Back to 80: My Literary Life

In the literary world, Jia Pingwa is definitely a model worker. Not to mention short and medium-length novels, he writes long novels one after another, and his writing speed is extremely fast.

Lu Yao wrote "Ordinary World" for six years, Chen Zhongshi wrote "White Deer Plain" for five years, and now Jia Pingwa has only written "Wasteland" for a few months!

This is admirable.

Fang Minghua and his friends stayed in Tangyu Town for a week and returned to Xijing.

Jia Pingwa continued to revise the manuscript here.

In fact, it is much better here than going home. His wife is divorcing him. In a sense, he is now homeless.

Fang Minghua returned to Xijing, and his wife Song Tangtang also came back from Yanjing. She told him that the preparatory work for the crew of "A Chinese Odyssey" was basically completed. The film will be produced by Stephen Chow's Xingwei Co., Ltd., Shengshi Film and Television Company, and co-produced by Yanjing Film Studio.

In fact, the China Film Co-production Company is just a name and a dragon logo. The main investors are Xingwei Co., Ltd. and Shengshi Film and Television. The total investment is expected to be 40 million Hong Kong dollars, and Shengshi Film and Television accounts for one-third.

"Now Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei are looking for the main actors for this play in Hong Kong. When the weather gets cooler at the end of August, we will go to Yinchuan Western Film and Television City to shoot!"

"Hey, who are the actors who play Qingxia and Zixia Fairy?" Fang Minghua asked curiously.

"I heard from Stephen Chow that it is a Hong Kong actress named Zhu Yin, who has worked with him in "Fight Back to School 2". Although she debuted not long ago, her acting skills are good." Song Tangtang said.

Oh.

"What about Tang Monk?"

"This seems to be undecided."

"Tell Stephen Chow to let Luo Jiaying play it." Fang Minghua said.

"Who is Luo Jiaying? Is he a Hong Kong actor? Why haven't I heard of this actor?" Song Tangtang was very confused.

"He is a Hong Kong actor. He used to sing Cantonese opera, but later switched to filming. I heard about this actor when I went to Hong Kong two years ago. Stephen Chow must know him." Fang Minghua explained.

"Okay, I'll call Stephen Chow tomorrow when I go to work."

Well. As long as "A Chinese Odyssey" has these two actors, plus Stephen Chow's golden partner Wu Mengda, the effect will not be worse than in history.

Don't worry about this for the time being.

"Tangtang, "A Chinese Odyssey" will not start shooting until the end of August, so you can have a good rest in the next two months." Fang Minghua said.

Unexpectedly, Song Tangtang glanced at him.

"Have you forgotten that Zhang Yimou is going to shoot "To Live"? I still have to worry about this! The day after tomorrow I will go to Zibo, Shandong Province with the crew. The filming location is in a place called Zhoucun Street. I have to go there to have a look." Fang Minghua was speechless and couldn't help but complain: "Don't you have a vice president? Why are you the only one busy?" "Wang Quanan's "The Weaving Girl" has also started shooting, and he has to keep an eye on it." Song Tangtang replied. Alas. Fang Minghua sighed. "Okay, don't sigh." Song Tangtang hugged Fang Minghua's neck affectionately: "I won't stay in Zibo for a few days. I'll go home after things are settled and accompany you well!"

"I don't care. I'm worried that you'll be tired. There are two children. I miss you when I don't see you often."

"I miss them too. When I come back from Zibo, our family will go on a trip! How about going to Dalian or Qingdao and taking the children to see the sea?"

"Okay, I don't have anything to do anyway."

"Then it's settled. You should continue to be a good boy during my absence." Song Tangtang gently touched Fang Minghua's head.

Song Tangtang hurriedly left home for Shandong Province with his suitcase, but Fang Minghua was not idle.

After a tour of Taibai Mountain, it's time to write something.

Before Fang Minghua came to this era, he read an article on the Internet saying that "the literature of the 1990s was gray."

The 1980s was called the "golden age" of literature because the ideals and passion of the times benefited literature. Compared with the dazzling golden light of the 1980s, the literature of the 1990s is grayish - chaotic and bleak, barbaric and submissive, also because of the times.

This era is undergoing drastic changes.

The British writer Dickens has such a passage in his "A Tale of Two Cities":

This is the best of times, and the worst of times; this is an age of wisdom, and this is an age of foolishness; this is a period of trust, and this is a period of doubt.

This is a bright season, and this is a dark season; this is the spring of hope, and this is the winter of disappointment; people have everything in front of them, and they have nothing in front of them; people are on the road to heaven, and people are heading for the gates of hell.

Fang Minghua feels that it is very suitable for the era in which he lives.

Since witnessing the changes in the lives of female workers in the textile city, I thought of Meng Hongxia, who met Yang Xiaohong by chance when I went to Ningming to pay tribute to Yang Xiaohong, and Zhou Shunlai, who lost an arm in the war.

In the torrent of the times, I have no choice but to slowly fall to the bottom of life.

Continue to write about small people.

They should not be ignored.

Fang Minghua quickly thought of a low-budget movie "Hello, Mr. Tree" that depicts the tragic fate of low-income youth.

The film mainly tells the story of a rural youth named "Shu" who gradually collapses and becomes insane in the face of family tragedy and real difficulties.

However, Mr. Tree is a small figure in every village under social development, representing the socialization process of generations, who want to escape their own fate but are helpless and move towards tragedy.

The film received good reviews and won the Best Film Award at the Yanjing University Student Film Festival and the Golden Goblet Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

The main character Wang Baoqiang's acting skills were explosive and he was directly deified.

The smoking posture and the pair of hands that had nowhere to put became classic shots in the Beijing Film Academy textbook.

The style of this movie is also very interesting. It is a comedy on the surface, but it is full of black humor. It starts out as plain as Jia Zhangke's movies, but suddenly becomes avant-garde and magical later.

From the narrative transition from explicit satire to metaphor, the connotation under the sense of form is buried very deep, surreal, absurd, and very magical realist.

This time, Fang Minghua decided to think carefully and write a novella. Anyway, there is plenty of time to think about it carefully.

The small yard in summer is very quiet.

The German Shepherd Xiao Doumiao lazily rested in the shade under the eaves of the corridor, but still looked at the gate vigilantly, and immediately pricked up his ears when there was any movement outside.

I don't know where the tabby cat Xiao Douya went to stroll again.

Unlike the German Shepherd, Xiaodouya runs out every two or three days, but usually comes back at night, and Fang Minghua doesn't care about it.

Fang Minghua is typing on the computer in the study room on the second floor.

He has been doing this for the past few days.

The story is still set in the Northeast.

This country, once the eldest son of the Republic and the pride of the motherland, has declined at a visible speed with the advent of the economic tide.

Not only the city, but also the countryside.

The Northeast in the 1990s is a place worth writing about.