Literary Master 1978

Another Wednesday, Lin Chaoyang went to the Chinese Department to take Lin Geng's class.

After class, Lin Chaoyang asked: "I haven't seen Lao Ye in class these two times."

Lao Ye is Ye Junyuan, the big brother of the 77-level Chinese Department.

Chen Jiangong replied: "I rebelled against the school and was admitted to the Renmin University of China as a graduate student."

"Can I take the postgraduate entrance examination in my freshman year?"

Lin Chaoyang's question was not answered, so Chen Jiangong forced him to go to Building 32 and asked Lin Chaoyang to help him read the newly written script.

"How do I know about scripts? I still have to go to work!"

"Jack of all trades, master of none, you are a great writer now."

Chen Jiangong dragged Lin Chaoyang to the dormitory and took out the first draft of the script he had just written - "Conscience".

Lin Chaoyang didn't know much about drama creation and wanted to be humble, but Chen Jiangong said: "It's all about telling stories. It's pretty much the same. Just give me your opinions."

Naturally, Chen Jiangong's words cannot be taken seriously. From the perspective of readers and viewers, the difference between novels and scripts is indeed not big, it is just a change of form.

But if you look closely, there are huge differences between the two, whether in terms of creative purpose, expression method, structural characteristics or reading/viewing experience.

For example, novels usually use detailed text narratives, which include a large number of inner monologues, environmental descriptions, and various rhetorical and narrative techniques.

But the script is different. It mainly relies on dialogue and stage cues to advance the plot. The language must be refined and concise, and can be presented to the audience in the most intuitive way.

The structural requirements of the novel are also relatively free, and the author can flexibly arrange the chapters, perspective and chronological order according to his own ideas.

The required structure of the script must be compact, with a strong sense of rhythm, and focus on the design of scene transitions and dramatic conflicts. It is usually divided into acts or scenes, and each scene revolves around a specific conflict or time.

It is easy for ordinary people to get into the novel, but it takes a certain amount of patience to read the script. The first feeling many people have when reading the script is "do it".

A brief explanation of time, place, and environment, followed by character dialogue and description of expressions and body movements, can only show readers the objectively existing material world.

The customs of the times shown in the script, the emotions given to the characters and the ups and downs of the plot are jointly completed by the feelings of the readers and the audience.

"Conscience" is a one-act play that tells the story of the two daughters of the XF director of a certain province who brought home a blind old man they met on the street one day. This blind old man's daughter died unjustly twenty years ago, and the old man cried blindly.

Now that the buzz has passed, the old man came to the provincial capital to help his daughter, and Director XF is the son-in-law of the blind old man. He was the one who exposed his wife during the "righteous extermination of relatives", and the two daughters are also the old man's granddaughters. .

In the play, only the director of XF understands the relationship between several people, but in the end he cruelly burned the old man's SF letter.

Lin Chaoyang has never written a script, but has seen many scripts and drama performances.

The story of "Conscience" has the typical characteristics of scar literature. It may be a bit tacky 40 years later, but it is still very fresh when viewed now, especially in the final ending, which is quite ingenious.

"Well written."

"Really good?" Chen Jiangong asked somewhat unconfidently.

"I'm a layman, what do you expect me to say? Based on my personal feelings, it's pretty good."

Chen Jiangong felt a little regretful, "You're not good at your level. You can't even see any problems."

Lin Chaoyang looked at him fiercely, did I ask you to read the script to me?

"It's a joke, it's a joke!" Chen Jiangong apologized cheerfully and asked, "Just say it, just say it casually."

Lin Chaoyang turned over the script again and considered every word for a long time.

"I think this line can be changed."

"Change it to what?"

Lin Chaoyang was referring to the scene in the play where Director XF said to the blind old man, "Don't make trouble unreasonably."

He said: "You can follow with two more sentences."

"With what?"

"Director XF: Don't make trouble unreasonably.

Blind old man: Chief, I am right!

Director XF: Don’t make trouble even if you are justified! "

Chen Jiangong frowned, "Is this emphasis? It's not bad."

"Have you read the People's Daily for the past two days?" Lin Chaoyang asked.

Chen Jiangong shook his head, "I didn't read it."

"Are you still a college student?"

Lin Chaoyang took the opportunity to make a sarcastic comment to Chen Jiangong, and urged: "Let's get down to business."

"There was an article in the newspaper about the SF masses, and there was a sentence in it."

Chen Jiangong's eyes lit up, "That's it?"

"Um."

Chen Jiangong immediately crossed out his original line and added two lines according to Lin Chaoyang's guidance. Then, the more he watched, the more ironic and spicy he became.

Finally, he couldn't help but give Lin Chaoyang a thumbs up, "What a great talent!"

With these two lines, Chen Jiangong was even more convinced of Lin Chaoyang's creative talent, and he would not let Lin Chaoyang leave until he had to grind out the script.

"I have to go to work, so I'll get it done at home in the evening."

Lin Chaoyang finally found an excuse to escape from Building 32. When he got off work, he saw Chen Jiangong waiting at the door of the library early.

"Why are you like a dog-skin plaster?"

Chen Jiangong was not angry when he was ridiculing him. He smiled and said, "Isn't this for art?"

If a cultured person is shameless, no one can stop him.

Lin Chaoyang brought Chen Jiangong home. When Tao Yushu heard that he was going to tinker with a play, he immediately became interested and urged Lin Chaoyang to help revise the script.

Love to tinker, this is probably the biggest commonality between Tao Yushu and Chen Jiangong.

With Tao Yushu's supervision, Lin Chaoyang couldn't be lazy and could only accompany Chen Jiangong to polish the script. After three consecutive nights, he finally finished the script, and Chen Jiangong let him go.

"Yushu, thank you so much, you must come to support it when it premieres!"

"No problem."

Chen Jiangong and Tao Yushu said goodbye happily, completely ignoring the cows and horses on the side.

I have been busy for several days, and no one said "thank you" to me, say thank you?

Lin Chaoyang sighed deeply, why do people around him love to tinker so much?

In a blink of an eye, the eighth issue of People's Literature has been published for more than a week. As a literary magazine of the highest level in the Chinese literary world, People's Literature has unquestionable appeal among readers, with sales of almost 400,000 to 500,000 copies per issue.

In the first three or four days after the publication of this issue of People's Literature, the sales of the magazine remained at the same level as in previous issues, but the situation began to change suddenly on the fifth day.

Readers flocked to the magazine, and the sales of magazines in many bookstores and newsstands increased by two or three times every day. The inventory that should have been able to sell for a month was swept away in just one week.

Those who work in the book industry know very well that this must be because there are good works in this issue of People's Literature.

The staff of the bookstore don't even need to flip through the magazine to know why this issue is so popular.

As the main work of this issue of People's Literature, the title of "The Wreath under the Mountain" is prominently printed on the cover of the magazine in the form of a headline.

The situation that People's Literature encountered in bookstores, newsstands and post offices in various places also occurred after the previous issue of People's Literature was released.

The July issue of People's Literature just published Jiang Zilong's "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office". As one of the pioneering works of reform literature, "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office" has been sought after by readers since its publication, making the sales of that issue of People's Literature take a beautiful upward curve.

The sudden popularity of People's Literature in August seems to be even hotter than the previous issue.

The inventory is in a hurry, and Xinhua Bookstores in various places have fed back information to Renwen Press.

But at this time, Renwen Press could not take care of the bookstore's delivery request, because on the second day after this issue of People's Literature was published, they received a purchase request from the army to purchase 50,000 copies of the eighth issue of People's Literature at one time.

50,000 copies of the magazine are not too much for the monthly sales of People's Literature, but because the army made a sudden purchase request, Renwen Press and the printing factory they cooperated with were somewhat caught off guard.

After hastily reprinting the magazines that the army wanted to purchase, Renwen Publishing House finally had time to deal with the bookstore's delivery request.

The disconnect between reprinting and delivery led to the most direct result that the eighth issue of "People's Literature" was hard to find in various places.

At this time, half a month had passed since this issue of "People's Literature" was released, and the reputation of the novel "The Wreath Under the Mountain" had spread virally among the vast readership.

Since February this year, the war between our country and our southern neighbor has always been the focus of the people's attention. Although the war lasted only a month in name, in fact, small-scale conflicts have continued to this day.

For neighbors who repay kindness with enmity, the people have a very simple idea, that is, they must be taught a hard lesson.

But at the same time, the Chinese people are also worried about the hard work and heroic sacrifice of the frontline soldiers.

At this time, the eighth issue of "People's Literature" with "The Wreath Under the Mountain" was released.

As the first novel with this war as the background, "The Wreath Under the Mountain" attracted a lot of readers' attention as soon as it was published.