Chapter 732 Someone wants to film "The Eighth Route Bus"
After hearing what Fang Minghua said, Bai Miao didn't mention it much, just smiled and said: "Minghua, you are throwing a bomb into the poetry world. "
"Good job!" Jia Pingwa next to her interjected: "Although I don't write poetry, I can't understand the mess of poetry nowadays. It’s called the reappearance of daily life experience! I think in a few years, all kinds of shit will appear in poetry!” Staring at him blankly.
In that case, why didn’t you stop it when it happened? !
With their curiosity satisfied, the two went downstairs to drink tea and chat for a while before saying goodbye and leaving.
The next morning, Fang Minghua felt that it was too long to write and it was too troublesome to print out, so he copied it directly to a three-inch plate and sent it to Tianya magazine, and at the same time handed the novel "Eighth Route Bus" to the present Chen Zhongshi, editor-in-chief of Yanhe.
Of course, I also had to call Li Tuo and briefly explain what I wanted to write.
"Haha, it is indeed Minghua. If you don't write it down, it will be a big move!" Li Tuo said with a smile on the other end of the phone. ”
“In order to write this article, I suppressed it at home for a long time. I didn’t even go fishing when Jia Pingwa and others asked me to go fishing. "Fang Minghua "complained" to Li Tuo on the phone.
"Like fishing? Fishing in the river is boring. Come to Hainan and let's fish in the sea!"
Holy crap!
Sea fishing!
This is a big deal.
The two joked for a while, and Fang Minghua was half joking and half serious: "Li Tuo, after I give this article to you, I will never write anything about poetry theory again."
"Oops. Have you stopped writing?"
"Haha, I am just playing for fun anyway. I talk too much and no one likes to hear it."
Sure enough, the article is called "Why is this so?" toss? ——The Debate between "Folks" and "Intellectuals"" long theoretical articles on poetry were published in four issues in the "Writer's Standpoint" column of "Tianya", which immediately caused a shock in the literary world, especially the poetry world.
There are many admirers. This article by Hua Hua systematically summarizes the causes and motivations of the disputes in the field of poetry theory after the 1990s, the biggest crisis faced by contemporary poetry, and the future development direction of poetry. It is an academic article A valuable theoretical article.
Of course, some people were furious after reading it, especially on the "folk" writing side. Yu Jian published articles such as "The Rights of Lay People in Poetry" and "Playing with Chinese Poetry" to express opposition.
In response to Fang Minghua's question "What is a good poem?" or "What kind of poetry is meaningful?"
Yu Jian argued in the article that good poetry is essentially anti-intellectual and that "folk" poetry It happens to be the reproduction of daily life experience, carpenter-like skills, language movement that penetrates forgetfulness and returns to the home of existence, and the light reflected by wisdom and soul
Fang Minghua is too lazy to pay attention anymore, he does what he says.
Compared with the popularity of articles published in Tianya magazine, Fang Minghua’s novel published in Yanhe did not cause much of a sensation.
After the shock wave of realism ignited by Fang Minghua's novel "In the Name of the People" is in full swing, everyone's attention is focused on narratives that have a strong realistic critical meaning in writing about urban and rural economic life and social contradictions in reform, like Fang Minghua This kind of poetic novel with daily life is a bit different.
But he was targeted by a young director.
Yanjing, Old Summer Palace.
To the south of Yuanmingyuan Park, there is an inconspicuous place called Fuyuanmen Community.
This is a very ordinary village, with bungalows, crooked roads, a small bridge, and a market formed next to the bridge. Painters, coal sellers, vegetable sellers, bathhouse operators, and disabled women all lived together. Local farmers rented houses to them for two to three hundred yuan per room, which was not cheap.
Painters mainly live here, but there are also poets and singers. Later famous Li Xianting, Pu Shu, and Da Mao Er Mao of Lingdian Band all lived here.
Here, with Yanda University to the south and Tsinghua University to the east, the Peking University canteen, lecture hall movies, triangle lecture information, open classes and classrooms were all relied upon by the literary young people at that time. Therefore, it attracts many "blind people" who have cultural ideals but have not yet succeeded.
Lou Ye also lives here.
At this time, he was sitting on the old chair in his rental house, reading a magazine "Yanhe".
Although in the 1990s, serious novels were no longer popular and the sales of purely literary magazines dropped sharply, Lou Ye still ordered a few books, including "Yanhe".
As a director myself, I need a good script.
It is a pity that the current "Yanhe" has become a bit mediocre, not as avant-garde as the Fang Minghua era in the 1980s, leading one literary trend after another.
But today Lou Ye saw a novel that attracted his attention. It was written by Fang Minghua.
"No. 8 Bus"
He watched carefully, as if a movie scene appeared in his mind:
Ordinary street corners, bars, roads with stacked paintings, and all kinds of people encountered. Although the owner Lu Xijing passes these places every day, repeating them again and again is not boring, but creates a sense of rhythm and beauty of poetry< br>
The lens is full of sense.
He suddenly had the urge to adapt the novel into a movie.
Standing up and putting the magazine in the creaking nest, Lou Ye wandered out of the door and came to a small shop at the intersection. There was a public phone here.
He was calling his best friend Wang Xiaoshuai.
The two have an unusual relationship. They shared bunk beds in the same dormitory when Yan Dian was in college. After graduation, Wang Xiaoshuai was filming his debut movie "Winter and Spring Days", and Lou Ye played a guest role as a drinking man.
Similarly, in Lou Ye's debut movie "Weekend Lover", Wang Xiaoshuai was invited to play the role of singer Zhang Chi.
The phone call was answered quickly, and there was no need to be polite when talking to good friends. Lou Ye got straight to the point: "I saw a good novel called "Eighth Route Bus" in "Yanhe" magazine, and I wanted to shoot it. into a movie."
"What's the content?" Wang Xiaoshuai asked on the phone.
“A very poetic story.” Lou Ye briefly explained the content of the novel, and then added, “It was written by the writer Minghua.”
"Haha, Minghua's novels are all excellent." Wang Xiaoshuai laughed on the phone: "In the past two years, I have rarely seen him publish novels in China. You have found a treasure."
"The problem is, I'm not familiar with him, and we're not a great director like Zhang Yimou. I'm worried that he won't give me the copyright." Lou Ye said what he was thinking.
"Xiaoshuai, didn't your movie "Extreme Cold" be filmed with investment from Shengshi Film and Television? I heard that the beautiful boss Song Tangtang is Minghua's wife. Have you met Minghua? How is that person? Is it easy to talk?"
"I took the script and went directly to Mr. Song, but I didn't see Minghua." On the other end of the phone, Wang Xiaoshuai pondered:
"I suggest you go find him. Mr. Song, she appreciates young directors. You will need investment in the end anyway, and Shengshi Film and Television is the most suitable company. Besides, didn't your "Weekend Lover" just win the Best Director Award at the Mannheim Heidelberg International Film Festival? The best stepping stone to meet Mr. Song! It was with the award certificate for "Winter and Spring Days" that I found Mr. Song."
"Okay then, I'll go to Xijing tomorrow." Lou Ye decided.
(End of this chapter)