Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 218 The Six Dynasties Are Like Dreaming Birds Cry

   "It was drizzling on the south bank of the great river, and the grass grew very high,

  The six dynasties disappeared like a dream, and only the crows were still chirping.

   The willow tree in the smoke outside the castle, the most emotionless,

   Still on the three-mile-long dyke, growing cheerfully”

   "Poetry in ancient China pays attention to the eyes of the poem. Only one word in a poem is the most important. If you master the eyes of the poem, you will master the emotional tone of the whole poem.

  Can anyone tell me which word is the eye of this poem? Hannah, you said, very good, it's the Crow, the crow in ancient China represented unknown, as long as there was a crow's tweet, a tragedy would happen.

   This poem is about the capital of the original southern court, which has become a crow's colony, symbolizing the destruction of the dynasty. You can compare reading with Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, both of which are about a great king who destroyed a great dynasty in his old age because of his faintness.

  Shakespeare used the image of the cuckoo bird as a metaphor for the ungrateful Goneril in Act II of King Lear. The same is true for the image of the crow in Eastern poetry. Everyone must know this kind of writer's technique. "

  The class of ancient Chinese poetry analysis is approaching the end of the term, and most of the arty students at the beginning have run away, and the rest are literary youths and aspired to be writers.

The sinologist teacher analyzed the poems in the three hundred Tang poems in English, one by one, but Ronald did not believe these outrageous analyses. He may have recited the three hundred Tang poems in his previous life. He still remembered that the second sentence was clearly like a dream and a bird sings in the sky in the Six Dynasties, but the professor regarded it as a crow's black, and when he analyzed it, he was actually quite right.

   After class, the bell remembered, Ronald rushed forward, asked the teacher for leave, and went to the Golden Globe Awards dinner at the end of next month.

"Ronald, I don't care what ceremony you are attending. My grading criteria are the same for all my classmates. Hannah went to Harvard-Yenching College as a research assistant, and she also had to write a comparison between Tang Dynasty poems and Shakespeare's sonnets. Research, and I'll give her an A. If you want to go to Los Angeles, you have to hand in a final essay."

  Ronald became annoyed when he saw that the professor was not accommodating, "What if I found something wrong with your lectures?"

"That's fine, Ronald. I welcome the challenge of my academic theories, and as long as you can find out what's wrong with me and make sense, I'll give you good grades. You don't come here later. Classes are fine, too.”

   This is what you said. Ronald went to the library to borrow 300 Tang poems after class.

  Jiang Yufei, the rivers and grasses are neat, and the six dynasties are like a dream and an empty cry.

  The most ruthless is Taicheng Liu, still smoke cage ten miles embankment.

  Ronald flipped through the traditional Chinese version of "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty" he found in the library, and his anger was not at all. How to do it, not only wrote the bird character as Wu, but also wrote this poem called Taicheng as a map of Jinling.

   "How is this possible? It's flat and flat, and it's obviously a bird with a flat sound here." Ronald complained in Chinese.

   "Hey, do you also know Chinese Tang poetry?" The Chinese student in the master's class that I saw last time was also in the library, holding a "Dialogue of Truffaut and Hitchcock" in his hand.

"Ah, it's you." Ronald recognized the boy who was not very good at English, "I'm taking a class on the analysis of Tang poetry, and I'm looking for a good version of 300 Tang poems. The version here is so bad, it's all wrongly printed. already."

  The boy took a look and said, "It's really wrong. When we were young, we all carried birds in the air. Come and see, my girlfriend Jiahui has a version of Zhonghua Book Company, which is a very authoritative version."

   "Okay, thank you, my name is Ronald Lee."

   "Actually, my surname is also Li, my name is Li Ang, you can call me AngLee"

   Li Ang's girlfriend Jiahui was cooking and saw Li Ang bringing his friends home, so he hurriedly greeted Ronald to have dinner together. Ronald was also very happy to have a Chinese meal. Jiahui's spoken English was much better than Li Ang's, and he worked as a translator for the two and chatted about the movie.

   "I heard that you have a club that shows movies, can you introduce me to join?" Li Ang asked about Ronald's small club showing pirated movies.

   "According to the rules, you have to bring a copy to show. I also borrowed the "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" from the Soviet Union, and they let me join.

   "I can ask the people in the office to borrow Director Hu's 'Empty Mountain Spirit Rain', last year's new film, with English subtitles just added."

   "You borrowed the copy. I introduced you to Spike, who is also in the master's class. He will organize the screening. By the way, his surname is Li too."

   Ronald's "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" received a mediocre response after screening at the small club. Everyone commented that the aesthetics of the film is very classical, but the audio-visual language is a bit old and the values ​​are very traditional. It is a melodrama.

   Ronald said that the movie broke the number of viewers in Souville, and everyone did not believe it. Perhaps the movie involved some single mothers and unwed pregnancy plots, which were unprecedented on the screen of Suwell. The audience had never seen such a realistic plot, and word of mouth broke the record.

   This is also a loss because the Secretary-General is a movie fan. It is said that he shed tears after watching it and gave instructions in person before it passed the screening.

  Sometimes the box office of a movie depends not only on the performance of the artists, but also on the progress of social thoughts.

  A certain aspect of the movie that is not valued by the artists suddenly fits the public perception, and there are many examples of the box office taking off for a while, which is commonly known as luck.

   and Li Ang had a great time chatting. Ronald borrowed 300 Tang poems from Jiahui's Zhonghua Book Company edition, and it really was "the six dynasties are like a dream and a bird sings in the air", Ronald remembered correctly. He went to copy the verse first, and then wrote a small essay overnight.

"Bird and empty characters are used together, indicating that this is a method of contrast. Birdsong is a happy and beautiful image, while empty sing is a bird whose everything remains the same, compared with the emptiness of the decaying royal city, highlighting the rise and fall of dynasties. helpless..."

   In the office the next day, the Sinologist professor saw the small paper that Ronald handed him, and then saw the copy in the appendix.

"Yes, your analysis can justify itself, I can give you a high score. Although you don't have to come to class, I still hope that you will come more. Ancient poetry has an imagination like the sea. In 28 words, it is like a movie.

  The editing is precise and the narrative is reasonable. I doubt that the thinking of Chinese people is naturally suitable for making movies. "

  Professor Sinologist accepted Ronald's small paper with satisfaction, and unexpectedly gave out another set of theories. Poetry and film are also somewhat similar.

   Ronald nodded, then took out 300 Tang poems and flipped through them. Is it true that Tang poems are similar to movies? Don't fool me again?

   watched Ronald out of the office, and the sinologist professor nodded, "Very good, next year's lesson plan can be changed again. I have to tell my Chinese wife, this typo is too embarrassing."

   As New Year's Day approaches, the weather is getting colder and colder. The New Year's Eve forecast has strong cold air and rain. It turned out that Donna, who had been pestering Ronald to attend the New Year's Eve countdown in Manhattan's Times Square, and her good friend Diane Lane hesitated.

  Diane Lane wore a newly purchased white fur shawl and compared her left and right in the mirror, "Hey, let's wait for Oscar to wear it again. The temperature is too cold, and the fur shawl will definitely freeze to death."

   "I was thinking of watching the new big ball fall, but I heard that this year I will dress up in a new style." Donna also mumbled. There is a countdown session in Times Square every year. Many people will go to the scene to watch a big ball on the Times Building fall to the ground with the countdown.

"Okay, don't worry, I have two Macy's vouchers for you as a gift." Ronald took out two vouchers and gave them to two girls. It was originally a Christmas gift, but it was given to Bud by Jr. things were delayed.

   The two girls turned on the TV and watched it. It was a black music program, which seemed to be called Soul Train. A lot of black stars were performing black music and dancing, and the two girls were chatting and commenting.

   Now American life is completely inseparable from television. The two who can't go to the scene to watch the New Year's Eve performance will definitely watch the TV broadcast, and count down the New Year's Eve with millions of viewers. In fact, when the New Year's Eve is very cold, it may be more comfortable to watch the TV broadcast.

   The last episode of the new season of the TV series "Jumen's Enmity" was postponed for two months because of the strike, and the last episode of the last season that hung the audience's appetite for 8 months, the suspense of JR Ewing's shooting finally came to an end. It was his sister who killed him.

   This episode broke America's TV ratings record, with a peak rating of over 53% and a viewership share of over 76%, which means that three of the four TVs watched this episode that day. This number of viewers even exceeded the number of voters in the general election.

   Even the Queen of Britain, and the former commander-in-chief, also asked the crew who the murderer was, and all received no comment. To prevent leaks, the producers also filmed all the characters shooting, and no one knows how the script was written.

   Taking this opportunity, the actor who played JR Ewing took the opportunity to threaten to raise the price. It is said that the price has reached an unprecedented $100,000 per episode, which is comparable to the salary of a movie actor.

   With such momentum, the old rival ABC TV also decided to launch a TV series with a similar theme next year, telling the grievances of Texas oil rich families, initially named "Dynasty".

   The next day, Ronald took the two girls to Macy's to pick up presents. Instead of choosing anything else, Donna went to the bookstore and picked up a set of "Feynman Lectures on Physics." Having already started learning calculus, she became interested in physics again.

   Ronald saw that there were already advertisements for "Fast-Paced Richmond High School" in bookstores, and Simon & Schuster decided to start selling the novel in the new year.

   "Is this your adaptation of a novel? I don't know if it can be reserved." Diane Lane asked.

   "Yes, I have a sample from the publishing house, I can give it to you if you want."

   Looking at the difference between Donna and Diane in choosing gifts, Ronald felt that this was also a very contrasting contrast.

   One likes natural science, the other likes youth novels, and the two have completely different hobbies, but they are good friends. Maybe they both found different qualities in each other and became friends.

   Ronald thought of the Hamilton siblings in the novel.

The contrast between   Brad and Stacey is also a setting in Cameron Crowe's novel.

  Whether you agree with Brad's values ​​of hard work and hard work, or Stacey's greatest value in making boyfriends, you won't be disgusted by the other brother and sister.

  The nerdy Geek Mark, nicknamed "Rat", is timid about men and women, and best friends with Mike Raymond, the glib girl-hunting veteran.

  No matter which of them you belong to, you will have a kind of identification with your own type of role, which will generate a sense of substitution and deepen the understanding of other types of roles.

  The story behind each character is completely different from what it looks like on the surface.

  Behind the timidity of "Rat" Mark is his own feelings and respect for his crush, Stacey.

  Behind the glibness of Mike, a veteran of picking up girls, there was the helplessness of having to be a scalper and earn money to support himself. In the end, he managed to raise enough money and paid Stacey for the surgery.

  Cameron Crowe is full of affection for these characters, not simply divided into good people and bad people, but has his own thoughts and values. The novel he wrote during his 10 months undercover in high school looks set to sell well.

   (end of this chapter)