1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 395 "Lover" Award Winning

The next day, Lin Weimin ate breakfast and flipped through the latest issue of "Variety Show", an old American entertainment magazine.

Lin Weimin found news about this year's Cannes Film Festival on the above, and the Cannes Film Festival should also be closed by now.

What was published on Variety was indeed the news of the closing of the Cannes film industry. By the way, it also published the list of award-winning films and comments.

This year's Palme d'Or went to director Roland Joffe's film "The Preacher", the jury's special award went to Andrei Tarkovsky's "Sacrifice", and the best director went to Martin Scorsey S...

Lin Weimin looked at the awards one by one. After careful searching, he found the word "lover" in a pile of award lists. The film "Lover" won two awards in total for best photography and best screenplay.

It's not the biggest winner, but among the award-winning films, apart from the three or four films that won heavyweight awards, the result of "Lover" is already very good.

At least before "Lover", no Chinese-language film has achieved such a result at the Cannes Film Festival.

In the 70s and [-]s, the works of Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan and others also won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, but they were all insignificant technical awards with little gold content.

After breakfast in a happy mood, Lin Weimin was about to start writing the script when the phone in the apartment rang.

It was Yang Meng's voice who picked up the phone.

"Mr. Lin, I'm really sorry. I've been so busy and confused recently that I even forgot to call you to announce the good news to you."

Yang Meng explained to Lin Weimin while talking.

The itinerary of "Lover" to participate in the Cannes Film Festival itself was extremely hasty.

After the closing of the film festival, the award-winning results were released. "Lover" became one of the focuses of the major distributors who came to the Cannes Film Festival. She has been busy with this matter for the past few days. The distribution countries that have been confirmed are More than ten countries including the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Spain.

But all of them follow the route of literary films, and the copyright fee is not high, and the advantage is that they are sold in many countries.

In addition, there is also the issue of Xiangjiang's release. "Lover" was exhibited at the exhibition after finishing the post-production as quickly as possible.

"Understood! Congratulations to Ms. Yang!"

"It should be Tongxi. Mr. Lin, please give me an address, and I will post the award certificate to you later, and there will also be a red envelope."

"The red envelope is unnecessary." Lin Weimin declined.

Yang Meng insisted: "It must be, the best screenplay award is all due to you."

On the phone, Yang Meng also invited Lin Weimin to go to Xiangjiang again if he had time after returning to China, but Lin Weimin had no choice but to decline.

He came out for two months at a time, and it was impossible for him to go out again within this year.

"Lover" won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Although it is not a major award, it is considered worthwhile to participate in the film festival.

From Yang Meng's tone, it could be heard that the movie must have sold very well, but he didn't know how much he could make.

After the pleasant chat, Lin Weimin hung up the phone.

A few days ago, I was preoccupied with investing in "The Phantom of the Opera", and the script creation progress was delayed a lot.

Lin Weimin decided not to go out for a few days, and to write in the apartment.

After a week of this, the time has come to the beginning of June, and Lin Weimin finally completed the script of "The Kite Runner".

When he handed over the complete script to Arthur Miller, the old man was overjoyed, "Lin, your efficiency is really high!"

High?

It's been almost a month, and I just finished writing a script. Teacher Lin felt a little ashamed for no reason.

With Lin Weimin's script, the preparations for the drama "The Kite Runner" could also start, and Arthur Miller began to get busy.

He didn't forget Lalin Weimin's young man, who would discuss script issues with him almost every day.

However, Lin Weimin is still idle most of the time every day, and occasionally takes a car to go around various districts in New York. When he has nothing to do, he thinks of Mark Meng and calls him.

After receiving a call from Lin Weimin, Mark Meng cried out excitedly, "Lin, I didn't expect you to come to the United States. Where are you now? I really can't wait to see you."

"I'm in New York now."

"I will look for you!"

"Let me go find you. I happen to have nothing to do in New York."

"No, no, I haven't been to New York to play well, so I just went to play this time."

Mark Meng insisted on driving to New York. He is now a teacher at the University of Kansas, which is equivalent to running from the middle of the United States to the east coast of the United States.

For Lao Mi, it is not uncommon to drive across the entire country, not to mention half of the country.

After waiting for two days in New York, Lin Weimin finally saw the long-lost Mark Meng.

"Lin, my friend!" As soon as they met, Mark Meng couldn't help giving Lin Weimin a big hug.

Lin Weimin was also a little excited, "Old Ma, long time no see!"

"Yeah, I haven't seen you for almost three years!"

After the hug, Ma Kemeng was still a little excited, and looked at Lin Weimin carefully, "You don't seem to have changed much."

Lin Weimin joked: "You have matured a lot, why did you grow a beard?"

"Don't you think that's cool?"

Dude, are you misunderstood by "cool"?

The two chatted for a while, and Lin Weimin said: "Let's go, arrange the place to live first, and then I will treat you to dinner."

Mark Meng laughed and said, "Man, this is the country of America, so I should be the one who treats you to dinner."

He pulled Lin Weimin to get into his Buick, Huang Guangsheng hurriedly got off from the waiting Mercedes-Benz, "Mr. Lin!"

Lin Weimin waved his hand and said, "Jack, you drive the car back to the apartment first, you can have a holiday for these two days!"

Huang Guangsheng nodded, got in the car and left.

When Lin Weimin got into the car, Ma Kemeng asked in surprise, "Lin, what's going on?"

"The car was arranged by a friend. In our old Chinese saying, it's easier to do things with more friends."

Old friends reunited, and Lin Weimin regained his twitchy nature.

After Ma Kemeng drove the car downstairs to the Dakota apartment according to Lin Weimin's instructions, looking at the apartment standing in front of him, Ma Kemeng asked, "You won't tell me this is where you live, will you?"

Lin Weimin patted him, "Not only where I live, but also where you live."

After he got out of the car, Ma Kemeng got out of the car quickly, and followed Lin Weimin into the apartment. Ma Kemeng looked around all the way.

When I entered the apartment, I still couldn't believe it and asked, "Lin, how did you do it?"

"You mean the apartment and the car?"

"of course."

Lin Weimin didn't show off, and told Mark Meng about his cooperative relationship with Arthur Miller.

After listening to Mark Meng, he was ignorant. He left Yanjing in 83. It happened that Arthur Miller visited Yanjing that year. He heard Lin Weimin mention the matter of entertaining Arthur Miller, but he did not expect Lin Weimin and Arthur Miller's relationship has a follow-up.

He even didn't expect that Lin Weimin's play had been moved to the stage of Broadway.

"My God! If I knew your play was on Broadway, I should have come here sooner!"

"Haha, it's not too late to come now. I'll go to dinner later, and I'll take you to see my play tonight."

Sardis on West 44th Street is one of the restaurants frequented by Broadway theater workers. Like the Green Garden Lounge, it has witnessed the premiere celebrations of hundreds of Broadway plays.

In 1946, after the death of actress Antoinette Perry, her friend, theater producer and director Brooke Penn Burton was having lunch in Sardis and gave birth to the idea of ​​setting up a theater award in memory of Toinette. The idea, so there was the later "Tony Award".

For many years, Sardis was the place where Tony Award nominations were announced, making the restaurant known and well known on Broadway.

While eating, Lin Weimin introduced the anecdote about Sardis to Mark Meng, which made Mark Meng sigh.

"Obviously I am an American, but when you arrive in New York, you become the master!"

Lin Weimin smiled and said, "Who gave me time?"

Lin Weimin is right. For many people living in big cities, the only life there is for them to work and sleep.And the enthusiasm of those cities is only open to those who have leisure and money.

"Big Apple City like a bitch!" Mark Meng cursed with emotion for a moment.

After the two had finished their meal, it happened to be dark outside when they came out of Sardis.

At this time, it is also the time when Broadway really wakes up. The darkness lights up all the details of Broadway, the neon lights of the theater, the posters under the spotlights, and the audience waiting to enter.

Mark Meng is a native of the United States, but this is the first time he has come to New York and Broadway when he grows up, so he feels like a countryman entering the city.

"Lin, I suddenly realized that I have to thank you."

"Why do you say that?"

"It's because of me that he discovered that New York still has this side!"

After Mark Meng finished speaking, the two looked at each other and laughed.

The two came to the Barrymore Theater, bought tickets and entered the theater.

"Untouchable", which has been on stage for more than a year, is very popular on Broadway, which may have something to do with the blind pursuit of war reflections in the theater industry in the past few years.

The background of the American version of "Untouchable" is the Vietnam War. From the local war in 1965 to the retreat in 1975, the ten-year Vietnam War has brought pain to the bones of the United States.

More than 58000 American soldiers died, and as much as 4450 billion U.S. dollars in various investments were lost. The two administrations of Johnson and Nixon were dragged into the quagmire and resigned.

The tearing of American society and the confrontation among the people caused by this war far surpassed any subsequent war.

Against this background, a large number of news, biographies, and literary works have appeared in the cultural circles of the United States that describe the cruelty of the war, reflect on the gains and losses of the Vietnam War, and analyze the causes and effects of the Vietnam War.

One of the most representative is David Leiber and his "Vietnam War Trilogy".

"Pavlo Hummel's Basic Training", "Streamers", and "Sticks and Bones", the three plays won numerous awards in the United States in the 70s.

But it may also be that many years of reflection, contradiction and confrontation have made Americans tired of this way of thinking.

Just at this time, with the same Vietnam War background, "Untouchable" appeared in front of American audiences in a relaxed, humorous and warm style, sweeping away the depth, pain and melancholy that everyone saw in the "Vietnam War Trilogy", It made many people feel the pain brought by the war to the people in another relaxed way, and brought countless audiences a kind of moving with laughter and tears, which is impressive.

Mark Meng walked out of the theater and sighed again: "Lin, this adaptation of "Untouchable" is really good! No wonder it is so popular!"

There is no need to read the media's comments, just from the audience's reaction in the theater, Mark Meng knows the popularity of "Untouchable" on Broadway.

"Mr. Arthur Miller has contributed much to this work."

Lin Weimin is not being polite. Without Arthur Miller, the localization of "Untouchable" would not have achieved such a great success.

Ma Kemeng nodded and said, "You are such a lucky guy!"

Lin Weimin smiled and said, "You can't envy this kind of luck!"

(End of this chapter)