Chapter 715 The Birth of a Nation (Third update, please subscribe)
Love is an eternal theme, especially in the future world, after people have solved the problem of food and clothing, they will naturally have other needs. This is what the ancients said, "When you are well fed and warm, you will think about sex", which is true everywhere.
When people are hungry, they certainly won't think about love, but now, most people in European countries have gotten rid of the effects of hunger and are eagerly craving for spiritual satisfaction, both ordinary people and rich people.
In fact, love...is a "luxury" that can only be had after one has enough food and clothing. It has nothing to do with poor people who can't even afford to eat.
The time is just right. The vast majority of people in Europe and the United States are eager to have spiritual satisfaction such as love. Now is the right time to take advantage of their psychological needs and change their values and aesthetics through cultural input.
For example, Nanhua-style clothing, new Hanfu dresses, and more importantly, the standard pairing of Chinese men with white women, all of these are subtly changing certain deeply rooted European views. After all, the Qing Dynasty's pants have not yet been completely taken off.
From the 15th to the 17th century, Europeans admired and yearned for Chinese civilization. Even in the 18th century, after China was occupied by the Manchus, the decline of civilization did not prevent Voltaire and other European scholars from drawing nourishment from Chinese civilization and describing their ideal China with a yearning tone, which was the China described by those European missionaries in the 17th century.
It was not until after the Macartney Mission that the descriptions in dozens of travel books and diaries made people in Europe realize that China was completely different from what they had imagined, at least it was completely different from the China described by the missionaries in the 17th century.
After the Opium War, as the Qing Dynasty constantly refreshed the bottom line of the treaty, there was the widespread discrimination against the Chinese people in Europe and the United States. Before that, Louis XIV, Catherine and the monarchs and nobles of European countries in the 18th century either built a Chinese pavilion in the palace or directly built a Chinese palace. Louis XIV wore Chinese clothes and sat in a sedan chair in the Palace of Versailles. Even in the United States across the ocean, the triangular lintel of the federal court is engraved with figures centered on Moses, Confucius and Solon. Moses in the middle represents the will of heaven or God, Confucius on the left represents morality, and Rousseau on the right represents politics.
Of course, what happened next?
What happened in the past is not important. What is important is that the emergence of the Ming Dynasty now will change everything.
What about now?
Emperor Zhu needed to take advantage of the fact that people in Europe and the United States still had a little curiosity about the Chinese people, and before they had fully formed that kind of superior psychological advantage, and use cultural output in areas such as movies to influence and change their ideas.
Emperor Zhu did not care whether European civilization was a civilized world or not, but what was important was that Chinese civilization was definitely a true civilized world.
Cultural output...the advantage lies in me!
What's more, it was still the era of silent films, and there was no problem with language communication at all.
What kind of love story should I write?
Recalling the silent movies he had seen before, Emperor Zhu thought a lot and even wanted to directly copy Chaplin's classic "City Lights", but then he changed his mind and shook his head and muttered to himself.
"Let's wait until we find the right actors. Otherwise, it won't be a tribute to the classic, but a destruction of it..."
Suddenly, a movie came to Zhu Di's mind - "The Birth of a Nation". It was the first feature film in history. Although the movie was controversial, with all the wrongs, vilification of blacks and glorification of the Ku Klux Klan, it did not prevent it from being a hit. Of course, this did not prevent the director from adding all kinds of ingredients. It was controversial, but it was indeed very popular in the market. And most importantly, Ming Dynasty also needed its own "The Birth of a Nation".
“The Birth of a Nation!”
Emperor Zhu's eyes suddenly lit up, and a story immediately emerged in his mind. It was no longer a story about the conflicting fates of the two families of black people in the North and South of the United States and the KKK before and after the Civil War.
It’s the story of the Ming Dynasty!
It is the story of Emperor Zhu the Great himself.
What kind of story is this?
"Elizabeth, I decided to make a movie of our own!"
When this thought came to his mind, Emperor Zhu immediately called Elizabeth. As soon as the call was connected, he said to her with some joy.
"Make our story into a movie!"
"What?"
Elizabeth said somewhat puzzled.
"What's the story?"
"It's our acquaintance, our love, and everything we've been through..."
Emperor Zhu then expressed his thoughts one by one. This was not a love story, but a national declaration. Through a movie, he showed the world that the Chinese also had the right to survive in this new continent.
Of course, since art comes from life and is higher than life, Emperor Zhu must make some appropriate adaptations. In addition to the love between the prince and the countess, it is more about the birth of a country.
What is this adaptation?
In fact, it was the greed of the Argentine officials. They greedily blackmailed the kind-hearted South Chinese. When blackmail failed, they even decided to start a war and tried to enslave the South Chinese. Facing their invasion, their burning, killing and looting, the killing and ravage of kind people, and the reality that their peaceful lives were disrupted, the protagonist and the kind and brave South Chinese fought back.
"…they finally defeated the barbaric and brutal invaders and crushed their plot to enslave them. The hero and heroine, a pair of lovers who had been through thick and thin, finally came together. Their union foreshadowed the birth and unification of a new country…"
Listening to the somewhat excited description on the other end of the phone, Elizabeth's lips curled up slightly and her smile seemed a little proud. The issue that the woman was concerned about was simple - this was the story and love between her and him.
"Well, it sounds very good, but it seems that we are not combined."
And what about men?
“Art comes from life and is higher than life. This is just artistic processing.”
Compared with love affairs, Emperor Zhu was of course more concerned with his grand narrative.
"This is the declaration. It is used to tell the world that the emergence of the Ming Dynasty is completely reasonable and is based on people's pursuit of freedom and resistance to tyranny!"
Well, this is quite similar to Texas. Since the independence of Texas is reasonable, the establishment of the Ming Empire is also reasonable.
After all, South China was an unowned land. The Ming Dynasty originated in South China and rose on that land. In the end, it was the greed of the Argentines that destroyed their country, not the Ming Dynasty that occupied them.
Of course, we can also add in the miserable lives of some gauchos and ordinary Argentines under the brutal rule of Buenos Aires, and of course how they enthusiastically joined the South China Army and provided intelligence to the South China Army. In a word, South China replacing the rule of Buenos Aires is what the people want and is a historical necessity.
Is this true?
Does this matter? It doesn't matter at all. What matters is that this movie was made in Ming Dynasty...
(End of this chapter)
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