Under the banner of art, "playing hooligans", Zhang Yimou and Lou Ye are "full of bad deeds"

Yang Liping's "Bald Peacock Dance" caused great controversy online, with male dancers performing on stage wearing only a pair of nude shorts, which looked like nude from a distance. Yang Liping also has extremely intimate interactions with male dancers, which has been criticized by many audiences: unsightly and not beautiful.

Although Yang Liping explained: This is to express the male peacock pulling out his beautiful feathers.

But some netizens still feel that making some uncomfortable actions under the banner of art is simply "cultural hooliganism".

Yang Liping's dance movements are difficult to define right and wrong, and the discussion of "literary and artistic hooligans" in the literary and art world has become huge.

1. Zhang Yimou

Zhang Yimou's aesthetic is undoubted, he directed the beautiful and magnificent opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, which is still regarded as a classic.

In 2006, the large-scale stage play "Liu Sanjie" directed by Zhang Yimou was also caught in controversy, because he asked the actresses to appear completely naked in order to pursue visual effects.

At that time, this behavior was controversial, and after performing for more than half a year, Zhang Yimou's team could not withstand the pressure of public opinion and announced that all actresses would wear flesh-colored underwear.

In the same year, the film "Full of Golden Armor in the City" directed by Zhang Yimou was released, although the film was rated as "2006 World's Top Ten Movies" by Time Magazine, but the domestic audience was not satisfied.

Because the movie has two words written throughout - bad customs. The tacky color matching, exaggerated makeup, what makes the audience feel speechless the most is the overexposed appearance of actresses led by Gong Li in the film.

It's not that it can't be exposed, but it's completely unbeautiful, it's purely for eyeballs.

Although Zhang Yimou is a master-level director, the movies he has directed over the years have not been good at the box office, so some people believe that Zhang Yimou deliberately used showing his breasts to create controversy in order to win more box office. In the end, the total box office of "Golden Armor" was 290 million.

The "Liu Sanjie" incident + "Full of Golden Armor in the City" set off a wave of "anti-Zhang Yimou" in the hearts of many audiences. As early as that period, some people believed that Zhang Yimou was doing the "next three roads" under the guise of art.

"Manjiang Hong", released during the Spring Festival this year, has also fallen into a similar controversy, because Zhang Yimou once again set the female character in the movie as a prostitute.

Zhang Da's wife, Yaoqin, a prostitute from Liang, dressed in disheveled clothes and kitsch, shouted when Yaoqin was raped by soldiers (although fake), Zhang Da shouted: "It's okay to kill, don't spoil her." It is also believed to be a reflection of Zhang Yimou's feudal thinking in his bones.

Zhang Yimou has previously focused the camera on prostitutes or dust girls many times, such as the nightclub dancer played by Gong Li in "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge".

The singer prostitute played by Zhang Ziyi in "Ambush on Ten Sides", the prostitute played by Ni Ni in "Jinling Thirteen", and so on.

However, in the past, when Zhang Yimou presented such roles, his performance techniques were very restrained and advanced, but now he is too straightforward, and it seems that the master is also out of fashion.

2, Lou Ye

Director Lou Ye has always been a very special existence in the Chinese film industry, because many of the films he directed could not be released.

In his films, large-scale scenes are basically standard, and they must be shot very realistically.

For example, Yi Nengjing once said that the first time he saw Qin Hao's play at the Golden Horse Film Festival was "Spring Breeze Drunken Night". Qin Hao acted so well, and the bed scene with Chen Sicheng also amazed her.

Therefore, she thought at that time: Qin Hao definitely did not like girls.

There is also a movie starring Hao Lei (the specific title will not be mentioned). At that time, it was Lou Ye who found Hao Lei and invited her to appear in the movie, but there were almost naked scenes in the movie.

Hao Lei readily agreed, because she felt that making movies was art, and it was nothing without clothes. But her boyfriend at the time, Deng Chao, couldn't accept it, and the two got into a stiff fight and broke up directly.

Years later, Hao Lei talked about the experience in the words "her boyfriend at the time was very careful."

But the audience felt that Deng Chao's idea was right, because he cared about Hao Lei, so he didn't like her to shoot a full nude scene.

And audiences who have seen the movie have said: Hao Lei's naked scene in the movie has no substantial impact on the whole film, and it can be taken off.

Everyone felt that she was fooled by Lou Ye at that time, not only did she have no love, but her career was also affected after making Lou Ye's movie.

In other words, Lou Ye made the actress make sacrifices under the banner of art, but the final result was not very good.

In fact, the audience is not anti-emotional and lustful, which is an indispensable thing in artistic expression, but how to present, how to present it, how effective it is, and whether it is necessary, it is very debatable.

Simply to attract attention, and create some large-scale content, the audience naturally can't appreciate it.