Wang Shuo, a well-known Chinese writer and screenwriter, was a smash hit in the eighties and nineties, when almost everyone had heard of this ruffian writer with a lot of personality. The novels "Animal Fierce" and "The Stubborn Master" also established his status in the literary world.
In addition to writing and writing scripts, Wang Shuo also likes to appear on some TV shows and give some interviews. Unlike other public figures, Wang Shuo's rhetoric is quite spicy, and he is ruthless when it comes to commenting on people.
Even with superstars like Jet Li and Zhang Ziyi, Wang Shuo does not beat around the bush and directly expresses his views, which also attracts a lot of criticism for him.
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In Wang Shuo's view, Jin Yong's martial arts novels, the Four Heavenly Kings and Qiong Yao's novels are all very vulgar, you must know that these pop cultures had a great influence on the public at that time, but Wang Shuo was still outspoken. But he doesn't think vulgarity is a bad thing, kitsch is.
Here's what he said in an interview: "The Four Heavenly Kings are actually the Four Great Customs, and that's what I said. Is vulgarity a curse? If I say you, Ya, do you have the ability to take it?
Popular culture is naturally to consider the public and cater to the needs of the public, there is nothing wrong with being vulgar, and vulgarity and kitsch are what should be spurned.
What is kitsch, vulgarity? It's that you are obviously a very cheesy thing, but you still have to pretend to be elegant, which I don't despise the most. As long as it is something that entertains the public, but it still has to slap the swollen face and pretend to be art, this is called vulgarity.
In my opinion, those who catch up with fashion and pursue fashion are vulgar, and they like to imitate the way rich people dress without thinking, wear some brand-name clothes, and really think of themselves as artists. ”
I have to say that Wang Shuo's remarks are still very insightful, distinguishing between vulgarity and vulgarity and kitsch, and there is nothing wrong with pop culture being vulgar and grounded.
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Wang Shuo's evaluation of Jet Li in Qiang Qiang Threesome is a little too mean: "Some viewers are really ignorant, they really think that they are in the United States, they are developing very well in Hollywood, and you are actually a dozen stars."
I'm making a movie here, and if I need to shoot a fight, I'll let you play it, and you, Zhang Ziyi, Jet Li, will take you into the crew if you know martial arts. In fact, they are the same as stuntmen, that is, a supporting role that assists others.
When I really go abroad, ask the locals, where do you know who you are, at most I know that you are good at martial arts, if you really want to make mainstream movies, you will not be selected at all, and you will roll up and leave if you don't play stars one day, just such a status.
Now when it comes to Infernal Affairs, I am very proud, because recently the great director Martin Scorsese changed it to "Infernal Affairs" and won the award. began to talk about how high the level of Hong Kong films is, and if you change it, it will be the level of the Oscars.
I asked some friends in the film critic circle, and now that Hollywood has almost made everything that can be made, it lacks creativity, and it has begun to adapt Hong Kong films. In fact, the United States does not have too many good local movies, and many of them are borrowed from foreign scripts.
"It Seems to Be an Old Man" is a French thing, to put it bluntly, they think you can't shoot it, it's better to let me shoot it. ”