Literary Master 1978

That's not right!

Uncle Lin said that the house prices in Yanjing have increased, so haven't the houses he bought also increased in price?

Considering what Lin Erchun said, "You can save 30,000 or 40,000 yuan", doesn't it mean that the houses in his hands have increased in price by at least 30,000 or 40,000 yuan?

Add to that the money he earned in the past two years, and it adds up to 70,000 or 80,000 yuan, right?

This income is not low!

Tao Yucheng looked at Lin Erchun again and saw that the old comrade was drinking tea leisurely, looking at him with smiling eyes.

As if to say: The young man is still young!

Tao Yucheng suddenly felt what it meant to be cunning and treacherous.

As night fell, the sound of firecrackers to welcome the new and bid farewell to the old rang in the night sky.

The children, whose faces were red from the cold, enjoyed setting off firecrackers, and their bright laughter was rippling in the alley.

While eating the New Year's Eve dinner, Tao Yucheng asked Lin Chaoyang a very serious question.

"Chaoyang, do you think the housing prices in Yanjing can still rise?"

Lin Chaoyang certainly knew how his elder brother-in-law was fooled by his father just now, and he answered seriously: "There is a high probability that it will still rise."

"Why..."

Tao Yucheng was about to ask more questions, but was confronted by Zhao Li on the side, "New Year's Eve dinner, why do you always talk about these things?"

"If not this, what else can we talk about?"

As Tao Yucheng was talking, he saw his son Tao Xiwen excitedly shouting: "The Spring Festival Gala has begun!"

Last year, because the Chinese people had just experienced the victory of the Los Angeles Olympics and the military parade, they naturally had greater expectations for the upcoming 1985 Spring Festival Gala, which also brought great pressure to CCTV and the Spring Festival Gala director team.

So, in order to show a more grand scene and more shocking program effects, the Spring Festival Gala director Huang Yihe decided to move the Spring Festival Gala studio to the Yanjing Workers' Stadium.

The original intention of this idea was of course good, but the director team obviously overestimated CCTV's live broadcast equipment and on-site dispatching capabilities, and the 1985 Spring Festival Gala ended up in a mess.

Thousands of audiences shivered in the cold winter for a whole night. The actors were so cold that they couldn't even speak their lines. The sound of sniffing could only be heard from the radio microphones.

The huge stage was presented on the TV screen. The lights were dim and the lighting effect was insufficient. The picture on the TV was all black, not to mention the sound effect.

A huge failure made the reputation accumulated by the Spring Festival Gala in the previous two years disappear without a trace. Afterwards, a lot of criticism letters were sent to CCTV.

CCTV had to apologize publicly, and Huang Yihe, the director, was also suspended for half a year.

Huang Yihe was still the director of this year's Spring Festival Gala. After learning from last year's lessons, the Spring Festival Gala went back to the old path.

Zhao Zhongxiang, Wang Gang, Jiang Kun, Fang Shu, Gu Yongfei, and Liu Xiaoqing were invited as hosts. The opening was a song party, followed by crosstalk, magic, Peking opera, sketches...

It was still a familiar formula, still a familiar taste, and the people in thousands of households finally showed a satisfied smile.

This year's Spring Festival Gala, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao's skit "Mutton Skewers" was played until almost midnight.

The old and young in the family couldn't bear to sleep at this time, only Lin Chaoyang and his group were still sitting on the sofa watching the movie.

He looked at Zhu Shimao who was joking with Chen Peisi on the stage and sighed: "What a pity for Zhu Shimao!"

Tao Yushu said: "What a pity, he is so famous now!"

Tao Yucheng said: "Chaoyang should be talking about his film career. Now he is well-known, but I'm afraid no director will dare to use him. Looking at his face, the audience will have to be more dramatic!"

Tao Yushu nodded and said to Lin Chaoyang, "Hey, it would be great if we could invite them when the clothing city opens."

As the strongest skit king before Benshan, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao's audience is bound to be strong. If they can be invited, the effect will definitely be great.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Chaoyang and the Tao family went to the military compound at the foot of Shijingshan as usual for a gathering. As soon as Du Feng saw Lin Chaoyang, he pulled him to talk about the clothing city.

The Asia-Europe Clothing City will open next month. His recruitment advertisements have been sent out a few days ago, and the effect is unexpectedly good.

In less than half a month, more than 2,000 people came to the company for interviews.

Of course, it is impossible for so many people to meet the requirements, but Du Feng did not expect that they put forward such strict requirements, and there are actually many people who meet the requirements.

After a rigorous screening, 40 salesmen were successfully admitted. In Du Feng's words: All of them are beautiful and beautiful, more beautiful than stewardesses.

Last year, Wang Shuo published a novella "Stewardess" in "Contemporary", which tells the love experience of a retired sailor and a stewardess, which caused quite a stir.

To put it nicely, it is a love story with a romantic tone, and to put it bluntly, it is a fantasy, because this guy is a retired sailor.

In the eyes of ordinary people in this era, stewardesses are definitely synonymous with beauty and temperament.

The most important thing is that these salespeople not only have good looks, but also have high education and standard Mandarin. When they put on their uniforms and go to that station, they are indeed not much inferior to the flight attendants.

During this period, Du Feng also followed Tao Yushu's instructions and specially hired people to train these salespeople, benchmarking them from appearance to etiquette in all aspects with the flight attendants.

Speaking of these recruited salespeople, Du Feng's eyebrows were full of pride.

"Brother-in-law, I dare say that this batch of salespeople in our clothing city are definitely the batch of salespeople with the highest personal qualities in Yanjing City."

Another benefit of hiring salespersons with high salaries is that it helps the Asia-Europe Clothing City become famous.

The Asia-Europe Clothing City ran a full-page recruitment advertisement in the Yanjing Daily for half a month, and the advertising fee alone cost more than 30,000 yuan, and the effect was surprisingly good.

The harsh conditions of the recruitment advertisement unsurprisingly attracted the attention of quite a few readers. If the conditions were just harsh, people might not pay much attention to it after watching the excitement and making a few sarcastic remarks.

However, the harsh conditions of the Asia-Europe Clothing City correspond to generous salary benefits, which far exceed the current salary standards of ordinary people in Yanjing. Many people are jealous of it, and naturally they have a strong interest in the "Asia-Europe Clothing City" in this recruitment advertisement.

Although it has not yet opened, the popularity of the Asia-Europe Clothing City in Yanjing City has already been established.

Du Feng talked about the various progress made in the preparations for the Asia-Europe Clothing City over the past month, and he was very ambitious.

On the other side, Du Ruolin, who was chatting with Tao's father, saw Du Feng's smug look and snorted coldly to show his dissatisfaction.

"He's always tinkering with crooked things. Look at the things published in the newspaper. It's called recruitment. People who don't know would think it's a beauty pageant!

He doesn't know the directions after making a few bucks. Why would he, an unmarried young man, recruit so many beautiful girls? I think he has bad intentions!"

Tao's father said with a smile: "Brother, Du Feng is already very good. He has been doing business honestly in the past two years and has never overstepped the line. Isn't he much better than those who went to Hainan to mess around?"

When Tao's father mentioned Hainan, Du Ruolin's eyes flashed. "He dares! I'll break his legs!"

"Alright, alright. He's doing well now, don't always hold him to your own standards.

Yushu told me that their recruitment is equivalent to advertising.

Just think about it, even you have noticed the advertisement of their clothing city, how many ordinary people in Yanjing City know about it."

Du Ruolin nodded slightly, "Du Feng said that this was all Yushu's idea, this college student's brain is good."

If Du Feng heard the conversation between the two, he would probably be depressed to vomit blood.

He brought up Tao Yushu to shut his father up, but he didn't expect it to confirm his father's naked double standards.

I advertised with bad intentions, and she gave ideas with a good brain.

Don't bully people like this!

Discrimination against academic qualifications!

After the dinner, before leaving, Du Feng reminded Lin Chaoyang, "Brother-in-law, don't forget to invite the stars."

"I can't forget Liu Xiaoqing!"

Lin Chaoyang replied lightly, and even said "Liu Xiaoqing" specifically, which made Du Feng's expression a little awkward.

What an innocent 1980s!

The next day, Lin Chaoyang ran to Chen Huaikai's house. When he saw him, Chen Huaikai was very surprised.

"Oh, you are a rare guest!"

After greeting each other, Chen Huaikai called his son and daughter to greet Lin Chaoyang.

Lin Chaoyang smiled and acted like an elder. He took out two big unity notes from his pocket, "Here, lucky money!"

Chen Kaige and his sister took the lucky money with laughter. They were both thirty years old, and they didn't expect to receive lucky money one day.

"Old Chen, a tiger father will have a dog son!" Lin Chaoyang complimented Chen Huaikai.

Last year, Chen Kaige was seconded to Guangxi Film Studio and entrusted with an important task. He directed the feature film "Yellow Earth". He first made a small appearance at the Golden Rooster Awards, and then participated in a series of film festivals abroad in the second half of the year.

He won awards at the Tokyo Film Festival, the Hawaii International Film Festival in the United States, the London International Film Festival in the United Kingdom, the Locarno International Film Festival and other film festivals.

Although they are all not-so-famous film festivals, they can still be regarded as winning glory for the country!

After winning a lot of awards abroad, Chen Kaige has become a rising star in the Chinese film industry and a leader among the young generation of directors.

Chen Huaikai was full of smiles. Seeing his son respect his father, praising his son made him ten times happier than praising himself.

"Oh! It's all thanks to the support of noble people. He just has good luck." After being modest on behalf of his son, Chen Huaikai asked Lin Chaoyang, "How did you find time to come? You didn't come to wish me a happy new year, did you?"

"I do have something to do. I want to invite the five golden flowers of your factory to participate in an event."

Lin Chaoyang talked about the opening ceremony of the clothing city, because he knew Liu Xiaoqing, Zhang Jinling and other stars of Yanying Studio from the previous movies, but he was not familiar with them.

Chen Huaikai is a meritorious figure of Yanying Studio, so it is more appropriate to ask him to help invite people.

After listening to Lin Chaoyang's words, Chen Huaikai pondered and said, "It's okay to invite people. But you also know that this matter is quite taboo in the unit..."

"I understand."

After asking Chen Huaikai for help, Lin Chaoyang was ready to call Xie Jin again. Unexpectedly, Xie Jin appeared at their house before the call was made.

He knocked on the door of Lin Chaoyang's house in a dusty manner, and Lin Chaoyang was surprised to see him.

"Old Xie? What's wrong with you?"

Today is only the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, and Lin Chaoyang really didn't expect to see Xie Jin at this time. Since "The Wreath Under the Mountain", they haven't worked together for more than two years, and the frequency of meeting and correspondence is far less frequent than in previous years.

"Chaoyang, you have to help me!"

When Xie Jin saw Lin Chaoyang, it was like a poor relative in trouble finding relatives in the city.

Lin Chaoyang didn't understand, "Help you? What for?"

He invited Xie Jin into the house, and after Xie Jin rested for a while, he talked about the purpose of his visit this time.

It turns out that Xie Jin has been preparing for "Furong Town" for the past six months.

"Furong Town" is adapted from Gu Hua's novel of the same name. The novel was very popular when it was published. In 1982, it won the first Mao Dun Literature Award together with Lin Chaoyang's "The Chess Master", becoming a representative work of scar literature.

Since Xie Jin made the decision to shoot the movie "Furong Town", the outside world has never stopped paying attention to it. As a result, the movie has been prepared for half a year, but the progress has not been smooth.

The location has been selected and the actors have been finalized, but now even the script has not been settled. Xie Jin has been anxious and has been bubbling at the mouth recently.

Lin Chaoyang asked in confusion: "Didn't you find Ah Cheng? He can't handle a script?"

"Oh! Don't mention it. Ah Cheng wrote several drafts of the script, but none of them were very ideal, so I asked the original author Gu Hua to help.

But Gu Hua said that he was going to visit Switzerland during that time. I would find him again when he came back in January, but he said that he had something important to do and didn't want to participate in the script revision at all."

Of course, the words "something" were just excuses. On the one hand, Gu Hua didn't want to take over Ah Cheng's mess, and on the other hand, he was afraid of offending people.

Xie Jin understood this truth, and Lin Chaoyang understood it too.

Xie Jin said with a depressed face: "The news that I want to shoot "Furong Town" has been released for a long time, and the preparation time is long enough. Those media almost hype "Furong Town" every two or three days, but there has been no movement for such a long time, and gossip is everywhere!"

"Furong Town" tells the story of the buzzing period, just like when Xie Jin was going to shoot "Legend of Tianyun Mountain" and "The Shepherd", people started to attack him as soon as the news came out.

Now that the film has not been released, some people who were prejudiced and hostile to "Furong Town" can no longer bear it and have expressed their opinions one after another.

During this period of time, some people have publicly opposed Xie Jin, some have ridiculed and mocked him, and some have begun to use means behind his back.

The pressure of public opinion has made Xie Jin exhausted, but what makes him more anxious is the difficulty in producing the script.

Acheng is young and inexperienced, and Gu Hua, the original author, is irresponsible. Xie Jin did not expect that the double insurance he had given himself would become a stranglehold.

Last year, he specially found Gu Hua and Acheng for the script and stayed together for several days just to sort out the adaptation.

"Alas! Who would have thought that a good thing would turn out like this?"

Xie Jin shook his head and sighed, his face full of melancholy and embarrassment. He has been a director for so many years, but this is the first time he has been so worried about the script.

Seeing that Lin Chaoyang had not spoken, Xie Jin leaned towards him, and the expression on his face turned into an eager expectation.

"Chaoyang, you can't just stand by and watch someone die!"

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? Are you still using moral kidnapping?" Lin Chaoyang protested immediately.

Xie Jin held his hand, his old face with wrinkles and wrinkles was flattering, "How can this be moral kidnapping? I'm asking you for help! Now that things have come to this, you have to do it, I don't trust anyone else!"

As the saying goes, the old ones are the wisest. The sentence "I don't trust anyone else" really has the meaning of entrusting one's life to someone else.

If this happened to a young man with little experience, he would probably have to die on the spot.

"Don't try that. Gu Hua knows it's a mess, but you still want to throw it to me." Lin Chaoyang said very soberly.

"What's Gu Hua's level, what's your level? What he sees as a mess is just a piece of cake for you."

"You have so many screenwriters in Shanghai Film Studio." Lin Chaoyang said in a dying struggle.

"I don't trust them."

"You're sure I'm a swindler!"

For the sake of the script, Director Xie put down his burden and flattered him loudly.

He pestered Lin Chaoyang, and Lin Chaoyang was helpless. They were all old friends, and he couldn't just stand by and watch them die.

"So what do you want? Let me write a new script for you?"

Seeing Lin Chaoyang relax, Xie Jin became excited, "That would be the best."

"You're thinking pretty well!"

Lin Chaoyang didn't plan to waste too much energy on this matter. Besides, the script of "Furong Town" was written by Acheng, and they were all acquaintances. If he overturned all his work and started over again, it would not look good for him.

Xie Jin was a director, and he could ignore the face of Acheng, the screenwriter, but Lin Chaoyang didn't want to do that.

He said, "Where's the script? Let me take a look first."

Xie Jin hurriedly took out the script, and Lin Chaoyang said, "Let me take a look first, and we'll talk tomorrow."

"Okay."

Lin Chaoyang arranged Xie Jin to the West Courtyard.

The next morning, Xie Jin came to see Lin Chaoyang, "How did you read the script?"

Lin Chaoyang did not answer his question, but asked Xie Jin about his thoughts on the adaptation, and Xie Jin talked nonstop.

"... The connotation, thoughts and artistic influence of the novel are generally three-dimensional and diverse. The time span is as long as fifteen years, and the five-year flashback content in the novel must also be reflected.

My previous movies just tell a story. The better movies show the personalities of some characters, which is already a better movie in our country.

But now many young audiences, especially college students, are not satisfied with this. They require movies to show the inner world of the characters in a richer and more diversified way.

Exploring the complexity of human personality is the primary task of this movie, and the pictures and music are secondary..."

While Xie Jin was excitedly explaining his thoughts on the film adaptation, Lin Chaoyang had been listening quietly, with a serious look on his face.

When Xie Jin finally finished speaking, he stopped. He sat there thinking, slowly digesting Xie Jin's thoughts.

After a long time, he said slowly: "I probably understand what you mean. In fact, the writing in Cheng's book is not bad, but it is too literary, and it ignores what you value."

Xie Jin nodded immediately after hearing this, "That's right. Oh, you still understand me. Chaoyang, I found the right person for you."

Lin Chaoyang picked up a pen, copied a scene from the script, and circled the lines of "Qin Shutian". Qin Shutian was the male protagonist played by Jiang Wen.

Then he wrote two more lines, put the original lines and his own lines together, and asked Xie Jin, "How about changing it like this?"

Xie Jin carefully read the two versions of Qin Shutian's lines. Without comparison, he couldn't see any problems with the lines written by Acheng.

But with Lin Chaoyang's version of the lines, the crazy eagerness of Y faction Qin Shutian was captured in just two sentences.

In contrast, Acheng's two lines were restrained and forbearing, but they lacked some spirit.

Even though the difference is only a few words, the difference is often there.

"Good!" Xie Jin praised, "This is the feeling I want."

He looked at Lin Chaoyang excitedly, his eyes shining with eagerness.

This kid is such a treasure!

You have only been working hard for a few years, so why do you feel like you are getting better as you get older?

Lin Chaoyang said: "Then I will change it according to this feeling first."

Xie Jin happily agreed. Seeing Lin Chaoyang busy changing the script, he didn't bother him, but he didn't leave either. He just sat aside, fearing that Lin Chaoyang had any ideas and wanted to communicate with him. It wouldn't be a waste of time if he wasn't there. That’s it.

Xie Jin sat here for a day, and Lin Chaoyang also changed for a day.

After dinner in the evening, he asked Xie Jin to go to the west courtyard to rest, while he went into the study, closed the doors and windows, and changed the script without any distractions.

After four or five days of this, no one visited the west courtyard during the Chinese New Year period, so Xie Jin stayed there by himself.

During the day, he went to the east courtyard to amuse the two children of Lin Chaoyang's family, and at night he stayed in the west courtyard. Although there were TVs, books, and newspapers, he felt like his days were like years.

Early in the morning on the tenth day of the first lunar month, Xie Jin ran to the east courtyard early in the morning. When he saw Lin Chaoyang, he asked: "How is it? How is it? Have you finished changing it?"

This is his daily morning routine these days, and Lin Chaoyang's usual answer is "just wait."

But today was different. Lin Chaoyang glanced at the coffee table in the living room. Xie Jin immediately understood and his face was full of ecstasy.

He couldn't wait to walk to the coffee table, picked up the freshly baked script and started flipping through it.

In the opening chapter of the novel "Furong Town", Gu Hua uses a few hundred words to describe the plot of Hu Yuyin's dealings with the surrounding diners while setting up a rice and tofu stall in Furong Town. Most of them are narrative texts.

But in the script, these words look completely different.

"(Hu Yuyin's rice tofu stall on Qingshiban Street in Furong Town is full of people and customers.)

Customer A: Sister Furong, give me more spicy food.

Customer B: I want to be jealous.

Hu Yuyin: (greeting the newly arrived guests, enthusiastically) Here they come.

Customer C: Sister Furong, put more chopped green onion for me. hurry up.

Hu Yuyin: Gui Gui.

Eater Ding: Sister Furong, I've been waiting for a long time, hurry up.

Hu Yuyin: Hey, here we come.

Eater A: Have you let it go?

Hu Yuyin: Let it go. Insurance is so spicy that your belly button hurts.

Customer A: (jokingly) My belly button hurts. Sister, please treat it.

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The biggest difference between script writing and literary writing is that abstract literary narrative is replaced by concrete audio-visual language.

It looks dry, without even much literary talent, just like a primary school student's composition.

The main reason for this difference is that literary writing serves people's subjective imagination, while script writing serves people's audio-visual feelings, or to put it more bluntly, it serves the language of the lens.

Therefore it must have the characteristics of combining picture and sound, time and space.

A clock is ticking, a window is opening, a person is looking, two guys are laughing, a car is turning a corner, a phone is ringing, etc.

A movie script is a story told by pictures. Of course, this also includes language and description, but their importance is obviously secondary.

Lin Chaoyang did not overturn the original content of the "Furong Town" script, but made changes on the original basis.

This is like a master craftsman re-carving an already carved jade pendant. Unless he has enough exquisite skills, he would never dare to do this.

"Artists are bold! Haha! Good, good!" Xie Jin finished reading the script, thought about it for a long time, and then couldn't help bursting into bursts of hearty laughter.

His face was full of spring breeze, and he no longer had the anxiety and impatience of the past few days. He said to Lin Chaoyang happily: "Chaoyang, you did not disappoint me. You are really brave for a skilled artist!"

Xie Jin emphasized twice that "people with great skills are bold". Before he came to Lin Chaoyang, he was not worried that Lin Chaoyang would reject his request for help. After all, we were all old acquaintances.

However, the script of "Furong Town" was stuck in an embarrassing situation, and even the original author Gu Hua was unwilling to take over. Xie Jin was already prepared for Lin Chaoyang to overturn this version of the script.

But he didn't expect that Lin Chaoyang would choose the most challenging method for himself and complete it so well.

Of course Xie Jin understood that Lin Chaoyang did this largely because he wanted to save time for Xie Jin and the crew.

Another possible reason is that Lin Chaoyang is concerned about the face of Acheng, an acquaintance.

In any case, after the script was revised, Xie Jin couldn't be more satisfied. The problem that was lingering on his head was finally solved.

"We must invite a few more people to have a drink tonight!" Xie Jin said.

"If you're not busy drinking, let's settle the royalties first." Lin Chaoyang said in a brisk tone.

Xie Jin couldn't help laughing twice when he heard this, "You, you, you! I will never forget your royalties."

Then he said cheerfully: "Tell me, how much is the royalties for this time?"

Lin Chaoyang looked at Xie Jin with a joking face, "You want me to bid? I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it!"

Xie Jin knew Lin Chaoyang well and knew that he always valued royalties. If he was allowed to shout whatever he wanted, he would probably get a sky-high price.

But after the words were spoken, he didn't want to show his cowardice, so he pretended to be calm and said: "Can you still shout a hundred thousand?"

After saying this, he thought to himself, in the worst case, the price will be high, and he will pay back the money when he gets there.

Lin Chaoyang sneered, "Look, I scared you. Okay, this time it's considered a voluntary help."

Xie Jin suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, "voluntary help?"

He took another special look outside and asked, "Is the sun coming out in the west?"

Lin Chaoyang: The dog bit Lu Dongbin, right?