Chapter 365
In the small circle of people Wang Jiazhi knew at the newspaper, a writer friend of his had his novel adapted into a movie, and he invited a few people to see it. Actually, he didn't want his friends to see it, but since everyone knew it, he had no choice but to ask for tickets and invite them to see it.
Halfway through the show, he wanted to leave, but someone comforted him, "You've already taken the money from selling yourself, so you should see it through to the end."
Another said, "Now they still have to pay for selling their bodies. Many articles will no longer need to pay for selling their bodies one day, and they can be filmed at will. I wonder what kind of weird things they will turn out to be."
"Could it be more outrageous than Daiyu burying flowers with a smile?"
"How can there be an upper limit to this outrageous thing?"
Wang Jiazhi was sitting with a female editor with whom she could usually chat.
The editor laughed and said, "He's going to stay at home for a while this time. Actually, he's just too literary. Who cares? He's the only one who feels ashamed."
At this time, seeing someone walking out of the aisle, Wang Jiazhi asked, "Is that that someone?"
The female editor turned around and looked at him. "It seems so. Oh, by the way, this is a movie produced by their company. They probably came here to show their support and build momentum. After all these years, she doesn't look old at all."
Wang Jiazhi said, "Yes, she really doesn't look old. But you can tell she's a bit older."
"No matter how old she is, you can tell. But she is still as young as a girl, like a deer in the forest. People should have a good attitude, which is more effective than any maintenance method."
Wang Jiazhi said, "It really wouldn't work if you had a bad attitude towards what happened back then."
"When I was a kid, I was amazed by the movie she was in. I thought she was so beautiful, especially that aloof, cold, and charming look. I haven't seen that look again in all these years."
Wang Jiazhi said, "It's not that she's good. Didn't I say she doesn't have any acting skills? It's all thanks to the director's good teaching."
The female editor laughed and said, "Then the director should just find a pig and teach it a lesson, and the film will still be good. He doesn't even have to pay the film, and he can kill it and eat the meat after filming. Isn't it killing two birds with one stone? Even the so-called top actresses are only good at roles similar to their own personalities, and they can't play other roles. I think she is very good. She can play the scholar, the lady of a noble family, the aloof and arrogant, the good wife and mother, and the silly little girl. Her acting range is already very wide. Let alone those with narrower acting range, they insist on dragging her into endless roles."
Wang Jiazhi said, "Who told her not to refute what others say? She even foolishly claimed she was a novice. If her acting wasn't good, she foolishly admitted it wasn't good, which only gave people something to talk about."
"That's right. If it were someone else, even if they clearly didn't perform well, they would still be so confident and sob about how much they put in, how great their performance was, and how it was the audience who didn't appreciate it, how they felt so wronged. Hey! I really like the movie that made her famous, but there are some parts that are really indignant. I feel that she is often accused of not being pretty enough and having no acting skills. She only relies on her temperament and her relationship with the director to make it through."
Wang Jiazhi said, "If the director hadn't made her look like she had nothing but her temperament and was completely useless, how could he have brainwashed her into making such a huge sacrifice? He was talking about the importance of self-cultivation. Besides praising her temperament, he was also saying that she understood herself very well and didn't struggle much in making this decision. What woman would strip naked for others? A boyfriend who's about to get married has to break up with her, and there's no struggle. It's completely understandable. Cheers!"
"How can I say otherwise? If I say she struggled mightily to agree, and sacrificed years of affection for it, then he, the instigator, would become an unforgivable villain."
"That's true. She's also saying she's not pretty enough and photogenic, and how difficult it was to film her. Unlike ***, she has a standard movie face and looks beautiful no matter how she's filmed. She's also saying no one had approached her before, and it was all thanks to her discerning eye, her temperament, and her talents. Otherwise, haha! What she's trying to say is, no one but me thinks highly of you, and if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have had the chance to make such sacrifices. I knew her before she even made that movie. It was a great movie, and she played the leading role and even won an award. Why didn't anyone use her? Not only did someone use her, but she was the leading actress. Some dramas also have memorable roles, and even though they're supporting roles, they're important supporting roles. Those directors who used her before the movie, weren't they all human? They're all ghosts."
"Yes, I knew her at the time. Many people liked her debut film, including my classmates. Later, when I found out she had made that film, I was heartbroken for a long time, saying she had made a huge sacrifice."
Wang Jiazhi said, "I just think she's prettier than ***. What's with the movie face thing? What they meant was that she's ugly, and only a great director like him could make her look beautiful. She was already beautiful in the roles before that movie, and those other directors weren't so-called great directors; ordinary directors could have made her look beautiful. Some of the shots in that movie are really beautiful, but some of them make her look like a bun, but that's just so-so. She's not as beautiful as in other ordinary movies. Ordinary directors didn't say they could make her look beautiful with just effort, but a great director like him had to put in a lot of effort to make her look beautiful. This great director is probably like that too. Later directors still made her look beautiful. How could she be so tall, thin, and white and beautiful like that? He described her as beautiful."
"So many people now say she has no acting skills, isn't pretty, and relies solely on her temperament. The director's words back then were absolutely instrumental."
Wang Jiazhi said, "Which of those famous actors didn't get their famous works taught by the director? *** also starred in his movie and it became a big hit. ***'s efforts were far less than hers, but the rewards she received were far greater. Didn't *** also receive the director's personal guidance? She, on the other hand, I think her acting is even more difficult than ***'s, but she received far less. How come no one said *** had no acting skills and relied solely on her temperament, while a lot of people criticized her. That would be fine, but she was also slammed with so much mud."
"Who dares to say that? She's got a personality like that. The director promoted her like that, yet she still dares to say he hurt her feelings. What can she say? When asked, she'll just say he was incredibly kind to her. When she first debuted, she didn't understand. When rumors about the zipper were made into the news, the director said he didn't care, and neither did her family. It was just that she didn't know. So she and everyone else were so afraid of angering him that they were all so cautious. Who would believe that? It was all over the place, everyone knew except him? He's just pretending not to know, just to keep her trembling in fear."
Wang Jiazhi said: "The sacrifice was so great, and he had no time to sleep because of the hard work. He only needed to tell her that it was no big deal and asked her to rest assured. He had to pretend not to know like this, which is torture. It's really suffocating to think about it, as if living with a king is like living with a tiger. Over the years, I have always liked that movie, but I only like the part where the heroine and the hero are together. At other times, I feel very disgusted. I still like the heroine in the novel. She is willing to sacrifice if she has the courage to do so. When she finds that she is being schemed against and despised by her classmates, she decisively draws a line with them. Even the boy she likes, when he finds that he is also scheming against her and despising her, he completely hates him as much as he hates others, and no longer has any hope for him. Later, even if he has been living in In fear, she found that she had developed feelings for the male lead, so she resolutely let him go. She was brave and decisive in doing things, dared to love and hate, and never dragged her feet. Unlike the heroine in the movie, she was decisive and brave only when she was with the male lead, and dared to love and hate. Once she left the male lead, she became particularly shameless. Even though that group of classmates hurt her like that, she didn't seem to hate him much. The second male lead treated her like that, but she still had feelings for him in the end, and hesitated before pushing him away when he kissed her forcefully. It's simply outrageous. It's because of the way it was filmed that there are more disgusting people saying that the heroine is a traitor and those classmates are good people. Some people also think that the heroine has feelings for that group of classmates and feels sorry for them, so she refused to commit suicide by taking poison and wanted to be with everyone. It's so disgusting. It's simply defiled the characters in the novel."
The female editor laughed and said, "Let me tell you something. Someone interviewed the screenwriter of the movie, and the screenwriter said that the director said the second male lead should be like himself when he was young, and he should be portrayed as clean and innocent."
Wang Jiazhi laughed and said, "No wonder. A scum who defiles and exploits his classmates is portrayed as pure and innocent, while a beautiful, innocent girl being raped and coerced by disgusting people is portrayed as a beautiful spring scene with blooming flowers, a holy baptism. It's not surprising at all. It's absolutely disgusting. He said at the time that if he were a woman, she would be the heroine. I was curious, how could such a bold and straightforward heroine be so indecisive and irresponsible? Or the second male lead is more like him."
"That's true. When that incident happened, it was such an outrage. I thought he'd say something fair, but he didn't say anything. I thought at the time that with his high position, it wouldn't matter if he said something fair, but I didn't expect him to say a word. The male protagonist really surprised me. He's usually such a nonchalant person, but he was so unyielding. He didn't even try to be euphemistic. He just said straight out that he felt sorry for the female protagonist and that he had to take responsibility, including himself. Although no one in his position dared to do that, he was the only one who said it."
Wang Jiazhi said, "What's disgusting is that every time people mention the heroine's experience, they always compare him to her, explaining why nothing happened to him. The person who started it all becomes the heroine's benefactor."
"That's right. Things like this should always be the responsibility of the director, who has an overall view of the situation. It has nothing to do with the actors. The actor who played the male lead shouldn't have been in any trouble in the first place."
Wang Jiazhi said, "You asked why the actors had to make such great sacrifices. He said he had to respect the original work, that he had no choice but to do it, and that he didn't want to ruin the actors. You said many parts didn't match the original work, but he said changes were necessary and that he didn't think it was necessary to follow the original work. He really is very similar to the second male lead, always making so many unreasonable and specious arguments, and using mind control to brainwash people. He always has groundbreaking and daring ideas, and after using people to carry them out, he has to bear the consequences, but then he shifts all the responsibility to his pawns, leaving himself clean."
"That's right, that's right. The original novel was about the author using this story to express his own personal feelings. He suddenly felt empathy for her and turned it into a story about rebelling against patriarchy. That's not the same theme at all."
Wang Jiazhi said, "He said there's a line in the book about 'the inner yin of a woman.' That's why they filmed those explicit scenes, suggesting that the heroine fell in love because of sex. But the author simply quoted that line and said it was disgusting, so she didn't believe it. He took it out of context and completely changed the meaning. A bunch of people who didn't understand the truth acted as if they had irrefutable evidence, portraying the heroine as something disgusting. Actually, the author's love story is about two people who first fell in love emotionally, then developed a foundation of affection and had sex. Because of the good feelings, their love deepened. He said it was to better convey the author's inner journey, but it makes it seem like love comes from the pleasure of sleeping with her. First, she describes being raped by a disgusting person as a beautiful baptism, then, because she was so happy to sleep with the hero, she felt like she had fallen in love with him and lost her life. She also can't let go of her first love, who schemed against her and despised her. How could such a good girl be so devastated by him? He completely ignores the original heroine's agony over being defiled and the fear of contracting a genital disease that tormented her for a long time."
"That's right. Isn't that the normal and healthy process of love? After spiritual love, the emotions reach a climax, and then sexual intercourse occurs. Then the soul and body merge, and the love grows deeper."
Wang Jiazhi said, "What do you mean by respecting the original work and having to do it this way? I don't believe there's no other way to express it. It's simply the director's sudden whim to film something bizarre, and then to brainwash the actors into acting, and to avoid responsibility and public outcry, and to avoid being called disgusting, and to justify it. And it's clearly a case of playing favorites. In this kind of situation, it would be better if the women were afraid of the men. But they're clearly protecting the male lead, not wanting him to be exposed too much. In several shots, it's clear that both of them are exposed, but the lighting is so that the male lead can't be seen, while the female lead's is clearly shot, as if afraid that others won't be able to see clearly. What a waste of women! Using someone else's work as a mere backdrop for one's own creation, and completely altering it to suit one's own ideas, so far from the original, is nothing. What's abominable is that they're clearly expressing their own ideas, but claiming to be respecting the original because they're afraid of public opinion."
"The male lead's willingness to do that is already a huge honor for him. What can the female lead, with her limited influence, do? He calls it some kind of masterful art, but it's nothing more than a clichéd story among men. He knows what people want to see. Filming this kind of thing is almost always done by men. At first, I saw that he wanted the female lead to be unclear about the second male lead, and I thought he was trying to create a love triangle for stunts. Then I read the editor's interview, and I think men probably think that even if they do things worse than beasts to women, they will still be very attractive to them, and women will not be able to hate them. Drink!"
Wang Jiazhi said, "That's fine, but I heard he even told her that whether she could get married in the future depended on fate. He's no different from those beasts in novels. They knew what they had done, but they pretended they hadn't hurt anyone and that it was no big deal. I just don't believe he would have the heart to do that to his daughter or sister."
"I've told my son not to take off his clothes. He can't even let his son take them off, so it's strange that he would be willing to do that if it were a daughter."
Wang Jiazhi said, "This is what it means when a sage is defeated, all are ants. A great man's sudden whim demands sacrifice from his pawns. And the pawns have to be grateful. It's fine if it's a mutually beneficial thing, but it's like the instigator is doing something great for the pawns. He's nothing like the heroine, who takes responsibility for her actions. He's not like her, who takes responsibility for his actions but doesn't acknowledge them, and even shifts the blame onto others, playing both sides."
They tossed and turned several times during the night, and then, exhausted, they hugged each other to coax each other to sleep. When they were about to fall asleep, she suddenly shook him awake, and the kitten turned its head to him and said, "Even though we just met, this is the case."
"Um."
"But I really like you, even if it's not like this, I still like you."
"Of course."
"I'm glad you know."
She snuggled back into his arms and prepared to go to sleep.
But he was completely awake. He didn't know why she suddenly said that. He wondered if she was going to have another attack.
Many years later, her daughter once said to her, "A gentleman is judged by deeds, not by his heart."
When my daughter first started working, she had a middle-aged colleague. We met a few times and he seemed very friendly.
My daughter was sick and had to take a few days off. After she recovered, she was going back to work. A few days ago, that person called her and discussed returning to work. After the call, my daughter said that this person was very annoying.
She was surprised and asked, "It looks good?"
The daughter said, "This person is hypocritical. He is very good at using sweet words to deceive people, to gain a good reputation for himself and to undermine others. But, he just speaks nicely."
My daughter then listed all the things this person did. For example, this time, this person, the team leader in charge of scheduling, first greeted her and told her how much he cared about her. He then explained that the day she was supposed to be on duty was very tiring, and because she had just recovered from an illness and couldn't bear to see her work so hard, he wanted to swap shifts with a certain colleague, but that colleague refused.
My daughter said, "If she really can't bear to see me suffer so much right after recovering from my illness, then she can just switch shifts with me. Why does she have to morally blackmail others into switching shifts with me? They have no obligation to take care of me. Well, if she says that, that fool will definitely think that the colleague isn't taking good care of herself, and she'll be persuaded by her sweet words that she's the one who's considerate and caring. If that colleague agrees to switch shifts with me, she'll have something to say. It's because I spoke with others that you don't have to suffer so much. Instead of being grateful for what they've really done, they should be grateful to her. She's really calculating. She usually says she cares about you like a saint, but in reality, she doesn't give a thing. She always tries to trick you into doing this and that for her. Does she think you're a fool?"
At that time, her daughter was a 19-year-old graduate student. Of course, Wang Jiazhi thought that it might be because she was too naive, so at her age she didn't understand anything and couldn't see through the ways of the world.
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