1980 My literary era

The broadcast effect of "Plain Clothes Police" is indeed worse than that of "The Wind", but this is a crime other than war, entirely because the comparison object is too outstanding.

In fact, after this TV series was broadcast, it received very good reviews from both the media and the audience. Haiyan specially treated Lin Weimin to a meal to express his gratitude.

After seeing the effect of the TV series after it was broadcast, Haiyan realized how bad the content he wrote was and how good it was after Teacher Lin changed it.

As the play of "Plain Clothes Police" comes to an end, the Spring Festival of 1986 has also arrived.

On New Year's Eve, Lin Weimin put Tao Huimin on the train back to her hometown.

The crew of "The Legend of a Female Doctor" only had a holiday today, and the ten days of vacation were already the limit that the crew could squeeze out. After all, there are many staff from Xiangjiang in the crew, and it would take two or three days at most to come back and forth, so the holidays cannot be too short.

After seeing off Tao Huimin, Lin Weimin went to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

It took three months to finally complete the formalities for the permanent residence of Baylor Mansion. From today on, nominally, this Baylor Mansion belongs to Lin Weimin.

After completing the formalities, Director Deng took Lin Weimin to the Baylor House for an on-site inspection, and then to a vacant land on Huayuan East Road of the Academy of Sciences for the construction of staff dormitories.

"We will try to build the dormitory next year and free up the yard for you at the beginning of the next year." Director Deng said.

Lin Weimin nodded. This is the trouble with buying a residence like Yongxingbeile Mansion. It is impossible to vacate the staff dormitories within a year or two.

But who knows that this thing is a scarce resource? One year is not too long and it can be afforded to wait.

After a busy day, I went to work at the Chinese Literature Society the next day, and the lazy atmosphere was a bit festive.

Colleagues are making jokes and have no intention of reviewing the manuscript. They are all waiting for vacation!

After get off work in the evening, Lin Weimin went door-to-door delivering New Year's goods.

After being busy until the evening, when he returned home, he was used to Tao Huimin waiting for him at home every night, and it was really a bit uncomfortable for him to be there all the time.

Lin Weimin spent his thirtieth day at Han Zhuangzhuang's house in Bizuo Hutong.

After the New Year, before people can recover, they have to go to work again.

At the beginning of the new year, Lin Weimin's work had not yet entered the status quo. Lin Weimin first received an international email.

It was sent by Arthur Miller. The box office performance share in the fourth quarter of last year was settled last month. Lin Weimin once again earned more than 400,000 yuan.

In addition to the performance share, Arthur Miller also mentioned the adaptation of Lin Weimin's other works.

Now "The Intouchables" has been on Broadway for more than a year and has been warmly welcomed by Broadway theater audiences, which fully proves the ability of Lin Weimin's works to adapt to American culture.

Arthur Miller has made a lot of money with "The Intouchables", so he naturally hopes to bring more of Lin Weimin's works to the Broadway stage.

Lin Weimin was equally surprised by the success of "The Intouchables" on Broadway.

In one year, "The Intouchables" has brought him more than one million dollars in income. If other works can also enter Broadway, even if they are not that successful, as long as they can gain a foothold on Broadway, it will be a huge sum. Philippine income.

After some careful consideration, Lin Weimin decided to make an overseas phone call to Arthur Miller.

These days, it is inconvenient to make long-distance calls to other provinces and cities, let alone making overseas calls?

Everyone had to go to the Telegraph Building or the big post office in Xidan to make a call, and the lines were very busy and often jammed.

Many times, if you go to the Telegraph Building to make a long-distance call, you have to bring lunch. There is no way, there are too many people queuing up. In the middle, you have to call and wait, which often takes more than half an hour alone.

Lin Weimin didn't plan to go to the telegraph building. The waiting time at the general post office was also long.

He ran to the Yanjing Hotel. There was a post office here. The place was not big. There were three single-person international phone booths in the small post office.

Basically it is only for foreigners. You can make a call after waiting for at most one hour, which is much better than going to the Telegraph Building.

When Lin Weimin arrived here, the three single phone booths were all occupied, and the callers were all foreigners.

Lin Weimin first told the post office staff the phone number he wanted to call, and then paid the deposit with a foreign exchange coupon. After making the call, he refunded the amount and paid the deposit.

Then there was the process of filling out a series of paperwork explaining the reason for his call.

After filling out the documents, Lin Weimin sat on a plastic chair at the far end of the counter and waited for a long time for the staff to answer the outside call.

From time to time, I heard the sound of other people making phone calls, even though they were talking on the phone across the ocean. Some people were very emotional and could easily yell.

After waiting for more than half an hour, Lin Weimin yawned all day long before he was finally awakened by a rapid scream and went to phone booth No. 2 at the signal of the staff.

The call quality on the overseas phone is very poor, even worse than when Lin Weimin answered the call from Xiangjiang, which makes people subconsciously raise the volume.

The three phone booths are closely connected, and everyone competes to "call out".

Lin Weimin had a difficult communication with Arthur Miller on the phone. He endured two groups of people and made more than half an hour of phone calls. The staff in the middle kindly reminded him twice, but Lin Weimin ignored them.

The staff came to remind Lin Weimin, naturally it was not because he made loud calls. The quality of phone calls these days is poor, and it is normal for everyone to make loud calls.

The staff reminded me about the call duration. Nowadays, domestic and overseas calls are expensive. The post office at Yanjing Hotel charges 12 yuan per minute, and only accepts foreign exchange coupons. An average worker's monthly salary is enough to make a two- to three-minute phone call.

So after Lin Weimin hung up the phone, the staff looked at him with a strange and wary look, fearing that he would put down the phone and run away.

This was the deposit of 100 yuan in foreign exchange coupons that Lin Weimin had just put down, otherwise the staff might not have let him finish the call.

"Comrade, you still need to pay 224 yuan."

After the staff member finished saying this, Lin Weimin had not yet spoken. The Chinese young man who had just finished filling out the documents suddenly raised his head, looked at the phone booth, and then at Lin Weimin, his lips pursed.

After Lin Weimin paid the phone bill, the staff breathed a sigh of relief and watched him leave the post office.

The young man waiting aside handed over the documents and then asked the staff in a low voice: "How long did he fight for?"

"More than half an hour! I spent more than three hundred yuan in foreign exchange coupons!"

It is rare for the staff to see someone as rebellious as Lin Weimin, with a hint of gossip in his tone.

The young man turned to look at Lin Weimin's back.

Making a phone call and spending more than 300 yuan in foreign exchange coupons, how terrible is this?

The thing is definitely not life-threatening, but it does cost money.

For more than three hundred yuan, it is truly a "telephone assassin".

More than 300 yuan in foreign exchange coupons are a drop in the bucket for Lin Weimin, but the experience of making international long distance calls is really painful.

Lin Weimin inexplicably thought of the short video jokes on the Internet, the kind of jokes that require reporting on all trivial matters in life and approval by government departments. Art really comes from life!

The phone call with Arthur Miller was intermittent, but at least things were made clear.

After being performed on Broadway for more than a year, "The Intouchables" has achieved certain results in the American drama industry, such as winning the Tony Award last summer.

Although he only won the Actor Award at that time, the bonus for Lin Weimin, the screenwriter, and Arthur Miller, the investor and producer, was not that big, but the bonus effect for the actors and the play itself was still very high.

As the reputation continues to grow, many performance companies in the United States are contacting Arthur Miller, hoping to confirm the tour plan for "The Untouchables". Arthur Miller also intends to start the "Untouchables" tour.

No Broadway producer dislikes touring as opposed to residing.

Because touring is not only a sign of a best-selling drama, but it also makes a lot more money than fixed performances.

When a performance is fixed, the ticket price is fixed, and the producer rarely dares to increase the price.

It’s easy to raise prices but difficult to lower them. If the price increases too much and no one comes, then lowering the price yourself will make people think that there is something wrong with the show.

Therefore, producers usually can only make money from increased ticket prices through scalpers.

The ticket prices set for tours are generally much more expensive than those for fixed performances, and it is easier to manipulate the ticket prices. In the words of later generations, it is like cutting leeks.

Once the future tour plan of "Untouchable" starts, Lin Weimin will definitely earn a large amount of income.

Of course Arthur Miller earns more, which is why he is so active in promoting the tour, including inviting Lin Weimin to the United States.

After all, it’s all money!

It’s just the end of the new year and it’s only mid-February.

The monthly revision of "Contemporary" has just come out in its second issue and is not yet completely on track. Moreover, he has also agreed to be the screenwriter of "Ming Dynasty 1566: Jiajing and Hai Rui" with Renyi, so he will not be able to go to the United States in the short term.

So he and Arthur Miller agreed to find a time to go to the United States after April. The specific time was not specified, after all, the plan did not change quickly.

As for the issue of the next adaptation that Arthur Miller kept mentioning on the phone, Lin Weimin persuaded Arthur Miller to wait until he arrived in the United States and then decide on the specific situation.

Any foreign work is warmly welcomed in other countries after leaving its homeland. In addition to its own quality, luck is also an important reason. It is not a safe move to rush into a second project.

Lin Weimin successfully persuaded Arthur Miller.

Back at the Chinese Literature Society, Mo Yan was waiting in the editorial office.

During the Chinese New Year, he returned to his hometown, but he kept writing. He just used these few days to finish the script of "Red Sorghum". When he returned to Yanjing, he immediately found the Chinese Literature Society and asked Lin Weimin to help him read the script. The quality of how.

Lin Weimin turned over the script, and Mo Yan stared at the movements of his hands and the expression on his face, not wanting to miss even the slightest change.

Lin Weimin raised his head and noticed his strangeness, and smiled: "There's no need to be so nervous, right?"

"This is my first time writing a formal movie script."

Mo Yan told Lin Weimin that this was his first time writing a movie script, but it was not his first time writing a script.

In 1978, when he was still serving as a soldier in his hometown, he was influenced by the drama "In the Silent Place" and wrote a six-act drama "Divorce" at that time.

He was full of enthusiasm at the time, but unfortunately his continuous submissions were rejected, which made him discouraged and gave up on drama creation.

Perhaps influenced by the unsuccessful "debut" novel, Mo Yan was very concerned about the success and failure of the script of "Red Sorghum".

With a relaxed smile on his face, Lin Weimin gave his opinion: "The writing is quite good!"

Mo Yan was immediately overjoyed, "Really? Teacher Lin?"

"Don't ask such nonsense!" Lin Weimin said casually.

Mo Yan nodded in surprise. He also knew that what he asked was nonsense. Is it necessary for Teacher Lin to tell lies to him?

After getting off work in the evening, Lin Weimin took Mo Yan to find the hotel where Zhang Yimou was staying.

"The Legend of a Female Doctor" has just resumed production after the year, and Zhang Yimou has just returned.

When he learned that Mo Yan had finished writing the script of "Red Sorghum", his face was filled with surprise.

After reading the script, he was even more happy. The script was even better than he expected.

This script is likely to be a stepping stone for him to start his directing career in the future.