1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 628 You Are Eyeless
When Cheng Kaige was the coder of the crew, the news about the upcoming filming of "Farewell My Concubine" had spread throughout the Chinese film circle.

Lin Weimin's original work, directed by Cheng Kaige, Xiangjiang and the United States invested 800 million dollars...

Such a lineup can be called a king bomb in the Chinese film circle.

Regardless of the fact that Cheng Kaige has been under the pressure of Zhang Yimou in the past few years, he is a dwarf, but in any case, the fifth generation of directors is gradually entering the mature stage of creation. This group of people has become the mainstay of the Chinese film industry. The leader of filmmakers has already established itself.

The 800 million dollar investment of Xiangjiang and the United States has set a record for a film directed by a mainland director.

It was scary enough that Xie Tieli spent tens of millions to shoot "Dream of Red Mansions". When the investment of state-owned studios was generally around one million, the film investment scale of 800 million meters was a blow to dimensionality reduction.

In addition to the director and the scale of investment, "Farewell My Concubine" itself and Lin Weimin, the author of the original work, most sparked discussions.

Not to mention the influence of "Farewell My Concubine", Lin Weimin is very special in the domestic film industry.

To be precise, he has always been inseparable from the domestic film industry.

For most writers in China, when a work has achieved a certain degree of influence, a studio or director will approach them, and then the two parties will cooperate to make a film to expand the influence of the work. This is a very normal operation in the literary and art circles.

Since Lin Weimin became famous, many studios and directors also wanted to shoot his works, but they never succeeded. Only one Hong Kong company shot "Lover".

But if you want to say that Lin Weimin is not in the film industry at all, it is not accurate.

Look at the films he has worked on over the years, "Lover", "Old Well", "Red Sorghum", "The Last Emperor"... These film works have repeatedly won awards in overseas film markets.

Such an impressive record has shaped Lin Weimin's unique position in the Chinese film circle. Although he rarely appears in the film circle, every time his name appears in the film circle, there will be a storm.

So many people in the film industry were very surprised when they heard that "Farewell My Concubine" was going to be adapted.

After all, Lin Weimin has been famous for so many years, but there are only a handful of film adaptations of his works.

At the same time, the news that the crew of "Farewell My Concubine" started to build also attracted the attention of the media, and they quickly followed up the report.

This time, not only the film industry, but also the literary world and readers have aroused strong repercussions.

"Farewell My Concubine" has been published for ten years, and finally ushered in the film and television. Many fans of the book are ecstatic, telling everyone, wishing that the movie will be released tomorrow.

In mid-April, Michael Phillips had been in China for almost half a month. During this time, he not only communicated with Xu Feng about the preparation of "Farewell My Concubine", but also supervised the filming of "Sunny Day".

That evening, Michael Phillips asked Lin to come out to eat for the people. He planned to fly back to the United States tomorrow, and then do a pre-promotion of "Farewell My Concubine" to create momentum for the movie.

When Lin Weimin arrived at the place, he found that there was another person beside Michael Phillips.

Jiang Wen's face was filled with flattering smiles, "Mr. Lin, you haven't gone to direct the crew for a long time."

"With Mike here, I don't need to go."

Several people sat down, served the dishes, and chatted while eating.

Jiang Wen sat on the side, his face was tangled, and he hesitated to speak.

"Mr. Lin!" He called out.

"what's up?"

"Farewell My Concubine is going to be made into a movie."

"Yes."

"The role of Cheng Dieyi..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Weimin interrupted him, "Don't think wildly, don't you know what kind of image you are?"

Jiang Wen was a little hurt, "Mr. Lin, you are wrong. What is an actor? An actor is plasticine. Whatever shape the character is, we are the same shape. I am confident that I can play the role of Cheng Dieyi well! Really, do you believe Me. Give me Cheng Dieyi, and I'll give you back an actor."

Lin Weimin ignored Jiang Wen's words and looked at Michael Phillips, "Did he tell you about this?"

Michael Phillips nodded, "Say it."

"Said you and brought him here?"

Michael Phillips shrugged and spread his hands, "What can I do if he insists on coming?"

To translate the words of Michael Phillips: It's nothing to do with me.

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin, give me a chance!"

Jiang Wen looked humble, bowed his body, and held up his wine glass.

Lin Weimin was unmoved, "You are also delusional. I can think about anything you say you want to play Duan Xiaolou."

"What's the point of Duan Xiaolou? If you want to act, you have to play Cheng Dieyi. Mr. Lin, you know that Cheng Dieyi has been my dream since I was a student. You can't just break a young actor's heart so rudely." dream!"

Lin Weimin waved his hand impatiently, "Stop bastardizing me with flattering words and moral kidnapping! You, die of this kind of heart as soon as possible. Let me tell you this, even if this movie is not made, I will not ask you to play Cheng Die Clothes!"

Jiang Wen looked depressed, "You can't do this!"

"That's right. You just have to work hard on your movie, kid, and don't think about it all day long."

"Don't delay, my movie will be finished in a few months, and I just have time to shoot "Farewell My Concubine"."

Lin Weimin knew that Jiang Wen was an easy-going character, so he simply ignored him. Anyway, you can't play the role even if you talk about it.

Leaving Jiang Wen aside, Lin Weimin and Michael Phillips continued to chat.

Michael Phillips also hesitantly told Lin Weimin, "Lin, Steven may not direct "Life is Beautiful Anyway."

Lin Weimin was not surprised by this news at all. In 88, Spielberg bought the copyright of "Life Is Beautiful Anyway".

Seeing his expressionless face, Michael Phillips thought he was unhappy, and took the initiative to explain: "It's not that Steven doesn't want to make this film, but some Jews in the United States have some opinions on your novel. It is an unprecedented catastrophe for people, and the novel "Life is Beautiful Anyway" uses a comic method to deconstruct this suffering history, which is unacceptable to many Jews."

Lin Weimin nodded slightly. After "Life Is Beautiful" was published in the United States, there were also such voices. Roger Strauss also reacted to Lin Weimin.

However, the tolerance of the literary circle is far greater than that of the film circle. Although there is a small noise, it does not affect the sales of "No matter what, life is beautiful".

For half a century, there have been many literary works describing the history of Jewish suffering during World War II in Europe and the United States, but the angle of entry in "Life is Beautiful Anyway" has never been tried before. Many people think that the comedy content in the novel is not The banter and blasphemy of wars and tragedies, on the contrary, has a kind of compassionate open-mindedness.

It is precisely because of this that this novel has a considerable number of fans in the literary circles and readers in Europe and America.

"The adaptation rights have been sold for four years now, and I'm mentally prepared that there is still one year before the adaptation rights expire." Lin Weimin said with a relaxed expression.

The agreement signed that year also stipulated that the director of the adaptation must be Spielberg, so Lin Weimin was not at all worried that Spielberg would sell the script midway.

Michael Phillips laughed when he heard the words. Although it was a pity for Lin Weimin that the film was not made, he did not suffer from the copyright fee of 80 meters in vain.

After dinner, Lin Weimin said goodbye to Michael Phillips.

Jiang Wen stood beside the two of them, with a bitter face like a little Cuiba, looking at Lin Weimin with unwilling eyes.

If Cheng Dieyi doesn't act for me, you have no eyes!

Michael Phillips left China and returned to the United States. Xu Feng and Cheng Kaige were intensively preparing for the work of "Farewell My Concubine", and Lin Weimin focused his energy on work again.

This morning, Lin Weimin had just finished a meeting when he received a call from Lu Yao.

Since the completion of "The Ordinary World", Lu Yao has entered a long creative rest period.

"Ordinary World" overdraws a lot of his creative accumulation, coupled with more than ten years of continuous writing, Lu Yao suffers from cirrhosis of the liver, and has been recuperating for the past few years.

During the period of recuperation, Lu Yao used his spare time to write intermittently the creative essays of "The Ordinary World" "Morning from Noon", which have been published in "Girlfriend" magazine since last winter. "Girlfriend" is a Shaanxi Magazine sponsored by Women's Federation.

Yanjing October Literature and Art Publishing House intends to publish a collection of essays "Morning Begins at Noon", so Lu Yao specially called Lin Weimin and asked him to help write a preface.

The sales volume of essays has never been high, and the Guowen Society has never thought about doing it. Lin Weimin readily agreed to Lu Yao's request.

After talking about the business, Lu Yao chatted with Lin Weimin about a recent gossip in Shaanxi literary circles.

The manuscript of "The Last Hun" by the writer Gao Jianqun was lost. The novel had just been written and was not published in time, so the critics borrowed it for a preview, but the manuscript was lost.

It is reasonable to say that it was lost on the way to the editorial department.

But I lost the manuscript by lending it to someone else. I really felt aggrieved, especially since the novel hadn't been published yet. I guess Gao Jianqun wanted to die.

Computers are expensive now, and there is still a certain barrier to use, so now only a small number of writers have the courage to try to use computers to write, and most writers still mainly write by hand.

A novel has hundreds of thousands of words. After the novel author is finished, almost no one is willing to spend energy to transcribe a copy, and no one would think that the manuscript lent to a friend can still be lost.

When Lu Yao talked about this incident, he had a kind of complacency from someone who had experienced it, "Ordinary short and medium stories are fine, but the full-length novels that I have written so hard have not been published yet, and they are easily lent to others. This is not bad, the manuscript If it is lost, I can only rely on memory to rewrite it, I am afraid it will peel off!"

"The Last Hun" is a long novel that Gao Jianqun spent nearly four years writing. Part of the content was published in the literary magazine "Classic Characters of the Classic Family" in the form of a novella during the two years. The Lijiang River was published and was well received by many literary critics and readers.

After hearing Lu Yao's gossip, Lin Weimin thought a little, "Do you have Gao Jianqun's contact information?"

Lu Yao immediately realized what Lin Weimin was going to do, "You want to poach someone?"

(End of this chapter)