After the news that Zhang Ran was worth more than Bill Gates came out, Zhang Ran received a lot of congratulatory calls, basically all of which were made by friends. Of course, there were also Zhang Ran's students, who asked Zhang Ran to send red envelopes while congratulating them. Zhang Ran saw that everyone's interest was so high, so he sent 888 red envelopes to the Weibo student group.

The students are angry, you are the richest man in the world, you don't send a few million red envelopes, at least you have to send a hundred and eighty thousand, so many people you only send 888 red envelopes, you can also get it, and they have complained in the group that Zhang Ran is a stingy ghost.

Zhang Ran was watching the students complain about themselves, and his phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Cai Fuchao calling, he believed that Cai Fuchao called him, there must be something, so he quickly connected: "Minister Cai, is there something wrong?"

Cai Fuchao did not sell it, and said directly: "Starting from the 1st of next month, the Peking International Film Festival will start to collect films, and we hope to invite a group of influential actors and films in the world to the film festival, especially Hollywood stars and movies." You are the vice chairman of the Organizing Committee of our Peking Film Festival, and you are familiar with Hollywood, so I can only trouble you in this matter!"

Cai Fuchao told Zhang Ran about this at the beginning, and he must have nothing to say, so he said: "We have two movies that are more suitable for Summit Entertainment, one is Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan", the heroine Natalie Portman, this movie is the favorite of this year's Oscars, and I will ask the director and the leading actor to come over when the time comes, and the other is "Beaver" directed by Jodie Foster, starring Mel Gibson, this movie will not be released until May next year, and we can let this movie premiere in Beiping." Also, I'll get in touch with Lionsgate and Fox and invite two or three more films. ”

Cai Fuchao was overjoyed when she heard that Zhang Ran invited Natalie Portman, Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson to come over, with these big stars present, the whole world will definitely pay attention, and the influence of the Peking Film Festival rose up at once, she said with a smile: "It's really right to let you serve as the vice chairman of the film festival, but Zhang Ran, you also know that our country has regulations on films, and the participating films must be reviewed, and if some scenes need to be deleted, they must be deleted, so that it can be screened." ”

Zhang Ran knew very well that censorship could not be avoided, and immediately said: "This is for sure!"

Cai Fuchao said: "There is another matter, that is, the issue of the image ambassador of the Peking Film Festival, the candidate has been decided, that is, you and Jingchu, there is no more suitable candidate than the two of you!"

Zhang Ran heard that he and Zhang Jing were the first image ambassadors, and shouted: "Hey, I'm also the vice chairman of the film festival organizing committee, why don't you have me for meetings, but I have to do things?"

Cai Fuchao laughed and said: "Are you embarrassed to say, didn't we invite you to the meeting? I called you twice, but every time you shirked it on the grounds that you were busy filming!"

After chatting with Cai Fuchao for a while, Zhang Ran hung up the phone and exhaled softly, the Peking Film Festival is about to start, but his fantasy film festival cannot be started for the time being, and the main venue of the film festival, the Film Palace, will not be completed until the end of next year.

Entering mid-December, according to the custom, major media around the world will take stock of this year's films and select their top ten films of the year.

On December 11, the list of the top ten films of 2010 selected by the famous British film magazine "Sight and Hearing" was released. As a professional film magazine sponsored by the British Film Institute, a total of 168 film critics from around the world were invited to select the list this year. Zhang Ran's film "One Man Shines the Light" topped the list, followed by David Fincher's film "The Social Network" in second place, and Thai director Apichatpong Weerasaku's "Uncle Bumi Who Can Recall His Past Life" in third place.

The next day, the top ten films of the year in the French "Cinémathèque" were released, the first was Zhang Ran's "One Man Shines with Lights", the second was Apichatpong Weerashaku's "Uncle Bumi Who Can Recall His Past Life", the third was "Bad Lieutenant" directed by Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage, and David Fincher's "The Social Network" ranked ninth.

Of course, not only the two lists of "Seeing and Hearing" and "Film Manual", but also the lists given by "Time Magazine", BB, "New York Times" and other media, "One Man Puts on the Lights" are all the first.

After "One Person's Lights" won the award in Berlin earlier this year, the film began to be released around the world, and it was overwhelmingly praised around the world. The movie received a 100% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a staggering 9.7 rating, on par with "The Godfather", and on MT, "One Man Puts on the Lights" also received an astonishing 100 points, with all 50 media outlets receiving positive reviews, of which 43 gave a perfect score of 100.

The entire critics have said very little about "One Man's Lights" as "the best of the year", with almost all the media chanting "one of the most extraordinary masterpieces of the century" and "one of the best films of the last decade".

After the release of the two most influential lists in the world, "Sight and Sound" and "Film Handbook", David Bordwell, an American contemporary film theorist and author of "World Film History" and "The Art of Cinema: Form and Style", published an article titled "On Zhang Ran and One Man's Lights", analyzing Zhang Ran and "One Man's Lights".

In addition to liking innovation and exploring new film languages, Zhang Ran's films have two particularly obvious artistic characteristics: first, the characters in the film are very lonely, from his first film "Time Prisoner" to the latest "One Man Puts on the Lights", all have this characteristic; the second is that movies are always connected with despair and hope, and the stories of movies are often tragic, but in the end, he will always leave everyone a little hope.

David Bordwell's article starts from Zhang Ran's teenage years, a teenager left his hometown, relatives and friends, and left the familiar environment at the age of 14 or 5, and went to a foreign country to study in a completely unfamiliar environment.

After analyzing the influence of Zhang Ran's life experience on creation, David Bordwell analyzed the influence of previous film masters on Zhang Ran, and then, in the second part of the article, David Bordwell made a detailed analysis of the theme, photography, and editing of "One Man's Lights", and believed that "One Man's Lights" is a masterpiece full of genius and creativity.

At the end of the article, David Bordwell concluded: "In the film "One Man Puts on the Lights", we see that Zhang Ran completes the reflection on loneliness and life with two and a half hours of length, standard panning shots and multi-part montage, which is another leap in Zhang Ran's artistic career, and "One Man Puts on the Lights" is the "Citizen Kane" of the new century. Zhang Ran is not anyone's best successor, he is Zhang Ran, the best director of this era, and his time has come!"

As an influential theorist, David Bordwell has a very high status in the hearts of film lovers and professionals, and when David Bordwell's article was published, it immediately caused a great sensation. Because David Bordwell exaggerated in the article, he even said that "One Man Puts on the Lights" is the "Citizen Kane" of the new century!

It is the greatest film in the world, known as the "monument of modern cinema", and is regarded as the "top ten films in the history of cinema" and the number one classic. "One Man Puts on the Lights" is indeed a masterpiece, one of the best works since the new century, but "Citizen Kane", which is called the new century, is obviously a bit exaggerated, so, when David Bordwell's comment came out, it immediately caused an uproar.

In fact, after Paul Thomas Anderson's "Blood is Coming" came out a few years ago, some film critics shouted "Citizen Kane in the new century", but the film critics who said that "Blood is Coming" is "Citizen Kane in the new century" have limited influence, and in addition, in terms of style and technique, "Blood is Coming" has no innovation and breakthrough, and this mention has not attracted the attention of the industry.

David Bordwell is different, his influence is very great, and he is not shouting slogans, it is a reasoned analysis, he believes that "One Man Puts on the Lights" and "Citizen Kane" both use polyphonic narratives, "Citizen Kane" is a model of polyphonic narrative, and Kurosawa's use of polyphonic narrative in "Rashomon" completes the transcendence of "Citizen Kane", and now "One Man Lights Up" completes the "Rashomon" Moreover, Zhang Ran's use of multi-part montage and the exploration of off-screen space will inspire the entire film industry, and it is fully worthy of the title of "Citizen Kane" in the new century.

For the innovation and breakthrough of "One Man's Lights", both the theoretical community and the film critics have expressed their approval, but many film critics said that "One Man's Lights" has only been out for less than a year, and it has not yet undergone the test of time, and only works that have undergone the test of time are truly great works, and it is too early to draw conclusions.

Unexpectedly, just when everyone was arguing, a legendary figure stood up.

The editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Cinema travels to Godard's secluded Swiss town for an in-depth interview. In the interview, Godard talked about his future film plans, saying that he is very interested in 3D technology, and that his new work will be a 3D film, and also talked about current films.

Godard is an old and angry young man, quite dissatisfied with the status quo of the film industry, feeling that the film industry is now lifeless, and directors have lost their thoughts and creativity, but he has great respect for Zhang Ran and "One Man Makes Lights": "Zhang Ran is one of the few people who really knows how to make films, and "One Man Lights Up" is an outstanding work, enough to make Zhang Ran a great director like Griffith, Eisenstein, and Renoir. ”

Griffith is the father of modern cinema, Eisenstein is a master of montage film theory, Renoir is a representative of French poetic realism, and now Godard is even saying that Zhang Ran is a director as great as them, and the whole critics are dumbfounded.

But no one came out to refute it, because among the living directors, the highest status is Godard, who can be ranked in the top five even in the entire history of cinema and has unparalleled influence. After watching Abbas's film "Growing and Flowing", Godard commented: "The film begins with Griffith and ends with Abbas. After that, film critics would always use this phrase when evaluating Abbas, and this was Godard's influence.

After Godard stamped Zhang Ran, the debate that "One Man Shines the Light" is "Citizen Kane" in the new century has not stopped, but Zhang Ran's status as a master of cinema has really been established!

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