Chapter 233: Differences between Eastern and Western Cultures
In the Lin family, the one who loves Lin Zhijian's child the most is none other than his aunt Lin Xiaoling.
The aunt felt like she had found a new toy, which worried Feng Chengcheng.
Fortunately, this kind of day did not last long, and on June 23, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng came to Shanghai, accompanied by many students who went to study in the United States.
Most of these people are graduates of Peking University and Tsinghua University, Peking University is famous for its liberal arts, and Tsinghua University is mostly a science elite.
In this day and age, students who are able to study abroad are either talented or have family backgrounds.
With so many people walking together, Lin Zixuan was a little relieved.
As long as he can get to the United States, he has made a lot of arrangements to ensure the safety of his sister.
Through these years of getting along, he accepted this family and this sister, although he was a little reluctant, but this is the only way for a person to grow.
It is better to go abroad to see and broaden your horizons than to marry a strange man after graduating from a girls' school.
The atmosphere of the Republic of China is gradually opening, young people advocate free love, Lin Zixuan supports his sister to find his own happiness, as long as he is not a foreigner, he is not ready to have a foreign brother-in-law.
In this respect, he is conservative.
In later generations, many women wanted to marry foreigners and have foreign nationality, but Lin Zixuan did not approve of this.
It can be seen that conservatism is relative, he was a new-style figure during the Republic of China, and in later generations he was a standard conservative.
On the dock, Lin Zixuan sent his sister away and returned home, with a faint melancholy in his heart.
This feeling is called bonding, and his bond in this world is getting deeper and deeper.
Ruan Lingyu also felt the same way, and she felt even more lonely when she sent Lin Xiaoling away.
While missing Lin Xiaoling. She is also worried about her future.
In the girls' school, she was Lin Xiaoling's follower, playing with the students of the girls' school, with Lin Xiaoling covering her, naturally no one dared to bully her, but now she is very worried about the life of the girls' school in the future.
There is cold violence on campus in the Chinese and Western girls' schools, and the students are all daughters of major families in Shanghai. It is not uncommon to compete with each other and fight openly and secretly.
The family power behind it is the basis for their survival in the girls' school, and although the girls' school is strictly managed, it cannot be absolutely banned.
Think about it, hundreds of girls live together all day long, how can there be no contradictions, and they will form gangs and isolate opponents.
Although they don't fight and scold. However, the damage caused by ignoring indifference is sometimes more hurtful than scolding, so students who can graduate from girls' schools have a strong psychological capacity.
This is also the psychological quality they need to have after entering society.
Lin Zixuan saw Ruan Lingyu sitting alone on a garden swing, and her figure was quite lonely.
He found that Ruan Lingyu was actually a girl who liked to play very much, not the tragic heroine she played in the movie in the future, and when she was with Lin Xiaoling, the two would secretly go to the dance hall outside to dance.
I will also read some romance novels of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly faction, and even walk and talk like women in foreign movies.
Before Lin Xiaoling left, she asked him to take care of Ruan Lingyu.
Maybe she should find something to do so that she won't feel lonely.
Lin Zixuan looked at Ruan Lingyu's appearance at this time. I can't help but think of a movie.
As the war between the warlords of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was about to begin, more and more people entered the concession. Although the factory's business was affected, the entertainment industry unexpectedly boomed.
Especially in the film industry, the number of people who go to the theater to watch movies to kill time is increasing day by day.
This is actually very understandable, these people who have taken refuge in the concession have nothing to do all day long, and listening to dramas and watching movies is undoubtedly the best pastime.
Star Pictures has launched a new Journey to the West series, and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has screened the second part. and Zheng Zhengqiu's "Orphan Saves Ancestors" and so on have been successful.
Meng Xiaodong's reputation is in full swing, and she played Huang Rong vividly in the movie and became synonymous with Huang Rong.
The role of Guo Jing is not brilliant in the movie, it is more wooden and clumsy, and it is far less popular than Huang Rong.
Maybe he knows the relationship between Lin Zixuan and Meng Xiaodong. The director who filmed "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" naturally knew who to lean into, and as long as he gave a few more positive close-ups, it could have an unexpected effect.
Zheng Zhengqiu's self-written and directed "Orphan Saves Ancestors" uses child star Dan Erchun, which is a film that reflects reality.
He believes that movies should take on the mission of improving society and educating people's customs, so the films he wrote emphasize moral education, pay attention to practical problems, and pay attention to the connotation of society.
This type of film is generally referred to as a social film.
This was the case when he was in the drama industry, how Zhang Shichuan made money, and Zheng Zhengqiu wanted to take care of both business and art, so he was naturally not Zhang Shichuan's opponent.
Lin Zixuan supports Zheng Zhengqiu, anyway, he has a lot of movies that can make money, and Zheng Zhengqiu is responsible for the good reputation of the film company.
He is not worried about the situation of star film companies in China, he is thinking about how to open up the European and American markets.
The screening of "Havoc in Heaven", on which he had high hopes, was not a success in the United States.
The movie is very popular with Chinese Americans, but Americans just watch this story and don't know much about it.
According to the habit of the United States, Lin Zixuan changed the title of the film to "The Story of a Monkey Challenging the Gods", but the contrast between the gods in the movie and the gods in the minds of Americans is too great for them to accept.
The gods of China are too human, not much different from the human world, and there is no sense of mystery and fear.
The gods in the minds of Americans are angels with wings and Satan in hell, neither of whom will hold a peach feast, but harvest people's souls, so that they are mysterious and powerful gods.
They don't think that Lord Yama, who was casually bullied by a monkey, is the Great Demon King of Satan, the contrast is too great.
This is the difference between Eastern and Western cultures.
As for the other films of Star Studios, the effect is similar, and Americans just watch Chinese movies with a curious mentality, but they have no sense of cultural identity.
Although he made a lot of dollars, it did not meet Lin Zixuan's expectations, and he mainly wanted to spread Chinese culture.
According to Peterson's lawyer, for a film to succeed in the United States, it has to find common ground between the cultures of the two countries.
He specifically mentioned the movie "Shanghai Holiday", which is a good example, as an American, he can understand it and be deeply moved, this is a really good movie.
Lin Zixuan couldn't laugh or cry at this.
"Shanghai Holiday" was originally from "Roman Holiday", a story written in accordance with the thinking habits of Americans, which can naturally be recognized by Americans, and it seems that it is necessary to plagiarize Western classic movies.
He plans to open the European and American film markets first, and then talk about the spread of Chinese culture.
When he saw Ruan Lingyu's lonely appearance, he wanted to make a movie.
It tells the story of a professional killer named Li Ang in Shanghai and a twelve-year-old girl named Martina. (To be continued.) )