Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 122 [The film and literary worlds are in chaos]

The Emei Film Studio acted quickly and immediately recruited many well-known directors from the studio, including Mi Jiashan, who directed the movie "The Troublemakers", and Zhang Xihe, who directed "The Emei Flying Thief"...

Anyway, they are all directors who have shot some influential works in China. Let them collectively refute Teng Wenji of Xi'an Film Studio in major newspapers and magazines.

What about disrespecting the elderly, disrespecting lesbians, taking advantage of one's age, and being jealous of young people...

Anyway, all kinds of labels are put on him.

The 90s was a very rebellious era. Many young people liked contemporary trends, such as frog-eye glasses, bell-bottom pants, and rock songs, and hated the preaching methods of the past.

Teng Wenji's criticisms in newspapers and magazines are basically full of "fatherly flavor", commenting on Li Yishu in the tone of a person who has experienced it, saying that learning art must first learn morality, don't be pretentious, and learn to be humble...

This kind of tone, let alone someone you don't know, even your own father would probably be unhappy to hear it, let alone a stranger talking nonsense in the media.

Director Mi Jiashan: "It is true that one must learn morality before learning art, but it depends on who says it. Director Wu Tianming of Xi'an Film Studio is a senior with both moral integrity and art. There are many such filmmakers with both moral integrity and art across the country, but you, Teng Wenji, are definitely not one of them!"

Director Li Jian: "I named my son Yishu because I hope he can learn calligraphy first in the future. As the saying goes, a person with knowledge and poetry is naturally elegant..."

Actor Pan Hong: "I have worked with Director Li before. His directing talent is unquestionable. He is very polite despite his young age. Although he is occasionally irritable on the set, it is only for problems that arise during the filming process. It is unknown whether a director is arrogant or not, but who is not arrogant when young?"

Actress Gong Li: "Some directors nowadays have no talent, their movies have no box office success, and they don't win any awards, but they just rely on their age to make decisions..."

"..."

In just a few days, Emei Film Studio, through various media channels, had its employees begin to criticize and refute Teng Wenji of Xi'an Film Studio.

Originally, in the past few years, the Xi'an Film Studio had cooperated with the Hong Kong Film Company many times, which had snatched away many resources from the production studios;

Emei Film Studio finally caught Li Yishu, a talented and capable young director. What would happen if she was vilified and blackened by the other party?
Do you really think Li Yishu is a wild child with no one around?

Following Emei Factory's quick and fierce rebuttal, dozens of newspapers, weeklies and magazines, large and small, began to quickly publish related content.

Not only did it attract the attention of practitioners across the country, it also attracted a large number of movie fans and spectators to participate.

As the incident developed, many film critics, writers, screenwriters, and even cultural figures in the education field began to join in.

Many people have expressed their opinions on this matter.

Some people support Teng Wenji and think that what he said is right. As a senior, it is natural for the junior to guide the younger generation, not to mention that people only say "learn morality before learning skills", which is very important in any industry, including reading and calligraphy, one must first learn the word morality.

There are naturally supporters and opponents. Among them, Wang Shuo, who has always been known as a bad critic in the literary world, also published an article in the newspaper to comment on this matter:
“I thought the seniority system in the contemporary literary world was shitty enough, but I didn’t expect the film industry to be even more disgusting.

Although I have never met Lee Ye-seo, I have only seen his film "The Mountain", which is not eye-catching. I think it is just average. But as a young man in his early twenties, it is something to be proud of to have achieved such results, but he was criticized for being unqualified because of his qualifications...

Do people have to be in their seventies or eighties to qualify? What a white-haired old thief, taking advantage of his age, how can there be such a shameless person? "

Wang Shuo's remarks completely ignited public opinion. People in the film industry began to criticize each other, and the literary world also began to criticize Wang Shuo's remarks. What do you mean by the seniority system in the literary world is shitty?
Are the articles written by you, Wang Shuo, the best in the world?
It is natural that intellectuals look down on each other. Since Wang Shuo became famous, he has often cursed this and criticized that in the newspapers. Anyway, he has to criticize everything that he doesn't like.

He was even less popular in the literary world than Han Han, who later criticized the literary world as shit. This fate was considered as half-support for Li Yishu, which naturally caused dissatisfaction among many people in the literary world towards Wang Shuo and Li Yishu.

While the war of words in mainland China is becoming more and more intense, Li Yishu is preparing to attend the Tokyo International Film Festival tonight.

Last night, Ichiro Tanaka called and hinted to Li Yishu that he would return with a great success this time.

This makes Li Yishu look forward to how many awards she can win tonight!
There are two movies nominated for him, "That Mountain" and "Love Letter". The former was rated by Japanese newspapers as "the most healing literary film", and the latter is even known as the "pioneer of pure love".

The two films were a hot topic at the Tokyo Film Festival.

In a hotel of the Dong family.

"Hello, Director Li!"

Lai Shengchuan smiled and extended his hand: "I have heard of Director Li's name for a long time. Today I see that he is indeed a young talent. With two films nominated this time, they will definitely win big prizes."

"Director Lai, you're too polite. I also really like your work "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land." Li Yishu glanced at the graceful Qingxia beside her and said with a smile, "Whether it's the previous stage play or the movie I worked on with Ms. Qingxia this time, they are all really wonderful and impressive!"

Lai Shengchuan didn't expect that Li Yishu had actually read "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land", and he grinned and said, "Haha, Director Li, I've also read "Love Letter" written by you, it's really well written, expressing love in another form, which is really rare in current literary works on love themes."

"Director Lai, you are too polite. How can I mention my limited writing skills in front of a great screenwriter like you?"

Li Yishu waved his hand. He naturally knew that Lai Shengchuan was just being polite. The other party was a great playwright. His play "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" was selected as one of the top ten classic plays in the past 100 years of drama, and he himself was inducted into the Contemporary Hall of Fame of China's 100 Years of Drama.

In the field of drama, Lai Shengchuan can be said to be China's leading master.

"Okay, you two, let's stop being so modest to each other. You are a great director and a great screenwriter. I think it would be better if you two could work together to make a heart-stirring film."

Qingxia, who was standing next to him, said with a smile, "I'll boldly recommend myself to play the leading female role, how about that?"

Lai Shengchuan laughed and said, "Haha, I'm sure there will be no problem. It depends on whether Director Li has time."

He was somewhat self-aware and knew that his directing ability was definitely not as good as the other party's. After all, he studied drama screenwriting, not film.

"sure."

Li Yishu didn't care about the cooperation. Instead, he glanced at Qingxia and said, "I have wanted to cooperate with Miss Qingxia for a long time, but I never had the chance. This time I met Director Lai, a great screenwriter, maybe we can cooperate with each other."

Hearing this, Qingxia's eyes lit up. Mr. Qiu Fusheng had contacted her before and said that the movie that Li Yishu was going to film recently was not suitable for her.

Qingxia was a little disappointed at first, but she didn't expect that this time when "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" came to participate in the Tokyo International Film Festival, she not only met the other party, but also had the opportunity to truly cooperate with him. How could she not be happy?

We can cooperate, but it's impossible to do it on a whim. Li Yishu doesn't have time to shoot now, as she has another "Central Station" on hand, so they just talked about the script.

Moreover, Li Yishu also asked a lot of details about the creation of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land". He had watched this drama performed by Huang Lei in his previous life. His performance was quite average. Anyway, he felt that it was not as tense as Jin Shijie's performance in the movie.

Several people were chatting.

Suddenly Amy came over and interrupted, "Boss, Aunt Zhao called."

"Ok?"

Li Yishu raised his eyebrows, said a few words to Qingxia and Lai Shengchuan, then turned and left.

After he got outside and called back, Li Yishu chatted with his mother Zhao Xue for a few words, and only then did he learn about the fierce verbal battle that had been launched at the Emei Factory over him.

"Beijing Film Studio has also joined?" Li Yishu asked in surprise.

"Yes, you have cooperated with Beijing Film Studio in these movies. If they don't speak up to help you, I will scold them to death. But why didn't you Beijing Film Studio speak up for you?"

"Mom, how can you say that? That Teng guy is also a student of Beijing Film Academy."

"He's also a student of Beijing Film Academy? Why does Beijing Film Academy recruit everyone? It's really ridiculous!"

Hearing this, Li Yishu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

However, he still comforted his mother and said that he would win a few big prizes tonight and then give these people a slap in the face.

"interesting!"

After hanging up the phone, Li Yishu didn't expect that his incident had triggered a war of words between the film and literary circles in mainland China.

However, this war of words has already started since the 1980s, and most of the time it was fought between some writers in the literary world.

Anyway, in the end it was the authorities who stepped in to mediate, and everyone was just venting their anger now. The real parties involved are still Li Yishu and Teng Wenji.

(End of this chapter)