After the Oscar nominations were announced, the PR stage was in full swing, and almost all the nominated films were in full swing, all available means were used, and even the commercial premises near the academy became the battlefield of PR. In a restaurant near the college, the wallpaper has been replaced with posters to ensure that the judges who dine nearby can see their own movies while eating.

Zhang Ran and the public relations team of "Angel of Justice" are naturally also in full swing, and the lobbying team is violently lobbying for those judges who may be fighting. Zhang Ran and several leading actors took turns to organize screenings and communicate with the judges on the spot. According to the Academy's regulations, filmmakers are only allowed to attend a maximum of two such screenings in which they can interact with the judges. Wendi Deng also organized a family party according to Zhang Ran's request, and many Hollywood industry insiders were invited to attend. Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu naturally also appeared at the party site and interacted cordially with the guests.

The PR for "Angels of Justice" was fruitful, and the Producers' Guild Awards Ceremony came to an end in Beverly Hills a few days later. "Angel of Justice" had the last laugh and won the Best Filmmaker award.

Among the four major weather vanes of the Broadcast Film Critics Guild, the Golden Globe Awards, the Producers' Guild, and the British Academy Film Awards, it is the Producers' Guild and the British Film Institute that can really influence the direction of the Oscars, because the Producers' Guild has nearly 1,000 Oscar votes in its hands, and the British Academy Awards has almost 500 votes.

After winning the Producers' Guild Award, the call for "Angel of Justice" to win the award skyrocketed, and many media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, regarded the film as the strongest contender for Best Picture. On betting sites, Angel of Justice also quickly surpassed La La Land and Moonlight to become the top seed for the Oscar for Best Picture.

Attacking and denigrating opponents in Oscar's final offensive phase is a particularly common tactic. Of course, since everyone looks down and doesn't look up, they will not be as ruthless as the US election and spray their opponents directly. Oscar's PR attacks and smears opponents often come from third parties. In the final PR stage of "Saving Private Ryan", a British World War II veteran jumped out and questioned the film's opening Omaha Beach scene. Under this series of attacks, "Shakespeare's Love History" finally won the best picture. For example, in 2003, when Harvey pushed "Chicago", the market suddenly began to hype the personal stain of "The Pianist" director Polanski, and finally "Chicago" won the best picture.

The same year was the same, shortly after the Oscar nominations were announced, Chinese actor Wu Tianmin took to Fly and Facebook to blow up Casey's 2010 sexual assault case, scolding him for being a politically incorrect actor who was not eligible for an Oscar nomination.

In 2010, Cassie Affleck was charged with sexual harassment and alleged rape of two crew members of the "I'm Not There" crew. At that time, Cassie Affleck was not well-known, and the Affleck family had the money to manage public relations, and quickly settled out of court with the two victims, which was not reported much by the media at the time.

After Cassie Affleck's sexual harassment scandal was exposed, the entire public opinion was in an uproar, and calls for boycotts came one after another. On Fly, someone launched a boycott of Cassie Affleck, which was supported by more than 200,000 netizens in just one day.

At the Sundance Film Festival early last year, Nate Peck's "The Birth of a Nation" was a big hit, and was hyped as an annual Oscar favorite, and it also sold the North American distribution rights at a sky-high price, and fans wanted to watch it in various ways. However, later the director was suspected of a rape scandal, and his "political incorrectness" caused the film's reputation to slide all the way to a trough, and finally completely evaporated from the awards season.

Now Cassie Affleck's situation is similar, and many media outlets predict that Cassie Affleck's Oscar may be hanging!

At the same time, accusations on the Internet against "La La Land" for "whitewashing" jazz are also rampant, and some people even link the movie to the *** election: "After an election season full of nostalgia for 'white supremacy', it is even more ironic that a large number of liberal whites went to see "La La Land" to heal their souls. ”

"Angel of Justice" was naturally not spared, and the attack mainly came from the academic community, and many experts and professors jumped out to accuse "Angel of Justice" of some plots that did not conform to historical facts, and "Newsweek" even published an article titled "Very Good Movie, Very Bad History" to criticize the movie.

Robert Entman, a professor of history at St. Olaf's College, noted that Zhang Ran fictionalized part of the film's plot for some purpose. In the movie, Weitling is attacked by the Purple Mountain Evening News, and the plot of the mental breakdown is completely fake. Weitling did have a breakdown in April 1940, but it was due to overwork and the trauma of the Holocaust.

David Kennedy, a professor of history at Stanford University, said: "Zhang Ran's Angel of Justice is a failed film, full of clichés, and its portrayal of Dongying soldiers is simplistic, stereotyped, and inaccurate. There are plenty of fictional episodes in the movie, such as Weitling's breakdown. Kennedy also argues that "the film's dominant theme is accusation and righteous indignation, rather than analysis and understanding, and while anger is a morally necessary response to the Nanjing Massacre, it is intellectually deficient." ”

After these accusations and criticisms came out, they were posted everywhere on the Internet by people with good intentions, and for a time the "public resentment boiled" on the Internet, and countless "righteous" people jumped out to accuse "Angel of Justice" of making up nonsense, and claimed that the fictional plot of "Angel of Justice" insulted Ms. Weitling.

The plot in the film in which Weitling is slandered by the Purple Mountain Evening News is indeed fictional, but fiction is the need of the film's narrative. Because after the end of the Nanjing Massacre, Weitling has been busy with all kinds of trivial things, and no major things have happened, and there are no conflicts. It would have seemed very abrupt if the film had jumped straight to 1940 to write about her collapse.

Not only does this work with films, but also with those who write about Weitling. In the period after the Holocaust and before Weitling's suicide, nothing major happened, and in order to tell the story well and keep people reading, there must be new stories and new dramas to maintain the momentum. When an English writer encountered this problem, he fictionalized Weitling's affair with a married Chinese man, but the man had a family and a career and couldn't ignore her, and in the end she was going to die and have a nervous breakdown. But such fiction is unacceptable, because Weitling's experience is very innocent, and it is too irresponsible to write that she is entangled with a married man.

Hakin also encountered this problem when he wrote "Requiem for Nanjing", so he fictionalized the slander and attack of Weitling in the Purple Mountain Evening News, and the conflict with Mrs. Dennison. Zhang Ran felt that it was logical for the fictitious Wang puppet regime to slander and Weitling, because the Dongying people had always regarded Weitling and other foreigners as a thorn in their side, and Rabe was recalled by the German government because of the pressure of the Dongying people. Wei Tling's prestige in the hearts of the people of Nanjing is very high, and everyone respects them very much, and their existence is a denial of the legitimacy of Wang's puppet regime, and it is completely logical to attack Wei Tling and reduce their influence in the hearts of the common people.

As a result, Zhang Ran paid Ha Jin, adopted the plot of Weitling's slander, and fictionalized the character of Meiru, so that the tragedy and conflict of the story were even stronger.

Zhang Ran knows very well that after the movie is released, someone will definitely use this to attack "Angel of Justice". As long as the film is linked to real history and real people, it will always be attacked like this during the Olympics. For example, some people accuse the "King's Speech" of the king's stuttering treatment, which did not happen in a few months, but lasted ten years. For example, accusing "Escape from Tehran" that Canadians are the protagonists, but in the movie they become Americans.

Zhang Ran did not respond to those experts and professors who criticized "Angel of Justice" for not conforming to historical facts, after all, movies are movies, not history books, and film creation has its own rules, and it cannot be exactly the same as real history. Zhang Ran has always believed that it is okay to fictionalize certain details in line with the general historical background and without violating the character and logic of the characters.

Zhang Ran knew very well that many of these experts supported the Dongying people, and some of them had criticized Zhang Chunru's "Nanjing Massacre" in the first place. For a long time, Dongying has had close contacts with universities and high schools in the United States, and they donate scholarships to the school. These experts and professors are supported by the funds of the Dongying people, and they will naturally speak for the Dongying people.

Zhang Ran believes that these accusations will have an impact on the "Angel of Justice" to rush to the Olympics, but not much. However, Zhang Ran still secretly sent people to secretly analyze the works of these experts and professors, looking for inaccuracies or flaws in their writings, in case of emergency. Zhang Ran is not alone like Zhang Chunru, with enough money, you can find fault with me, and I can pull a group of people to find fault with your book!

Those articles criticizing "Angel of Justice" were quickly forwarded to China, triggering a carnival of many public knowledge and refinement, and they turned out the articles of Robert Entman and others criticizing Zhang Chunru, accusing Zhang Chunru of being unprofessional, saying that Zhang Chunru's book is not of high academic value, and even some experts and professors jumped out to accuse Zhang Chunru of some mistakes in the book to give Dongying right-wing a pretext for denying the Nanjing Massacre, which is adding confusion to the study of the Nanjing Massacre.

Zhang Jingchu was very angry when she saw these remarks: "Zhang Chunru does not know Chinese and Japanese, it is normal for errors to appear in the book, and it is normal for such a book to have errors, just attach a corrigendum." said that Zhang Chunru's book is not good, that is not good. "Weitling's Diary" and "Rabe's Diary" have been lying for so long, why didn't those experts and professors find out, but Zhang Chunru found out?"

Zhang Ran smiled and comforted: "The soldier was injured and fell, the flies flew in, and Yingying screamed. It was he who first found the wounds of the warriors, and then attracted more flies. They shouted together, so that the whole world knew the shortcomings of the warriors. Indeed, flies have no faults, and who would study flies in close detail? It's a pity that a warrior is a warrior even if he has flaws, and a fly can only be a fly no matter how perfect it is. We don't have time to deal with these flies, the most important thing for us now is to win the Oscar and use the influence of the Oscar to let more people know the truth!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Ran's mobile phone suddenly rang. It was Prem Gill, the director of publicity, who called. After connecting, Prem Gil's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone: "Mr. Zhang, I just received a message that the Dongying people have secretly organized a lobbying group of 50 people to lobby the judges in secret, asking them not to vote for "Angel of Justice", we are in big trouble!"

Zhang Ran knew that the right wing of Dongying would definitely make small moves to prevent "Angel of Justice" from winning the Oscar, but he never expected that they would play so badly and would organize a lobby group to ask the judges not to vote for "Angel of Justice". Zhang Ran pondered for a few seconds, and then said categorically: "No way, now I can only play *** card!"

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