387. Chapter 387 Scene 387 Scolding the Fake Director(1/2)
But just when Director Lin wanted to criticize Li Xiaole for a word or two, Wang Qun suddenly realized. After all, he had been in the political arena and was not confused. Knowing that the key person now was Director Lin, he could only fight desperately.
Suppressing his anger, he lowered his head and said to Director Lin calmly:
"Director Lin, you heard it. Their mainland directors have such a bad attitude. You use him to lead the co-production. You are undoubtedly trying to poison our Taiwanese film industry. With his small character, he made "Sediq Ba"
"Lai", a movie that represents our Taiwanese folk customs, will probably worsen the image of Taiwanese people. I support co-productions, but our Taiwanese directors must take the lead. I recommend Director Hou Hsiao-hsien as the co-director this time, otherwise!
All members of the Taiwan Directors Association withdraw from this cooperation plan with the mainland!"
Everyone present gasped, Wang Qun is showing off his knife! Originally, he represented the interests of new wave directors, and he must prevent this cross-strait cooperation, because for those of them who rely on film subsidies to live their lives,
, "Sediq Bale" is okay if it loses money, but if it does well at the box office, it will be a disaster for these literary film directors, and the annual film subsidy will probably support commercial films.
This time it is not just a personal grudge between Li Xiaole and Wang Qun, but a matter of life and death for this group of directors in Taiwan. Either you die or I die in the struggle for interests. No step can be taken!
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense. Whether it was the Taiwanese filmmakers, Wei Desheng, Lin Zhiling, or several representatives of the China Film Group, they all heard that this cooperation would probably fall out on the spot... Everything depends on Lin
How will the director handle it?
These words not only did not make Li Xiaole angry, but instead made him feel a stone fall to the ground, because this old boy Wang Qun is basically an idiot. He made a fundamental mistake. He really thought that Taiwan's Administrative Information Bureau was run by his Wang family.
Yes, the reason why the Information Bureau set up the film subsidy fund and invested large sums of money every year was to revitalize the Taiwanese film industry. The starting point for this cross-strait cooperation was that the Information Bureau wanted to change and survive, but he acted as
In front of Director Lin, he used the influence of the Directors Guild to threaten him... This old boy is simply asking for his own death.
Li Xiaole noticed that Director Lin's face darkened on the spot, and there was a hint of anger in his eyes. Many Taiwanese directors in the audience also looked anxious and angry. There was no hesitation in his heart. This was the opportunity to establish his authority in one fell swoop.
, no longer needing to be patient, he directly looked at Wang Qun with a cold snort and cursed.
"Wang Qun, you fake director, you are so thick-skinned? Can you alone represent the Directors Guild? Isn't the president of the Taiwan Directors Guild Director Zhu Yanping Zhu? Who do you think you are?"
Wang Qun never expected that Li Xiaole would directly point at his nose and start scolding him. He was so stunned that he was scolded on the spot. Li Xiaole stood up and walked to the audience. In front of everyone, he pointed at the black folder in his hand.
Wang Qun:
"You pseudo-new wavers are so fucking shameless! In the eyes of you pseudo-new wavers, other directors are degenerate, but you are the only one who is noble; all other types of films are dregs, and only your art films are the essence of humanity!
Mainland's third-generation directors make the main theme. You, Wang Qun, criticize them for promoting an authoritarian government. They are considered as government propaganda tools and are not worthy of being filmmakers. Hong Kong's commercial films were popular in Asia in the 1980s. You, Wang Qun, say that they promote vulgar tastes and are third-rate people who specialize in gambling.
In this scene, the fifth generation of mainland directors became famous internationally, and you, Wang Qun, scolded you for showing the backwardness of the mainland to please the West~!
When they make comedies, you, Wang Qun, say they have bad taste. When they make blockbusters, you, Wang Qun, despise them for not respecting the art of film. You have a bad mouth and have insulted all the directors in the Chinese area. You are also shameless and openly claim to be a filmmaker.
The last barrier of art!?
We directors are all here today, so tell me yourself, what contribution have you, the pseudo-new wave, made to Chinese films? What contribution have you, Wang Qun, made to Chinese films? Let me sum it up for you, you are just a group of people who were
Psychopaths raised by the Information Bureau who never do real work and are drowned in your illusory dreams all day long are only good at judging everything, criticizing everything, and using the light of masters such as Yang Dechang and Hou Hsiao-hsien to elevate themselves!
Taiwan's film industry is now in such a state of desolation. When did you pseudo-new wave people come up with a useful policy and produce an excellent film?
You say every day that you want to use the best movies and make stories that are closest to life to express Taiwan's local humanistic care, but in fact you advocate using non-star actors to break the actor-star system, so that thousands of actors cannot have the influence of the audience.
You also said that movies should "analyze real social phenomena" and abandon the stereotyped style of "hiding evil and promoting good" of previous mainstream movies. In fact, they use movies to describe personal vulgar tastes and impact the audience's normal emotional values. The characters in your movies are kind.
, hard work, despair of life, suicide, homosexuality, pornography, you use these extreme themes as art, but you have no regard for the normal emotional feelings of movie viewers.
Does your art just preach that "good people don't die well" and spread grief, despair, and anger!? How dare you keep claiming that you are the most noble fucking filmmakers!? They are obviously a group of bitches trying to build a memorial arch, but they still
Casting yourself as a chaste martyr!? It’s so fucking funny.
Don't think that other colleagues don't know that you bunch of pseudo-new wavers talk about making films for the sake of film art every day, but who doesn't know that you go to the Information Bureau every day, licking your faces all year round and asking for subsidies?
If I can't apply, I rely on being an expert in various media and criticizing my colleagues to make money from milk powder.
They say that other people only want to make money when making movies, but in the final analysis, I think it’s just you pseudo-new wave people who love money the most.
Audiences love to watch mainstream movies and big shots that stimulate the senses. This is human nature. You just want to say that this is because you have low taste and do not know how to appreciate art. You do not guide the audience properly. Instead, you ask the audience to accept your perverted set of desperate values.
, if all the men are gay and all the women are suicidal, a character who has no worries about food and clothing but is a masochist, it is a classic of human nature! Human nature has good and evil, but you have to force the audience to think that the world is a desperate and angry world!
There is no hope!
You have so many pseudo-new wave filmmakers, how many of them are like commercial film directors, working diligently in a year to make two films so that the audience can relax in the movie?
There are a few people who don't play with women every day, make shady investments, and make themselves look less like human beings and ghosts than ghosts. They engage in so-called artistic creation in their rooms as if they have overdosed on drugs.
You all pretend to be noble and stand on the moral high ground, asking for this and that. If others don't join in with you, you will scold everyone!
What’s even more shameless is that you people openly despise movies that sell well at the box office. You openly despise commercial movies. It’s your fault to sell money in Taiwan. You ask directors to make movies without making money? You ask investors to make movies without thinking about making profits. You ask the audience to make movies.
Go to the cinema to learn self-abuse, and let them be like you who are angry, fearful, and desperate about society, and subvert everything in their own lives.
So shameless! So hypocritical! You even brazenly say that you express the truth of cinema? Ask all the other filmmakers here: In the more than 100 years since the invention of film, have you ever had this absurd and shameless genre? Yes.
!!That’s your pseudo-new wave!! That’s you Wangqun!!”
Li Xiaole pointed at Wang Qun with a black folder in his hand, and laughed and cursed for a while. The hall was completely silent. Not only the Taiwanese directors were silenced, but even Lin Zhiling and Wei Desheng, two people who were relatively familiar with him, were frightened.
I didn't dare to say anything, I could only hear Li Xiaole's passionate voice echoing in the space:
"Since the emergence of your pseudo-new wave, you have never made any contribution to Chinese films. You have always used the shackles of so-called 'art' to stick to the rules. There are more than a hundred Chinese in the huge Chinese area, from Taiwan to Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Singapore.
Film companies, no film company dares to invest in you.
If you are so artistic, won’t anyone be willing to invest in it!? No! In the final analysis, whoever invests in you will go bankrupt. For real art, even if it is high-profile and low-key! There will always be people willing to invest in it, such as Wang Jiawei, Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, and Yang Dechang
They are the art, and you bunch of clamoring pseudo-new waves are nothing more than a group of maggots gnawing on the artistic halo of masters and sucking the flesh and blood of Chinese movies!"
Li Xiaole finally got excited and laughed out loud. It was so damn enjoyable. He had been holding these words in his heart for who knows how long. Today, he finally let go of his anger.
Director Lin was already dumbfounded and had even forgotten about mediation. Everyone was impressed by Li Xiaole's sharp aura. The huge conference hall was eerily silent, and only the heavy breathing of Wang Qun could be heard.
Wang Qun wanted to refute, wanted to rebuke, but was unable to respond to Li Xiaole's scolding to settle accounts. He wanted to stand up angrily and walk away to show his disdain, but his feet were so weak that he couldn't help it. Seeing Li Xiaole's teeth and claws dancing, he laughed.
Wang Qun looked like he had no power to mount an inspiring counterattack. In this debate, he had been completely wiped out. Wang Qun, the leader of the new wave, a very important figure in the cultural world, and the prestigious Vice Chairman of the Directors Association,
How could you be humiliated in public by such a director from Mainland China who looks like a child!?
"You...you..." Wang Qun pointed at Li Xiaole with trembling fingers, watching helplessly as this man opened his teeth and claws to tear apart every weakness in his body, but he was unable to resist. He only felt the fire in his heart rising and his whole body went weak.
Wang Qun rolled his eyes, suddenly lost his breath, and fell down on the spot.
But just when Director Lin wanted to criticize Li Xiaole for a word or two, Wang Qun suddenly realized. After all, he had been in the political arena and was not confused. Knowing that the key person now was Director Lin, he could only fight desperately.
Suppressing his anger, he lowered his head and said to Director Lin calmly:
"Director Lin, you heard it. Their mainland directors have such a bad attitude. You use him to lead the co-production. You are undoubtedly trying to poison our Taiwanese film industry. With his small character, he made "Sediq Ba"
"Lai", a movie that represents our Taiwanese folk customs, will probably worsen the image of Taiwanese people. I support co-productions, but our Taiwanese directors must take the lead. I recommend Director Hou Hsiao-hsien as the co-director this time, otherwise!
All members of the Taiwan Directors Association withdraw from this cooperation plan with the mainland!"
Everyone present gasped, Wang Qun is showing off his knife! Originally, he represented the interests of new wave directors, and he must prevent this cross-strait cooperation, because for those of them who rely on film subsidies to live their lives,
, "Sediq Bale" is okay if it loses money, but if it does well at the box office, it will be a disaster for these literary film directors, and the annual film subsidy will probably support commercial films.
This time it is not just a personal grudge between Li Xiaole and Wang Qun, but a matter of life and death for this group of directors in Taiwan. Either you die or I die in the struggle for interests. No step can be taken!
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense. Whether it was the Taiwanese filmmakers, Wei Desheng, Lin Zhiling, or several representatives of the China Film Group, they all heard that this cooperation would probably fall out on the spot... Everything depends on Lin
How will the director handle it?
These words not only did not make Li Xiaole angry, but instead made him feel a stone fall to the ground, because this old boy Wang Qun is basically an idiot. He made a fundamental mistake. He really thought that Taiwan's Administrative Information Bureau was run by his Wang family.
Yes, the reason why the Information Bureau set up the film subsidy fund and invested large sums of money every year was to revitalize the Taiwanese film industry. The starting point for this cross-strait cooperation was that the Information Bureau wanted to change and survive, but he acted as
In front of Director Lin, he used the influence of the Directors Guild to threaten him... This old boy is simply asking for his own death.
Li Xiaole noticed that Director Lin's face darkened on the spot, and there was a hint of anger in his eyes. Many Taiwanese directors in the audience also looked anxious and angry. There was no hesitation in his heart. This was the opportunity to establish his authority in one fell swoop.
, no longer needing to be patient, he directly looked at Wang Qun with a cold snort and cursed.
"Wang Qun, you fake director, you are so thick-skinned? Can you alone represent the Directors Guild? Isn't the president of the Taiwan Directors Guild Director Zhu Yanping Zhu? Who do you think you are?"
Wang Qun never expected that Li Xiaole would directly point at his nose and start scolding him. He was so stunned that he was scolded on the spot. Li Xiaole stood up and walked to the audience. In front of everyone, he pointed at the black folder in his hand.
Wang Qun:
"You pseudo-new wavers are so fucking shameless! In the eyes of you pseudo-new wavers, other directors are degenerate, but you are the only one who is noble; all other types of films are dregs, and only your art films are the essence of humanity!
Mainland's third-generation directors make the main theme. You, Wang Qun, criticize them for promoting an authoritarian government. They are considered as government propaganda tools and are not worthy of being filmmakers. Hong Kong's commercial films were popular in Asia in the 1980s. You, Wang Qun, say that they promote vulgar tastes and are third-rate people who specialize in gambling.
In this scene, the fifth generation of mainland directors became famous internationally, and you, Wang Qun, scolded you for showing the backwardness of the mainland to please the West~!
When they make comedies, you, Wang Qun, say they have bad taste. When they make blockbusters, you, Wang Qun, despise them for not respecting the art of film. You have a bad mouth and have insulted all the directors in the Chinese area. You are also shameless and openly claim to be a filmmaker.
The last barrier of art!?
We directors are all here today, so tell me yourself, what contribution have you, the pseudo-new wave, made to Chinese films? What contribution have you, Wang Qun, made to Chinese films? Let me sum it up for you, you are just a group of people who were
Psychopaths raised by the Information Bureau who never do real work and are drowned in your illusory dreams all day long are only good at judging everything, criticizing everything, and using the light of masters such as Yang Dechang and Hou Hsiao-hsien to elevate themselves!
Taiwan's film industry is now in such a state of desolation. When did you pseudo-new wave people come up with a useful policy and produce an excellent film?
You say every day that you want to use the best movies and make stories that are closest to life to express Taiwan's local humanistic care, but in fact you advocate using non-star actors to break the actor-star system, so that thousands of actors cannot have the influence of the audience.
You also said that movies should "analyze real social phenomena" and abandon the stereotyped style of "hiding evil and promoting good" of previous mainstream movies. In fact, they use movies to describe personal vulgar tastes and impact the audience's normal emotional values. The characters in your movies are kind.
, hard work, despair of life, suicide, homosexuality, pornography, you use these extreme themes as art, but you have no regard for the normal emotional feelings of movie viewers.
Does your art just preach that "good people don't die well" and spread grief, despair, and anger!? How dare you keep claiming that you are the most noble fucking filmmakers!? They are obviously a group of bitches trying to build a memorial arch, but they still
Casting yourself as a chaste martyr!? It’s so fucking funny.
To be continued...