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Yang Li recommended "Manjiang Red" but was opposed by netizens, can you accept the yellow jokes in the New Year film?

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, following "The Wandering Earth 2", the box office of "Manjiang Red" also broke 1 billion, and then surpassed the former, and exceeded 1.1 billion back and forth.

"Manjiang Red Box Office Surpasses the Wandering Earth 2" has been hanging at the top of the hot search list for a long, long time.

Compared with the sci-fi blockbuster "The Wandering Earth 2", which is very expensive at first glance, "Manjiang Hong", which is not complicated in the scene, is obviously a small-cost work in addition to the actors, and according to such a box office trend, it is simply profitable.

I have to say that Chinese audiences have expectations for Zhang Yimou, Shen Teng, and Yue Fei's story.

The total length is 159 minutes, which is actually only 14 minutes less than the 173 minutes of "The Wandering Earth 2" next door, but the plot is one link after another, and few people complain about the length of the time.

However, in addition to Yi Yangqianxi, who made the small-town subject writer angry, there is another controversial issue in "Manjiang Hong", that is, whether the plot involves "insulting women".

In the early morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, Yang Li, a talk show star who became popular because of the classic phrase "Man you are so ordinary but so confident", posted a Weibo recommendation "Manjiang Hong", saying that he was very happy to watch it and asked everyone to watch it quickly.

The first hot comment is: how is the small-town subject artist worthy of watching the prince's movie!

Soon, Yang Li's Amway diverged on the forum, and more and more netizens were dissatisfied: There are so many yellow jokes that do not respect women in "Manjiang Red", do you, a star who made a fortune on women's rights, don't you feel uncomfortable when watching movies, and actually have a lot of fun watching and recommend?

As a person who has already watched "Manjiang Hong", I said realistically: Zhang Yimou is worthy of Zhang Yimou, and there is indeed a point that poked me, which will be detailed in another film review; However, the shortcomings are also as prominent as the advantages, and one of the big problems is indeed the three vulgar terriers that make female audiences uncomfortable.

As soon as the movie came up, it was Shen Teng and a group of other soldiers who drew lots, sorted by length, are you long or am I long?

At first, I thought that I was "adulterous and adulterous", but I thought too much, but the more I looked back, the more I found that there were too many yellow jokes of "understanding and self-understanding".

Shen Teng followed Yi Yangqianxi to interrogate the three dancers, full of words, even if he later knew that Zhang Da and Yaoqin were husband and wife, and the two were flirting, they still felt vulgar.

There are too many of these to list them all.

Even more absurd is the same confusing "asking for chastity from prostitutes" as "Menghualu" - Yaoqin once fell into the dust, and later married Zhang Da, hating Jin Ren and loving Zhang Da deeply, she took the initiative to complete the task of assassinating Qin Hui for Zhang Da, originally a woman who knows righteousness and can sing and cry, but the film emphasizes everywhere whether she is still "pure":

Yaoqin and Zhang Da recognized each other, the first sentence was "I didn't sleep with the golden people, those words are fooling them", after Yaoqin's sacrifice, the first thing Sun Jun said to Zhang Da was also "I didn't let those people really touch her when I was just tortured"...

Or is it really "small life and death, big loss of festival"?

The most confusing point for me is that if I say that I want to torture Zhang Da and Yaoqin, I really use torture against Zhang Da, and against Yaoqin, that is, find a few men (pretend) to gang rape?

It is these ubiquitous male gazes that ordinary viewers may not find a problem, but Yang Li, as a talk show star who observes men in detail and sneers as a woman, almost bound to "women's rights", should not be unnoticed at all.

In recent years, the absence of important female characters in Spring Festival movies, and even the entire film industry, has been criticized by everyone for a long time.

Don't want a purely female movie like "Hello, Li Huanying", it doesn't matter if the actress makes a male movie with trimmed vases, but "Manjiang Hong" is the most controversial one on women's issues during this year's Spring Festival, and other celebrity recommendations are nothing, but Yang Li's recommendation will give those sensitive female netizens a feeling of being "backstabbed".

After all, because of that paragraph, Yang Li has been boycotted by various popular men for so long, and it is the majority of female netizens who have been supporting her.

Therefore, many netizens said that it turns out that class is still greater than gender after all, the essence of female stars is stars, not women, and women's rights are just business for Yang Li, but life for ordinary women.

Objectively commenting, I think "Manjiang Hong" does have problems with women's issues, but:

On the one hand, considering the background of the times, in the feudal era of male superiority and female inferiority, perhaps women are indeed facing such a dilemma, but this kind of presentation, in today's place, belongs to the can have, but not necessary;

On the other hand, this is almost the common disease of the vast majority of male directors at present, not deliberately insulting and degrading women, but a long-standing stereotype, making them habitually take pleasure in this, just like "Detective Chinatown 3" was also complained that some three vulgar terriers made women uncomfortable, do you say Chen Sicheng has a directorial talent? There must be, but vulgarity is also really vulgar.

Neither of these explanations can fully summarize Zhang Yimou's preference for women's breast-exposed and snow-white skin, and his (and perhaps the vast majority of men's) "bad taste" has been revealed since "Full of Golden Armor in the City" many years ago, in comparison, the appearance of fragrant shoulders in "Manjiang Red" has become much more beautiful.

This aesthetic is really contradictory, he is clearly good at discovering the beauty of women, but this beauty is sometimes the beauty of real sparkle, and sometimes it seems to be the beauty of playthings.

Moreover, from "Jinling Thirteen" to "Manjiang Hong", Zhang Yimou also seems to have a bit of a preference for the theme of "bitch has righteousness".

It is said that "the drama is ruthless and the bitch is unrighteous", which is the contempt of the ancients for the lower ninth class, but Zhang Yimou obviously never despises them, but is very good at discovering the brilliance of humanity in small people, especially the indomitable when the country is broken and the family dies.

From Yumo to Yaoqin, these women, poor and cute, although they have fallen into the dust, but they still have family righteousness in their hearts, and they are clearly not inferior to the plump image of men.

But if the same character and plot are handed over to female directors to present, the result must not be so, although it is moving and touching, but there is always a loss in the throat.

It is a flaw that does not hide it, but this flaw could not have been necessary.

Men's two major hobbies, Laliang's family goes into the water, persuades prostitutes to be good, and sincerely does not deceive me.

But whatever one may say...

It's uncomfortable, there is, but to say that it is insulting to women, it is really not enough, this flaw, compared to Yi Yangqianxi's various dragging performances outside the play, are just small meanings.

Back to Yang Li's question.

She has the freedom to like and recommend movies, and netizens also have the right to dislike her because of this.

In fact, what makes me feel most uncomfortable is not that she recommended "Manjiang Red", but her subsequent Weibo, asking everyone to recommend "yellow" shampoo - blame some people for being too yellow and want to do more?

The fans in the comments naturally understand: Weibo netizens, as well as Douban netizens, are quite black!

Why bother?

Even if women's rights are just a business for you, then different businesses have different audiences, and your audience has been determined to be the majority of female netizens, why do you have to be so hard?

Do you think that this is "surrendering" to the men who have resisted themselves?

I'm curious, the next time Yang Li talks about feminist jokes, who will be on the scene, will the Puxin men really accept her "petition"? Or perhaps, she will change direction in the future and stop talking about women's rights?

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