This film, which was delayed to land in China on January 4th, represents not only a Hollywood-style entertainment pursuing commercial value, but also the most primitive belief of mankind, which is the never-ending spirit of exploration. Cameron said frankly that this film fulfilled his boyhood dreams. He prepared for it for 14 years before creating a realistic dream world, and the moving stories together constituted its artistic incitement. "Avatar" is not only a Cameronian business miracle, but also created the history of film art and film industry.
Let's not discuss 3D technology, environmentalism, all kinds of dazzling details, and the grand theme of Cameron's "anti-capitalism". Obviously, after the Chinese movie fans walked out of the theater in a "horrified", there was a touch of loss, even anger, that is, compared with Chinese movies, not only the technology is too far behind, but the paleness of the content is more set off. For the Tao". When the fast-growing GDP and foreign exchange reserves create the global trendy theme of "China's Rise", we will suddenly wake up after watching "Avatar". We are still too far away.
Cameron is not an alien, and "Avatar" is not a gift from an alien, but a product of the traditional American spirit. This spirit contains endless imagination and creativity, encouraging people to take courageous adventures and explorations; this spirit is used to defend freedom and rights, and to promote the universal value of love. In contrast, Chinese filmmakers simply do not have the courage and ability to face a world that requires imagination, and even today there is no genre of science fiction. Almost all Chinese movies are based on ancient themes and rely on witchcraft. Americans like to imagine the future world, while the Chinese can only travel through ancient times to seek various conspiracies and bloody stimuli, and relentlessly express a gloomy value.
This is by no means a difference in ability, but a difference in culture. Traditional Chinese culture is permeated with conservative temperament and authoritarianism, which curbs those explorations and creations based on individuality, which leads to the collective preservation and closure of the national spirit. After entering the modern open society, China is still working hard to learn the scientific and democratic qualities required, but the confusion of values caused by the transformation hinders people's progress. Our education system and social value orientation equate teaching to entering a higher education, educating people as an industry, manufacturing people, and selling them to the society at a better price.
The Chinese culture and art, which should be responsible for rebuilding their spiritual homeland, are constrained by human nature and systems, but at the same time they have been impacted by commerce into cheap commodities. As a literary and artistic feast year after year, "Spring Festival Gala" has been unchanging for decades to stage sketches that are capable of playing tricks, dances lacking the rhythm of life, and songs that have lost their aesthetics because of their enlightenment meaning. Although the box office of the Chinese film market exceeded 5 billion yuan last year, it was just a false boom created by false box office reports and the touts of film critics. It is just as unreal as an asset bubble.
By restricting the number of imported films, China has worked hard to protect and develop domestic films. In the past 10 years, the result of protection was the collective degeneration of Chinese filmmakers. Domestic films have learned the technical juggling, and are proficient in marketing hype, but they have not sincerely made a film that respects the audience. The film industry is full of commercial speculations eager for quick success. In order to ensure cost recovery, Chinese films are increasingly relying on the popularity of idol stars rather than the movies themselves, and have even developed to the point where all roles and roles use first-line stars; another trend is even more disappointing. Filmmakers who lack creativity use serving the public as an excuse to cater to and use grassroots culture, and create low-level jokes by deconstructing excellent blockbusters or using online jokes and language.
Cameron spent 14 years preparing for the filming of "Avatar." Zhang Yimou, also known as a master, hastily made a "Three Shots" dedicated to his fans. This movie, which treats the audience as mentally retarded, is just using various popular stars to win the box office with Zhao Benshan's humor. When Zhang Yimou and other artistic elites are obsessed with the box office, there are more and more scolding in the cinema. The collective decline of domestic films for the Lunar New Year in 2009 made fans have no expectations for domestic films, because after entering the era of blockbuster films, Chinese films have not even successfully told a story except for the third-rate special effects. This is a surprising fact.
The true rise of a country depends on extraordinary technological innovation and amazing cultural creativity. We cannot deny that the United States still has an unsurpassed position in the field of technology and culture. China's rise is not due to the cessation or retreat of the United States' footsteps, but the effort to advance. This kind of progress is not shown by beautiful buildings, airports, and roads, but people are liberated; only with human liberation can there be creation; only with human freedom can there be ideals.
In this cold January, there is only one domestically produced "Confucius" that competes with the beast of "Avatar" on the same stage. This is a divine metaphor. When the United States created a future world for mankind, China had only the most sage masters more than two thousand years ago to fight. Is this the incompetence of our time, or are we still hovering at the door of modern civilization Reluctant to step into the outside world? Our spirit cannot be too far away from this world.
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