Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 450 Dream Linkage
The Magnolia Awards had just ended two days ago. Yu Dong originally thought about going, but after weighing it up, he asked Yu Yu to find someone to represent him.

Although Yu Dong has more contact with the film and television industry, his focus is still on the literary circle and the school.To be more realistic, he didn't even set up a screenwriter award, so why would he join in the fun.

Zhao Baogang and the others did go, but they didn't win the award. The best TV series was Neon's "Koi Fish", the best director and best actor were both taken by "Like Spring", and the best actress went to France Katrin Jacob.

Generally speaking, Magnolia still wants to take the international route, and "Don't Talk to Strangers" is not flattering under their current set of award criteria, and it is not surprising that Yu Dong did not win the award.

Because it's not unexpected, I don't care.

On the contrary, Zhao Baogang talked with Yu Dong on the phone for more than an hour. Although he didn't complain, he still felt that he had not been treated fairly.

Zhang Yimou did not go to Shanghai this time to participate in the Magnolia Award, and he has little to do with this award.It's just that when chatting on the phone before, Yu Dong said that he had received an invitation letter for the Magnolia Award, so that Zhang Yimou thought he would participate.

Later, Zhang Yimou went to Shanghai to participate in another event. When he arrived in Shanghai, he called Yu Dong and found out that he did not participate.

"I still can't leave, and I'm not missing the Magnolia Award." Yu Dong explained casually.

Zhang Yimou said with a smile: "Actually, they are wrong. They should not invite you to be a guest, but invite you to be a judge."

Yu Dong smiled, "I'm going to be a judge. I don't know much about TV dramas. I haven't even watched the award-winning neon TV drama "Koi Fish" this time."

Zhang Yimou waved his hand, "It doesn't matter. As far as I know, Yu Qiuyu is also one of the judges this time. Compared with him, you should know more about TV dramas, otherwise you wouldn't be able to write "Don't Talk to Strangers."

Yu Dong also waved his hand, "Impossible, I am the screenwriter of "Don't Talk to Strangers", so I must avoid suspicion. Moreover, even if they are not afraid of people gossiping and invite me to be a judge, I will not do it. Being a judge is more time-consuming than being a guest."

Afterwards, without waiting for Zhang Yimou's response, Yu Dong said again: "Let's not talk about the Magnolia matter, how long will you stay in Jinling this time?"

"If you don't leave tomorrow, you have to leave the day after tomorrow. Why, what else do you have to do?"

"I have nothing else to do. I finally came here. It's a pity not to teach the students."

Zhang Yimou curled his lips with his teacup in his arms, "I knew it was nothing good, every time I come here, you have to pull a strong man."

Yu Dong laughed, "Your structure is small. The so-called teacher for one day is a teacher for life. Now you teach the students a lesson and leave the knowledge, and they will remember you for the rest of their lives. And this time you will give me a lesson." Take acting majors, and these children will still be your soldiers and generals when they leave school in the future."

Zhang Yimou raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, "Okay, okay, don't do this with me. It's just a class, I just go to it, but I still say the same thing, I'm not that professional in class. It’s just chatting with the students, don’t blame me if the effect is not good.”

Yu Dong smiled and said, "It's easy to say."

……

The Bear Bookstore in New York has become a gathering place for YU fans.

Not only local book fans often come to Little Bear Bookstore, but YU book fans from other places also come here especially to see this bookstore that has held two YU book signings.

Of course, what attracts book fans is not only the YU section in the bookstore, after all, there are bookstores in other places that have a YU section.

What really attracts book fans is that the Little Bear Bookstore stocks many YU signed books and the pens used for signing.

These signed books or pens will be regularly drawn by the bookstore to give back to customers.

Taylor arrived at the Little Bear Bookstore early in the morning. As soon as she entered the door, she went straight to the cashier, "Jenny, is there any event today?"

Jenny, the cashier, was tidying up the counter. When she heard Taylor's voice, she looked up with a smile, "Sorry, Taylor, today is the same as yesterday, and there is no activity."

Taylor pouted, "Today is the same as yesterday, yesterday was the same as the day before yesterday, and the day before yesterday was the same as the day before yesterday. There are so few activities in your bookstore."

Because we often see each other, Jenny and Taylor are also considered familiar, she smiled and explained to Taylor: "There is no way, because our stock is running out now. If YU can hold another signing event, there will be more activities .”

"Then why didn't you invite him?"

Taylor muttered something, but before Jenny could answer, she raised her foot and prepared to go upstairs.She was just complaining casually, after all, she also knew that it was not an easy task to invite YU to sign the sale.

As a loyal book fan of YU, Taylor dared to pat her chest to assure that she had read all... at least all of YU's works that were translated into English.

Even, even if it's not YU's work, but just a work that has something to do with him, she will go to see it.

For example, the works of Chinese authors such as Yu Hua, Bi Feiyu, and Mo Yan, as well as the movies recommended by YU last time.

Before that, she also watched "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Harry Potter", also because of YU.

But before she took two steps, Jenny called her from behind: "Taylor, don't worry."

Taylor turned his head, wondering, "What's wrong?"

Jenny smiled and took out a roll of posters from under the booth, "This is a new poster today, because you came too early, I haven't had time to hang it yet."

"What poster?"

Taylor blinked and took two steps back. He stretched his head to look at the poster in Jenny's hand, and saw that it read: YU's new work "Golden Dreamland" is coming soon!
"Really?"

Taylor excitedly snatched the poster from Jenny, and slowly unfolded the rest of the poster.

The main content of the poster is the preview of the new book. YU's new book "Golden Dreamland" will be available on December 22nd.

For the description of the new book, the entire poster has only one sentence.

"This is a story about running away..."

Golden Dreamland... When Taylor saw the title of the book, the first thing Taylor thought of was the Beatles' song, also called Golden Dreamland.

Is there any connection between the two?
YU is a Chinese, does he listen to The Beatles?
Taylor continued to look under the poster, and found something special.

In the lower part of the poster, the content has nothing to do with "Golden Dreamland".

[The movie "Sniper Phone Booth" written by YU will be officially released on December 27. 】

It turns out that this poster is not only a new book teaser poster, but also a movie announcement poster.

However, there is not much information about "Sniper Booth", only this sentence in the lower half of the poster, and there are no other descriptions or pictures.

Taylor had heard of "Sniper Phone Booth."

Someone photographed YU appearing on the streets of New York before. At that time, it was revealed that YU was working with a crew called "Sniper Phone Booth".

At that time, Taylor was very curious about this movie.

Now seeing the description on the poster, Taylor knew that the movie was written by YU himself.

"How about it, is it happier to see such news than to see an event in our bookstore?" Jenny said with a smile on the side.

Taylor tilted his head while holding the poster, and looked at Jenny, "Of course, but I hope that in order to celebrate such good news, your store will hold a lucky draw. In that case, I will definitely be more happy. By the way, the poster in your store There should be more than one copy, right?"

"Well, what happened?"

Taylor smiled and shook the poster in his hand, "Give this to me."

After speaking, Taylor went up to the second floor with the poster in his hands, and Jenny yelled behind him without stopping.

Seeing that she couldn't call her, Jenny smiled and shook her head behind the counter, and let her go.

There are many posters in the store, and it is not a big deal to give one to regular customers.And this poster in Taylor's hands may be more useful than hanging it at the door.

……

In fact, Jenny was right, the poster played a big role in Taylor's hands.

After getting the poster, Taylor went around to help promote it, for fear that others would not know that YU was about to release a new book and movie.

For YU book fans, this year's Christmas is destined to be extremely joyful.

Before Christmas, they can see YU's new book "Golden Dreamland".

When the new book is almost finished, after Christmas, they will usher in the new movie "Sniper Phone Booth".

Although before that, they need to go through more than a month of waiting.

However, this time the wait was a little different, because book fans found something to accompany their wait, and that was The Beatles' "Golden Dreamland".

Book fans don't know whether YU's new book "Golden Dreamland" is related to The Beatles' "Golden Dreamland", but it doesn't prevent them from using songs to pass the waiting time.

For a while, the ratings of The Beatles' "Golden Dreamland" suddenly increased, and major radio stations also played this song very timely.

"Golden Dreamland" is a song included in the Beatles' No. 11 studio album "Abbey Road", and this is widely considered to be one of the band's most exquisite albums. It was sold two months after its release. It sold more than 400 million copies, making it the best-selling album of the year.

And this album has extraordinary significance for the Beatles, because it is the last album of the Beatles in the true sense.

At that time, Paul McTerney, one of the members, felt that the band was about to fall apart, so he created a set of remixes including Golden Dreamland, which pinned his hope that the band could get back together.

Today, nearly 30 years have passed since the release of this album.

Although "Golden Dreamland" is still being sung, it is no longer as popular as it used to be.

It's just that YU announced the title of the new book "Golden Dreamland" at this time, which reminded many people of this song.

For Beatles and YU fans or book fans, this is undoubtedly a dream linkage.

Of course, it wasn't just Beatles and YU fans or book fans who were happy, but also Paul McCartney himself.

He even talked about this matter on his own radio program "Oobu Joobu". He was very happy that "Golden Dreamland" could be found and listened to again during this period of time, and he also used "Golden Dreamland" for YU's new book. The name is a great honor.

Deep Space responded very quickly. After McCartney's radio program was broadcast, Deep Space expressed the hope of cooperating with McCartney.

Afterwards, the two sides hit it off, and McCartney decided to remake the trilogy including "Golden Dreamland", plus a new song of his own, to synthesize an EP, which was released with the assistance of Deep Space Company.

Afterwards, when new books are released, Deep Space will randomly include books that are different from the normal version among the new books on sale, and book fans who buy these books can go to the store to get a copy of "Golden Dreamland" ep for free. .

……

In Deep Space Corporation, Jimmy listened to the assistant's report on the recent enthusiasm caused by "Golden Dreamland", and leaned on the sofa with great satisfaction.

This event was not operated by him, but was proposed by Campote on his own initiative. After Jimmy analyzed the feasibility, he decided to let Campote let it go.

For deep space, this linkage can be said to be beneficial and harmless.

Through this linkage, they can get in touch with the Beatles, please Beatles fans, and pull them over. The sales of the novel "Golden Dreamland" will definitely increase.

And what they have to pay for is the cost of the EP release of "Golden Dreamland", which is naturally not worth mentioning for Deep Space.

In addition, Deep Space also intends to enter the music market, and has made some efforts before, but it has been ineffective. With this incident, there may be a turning point.

After listening to the report, Jimmy said, "Send this news to China and stir up the news."

"Okay." The assistant nodded.

"In addition, I will contact the margin of Deep Space China in a while and arrange a time. I will have a conference call with him and ask him to spare at least an hour."

The assistant looked at his watch, "It should be five o'clock in the morning at Jinling, and we may have to wait a while."

"No problem, wait until 08:30 to contact him, work hard tonight and work overtime with me."

"no problem."

After the assistant left, Jimmy turned his chair and looked at the scenery outside the French windows.

The current Chinese music market is not big, but he attaches great importance to it. In his opinion, China is their deep space base camp. As long as the market there is firmly grasped, even if there are any strategic mistakes or omissions on the US side, China The base camp over there has a chance for them to make a comeback.

On the American side, they are more like pioneers in deep space, sprinting with all their strength, while on the Chinese side, they are taking it slowly and step by step.

He remembered an old Chinese saying, build walls high, accumulate grain widely, and become king slowly.

Let’s not talk about those who claim to be kings or not, but they are building high walls and accumulating food in China at this stage.

Sooner or later, the preparations they had made would explode, and Jimmy had always believed that.

(End of this chapter)