I have to teach the world a lesson

Chinese films, if divided by directors, can be divided into six eras.

It was from the early 1920s to the late 1920s, when the entire Chinese society was in turmoil, and feudalism and progress were intertwined. Many people were not satisfied with writing and drama performances to render art, and began to pursue another new form called "movies". Most of them are silent films, satirizing feudalism and social reality...

That group of directors can be regarded as the founders of Chinese cinema who are worthy of respect.

later……

Time has come to the 1960s.

The fourth generation of directors…

Basically, they were all graduates of the Beijing Film Academy in the 1960s. Most of the films they made "threw away the crutch of drama" and pursued a simple and natural style and open structure. The countryside gradually became the central theme of their works...

The fifth generation of directors has experienced some changes in China and suffered a lot of hardships. They were educated youths who went to the countryside, and some even relied on selling their blood to maintain their film art.

Because of suffering, most of the things photographed have some social ambiguity, but this kind of metaphor is more subtle, and the content of the performance also begins to combine Chinese and Western...

Then……

To the sixth generation!

The sixth generation of directors in this world have not experienced the upsurge of cultural revolution, but they have seen the invasion of European and American culture.

Most of them went to study abroad and saw the prosperous scenes overseas, and then returned to China for some reason...

Under the influence of European and American culture, in order to win awards, to gain international status, and to be so-called "international directors", some directors unconsciously became underground directors who made films that "satirized China and revealed its scars". Then, gradually, Turning ugliness into an art form.

Internationally, some judges don’t know if they are driven by mysterious forces, or if they think this is art in their eyes...

Since the beginning of the new millennium, many films in China that flatter foreign adults have been hung in palaces and become templates...

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The sunlight seeped through the windows and came in.

It shined on Zhang Sheng's desk.

Xin Xiaoqi's USB flash drive was just placed on the table.

Zhang Sheng looked out the window.

After finishing speaking in a serious voice, he closed his eyes.

Xin Xiaoqi looked at Zhang Sheng's back with a little unwillingness. For a moment, she suddenly felt extremely strange to Zhang Sheng.

She once thought that she knew Zhang Sheng very well, and she knew the [Southern California International Film Awards] even better...

She felt that this was a means in Zhang Sheng’s business layout. The brand’s advertising fees, the 10 million movie screening fee, the ubiquitous money making methods, all [art], all [authority] were Serve for money.

But, at this moment, it seemed to be gradually different.

However, she still felt unwilling.

"Mr. Zhang, I will obey you unconditionally no matter how you decide or arrange it. However, I don't think a movie is a culture war!"

"..."

"The essence of art is an extreme. Being extremely beautiful is a kind of art. Being extremely ugly is an art. Even being extremely bad is also an art. Art itself is free. It needs more and more. A wider range of expressions, naturally, art has no national boundaries and is a form of expression that all mankind pursues..."

"..."

Xin Xiaoqi looked at Zhang Sheng's back seriously.

The movie "Red Corn" did not participate in the exhibition. At most, she was a little regretful and felt that she was unworthy of the instructions of her predecessors.

However, a kind of ideological dispute was really unacceptable to her. She even felt that Zhang Sheng was feudal, closed-minded, and exaggerated.

"Have you been to Europe and the United States?"

"Been there..."

"How many places in Europe and America have you been to?"

"many places."

“Are they glamorous?”

"It's very glamorous and beautiful, and at the same time, everyone is polite and like a gentleman..."

Xin Xiaoqi saw Zhang Sheng turn his head and look at her lightly.

Faced with Zhang Sheng's eyes, Xin Xiaoqi did not shy away, because in her heart, everything she did had a clear conscience and was the most correct thing in her own mind.

After finishing speaking, she even added: "Mr. Zhang, if Chinese films want to rise, they should be more inclusive! I always feel that our [Southern California International Film Awards] is a more inclusive award... It is inclusive The difference is that it is colorful and even more brilliant. It has truly gone international and been recognized by more overseas filmmakers..."

"Where does the knowledge in your film school textbooks come from?" Zhang Sheng asked suddenly without responding.

"It originates from the West, and movies also originate from the West..." Xin Xiaoqi replied.

"So, with many subtle rules, we involuntarily tended to the West, thinking that everything in the West was the truth. Then, countless values ​​​​began to lean towards the West involuntarily. Gradually, some of the backbones that should have been upright, Subtly, some knees were bent, and some of the internationally renowned film festivals, such as [Berlin], [Cannes], [Oscar], and [Venice], coerced themselves with awards under the Western ideology. Only by following the mainstream of Chinese films and letting Chinese films make according to their wishes can they win awards..."

"..."

"After Chinese films won awards, they were screened internationally and seen by countless people. After watching the films, many people began to feel that China was barbaric, poor, narrow-eyed, and broken... Even countless people subconsciously I thought China was in the 1960s..."

"..."

"You think that is art, and the ultimate is art. However, art can be diversified and does not necessarily have to show ugliness to be profound! To really make you feel that ugliness is profound, isn't it the subtle Western culture that deliberately uses various propaganda to Various awards, various cultural invasions, things that are imprinted in your minds? That is an ideology, an invisible invasion, a weapon more terrifying than swords and bullets..."

Zhang Sheng looked at Xin Xiaoqi, his voice was still calm.

However, every word in the voice seemed like a needle piercing Xin Xiaoqi's heart.

Xin Xiaoqi opened her mouth and wanted to refute, but after a long time, no refutation came out.

"Art has no borders, but artists have borders..."

Zhang Sheng then added another sentence.

Xin Xiaoqi was speechless. Since she has been making movies, many seniors in the screenwriting circle, the directing circle, and the film and television academy are very obsessed with Western culture and yearn for it.

In this environment, she was influenced by what she saw and heard, and gradually thought that that world was a real world.

"The goodness and beauty you see are all shrouded in a gorgeous coat. You have participated in the [Southern California International Film Awards], and you have even been to the slums of Rocinha, and that slum is still the same. It's still there, it's still huge, and the lives of many people have not changed much! But have you noticed that in the days after you went there, you couldn't see the slums at all? Did you see that in the land of Brazil now, you Look at the news, look at the economy, do you think everything is prosperous and prosperous?" Zhang Sheng stared at Xin Xiaoqi.

Xin Xiaoqi's face turned pale, and she took a few steps back, as if she had been hit hard: "Mr. Zhang, you mean, we are all..."

"Everything you see is what someone asked you to see, what you think is what someone asks you to think of, and what you praise is what someone asks you to praise..." Zhang Sheng pushed up his glasses. , continues to reveal part of the truth about this world.

Xin Xiaoqi's face turned even paler. The ideas and worldview she had gained since childhood...

She was hit by an unprecedented shock at this moment. She suddenly felt so frightened that she didn't know how to speak.

"And in the darkness, all these hints, or accomplices, may be a movie, a TV series, a comic, a brand, an advertisement..."

"..."

"This is a war. We live in a peaceful age, but this is only peace on the surface. The truly cruel, cold, and suffocating war has just begun..."

"..."

"[Southern California International Film Awards] is an ordinary film festival, but it is a window, a window for many people in the world to see China...it may have messy things, but It’s not perfect, and may even be ugly sometimes, but the movies in it are never about belittling oneself and then kneeling down and kowtowing to those Western adults..."

"..."

"The rules set by the West are still very tough, but one day we will break those rules..."

Xin Xiaoqi sat down on the sofa in the office.

There was no color left on her beautiful face.

She lowered her head, feeling a little lost in a trance, even ashamed of herself...

After Zhang Sheng said this, he drank some water and continued watching another movie.

I don't know how long it took before Xin Xiaoqi regained some of her color.

She suddenly felt that Zhang Sheng was doing something extremely great.

He looked up.

"what can I do?"

"You don't need to make movies that are deliberately flattering or derogatory. If you regard movies as art, then you need to make something profound, with profundity as the keynote and environment as the supplement. If you want to make commercial movies, then , you please the audience and shoot popular art... The higher a person stands, the further away he can see, but at the same time, it is more important to know his position..."

"I...I know."

Xin Xiaoqi nodded.

Then, he left the office silently.

After Xin Xiaoqi left, Zhang Sheng sat back in his chair and continued watching the movie.

Just at this time……

His phone rang.

It was Xu Zhenghua from Huaxia Bank who called.

"Ma Yunhua was in the news just now. He said that he was about to do something great. What do you think it is?"

"What's up?"

"His mobile phone [Zhilibao] APP will be launched early next year. Among them is [Yulibao], which has high interest rates and is ready to help everyone make a fortune..."

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