Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 732 Someone wants to film "Route Bus"

After hearing what Fang Minghua said, Bai Miao did not say much, but just smiled and said: "Minghua, you are throwing a bomb into the poetry world."

"Great!" Jia Pingwa next to him interrupted, "Although I don't write poetry, I can't stand the current poetry, which is full of crap. What kind of shit is it? It's full of plain language, and it's called the reproduction of daily life experience! I think in a few years, everything from shit to piss to fart will appear in poetry!"

Bai Miao laughed out loud, thinking Jia Pingwa was joking, but Fang Minghua just stared at him in shock.

If that's the case, why don't you stop it when it happens? !

Their curiosity satisfied, the two went downstairs to drink tea and chat for a while, then said goodbye and left.

The next morning, Fang Minghua felt that the work was too long and too troublesome to print out, so he copied it directly onto a three-inch disk and mailed it to Tianya magazine. At the same time, he gave the novel "Bus No. 8" to Chen Zhongshi, the current editor-in-chief of "Yanhe".

Of course, I also had to call Li Tuo and briefly tell him what I was going to write.

"Haha, it's Minghua indeed. If you don't write, it's fine. But if you write, you'll use your ultimate move!" Li Tuo laughed on the other end of the phone.

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

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

What the hell!

Sea fishing!

This is a big deal.

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

"Ouch. Put down your pen?"

"Haha, I'm just playing around. If I talk too much, no one will like to hear it."

Sure enough, this long theoretical article on poetry titled "Why all the fuss? - The debate between "civilians" and "intellectuals"" was released in four installments in the "Writer's Standpoint" column of Tianya, which immediately caused a sensation in the literary world, especially the poetry world.

There are those who praise it, saying that this article by Ming Hua systematically summarizes the causes and motives of the disputes in the field of poetry theory after the 1990s, the biggest crisis facing contemporary poetry, and the future direction of poetry development. It is a theoretical article with high academic value.

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

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

Yu Jian argues in his article that good poetry is essentially anti-intellectual, and that "folk" poetry is precisely the reproduction of daily life experience, the carpenter-like skills, the language movement that penetrates oblivion and returns to the home of existence, and the light reflected by wisdom and soul.
Fang Minghua was too lazy to pay any more attention to it. He did what he said.

Compared with the popular article published in "Tianya" magazine, the novel published by Fang Minghua in "Yanhe" did not cause much sensation.

The realism shock wave ignited by Fang Minghua's novel "In the Name of People" is in full swing. Everyone's attention is focused on narratives with strong realistic critical implications about urban and rural economic life and social contradictions in reform. Fang Minghua's poetic novels with daily life seem a bit different.

But he was spotted 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, all bungalows, crooked paths, a small bridge, and a market next to the bridge. Painters, coal sellers, vegetable sellers, bathhouse owners, and fallen women all live together, and local farmers rent houses to them for 200 to 300 yuan per room, which is not cheap.

The place is mainly populated by painters, poets and singers. Li Xianting and Pu Shu, who later became famous, and Da Mao and Er Mao from the band Zero Point all lived here.

Here, with Yanda University to the south and Tsinghua University to the east, the Peking University canteen, the Grand Lecture Hall movies, the Triangle lecture information, open classes and classrooms were all relied on by the literary and artistic youth at that time. Therefore, this place attracted many "blind migrants" who had cultural ideals but had 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 serious novels were no longer popular in the 1990s and the sales of pure literature magazines dropped sharply, Lou Ye still subscribed to a few books, including "Yanhe".

I am a director and I need a good script.

Unfortunately, the current "Yanhe" has become a bit mediocre, not as avant-garde as in the 1980s when Fang Minghua was leading one literary trend after another.

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

Bus No. 8

He watched carefully, and a scene from a movie seemed to appear in his mind:
Ordinary street corners, bars, painted roads, and all kinds of people he meets. Although the protagonist Lu Xijing passes by these places every day, the repetition is not boring, but instead gives rise to a sense of rhythm and beauty of poetry.
Great sense of the lens.

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

Standing up and tucked the magazine under his armpit, Lou Ye staggered out of the door and came to a small shop at the intersection where there was a pay phone.

He called his best friend Wang Xiaoshuai.

The two had an unusual relationship. They shared the same dormitory bunk beds when they were in college at Yandian University. After graduation, Wang Xiaoshuai made his debut film "Winter and Spring Days", and Lou Ye played a cameo as a drinking man.

Similarly, when Lou Ye was filming his debut film "Weekend Lovers", Wang Xiaoshuai was invited to play the singer Zhang Chi.

The call was connected quickly. Good friends don't need to be polite when talking to each other. Lou Ye got straight to the point: "I saw a good novel called "Eighth Route Bus" in the magazine "Yanhe". 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 recounted the content of the novel, and then added, "It was written by the writer Minghua."

"Haha, Minghua's novels are all masterpieces." Wang Xiaoshuai laughed on the phone: "In the past two years, it has been rare to see him publish novels in China. You have found a treasure."

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

"Xiao Shuai, didn't you ask Shengshi Films to invest in your film "Extreme Cold"? I heard that the beautiful boss Song Tangtang is Minghua's wife. Have you met Minghua? What's she like? Is she easy to talk to?"

"At that time, I took the script and went directly to Mr. Song, and did not meet Minghua." On the other end of the phone, Wang Xiaoshuai pondered:
"I suggest you go to see Ms. Song. She admires young directors very much. You will need investment in the end anyway, and Shengshi Film and Television is the most suitable. Besides, didn't your movie "Weekend Lovers" just win the Best Director Award at the Mannheim Heidelberg International Film Festival? This is the best stepping stone to meet Ms. Song! I found Ms. Song with the award certificate for "Winter and Spring Days" in the beginning."

"Okay then, I'll go to Xijing tomorrow." Lou Ye made the decision.

(End of this chapter)