1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 182 Renyi Tickets Are Very Expensive

In the era when televisions were not yet popular, dramas and movies were the greatest pleasure for many young people to date and entertain. Relatively speaking, dramas were more high-end, mainly because the tickets were expensive.

The ticket price for watching a movie is more than [-] cents, but the starting price of a drama is [-] cents, and the location is not good.

"Farewell My Concubine", as the main drama promoted by Renyi this year, has the blessing of millions of sales of the original novel itself. It is conservatively estimated that there are at least tens of millions of book fans nationwide. After the premiere, it immediately became a big hit in the cultural circle of Yanjing City. phenomenal events.

To put it bluntly, the two films that were released at the beginning of the year should be considered the most popular in the literary circle in 82.

"Shaolin Temple" and "Wrangler".

Both of these two films were released in February, and within a short period of time, they set off a movie-watching frenzy across the country. With the movie ticket price of more than 2 cents in this era, both of them sold hundreds of millions of box office.

If calculated according to the movie ticket prices of later generations, the box office is tens of billions, which is terrifying.

Now that the two movies have been released for nearly half a year, Yu Wei is still there, and they are still the most popular movies in cinemas. At this time, it is normal for a movie to be released for half a year after its release.

If we say that in the first half of 1982, the biggest cultural phenomena in Yanjing were "Shaolin Yes" and "Wrangler".

Well, in the first few days of the second half of the year, this object is rapidly changing to "Farewell My Concubine".

Moreover, due to the different media of communication, "Farewell My Concubine" can only be enjoyed in theaters, and only the Capital Theater is the only one, which makes it hard to find a ticket for the drama.

Since the earliest ticket sellers appeared on the day of the premiere, there have been more and more peddlers selling tickets outside the Capital Theater.

Tickets for "Farewell My Concubine" have also risen with the tide. Originally, the tickets with the worst positions cost only a few cents, but they were pushed up to a sky-high price of ten yuan by these unscrupulous hawkers, not to mention those tickets with the highest positions, which cost three cents at every turn. 50 yuan to start.

The most exaggerated thing is that the ticket price has been so high that people actually buy it.

Lin Weimin was stunned when he heard the news. No matter when, there are indeed many local tyrants in Yanjing City, and his heart is ready to move. Why don't we sell some tickets?
"What's going on now? Can't it be so expensive?"

"I just caught two ticket scalpers yesterday, and the rest ran away in a swarm." Han Zhuangzhuang swallowed food stuffed in his mouth and said, "But the problem is that the ticket dealers ran away, and the tickets are gone! In the past There are ticket dealers, and everyone buys tickets from ticket dealers. Now that there are no ticket dealers, we can only ask someone to inquire. There are fewer tickets and more expensive ones!"

Lin Weimin took a mouthful of food in silence, it's so ridiculous that his mother opened the door for Ligli—it's home.

The ticket price is getting more and more expensive!
"Old uncle, you don't even know. Some audience members come to our courtyard to respond, requesting that "Farewell My Concubine" be added. Some retired old comrades also joined in the fun and directly reported the situation to the higher authorities. It is said that "Farewell My Concubine" is a big problem, and it is requested to be banned."

Lin Weimin sneered, "Are they trying to go backwards?"

"Who said it wasn't? But the courtyard is a bit numb right now. There are too many audiences who want to see this play. You don't know if you haven't been to the Capital Theater in the past few days. Every afternoon, the entrance of the theater is surrounded by water. Many people want to sneak in without a ticket, because the police have been called several times for this matter.”

Lin Weimin frowned, "I can't go on like this, I have to find a way to solve it."

"Yeah, can't it be solved? So the academy is doing research now, and plans to borrow another theater, gather all the B-corners together, and get another performance group."

Lin Weimin nodded when he heard the plan and said, "This is a way."

He smiled at Han Zhuangzhuang again: "So, you have a chance to play?"

Han Zhuangzhuang laughed foolishly, "It can be regarded as today."

"Act well. The role is small, and it requires skill."

"Yeah. By the way, old man, don't you know? Yang Lixin was beaten!" Han Zhuangzhuang said gossipingly.

"what happened?"

Han Zhuangzhuang narrated what happened the night Yang Lixin was smashed, and Lin Weimin couldn't help but laugh.

"Xiao Yang's role is a bit miserable!"

"Hey, if it's for me, I'd be willing to get hit once a day." Han Zhuangzhuang said enviously.

Yang Lixin is completely famous now, at least in the territory of Yanjing City.

Whether you watch the drama or not, you know that Yanjing Renyi has produced an actor who plays Cheng Dieyi.

The performance season of "Farewell My Concubine" is half a month, but because of the audience's eager demand for watching the drama, Renyi had to extend the performance time to one month.

And in order to alleviate the urgent needs of the audience, they rented the venue of the Yanjing Youth Palace, and at the same time announced to the outside world that they will perform at the Youth Palace in the near future.

The two additional actions of the "Farewell My Concubine" drama completely disrupted Renyi's arrangements for the second half of the year, and Renyi was in a state of distress because of this matter.

Fortunately, these two measures they launched, after being widely advertised by the mass media, finally eased the anxiety of the audience.

The increasing influence of the drama "Farewell My Concubine" is also inseparable from the reports of the major media in Yanjing. Not only the paper media, but also radio and TV stations have been alarmed. Yanjing TV Station and Yanjing People's Broadcasting Station are all concerned The phenomenon of watching dramas caused by "Farewell My Concubine" was reported. Such a specification is rare in this era.

It is precisely because of this that the influence of "Farewell My Concubine" is gradually expanding to areas outside Yanjing.

It is no exaggeration to say that the impact of "Farewell My Concubine" which was staged for half a month is greater than that of "Untouchable" which was performed for more than a year. The influence and effect of the two cannot be compared in the same breath.

The cultural scene caused by "Farewell My Concubine" is still being staged, and it has also affected Lin Weimin. Recently, he still goes to and from work step by step every day, and occasionally gathers with friends.

It’s just that recently, the Guowen Society has more young men and women blocking the door and wanting to meet Lin Weimin by chance. The performance of the drama "Farewell My Concubine" made Lin Weimin, the original author of the novel and screenwriter of the drama, once again attract the attention of readers and audience friends.

Many people put their love for the work on the actors, and many people put this love on the original author.

These days, Lin Weimin goes to work every morning like reviewing troops. He has to say hello to the readers who are standing at the gate of the Guowen Society waiting to sign autographs and meet him.

This group of readers and drama fans are all young people, many of whom are high school students and college students. They belong to the country’s treasures in this era, just like when the young people in "Today" ran to the gates of government agencies and colleges to post publications The security personnel of those units responded the same way, and the security personnel of the Guowen Society did not dare to chase them away casually.

I can only hope that Lin Weimin will come over early every day and send these people away early.

The performance of "Farewell My Concubine" these days has brought unprecedented pressure on the security personnel of the Guowen Society, which no one expected.

"Okay, okay! Everyone has worked hard, don't stay here. I'm just an ordinary editor, everyone has seen it, and the signature is coming. Go back and study hard, work hard, don't delay the business."

With a smile on his face, Lin Weimin persuaded the readers and drama fans who gathered at the door of the Guowen Club to leave this morning, and raised his hand to glance at the time.

Come on, late again!

When he entered the courtyard, he looked upstairs, in front of a certain window of the front building, Yan Wenjing was staring at him who had just entered the door.

Lin Weimin lowered his head with a guilty conscience and hurried into the back building.

After entering the office, Lin Weimin spread out on the desk a pile of letters addressed to him received from readers. These readers not only wrote to him, but also sent him things, including those readers who blocked the door.

Just like the mother fans of those traffic stars in later generations, they stuffed him with something every now and then.

Lin Weimin really wanted to pick up their little brains and roar: "I earn more from writing a book than you from working for ten years. Please wake me up!"

Therefore, Lin Weimin never accepts anything from these readers. If someone gives him something, he will just stuff it back.

There is no way to find out some of the letters contained in them in time, and he will send them back after reading them.

After working until the afternoon, the sample of the fourth issue of "Contemporary" this year came out, and Shi Tiesheng's "My Remote Qingping Bay" was published in this issue.

Lin Weimin rode a motorcycle to No. 26 Lama Temple Street after get off work, "Tiesheng! Tiesheng!"

At this moment, Shi Tiesheng was enjoying the shade in the yard, "I'm here all the time, what are you calling?"

"got used to!"

Lin Weimin took out the sample of "Contemporary" from his pocket, "Let me show you, it was just released this afternoon."

Shi Tiesheng took the "Contemporary" with a happy face, flipped through the catalog to find the novel that belonged to him, and stroked the paper with his hands.

"It can be regarded as published!"

"It's not that it hasn't been published in Contemporary."

Shi Tiesheng shook his head, "It's not the same, "Qingping Bay" should be regarded as a small breakthrough in my creative path, and it was published in "Contemporary", and now "Contemporary" has millions of readers nationwide, "Qingping Bay" "It is my good fortune to be published on it."

Lin Weimin took out a list from his bag again, "Don't worry about the difference, just see if the manuscript fee is right."

Shi Tiesheng was about to accept the manuscript fee bill, but was snatched away by his younger sister Shi Lan.

"90 yuan? Brother, the manuscript fee is a lot this time!" Shi Lan exclaimed happily.

Shi Tiesheng said: "What a lot, your brother Lin's book is dozens or hundreds of times more than this."

"You can't compare with Brother Lin."

Shi Tiesheng is depressed by being blocked by his younger sister, why can't I compare with him?

"Shi Lan, you can't be anxious about this kind of thing. When your brother publishes more works in the future and can be published again, his manuscript fee will be more, and then you can eat boiled mutton every day."

Shi Lan laughed thinking of such a day, "It's really that time, I also went to work to make money, I invite you two to eat boiled mutton."

Lin Weimin smiled and said, "Okay, but you have to be prepared to be eaten and cried by us."

(End of this chapter)