Girardine's words occupied the front pages of all media around the world the next day.
It is difficult to describe in words the impact that Champagne Salon brought to the moviegoers. Before the film was over, neat slogans rang out from the open-air screening venue outside the auditorium. Long live Lanfang and long live the Foreign Legion were the two words that appeared most frequently.
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It was already close to ten o'clock in the evening after the screening, and half an hour later, the crowd still refused to disperse, so the screening team had to re-screen Champagne Salon to satisfy people's high emotions.
This situation will definitely continue to be released in the future, even if it is only one movie, but no matter how many times I watch it over and over, I just can’t get enough of it.
Classics are born from countless repetitions like this.
At the same time that the Champagne Salon began to be shown in Lanfang, thousands of copies had been distributed to major cities such as New York, London, Paris and even Berlin. Since it was to promote the country's image, Qin Zhiyuan did not impose any restrictions on the cost.
Surprisingly, some scenes in the Champagne Salon have not been deleted, and even in the UK and France, the same version as Lanfang was shown.
The reason is very simple. As a new thing, there is no content about movies in the existing legal system of Western society. In other words, the film industry in the 1920s was an out-and-out gray industry.
A gray industry without any restrictions.
But whether it is a gray industry or not, the influence of Champagne Chalon is undoubted. In just ten days, the whole world knew that there was such a foreign legion in the Champagne Chalon region of France at the beginning of last year.
Sixteen thousand people fought against an enemy that was ten times their number, until only 370 people were left. Although they did not win, their spirit was commendable, and their fighting will was commendable.
With the popularity of the film, those faces with more shots in the film have gradually become the focus of discussion, especially those blond nurses. They have become angels in the minds of many men. Many people like them even more than
Love Gladys Cooper.
Gladys Cooper was the greatest actress of the silent film era and one of the most famous Britons in the world at the beginning of the 20th century.
It's a pity that those star-chasing men are destined to be disappointed. Most of the faces who appeared in the movie Champagne-Challon were killed in the Battle of Champagne-Challon.
With the promotion of many caring people, in less than half a month, the Foreign Legion has become the benchmark for true soldiers. Joining the Foreign Legion has become a symbol of manliness. The name Lanfang has been mentioned again and again. In this half month, almost
The news from all the countries in the world combined is less than half that of Lanfang.
Well, except for Lanfang, all countries have no concept of national image. Even the United Kingdom and France are the same. They don’t want to shape their national image and they have no way to start.
Think about it, Britain and France still control the largest colonies in the world. Even if the British and French want to create a positive image, where can they start?
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Stop being ridiculous. If you talk about justice and fairness, how can the British and French explain their colonies?
Therefore, the rules set by the Western powers are natural selection and survival of the fittest. Those who fall behind will be beaten. This is the power and hegemony of Hongguoguo.
Only in such a system will the aggressive behavior of the Western powers become legal, and will the Western powers enjoy everything they robbed with peace of mind, and will they be so afraid of those latecomers who keep talking about justice.
Well, if those who insist on justice have enough voice, will they settle accounts with the former Western powers?
Ah, that's all a long story. For now, the movie Chalon Champagne satisfies the needs of most countries.
It goes without saying what Lan Fang can gain from it. Although the French are slandered in the film, France also gains something. After all, the Foreign Legion belongs to France. Promoting the Foreign Legion is equivalent to promoting France and the World War.
After that, France's population dropped sharply, and it was a time of drought. Even the necessary national defense forces could not be maintained. The French needed to expand the size of the Foreign Legion to ensure France's security.
The villain in the film is Germany, but in Germany, the film "Champagne Chalon" miraculously was not boycotted. Instead, due to the promotion of some anti-war people, the film also caused a sensation in Germany, showing the cruelty and tragedy of the war.
It left German people with lingering fears, and reflection on the war once again became the mainstream thought in German society.
At the end of the film, Girardine's appearance triggered the proliferation of motherhood in the entire German society. Girardine, who was wearing a small Foreign Legion Army uniform on the screen, ended the entire movie with a cold tone. When the German version
After it was released in Germany, almost all Germans were asking, is it true that the little girl said she was German? What is her name, where is she, and is she okay?
So the photo of Qin Zhiyuan holding Girardine with his back to the camera from a few years ago was found again. The dirty Girardine in the photo looked malnourished. Look at Girardine on the screen again.
, her coldness is almost arrogant, decisiveness is almost decisive, and her temperament of iron and blood is transmitted through the screen to the eyes of every German.
How long has it been since the death of the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck that the Germans have not felt the iron and blood?
So on the third day after Champagne Chalon was released in Germany, some people began to make petitions in front of the palace of William III, asking William III to do something to bring the German daughter back from Lanfang.
William III knew about the relationship between Geraldine and Qin Zhiyuan. Regarding this, William III knew very well that it was absolutely impossible for Geraldine to leave Qin Zhiyuan.
But these things certainly cannot be said clearly, so William III explained in a more euphemistic way: In the current Germany, even if Geraldine is brought back, Geraldine cannot be as free and unrestrained as living in Lanfang.
, Germany cannot provide Girardin with the same favorable environment as Lanfang, so if you want to take Girardin back, you must first build Germany up.
At least it should be as good as before the war.
Relatively speaking, in the United States, Champagne Chalon is more widely accepted.
In fact, there are many Chinese in American society. Since about 1850, Chinese have set foot on the land of the United States. During the subsequent gold rush in San Francisco, California, more Chinese came to the United States.
It was from this time that coolie began to become synonymous with the Chinese. This word is actually a unique word in American history. It is the Chinese pinyin of coolie, which is not correct. It is spelled almost the same as the Chinese pinyin of coolie. These come from the Qing Dynasty.
Chinese laborers in the empire were called coolies, and even in official documents, these people were called coolies.
After the gold rush was almost over, the United States began to build a large railway across the east and west of the United States. At this time, more coolies appeared in the United States.
Among the two companies building this railway, the owner of one of them was named Stanford. He later founded a university called Stanford University in Silicon Valley, California.
Well, now I guess many people have understood how Americans’ primitive accumulation of capital was accomplished.
After the railway was built, the California government began to gradually establish laws restricting Chinese people. It was not until 1882 that the Chinese Exclusion Act was officially born.
After the World War, with the outstanding performance of the Foreign Legion, Americans finally began to take the Chinese Exclusion Act seriously. Last year, some members of Congress formally proposed to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act. The U.S. Congress has debated this proposal several times, but it has always been unresolved.
No consensus was reached.
Well, if you want to wait for the U.S. Congress to reach a consensus, it would be better to wait for all the members of this session of Congress to die of natural causes.
The focus of the debate is not limited to whether to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act. Some members of the U.S. Congress even proposed that the Chinese Exclusion Act not only cannot be repealed, but should be applied to the entire Asia to restrict immigration from the Philippines.
Immigration from the Philippines, well, that's a new question.
After Champagne Salon was released in the United States, it aroused even more enthusiastic responses. The main theater of the Metropolitan Theater in New York even scheduled the movie for 180 consecutive shifts. In other words, the nearly two-hour movie has been played continuously 24 hours a day.
It was shown for half a month, if there are box office statistics
Gee, I guess it will set a record.
The Champagne Salon completely overturned the American impression of the Chinese.
In the American impression, the Chinese are rude, unhygienic, have no faith, are unwilling to actively integrate into society, etc. In short, the Chinese are a very different kind of existence in the United States.
But the Chinese in the Champagne Salon are completely different from the Chinese in the American impression. The Chinese on the screen are sincere, enthusiastic, brave, fearless, willing to die, etc., etc. You can use all the complimentary words to describe them, but they will not let you down.
People feel too much.
Compared with the innocent American soldiers, the Chinese soldiers would also smile cheerfully at the camera. They would also pray on the eve of the war. The relics they left to their relatives were four large boxes filled with crosses alone.
Half a carriage.
Compared with the American soldiers who panic when encountering difficulties, the Chinese soldiers are more tenacious. They usually rush forward one after another without saying a word and fight to the death with the enemy. One scene in the film describes this very fully, that is
At a machine gun post, the Germans, who had the superior firepower, seemed to be trying to lure the Chinese shooters to their deaths. The Germans destroyed almost all the machine gun positions on the position, leaving only that one.
It is almost certain that a sniper is targeting this machine gun position, which is a sure-fire place.
But the shooters were not afraid. After the main shooter died, the auxiliary shooter took over, then the second auxiliary shooter, and then the ammunition hand. Finally, when the Germans rushed up, the person manipulating the heavy machine gun was a young reporter.
The reporter was surrounded by the corpses of his companions, and outside the position, the corpses of German soldiers stretched from the machine gun position to the riverside.
