Chapter 476: The Darkness of Reason
In the first week of July, the Great Wall Film and Television Base is still in full swing to welcome tourists from all over the country.
From the first day, the number of tourists increased dramatically almost every day, and it was not until the fifth day that the growth rate of tourists slowly subsided.
Many viewers with a wait-and-see attitude couldn't help but be moved after seeing the praise of other netizens for the film and television base.
Especially after Han Qiu announced in a high-profile manner that this would be the holy land of Chinese films, the audience's enthusiasm was even higher.
If this is said by other directors and other film and television companies, the Chinese audience will not believe it, but if Hua Xian and Han Qiu say it, then the convincing power will break through the sky.
What kind of company is Huaxian?
That's a film company that almost monopolizes the Huaxia box office!
Any director who comes out of it is worth billions, not to mention Han Qiu, so many movies add up, and the box office has already broken the 10 billion mark.
It is not too much to say that the Great Wall and Huaxian are the holy land of Chinese films.
Because in Huaxian, no matter what audience can find the type of movie they want to watch, love, action, sci-fi, comedy, horror, all of them. And it's not a bad movie, even if it's a popcorn movie, it's also a top-notch popcorn, the kind that is addictive when you eat it.
Of course, a combination of romance and action: *****, uh, that's not it.
Regarding this, Han Qiu is really convinced of the island country, especially thanks to those "teachers" who dedicate themselves to art. Thank you for teaching the people the essence of love action.
On this day, Lin Hua is also preparing to go to the United States to shoot *****, uh no, it's a romance movie.
Now that the matter of the film and television base has come to an end, they, the bigwigs of Huaxian, have also withdrawn from the center of the lively whirlpool.
Ye Chen had already rushed to Xiangjiang with Zhou Xingchi to prepare for the start of "Kung Fu", but Lin Hua was a beat slower and had not yet gone abroad.
At this moment, early in the morning, at Modu International Airport, Han Qiu personally drove his good brother abroad.
"Alas, you've been gone for more than half a year."
Outside the airport, Han Qiu handed his luggage to Lin Hua with a slightly embarrassed expression.
"Don't take 50 steps and laugh at 100 steps." Lin Hua waved his hand, "When you were filming abroad back then, you couldn't see you all year round, so you were embarrassed to talk about me?" ”
"Uh.... I don't go abroad very often now. ”
"Yes, I won the Oscar for Best Director, why do you go abroad?" Lin Hua squinted at Han Qiu, "Wait, when I get the Oscar in the future, I can comfortably make movies in China." Just like you, you don't go abroad and are still well-known all over the world. ”
Han Qiu was speechless: "......."
"Alright, I'm leaving, let's send it here."
"Well, if you encounter any trouble, you can go to Ziren first, that kid is more familiar with Hollywood than me, just tell him if you lack anything." Han Qiu reminded.
"OK, no problem, I'll go find the Master of Horror." Waving his hand, Lin Hua dragged his suitcase into the airport.
......
Han Qiu turned around and went back to the car and made a call to Wen Ziren.
"Hey, Director Han?"
"Ziren, Lin Hua is on the plane now, it is estimated that he will be able to go to Los Angeles tonight, and you can arrange someone to pick him up when the time comes."
Wen Ziren was pleasantly surprised: "Brother Hua is here?" Okay, I'll pick him up in the evening. ”
"Hehe, you can do it yourself, don't let him get lost."
"Okay."
"That's right." Han Qiu asked, "How is the situation of the Seven Sins Sect?" ”
"It's not bad, it's already more than $200 million at the box office in the first week." Wen Ziren had a hint of pride in his tone, because this movie was his best since he made the movie.
By the time of the next release, the global box office should exceed $600 million.
This is already a sky-breaking achievement for a thriller and bloody movie.
Han Qiu nodded when he heard this, "The box office is good, but what about word of mouth?" ”
"Overall, the word of mouth is very good, but because it is too dark, some media have seized on this point to criticize the film." Wen Ziren sighed, "Alas, when I made this movie, I almost thought that such a situation would occur. Murky? I just put the sun out of the way on the screen, and I can only say that this is reality. ”
Hearing this, Han Qiu was also silent for a long time before he slowly spoke: "Don't care too much about what the media says, they are here to guide public opinion, as long as the audience thinks the movie is good." ”
"Hmm." Wen Ziren has also been mixed for so many years, so he naturally knows that the mouth of the media is sometimes so cheap.
In the same way, Han Qiu himself knew it. So except for indispensable times, Han Qiu rarely deals with the media. Whether the media praised him or ridiculed him, Han Qiu generally turned a deaf ear.
Just like after the release of Transformers, those idle media directly buttoned a hat of "lost godhead" on Han Qiu's head, although Han Qiu never admitted that he had any godhead, but it was always uncomfortable to be said like this.
This time, though, the Seven Deadly Sins are indeed shady, but that doesn't justify the media disparaging the film.
A dark movie is a bad movie?
Damn, isn't it true that most of those classic movies are bad movies?
After hanging up the phone, Han Qiu returned to the villa and looked at the copies of the seven deadly sins sent by Wen Ziren.
After reading it, Han Qiu did feel a little shocked and depressed in his heart. This repression is different from the Dark Knight. Although Batman carried the black cauldron, was spurned by the people, and became the dark knight who could not see the light, at least Gotham City ushered in the light.
On the other hand, the seven deadly sins are that you can't see a little light.
The movie tells the story of a murderer who punishes those who commit crimes according to the seven major crimes and two police officers, an old man and a young man, to solve the case. It's just that in the end, the murderer laid out the overall situation, still completed his plan, and killed the "sinner".
This made the two officers feel hopeless about this society.
The film seems to be just showing the world that humanity is depraved and that the guilty will be punished. Such a film has a kind of moral exhortation, which makes people reflect on whether they are guilty or not after watching it. However, what is the cause of these people's sin, so that the murderer cannot bear it, and punish them in the name of God and by killing?
The film doesn't seem to give a clear explanation.
Is it because of a lack of faith?
Indeed, in the West, the Enlightenment discovered reason, and since then, reason has been gradually pushed to the supreme position, and people's self-consciousness has been constantly expanding, fully affirming human reason, and beginning to despise God.
In modern times, rationality with science and technology as the core has destroyed the spirit of religious belief, and human beings, who believe that science and technology are omnipotent, feel that reason can achieve everything. Therefore, rationality represented by science has indeed promoted the rapid progress of society and promoted it to complete the process of modernization.
However, reason has increasingly become a shackle that binds people.
The development of society is more and more dependent on such "rationalization" things as efficiency, calculation, and punctuality, which is actually a kind of "materialization", and money and commercial value have become the only measure of all values, and the relationship between people has become increasingly indifferent due to the interests of money.
Just like in the movie, the police officer played by Morgan Freeman meets a woman who has been raped and tells her not to shout for help when she encounters this situation again, and that people will only come to pay attention when she shouts for fire.
Is this a travesty?
Just like in Huaxia now, the old man fell, and not many people dared to go up to help.
Human nature is sometimes really indifferent.
This desperate film, it shows the sinfulness and indifference of the world, but it does not show people how to avoid this deterioration. The film shows the darkest side of the world, completely obscuring the beautiful bright and warm side. Perhaps the love between the male protagonist and the female protagonist played by Hiss is still counted as a ray of light in this dark background, and finally disappeared due to the killing of the female protagonist.
Where is the way out for man?
At the end of the film, the old police officer William quoted Hemingway's words: This world is not a good world, how can it be worth people's struggle?
After watching the movie, Han Qiu turned off the computer and took Hachi to the beach alone. Originally, he still wanted to take the two immortals with him, but the two immortals are now too old to walk too far.
Han Qiu didn't know when the two immortals would leave him, maybe it was today, maybe tomorrow, maybe it would be soon.
"Xiaoba, in the future, when the two immortals leave, you will be the only one to accompany us." Han Qiu sat on the beach, rubbing the head of the little eight who was squatting beside him.
"Wang~~~"
"Hehe, Hachi, fortunately the world you see is only our yard and this piece of seaside, fortunately you can't go online, fortunately you can't understand the world." Han Qiu squinted his eyes and muttered.
Maybe the Seven Deadly Sins show a dark world of heinous crimes, or maybe some of the things are ugly.
Perhaps, we should not be too rational sometimes, and we should not be so rational as to become indifferent.
"Sometimes, it's good to be sensual, how to say, we humans also have feelings, we are emotional creatures, too rational, don't we become robots?" Han Qiu touched Xiao Ba and sighed: "Even robots have three laws, they know how to help humans, we humans can't even be inferior to robots." ”