1980 My literary era

Although everyone's income in this era is generally not high, and even meat may not be available for every meal, in a capital as big as Yanjing City, there are always many people who eat mutton.

From late autumn to early spring, for nearly half a year, Dong Laishun's business has always been booming, and sometimes you even have to queue up.

Catching up with the weekend, Donglaishun's business is still very good tonight, and there is a lot of people.

Lin Weimin and his group were a group of men at the table, chatting while eating, and the atmosphere was particularly lively.

Zhao Baogang, Li Chengru and Zhuang Zhuang were classmates in the 80-level Yanying amateur acting class. Compared with Han Zhuangzhuang, who has now become a leading actor in movies, their situation is not very good.

Zhao Baogang only joined the Yanjing TV Studio in 1984. No, it is now called the Yanjing TV Art Center. He entered the Television Art Center to become an actor. Unfortunately, the TV series produced by the center in the past two years were very limited, almost only one a year. Therefore, Zhao Baogang only played two roles in three years, and he was not the protagonist.

The rest of the time, he basically helped with odd jobs on the set.

Seeing Lin Weimin, Zhao Baogang naturally thought of his classmate Han Zhuangzhuang. They had only met two or three times in the six years since graduation, but every time they met, Han Zhuangzhuang's growth made him envious.

After graduation, I returned to my original employer and joined Renyi. Not long after, she performed on the Spring Festival Gala and attracted nationwide attention. In 1984, he was finally transferred to the center, where he was already cast as the second male lead in a popular drama. Last year, he heard that Han Zhuangzhuang had been cast as the lead male lead in a movie.

Thinking of this, Zhao Baogang couldn't help but glance at Lin Weimin in the crowd. Whether he spoke or not, he was the focus of everyone's attention.

Han Zhuangzhuang was a quiet person when he was in school. He entered the arts right after graduation and has been prospering ever since. He has a good uncle!

Feeling bitter in his heart, Zhao Baogang had a drink with Li Chengru on the side.

Li Chengru and Zhao Baogang had similar experiences.

After graduating from Yanying University, he worked for two or three years and accidentally joined the crew of "Journey to the West". From a temporary job to a set manager to a producer, he overcame all difficulties along the way.

But as the filming of "Journey to the West" ended, Li Chengru had nowhere to go. After all, he was a temporary worker at CCTV.

In the past year, Li Chengru has been working as a stall owner on the streets of Yanjing, and has done worse than Zhao Baogang.

Of course, this misery refers to work. In fact, Li Chengru earns quite a lot.

These days, it is not difficult for anyone who has the courage to do business in the sea to get the first pot of gold. The difficulty lies in subsequent development.

Master Shuo is a negative example.

When the two troubled brothers felt sorry for themselves, Lin Weimin was talking to Haiyan through Zheng Xiaolong.

In 1984, Haiyan suppressed the story at home for more than a year and came up with "Plainclothes Police".

I went to the Chinese Literature Society to submit an article and was picked up by Lin Weimin.

Later, "Plain Clothes Police" was compiled into a book series by "Contemporary" and received a good response. Later, it was recommended to Zheng Xiaolong by Lin Weimin and made into a TV series, with good results.

However, in more than two years since the publication of "Undercover Police", Haiyan has not released a new work.

He is a policeman by profession, and writing novels was originally a spur-of-the-moment interest. The success of his first novel not only earned him a lot of fame and royalties, but also brought him a lot of pressure.

He himself has not conducted systematic writing study or training. Because of his previous success, he was inevitably restrained when creating. As a result, his creation has not been smooth in the past two years, even though Lin Weimin showed him the way and allowed him to work professionally. The content was the starting point, and he didn't write anything decent.

So now Haiyan is very distressed. He came to the party today because he was called out by Zheng Xiaolong. He didn't want to come at first, but he came over when he heard that Teacher Lin was also coming.

He chatted with Lin Weimin for a long time, pouring out all the anguish in his heart. Lin Weimin felt helpless after hearing this. Haiyan obviously had a mental problem.

“You still have to maintain a good attitude and don’t think too much about whether it can be published or the effect of publishing it. The more you think like this now, the more afraid you will be of writing.

Your talent in writing is undoubted, so don't always doubt yourself.

I think you should just set a goal for yourself. Don’t think about publishing anything for the next two years, just write.

After you have finished writing, take it out and look back at it after a while. You can easily find the shortcomings and then make corrections. "

Lin Weimin comforted Haiyan and gave him an idea at the same time. This method was actually not very clever. To put it bluntly, it was to rely on time to change the problems of impatience and ego.

But the effect is really good. Lin Weimin’s classmate Jia Dashan at the Institute of Literature likes to use this method.

Haiyan nodded in a learned manner and said, "I'll try it later."

While the two were chatting, Zheng Xiaolong, Ma Dudu, Wang Shuo, and Feng Xiaogang were chatting enthusiastically.

The Yanjing Television Art Center filmed "Four Generations Under One Roof" in 1984, "Plain Clothes Police" in 1985, and "Triumph at Midnight" in 1986, which was last year. This TV series was a political mission and was completed and aired last year. After it was released, the response was mediocre, which made Zheng Xiaolong very frustrated.

You must know that for the production of "Triumph at Midnight", the staff stayed in the mountains and jungles of the southwestern region of the motherland for half a year.

With the strength of the center, it is just enough to produce one TV series a year. Last year's "Triumph at Midnight" had little response. If this year's work is not done well, then he, the director, will be a little bit unable to step down.

Several people were talking about TV dramas, and naturally they mentioned the "Biography of a Female Doctor" directed by Lin Weimin.

Compared with Teacher Lin’s structure and methods, making TV series at the Television Arts Center is like playing house.

"The Legend of a Female Doctor" is a joint investment and production produced by Mr. Lin through the cooperation between CCTV and Xiangjiang TVB. The investment is tens of millions. The number of episodes produced alone is 60, more than 2,400 minutes. Zheng Xiaolong and his center have produced TV series in the past few years. All together, it is just half of this TV series, not to mention the effect and impact this TV series has had after it was broadcast.

There is no concept of ratings these days, but the love of the common people cannot be faked. Zheng Xiaolong and others remember that when the TV series was broadcast, relatives, friends, and colleagues around them, as long as they had TVs at home, they would broadcast it to the central government every night There is a TV station, and everyone stays by the TV on time.

During that time, everyone almost stopped all social and entertainment activities in the evening.

Watching "The Biography of a Female Doctor" is the best entertainment and spiritual life for everyone.

In September last year, Zheng Xiaolong also read the latest issue of "Popular Cinema" which mentioned that the box office of the movie "The Legend of a Female Doctor" in the month it was aired was cut by more than half, to less than 40%.

Today's movie box office statistics are very incomplete. The data in "Popular Movies" only counts major movie theaters in major cities such as Yanjing, Shanghai, and Yangcheng.

But even this is already a very scary phenomenon.

In future generations, do you dare to imagine that the summer movie box office was cut by 40% because of the release of a TV series?

During that time, when I opened the newspapers, I could see news about "The Biography of a Female Doctor" almost every day, including previews, analyses, comments, and reflections.

After the TV series ended in July, TV stations across the country introduced the TV series one after another. Now, more than half a year later, there are still many rebroadcasts on local TV stations.

This TV series not only made the protagonists in it household names, but also made the traditional Chinese medicine promoted in the TV series become popular in the eyes of ordinary people.

After so many years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the state's support for traditional Chinese medicine has not been small.

However, traditional Chinese medicine is limited by its own learning methods and treatment methods. It is difficult to promote it on a large scale in a short period of time like Western medicine. It is an indisputable fact that it has gradually declined over the years.

With the broadcast of "The Biography of a Female Doctor", people's recognition of traditional Chinese medicine seems to have increased to a higher level overnight.

In later generations, it would be hard to imagine such a situation, but in the 1980s, people would buy Jianlibao, a little-known beverage, into a national brand with annual sales of hundreds of millions because of a televised scene. Such a situation was really common. .

In addition to these, Zheng Xiaolong also heard that the TV series "The Legend of a Female Doctor" will soon be exported to other socialist brother countries.

This is not only to generate foreign exchange for the country, but also to expand the cultural influence of the entire country in the world.

The domestic TV drama industry has always been weak, and there has never been a record of TV dramas being exported. "The Legend of a Female Doctor" should be the first.

Zheng Xiaolong specifically asked Lin Weimin for confirmation, and Lin Weimin nodded, "I went to CCTV before the Chinese New Year. Wang Tai did mention this matter, but I didn't care too much."

"I heard that it will be exported to North Korea, Bulgaria, Mongolia, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, and many other countries!" Feng Xiaogang knew all about it.

Wang Shuo asked: "How do you remember it so clearly?"

Feng Xiaogang smiled proudly, showing his two front teeth, "You may not remember other people's things, but you can't remember Teacher Lin's things."

Wang Shuo glanced at Feng Xiaogang with contempt, what a flatterer!

Zheng Xiaolong sighed: "If our center can produce a TV series like "The Legend of a Female Doctor" sometime, it would be awesome!"

Feng Xiaogang poured him a glass of wine and said with a smile: "That can't be called awesome, it has to be called satellite launch."

Lin Weimin said with a smile: "What's so difficult about this? Just take pictures if you want!"

"Teacher Lin, do you think anyone has your talent?" Zheng Xiaolong said with a bitter smile.

Lin Weimin looked at the table and pointed at Wang Shuo and Haiyan, "One person is not enough, just two people. It's really not enough for three people. Three cobblers can stand up to Zhuge Liang.

Isn't Shuozi writing a script? It just so happens that this is an opportunity for practice, and Haiyan has also written scripts for your center before. Let the two of them take the lead and you all brainstorm to come up with a better script. How difficult is it? "

After Lin Weimin finished speaking, Zheng Xiaolong looked at Wang Shuo and Haiyan. It seemed like he could give this method a try.

Wang Shuo immediately waved his hand and said: "How can I have time to write that stuff? The script of "The Naughty Lord" has not been finished yet!"

"You just lack practice. How long does it take to write a movie script? Just write more. Doesn't this give you a chance to practice!"

"No, no, I don't even have an idea, what should I write?" Wang Shuo waved his hands repeatedly.

Haiyan also looked confused. Teacher Lin was taking these people as himself, and he really couldn't do this.

Lin Weimin looked at Wang Shuo's attitude and said in a frivolous tone: "Shuozi, can you do it?"

Hey, I have such a bad temper!

But Wang Shuo thought about it and decided to forget it. He really couldn't do it.

Lin Weimin shook his head, with a look of disappointment on his child's face, which made Wang Shuo even more depressed.

At this time, I heard Lin Weimin say: "Let's do this, I'll give you an idea!"