New Age Artists

Chapter 345: To Set the Record Straight, China (13)

In order to play this role well, Director Chen looked up a lot of information.

Even if it is a guest role, he will not be careless in his homework. This is his professional habit.

Shen Santong said: "One of the main purposes of making this film is to set the record straight."

Director Chen asked: "The slogan in the public service advertisement shot by Yao Ming a few years ago, 'No trade, no harm', has played a big role in this, by any means?"

Shen Santong talked about the behind-the-scenes operation: "The advertiser of the 'public welfare' advertisement of 'refuse to eat shark fin' is a non-profit organization established by global environmental volunteers."

“WildAid’s Tokyo University office.”

"The chief representative of this office is Ziwen. She invited Yao Ming to shoot a 'public welfare' advertisement in 06 and served as a shark protection ambassador."

"She claims that up to 7900 million sharks are caught globally each year for the shark fin trade, which means more than two sharks are killed every second."

Director Chen wrote down the numbers and asked, "What about Yao Ming?"

Shen Santong said: "It has little to do with him, or his own wishes are not important. He is a representative of NBA culture and one of the representatives of American pop culture."

Director Chen understood: "It's a window, a bridge. Through this channel, good things can come in, and bad things can also come in."

Shen Santong: "Yes, we should sing the song according to our situation. The NBA wants our market, and he is also our cultural representative to the outside world."

Some things were left unsaid.

A big reason why Yao Ming can play well in the NBA is that NBA games are like a Colosseum.

Most of the athletes performing there are black, and most of them come from slums.

In the United States, basketball courts are mostly located in slums, with low construction and maintenance costs.

The swimming pool is the symbol of middle-class life and a holy place in the hearts of white elites.

The basketball court is linked to the culture of the lower-class community, while the swimming pool is linked to the culture of the middle- and upper-class communities.

If a basketball court appears in a movie where a character lives, it indirectly indicates the character's class.

On the other hand, the character coming out of the swimming pool is also a hint.

The mentality of the white elites in the United States watching NBA games is probably not much different from that of the slave owners looking down at the Colosseum.

For some people, Yao Ming's cultural symbol is similar to Chow Yun-fat playing a pirate, Jet Li playing a wolfhound, and Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li starring in "Memoirs of a Geisha".

The stars and cultural idols who are highly sought after in the University of Tokyo have to pursue cultural roles at the lowest end of the Hollywood and American cultural industry chain.

It also implies the division of labor assigned to Todai in the global industrial chain.

Director Chen wanted to know more and get the gist: "Isn't this World Wildlife Rescue Organization a non-profit organization?"

Shen Santong: "Anyone who claims to be non-profit, especially those who are not in our system, must have a worse heart."

"Those so-called developed countries don't provide electricity or water to remote areas because they can't make money."

"When you put out a fire, the firefighters arrive, but those who don't buy insurance sit back and watch it burn out, while those who buy insurance will have the fire burn right to their doorstep."

"There has been a lot of shirking of responsibility and wrangling for those who stormed the building on 911/, and even now there has been no compensation."

"They don't develop their own family, and they don't provide relief to their own people who died. Then they claim that they don't make money, but come to other people's homes and do good things. Can this be a good thing?"

That is to say, even in this era, Chinese people still have fantasies.

Aren’t non-profit organizations just NGOs?
In a few years, people will subconsciously frown when they hear the word NGO.

Not that these are bad.

Rather, it has original sin in itself, and its existence itself is to justify certain behaviors.

And instead of atonement, they are used as tools.

Some people use this channel to break into people's homes and destroy their countries.

The problem is whether you have a bad reputation.

Director Chen worriedly said: "They are gaining momentum. More and more entertainers are joining in, and some big businessmen are also joining in. They are shouting out the slogan 'Refuse to eat shark fins, protect sharks'."

Shen Santong had no choice but to say, "We just don't have to join in." Director Chen said, "A few months ago, the University of California released a documentary called "Shark Ocean," in which shark fins were cut off and meat was discarded. These people are really good at taking advantage of people's kindness."

Shen Santong admitted this: "They are indeed powerful. The slogan 'no buying, no killing' has caused the entire shark industry chain in our country to collapse."

"Then a documentary about finning and discarding the shark meat nailed shark practitioners to the pillar of shame."

"In fact, the domestic utilization rate of sharks is about 97%; in fact, we have never been a shark fishing country, but only a shark processing country; in fact, the sharks used for processing are imported from abroad."

"What's even more ridiculous is that fin cutting and discarding meat is impossible."

"The most valuable part of a shark is not its fins, but its liver."

"Shark livers can be used to extract cod liver oil and squalene, which is a raw material for some biochemical industries."

"It takes three to four thousand shark livers to extract one ton, and the annual consumption is several thousand tons."

"Because of the shark fin incident, the biological industry cannot develop here at all, and we can only purchase from abroad."

Director Chen couldn't help but gasp: "Too cruel! Too cruel!"

Use rhythmic public opinion to destroy an industry.

From low-end processing industries to high-end biological industries, hundreds of thousands of jobs and countless families have been affected.

Some college students majoring in related fields face the embarrassing situation of unemployment as soon as they graduate.

It’s too cruel, it’s really too cruel!

Rest is almost done.

Shen Santong continued filming.

The plot is that two years later, the heroine and her family returned to Dong'ao Island, and she became a doctor.

In the past two years, the media has blamed the deaths of sharks and whales on the University of Tokyo, resulting in the unemployment of related practitioners at the University of Tokyo.

The father and daughter talked about this issue and the father gave his opinion.

Director Chen got into character and said word by word: "We Chinese choose not to eat shark fin because of our kindness, not because of sin!"

“I wouldn’t say those PSAs were wrong because it was a coordinated attack.”

"Using partial truths, they are strangling our shark industry from all directions."

"Morally speaking, they are right. But the whole thing is not something that can be described as one-sided right or wrong."

"The only thing I feel sorry about is that the shark fishing industry has never been reduced because we don't eat shark fins."

"Our kindness has been exploited by shameful people!"

"But I think if we had to do it again, we would still make the same choice, because we are China."

"Hua means beauty in clothing, Xia means greatness in etiquette."

"We must follow the upright path and not engage in intrigues or crooked ways."

After Shen Santong finished reading it, he led the applause: "Good, it passed! Teacher Chen, this paragraph is really wonderful, and it was done in one go."

Director Chen was already immersed in the play. He sighed and said, "I just hope this play can have some effect. We were taken advantage of this time. We can't let ourselves suffer the loss next time."

Shen Santong said solemnly: "It will definitely work. They can deceive people temporarily, but not forever."

In the past life, when self-media emerged, these people’s credit was ruined.

After all, they are just some clowns.

In this process, many people are working hard, except the media.

In later generations, people still wanted to replicate this operation in the transportation of edible oil.

Taking advantage of the students' pursuit of food health, we aim to eliminate local edible oil.

(End of this chapter)