Chapter 344 Obstacles
"Lu Ping'an will take his new film "1937" to this year's Oscars"
A piece of news was published in the United States.
After so many years of operation, Lu Ping'an's fame is no longer what it was two or three years ago when few people knew about it.
So the last Oscar Best Director is going to compete for the Oscar again, and he immediately attracted the attention of the industry.
Movie fans also cast their eyes.
Lu Ping'an's fan base is very wide.
Horror movies, suspense, rainbow, DC fans, etc., the range is extremely wide.
Everyone cast their eyes, wanting to see what kind of movie this is.
At first glance, oh, war theme?
"This is a story that Lu Ping'an heard from his elders about China in 1937. In 1937, the Japanese invasion of China broke out. The Chinese city of Nanjing suffered a massacre rarely seen in human history. The protagonist Zhou was trapped in Nanjing and he wanted to escape."
A simple story summary.
Lu Ping'an's fans are naturally interested. After all, this is Lu Ping'an's movie, and it is going to compete for the Oscars.
From a broader perspective, American movie fans are actually most interested in war movie fans.
This is normal.
Commercial genre films have their own audiences, and you can't force everyone to be interested.
Of course, as a movie, since it has started to promote, there will be people who are interested, and naturally there will be people who are not interested or even pessimistic.
And the biggest point of pessimism for ordinary American people and the media in "1937" is whether Lu Ping'an can make a good war movie?
It is written in the publicity press release that this is Lu Ping'an's first war movie.
And he is Chinese.
Maybe everyone will be very interested in making historical war movies, but for modern wars, you still have to watch American movies, so anyway, it remains to be seen.
Hu Qingquan has seen all of the above situations.
Some are optimistic, and some are pessimistic.
It is normal.
But for him, what he cares most about is not these normal commercial reactions, but deeper ones.
Unfortunately, at present, it seems that not many American people are interested in the words "Japanese invasion of China" and "massacre".
That's right, Asian people basically don't care about the massacre in Africa.
If you want people in other places to face up to such events, in addition to politics, movies are a good means.
For example, "Hotel Rwanda" in 2004.
Once the movie came out, at least many people in the international community knew that such an event existed.
This is the meaning of the movie.
"1937" actually has this purpose.
It's just that Japan is not one of those African countries, and it is insignificant in the international community.
Japan has means.
In the "international community", Japan, like some groups, has been whitewashing for decades.
Because the "international community" doesn't pay much attention to what happened in Asia, it has also provided soil for some people to distort right and wrong.
And my country has no classic works that can rush to the international level for the time being, so so far, most people are confused about the events mentioned in the story outline of "1937".
If you want the event to be remembered by everyone, you have to see how the movie is.
In this regard, the relevant forces will naturally not let you get what you want so smoothly.
So shortly after the official announcement of "1937", Dingfeng and Hu Qingquan received various threats again.
Fortunately, they were all private. Although disgusting, there is no need to worry too much with the perfect security measures.
The trouble is the public opinion.
After the official announcement, various voices of boycott soon appeared.
The mild ones include:
"Lu wants to impact the Oscar for directing a war film for the first time. He has fallen into the circle of arrogant genius"
"Lu Ping'an challenges Hollywood, the highest hall of world war film technology"
Either from a personal perspective, or to stir up trouble and create opposition.
It's disgusting, but this is still good.
More disgusting will come soon.
"Should movies that distort history be on the Oscars?"
"The Oscars are not a place to promote the director's populism"
The former is distorting history as usual, and the latter is really disgusting.
"The Oscars are not a place to promote the director's populism."
This is directly exposing and accusing Lu Ping'an of wanting to dance wildly in the zzzq land of Hollywood and even the world film industry.
Such elements can only be criticized, not used as means.
This actually doesn't work anywhere.
For this kind of report, normal people will think, Lu Ping An is not stupid, would he do this? And the movie hasn't been released yet, how can you be sure that he will shoot it this way?
But the problem is that there are not many normal people in this world, otherwise there would be no such thing as controlling public opinion.
Certain forces certainly cannot control as much as a certain country near the Mediterranean.
But there is influence.
American movie fans began to look down on the movie and felt that it was wrong to distort history.
Japanese netizens have said that there was no massacre at all, and Lu has ulterior motives!
Boycott!
Of course, this is only a minority, and most people still don't care.
Whether it's Japan or China, it's none of our business.
On the contrary, many people still want to see wars and taboo scenes.
But if you really want to use movies to promote populism, it will definitely not work.
If a big director carries his own goods, it will also ruin his popularity.
There are so many directors at present, and no one has done this. You Lu Ping An can't do this.
At the Oscar level, they also paid attention to this.
Although the Oscars are not clean, being dirty and not being dirty are two different concepts.
In their view, this kind of disco is dirty, and our Oscars will not do it.
So soon, producer Hu Qingquan was questioned by the Hollywood Film Association, and the media also made public the news that the Oscars would pay attention to the film and decide whether to deprive it of its eligibility based on the situation.
In fact, American movies are also censored, but they have evolved into a rating system since the mid-20th century, so very few Hollywood movies have been banned.
But this does not mean that there is really no "censorship", especially when it comes to the Oscars, which is an awards ceremony after all.
So from this point of view, whether "1937" can compete for the Oscar is still a question.
The news quickly spread back to China, and the media processed it into a very localized "censored" and "probably banned".
In this regard, most people and media are concerned about and support Lu Ping'an, and some people even popularized the fact that Hollywood does not have censorship at all.
But there will still be discordant voices.
Some people said that Lu Ping'an was cutting himself off from the international film industry.
Others said that Lu Ping'an's actions would affect China's international image.
Some people said sarcastically that making such a movie to impact the Oscars makes you look capable? Do you have to emphasize patriotism in this way?
The reporter immediately interviewed some bigwigs in the industry.
Not bad, Principal Zhang, Jiang Wen and others all publicly supported it, and there was no need to think about it.
The reporters then turned to Lu Ping'an's "arch-enemies" the great poet and Zhang Weipin.
The great poet was not bad, and asked if it was fake news? Then he did not comment.
Zhang Weipin said that culture needs to be spread in the right way.
The reporter asked if this was what Lao Mouzi meant? Zhang Weipin directly replied that Lao Mouzi was making the final post-production adjustments for "The Curse of the Golden Flower" and the movie would also impact the Oscars this time.
He really never forgets to promote it.
But the media as a whole also knew that Zhang Weipin was gloating.
In short, the boycott of "1937" caused quite a stir both at home and abroad.
Hu Qingquan was not panicked at all because this was all expected and they had already had plans for such things.