On the second day, the film "Sunrise" was reported at length in Shanghai's newspapers, including Shanghai's foreign-language newspapers.

The focus of their report was that the movie made a sound, which was amazing, and the plot of "Sunrise" was ignored, which made Hong Shen quite helpless.

"Sunrise" is a work he has put all his heart to, and art has become a foil for technology.

This is also a point of debate in the media, who is the root of art and technology in film.

They believe that sound film is a technology that destroys the performing art of film.

This controversy persisted in later generations, and the advent of special effects in movies made film performances less and less important.

Even actors don't need acting skills, just pose in front of a green screen and put it on the computer to compose, and a movie is made.

This is actually the difference between commercial films and art films, commercial films focus on technology, and art films focus on performance.

In this era, the emergence of sound films, like the emergence of special effects in later films, is a technological innovation that is bound to cause fierce debate.

The voice of decay continues, thinking that sound movies will not last long, and can only be short-lived.

Once the novelty of the audience has passed, they will get tired of this kind of sound-making film and re-appreciate the performing art of film.

Radicals believe that sound movies bring a new listening experience, and with sound movies, who will go to watch that kind of dumb movie in the future, which is too boring.

Lin Zixuan knew that because of the cost of sound film shooting and the problem of theaters, silent films would exist for a while.

But the tide of the times is rolling in and cannot be stopped.

He now faces an awkward problem, that is, the copy of "Sunrise" cannot be sold.

Nanyang's studios took a wait-and-see attitude, because even if they took back the copy of "Sunrise", there was no cinema in Nanyang that could show such sound films, and it would take a lot of money to renovate the cinema.

If sound movies are really short-lived, it would be a loss.

Therefore, they would rather wait for a year and a half than make a move now, anyway, silent films are still very popular with the audience now, and they are not in a hurry.

Lin Zixuan has no way to do this, and the promotion of any new technology will take time.

"Sunrise" is just a test of the waters, what he really cares about is the "Havoc in Heaven" at the end of the year, which is a big production.

When the time comes, seeing the effect, he believes that more people will join the ranks of sound films.

What he has to do now is to send "Jinmen Hero Huo Yuanjia" and "Sunrise" to the United States for release, and it just so happens that Douglas Sheila is also going back to the United States.

The American spent half a year in Shanghai, which was an extraordinary experience.

When he returns to the United States, he will not go to the odd jobs, but will devote himself to the film industry and prepare to make films.

Lin Zixuan expressed his support for this, and it is undoubtedly a good thing to have a director he is familiar with in Hollywood.

He will even provide financial support, and with this relationship, the director of the star film company can go to Hollywood to study, and the actors will have the opportunity to participate in the shooting of American films.

This is a very cost-effective investment in the long run.

Lin Zixuan sent Douglas Sheila back to the United States, and in London, England, Xu Zhimo was preparing to attend an important party.

Xu Zhimo has been in the UK for two years, and in addition to studying, he especially likes to make friends with British celebrities.

In April 1921, he was introduced by the British novelist Charles Dickinson to study political economy at King's College, Cambridge University, where he became acquainted with many British scholars and celebrities.

For example, Bian Yin, Wei Lei, Zhai Lisi and others in the British sinology circle, he also visited the famous British poet and novelist Hardy and Mansfield, the founder of New Zealand literature.

This became the capital to increase his worth after returning to China, and he always mentioned the names of these people in the article.

In August 1922, he left Cambridge University and returned to London, where he continued to wander the high society of England.

In September, he received an important invitation, an invitation to a poetry reading.

In Europe and the United States, poets do not write poems like Chinese poets, but invite close friends or acquaintances to gather together in the process of poetry creation, and recite their poems at the party for everyone to enjoy.

In this process, everyone can discuss the poems, which is also conducive to stimulating the inspiration of the poet.

This is a common occurrence in the British literary world.

The reason why this invitation is so important is that the person who invited it is called Virginia Woolf.

In the world of English literature, she is not considered to have entered the circle of English literature without joining the Bloomsbury group represented by Virginia Woolf, who is a central figure in the London literary world.

From 1906 onwards, the Virginia brothers met friends in Cambridge who came to their homes to meet and gradually formed a center of literature and scholarship, known as the Bloomsbury Group.

This included a large number of elites in the cultural circles of the time.

Its core members are: writer Leonard Woolf, art critic Clive Bell, biographer Lytton Stredge, literary critic Desmond McCarthy, economist John Maynard Keynes, painter Duncan Grant, art critic Roger Fry, writer Foster, etc.

In addition, the philosopher Russell, the poets Eliot and Joyce, and the novelists Henry James and Aldus Huxley were also closely associated with the Bloomsbury group.

Take the economist John Maynard Keynes, for example, whose macroeconomics, along with Freud's psychoanalysis and Einstein's theory of relativity, have been called the three major revolutions in human intellectuals in the twentieth century.

These people are the real elite of Britain.

Xu Zhimo has been yearning for this elite circle for a long time, but without anyone to introduce him, he can't enter at all, so he attaches great importance to this gathering, and he feels that he has finally entered the inner circle of the British cultural circle.

This gave him a sense of being valued and respected.

When he arrived at 29 Fitzroy Square in London, he learned that this was a poetry reading by the American poet Thomas Eliot, and that all of the leading figures in British poetry were involved, most of whom were symbolist poets.

The poem that Eliot recites is called "The Waste Land."

This is not the first time that Eliot has read this poem on the spot, he has written it for several months, during which time he has repeatedly revised it, and also listened to the advice of other poets, and has become quite famous in the English poetry world.

This time it's his final draft.

The poetry recital was a great success, and the poets and scholars present were very excited, thinking that it was a masterpiece of symbolism, a very remarkable poem.

Xu Zhimo also applauded and praised the poem.

At this time, Eliot found him, holding a thin book of poetry.

"My main inspiration for writing 'The Waste Land' came from this poetry collection, I inquired about this poet, it is said that he is from China, and Mr. Xu is also from China, I wonder if you can introduce me to this poet." Elliot said kindly.

Xu Zhimo took the poetry collection, looked at the name on the cover, and translated into Chinese is "A Generation".