Zhang Ran arched his hand, looked at the audience and said sincerely: "Thank you very much, but I have to be honest to say that I am very reluctant to stand here, I don't like to make speeches, I don't like chicken soup for the soul." The www.biquge.info of Pen Fun Pavilion will tell you my own experience and tell everyone that I did this, and you will succeed in doing so. I'm not here to pour chicken soup for you today, but to talk to you, and you can just listen to the story!

I've been thinking about what to talk about for the past two days, and I was walking around thinking about it last night. Later, Zhang Jingchu said to me, "It's just an exchange activity, why are you so nervous?" I said, who said that I am nervous, so I am not nervous! Zhang Jingchu said, you are not nervous, what are you doing in the women's toilet? When I saw it, ouch, I was really in the women's toilet, so I quickly ran out, fortunately it was my own person, otherwise the headline of the newspaper tomorrow would be that director so-and-so entered the women's toilet with bad intentions!

The students in the audience were all amused by Zhang Ran's words and burst into laughter. Everyone felt that they were in a happy mood, this great director really didn't have a little shelf, and he was very kind.

"In September last year, a delegation from a Japanese university visited Nortel and visited our class. Some Japanese teachers provocatively said that Chinese theater culture has a long history and that there have been many great masters, but why are they completely Western in terms of performance? The faces of the teachers present were ugly, but they could not refute it. Because our performance system began to fully study the Stani system of the Soviet Union in the 50s. By the 80s, when we were learning the West in full swing, we did lose our theatrical traditions.

In the 50s, the country demanded a comprehensive study of the Soviet Union, and at that time, Ouyang Yuqian, the principal of Chinese opera, Jiao Juyin of Renyi, and other predecessors carried out a soft confrontation, they believed that the Stanley system was very advanced and should indeed be learned, but we could not lose our own traditions, so they made a lot of efforts to nationalize the drama on the basis of learning Stanley. However, in the 80s, reverse nationalism was rampant in China, denying the past, and even believing that only by fully emulating European and American performance methods could Chinese theater have a way out. As a result, our theatrical tradition has been completely lost, so everyone is really a little speechless in the face of the Japanese!"

In the past two years, Sino-Japanese relations have fallen to a freezing point because of Koizumi's repeated ghost worship, and the Japanese have provoked them in front of them, but they are powerless to fight back.

Zhang Ran looked around the auditorium and finally said, "In the face of Japan's provocation, I asked the students in our class to show our class's physical training method, which is the training method of classical Chinese dance. After we showed us how to do the post-body training, the Japanese were speechless, it was indeed a Chinese thing, but they offered to compare it with us. In the end, the students in our class competed with the Japanese students in four games, vocal music, body, lines, and performance, among which we lost the vocal music, and we won the other three games!"

The students let out a wow exclamation, and then applauded vigorously, and everyone felt very uplifted when they heard that the students in Zhang Ran's class had defeated the Japanese.

Zhang Ran smiled and waved his hand: "I don't want to show off when I talk about this, when I was studying abroad, I studied acting and learned things from the Stella School and the Lotovsky School of Performance, among which the Lotovsky School of Performance absorbed a lot of things from Peking Opera." However, in the domestic performance department, Peking Opera things have basically been thrown away. It's funny, we have abandoned our theatrical traditions, and the masters of the West have cherished them!

The students in the audience were stunned, they didn't expect Zhang Ran to ask this question, and they all fell into deep thought. Why don't you cherish your own good things, but they are regarded as treasures by others?

"In recent years, everyone has shaken their heads at the mention of domestic movies and felt ugly. A lot of people are saying that today's directors can't tell stories, and that's really to the point. In fact, Chinese movies were originally able to tell stories, and the films from 49 to 66 are known as seventeen-year movies in film history, and the movie stories of this period are told very well, such as "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", "Tunnel War", and I still feel very good to watch it now. We have a tradition of storytelling, and it's not without good stories, "Mulan" is our story, and Hollywood has taken it to make a movie and sold it all over the world. Why don't we tell stories now?

I just mentioned that in the 80s, there was a trend of reverse nationalism in China, and the same is true for the film industry, learning from European cinema, especially the French New Wave. There has been a dedramatization movement in the film industry, a clear opposition to drama in film, to plot and storytelling.

Driven by this trend of thought, Chinese films began to reduce drama, weaken contradictions and conflicts, and strengthen audio-visual styling. Those art films with weak stories won some applause, but they were not accepted by ordinary audiences, such as Chen Kaige's films. And those films that insist on dramatizing the plot are discriminated against because they are entertainment films. There is a phenomenon in the Chinese film market where de-dramatized films fail miserably at the box office but are unanimously touted in the media, while the main creators of the grossing drama films are belittled.

Director Li Shaohong told me about a thing, in 87, Beijing Film Studio was preparing to test the waters of commercial films, and the task fell to a few of their young directors. Now, if any of Nortel's directing students told him that there was a movie to make, they might be so excited that they ran naked. But at that time, I didn't want to shoot, you pushed me, I pushed you, and finally pushed it to Li Shaohong. Li Shaohong was so aggrieved that she cried, you guys are too much, too much of a bully, why did you let me make an entertainment film?"

The students present laughed and thought it was incredible, this is too exaggerated, right?

Zhang Ran didn't have a speech, he was completely free to play, and he said wherever he wanted. However, as a teacher in the acting department, he speaks clearly and has a good rhythm. Talking about something serious and a little funny, the whole speech was always relaxed.

"Sounds funny, right, but it's just the way it is. Director Li Shaohong was very aggrieved and made the movie, which was the sensational "Silver Snake Murder". Under the influence of the trend of de-dramatization, the story and drama of Chinese films are despised in creative practice, film criticism, and film education, and even ridiculed and despised. 20 years have passed, and now Chinese films have begun to be marketized, and commercial films are needed, but retribution is coming, and 20 years of de-dramatization have made Chinese films no longer tell stories.

Now when everyone talks about domestic movies, they scold the General Administration. Of course, the General Administration has a great responsibility for this, there are too many restrictions, and many things cannot be filmed. But if the General Administration really doesn't care, can these domestic directors really make good movies that everyone is happy to see? Believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway. It took us twenty years to lose the ability to tell a story, and it may take us twenty years to regain it.

We at Nortel are also aware of the seriousness of this problem, and have recently planned to establish the Asian Film Academy in conjunction with Nihon University and Chung-Ang University in South Korea, so as to pool the strengths of our three parties and train young directors. I just hope to shorten this time, and don't wait twenty years to regain the ability to tell stories!"

Many of the students present like to watch movies, and they often scold because of bad domestic films, scolding the director, the General Administration, and Chinese films for not telling stories. Now after listening to Zhang Ran's words, I suddenly realized why this is the case, why Chinese directors can't tell stories, and why they lose their ability to tell stories.

"Actually, it's not just movies and performances, but also the art world, the literary world, and so on. After the reform and opening up, we have used all new varieties and concepts from abroad, and we have denied many things from our own past. Some extremes even deny our nation, and as long as they talk about China, they belittle people regardless of reality, what Chinese culture is backward, China's history is forged, China's race is inferior and ignorant, and so on. If even our culture, even our nation, is denied, then what are we left with?

If we lose our culture, how many years will it take to get it back? Maybe we can't get it back! We really shouldn't belittle ourselves so much, we Chinese, like other nationalities, have many shortcomings and problems. However, as a civilization, we were glorious in the past, full of vitality today, and full of hope for the future! Our nation has gone through 5,000 long years and countless hardships, and what is it that has come to this day?

I think we should be confident, both for ourselves and for our culture. Shakespeare said that if a man's mind is inspired, even though its organs have atrophied, it will be lifted up from its deep paralysis, and it will be reactivated, and it will be reborn like a snake that has shed its skin. If a person is timid in doing things and always thinks that he can't do it, he will not dare to try boldly, and it will be difficult to have the opportunity to improve; on the contrary, those who believe in themselves can release the motivation to move forward and the potential for innovation. To put it simply, self-confident people are more likely to succeed, both personally and nationwise. In fact, when I say this, I just want to say that everyone should support our own things more, of course, support good things, such as Zhang Ran's movies. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Ran paused, looked at Yi Zhongtian and said with a smile: "There is also Teacher Yi's book, which has unique insights and is easy to read." Read history, understand human nature, learn from the past and know the present, and improve insight!"

Yi Zhongtian laughed, and the students in the audience also laughed, is this an interstitial advertisement?

Zhao Fei came down from the upper floor of the hotel, walked into the hall, and heard someone calling him. He fixed his eyes and saw that this was not Han Sanping, there were two middle-aged men standing next to him, with extraordinary bearings, and they seemed to have seen them somewhere.

Zhao Fei hurriedly caught up with him and said with a smile: "Mr. Han, why did you come here?"

Han Sanping didn't answer, but just asked, "What about Zhang Ran?"

"Speak at Xiamen University!"

"When will I be back?"

"I was going to go in the evening, but after the speech, I had dinner at Xiamen University. I called Zhang Jingchu and asked him to come back after his speech. Zhao Fei definitely couldn't hang Han Sanping, not to mention that the two around Han Sanping looked like they were not small, he looked at the time, "There is still an hour left in the speech, you may have to wait!"

Without waiting for Han Sanping to answer, the middle-aged man next to him smiled and said, "Please take us to Xiamen University, we also happen to watch his speech!"

Zhao Fei glanced at the middle-aged man who was talking, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar he became: "Okay, then you can go with me!" After speaking, Zhao Fei took the three of them and walked out.

At this moment, his eyes swept over a newspaper on the shelf, with a huge headline: "Reporters from all walks of life surround Jiang Xiaoyu, an official of the Beiping Olympic Organizing Committee!" There is also a color photo underneath.

When I saw the photo clearly, the cup in Zhao Fei's hand almost fell to the ground, isn't the person in the photo the one who spoke just now, Jiang Xiaoyu, vice chairman of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, and the vice chairman of the Olympic Organizing Committee came to Zhang Ran, except for the creative plan, I'm afraid there is nothing else. It seems that the other party really values Zhang Ran and hopes that he can come up with a set of plans.

The vice president of the Olympic Organizing Committee came to invite him, and he couldn't even think of such a thing! )