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Mr. Lu Xun has had an indissoluble bond with movies throughout his life. For most of his life, Mr. Lu Xun went to the theater a lot. He watched movies in an eclectic way and was particularly particular about the taste of movies. Lu Xun at that time admired progressive foreign movies. He has a special liking for the early revolutionary films of the former Soviet Union, such as "Cha Boyang" and "A Revenge" ("Dubrovsky"). Xu Guangping once recalled: "As for the Soviet films, Lu Xun would not miss any of them. We would go to any theater regardless of distance, focusing on the films." Although it was difficult to see these films at the time, Mr. Lu Xun still tried his best I watched 10 movies. Just 10 days before his death, Lu Xun also watched "A Revenge" adapted from Pushkin's novel. Lu Xun regarded it as "the greatest comfort, deepest love, and most memorable film" and recommended it to his friends. "You must see it".

He accepts and appreciates American movies with a "borrowing" attitude. In the 1920s and 1930s, American films spread to theaters around the world and were full of colorful American cultural characteristics. Although Mr. Lu Xun sometimes showed dissatisfaction and anger about the American films introduced to China, they more often served as an important way for him to examine American culture and as cultural entertainment. According to statistics, Lu Xun watched 142 films in the 10 years from 1927 to 1936, including 121 American films. He made fair evaluations of Hollywood adventure films, comedies, detective films, and musicals, and especially gave warm praise to Chaplin's first talkie film "City Lights." What he has watched the most are adventure films shot on the spot by the American Documentary School. There are as many as 37 films, such as "Antarctic Adventure", "Wonderful Spectacles of Man and Beast", etc. Some of them have been watched more than once.

Lu Xun enthusiastically supported China's "left-wing" film industry. In "Quasi Feng Yue Tan·Postscript" and "Ghosts in the Chinese Literary Circle", he fearlessly denounced the fascist methods used by the agents of the Blue Clothes Society The criminal act of destroying Yihua Film Company and banning early progressive films written by Tian Han, Xia Yan and others. Especially in response to the suicide of the early progressive actor Ruan Lingyu and the death of Ai Xia, a member of the "Left-Wing Drama Alliance", Lu Xun wrote an outraged essay "On the Fear of Human Words". Lu Xun also had little interest in some bad domestic films of the time. Regarding boring movies, Lu Xun once warned: "Chinese movies today are still very much influenced by the 'talented man plus gangster' style... After watching it, it makes people feel that if you want to be a hero or a good person, you must also be a gangster."

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