Zhou Hexuan walked out of the screening room with his hat on a low brim, so that he didn't have to worry about being recognized, after all, his photos often appear in newspapers and magazines.

This kind of dress is not peculiar, and nearly thirty percent of the men who come to see the movie wear hats.

Wearing hats seems to be the trend of this era, whether in Europe, America or Asia, men and women like to wear hats when they go out. A few years ago, the Nanjing Nationalist Government promulgated the "Uniform Regulations", and even had special rules on wearing hats, such as students and civil servants must wear hats on formal occasions, wearing white hats in summer and black hats in winter, and the wrong color is to be ridiculed.

Zhou Hexuan is now wearing a men's top hat, which is round and resembles the shape of a flying saucer, and there is a ribbon around the brim. This kind of hat is very common in film and television dramas of the Republic of China, such as the underground party joint of spy war dramas, the protagonist is often wearing a long shirt and a top hat, and when he takes off his hat, he takes out a note from the hat and passes it quietly.

Zhou Hexuan went out along the crowd, and the audience who watched "Red Dust" was excited, but they refused to mention the content of the movie. And those viewers who watched "The Goddess" were filled with righteous indignation, and many people discussed the plot while walking.

"That scoundrel is so hateful, he's just scum!"

"Isn't it? If I were to say, I should have called the police and arrested him earlier. ”

"It's a fart to call the police, and I'll be locked up for a few days at most, and the heroine will be even worse when it's released."

"Ruan Lingyu acted so well, I couldn't help but want to cry when I saw her being bullied in the movie."

"It's better to make up a story made up by Mr. Zhou."

"Have you read the original book of "The Goddess"?"

"I don't understand much, it's completely different stories from the movie."

"This plot is also in the original book, but it is more obscure and messy, and the heroine of the original book is worse than the movie."

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Judging from the reactions of these audiences, the film version of "The Goddess" is undoubtedly a success, which greatly mobilizes the emotions of many audiences. Of course, the American blockbuster "Red Dust" is also very successful, and it is as exciting to watch a small movie as people in the 80s in a video hall.

Just when Zhou Hexuan took Vivien Li north to Tianjin, the word-of-mouth of the two movies fermented, but one in the sky and the other underground.

Many defenders stood up and criticized "Red Dust", believing that the film was promoting ** ideology, and called on the government to ban the screening of such vulgar films. The authorities said that they were very embarrassed, because of the pressure of public opinion on the one hand, and the pressure of American film companies on the other, and finally they had to choose a compromise approach: "Red Dust" could only be screened in specific theaters.

And "The Goddess" has been unanimously recognized by people, especially the social issues reflected in it, which have caused extensive social discussions. Does the son of a prostitute have the right to education? If the parents' profession is not right, will the children have to be bad people when they grow up?

The organ of the Left League characterized "The Divine Woman" as an anti-feudal progressive film. Tian Han even wrote a film review himself, saying: "Movies, like books and newspapers, are also powerful weapons for disseminating ideas and a good tool for transforming society." Movies should not only reflect the sorrows and sorrows of love, but also reflect the lives of the people at the bottom and reflect acute social problems. ”

Chinese filmmakers at this time were represented by Zhang Shichuan and Zheng Zhengqiu. Although the two collaborated to create Star Studios, their film concepts were different.

Zhang Shichuan takes the commercial route, advocating that movies are "always interested in fashion", and the audience is used to shooting whatever they watch, and his masterpiece is "The Burning of Red Lotus Temple". However, Zheng Zhengqiu believes that movies should improve society and educate the people, and his representative works include "The Love of Laborers".

But no matter what, the two are still mainly commercial films, after all, film companies need to survive, and realistic literary films are far from being blockbusters of commercial films.

Historically, it was not until "The Goddess" was a great success, which was educational and could be sold for a lot of money, that it finally set off a trend of filming social problem films. Among them, there is also the Left Union that is promoting, left-wing writers create wonderful scripts, and Lianhua Pictures is responsible for specific shooting and distribution.

Now Zhou Hexuan has come out two years ahead of schedule "The Goddess", which has also been recognized by countless audiences, which immediately brought great confidence to Luo Mingyou, and he took the initiative to go to Tian Han and others to buy the script of a social problem film.

What prevents "The Goddess" from making a lot of money is probably only the issue of screening.

The Capital Theater is a super awesome place, equipped with the most advanced sound film projection equipment, so people can enjoy watching "The Goddess" and "Red Dust" ("Red Dust" is also a sound film). But the other theaters are a bit bad, only some of Luo Mingyou's theaters, and a small number of theaters under the star company, can make the movie sound.

The "Goddess" in the sound theater was full, and sometimes the morning screening was even full, but the owners of the silent theater could only do it in a hurry. In the end, the only remedy was to remake the silent film copy and add dialogue subtitles at key plot points.

Zhou Hexuan could only smile bitterly at this, he finally invested in a sound film, using the most advanced sound film technology. But when most theaters are screened, the audience still can't hear the sound, as if a 3D blockbuster was made in later generations, and as a result, there are not a few 3D screening halls in the country.

After the hit of "The Goddess", Ruan Lingyu turned purple, surpassing Hu Die to become the first sister in the film industry in one fell swoop, and became the absolute pillar of Lianhua Pictures.

Unlike ordinary audiences who chase stars, industry insiders pay more attention to the filming technology of "The Goddess". Because this movie uses top-notch sound technology, the sound quality is scary, unlike the previous domestic sound films, all kinds of noise, and all kinds of sound and pictures are out of sync.

Zhang Shichuan and Zheng Zhengqiu hurriedly inquired about the situation, but they shook their heads after knowing the price of sound film - the cost was too high, and they couldn't afford to play it.

It's a little strange to say that the Shaw brothers, who have always been picky, are also very interested in sound films, and specially sent Run Run Shaw to the United States to buy sound film equipment. However, due to the turmoil brought about by the Battle of Songhu, the Shaw Brothers decided to move to Hong Kong and target Southeast Asia.

In fact, the Shaw brothers are really powerful, they founded the "Tianyi Company" in Shanghai for only three years, and quickly occupied the southern China film market. forced Minxin, Xingxing, Greater China, Youlian, Shanghai, and Huaju to unite to form the "Liuhe Film Company" and join forces to deal with the "Tianyi Company" of the Shaw Brothers, which is known as the "Liuhe Encirclement and Suppression" in history.

Where can the Shaw brothers bear it? He could only go to Hong Kong to develop, and he couldn't even sell films to the mainland, so he had no choice but to carefully manage the Southeast Asian market, and established more than 100 theaters in Southeast Asia in ten years.

As a result, everyone knows that the lost corner of the harvest of the mulberry elm, the Shaw Brothers later created the glory of Hong Kong movies by mistake.

On the contrary, the film companies that forced Shaw Brothers away, one by one, disappeared in the long river of history.