Zhang Ran left until five o'clock in the afternoon at Kurosawa Akira's former residence. In order to express his gratitude to Keiko Kitagawa, Zhang Ran invited her to a meal and waved goodbye.

Zhang Ran took a taxi back to the hotel. As soon as he walked into the hall, Zhong Dajun, who was sitting on the sofa, came up to meet him. He lowered his voice and said, "I can't find anyone to look for you everywhere. Something happened. Let's find a place to talk."

When Zhang Ran heard Zhong Dajun say this, his heart suddenly burst out and then nodded.

Sitting in the coffee shop, Zhang Ran looked at the crowds on the street outside the window and asked, "What, what happened?"

Zhong Dajun stared at Zhang Ran's eyes and said with a serious expression: "Yesterday a media broke the news in Xiangjiang. According to insiders, when the explosion drummer was screening internally, there were many bad comments. All judges thought the movie was fabricated and ridiculously shallow. Today, domestic media began to reprint a lot."

Zhang Ran's face changed. This trick was too ruthless. He wanted to kill the explosion drummer.

There are often revelations about the jury during the film festival, but such revelations often say that the judges are optimistic about the movie, who has the most hope of winning the award? At most, it is said that a certain movie is more controversial and it is difficult for the judges to make a choice. No one will reveal that a certain movie has a lot of bad reviews unless there is a grudge.

Zhang Ran was not sure whether this news was released by Li Zhiyi or Zhang Zhiliang, it didn't matter who did it. Now what he was really worried about is that under the guidance of someone who is interested, he labeled the burst drummer as embarrassing and throwing it into Japan, and that would be really troublesome.

Last year, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the Yasukuni Shrine and visited again this year. Therefore, domestic audiences are quite sensitive to matters involving Japan. The most typical example is Zhao Wei's military flag dress. Zhao Wei took a group of photos for the magazine, but it did not cause any response after it was published, and no one cared about it. But three months later, someone posted the photos online, claiming that Zhao Wei was wearing Japanese military flag dress, which was shortly after Koizumi visited. The matter was quickly fermented, causing great criticism from the whole nation.

Similar to Zhao Wei. Later, Zhang Ziyi was scolded very badly for her memoirs of performing geisha. This should have been a happy thing, because Chinese actors stole the role of Japanese people and played the Japanese national treasures. But someone posted a photo of a bed scene online, claiming that Zhang Ziyi was pressed by a Japanese actor, which attracted many netizens to scold Zhang Ziyi for being humiliated by a Chinese character. In fact, the picture was a screenshot of the Japanese movie Dodon Yukawa. The one who was suppressed was Japanese actress Keiko Matsusaka, which had nothing to do with Zhang Ziyi.

Zhang Ran guessed correctly. At night, large communities such as Tianya and Maopu appeared on BBS: "For a considerable number of Westerners, they like to watch movies that express China's poverty and backwardness. This is the traditional perception of thinking. However, Zhang Ran miscalculated and his movies were fiercely criticized by judges at the Tokyo Film Festival. Most of the judges this time were Asian directors, including directors of Xiangjiang. Everyone knows China more well and believes that it should not deliberately express China's backwardness to cater to Western tastes. The reality of China is not like this. When I read this news in the newspaper, I felt ashamed. Why can't our directors learn from Japanese and Korean directors to shoot some beautiful things? Why should we cater to Western tastes Chinese directors, where is your dignity?"

There are indeed movies in China that deliberately please the West, which is what many people call a prize fraud film. When netizens see the article, they think that Zhang Ran is also making that kind of movie. It would be fine if you make such a movie, but you were scolded by the Japanese and Korean judges. It was really embarrassing that netizens began to attack Zhang Ran.

"Damn it, it's just for those two stinky money that shamelessly gave up the face of the Chinese people."

"What is the hope of Chinese movies? We don't need such a virtuous person. Art has no borders. But artists have their own motherland. If an artist loses the minimum national dignity, then he will not win the respect of anyone."

"Thinking about it, it's disgusting why we are Chinese people and please Westerners. Isn't it enough for them to bully us Chinese?"

The criticisms against Zhang Ran on the Internet are overwhelming, giving people the illusion of Zhang Ran selling his country and seeking honor. This not only makes many fans who have a good impression of Zhang Ran stay away from him, but even the few fans who have expectations for the burst drummer quietly withdrew and announced that they have never been a fan of this birdman.

Nicholas Tingfeng's fans are very grateful. Fortunately, Xiao Xie quit this drama, otherwise my Tingfeng would be scolded; Zhou Jielun's fans beat their chests and stamped their feet, and Zhang Ran made my Jielun miserable, which was simply a destruction of my Jielun.

No matter how others think, the students in Zhang Ran’s class absolutely support Zhang Ran. They know who Zhang Ran is. He has always taught everyone to have dignity and never belittle China to cater to Western tastes. More importantly, they have all watched the Blast Drummer and know what kind of movie it is. They all refuted online that if the movie is so bad, it will be shortlisted for the main competition of the Tokyo Film Festival. Where does the movie reflect the poverty and backwardness? It is clearly telling the story of Xiangjiang.

But their rebuttals were drowned in many accusations and could not cause any waves.

Zhang Ran looked at the media center on the second floor of the Film Festival Theater and looked solemn. First, the Xiangjiang media spoke out, and then the domestic media followed up quickly, and then the Internet fermented, one move after another, and the entire offensive was like a storm. This would definitely not be a temporary intention, but had been planned long ago.

It was not until this time that Zhang Ran realized that he underestimated Yu Minghai. This guy looked harmless, but he didn't expect to be a real ruthless person. However, for Zhang Ran, this was also a good thing, at least letting him know who the enemy was. If Yu Minghai kept hiding in the dark and using a hidden arrow, Zhang Ran would be really hard to beware of.

Zhang Ran’s best counterattack method is to win awards. After the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was released in China, he was considered to be unworthy of Tsui Hark’s shoes. However, after winning the Oscar, the evaluation quickly turned, and various interpretations of traditional culture were released, with praises. If the burst drummer could win awards in Tokyo, the dirty water on his body would be washed away quickly.

But no one dared to film his chest and say that he could win the award. Ang Lee didn't dare to guarantee the offer. Brokeback Mountain was returned by Cannes. There are too many classic movies that failed at the festival. What's more, the enemy is in the jury now, unless the other four judges support it, the burst drummer will not be able to win the award.

Yu Minghai is very smart in calculations. The burst drummer is shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Tokyo Film Festival, so he can no longer sign up for other A-class film festivals. Even if Zhang Ran goes to participate in the Sundance Film Festival and wins awards at the Film Festival, it is already February. The movie has been released and it is too late to overturn the case.

However, Yu Minghai has made a lot of calculations, but he missed an important link. Although Zhang Ran does not have much resources in the media, he has an ally of the Movie Channel. The Movie Channel spends one million to buy the TV broadcasting rights of the Burst Drummer. If the reputation is too bad and the audience is unwilling to watch it, the money will be spent in vain. So the Movie Channel is definitely willing to help, otherwise the Movie Channel will not send people to the Tokyo Film Festival, and Zhong Dajun will not say so much to Zhang Ran.

The media center has many people and many things are inconvenient to say. Zhang Ran and Zhong Dajun found a cafe to discuss countermeasures.

Seeing Zhang Ran holding a spoon and slowly stirring the coffee, Zhong Dajun asked directly: "What are your plans?"

Zhang Ran picked up the cup and took a sip, and said slowly: "There is no good way, you can only rely on facts. The list of nominations for the Golden Horse Awards will come out tomorrow. As long as you can get a few nominations, it will be the best counterattack against rumors."

Zhong Dajun curled his lips: "The Golden Horse Awards have been in shady situations in recent years, and they were bombarded by Jiao Xiongping not long ago. Now they are under great pressure. The burst drummers are now suffering from large-scale smears and have a bad reputation. I am afraid they will not dare to let the burst drummers be shortlisted."

The Golden Horse Awards have been controversial over the years, and Hou Hsiao-hsien, Yang Dechang and Cai Mingliang have all bombarded the Golden Horse Awards. After this year's popular film Blue Gate was shortlisted for the Tokyo Film Festival, it announced its withdrawal from the Golden Horse Awards. The film's producer Jiao Xiongping announced to the media that the reason for withdrawal was that the judges were unfair and did not want the Blue Gate to be insulted by the Golden Horse Awards.

Jiao Xiongping withdrew because of the experience of the 17-year-old bicycle produced by her at the Golden Horse Awards. The 2001 Golden Horse Awards. The 17-year-old bicycle directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, produced by Jiguang Film Company, was shortlisted for six major awards, but failed to win. The reason is very simple. A judge had an illegal operation when applying for the Taiwan Film Tutoring Gold, and was exposed by Xu Xiaoming, the CEO of Jiguang Film Company. As a result, the movie was framed at the Golden Horse Awards. Jiao Xiongping claimed to be the godmother of Taiwan films, and had a great impact. Her attack caused the Golden Horse Awards to fall into an unprecedented crisis.

Zhang Ran's view is exactly the opposite of Zhong Dajun: "No, this time should be fair. The judges have watched the Breaking Drummer. They have their own judgment on the quality of the movie and will not be easily influenced by external comments. Moreover, the protagonist of our movie is Jay Chou, who is their own people. There will definitely be a deviation in emotionally, and there is a high possibility of being shortlisted."

Zhong Dajun thought about it and thought it made sense. However, he felt that Zhang Ran was still too optimistic: "The Golden Horse Awards have little impact on domestic audiences. Even if the movie won the Golden Horse Awards, it is probably difficult to change the impression of domestic audiences."

Zhang Ran agreed with Zhong Dajun's opinion: "You are right, so please ask you for this matter. The movie premiered the day after tomorrow. Please make a movie premiere and the audience's reaction after the movie premiere. I will contact Director Yan and arrange for the Chinese movie report to be broadcast."

At the film festival, as long as the movie is not particularly bad, the audience will generally not be stingy with applause. The original burst drummer is very popular in Japan, and there is no reason why Zhang Ran’s movie is unpopular. As long as the premiere scene is broadcast and the audience will understand the truth when they see the movie become very popular in Japan. This is a wonderful step to chess.

Zhong Dajun nodded and said, "No problem, leave it to us."

At 2:30 p.m. the next afternoon, Zhang Ran came to the news center and was preparing to see if the Golden Horse Awards nomination list came out.

As soon as I walked into the news center, I heard Zhong Dajun shouting: "It's out, the list of the Golden Horse Awards is out."

In the news center, many Chinese media saw the list clearly and were in an uproar: "You read that right, the burst drummer actually won 11 nominations."

“11 nominations, this is impossible”

"Didn't you say the review is bad, how could you get so many nominations?"

Zhang Ran was happy when he heard this and came to Zhong Dajun's computer to take a look. There was a Hollywood in Xiangjiang directed by Chen Guo, directed by Xiangjiang director Chen Guo, which broke the historical record of 13 shortlisted by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon with 14 nominations; Zhang Ran's movie burst drummer won 11 nominations, ranking second; Beautiful Times directed by Taiwan director Zhang Zuoji followed closely with 9 nominations; Xiangjiang director Ann Hui Man and Chen Kexin returned home at 40th and 7 nominations; and Zhang Zhiliang's bloody notes also received five nominations. To be continued.
Chapter completed!