Chapter 571: Jealousy

The wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy the pile, and the bank will be turbulent.

The meaning of this sentence is: when a tree is higher than the whole forest, then when a strong wind comes, it will be destroyed; If the accumulation is higher than the embankment, it must be washed first when the water comes.

Tell us that we can't be too innovative and stand out too much in a team, although we are very good, we must learn to adapt to the environment and assess the situation.

Don't be arrogant, go your own way, go your own way; We should be humble and hopeful, unite colleagues, and use our own actions to drive everyone's initiative and creativity. In this way, you can have a place in society.

This sentence was born during the Three Kingdoms period, which fully shows how much the 'jealousy' of human nature exposed in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms is a stifling of talents.

How horrible is the emotion of jealousy, terrifying enough to destroy human nature.

And in psychology, the psychological basis of jealousy and antagonism is the desire to possess, not the desire to develop.

In layman's terms, the desire to possess is concerned with how to take a larger share of a piece of the cake, while the desire to develop is to study how to make a bigger cake.

The jealous person thinks that people can gain a good sense of self-worth and self-feeling as long as they possess what belongs to them, but this is not the case.

Jealous people tend to belong to the group of people who have a very low self-esteem.

Jealousy is inevitable, but it is possible to correctly recognize your jealousy and consciously avoid negative behaviors.

Jealous people in the correct values should regard the success of others and the "goodness" of others as a spur and challenge to themselves, and enhance their sense of self-worth from self-development, rather than trying to elevate themselves by hitting others.

And usually most jealous people regard slandering and destroying the success of others as a manifestation of improving self-worth, which is the darkest place in human nature.

In the emotion of jealousy, the emotion that is the same in essence but expresses a different emotion is called envy.

The state of envy is, 'Someone else is good, I want to be as good as him, preferably we are all good.' ’

And jealousy is, 'He's good, and I want to be as good as him, but it's better if I'm good and he's not good.'" ’

These two emotions, which are essentially the same, go to two extremes.

Peerless peer is the best manifestation of jealousy.

Unless a person is a genius like Li Bai, like Wang Bo, who wrote the "Preface to King Teng's Pavilion" as a teenager, he will not be jealous, because he doesn't even have the courage to be jealous.

But there are very few such people for thousands of years.

Most geniuses, in the process of growing up, will be affected by the emotion of jealousy, whether active or passive, so it also stifles a lot of talents.

This situation is the norm in any era.

Although Zhang Yimu is known as the "great director" of the Dragon Kingdom, he still has not escaped this fate, and his films have won various awards in the world before, and they have not aroused the jealousy of his peers, and they all claim that he is "bringing glory to the country".

Why did "Hero" attract one-sided bad reviews as soon as it was released today?

The reason is very simple, that is, this film will rewrite the pattern and model of the Dragon Kingdom film industry, and carry out a new industrial transformation, and this transformation is to make the previously stable market experience big fluctuations.

In recent years, Dragon Kingdom Films has become accustomed to the traditional storytelling film model, and the audience also likes to see it, and the advantage of this traditional film model is that the cost is low and the return is high.

As a big country with a scarcity of films, although the Dragon Country film market has not yet developed one percent, but because of the population, the demand for films is very large, and less than 80 movies a year cannot meet the current film market, so as long as there are movies released, there will be a box office, which is a business that makes sure to make money without losing money.

However, this kind of stable cake sharing behavior is unfavorable to the entire film market, because if it is not saturated, there will be no new breakthroughs, and there will be no progress without breakthroughs.

Therefore, the film market in Dragon Kingdom has been in a state of no development in recent years.

In terms of box office, 1992 was the peak of the box office in Dragon Country, with an annual box office of 3.2 billion, and then it fell all the way, starting from 1994, imported foreign blockbusters were the largest source of box office, while domestic films have repeatedly languished.

In 1995, the overall box office was less than 1 billion, a direct drop of 300% at the box office.

After that, until 2001, the box office has been stable at about 900 million.

The main reason is the aesthetic fatigue of the audience and the lack of progress in the film industry as a whole.

Western films have also experienced this stage, after the slump of the literary film market, the rise of commercial films has directly driven the entire industry and formed a huge influence, and it has also suffered from the attacks of some traditional films back then.

Because it touches the fundamental interests of the industry, for the current film industry of Dragon Kingdom, about 1 billion yuan per year, and the box office, is enough for these film companies to divide up, and it can't be carved up every year.

But after "Hero", the arrival of this new industrial film genre will stimulate the production of new box office, and the diversification of films stimulated by the box office will cause huge trouble to the previous film companies.

The first investment risk has become greater, and the films invested before basically do not exceed 100 million dragon coins, the only exception is "Opium War" Director Xie Jin shot an important film in 1997, with an investment of up to 100 million, but due to market reasons, it lost money, but the significance of this movie cannot be measured by the box office.

The remaining investment is relatively large, Chen Kaige's "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" is headed by more than 60 million, Jiang Wen's "The Devil is Coming" is more than 30 million, and Zhang Yiyan's "Alive" is more than 30 million, but these films have a characteristic, that is, they are not rushing to make money, but to win awards, these films are not made for making money, so investors shoot this kind of big-investment films in order to retain big directors to earn word of mouth.

Because in this way, after these big directors won the award, they had a great influence in China and were able to resist the box office, and then make some small-budget movies to make a lot of money.

But after the emergence of "Hero", a new investment model has emerged, that is, a model of high cost, big production, and high box office, so for investors, the risk will increase a lot.

The second box office market has become unstable, and even the monopoly position is unstable, except for a main theme movie last year, the domestic box office of more than 100 million movies has not had this level for many years, and basically 50 million box office can win the box office champion, and after the emergence of the model of "Hero", the promotion of the entire box office market, whether it is squeezing or breaking through, no one can predict.

The third is that after the emergence of a new genre of films like "Hero", the audience's demand for the type of film has increased suddenly, which has a lot of pressure on the domestic film and television industry, and will prompt the emergence of many 'newcomers', such as independent films will definitely rise, which is a great potential threat to some old giants.

Therefore, they naturally want to repeatedly sing and boycott "Hero" and mobilize the power of the whole industry to attack "Hero", which may be able to keep the Dragon Kingdom film market in its original state.

Another point is that the box office of "Hero" is too high, based on the twelve hours of box office statistics, this movie is likely to exceed the box office of 300 million dragon coins and become the highest-grossing film in modern Dragon Kingdom.

Many people's eyes are red, and naturally the scolding has intensified.

However, for the industry's abusive attacks, the audience actually doesn't have much impression, because "Hero" is so attractive, especially the publicity work, nearly four months of publicity, and Zhang Yiyan with the starring role in the domestic cycle press conference, plus the gimmick of "Dragon Kingdom's first commercial blockbuster", and the impression brought by the previous "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

This movie can be said to be very attractive to the common people, after all, they have long been vomited for the single film style of the Dragon Kingdom for so many years.

Although I read the newspaper and scolded Zhang Yiyan with these experts, scholars and film critics, I will still pay to watch it in the cinema, so the box office of "Hero" will not be affected by any public opinion media in China.

This movie plunged Dragon Kingdom into a new round of craze, basically everyone is discussing this movie, young people discuss the beauty of Tony Leung's handsome Maggie Cheung, and middle-aged people discuss the shocking picture of the movie, and they don't care about the ideological core of the film criticized by the media.

For most audiences, watching a movie is a visual experience, and if a certain plot touches, then the movie will be applauded.

As for the artistry and value of the movie, it will only be discussed by some niche audiences who really love movies.

The greatness of the art of film lies in this point, it can be appreciated by both the elegant and the vulgar, so it is understandable that it has become the eighth major art.

Just when Zhang Yiyan was suffering from gains and losses in the joy of box office success and the abuse of his peers, he received congratulations from many friends, but he did not receive a call from Wang Yao, which made him very difficult.

Because this movie also wants to prove to Western films that Dragon Kingdom also has works that are qualified for industrial and commercial films, he is more concerned about the repercussions of Hollywood, because this determines whether Dragon Kingdom films can conquer Hollywood in the future and feed back the importance of the domestic market in the overseas market.

Under the premise of global economy, if the film is only developed in the domestic market, it will be hollowed out by Hollywood sooner or later, because in recent years, Hollywood blockbusters have become more and more the main choice of domestic audiences, and the box office has flowed abroad, and domestic films are not competitive, so they will be abandoned by the audience, and then the entire Dragon Kingdom film industry will become a slave industry of Hollywood, and movies can only be processed for them, and the entire industry will become a colony of Western culture.

Only by exporting culture can we ensure that it is not wiped out and encroached upon.