many film critics were so ignorant that they often consulted various film histories before writing articles, but that the books were full of errors, and the critics copied them. Now it seems that Truffaut is simply wrong to blame the original film critics, at least they will consult the information before writing articles, and the current film critics will not check it at all, and it is completely out of character. "Angel of Justice" mainly tells the story of Zhang Chunru's "Nanjing Massacre" and "Weitling's Diary" and "Rabe's Diary", so as a film critic, you should at least read these three books before commenting on this movie, right? But how many of those film critics who criticize "Angel of Justice" have read it? How can anyone who has read these three books not say such stupid things as "Angel of Justice" demonizing the Japanese army? The atrocities of the Japanese army shown in "Angel of Justice" are less than one percent of the real atrocities!

Second, film critics know neither the history of cinema nor the techniques of filmmaking.

Truffaut attacked the problem at the time, and still is. Nowadays, many film critics write film reviews that have no value, and most of their so-called film reviews cannot be called film reviews, and the only use is to use them to wrap fish. They don't understand the film, they don't understand the language of the film, they can't analyze the audiovisual language of the film, and the shooting skills of the film. Most of their film reviews simply retell the content of the movie, then discuss it, summarize two sentences, and a so-called film review is completed.

When I teach students at film school, I ask them to write film reviews. I often yelled at them angrily after they handed in the film review, which is a little better than the fifth-rate film critics like Shelly Kraser and Horn Guyyle, which can also be called a film review? Where is the analysis of composition, light and shadow, and audiovisual language? All rewritten......

…… Seventh, film critics like to pretend to understand if they don't know how to understand.

In 2014, I brought the film "Scorching Sun" to Cannes, along with Godard's "Goodbye Language", which is a non-logical collage, skewed images, and high and low volumes, showing almost all the technical problems that need to be avoided in conventional filmmaking, and brutally and completely destroying the creative language system.

Most of the film critics in the movie palace fell asleep after watching it for more than ten minutes, and several film critics next to me also fell asleep. The female film critic to my left even started snoring, and it was very loud. To my surprise, the critics gave me a standing ovation at the end of the film. The film critic next to me, who had slept for more than 50 minutes, woke up, rubbed his eyes, applauded, and excitedly announced, "Wow, what a great movie!"

I don't know if Shelly Kreeser, Horn Guyle and others fell asleep when they watched "Goodbye Language", but I do know that they, like all the other judges who fell asleep, had a review of "Goodbye Language" as follows: another Cannes film is born.

The purpose of film criticism is to analyze, identify and evaluate the aesthetic value, cognitive value, social significance, lens language and other aspects contained in the film, and explain the theme expressed in the film, which can not only help the director broaden his horizons and improve the creative level by analyzing the success or failure of the film, so as to promote the prosperity and development of film art, but also affect the audience's understanding and appreciation of the film through analysis and evaluation, improve the audience's appreciation level, and thus promote the development of film art.

There have been many great critics in the history of cinema, Bazin stepped up to fight "Citizen Kane" when it was attacked by critics and even literary leaders like Sartre, Pauline Kyle cheered for "Male and Female" when it was ignored, but now critics are turning into jokes, and many reviews are more cathartic than rational.

There are even many film critics who write for money, and the film companies, and even the right-wing, as long as they are given money to let them say whatever they want, they often send the written reviews to the filmmakers in advance for them to excerpt the witty sentences or revise them, and the filmmakers will put their words on the movie or DVD commercials. What's more, in 2001, Sony Columbia created a film critic named David Manning, who boasted about his films, which was later debunked, and the court awarded Sony $1.5 million in damages, with $5 for every viewer who saw the films.

80 years ago, film criticism didn't have much value, and it was Bazin who gave it a place, but today's critics are destroying it all. Since the 80s, some people have been shouting that movie critics are dying, and if this situation does not change, then film critics are really going to die!"

After this long article was issued, Zhang Ran's fans and supporters laughed like crazy. They didn't expect Zhang Ran's mouth to be so poisonous, and the whole article quoted scriptures and classics, and belittled the film reviews of Shelly Kreizer and others to worthless, I'm afraid that few people will take their film reviews seriously in the future.