1978 Synthetic Writers

Chapter 194 Cover Girl
Jiang Xian went to the Beijing Film Studio to return his swimsuit, only then did he realize that Xie Jin had been waiting for him in Beijing for several days.

The purpose of coming to Beijing this time was naturally to meet the actor recommended by Jiang Xian - Zhang Guangbei.

As soon as they met, Xie Jin was attracted to this boy. He was very literary and polite in his speech, which was in line with the image of the "high-legged egg" Ni Bin in his mind.

Zhang Guangbei didn't know how such good luck fell upon him. When he saw Jiang Xian, he immediately recalled that this was the comrade who had chatted with him that day. Only then did he realize that he had met a noble person!
I was so excited that I wanted to call Jiang Xian my godfather.

It's true. When applying for a job at Microsoft, you have to sweep the floor more. When taking the exam at Norfilm, you have to chat more.

"You told me the other day that the box office of 'Lush Mountain Love' would not be low, and that was pretty accurate." Xie Jin said admiringly, and his opinion of Jiang Xian increased a little more in his heart.

This guy can not only write scripts, he also has a very high level of insight into movies.

That day at the Shanghai Film Studio, Jiang Xian only watched "Lush Mountain Love" with him once, and he asserted that this movie would definitely create a sensation.

At that time, Xie Jin didn't take it seriously. He was not optimistic about this film without dramatic conflict.

Unexpectedly, after the release of "Lush Mountain Love", in just over half a month, this "Lush Mountain Love" immediately became popular all over the country and became the hottest topic. The film runners were almost crazy busy, and the China Film Group and the Film Bureau were also crazy busy, busy delivering copies and ordering additional copies.

Even "Popular Movies" used double color pages to promote "Lush Mountain Love". In those days, printing technology was limited and the publication had limited color pages. To promote a big-budget, influential movie, using double-sided color pages to promote a movie proved that the movie had a huge influence.

Zhang Yu and Guo Kaimin became popular.

At that time, there was a female comrade who was particularly immoral. She wrote a love letter to Wang Jiawei in the name of Zhang Yu.

Wang Jiawei is the main deputy attacker of the Chinese men's volleyball team and the "world's first flying man". In recent years, the Chinese men's volleyball team has been in its heyday. In last year's Asian Championships, they defeated Japan and South Korea successively and won the Asian Championships. Unfortunately, because of the Russian incident this year, China decided not to send any athletes to participate in the Russian Moscow Olympics.

It is said that when Wang Jiawei received the love letter from Zhang Yu, he believed it to be true and was surprised. He immediately broke up with his girlfriend, wrote back to "Zhang Yu" with deep affection, and soon fell in love with "Zhang Yu". Wang Jiawei also sent his ancestral ring to "Zhang Yu".

As for the girlfriend who was broken up by Wang Jiawei, it was Zhang Jieyun, the "silent gunman" of the Chinese women's volleyball team. When they learned that Wang Jiawei had hooked up with Zhang Yu, the entire Chinese women's volleyball team began to hate Zhang Yu. Zhang Yu said: "I went to a party with the women's volleyball team, but Lang Ping ignored me. She said Zhang Yu was particularly rude and wrote letters to seduce Wang Jiawei."

Later, by chance, the big case was solved. "People's X Newspaper" and "Liberation X Newspaper" simultaneously published an article titled "The Appearance of the Fake Zhang Yu", which caused a sensation across the country.

Wang Jiawei still didn't give up and went to Zhang Yu to verify it in person.

Zhang Yu said, "I don't know you and have never written to you." Wang Jiawei was shocked. It turned out that the clown was himself.

Speaking of which, the gossips of this era were quite magical. In comparison, the messes in the entertainment industry in later generations were nothing compared to them.

"Let's go to Donglaishun to eat something." Jiang Xian pulled Xie Jin, Zhang Guangbei and Ge You to have dinner together.

Zhang Guangbei had never been on such a stage before, so he immediately declined. Jiang Xian persuaded him a few times, but couldn't help but scold him: "Why are you so hesitant? How can a grown man like you act like a woman?"

Only then did Zhang Guangbei stop being pretentious and agreed reluctantly.

After returning home, Jiang Xian shared the interesting things that happened in Beidaihe with Zhu Lin.

"Our institute also buys crabs from fishing boats."

"have eaten?"

"We asked the canteen of the guesthouse to cook it and bring it to us students to try. The southern comrades ate it with gusto, but we northerners couldn't eat it and didn't appreciate it. We just chewed it hastily and left a table full of crab claws and legs."

"You guys are such a waste."

He also told Zhu Lin about a German western restaurant called "Cheeselin" in Beidaihe. Comrade Aikebaier happened to learn that his wife had given birth to a child, and to celebrate, he invited several female students to eat whipped cream there.

"I have good news, too." Zhu Lin's eyes were filled with joy. "I passed the exam for my amateur training class, including the written test and the interview."

"Then after you finish filming 'Cars and Horses', you should study for a while and don't take any acting jobs yet."

"Look at what you said, there has to be a crew that wants me."

Jiang Xian smiled and said, "Comrade Xiao Zhu, how come you don't even have this little confidence? You are already an actor in the Beijing Film Studio Troupe, and you are my exclusive leading actor."

Zhu Lin burst out laughing, "You want to be the emperor, and serve him as his own."

"Film Creation" was already in contact with the Third Clothing Factory. Jiang Xian asked his mother Rao Yuemei to act as the middleman, and soon met with the factory director Zhang Jieshi.

Zhang Jieshi was very interested when he learned that they were staff members of Beijing Film Studio. Jiang Xian's side was represented by himself, Liang Xiaosheng and Acheng.

"Beijing Film Studio still has magazines?"

After they introduced themselves, Zhang Jieshi was a little confused. The audience of "Film Creation" is relatively narrow, mainly concentrated among movie lovers and screenwriters, and it is not widely circulated among the general public.

However, Zhang Jieshi is still very positive about advertising and expressed his willingness to give it a try.

Jiang Xian immediately gave a plan, "5 yuan each time, for a year, and the location will be on the brochure. We won't do it in blocks, but full-page."

A full-page layout is the same width as a full page, but takes up less than half the page area.

Zhang Jieshi definitely bargained, and finally settled on four thousand yuan per time, which was pretty much what Jiang Xian expected.

Liang Xiaosheng was impressed by how well he had managed to get the advertising fee. "Deputy Editor-in-Chief Jiang, I didn't expect you to be quite capable in business negotiations."

"Okay, okay, you don't even have to drink. I thought we were going to have a drink." Acheng said embarrassedly.

This guy can drink a lot, he and Jiang Shiwei started a business together and set up a company, they traveled all over the country doing business and drinking, when they met a difficult boss, Acheng would just pour a whole bottle of Lao Baigan into a big jar, without eating a single bite of food, he just drank up the wine, even the "local boss" would be dumbfounded.

Of course, this company eventually went bankrupt.

As soon as he returned to the editorial office, Jiang Xian called everyone over for a meeting.

“We need reform!”

He made a shocking statement, and then talked about the planned new sections, which are divided into: "New Film Reviews", "Movie Viewing", "Problem Discussion", "Movie Figures", "Domestic and Foreign Film News", and "Movie History".

"We want to benchmark against Popular Cinema, be close to the masses, and we will also shoot cover girls in the future!"

Jiang Huaiyan frowned when he heard this. Before he could give any advice, Liang Xiaosheng asked, "Who will we invite to shoot the film?"

"Let's invite Zhang Yu. Love in Lushan is so popular."

"Oh, I also watched that movie yesterday. Zhang Yu is really brave."

"I heard they really kissed, but it wasn't broadcast."

All the editors were very excited, and almost no one opposed Jiang Xian's proposal.

Their "Film Creation" was half dead, and they had long hoped that someone could come and change the status quo. Jiang Huaiyan hesitated for a while, but in the end he did not say anything against it. Since he had handed over the power to Jiang Xian, he did not intend to interfere.

"Zhang Yu is indeed quite good. If you invite her to be the cover girl of the 8th issue of Film Creation, I will contact the Shanghai Film Studio later."

"Don't look for Zhang Yu." Jiang Xian shook his head.

"Not looking?"

"Who to look for then? Zhang Jinling?"

"Liu Xiaoqing is also fine. Our own actors are also good. Fang Shu and Zhu Lin can both act in the film."

"How is Cai Ming?"

When talking about this, the bunch of men were so excited and enthusiastic about offering suggestions.

Jiang Xian picked up his teacup and took a sip of water, then said slowly: "I already have a candidate in mind."

"Who?"

"Shao Huifang!"

"Who?"

"Never heard of it."

"Not impressed."

Many people in later generations no longer know the name Shao Huifang. Even the old editors in the "Film Creation" editorial department who have been in the film industry for a long time have hardly heard of it.

"I saw her in Popular Movies," Jiang Xian explained, pulling out a copy of the magazine. "She's the lead actress in a movie called Ghost that's currently being shot at Xiaoxiang Film Studio."

Shao Huifang became famous with the movie "Ghost" and became a hot movie star, but this is not the most important thing.

What made her even more famous than this movie was that she was the cover girl of the 1980th issue of "Popular Movies" in 10.

On the cover, she wore a pair of tight bell-bottom pants, which "inadvertently" outlined her "devil figure". The cover caused a sensation across the country, aroused the excitement of thousands of men, young and old, and made people aware of the standard of body beauty.

Shao Huifang has also become synonymous with "devilish figure".

Li Xiaolin also came to the capital, and Jiang Xian invited her to stay temporarily in his house in Jingshan East Hutong.

"Your yard is quite big." Li Xiaolin looked around, "It's almost as big as Mr. Mao's yard."

"Mr. Mao's courtyard?" Jiang Xian was curious. "I haven't been there yet."

“No. 13 Houyuanensi Hutong, Dongcheng District.”

Li Xiaolin gave him an address. "His yard also has two entrances, about 74 to square meters. He just moved in in . He used to live in the dormitory building in Dongsi. The yard has good lighting, but he has poor eyesight and can't see clearly."

Mr. Mao Dun had poor eyesight and his vision was only 0.3, which is a common problem among many literati these days.

For example, Li Qingquan had very poor eyesight. After 83, Li Qingquan was almost blind, but he still insisted on running the Lu Xun Academy of Literature.

Li Xiaolin stayed in a room in the west wing. After saying hello to Rao Yuemei and packing up, he had time to share with Jiang Xian, "Several important figures in the literary world have written articles to support us!"

What she was talking about was naturally the matter of planning to build a literary museum.

"I just came back from Mr. Mao, and Mr. Mao said, ahem." Li Xiaolin imitated the old man's tone, "A few days ago, I read Comrade Jiang Xian's proposal and Comrade Ba Jin's proposal published in his random thoughts, and I raised my hand in favor!
Jiang Xian was naturally very excited to get the support from Mr. Mao Dun. As the leader of the preparatory group, he had been paying close attention to the opinions of the cultural community on the construction of the museum.

Senior predecessors such as Zang Kejia, Ye Shengtao, Xia Yan, Bing Xin, Cao Yu, and Luo Sun all wrote articles to express their support.

To be honest, the person who made the second largest contribution in this matter was actually Bing Xin. She had little savings, so she simply donated all the treasured materials in her home.

Of course, Jiang Xian didn't want to take away the credit from these people. Everyone was contributing, and he was just putting in a little more effort.

As for the fact that Ba Jin gave up the position of group leader to him, in the original historical trajectory, Ba Jin was not the leader of either the preparatory group or the preparatory committee.

He is old and frail, and he is in Shanghai, so he has no time to take care of these specific operations. He can only be the one pushing things behind the scenes, and cannot be the executor of this matter.

As for Jiang Xian, he was the one who ran around for him in the capital and made this happen.

"I plan to visit Guang Weiran and Feng Mu in a few days to see if we can find a house to use as the museum site, and then come up with an idea and plan to recruit some comrades to participate."

"It's OK. You are quite reliable." Li Xiaolin smiled, but soon turned into sadness. "I went to see Mr. Mao this time, and I felt that he looked much worse than before."

Jiang Xian was stunned for a moment and sighed, "The old man has too many things to worry about."

Li Xiaolin nodded. After chatting for a while, she took out a stack of manuscripts from her bag and said, "Let's talk about your article "Glass Moon Shining on Copper Coin Street"."

"Now?"

Jiang Xian glanced at his watch and said, "Let's do it another day, Sister Xiaolin. I have compiled two manuscripts and plan to give them to Beijing Literature and Art."

"Collecting articles? "Beijing Literature and Art"?

After listening to Jiang Xian's explanation of the whole story, Li Xiaolin was surprised. "You're going to be an editor of Beijing Literature and Art? Why don't you come to our Harvest?"

You didn't call me.

I thought so in my heart, but said, "I am a director of the Beijing Writers Association, so it is reasonable for me to join Beijing Literature and Art. If I want to join Harvest, I must also be a member of the Shanghai Writers Association."

"Well, it doesn't matter. No matter which writers' association you are from, I will treat you as a member of our Harvest." Li Xiaolin said frankly.

She particularly liked to use this expression, and later writers such as Yu Hua, Su Tong and Ge Fei also said this, "You are all our Harvest people." Yu Hua always mentioned this matter with a proud tone.

"What kind of manuscript did you draft?"

“Two short stories.”

"Who wrote it?"

"One is my senior fellow student, Wang Zengqi, and the other is my classmate at the Institute of Literature, Wang Anyi."

"Can you show it to me?"

(End of this chapter)