1980 My literary era

"Lao Ma?" Lin Weimin looked at the little foreigner across the street and waved to him in surprise.

Mark Meng trotted over, and after the two hugged, Lin Weimin smiled and said, "Long time no see!"

"Yeah, long time no see!"

This is the first time Lin Weimin has met Mark Meng this year.

"What have you been busy with recently?" Lin Weimin asked.

"Man, you really don't care about me. I've already finished studying in Yanjing."

"graduated?"

After Mark Meng's reminder, Lin Weimin remembered that these foreigners he knew had been staying in Yanjing for several years. Shouldn't they graduate now?

"What about them? Why didn't they come?"

"Back home."

"Returned to China?" Lin Weimin was surprised, and after a moment he sighed, "What a pity, I didn't even meet him."

Mark Meng explained: "We came to see you when you graduated in July, and your colleagues said you were on a business trip."

Lin Weimin nodded. When Mark Meng and the others found him, he should have gone to Yantai to hold a pen meeting.

"Come on, I haven't eaten yet, I just want to treat you to some food."

Lin Weimin dragged Mark Meng to the restaurant. After ordering the food, the two continued to chat.

Mark Meng and his group of young foreigners will graduate in July, and Xiao Hei Yoko is the first to leave China. Her economic conditions are not good, so the first thing she did after completing her studies was to return to Nihong to find a job.

Feng Xiaolong, Cao Mengde and Yin Geli traveled for more than ten days before leaving.

Only Mark Meng, who has traveled all over China during this period, has just returned to Yanjing, and tomorrow he is preparing to return to the United States.

After returning, he plans to find a job as a university teaching assistant.

Mark Meng handed a pamphlet to Lin Weimin, "This is our communication method. You can contact us at any time if you need it. If you have the opportunity to go to our country in the future, you must tell us!"

Lin Weimin accepted the small address book and said, "Of course, there will definitely be a chance."

After chatting for a long time and eating lunch, Lin Weimin planned to take a leave of absence to play in Yanjing with Mark Meng, but it turned out that the little foreigner had a lot of things to do at school and had to catch a flight tomorrow morning.

Lin Weimin offered to see him off, but he refused, "Don't do this. These few times they left, I felt depressed every time after seeing them off."

"Well, then we can only say goodbye!" Lin Weimin said with regret.

The two hugged again, and Mark dreamed: "I hope there will be a day when we see each other again."

"Of course, I will definitely do it!" Lin Weimin said firmly.

Mark Meng laughed. Lin Weimin's works have been published in the United States. He believed that one day they would meet.

Looking at Mark Meng's retreating back, Lin Weimin felt a little depressed.

Back at the office, I just went to work in the afternoon. While my colleagues were busy working, they were still discussing the movie "Life" that was just released a few days ago.

"Life" is adapted from Lu Yao's novella of the same name. The original novel has been loved by countless readers since its publication. The cumulative sales of the single book have exceeded 1.2 million copies since its publication. The popularity has not diminished to this day, almost every month. It can sell tens of thousands of copies, which has brought the author Lu Yao a lot of income and also gained huge fame.

The movie "Life" was invested by Xiying Film Studio, and Lu Yao, the original author, served as the screenwriter. Naturally, it was eagerly anticipated by readers of the novel. Once it was released, it became a hit across the country. Countless young people flocked to the cinema. In just a few days, a movie-watching craze developed.

Zhou Lijing, who plays the leading actor Gao Jialin in the movie, has become a popular actor in the domestic film industry in just a few days.

"Hey, Weimin, have you ever met Zhou Lijing when you went to Yanying to give lectures?"

Lin Weimin had actually met Zhou Lijing, a student in Yanying's 78th grade acting class, and Han Zhuangzhuang often mentioned him when he was in school.

"I've seen it before!"

"How's it going? Is he as handsome in real life as in the movie?"

Every era has its own aesthetic standards. Zhou Lijing’s appearance is the standard that is most accepted by the public in this era. Han Zhuangzhuang once mentioned that when Zhou Lijing took the exam for Yanying, Yanying’s teacher rated his appearance. The score is perfect.

Lin Weimin recalled Zhou Lijing's appearance in his mind, and he could only say that everyone has their own preferences for radish and green vegetables.

"quite handsome."

After raising the fetus for a month and entering the second trimester of pregnancy, Yao Shuzhi finally came out of the womb, her face rounded up twice.

She and Liu Yin discussed Zhou Lijing's appearance with salivating expressions on their faces, almost leaving Ha La Zi behind.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, the fighting power of middle-aged women is really terrifying!

"Weimin, when will your novel be adapted into a movie?" Liu Yin suddenly asked.

Movie adaptation?

Lin Weimin thought about it for a while. Starting from "Farewell My Concubine", almost every novel of his was published or published, and he would receive some invitations to adapt it. The most common ones were film adaptations.

It’s amazing to say that among the various adaptations of literary works, films that should be the most difficult are actually the ones with the most requests for adaptations.

This reason is mainly attributed to the booming development of the film industry after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the people, the country divided it into provinces and carried out construction on a scale of one film studio per province. It should be said that there are as many film studios as there are provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions in China.

Capitals like Yanjing and municipalities like Shanghai have more than one film studio.

This blossoming scene has lasted for decades. In recent years, with the great development of economic construction, the domestic film industry has been like a raging fire.

Unfortunately, the good times don't last long.

With the deepening of reform, the film studios of the planned economy gradually revealed their shortcomings under the impact of the market economy. Coupled with the impact of novel playback methods such as video tapes, VCDs, and DVDs, and the heinous piracy of cultural products, the Domestic films will enter a shaky development situation in a few years.

"Yes, Weimin, why have your novels, dramas, and TV series been adapted, but not a movie?" Zhu Changsheng also asked curiously.

Lin Weimin mused: "There's no particular reason, I'm just a little worried because I haven't met a reliable director yet."

"Aren't you worried? What are you worried about?"

Of course, I don’t worry about the level of adaptation.

When adapting the play, he collaborated with people who are leaders in the arts, and he had no preconceived notions or impressions.

There are currently only two TV series adaptations. The novel itself is based on a later TV series, so there is naturally no pressure to change.

Movies were different. Many of the invitations from the studios that contacted him sounded strange to Lin Weimin. Without knowing the background, he felt that he should be more conservative.

Besides, if those people had Wu Tianming's sincerity in squatting in Lu Yao, Lin Weimin might consider it.

The problem is that no one does this!

Teacher Lin is really not arrogant. What sincerity actually represents is attitude. Without an attitude of striving for excellence, can we produce good works?

Who do you think is Lin Weimin?

"Of course I don't worry about the level of adaptation." Lin Weimin said.

"Then why are you so relieved about the adaptation of dramas and TV series?" Zhu Changsheng asked.

"Because the impact of dramas and TV series is far less than that of movies."

These days, the impact of a drama is usually limited to a city. As time goes by, it will gradually gain national fame, but most of them have only heard of it.

However, TV dramas in this era are limited by the number of TV sets. No matter how exaggerated they are, they cannot reach the level of movies.

The movie tickets for "Shaolin Temple" cost 10 cents each and sold for more than 100 million at the box office. This does not include the screening in rural areas.

Is this kind of influence comparable to that of a TV series?

It will be about the same in another ten years.

By that time, the TV penetration rate across the country will almost reach over 80%. Even if the movie was not affected by various negative factors at that time, the impact it can have is far beyond that of the TV series.

After all, the communication methods are different. The channels for obtaining TV series are too simple. You can watch them by turning on the TV at home.

Zhu Changsheng understood what Lin Weimin meant, "You care about feathers!"

"It can't really be counted. The main reason is that most of the works are long-form, and it is actually very difficult to do a good movie adaptation, so I need to find someone reliable."

Again, the attitude is not good, and it is unrealistic to expect to produce good works.

In addition to these, Lin Weimin has another more important factor that he did not mention.

While chatting, there was a knock on the office door.

"teacher LIN!"

"Thank you, teacher?" Lin Weimin was surprised to see the middle-aged man standing at the door.

Lin Weimin and Xie Fei met at Yanying. When the 78-level directing students were filming their graduation work, they chose Huang Anyi's "Little Courtyard Notes" as the script. Lin Weimin helped to revise it. Xie Fei was the instructor of that graduation work.

"Oh! It's been such a long time."

Lin Weimin quickly let Xie Fei into the house, "Why are you here? Do you have anything to do with me?"

Xie Fei took the tea that Lin Weimin poured for him, "There is indeed something wrong."

"You said it." Lin Weimin said.

"I want to adapt your movie "Horse Trapper"."

What a coincidence. As soon as I finished discussing it with everyone, Xie Fei came to ask for an adaptation.

Lin Weimin asked: "How did you come up with the idea of ​​adapting "The Horse Trapper"?"

"Actually, I read "The Horse Trapper" when it was published in "People's Literature" at the beginning of this year. I liked this novel so much, but I was working on the film "Our Field" at the time and didn't have time.

I’ve been busy with everything I’ve been doing recently, so I thought I’d quickly ask you if the film adaptation rights for this novel have not been given out. "

Xie Fei asked with a somewhat expectant look.

"Nope."

Xie Fei smiled brightly when he heard this answer, "How about leaving it to me?"

Lin Weimin's expression was hesitant.

As the fourth generation of directors, Xie Fei and the others were born at the wrong time. The best creative stage in their lives caught up with Wen Bing. A few years after their careers were on the right track, the fifth generation of directors emerged again.

However, as a leader of the fourth generation of directors, Xie Fei's achievements in film are still very brilliant, and his directing skills are also good. He came to ask for the film adaptation rights of "Horse Trapper", and Lin Weimin really couldn't refuse.

Seeing this, Xie Fei asked: "Teacher Lin, do you have any concerns? But it doesn't matter!"

"Teacher Xie, you may not know that I have a habit."

"What habit?" Xie Fei asked.

"Even if my work is not written by me, the adapted script must be approved by me. After the draft is finalized, it cannot be changed at will." Lin Weimin told the truth.

"this……"

Xie Fei pondered.