The media, who were afraid of the world, reported the news that Scorsese bombarded film critics at the first time. First, the online media, and then the traditional media quickly followed up: "Scorsese posted a long article bombarded film critics to correct the name of Zhang Ran's new film "Angel of Justice", "Scorsese denounced the film critics, and the war of words was about to break out", "Scorsese denounced film critics not understanding art and supported Zhang Ran's new film"...

Scorsese's words were supported by Zhang Ran's fans and many movie fans, who crazily forwarded Scorsese's articles; while Zhang Ranhei and some Japanese supporters refuted Scorsese's words from various angles; the two sides quarreled on the Internet, and soon brought this matter to a hot topic on many social networking sites.

It is not new to the conflict between directors and film critics. Almost every director has had dissatisfaction with film critics. Orson Wells once wanted to sue Pauline Kyle; in Fellini's famous work "Eight and Half", a film critic talked endlessly about psychological analysis and philosophical theory around the director, but Fellini directly hanged the critic.

In Cannes' 60th anniversary short collection "One Movie for Everyone", the critics sitting next to Las Von Trier kept pointing fingers. Feng Feng, who could not bear it, directly pressed the critic's head and crashed into the front seat, causing the critic to faint on the spot. Then, Feng Feng copied out an axe and cut off his head!

It is not the first time that Scorsese has written a review to criticize film critics. In April this year, he published a long letter in the British literary and artistic critics magazine Times Literature Supplement, fighting back against critics who maliciously criticized him.

Zhang Ran originally planned to fight back after the awards season began in November, but he didn't expect Scorsese to stand up and speak out for "The Angel of Justice". But no matter what, Zhang Ran had to accept this love, so he called Scorsese's movie and expressed his gratitude to Scorsese.

Scorsese said very politely: "The Angel of Justice is a very good movie, but these people give bad reviews to the movie due to political reasons, which is simply inexplicable. Good reviews should show enough enthusiasm and knowledge reserves for movies, help young filmmakers find their dreams, and allow many viewers to find their own movie beacons. But now critics are committed to pure criticalism to see a film and creator rejected, rejected, or even torn to joy."

Zhang Ran also felt that there were fewer and fewer valuable reviews now, and sighed: "It is the Internet era, and everyone can write a review, and everyone is a film critic. The boundary between professional critics and amateur critics is becoming increasingly blurred. In this era, there are too many film reviews and too many film critics. In this case, the more extreme and the more sarcastic reviews are, the more eye-catching the ball and the more popular they are. However, the situation encountered by "Angel of Justice" does not belong to this situation, and it should be related to the Japanese forces in the United States."

Scorsese was a little confused about Zhang Ran's calmness: "You don't seem to worry about the negative reviews of film critics at all. Films like "Angel of Justice" that are painted on a small scale in art theaters are very important. If the media and film critics' evaluations are not high, it will be difficult for the movie to expand its release scale and will be released soon."

In the era when traditional film critics were prevalent, most famous professional film critics in Europe and North America worked in film magazines such as "Movie Manual", "Variety Show", "Hollywood Reporter", etc., or newspaper film columns. Their reviews have a great influence on the movie. A film critic like Roger Ibert's famous film critic will even affect the fate of a movie.

However, in the 1980s, the influence of film critics began to decline. In the late 1990s, with the rise of the Internet, the influence of traditional film critics quickly collapsed, while film websites such as Rotten Tomatoes gradually increased on the audience, but they could not play a decisive role in the box office of the film, especially the influence on commercial films can be said to be minimal.

Adam Sandler is the most typical example. In the eyes of critics, he is the super bad movie king. Almost no movie starring Adam Sandler has received praise from critics. Even the movies "The Magical Remote Control", "50 First Loves", "The Longest Code" and other movies that have a good reputation in the eyes of the audience are all bad movies in the eyes of critics. But Adam Sandler is a famous king of over 100 million in North America. So far, he has starred in 17 movies in North America for more than 100 million in box office, and most of them are he.

Of course, film reviews are not affected by the box office of the movie now. At least for art films, film reviews are very important, and even related to the life and death of the movie. Because most art films are low-cost independent films, and without much publicity and distribution funds, it is impossible to advertise like Hollywood blockbusters. If the audience wants to understand a movie, they often achieve it through film reviews.

Art films often use small-scale releases to gain reputation in North America, and then spread from art theaters to commercial theaters through word-of-mouth fermentation, thereby making big profits with small profits and making high profits. If the movie has a bad reputation and average attendance rate, there is no chance to expand the release scale, and the movie will soon be released after preview. Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Midfield War" failed after its premiere in New York, and Sony decided not to invest money in publicity and release it directly, which is equivalent to sentenceing the movie to death. Therefore, for art films, the reputation of the media and the critics are related to the life and death of the movie.

However, the situation in "Angel Justice" is different from "Midfield War". "Angel Justice" has a bad reputation between the media and the audience; "Angel Justice" has a serious media rating of polarization, but the audience has a good reputation. More importantly, Zhang Ran has a very high status in the hearts of Chinese in North America. Chinese people have always supported Zhang Ran's movies very much, and this movie is about Zhang Chunru and the Nanjing Massacre, so Chinese audiences will naturally support them more.

Just the day before yesterday, Ding Yuan called Zhang Ran that when "The Angel of Justice" was released, members of the Shiweihui Association would support the movie and send emails to recommend the movie to their friends around him. He also told Zhang Ran that he had communicated with other Chinese communities in North America, and that when the movie was released, these communities would support "The Angel of Justice".

With support from North American Chinese, Zhang Ranna was not worried about the preview results of "Angel of Justice" in the first few weeks.

Zhang Ran smiled and comforted: "Before the filming was started, I knew that some people would want to stop Zhang Chunru's book from being released successfully, and prevent "Angel of Justice" from being released in North America. They would definitely give this movie a bad review, turn this movie into a bad movie, and quickly disappear from the public's eyes. However, if I dare to make this movie, I will have the confidence to smash their conspiracy."

When Scorsese heard Zhang Ran's words confidently, he knew that he had already prepared to deal with these people, he said, "That's good. I really don't want to see an excellent film, which is ignored by the public because of factors outside the movie."

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Thank you, Martin. But you may be involved in trouble. If you stand up and speak for "Angel of Justice", those people will definitely try every means to attack you."

Scorsese laughed and said, "I'm not afraid of their attacks. When I finished filming "The Last Temptation of Christ", I was criticized and boycotted by the religious community, and some even threatened me with death. Am I fine now!"

However, Scorsese underestimated the other party's shamelessness. Soon a film critic named Horn Geyle made a fierce fight back on the Internet: "Scorsese is old and his movies are no longer popular, but Scorsese is a person who likes to make movies. If he can't make movies, it will be very painful. So he found a long-term meal ticket for himself and worked for Zhang Ran and Zhang Ran's Netflix. In August this year, Scorsese sold the copyright of his new film "The Irishman" to Netflix, so the movie had enough funds to start. Therefore, we should understand Scorsese. He is old and cannot make a good movie anymore. He is just speaking out for his long-term meal ticket."

After Zhang Ran saw this article, he felt that he read too much and said that Scorsese wrote the article to please Zhang Ran and Netflix. This was a completely insult to his personality. Zhang Ran quickly called Scorsese's movie and wanted to comfort the old man.

However, Scorsese's tone sounded very calm: "When watching "Angel of Justice", I saw many experts and professors attacking Zhang Chunru. I think it's a bit exaggerated? Are Japanese people really that powerful in the United States? Now I know that all this is true."

Zhang Ran didn't know if Scorsese was really calm or pretending to be calm, so he comforted him: "Martin, you should go and work on your new movie! Intellectuals like you are not good at squirting with others, so let me leave it to you, seeing that I can't take care of themselves."

Scorsese knew that Zhang Ran had been ready to confront those people, and he believed that Zhang Ran would beat them to pieces and chuckled, "Okay, then I'll wait to watch the show."

Zhang Ran sneered: "You have to wait and see, I will make them regret everything they have done."

After hanging up Scorsese's phone, Zhang Ran quickly typed a long article and posted it on Fly, firing back at the comments criticizing "Angel of Justice", accusing these so-called reviews of being worthless and entirely political comments.

Zhang Ran wrote in the article: "The Japanese right wing has been denying the sins of the Japanese army over the years. As long as there are works that reflect the sins of the Japanese army, they will be attacked and slandered. This is not once, nor is it one thing.

After the release of the movie "Indestructible" directed by Angelina Jolie last year, many Japanese nationalists criticized the movie "anti-Japanese" and demanded that the film be banned from being released. The movie was adapted from real-life stories. These people didn't even watch the movie, but accused everything in the movie of being fabricated. Many American film critics also criticized the movie for describing the scene of the Japanese army's abuse of prisoners as "meaningless torture marathons", and some media even said that "it may stimulate China's anti-Japanese sentiment."

Zhang Chunru's "Nanjing Massacre" was obstructed from its publication. After the book was published, Zhang Chunru and her book were severely criticized and criticized.

With so many living examples in front of me, I know very well that after "Angel Justice" is released, these people will definitely jump out to criticize the movie, and their accusations must be inseparable from these words "political propaganda film", "ugly the Japanese army", and "anti-Japanese propaganda". This is true. Now the criticism of "Angel Justice" is basically inseparable from these words.

Actually, I don't care about these comments, because they are worthless, not film reviews at all, but political comments. I remember a comment saying, "If Warner Bros. Entertainment directed a movie like "Angel of Justice" in 1942, it might have been an effective anti-Japanese promotional film and achieved good benefits. But today, "Angel of Justice" is just a low-level gimmick." Such comments make me funny. I think if these articles were published in the Asahi Shimbun in 1938, they would be very good political comments and might even be awarded the medal from the Japanese government; but as a film review, don't insult the word "film review!"

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