Chapter 732 Someone Wants to Film "Bus Route 8"

After hearing what Fang Minghua said, Bai Miao didn't mention it much. He just smiled and said, "Minghua, you are throwing a bomb into the poetry world."

"Good job!" Jia Pingwa next to her chimed in: "Although I don't write poetry, I still can't understand that today's poetry is so messy and full of nonsense. It's just vernacular and it's called daily life experience. Reappearance! I think in a few years, all kinds of shit will appear in poetry!”

Bai Miao laughed loudly after hearing this, thinking that Jia Pingwa was joking, but Fang Minghua stared at him blankly.

That being the case, why didn't you stop it when it happened? !

With their curiosity satisfied, the two went downstairs to drink tea and chat for a while before saying goodbye and leaving.

The next morning, Fang Minghua felt that it was too long and too troublesome to print out, so he copied it directly to a three-inch disk and sent it to Tianya magazine. At the same time, he handed over the novel "Eighth Route Bus" to the current editor-in-chief of "Yanhe" Chen Zhongshi.

Of course, I also had to call Li Tuo and briefly explain what I wanted to write.

"Haha, it's Minghua as expected. If you don't write it down, it will be a big move!" Li Tuo said with a smile on the other end of the phone. "

"I was depressed at home for a long time to write this article. I didn't even go fishing when Jia Pingwa and the others asked me to go fishing." Fang Minghua "complained" to Li Tuo on the phone.

"Like fishing? Fishing in the river is boring. Come to Hainan and let's fish in the sea!"

Damn it!

Sea fishing!

This is a big deal.

The two joked for a while, and Fang Minghua said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Li Tuo, after I give this article to you, I will never write anything about poetry theory again."

"Ouch. Did you stop writing?"

"Haha, I'm just for fun anyway. If I talk too much, no one likes to hear it."

Sure enough, this article is called "Why so much trouble?" ——The Debate between "Folks" and "Intellectuals"" long theoretical articles on poetry were published in four issues in the "Writer's Standpoint" column of "Tianya", which immediately caused a shock in the literary world, especially the poetry world.

There are many admirers. This article by Hua Hua systematically summarizes the causes and motivations of the disputes in the field of poetry theory after the 1990s, the biggest crisis faced by contemporary poetry, and the future development direction of poetry. It is a theoretical article with high academic value. .

Of course, some people were furious after reading it, especially on the "folk" writing side. Yu Jian published articles such as "The Rights of Lay People in Poetry" and "Playing with Chinese Poetry" to express opposition.

In response to Fang Minghua's question "What is a good poem?" or "What kind of poetry is meaningful?"

Yu Jian argued in the article that good poetry is anti-knowledge in nature, and that "folk" poetry is precisely the reproduction of daily life experience, carpenter-like skills, language movement that penetrates forgetfulness and returns to the home of existence, and the refraction of wisdom and soul. the light

Fang Minghua was too lazy to pay attention anymore, he kept his word.

Compared with the popularity of articles published in Tianya magazine, Fang Minghua's novel published in Yanhe did not cause much of a sensation.

The shock wave of realism ignited by Fang Minghua's novel "In the Name of the People" is in full swing. Everyone's attention is focused on narratives that have a strong realistic critical meaning in writing about urban and rural economic life and social contradictions in reform. People like Fang Minghua, who has daily life, are Poetic novels are somewhat different.

But he was targeted by a young director.

Yanjing, Old Summer Palace.

To the south of Yuanmingyuan Park, there is an inconspicuous place called Fuyuanmen Community.

This is a very ordinary village, with bungalows, crooked roads, and a small bridge. There is a market next to the bridge.

Painters, coal sellers, vegetable sellers, bathhouse operators, and disabled women all lived together. Local farmers rented houses to them for two to three hundred yuan per room, which was not cheap.

Painters mainly live here, but also poets and singers. Later famous Li Xianting, Pu Shu, and Da Mao Er Mao of Lingdian Band all lived here.

Here, with Yanda University to the south and Tsinghua University to the east, the Peking University canteen, lecture hall movies, triangle lecture information, open classes and classrooms were all relied upon by the literary and artistic youth at that time. Therefore, it attracts many "blind people" who have cultural ideals but have not yet succeeded.

Lou Ye also lives here.

At this time, he was sitting on the old chair in his rental house, reading a magazine "Yanhe".

Although in the 1990s, serious novels were no longer popular and the sales of purely literary magazines dropped sharply, Lou Ye still ordered a few books, including "Yanhe".

As a director myself, I need a good script.

It's a pity that the current version of "Yanhe" has become a bit mediocre, not as avant-garde as the Fang Minghua era in the 1980s, leading one literary trend after another.

But today, Lou Ye saw a novel that attracted his attention. It was written by Fang Minghua.

"No. 8 Bus"

He watched carefully, as if a movie scene appeared in his mind:

Ordinary street corners, bars, overlapping roads, and all kinds of people encountered. Although the owner Lu Xijing passes these places every day, repeating them again and again is not boring, but creates a sense of rhythm and beauty of poetry.

The lens is full of sense.

He suddenly had the urge to adapt the novel into a movie.

Standing up and putting the magazine in the creaking nest, Lou Ye wandered out of the door and came to a small shop at the intersection, where there was a public phone.

He was calling his best friend Wang Xiaoshuai.

The two have an unusual relationship. They shared bunk beds in the same dormitory when Yan Dian was in college. After graduation, Wang Xiaoshuai was filming his debut movie "Winter and Spring Days", and Lou Ye played a guest role as a drinking man.

Similarly, when Lou Ye was filming his debut movie "Weekend Lover", Wang Xiaoshuai was invited to play the role of singer Zhang Chi.

The phone call was answered quickly, and there was no politeness in talking to good friends. Lou Ye got straight to the point: "I saw a good novel called "Eighth Route Bus" in the "Yanhe" magazine. I want to make it into a movie."

"What's the content?" Wang Xiaoshuai asked on the phone.

"A very poetic story." Lou Ye briefly explained the content of the novel, and then added, "It was written by the writer Minghua."

"Haha, Minghua's novels are all excellent." Wang Xiaoshuai laughed on the phone: "In the past two years, I have rarely seen him publish novels in China. You have found a treasure."

"The problem is, I'm not familiar with him, and we're not a great director like Zhang Yimou, so I'm worried that he won't give me the copyright." Lou Ye said what he was thinking.

"Xiao Shuai, didn't your movie "Extreme Cold" be filmed with investment from Shengshi Film and Television? I heard that the beautiful boss Song Tangtang is Minghua's wife. Have you met Minghua? How is he? Is he easy to talk to?"

"At that time, I took the script and went directly to Mr. Song, but I didn't see Minghua." On the other end of the phone, Wang Xiaoshuai pondered for a moment:

"I suggest you go to Mr. Song. She admires young directors very much. In the end, you will need investment anyway. Shengshi Film and Television is the most suitable. Besides, didn't your "Weekend Lover" just win the best award at the Mannheim Heidelberg International Film Festival? The director award? This is the best stepping stone to meet Mr. Song! I first approached Mr. Song with the award certificate for "Winter and Spring Days".

"Okay then, I'll go to Xijing tomorrow." Lou Ye decided.