1980 My literary era

Film crews have always been habitual offenders of destroying cultural relics during filming. Lin Weimin has heard about it a lot in later generations, and some of them are particularly famous.

The Sino-Italian co-production TV series "Marco Polo" was once allowed to enter the Changling Hui'en Hall for live shooting. The crew put plaster on the golden bricks of the main hall, hammered nails on the main nanmu beams, scratched and damaged more than 100 pieces of the painted ceiling, and smoked in the main hall. The management staff tried to dissuade the company, but the Italian staff disobeyed the management and had an arrogant attitude. In the end, nothing happened;

When the film "The Promise" directed by Cheng Kaige was shot in Shangri-La, the Bigu Tianchi, which was once famous for its beautiful scenery, was transformed into a huge garbage dump. He also bulldozed a century-old alpine rhododendron covering an area of ​​40 to 50 square meters. In the end, the local government came forward to repair it.

There is also the fact that during the filming of "The Last Emperor", tracks were laid on the floor of the hall, nails were nailed on the wall to set up lights, and the light was blocked, which caused irreversible damage to the cultural relics. From then on, the Forbidden City no longer allowed film crews to enter.

Teng Jinxian would turn a blind eye when he saw this possibility, but Lin Weimin couldn't do this when he saw this kind of thing. He also knew Teng Jinxian's inner thoughts very well.

This has nothing to do with character or ideology.

It's just the butt that determines the head. Now the general direction of the upper management is to treat foreign guests with courtesy and give foreigners super-national treatment.

Since it is super-national treatment, it means that people must enjoy certain privileges. If you want to control others, how should you control them?

If things get really noisy, it's easy to become disgraced.

So in the end, even if many grassroots officials no longer understand what foreigners are doing, they will choose to ignore their problems and be good gentlemen.

After all, no one wants to be hit in the end.

Compared to officials in power like Teng Jinxian, Lin Weimin certainly doesn't have that much scruple, not only because he and Teng Jinxian are from two different systems, but also because of the huge influence he has.

Of course, Lin Weimin was not making trouble without thinking. He also understood Teng Jinxian's depression and helplessness.

He pulled Teng Jinxian and murmured for a long time, and saw Teng Jinxian's expression changing back and forth, like a chameleon.

After finally listening to Lin Weimin's words, Teng Jinxian thought to himself: You cultural people are going rogue, and you really have nothing to do with others.

"As I say, is it okay?" Lin Weimin asked.

"No problem, no problem."

Teng Jinxian finally saw that this guy was a demon king.

It's better to scare those foreigners, so that they don't have to be arrogant all day long.

Following Lin Weimin's instructions, Teng Jinxian returned to the Hall of Supreme Harmony again.

It had only been a few minutes since the quarrel broke out. Inside the palace, Bertolucci was instructing the staff to continue working, while Thomas stood there with lingering anger and cursed.

Teng Jinxian approached Bertolucci eagerly, "Director Bertolucci, stop for a moment, stop for a moment!"

Bertolucci thought that Lin Weimin was gone and he could make movies in peace, but he didn't expect Teng Jinxian to show up again.

"Director Teng, do you also want to stop our filming?" Bertolucci asked, Thomas on the side looked gloomy.

Teng Jinxian shook his head and said: "It's not that I want to stop you from filming, but Lin Weimin wants to stop it. Stop it now. He is going to our department to find my leader and the leader in charge of cultural relics in the Forbidden City. He We’re going to make things big!”

When Thomas heard what he said, he couldn't help but burst out in anger, "Who does he think he is? We invested tens of millions of dollars in this movie and created a huge amount of foreign exchange for China. Your government departments should not listen to him. One-sided words!”

Teng Jinxian sighed and said: "Of course the higher-ups will not believe his words, but you don't know his temper and energy. This person is not easy to get along with."

Seeing his gesture, Bertolucci couldn't help but ask: "Director Teng, why did you say that?"

Hearing his question, the embarrassment on Teng Jinxian's face became more obvious, and he hesitated to speak.

Thomas, who was still angry at first, saw that he seemed to have something to hide, and asked: "What is going on? Can he really influence the filming of our movie?"

This caught the minds of the two of them, and Teng Jinxian was secretly happy. He struggled with his expression and seemed to have made a decision, "Let's change the place where we talk."

Bertolucci and Thomas followed Teng Jinxian to a corner in the Hall of Supreme Harmony and looked at him with burning eyes.

Teng Jinxian looked at each other and then said slowly: "Lin Weimin is a writer and a playwright. You all should know this."

The two nodded. They knew this at the beginning of their cooperation. They also knew that Lin Weimin was quite famous overseas. Both his novels and screenplays had won awards abroad. They all knew this.

"But there are some things you may not know..."

When Teng Jinxian said this, he paused. The curiosity on the faces of Bertolucci and his two people became even more intense. What else did they not know?

"First of all, the first point is that he is young and talented. Not only because of his own talent, but also because he has a good teacher."

"teacher?"

"That's right. Mr. Wan Jiabao, China's most outstanding contemporary playwright, is equivalent to your Italian Dario Fo if you want to make an analogy."

Bertolucci and Thomas are film makers, so they naturally know Dario Fo's status in the Italian theater world, so this teacher is indeed very good.

"Because of this teacher, Lin Weimin has always cooperated with the most famous and powerful drama theater in China. In his crew, he always says what he says, and even the director has to listen to him.

This is true not only for plays, but also for movies and TV series. The director didn't even have the right to change the script he wrote.

The year before last, he had brokered a cooperation between the country's CCTV and the largest wireless TV station in Xiangjiang. But because they had a conflict with him, he forcefully kicked everyone in Xiangjiang back.

He also participated in our country's largest holiday party. The reviewers of his program team are all government leaders at all levels. If he raises any objection to his program, he dares to scold them bloody.

Last time my direct boss invited him to a meeting and even praised him a few times, but he still didn't show any respect and left the meeting midway. "

Teng Jinxian complained about Lin Weimin's "misdeeds", which shocked Bertolucci and Thomas.

Is this a screenwriter?

Our profit-minded mafia is not as domineering as him!

"Why did he do this? It's too much!" Thomas said indignantly, feeling very sorry for his colleagues who were bullied by Lin Weimin.

"Why? It depends on his connections and the quality of his works!" Teng Jinxian said, and then added: "Since he started his creative career, he has won almost all domestic literary awards, large and small, and the sales volume of his works All calculated in terms of millions of copies, each drama was a hit, and a casually planned TV series set a ratings record in China and Hong Kong. The last two years have been even more incredible, with the screenwriter's films winning awards overseas. , I also won literary awards in Nihong and the United States..."

"Also, I just said that the publication he presides over is called "Contemporary", which is the largest literary publication in China. Each issue sells one to two million copies. He can be a publisher of this level at such a young age. Editor-in-chief relies on solid work ability.

I can say that more than half of all well-known young and middle-aged writers in China in the past ten years were his classmates, or simply discovered by him, so his influence in the Chinese literary world is very important. "

Teng Jinxian said and sighed deeply again, "If this is the case, this person is at most influential in the literary and drama circles, but he cannot interfere with our film bureau and your film shooting, but... "

His pause again made Bertolucci and Thomas' hearts twitch. This "but" was too terrible. They looked at Teng Jinxian with worries in their eyes.

"He himself has an administrative position, and his level is not low. He is already a senior cadre in our country. He is less than thirty years old this year. He still has a lot of time in the future, and his level will definitely exceed this.

Let me give you an example and you will understand. The publication he presided over was called "Contemporary", and the previous editor-in-chief of "Contemporary" was the president of the National Literature Publishing House. There is also the previous editor-in-chief of another publication in their unit. After being promoted, he became a full-time minister, which is the level of my leadership. "

Although Bertolucci and Thomas do not understand the ecology of China's officialdom, they only need to use common sense analysis to understand that if it is true as Teng Jinxian said, then Lin Weimin is indeed a person that many people in the Chinese government do not want to offend. .

"Not only that, he is also the funder of our country's largest literary foundation, and he is also the vice president. Do you know who the president is?"

Bertolucci and Thomas shook their heads cooperatively.

Teng Jinxian did not sell it, and said: "One of the presidents is the most well-known literary elder in our country, and the other is a leader at the head of state level."

Hearing this, Thomas's eyes flickered. He never thought that Lin Weimin's energy would be so huge!

Teng Jinxian finally finished his long speech and looked at Bertolucci and Thomas quietly.

The words Teng Jinxian just said were spinning in their minds. Thomas was unsure and asked: "We are foreigners after all, and we are here to shoot a movie about China. It is very good for China's external publicity. You should ensure that our investment is not affected, right?"

Teng Jinxian smiled bitterly and said: "Mr. Thomas, there is an old saying in China that only a thousand days can make a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent a thief. If Lin Weimin is determined to cause trouble for us, no one can guarantee whether it will affect this movie. Shoot!”

Bertolucci and Thomas looked at each other. With Lin Weimin's influence, it would not be difficult to cause trouble for them.

Thomas asked with the last glimmer of hope: "Isn't he afraid that your government will hold him accountable?"

"If he was afraid, he wouldn't do it. At most, it would be administrative punishment, suspension or the like. The annual royalties from novels and the box office of dramas are millions of dollars per year, let alone in our country. You Western countries are also rich, so this kind of punishment will have no impact on him."

Bertolucci and Thomas looked at each other in silence.

Teng Jinxian understood the feelings of the two people very well.

I was making a good movie, but why did I end up with something like this?