The domestic film critics have always been biased against commercial films, and this prejudice has existed for decades. In recent years, with the rise of the commercial tide, commercial films have been increasingly valued. However, the prejudice of the critics against commercial films has never weakened. As long as the director of a commercial film is almost criticized by old experts and professors in the critics.

These commercial directors have long been dissatisfied with these so-called experts and professors. Now when they see Zhang Ran coming out to challenge, they all come out to support Zhang Ran, one by one, like a chicken blood.

The first one was Ning Hao. The few movies he made are not popular among critics. "Crazy Stone" was criticized by Professor Huang Shixian of Beijing Film Academy, saying that it is not a comedy, but a farce; and "Crazy Journey" was even more harsh. Ning Hao was dissatisfied with these people in the critics: "The thinking of domestic film critics is still thirty years ago, and Godard and Bergman always said that it is impossible to keep up with the times, and the key point is to be elm-headed. These are the mainstream in the Chinese film theory circle. You can imagine how scarce Chinese film theory is!"

Feng Xiaogang's movies have never been seen by the critics for so many years. The resentment towards the critics can be said to be as great as the sky: "Zhang Ran is right. Many people in the Chinese critics pretend to be big-tailed wolf, and they always talk about ideas and theory. In fact, they don't know anything. They hold the sticks of thoughts and culture all day long and beat people, and they are just a group of cultural Nazis!"

Of course, the cultural circle and the film critics are not the same as each other, and many support Zhang Ran’s views.

The famous film critic Zhou Liming believes: "Movies have art films and entertainment films, and each has different criticism standards. If we say that for a film that mainly focuses on entertainment, we do not talk about the success of entertainment methods, nor do we study the acceptance effect, but raise the stick of art and culture and beat it to death with one stick, which is not good for the entire film industry."

Rao Shuguang, director of the China Film Critics Society, said: "This debate reflects two issues that cannot be ignored. First, China's current film criticism system is seriously behind the reality of the Chinese film industrialization exhibition, and has not established a critical system that is compatible with the industrialization of Chinese films. Secondly, it reflects from one aspect that most people, including critics, lack corresponding evaluation standards and standards for commercial films. If the evaluation system and standards for commercial films cannot be constructed, then Chinese commercial films, especially the health exhibitions of Chinese blockbusters, will still be greatly restricted."

Zhang Ran has a great influence in the film industry, and now it is the Spring Festival. Everyone is not at work and is relatively free. More and more directors, more and more experts and professors have come forward, expressing their opinions and forming a group on the Internet.

Just as Zhang Ran was sitting in front of the computer and leisurely browsing various comments, he suddenly received a call. After answering, the sound from the phone was startled: "Hello Zhang Ran! I am Xie Jin!"

Zhang Ran was surprised. The old man was over 80 years old. He didn't expect to call himself and quickly said, "Director Xie Jin! Hello! Hey, I didn't expect you to call me. I was so flattered!"

Xie Jin laughed and said, "Your debate has been called in the past two days. I have a few words to tell you. In the past, our ability to tell stories in Chinese movies was great, leaving behind many popular masterpieces, but now, the ability of storytelling in Chinese movies is deteriorating. Hollywood is particularly good at telling stories and respecting audiences. We have not done enough in learning Hollywood. So far, Hollywood movies are still in the position in world movies, which is worth our discussion and research. What you are doing right now, do well, don't be influenced by those critics, be sure to persevere!"

Zhang Ran was quite moved when he heard this. It turned out that the old man called to encourage himself, and said, "I have seen the strength of Hollywood and know where our problem is. I believe that what I did is right and will not be easily influenced by others. To be honest, I don't care what critics say at all. Now the level of domestic critics is terrible, and their comments are almost worthless. What I really care about is that this kind of thinking that ignores the entertainment of movies and blindly pursues artistic quality also dominates the education world. This kind of thinking is the enemy of Chinese films. I came out to attract everyone's attention to this issue!"

Xie Jin nodded and said, "So, you established the Asian Film Academy and train directors in Hollywood, right?"

Zhang Ran said: "Yes, although Beijing Film Academy has begun to pay attention to commercial films in the past two years, many teachers still despise commercial films in their bones. More importantly, commercial films are much more difficult than art films. Art films can only express their artistic ideas as long as they know how to use the language of films and basic techniques. Commercial films should please the audience. If you don't have enough skills, you cannot attract audiences. Most of the teachers at Beijing Film Academy are theoretical schools and have almost no successful directors in commercial films. They don't know how to attract audiences and how to teach students? To change this situation, I can only train them myself!"

Xie Jin felt a little emotional. Many people in the film industry are dissatisfied with the current situation of Chinese films. From time to time, people come out to scold them, but often they just finished scolding them. Few people are willing to change fundamentally. Only Zhang Ran did this. He said: "The City of Demons was originally the highland of Chinese films, but now it is getting farther and farther away from movies. The City of Demons should build a film academy that learns from Hollywood like you. Yes, that should be done, I'll talk to the leader!"

After Xie Jin hung up the phone, Zhang Ran was still a little stunned. This old man was over 80 years old and was still in full swing. Before Zhang Ran's rebirth, the Demon City joined forces with a North American college to set up a film academy. But I don't know what the final effect is. Now that Mr. Xie Jin takes action, I'm afraid this film academy will appear a few years in advance.

For Chinese movies, this is undoubtedly a great thing!

What Chinese films lack the most now is professional talents. If there are two more film schools that standardize Hollywood film work as teaching content, then the industrialization process of Chinese films will inevitably be greatly improved!

This is perhaps the most valuable thing in this debate!

On the morning of February 11, the box office in the week was released. "Tangshan Earthquake" did not meet any opponents in China and easily won the championship with 76oo million. It is not the weekly result for a blockbuster with an investment of 300 million yuan, which can only be described as dismal. You should know that "Assembly" invested only 8oo million yuan, and even with almost no big-name actors joining the company, they all achieved 8oo million yuan in the week.

Therefore, many media are yelling that "the box office defeat of the Tangshan Earthquake" was "Zhang Ran suffered a Waterloo", and the film critics also seized a point of criticizing Zhang Ran and quickly launched an attack.

Zhu Dake also took this opportunity to fight back on Zhang Ran: "The Tangshan Earthquake" had a box office of only 7.6 million yuan in 4 days, and the box office was defeated. No wonder Zhang Ran, who has always been calm, was anxious this time and directly scolded me as a critic! A good artist should be both moral and artistic. Zhang Ran responded to me bluntly, which is not the style of a real big artist at all. The most important aspect is the lack of cultural education. In the face of public opinion, the minimum self-discipline ability. When encountering negative things, he easily loses his self-discipline and scolds others. How can he bear this? How can he bear those cultural people of all walks of life who praise you? The Tangshan Earthquake" had a crushing box office defeat. This may show from a certain level that if an artist lacks self-discipline and cultural cultivation, it will be difficult to make a good movie. If it is not a good movie, it is reasonable to fail the box office!"

Zhang Ran was relatively calm about the box office with "Tangshan Earthquake". Although the total box office did not look very good, it had a counter-decline decline for two consecutive days, and the recovery trend became more and more obvious.

On that afternoon, the box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" was released in Japan, with a net worth of 740 million yen in four days, second only to the 846 million yen of the popular "Diary of Death: l Change the World", ranking second in the Japanese box office list; and in South Korea, "Tangshan Earthquake" became the box office champion in South Korea with 550,000 visitors.

The situation in Xiangjiang is relatively close to that in the mainland. The audience is busy with the New Year and performs poorly two days ago, but it starts to recover by the third year of junior high school, and scored 6.45 million on Thursday, ranking second.

In North America, "The Great Tangshan Earthquake" attracted a large number of Chinese audiences to the movies. The cinemas in Chinatowns in various cities were crowded, and finally achieved a record of 1.41 million in the week, second only to the comedy "Golden Enemies" starring Matthew McConaughey. There was almost no doubt that the box office exceeded 20,000.

Except for these major countries and regions, all other regions that have released "Tangshan Earthquake" have achieved good box office results. After statistics, "Tangshan Earthquake" has achieved a box office of nearly 50,000 US dollars worldwide in the week!

For a Chinese film that is not a fighting scene, it can be said to be a historic breakthrough.

The reputation of "Tangshan Earthquake" in these countries and regions is also very good, which will inevitably lead more viewers to enter the cinema.

"Tongei remakes "Japan Addicted" two years ago, and he praised it in China, and described the movie as a masterpiece. Now after watching "The Great Tangshan Earthquake", it feels too far behind, whether it is the film technique or the description of emotions. Japan used to have a very generous director, and they could make the movie with amazing momentum. But now there is no such director in Japan, and even young people are sissy. Japan has no future! It's completely over!" Japanese netizens.

"Zhang Ran is a world-class director, and Chinese movies are becoming stronger and stronger because of him! When will we produce a director like Zhang Ran in Korean? It would be great if he was a Korean!" Korean netizens.

"The film exhibition in the mainland is too fast. Now we can actually make such pure Chinese films that are not inferior to Hollywood. What are the directors of Xiangjiang now filming? Apart from costume films, they are police and gangster films, can't you shoot anything else? The Hong Kong movies are just being frustrated by these uninspiring film directors!" Xiangjiang netizen.

"The movie is very shocking, full of emotion and touching. Zhang Jingchu has dedicated a professional performance and is so talented. You will definitely like her performance in this movie. I don't want to reveal too many details, but I can say this: I cried several times, but fortunately I brought a tissue." American netizen.

In the mainland, in addition to some experts and professors, both fans and ordinary audiences have very high evaluations of movies. The rating of "Tangshan Earthquake" on Time Network has become 8.6 points, and the rating of "Douban Movie" on Douban Movie has even reached 8.8 points. On Weibo, in various ordinary communities and QQ groups, "Tangshan Earthquake" has also begun to flood the screen. Many viewers who have watched the movie are recommending this movie to their friends.

Shortly after the "News Broadcast" started at 7 pm, a report on "Tangshan Earthquake" appeared on TV. The cameras were crowded with people: "Chinese director Zhang Ran's epic film "Tangshan Earthquake" was released in North America a few days ago, causing a sensation among the local Chinese community..."
Chapter completed!