Or are our directors and producers exceptionally, extremely, incredibly mentally retarded?
Or because we are a culturally third-rate country, and our cultural censorship only allows the filming and appreciating of mentally retarded things?
When we get used to things like "Blindfolded", "Dragon Phoenix", "Moonlight Treasure Box" and accept the misinformation like "Ok, this is the movie",
and then adjust our intelligence level to just enough to appreciate them , such things become our intellectual labels, cultural labels.
Passing by the US Pavilion at the World Expo a month ago, I heard a proud white man in the United States holding his Chinese wife and saying: Chinese all dumbass
was very righteous at the time, if I hadn't hurried out of the park, I really wanted to say Hi: What science do you have? in accordance with?
Zuckerberg said astonishingly "the number of geniuses in China = the population of the United States" at the beginning of the opening,
but in the hour and a half since then, both the film itself and the story told in the film have told us unmistakably
: i lied, you are nothing but dumbasses (I lied to you, you are a bunch of simple-minded idiots)
David Fincher made a joke about the Chinese, what he actually wanted to say was: innovation, this is something unique to us Americans.
I don't like Zuckerberg, because I'm not interested in facebook, even if I don't have to go over the wall, I don't think I can use this thing.
Although I'm interested in it, I'm not interested in socializing.
After watching this film, I want to say this It's a good movie, but I prefer Pirates of Silicon Valley.
"Silicon Valley Pirates" depicts two it heroes, two tried-and-true super it heroes. In the 40-year history, each of them showed
their magical powers to change the fate of human beings, allowing human beings to grow from nothing, from primitive to advanced. I prefer it because I empathize with their results;
"The Social Network" depicts the prophesied great man, whose greatness lies in discovering the unpredictable, making the advanced become more advanced
, and more importantly, revolutionizing the scale, speed of human communication with each other, of course It's just for facebookers
, I like it a little bit because I haven't Facebooked anyone else, so when the movie tells me
this is the next Bill Gates, I feel a little bit didactic.
(I admit that I favor one over the other, but when Yahoo and Jerry Yang went public in 1998, I remember that I was still a sophomore in high school. At that time
, almost no one in the world suspected that this is the Internet, and this is the future.)
In "Silicon Valley Pirates" In "The Social Network" , Jobs is an artist, Gates is a thief and conspirator, Ballmer is a fool, and
in "The Social Network", Zuckerberg is a technocratic, born CEO, with a ruthless execution orientation,
And he likes to use his specialty - IQ, to humiliate all opponents (girlfriends, twins) with a sense of superiority, and tell them how many pounds and two taels.
I believe that the excellence of these people, their success comes from their characteristics:
the publicity and paranoia of Steve Jobs's artists, let Apple pretend to be an artistic creator, advertise itself as an innovative self and distinguish others,
lead Apple's upsurge, and at the same time also Caused Apple's downfall;
Gates' opportunistic approach, successfully making software more profitable than hardware, turning himself into a philanthropist, and turning Microsoft's R&D team
into a group of industry followers;
Ballmer His idiot spirit made him a great CEO, turned Microsoft into a giant profit-grabbing machine, and made stellar earnings,
while keeping analysts blinded to the company's future, making him slam his iPhone 4 in his office.
What I especially like about Pirates of Silicon Valley is its sharp and honest portrayal of Jobs and Gates.
So, what about Zuckerberg?
It looks like Zucker is a little boy with no worries, a little bit of a foolish idiot.
If David Fincher made up a Zuckerberg with a personality for the movie to be good, then I can't compare it
with Pirates of Silicon Valley. ” are comparable.
Let's talk about why this film gives me the feeling that Americans have a particularly high IQ.
First of all, it is the content. This film shows the operation of American capitalism, the training mechanism of American elites, and the business civilization of the United States.
Some people say that Silicon Valley + Wall Street = American capitalism, Silicon Valley symbolizes high technology, and Wall Street represents the
discovery, screening and elimination mechanism of high technology commercialization. Yes, Silicon Valley + Wall Street not only represents American capitalism, but also represents America's innovation mechanism.
Indeed, we see that the VC in the movie has the same sense of smell as a hound, or the relationship between technology and capital is like a fly and a rotten egg.
However, things are not so simple. What else is behind Silicon Valley + Wall Street? I think there are the following that you can't see:
1. Administration: simple administrative approval; restriction mechanism for dinosaur-level enterprises such as central enterprises; protection mechanism for SMEs; low tax rate and transparent and
rational use of finance, tax leverage realization; low corruption and administrative costs (making the civil service an unattractive career in the US), etc.;
2. economic model: use of private capital appreciation rather than primarily government investment to drive GDP; balance of production and consumption (US It is not that there is no
manufacturing, the United States just outsources manufacturing and occupies the top of the smile curve itself, which is also an innovation)
3. The rule of law: maintain fairness and justice, and ensure the rules of the game; ensure the profit ceiling of lucrative industries such as real estate; capital market supervision and Punishment mechanism;
strong intellectual property protection; strict separation of personal property rights and corporate property rights; excellent corporate governance; judicial independence, etc.;
4. The world's strongest university research: Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, attracting Indians , Chinese and Jews like Zach;
5. Principals who have nothing to do with the administration: Because the famous American schools are all private, their principals are independent, so when the two twins ran into
the principal's office, the Harvard principal said sorry to them and asked you to go out ( This is really the highlight of the film, especially when our principal ordered
us not to mention that Li Gang is my father.)
6. Grasp the small and enlarge the elite training mechanism: the United States is an education system that is elite-oriented, you can choose to learn well or learn badly , you can be like Zach, you can also
be promiscuous, drug addicts, muddleheaded, American education only guarantees a small number of students who are willing to learn and have a good mind,
most people are idiots, but the elites cultivated in the United States are the elites of the elites , they are independent since childhood, participate in various clubs, extensive social and social
practice, good students in China will become otakus in the future, and the United States will become leaders (I think this is the
reason why Facebook is so successful in the United States: your users must have the will to communicate , and has a certain number of circles of friends)
7. A relaxed social environment: a good social welfare system ensures that you will not fail to live because of the failure of your business; when Zach feels that the East Coast is not suitable
, he is ready to drop out of school and move to Silicon Valley When it comes to persuading your parents, you don’t have to work hard to convince your parents; when money worship is not the mainstream trend in society, when Yahoo
prepares $1 billion to buy Facebook, Zach has the confidence to refuse (I think about 95% of Chinese entrepreneurs will Choose to sell the company)
8. Independent spirit and innovative atmosphere: In the film, Zach said that the school's network was vulnerable, and the school did not punish him severely. The reason is that
Americans support innovation, despise repetition and copycats, and Americans encourage weirdness and absurdity The idea of advocating to be different and unconventional, which has been
publicized and expressed in countless Hollywood movies. In China, the thinking of "winner and loser" and "king is reasonable" will make us hold people like Bill Gates to
God . The same unquestionable location, but someone in the United States went to film "Silicon Valley Pirates",
The reason is that he thinks Steve is innovating and Gates is stealing, which he despises.
This is the first reason why I think Americans have an IQ. The film shows a highly intellectual society like the United States,
the most efficient and innovative organization in human history,
so as a citizen of the Celestial Dynasty, it carries the glory of G2 and the glory of G1. Dream, after seeing this film, I feel a little sensational:
how did we get arranged in this position in a confused way?
The second reason is the difference between the film itself and Chinese and American filmmakers. We know that Nolan, Fincher, like Quentin, Kubrick, Cisco Seth
, are extremely stylized directors, go watch the stories they tell, you won't mix with other people.
Fincher is in this film Try to express an explosive force - fast narrative, fast programming, fast hacking, fast capital gathering power,
all elements are rapidly displayed, linked, layered and supported each other, accurate, dynamic and reasonable
A kind of entrepreneurial execution force that will do what you want without hesitation is like the natural explosive force of Facebook, which
makes you breathless. This explosive force reflects the director's grasp of the form, content, structure and rhythm. It embodies intellectual dominance and subversiveness.
Although Fincher's films differ in rhythm and structure, they have one thing in common: careful design and perfection of detail: shots, lines, and narrative
are embedded with a strong David Fincher stylistic watermark;
and Nolan's success It is simply a specimen of American films. Every film made by alternative film directors like Nolan who is obsessed with thinking reconstruction is
not a film, but is a discussion, analysis and analysis of thinking structure, dimension, sequence and steps. The test
was actually able to have a market in the United States, the film critics applauded, the audience was well-received, and the director's film appointment continued.
(In China, it’s probably like: no one filmed, no one watched it, the film critics were awash in vicious comments, the censorship failed, and the director slept on the street.)
There can only be one explanation for the Nolan phenomenon, and that is a natural screening based on comparison.
American filmmakers and moviegoers have seen too many high-IQ movies
. When something new comes out, their film critics will be highly sensitive: this is a new genre, a benchmark, and
the directors who innovate them will try to shoot something different,
so like the low-minded and the anti-intellectual, the high and the Chongzhi It is also a process of accumulation. You must have a huge sample before you can count, analyze, and compare,
what is good and better, and this sample needs to be guaranteed in quantity and quality.
Good movies are like the top of a pyramid, built on a massive and deep base, not floating in the air like a hanging garden.
Let's just review the "split personality" subcategory of suspenseful films,
from the original "Psycho", to "Razor's Edge" and "The Shining" to "Split ID", "Murder 9" and "The Secret Window" ,
and then to "Frightening Island", "The Sixth Sense", "High Voltage", and then to "Death Illusion", "Shutter Island", "Memento" and "Fight Club",
this genre has been deeply explored since the day it was established. , experiment, develop, and explore more branches and possibilities.
The gap between Chinese and American filmmakers is comprehensive. It includes not only producers, directors, and screenwriters, but also film and television critics, film censors (although
I don’t know if there are such jobs in the United States), and film audiences. The positioning, understanding and expectations of movies are completely different.
China has selected so many beautiful women and directors to study in a place called a film academy.
These people squeezed their scalps just to shoot those "Chinese movies". , this is a bit too absurd;
like many important positions in our country, our film directors are negligent.
In this position, not only can there be no masters of thought such as Kusturica and Tarkovsky, but also no skilled craftsmen such as Nolan or Finch.
For Chinese directors, there are funds, beautiful and handsome guys, film and television bases, powerful teeth and martial arts, but the theme is gone, and the ideas are gone.
Hollywood not only advocates the multi-dimensionality and complexity of ideas, but also advocates the diversification of themes. Therefore, Hollywood Not only a dream factory, but also a mirror of reality:
presidential elections, school shootings, anti-terrorism, technology, Wall Street, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, almost everything in the United States nowadays can
be reflected in American movies, Hollywood is what really interprets It's called "advance with the times".
The work that Chinese filmmakers keep repeating is to flatten, one-dimensional, and simplify their ideas. The chosen subject matter is either digging graves or itching.
China is not a society that has already taken shape like the United States. China is a country of change. , Politics, technology, humanities, society, and consciousness are all undergoing drastic changes.
At the same time, there are Africa and Europe, assholes, house slaves, rich and rich, and a lot of magical things happen every day. Unfortunately, our director doesn't seem to care at all
. If they can't find something to shoot,
they neither know who Ma Yun and Ren Zhengfei are, nor will they be attracted by people like Ma Yun and Ren Zhengfei to shoot their stories like "The Social Network".
Of course, this cannot be fully accounted for by the director, as well as our unattainable and unbreakable cultural censorship system.
In short, all of this is turning Chinese films into a copycat brand, which has nothing to do with improving the thinking level of Chinese people. benefit.
Why are Americans so intelligent? The answer is the other way around.
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