Chapter 619 618 "The Piano of Steel"
The two cousins looked at him with worried eyes.
"What's going on? Isn't it just an article that hasn't been published? It's nothing." Fang Minghua said with a smile: "Reportages are not allowed to be published, so let's write novels. But I won't talk about that today. Spend a good Christmas with your two kids!”
Fang Minghua is actually prepared for both: realistic reportage is not enough, but fictional novels are okay?
Before Fang Minghua came to this era, the "Three Musketeers of Tiexi" (Yu Banyu, Shuang Xuetao and Zheng Zhi) were more famous in the literary works reflecting the workers of Northeast China, and were called " New Northeastern Literature.”
As those born in the 1980s, they are all more than 20 years old. Necessary narrative elements of Northeastern stories such as layoffs, murders, and beatings are woven into the plot of the novel, becoming a symbol of the description of this period.
There is also crime literature, such as "The Past of the Northeastern Detective" and "The Good Man Wang Zhiyong".
However, Fang Minghua feels that the movie "The Piano of Steel" is not more shocking and has more impact.
The film is written and directed by Zhang Meng, starring Wang Qianyuan and Qin Hailu. The film tells the story of a father who worked hard for his daughter's music dream, and finally used steel to provide steel for his daughter with the help of friends around him. The story of building a piano.
Northeastern director Zhang Meng used his unique sense of romance to record such a group of lost middle-aged people and the lost 1990s.
The sudden transformation caused those workers who had been staying in the factory for decades to suddenly lose their livelihood and were caught off guard.
Some of them are unemployed at home, some become gamblers, some become locksmiths, some become butchers, some go into business, and some become thieves...
They No longer young, no diploma, no savings, little time and capital to start over.
They are rigid and have no other better way out than the factory.
They are lost, dejected, lose confidence, lose strength, but they are also stubborn.
But one thing has never changed.
They always believe that their own hands can make up for the embarrassment of being abandoned by the times. They use the worker spirit that they were once proud of to prove their dignity to their children and to this era.
New Year's Day is coming soon, and 1992 is over.
The most important event in the domestic literary world in 1992 was naturally the successful holding of the first World Chinese Literature Prize Competition.
Contributions from different countries and regions, high-standard reading classes and jury members, outstanding works selected and high bonuses have all made the Literature Award attract attention at home and abroad.
Some people have even predicted that the Chinese Literature Award will replace the Mao Dun Award and become China's largest award. Of course, this assertion is premature, but the Chinese value a good start. The success of the first event is undoubtedly very exciting for Fang Minghua and other people who have worked hard for it.
Of course, at the end of the year, one of Fang Minghua's own reportages could not be published smoothly, which was not a happy thing in any case. More importantly, it made Fang Minghua feel that what he wanted to say was not said.
Let’s use novels.
After New Year's Day, Fang Minghua started writing a novel based on the movie "The Piano of Steel".
The storyline of the movie is not complicated.
In the early 1990s, an industrial city in Northeast China. After Chen Guilin, a former steel factory worker, was laid off, in order to make ends meet, he formed a wedding and funeral band, and spent his days running around in weddings, funerals, and shop openings.
At this time, his wife Xiaoju was overwhelmed by the burden of life, and fell in love with a wealthy businessman. Afterwards, Xiao Ju returned gloriously, demanding a divorce from her husband Chen Guilin, and demanding custody of her only daughter Chen Xiaoyuan. Who can give her daughter a piano has become the key to the custody battle.
Chen Guilin hopes to train his daughter to be an excellent pianist. In order to obtain custody of his daughter, he endured all kinds of pressure and raised money to buy a piano for his daughter. After being frustrated everywhere, he decided to take risks and went to school at night with his girlfriend Shuxian and his good buddies from the steel factory. Stealing a piano, but was discovered and caught.
When all methods failed, Guilin accidentally found a Russian document about pianos, so he called his partners to start the journey of hand-making pianos in the dilapidated factory. Finally, after retiring the thief, With the help of the full-time gangster, the gangster brother, the Pork Prince and a group of lonely brothers, they built a "steel" piano, and a group of men fought for their dignity.
Love, friendship and passion, humor burns absurdly in impossible tasks.
The film was very well made and won the Golden Rooster Award, the Huabiao Award, the Bay Area Film and Golden Horse Award, the Fesippi International Film Critics Award, etc.
Later, a TV series of the same name was adapted from the movie, but Fang Minghua has not seen it.
Usually, Fang Minghua adapts movie scripts into novels, usually novellas or short stories with a relatively small number of words.
But this time, Fang Minghua planned to write a long novel.
The film itself also has shortcomings:
First of all, the narrative rhythm of the film is loose at the beginning and tight at the other. The director may have paid too much attention to the appearance of the characters at the beginning, causing the second half of the film to be too tight, especially in the last thirty Within minutes, the plot was compressed too much, the scene connections were blunt, and there were even blunt and unreasonable scene connections.
Secondly, the narrative clues of the film are relatively single. One of the two hidden lines in the film is Chen Guilin’s ex-wife’s fight for the child, which seems more embarrassing. Either the description of this aspect should be strengthened and the motivations of the characters should be strengthened. It also adds some difficulties, either abbreviating or not writing at all.
The other clue is the choice of the chimney, which is too loosely connected to the main plot. In fact, the move of the chimney to the characters should be strengthened. However, due to insufficient foreshadowing, the audience is not aware of this emotion. Wouldn't agree too much.
And this is enough to solve these two problems in the length of a novel.
Moreover, the ten days or so he returned to Fengtian touched Fang Minghua too much, and there were some things he really wanted to write about.
The reality that is too direct and cold cannot be written, so use a kind of black humor and some absurd words to express it.
Fang Minghua spent the entire month of January immersed in writing. From morning to night, he basically did these three things: eating, writing, and sleeping. His daughter-in-law, Song Tangtang, was a little worried.
I have been married for several years, and I have never seen Fang Minghua write so crazily.
But sometimes, fate seemed to play a joke on him.
Just when Fang Minghua was rewriting a novel because his reportage had not been published, things suddenly took a turn for the better. Xiao Dai called and said that the reportage that had been shelved would be published in "Internal Reference" and disseminated within a certain range of high-level officials.
That’s a good thing.
Fang Minghua was very happy to hear this.
Isn’t this the purpose and significance of writing this reportage?
Song Tangtang was very happy after hearing this, and even made a special call to tell Li Li, who had returned to school, the news.
This year’s Spring Festival can be celebrated happily.
The Spring Festival of 1993 came earlier than before. January 22nd was New Year’s Eve. On this day, Fang Minghua, who had been bored in his study all day, had to come out to have New Year’s Eve dinner with his family and watch the Spring Festival Gala. New year.
(End of this chapter)