1980 My literary era

A few days later, Yu Hua came to Lin Weimin's place and asked Lin Weimin for his opinion on the novel.

"Want to hear me praise you?" Lin Weimin asked.

Yu Hua smiled sheepishly, and Lin Weimin said at this time: "Your novel is written with a lot of life experience, and it is very natural. At the same time, the appropriate exaggeration of the artistic processing is also in place, not lacking, not exceeding, just right."

At this point, he concluded: "It's very well written. I think it can be included in the Buhu series of books."

Yu Hua looked surprised, "You're not kidding me?"

"What's the point of joking with you? This novel is a good combination of literature and popularity, and it wouldn't be out of place in the Buhuhu series. Recently, some people have reacted, saying that the style of the Buhuo series is too popular. I Reading this novel of yours will set a benchmark.”

Lin Weimin's high praise made Yu Hua overjoyed.

The Buhu Book Series has been launched for more than half a year and is very famous. Almost every work has been enthusiastically sought after by the book market and reader groups, with sales of 200,000 to 300,000 copies every month.

His "To Live" has been published for two years now, and its cumulative sales volume is only more than 400,000 copies, which is not as good as the sales volume of others in two months.

The best-seller of "Alive" in later generations was actually after the film adaptation.

Thinking that Jia Pingwa had earned two million in less than half a year with "The Wasted City", Yu Hua couldn't help but yearn for it.

"By the way, Teacher Lin, Yimou bought the copyright of my "Alive"." Yu Hua said.

"I heard him say it when we were eating for the first time."

"Red Sorghum" took home the Berlin Golden Bear, and "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" took home the Venice Golden Lion. Among the top three in Europe, Zhang Yimou was only one short of the Cannes Palme d'Or.

This year Cheng Kaige won the first Palme d'Or in the history of the Chinese film industry with "Farewell My Concubine". Zhang Yimou didn't say anything about it, but he was holding back his excitement in his heart.

This time he adapted "Alive" in order to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

In fact, Zhang Yimou initially fell in love with another novella by Yu Hua, "The Mistake by the River." However, after reading "To Live", he threw "The Mistake by the River" aside.

"Alive" was adapted by Zhang Yimou, his son was born, and the new novel "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood" was selected into the Buhu Book Series. Yu Hua felt that he seemed to be taken care of by the God of Luck a little too frequently recently, and he couldn't close his mouth.

While eating, Yu Hua talked about the recent situation of Tongwen Society.

Benefiting from the continuous expansion of the popular literature market, Tongwenshe's book circulation has been rising steadily this year. The book circulation in the first half of the year has exceeded 15 million. Even if the inventory of some channels is removed, by the end of the year, it will exceed last year's 2,350. There is no problem with the book sales of 10,000 copies.

In terms of publications, after two years of development, the sales volume of "Heroes of Kyushu" has gradually stabilized at between 4.5 million and 5 million copies. It seems that this should be the sales ceiling of domestic martial arts publications, unless there is another big explosion in the future. work.

The romance literature magazine "Hongdou", which was only launched in late July, has just published three issues. The third issue has just been released, and there is no sign of it yet. The first issue has sold 400,000 copies, and the second issue has sold another one. It’s a big increase, exceeding 600,000 copies, which looks like huge potential.

"However, this year, Tongwen Society cannot compete with the society!" Yu Hua sighed while eating his meal.

Since the beginning of this year, the book distribution of Guowenshe has ushered in a big explosion.

The first is "Spirited Away" published in January of the year. It sold 500,000 copies in one week and exceeded one million copies in half a month. In just eight months, this children's literature has sold more than 8 million copies, and even Even now, the momentum is still strong and sales show no signs of slowing down.

It seems that before the end of the year, this novel will have surpassed 10 million copies, creating a record in history that has never been done before and will probably never be followed again.

The extraordinary achievements of "Spirited Away" not only broke the record of the Chinese Literature Society since its establishment, but also broke the record of the Chinese publishing industry in the history, which can be said to shock the past and the present.

Even Lin Weimin, the original author, could not have expected such wild results after the novel was published.

Selling tens of millions of books per year is a rare event in decades even in a big country like China. But what is amazing is that following "Spirited Away", the Chinese Literature Society published another "Spirited Away". Abandoned Capital".

Although the level of monster has not reached the level of perversion of "Spirited Away", the 3.5 million copies sold in half a year can be said to be unmatched by "Spirited Away". It seems to be another super best-seller with sales exceeding 10 million copies. Book.

But compared with the high sales and high reputation of "Spirited Away", the polarization of the reputation of "Dead City" is too obvious.

These two works alone have created 11.5 million book sales for the Chinese Literature Society in the past six months. Not to mention the sales of the two books combined, even if you take out the sales of any one book, it will be casual. It beats many publishing houses on the market.

The sales of other series of books in the Buhu Book Series are also impressive, with sales of almost every volume ranging from one million to hundreds of thousands.

Among the new books released by Guowenshe this year, there are also books such as "The Last Huns" and "Eight Miles of Love and Enmity" that sold one to two million copies in a single month and sold one million copies in half a year.

Including reprinted and reprinted books over the years, such as Lin Weimin's "Farewell My Concubine". Due to the popularity of the movie, this novel actually sprouted new shoots in the two months after the movie was released, selling 120 Thousands of volumes.

The sales volume is close to 8 million copies. It is estimated that in less than two years, it will become another book among Lin Weimin's works with domestic sales exceeding 10 million.

A rough calculation shows that as of September alone, Guowenshe's book sales this year have reached an exaggerated 26 million copies.

In the past few years, Guowenshe could not achieve this sales volume for a whole year. You must know that there are still more than three months until the end of the year.

If you include the sales of many publications such as "Contemporary", "New Literary Historical Materials", "Literary Story Newspaper", "Chinese Prose", etc., the current total sales volume of Chinese Literature Society's books and periodicals is at least 50 million copies.

Yu Hua lamented the astonishing explosion of the Chinese Literature Society this year, but Lin Weimin was thinking of the conversation he had with Lao Cheng two years ago.

In the building at No. 166 Chaonei Street, there is not only the Chinese Literature Society, but also the People's Society.

We are all brothers in the same system, but since the founding of the society, the Chinese Literature Society has been steadily overshadowed by the big brother, the People's Society.

The annual circulation of books and periodicals of the People's Publishing House exceeds 50 million, and in most years it can even reach 60 million. In the previous years, the circulation of books and periodicals of the National Publishing House was only 35 million.

Lao Cheng is an ambitious leader. After taking office, what he was thinking about was how to kill the People's Society in the same building.

Lin Weimin calculated in his mind that even if he didn't count Tongwen Society's sales, it wouldn't be a big problem to kill the People's Society this year!

This can be regarded as achieving the awesomeness I boasted about, right?

It’s time for Lao Cheng, the president, to step down and give way to someone new!

In the 1990s, there were more National Day holidays than before. In recent years, major scenic spots in Yanjing have been crowded with people at this time.

People are willing to spend money to travel and consume, which proves the effectiveness of economic reforms.

Lin Weimin took his family out to play for two days. He didn't do much at the attractions and just counted people.

The opening date of the first Shanghai International Film Festival was set for October 7. After spending two days with his family, Lin Weimin boarded the plane to Shanghai.

When the plane arrived in Shanghai, people from the film festival organizing committee came to pick it up. They first took Lin Weimin to the preparatory office of the Shanghai Film Festival.

The preparatory office of the film festival is squeezed into two offices in the Shanghai Municipal Government, and the conditions are simple.

The idea of ​​the Shanghai Film Festival was mentioned by director Wu Yigong when he went to Yanjing for a meeting in 1987. At that time, he received the support of Teng Jinxian, the director of the Film Bureau, and the affirmation of his superiors.

However, because the conditions were not sufficient in 1987, Shanghai waited until last year before formally applying to host the Shanghai Film Festival.

In June of the same year, preparations for the film festival were officially launched.

Since the day of preparation, the Shanghai Film Festival has been aiming to become an international Class A film festival. To this end, it has specially applied to the International Producers Association in the hope that it can become a Class A film festival in the first application.

Unfortunately, it was not recognized by the association. Secretary-General Beresson of the association hopes that Shanghai will first accumulate experience in organizing the first session, and then the International Producers Association will evaluate whether it can be recognized as an international Category A film festival.

Therefore, the current Shanghai International Film Festival is not an international Class A film festival.

When Lin Weimin arrived at the film festival preparatory office, there was a busy scene in the crowded and cramped office. The person in charge of receiving Lin Weimin was Jiang Ping, director of the film festival office.

"Teacher Lin, I'm really sorry for you. The opening is approaching and I'm really busy. I should have picked you up in person, but I neglected it!" Jiang Ping shook hands with Lin Weimin and apologized.

"It's okay, my family doesn't need to be so polite."

The Chinese hold their own film festival, and of course all Chinese are members of the same family. Lin Weimin's words made Jiang Ping feel warm in his heart.

Jiang Ping gave Lin Weimin a brief introduction to the current preparations for the film festival.

In terms of hardware, thanks to the support of the Shanghai Municipal Government, the Shanghai Film Festival has set up eight branch venues including Shanghai Cinema, Daguangming Cinema, Hengshan Cinema, Xingguang Cinema, etc. Each branch venue is equipped with There are multiple screening rooms, including as many as five screening rooms in the main venue of Shanghai Cinemas.

The projection equipment of the eight theaters has also been fully upgraded this year, fully meeting the screening needs of the film festival.

In terms of software, Xie Jin is the chairman of the jury, and the judges include Alain Resnais of France, Nagisa Oshima, Oliver Stone of the United States, Paul Cox of Australia, Xu Ke and Lin Weimin of Xiangjiang.

There are a total of seven judges, four of whom are from all over the world. They are well-known in the film circles of various countries and have a high international reputation.

In particular, Alain Resnais, whose status and reputation in the Western film world is no less than that of Godard, was actually invited to serve as a judge for the Shanghai International Film Festival, a new film festival. He is not even the chairman of the jury. This is of course far from the truth. Lin Weimin was not allowed to help.

Also because Alain Resnais appeared on the jury list, the Shanghai International Film Festival gained a lot of attention from the international film community.

Apart from the judges, the most important thing about the film festival is of course the participating films.

After screening, more than 100 films from more than 30 countries or regions were registered for this year's film festival. After selection by the film selection committee, 24 films were finally selected to participate in the awards.

For a new film festival held in a developing country, this number of participating films is quite impressive.

In addition, 22 producers have decided to set up platforms at the film festival. In addition to the 9 major domestic film producers, the remaining 13 producers are from all over the world.

"We have also invited several internationally renowned movie stars such as Italian actress Sophia Loren, American actress Deborah Raffin and bombshell actress Kaoru Momoi to attend..."

Sophia Loren is the heroine of "Cassandra Bridge", Deborah Raffin is the heroine of "Better Love", and Kaoru Momoi is the heroine of "Happy Yellow Handkerchief".

These actresses, with the exception of Sophia Loren, have no international reputation, but they are not big stars. If you really want to say it, they may not be as good as Gong Li.

The Shanghai International Film Festival really doesn't have much cachet when it comes to inviting stars. There's nothing we can do about it. After all, it's a new film festival.