Baldwell combines the directing skills of Zhang Ran and Nolan in many films, and provides a textbook in-depth analysis of the narrative style and themes of the two films.

Bordwell spoke highly of Nolan as an important innovator in Hollywood cinema and introduced real political and social issues into superhero films that were not discussed in the past. The Italian scholar Eco once criticized that since Superman has such great ability, what is the point of catching robbers and thieves every day? He can completely change the laws of the world and truly benefit mankind. But Hollywood won't shoot that, because the essence of superhero movies is fairy tales. But Nolan is introducing realistic things into the movie, so that Batman really starts to deal with some social questions, which is a huge innovation for superhero movies!

In addition, Bordwell believes that since the beginning of the nineties, the whole world cinema has set off a wave of non-linear narrative structures, and Nolan is an important participant in this, one of the representative figures.

However, while affirming Nolan's achievements, Podwell pointed out many problems with Nolan's films, such as the lack of emotion in the characters, and he also believed that Nolan's audiovisual language is extremely conservative, and Nolan's films are the most novel and the most disciplined films.

He directly juxtaposes Zhang Ran with Kubrick and Kurosawa, believing that Zhang Ran, as the most important innovator of film language, has broadened the breadth and depth of film expression, and let people know where the limits and boundaries of film are. Bordwell commented that Zhang Ran may not be the whole story of future films, but he does point out the direction of future films.

For ordinary audiences, Porterville's evaluation of Nolan is very high, but many Nolan fans can't accept it, especially the idea that Zhang Ran is stronger than Nolan, in the eyes of some extreme Nolan fans, Nolan is a god, and juxtaposing gods and humans is an insult to God. What's more, in their eyes, Baldwell is Zhang Ran's iron fan, in the words of the fan circle, Baldwell is Zhang Ran's big fan, and now your big fan is actually black and steamed at my house, it's just too much, is it easy to bully when we are not fans?

Nolan fans are definitely not easy to bully, and one thing proves it.

More than ten days ago, "The Dark Knight Rises" held an early preview screening in the United States, and major American media critics gave comments after watching it. Most of the media praised the film enthusiastically, but of course, a small number of critics gave it bad reviews.

Film critic Marshall Finn was the first to publish the first bad review of "The Dark Knight Rises", in which he wrote: "The action scenes in this film are terrible, noisy and stupid, and I thought I was watching the new "Transformers". This quote angered a large number of fans of Nolan and Batman, who thought that he had blasphemed the great Nolan by comparing The Dark Knight Rise to Michael Bay's Transformers. Although Marshall-Finn's article was later deleted, the comment was retained on Rotten Tomatoes. Many angry fans flocked to Marshall Fin's personal website to leave messages and attack, causing his personal website to be paralyzed, and some netizens even issued death threats to the "nonsense" film critic.

Due to the abuse of the entire page, Rotten Tomatoes had to announce the suspension of the user review function for the "Dark Knight Rises" movie review, which is the first time that Rotten Tomatoes has turned off the user review function since its inception. Martin Smith, the site's editor-in-chief, said: "We can't manage so many comments, so we're just shutting it down. Their reviews are full of abuse, and what they are defending is a film they haven't seen yet. ”

After Baldwell's article was published, he was immediately besieged by Nolan fans, and his personal Facebook and homepage were inundated with insults from Nolan fans, and Fly's account was full of extremely vicious personal attacks. While insulting Podwell, some Nolan fans even scolded Zhang Ran.

"It's ridiculous, what qualifications does Zhang Ran's movie have to compare with Nolan? Zhang Ran's movie is just a piece of, even if it is filmed and sent, oh, I'm so lonely, I'm lonely! There is nothing new at all! Movies like "Inception" and "Memory Fragments" Zhang Ran can't make movies in his life!"

"I've watched Zhang Ran's movies, and the level is very inferior, only one "Time and Space Warrior" is okay!"

"Zhang Ran is a garbage director who sells exoticism, and Zhang Ran can't make a movie with depth like "The Dark Knight" in his lifetime!"

Now Zhang Ran's fans won't do it. In Europe and the United States, Zhang Ran's fans are not at the same level as Nolan in terms of quantity, but the key is that Zhang Ran has dry goods and various awards in hand. Therefore, although Zhang Ran has few fans, he is full of confidence in quarreling, and he is not afraid of Nolan fans at all, and they responded fiercely on the Internet.

"Zhang Ran's movies always shoot loneliness, that is when people will be lonely, and Nolan always shoots his wife to death? "Memory Fragments" wife dies and wants revenge, "Deadly Magic" wife dies and wants revenge, "Dark Knight" wife dies after being robbed and dies, and "Inception" wife dies and has a spiritual shadow. I will know how much Nolan hates his wife in one day!"

"Not to mention "Inception", who doesn't know that "Inception" is a plagiarism of Jin Min's "Red Hot Chili Peppers", from story ideas to storyboard design, many places are plagiarized, but Nolan himself said, I haven't seen Red Hot Chili Peppers. In this way, the director is also worthy of comparing with Zhang Ran, I'm bah!"

"Nolan's films seem profound, but they're actually very mediocre, and his films are basically just that: I'm going to start setting up suspense, I'm setting up a suspense, you haven't figured out that I've got a suspense, you've just figured out a little bit and I've made a new suspense. I'll give you the answer at the last minute, believe it or not, I believe it anyway!"

"What does Nolan compare with Zhang Ran? Does Nolan have films that have won awards at the three major film festivals? Has he ever won an Oscar? What does a person with zero awards compare with Zhang Ran? Nolan is British, but he has never won the British Academy Film Award, and Zhang Ran's "The Aviator" won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the British and Austrian Awards, and "One Person's Lights" not only won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the British and Austrian Awards again, but also won the Best Director Award. As a British, Nolan has not won as many awards in the UK as Zhang Ran, a Chinese, so this level is also worthy of being compared with Zhang Ran?"

The two fans pinched happily on the Internet, comparing the box office, awards, the depth of the movie, and various ratings. Nolan's movies are much stronger than Zhang Ran in terms of box office and ratings on various movie websites, but Zhang Ran's film awards and various movie lists are beating Nolan; the two sides have each other's victories and defeats, and no one can convince anyone.

While fighting with Zhang Ran's fans, Nolan fans began to assemble on IMDB on a large scale, frantically giving "Future Apocalypse" and Zhang Ran's other movies a star.

It's not the first time that Nolan fans have given their opponents one star on IMDB, and in 08 they organized a large number of one-star ratings for "The Godfather". Before the release of "The Dark Knight" in '08, "The Godfather" had been the highest-rated movie on IMDB, dominating the first position for more than a decade, and "The Shawshank Redemption" ranked second. In 08, in order to make "The Dark Knight" reach the top and become the king of IMDB, Nolan fans frantically gave "The Godfather" one star, and as a result, "The Godfather" was successfully pulled down. As a result, the second thousand-year-old "The Shawshank Redemption" fisherman profited and occupied the championship from then on.

Zhang Ran's film has the highest rating on IMDB is "Future Apocalypse", with more than 300,000 audience ratings and a rating of 9.2, while in the IMDB250 rating, "Future Apocalypse" has a rating of 8.8, ranking eighth. But after Nolan fans' crazy scoring, the rating of "Future Apocalypse" on IMDB fell to 8.9, and the rating of IMDB250 also fell to 8.7, falling out of the top ten. As for Zhang Ran's other movies, the scores fell even worse. Especially for Chinese-language films such as "The Aviator" and "Bursting Drummer", due to the relatively small number of ratings, after receiving a large number of one-star stars, the scores fell very badly, and they all fell to 6 points.

Zhang Ranfan quickly discovered this situation and began to give Zhang Ran's movie ten stars, and at the same time give Nolan movies one star, so Nolan's movie rating on IMDB also began to decline.

However, Zhang Ran's fans in Europe and the United States are far inferior to Nolan's fans in terms of number and momentum, so whether it is scolding or brushing points on IMDB, he is at a disadvantage.

There are many Chinese students among Zhang Ran's fans, and they see that there are many Nolan fans, and they can't brush or scold them at all, so they bite it, damn it, you want to fight with us, right, I let you know what it means to have a lot of people!

So, they took screenshots of some of Nolan fans' extreme words such as "Chinese is garbage", and then posted them on Weibo, Tianya Gossip, Douban Group 8, movie box office bar and other places: "Nolan fans not only insult Zhang Ran, but also insult Chinese", "Nolan fans scold China like this, can you bear it"......

After these remarks were forwarded to China, not only Zhang Ran's fans fried the pot, but many ordinary netizens were also very angry, you scolded Zhang Ran for why even China, even Chinese, when we are good bullies?

Fans first frantically brushed on Douban and Time.com, brushing Nolan's 9-point movie into 8 points, 8-point movies into 7 points, and 7-point movies directly to the point;

Since many of the fans have never been on IMDB and foreign websites such as Fly, they don't know how to register. International students also posted on various forums for guidance, telling everyone how to register, how to leave messages and posts, and even left a bunch of swearing words for everyone to copy and paste.

After a short period of organization and assembly, hundreds of thousands of Zhang Ran fans drove overseas. Of course, in addition to Zhang Ran's fans, there are also many ordinary netizens who participated in it, and even Li Yi's bar specially organized an expeditionary force, and the total number of people who went abroad to participate in the war exceeded one million.

In a very short period of time, a large number of Chinese IPs poured into social networks such as Fly, and launched a fierce scolding war with Nolan fans. There are Chinese, English, and various copies and postings of swearing.

"You idiots, you actually scolded our boss, thinking that we fans are dead!"

"The emperor is on the expedition, and there is no grass to grow! Zhang Ran is awesome, Nolan scum!"

"I'm here to see you garbage, you're so awesome, you advertise on Fly to boycott Zhang Ran, I'm laughing to death!"

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In addition to verbal attacks, the most important weapon for Zhang Ran's fans and netizens is memes. In order to cope with this battle with Nolan fans, fans also responded to the emoji in English very intimately, so that Nolan fans could understand it. Many social networks, including Fly, were inundated with memes from Yao Ming, Zhou Jie and others.

There are also emojis abroad, but their emojis are too scarce, not only are there very few materials for pictures, but also the language of quarrels is also very scarce, coupled with the huge number of Zhang Ranfans, so the battle situation quickly showed a one-sided situation......