Wang Xiaoshuai is a director who likes to fire. He has bombarded the star system and censorship system. This time he bombarded the targets of Zhang Ran and others who are more successful in commercial: "It's been 18 years, and countless people have advised me to make commercial films, but I think I should persist. If I can live longer in this life, I will carry longer, and if I live shorter, I will carry to a certain point. I firmly believe that movies should have a little cultural significance. I can't wander, I will become a director like Lu Chuan and others."

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhang Ran and the other three looked even more ugly. What does it mean to be like directors like Lu Chuan and the others?

Although Zhang Guoli has been a director for a few times, he has filmed commercial works, so he is also a little dissatisfied with Wang Xiaoshuai's words: "You can't use this attitude just because your box office is not good now, or think you are not as good as the three directors on the stage!"

Wang Xiaoshuai ignored Zhang Guoli, looked at Lu Chuan next to him, and said in a sarcastic tone: "Lu Chuan, you have made money, are you happy? You are under great pressure. The next time your movie will cost more than 100 million yuan, you will fail! It is right for us to work hard to be the box office and the market, but should we bear a little bit of national happiness and mission, and whether to give others happiness? I think this is my ultimate ideal."

Lu Chuan, who was sitting at the scene, saw Wang Xiaoshuai pointing at his name and scolding, finally couldn't sit still, and responded on the spot: "I think artificially splitting commercial videos and art videos is a very outdated mind. Every director has his own artistic dream, but art movies are not arrogant. Why did our box office exceed 100 million? If a movie is made without audiences, it is a failure. Nowadays, Chinese movies are becoming more and more diverse. Art movies are fighting for honor for Chinese movies at overseas film festivals, and directors like Zhang Ran emerge in the Chinese film market. The reason why Zhang Ran has so many followers is because he doesn't have to go to the single-plank bridge or go to the film festival. This is the future of Chinese movies!"

Zhang Ran was quite surprised when he heard Lu Chuan praise him, but immediately realized that he was pulling himself into the water and wanted to pull himself to criticize Wang Xiaoshuai.

Just then, the host Zhang Guoli turned to look at Zhang Ran and said, "Director Zhang, do you say a few words? Today's forum is a contender for ideas. I, the host, basically, are provoking troubles, please talk!"

Zhang Ran laughed loudly and said, "If you don't see us, we will feel uncomfortable when we fight. I suggest you can host a boxing competition in the future." Everyone in the audience burst into laughter, and Zhang Guoli also laughed. Zhang Ran coughed, and suddenly became solemn and said calmly: "Let me say a few words. Director Wang is a graduate of the Director Department of Beijing Television. You should know that movies have three attributes: first, movies are technology; second, movies are commodities; third, movies are art. In other words, movies have three attributes: technology, business and art. Movies are not only artistic films, but also commodities. Because filming requires a lot of investment, production requires investment, distribution requires investment, and publicity.

You need investment, and you need investment in screening. You are a painter, you can draw at home with paper and pen. If you feel dissatisfied, you can tear it off at any time. The movie must ensure that the entire industry is recycled. Only in this way can the entire industry be long-term. Because our three box offices exceed 100 million, you think we are very failures. This breaks the product attributes of the movie and opposes business and art. This view is very ridiculous. I was just talking about it, many Chinese filmmakers have fallen into the self-satisfaction mode. Director Wang's words just prove this point, that is, they think they are awesome and others are stupid. One problem with Chinese films is that there are too many people who are self-satisfaction and too few people respect the audience!"

Whether it was the audience, media reporters, or theater managers, everyone was nodding. As Zhang Ran said, he just said that Chinese filmmakers like to be happy, and Wang Xiaoshuai proved this very well.

Wang Xiaoshuai frowned. Zhang Ran said this very rudely. He said directly that his movie was self-interesting. He was a little annoyed inside and said coldly: "Actually, I admire director Zhang Ran very much. Art and business are well combined. I have no intention of offending them. But today is a forum, and it is a collision of ideas. Then I want to discuss it with you. You are all saying that business and art should coexist, but the problem now is that art films cannot survive. The reality is so serious, the small amount of screenings, and the edge of screenings are beyond our imagination. Movies should stick to it.

The basic cultural bottom line is that movies should carry cultural mission. When art films are so difficult to survive, it is unfair to put art films on the market. Throwing cultural undertakings into the market will definitely be distorted. Art films cannot and should not be tested by the market, and they need to be protected. This may be the best era for commercial films, but the worst era for literary films. So I feel that I must carry it without hesitation and life. I am not much to make money by myself now. I am carrying it. People have a breath and dignity."

Zhang Ran has heard too many people say similar views, and thought this was particularly false, and shook his head with a smile: "I think Director Wang watches art movies too high and commercial movies too shallow. This is like commercial movies do not carry cultural missions. To give a simple example, are Korean pop films art movies? No, commercial movies. But they entered the Chinese market, occupied our market, and spread Korean culture in our market. Are Hollywood movies art movies? No, commercial movies, but they spread American values ​​all over the world. Commercial movies are so high that they are more powerful than art movies in spreading culture. What is the biggest influence of Chinese movies overseas? Art movies? No, kung fu movies!

I have confidence in art movies, but I don’t think art movies will die when put on the market. I discussed the issue of Japanese art theaters with director Yoji Yamada from Japan. Mr. Yamada told me that Japanese movies have never set up special art theaters. In fact, Japan has discussed this issue, but many people believe that all movies should be let go and let all movies compete together. Even when Japanese local movies suffered an unprecedented blow to Hollywood 20 or 30 years ago, there was no protection measure. Are Japanese art movies dead? No, this year, "The Immortal" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Art movies are indeed relatively weak, but art movies have audiences. Now no one watches domestic art movies. I think the market will not take the blame and the audience will not take the blame. The real problem arises from our directors. Who says that the box office of art movies must be bleak? Ozu's movies are art movies, is it bad? Ozu's movies are among the top ten in the annual box office in Japan. Is Kubrick's box office bad? "2001 Roaming Space" costs 10 million, and the box office in the United States is 56 million. It makes a big profit, and Kubrick's movies are all very good. Now Woody Allen, Coen brothers, and even Ang Lee have good box offices. Many powerful art movie directors have good box offices, and their movies are very popular among the audience.

Today’s domestic art film audiences don’t like to watch. Directors should review themselves. Why do other people’s art films have audiences and are popular with the audience, while our movies are not popular! In fact, the reason is very simple. The audience votes with their feet, and the audience thinks the movie is not good-looking. This is the most fundamental reason!”

Wang Xiaoshuai was speechless and bit his lips, and retorted: "I think it's unfair to say that. The monopoly schedule of commercial films makes it impossible for art films to enter the market at all. On the other hand, the market lacks protection for domestic films. Cinemas is a very magical link. The manager will only put the goods he thinks are packaged on the shelves. We art films don't want to hide in the corner, but we can't go into the public's sight at all. 90% of the show of my movie "Left and Right" is useless. In the middle of the night or in the morning, who would get up at 6:30 in the morning to go to the theater to watch the movie?

Art movies have audiences, but due to the number of scenes, the audience cannot see them. France stipulates that the number of videos in any theater cannot exceed one-third, nor can it exceed one-third of the total number of the theaters. In addition, the French government will provide subsidies to art theaters through the French National Film Industry Center every year to fund the promotion and facility renovation of cinemas. This is a hard regulation made for the sake of protecting cultural diversity. Art films require government support and establish special art theaters, so I have always called on the government to build art theaters and support art films!”

Zhang Ran frowned. This is the Chinese art film director. Many people have this virtue and sneered: "I support the construction of art theaters and art films. Each of the cinemas built by our Century Peak specially used a screen to play art films. We are the most supportive of all theaters. But I firmly oppose the government to build art theaters, and I also oppose the government's support for art films. I think cultural diversity cannot be protected, but the more we protect it, the more we become, the more we are, the more we are, the more we are, we will be unable to do so. I even hope that the government will truly relax the domestic market, put Hollywood in, and let us work with Hollywood. In a short period of time, we may be beaten into a pig's head by Hollywood, but in five or ten years, we will definitely win! Now South Korea and Japan are reversing Hollywood in their local area, and there is no reason why we can't do it!

Many times I think some domestic filmmakers have a very divided mind. They shouted, "The government is not allowed to care about us, we have to create freedom; they shouted, "The government is not allowed to care about us, we are art, you have to pay for money to support us! I am very difficult to understand, do you want the government to manage? If you really pursue freedom, you should show your backbone to pursue freedom, rather starve to death than the government to support you! If you take the government's money and shout freedom there, don't you feel unconfidence? While talking about dignity and asking the government to raise you, where is the dignity? A group of people who are asking for dignity all day long talk about dignity. Isn't this a joke?"

There are many problems with Chinese movies now. The important point is that the government manages too much and the government has managed enough, but now they still want to pull the government in and let the government manage more. That is equivalent to adding another chain to Chinese movies, so Zhang Ran said it quite rudely.

Lu Chuan was so happy that Zhang Ran was so cruel that he directly said Wang Xiaoshuai was asking for support. The anger that was scolded by Wang Xiaoshuai just now was dissipated by being scolded by Wang Xiaoshuai, and he laughed and said, "Xiaoshuai, I didn't expect you to ask for support!"

The audience and the theater managers usually didn't think that Wang Xiaoshuai and the others asked the government to build art theaters. Now when they heard Zhang Ran say this, they felt that they had a bit of a split personality.

The reporters seemed particularly excited. Zhang Ran had fought many verbal battles online before, but he didn't expect that verbal battles were so powerful in reality. This made Wang Xiaoshuai so miserable!

Zhang Guoli filmed Zhang Ran with Zhang Ran for more than half a month on the crew of "The Founding of a Country". He knew that Zhang Ran was powerful. Now that he was fighting, he found that he was even more powerful than he thought. He couldn't help but ask: "Director Zhang, what do you think should be done in the art theater?"
Chapter completed!