Generation Z Artists

Chapter 44: Starlight Value Soars

Yan Lieshan wrote in an emotional post: “I still insist that Fang Xinghe is the most gifted young literary genius of the current era and our biggest surprise this year.

However, his biggest problem also comes from the four words "young genius" -

His outstanding talent also made him too conceited.

The unfortunate experiences in his childhood made Fang Xinghe attach great importance to his own survival experience, but he did not intend to establish a healthy and sound ideological core in terms of emotion and morality. Therefore, he did not have the patriotic feelings of traditional Chinese literati who were concerned about the country and the people.

I feel very sorry about this, and I love him so much that I blame him so much, and I am so disappointed in him.

Fang Xinghe was too smart, but when his intelligence and immaturity were combined, it brought him a second fatal flaw -

Selfish.

Fang Xinghe, your thoughts, words and actions are so selfish!
You rely on your fighting spirit, have won over a group of thugs, and take pride in blackmailing the weaker ones among your peers. Do you dare to think that you have defeated fate?
How ridiculous!

You might as well think about it carefully. If Fang Xinghe had not carried out the so-called resistance and had gone to school obediently, would he really not have survived?

of course not!

What does the state do? What does the civil affairs department do? What does the school do?

Your predicament has never been a real predicament and is easily solved. Your resistance is not a real resistance either, but just a kind of dark anger born out of extremism.

What kind of irresistible fate is that?

How can it be compared with the flood of tens of millions of people being laid off?

You criticize the media for taking advantage of others, but you stand with your hands on your hips and say a few frivolous nonsense in order to gain fame and advancement. Is that righteous?

Is it a great skill to live well by relying on humiliation, deprivation, violence, deception and bullying?

What exactly did you conquer?
A group of kids who are a head shorter than you?

You said you have no sense of justice, no compassion, and don't care about other people's life or death. Okay, I can understand your indifference and self-isolation after being hurt, and I feel sorry for you.

But you shouldn't abuse your anger again and again. If you really can't see the misery of those laid-off workers and their helpless cries in the cold wind, then shut up!
You cannot feel the pain and grief we media people feel, so you just criticize us as being easy to talk without any concern. How arrogant!

I am really disappointed. You should be our pride, but now I suddenly realize that the more successful you are, the more direct and intense the negative impact you will have on young people.

This really breaks my heart.

I really don't want to see the most promising rising star in the domestic literary world gradually turn into a selfish, cold-blooded dictator. This is not my loss, but a loss for the entire literary and educational community.

How sad! When will our country be able to provide these truly gifted children with a good environment where they can grow freely and make progress with peace of mind?

The fact that Fang Xinghe has become what he is today proves that our education has failed, and such failures are happening again and again.

We can slowly correct the problems in education, but Fang Xinghe, do you know that you are collapsing?

In the future you may still write articles like Fang Xinghe that are full of personal style, unique, distinctive, and filled with strong anger, but you will never be able to write truly good works with a great humanistic core.

You are good at swearing and fighting, and perhaps you will become better and better.

You are no longer worthy of being a writer.

Fang Xinghe, you need to really grow up. Before you understand the hardships and difficulties of being an adult, stop saying those childish nonsense that means nothing. Look more, think more, speak more carefully, and act more carefully. And... That's all I have to say. Take care of yourself."

As soon as the magnificent article came out, the demons and monsters slammed their heads and shouted in joy: What a curse!

Following the preparations made by the friendly forces before, Yan Lieshan successfully deconstructed Fang Xinghe's "halo of destiny" and truly "criticized and refuted" him.

Because the article is so cleverly written and extremely confusing, it's the kind of wonderful writing that would leave even Fang's fans stunned after reading it.

At first glance, it's all plain language, extremely colloquial expressions without any literary grace.

However, the content is based on emotions, one thing after another, and the author places himself in the position of a "kind and honest elder". He points fingers with a high-handed attitude of being disappointed in others, which deeply touches the hearts of middle-aged readers and arouses their empathy and identification.

You know, the middle-aged people of this era are completely different from the new Internet middle-aged people in later generations.

The new middle-aged people grew up in the Internet age and have basically opened their eyes to the world. They have broader minds, stronger critical thinking abilities, and are more tolerant.

However, the middle-aged people today grew up in a special historical context, spending most of their lives in the slow-paced era of paper media. However, when their thinking was being formed, they were suddenly hit by various shocks of the new era.

Therefore, he is old-fashioned and conservative, attaches importance to parental authority, yearns for the moon in the west, and is full of resentment and depression.

This has nothing to do with good or bad character. Comparing the two generations of middle-aged people, this is their overall personality background.

Therefore, the conservative middle-aged people especially cannot stand rebellious teenagers like Fang Xinghe. They neither understand nor intend to understand, but just cast their votes for Yan Lieshan with excitement, accumulating a surge of power.

The smaller fish also spoke up bravely, shouting and charging forward.

"How dare a young boy talk about national affairs?"

"Fang Xinghe is too arrogant and takes himself too seriously. As a mere top scorer in the high school entrance exam, what qualifications does he have to talk about such an obvious policy mistake?"

"You are just a middle school student. Your understanding of society is so shallow that I can't bear to watch you."

"A role model of a person who became stupid due to reading too much, the Fang Zhongyong of the new era."

"He was originally a morally corrupt person. What did you expect? Fang Xinghe even wanted to hurt his own father. His personality is so twisted. Isn't this just revealing a little bit of his true nature?"

The black tide surged like an ink sea. The young Fang fans had no power to resist it. Many little girls were so anxious that they wiped their tears. But what about Fang Xinghe?

Be calm and composed, and laugh it off when a dog is in a hurry.

Teacher Fang, Liu Dashan, the old principal, and even Sister Yali and Aunt Chen, no one understood why Fang Xinghe didn't care about the unrest outside at all. He was being scolded, slandered, and slandered. His reputation was ruined, so how could he remain so calm?

Because that's exactly what he wanted.

In just five days, Starlight Panel completed the KPI of the previous month.

【Fans value: 404w】

【Star value: 5888w】

[Star value: 3]

The number of fans has not increased much, but the star value is skyrocketing!
How many female fans are feeling sorry for the younger brother?

I don’t know, it’s impossible to calculate it, but the leader of the navy made a lot of money anyway.

His grasp of fans' psychology is unparalleled. Events have been developing within the boundaries he has set and finally reached a climax.

As an idol, as long as you do the right thing and say the right words, you don’t have to care about the haters.

Many times, even when idols do something not so right, fans will do their best to whitewash them.

Fans are emotional animals. When they are cute, their sincerity is like crystal, crystal clear, completely pure, and carefully thinking of only you.

When he is hateful, he seems like a combination of a love-brained person, a control freak, and a person with disability, stupid, blind, and unreasonable.

So fans can be pampered, but not spoiled, and they must be disciplined.

This is not a nice word, but being cold and tough towards them is the responsible thing to do to yourself, them and society.

Fang Xinghe is not a moral guardian. He is willing to give fans the greatest respect for their idol identity, that is: not doing evil, not being disqualified, and not being evil.

Exchange their empathy and support by shining all the time, and then... abuse them when necessary, without mercy.

This time, the abuse had an effect.

Judging from the increase in the number of fans and the corresponding increase in star value, the black tide initiated by Nan Fang this time has at least refined for him 200,000 to 300,000 second-level core fans and tens of thousands of die-hard fans.

Moreover, there were no side effects and it was completely free money.

So relaxing.

Fang Xinghe was so relaxed that he couldn't help but sigh: What a desolate and beautiful era...

Starting around 2018, celebrities no longer dared to actively play black and red operations. Fan Bingbing and Yang Mi were the last ones.

The core reason is that every track is crowded with similar competitors. Everyone is competing for traffic, projects, and business. It is a life-and-death competition for resources, and there is no room for error.

Every time a colleague is stepped on, everyone can get an extra piece of meat.

For example, after Qian Ge fell, the new generation of traffic had a good year. Except for Arthur, who didn't get much, everyone else had a lot of money.

Living in such an environment, mutual criticism is inevitable, and anti-criticism must follow.

There are too many choices for fans, and there are walls everywhere. If you don’t maintain your own image well, then you will lose your fans. There is no time for you to slowly enjoy the popularity.

Therefore, normal companies and artists are particularly sensitive to negative news and will deal with it immediately once it appears.

But Fang Xinghe is different. Right now, he is in a wonderful environment where "it seems that there are competitors, but in fact there are not."

Looking around the world, who is his direct competitor?

Han Han?

They are not in the same category at all, at most they can be considered half of it.

Moreover, Haoda Ge had no right to speak on the microphone before "Triple Door" and "Minus One Degree" were released.

Li Erpeng, Lu Yi?
Not really. They both consider themselves actors and don't understand or value managing fans.

Xie Tingfeng, HOT?

I guess most of them do have a lot of overlap with Fang Xinghe in terms of their fan base composition.

However, Mr. Fang has opened up a separate track for himself and taken a differentiated competition route, making him not inferior to anyone at all.

The girl leader with good looks + the wild kid with literature + the rebellious new generation with fashion, how can they lose in the 1.0 version of domestic entertainment with such a violent combination?
There's no way you can lose at all.

So even though his identity as a writer makes it extremely inefficient and slow to digest fans, Fang Xinghe still has plenty of time to convert black fans and ample space to digest those negative voices.

Being hacked is not a bad thing, on the contrary it can help you grow.

Seeing the starlight growing rapidly every moment, Mr. Fang smiled with great joy.

It's enough to coordinate with 5 points, it will be 6 points soon, and 8 points in a few days...comfortable~~~
He was just about to add some coordination, when something suddenly occurred to him——

Judging from the current situation, it will take another three to five days at most to accumulate 8000 million starlight points. Otherwise, why not wait a little longer?
Anyway, these few days won’t make a difference. I can raise the coordination to 92 in one go. How happy would that be?

Fang Xinghe decided to exercise restraint, delay gratification, and pick an auspicious day to reward himself with a big prize. That would definitely feel great.

Turn off the panel, calm down and start reading.

No matter how loud the noise outside is, it has nothing to do with me.

I am just a weak, pitiful, helpless and motivated middle school student. You can scold me as much as you want. I need to learn new ways of doing things.

Under the guidance of a professional named Feng, Wang Yali bought a bunch of very targeted teaching materials for Fang Xinghe.

"Director's Thinking", "Grammar of Film Language", "How to Direct Actors: A Compulsory Course for Directors", "Film Art: Form and Style", "History of World Film"...

The above is a master's work that helps you establish director's thinking and correctly understand the director's profession.

Others are common test question banks.

"15 Lectures on Movie Name Cards", "Industry and Aesthetics of Contemporary Chinese Films", "History of Chinese Television Documentaries"...

Teacher Feng and Wang Yali have collected all relevant books in three major categories: film history, director vocabulary, and film theory, and also included a super reference book "Dictionary of Film Art".

Fang Xinghe was very grateful, so he watched it very carefully.

After Zhao Chunhua left, he spent a full five days going through all the books related to director thinking and finally understood correctly what it means to be a director.

Three basic abilities: performance, playwriting, and audio-visual language.

Four major management qualities: raising money, organizing the event, controlling the situation, and promoting the event.

Two upper-limit talents: aesthetic taste and humanistic core.

Acting is not about acting yourself, but about the ability to perceive a good performance and understand what kind of performance effect the film needs.

Playwriting is not a hard requirement, and the director does not have to write the script. As long as he has the ability to appreciate, can distinguish good from bad and communicate smoothly with the screenwriter, it is enough.

The real basic skill is audio-visual language. You will learn this when you enter the directing department. Composition, color, shot size, camera position, editing, everything is covered in it.

With the three basic abilities, you can make a movie.

Management quality is a very realistic issue. It is not taught in textbooks, but it is really necessary to lack it, especially in the domestic industry atmosphere.

One can still be a director if he has management qualities but no basic skills. Han Er and Guo Si are examples of this.

If you have the basic skills but no management qualities, just go and play around.

Unless you are particularly talented.

Talent directly determines how a director can make a normal script. Whether it is a bad movie, mediocre or a classic, the difference lies in the aesthetics and humanistic core.

The most classic presentation of aesthetic taste is the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games performed by the national master. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is unique in the world, right?

There are many good examples of humanistic core, such as Wen Muwu's Medicine God, Guo Fan's Little Broken Ball, and Wu Jing's Wolf 2. Although their cores are different, they all have a unique temperament that ordinary audiences can also feel.

If Lu Taijun was allowed to film Medicine God, that would be fine. Just imagine the scene yourself.

Anyway, Fang Xinghe got goosebumps.

……

So how do you become a director? The path is clear but difficult.

1. Learn basic skills.

2. Work hard in the industry and hone management skills.

3. Determine your own talents and find your personal path.

4. Creation, growth, peak, decline, and cool down...

Combining what he had seen and heard in his previous life, Fang Xinghe finally understood why so many good directors came from independent backgrounds.

The upper limit is determined by heaven, so there is little point in struggling.

Everyone can learn basic skills, but how well you learn them is not determined by hard work.

In fact, the talent required to be a director is more demanding than that required to be an actor.

Actors can be trained through hard work and practice, but you, the director, are just trying to grind an iron rod!

Right, Director Bi?
Then if you look at Han Er and Guo Si in comparison, you will understand that they are indeed talented.

Haoda Ge's talent lies in his humanistic core. His movies are exactly the same as those in his books, with the kind of confused, sentimental and melancholy literary style. They are shot in a very personal style, and some viewers like this tone very much.

Xiao Si's talent lies in aesthetics. Later on, he was rejected by the film industry and went to shoot idol dramas. The stories and rhythms were still often poor, but he could always shoot the actors beautifully and the composition was often inspired.

And Fang Xinghe...

After realizing that this was another type of job that required talent, Director Fang suddenly felt relieved.

There is no other reason. As a young master, I have accumulated a lot of talents.

[Arts attributes: Writing 79, Acting 35, Directing 1]

The new attribute is clearly there, and with our current star value, we can even increase it to 85 points in one go, so why panic?
Xiao Kai doesn't count. Every bit of star value is earned by my hard work, so why can't it be counted as my efforts~~~
Xiao Kai happily closed the director's book and started reviewing his high school courses while making his final wait.

Wang Tong is about to arrive, and a new interview that will sound the clarion call for counterattack is striding on the way.

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PS: Some of the content in the deleted chapter must be used, so I can only fill it in slowly. Don’t be surprised if you feel familiar...

　This is all I am capable of, my family!

　　An average of 5000+ posts per day. I have tried my best in terms of both content and update volume.

　　I'm a sickly person who has to get immunization shots every month. It's useless even if you kill me...

　　
　
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