1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 375: Phone Assassin
The broadcast effect of "Plainclothes Police" is indeed worse than that of "The Wind", but this is a crime other than war, and it is entirely because the objects of comparison are too outstanding.

In fact, after the broadcast of this TV series, both the media evaluation and the audience's reputation were very good. Haiyan specially invited Lin Weimin to have a meal to express his gratitude.

After seeing the effect of the TV series, Haiyan realized how bad the content he wrote was, and how good the effect was when Mr. Lin changed it.

As the broadcast of "Plainclothes Police" comes to an end, the Spring Festival of 1986 has also arrived.

On New Year's Eve, Lin Weimin put Tao Huimin on the train back to his hometown.

The crew of "The Story of a Female Doctor" just had a holiday today, and the ten-day holiday was already the limit the crew could squeeze out.After all, there are a lot of Xiangjiang staff members in the crew, and it will take two or three days at the fastest to go back and forth, and the holidays should not be too short.

After Tao Huimin was sent away, Lin Weimin went to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

It took three months for the formalities of Yongzhen Baylor Mansion to finally be completed. From today onwards, nominally, this Baylor Mansion already belongs to Lin Weimin.

After completing the formalities, Director Deng took Lin Weimin to the Baylor Mansion for a field visit, and then went to a vacant lot on Huayuan East Road of the Academy of Sciences for the construction of staff dormitories.

"We will strive to build the dormitory well next year, and we will free up the yard for you at the beginning of the next year." Director Deng said.

Lin Weimin nodded. The trouble of buying a mansion like Yongzhen Baylor Mansion is here. It is impossible to vacate those staff dormitories within a year or two.

But who made this thing a scarce resource, a year is not too long, and it can afford to wait.

After a busy day, I went to work at the Guowen Society the next day, and there was a bit of joy in the lazy atmosphere.

Colleagues are making jokes, have no intention of reviewing manuscripts, and are all waiting for the holiday!
After get off work in the evening, Lin Weimin delivered New Year's goods from house to house.

Busy until the evening, when I came home, I was used to Tao Huimin waiting for him at home every night, and it was a bit uncomfortable when no one was around.

On the [-]th day, Lin Weimin spent at Han Zhuangzhuang's house in Paint Zuo Hutong.

After the new year, people have to go to work again before they recover.

At the beginning of the new year, Lin Weimin's work has not yet entered the state, Lin Weimin first received an international mail.

It was sent by Arthur Miller. The box office performance in the fourth quarter of last year was settled last month, and Lin Weimin once again earned more than [-] yuan.

In addition to the split of the performance, Arthur Miller also mentioned the adaptation of Lin Weimin's other works.

Now "Untouchable" has been on Broadway for more than a year, and has been warmly welcomed by Broadway audiences, which fully proves Lin Weimin's ability to adapt to American culture.

Arthur Miller made a lot of money from "The Untouchable", so he naturally hoped to bring more of Lin Weimin's works to the Broadway stage.

Lin Weimin was also surprised by the performance of "Untouchable" on Broadway.

In one year, "Untouchable" has brought him more than 100 million dollars in income. If other works can also enter Broadway, even if they are not so successful, as long as they can gain a firm foothold on Broadway, it will be a lot of money income.

After some deliberation, Lin Weimin decided to make an overseas call to Arthur Miller.

These days, it is inconvenient to make long-distance calls from other provinces and cities, let alone overseas calls?
Everyone has to go to the telegraph building in Xidan or a large post and telecommunications office to make calls, and the lines are very busy and often jammed.

In many cases, to make a long-distance call to the Telegraph Building, you have to bring your lunch. There is no way, there are too many people in line.I have to call and wait in the middle, often alone for more than half an hour.

Lin Weimin didn't plan to go to the Telegraph Building, and the general post office would take a long time to wait.

He ran to the Yanjing Hotel, where there was a post office. The place was small, and there were three single-person international telephone booths in the small post office.

Basically, it is exclusively for foreigners, and you can make a call after waiting an hour at most, which is much better than going to the Telegraph Building.

When Lin Weimin arrived here, the three one-person phone booths were all occupied, and the callers were all foreigners.

Lin Weimin first told the post office staff the phone number to be dialed, and then paid the deposit with foreign exchange certificates.

Then there is a series of documents to fill out, explaining the reason for his call.

After filling out the documents, Lin Weimin sat on a plastic chair at the far end of the counter and waited for a long time, waiting for the staff to connect to the outside line.

From time to time, the sound of other people's phone calls can be heard in my ears, and some people are emotional and easily yell.

After waiting for more than half an hour, Lin Weimin yawned and was finally awakened by a rapid scream, and went to the No. 2 telephone booth under the signal of the staff.

The call quality of the overseas calls was very poor, even worse than when Lin Weimin answered Xiangjiang's call, which made people subconsciously raise the volume.

The three telephone booths are closely connected, and everyone competes to "shout out".

Lin Weimin had a difficult conversation with Arthur Miller on the phone. He got rid of two groups of people and spent more than half an hour on the phone. The staff in the middle kindly reminded him twice, but Lin Weimin ignored them.

The staff came to remind Lin Weimin that it was not because of his loud phone calls. The quality of phone calls is poor these days, and it is normal for everyone to make loud calls.

The staff reminded that the call time is long, and the price of overseas calls in China is very high nowadays.The post office here at Yanjing Hotel charges 12 yuan per minute, and only accepts foreign exchange certificates. The monthly salary of an average worker is enough to make two or three minutes of phone calls.

So much so that after Lin Weimin hung up the phone, the staff looked at him with weird and vigilant eyes, for fear that he would leave the phone and run away.

This is why Lin Weimin just put a deposit of 100 yuan in foreign exchange certificates, otherwise the staff might not have let him finish the call.

"Comrade, you still need to pay 224 yuan."

After the staff member said this, Lin Weimin hadn't spoken yet. The Chinese boy who had just finished filling out the documents suddenly raised his head, looked at the phone booth, and then at Lin Weimin, his lips pursed.

After Lin Weimin took out the money to pay the phone bill, the staff heaved a sigh of relief and watched him leave the post office.

The young man who was waiting at the side handed over the documents, and then asked the staff in a low voice: "How long has he been playing?"

"More than half an hour! It cost more than 300 yuan in foreign exchange certificates!"

It is rare for the staff to see someone as aggressive as Lin Weimin, with a bit of gossip in his tone.

The young man turned his head to look at Lin Weimin's back.

How terrible is it to make a phone call and spend more than 300 yuan in foreign exchange certificates?
Things are definitely not life-threatening, but money is needed.

More than 300 yuan, it is really a "phone assassin".

More than 300 yuan in foreign exchange certificates is a drop in the bucket for Lin Weimin, but the experience of making international long distance calls is really painful.

Lin Weimin inexplicably thought of the short video clips on the Internet, the kind of clips where all the trivial things in life have to be reported and approved by the government department. Art really comes from life!

The phone call with Arthur Miller was intermittent, but at least the matter was clarified.

After more than a year of performances on Broadway, "Untouchable" has achieved certain results in the American drama industry, such as the Tony Award it won last summer.

Although it only won the actor award at that time, the bonus to Lin Weimin, the screenwriter, and Arthur Miller, the investor and producer, was not that great, but the bonus effect on the actors and the drama itself was still very high.

As the reputation continued to ferment, many performance companies in the United States were contacting Arthur Miller, hoping to confirm the tour plan of "Untouchable", and Arthur Miller also intends to start the tour of "Untouchable".

Compared with residency, there is no Broadway producer who dislikes touring.

Because touring is not only a sign of a big-selling drama, but also makes more money than regular performances.

When there is a fixed performance, the ticket price is fixed, and the producer rarely dares to increase the price.

It is easy to increase the price and difficult to reduce the price. If there is too much increase and no one will come, if you lower the price yourself, it will make people feel that there is something wrong with the show.

Therefore, the producer usually can only earn extra ticket money by secretly poking through scalpers.

Ticket prices for touring shows are generally much more expensive than regular performances, and it is easier to manipulate ticket prices. In the words of later generations, it is like cutting leeks.

Once the tour plan of "Untouchable" starts in the future, Lin Weimin will definitely earn a large amount of income again.

Of course Arthur Miller earned more, that's why he actively promoted the tour, including inviting Lin Weimin to Mi.

After all, it's all money!
It's just the end of the new year, and it's only mid-February.

The monthly revision of "Contemporary" has just come out in its second issue, and it has not yet fully entered the right track. Moreover, he also promised Renyi to be the screenwriter of "Da Ming Dynasty 1566: Jiajing and Hai Rui", so he cannot go to the United States in a short time.

So he and Arthur Miller made an agreement to find a time to go to the United States after April. The specific time was not specified, after all, the plan did not change quickly.

As for the issue of the next adaptation that Arthur Miller kept mentioning on the phone, Lin Weimin persuaded Arthur Miller to wait until he arrived in the United States before deciding on the specific situation.

Any foreign work that leaves its homeland and is warmly welcomed in other countries, in addition to its own quality, is also an important reason for luck. It is not safe to rush to start a second project.

Lin Weimin successfully persuaded Arthur Miller.

Back at the Guowen Society, Mo Yan waited in the editorial office.

During the Chinese New Year, he went back to his hometown, but he kept working hard. He insisted on using these few days to finish writing the script of "Red Sorghum". The first thing he came back to Yanjing was to find the Guowen Society, and asked Lin Weimin to help him read the script. The quality of how.

Lin Weimin flipped through the script, and Mo Yan stared at the movements of his hands and the expression on his face, not wanting to let go of even the slightest change.

Lin Weimin raised his head and noticed his strangeness, and said with a smile, "There's no need to be so nervous, right?"

"Writing a formal screenplay for the first time."

Mo Yan told Lin Weimin that it was his first time writing a movie script, but it wasn't the first time he wrote a script.

When he was still a soldier in his hometown in 78, he was influenced by the drama "In the Silent Place", and wrote a six-act drama "Divorce" at that time.

At that time, he was full of enthusiasm, but it was a pity that his consecutive submissions were rejected, which made him disheartened, so he gave up the drama creation.

Perhaps influenced by the unsuccessfully published "first novel", Mo Yan was very concerned about the success and failure of the script of "Red Sorghum".

With a relaxed smile on his face, Lin Weimin gave his opinion: "The writing is quite good!"

Mo Yan was overjoyed immediately, "Really? Teacher Lin?"

"Don't ask such nonsense!" Lin Weimin said casually.

Mo Yan nodded in surprise. He also knew that what he asked was nonsense. Is it necessary for Mr. Lin to tell lies to himself?

After get off work in the evening, Lin Weimin took Moyan to find the hotel where Zhang Yimou was staying.

"The Biography of a Female Doctor" just resumed work after the year, and Zhang Yimou just came back.

Knowing that Mo Yan had finished writing the script of "Red Sorghum", his face was full of surprises.

He was even happier after reading the script, which was even better than he expected.

This script is likely to become a stepping stone for him to start his directing career in the future.

(End of this chapter)