Chapter 428 I'll give you an idea
Although people's incomes were generally not high in that era and they might not even be able to eat meat every meal, there were always many people who ate mutton in a capital as big as Yanjing.
From late autumn to early spring, for nearly half a year, Donglaishun's business has always been booming, and sometimes you even have to queue.
As it’s the weekend, Donglaishun’s business is still very good tonight and it’s bustling with people.
Lin Weimin and his group of men were eating and chatting at the table, and the atmosphere was particularly lively.
Zhao Baogang and Li Chengru were classmates with Zhuangzhuang in the 1980 Yanying amateur acting class. Compared with Han Zhuangzhuang, who has now become a movie leading actor, their situation is not very good.
Zhao Baogang entered the Yanjing Television Studio in 1984. No, it is now called the Yanjing Television Art Center. He entered the TV Art Center to be an actor, but unfortunately the center has produced very few TV series in the past two years, almost only one a year, so Zhao Baogang only played two roles in three years, and they were not the protagonists.
The rest of the time, he basically helped with odd jobs on the crew.
When seeing Lin Weimin, Zhao Baogang naturally thought of his classmate Han Zhuangzhuang. They had only met two or three times in the six years since graduation, but every time they met, Han Zhuangzhuang's growth made him envious.
After graduation, he returned to his original unit, while he joined the People's Art Theatre. Not long after, he performed on the Spring Festival Gala and attracted nationwide attention. In 1984, he was finally transferred to the center, while he had already played the second male lead in a People's Art Theatre drama. Last year, he heard that Han Zhuangzhuang had played the first male lead in a movie.
Thinking of this, Zhao Baogang couldn't help but glance at Lin Weimin in the crowd. Whether he spoke or not, he was the focus of everyone's attention.
Han Zhuangzhuang was a low-key person when he was in school, but he joined the People's Art Theatre as soon as he graduated. He has been successful ever since. What a good uncle he has!
Feeling bitter, Zhao Baogang and Li Chengru beside him drank a glass.
Li Chengru had a similar experience to Zhao Baogang.
After graduating from Yanying, he worked for two or three years before accidentally joining the crew of Journey to the West. He worked his way up from a temporary worker to a production manager and then to a producer, overcoming all kinds of difficulties along the way.
But with the completion of the filming of "Journey to the West", Li Chengru had nowhere to go, after all, he was just a temporary worker at CCTV.
In the past year, Li Chengru has been setting up stalls on the streets of Yanjing, and his situation is even worse than Zhao Baogang.
Of course, this misery refers to work. In fact, Li Chengru earns quite a lot.
Nowadays, for anyone who has the courage to go into business, it is not difficult to make the first pot of gold. The difficulty lies in the subsequent development.
Shuo Ye is a negative example.
While the two brothers were complaining to themselves, Lin Weimin was talking to Haiyan through Zheng Xiaolong.
In 1984, Haiyan spent more than a year at home working on a film called "Plainclothes Police".
I submitted my work to the Guowen Publishing House and was picked up by Lin Weimin.
Later, "Plainclothes Policemen" was compiled into a book series by "Contemporary" and the response was quite good. After that, it was recommended to Zheng Xiaolong by Lin Weimin and made into a TV series, which also received very good results.
But more than two years have passed since the publication of "Plainclothes Policemen" and Hai Yan has not published any new works.
His profession is a policeman, and writing novels was just a spur-of-the-moment interest. The success of his first novel not only earned him considerable fame and royalties, but also brought him a lot of pressure.
He himself had not received any systematic learning or training in writing. Because of his previous success, he was inevitably restrained when it came to writing. As a result, his writing has not been going smoothly in the past two years. Even though Lin Weimin had given him guidance and asked him to use professional content as a starting point, he still didn't write anything decent.
So Haiyan is very distressed now. He was called to attend the party today by Zheng Xiaolong. He didn't want to come at first, but when he heard that Teacher Lin was also coming, he came.
He chatted with Lin Weimin for a long time and poured out all his inner distress. Lin Weimin felt helpless after listening to him. It was obvious that Haiyan had a problem with his mentality.
“You still have to maintain a positive attitude and don’t think too much about whether you can publish or the effect after publication. The more you think about it, the more hesitant you will be when writing.
Your talent in writing is unquestionable, so don't always doubt yourself.
I think you should just set a goal for yourself. Don't think about publishing anything in the next one or two years, just focus on writing.
After you finish writing something, take it out and look back at it after a while. It’s easy to find any shortcomings and then make some changes.”
While comforting Haiyan, Lin Weimin gave him an idea. This idea was not very brilliant. To put it bluntly, it was to rely on time to change his impatience and selfishness.
But the effect is really good. Lin Weimin’s classmate at the Institute of Literature Research, Jia Dashan, likes to use this method.
Haiyan nodded in agreement and said, "I'll try it later."
While the two were chatting, Zheng Xiaolong, Ma Dudu, Wang Shuo and Feng Xiaogang were having a lively conversation.
The Yanjing Television Art Center filmed "Four Generations Under One Roof" in 1984, "Plainclothes Policemen" in 1985, and "Triumph at Midnight" in 1986, which was last year. This TV series was a political task, and it received mediocre response after it was filmed and broadcasted last year, which made Zheng Xiaolong very frustrated.
You have to know that for the filming of "Triumph at Midnight", this group of staff stayed in the mountains and jungles in the southwest of the motherland for a full six months.
With the center's strength, it is just right to produce one TV series a year. Last year's "Triumph at Midnight" did not receive much response. If this year's work is not good again, then he, as the director, will be embarrassed.
A few people were talking about TV dramas, and naturally mentioned "The Legend of Female Doctor" directed by Lin Weimin.
Compared with Teacher Lin’s vision and methods, filming TV dramas at the Television Art Center is like playing house.
"Legend of Female Doctor" was jointly produced by CCTV and Hong Kong's TVB with the help of Mr. Lin, with an investment of over 10 million yuan. There are 60 episodes in total, totaling over 2,400 minutes. The TV series produced by Zheng Xiaolong and his center in recent years only account for half of the production time of this TV series, not to mention the effects and impact produced after the show was broadcast.
There is no concept of ratings these days, but people's love for the show cannot be faked. Zheng Xiaolong and his friends remember that when the TV series was broadcast, relatives, friends, and colleagues around them, as long as they had a TV at home, would watch the show on CCTV-1 every night and stay in front of the TV on time.
During that period, everyone almost cut off all evening social and entertainment activities.
Watching "The Legend of Female Doctor" is the best entertainment and spiritual life for everyone.
Last September, Zheng Xiaolong read the latest issue of "Popular Movies", which mentioned that the box office of the movie "The Legend of Female Doctor" was cut by more than half in the month when it was broadcast, to less than 40%.
Nowadays, the statistics on movie box office data are very incomplete. The data in "Popular Movies" only counts the major cinemas in several big cities such as Yanjing, Shanghai, and Yangcheng.
But even so, it is already a very scary phenomenon.
In the future, can you imagine that the summer movie box office would be cut by 40% because of the release of a TV series?
During that period, I could see news about "The Female Doctor" almost every day when I opened the newspaper, including previews, analyses, reviews, and impressions.
After the TV series was broadcast in July, TV stations all over the country introduced the TV series again. Now, more than half a year has passed, and there are still many reruns on local TV stations across the country.
This TV series not only made the leading actors in the series household names, but also made the traditional Chinese medicine promoted in the TV series become popular among the people.
Over the years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country has provided considerable support to traditional Chinese medicine.
However, due to the limitations of its own learning and treatment methods, it is difficult to promote Chinese medicine as quickly and on a large scale as Western medicine in a short period of time. It is an indisputable fact that it has gradually declined over the years.
With the broadcast of "Legend of a Female Doctor", people's recognition of traditional Chinese medicine seems to have risen to a higher level overnight.
In later times, it is hard to imagine such a situation, but in the 1980s, people would buy Jianlibao, a little-known beverage, and turn it into a national brand with annual sales of hundreds of millions just because of a TV broadcast. Such a situation was really common.
In addition to these, Zheng Xiaolong also heard that the TV series "Legend of Female Doctor" will soon be exported to other socialist brother countries.
This is not only about earning foreign exchange for the country, but also about expanding the country's cultural influence in the world.
The domestic TV drama industry has always been weak, and there has never been a record of TV drama exports. "The Legend of Female Doctor" should be the first one.
Zheng Xiaolong specifically asked Lin Weimin for confirmation, and Lin Weimin nodded, "I went to CCTV to visit before the Chinese New Year, and Wang Tai did mention this matter, but I didn't pay much attention to it."
"I heard that it will be exported to North Korea, Bulgaria, Mongolia, Yugoslavia, Cambodia and many other countries!" Feng Xiaogang listed them all.
Wang Shuo asked, "How do you remember it so clearly?"
Feng Xiaogang smiled proudly, revealing his two big front teeth. "I may not be able to remember other people's things, but it's impossible to remember Teacher Lin's things."
Wang Shuo looked at Feng Xiaogang with disdain, what a bootlicker!
Zheng Xiaolong sighed: "If our center can produce a TV series like "Legend of a Female Doctor" someday, it would be awesome!"
Feng Xiaogang poured him a glass of wine and said with a smile: "That can't be called awesome, it should be called making a big promise."
Lin Weimin smiled and said, "What's so difficult about this? Just take pictures if you want to!"
"Teacher Lin, do you think everyone has your talent?" Zheng Xiaolong said with a wry smile.
Lin Weimin glanced at the table and pointed at Wang Shuo and Hai Yan, "If one person is not enough, then two people can do it. If it doesn't work, then three people can do it. Three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang.
Shuozi is writing a script right now! This is a good opportunity for you to practice. Haiyan has also written a script for your center before. Let them take the lead, and you all brainstorm. It won’t be difficult to come up with a better script. "
After Lin Weimin finished speaking, Zheng Xiaolong looked at Wang Shuo and Hai Yan. It seemed that this method could be tried.
Wang Shuo immediately waved his hands and said, “I don’t have time to write that kind of stuff. I haven’t finished writing the script for The Troublemakers yet!”
"You just need practice. How long does it take to write a movie script? Just write more. This is a good opportunity for you to practice!"
"No, no, I don't even have an idea, what should I write?" Wang Shuo waved his hands repeatedly.
Haiyan also looked conflicted. Teacher Lin was treating them as if they were himself. He really couldn't do this.
Lin Weimin looked at Wang Shuo's attitude and said frivolously: "Shuozi, is this possible?"
Hey, I have a bad temper!
But Wang Shuo thought about it and decided to give up, as he really couldn't do it.
Lin Weimin shook his head, with an expression that showed his disappointment for his child, which made Wang Shuo even more depressed.
At this time, Lin Weimin said, "Well, I'll give you an idea!"
(End of this chapter)
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