Text | Zhong Chuanyu
Recently, Feng Xiaogang was uncharacteristically in the dialogue program "Very Dao", he was able to say the phrase "scolding does not return the mouth, and the fight cannot be fought back".
Zeng remembered that Feng Xiaogang was nicknamed "Little Steel Cannon", which frightened the audience. But time has passed, and the 65-year-old Feng Xiaogang has become more and more low-key, and even began to humbly accept the "criticism" of his parents.
Behind such a transformation is an endless sadness and a signal of danger...
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Since 2007, Feng Xiaogang has had a certain voice in the Chinese film industry.
A "Rally" includes the Hundred Flowers Award, the Golden Horse Award, the Golden Image Award, the Golden Rooster Award, and the Huabiao Award.
To achieve such an achievement with a work cannot be said to be unprecedented, but it is difficult to have a comer later.
However, Feng Xiaogang's approach is confusing, and he makes money while standing to engage in art.
"Tangshan Earthquake" has a double harvest at the box office; "1942" has a score of 8 points; "Private Order" collapsed in word of mouth, but the pre-sale and advertising placement alone earned 700 million yuan...
With the addition of halos such as "popular director" and "box office harvester", Director Feng also began to "old man talk about juvenile madness".
"Private Order" has a score of 5.9, and also likes to mention the "Golden Broomstick's Most Disappointing Film Award", and the small steel cannon made a contribution:
"What kind of big-tailed wolf is on a certain petal."
In 2015, he hired a few traffic students to make a "Old Cannon", which still hit the street with a word-of-mouth box office, and Feng Xiaogang secretly rubbed and satirized other movies in the same schedule.
The following year, "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" was released, the box office was sluggish, Feng Xiaogang pointed the spearhead at Wanda Wang Jianlin, and sent a small composition Yin and Yang to the other side to arrange fewer films.
I have to say that Director Feng is worthy of being a screenwriter and good writing!
Wang Jianlin did not respond, but the "belligerent" Wang Sicong was not accustomed to big directors and responded directly: Because your film is not good, there are fewer films.
Director Feng was scolded in public and could not come to the stage, but this did not prevent him from continuing to fire.
At the 2017 Shanghai Film Festival, Feng Xiaogang scolded "food and clothing parents":
"Because there are so many garbage viewers, there are so many garbage movies."
"If you don't go to the trash movie, he won't have this space to live."
As soon as this remark came out, not only the audience shouted back like a tsunami, but also the official media commented in public:
There are many factors that make a work good or bad, but the most important thing to do is to find its own problems. Instead of blaming others, it is better to create seriously.
In addition to "mouth hi", Director Feng even wanted to do it, and when a movie was announced, because he didn't like the reporter's question, he scolded the reporter for being shameless, and said that he wanted to smoke the other party...
The reason why Feng Xiaogang was so "arrogant" back then was firstly because he had this capital, and secondly, because he had been oppressed for too long, and no one could count on it.
"Birth is cut and killed by oneself, and it is all for oneself."
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Feng Xiaogang came from a bitter background, his parents were divorced, his mother brought up his sister and him alone, and it was the most honorable to be a soldier in the seventies, and Feng Xiaogang joined the army to reduce the financial burden on the family.
After entering the army, Feng Xiaogang became a literary soldier, mainly responsible for stage design and set painting, which also laid the groundwork for his future entry into the film and television industry.
Fast forward to the clock, and after Feng Xiaogang had been in the army for seven or eight years, he went to work as a union officer for a construction company.
In this company, he works 9 to 5, ordinary days. This is good for many people, but Feng Xiaogang does not play cards according to common sense, and he feels that the regular and fixed shift is too sinful.
Maybe God helped him, and by chance, Feng Xiaogang met Zheng Xiaolong's wife.
With a three-inch tongue, in 1985, Feng Xiaogang met Wang Shuo through Zheng Xiaolong's introduction, thus squeezing into the "Beijing circle".
As everyone knows, Wang Shuo, as the benchmark of the big courtyard and one of the representative figures of the Beijing circle, whoever gets his work will get the box office.
After all, in 1988, four films were adapted from his novels in a year, and Ma Weidu even called him "the tip of Beijing", and no one would have thought that Feng Xiaogang would "pinch the tip".
Wang Shuo was originally not optimistic about Feng Xiaogang, but Director Feng was too sharp-mouthed, and he didn't care about face, serving tea and water, and offering great hospitality.
Wang Shuo was also held up in the sky, willing to take Feng Xiaogang to play together, and the movies "A Land of Chicken Feathers" and "Forever Lost My Love" were made when drinking and chatting.
It can be said that at that time, Feng Xiaogang's works were completely imitating Wang Shuo's language form, and even reached the point that Qing was better than blue, and Feng Xiaogang was more like Wang Shuo than Wang Shuo.
Backed by Wang Shuo, Feng Xiaogang gradually emerged, but in just a few months, Wang Shuo's works were either banned or cut, the investor had no return, Wang Shuo became a "box office poison", and Feng Xiaogang also fell into the point of having no drama to film.
However, in 1997, Han Sanping, the director of Beijing Film Studio, found Feng Xiaogang and wanted him to create a precedent for New Year films and direct "Party A and Party B".
Feng Xiaogang originally wanted to adhere to artistic principles and not make films without connotation, but if people want to live, they must first eat enough.
"Party A and Party B" may not be welcomed by insiders after its release, but it will definitely allow the audience to enter the cinema and enjoy a happy time for the whole family.
In fact, the film set a record for the highest box office of the year and became the first Chinese New Year feature film in the mainland.
In the following two years, Director Feng handed over two New Year files, "Not Seen, Not Scattered" and "Endless".
After entering the new century, the film market was sluggish, and only Feng Xiaogang's commercial films catered to the market, and he was even invited by China Film Group to share experience with peers.
The director who made literary and artistic films did not wait to see the routine of commercial films, and the disdain in his eyes overflowed the screen, Feng Xiaogang could naturally see it, but at this time, he did not have much confidence, so he could only laugh it off.
It was not until later filmed films such as "A Sigh", "1942", "Rally", and "Tangshan Earthquake" that Director Feng stood up and had the right to choose the theme.
So there will be Feng Xiaogang turning into a "small steel cannon" to scare the audience.
Then again, when did Feng Xiaogang start to bow his head and realize the transformation of "not fighting back, scolding and not fighting back"?
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After being named and criticized by official media, in 2019, Feng Xiaogang's movie "Mobile Phone 2" triggered a series of events.
Bing Bing had an accident and withdrew from the circle, Director Feng was no better, and the road of cooperation with Liu Zhenyun ended here.
This was not the direct reason why Feng Xiaogang bowed his head.
The next year, Feng Zhiqi unintentionally ran to shoot the online drama "North and South".
It stands to reason that both directors and actors are running towards the film industry, and there are few tens of billions of actors and directors running to make online dramas.
TV series and movies are far apart, the most important thing is the difference in duration, which can show the skills of actors, excellent such as Zhang Ziyi also overturned on TV series.
And Director Feng's "North and South" even got a new record of 4.9 petal...
If it was before, Director Feng would have scolded the audience for "not recognizing goods", but this time, he quietly became a small squib.
Not long ago, Feng Jiao's "Loyal Dog Bagong" was released, and Director Feng, who had not appeared for a long time, participated in an interview to promote the film, and it was shocking that Feng Xiaogang "confessed".
Once arrogant and domineering, he said: "Public figures can only fight back and scold and not fight back, this is a balance..."
The implication is not that even if you are not convinced in your heart, you must pretend to be very cultivated and stand up straight to accept criticism from the audience.
Feng Xiaogang, who was born in the wild road, naturally knows how to please the audience, at the beginning he was timid and cautious, and he had to think differently when he was doing things;
Later, with the right to speak, Director Feng began to fight back, and everyone's scolding still had "money sounds";
So the invective of the audience is not terrible, what is scary is that the masses no longer pay attention.
As Director Feng said: "Being scolded and rumored is the price of being a star." ”
Looking back, Director Feng saw through that the older the rivers and lakes, the less courageous he was. The general environment is different, and if you are not careful, you will become cannon fodder, is it worth it?
As a result, more and more star artists adhere to the principle of "humbly accept criticism" and perfunctory about their behavior.
"Brainless fans" said bluntly after seeing the idol apologize: He apologized, what else?
Holding the fan's "Shang Fang Sword", the artist then did whatever he wanted.
For example, recently Hua Chenyu in a concert, fans called him "the eternal god of the Chinese music scene", Hua Chenyu also responded: "Otherwise? ”
It's funny.
Hua Chenyu's private life of "having a child out of wedlock" is chaotic, and his professional ability has also been questioned, and there are not a few masterpieces that can be sung.
Even when variety show partner Shen Teng was asked to "say Hua Chenyu's three songs", he was stunned in place, did not say a single one, and the scene fell into embarrassment.
Even so, fans will pay for him.
In the face of "having a child out of wedlock", Hua Chenyu may have seen Shuangzi's end and took the initiative to admit his mistake, and fans thought that Hua Chenyu was responsible, completely ignoring the essential mistake of the matter.
"Fighting back, scolding and not returning the mouth" seems to have become a "shield" for star artists, they think that the Internet has no memory, and if they do not respond, it means that this matter will pass, and then they can come back unharmed.
It is said that the more the truth is argued, the clearer it is, but in the eyes of some artists, "arguing" means that things are out of control.
Maybe there were five people before and six people, but people did things that could not withstand scrutiny. In order to prevent things that are not conducive to yourself, simply do not do it, do not open this head.
Isn't this the saddest thing in internal entertainment?
Really can't be fake, fake can't be real, I hope that the mixed entertainment industry is more sincere, don't break the audience's heart!
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