Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 15 [Mengya Magazine, the originator of domestic pure love]

Nortel.

There are not many days left until the end of the semester.

The senior students were busy defending their graduation papers. Li Yishu had already communicated with the school in advance that he could return to school later to defend his graduation papers.

Those sophomores and juniors are all trying to find connections, hoping to run errands and do odd jobs on the crew, learn from the experience, or play a few small roles.

Originally, Yu Feihong wanted to follow her best friend Wang Qian to join the crew and hone her acting skills, but as she replied to Li Yishu's letters, she gradually became addicted to the spiritual exchange with this pen pal.

Especially after Li Yishu sent her three pages of the manuscript, she became deeply addicted to it, simply because she loved the story of "Love Letter" so much.

A letter that happened by mistake revealed a pure love story...

The content of these three pages of manuscript alone was enough to make Yu Feihong, who has loved literature and art since childhood, fall deeply in love with this story.

She watched it over and over again, eager to know the subsequent plot.

For this reason, Yu Feihong sent out more than a dozen letters over several days, hoping that Li Yishu could write this story as soon as possible.

Faced with so many letters from "Zhuye" urging her to update, Li Yishu did not expect that the other party actually liked this story so much.

Looking back at the movie "Love Letter", it can be said that it kicked off the wave of pure love in Japan.

It is only natural that these literary young women born in the 1980s and 1990s in China like this kind of pure story without any negative emotions.

Who knows that most of the domestic love novels nowadays tend to be realistic, or are the kind of romantic novels written by Qiong Yao that are about love to the point of death.

The setting of pure love novels can definitely hit the chords of quite a number of literary young people.

At the end of June, Li Yishu went back to the Beijing Film Academy to participate in his graduation defense. After all, he had decades of directing experience and more advanced theoretical knowledge, and with another work to back him up, he passed his graduation defense smoothly.

Originally, Li Yishu wanted to meet that pen pal. In addition to having corresponded with her for several months, there was another very important factor. That was a few days ago, the pen pal "Zhuye" wrote to say that she had helped forward the manuscript that Li Yishu had sent to the Mengya magazine in Shanghai.

However, many students in the school had joined film crews, so after thinking about it, he decided not to look for her. He thought that it would not be too late to meet this junior girl next year when he was studying for his master's degree.

Originally, the pen pal wanted to submit the manuscript directly to the publishing house, but considering that Li Yishu is not famous nowadays and afraid that the manuscript will be left unattended in the publishing house, Zhuye decided to send it to "Mengya", which is currently very popular among young readers.

"Mengya" was founded in July 1956, and its main focus is on original literary magazines for young people.

The articles published are not limited to novels, essays, poems and other literary works created by young people.

Li Yishu’s age is appropriate, and the novel is a medium-length novel of 8 words. The story he writes is so beautiful. In Zhuye’s opinion, if it is not selected, there must be some shady deal.

Li Yishu wrote back to Zhuye a few days ago. I wonder if "Mengya" has contacted her?

After staying at the Beijing Film Academy for a few more days and attending the graduation ceremony, Li Yishu hurried back to Sichuan to prepare for the final finishing work on the film editing, aiming to completely finish the negatives before mid-July.

This morning.

When Li Yishu arrived at the studio's guardhouse, he saw the guard sitting in the shade of a tree at the school gate. He noticed him coming and pointed to the guardhouse: "Li Yishu, you're just in time. Here's another letter for you!"

"Okay, Uncle Wang." Li Yishu smiled.

In the past two months, he received a letter from Yanjing every three or four days, and the security guard, Uncle Wang, had become familiar with him.

Entering the guard room, a stack of letters was placed on the table.

He walked over and found his letter. Instead of choosing to read it later, he opened it on the spot to take a look.

Li Yishu read ten lines at a glance, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised. "Mengya" wrote back to "Zhuye" three days ago, not only accepting the manuscript, but also paying a fee of 15 yuan per thousand words.

According to the "Interim Provisions on Book Royalties" issued by the National Copyright Administration in 1990, the standard is between 10 yuan and 30 yuan per thousand words. For some nationally renowned writers, the royalties can be even higher.

The price of 15 yuan given by Mengya Magazine shows that they are very optimistic about Li Yishu's work and gave this middle value.

Based on the calculation of 15 yuan per thousand words, Li Yishu received a total of 8 yuan in royalties for the manuscript of more than 1213.53 words.

When Li Yishu took out the remittance slip that Zhuye had enclosed in the letter and looked at the numbers on it, he couldn't help but sigh: "These days, writing novels is still the way to make money. It's nothing like thirty years later, when it's hard to even make a living."

If it weren't for her dream of becoming a big director, Li Yishu would have wanted to be a plagiarist forever.

However, when I thought about the fact that if "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" could be shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival, the revenue from the sale of the copyright would be hundreds or thousands of times the royalties, so I gave up the idea of ​​continuing to be a plagiarist.

“I’m looking forward to it—”

There is only one month left before the registration for the Venice Film Festival. I don’t know how the Beijing Film Academy is preparing. And their special recruitment quota should have been announced, right?

dong dong——

There was a knock on the door of the house.

Li Yishu got up from the bed in a daze, went to the door and saw that it was Jiang Qinqin.

"Qinqin, why are you here?"

Li Yishu was very surprised to see the person coming. He had just agreed with his mother Zhao Xue that he would go to the mountain city in two days to pick up Jiang Qinqin who was on vacation to visit Sichuan. How come this girl came by herself?
"Hehe, my mother and I took the train here together. She happened to be on a business trip to Sichuan."

Jiang's mother is a factory accountant and occasionally goes on business trips with the factory's salesmen.

This time, it happened that Jiang's mother was going to a sister factory in Sichuan, so she brought her daughter along, who had an early holiday and couldn't wait to come and play in Sichuan.

"Does my mother know you're here?"

"Yeah, godmother knows. I went to the studio first and found out that Yishu brother was still sleeping at home."

"I've been busy with editing these days and haven't been sleeping well."

Li Yishu yawned and looked back at the clock at home. It was already past 11 o'clock, so he said, "Qinqin, sit down for a while. I'll go wash up and take you to eat hot pot at noon."

“Okay, Yishu brother.”

(End of this chapter)