1978 Synthetic Writers

Chapter 319: Shaanxi Army
"Here, I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to Comrade Zhu Lin."

"With her superb acting skills and outstanding performance, she has demonstrated the independence and sophistication of modern women. Her performance style not only meets traditional requirements, but also retains the characteristics of modern women, presenting the audience with a fascinating character image - Ai Jinghua."

“It is because of her dedication and interpretation that this character has come alive in the audience’s memory.

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On the stage, Gong Xue read out the reasons why Zhu Lin won the award.

Jiang Xian nodded slightly after hearing this.

From a hindsight analysis, from a certain perspective, Zhu Lin's winning of the award was inevitable.

Although the Hundred Flowers Awards are fair and impartial, the jury also has to consider the risks of the film and the direction it guides.

Among the three nominated actresses, although Zhu Lin has little experience, she has a considerable advantage in portraying female characters in the three films.

The character she played, Ai Jinghua, was a motorcycle rider, a cyclist, and a reform pioneer. In order to prevent horse-drawn carriages from entering the city, she fought wits and courage with her father-in-law and did not lose. She was truly an outstanding woman of the new era who could carry half the sky on her own.

As for the other two actors.

Last year, Zhang Yu won an award for her role in "Lush Mountain Love". The character she played was very sensitive.

But at this time, we were already adjusting our relations with overseas.

It would be a good idea to give "Lush Mountain Love" an award to show our tolerance and magnanimity.

Secondly, "Lush Mountain Love" is indeed too popular. The box office is there, and the audience is there. If this award is not given to Zhang Yu, the jury will be eaten up by the audience.

So I gave it to Zhang Yu last year.

Will you give it this year?

Most likely it won’t be given.

Last year, the award was given to "Lush Mountain Love" and to Zhang Yu. Many senior veterans were already unhappy about it and criticized it angrily.

This year, Zhang Yu plays Xiao Fengxian again in "The Friend".

Who is Xiao Fengxian?
She was a famous prostitute known among the nobles.

Although she was a famous prostitute, she could not escape the fact that she had fallen into prostitution. The word "prostitute" was there, and her identity in the old society was there.

With these two obstacles, it would be difficult for Zhang Yu to win the award.

As for Li Xiuming in "Xu Mao and His Daughters".

Li Xiuming plays the role of the fourth girl, an image of a miserable woman. Facing the persecution of "villains", she has been enduring and submitting for many years. Finally, she finds happiness with the support of Team Leader Yan of the working group.

what is this?
White lotus!

The Virgin White Lotus is weak and bullied, but kind-hearted and radiates warm light.

But compared with the image of a woman like Ai Jinghua who can hold up half the sky by herself, the level seems weak.

Besides, the Beijing Film Studio's "Xu Mao and His Daughters" has already won so many awards. If Li Xiuming really wins both the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Best Actress awards, where will the Bayi Film Studio put its face?

Well, everything should be considered in the direction of unity.

So it can be said that Zhu Lin is a "lucky person".

However, this is not the first time such a thing has happened at the Hundred Flowers Awards.

In 62, actress Zhu Xijuan made her debut on the screen and, with a slight advantage, narrowly defeated famous actors such as Yu Lan and Qin Yi and won the honor of Best Actress at the first Hundred Flowers Awards.

Even a movie queen needs a little bit of luck.

But behind the luck, it is inseparable from the intricate advance arrangements made by Jiang Xian, the predictor.

"Congratulations."

Gong Xue handed the Hundred Flowers Award trophy and certificate to Zhu Lin with envy in her eyes.

Zhu Lin, who is about the same age as her, has already won the Hundred Flowers Film Award, while she has just become an actor at the Shanghai Film Studio and has a long way to go in the future.

Thinking about it again, Zhu Lin married a good man, Comrade Jiang Xian, a celebrity in the cultural circle, not to mention that he is not bad looking, to be honest he is quite handsome, and the type she likes.

The more Gong Xue thought about it, the more unbalanced she became.

Alas, how come Zhu Lin is so lucky.

"Thank you, thank you." Zhu Lin's crying face had gradually stopped at this time. She now had a smile on her face, and her almond-shaped eyes were sparkling with a bright light.

"How do you feel about winning the award?" Gong Xue interacted with her on the stage.

Gong Xue's facial features are not big, but delicate, pretty and lively. At this moment, she has a smile on her face and her Mandarin sounds a bit Western when she asks questions.

Zhu Lin is a standard beauty in ancient costume, with a smooth face, soft contours, red lips and white teeth. She is elegant and noble. She speaks softly, with an indelible Beijing accent.

The sudden appearance of these two people in the same frame was a feast for Jiang Xian's eyes, and he started taking pictures with his camera.

Gong Xue in the south and Zhu Lin in the north.

There is still no such statement at this time.

So the two of them appearing in the same frame has a different meaning only in Jiang Xian's eyes.

Other people's attention was more focused on Zhu Lin, after all, she was the winner of today's Hundred Flowers Film Award.

The atmosphere at the awards ceremony was relatively relaxed, Narenhua joked:
"Today, Comrade Jiang Xian won the Best Screenwriter Award at the Golden Rooster Awards, and Comrade Zhu Lin won the Best Actress Award at the Hundred Flowers Awards. You and your wife have a happy marriage today."

When she said this, many people were shocked.

"What do you mean? Jiang Xian and Zhu Lin are a couple?"

"I do not know."

"That sounds like what I meant."

Although Jiang Xian and Zhu Lin did not deliberately keep it secret, they have always been low-key. Information was not well developed back then, so many film workers heard about it for the first time.

"A perfect couple, the screenwriter matched the heroine."

"Haha, both of you go back and each take a trophy. Don't fight with each other for it."

"That's right. One is the Golden Rooster and the other is the Hundred Flowers. Now that's great, the couple has won both the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards."

When Zhu Lin returned to her seat with the trophy in her arms, she placed the trophy in Jiang Xian's hand with a smile.

"I will try to win another Golden Rooster next year."

"Such a small target?"

Jiang Xian said, "If I want to win, I'll win both the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards, and next year I'll win both Best Actress awards."

"You got all the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers?"

Zhu Lin was shocked. "I don't have that ability. That would require making a movie as popular as "Lush Mountain Romance" to be possible."

"What's 'Love in Lushan'?" Jiang Xian hesitated to speak.

He knew that "Shaolin Temple" would create a miracle in the Chinese box office, but Zhu Lin didn't know that.

After the award ceremony, there will be a cultural performance.

It can be roughly divided into music, dance and instrumental music.

It’s still very grand.

The specifications are very high, including the SX Provincial Orchestra, Song and Dance Troupe, Opera Troupe, and the Central Ballet Troupe and the Central Orchestra.
Those who took the stage were all veteran artists.

Among them, the one with the least experience is Li Guyi.

She is still young, has a very good voice, and is very good at singing. She sang three songs in a row:
"Memory", "Friends", "Youth is the Most Beautiful Thing in Life"

In the past two years, due to the use of "half-voice" singing in her songs, Li Guyi has been criticized as "decadent music" and "pornographic singer" for two years. This time, letting her appear on the stage is also sending a signal to the literary and art circles:

A sensitive period is coming to an end.

Culture and art can begin to develop towards a more diverse outlook.

The signals from this environment are still very important to Jiang Xian.

Because the novel "Red Sorghum" is more "treasonous" than "The Garland under the Mountain", it is a new understanding of the concept of war literature creation.

Why re-understand it?

A very simple truth.

The goal of old war novels is to reproduce the process of war, basically from pre-war mobilization to victory of the battle. The criterion for measuring the success of a novel is usually whether it realistically reproduces the process of war.

But those old writers who fought on the battlefields and experienced the war have gradually faded away.

Most of the mainstays of today's literary world are writers who have not experienced war.

Since you haven't experienced it, why not write in the way of the older generation? Even if you drive yourself to death, you still can't write better than those people of the older generation.

So we need to understand it again and create with new techniques.

This kind of creative breakthrough must be in line with the trajectory of the times.

Take the novel Red Sorghum for example. A year ago, Jiang Xian would not have dared to publish it even if he was beaten to death.

But publishing it now is like going with the flow, with basically no risk.

It’s not that there is no possibility at all. Fortunately, Jiang Xian received support from many parties.

就像是上月《红高粱》在《人民文学》1982年第6期上发行以后，徐中玉在《中青报》6月18日第4版上发表了《感觉和创造性想象——关于中篇小说‘红高粱’的通信》，隆重推荐《红高粱》这篇小说。

After Xu Zhongyu returned to Shanghai, he wrote to Jiang Xian many times to inquire about the novel Red Sorghum.

Therefore, the content of his article is basically some correspondence between Jiang Xian and Xu Zhongyu.

The article published on the same page of China Youth Daily as Xu Zhongyu's article was titled "What Is Relaxation?"

This gives us a glimpse of the situation.

For Red Sorghum, a novel that is extremely unorthodox in both its theme and artistic form, Xu Zhongyu and China Youth Daily's timely and high-standard promotion is like timely help.

After the award ceremony, Jiang Xian and Zhu Lin returned to the guesthouse.

Jiang Xian touched the trophy and couldn't help but sigh, "Those who make movies are really generous. I've won so many national awards for outstanding novels, but I haven't even got a trophy."

He still cherishes this Best Screenplay Award very much.

The Hundred Flowers Awards previously had a Best Screenwriter Award, which was given to Xia Yan and Shui Hua in the first session, and to Li Jun in the second session.
Although he has won the Golden Rooster Award, it is also the only screenwriting award available today.

From a certain perspective, this is also a continuation of the Hundred Flowers Best Screenwriter Award.

Jiang Xian felt a great honor when he thought of the significance and glory that people like Xia Yan and Li Jun gave to the screenwriter award.

"Comrade Xia Yan wrote me a letter!" Zhu Lin said excitedly to Jiang Xian.

Whether it is Xia Yan's identity, his representative status in the film industry, or his role as the honorary chairman of the Golden Rooster Awards Jury.
His letter would be enough to make any actor happy.

"What did you write?"

"look."

Jiang Xian took the letter from Zhu Lin.

He looked carefully and found that the older generation of artists were still accustomed to writing letters in cursive script from right to left and from top to bottom.

The content of the letter was roughly congratulating Zhu Lin on her award and encouraging her to "make greater and more contributions to the revival and progress of China's film industry."

"This is Comrade Xia Yan's recognition of you and his encouragement to you." Jiang Xian was also happy for Zhu Lin.

"Keep it. This is the old man's handwritten manuscript. It's worth keeping."

This letter is naturally very precious.

You should know that the hands that wrote this letter also wrote movie scripts such as "Spring Silkworms", "Eternal Life in Flames", "Blessings" and "Lin's Shop".

What is even more precious is that he also wrote so many appeals and criticisms in times of crisis.

After the award ceremony, the group visited the old revolutionary base in northern Shaanxi.

The land of Shaanxi carries a profound red gene, which we naturally need to study well.

When I returned to Xi'an, Lu Yao came to find me.

"It's all over the newspapers. Everyone knows you won the Golden Rooster Award." Lu Yao said with envy, "Did you get any prize money?"

"There's no such thing." Jiang Xian said with a chuckle.

In later generations, winners of the Golden Rooster Award were given money, but this money was not a bonus. The award itself did not provide a bonus. To be precise, it was a kind of support, or a reward.

According to the reference standards, the "Five Ones" Project Award is 600 million yuan, the Huabiao Award is 500 million yuan, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Awards are 300 million yuan, and the individual award is 50 yuan. If you win an Oscar or a Class A film festival, you will be given 200 million yuan directly.

In addition, if the box office exceeds 5 million, we will give you 400 million.

If the box office exceeds 10 billion, I will give you 600 million.

Very few stars receive prize money exceeding one million, and those who do are basically well-known.

Andy Lau has won five Hong Kong Film Awards and one Huabiao Award, which adds up to 300 million yuan.

Next up are Zhang Yi, Deng Chao, Zhou Xun and others, all of whom have earned over one million.

International Zhang should have the most, having won the Huabiao Awards three times, the Hundred Flowers Awards three times, and one International Film Festival, earning about 600 million.

There are probably not many people who can compare with Zhang Ziyi. Can Jinsuo compete with her?
But it has been liquidated.

Lu Yao was the editor of Yanhe magazine, sponsored by the Shaanxi Writers Association. He would definitely take Jiang Xian with him to visit.

Since Jiang Xian was in Xi'an, he naturally wanted to see "Yanhe", which is known as the "Little People's Literature".

So he followed Lu Yao very happily.

It's almost August now.

The weather in Xi'an is very hot, and the cicadas on the sycamore trees are chirping non-stop.

Jiang Xian’s biggest feeling about Xi’an is that the quality of Jia Pingwa’s writings is debatable, but calling Xi’an the “wasted city” is quite appropriate.

Starting from the Bell Tower of Xi'an, go east for about two kilometers, enter Jianguo Road, and then go south for about a hundred meters, facing east and west, a small courtyard with a private entrance hidden among a group of new and old buildings of varying heights comes into Jiang Xian's sight.

No. 83, Jianguo Road, Gao Guizi Residence.

It is also the SX Provincial Writers Association.

The architecture is a combination of Chinese and Western styles, with a two-story building and three courtyards connected to each other.

The three courtyards are Courtyard 1, Courtyard 2 and Courtyard 3 from east to west.

Courtyards 1 and 2 are used for office work and professional writers' creation, while Courtyard 3 belongs to the editorial department of Yanhe.

This is where a powerful force of contemporary Chinese literature gathers.

——Shaanxi Army.

The yard was very big. Lu Yao pulled Jiang Xian inside and discussed his article "Red Sorghum" with saliva flying.

Chen Zhongshi, who was walking in front, heard the voice and turned around to look at the two of them.

(End of this chapter)