Chapter 150: I'm Just a Director
In other words, the talk about domestic movies is really interesting.
You can go back and comb through it.
About 11 years ago, many people deliberately believed that American movies were the best movies in the world, and only Jia Zhangke could make good movies in China.
However, in 14 and 15 years, especially in the year when "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" was released, there began to be a wide range of voices criticizing the sixth generation of filmmakers led by Jia Zhangke, believing that their films were excessively flattering to Western film critics in terms of content and form, and were films that flattered Europe and the United States.
15 years later, the release of three movies, "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", "Operation Mekong", "Wolf Warrior 2", especially "Wolf Warrior 2", the whole people fell into a state of madness, and even no criticism of "Wolf Warrior 2" was allowed.
Because its theme is to praise the strength of the motherland.
If you say that "Wolf Warrior 2" is a bad movie, you are a counter-revolutionary, a cent, a pen, kneel and lick your American father!
All right!
The motherland is strong, and the national pride has been unprecedentedly raised!
However, we are a big country, can't we withstand a little criticism?
That's just a movie, is there a big thing related to the national economy and people's livelihood?
We used to laugh at Koreans, saying that they are arrogant, typical of self-aggrandizement, they don't welcome Kim Ki-duk all over the country, just because his films are typical criticism, he criticizes everything, Kim Ki-duk has almost become a person who has been collectively rejected by the film industry in South Korea, and he can't even find investment in making new films when he is isolated...
Isn't it very similar to Jia Zhangke?
Chief Jia is a little too obsessed with the past, and the most common thing in his films is the tragedy and joy of the little people, using realism to expose various contradictions and problems in the development of Chinese social modernization and globalization...
With such a large Chinese film market, can't Jia Zhangke be accommodated?
Well, I'm in the water word count...
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"First of all, I am a Chinese, and secondly, I am a director, I think the first audience of my films must be Chinese audiences, as for the works you said affect the world, the theme is too huge, at least before the age of forty, I will not consider making such a film!"
Xu Hui smiled and answered reporters' questions.
"But you said on Weibo yesterday that you also want to win the award, if you follow your logic and simply shoot a movie that meets the audience's aesthetics, it will be difficult for you to do it!"
The reporter of Southern Weekly, well, is a reporter who is deeply influenced by the ideas of public knowledge!
"When the marketization matures, more and more commercial films appear in the market, and the audience has further aspirations, I will consider transforming and making some in-depth movies. ”
"Transformation?"
"Of course, you don't think I'll make commercial films for the rest of my life!"
"Do you think China should now implement a more democratic system?
"I'm just a director, I don't understand political matters, but I think people should still think independently, don't be so easily manipulated by online speech, there are so many people in China, the speech of one or two million people does not represent public opinion, and this number is expanding by a hundred times, it's about the same!"
Undoubtedly, the reporter mentioned the two arguments on the Internet about 'world citizenship' and 'nationalism', and incidentally, also mentioned Xu Hui's thoughts on existing politics.
Pao Hui didn't really want to talk about that.
In recent years, there are always some people who want to criticize two sentences of current affairs, democracy, constitutionalism, and the rule of law are all more popular, and the public Vs are of course more keen on all kinds of discussions, talking about what is the head of this system of checks and balances, and they must call the United States, and the United States imperialism is a role model!
Gao Xiaosong, a famous American, said, 'The 72 sages who founded the United States are really awesome and created a system of separation of powers...'
Why don't you say that Taizu has liberated the whole of China with a few millet plus rifles?
Well, this rhetoric was not eased a little until the 2017 US general election ...
By the way, Li Bingbing once posted a Weibo, saying that he was pricked with a needle, and the nurse couldn't prick the blood vessel three times, and finally changed the place to pierce it, although it was pricked, but the blood sprayed onto the bed.
As a result, countless public intellectuals have come to the scene, angrily criticizing how inhumane hospitals in Chinese mainland are, saying that nurses may be relatives of the president, and that the quality of medical staff in China is poor.
In the afternoon, Li Bingbing deleted the original Weibo and updated the Weibo, the original text was almost unchanged, except for adding a sentence at the end of the original article: "I began to miss the beauty of domestic medical staff." It turned out that she had the needle in Australia, not in China.
After finding out that he was slapped in the face, a group of people who originally blamed the poor quality of Chinese medical staff immediately touted, saying that Australia is good, it is equality, and they will not send particularly good nurses to give you injections just because you are a star, which reflects Australia's democracy and equality, which is an unsurpassed value, and by the way, he also complained that Li Bingbing has thin blood vessels, saying that Westerners have thick blood vessels, so nurses are used to thick blood vessels, and suddenly inject for Oriental fine blood vessels, not used to it, and it is understandable that they can't be pierced, and they want Li to be more considerate of other nurses...
Ay!
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"Don't you think that the existing China has a lot of problems?"
“… I'm just a director..."
"Sorry, we don't answer this question!"
Pao Hui's agent, Chen Sangsang, finally remembered what he should do - block the gun.
Directly blocked further questions from journalists.
Artists are being harassed by the media, and agents and assistants are required to take on less popular roles, which is their job!
"I still hope that everyone can focus on the movie itself, instead of discussing things outside the movie, I don't have any big wishes, I just hope to make a few good movies, so I won't answer questions about things outside the movie in the future, thank you. ”
After all, he still has to use the media to promote the movie, and he doesn't want to make such a fuss.
The reporters didn't really want to target Xu Hui, they just wanted to get some explosive news, so eye-catching, he said it so clearly, everyone had to follow his thoughts, and asked a few questions about the plot and actors of "Sunshine Sisters".
"Director Xu, some netizens broke the news on Weibo, saying that you had a night party with actress Wan Qian the night before yesterday..."
"Really?"
Pao Hui glanced at the reporter in surprise.
"Really, they also left pictures. ”
"You're talking about Wan Qian! Yes, there is such a thing, well, Wan Qian has always been an actor I admire, and you all know that I am preparing a work, and I need an actress with acting skills and a good image, and I went to see her that night, just for the audition, and before half an hour came, I left!
Thankfully, I brought a witness with me.
"Yes, I can prove that the director really just asked my senior sister to stand up, and then looked her up and down, and then decided on the role..."
The fat flute, who was suddenly named, was a little panicked, but still told the audition that night.
However, her statement is a little... Ambiguous...
Damn, there is no need to talk about the specific details!