Tokyo Literary Godfather

"Hello everyone, welcome to the Iron Mouth Heroes Club. I am the lovely and knowledgeable Dr. Imai."

"The world is a collection of contradictions. Various conflicts occur between people because of different ideas. So people raise swords and guns, and throw bombs at each other's positions in order to eliminate those who are opposed to themselves. viewpoint. However, contradictory viewpoints can never disappear. Even if the body of the dissident is destroyed, the dissent itself will always exist like a ghost. Violence will only intensify the contradictions but not eliminate them, so the smart wise men came up with the idea The best way to deal with conflicts is debate.”

"In the next hour, our red and white sides will express their opinions on a certain issue to obtain the votes of the fifty jurors. The one with the most votes will be our winner."

"Our topic today is: "Life is Beautiful" is very popular, but the character setting of the heroine in it has triggered discussion. The TV series tells the love between disabled people and ordinary people, and disabled characters are now in pure love It often appears in dramas that the drama studio seems to intend to make disabled people a lovable character in the drama, and this kind of drama has also formed a unique type of drama: disability drama. And "Life is Beautiful" has been the most popular drama in recent years. It is the disability drama with the highest rate and the most widespread topic. Do you think such drama will help disabled people improve their social status? Or will it just consume the disabled group, create spectacles through disabled people, and attract ordinary audiences? Does this lack of respect for the disabled community?"

"Okay, after listening to the topic clearly, please choose your red and white camp."

This is a long-established debate program on NHK. It refers to the Kohaku Utakai and divides the debate sides into red and white camps. However, it is not divided by gender like the Kohaku Utakai. Instead, you can freely choose the pros and cons according to your own ideas. .

There are five people in a camp and there will be heated debates. After the debate, the fifty jurors sitting in the audience will give their support for the camp, and the votes will be tallied to declare the winner.

This program has been broadcast on NHK for four or five years. It is considered a veteran program and has always had a good audience base. However, the show has recently been rescheduled and adjusted to 9pm on Thursday, because its original broadcast time was on the 9th...

Just in the first half of the year, under the repeated bombardment of "Homeless Child", "Housekeeper Mita", and "Hansawa Naoki", the producer of the program almost became autistic. Later, the program was suspended for two episodes, the host was changed and the broadcast time was urgently changed.

Dr. Imai was originally a guest host on a late-night program on Tojima TV. Because of his humorous words and rich knowledge, he was loved by the audience, so he was invited by NHK to serve as the host of the Iron Mouth Heroes Club. .

Dr. Imai also likes this program very much because when he was in college, he participated in the school's debate club. However, he is here as the host today and cannot express his opinions at will. Instead, he must try to remain neutral.

Soon, the ten participating guests chose the red and white camps. The red camp believed that disability dramas were indifferent and humiliating to the disabled community, while the white camp opposed this view, and the debate officially began.

"If I was injured, the first thing I would do is cover my wound with a bandage, rather than stand in the middle of a crowd and let everyone stare at my wound."

The red party put forward this view. They believe that the main creative intention of disability dramas is to magnify the disability characteristics of disabled characters to the audience, and to express the vulnerability of their characters through their disabilities.

"People are more likely to be interested in white crows than black crows. People are more likely to be interested in roosters than hens that lay eggs. Disability dramas take advantage of people's curiosity and treat people with disabilities as Animals in zoo cages are a sight to behold.”

Bai Fang said: "But this phenomenon was also criticized in "Life is Beautiful". The initial conflict between the male and female protagonists in the play was due to this reason. The male protagonist took the female protagonist to shoot for the magazine because of the female protagonist's status as a disabled person. The male protagonist thinks it can increase his chances of winning..."

"They are ridiculing this approach while actually doing it." Red Fang retorted.

On the stage, the red and white sides exchanged words with each other, while Fujiwara Kei was sitting in the audience, holding his chin and listening carefully to the speeches of both sides.

The theme of this episode of "Tiezui Heroes Club" was actually suggested by Fujiwara Kei to the producer. The producer of "Ironzui Heroes Club" is also a well-known producer in the industry and has handled many very famous domestic news and variety shows.

A few days ago, Kei Fujiwara brought actors to NHK to participate in a talk show, and he happened to have dinner with the producer, during which they talked about "The Iron Mouth Heroes Club". The producers may have premeditated it, or they may have had an idea and asked Keikata Fujiwara if it would be inconvenient for them to turn the topic related to "Life is Beautiful" into a debate question?

But since it is a debate topic, it will be more or less critical and aggressive... Ask Fujiwara Kei if you mind.

Kei Fujiwara said that there is no problem. Firstly, no matter what the subject of the program is, there will always be controversy. When Kei Fujiwara was filming "Naoki Hansawa", someone sent a letter to the TV station asking to stop broadcasting "Naoki Hansawa". I feel that "Naoki Hansawa" is encouraging the rebellious spirit of young people and intends to subvert the fine traditions of Japanese society. Some people think that "Naoki Hansawa" is whitewashing the rotten banking system. There are no good people in the bank, and bank employees should be a bunch of damned guys. Naoki Hansawa's righteous image is incompatible with bank employees.

If you are so afraid of controversy, it would be better not to do programs at all and quit the broadcast industry.

After the debate topic was finally determined, the producer also invited Kei Fujiwara to be a special guest on that day's program. He didn't need to go on stage, just sit in the audience, and he would be scanned for a few shots after the broadcast.

The debate lasted for more than 40 minutes. At the end, a woman from the white side spoke: "I hope the red side will answer my question. Don't disabled people deserve to be the protagonist of a story?"

"Of course that's not what I mean. It's just that it's hard to avoid using disabled people as a gimmick to create a spectacle."

"So, in order to prevent people from mistakenly thinking that people with disabilities are using them as a gimmick, we should ban disabled people from being protagonists?"

There was a moment of silence on the red side.

The white side seized this opportunity of silence and quickly launched a counterattack: "In our discussion just now, we reached a consensus, that is, the disabled people are afraid of being treated differently, right? So the red side believes that as long as the disabled people When they appear in the audience's field of vision, the audience will inevitably stare at their stumps, which is very cruel to the disabled community. Therefore, when you encounter disabled people in the future, in order to avoid being disrespectful, you should cover your eyes or turn your head away. Isn’t this a more cruel form of differential treatment? Does the way you talk about respecting disabled people mean expelling disabled people from the world of ordinary people?”

"Falacies! Sophistry! Slippery slope fallacy!" the red side protested.

"My mother is disabled, and I understand what disabled people think and think better than you!"

"Ding ding ding!" Dr. Imai suddenly shook the copper bell in front of him and said: "You cannot use your special status to put pressure on your opponents. This is a warning from the White camp."

The white debater who accidentally said something wrong quickly apologized to his teammates.

Soon, the debate between the two sides ended, and the voting process began. The voting process was relatively primitive. Each audience member had a note in his hand with a red and white circle drawn on it. Which side's point of view he agreed with, he would use a pen. Draw a circle on which color.

Kei Fujiwara chose the party he thought made a good statement, and then put the note into the ballot box.

In the end, the result of the debate was that White won.

After the show, Kei Fujiwara was guided backstage by the staff. The producer stretched out his hand to shake Kei Fujiwara's hand, "How was it, Mr. Fujiwara, how was our show?"

"It was very interesting. I kept my full attention for the whole hour and a half. I will definitely support it again when it is officially broadcast."

"Haha, that's really an award. In terms of program production, I still need to ask Mr. Fujiwara for more advice."

"My field is mainly TV dramas and variety shows, and you are still an expert."

"That's too modest, that's too modest. The "Anthropological Observation" you planned and produced is a very good variety show!"

The two of them complimented each other and chatted for a long time, when Fujiwara Kei suddenly said: "By the way, Kameda-san, have you thought about the debate topic for the next episode?"

Producer Kameda blinked and looked at Kei Fujiwara, "There is a plan, but the filming has not officially started yet. Does Mr. Fujiwara have any good suggestions?"

"I can't talk about suggestions. There is a topic that I wonder if you are interested in?"