文化部电影局局长石方禹同志最近在《上影画报》今年第七期上撰文说,影片应当讲娱乐性。他说,我在一个会议上为影片的娱乐性呼喊几句,有人便担心今后会没有人去注意影片的教育性,或会少去注意教育性了,把娱乐性和教育性对立起来,以为娱乐性和教育性二者必定相克,这是不正确的。我们主张多一点娱乐性,并没有主张少一点教育性,更没有说不要教育性。相当一段时间以来,我们许多人一说电影,就是“教育工具”、“宣传工具”,却不说它是“娱乐工具”,对影片只要求教育作用、宣传作用,却很少要求娱乐作用。影响所及至今还有不少影片枯燥乏味、空洞说教,既不卖座,也无人叫好。这类影片,虽思想正确,却未必起到“宣传工具”及“教育工具”的作用,因为它们首 Comrade Shi Fangyu, director of the Ministry of Culture Film Office recently wrote an article in the seventh issue of the Shanghai Photovoltaic Film Press that the film should be entertaining. He said that when I was crying out for entertainment at a conference for a while, some people worried that no one would pay attention to the educational nature of the film in the future, or pay less attention to the educational aspect, entertaining and educational opposition, thinking Both entertaining and educational must be overcome, which is not correct. We advocate a little more entertaining, and do not advocate less educative, let alone not educate. For quite some time, many of us said that films are “educational tools” and “propaganda tools,” but we do not say that they are “entertainment tools.” We only require education and publicity for the films but seldom require entertainment. So far there are still many films affected dull, empty preaching, neither the blockbusters, but no one applauded. Such films, though ideologically correct, may not necessarily serve as “propaganda tools” and “educational tools” because they