Chapter 476 A Melee

Because of Han Shaogong's incident, Yu Hua and the others didn't like Zhang Yiwu very much.

It is normal for writers and critics to have a bad relationship, because in most cases, the relationship between the two parties is "hostile".

It's just that Zhang Yiwu is not very reasonable and does not follow basic principles when writing literary criticism.

Moreover, this Zhang Yiwu is a bit too daring to take action. Han Shaogong has not yet gone to court to sue Zhang Yiwu, but Zhou Yan has read relevant reports before.

When Han Shaogong did not sue at first, Zhang Yiwu and several other so-called critics were very arrogant and fierce because they did not think that Han Shaogong would really sue them, nor did they think that what they did was illegal.

In their view, speech is free, and their literary criticism is even more free.

However, when Han Shaogong actually went to court to sue them, they gave up and began to argue that they did not say that Han Shaogong "plagiarized".

Zhou Yan read what Zhang Yiwu and Wang Qian said in an interview. They believed that the word "completely copied" was used in Zhang Yiwu's article "The Lack of Spirit" instead of "plagiarism", so they believed that Han Shaogong would sue them. It is unreasonable and ridiculous to accuse Han Shaogong of plagiarism.

In fact, Zhou Yan didn't know whether Han Shaogong plagiarized it at that time, because the "Khazar Dictionary" mentioned by Zhang Yiwu did not have a Chinese version at that time, and Zhou Yan had not read it.

But when Zhou Yan saw the remarks made by Zhang Yiwu and Wang Qian, he almost laughed out loud. He really couldn't understand that two professionals engaged in "literary research" felt that the nature of the word "completely copied" could not cover "plagiarism".

They actually insisted that saying that Han Shaogong's book completely copied the "Khazar Dictionary" is not the same as saying that Han Shaogong's book plagiarized the "Khazar Dictionary".

This is sheer lies and sheer sophistry.

If Zhang Yiwu and Wang Qian could stand up for what they said in court and not act daringly, Zhou Yan would still look down upon them.

"What is the origin of this "Service News for You"? It is quite efficient." Zhou Yan said.

Just a few days after "Space Traveler" was released, this newspaper published Zhang Yiwu's article. Not only was Zhang Yiwu very efficient, but their newspaper was also very efficient.

Yu Hua laughed and said, "This newspaper was only established the year before last. Their newspapers often like to make some innovations, that is, they want to be famous, so they always publish some bold commentaries. What they want is controversy."

Zhou Yan nodded. Nowadays, there are more and more popular newspapers. Most of them are gradually derived from the Evening News and City News. These newspapers are essentially the same as some entertainment newspapers. They like to publish controversial articles with the intention of causing social turmoil. public opinion.

It is naturally easy to understand that such a newspaper can publish "Spiritual Lack" and "Spiritual Compromise".

Zhou Yan is famous. If Zhang Yiwu comes to scold him, he will definitely attract a large number of readers.

In fact, their goal was achieved. As soon as this "Spiritual Compromise" was published, it attracted attention in the literary and film circles.

Zhou Yan had no intention of paying attention to Zhang Yiwu. He had been working on the manuscript of "Don't Let Me Go" these days.

Although Zhang Shouren did not directly urge the manuscript, he would call Zhou Yan to "concern" every one or two days and ask Zhou Yan if he needed any help.

Zhou Yan just wanted to write the manuscript as soon as possible to avoid being harassed by Zhang Shouren every day.

"If Zhang Yiwu wants to scold him, let him scold him. I don't have time to talk to him now, and he may just want someone to talk to him. The purpose of these young 'critics' is to become famous."

Yu Hua said angrily, "This kind of person cannot be allowed to be so unscrupulous. Han Shaogong said that he was going to sue them. I discussed with Tiesheng and the others and prepared to jointly ask the court for justice."

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "It's okay to sue them, but there's no need to jointly pressure the court."

"We are not putting pressure on the court, we just hope that Han Shaogong will get justice." Yu Hua argued.

"Your idea is definitely not to put pressure, but the fact is to put pressure on the court. You should stay less involved in this matter. If you want to support Chairman Han, there are many other ways."

"We don't want to get involved, we are just worried..."

"There's nothing to worry about. Just leave it to the court. If you get involved, I don't know how the media will arrange it for you later. If nothing else, someone will definitely say that you writers are working together to bully young critics."

Hearing Zhou Yan's words, Yu Hua was silent for a while on the other end of the phone, and then said, "Don't worry, Zhang Yiwu's article will have a bad social impact. Many people may not watch your movie because of his article." ?”

Zhou Yan laughed, "Comrade Yu Hua, you still don't know much about public opinion propaganda. The final result of this matter may be completely opposite to what you think?"

Yu Hua asked doubtfully, "Completely the opposite? Are you saying that Zhang Yiwu's article will not only not reduce the box office of your movie, but will actually increase it?"

"It's possible."

"I still don't quite believe it."

"If you don't believe it, just take a look in a few days. It won't take long, it will be effective within a week."

"Okay, I'd like to take a look."

"Okay, I won't talk to you anymore. I'm working on the manuscript of "Never Let Me Go," and Mr. Zhang has to come here to rush the manuscript again."

"Haha, you'll get used to it. The more successful these editors are, the more clingy they are. Of course, the more clingy they are to you, the more they think highly of your work. Write quickly. When you're done, don't give it to Mr. Zhang first, show it to us first."

"Okay."

...

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yan buried his head in his manuscript again.

At this time, Joey Wong came over with a kettle to add water to Zhou Yan's cup, "Did you call from Brother Yu Hua just now?"

"Well, he told me that a young critic criticized "Time Traveler" a few words."

"Young critic? Is he a film critic?"

"No, it's a literary critic."

"Can literary critics also comment on movies?" Joey Wong asked curiously.

"Some are like this. They like to express their views on art, not limited to the type and scope of art."

"No impact, right?"

"No, don't worry. Now the feedback from the cinema is very good. Ordinary audiences have good reviews for this movie. That's enough."

Wang Zuxian is not too worried about the box office of the movie. As long as Zhou Yan is not worried, she will not take it to heart.

She has been making movies for so many years. What kind of public opinion has she not experienced? She doesn't care about a little bit of scolding.

She cares about Zhou Yan. After all, Zhou Yan is a director. She doesn't want these voices to affect Zhou Yan.

However, Zhou Yan has always been strong in his heart and has never cared about these scoldings.

"I heard from Sister Hong Xin that she has heard the pirated soundtrack of "Time Traveler" on the street." Wang Zuxian said.

Zhou Yan nodded, "I heard that, there is such a thing."

Compared with pirated videotapes, pirated soundtracks are easier to get, because you only need to bring a recorder to the cinema, which is not only low-cost, but also not easy to be detected.

It's just that no one has ever tried to make pirated movie soundtracks before, because few people buy pirated versions of this thing.

But "Time Traveler" is different. The soundtrack of this movie is too popular. The key is that the songs in it are dense, so it is easy to record a decent tape, and many people buy it.

"But I heard that the quality is not very good."

"They don't have the original copy tape to copy and edit, so the effect is impossible to be good. It's not easy to record without noise."

If you just take a tape recorder to the cinema to record, it is difficult to ensure that the audience will not talk, so basically the recorded tapes have a lot of noise and the effect is very poor.

If you want a high-quality pirated tape, you must cooperate with the people in the cinema to get a copy of the original.

Another method is to book a show by yourself and then record it in a quiet environment. Although the effect of this method is not as good as the original copy, it is definitely much better than the general pirated recording.

However, this method is not something that ordinary people can do, and the cost is too high.

Pirates generally don't invest too much, because too much investment will only make things easier for others. As long as other pirates get the tapes, they can copy them at low cost and reap the benefits.

Zhou Yan didn't care too much about these piracy issues. Piracy in the mainland is an objective fact and it is difficult to change. The situation faced by other movies is similar to theirs.

In addition to cultivating copyright awareness, the elimination of piracy also requires economic levels to keep up.

At this stage, since piracy cannot be eliminated, it is better to calm down and regard piracy as an alternative form of publicity.

If the pirated tapes are really bad, Zhou Yan doesn't mind playing some slightly higher-definition clips so that the audience can hear the music earlier.

He is not worried that these higher-definition clips will reduce the sales of the original soundtracks later. Anyway, people who listen to pirated tapes are unlikely to spend money to buy the originals.

And people who are willing to buy the originals will not give up the originals because of some high-definition clips on the market.

On the contrary, because more people heard the songs, the number of audiences who liked these music increased, and more people would choose to go to the cinema, or later buy a genuine soundtrack.

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Zhou Yan and others did not respond to Zhang Yiwu's criticism of "Time Traveler", nor did they suppress it.

Of course, they did not add fuel to the fire.

After the incident, Zhang Youan suggested that it would be better to help Zhang Yiwu push it to make the matter more popular, but this suggestion was rejected by Xu Feng.

Xu Feng meant to let things ferment on their own. If they can ferment, let it go. If they can't ferment, there is no need to invest.

Facts have proved that they did nothing, but the matter still fermented.

After "At Your Service" published Zhang Yiwu's article, some evening newspapers or city editions quickly followed up, such as "Yangcheng Evening News", "Xinmin Evening News", etc., as well as some tabloids, digest newspapers, and many newspapers directly put the news on the entertainment page, because in their view, this is an entertainment event.

But soon, the situation changed again, because some professional newspapers followed up, such as "Wenyi Bao" and "Zhonghua Dushu Bao" published related articles.

This was originally a matter of the film and television industry, but suddenly it became a matter of the literary industry. The reason for this is that Zhang Yiwu mentioned Zhou Yan's novel "Tree Hole" in "Spiritual Compromise". He believed that "Tree Hole" was just an imitation of Latin American literature and had nothing of its own.

Although Zhang Yiwu did not write much about "Tree Hole" in his article, it was for this reason that newspapers such as "Wenyi Bao" and "Zhonghua Reading Newspaper" had a reason to follow up.

"Zhonghua Reading Newspaper" was very neutral, basically just repeating Zhang Yiwu's comments on Zhou Yan, and had almost no opinions of its own.

However, "Wenyi Bao" was different. The article in Wenyi Bao was written by a critic named Luan Shuhai, who supported Zhou Yan in the article and believed that Zhang Yiwu's comments were narrow-minded and unprincipled.

Although "Tree Hole" has a magical color, it is essentially different from Latin American literature, and it has a considerable degree of innovation in writing techniques, providing a new model for contemporary novel writing.

Moreover, he praised Zhou Yan's novels for being local in content, but international in writing techniques, and that he was one of the few young writers in China who was at the forefront of the world.

In Luan Shuhai's article, 90% of the space was devoted to commenting on "Tree Hole", and only the last 10% extended to "Time and Space Love Traveler".

He believes that the fact that all the music for the movie "Time Traveler" is in English does not mean anything.

Just like Zhou Yan's novels, Zhou Yan tried to use a more international form to promote Chinese works to more foreign audiences.

Apart from the fact that the music was in English, he did not see anything in the movie that belittled China or worshipped foreign things. Instead, he felt Zhou Yan's strong confidence in cultural communication from his bold use of English music.

And this kind of confidence is not possessed by many people in China today, such as the "quite sensitive comrade Zhang Yiwu".

As soon as the article in "Literary and Art Newspaper" was published, "At Your Service" was like a chicken blood injection, and published many articles in succession, all on the same front with Zhang Yiwu. They began to criticize not only "Time Traveler", but also Zhou Yan's literary works.

Some people also made a fuss about Zhou Yan's identity, saying that Zhou Yan was too unprofessional. He was obviously a music student, but he had to write articles and make movies.

They even secretly said that Zhou Yan's articles might be ghostwritten by others, otherwise, there would not be so long without new works.

Before the "Literary Gazette" could fight back, the newspaper of Zhou Yan's hometown, the "Yangtze Evening News", rushed over and scolded the "At Your Service Newspaper".

The "Yangtze Evening News" used quite explicit words, directly saying that the "At Your Service Newspaper" was a tabloid with no nutrition, completely imitating the "Service Guide" of Jinling, but it did not learn any essence, but instead bred a bunch of dregs.

After scolding the "At Your Service Newspaper", the "Yangtze Evening News" scolded Zhang Yiwu and others, as well as Yenching University.

The reason for scolding Yenching University is that Zhang Yiwu graduated from the Chinese Department of Yenching University, and stayed on to teach after graduation. He was just promoted to associate professor this year.

The wording of the Yangtze Evening News is very fierce. The author believes that Zhang Yiwu's writing level is completely unlike that of a graduate of the Chinese Department. He questioned why the Chinese Department of Yanda University kept such a person in school and whether there was any improper operation.

It is hard to imagine how badly the school spirit of Yanda University would be affected by the existence of such an associate professor.

Yanda University was also very troubled. They did not expect that such things could burn on them.

Of course, Yanda University is not innocent. As China's highest institution of learning, Yanda University is not a spotless place. There are many dirty things in the school.

There are many teachers and students of Yanda University who have had problems in recent years.

They can only bear the criticism from local newspapers.

However, although Yanda University did not say anything, Zhang Yiwu could not sit still. When he was interviewed by reporters, he said that he would sue the Yangtze Evening News for damaging his reputation. (End of this chapter)