Chapter 62: Old-fashioned slap in the face
"Have you also chosen to betray art and plunge into the profit-seeking market?"

"Mr. Xu, what you mean is that the movies you shoot are...art?"

Li Qing interrupted Xu Longbo's chattering. Although he himself was not affected at all, he still spoke up in order to stop him from continuing to tease Chu Qingcheng.

"Why, what are you going to talk about?"

Xu Longbo said this to Li Qing with contempt, not taking him seriously at all.

"But I saw that the ratings for Director Xu's movies online weren't very high."

"There are also many people who point out that it is nonsense, the plot is not coherent at all, and they have no idea what the director is trying to say."

"Does Director Xu have anything to say about this?"

Li Qing said that after hearing that Xu Longbo was the director, he immediately searched the Internet for the news.

It has to be said that the movies directed by Xu Longbo can only be said to have reached their peak at the beginning, but the box office has been getting lower and lower as time goes on.

Some fans are even wondering when he will reach his lowest moment.

It is really Xu Longbo's movie, there is no lowest, only lower.

After watching this movie, movie fans will firmly say that this is the worst movie they have ever seen, and then when Xu Longbo's next movie comes out, they will be slapped in the face.

Turns out, there are worse ones!

I can only say that Xu Longbo is constantly creating new lows for himself, his perseverance is truly commendable!
Li Qingqiang strongly suspected that the reason why Xu Longbo's debut film had the highest score might be because it was not well-known before, so there were few fans who rated it.

This resulted in its highest score, 4.4 points.
Well... as of now, the lowest score for Xu Longbo's works is 2.3 points.

"That's because the audience can't understand the beauty of art, so they are only worthy of watching vulgar works."

Xu Longbo did not show any expression of being attacked, but instead retorted with confidence and firm tone.

Li Qing really wanted to say something about this.

You can fool your brothers with these words, but don’t really fool yourself!
In Li Qing's opinion, Xu Longbo's symptom is that due to his own brainwashing over and over again, even he himself believes this excuse. It's not that he is not capable, but that the audience cannot appreciate it.

Only in this way can Xu Longbo continue to produce new bad movies and enjoy it.

Of course, Li Qing was more concerned about.

Xu Longbo seemed to look down on the audience.
"Is that so? But art that is not recognized by the public is just high-handed, divorced from reality and the masses, and is just an art of personal whining."

“Can it really be called art?”

"Don't tarnish the word 'art', Director Xu."

With precise strike, Li Qing triggered the critical hit effect.

Xu Longbo doesn't care about anything people say about him, except that he cannot accept people saying his work is not "artistic" enough.

To this end, he can even personally go on Weibo to curse with fans, or even hire a large number of internet trolls to give good reviews, or even persevere in sending movies to participate in film and television competitions, hoping to get some recognition.

But, so far.

Apart from the nomination invitation letter sent to him by the official Golden Broom Prize, a competition that selects the worst, most boring and most time-wasting films in history, all other emails fell into the sea and there was no response.

Of course, Xu Longbo would never attend the award ceremony of this competition, even though he actually had several films win "awards".

Yes, Xu Longbo not only received a nomination invitation letter, but also received nomination invitation letters for multiple films.

Some movie fans even joked that the Golden Broom Grand Prize in recent years was the result of infighting among Xu Longbo and Long Ge's movies. No matter who wins or loses, the grand prize always goes to the "Long" family.

As for the consequences——

Xu Longbo not only scolded the Golden Broom Award officials, but also started an online war with fans who played memes, although it often ended with Xu Longbo saying "you don't understand art" and then going offline. "What are you commenting about, you don't understand art!"

"Have you ever been to a university? Have you ever been to Cambridge, England? Do you know the history and development of art?"

"You... don't understand anything!"

Xu Longbo stared at Li Qing viciously and directly defined him as a vulgar person who didn't understand art.

"Indeed, I haven't systematically studied the things you mentioned."

Li Qing remained calm and spoke calmly.

"But from the perspective of a viewer, I can only give two words to describe your work."

"boring."

Xu Longbo was about to say something again, but Chu Qingcheng was already completely annoyed.
She couldn't bear it any longer. Because of family reasons, she didn't want to say anything unpleasant before.

But now, Xu Longbo himself doesn't want to be decent, so Chu Qingcheng can only make him decent!
"Shut up!"

"Xu Longbo! You keep talking about elegant art, but you always judge people by their appearance. Why is it that when the topic you are talking about is art, you always comment on Li Qing's worth?"

Chu Qingcheng stared at Xu Longbo coldly and uttered a few words.

"It is you who associates so-called elegant art with money, aren't you? And everything you have now is just the result of having a good birth."

"How much value do you have? Forget about studying abroad. We all know that it was just because you couldn't make it in China, and the Xu family spent a lot of money to gild you."

"Who would have thought that this gilded journey not only didn't teach you anything, but made you even more arrogant and looked down on others!"

"Besides, do you think I care, you piece of shit!"

Xu Longbo's face turned red and he couldn't speak, but he wasn't done yet.

"Someone in the crew has complained to me more than once about you. You arbitrarily changed the script and lines in the middle of filming, and you endlessly oppressed the employees. You even spent most of the investment on hiring popular stars, thereby lowering the salaries of the employees."

"Phew, more... I don't need to say more."

So cruel...

Li Qing felt that all the previous attacks combined were not as many as Chu Qingcheng's few words now. He could tell from Xu Longbo's expression at the moment.

He had been angrily challenging Li Qing before, but now he was looking at Chu Qingcheng with a dull look.

It’s simple, all the truth has been revealed.

How can this be played?

"Li Qing, let's go."

Chu Qingcheng didn't want to pay any more attention to Xu Longbo, so she grabbed Li Qing's wrist and walked out the door.

This time, Xu Longbo did not try to stop him, and he did not have the face to do so.

Why are you stopping me? Are you going to continue getting scolded?
Li Qing quietly followed Chu Qingcheng and left the "A Little Sweet Afternoon Tea" cafe.

Then Chu Qingcheng stuffed her into the passenger seat, and she herself sat in the driver's seat.

After a while, a car of a different brand from the Rolls-Royce Phantom that was shown off in the morning was started. Chu Qingcheng took Li Qing and drove away without saying a word.

It took a while for Li Qing to react.

No, where is she taking me?

(End of this chapter)