《老炮兒》片方迴應吸菸鏡頭多:電影還原市井生活

A producer of the popular film Mr Six, or Lao Pao'er, on Saturday responded to the Beijing Tobacco Control Association's accusations that the film contains an excessive number of smoking scenes by claiming that the film simply aims to realistically reflect the life of local residents during the period in which it is set.

最近非常火爆的電影《老炮兒》的製片人，在週六迴應了北京控煙協會控訴電影出現過多吸菸鏡頭的問題。製片方表示，電影只是在真實反映在拍攝的那個時期當地人的生活。

In an open letter sent to the Global Times on Thursday, the association strongly criticized the film for containing an excess of shots showing smoking, which the association claimed ignores the regulations making all indoor public spaces, workplaces and public transport vehicles in Beijing smoke-free.

星期四，在一封致環球時報的公開信中，該協會嚴厲批評了電影《老炮兒》裏出現了過多的吸菸鏡頭。因爲該協會認爲這些鏡頭忽視了北京禁菸令對在公共室內場合、工作區和公共交通裏的禁菸規定。

"The 138-minute film is full of scenes depicting the lighting and passing of cigarettes and smoking ... It seems that everyone in the film can smoke, which goes against reality and is unnecessary. They smoke unscrupulously and illegally in public places," read the letter.

在信中寫道，“在一部138分鐘的電影裏充斥着描述點火，遞煙和吸菸的鏡頭。好像整部電影裏每個人都在吸菸，這與現實不符也沒有必要。他們在公共場合抽菸是不道德且違法的。”

The association demanded that the film's producer apologize to Beijing residents, add a notice saying smoking is harmful to one's health and smoking is banned in public places before playing the film, and organize a public service activity advocating against tobacco use.

該協會要求電影製片方向北京市民道歉，要求在影片放映前加上吸菸有害健康和公共場合不允許吸菸的告示，並組織了一個公共服務活動反對吸菸。

A senior associate of production studio H. Brothers told news site on Saturday that the film did not encourage people to smoke, but aimed to artistically recreate residents' real life.

電影製片方華誼影業的一位高級經理在週六告訴新聞網站央廣網，該電影並沒有在鼓勵人們吸菸，他們只是在用藝術的方式再現居民的真實生活。

The anti-tobacco ban had not yet been released in the era in which the film is set, and smoking was very common for local residents during that time, said the employee.

該經理表示，禁菸令在電影設定的時代裏還沒有公佈，而對於那個時代的當地人來說，吸菸是非常普遍的。

As China has no film classification system to help filmmakers understand what kind of content they can include in their works, the association's appeal is understandable, the employee said, adding that certain tobacco-related restrictions should be imposed on the film industry.

由於中國沒有電影分級政策來幫助製片方選擇他們不應在電影裏包含的內容，所以控煙協會的要求是可以理解的。這位經理隨後補充道，電影行業應該實施相關禁菸條例。

"The association's protest is understandable, and great importance should be attached to it. However, excessive interference by the association would have an adverse effect on the prosperity of cultural creation," Chen Qiuping, head of the scriptwriter branch of the Beijing Film Association, told the Global Times.

北京電影家協會編劇分會祕書長陳秋平告訴《環球時報》，“控煙協會的抗議是可以理解的，並且有很重大的意義。但是協會過多的干涉，會給文化創新的繁榮帶來反作用。”