Rebirth of Rural Literary Life

Chapter 485 Teacher He Helps

He Ping, who was in Ping County, naturally didn't know about the disturbance caused by Zhang Yu's appearance in "Donkey Gets Water". He seldom watched "Popular Movies".

But he knew that the reputation of "Donkey Gets Water" after its release was not as good as that of "The Wrangler". Just like the original version of "Donkey Gets Water" in later generations, whether it was well received or not. The word-of-mouth in the movie circle is very good, but the popularity of this movie is far less than that of "The Wrangler" in the evaluation of the majority of movie audiences.

After all, "Donkey Gets Water" is a modern fable with a strong ironic temperament, absurdity and cruelty, which is somewhat incompatible with the aesthetics of the general public.

As the critics of "Popular Movies" continued to ferment, Zhang Yu received more and more criticisms, and many newspapers also began to criticize her.

Winning four domestic performance awards within one year, Zhang Yu's acting career has been a highlight moment from the beginning. It can be said that there is no young actress who can compete with her in terms of awards. The literary and art circles, critics, and even the audience , have placed high hopes on such an actress who has repeatedly won awards at a young age.

However, her performance in the latest movie after winning the award was not satisfactory, and she was cooperating with a big director like Xie Jin. The original work of the script is also very famous. The author is a young writer who has risen up in China in recent years. By default, He Ping, the awesome character who is about to win the Mao Dun Literature Award for the second time.

No matter how you look at it, this movie will be Zhang Yu's work to reach the pinnacle and create a golden body, but the result is just beyond everyone's expectations.

In fact, Zhang Yu's performance in the movie cannot be said to be bad, it can only be said that the performance of other people is too good.Not to mention those old actors carefully selected by director Xie Jin, even Zhu Shimao, who was willing to lower his price to play the supporting role "Zhou Tienan" in order to challenge himself, made countless people's eyes shine.

However, the performance of Zhang Yu, the heroine who is an eye-catching actress, was mediocre. The contrast between before and after was so great that many senior critics were outraged. Driven by the newspaper media, many viewers He also participated in this campaign of criticism against Zhang Yu.

Seeing the turmoil intensified, the Shanghai Film Studio couldn't sit still. Director Xu called "Popular Movies", hoping they could help to say something nice. The person who answered the phone wrote "We Saw Sluts" Cui Boquan, the deputy editor-in-chief of the film review, seemed to be aroused by some kind of resistance when he received a call from Director Xu, and his attitude was extremely tough.

"Film reviews are written with conscience, and cannot be withdrawn, deleted, or changed. We film critics are not the lackeys of your film studio."

These words were quite serious, and Director Xu hung up the phone angrily.

Deceiving too much!

A lackey of a film studio?I just hoped that they could say a few good things in the next issue of the magazine, but they actually said such things. These critics are really deceiving.

Director Xu found Director Xie Jin again. Needless to say, Director Xie's status in the domestic film industry, if he is willing to speak, it will definitely be useful.

Director Xie Jin is not feeling well now. The quality of the finished product of "Donkey Gets Water" is very high, but now the critics generally reflect that the heroine has spoiled this pot of good soup.He regards "Donkey Gets Water" as a work that breaks through himself, and he is naturally a little disappointed with such a result.

Director Xu came to ask him to say something nice to Zhang Yu. Director Xie Jin was not interested. If the factory hadn't insisted on using Zhang Yu at the beginning, it would not have been in such a passive situation.

Director Xie Jin's perfunctory attitude, Director Xu naturally felt it, so that when Zhang Yu came to his office crying again, he drove Zhang Yu away with a look of impatience.

The factory didn’t help, and Director Xie didn’t help, and the public criticism against her from outside came like a tide. Zhang Yu, who was kicked out of the factory director’s office, felt desperate. The last time she was so desperate was when she met robbers at the red house. .

Robber?

Zhang Yu, who was crying heartbreakingly one second, stopped crying the next second.

That's right, why did I forget, there is another important person.

Teacher He Ping, who is the original work of the film, and with our lifelong friendship, as long as I open my mouth, Teacher He Ping will definitely agree to help. Thinking of this, Zhang Yu rushed to make a phone call as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.

He Ping was stunned when he received Zhang Yu's call, and was so scolded that he couldn't leave the house?Acting career about to be ruined?The future is gloomy?
Sister, do you want to be so exaggerated?It's just a movie.

Zhang Yu cried and said: "Mr. He, no one can help me except you. You can help me this time because of our friendship. I really have nowhere to go. If the critics continue to scold like this, domestic No director would dare to cooperate with me.”

He Ping is not a hard-hearted person, not to mention that because of that desperate trip, he and Zhang Yu did have some feelings.

"Okay, okay. I'll help you say a few words, but the problem is that I'm not an important person. Who will listen to what I say? Who can see it?"

Hearing that He Ping agreed to help, Zhang Yu immediately recovered, "Mr. He, don't worry, I'll find someone right away."

Zhang Yu hung up the phone and ran back to the factory director's office. Director Xu was still angry, and just wanted to scold Zhang Yu, but he didn't want Zhang Yu to bring good news.

"You said Teacher He Ping is willing to speak for you?"

"Well! It's absolutely true." Zhang Yu nodded heavily.

The anger in Director Xu's heart was finally relieved, "It's easy to handle. I'll contact the newspaper immediately and ask them to interview Mr. He Ping. As the author of the original work, his words still have weight. As long as he approves of your role, the critics will continue to speak." If you want to criticize, you can’t say it.”

He Ping didn't expect Zhang Yu to be so efficient. The next day, a reporter from "Youth Daily" called to interview him.

In this era of high telephone bills, the reporter actually proposed such an extravagant act of interviewing on the phone. He Ping was really impressed by Zhang Yu's crisis public relations ability. He didn't know that it was all the hard work of Director Xu behind the scenes.

"Mr. He, as we all know, the movie "Donkey Gets Water" is adapted from your novella "Lu Deshui". Can you talk about the behind-the-scenes story of the movie adaptation?"

"You are working with Director Xie Jin for the second time. Can you talk about your impression of Director Xie Jin?"

After the reporter asked a few routine questions, he finally tried to see it.

"Mr. He, after the release of "Donkey Gets Water", critics and audiences have mixed opinions on the performance of the heroine Zhang Yu. What do you think about this?"

He Ping sorted out his thoughts. Since he wanted to help, he must say something nice. Go against his will. After all, Zhang Yu also helped him a little bit before.

"I'm quite satisfied with Zhang Yu's performance as the heroine. The role of Zhang Yiman..."

(End of this chapter)