Back to 80: My Literary Life

However, Chen Kaige's depression was only for a while, and he soon recovered his usual high spirits.

He said that he would be able to realize his ambitions when he returned from the United States one day, and finally he excitedly recited a poem:

When you are old, you must sing and drink, and it is good to return home with youth as your companion.

From Ba Gorge through Wu Gorge, you will go down to Xiangyang and head to Luoyang

Du Fu's "Hearing that the Government Troops Recovered Henan and Hebei".

Fang Minghua suddenly remembered that there was a rumor on the Internet in later generations that when Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou competed for the chief director of the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, they recited this poem passionately in front of the judges.

As a result, he was eliminated in the first round.

After the banquet, everyone went home, and Zhang Yimou even called a taxi for Chen Kaige and told the driver to take him to the hotel.

Fang Minghua was also about to leave, but Zhang Yimou stopped him.

"Minghua, I've thought of a subject!"

"Hmm?"

"Write about the history of Jing Ke assassinating the King of Qin. In 1990, I starred in a movie called "The Ancient and Modern Battle of Qin Terracotta Warriors". Although the final performance was not satisfactory, I am still very interested in this period of history, so please write a script about this."

Huh?

Why didn't you say that Chen Kaige's "The Assassination of Qin" was a failure?

These two have been secretly competing with each other.

"Well, I'll try." Fang Minghua agreed.

In the next few days, Chen Kaige signed a contract with Shengshi Film and Television, and then returned to Yanjing to prepare for an overseas visa. Fang Minghua naturally didn't have to worry about these.

Since Song Tangtang will not come back for the Spring Festival this year and will spend the New Year with her cousin in San Francisco, Fang Minghua decided to take the two children to her parents' house for dinner during the Spring Festival, so there is no need to prepare too much for the New Year.

Now it's winter vacation, the two children have gone to her grandmother's house, and the nanny Xiaoqin has also returned to her hometown in Shu Province, but she doesn't plan to come back again - she is getting married.

Before leaving, Fang Minghua not only settled the salary, but also gave the girl a big red envelope of 10,000 yuan.

The new nanny will not come back until after the Chinese New Year. During this time, Fang Minghua is alone at home. She doesn't have much to do, so she concentrates on writing.

Zhang Yimou can't wait. It seems that he wants to start work after the Chinese New Year, so Fang Minghua also wants to hurry up and finish writing.

Historically, "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou is definitely the first real commercial blockbuster in China. The investment is as high as 260 million yuan, the domestic box office is 250 million yuan, but the global box office is as high as 180 million US dollars, equivalent to 1.48 billion yuan, not including the income from CDs.

The film was rated as the first of the top ten best films in the world by Time Magazine in the United States, and won many honors such as the Oscar Award and the American Film Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Although the domestic box office is not good, it is the first Chinese film to achieve a box office of over 100 million yuan in the local market. It is said that the box office accounts for 30% of the total domestic box office that year!

The reason why "flowers bloom inside the wall but are fragrant outside the wall" is mainly due to the two main reasons that domestic audiences and film critics think. First, the plot is thin and the characters are too stereotyped.

Another reason is that the tyrant Qin Shihuang is beautified.

Mr. Jin's evaluation is very representative: "I like Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum", and the later "Ju Dou" is also very good. I dislike "Hero" the most and completely deny it. "Hero" made the famous tyrant Qin Shihuang in history like this, which is completely opposite to the image in history, deceiving the audience, and it has the intention of clearing his name and reversing the verdict. It divides people's values ​​into several levels and does not respect life. This is a very absurd movie, so I don't like it."

However, slowly, Qin Shihuang's reputation began to improve.

I have to rewrite this script and must deal with this problem seriously.

Take your time and prepare for the New Year.

Every time we enter the twelfth lunar month, time passes quickly, and it is New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye.

This year, I spent the New Year with my parents.

My younger sister Fang Mingli took her children and husband Liu Jianjun back to his hometown as soon as her unit was on holiday this year. Liu Jianjun has been studying abroad for a doctorate in the past few years and did not come back for the Spring Festival. Naturally, he will go back this year to reunite with his parents.

Fang Minghua brought her two children here to fill the void left by her younger sister's family. The old couple was very happy.

Starting from the morning of New Year's Eve, mother Zhang Fenglan was busy in the kitchen. Dad sometimes went to help. Fang Minghua started to receive calls and text messages from the morning.

They were all relatives and friends who were here to pay New Year's greetings to each other.

Of course, the longest calls were made by Song Tangtang and Li Li who were far away in San Francisco.

There were also two children of the family who called their mother and aunt, and Xinxin called Fang Minghua dad - of course, they were talking in the room with their two children on their backs, but they didn't expect that their mother who passed by the door would hear them.

"Hey Minghua, who are you calling a good daughter?" Zhang Fenglan looked puzzled.

"Mom, you heard it wrong, oh. No, I was joking with Tangtang." Fang Minghua hurriedly covered up.

"Calling your own daughter-in-law a good daughter? Isn't this confusing the generations? You guys can think of it!" Zhang Fenglan said and turned away.

Alas.

Fang Minghua sighed.

It seems that this matter will be known sooner or later.

The Spring Festival Gala in 1999 was the last Spring Festival Gala in this world. CCTV put a lot of effort into it, and it was generally good.

The songs were the most popular songs of the year.

"Go Home Often to Visit" sung by Chen Hong, Cai Guoqing and others, "Eighteen Bends on the Mountain Road" by Li Qiong, and "Look at the Girl Across the Street" by Ren Xianqi

Fang Minghua found that his mother was very interested in the song "Go Home Often to Visit" and couldn't help singing along.

The skit was also good. Zhao Benshan, who was wearing a hat with his neck shrunk and his head tilted, said a golden sentence, "The spring breeze of reform is blowing all over the land. The Chinese people are really striving to make progress. We work together to cross the century. A flood is nothing. Thank you."

The whole audience laughed.

But Huang Hong and Ju Hao's skit "Cheer Up" really made people wonder what to say, especially the sentence "We workers should think for the country. If I don't get laid off, who will?"

This sentence sounds really awkward.

And the lyrics of "Start Over Again" sung by Liu Huan are also very ridiculous. Forget it, I won't talk about it.

Fortunately, this song did not appear in this Spring Festival Gala.

Then we visited relatives and paid New Year's greetings. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month passed quickly in a chaotic manner, and the New Year was over.

The children went to school and the adults went to work, and everything began to get back on track.

At noon that day, Fang Minghua went to the unit to sit down and asked about the 4th World Chinese Literature Award.

The shortlisted works of the reading class preliminary selection have all been announced in newspapers, television and the Internet. The next step is for the jury to enter the final review stage.

This time, the organizing committee decided to hold the jury meeting in Lanzhou. Fang Minghua didn't understand why it was so remote, and later he heard from Bai Miao that it was invited by the local government.

Since Bai Miao was in charge of everything, he naturally didn't interfere - you can hold it abroad if you have the ability.

After returning from work, Fang Minghua heard someone ringing the doorbell before he had time to drink a cup of tea. He went to open the door and found Zhang Yimou standing at the door with two bottles of Maotai in his hands.

With a smile on his face, he said, "Minghua, I wish you a happy new year."