1980 My literary era

Hong Kong, Kowloon, Broadcasting Road, Mount Wutai, TVB.

Fang Yihua accompanied Lin Weimin out of the elevator.

We had just had a good chat in Shao Yifu's office. Lin Weimin agreed to help TVB and CCTV co-produce a TV series, but the subject of the TV series was not "Farewell My Concubine".

Lin Weimin knew very well that "Farewell My Concubine" had too little content. If TV stations from two places want to cooperate in a TV series, it must be a big deal. First of all, the first factor is that the content is rich enough. To put it bluntly, it means that it is long enough and has enough episodes. Another point is that the subject matter must be accessible to audiences on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Lin Weimin told Shao Yifu these two points and won his appreciation.

Before, he only thought that Lin Weimin was a talented and connected writer, but now it seems that he is also an excellent TV person.

The two finally agreed that after the co-production matter is finalized, Lin Weimin will write the script, and the subject matter is undecided.

Before leaving, Shao Yifu suggested that Lin Weimin visit the wireless station. When he returned to Yanjing to promote cooperation between the two companies, he couldn't know anything about the wireless station.

As Shao Yifu's assistant, Fang Yihua took over the job without hesitation.

No. 77 Broadcasting Road, where the administrative building is located, is the headquarters of TVB. Not far from it, there are three production branches of TVB.

They are the radio department located at Radio Lane 30, the television department at Radio Lane 1A, and the education and comprehensive program division at Radio Lane 79.

The Education and Comprehensive Programs Branch is located at No. 79, which is the closest to No. 77, where the administrative building is located. Lin Weimin and Fang Yihua walked there and chatted along the way.

She was surprised to find that Lin Weimin, a writer from the mainland, was not as rigid as she had imagined. Instead, he had an admirable open-mindedness and open-mindedness, and his ideas were trendy and broad, which made her, who had worked in television for decades, Everyone can't help but feel ashamed.

Facing Fang Yihua's compliment, Lin Weimin said calmly: "I just like to read some miscellaneous books."

No. 79 was originally the headquarters of Jiayi TV Station, which was a serious problem for TVB in the 1970s.

Jiayi TV Station is the third free commercial TV station in Hong Kong. It started broadcasting in 1975. When it first opened, it was very popular and fierce, and it invested heavily in the production of TV series.

In those few years, Jiayi TV Station and Wireless TV Station were competing in the arena, with high-quality products coming out one after another, and you were chasing each other.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Jiayi TV's investment regardless of cost eventually led to serious losses and the company fell into operational difficulties.

At the same time, because Jiayi TV’s licensing conditions at the time required that part of Jiayi’s broadcast time be used to broadcast educational programs, Jiayi’s license qualification was in jeopardy.

To make matters worse, Jiayi TV had to stop broadcasting in 1978.

As a result, as soon as the Jiayi Building was completed, it became the possession of TVB and turned into a production branch of Infinite.

Because it is a production branch of education and variety shows, most of the programs being recorded are in these two areas. Almost none of the TV drama stars Lin Weimin was most familiar with before time travel were seen.

Lin Weimin actually saw an acquaintance, Wang Mingquan, in the recording studio of the variety show "Happy Tonight". Wang Mingquan was filming the unit drama "Lotus Lantern" of "Happy Tonight".

In the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1985, Wang Mingquan was invited to perform, and Lin Weimin met her several times.

It was rare to meet someone he knew on the wireless station. Lin Weimin, accompanied by Fang Yihua, said hello to Wang Mingquan.

Fang Yihua was a little surprised and said: "Ah Wang, how did you get to know Mr. Lin?"

"Miss Fang, do you still remember that I was invited to attend a party in the Mainland last year?"

"of course I remember."

It was rare for TVB artists to go to the mainland for activities. How could she not remember that?

"I attended the Spring Festival Gala of Mainland China CCTV. Mr. Lin was the one behind the scenes and was especially relied upon by Director Huang."

After Wang Mingquan finished explaining, Fang Yihua took a deep look at Lin Weimin.

Lin Weimin didn't mention this matter when he was in the office just now. This person is really low-key.

The two chatted with Wang Mingquan for a while, while the director waited cautiously. Miss Fang is below one person in the TV station, but above ten thousand people. To be honest, she can be above ten thousand and one people. He does not dare to say anything if it delays the filming progress.

After the chat, Lin Weimin and Fang Yihua came out of the recording studio. He was a little happy and said: "It's such a joy to meet someone I know in Xiangjiang."

Fang Yihua said with a smile: "In the future, when Mr. Lin comes to Xiangjiang, he will be an acquaintance with our wireless station."

A mature woman knows how to play with her tongue, and Teacher Lin said it was very comfortable.

The two of them visited casually, and soon walked into a video studio. When they entered the door, they heard shouting and cursing. No need to think that it must be a director scolding the staff who made mistakes.

A staff member saw Fang Yihua leading people in and hurried to the director's side to remind him.

The director shouted to the staff: "Let's do it again, all departments are ready."

After saying that, he quickly ran to Fang Yihua, bowed and said, "Miss Fang, why are you here free?"

This is a children's drama, and it is the most disliked program among the younger ones within the wireless station. Not to mention a talkative person like Fang Yihua, few even the top executives of the TV station will even look at them.

"I'll bring Mr. Lin to have a look. You can introduce Mr. Lin to the work we are doing here."

When Fang Yihua spoke to Lin Weimin, his face was as pleasant as the spring breeze. It was a little better at "Happy Tonight" just now. After all, it was a variety show on the station, and I had a few words with the director.

But when he got here, his face was cold and he didn't say any nonsense.

Lin Weimin guessed that if it weren't for her presence, she might not even bother to say a word to the director.

"Miss Fang, Mr. Lin, what we are filming here is a comedy film specially prepared for children, called "Black and White Zombie".

In the play, there are two zombie protagonists. Black zombies and white zombies are the last survivors of the zombie family. They usually laugh and play and tease each other for fun, but at critical moments they become brothers.

Later, they became good friends with Beautiful, the chairman of the Antiquities Conservation Research Society, and met Dr. Tan and his sister Tan Ximei from the Science Society. The Science Society wanted to catch zombies..."

Fang Yihua glanced at Lin Weimin when the director was introducing him. Seeing his eyes looking into the studio, he didn't pay any attention to what the director said. He waved his hand to interrupt the director: "Okay, okay, you go back to work!"

The director asked for trouble, confessed to Fang Yihua, and then returned to his post to direct the filming to start again.

After the director returned to work, the filming of "Black and White Zombies" resumed.

Beautiful wants to take her mother to see black and white zombies. The villain Big Brother used super glue to stick the black zombie's right hand to the wall, and the white zombie couldn't pull it off no matter how hard he pulled it. The white zombie tried every means to pull him back, but in the end his butt was stuck to the stool and he couldn't get up.

When the Beautiful mother and daughter arrived and their mother shook hands with them, they were in a hurry. The black zombie finally broke free from the wall, but when he was serving the food, his hand stuck to the plate again. He exerted force, and the plate broke into two pieces, and half of it flew straight into Beautiful's mother's face with the food on it.

This scene was very funny, but the director off-screen stood up angrily and yelled at the actor playing the black zombie: "Xingzi, you idiot! Who asked you to act randomly again?"

"Sorry! Sorry, director, I think it might be better to handle it this way!"

"How you shoot the script is how you write it? Do you think you are the director or the screenwriter? If you change the script casually, do you think we are dead people?"

The director cursed angrily, and the black zombie apologized profusely. It was obviously not the first time that this happened.

Lin Weimin watched with great interest. Fang Yihua waited for a while and joked with a smile: "I didn't expect Mr. Lin's taste to be very consistent with the children."

Lin Weimin then looked back at her, and Fang Yihua continued: "This unit drama was filmed for children. Although the production was rough, it was very popular after it was broadcast. This is already the third year."

Lin Weimin nodded, "It's indeed quite interesting. For TV dramas, exquisite sets and props are important, but the more important thing is the conflicts and the performances of the actors. I think your young man who was scolded did a pretty good job. Not bad!”

Fang Yihua said with a smile: "After traveling so many places, it is rare that Mr. Lin praises our employees."

As she spoke, she shouted to the director: "Director, call that actor over!"

The cursing director was suddenly held down by the neck like a crowing rooster.

He looked in the direction of Fang Yihua's finger, and the person she was looking for turned out to be Xing Zai, who was being scolded by him.

"Miss Fang, I'm sorry, young people are ignorant, it's because I didn't teach them well!"

Fang Yihua glared and said, "Don't talk nonsense, come here."

The director did not dare to speak anymore and pulled the trembling Xingzi over.

"Miss Fang! Mr. Lin!" the director called.

Xingzi, who looked immature, knew that the director was introducing him. Of course he knew Miss Fang, the big boss's woman.

As for Mr. Lin in front of me, he seems to be about the same age as me, but he can stand in front of Miss Fang...

"Street boy, call someone!" Seeing Xing Zi's delay in responding, the director couldn't help but kick him.

Xingzi then shouted blankly, "Hello, Miss Fang! Hello, Mr. Lin!"

Fang Yihua was not interested in low-level employees of the TV station like Xingzi and did not even respond.

Lin Weimin, on the other hand, said with a smile: "Your name is A Xing, right? Did you come up with the scene just now?"

Xingzi knew something was wrong from the moment he was called over by the director.

If he changed the play in front of Miss Fang, he would definitely not get any good results. He thought in his mind that he could not drag others down no matter what, otherwise he would not be able to survive on stage in the future.

He nodded and pursed his lips and said, "Yes, Mr. Lin, I modified the play without permission and it has nothing to do with anyone else."

The expression on Xingzi's face probably meant: A good man does what he does, and if you want to kill me, just kill me.

Lin Weimin shook his head and smiled: "Don't get me wrong. I'm a screenwriter. I asked you to come over because I thought your scene was very interesting."

Ai?

Xingzai looked at Lin Weimin in surprise. Unexpectedly, instead of being scolded, he was called over to praise him.

He was about to laugh, but when he caught a glimpse of Fang Yihua beside him, he immediately lowered his face to look calm.

"Thank you, Mr. Lin. In fact, this was inspired by the director and producer, and Ji Zai also came up with the idea. Oh, Ji Zai is Bai Wuchang."

Lin Weimin smiled and nodded, turned to Fang Yihua and said, "Miss Fang, your wireless station is really full of talents!"

It wasn't until Lin Weimin spoke that Fang Yihua finally showed a smile on his cold face.

"It is your honor to be praised by Mr. Lin!"

The director hurriedly pressed his hand on Xingzi and said, "Thank you Mr. Lin!"

"Thank you, Mr. Lin!" Xingzai also said.

Lin Weimin patted Xingzi on the shoulder and said, "You did a good job. You can become a good actor in the future."

After finishing speaking, Lin Weimin said to Fang Yihua: "Miss Fang, it's almost done. Let's go."

"good."

The two turned and left.

"Thank you, Mr. Lin! Thank you!"

Xingzai looked at Lin Weimin's back and shouted. This was the first time since he joined the wireless station that he had received such great recognition from others.

"Silly boy! You take my polite words seriously!" the director said sarcastically.

Xingzai looked serious, "How could that happen? Mr. Lin is very serious!"

The director couldn't help but strike again: "What's the use of being serious? It's obvious that Mr. Lin is not from the stage. No matter how much he praises you, it's useless. The next time we meet, Miss Fang may not even be able to remember your name."

Xingzi was a little disappointed when he heard this. He couldn't help but look at the empty door, and couldn't help but recall Mr. Lin's encouragement in his mind.

If Miss Fang can accompany him in person, Mr. Lin must be a big shot.

But he was very kind to himself and had no airs about him. The most important thing was that he called himself A Xing instead of Xing Zai like the people on the stage.

This title made Xingzai feel respected like never before.

Thank you, Mr. Lin!