Strive to prove the status and value of outsiders
"I have to make a lot of money because I want them [their parents] to live a long life, I want them to live as old as me, and then our family can die together." 」
Why did Guo Jingming have such a wish back then?
Guo Jingming
The time was dialed back to when he was in college in Shanghai, when Guo Mu couldn't find a place to swipe her card because she couldn't take the subway, so the subway staff helped her into the station.
Just when Guo Jingming was about to say thank you, the other party scolded a dirty word in Shanghainese. At that time, he was trembling with anger, and his mother was still thanking the staff because she could not understand Shanghainese.
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At that time, Guo Jingming had a thought, that is, he wanted to make a lot of money, to be a rich and successful person, and he wanted to settle in this city to prove the status and value of outsiders.
It turns out he did.
Guo Jingming's writing ability was cultivated from an early age, and when he was four years old, he was diagnosed with sepsis by a doctor, so he lost the opportunity to run and jump like other children from a young age, but Guo Jingming, who was sensible, developed good writing and reading habits.
After entering junior high school, due to the increasing range of reading, Guo Jingming's writing skills continued to grow, and then he began to try to submit the words he wrote.
In the second year of junior high school, Guo Jingming published his debut poem "Loneliness" in the national public journal "Life Sixteen Seven", and received the first payment from the magazine. Although it is only 10 yuan, it makes Guo Jingming more determined in his footsteps.
After entering high school, Guo Jingming still insisted on his hobby of writing, and he published many works on the literary website "Under the Banyan Tree" with the vest of "Fourth Dimension".
Guo Jingming's debut film "Loneliness"
The first manuscript, "Script", successfully passed the preliminary round of the third new concept essay competition.
In 2001, Guo Jingming went to Shanghai to participate in the finals, and won the first prize of the Third National New Concept Essay Competition with the article "If There Is No Sun Tomorrow", which was his first encounter with the city of Shanghai.
Guo Jingming was deeply impressed by Shanghai's prosperity, and he was full of longing for Shanghai at that time.
But when he came to Shanghai to study for university with great anticipation, he found that the city was not as bright as he thought. Coupled with the fact that his mother was scolded, Guo Jingming directly had the idea of making a lot of money, because he did not want to be a "person under the people".
And then he did.
Now Guo Jingming, in addition to being one of the representative figures of the Chinese mainland "post-80s" writer group, is also a successful businessman.
Therefore, After having money, Guo Jingming lived more than the shanghai natives. He spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy properties in many locations in Shanghai, and the decoration was extremely luxurious.
Once Guo's father was photographed by the media for practicing cars, and then sent to the Internet to mock him as an upstart, Guo Jingming learned about it, and immediately bought out all the reports, just to reduce the negative news about his father.
After becoming famous, Guo Jingming generously posted his mansion and life on the social platform. In the eyes of many people, he is showing off his wealth, but in fact, it is not, and it is more appropriate to describe it as "retaliatory consumption". And it's not so much that he's showing off his wealth, it's more that he's saying goodbye to the self-esteem he's lost in those years.
Realist critic Guo Jingming
"You casually walked on the streets of Shanghai today, full of brand-name shops on the street, full of people wearing famous brands, glamorous, so why can't movies be performed, must they lie?" 」
At that time, Guo Jingming won the best newcomer director at the 15th Shanghai International Film Awards with "Little Times", but this series of films has always been criticized by people.
In addition to the plot, Guo Jingming's costumes and sets used in filming revealed that he was a drunken gold fan and a money worshipper, so everyone felt that he was smearing the urban life of Shanghainese, and the filming could only be regarded as "suspension fantasism".
But is this really the case?
Over the years, Guo Jingming has said more than once about his impressions of the city of Shanghai.
When Lu Yu said that she felt that Shanghai was very inclusive, Guo Jingming smiled and said, "No, then you have to have money." ”
When Lu Yu wanted to continue to say something, he directly expressed his feelings when he was studying in Shanghai:
"When the classmates around you are always using the latest mobile phones, they are wearing brand names, and then you use the oldest mobile phone, and then you can't wear anything, and then you can't go out shopping, you can't eat in the restaurant, you can only eat in the canteen forever, you will feel that this city does not belong to me." 」
Guo Jingming narrated himself
When Guo Jingming was in college, he studied in the Department of Film and Television Editing and Directing, and the students around him were all children of rich families, so when the teacher asked to buy DV, others could buy it casually. But after Guo Jingming called his mother, he received the remittance 10 days later. It was a long time before he learned that the 10 days were for his parents to borrow money.
"It wasn't until later that I learned that my parents had almost no savings at the time, and they needed to ask my uncle for money. So later I said to myself, I must make more money. ”
The days of going to university in Shanghai made Guo Jingming see a lot of realities. During the class, the teacher gave a lecture in Shanghainese, which made him feel powerless. The comparison between his classmates also made him very desperate.
Such a huge sense of contrast made Guo Jingming have a great inferiority complex, and at the same time made him understand a lot of truths, which is why he made the "Little Times" series of movies.
For the cynicism of netizens on the "Little Times" series, Guo Jingming once said this in the "Yang Lan Interview":
"In fact, it is not a painful criticism, I think it means that you are shooting an era, and you try to restore it as much as possible." The life of a young man in Shanghai, what he should look like, I think is what it looks like.
In fact, even if I don't shoot today, there are no famous brands in it, no one wears good clothes or anything, then so many famous brand stores in Shanghai are gone? Just disappeared out of thin air? , that's also not possible. ”
In the past, many people always felt that Guo Jingming's "Little Times" series was too luxurious, money-worshipping and incomprehensible.
It wasn't until an epidemic swept through Shanghai this year that everyone re-acquainted with the city.
Shanghai's epidemic prevention daily, not only let everyone see the various inner volume of brand-name handbags hanging on the door, even queuing for a nucleic acid test to wear a fashion show, directly let the people of the whole country open their eyes, netizens have also sighed, the original Guo Jingming's "Small Times" is documentary literature.
As Guo Jingming himself said, Shanghai is full of famous shops, and people are wearing famous brands everywhere, so why can't movies be shown, must they lie?
After being ridiculed by college students, he was domineering and returned, and he clashed with the professors of Peking University and left the table in anger
"Without a meter and an eight people, do they deserve to die?" Do they deserve to be ridiculed? ”
Height has always been a topic that many people use to ridicule, and even attack Guo Jingming.
On a certain episode of the "China Dream Show", several bodybuilding college students from the Equipment College of Dalian Maritime University mocked Guo Jingming's figure with great disrespect as soon as they came up.
In the face of other people's ill intentions, Guo Jingming at first just smiled and reminded them to pay attention to the words, humor is to make people happy, but not to attack others. And generously said that if the entertainment reached the audience, he didn't care.
The host at the scene also tried to ease the atmosphere, but it was obvious that several college students on the stage did not go down the steps given by the host and Guo Jingming, but continued to talk about Guo Jingming's height, with malice.
Several people provoked trouble again and again, and Guo Jingming couldn't bear it anymore, and directly replied:
"What are you here for?" To humiliate people, or to make jokes, I have a sense of humor, but I don't like to joke with people I don't know well, understand? ”
The atmosphere of the scene suddenly became very awkward, and finally the host eased the atmosphere.
Coincidentally, on the stage of "The Strongest Brain", after a player answered the question, he was told that the difficulty score was only 6 points, and Guo Jingming immediately said that he did not understand.
So I took the previous score of Professor Wei Kunlin of Peking University to compare, Professor Wei could not accept Guo Jingming's speech, so he directly interrupted him and said the sentence that Guo Jingming could not stand:
"How is it like arguing with a woman, anyway, turn this old account out"
Later, he said that Guo Jingming's views were very amateurish.
These few words directly angered Guo Jingming, because in his opinion, they were talking about the players, but Wei Kunlin rose to himself, which greatly annoyed him, so he directly went back to him:
"As a professor at Peking University, I think there are problems with your cultivation or your knowledge."
Guo Jingming questioned his knowledge, and Wei Kunlin also made a scientific explanation for the matter.
The argument between the two made the atmosphere very tense, and the other judges present also came out to play the round.
Wei Kunlin finally realized that what she had just said was inappropriate, so she apologized to Guo Jingming. But Guo Jingming did not speak, and when Wei Kunlin planned to apologize for the second time, he directly stopped recording and left.
Guo Jingming's height problems date back to his childhood.
Because he suffered from sepsis, and because it was a rare disease in that era, he could only live in the hospital and take medicine to see a doctor. Until the illness is discharged from the hospital, but the body will inevitably leave sequelae.
In fact, as long as it is not too excessive, with insulting ridicule, Guo Jingming is not so sensitive, Yang Mi once ridiculed his height, at that time he just laughed and did not care.
For Guo Jingming, everyone has mixed evaluations of him, and the benevolent see the wise and the wise see the wise.
But it is undeniable that he is indeed talented in writing, and he is a doer, otherwise he would not have been able to achieve what he has achieved now.
Guo Jingming is a very intelligent and capable person, he knows better than anyone what he needs, he only does and only participates in things that have close advantages and disadvantages with himself, although sometimes there is "flattery" in the means of making money, but it is undeniable that the ability, talent, insight and temperament that he can have at his age are indeed worth learning.