Chapter 103 Cultural Symbols
Yazawa Guobu's interview, after a short period of processing and editing by "MovieWalker", it was sent to Gu Cheng very sincerely and finally confirmed. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
After Gu Cheng nodded, he put it on the Internet and paper magazines on January 12.
Although there are many bad things about Fuso, at least the people still hate the media being censored by the government, and there is no doubt about that.
So much so that when Fuso's A and V industry was on the rise, the National Police Agency was reluctant to send people with a staff in the system to be "pornography experts", feeling that it would damage the government's reputation of "not reaching out indiscriminately". In the end, I selected an old police cadre from the National Police Agency who was about to retire, and set up a thing called "XX Industry Self-Discipline Association", under the banner of a non-governmental self-discipline organization, to review some V works that should be rated R more than ten restrictive levels.
(Note: The "Police Agency" in Fuso is equivalent to the public AN department in Japan, and the "Metropolitan Police Department" is the local police department in the "capital" of Tokyo, which is equivalent to the Tokyo Public AN Bureau in Japan; among the "prefectures", there is only the "police headquarters" in the "prefectures", which is equivalent to the provincial public AN offices in Japan.) In Japan, there is no police department at the level of "ministries and commissions," and the central police agency is a bureau-level unit under the guidance of the "State Public Security Commission," but the "National Public Security Commission" is not only in charge of the police, but also in charge of intelligence. )
In such a country, the media's willingness to show the interviewee the finished draft before publishing it is already a very face-saving behavior.
However, considering Gu Cheng's big-name coffee position, which is notoriously difficult to invite, "MovieWalker's move" can also be understood as a return for the favor, hoping that Gu Cheng will choose MW next time he is willing to be interviewed.
Gu Cheng said frankly that the exceptional popularity of "Sunset in Sanchome" in Dongyi was expected, and admitted that 'the appeal of the hit film mainly comes from Dongyi's reflection on the export transformation of the cultural industry after the Southeast Asian financial crisis in 98, as well as the alienation of practitioners brought about by the huge pressure of homogeneous competition. ’
The follow-up survey of this agency also shows that Dongyi has conducted a sample poll of more than 300,000 viewers who have watched the film in the early stage of "Sunset in Sanchome", of which 27% of the interviewed audience admitted to be practitioners in the cultural and creative, design and other intellectual property industries, and another 45% of the audience said that there were close relatives and in-laws in their families with relevant practitioners.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Labor of Dongyi, according to the employment situation this year, the number of employees in the above-mentioned industries accounts for only 4% of the employment in the secondary and tertiary industries. It can be seen that the appeal of this film to the above groups of people has exceeded that of the general public by more than 5 times. ”
As soon as this investigative report came out, the Fuso film industry and the entire cultural and creative industry were in an uproar, and the subsequent reaction from Dongyi's side was not small.
"A Chinese person is qualified to tell the 'universal truth' in movies? Is it true or false? Isn't it true that only Hollywood's rice country fathers have always been qualified to do this kind of thing?" This is the reaction of the vast majority of people who eat melons in Fusang and Dongyi.
Especially many young people who are not deeply involved in the world, four years ago, they may still be middle school students, high school students, and even children in the fifth or sixth grade of primary school, who watched "Meteor Garden" starring Gu Cheng when he was 16 years old, and were infected by Gu Cheng's cold and self-reckless recklessness in the play, and tried to learn from him to be cool. (After all, this is the widest audience in Asia among all the works Gu Cheng has participated in before.) )
In just four years, the oldest of these people is only in college, and the younger one has just graduated from junior high school, and no one has stepped into society.
They don't know the hardships of the world, and they don't care about the news of the industry, at most, based on the consideration of chasing stars, they regard and worship Gu Cheng's deeds in the past two years as gossip, and they know that Gu Cheng has a lot of money. When encountering frustration in social contact, the most common choice is to retreat to become a herbivorous man.
After all, Fusang and Dongyi are both in a period of recession and consolidation, and there is no rising social-ladder. There is no indication of how much money each person can make, what kind of job they will find, no additional opportunities, and no one expects any unexpected adventures.
The idols they chased four years ago faded out of the field of vision of star chasers because they gradually turned behind the scenes. I didn't expect that when I came back again, it was actually in this kind of posture of guiding the country.
A lonely, unruly and independent arrogant cultural person, there is a little shallow decadence in his appearance, but he is so powerful in his bones that he is incomparably strong.
This kind of contrast with the idol route back then is too difficult for fans to accept.
As for the acting skills of the people in the film, although they are also well received by professional critics, the audience generally ignores these aspects.
Mika Nakajima's decadence and Maki Horikita's vigor, even if they are a little labeled, at least complement the layering of the group drama.
The old drama bone Takeshi Kaneshiro has a very clear sense of hierarchy from the initial high-spirited, to the confused review, and finally to the calm and mature.
Of course, the most natural is obviously Gu Cheng. It's not that his acting skills are better than those of old actors like Jin Chengwu, but that his role is the most natural and true.
All contrasts, relying on publicity and Gu Cheng's own fame, make this art film not as neglected by the public and unwilling to bother to interpret as other literary directors. On the contrary, the general public is willing to spend time and energy to think deeply about and experience this movie.
This subtle social impact is a treatment that other people in the entertainment industry can't get, and it can't be replicated at all - you can imagine that Gu Cheng makes movies, no matter what happens to literature and art, because of the great success of his personal life, there must be countless blind believers who are willing to take the time to interpret it.
Just like after "Ma Feng's father" became the richest man in parallel time and space, he pretended to be a forced painting and randomly scribbled a "@" shaped symbol, and countless people were willing to listen to him interpret this painting and tell the "Tai Chi story" in it. (Of course, there are also trolls who spray "successful people's Xiang is philosophical, chicken soup")
Because of the strong patience of the public, more and more young people who are just about to step into society are moved. Those who have been slightly frustrated and have experienced it for several years are even more tearful, nostalgic, and want to be reborn, and finally find that even if they are not reborn, it seems that they can have one more path in life. Several levels of taste are like the aftertaste of alcohol, diffusing for a long time.
"Has anyone read 'The Long Tail Theory'? Is there still a chance in our decadent and unemployed world, as Gu Sang said? Just like the world of 'pollute first, clean up later', is there any hope?"
"From primitive society to capital attention society, the degree of exploitation is proportionally more and more serious, but this does not mean that the final form of human beings must be more serious than that of capital paying attention to social exploitation.
In the process of industrial development, pollution became more and more serious in the early stage, and life for money did not mean that life for money would be more important in the future. The 'Matthew effect' mentioned in the book, I am now beginning to doubt it for the first time. ”
From Tokyo to Osaka, from Kobe to Fukuoka, millions of decadent herbivore men, after watching the movie, Murky Murky began to go to the library, looked up information on the Internet, and for the first time in their lives decided to seriously do something that was a little really constructive.
The fans stopped the pace of helping J buy bags, and began to find kind uncles to watch movies, and said that they were just talking about life, at most going to the café to talk about life, not going to the hotel.
"Ask the experienced uncle to watch a movie and drink coffee at most. I don't want money, I don't want to go to the hotel, I want to know if the era described by Brother Cheng was really like this? Those who were eliminated by the depression really lived well?"
"Tongqiu, I'm serious, I'm still a virgin, and I haven't helped J. Of course, I'm not pretty, so I beg a kind uncle who doesn't have crooked thoughts to take me to the movie. ”
"I used to think that art was all poignant and business was cool. I didn't expect to see poignant art sold so well in my lifetime. ”
Such a state is everywhere on the overseas version of YY.com, and it has soon developed to the point that some Fuso netizens are on YY post bar or YY group chat tool to discuss movies and life insights.
The statistics department of the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Fuso quickly found that in January 2005, the opening rate of hotels for minors was 17% lower than the same period last year, and 11% lower than in December '04. At the same time, the number of girls participating in the aid of J is increasing, 20% of the girls are the first time in their lives to aid J, and they have always been good girls, but even if they are invited to watch a movie and drink coffee, they will stop ordering, and they do not go to the hotel to open a room like the traditional J girl.
The ratio of minors to game halls and discotheques fell slightly by 4%, while the library borrowing rate of universities and middle schools increased by 9%, and there was no significant fluctuation in theme cafes, but the business of theme cafes near movie theaters was obviously much better.
Then, it is not only people in the entertainment industry and the media who pay attention to the social significance and social value of this film. The film seems to have a tendency to rise to become a cultural symbol of the era.
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When all this public opinion trend was fermenting in Fusang, Gu Cheng himself had returned to Qiantang and devoted himself to the work deployment before the winter vacation. As for what happened in Fuso, he no longer paid attention to it at the first time.
For an Internet company that targets users of social and entertainment products, winter and summer vacations are the most important seasons to attract fans, especially film and television products, which rely on the profitability of Chinese New Year files.
Unfortunately, just a few days after he returned to China, early in the morning of January 16th, one weekend chief day, his secretary transferred him a call from Fuso, saying that a senior singer wanted to talk to him about something.
Not for money, purely for feelings.
At that time, Gu Cheng was at home, slept lazily, and had breakfast with Pan Jieying.
When he received the call, he was a little confused, but seeing that the other party was so polite, he agreed: "Pick me up." ”
The phone was quickly connected, and a somewhat vicissitudes of an aunt's voice came: "Hello, it's Mr. Gu." Take the liberty of it, my name is Miyuki Nakajima, and you may have heard of me. ”
Gu Cheng was surprised for a moment, and quickly reacted: "It turned out to be Nakajima senior, disrespectful." What's the matter?"