Chapter 242: Supporting one after another
In the afternoon of the same day, "Xinjing Daily" sent a reporter to conduct an exclusive interview with Zhang Zhiliang.
In the office, Yu Minghai took out a bulging red envelope and handed it to the reporter. The reporter looked at the red envelope and swallowed his saliva, pretended to excuse himself twice, and took the opportunity to put the red package into his pocket.
Accepted the red envelope, and had a brief chat with Yu Minghai and Zhang Zhiliang, and the reporter signaled that it was time to start: "Director Zhang, then let's officially start the interview!"
Zhang Zhiliang coughed and said: "First of all, I want to clarify Zhang Ran's accusations against me, I have a contradiction with Zhang Ran, but I did not ban "Burst Drummer", and I have no ability to do it, I only came to the mainland last year to develop and be the art director of Tianhong Pictures, how can I have such great ability? In fact, the ban of "Burst Drummer" is completely inconsistent with the current educational concept, and the idea of the film is too extreme, which has nothing to do with me. But Zhang Ran, after "Bursting Drummer" was banned, he used the power of Nortel to ban my movie "Bloody Notes", and now we are having a headache about it!"
The reporter raised his own question: "In that case, how can you explain the phone call between you and Zhang Ran?"
Zhang Zhiliang sighed and said: "I am almost fifty years old, and I have been in the film industry for 20 years, and I can be regarded as an old man in the film industry." Now you are being pointed at and abused by a young man in his twenties, if it were you, would you be angry? People can easily lose their minds in an angry situation, and what I said is all angry words!"
The reporter asked again: "So the IP detected by the network is from Tianhong Pictures, how to explain it here?"
Zhang Zhiliang explained: "Those two articles smearing Zhang Ran were indeed done by people from the company, Tianhong Pictures was ready to cooperate with Zhang Ran, but Zhang Ran was too domineering, and his behavior was relatively out of line, and many people couldn't stand him." The employee who posted the post was angry with him in the crew. Deliberate revenge. This is a personal act, not the company, and we have fired the employee!"
Yu Minghai's movements were fast, and early the next morning, "Xinjing Daily" published an interview with Zhang Zhiliang, and then various media quickly forwarded it. At the same time, Yu Minghai also said that he would not cooperate with Zhang Ran at the beginning. And Zhang Zhiliang was chosen because Zhang Zhiliang was more capable.
"Bloody Notes" starring Nicholas Tse, Edison Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, these people have huge fan bases, and now fans heard that the movie was banned by Zhang Ran's means, and immediately began to attack and condemn Zhang Ran and "Burst Drummer".
Zhang Ran himself does not have many supporters, and after the previous smear, many people have announced that they have lost their fans, and now they have not returned, Zhang Ran was suddenly scolded bloody. However, fans' criticism of "Burst Drummer" caused dissatisfaction among Jay Chou fans. If you scold Zhang Ran, scold Zhang Ran, why do you want to scold the movie, this is a movie starring my family Jielun, and the fans on both sides suddenly pinched.
"What's wrong with saying that "Bursting Drummer" is a bad movie? "Don't let you talk about bad movies! If it's not bad, why do you want to ban our family's Tingfeng's "Bloody Notes"? You fans don't have such a glass heart!"
"Glass Heart? "Burst Drummer" won two awards at the Tokyo Film Festival, and if this is a bad movie, then "Bloody Notes" is a fighter in a bad movie!"
"That's the movie winning the award, not your Jay Chou winning the award. What are you excited about? As long as you Zhou Jielun sings a song, you all stutter, and the whole thing is a big tongue. What kind of movie can he act in?"
"Xie Shorty's fans, don't go too far, who is the big tongue?"
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Fans are crazy, and the war between Jay Chou fans and Nicholas Tse fans has escalated rapidly, from Tianya to Maopu, and then to major film and television and music forums. There is a war of scolding everywhere.
The flames of war are intensifying on the Internet, but Nicholas Tse has the help of Edison Cheng and Cecilia Cheung's fans, while Jay Chou's fans have no helpers, so they soon couldn't stand it and quickly collapsed.
By the third day. Mr. Zhang's friends began to stand up for him, and some of them even publicly criticized Mr. Zhang.
Wang Jing said in an interview with the media: "The Zhang Zhiliang I know is not a person who bullies the small with the big. He is a very good director and does not need to grab other people's projects at all. Zhang Zhiliang's robbery of the project, I think it is malicious hype. Here I would like to advise the young director that he should be careful in making movies, and don't engage in crooked ways!"
Chen Kexin used to open a company with Zhang Zhiliang, and recently Zhang Zhiliang introduced him to Yu Minghai, and the two sides plan to co-produce a song and dance film, he must support it: "Zhiliang, I have known you since I was a child, and I know that you are full of enthusiasm for movies and extraordinary requirements for self-professionalism, so I hope you will not be affected by the recent rights and wrongs and affect your enthusiasm for movies, adhere to your ideals, and don't be shaken!"
Zeng Zhiwei took the initiative to stand up: "I have known Zhang Zhixing for nearly 20 years, and I have opened a film company together. He is a good director who works hard and is sincere to his friends. Although there have been heated discussions and even quarrels in cooperation, they are always the right thing and not the right person. The entertainment industry is about rules, no matter what, it's not right for a junior to scold his seniors! Respecting elders is a tradition, and as a teacher, it shouldn't be like that!"
As many directors and celebrities in Hong Kong came forward to support Zhang Zhiliang, the wind of public opinion began to change, and the criticism of Zhang Ran in the media gradually increased.
Around 2000, the economy of the mainland was relatively backward, and Hong Kong was still the Pearl of the Orient. Film and television follow the trend, fashion follows the trend, and even a lot of entertainment news is directly copied from Hong Kong media and Taiwan media.
Of course, it's much better than the 80s. In the 80s, domestic film and television actors were very discriminated against when they worked with the Xiangjiang team, when Liu Xiaoqing filmed "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace", she was the heroine, but because she was a mainlander, she couldn't live in a single room, she could only play on the floor, and the treatment was not as good as that of the Xiangjiang actors who played the maids. It is even more exaggerated that she only has one steamed bun per meal, and the actors in Xiangjiang have a food truck to deliver food, and there are chickens and fish.
The situation began to improve after 2000, but even in 2003, the Xiangjiang actors in the crew were still first-class, the Taiwanese actors were second-class, and the mainland actors were third-class. Hong Kong and Taiwan actors live in star-rated hotels, mainland actors sleep in nearby guest houses, and they have to wait for Hong Kong and Taiwan big names to rush to the set from downtown hotels. Later, Zhang Weijian used filming to beat Wang Bozhao, which was actually a concentrated outbreak of contradictions between Xiangjiang actors and mainland actors.
With the strong support of directors and celebrities in Xiangjiang, the domestic media began to cry out for Zhang Zhiliang. There are more and more voices criticizing Zhang Ran and disrespecting his predecessors. At the same time, fans of these stars began to attack Zhang Ran: "Zhang Ran doesn't respect his predecessors, such a person is also worthy of being a teacher? No wonder mainland actors like to play big names, it is a teacher like Zhang Ran who makes trouble!"
"Boycott "Burst Drummer", whoever watches "Burst Drummer" is a fool!"
"If a person says you're wrong. That's not necessarily that you're wrong, but so many Xiangjiang's seniors have said you're wrong, so you must be wrong!"
Zhang Ran is not surprised that Hong Kong stars have come out to support Zhang Zhiliang, Hong Kong and Taiwan stars have always liked to hold together. However, there is Nortel behind Zhang Ran, and Zhang Ran also knows heavyweights, you have someone to help, don't I have one? Zhang Ran's side soon someone came out to speak.
The first to stand up was Chen Daoming, who was not particularly interested in Hong Kong and Taiwan actors. In later generations, he even put forward a proposal at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, suggesting the implementation of an industry access system to protect the interests of mainland actors. Although these proposals have not been implemented, they can illustrate his attitude.
Chen Daoming has cooperated with Zhang Ran and admires this young man very much, and now seeing that the Xiangjiang stars are grouping to accuse Zhang Ran, he feels that he should come out and say a few words: "Zhang Ran doesn't respect his elders? Also very polite to people. I don't dare to say anything about other crews, but this is definitely not the case with the crew of "Before Dawn"!"
Followed by. Chen Baoguo also stood up: "I don't know what's wrong, so many people accuse Zhang Ran, as if he really committed some heinous crime! It's right to respect the senior, but this senior should also be worthy of respect!"
Feng Yuanyi, who won the best actor at the Tokyo Film Festival with "Burst Drummer", said in an interview: "The cooperation with Zhang Ran in the crew of "Burst Drummer" is very pleasant, he is very professional and very serious. He is also kind and easy-going, I believe in Zhang Ran and support him!"
Although there are many celebrities on both sides who support it, they are basically supportive. Although they also insinuate accusations against each other, they will not be publicly named. Only the article of Su Qi, a well-known film critic in Hong Kong, published by "Nandu Entertainment Daily", is particularly sharp. fired directly at Zhang Ran: "There are many excellent directors, I have never seen such self-righteousness." To be honest, although "Burst Drummer" won the top prize at the Tokyo Film Festival, it is still a mediocre movie, and it can't be compared with Zhang Zhiliang's "Bloody Notes", the movie must have feelings. Don't think that just because you won two awards in Tokyo, you can only say that you are a frog at the bottom of the well. Yu Minghai is right, you just lack ability!"
Zhang Ran also saw this news.
Zhang Ran doesn't have a good impression of Su Qi, this guy is a Hong Kong Can, in the previous life, Zhang Ran saw his comments on "Little Times", and was disgusted to the point that he couldn't do it. "Little Times" is a bad movie, and you can criticize it no matter how you want, but this guy is on the line, how about strengthening the country at every turn, strengthening the culture or something, as if Xiangjiang Movies did not worship gold films.
Zhang Ran was not interested in this kind of sour goods, but now that he jumped out and sprayed himself, Zhang Ran was not welcome. He responded directly through the media: "I am more familiar with Su Qi who played "**** Men and Women", and she acted very well, and I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate." I don't know about this Mr. Suki, but I looked up his works on the Internet, and it seems that he has also been a director. But it's a pity that they're all movies that I've never heard of at all! I thought that the master who came out of nowhere turned out to be a cannon. Although my "Burst Drummer" is mediocre, it finally won an award at the Tokyo Film Festival, and if your film is not mediocre, you can win two awards at the Tokyo Film Festival to show me! Whether I have the ability or not is not up to you, time will tell. In fact, there is no need to wait for a long time, we can see on January 20th, let's see!"
Zhang Ran's news has attracted the attention of many media, Zhang Ran's words are shocking, this guy has been taking gunpowder recently? Isn't he usually very low-key? Although Su Qi has always had a poisonous tongue, it is normal to be scolded, you can always keep silent to Zhang Ran, and he doesn't speak much, everyone didn't expect his mouth to be so poisonous.
In fact, Zhang Ran has never been easy to mess with, when he was studying in the United States in the past, he made USC disgraced many times, and was known as the public enemy of USC. It's really a big mistake to treat his low-key as a good bully!
However, for this kind of thing, the media is definitely the most willing to see it, they can't wait for male stars to fight every day, and female stars to tear up every day, so that they can write it.
The media heard Zhang Ran's implication that something big should happen on January 20th, otherwise Zhang Ran would not have said so. Reminiscent of the previous press conference, the reporters believe that Zhang Ran is going to make a big news, and they are looking forward to the month of January 20th! )