Back to 80: My Literary Life

The biggest change in this TV series is that the original male lead, Sun Shaoping, was demoted to male No. 2, while the original male No. 2, Sun Shaoan, became male No. 1.

In the original novel, rural youths such as Sun Shaoping and Jin Bo were thirsty for knowledge, and longed for the civilization of modern society and the rich spiritual and material life of cities.

They tried every means to get out of the countryside and enter the city, which reflected the various contradictory mentalities of these young people who moved from rural areas to cities in the process of pursuing modern civilization, and reflected the huge differences between the social life in the "cross-region" and the urban and rural cultures.

As a result, in the TV series, the image of Sun Shaoan was highlighted, and he became an out-and-out village leader, who worked hard to get rich and led the villagers to get rich.

This is indeed politically correct, but it does not conform to the original idea, and does not fully express what Lu Yao wants to express.

Now Lu Yao is still alive. If Fang Minghua changes it this way, Lu Yao will definitely be dissatisfied.

Sun Shaoping is his favorite!

In addition, Jin Bo, a very important supporting role, was cancelled, and his part was changed to Runsheng.

You should know that Jinbo and Runsheng's personalities are very different in the original book, so how can they be related?

In the original book, after Jinbo returned to his hometown after demobilization, he missed the Tibetan girl in his heart and traveled thousands of miles to find the girl in the place where he had stayed before, as written in the book.

The book says:

"He stood at the crossroads, singing this song without echo with tears streaming down his face. Many Tibetan and Han pedestrians passing by stopped in surprise and listened to him singing as if no one was around. Most people thought that he was a mentally ill person from outside. However, he sang this beautiful song so heartbreakingly!"

Jinbo has always been an idealist living in the secular world, with a cheerful personality and smooth dealings, but he is the person with the purest love in the book.

Compared with him, the love of others is a little boring, nothing more than a talented man and a beautiful woman, and a good match. Jinbo himself interprets "love is deep and lasting without knowing where it comes from."

How can such a character be deleted easily? !

After deciding to change his mindset, Fang Minghua began to write.

Also, Wang Lei's version of "Ordinary World" has more than 50 episodes, which is a bit long. Now is still the film era, and we need to control costs, so about 40 episodes will be enough.

The manuscript of "Skywalker" is about 420,000 words. Fang Minghua copied it onto a five-inch disc and sent it to Shu Bin, who was far away in Haikou. The publishing was handled by Shengshi Book Publishing Company, so Fang Minghua no longer worried about it.

Since Shu Bin became the general manager of Shengshi Book, he has been ambitious. On the one hand, he actively contacted Nan Huaijin in Hong Kong and prepared to publish Nan Huaijin's representative works such as "A Different Interpretation of the Analects" and "Laozi Said" in the mainland.

On the other hand, he carried out drastic reforms within the company, learned from the mature experience of Hong Kong and European and American publishing circles, and began to establish a series of modern publishing operation mechanisms such as sales channels and advertising operations.

Through this book, Fang Minghua also wants to see what the results of his reforms over the past few years are?

At the same time, at the request of Bai Miao, the editor-in-chief of Yanhe magazine, a classic plot from the book Skywalker was selected and published in the first issue of Yanhe next year.

Life passed slowly.

The TV series Desire became very popular in Yanjing. When other provincial and municipal TV stations saw this situation, they actively sent people to negotiate with Shengshi Film and Television to purchase the film and television copyright. Fang Minghua also won the reputation of "the first screenwriter in China".

This title was proposed by a reporter from the Legal Daily in a report.

This news release mainly reported that the TV series Desire became a hot drama this year. After being broadcast in Yanjing, the ratings remained high.

The reporter also conducted a field investigation and found that there were more than 100,000 residents in the Yanshan Petrochemical City Family Quarters in Yanjing, and the ratings in this community reached 98%! It is already on par with CCTV's "News Network".

According to a questionnaire survey conducted by the Yanjing Daily, as many as 96% of citizens said they had watched "Desire", compared with 87% of "Huo Yuanjia" and 83% of "Shanghai Beach", which is enough to prove the influence of "Desire".

During the broadcast time of "Desire", the streets were even more empty, because everyone sat in front of the TV on time to watch the show.

During the broadcast period of the drama, it is said that the social security was so good that people did not need to lock the door when they went to bed, the crime rate in Yanjing also plummeted, and even thieves were influenced by the kindness of the characters in the drama. For this reason, the Yanjing Public Security Bureau is preparing to award the "Desire" crew the "Maintaining Public Security Award".

As a screenwriter, the writer Minghua has made great contributions. He has also written a series of film scripts such as "Hidden in the Dust", "Youth", "No One Can Be Less", and "Qiu Ju Goes to Court", all of which have achieved remarkable achievements. "Desire" is the first TV drama script he has written. It is so sensational that he is truly the first screenwriter in China.

Fang Minghua does not have the habit of reading the "Legal Daily". Recently, he has been staying at home to write the script of "Ordinary World" and rarely goes out.

On the one hand, he had to write the script quickly. On the other hand, it was winter now, and there were often howling cold winds and snow outside. What could be more comfortable than hiding in a warm study, brewing a cup of steaming Longjing tea and typing?

When he was tired, he could practice calligraphy and appreciate calligraphy and painting. How pleasant it was?

He was too lazy to even play mahjong.

It was Song Tangtang who came back from get off work at night and told him about it, and brought back a newspaper.

"Look, the number one screenwriter in the country, tut tut. Why not the number one writer?" Song Tangtang said in a teasing tone.

Fang Minghua took it and took a look.

It really was.

"Hey, first writer? Aren't you afraid that I will be drowned by people's spit? Don't listen to these reporters' nonsense, this is called flattery!" Fang Minghua threw the newspaper aside.

"Then what is this public security award, are you going to receive it? Zheng Xiaolong from Yanjing TV called this afternoon and asked you to go to Yanjing." Song Tangtang asked.

"No." Fang Minghua refused without thinking; "Thank you for the kindness of Yanjing Public Security, Zheng Xiaolong and others can receive it, why go to Yanjing in such a cold weather?"

"Okay, I'll call you back when I go to work tomorrow."

"Tangtang, how many TV stations have purchased the copyright of this TV series "Desire"?" Fang Minghua asked when he thought of something.

"Well, there are already four, and three more are in negotiation. The average is 12,000 yuan per episode."

"Congratulations, Mr. Song. Shengshi Film and Television has just been established and it has made a good start."

"Oh. This is still thanks to my great writer Fang who wrote a good script and made plans at home. Only then can I win the battle from afar."

"What great writer Fang? Call me husband!"

"Husband." Song Tangtang replied in a coquettish voice.

Ah.

It seems that the training is still successful.

Fang Minghua shook his head and stood up and walked towards the study.

After chatting and laughing for a while, it's time to write.

It's almost New Year's Day 1990.

The 1980s are about to pass.

On December 20, Fang Minghua received an invitation letter forwarded by the Writers Association: inviting him to go to Yanjing on December 27 to attend the Third National Youth Writers Creation Conference, and to attend the "Literature Night·Yanjing·89" evening party in the auditorium of the Ministry of Materials on the evening of December 31.