Chinese Entertainment 2017: Starting from the Top Writers

Chapter 391 Passionate Acting

At the gate of Shanghai Theatre Academy, a group of students quickly gathered around the black business car whose identity had almost been confirmed, staring at the window without blinking, for fear of missing the person inside.

"Uncle, this is Teacher Nan Xun. Our school invited him to visit. Could you please help me?"

"Our college leaders are already coming this way and will be here soon."

Tian Xiwei walked closer, first looked at Lin Li who had rolled down the window, and then spoke to the security guard with a sweet smile.

"Student Tian, ​​sure, sure, you should have said so earlier. I'll let you go right away."

The security guard naturally knew this hot star in the college and said with a smile.

At the same time, he raised his hand and waved in the direction of the security booth, signaling to raise the railing, which was soon slowly lifted open.

"Thank you, uncle."

Tian Xiwei smiled sweetly at the security guard again and thanked him.

"it's okay no problem."

The security guard waved his hand with a smile.

"Dear Professor Nanxun, how about you get off the car first? Our college leaders are almost here."

Tian Xiwei turned around and looked at Lin Li's smiling face, and asked in a respectful voice with her hands clasped in front of her.

"So it's Oda-san. Then I'll trouble you to take me to the theater again."

Lin Li looked at the pretty little face in front of him, raised his eyebrows and smiled.

"Uh-huh, please."

Tian Xiwei hummed coquettishly, then extended her hand as an invitation.

"Ah……"

"Brother Bao, go park the car. Sister Wen, let's go down first."

"Yes."

Lin Li chuckled, opened the car door and walked out after giving his instructions.

"It's really Teacher Nanxun!"

“Nanda Nanda!”

"Director Lin is so handsome!"

“Nanjing University welcomes you to Shanghai Theatre Academy!”

"Nanda, I love you!"

Lin Li, who had just stood still, was instantly drowned out by the enthusiastic cheers from the people around him. What made him even more surprised was that a pretty girl actually raised her hands above her head and made a heart shape to express her love.

Wow, are students from Shanghai Theatre Academy so open-minded?
"What are you looking at? Teacher Nanxun, do you want to respond?"

Seeing Lin Li looking over, Tian Xiwei raised her eyebrows and asked with a bad look.

"Well... How could that be possible? I'm just surprised at how open the atmosphere is at Shanghai Theatre Academy."

Lin Li coughed dryly and said seriously.

"Humph!"

"Let's go, our college leaders are here."

Tian Xiwei glanced at him and pointed forward with her lips.

Lin Li followed her gaze and saw a team of about twenty people rushing towards this side.

"Let's go then."

Lin Li glanced at Tian Xiwei, who had a slightly arrogant expression, and his brows relaxed a little.

"Please go first, Teacher Nanxun."

Tian Xiwei raised her hands and lowered her eyebrows and said pleasantly.

"Ah……"

Lin Li smiled and walked towards him slowly.

Tian Xiwei looked at Lin Li's tall and straight back, and suddenly recalled the time when they first met and traveled to Shanghai Theatre Academy together.

At that time, he was still alone.

That time, she even tricked him into eating a very spicy hotpot.

Hehehe... Habar.

Thinking of this, Tian Xiwei's pair of sparkling cartoon eyes curved into two crescents, and she followed Lin Li's figure with brisk steps.

"Teacher Nanxun, I have long heard of your great name!"

"I am sorry for not welcoming you so far, I am sorry for not welcoming you so far!"

Before he got close, the other party's powerful greeting came clearly.

"President Huang, you are too polite. I am overwhelmed."

Lin Li grasped the hand Huang Changyong extended and responded modestly.

"Haha, of course I should. Before coming here, I was watching the news reports about Xinghan. Teacher Nanxun is really generous!"

“But what I personally look forward to most is the flourishing flowers. I hope that the culture of Shanghai described by Mr. Nanxun can be perfectly presented.”

“I believe that Mr. Nan Xun’s script and Director Wang’s camera will surely make Fan Hua a groundbreaking classic.”

Huang Changyong made no secret of his admiration for Fanhua. He held Lin Li's hands with both of his own and pressed harder.

"Don't worry, Dean. We at Nanxun Culture will definitely create this work with our heart and will not let you down."

Lin Lifan held Huang Changyong's hands and answered seriously.

Then he silently withdrew his hands and shook them gently a few times.

Tian Xiwei saw Lin Li's little movements clearly from the side. She couldn't help but purse her lips tightly, for fear that she would laugh out loud.

Of course she knew that Lin Li had mild obsessive-compulsive disorder and mysophobia, and didn't like to have much contact with people of the same sex. He would usually shake hands with people and part ways immediately after greeting them.

At this time, after the students inside and outside the Shanghai Theatre Academy learned that Lin Li had arrived, they quickly gathered together. Soon, they were blocked by Shanghai Theatre Academy students in three layers, and there was no way to get through.

“Nanda!!”

I don't know who was the first to cheer.

Then, this cheer was like the first domino that fell. "Oh~ Teacher Nanxun is so handsome!"

"When will Teacher Nanxun's new movie be released?"

"Teacher Nanxun, please give us a lesson too!"

"Teacher Nanxun..."

Various cheers echoed one after another at the school gate, and for a moment it felt like a fan meeting.

"Dean, why don't we go inside? It's not a good idea to block the door, right?"

Lin Li looked around at the enthusiastic students from Shanghai Theatre Academy, nodded slightly, then turned to Huang Changyong and said.

"Hey, you see, my reactions are slower as I get older."

"Come, I'll take Teacher Nanxun to our show. We'll go to the theater later to see how the performances the students have prepared are going."

Huang Changyong came back to his senses and asked with a smile.

"No problem, it's all up to the dean to arrange."

Lin Li readily agreed.

So, Lin Li and Huang Changyong walked forward side by side, while Tian Xiwei, Chen Gang and other Shanghai Theatre Academy leaders accompanied them, following their steps and moving forward slowly.

A group of students from Shanghai Theatre Academy formed an irregular circle with them as the center, and moved slowly forward as they moved.

Tian Xiwei looked at Lin Li being surrounded by a group of college leaders like a star surrounding the moon. Suddenly, she realized the importance of Lin Li, a top writer.

After all, if he were just a director, even if he made a movie with a box office of 26 billion, it would not be enough to attract the entire academy's leaders to come and welcome him.

Otherwise, why don’t you let Wu Jing try?

For example, she herself would definitely be surrounded by fans and drama fans outside the college, but this is the Shanghai Theatre Academy.

In the college, at most others will just look at you a few more times. So what even if you are famous now?
Aren’t there enough big stars coming out of the academy?

Maybe I will be a big star in the future?

Although she is a "prominent figure" in the college, she still has to be respectful when facing a professor like Xiao Ying.

As for the director of the acting department like Chen Gang, he was at most kind to her.

As for the dean... I'm sorry, we haven't talked to each other many times.

But Lin Li is different. Apart from being a director and the boss of a film and television company, his identity as a writer is what makes him respected by everyone.

In fact, it was only after Tian Xiwei had a quarrel with Lin Li that she began to slowly understand the fundamental reasons why people like Sun Zhonghuai of Penguin, Gong Yu of Kiwi, and the guy from JD.com valued Lin Li.

In the eyes of the public, Lin Li has many best-selling short stories in a wide variety of genres, including ancient and modern tales, which are deeply loved by young people. His works have accompanied many people's youth.

Some of his works are not very popular on the Internet, but have won many heavyweight awards, such as "Fang Hua", which won the Lu Xun Literature Award.

In addition, Lin Li has also won many awards including the Mao Dun Literature Prize, the Booker Prize, the Nebula Prize, etc. through his other works.

In the past, she just thought it sounded great, but she feels that, in comparison, works like Glory and Intimate are better, more popular, and have more people like them.

But after learning more about it, she realized that these awards represent a kind of social status and recognition from the upper class.

Among the numerous award-winning works, works like "Fang Hua" can be called serious literature.

Serious literature mainly reflects thoughts on human nature and reality. It can be written in a popular or obscure style. The criterion for selecting stories is whether they can fully express the state of life.

There is no such concept as "serious literature" in the literary world. This is the general consensus.

Most of Lin Li’s works can be generally described as popular literature, which focuses on making the stories fascinating and sensational and is written in an easy-to-understand manner.

Popular literature is meant to entertain the public, so some people also call popular literature entertainment literature.

If we have to talk about the difference between serious literature and popular literature, we can only say that serious literature is more ideological and has a slightly higher reading threshold.

There is also classical literature, which contains more popular literary works, such as the Four Great Classics and Shakespeare's plays.

The biggest purpose of the concept of serious literature is to form a literary contempt chain. People who read serious literature usually despise popular literature without any hesitation.

Combining these two points together and covering both areas at the same time is the main reason why Lin Li is called a genius writer.

In the literary circle, many people prefer to call him a genius.

Tian Xiwei found out from the information that serious literature in China started with Lu Xun and has only a history of more than 100 years.

Lu Xun was the leader of the New Literature Movement. His novel creation raised the literary status of the novel as a genre, but at the same time it also laid the seeds for the formation of the contempt chain of serious literature > popular literature in later generations.

It seems to be the nature of educated people to despise others. They invent a new concept, the primary purpose of which is to use it to show that they despise others.

For example, many people would say that the literary value of serious literature is greater than that of popular literature.

The fermentation of this kind of thought has also allowed winners of serious literary awards to gain extremely high social status.

To give a more straightforward example, when a serious literary award winner faces a provincial governor, the other party has to respond politely. This is a reflection of social status.

Lin Li has won all such awards, except the Nobel Prize in Literature!

That is why Lin Li has become a strongly supported face, and why so many upper-class people treat him as an equal and give him respect.

For example, now, when the dean of the Shanghai Theatre Academy saw Lin Li, he was also very polite and did not show any disrespect because of his age.

This is a reflection of social status.

Therefore, Lin Li’s identity as a writer may not bring as much benefits as other identities, but it is more important.

At first she would wonder how Lin Li, with his appearance, could write such serious literary works and even win awards?

In her eyes, Lin Li was sunny, gentle, and sometimes childish, and he didn't look like someone who could write serious literary works at all.

Later she found out.

In fact, top serious literary writers are very good at entertaining, and some are masters at manipulating readers' emotions.

Lu Xun was famous for his grief and indignation, but in real life he loved to tell jokes, even jokes with obscene connotations. His essays are humorous and interesting, which comes from this quality of his.

Mo Yan and Yu Hua are now basically internet joke tellers who are very good at entertaining the public.

In terms of his works, Yu Hua's novels are full of dramatic coincidences, and all kinds of sufferings fall on one person's head. He is a master of sensationalism.

Judging from her daily performance in public, Yu Hua often makes everyone laugh, just like an internet celebrity.

Does she think serious literary writers don’t talk about entertainment?
It turns out that he is very knowledgeable about entertainment.

As for Lin Li... Bah!

Sometimes he is very naughty!
Glancing at the figures standing in front of her, Tian Xiwei's cheeks flushed slightly, her thoughts wandered, and some indescribable scenes emerged in her mind.

What a great writer... Isn't this Baopi Longmai!
(End of this chapter)