Chapter 604 603 "Hello, Mr. Tree"
In the literary world, Jia Pingwa can definitely be regarded as a model worker, not to mention short and medium stories, big novels one after another, and writing at an extremely fast speed .
Lu Yao's "The Ordinary World" took six years to write, Chen Zhongshi's "White Deer Plain" also took five years to write, and now Jia Pingwa's "Abandoned Capital" has only been written for a few months!
It’s impossible not to admire this.
Fang Minghua and the others stayed in Tangyu Town for a week before returning to Xijing.
Jia Pingwa continued to revise the manuscript here.
Actually, it is much better here than at home. His wife is divorcing him, and to a certain extent, he is now homeless.
Fang Minghua returned to Xijing, and his daughter-in-law Song Tangtang also came back from Yanjing and told him that the preparatory work for the crew of "Westward Journey" has basically been completed. The film will be produced by Stephen Chow's Xingwei Co., Ltd., Shengshi Film and Television Company, and United Produced by Yanjing Film Studio.
In fact, China Film Co-production Company only has a name and sells a dragon mark. The main investors are Xingwei Co., Ltd. and Shengshi Film and Television. The total investment is expected to be 40 million Hong Kong dollars, with Shengshi Film and Television accounting for one third.
“Now Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei are looking for the main actors of this drama 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 Fairy Qingxia and Zixia?" Fang Minghua asked curiously.
“I heard from Stephen Chow that she is a Hong Kong actress named Zhu Yin, and she co-starred with him in "Fight Back to School 2". Although she debuted not long ago, her acting skills are good." Song Tangtang said.
Oh.
"Where is Tang Monk?"
"This, it seems that it has not been determined yet."
"Tell Stephen Chow to let Luo Jiaying play the role." Fang Minghua said.
"Who is Luo Jiaying? Is he an actor from Xiangjiang? Why haven't I heard of this actor?" Song Tangtang felt very confused.
"He is an actor from Xiangjiang. He originally sang Cantonese opera and later switched to filmmaking. I went to Xiangjiang two years ago and heard about this actor. Zhou Xingchi must know about it." Fang Minghua explained.
"Okay, I'll give Stephen Chow a call at work tomorrow."
Well. As long as "As Long as the Westward Journey" has these two actors, plus Stephen Chow's gold medal partner Ng Man-tat, The effect will not be worse than in history.
Don’t worry about this for now.
"Tangtang, the filming of "Westward Journey" won't start until the end of August, so you can have a good rest during these two months." Fang Minghua said.
Unexpectedly, Song Tangtang glanced at him.
"Have you forgotten that Zhang Yimou is going to shoot "Alive"? I still have to worry about this! The day after tomorrow I will go with the crew to Zibo, Shandong Province. The filming location is in a street called Zhoucun Street. I have to go and take a look. I'm relieved."
Fang Minghua was speechless and couldn't help but complain: "Don't you have a vice president? Why are you the only one doing this?"
"Wang Quan'an's "Textile Girl" has also started filming, so he has to keep an eye on it." Song Tangtang replied.
Hey. Fang Minghua sighed.
"Okay, don't sigh." Song Tangtang hugged Fang Minghua's neck very affectionately: "I won't be able to stay in Zibo for a few days. I will go home after things are settled, and I will stay with you!"
< br>"I don't care. I'm worried that you are tired and have two kids. I miss you when I don't see you."
"I miss them too. When I come back from Zibo, let's go out as a family." Travel! How about going to Dalian or Qingdao and taking your children to see the sea? ”
"Okay, I have nothing to do anyway."
"Then it's settled, you can continue to be good while I'm not at home." Song Tangtang gently touched Fang Minghua's head.
Song Tangtang hurriedly left home with his suitcase and headed to Lu Province, but Fang Minghua was not idle.
After walking around Taibai Mountain, it’s time to write something. Before Fang Minghua came to this era, he read such an article on the Internet, saying that "literature in the 1990s was gray."
The 1980s is called the "golden age" of literature because the ideals and passions of the era benefited literature. Compared with the dazzling golden light of the 1980s, the literature of the 1990s was grayer - chaotic and bleak, barbaric and submissive, also because of the times.
This era is undergoing drastic changes.
The British writer Dickens had this passage in his "A Tale of Two Cities":
It was the best of times and the worst of times; it was an age of wisdom. It was a time of foolishness; it was a time of trust, it was a time of doubt.
It is a season of light, it is a season of darkness; it is the spring of hope, it is the winter of despair; people have everything before them, people have nothing before them; people are on their way to heaven, people are on their way to heaven Towards the gates of hell.
Fang Minghua feels that it is very suitable for the era in which he lives.
Since I witnessed the changes in the lives of female workers in the textile city, I thought of going to Ningming to pay homage to Meng Hongxia, whom Yang Xiaohong met by chance, and Zhou Shunlai, who lost an arm due to the war.
In the torrent of the times, I have no choice but to slowly fall to the bottom of life.
Keep writing about little people.
They should not be ignored.
Fang Minghua soon thought of a small-budget film "Hello, Mr. Tree" that depicts the tragic fate of young people at the bottom.
The film mainly tells the story of a rural young man named "Shu" who gradually collapsed and became insane due to family tragedy and real-life difficulties.
However, Mr. Shu is a small figure who exists in every village under the development of society. He represents the socialization process of generations, who want to get rid of their own destiny but have no choice but to lead to 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 protagonist Wang Baoqiang's acting skills are so explosive that he can directly become a god.
The smoking posture and the hands with nowhere to rest have become classic shots in Beijing Film Studio's textbooks.
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 a Jia Zhangke movie, but then suddenly becomes avant-garde and magical.
In the narrative transformation process from explicit irony to metaphor, the connotation under the sense of form is buried deeply, which is surreal, absurd, and very magical realism.
This time, Fang Minghua decided to think carefully and write a novella. Anyway, he had plenty of time to think about it carefully.
The small yard is very quiet in summer.
The little German shepherd bean sprout was lying lazily in the shade under the eaves to rest, but still looked at the door warily, pricking up his ears as soon as there was any movement outside.
Little Douyao, the civet cat, went shopping again.
Unlike the German shepherd little bean sprouts that stay home loyally, the little bean sprouts run out every two days, but usually come back at night, and Fang Minghua doesn't care about it.
Fang Minghua was in the study room on the second floor, typing on the computer with concentration.
He has been doing this for the past few days.
The background of the story is still in the Northeast.
This was once the eldest son of the Republic and the pride of the motherland. With the advent of the economic tide, it has declined at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Not only cities, but also rural areas.
The Northeast in the 1990s is a place worth writing about.
(End of this chapter)