Chapter 619 618 "The Piano in a Factory"

The two cousins ​​looked at him with worry.

"What's the matter? Isn't it just an article that hasn't been published? It's nothing." Fang Minghua smiled and said, "If reportage is not allowed to be published, then write a novel. But let's not talk about this today. Let's spend Christmas with the two kids!"

Fang Minghua has actually made two preparations: realistic reportage is not okay, but fictional novels are okay, right?

Before Fang Minghua came to this era, the "Three Musketeers of Tiexi" (Yu Banyu, Shuang Xuetao and Zheng Zhi) were more famous in the literary works reflecting the Northeast workers, and were called "New Northeast Literature."

As people born in the 1980s, they were all born more than 20 years later. The narrative elements necessary for Northeast stories such as layoffs, murders, and beatings were woven into the plot of the novel, becoming a symbol of the description of this period.

There is also crime literature, "The Past of Northeast Criminal Police" and "Good Man Wang Zhiyong".

However, Fang Minghua felt that none of them was more shocking and more impactful than the movie "The Piano in a Factory".

The film was written and directed by Zhang Meng, starring Wang Qianyuan and Qin Hailu. It tells the story of a father who worked hard for his daughter's musical dream and finally built a piano for his daughter with steel with the help of his friends.

The Northeastern director Zhang Meng used his unique sense of romance to record such a group of lost middle-aged people and such a lost 1990s.

The sudden transformation made those workers who had been working in the factory for decades suddenly lose their livelihood and caught them off guard.

Some of them were unemployed at home, some became gamblers, some became locksmiths, some became butchers, some went into business, and some became thieves...

They are no longer young, have no diplomas, no savings, and lack the time and capital to start over.

They are stereotyped, and there is no better way out except the factory.

They are lost, depressed, lost their confidence, lost their strength, but also stubborn.

But one thing has never changed.

They always believed that their own hands could make up for the embarrassment of being abandoned by the times. They used the workers' spirit that they were once proud of to prove their dignity to their children and to this era.

New Year's Day soon arrived, and 1992 was declared over.

The most important event in the domestic literary world in 1992 was naturally the successful holding of the first World Chinese Literature Award.

Contributions from different countries and regions, high-standard reading classes and judges, selected excellent works and high bonuses have made the literary award attract attention at home and abroad.

Some people even predicted that the Chinese Literature Award would replace the Mao Dun Award as China's first award. Of course, this assertion is too early, but the Chinese people pay attention to a good start. The success of the first event undoubtedly made Fang Minghua and other people who worked hard for it feel excited.

Of course, at the end of the year, Fang Minghua's own reportage could not be published smoothly, which was not a happy thing anyway. More importantly, it made Fang Minghua feel that what he wanted to say was not said.

Let's use a novel as an example.

After New Year's Day, Fang Minghua set out to write a novel based on the movie "The Piano in a Factory".

The plot of the movie is not complicated.

In the early 1990s, in an industrial city in Northeast China. After being laid off, Chen Guilin, a former steel factory worker, formed a wedding and funeral band to make a living, running around in weddings and funerals, and opening shops all day long.

At the same time, his wife Xiaoju could not bear the burden of life, and fell in love with a wealthy businessman.

Afterwards, Xiaoju returned in a glamorous manner, demanded a divorce from her husband Chen Guilin, and demanded custody of her only daughter Chen Xiaoyuan. Who can give his daughter a piano became the key to the fight for custody.

Chen Guilin hopes to train his daughter to be an excellent pianist. In order to get custody of his daughter, he endured all kinds of pressure and raised money from various sources to buy a piano for his daughter. After being frustrated everywhere, he decided to take risks and sneak into the school at night with his girlfriend Shuxian and his good buddy from the steel factory to steal the piano, but he was discovered and caught again.

When all methods failed, Guilin accidentally came across a Russian document about piano, so he called his partners to start the journey of hand-made piano in the dilapidated factory. Finally, with the help of a retired thief, a full-time gangster, a big brother, and a group of down-and-out brothers, they built a "steel" piano. A group of men fought for dignity.

Love, friendship and passion, humor burn absurdly in the impossible task.

The film was very well made and won the Golden Rooster Award, Huabiao Award, Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award, and the Fici International Film Critics Award.

Later, a TV series of the same name was adapted from the movie, but Fang Minghua has not seen it.

In the past, Fang Minghua adapted movie scripts into novels, which were generally novellas or short stories with fewer words.

But this time, Fang Minghua planned to write a long novel.

The film itself also has shortcomings:

First, the narrative rhythm of the film is loose at the beginning and tight at the end. The director may pay too much attention to the appearance of the characters at the beginning, which makes the second half of the film too compact, especially in the last thirty minutes, the plot is too compressed, the scene connection is abrupt, and even the scene connection is abrupt and unreasonable.

Second, the narrative clues of the film are relatively single. There are two hidden lines in the film. One is Chen Guilin’s ex-wife’s fight for the child, which seems awkward. Either the description of this aspect should be strengthened, the character’s motivation should be strengthened, and some difficulties should be added, or it should be omitted or even not written.

The other clue is the chimney's stay or departure, which is too loosely connected to the main plot. In fact, the stay or departure of the chimney should be strengthened to touch the characters' hearts, but due to insufficient foreshadowing, the audience will not agree with this emotion.

And this is enough to solve these two problems with the length of a novel.

Moreover, Fang Minghua was touched too much by the ten days back to Fengtian, and there are some things he really wants to write.

Too direct and cold reality cannot be written, so use a kind of black humor and some absurd words to express it.

Fang Minghua was immersed in writing throughout January. From morning to night, he basically did these three things a day: eating, writing, and sleeping. His wife Song Tangtang was a little worried.

It has been several years since I got married, and I have never seen Fang Minghua writing so crazily.

But sometimes, fate seems to play a joke on him.

Just when Fang Minghua turned to writing a novel because his reportage was not published, things suddenly took a turn for the better. Xiao Dai called and said that the reportage that had been shelved would be published in "Internal Reference" and circulated within a certain range of senior officials.

Good news.

Fang Minghua was very happy to hear this.

Isn't this the purpose and significance of writing this reportage?

Song Tangtang was also very happy to hear this, and even called Li Li who had already returned to school to tell her the news.

This year's Spring Festival can be celebrated happily.

The Spring Festival in 1993 came earlier than usual. January 22 was New Year's Eve. On this day, Fang Minghua, who had been stuck in the study all day, had to come out to eat New Year's Eve dinner with his family and watch the Spring Festival Gala to celebrate the New Year.