"Citizen of Distinction" is very academic...

In the past, when the conditions were not good, everyone focused on the play of actors and scripts, and slowly formed this preconceived concept...

What concept?

The most important thing about the film is the actors and directors...

Only actors and directors are the soul and the core, a good movie means that the director has good ideas, the actors perform well, and all other staff members are tool people, and their existence is only to realize the director's ideas and give the actors a place to play.

The shots, the music, the props, the special effects, the editing, everything else in the movie is completely ignored...

By this standard, the more literary the better!

This is the kind of work that the academic school admires!

Later, the side door in their eyes was slowly and even able to replace them...

They start to get scared, which affects their jobs, but they don't want to learn.

They don't want to believe that the combination of the two can develop better and better...

Rely on what they think is excellent to maintain their decency.

Develop? Forget it...

Pulling back, the meaning of these words is that "Citizen Illustri" is very much in line with the taste of European film festivals, both in terms of pictures and shots, which are very cinematic...

Generally speaking, when making an artist's film, the director often romanticizes it.

For example, "Mozart's Biography" deliberately emphasizes his madness and innocence;

For example, "Shakespeare's Love History", the greatest playwright in the history of literature, is like a second-rate male star who creates scandals every day...

The protagonist of "Outstanding Citizen" is a great writer.

This is actually very dramatic, because the relationship between the writer and reality is very absurd.

The average person doesn't care about literature at all, but about other things that literature brings.

This dooms the writer to be incompatible with reality.

The protagonist of "Outstanding Citizen" is a world-famous writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature...

Officials dined with him, prestigious universities awarded him honorary degrees, and cultural events invited him to be a judge. Fashionistas use his books as talking points, and superficial people want to take pictures with him.

He can't write a book.

Hometown invited him at this time.

But what kind of relationship does he have with his hometown? Or what is the relationship between all writers and their hometown?

Writers are naturally dissatisfied people, and they must have abhorred the vulgarity of their homeland. Vanity is the first condition for becoming a writer, so any writer is bound to run away from home.

Therefore, Lu Xun said: great people are often not allowed in their hometowns.

What's more, the protagonist's work belongs to the local school...

Therefore, after winning the award, many people questioned: Why is the image of the people in your hometown so ugly?

Label him a 'traitor' who 'makes a fortune by slandering his own countrymen'.

Depicting the dark side = denigration.

A similar logic has been tried and tested around the world.

When he returned to his hometown, he encountered a series of uncontrollable things, and the villagers were not interested in literature at all, but just wanted to profit from him as a matter of course...

In the movie, the actor was specially arranged to give three lectures in three days;

For the first time, it was overcrowded, and everyone wanted to hear about the new world that this Nobel laureate in literature would bring to the table.

By the second time, half of the people were gone, and the president of the Artists' Guild rushed in, holding a bunch of leaflets with a fragment of the male protagonist in his hand: "Look, this man is currying favor with the whole of Europe by denigrating his homeland!" ”

The third time, I was about to leave, and there were only 5 people left in the whole lecture site...

In fact, if Shen Xudong is brave enough, he can write a little bit of the plot that sets the tone above.

After all, in China, the power of public opinion is usually top-down!

In addition to this, it is more about the attitude of some people towards him after the actor returns to his hometown...

For example, when recording a show, the host asked the male protagonist two questions according to the process, but after hearing the answer, he didn't mean to communicate with him, and went straight to the advertisement - I care more about my advertisement than you.

Others – I am more concerned about your status as a world-renowned scholar than your work yourself.

They gave the highest courtesy that a small county town could give, and they mobilized the town's fire trucks to parade him through the streets, and the scenery was infinite; They collected photos of the "son of Midong County" from his childhood, edited them into a film, and screened them at the welcome ceremony; They built a personal statue of him...

In fact, it's just that the Nobel Prize-winning identity was warmly entertained by the residents of the town, and the male protagonist Danny did not.

People never talk about his work and don't care about him personally.

As long as everyone wants the name of Nobel Prize winner, the person under the name is Danny, and it doesn't matter if it's Nidan.

Even these warm treats are mixed with selfish desires.

The fan sister threw herself into her arms, hoping that the male protagonist could take her away;

The father and son found the male protagonist, hoping that the male protagonist could pay for them to buy a wheelchair;

Fa Xiao was at the dinner table, and bluntly showed a wave of affection with the male protagonist's ex-girlfriend, and turned around to go to the bar to flirt with the girl;

Because he failed to abide by the rules of the town, the statue of the male protagonist as a Nobel Prize winner was also splashed with red paint...

The film ends with the book launch, where the male protagonist Danny appears in front of the media with his new book, called "Distinguished Citizen", which records his experiences in his hometown.

A reporter asked, 'Is it real or fiction?' ’

The actor played by Chen Daoming grinned: "Does it matter? There are three things that are essential to create: paper, pen, and vanity! All I know is that I will never be able to return to my hometown again in my life, I will no longer be welcome there! ”

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"Citizen of Distinction" is a great movie for most Western audiences...

Because, in fact, they know that their values are based on the exploitation of other countries' cultural self-esteem...

For a considerable number of Western audiences, they prefer to watch movies that show the poverty and backwardness of other countries, which is a traditional perception of thinking, and it also represents a trend of thought in Western society...

Just like we think that Africa should be poor, primitive and ignorant...

It's just a place to hunt.

If the area is too modern, it loses its taste for curiosity.

As for the mentality of the locals who want to develop ...

Who cares?

Is there any reflection on this mentality?

Of course!

Therefore, after the screening of "Outstanding Citizen", almost no one left the venue, and they all watched it very seriously...

This is a great achievement, when "Coffee Time" and "The World" were released in the Palais des Cinemas, a bunch of people saw half of it, and they didn't even see half of it and left...

Jia Zhangke even heard a bunch of people talking about the plot in each other's ears...

When the film screening ended, a crowd gave a standing ovation...

Standing ovation... It's a kind of etiquette, after all, people come all the way to bring movies, no matter whether they are good or mediocre movies, you have to applaud it, it should be regarded as an encouragement!

Typically, the applause lasts three to five minutes while the creators take the stage for an interview.

Guan Xuan's mentality is very peaceful - originally, he didn't regard "Outstanding Citizen" as his own movie at all, and the script was complete, so he came over to be a director...

led Chen Daoming, Liu Bei and Cao Xiwen to the stage to express their gratitude, and according to his plan, he answered a few questions at will, and it was almost over!

Then he saw a crowd of reporters coming around...

Everyone was enthusiastic...

Hey... It doesn't feel right!