Chapter 362
"I didn't go out for a walk. I'm at home."
He called at around nine o'clock.
"I'm going to discuss the manuscript. They said some other people will be coming. I'm already dressed and about to go out."
"Don't worry about me, just focus on your work." She always felt awkward after saying this.
"I don't want to sign up."
"They're all empty names. If you're good enough, people will recognize you even without an award. If you're not good enough, winning one will only make you a laughing stock."
"I just don't want to apply. I've never had any luck winning a prize. It's been like this since I was a kid. No matter how hard I try, I just can't get anything. Every time I seem to have hope, it always fails."
"Just don't, I don't care about that anymore."
After she finished the call, she was about to go out. The little girl brought the child over and she kissed and rubbed the kitten.
"Mom will be back soon."
Today I went to the magazine to discuss a new novel. Two other authors were visiting the editor's home, and the editor-in-chief mentioned the huge response to her previous novel about extravagance and extravagance, and asked if she could write something similar, or expand the novella into a full-length novel.
"It's not necessarily impossible to expand it into a long story, but it would take a lot of time and would require some thought. I'd also like to write something similar again, but I don't want to write about the upper class anymore. I'd like to write about the ordinary people who are obsessed with material things and have no desire to make progress."
The editor-in-chief said: "Readers really like stories that take place in the former context."
"The public likes stories because they satisfy their curiosity about the rich. I think stories about ordinary people can inspire more empathy from the public."
The editor-in-chief laughed and said, "Yes, the pursuit of novelty is limited by current circumstances. You always try to write something that will be passed down through the ages."
Walking during this period of time was not just to distract me from my sad mood. Seeing several people playing mahjong day after day inspired me to have new ideas for writing.
After a while, three more people came in, and she felt that they looked familiar. Because of her special status, the editor-in-chief would introduce people who were not particularly familiar to her as female editors of the newspaper.
After the introduction, she realized he was the director of a certain movie. No wonder he looked familiar. The other two were the screenwriter and actor. She had seen one of the movies before, but didn't recognize him. There was a huge difference between the real person and the photogenic one.
They came to talk to one of the authors about making his work into a movie.
Wang Jiazhi didn't particularly like the director's style, which seemed to be deliberately liberating her personality in pursuit of personal liberation. In her opinion, it could be summed up in one word: "actual."
It could have been a good ending, but it had to be made into a tragedy.
He filmed a movie about a girl who didn't strive for progress, acting like an illiterate, and only thinking about dating. After falling in love with a boy, he said he would marry her after he finished his studies and got a stable job. She then attempted suicide, saying that if he loved her, he should drop out of school and become a decadent couple. The boy did that, but for some reason, she felt he didn't love her enough. Out of spite, she, still a grown woman, slept with a gangster. She hadn't slept with the boy yet. Then she went back to confront him, as if sleeping with someone else was perfectly justified.
Wang Jiazhi truly couldn't understand why the film industry treated chastity so lightly. This wasn't the only director involved. Even prominent directors with a touch of poetic aura often portrayed women's chastity as a joke in their films. It seemed as if it was vulgar for a woman to care about her chastity and only sleep with the one she loved. And they even glorified this idea.
There was once a movie in which a girl was forced to be defiled by a disgusting person. The next day, the director asked her to stand naked in the bright spring sunshine and among the blooming flowers, as if being defiled by a disgusting person was a beautiful thing.
Many men have a perverse taste in their hearts: women are always more beautiful than girls. It's as if men are the most divinely gifted creatures between heaven and earth, and a woman's body is only beautiful when touched by a man. And even if she's been forced to be raped by someone truly disgusting, as long as she sleeps with a man and is no longer a girl, she's beautiful.
So, those girls who were raped and raped were also beautiful. A pure and innocent girl was abused by a disgusting person, but not only did she not feel disgusted or sad, but it became a very beautiful thing, because she was no longer a girl, her body had been touched by a man!
There are also those who say that being a virgin all your life, without a flower blooming, is a life lived in vain; a virgin cannot be reincarnated; a virgin cannot be buried in the ancestral tomb.
This is absolutely disgusting. If a woman never has sex with a man in her life, she is guilty and unworthy of being a human being.
Being with a very disgusting person, not only will you not be sad to death, but you will also feel pleasure and it will feel great.
Wang Jiazhi was shocked at first, and many people shared this view, but she felt that most of them were disgusting men who advocated breast liberation and took advantage of it. Furthermore, most of the people who made these kinds of films were men.
But I didn't expect that there would be women who would say that.
It's said that in movies, girls aren't sad at all after being raped, but rather revel in the experience of transitioning from girl to woman. So-called chastity is just something men think they care about, a patriarchal constraint on women that women don't care about.
Seeing this statement, Wang Jiazhi thought to herself: "If you want to be a slut, don't generalize and say all women are sluts."
She respects this choice, but wonders if the word "woman" should be preceded by a "some." Many women care deeply about this. They're not feudal, nor are they enslaved by patriarchy; they simply want their bodies to be with their loved ones or their legitimate husbands. Is that wrong?
There's an article, citing the slogan of gender equality, advocating for breast liberation for women. It argues that since men can go shirtless, why shouldn't women be persecuted? The article's content is so shameless that you don't even need to know the author to know he's a lecher. Few women are willing to allow breast liberation. And those who strongly advocate breast liberation are mostly men.
These shameless men, waving the banner of gender equality, wish women would bare their upper bodies, exposing their breasts for them to see as much as they want; they wish women could sleep with men as they please, without them having to take responsibility. This allegation of gender equality is clearly an attempt to take advantage of women.
There are many aspects of gender equality, so why do a large group of men only encourage women to be prostitutes, but not support equal education and job opportunities for men and women?
Of course, men have the right to be unfaithful, and women certainly have the right to be unfaithful as well. However, there are also women who are unfaithful and who value chastity, and the same is true for men. This chastity is that men also value their own chastity.
Everyone has their own choices, and we should respect each other without interfering. Yet, in many movies, it's as if women who value chastity and refuse to sleep with men are feudal and conservative, refusing to break free from their shackles. What's wrong with this world? If these people want to sleep with someone, they can do it themselves. Why do they force others to follow their lead and become perverts?
Lao Yi was so fickle in the past, but after living with her, he consciously stopped looking for other women.
Not all men are fickle, or all men make mistakes. Some men love only one woman their entire lives, and they sleep with only that one woman, refusing to look for anyone else. Even the emperor had a lifetime with only one woman. Those with ulterior motives, wanting to sleep with multiple men or women, are free to do so as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. Yet, they refuse to shoulder the pressure of worldly affairs and shamelessly claim that all men are fickle and women don't care about chastity, so they're not doing anything wrong. They've even tarnished the great cause of gender equality. It's truly shameless!
Wang Jiazhi listened to the director and the author discussing the details of the script and the actors.
The director said, "This time, *** and *** will be in the cast. It will definitely be a big hit."
The faces of those two people appeared in front of Wang Jiazhi. Alas, she was only 24 years old, but she could no longer appreciate the aesthetic standards of the current film industry.
Everyone started talking about the casting. Seeing that she hadn't said anything, the editor-in-chief, worried that she might be feeling awkward, asked, "Do you have a favorite movie actor?"
She smiled and said, "I can't say I like it, but I really like ***'s movies."
Seeing Wang Jiazhi's youthful, honest demeanor, the director assumed she was a low-level editor with little influence. He said, "What's so good about ***? She's nothing. She's so tacky. Who would watch a movie with an actress like that these days?"
Wang Jiazhi almost bit her back teeth to pieces after hearing this. What kind of taste!
She said: "That's the high-end feel of red wine, not tacky. They have real talent, and are certainly different from those half-baked actors who rely on hype."
Wang Jiazhi thought, with such low taste, no wonder they can only make such low-end movies, and the actors they choose are so plain and unreliable, they can only attract attention. Only nouveau riche with no taste and vulgarity would like such people.
The editor-in-chief and Lao Yi were classmates, and he knew without asking that Wang Jiazhi loved the actor because of his love for the director. The director had been very active in getting Wang Jiazhi to agree to let him film his novel, but it seemed impossible.
Just when I thought of this, the director brought up the old matter again, and he wanted to film her two most famous books.
Wang Jiazhi imagined that the heroine in her works, who was as beautiful as a flower by the water and as pure as jade, was turned into a tomboy with a mushroom head, who treated chastity as a joke and slept with many men; and the hero, who was as elegant and shrewd as a jade tree, was turned into a muscular man with dark skin, who was stupid and cowardly and slept with many women.
She shook her head hard and gave up.
The editor-in-chief said, "I don't think there's any hope for you."
"Of course I don't have one. I've already decided on the female lead, and it's ***. It's not easy for me to get ***. She turned it down when ** wanted her to play the role. This time, she's really giving us a huge honor. Who wouldn't like ***?"
Wang Jiazhi just picked up the water cup and took a sip when she heard a mouthful of water spurting out and almost choked.
It’s been almost twenty years, when will it ever end? Do you still have any shame?
The other people in the newspaper office couldn't help laughing, and the director was confused.
One of her female colleagues, who was usually on good terms with her, whispered in her ear, "She actually doesn't want this person to ruin her things, but she has no choice. She's just trying to survive."
Wang Jiazhi laughed and said, "If you sell your writing, you sell it. People pay you, so it's their right to change it as they please. It's like selling your own child. You can only let them beat and scold you as they please."
At this time, a big orange cat from the editor's house came over.
The female colleague picked it up and cupped its face, saying, "I recently heard a theory that says the reason so many people like cats is that humans are inherently vulnerable to creatures with bright eyes and short noses."
"Um?"
Lao Yi called at noon. The editor was very flattered that his old classmate called him personally.
"That's great. Everyone's having a great time. Don't worry..."
After hanging up the phone, he called home again. She had already returned and was taking care of the child. When she heard him call, she held the child and talked to him.
Wang Jiazhi's self-regulation was quite good. She would recover after a few days each time she had an attack. This was also due to the pressure of her past environment. If she hadn't been plagued by hunger and cold, and had lived a life of luxury, she would have been obsessed with it, and the consequences would have been disastrous. However, if she had lived a life of luxury, she would never have encountered such a thing.
That night, after showering and changing clothes, she lay down, one hand pressed against his, her two hands kneading his ears. After kneading for a while, she pinched the earlobe with her thumb and pulled it forward with her index finger behind the ear, just like she would tease a cat at home. Then she pulled his eyes and lips, rubbed them, and kissed them a few times, as if she were playing with a big pet.
She thought to herself, his face is smaller than hers, so delicate, his eyes so bright, his lips so beautiful, and yet some people think he's unfashionable. Wild boars really can't handle fine bran.
The body is also very nice, and there are furry pants. And it doesn't fade much, and it doesn't smell bad at all. Sometimes it smells like tobacco and jasmine, which is also very nice.
Sure enough, humans have no resistance to creatures with bright eyes and short noses.
The child also crawled over at this time, rubbing and kissing his face.
The mother and daughter have no resistance to creatures with bright eyes, short noses and thin lips.
Extra:
A movie plot:
***Traffic (serious): As for that movie, the director contacted me at the beginning, but I felt it was not suitable for me. After all, I am a relatively simple and noble person, so I will leave the opportunity to others.
Reporter: Do you regret missing the opportunity to become a big star?
***Flow (fake smile): Never. Fame and fortune are of no concern to me. I just want to do what I want to do. As for many people asking if they regret missing out on opportunities because of their choices, I think being yourself is the most important thing. I'm just the kind of person I am. I can't force myself to do something I don't want to do just for fame, fortune, or fame.
(Phone rings, laughing) Hello, Godfather, I'm going right away.
Xiao Miao Film Festival was interviewed:
Reporter: "Do you feel regretful for not winning this time?"
Kitty smiled: "No, being nominated is recognition. I also feel that there is room for improvement in my acting. This time the performance was a bit too obvious."
Barrage:
Xiao Miao is so humble. His acting skills are really a gap compared to his peers.
What Xiao Miao pursues is to be an actor, not a traffic star. Other traffic stars are still praising their acting skills when they are still acting awkwardly, but Xiao Miao’s acting is so good and yet she still says that the performance is too obvious. This is the difference in pursuit.
I'm really angry this time. This award is too cheap. It's so embarrassing that I've lost several three-bedroom apartments.
Xiao Miao is still young, and he looks like someone who will win an award. I believe he will definitely win.
Continuing to produce good works is more important than any award. In the current situation, those who performed well did not win any awards. Everyone knows this.
The interview continues:
Reporter: "There's a clip in a recent movie that's sparked a lot of discussion. What was your original intention behind it?"
Xiao Miao (smiling): "I didn't have any original intention. I just thought it was a very interesting... joke."
Reporter: "Does this joke have any reference or inspiration?"
Xiao Miao (smiling): "Not at all. It just came to me on a whim and I thought it would be interesting to use in a movie." (I can't help laughing)
Barrage:
Xiao Miao thought about all the sad things in his life before he could hold back his laughter.
I caught a little bad cat alive and couldn't help but smile.
Xiao Miao, a bystander, couldn't stand her family. They started to take advantage of her and have been doing so for almost twenty years. When will it ever stop? They are so shameless!
Xiao Miao is quite tough, her family is not to be trifled with.
Her family is now going crazy and saying that they are being slandered.
Her family has gone crazy several times recently, as if not giving her an award would be unforgivable, regardless of how poor her acting skills are. Xiao Miao just can't stand her family, and they have suffered for a long time.
They didn't mention her family by name, but they took the initiative to claim it out of guilt. They also knew what kind of people they were. They admitted that they had been riding on other people's popularity for twenty years. The IQ of these fans who chase stars in a cult-like manner is really worrying.
Didn't people always say that they were always riding on the popularity of others? How could they possibly ride on the popularity of others? Who would be so lucky as to ask her family to condescend to ride on the popularity of others without fearing the wrath of heaven?
Of course she is afraid that the heaven will be angry. She is a fairy from heaven. Her fans also say that only Brigitte Lin can be compared with her. Don’t talk about other female stars. There is no comparison at all [dog head].
I used to think her family was just freeloaders, but I didn't expect them to be so clueless. How did they know they would win the prize? They bribed everyone to get it, but didn't they think about the embarrassment they would suffer if they didn't win?
Her family is eager to get the award, and not giving it to them would be considered bullying. Doesn’t she know what kind of acting skills they have?
She even scolded the old woman who won the award. Is her family young?
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