Chapter 450: Neither Inside nor Outside
The next morning, the news of Lin Weimin's winning the award appeared in several major newspapers such as the People's Daily and Guangming Daily, and quickly became a hot topic in the city of Yanjing. Coupled with the support of the "News Broadcast", it is estimated that it will be known to everyone in a few days.
Lin Weimin is different from Zhang Yimou. He has won numerous awards over the years and does not take these awards seriously. He does not need to attend film festivals or conferences to promote his works.
After all, the audience for drama is still too small, let alone a drama performed abroad.
However, one good thing about the Tony Award news is that it has made the People's Art Theatre popular. All of Lin Weimin's drama works have been performed at the People's Art Theatre. The original version of this award-winning work, "The Kite Runner," is "The Horse Lassoer," which was performed a few years ago.
A Chinese work has been welcomed in the United States and even won a major award. Countless Chinese people are curious about how this work performs.
It’s similar to “Red Sorghum”. The news that it won the Golden Bear Award came out in late February, and it was promoted as much as possible when it returned to China. The people were itching to watch it.
If you have the means, you must go and see Red Sorghum when it is released.
As a result, a serious art film like Red Sorghum earned more than 4 million at the box office in just two months. Before winning the award, such a box office result was unimaginable.
This is still the official statistics, and the actual box office is definitely much higher than this number.
As an investor, Xi'an Film Studio also made a lot of money by selling copies.
After being performed continuously in the past few years, the only work of Lin Weimin still being performed on the stage of the People's Art Theatre is "The Ming Dynasty 1566: Jiajing and Hai Rui".
All other works have been discontinued. After all, they have been performed for several years and the audiences who wanted to watch them have already seen them. It is impossible for them to continue to be performed.
The works will be put back into the library of the People's Art Theatre, and then taken out and re-staged after a few years. This is the same both in China and abroad.
What the People's Art Theatre could not have imagined was that these works had only been discontinued for a few years, but due to the award-winning performance of "The Kite Runner", they attracted public attention again, and the calls for the revival of the drama became louder and louder.
In response to the calls from the general public, the People's Art Theatre quickly made a decision.
"The Intouchables" and "The Horse Catcher" will be re-staged and performed in the second half of the year.
As soon as this decision came out, it immediately aroused unanimous praise from the general public.
Because these two works are not only Lin Weimin's works, but also happen to be Tony Award-winning works.
As the news reports continued to ferment, the news that Lin Weimin's work won the Tony Award spread more and more widely, and soon spread across the country.
The heat of winning the award will definitely not fade away in a short time, but it will not last long either.
No matter how big the news is, its popularity will not exceed one month at most, and people’s attention will eventually shift elsewhere.
At this time, the 4th National Outstanding Opera, Opera and Drama Script Awards Ceremony was held in Yueyang, Hunan, and a total of 17 works in three categories won awards.
Among them, "Lin Weimin" and "The Kite Runner" are prominently listed.
The news was soon delivered to the public through CCTV, Literary Gazette, Drama Newspaper and other media. Many people did not see anything special about the list of winners at first glance, but those who were attentive could see the trick of the list at a glance.
There is no problem with Lin Weimin winning the award, but it is a bit too much that he won the award for "The Kite Runner". This play was performed in the United States. How can it win an award in China?
Besides, your theatre association didn’t give awards before, but now that he has won the Tony Award, you give him an award?
What does this mean?
Arrogant at first and respectful later, the attitude of a mean person!
You don’t even care about your face anymore!
Soon, feedback from enthusiastic audiences, including people from the literary and art circles, appeared in newspapers. Not only did these people write letters to newspapers, they also wrote letters to the Dramatists Association.
The overwhelming public opinion came and stunned the Drama Association.
A few days ago, when the news came out that "The Kite Runner" won a big victory at this year's US Tony Awards, the Theatre Association already had a bad feeling.
But the list had already been finalized, and since this award was originally intended to compensate Lin Weimin, the Drama Association had no choice but to go ahead with it.
I didn’t expect that after the list was announced, the reaction from the literary and art circles and the general public would be so strong.
The leaders of the Drama Association are almost in tears. They have been pulling their hair out for this award, but now that the winners have been announced, the association is like Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror - neither a good person nor a good person.
In desperation, the leaders of the Drama Association had to turn to Mr. Wan.
Mr. Wan is the chairman of the Dramatists Association, but he is similar to Ba Lao in the Literary Association. He has not cared about worldly things for many years and is just a decoration.
It was you who disagreed with giving the award to Lin Weimin back then. Now that he has become successful and won a major award abroad, if we don’t give him the award, it would be malicious suppression.
Now that we have awarded him the award and have been scolded, you can't just sit there and do nothing about it.
Of course, this is not the correct way to say it, but the meaning is very clear.
Mr. Wan smiled bitterly. He said that he did not allow Lin Weimin to participate in the award judging because he was afraid of what people would say. Winning the award at such a young age would harm him.
But who could have thought that this kid was so talented that he could reach such a height in just a few years and even swept the highest drama awards in the United States!
After a bitter smile, Mr. Wan had to admit that he was directly responsible for this matter.
"Well, I'll write something to clarify this later."
Mr. Wan's straightforward statement made the leaders of the Drama Association feel embarrassed. It seemed a bit unfair to force the old comrade to do this.
"Well, how about asking Teacher Lin to send something?"
Mr. Wan frowned when he heard this, "Bad idea!"
"Not allowing him to judge the award was already unfair enough for him. Now you want to compensate him for being scolded, and you want him to clarify things?"
The leader looked embarrassed and stopped talking.
Seeing this, Mr. Wan waved his hand and said, "The main responsibility for this matter lies with me, so I should be the one writing this. Don't feel too pressured."
Mr. Wan’s actions made the leaders of the Drama Association burst into tears of gratitude.
A few days later, the latest issue of "Drama News" was published, which contained an article by Mr. Wan.
In the article, Mr. Wan recalled his experience of teaching at the Institute of Literature Research. He also mentioned that he accepted Lin Weimin as a student and his interactions with Lin Weimin in the following years. Naturally, he could not help but mention the issue of the Dramatists Association's awards and took all the responsibility on himself.
At the end of the article, Mr. Wan could not hide his pride and praised Lin Weimin highly.
Lin Weimin felt a little embarrassed when he saw this.
After the leader of the Drama Association met with Mr. Wan, he called Lin Weimin to his home. Since he wanted to clarify the matter in the newspaper, he must communicate with Lin Weimin, the person involved.
When Lin Weimin learned of Mr. Wan's decision, he advised Mr. Wan not to do so and suggested that it would be more appropriate for him to issue a statement to clarify the matter instead.
If Mr. Wan were to do this from his perspective, the negative impact would be far greater than if he had posted the article himself.
There are two reasons.
First, Lin Weimin had just won the award and was popular among the people. It was easy for the people to mistakenly interpret Mr. Wan’s protection as suppression.
It is hard to guard against the intentions of a villain.
"Wan Jiabao has run out of ideas in recent years. Seeing such a talented young man, he is burning with jealousy. It is reasonable for him to suppress him."
Lin Weimin is sure that there are definitely many people who hold such ideas.
Secondly, you will be attacked for being a flatterer, and you will post articles to curry favor with others after seeing that they have won major awards abroad.
Given Mr. Wan's status in the domestic theater industry, he would naturally disdain and have no need to do such a thing.
As the saying goes, you can never be sure of the intentions of a villain.
Therefore, it would be most appropriate for his student to do this, but Mr. Wan insisted on his own opinion despite Lin Weimin's persuasion.
"I was too stubborn before, and I always thought it was for your own good. Now it seems that it is still unfair to you.
If you are wrong, you should admit it. You have suffered enough injustice. Compared with the injustice you have suffered, what does it matter if I get scolded a little? "
Lin Weimin recalled what Mr. Wan said at that time, and still felt the warmth in his heart and was inexplicably moved.
He put down the "Drama Newspaper" in his hand. This publication is called a newspaper, but it is actually a publication.
It was founded in 1950 and was originally named "People's Drama". Just by looking at the first two words, you can tell the importance of this publication in the domestic drama industry.
Similar to the vast majority of domestic publications, it had been suspended and then resumed publication, and has always been sponsored by the Dramatists Association, so it can be said to be the official media of the Association.
It is appropriate to publish Mr. Wan’s statement above, but no matter what, it will definitely damage Mr. Wan’s image to a certain extent.
Thinking of this, Lin Weimin felt a little melancholy.
Who could have thought that winning an award would push the teacher to this extent?
Time flies and it is July.
Mr. Wan's article published in the Drama Newspaper had little influence. Those who had criticized the Drama Association had already stopped after reading the article. However, there were a lot more gossips about Mr. Wan in the literary and art circles.
The content is naturally inseparable from the things that Lin Weimin mentioned to Mr. Wan before. The old man is very open-minded and never takes these rumors to heart.
In the middle of the month, Shi Tiesheng finally met his wife in Yanjing after being separated for half a year.
On the day Cheng Ximi came to Yanjing, Lin Weimin drove with Shi Tiesheng to pick her up at the station.
The car drove to the Shichahai courtyard. When Shi Tiesheng led Cheng Ximi to open the gate and told Cheng Ximi that this would be their home from now on, Cheng Ximi was shocked.
Last year, she had stayed here and naturally knew that this was Lin Weimin's home. Shi Tiesheng told Cheng Ximi about Lin Weimin's renting a house.
After hearing this, Cheng Ximi felt both moved and guilty.
Cheng Ximi never expected what kind of material conditions she would enjoy if she married Shi Tiesheng.
She knew that whether it was Lin Weimin or Shi Tiesheng, they did this for the happiness of their lives as a young couple, or to be more precise, for her.
Regardless of the fact that Lin Weimin was beside her, Cheng Ximi threw herself into Shi Tiesheng's arms.
"Marrying you is the best decision I have ever made in my life!"
Shi Tiesheng hugged his wife, his happiness beyond words.
The couple was in love for a long time, and finally Lin Weimin couldn't help but said, "That's enough, this is still a living person!"
After hearing this, Shi Tiesheng and his wife separated, but the previous embarrassment was no longer on their faces.
Now they are husband and wife, openly and honestly.
"Weimin, thank you!" Cheng Ximi said from the bottom of his heart, his tone full of gratitude.
"It's not like I didn't take the money. You're not asking me to give you a discount on the rent next year, are you?" Lin Weimin joked.
Shi Tiesheng and his wife smiled. They knew Lin Weimin's temper very well.
He is a person who always likes to laugh no matter what time.
But hidden beneath this cynical appearance is a soft heart.
(End of this chapter)
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