In fact, it is not new for the Dongying government to spend money overseas to maintain Dongying's image or smear China, and the budget submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the government every year includes "external strategic communication". According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the project will "focus on important topics such as territory, historical understanding, and security," strengthen the ability to analyze international public opinion and communicate with the outside world, strengthen the communication and promotion of foreign media, strengthen the construction of think tanks in the field of diplomacy, and increase academic research and external communication related to territorial and historical issues.

Two months ago, British media reported that the Dongying Embassy in the UK paid the British think tank "Henry Jackson Society" 10,000 pounds a month to help Japan make and render "*****" in the UK. After this incident was exposed, only "Russia Today", "Indian Express" and other media reported, and the Dongying media remained silent, while most of the mainstream media in the United Kingdom and the United States did not follow up on the report.

But this time the situation was different, after the "Sunday Times" report came out, Zhang Ran quickly forwarded it and commented: "No wonder I think some film critics' film reviews are not like film reviews, like political reviews, so that's what happened!"

After Zhang Ran forwarded and commented, many Zhang Ran fans and fans followed up and sent the news to the hot search list. While they were retweeting, they frantically scolded Shelly Kratzer and others: "I watched "Angel of Justice" at the New York Film Festival, it is definitely a perfect masterpiece, and when I saw Shelly Kratzer and they gave the movie a score of 10 or 20, I was simply stunned! How can such a good movie have such a low score? Now I finally understand!"

"Shame, shameful! As a film critic, he should take money to attack other people's movies, which is even more shameful than the David Manning incident! David Manning is just false propaganda! And Shelly Kraser: They are attacking a good movie!"

"I always thought that film critics were a bunch of self-righteous sluts, but I didn't expect them to take money to attack other films. Shelly Kreizer: They've been exposed, so how many haven't?"

Subsequently, many mainstream media in Europe and the United States quickly followed up and carried out large-scale reports with the title of "The Media Broke the News of Well-known Film Critics Collecting Money", which quickly turned the whole matter into a hot topic on the streets.

Sheilly-Kratzer desperately denied it, and claimed that the Sunday Times owner Murdoch had a close relationship with Zhang Ran and intended to discredit him, but their denial was very weak, and no one believed them, because the Sunday Times had solid evidence.

Those film critics who were not named were frightened, and said that their articles may not be rational and biased, but they definitely did not collect money; those film critics who did not write a film review of "Angel of Justice", but jumped out to criticize Zhang Ran, were secretly glad that they had not written a film review, otherwise they would have been unlucky, so they quickly turned the spearhead and opened fire on Shelly Kreizer and others.

A lot of film critics who have nothing to do with this big war have come forward and condemned Shelly Kreizer and others. They know very well that the actions of Shelly Kraser and others have seriously affected the voice of the film critics, and it can be said that they are smashing everyone's jobs, and they must not stand idly by. Christopher Orr, a film critic for The New Republic, said: "I'm shocked by the news, this is definitely a big scandal, a bigger scandal than the David Manning affair!" Peter Travers, a film critic for "Rolling Stone", denounced: "It's horrible that this kind of behavior is destroying the entire film critic industry!" Entertainment Weekly film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum stressed: "Shelly Kratzer and others must be punished severely!" ......

Soon after, the film critics association to which Shelly Kreizer and others belonged quickly convened an emergency meeting and officially stripped Shelly Kreizer and others of their membership. The matter has reached such a level that not severely punishing it is not enough for the people to be angry. "We're not just trying to separate ourselves from people who don't deserve the respect of our peers, we're sending a message that we don't tolerate money or propaganda in our industry," they said. ”

Immediately afterward, the media and magazines that had created film review columns for Shelly Kratzer and others informed them that the column had been canceled, as their behavior of collecting money to write film reviews had seriously affected the authority of the magazine.

This flurry of news came as a bolt from the blue for Shelly Kreeser and others, meaning the end of their careers as film critics, after all, no media or magazine would publish an article that paid a film critic.

Although there is no evidence that the news broke by the Sunday Times came from Zhang Ran, anyone who is not a fool can guess that Zhang Ran poked it out, otherwise a British newspaper would have eaten enough to support it and went to investigate a Canadian film critic who received money from the Dongying government.

The thing is indeed as many people speculate, it was Zhang Ran who poked it out. Just like Zhang Ran told Scorsese, before the start of filming, he knew that someone would prevent "Angel of Justice" from being released in North America, and would give "Angel of Justice" bad reviews, making the movie a bad movie and quickly disappearing from the public eye. Zhang Ran knows that some critics' political interpretations of "Angel of Justice" are biased, while others are taking money from Dongying. As long as three or four filmmakers are pulled out of it, all the reviews that besiege "Angel of Justice" will become a joke.

With Zhang Ran's funds and resources, it was too easy to investigate a few film critics, and he quickly got evidence that several of them were collecting money. After the release of "Angel of Justice", those film critics jumped out as expected and labeled "Angel of Justice" as a political propaganda film, claiming that the movie was anti-Japanese and intended to discredit the Japanese army.

However, Zhang Ran did not directly throw out the evidence, because the public opinion attention was too small, and it could only hit the few film critics who were found out, and the matter would soon disperse like a gust of wind. Zhang Ran hopes to make this matter bigger, and hopes to make it known to everyone, and then throw out the evidence, so as to leave an impression on Western audiences, and those who put political hats on Chinese films at every turn and interpret Chinese films from a political perspective at every turn may be collecting money.

It is common for Chinese films to encounter political interpretations overseas, and many overseas people always like to watch Chinese movies from a political perspective. At the beginning, Zhang Yimou fell out with Cannes because his film was politically interpreted, and he withdrew from Cannes in a fit of anger.

Zhang Yimou completed two films in 1999, "My Father and Mother" and "No One is Missing". Zhang Yimou chose "No One Missing" to Cannes, but Jacob, chairman of the Cannes Film Festival, said that the film was a glorification of China and propaganda for the government, and suggested that Zhang Yimou withdraw "No One is Missing", and said that he liked "My Father and Mother" very much and hoped to send "My Father and Mother" to Cannes.

Zhang Yimou sent a letter to Jacob, saying that "No One is Missing" has nothing political, but Jacob insists that "No One is Missing" is propaganda for the government. Zhang Yimou was so angry that he wrote an open letter announcing his withdrawal from Cannes and retracting his film.

In the open letter, Zhang Yimou said: "These two films of mine are about the theme of love. "No One is Missing" expresses our love for our children and our worries about the current situation and future of our nation's overall cultural quality. "My Father and Mother" eulogizes the truth and purity of love. This is an emotion that all human beings share and celebrate. However, it is incomprehensible that you would criticize the film on 'political' grounds, which cannot but be said to be a political or cultural bias. ”

Although two of Zhang Yimou's films withdrew from Cannes, "No One Less" won Zhang Yimou a second Venice Golden Lion, and "My Father and Mother" won the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival the following year.

Zhang Ran admires this very much, how many domestic directors kneel and lick Cannes and can't lick it, but Zhang Yimou was able to quit Cannes and break with Cannes, this backbone is really not comparable to ordinary people!

After Shelly Kratzer and others threw out the bad comments on "Angel of Justice", Zhang Ran first threw out the view that "Shelly Kratzer et al.'s film reviews are not film reviews, but political reviews", which caused Shelly Kratzer and others to fight back violently, and then Zhang Ran threw out "The Seven Deadly Sins of Film Critics" This article attracted more film critics to jump out and make a big deal about the matter; then, Zhang Ran analyzed and compared the film reviews of Sheley Kratzer and others to argue that the film reviews of Sheley Kratzer and others were abnormal and had obvious political tendencies; in the end, he threw out the evidence through the media and completely shot Sheley Kratzer and others to death.

Zhang Ran's war with film critics ended up with a complete victory, and Shelly Kreizer and others were removed from the film critics' circle. Rotten Tomatoes and MTC removed malicious bad reviews by Shelly Kraser, and the Rotten Tomatoes freshness of Angel of Justice rose to 78, and the MTC overall score rose to 79. At the same time, after this turmoil, many audiences who were not interested in this movie have become interested in the movie, hoping to wait until the movie is officially released, and they can go into the theater to have a look.

However, Zhang Ran believes that the matter is not over yet, and the attacks and smears of the Dongying people on "Angel of Justice" will not stop, and they will do everything possible to prevent the film from making a difference at the Oscars, but Zhang Ran is very confident in "Angel of Justice", and he believes that his movie can have the last laugh.

On November 9, the results of the U.S. presidential election showed that Republican candidate Donald *** had won 276 electoral votes, exceeding the winning standard of 270 electoral votes and locking in the U.S. presidential throne. The result came as a surprise to many, with the vast majority expecting Clinton to win.

The president-elect caused an uproar in Hollywood, and it can be said that there was a lot of mourning. The one with the most intense reaction was Reddy Quack. As soon as the election results were announced, she immediately drove to the downstairs of the Trump Building to demonstrate with the slogan "Love everything Trump opposes". Katy Perry, a fruit sister who is a big fan of Hillary, even posted on Fly, saying that "revolution is coming" and "we will not be silent" pointed the finger at Trump. Although the other stars are not so aggressive, their grief is equally overflowing, and the whole Fly is full of wails.

Almost everyone who knows something about Hollywood knows that taking the stage will have a significant impact on the direction of this year's Oscar for Best Picture. Originally, the two films "Moonlight Boy" and "La La Land" were competing for best picture with "Angel of Justice", but because *** is anti-globalization and is considered racist, Hollywood, as the base camp of anti-***, will inevitably retaliate against "Moonlight Boy" when voting for the best picture, expressing support for people of color and dissatisfaction with ***. "Angel of Justice" is a film with internationalist tendencies, and it is a Chinese story, with a large number of Chinese faces, and it is bound to get some votes.

It can be said that after *** was elected, "La La Land" has almost withdrawn from the competition for best picture, and the opponent of "Angel of Justice" is only "Moonlight Boy"!