Chapter 15 Chapter 14 The Culture Wars: When Confucius Meets Avatar
Is "Avatar" just a magnificent 3D effect?We do not grasp the three concepts behind it.
What is being photographed is the idea of the official standard, but it is not obvious that Confucius really taught and spread his ideals without discrimination.
The living space of the Confucius Institute is embarrassing.
As a domestic blockbuster for the Lunar New Year holiday in the Year of the Tiger, it was officially released on January 22, 2010, becoming the first film to confront "Avatar" head-on.Under the general trend of other domestic films "running away after hearing the wind of "Avatar", they do the opposite, hoping to get a good performance during the period when the "Avatar" craze is slowly receding.Maybe the road was chosen wrong at the beginning, but the result is still wrong. The box office in the first week was only 28 million, and it took only 38 days for "Avatar" to globalize the single film created by its big brother "Titanic" 12 years ago. The box office record of 1.845 billion US dollars has completely become history.
Do you remember the protagonist of "Avatar"?Is a disabled United States Marine Corps veteran.Don't readers find it strange?The heroes in traditional American blockbusters, even if they are not tough men like Schwarzenegger or handsome guys like Leonardo, should be those smart and brave men in "2012"!Why is the protagonist in "Avatar" a disabled veteran?Some people say this is because only the weak can sympathize with and help save the weak.But how does this explain the few people who fought alongside him?You have to pay attention, these people are not persuaded or infected to help, but out of instinct or inner, innate values, which is the salvation spirit of Christianity.And this Christian spirit is further interpreted in the film.Readers, do you remember the Virgin Mary and Eva?The Virgin Mary tree controls all life.Who is Eva?Eva is the image of the Virgin Mary in Catholicism.The spirit of great love shaped by this Western religious spirit is the first element of the movie "Avatar" in shaping the protagonist. On the contrary, this apparently weak man is the strongest man because he has the strongest will.For example, learning the will, he has the worst foundation in alien languages among all of them, but he is the best at communicating with the locals afterwards.Why?He puts it bluntly in the movie: Language is practice.Because of this, he is the first earthling who has successfully learned a full set of alien skills, and has passed numerous trials and assessments.In fact, all of this is just the story of one person - President Roosevelt of the United States.Roosevelt was physically and mentally strong, as we all know.And what is the most expressive place? In "Avatar", the protagonist has no legs, but he can gallop vertically and horizontally, control the air power, and become a phantom knight. In reality, although Roosevelt suffers from paralysis, he has built a strong body during his seven years as assistant secretary of the navy and ten years of his presidential career. It has built the world's most capable navy, making the navy a powerful "stick" for the United States to seek the status of a powerful country, and laying a solid foundation for the formation of the United States' world hegemony. Roosevelt endured all kinds of cynicism in "Avatar".The indomitable spirit of struggle represented by Roosevelt is the second element in shaping the protagonist of this film. However, Roosevelt did not have much shadow of fighting for injustice for minorities, so where did this come from?This all comes from Morgan, a well-known American ethnologist and a personal promoter of the American national melting pot policy.His "Iroquois League" created the discipline of ethnology, and his "Ancient Society" fundamentally changed the views of the entire social science community on ancient society and social evolution. I believe that readers and friends may be relatively unfamiliar with Morgan.He is a very famous anthropologist.He entered a tribe of Indians called the Iroquois in 1846, and then became their adopted son, lived there, played with them, worshiped their gods together, and participated in their various rituals and rituals. a customary activity.The Indians did very badly in the United States. They are like a nation abandoned by God. White Americans bullied them, lied to their land, their people, and their money, making them poor and white.Morgan's life is very legendary. In his early years, he organized the "Great Iroquois Society" with like-minded young people. He dedicated himself to fighting injustice for the Indians. The public appealed for the benefit of the Indians, raising money to send the children of the Seneca tribe to school.One of Morgan's fundraising students—Avery?Parker has a very strong learning ability, and he can be regarded as a talent who understands both the world inside the tribe and the world outside the tribe, so the two formed a deep friendship later on.This student later became a general and was revered as a hero of the Indians.And in the movie "Avatar"?The protagonist is a student of the local princess. He has a very strong learning ability, and he can be regarded as a talent who understands the world inside the tribe and the world outside the tribe at the same time, so the two of them later developed a deep relationship.Of course, the moment he became the Phantom Knight, he also became a local hero.What Muergen showed is such a person under the strong American culture who understands and helps backward nations.Isn't this alluding to the Na'vi people of Pandora? The protagonist of "Avatar" also started a series of activities after being accepted by the Na'vi people and became part of them.The projection of exploring how to protect vulnerable groups represented by Morgan is the third element of this film. And this trinity male protagonist constitutes the center of the whole film.But why does this movie touch our hearts so much?Because no matter you are Mary in Christianity, or a Buddhist, or a prophet of other sects, they all talk about a psychic relationship with nature, that is, they are one with nature.This unity has been blocked due to the development of modern technology and the development of civilization.The content of the "Huangdi Neijing" written by these ancients is actually the same as the concept in "Avatar"-cherishing nature.In the movie, when they kill an animal, you see them worshiping, saying "you are brave", "thank you for giving me your body".You see, even in order to save this Avatar, the heroine killed several wolves. She said, wolves should not die, it is your stupidity that made these wolves die. This movie expresses an attitude towards environmental protection, which moves us. These Chinese directors, such as Feng Xiaogang, said that the story of "Avatar" is actually very ordinary in his opinion.He was right and wrong. The story elements of "Avatar" have actually been used before. For example, "Dances with Wolves" and "The Last Samurai" are similar stories, so the stories are nothing new.Moreover, director Cameron spent a lot of money to create Pandora's 3D magnificent world after the return of "Titanic" for 14 years. This method of spending a lot of money is vividly reflected in Chinese directors including Zhang Yimou and others But this is not the point: In fact, the sad thing about Chinese directors, including what Feng Xiaogang and others have not figured out, is that the real soul of "Avatar" is to let the great love of Christianity, the struggle of Roosevelt, and the struggle of Morgan A sense of salvation, to help backward nations maintain their own nature.I am very worried that our Chinese directors can't see the soul, and it would be a pity if they focus on the fashionable 3D, because 3D is just an empty shell of technology without a soul. Also, when I was watching this movie, I laughed inside myself when I saw it.What are you laughing at, you know?Aren't the Na'vi people a backward nation?Isn't the hero an incarnation of Roosevelt, with Christian and Morgan's salvation feelings, to help the backward nations?Isn't our Chinese nation the backward nation in the minds of Americans - Na'vi?The hero Jack came to save us backward peoples, and those of us backward people were very happy to watch this movie. Don’t you think it’s very ironic and funny. I want readers to understand that the United States has had its vanguard in several foreign wars, including the war against Japan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.The vanguard is not the Marine Corps, but a group of anthropologists, that is, the image of the female scientist in the movie. They first study the ethnicity of this nation, which is very powerful.Let me give you another example. Before the U.S. invaded Japan, the U.S. military funded Benedict to conduct in-depth scientific research on the ethnicity of the Japanese people, and thus wrote a great book, which became a great work in anthropological research. literature. Then let's watch this movie again.We don't want to talk about its shooting skills, don't talk about its storyline, what is said in it, how it is shot, we don't talk about those, they are all technical details.I would like to ask you, what is the difference with "Avatar"?That is, you transformed the Avatar into Roosevelt, and made a "Roosevelt Biography" to promote American culture. This is what we are doing.Let me ask you, if you made a Roosevelt biography, would anyone watch the movie?Almost no one will watch it.Will we still stand in such a long line every day like madmen to watch "Roosevelt" in 3D? So "Avatar" sublimated Roosevelt into Avatar.But what about us?It degenerated Avatar into Roosevelt, and turned it into a documentary about Roosevelt.That's why it's not popular.We are using a very realistic and uncreative method to convey our culture with the word "Confucius", which is an absolute failure.Think about why it failed?Will you watch "Jesus Saves the World"?Will you watch The Biography of Roosevelt?Will you watch The Life of Morgan?You won't watch it, you get bored.But that's what we do. Ours is to secularize "Avatar" and return Avatar to a mortal named Morgan and Roosevelt.And even when it came back, it didn't come back well.Even if it is restored, it is not restored well.There are many flaws in that kind of fragmented processing, and there are many technical problems that I am too lazy to talk about.For example, there is a gimmick in the movie called "Zi Jian Nan Zi", which uses Zhou Xun and Zhou Runfa as the protagonists.Let’s not talk about whether there is such a thing as “Zi meets Nanzi” in history. I find it very interesting that Zhou Xun communicated with Chow Yun-fat at that time, saying that many of the 300 poems in "Poetry" describe the love between men and women. Then Chow Yun-fat responded in this way. He said that the three hundred chapters of "Poetry" can be summed up in one sentence, called "long-lasting love and no evil thoughts".In fact, if you go back and really read it, you will find that there are problems with its restoration.The "Si Wuxie" in the "Si Wuxie" is actually a utterance, which has no real meaning.He interpreted the utterance word "si" as being emotional, and misinterpretations are really everywhere.Moreover, the interpretation of the "sage" in the whole film is actually from the perspective of our ridiculous official position.The reason why Sage Confucius is a sage is because he insists on his ideals very much and spreads his ideas without discrimination.How about you watch this movie again?When Confucius lost his official position, he couldn't take it anymore. He drove his carriage in the rain, and then cried when the carriage got stuck in the mud. Don't you think this is a plot in a Korean drama?Korean dramas are for love and some ideal things, but you are here for official position. Think about it, is this still a saint?This is what our officials do. It is precisely because the director didn't even understand this, so the following plots are very absurd.Confucius obviously traveled around the world and spread his ideas, but in this movie he was filmed as a fugitive.When the saint had nothing to eat, he shared the last bowl of soup with his comrades.This is not the work of a saint, so you find that Confucius has been photographed again as a high-ranking official who shares weal and woe with his subordinates.Where is the sanctity of the saint?It's not about giving everyone brotherly care at this time, nor is it about the philosophy of being a human being. This is what our officials think about.And a sage must persist and spread his ideals without discrimination. And if you think about it, we're in an age that hates preaching.I watched this movie, and fell asleep watching it, in agony.Confucius in the film stands at a high place at all times and talks to you in a didactic language. Do you think it's annoying?If you look at "Avatar" again, it does not use the form of preaching, but uses modern science fiction, and uses the most intuitive way to express the concept it wants to express very profoundly through these few characters.This is the difference in level. And when it comes to stories, in fact, only simple stories can spread. The relationship between the characters in "Avatar" is very simple, just a few people.But because of the "Four Subjects and Ten Philosophy" of Confucius' students, Zilu and Zigong, there are too many of them, and they all have similar looks. The audience who watched it for a long time didn't know who was who. Chow Yun-fat said a word, do you still remember?He said that those who cannot see tears are not human.you know how i feelChow Yun-fat and his group look like real estate developers, without the temperament of scholars and elegance. His words just make me feel a little disgusted. Let's be fair, from this film, I can feel the anxiety in the hearts of these cultural people in China.In today's society, we have gone too far away from our original basic values, and we are completely following the Western way of life.So what do we do?So I went to pull Confucius from more than 2,000 years ago to save us.I think this is a rather ridiculous proposition.Even if you ask Confucius to save you, you should be able to find a way to connect with modern people on the premise that you can discover the connotation of Confucius. And where are our artists now, including some directors?Just no sense of art.For example, after Zhang Yimou made "Three Shots Surprise", so many people scolded him, it was completely a commercial film.You found that he didn't have any reflections, but he felt that it was normal to hate.His whole purpose is to make money.There is nothing wrong with you making money, but have you ever imagined that with such a high-status director like you, what kind of movies you can make in the end with such money worship?The films you can make are almost the kind of films we are talking about. Looking at all this from a very secular perspective, there is no way to lead Chinese art to a level of creative thinking.And this kind of height is basically impossible for our directors and artists. And Zhang Yimou's understanding of Chinese culture is not only the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, but also the previous one.It is very typical for him to find out a few signs of Chinese culture, a few "logos (trademarks)", and then put them together to create a music, chess, calligraphy, painting, sword, light and sword. In fact, it has no soul, at most it is the decoration of Chinese culture.So what is he likely to do next?He will shoot in 3D, and he also makes very complicated martial arts films. What kind of swords and swords, he just kills and kills in that 3D film, lacking soul.It is equivalent to dividing the movie "Avatar" into "Three Shots Shooting Surprise". , formed a movie, and then asked Xiaoshenyang and Zhao Benshan to shoot it. This movie was released on the same schedule as "Avatar", and it was also seen as a counterattack by Chinese local cultural people.The problem is that we do not have overseas ambitions, but Americans do.The "Avatar" it filmed has a future vision, a global vision, and even goes beyond the earth. This is an overseas ambition.We are still a nation's narrative, which at most revolves around Confucius more than two thousand years ago, around the era of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, when the rituals were broken and the music was broken. It is limited by the nation and its own culture. How can there be an international perspective? And we should take "Avatar" as our goal. How to express Confucius' thoughts very clearly with such cartoonish and hallucinatory characters is more important than anything else.You can invite Zhang Ziyi to express it, or you can invite more beautiful stars to express it. The method of expression does not matter. The question is whether you can use the ideas and spirit of Chinese culture through these people, these communicators, like " "Avatar" is also expressed in the creative way of the so-called trinity. Our "Huangdi Neijing", the relationship between man and nature expressed in it, is much more profound than the movie "Avatar".But how to make it visual and artistic is a very difficult thing.what is this?Real high tech!The real high-tech is not high-tech like 3D, but how to fully sublimate the concept and spirit and express it with a special image.This is what we can't do. This is a real high-tech, called software high-tech. In fact, there was a public case about the effect of communication and expression before. It was Zhang Yiwu from the Chinese Department of Peking University, a cultural scholar. He said a famous sentence two years ago.He said that one Yao Ming and one Zhang Ziyi are more effective than 10,000 copies, and Chinese culture will have a future only if Zhang Ziyi is valued as much as Confucius is.What he said in the first half is correct, but the second half is nonsense.Words cannot be said that way.It's not that Zhang Ziyi is valued because Zhang Ziyi represents Chinese culture, but that Zhang Ziyi herself expresses Chinese culture like "Avatar" through her acting skills. This is what you should pursue, not chasing after individuals. wrong.Let’s go back to what I criticized repeatedly just now. You took this person as a target again, and what you talked about was still a superficial phenomenon, but you didn’t talk about the real problem of the soul.Zhang Ziyi is not important, the problem is how Zhang Ziyi expresses Confucius in the simplest, pleasant and humorous way through acting, so that we ordinary people can accept it. In fact, teaching culture should be done in a way that modern people like to hear and see.How was Confucius digitized?It is a key to at least reduce didacticism in the way ideas are presented.In fact, many of our cultural people have made similar attempts before. For example, Taiwanese cartoonist Cai Zhizhong, he drew a series of "Lao Tzu" and "Lie Zi". Profound truth, these things are all welcome.I think the new generation of Westerners may accept this kind of thing after reading it. There are actually many interesting stories between Confucius and his disciples.For example, when they traveled around the world and were finally down and out on the streets, Confucius asked his disciples to ask for alms.When he arrived at a bakery, Confucius said, who of you will bring the cakes?The first disciple went, and then the owner of the bakery said, I will write a word to see if you know me.The boss wrote the word "true", true and false, and then the disciple thought, this question is too simple, I don't think he asked me to say the word "true", he must be testing I am like a brain teaser, so this disciple said, this is a "false".The boss said, let's go, you don't even know the word "true", so you are worthy of being a student of Confucius?You can't eat this cake.The disciple came back and told Confucius what happened, no, the cake did not come back.Confucius said, oops, you don't even know the word "true"!Who's next?Another disciple went, and the boss said again, do you know this word?It's still the word "true".This disciple was in a dilemma at this time, wondering why he brought up the word "true" again, but he dared not say it and couldn't answer it.After the disciples came back, Confucius said, alas, it has come to this point, "what is the truth?"In fact, this is a summary of his fourteen years of traveling around the world, an irony.This story visualizes Confucius' idea that "he is as tired as a bereaved dog" and cannot sell himself.Expressed in this way of story, it is a higher level than the expression of this movie.But this expression is still a long way from "Avatar".But if the way of "Avatar" can be used, the audience's interest will be even greater. Speaking of the Confucius Institute, the same is true. We took Confucius out and built a Confucius Institute.As soon as Chinese cultural people are injured, they will go to the old Zongzong to find resources, and find that Confucius is a bond, a logo, and a signboard that we maintain together. In fact, all parts of the world are promoting their own "Confucius Institutes", such as the Cervantes Institute in Spain, the Goethe Institute in Germany, the British Council, and the French Institute of Languages.Everyone is pushing, but you can see our image as an old man bowing and saluting. In fact, Westerners can't understand your gesture.But you see, when the Goethe-Institut promotes the image of Germany in China, what image of Goethe does it use?I hold a mobile phone in my hand, and it is still a smart phone, and I put a laptop on my lap, and next to it are some classic ancient books.Such a Goethe is a digitized Goethe, an image language that keeps pace with the times.Comparing us with others, there is a huge contrast here.But what's interesting is that many professors and scholars in German universities really hate using mobile phones.German professors, especially those of philosophy and sociology, think that using mobile phones is a shame, an insult to their personality, including their way of life.But when promoting their culture and language, popular language is still used. Now scholars comment on the Confucius Institute that it is only in the stage of teaching Chinese and Tai Chi.If there is a distinction between "shu" and "dao" in Chinese culture, it means that so far, the Confucius Institutes have remained at the technical level of teaching "shu".Tang Yijie directly commented that the biggest problem with the Confucius Institutes that are blooming around the world is that they only teach language and not enough culture.And these "skills", including Taijiquan and Chinese, are all left over from our old school.We don't quite understand how to export and interpret our own ideas, and this movie can't convey this set of ideas to Chinese people.On the other hand, the Confucius Institute also failed when exporting to the outside world.How many people do you think know about Confucius in America?Think about it, if the United States wants to establish a "Socrates College" or "Lincoln College" in China, can it do New Oriental?The simplest example, if you look at the IELTS test, the organization behind this is the British Council under the British Embassy, but have they opened any "British College" by themselves?No!Instead, they silently support local Chinese English training institutions such as Global IELTS. According to Xinhua News Agency, as of December 2009, 282 Confucius Institutes and 272 Confucius Classrooms have been established in 88 countries and regions around the world.On the surface it seems to be very effective, right?But do you know the real situation? The first is the cost. According to Xinhua News Agency, the cost of each Confucius Institute is US$100,000.In other words, not counting the Confucius Classrooms in middle schools, the cost of the Confucius Institute alone is more than 28 million US dollars.For the "Online Confucius Institute Website" listed in the bidding announcement on the website of the Ministry of Finance, the winning bid was as high as 35.2 million US dollars. But in all fairness, if it can really enhance China's image and promote exchanges between China and foreign countries, it will be worth the money spent.But now the situation of Confucius Institutes overseas is very embarrassing.Confucius Institutes are mainly located in three places—Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America.Southeast Asia regards this as Confucianism, North America as an intelligence agency, and Europe does not take it seriously. Some countries in Southeast Asia are vigilant and defensive towards Confucius Institutes. In 2008, there was a large-scale public debate in Vietnam on whether Hanoi University should build a Confucius Institute.Do you know why?Because the Confucius Institute is regarded as "Confucianism" locally, and the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese government are very cautious about the establishment and dissemination of foreign religious organizations.Later, although Vietnam University also reached a letter of intent for running a school, the Ministry of Education of Vietnam did not agree. It was not until 2009 that the president of Vietnam University Nguyen Xuan Wang became an executive of the Ministry of Education of Vietnam.Things are even worse for Confucius Institutes in Indonesia.why?Because Indonesia is a country with a very strong Islamic culture.Even Maranatha Christian University in Bandung, as a top-ranked private university, was strictly prohibited by the Ministry of Education and had to stop listing.The National University of Malang, as a university directly under the Indonesian Ministry of Education, is even more unwilling to list.In the end, I had to find a non-governmental Jakarta Chinese Teaching Center to list. In 2008, major Canadian newspapers reprinted a piece of "amazing" news - "China uses Confucius Institutes to win people's hearts around the world".According to the Canadian Press, a declassified report released by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service at the end of May 2008 stated: “China’s purpose of setting up Confucius Institutes around the world is to display its ‘soft skills’ and win the hearts and minds of the people around the world.” The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is in charge Judd even admitted that they spent a lot of energy monitoring the activities of the Chinese side. What about Europeans? The "Confucius Institute" is a "Three Noes Institute" with no legal guarantee, no school buildings, and no teachers.The so-called "no legal guarantee" means that the "Confucius Institute" has no guarantee of treaties or agreements between countries.All the "Confucius Institutes" are just hanging signs in other people's existing units, without exception. "Hanban" always uses the word "listed", which is appropriate.We originally wanted to copy the model of the German "Goethe-Institut", but the Goethe-Institut has more than 3,000 employees, and the "Confucius Institute" can be said to have no teachers. The substantive work of the "Confucius Institute" is: the departments of Chinese as a foreign language of Chinese universities send Chinese teachers or experts to foreign places where Chinese language teaching is available, and these teachers or experts are engaged in teaching, teaching materials, curriculum design and other work there.At present, there are hundreds of schools in China teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and they all have inter-school exchanges with foreign institutions (departments).As long as the two sides reach an agreement, Chinese schools can send teachers abroad to teach at any time.China has been doing this work for decades.In the past, when going abroad to teach, you only need to bring the necessary data, but now you may have to carry the brand of "Confucius Institute". We now know that there is no difference at all between so-called "Confucius Institutes" and inter-school exchanges in Chinese language teaching.No, I almost forgot that there is an important difference between "Confucius Institute" and inter-school exchanges: in inter-school exchanges, China sends teachers, and foreigners often have to pay salaries; "Confucius Institute" is what we pay foreigners—— After all, they hang our brand! Let's make a conclusion for ourselves, our own cultural signs are not doing very well, but what about the West?The United States took some of our cultural elements and made them into films, such as "Kung Fu Panda" and "Mulan", but they would sweep us over again and ruin our box office in reverse. Cameron's "Avatar" is said to be anti-human. I think it is a war between human beings and themselves.The planet it represents is exactly what our earth looked like in ancient times. The process of the big tree collapsing is very spectacular, and that magnificence has compressed the history of our civilization for thousands of years.In fact, the history of our civilization for thousands of years has been destroying this big tree.This process was compressed into a short 3 hours with high-tech means. The greatness of a film does not depend on 3D, the simple protagonist, or the storyline, but whether it can hit the soul of this era, or it is called "collective personality".So where is the value of this film?At the moment when the big tree collapsed, I believe that every reader will feel the pain in his heart when he sees this scene, what will he think, oh, our environment has been destroyed, our civilization has been destroyed How many things?These bad guys are destroying a primitive society, a beautiful society, and a big tree.Isn't that what we are doing?This is what hits the collective personality of our society.Therefore, the success of the entire "Avatar" is that the "Trinity" hit our souls, hit our collective personality, and shaped a great "Avatar". So we want our directors to read the classics, to really read our most fundamental things, instead of looking at these so-called popular things.If you follow, you will never be able to keep up.You want to go beyond, how do you know how to go beyond?I think our directors will start to express your ideas in a visual way in the future, and hit the topic that the society is most concerned about.Don't directly say, oops, don't pollute, don't do anything, it's too bad to talk about it.How to hit our collective personality through an image expression like "Avatar" is the direction we should work hard. The reason why "Kung Fu Panda" is welcomed by all audiences must be because it stimulates the collective personality of the entire Chinese people, or it is called culture.Chinese culture has two sides, one is hidden love and the other is dark side.Everyone sees the dark side very clearly—selfish and ruthless, which is represented by Dalong; the other side is the panda Po, although the level of interpretation is not as thorough as Ah Q’s spirit, but part of it is also criticized.I think the most touching thing is the master's unchanging love for Dalong and Po's desire to get his father's approval after success. The highlight of this hidden love makes us agree with this movie even more. In all the movies Stephen Spielberg has made in his life, at the end of each movie, he will definitely show the brilliance of humanity.Let me take "Saving Private Ryan" as an example. What is the purpose of so many sacrifices in the end?It is to fulfill the love for his compatriots given to him by the country and rescue the soldier Ryan. In the movie "Kung Fu Panda", the love it shows at the end is manifested in the panda's father and Master's inseparable love for Dalong when he was a child.But I tell readers that this movie made by DreamWorks is not trying to highlight the love of us Chinese, because they don't know it at all.They just used the ending of this movie to show the love they have always shown in their past movies, not for the Chinese.So when will this hidden love of the Chinese people be revealed?That was after the Wenchuan Earthquake. If we can spread this cultural concept to the rest of the world, don’t you think everyone will have a new view on us Chinese?Because from this movie, it can still be seen that the hidden love of us Chinese is the same as that of people all over the world.If we can reach a consensus with other countries at this cultural level, it will be the real success of our cultural communication. I think that as far as the current level of these directors in our country is concerned, they have not yet recognized this truth.For example, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games directed by Zhang Yimou did not meet my expectations.This opening ceremony did not fully express the collective personality of us Chinese, nor did it express the spirit of great love through the opening ceremony.The opening ceremony is just like what I expected in the previous TV programs, it is a "skill" opening ceremony, just like other movies, the scene is very big, the color is very gorgeous, I think it is amazing A big country should make everyone feel that everything is big and gorgeous.However, this is not culture. What the Olympic Opening Ceremony showed is "art". This article is excerpted from Lang Xianping's
Do you remember the protagonist of "Avatar"?Is a disabled United States Marine Corps veteran.Don't readers find it strange?The heroes in traditional American blockbusters, even if they are not tough men like Schwarzenegger or handsome guys like Leonardo, should be those smart and brave men in "2012"!Why is the protagonist in "Avatar" a disabled veteran?Some people say this is because only the weak can sympathize with and help save the weak.But how does this explain the few people who fought alongside him?You have to pay attention, these people are not persuaded or infected to help, but out of instinct or inner, innate values, which is the salvation spirit of Christianity.And this Christian spirit is further interpreted in the film.Readers, do you remember the Virgin Mary and Eva?The Virgin Mary tree controls all life.Who is Eva?Eva is the image of the Virgin Mary in Catholicism.The spirit of great love shaped by this Western religious spirit is the first element of the movie "Avatar" in shaping the protagonist. On the contrary, this apparently weak man is the strongest man because he has the strongest will.For example, learning the will, he has the worst foundation in alien languages among all of them, but he is the best at communicating with the locals afterwards.Why?He puts it bluntly in the movie: Language is practice.Because of this, he is the first earthling who has successfully learned a full set of alien skills, and has passed numerous trials and assessments.In fact, all of this is just the story of one person - President Roosevelt of the United States.Roosevelt was physically and mentally strong, as we all know.And what is the most expressive place? In "Avatar", the protagonist has no legs, but he can gallop vertically and horizontally, control the air power, and become a phantom knight. In reality, although Roosevelt suffers from paralysis, he has built a strong body during his seven years as assistant secretary of the navy and ten years of his presidential career. It has built the world's most capable navy, making the navy a powerful "stick" for the United States to seek the status of a powerful country, and laying a solid foundation for the formation of the United States' world hegemony. Roosevelt endured all kinds of cynicism in "Avatar".The indomitable spirit of struggle represented by Roosevelt is the second element in shaping the protagonist of this film. However, Roosevelt did not have much shadow of fighting for injustice for minorities, so where did this come from?This all comes from Morgan, a well-known American ethnologist and a personal promoter of the American national melting pot policy.His "Iroquois League" created the discipline of ethnology, and his "Ancient Society" fundamentally changed the views of the entire social science community on ancient society and social evolution. I believe that readers and friends may be relatively unfamiliar with Morgan.He is a very famous anthropologist.He entered a tribe of Indians called the Iroquois in 1846, and then became their adopted son, lived there, played with them, worshiped their gods together, and participated in their various rituals and rituals. a customary activity.The Indians did very badly in the United States. They are like a nation abandoned by God. White Americans bullied them, lied to their land, their people, and their money, making them poor and white.Morgan's life is very legendary. In his early years, he organized the "Great Iroquois Society" with like-minded young people. He dedicated himself to fighting injustice for the Indians. The public appealed for the benefit of the Indians, raising money to send the children of the Seneca tribe to school.One of Morgan's fundraising students—Avery?Parker has a very strong learning ability, and he can be regarded as a talent who understands both the world inside the tribe and the world outside the tribe, so the two formed a deep friendship later on.This student later became a general and was revered as a hero of the Indians.And in the movie "Avatar"?The protagonist is a student of the local princess. He has a very strong learning ability, and he can be regarded as a talent who understands the world inside the tribe and the world outside the tribe at the same time, so the two of them later developed a deep relationship.Of course, the moment he became the Phantom Knight, he also became a local hero.What Muergen showed is such a person under the strong American culture who understands and helps backward nations.Isn't this alluding to the Na'vi people of Pandora? The protagonist of "Avatar" also started a series of activities after being accepted by the Na'vi people and became part of them.The projection of exploring how to protect vulnerable groups represented by Morgan is the third element of this film. And this trinity male protagonist constitutes the center of the whole film.But why does this movie touch our hearts so much?Because no matter you are Mary in Christianity, or a Buddhist, or a prophet of other sects, they all talk about a psychic relationship with nature, that is, they are one with nature.This unity has been blocked due to the development of modern technology and the development of civilization.The content of the "Huangdi Neijing" written by these ancients is actually the same as the concept in "Avatar"-cherishing nature.In the movie, when they kill an animal, you see them worshiping, saying "you are brave", "thank you for giving me your body".You see, even in order to save this Avatar, the heroine killed several wolves. She said, wolves should not die, it is your stupidity that made these wolves die. This movie expresses an attitude towards environmental protection, which moves us. These Chinese directors, such as Feng Xiaogang, said that the story of "Avatar" is actually very ordinary in his opinion.He was right and wrong. The story elements of "Avatar" have actually been used before. For example, "Dances with Wolves" and "The Last Samurai" are similar stories, so the stories are nothing new.Moreover, director Cameron spent a lot of money to create Pandora's 3D magnificent world after the return of "Titanic" for 14 years. This method of spending a lot of money is vividly reflected in Chinese directors including Zhang Yimou and others But this is not the point: In fact, the sad thing about Chinese directors, including what Feng Xiaogang and others have not figured out, is that the real soul of "Avatar" is to let the great love of Christianity, the struggle of Roosevelt, and the struggle of Morgan A sense of salvation, to help backward nations maintain their own nature.I am very worried that our Chinese directors can't see the soul, and it would be a pity if they focus on the fashionable 3D, because 3D is just an empty shell of technology without a soul. Also, when I was watching this movie, I laughed inside myself when I saw it.What are you laughing at, you know?Aren't the Na'vi people a backward nation?Isn't the hero an incarnation of Roosevelt, with Christian and Morgan's salvation feelings, to help the backward nations?Isn't our Chinese nation the backward nation in the minds of Americans - Na'vi?The hero Jack came to save us backward peoples, and those of us backward people were very happy to watch this movie. Don’t you think it’s very ironic and funny. I want readers to understand that the United States has had its vanguard in several foreign wars, including the war against Japan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.The vanguard is not the Marine Corps, but a group of anthropologists, that is, the image of the female scientist in the movie. They first study the ethnicity of this nation, which is very powerful.Let me give you another example. Before the U.S. invaded Japan, the U.S. military funded Benedict to conduct in-depth scientific research on the ethnicity of the Japanese people, and thus wrote a great book, which became a great work in anthropological research. literature. Then let's watch this movie again.We don't want to talk about its shooting skills, don't talk about its storyline, what is said in it, how it is shot, we don't talk about those, they are all technical details.I would like to ask you, what is the difference with "Avatar"?That is, you transformed the Avatar into Roosevelt, and made a "Roosevelt Biography" to promote American culture. This is what we are doing.Let me ask you, if you made a Roosevelt biography, would anyone watch the movie?Almost no one will watch it.Will we still stand in such a long line every day like madmen to watch "Roosevelt" in 3D? So "Avatar" sublimated Roosevelt into Avatar.But what about us?It degenerated Avatar into Roosevelt, and turned it into a documentary about Roosevelt.That's why it's not popular.We are using a very realistic and uncreative method to convey our culture with the word "Confucius", which is an absolute failure.Think about why it failed?Will you watch "Jesus Saves the World"?Will you watch The Biography of Roosevelt?Will you watch The Life of Morgan?You won't watch it, you get bored.But that's what we do. Ours is to secularize "Avatar" and return Avatar to a mortal named Morgan and Roosevelt.And even when it came back, it didn't come back well.Even if it is restored, it is not restored well.There are many flaws in that kind of fragmented processing, and there are many technical problems that I am too lazy to talk about.For example, there is a gimmick in the movie called "Zi Jian Nan Zi", which uses Zhou Xun and Zhou Runfa as the protagonists.Let’s not talk about whether there is such a thing as “Zi meets Nanzi” in history. I find it very interesting that Zhou Xun communicated with Chow Yun-fat at that time, saying that many of the 300 poems in "Poetry" describe the love between men and women. Then Chow Yun-fat responded in this way. He said that the three hundred chapters of "Poetry" can be summed up in one sentence, called "long-lasting love and no evil thoughts".In fact, if you go back and really read it, you will find that there are problems with its restoration.The "Si Wuxie" in the "Si Wuxie" is actually a utterance, which has no real meaning.He interpreted the utterance word "si" as being emotional, and misinterpretations are really everywhere.Moreover, the interpretation of the "sage" in the whole film is actually from the perspective of our ridiculous official position.The reason why Sage Confucius is a sage is because he insists on his ideals very much and spreads his ideas without discrimination.How about you watch this movie again?When Confucius lost his official position, he couldn't take it anymore. He drove his carriage in the rain, and then cried when the carriage got stuck in the mud. Don't you think this is a plot in a Korean drama?Korean dramas are for love and some ideal things, but you are here for official position. Think about it, is this still a saint?This is what our officials do. It is precisely because the director didn't even understand this, so the following plots are very absurd.Confucius obviously traveled around the world and spread his ideas, but in this movie he was filmed as a fugitive.When the saint had nothing to eat, he shared the last bowl of soup with his comrades.This is not the work of a saint, so you find that Confucius has been photographed again as a high-ranking official who shares weal and woe with his subordinates.Where is the sanctity of the saint?It's not about giving everyone brotherly care at this time, nor is it about the philosophy of being a human being. This is what our officials think about.And a sage must persist and spread his ideals without discrimination. And if you think about it, we're in an age that hates preaching.I watched this movie, and fell asleep watching it, in agony.Confucius in the film stands at a high place at all times and talks to you in a didactic language. Do you think it's annoying?If you look at "Avatar" again, it does not use the form of preaching, but uses modern science fiction, and uses the most intuitive way to express the concept it wants to express very profoundly through these few characters.This is the difference in level. And when it comes to stories, in fact, only simple stories can spread. The relationship between the characters in "Avatar" is very simple, just a few people.But because of the "Four Subjects and Ten Philosophy" of Confucius' students, Zilu and Zigong, there are too many of them, and they all have similar looks. The audience who watched it for a long time didn't know who was who. Chow Yun-fat said a word, do you still remember?He said that those who cannot see tears are not human.you know how i feelChow Yun-fat and his group look like real estate developers, without the temperament of scholars and elegance. His words just make me feel a little disgusted. Let's be fair, from this film, I can feel the anxiety in the hearts of these cultural people in China.In today's society, we have gone too far away from our original basic values, and we are completely following the Western way of life.So what do we do?So I went to pull Confucius from more than 2,000 years ago to save us.I think this is a rather ridiculous proposition.Even if you ask Confucius to save you, you should be able to find a way to connect with modern people on the premise that you can discover the connotation of Confucius. And where are our artists now, including some directors?Just no sense of art.For example, after Zhang Yimou made "Three Shots Surprise", so many people scolded him, it was completely a commercial film.You found that he didn't have any reflections, but he felt that it was normal to hate.His whole purpose is to make money.There is nothing wrong with you making money, but have you ever imagined that with such a high-status director like you, what kind of movies you can make in the end with such money worship?The films you can make are almost the kind of films we are talking about. Looking at all this from a very secular perspective, there is no way to lead Chinese art to a level of creative thinking.And this kind of height is basically impossible for our directors and artists. And Zhang Yimou's understanding of Chinese culture is not only the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, but also the previous one.It is very typical for him to find out a few signs of Chinese culture, a few "logos (trademarks)", and then put them together to create a music, chess, calligraphy, painting, sword, light and sword. In fact, it has no soul, at most it is the decoration of Chinese culture.So what is he likely to do next?He will shoot in 3D, and he also makes very complicated martial arts films. What kind of swords and swords, he just kills and kills in that 3D film, lacking soul.It is equivalent to dividing the movie "Avatar" into "Three Shots Shooting Surprise". , formed a movie, and then asked Xiaoshenyang and Zhao Benshan to shoot it. This movie was released on the same schedule as "Avatar", and it was also seen as a counterattack by Chinese local cultural people.The problem is that we do not have overseas ambitions, but Americans do.The "Avatar" it filmed has a future vision, a global vision, and even goes beyond the earth. This is an overseas ambition.We are still a nation's narrative, which at most revolves around Confucius more than two thousand years ago, around the era of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, when the rituals were broken and the music was broken. It is limited by the nation and its own culture. How can there be an international perspective? And we should take "Avatar" as our goal. How to express Confucius' thoughts very clearly with such cartoonish and hallucinatory characters is more important than anything else.You can invite Zhang Ziyi to express it, or you can invite more beautiful stars to express it. The method of expression does not matter. The question is whether you can use the ideas and spirit of Chinese culture through these people, these communicators, like " "Avatar" is also expressed in the creative way of the so-called trinity. Our "Huangdi Neijing", the relationship between man and nature expressed in it, is much more profound than the movie "Avatar".But how to make it visual and artistic is a very difficult thing.what is this?Real high tech!The real high-tech is not high-tech like 3D, but how to fully sublimate the concept and spirit and express it with a special image.This is what we can't do. This is a real high-tech, called software high-tech. In fact, there was a public case about the effect of communication and expression before. It was Zhang Yiwu from the Chinese Department of Peking University, a cultural scholar. He said a famous sentence two years ago.He said that one Yao Ming and one Zhang Ziyi are more effective than 10,000 copies, and Chinese culture will have a future only if Zhang Ziyi is valued as much as Confucius is.What he said in the first half is correct, but the second half is nonsense.Words cannot be said that way.It's not that Zhang Ziyi is valued because Zhang Ziyi represents Chinese culture, but that Zhang Ziyi herself expresses Chinese culture like "Avatar" through her acting skills. This is what you should pursue, not chasing after individuals. wrong.Let’s go back to what I criticized repeatedly just now. You took this person as a target again, and what you talked about was still a superficial phenomenon, but you didn’t talk about the real problem of the soul.Zhang Ziyi is not important, the problem is how Zhang Ziyi expresses Confucius in the simplest, pleasant and humorous way through acting, so that we ordinary people can accept it. In fact, teaching culture should be done in a way that modern people like to hear and see.How was Confucius digitized?It is a key to at least reduce didacticism in the way ideas are presented.In fact, many of our cultural people have made similar attempts before. For example, Taiwanese cartoonist Cai Zhizhong, he drew a series of "Lao Tzu" and "Lie Zi". Profound truth, these things are all welcome.I think the new generation of Westerners may accept this kind of thing after reading it. There are actually many interesting stories between Confucius and his disciples.For example, when they traveled around the world and were finally down and out on the streets, Confucius asked his disciples to ask for alms.When he arrived at a bakery, Confucius said, who of you will bring the cakes?The first disciple went, and then the owner of the bakery said, I will write a word to see if you know me.The boss wrote the word "true", true and false, and then the disciple thought, this question is too simple, I don't think he asked me to say the word "true", he must be testing I am like a brain teaser, so this disciple said, this is a "false".The boss said, let's go, you don't even know the word "true", so you are worthy of being a student of Confucius?You can't eat this cake.The disciple came back and told Confucius what happened, no, the cake did not come back.Confucius said, oops, you don't even know the word "true"!Who's next?Another disciple went, and the boss said again, do you know this word?It's still the word "true".This disciple was in a dilemma at this time, wondering why he brought up the word "true" again, but he dared not say it and couldn't answer it.After the disciples came back, Confucius said, alas, it has come to this point, "what is the truth?"In fact, this is a summary of his fourteen years of traveling around the world, an irony.This story visualizes Confucius' idea that "he is as tired as a bereaved dog" and cannot sell himself.Expressed in this way of story, it is a higher level than the expression of this movie.But this expression is still a long way from "Avatar".But if the way of "Avatar" can be used, the audience's interest will be even greater. Speaking of the Confucius Institute, the same is true. We took Confucius out and built a Confucius Institute.As soon as Chinese cultural people are injured, they will go to the old Zongzong to find resources, and find that Confucius is a bond, a logo, and a signboard that we maintain together. In fact, all parts of the world are promoting their own "Confucius Institutes", such as the Cervantes Institute in Spain, the Goethe Institute in Germany, the British Council, and the French Institute of Languages.Everyone is pushing, but you can see our image as an old man bowing and saluting. In fact, Westerners can't understand your gesture.But you see, when the Goethe-Institut promotes the image of Germany in China, what image of Goethe does it use?I hold a mobile phone in my hand, and it is still a smart phone, and I put a laptop on my lap, and next to it are some classic ancient books.Such a Goethe is a digitized Goethe, an image language that keeps pace with the times.Comparing us with others, there is a huge contrast here.But what's interesting is that many professors and scholars in German universities really hate using mobile phones.German professors, especially those of philosophy and sociology, think that using mobile phones is a shame, an insult to their personality, including their way of life.But when promoting their culture and language, popular language is still used. Now scholars comment on the Confucius Institute that it is only in the stage of teaching Chinese and Tai Chi.If there is a distinction between "shu" and "dao" in Chinese culture, it means that so far, the Confucius Institutes have remained at the technical level of teaching "shu".Tang Yijie directly commented that the biggest problem with the Confucius Institutes that are blooming around the world is that they only teach language and not enough culture.And these "skills", including Taijiquan and Chinese, are all left over from our old school.We don't quite understand how to export and interpret our own ideas, and this movie can't convey this set of ideas to Chinese people.On the other hand, the Confucius Institute also failed when exporting to the outside world.How many people do you think know about Confucius in America?Think about it, if the United States wants to establish a "Socrates College" or "Lincoln College" in China, can it do New Oriental?The simplest example, if you look at the IELTS test, the organization behind this is the British Council under the British Embassy, but have they opened any "British College" by themselves?No!Instead, they silently support local Chinese English training institutions such as Global IELTS. According to Xinhua News Agency, as of December 2009, 282 Confucius Institutes and 272 Confucius Classrooms have been established in 88 countries and regions around the world.On the surface it seems to be very effective, right?But do you know the real situation? The first is the cost. According to Xinhua News Agency, the cost of each Confucius Institute is US$100,000.In other words, not counting the Confucius Classrooms in middle schools, the cost of the Confucius Institute alone is more than 28 million US dollars.For the "Online Confucius Institute Website" listed in the bidding announcement on the website of the Ministry of Finance, the winning bid was as high as 35.2 million US dollars. But in all fairness, if it can really enhance China's image and promote exchanges between China and foreign countries, it will be worth the money spent.But now the situation of Confucius Institutes overseas is very embarrassing.Confucius Institutes are mainly located in three places—Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America.Southeast Asia regards this as Confucianism, North America as an intelligence agency, and Europe does not take it seriously. Some countries in Southeast Asia are vigilant and defensive towards Confucius Institutes. In 2008, there was a large-scale public debate in Vietnam on whether Hanoi University should build a Confucius Institute.Do you know why?Because the Confucius Institute is regarded as "Confucianism" locally, and the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese government are very cautious about the establishment and dissemination of foreign religious organizations.Later, although Vietnam University also reached a letter of intent for running a school, the Ministry of Education of Vietnam did not agree. It was not until 2009 that the president of Vietnam University Nguyen Xuan Wang became an executive of the Ministry of Education of Vietnam.Things are even worse for Confucius Institutes in Indonesia.why?Because Indonesia is a country with a very strong Islamic culture.Even Maranatha Christian University in Bandung, as a top-ranked private university, was strictly prohibited by the Ministry of Education and had to stop listing.The National University of Malang, as a university directly under the Indonesian Ministry of Education, is even more unwilling to list.In the end, I had to find a non-governmental Jakarta Chinese Teaching Center to list. In 2008, major Canadian newspapers reprinted a piece of "amazing" news - "China uses Confucius Institutes to win people's hearts around the world".According to the Canadian Press, a declassified report released by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service at the end of May 2008 stated: “China’s purpose of setting up Confucius Institutes around the world is to display its ‘soft skills’ and win the hearts and minds of the people around the world.” The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is in charge Judd even admitted that they spent a lot of energy monitoring the activities of the Chinese side. What about Europeans? The "Confucius Institute" is a "Three Noes Institute" with no legal guarantee, no school buildings, and no teachers.The so-called "no legal guarantee" means that the "Confucius Institute" has no guarantee of treaties or agreements between countries.All the "Confucius Institutes" are just hanging signs in other people's existing units, without exception. "Hanban" always uses the word "listed", which is appropriate.We originally wanted to copy the model of the German "Goethe-Institut", but the Goethe-Institut has more than 3,000 employees, and the "Confucius Institute" can be said to have no teachers. The substantive work of the "Confucius Institute" is: the departments of Chinese as a foreign language of Chinese universities send Chinese teachers or experts to foreign places where Chinese language teaching is available, and these teachers or experts are engaged in teaching, teaching materials, curriculum design and other work there.At present, there are hundreds of schools in China teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and they all have inter-school exchanges with foreign institutions (departments).As long as the two sides reach an agreement, Chinese schools can send teachers abroad to teach at any time.China has been doing this work for decades.In the past, when going abroad to teach, you only need to bring the necessary data, but now you may have to carry the brand of "Confucius Institute". We now know that there is no difference at all between so-called "Confucius Institutes" and inter-school exchanges in Chinese language teaching.No, I almost forgot that there is an important difference between "Confucius Institute" and inter-school exchanges: in inter-school exchanges, China sends teachers, and foreigners often have to pay salaries; "Confucius Institute" is what we pay foreigners—— After all, they hang our brand! Let's make a conclusion for ourselves, our own cultural signs are not doing very well, but what about the West?The United States took some of our cultural elements and made them into films, such as "Kung Fu Panda" and "Mulan", but they would sweep us over again and ruin our box office in reverse. Cameron's "Avatar" is said to be anti-human. I think it is a war between human beings and themselves.The planet it represents is exactly what our earth looked like in ancient times. The process of the big tree collapsing is very spectacular, and that magnificence has compressed the history of our civilization for thousands of years.In fact, the history of our civilization for thousands of years has been destroying this big tree.This process was compressed into a short 3 hours with high-tech means. The greatness of a film does not depend on 3D, the simple protagonist, or the storyline, but whether it can hit the soul of this era, or it is called "collective personality".So where is the value of this film?At the moment when the big tree collapsed, I believe that every reader will feel the pain in his heart when he sees this scene, what will he think, oh, our environment has been destroyed, our civilization has been destroyed How many things?These bad guys are destroying a primitive society, a beautiful society, and a big tree.Isn't that what we are doing?This is what hits the collective personality of our society.Therefore, the success of the entire "Avatar" is that the "Trinity" hit our souls, hit our collective personality, and shaped a great "Avatar". So we want our directors to read the classics, to really read our most fundamental things, instead of looking at these so-called popular things.If you follow, you will never be able to keep up.You want to go beyond, how do you know how to go beyond?I think our directors will start to express your ideas in a visual way in the future, and hit the topic that the society is most concerned about.Don't directly say, oops, don't pollute, don't do anything, it's too bad to talk about it.How to hit our collective personality through an image expression like "Avatar" is the direction we should work hard. The reason why "Kung Fu Panda" is welcomed by all audiences must be because it stimulates the collective personality of the entire Chinese people, or it is called culture.Chinese culture has two sides, one is hidden love and the other is dark side.Everyone sees the dark side very clearly—selfish and ruthless, which is represented by Dalong; the other side is the panda Po, although the level of interpretation is not as thorough as Ah Q’s spirit, but part of it is also criticized.I think the most touching thing is the master's unchanging love for Dalong and Po's desire to get his father's approval after success. The highlight of this hidden love makes us agree with this movie even more. In all the movies Stephen Spielberg has made in his life, at the end of each movie, he will definitely show the brilliance of humanity.Let me take "Saving Private Ryan" as an example. What is the purpose of so many sacrifices in the end?It is to fulfill the love for his compatriots given to him by the country and rescue the soldier Ryan. In the movie "Kung Fu Panda", the love it shows at the end is manifested in the panda's father and Master's inseparable love for Dalong when he was a child.But I tell readers that this movie made by DreamWorks is not trying to highlight the love of us Chinese, because they don't know it at all.They just used the ending of this movie to show the love they have always shown in their past movies, not for the Chinese.So when will this hidden love of the Chinese people be revealed?That was after the Wenchuan Earthquake. If we can spread this cultural concept to the rest of the world, don’t you think everyone will have a new view on us Chinese?Because from this movie, it can still be seen that the hidden love of us Chinese is the same as that of people all over the world.If we can reach a consensus with other countries at this cultural level, it will be the real success of our cultural communication. I think that as far as the current level of these directors in our country is concerned, they have not yet recognized this truth.For example, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games directed by Zhang Yimou did not meet my expectations.This opening ceremony did not fully express the collective personality of us Chinese, nor did it express the spirit of great love through the opening ceremony.The opening ceremony is just like what I expected in the previous TV programs, it is a "skill" opening ceremony, just like other movies, the scene is very big, the color is very gorgeous, I think it is amazing A big country should make everyone feel that everything is big and gorgeous.However, this is not culture. What the Olympic Opening Ceremony showed is "art". This article is excerpted from Lang Xianping's