1978 Synthetic Writers

Chapter 428: Hall of Fame

Jiang Xian didn't have any plans.

In other words, he just wanted to use the TV adaptation rights of "The Garland" to improve his relationship with the Shandong Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

As the hometown of Confucius and Mencius and a cultural province, Shandong has produced many well-known writers, and the strength of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles is definitely among the best in the country.

As for Jiang Xian, the adaptation fee of several thousand yuan was really not worth his attention.

Since the Shandong Federation of Literary and Art Circles wanted to make a TV series of "The Garland" so much, he might as well do them a favor.

This favor is more valuable than money.

"You."

Teng Jingde didn't know what to say.

"Why don't you just take some? I won't feel at ease if you don't pay me."

"How can I harm you?"

Jiang Xian smiled and said, "Shandong and I have a connection. Many of my novels are closely related to Shandong. It can be regarded as half of my spiritual hometown. Since Shandong TV wants to film it, let's go ahead and film it."

Teng Jingde was really touched.

As expected of a leader in the domestic literary world, this spirit, this breadth of mind, this, this, this
Gentleman!

Xi Yuming was indescribably shocked, and his favorable impression of Jiang Xian increased greatly. The little unhappiness he had felt after waiting for a whole day to see him immediately disappeared, and was replaced by gratitude at the level of a godfather.

The two of them expressed their gratitude profusely on the spot. Jiang Xian waved his hand and told them that the greatest reward would be to make a good film of "The Garland".

The movie is too fast-paced after all.

If it were a TV series, the presentation would be much more delicate.

Jiang Xian was not afraid that Shandong would not film the movie carefully. If the movie was not good anyway, they would apologize to the people of the whole country, and the masses would throw stones at the crew to death.

Considering how popular "The Garland" is in China today, this is definitely not an exaggeration at all.

After October, the weather in Beijing began to gradually turn cooler, which also means it is time to stock up on winter vegetables again.

Fang Chen is a student at the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama.

There was no class today, so he ran out of the Central Academy of Drama and went straight to the Capital Cinema with his girlfriend from Beijing Film Academy.

The movie "Furong Town" began its preview screenings in several cinemas in Beijing and Shanghai today.

That’s right, a preview, not a public screening.

The reason is very simple. The subject matter and content of the movie "Furong Town" are sensitive. Although it is open these days, it is not particularly open. The authorities are afraid that something might happen if it is released directly to the public, so they have to have a trial screening first to see the audience's reaction and the society's attitude.

Fang Chen rode a borrowed bike with his girlfriend, smelling the scent of cabbage in the air and cursing.

“I already told you I didn’t want to watch it, but you insisted on buying these two tickets.

Don’t I know whether it looks good or not?
The leading actor of this movie is Jiang Wen from our department.

Not only is this guy ugly, but he's also as dark as a loach. Once you turn off the lights, you can't even find him.

You think he can make a good movie?
He can make a good movie, and I screw my head over it.”

His girlfriend Chai Meimei rolled her eyes. "Okay, it's not like he's the only one acting in this movie. Didn't you hear that the actress is Liu Xiaoqing? Besides, I've read this novel, it's very touching, and Jiang Xian is my favorite author. Just for him, I'm going to go to the cinema to watch it."

"Jiang Xian, Jiang Xian, I noticed that you can't stop talking about Jiang Xian all the time. Let me ask you, am I your partner or is he your partner?"

"Fang Chen, you are sick, right?"

Chai Meimei pinched his waist in her dream, "Why are you jealous? You've been talking too much nonsense today. I tell you, if you want to watch this movie, get out of here if you don't. I'll find someone else to watch it with me."

"Hiss."

After being scolded, Fang Chen became obedient. Of course, the reason for his obedience was that he was indeed a jealous man, and he was afraid that if she stopped watching, Chai Meimei would be so angry that she would find another man to accompany her.

With my mouth blocked, I could only curse the movie "Furong Town" in my heart. I hope the movie is bad enough so that I can retaliate after watching it. Then I'll see if Chai Meimei will still be able to speak.

The two of them drove to the Capital Cinema quickly.

Before they reached the door, Fang Chen and his companion were frightened by the huge crowd and stopped in their tracks.

"There are too many people here!"

"Are you all here to watch "Furong Town"? "

"Nonsense, this novel is so popular, there must be a lot of people reading it. You don't know how much effort I put in to get these two tickets." Chai Meimei said.

Fang Chen looked at the audience and couldn't help but call them idiots.

It’s so cold today, people are shivering while trying to buy winter vegetables, and now you’re going through all the trouble to get tickets for this movie?

He sneered.

When we see Jiang Wen's black loach later, everyone will probably be so angry that they will die.

In Fang Chen's opinion, the attitude of the crew determines the quality of the film.

The attitude of "Furong Town" is just perfunctory.

Jiang Wen can even play the leading male role!

I am taller, whiter, more handsome, and have better grades than him.

The crew chose Jiang Wen instead of him.

It is obvious that Jiang Wen used connections and backdoors, so this film is likely to be filled with people with connections.

Can a group of people with connections make a good movie?
Seeing that Chai Meimei was still impatient, Fang Chen volunteered to take her into the cinema.

When he thought of Chai Meimei's disappointed expression later, he couldn't help but hum with pride.

After some effort, they entered the cinema amidst the crowds and entered the theater under the guidance of a guide.

"The environment of this theater is really nice." Chai Meimei couldn't help but sigh as she looked around.

The screen is big, the chairs are soft, and there is heating, so it’s not cold at all.

Under normal circumstances, as a student, she would not be willing to come to such a good cinema to watch a movie.

Unfortunately, "Furong Town" was only a preview, and she couldn't see it unless she came to the Capital Cinema.

"I'm going to use the bathroom."

While Fang Chen was going to the restroom, people started to come into the theatre and it was soon full. The adults were chatting and arguing, the children were crying and making noises, and the sounds mixed together into a chaotic mess.

When Fang Chen came back and sat on the chair, the lights dimmed and the scene became quiet in an instant.

Everyone looked at the screen.

First, a "Shanghai Film Studio" model emerged.

With the sound of a bell, the picture jumped out, with a gray sky, dark clouds, and black eaves.

And on this picture, there are three majestic characters written with a brush, filling the entire picture:
"Furong Town!"

The next scene is the handwritten list of main creators.

Original title: "Jiang Xian"! This name is naturally ranked first.

Seeing the name, Chai Meimei was immediately excited, while Fang Chen snorted coldly and disagreed. However, the confusion in his heart gradually calmed down with the continuous echoing of the bells played on the speakers, as if he had also arrived at a quiet town with the picture.

"It's so beautiful."

"Yeah, where is this?"

Fang Chen listened to the whispered discussions among the audience in front of him.

"I heard that in order to find a suitable location for filming, the assistant director and art designer spent more than a month traveling to more than a hundred villages and towns in Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and walked nearly 10,000 miles before they found this place." Chai Meimei whispered to Fang Chen.

Before coming here, she had already read the movie information about Furong Town in Popular Movies, and she remembered it very clearly. "It's all just a gimmick." Fang Chen pouted, watching the screen gradually darken. With a snap, a match lit up, reflecting a round, plump, apple-red face that looked like it was normal for menstruation.

"Liu Xiaoqing!"

Immediately, the audience in the theater began to quietly get excited.

With the broadcast of the two films "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace" and "The Imperial Court", Liu Xiaoqing's fame and popularity in China have reached a new high in her career.

The camera slowly moves forward, and Liu Xiaoqing plays Hu Yuyin, a rice tofu seller who hums an unknown ditty while grinding tofu with a relaxed expression and skilled movements.

As the day dawned, the town gradually became lively. Hu Yuyin was busy at the stall, scooping various condiments and serving steaming rice tofu to customers.

Fang Chen looked inside slowly. The town was so beautiful, and Liu Xiaoqing was also so beautiful, truly a tofu beauty.

The acting was pretty good.
No, no.

Fang Chen quickly interrupted his thoughts.

I opened my eyes wide, afraid of missing any moments in the movie.

With the appearance of Li Guoxiang, the conflicts in the film began to erupt and the struggle arose.

Jiang Wen, also known as Qin Shutian, appeared on the scene.

Of course, Fang Chen didn’t realize that it was Jiang Wen’s.

Because Qin Shutian was criticized by Li Guoxiang as soon as he appeared on the stage. He was covered in dust, with his head down in dejection, messy hair and untidy beard.

In order to survive, this character has to pretend to be crazy and stupid, but in fact he is not really crazy or stupid, which makes it very difficult to grasp.

"Fang Chen, you see, this guy acted really well." Chai Meimei said.

Fang Chen nodded in approval, "Yeah, that's OK."

They both studied acting, and seeing the performance of actor Qin Shutian, they could naturally feel that he had some skills.

However, as soon as Fang Chen said this, his face quickly turned green.

Because Qin Shutian raised his head.

He also recognized Qin Shutian.

He was so immersed in the world of movies that he forgot that Qin Shutian was the male lead, and the male lead was Jiang Wen!

Fang Chen looked embarrassed.

I had been complaining about Jiang Wen all the way, but ended up praising him inadvertently.

Fortunately, the attitude is not very obvious.

Fang Chen glanced at Chai Meimei beside him, she seemed not to realize this yet.

He secretly reminded himself not to praise Jiang Wen anymore, but to open his eyes wide and find every flaw in his performance.

Li Mangeng could not bear the psychological pressure and handed Hu Yuyin's money to Li Guoxiang. With solid evidence, Li Guoxiang first forced Gu Yanshan to say in pain that he was infertile, and then forced Hu Yuyin's husband Li Guigui to commit suicide because he could not bear the humiliation.

Hu Yuyin, distraught and with disheveled hair, rushed to her husband's grave and cried bitterly.

"Guigui, your woman is here to accompany you!"

Seeing this scene, the audience's eyes turned red and their fists clenched.

"I was slandered like this before! Such people are so hateful!"

"This Li Guoxiang is so annoying!"

"Li Guigui, are you worthy of Hu Yuyin? Just leaving her as a woman?"

"Alas, who can bear it, regardless of Li Guigui? If it's you, can you do it?"

A couple was separated by the Yin and Yang, but "Qin the Crazy" Qin Shutian broke into the life of the poor woman Hu Yuyin.

The two of them started sweeping the streets together. Furong Town changed from the tranquility and peace at the beginning of the film, and was now covered with slogans everywhere.

Li Guoxiang, who had just made the audience angry, also suffered her retribution immediately. She was reduced to a street sweeper together with Hu Yuyin and Hu Yuyin. The ones who criticized her were Wang Qiushe and her daughter Dou Baoying.

"Haha, things are changing!"

"You deserve it. You've hurt others, and now it's your retribution!"

"Yes, beat her with a belt, hang a pair of old shoes on her, and suffocate her to death!"

As the plot begins, the relationship between Hu Yuyin and Qin Shutian heats up. They are so shameless that they often bump into each other while sweeping the streets with their brooms. This little sweet moment makes the audience laugh like a fool, adding a spice to this tragedy.

On the other hand, Li Guoxiang suddenly became the person in power. Wang Qiushe, who had criticized her before, immediately changed his attitude. One night, he ran to Li Guoxiang's house alone, drank three rounds of wine, then knelt in front of her, hugged her legs, and shouted that he wanted to be Li Guoxiang's puppy.

"Damn, you're so shameless!"

"Bah! This Wang Qiushe is such a dog! What a pair of bastards!"

"I'm about to throw up my food, it's disgusting!"

Wang Qiushe went to Li Guoxiang's house at night and jumped out of the back window in the morning. This scene was discovered by Hu Yuyin and Qin Shutian who got up early to sweep the street.

Qin Shutian came up with an idea. He secretly placed a ball of cow dung at the place where Wang Qiushe jumped down, and then he and Hu Yuyin hid and waited for the show.

At this time, his hand was placed on Hu Yuyin's shoulder in an unruly manner.

Hu Yuyin pushed him away shyly.

He reached for it again and held it even tighter.

Before the audience could even react, they saw Wang Qiushe jump down again stealthily, but he slipped on cow dung and fell on his back.

"Hahahaha!"

The laughter of the audience mixed with the loud laughter of Qin Shutian and Hu Yuyin.

The movie begins with a story about Qin Shutian and Hu Yuyin finding joy in suffering, their feelings warming, and being shameless.

Soon, Hu Yuyin became pregnant. Qin Shutian was overjoyed and mustered up the courage to marry Hu Yuyin. This irritated Li Guoxiang, who brought people to arrest the two of them early in the morning.

The two men were dragged onto the stage for trial. It was raining heavily and everyone was holding umbrellas, looking at Hu Yuyin and Qin Shutian in the center of the stage. The rain wet their hair, cheeks, and clothes.

Qin Shutian was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Hu Yuyin touched her slightly bulging belly and looked at everything in front of her in confusion. Finally, she put her hand on Qin Shutian's cheek and gently stroked his face.

In the rainstorm, Qin Shutian's eyes seemed to have an unquenchable flame. He said to Hu Yuyin:

"Live on, live like an animal!"

Hu Yuyin's lips trembled slightly, and Qin Shutian's words echoed in her ears and in the ears of the audience.

Seeing this, many viewers were already wiping away tears.

Fang Chen's eyes also turned red, but he forced himself not to cry out loud, for fear that Chai Meimei, who was wiping her tears beside him, would notice that he was choking.

The movie ended and the music started. None of the bad guys, such as Li Guoxiang, Dou Baoying, and Wang Qiushe, had a good ending. It was both satisfying and thought-provoking.

The audience seemed to have experienced a spiritual mass. Some were still in the sad atmosphere, some were excitedly discussing the plot, and some were clapping in their seats.

"This movie is so good, it's so well made, the actors and actresses acted really well, especially Li Guoxiang. I almost hated her because of her acting. The other actors also acted well." Chai Meimei kept talking.

Fang Chen, who had been talking a lot about "Furong Town" when he came here, now became particularly silent.

There was no way he could find any flaws in the movie even with a magnifying glass.

Although he really didn't want to admit it, he had to admit it.

This is indeed a good movie!
It is even a masterpiece that can be regarded as a masterpiece of Chinese cinema.

After hesitating for a long time, he turned his head and said, "Well, let's take a look at it again later."

(End of this chapter)