Chapter 602 How could I not know?
Zheng Guo failed again in his attempt to keep the secret, and became even more depressed as he was ridiculed by everyone.
Finally, he reluctantly broke the news, "Tie Sheng's works have also been included in the editorial committee's review this year. Maybe the next time the textbook is revised, you will be able to see his works on it."
Upon hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at Shi Tiesheng.
"Tie Sheng is great. He will soon be a great writer who will be included in textbooks!"
Shi Tiesheng waved his hands helplessly, "They just said that I was included in the scope of investigation, but they didn't say that I would definitely be selected. Even if I was selected, I don't know in which year it would be."
"I don't think it's a big problem. Tiesheng, your situation is different from others. The new nine-year compulsory textbooks are mainly divided into three parts: ancient, modern, and foreign. Very few works by contemporary writers are selected. Even if there are, they are old guys who have been active since the Anti-Japanese War.
Compared with the novels of predecessors, the works published in recent years have not undergone a long period of testing, and the editorial board will certainly act with caution.
The advantage of Tiesheng is that his strength is prose, and he has written a lot of articles. In my opinion, "Grandma's Stars", "Autumn Memories" and "I and the Altar of Earth" all meet the requirements of textbooks. "
Zheng Guo's analysis won everyone's unanimous approval. A group of people cheered and congratulated him, and clamored for a treat, as if this had already been achieved, which made Shi Tiesheng laugh and cry.
The lively party ended before nine o'clock in the evening. It was not because everyone didn't want to gather longer, but because of consideration for Shi Tiesheng's health.
The textbook that Zheng Guo brought was given to Lin Weimin.
On the way home, Tao Huimin held her textbook with a smile on her face.
"Are you so happy?" he asked puzzled.
"Of course we should be happy! This is a textbook. Even if your novel sells a million copies, no one may remember it after ten years. But it will be different if it is included in a textbook. It will become a must-read for every generation of Chinese. It may be an exaggeration to say that it will be remembered for centuries, but it will definitely be remembered for a hundred years."
When Tao Huimin said this, her face shone with pride and arrogance, which touched Lin Weimin.
After returning home, Tao Huimin couldn't wait to show off this incident to her mother.
Hearing that her son-in-law's novel was included in the textbook, Tao's mother was also a little excited. She started to look through the textbook with her daughter. Sister Sun, who was standing nearby, looked at Lin Weimin with some admiration in her eyes.
Two days later, Jiang Wen's film officially started shooting, and Michael Phillips came to Yanjing from the United States specially.
The film was adapted from Wang Shuo's "Animal Fierceness", and the name was changed to "Sunny Days".
The opening ceremony was very grand. Jiang Wen bought a bunch of firecrackers from outside, which made all the crew members run dozens of meters away and watch the firecrackers from a distance for half an hour.
Other crews just held a symbolic opening ceremony and resumed work the next day, but with Jiang Wen, they just held a grand opening ceremony and started filming directly.
Lin Weimin used to think that Jiang Wen’s artistic pursuits were a little different from ordinary people, but today he finally realized that this guy was different from ordinary people.
The first scene after filming was the one where Ma Xiaojun and a group of boys were in the bathhouse.
The actors in "Sunny Days" are all relatively young, and very few of them are professional actors. In order to allow these young people to better integrate into the film's performance, Jiang Wen sent them to a military motorcade in Liangxiang, a suburb of Beijing, three months in advance.
There, Jiang Wen dressed this group of young people in military uniforms, cut off all contact with the outside world, made them listen to revolutionary songs every day, read newspapers from 20 or 30 years ago, watch old Soviet movies, and also invited the old gangsters of that time to chat with these young people.
The purpose is to allow this group of young people to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of that era and replace performance with life.
Unfortunately, this group of young people was making a movie for the first time. Facing the dark camera, everyone's expressions, movements and tone became unnatural. One person led another, and a simple scene was shot more than ten times.
Lin Weimin and Michael Phillips stood together, watching the equally green director Jiang Wen wasting film for a bathhouse scene, and his brows furrowed involuntarily.
"Jiang is truly a meticulous director. It seems I made the right choice." Michael Phillips sighed before Lin Weimin could speak.
Lin Weimin looked at Michael Phillips. It seemed that this guy had not realized the seriousness of the matter!
Michael Phillips will stay in Yanjing for about half a month this time, so there is plenty of time. Lin Weimin believes that he will come to his senses.
After watching for nearly two hours, Wang Shuo came over bored and asked, "Weimin, when are you leaving?"
"Let's go now!"
Lin Weimin didn't want to waste time with Jiang Wen. He knew very well that with Jiang Wen's character, how could he be willing to waste one or two thousand feet of film without spending several days polishing the first scene?
Since Michael Phillips is here, let him see it first.
After leaving the set, Wang Shuo got into Lin Weimin's car.
"You've made so much money, but don't you plan to buy a car?" Lin Weimin joked.
“I can’t drive.”
"That's a shame. I have so much money and nowhere to spend it."
"You're just jealous!" Wang Shuo retorted.
It's been a year since Wang Shuo's collection of essays came out, and it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. In this year alone, he has earned more than one million in royalties. He is really rich.
As for writers, you really can't let them get rich. Once they get rich, first of all, the output of their works will certainly decrease. A group of people will surround them with a focus on them, making them feel arrogant and disoriented. And then you don't know what trouble will come out of them.
Wang Shuo was like this. He didn't write anything decent in this whole year. He just ate, drank and had fun every day, causing trouble in the Yenching literary and art circles.
Recently he met a group of people in the music industry and planned to make a music album.
It wasn't that he suddenly wanted to sing, but he planned to do something different.
The album has twelve songs, all named after novels written by Wang Shuo. Wang Shuo wrote the lyrics and then found someone to compose the music. The singers invited are all well-known singers in the Yanjing literary and art circles.
Na Ying, Zhu Hua, Han Lei, Jing Gangshan, Tengger...
Nowadays, writers are at the top of the food chain in the domestic literary and art circles, and Wang Shuo in particular is a rising star among writers. Although everyone knows that Wang Shuo is just playing around, they are still willing to give him this face.
This time, Wang Shuo and Jiang Wen played a supporting role in the opening ceremony of "Sunny Days", but it will take some time before the filming can begin.
To sum up Wang Shuo's life in the past year, he rowed a boat without oars - he just relied on the waves.
Just two days after the filming of "Sunny Days" started, good news came from the Venice Film Festival being held overseas.
Zhang Yimou won the Silver Lion Award at this year's Venice Film Festival with "Raise the Red Lantern". The Silver Lion Award is the Jury Grand Prize and is the second largest award at the Venice Film Festival after the Golden Lion Award.
Although it is slightly behind the Golden Bear Award won at the Berlin Film Festival four years ago, it is still a major award at one of the three major film festivals in Europe.
Winning the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival once again consolidated Zhang Yimou's position in the Chinese film industry and made his name resound throughout the world film industry, bringing him one step closer to the status of a master.
"Raise the Red Lantern" won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. In addition to once again making Zhang Yimou famous, another person also became famous because of it, and that is the original author and screenwriter of this film, Su Tong.
Su Tong is the pen name of Tong Zhonggui. He began writing poetry in the early 1980s and turned to writing novels in the mid-1980s. In just a few years, he has already made a name for himself in the domestic literary world.
"Raise the Red Lantern" was adapted from his novella "Wives and Concubines". Now that the movie has won an award, he has also benefited from it and became famous in this wave of reporting on movie awards.
Colleagues clamored for Tong Zhonggui to treat them, so Tong Zhonggui ran to Lin Weimin's office and invited him to go with them, and Lin Weimin gladly agreed.
After the National Day holiday, Donglaishun’s business has recovered a lot. In a month or so, it will be packed with people.
Colleagues from the editorial department of "Contemporary" gathered at Donglaishun again, and everyone was a little dazed.
Many old comrades in the editorial department have retired, Lin Weimin has been promoted to editor-in-chief, and Lao Rong has even passed away. Speaking of the changes over the years, everyone couldn't help but sigh.
"Okay. Today is to celebrate Xiao Tong, not to listen to you old guys reminiscing about the glorious past." Lin Weimin said.
After he said this, he immediately aroused strong condemnation from everyone.
"You young people are getting promoted, getting rich, and becoming famous, but you don't allow us old guys to complain?"
"That's right. Once a leader becomes a leader, his heart is black and he won't even let people speak."
Slandering leaders is an old tradition of the editorial department of Contemporary Magazine.
In the past, Lin Weimin was the leader, but now it is different, he is the one being scolded.
If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight, he comforted himself in his heart.
After scolding the leader, the group of people became much more clear-headed, and then they started talking about family matters, daily necessities, and daily necessities.
Yanjing has changed a lot in recent years. In 1990, in order to host the Asian Games, the entire city became a large construction site.
The Asian Games Village, the North Fourth Ring Road, and the Second Ring Expressway, although these projects were built for the purpose of hosting the Asian Games, they have truly changed the lives of ordinary people.
Of course, the biggest impact of hosting the Asian Games on the people of Yanjing is housing prices.
In recent years, the government has been promoting housing system reform, and Hainan, as a special economic zone, has been at the forefront of the country.
In just a few years, more than 20,000 real estate companies were established in Hainan, and 100,000 talents moved to Hainan. The housing prices rose from 300 to 400 yuan per square meter to 5,000 yuan per square meter.
Hainan's real estate boom is just a microcosm of the national real estate industry. House prices in most regions have not risen as sharply as in Hainan, but they have indeed increased significantly compared with previous years.
As the capital, Yanjing was stimulated by the Asian Games. After the Asian Games, a large number of commercial housing, including the Asian Games Village, entered the market, greatly stimulating Yanjing's real estate market.
The housing prices in Yanjing exceeded 2,000 yuan per square meter in a short period of time. At that time, the average worker in Yanjing only earned two or three hundred yuan per month. If you convert it, an office worker would have to spend a year's salary without eating or drinking to buy one square meter of house. It was simply lawless.
Over the past year, many media outlets have written articles criticizing Yanjing's high housing prices. Some experts have also given advice to the people, saying that with the current high housing prices, it is better to rent than to buy, and have also done the math for the people.
To purchase a standard apartment building, assuming a housing price of 2,000 yuan per square meter and a building area of 100 square meters, the total price would be 200,000 yuan.
If this money is deposited in a bank, the current three-year annualized interest rate is 9%. A deposit of 200,000 yuan will earn 18,000 yuan in interest per year, which is more than enough to pay rent for a house.
Moreover, after buying a house, there are still expenses such as decoration, heating fees, elevator fees, cleaning fees, etc., which on average cost at least a thousand yuan a year, which is also a heavy burden for many families.
So overall, experts believe that it is better to rent than to buy.
Yao Shuzhi was instilling expert advice into everyone, with saliva flying all over the place.
Lin Weimin couldn't help but ask, "Shuzhi, you didn't hear this from Xiaowei, did you?"
Yao Shuzhi glanced at Lin Weimin and asked, "How do you know?"
How would I know?
How could I not know?
(End of this chapter)
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