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Chapter 200 [News from overseas] (please subscribe)
Beijing, Xinghua Hutong.

The literary seminar on "Tengu" naturally attracted considerable attention in the capital's literary circles, otherwise authors like Yu Hua would not have come to attend. Compared with Lu Yao's realistic work "The Ordinary World", "Tengu", a very critical realist work, can be said to have a completely different evaluation.

After the seminar, Lin Youcheng returned to the courtyard.

Because he met Yu Hua at the seminar, Lin Youcheng also mentioned it and asked Yu Hua to go and sit at home when he had time.

Yu Hua was naturally very happy and quickly promised to visit him later.

I never thought that Yu Hua came here with Zhang Wei, so naturally they could communicate together.

Zhang Wei looked at Yu Hua and said, "Your article "The Stars" is indeed very well written. It seems that you even won the Literary Award from the "Yenjing Literature"."

Yu Hua was a little embarrassed. After all, in front of him was Lin Youcheng, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award. As for the literary award from the literary magazine "Yanjing Literature", it was really not worth mentioning, let alone Lin Youcheng. He also won a literary award from an island country. That’s what’s really great. He said, “I still have to learn from Brother Youcheng.”

Lin Youcheng was a little uncomfortable with Yu Hua calling him Brother Youcheng. You must know that when he first came to this era in 1983, he was still twenty-three years old, the same age as Yu Hua. Now He reversed his age and was nine years older than Yu Hua. He just said, "It's good to call me successful."

When facing Lin Youcheng, Yu Hua naturally would not call him "Youcheng". He did not mention his age, but only his achievements in literature. Lin Youcheng was his senior, but he already knew from the exchanges with Lin Youcheng that Lin Youcheng was not the same person. He doesn't have the pretensions of his literary predecessors, and can be said to be a very kind comrade.

"Your courtyard is really nice!"

Lin Youcheng smiled and said, "You might as well move to the capital later."

Lin Youcheng knew that Yu Hua would come to the capital to develop in the future, but when he came to the capital to develop, he and his wife would still live in a small house, which was quite cramped.

"If possible, buy a house and settle in the capital?"

Yu Hua followed Zhang Wei to visit Lin Youcheng's courtyard house. He also knew that Lin Youcheng had moved from Decheng to the capital, and he also wanted to come to the capital.

Yu Hua was a little moved after listening to Lin Youcheng's words. He liked the city of Yanjing very much, but he had not thought about settling in the capital yet. He just said: "I haven't thought about settling in the capital yet, but I heard about Lu Xun before. The School of Liberal Arts and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Yanjing Normal University are offering postgraduate courses in writing. They say they will be graduates after taking them, but I actually want to study at the Lu Xun Institute of Literature.”

When Zhang Wei heard what Yu Hua said, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Then maybe you can still take successful lessons."

Lin Youcheng waved his hand quickly and said, "I'm a street sweeper and haven't even graduated from high school. I don't want to go over and give lectures to those in the School of Liberal Arts."

While Lin Youcheng was chatting with Yu Hua and Zhang Wei about literary creation, Zheng Xiaolong from the Beijing Television Art Center came, but not for the TV series, but for the movie. "Youcheng, have you heard about it?"

Zheng Xiaolong said with excitement: "I heard that director Hou Hsiao-hsien over there in Baodao adapted and filmed your film "The Devotion of Suspect X" and it was shortlisted for the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival."

Lin Youcheng was stunned when he heard the news. This news was completely beyond his imagination. Although he had been looking forward to "The Devotion of Suspect X" directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien before, he never expected that director Hou Hsiao-hsien would bring the film to Cannes Film Festival. Festival, and it was also the main competition unit, which really shocked him.

Although director Hou Hsiao-hsien will win the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival in the near future, and will also win the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival in the future, he is now directly nominated for Cannes with his "The Devotion of Suspect X" The main competition section of the film festival was really beyond his expectation. What if director Hou Hsiao-hsien won the Palme d'Or?

Lin Youcheng felt that the flapping of his butterfly's wings was sometimes elusive.

Yu Hua didn't know much about the overseas Cannes Film Festival, nor did he know what it meant to be shortlisted for the main competition, but he heard that there was a director from Baodao filming Lin Youcheng's "The Devotion of Suspect X" that was shortlisted. Award, although I don’t know what kind of award it is.

People outside the film industry like Yu Hua don’t understand the status and influence of the Cannes Film Festival, but filmmakers are very aware of it. Even TV people like Zheng Xiaolong can be said to be very aware of the influence of the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival. Li, if this really wins the award, it will really be the first among Chinese people.

Although it is said to be on Baodao, due to the reform and opening up, it is not as closed as before. The movie "The Devotion of Suspect X" has been shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival. This news has been spread in the domestic film circle, especially It was in the capital of Beijing. It can be said that it shocked everyone in the film industry and started discussing it. Otherwise, Zheng Xiaolong would not have known about it.

After all, in the minds of those filmmakers, the three major film festivals like the Cannes Film Festival are really the palace of film art.

Zhang Wei, the editor of "People's Literature", had also heard of the Cannes Film Festival. He didn't know much about director Hou Hsiao-hsien, but he was not that shocked, because no matter how shocked he was, it would never be like the first time he saw Lin You The "Devotion of Suspect X" written by Cheng was astonishing. He will never forget the shock that came from his soul after reading "The Devotion of Suspect X". It was truly thrilling. .

"Youcheng, no one in China dared to film your film "The Devotion of Suspect X". I didn't expect that this director from Baodao filmed your novel and was directly shortlisted for the main competition in Cannes. This is really amazing. "

Lin Youcheng nodded, of course he knew it was great, but he knew better that the director was Hou Hsiao-hsien, and it didn't seem to be a surprise to him to be shortlisted for the main competition in Cannes.

However, he is looking forward to it and wants to see "The Devotion of Suspect X" filmed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. He doesn't know what kind of cinematic lens language, what kind of lens editing, what kind of movie look and director style.

You know, this is the Palme d'Or!
The three golden palms!
If director Hou Hsiao-hsien can win the Palme d'Or, then he really has to...

Lin Youcheng shook his head and felt that he was looking forward to it even more.

(End of this chapter)