A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 293 Tragic God! This is a truly dignified writer! On the influence of "Dying to Survive"! 4k
Quietly, the country welcomed the approaching Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is a traditional custom in my country since ancient times, with a history of more than 4,000 years.

People in the north eat dumplings.

Eating New Year’s Eve dinner in the South.

This has almost become a consensus across the country.

On this happy day for the whole family, facing the long-awaited holiday, a considerable number of Chinese people will choose to go to the cinema with their families, enjoy this long-awaited holiday, and enjoy the warm days with their families.

Generally speaking, movies that can be released during the Spring Festival are:

Or, it could be a comedy New Year's film, such as the Detective Chinatown series.

Or, they are light-hearted movies that focus on comedy, such as "The Richest Man in Xihong City" and "Charlotte's Troubles".

We are all here, it's the New Year, we are all friends, and we want to have a happy New Year.
When most audiences go to the cinema, what they want is relaxation and leisure.

Based on our experience of celebrating festivals in previous years, this is indeed the case.

But this year is clearly different.

This year, a movie called "Dying to Survive" was released in theaters during the Lunar New Year holiday?

There is no publicity.

There is no promotion either.

"Dying to Survive" was unexpectedly brought to the big screen and into theaters.

If it were an ordinary movie, it would be released into theaters out of the blue without any publicity or promotion.

Then the final box office of this movie is likely to be difficult to achieve.

But "Dying to Survive" is different, because the screenwriter of this movie is Jiang Hai, and Jiang Hai even participated in the production of the movie——

Can he even be called half a director?
This immediately aroused the curiosity of many viewers:
"A movie made by Jiang Hai?"

"Then I have to go take a closer look."

Audiences familiar with Jiang Hai all know who this person is.

A famous contemporary Chinese writer.

Winner of the Cao Yu Drama Literature Award.

Winner of the Goncourt Prize.

Recipient of the French Order of Arts and Culture.

The creator of Chinese tragedy animation, the screenwriter and writer who impressed preschool children the most
Even so, Jiang Hai has many titles and honors.

However, compared with the entertainment circle, the writer circle is still too small.

I want to ask you which screenwriters and writers are there in Beijing Film Academy?

You may not be able to answer any of them.

But I want to ask you which stars have come out of Beijing Film Academy?
Some people may count them one by one on their fingers:
"Yang Mi, Jing Tian, ​​Zhou Dongyu, Guan Xiaotong, and Beijing princesses."

So, for the vast majority of ordinary people who don’t care about the writer circle, screenwriter circle, or even the entertainment circle, how do they know the name of the writer Jiang Hai?
The reason was very simple. It was because the day before yesterday, on the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, Jiang Hai made a bet in public with a group of famous writers from France in front of CCTV cameras.

"If I lose this writing competition, I will bow and apologize to every writer present here."

"But if I win, you gangster leaders will have to return the cultural relics to me."

Let's not talk about whether Jiang Hai can win or not. Just Jiang Hai's attitude of bravely fighting against celebrities and dignitaries -

It successfully went viral.

It attracted a lot of domestic passers-by fans:

"No matter whether you can win or not, at least I like Jiang Hai's attitude."

“Have the courage to fight!”

“These so-called writers nowadays lack this spirit.”

Literature should be as sharp as a knife.

I don’t know what the reason is, but these domestic writers are now very good at judging the situation and are very good at keeping their mouths shut.

You have to ask a writer:
“What do you think about a sensitive topic?”

The writer's answer must be that he looked around and thought hard before answering you:
"First, I can realize that this matter is extremely serious. Second, I can empathize with the victims. And then..."

Once you talk about your experience, everyone can understand it.

When asked what to do, he shut up immediately.

I was afraid of saying something I shouldn’t say and getting hurt.

But Jiang Hai is different.

Everyone knows that France is a robber. Everyone knows that in the early 19th century, France burned down the imperial garden Yuanmingyuan, which was known as the crystallization of ancient Chinese craftsmanship for 5,000 years, and robbed countless priceless and inestimable rare treasures from this imperial garden known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens".
But even so, for the sake of the overall situation, quite a number of writers went to visit the Elysee Palace in France. When they saw these diluted treasures scattered overseas, they were not angry, but even greeted the French royal family and writers in a gentlemanly and elegant manner:
"Okay, okay, hello, hello everyone."

But Jiang Hai is different.

Jiang Hai forms a sharp contrast with this group of writers who claim to be polite and well-mannered.

Writers in China are still learning table manners from gentlemen from France:
"Knife in left hand, fork in right hand, napkin on chest."

Jiang Hai jumped up and flipped the table:

"study?"

"Learn shit!"

As Jiang Hai said -

“I am a villain, but I don’t pretend.”

"You are a bunch of gangsters who got rich by robbing people. After you robbed other people's things, you turned around and told them to be polite and courteous. Isn't this hypocrisy? You are putting double standards on me."

"Study, I'll learn your mother's shit"

I have never been included in your overall situation, and you still want me to consider your overall situation?

It is precisely based on this.

Jiang Hai felt that he was merciful enough not to follow the example of [Brother Crow holds a cigarette and flips the table.jpg] and throw the pasta on the table at the heads of these hypocrites.
It is precisely because of Jiang Hai's way of treating people and dealing with things that is completely different from ordinary writers.

It made him successful.

When I learned that "Dying to Survive" directed by Jiang Hai would be released during the Spring Festival.

Even without any pre-promotion, many moviegoers went to the cinema to watch the movie:

"support!"

"The works of such conscientious writers must be supported."

Shanghai, Wanda Cinema.

In the bustling and crowded cinema mall, the ticket seller discovered something very strange.

Logically speaking, during the Spring Festival,
Everyone should be in high spirits, with a bright and simple smile on their face.

But the main attraction of the moviegoers is one.
Go in smiling and come out crying?

"What on earth is going on?"

A young audience member who looked painful and crying was randomly picked. This audience member looked to be eighteen or nineteen years old, and seemed to be still a student?

The reporter in charge of market research looked at the audience with confusion:

"Classmate, it's Chinese New Year."

"What are you crying about?"

The audience being interviewed sobbed a few times at first, as if trying to calm themselves down.

After a long time.

He then turned to the camera and choked up:
“Everyone, go watch Medicine God for me right now. I can’t be the only one suffering.”

The title of the master writer of the realism genre is well-deserved.

Originally, the audience thought that during the Spring Festival, some light-hearted films would be released. In addition, the name "Dying to Survive" itself was a bit nonsensical, so quite a number of the audience mistakenly believed that this was actually a comedy movie.

Who would have thought that after watching "Dying to Survive", a considerable number of viewers——

I almost died on the spot without crying.
There are so many famous scenes in the movie, almost too many to count:
"There is only one kind of disease in this world, poverty disease. You can't cure this disease, and you can't cure it." "Forty thousand yuan a bottle, I have been sick for three years, I have been taking medicine for three years, my house has been sold, and my family is bankrupt. Whose family doesn't have a patient? Can you guarantee that you will not get sick for the rest of your life? I don't want to die, I want to live."

"Life is money. They can't afford genuine medicines. They are waiting for me to bring the medicine back to save their lives."

"May you live an ordinary life, but never forget to create a better world."

The whole movie is shockingly realistic.

It's so realistic that it's hard to believe!

In today's world where medical insurance is universal, there are still a group of patients at the bottom of society struggling to survive?
Life is money.

Money is life.

Those characters who appear and disappear in the play, whether it is the old lady who begs the police with a trembling voice not to pursue the fake medicine, or the strong-willed but righteous Huang Mao who sacrifices his life for the protagonist at the last moment, or the patient Wang Chuanjun who dies at home because he cannot take the "fake medicine"
These characters give the audience a visual impact——

It's simply too big!
So much so that many people could not forget the grief in their hearts after walking out of the cinema.

Most of the audience were sighing, "How could such a realistic movie pass the review?", while at the same time they began to admire from the bottom of their hearts:
"As expected of Jiang Hai!"

"As expected of the tragic god!"

"Anything produced by Jianghai must be of the highest quality! I thought this was a joke, but who would have thought it would be so appropriate."

Do you think the box office performance of "Dying to Survive" is good?
From a short-term perspective, the box office of "Dying to Survive" cannot be considered good. The movie only grossed 35 million yuan on the first day of its release in theaters. This is a lower-than-average result among the popular movies during the Spring Festival.

But the horror of this movie is that...

It has no bad reviews at all!

Word of mouth, excellent!
For other films released during the Spring Festival, no matter how well they are marketed, there will always be a few slogans like "Fuck you, give me your money back!" when they are released.

But only the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine"——

It has absolutely no bad reviews!

Looking at the Spring Festival films over the past decade, even the staff had never seen it before. How could there be a New Year's film with absolutely no negative reviews during the Spring Festival?
This shocked many theater staff:
"What is this movie about?"

“How could this movie be so magical???”

As for Shanghai Film Studio, they actually don't care much about the box office. They just want to make a good movie of acceptable quality, that's all.

It is also based on this that when "Dying to Survive" was officially announced to be released, the Shanghai Film Studio did almost no pre-promotion and publicity for the film.

"In fact, the first-day box office of 35 million is already the best result we have achieved in recent years." Director Zhu of Shanghai Film Studio was making a performance report to the senior management in his office. "It's only the first day of the movie's release, and the box office has exceeded 30 million. This result--"

“We are already very satisfied”

Other producers have a more-the-better attitude towards movie box office.

Money, the more the better.

As for box office, the more the better, naturally.

But the attitude of Shanghai Film Studio, which produced "Dying to Survive", is so Buddhist?
"How could a movie with a tragic reality theme released during the Spring Festival have a first-day box office of 35 million?"

“Isn’t this a bad result?”

"What else do you need a bicycle for this result?"

The attitude of Shanghai Film Studio can be described as very open-minded.

However, the studio's Buddhist attitude made the audience who watched this movie very sad:
"You guys are going to be so bad?"

"I will never fucking allow that!!!"

Perhaps, I sincerely feel that this movie is well made and I am a loyal fan who has become a fan through chance.

Or maybe, it's simply out of this strange mentality of "I've suffered, so I have to tear your umbrellas apart together, I can't be the only one crying."

I don’t know when it started.

In the film market, a strange propaganda tone began to appear:

"The most enjoyable movie of the year! Those who haven't seen "Dying to Survive" are in luck! The best New Year's film of the year, I was so excited when watching the movie that I couldn't stop watching it"

"The most exciting comeback movie! Come and see how the protagonist Cheng Yong rises from the bottom step by step, and becomes a household name in medicine."

"It's so good that I cry! It's so good that it explodes! I'm looking for a pair of eyes that haven't watched "Dying to Survive""

"The little guy's fortune! Let's see how a good-for-nothing hero becomes big and powerful step by step, from a loser with nothing to a wealthy man. Do you want to know how to make your brothers work for you wholeheartedly? Do you want to know how to make beautiful women come to you and throw themselves into your arms?"

"Watch "Dying to Survive" and learn the secrets of getting rich."

For "Dying to Survive", its biggest competitor during the Spring Festival is none other than the same batch of comedy Lunar New Year films.

During the Chinese New Year, people go out to watch movies just to relax and have fun.
Who would go out of their way to watch a tragedy that would make them feel depressed during Chinese New Year?

This is precisely the kind of psychology that has been thoroughly studied.

Immediately, fans who had watched the movie began to offer suggestions:

"If everyone doesn't want to see tragedy"

“Then wouldn’t it be enough to just remove the “tragedy” label from “Dying to Survive”?”

Trick the dog in and kill it!

As long as you buy a ticket!
As long as you walk into the cinema!

The tickets have been bought, even if you want to regret it, you won't be given the chance to regret it.
It is precisely based on this almost perverted publicity that more and more audiences have begun to go to the cinema to watch "Dying to Survive", a film that represents a comeback.

Adhering to the traditional customs of the Chinese since ancient times:

"Now that I'm here, I want to see what's going on."

A considerable number of viewers directly...

Walked into the cinema happily.

Walked out crying.

As she walked, she couldn't help crying:

"Which dog told me this movie was cool?"

"You guys call this a cool drama???"

It is based on this situation——

Audiences who want to watch a light-hearted movie will be attracted by the comedy label of "Dying to Survive".

Movie fans who are familiar with Jiang Hai's name, or who want to watch a tragedy, will go straight to the movie "Dying to Survive".
With the joint support of both groups of audiences.

During the Spring Festival, the box office performance of the movie "Dying to Survive" is rising wildly at an extremely terrifying trend.
Palace of Versailles, France.

How do you know what the situation is now?
In the magnificent private bedroom.

Jiang Hai sat in front of the computer with great concentration. He had a cup of black coffee on his left hand and a cigarette in his right hand. He frowned and looked at the computer screen:

"Here, I'm done."

“Here, I’ve finished writing too.”

“The overall framework of the story is roughly finished, but I always feel that the ending of the novel seems to be missing something”

During these two days, Jiang Hai was isolated from the world. He was immersed in his own world, constantly depicting the image of the old man fighting the wind and waves in his mind vividly on paper and projecting it into the computer.

In order to clarify his thoughts, Jiang Hai also used the manuscripts. In two and a half days, he used up two whole hand-drawn drafts. He first established the characters and the theme of the novel in the manuscripts, and then based on the notes in the manuscripts -

Extend the content and create it on the computer hard drive.

In the past few days, Jiang Hai had written two manuscript notebooks. Except for eating and going to the toilet, he spent almost all his time on writing, in order to complete the final ending of "The Old Man and the Sea" -

He really tried his best!

"On the eighty-fifth day, the old fisherman caught a huge marlin that was eighteen feet long and weighed fifteen hundred pounds. The fish dragged the boat into the sea, but the old man still held on to it. Even though he had no water, no food, no weapons, no helpers, and his left hand was cramped, he did not lose heart."

"After two days and two nights of fighting, he finally killed the big fish. The old fisherman tied it to the side of the boat. The strong smell of blood attracted predators on the beach, and many sharks immediately came to snatch his trophy. The fisherman bravely fought with these sharks and killed them one by one. In the end, he only had a broken tiller as a weapon. But even though he had fought desperately regardless of the danger, the big fish still couldn't escape the fate of being eaten."

Jiang Hai's hands kept typing on the keyboard, recording the process of the fisherman fighting with the shark.

At the end of the story, the old man dragged back a fish bone exhausted. He went home and lay on the straw mat, trying to find the bravery of his youth through dreams to forget the cruel reality.
After a while.

I don’t know how much time had passed.

Jiang Hai put out the burnt cigarette butt in the ashtray, then stretched his body vigorously:
"it is finally over."

(End of this chapter)