Everyone has the qualifications to express their views on the movie, but no one will be indifferent when hearing the other party criticizing their works, even if they know that "faithful words are unpleasant", let alone the other party still has unfounded nonsense, which is definitely an insult to their works.

On February 17, 1984, a movie called "The Past of America" ​​was previewed in a small range in the United States, and it did not cause much response at that time. Italian director Sergio Leon was invited to direct the "Godfather", but he refused the invitation in order to prepare for the "American Past of America". However, when Sergio felt that everything was ready, the popularity of the "Godfather" made the producers lack confidence in the same type of "American Past of America". This time, by chance, the "American Past of America" ​​was postponed infinitely, and the first wait was eleven years.

During these eleven years, every year at the Cannes Film Festival, a handsome Italian man in a well-dressed dressed Italian sitting in the venue, holding a stack of 400-page scripts waiting for investors. It was not until 1983 that Sergio had the opportunity to bring the "Past of America" ​​to the big screen.

"The Past of America" ​​went to the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. Sergio edited a 229-minute version for the film festival. This is the so-called European version, twenty minutes shorter than the director's cut he likes most. After the premiere of the movie, the audience stood up and applauded for fifteen minutes, and many film critics even called it the greatest work of 1984, no doubt.

However, when "The Past of the United States" was fully released in North America on June 1, it encountered a bad review. The reason was that the producer ignored Sergeo's repeated protests and made drastic moves and edited the film into 139 minutes. This is the "American version" that has been criticized by people in the future. All flashbacks in the film almost disappeared completely. Sergeo's well-intentioned Proust-style structure was castrated into a single-line narrative that "America" ​​is still there but "past of the past" is difficult to find.

After the film was released in the United States, it was full of criticism and the box office was bleak. This super high investment costing $40 million was only released for only two weeks, earning $4 million in box office, and it was a complete failure.

Sergio, who was hit hard, never picked up the guide again and died of depression five years later in his hometown of Italy.

Many years later, when the director's cut of "American Past" was reunited, people realized the excellence of this work, and even more realized that it was not only an excellent gangster movie, but also an absolute classic that was comparable to "Citizen Kane". In the long history of gangster movies, "American Past", "Godfather 2" and "Good Guy" were recognized as the three most outstanding works, but ironically, when Sergio was alive, he never received such affirmation.

Sergio's American dream was broken, but he left a precious piece of film to the history of film. "The Past of America" ​​did not have a good box office and did not receive any Oscar nomination, but its significance did not need these to prove it. This was Hollywood's greatest failure.

Imagine how Sergeo felt when those film critics criticized the American version of "American Past". His heart must be bleeding. The work he had spent thirteen years preparing for, but ended up falling into such a situation. How terrible despair was that Sergeo was so disappointed with the movie and ended up in depression.

When the European version of "The Past of America" ​​was released in Cannes, the stormy praise was the most realistic historical evaluation of the movie. The movie did not participate in the competition unit, but was only released as a screening work. However, people always admired that if the "The Past of America" ​​participated, then perhaps the winner of the Palme d'Or that year would not be "Paris in Texas (Pads.texas)".

Movies are actually an art. People's aesthetics are always full of controversy about art. Art allows the existence of debate, but does not allow insults. The rough castration of Warner Brothers on "the past of the United States" back then was an insult; and Ishiguro's prejudice against "vulgar novels" was also an insult.

In Hugo's view, Ishiguro Kazuo not only did not understand "vulgar novels", he should have refused to watch "vulgar novels" seriously. This personal prejudice itself is an insult to the identity of the judge. More importantly, Ishiguro Kazuo is a writer who has a poor understanding of movies. He cannot understand the black humor of "vulgar novels", he cannot understand Quentin's treatment of violence stylization, he cannot understand the movie's interpretation of American vulgar culture, and he cannot understand the works of retro styles to movies...

If it is an ordinary audience, Hugo can understand it, but cannot accept it; if it is an judge, Hugo cannot understand it, and even more unacceptable.

Therefore, what Hugo said just now was to mock Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro know nothing about movies and not be qualified to be a judge; at the same time, he was to mock Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro refused to appreciate "vulgar novels" because of his personal prejudice, and did not calm down and watch them slowly, so he naturally could not appreciate the advantages.

Nicholas knew Hugo the most, so he immediately understood the profound meaning of Hugo's words. Hugo completely slapped Kazuo Ishiguro, but he didn't show his flaws. This is called "swearing without swearing". This made Nicholas almost unable to hold back and laughed out loud.

The reporters at the scene were all humans, and they vaguely noticed the profound meaning of Hugo's polite words, and their expressions became wonderful.

Ishiguro Kazuo was just not used to it when facing reporters because he was more accustomed to dealing with his own words, but he was not a person who didn't know how to socialize. On the contrary, he could immediately hear the sharpness hidden in Hugo's polite words, which made him angry.

Hugo is just an unknown junior, but he is a writer who can win important awards in every work. The most important thing is that in his eyes, artists and writers in the entertainment industry are not at the same level at all. Now the author's authority is actually challenged, which makes Ishiguro Kazuo also very dissatisfied.

"'The long day is about to end' and 'pulp novels' are two completely different carriers. What is needed to understand books is cultural heritage, while it does not require any conditions to understand movies. I don't agree with you when comparing the two." Ishiguro Kazuo was almost unable to hide his expression at this time. Although there was a little smile on the corner of his mouth, his words revealed his seriousness at this time.

The reporters were immediately excited. In fact, generally speaking, when talking about the scene like Hugo, even if the words were thorny, smart people would pretend not to understand, or they would fight back with the same scene, and they would not make it clear, because once it was clear, the scene was no longer "scene" words, and the situation would immediately become tense and it would be hot.

However, Ishiguro Kazuo was inevitably lacking some experience when dealing with this situation. Although he was 40 years old this year, he had more or less quirks from writers. After understanding Hugo's "provocation", he directly raised the contradiction without thinking. Of course, it is not ruled out that Ishiguro Kazuo was not favored by Hugo.

Now the reporters are all waiting to watch the show. Although today is the premiere of "The Empire of Money", it seems that two people who don't even count the supporting roles are not in the focus, but the reporters don't care and look at Hugo with anticipation. Hugo did not disappoint them.

"Shouldn't art have no threshold? I only realized today that art is of the same level." Hugo said calmly and casually, and after that, he showed a bright smile at Ishiguro Kazuo, "Why don't Ishiguro Kazuo think that the artistic value is higher or the artistic value of drama is higher?"

Currently, there are eight types of art forms recognized worldwide: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, drama, movie, and dance. Before the birth of the art form of movie, drama actually had similarities with movies to a certain extent.

Hugo's humble and polite question immediately made Ishiguro Kazuo stuck. The words "Mr. Ishiguro Kazuo" sounded like a swearing now, but Hugo was not going to give Ishiguro Kazuo a chance to answer, and continued, "I hope Shakespeare won't walk down from heaven and scold me for being rude."

Hugo's joke immediately made all the reporters in front of him laugh.

In fact, before the last century, art did have a threshold. The main reason was that poor people were constantly struggling to make ends meet. The spiritual life of art is a luxury and not everyone can enjoy it. However, with the improvement of material level, after the 20th century, especially after World War II, society gradually stabilized, and the threshold for art was gradually approaching, and in the 1990s it became more and more friendly to the people.

Therefore, the idea of ​​"writer" as Ishiguro Kazuo not only will no one agree with it, but will also cause a sneer, just like the laughter of reporters now.

Like books, movies are also artistic forms without barriers, just like music, painting, dance, etc., and you can enjoy them as long as you like them. This is also the reason why movies can become an important part of popular culture.

Ishiguro Kazuo naturally knew this, but he just couldn't think it through impulse just now. At this time, he saw everyone's laughter at the scene, and it made him very embarrassed. Not only was he caught talking bad things behind his back and was also inferior, but he was also in a head-on confrontation, which was really annoying!

"Everyone has his own different opinions on art. I believe that the same is true for Mr. Ishiguro. If you have the chance, Ishiguro can read 'pulp novels' again, which would be great. Of course, I will pray that Mr. Ishiguro will not fall asleep halfway through seeing it." Hugo teased in a relaxed tone, reuniting the originally tight atmosphere.
Chapter completed!