As a literary youth, Wu Zhiliu knew very well what it meant to publish a novel in "People's Literature", and his eyes widened instantly: "It is equivalent to publishing a novel in "People's Literature", that is really amazing!"

Xu Wangqiu thought to himself that "People's Literature" had actually been voted for, but it was rejected, and I submitted it again in March, but there was no news so far, so he said disapprehantly: "Okay, don't say these useless, eat it quickly." After eating, we continued to watch the movie. ”

For the Chinese people in the 70s, eating was the biggest problem. Xu Wangqiu's family is a dual-income worker, but he will not be hungry, mainly because he has no meat to eat. Xu Wangqiu is growing his body and is full of craving for meat, but because he has not been able to eat meat for a long time and lacks oil and water in his stomach, he always feels hungry and panicked, and he is always thinking about where to get food.

It seems to be easy to make money as a traverser, but in this era of "I would rather have the grass of socialism than the seedlings of capitalism", it is very difficult, and farmers who go to the city to sell eggs may be "cut the tail of capitalism", not to mention that other ideas, no matter how good they are, it is difficult to implement them in this period. However, since October last year, the situation has gradually improved, and the country has resumed remuneration, and Xu Wangqiu has finally waited for the opportunity to make money.

Before the movement, writers belonged to the high-income group, and famous writers could get 50,000 or even 70,000 yuan for their novels, while a courtyard house in Peking was more than 10,000 yuan. After entering Beijing, writer Zhao Shuli bought a rather large courtyard house with more than 10,000 manuscript fees, and later he saw that the organs of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles were short of housing, so he gave the compound to the public family and changed the courtyard himself; Later, he left Beiping to work in Shanxi, and even handed over the small courtyard to the public free of charge.

However, after the movement began, all publications were free of payment, and published articles could receive a copy of Taizu's book or a notebook. It was not until October last year that the State Publishing Bureau resumed remuneration of manuscripts at 2 to 7 yuan per 1,000 words for manuscripts and 1 to 5 yuan for translators; film studios also resumed remuneration for feature films, with a script for feature films at 1,500 yuan.

Graduates of Nortel's directing department can basically write things, and they make a lot of extra money by writing articles. Of course, Xu Wangqiu can also write, he published novels in his last life, but the print run was relatively low, only 50,000 copies. After knowing that the state had restored the remuneration for authors, Xu Wangqiu began to plan his own money-making plan, first writing a script and sending it to the magazine to earn manuscript fees; after the script was published, he took the script to Xiuying Studio to find his master and sold it to Xiuying Studio, and he got it for 1,500 yuan; after the film was made, the script could be published separately, or it could be changed to a novel for publication, and then he could earn a manuscript fee. After this process, it should not be a problem to mix 10,000 households.

Xu Wangqiu weighed it repeatedly, chose a film that was particularly in line with this era, wrote Zhang Yimou's "Return" as a script, and voted for "People's Literature". I thought that the manuscript fee of a few hundred yuan would be easy to get, but I didn't expect that after waiting for two months, "People's Literature" returned the manuscript.

The editor of "People's Literature" believes that there are serious problems with "The Return", such as Feng Wanyu did not report it, and prepared quilts and steamed buns for Lu Yanzhi, and shouted "Yanzhi Run" after finding the pursuers on the overpass of the railway station, which is a serious crime of cover-up and will definitely be sentenced, but in the script, she is fine, which is completely illogical.

Xu Wangqiu also felt that there was indeed a problem with the logic, and it was difficult to revise it, so he could only start from scratch and rewrite a new script to submit to "People's Literature", but so far there has been no news. The film review of "The River Flows" was written by him after watching the movie, and then sent it to the "People's Film" magazine. At the end of May, he received 56 yuan in manuscript fees. Subsequently, he took the 50 yuan given by his father and the 56 yuan manuscript fee to get on the train to Chang'an.

After dinner, coming out of the restaurant, Liu Lin and the others wanted to go to the cinema and let Xu Wangqiu continue to teach them how to write a film analysis. However, Xu Wangqiu proposed: "Now the cinemas are all old domestic movies, and the audio-visual language is backward, so it is better to find some new films to watch." His gaze fell on Liu Lin's face: "The West Film Studio must often put internal reference films, is there a way to sneak in?"

The internal reference piece is the abbreviation of the "internal reference piece". During the movement, ordinary people could only watch movies such as "Tunnel War" and "Southern Expedition and Northern War", as well as Peking Opera movies such as "Red Lantern" and "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", while Jiang Qing and the Privilege Group had special screening halls to watch American or European movies. Jiang Qing not only watched it himself, but also asked the people who made the movie to watch it. She asked all film studios to study hard and improve their business level. Therefore, the internal reference films will be screened in several film studios, and the West Film Studio will be shown to the Xiuying Studio, and the Xiuying Studio will be shown to the East Film Studio or Zhuying after the Xiuying Studio.

For example, criticizing Khrushchev's revision/orthodoxy, he organized the screening of films such as "Song of the Soldier" and "Yan Nanfei"; People's attitude towards the internal reference film is similar to that of Xiao Huangwen forty years later, saying "This is a poisonous weed, and we must criticize it fiercely", but when I watched it, I was so happy that I didn't want it.

There is a plot in the movie "Sunny Days", where Ma Xiaojun and his best friend sneak to the cinema to peek at the reference film. That movie is called "The Battle of Rome", and it is said that Lin Biao wanted to watch it by name, and the Shanghai Translation Factory worked overtime to complete the translation.

Xu Wangqiu's house is not far from the Xiuying Studio, and his brother works in the Xiuying Studio, and often sneaks into the Xiuying Studio to peek at the internal reference films.

In his opinion, Xiuying Studio is like this, and Western Film Studio should be similar.

Liu Lin nodded and said, "Yes, there is, but the people in the security department will guard the door and can't sneak in." If you want to see it, you have to go in early and hide on the ceiling, or you will have to wait until the movie starts to peek through the gap in the side door. The side doors are made of wood, and there are holes drilled into them. Every time a movie is played, there are a bunch of kids peeking there. If it had passed now, it would have been crowded with people. I think so, let's buy some dry food tomorrow afternoon, sneak into the cinema, and watch it from the ceiling. ”

Xu Wangqiu thought that it was the same, so he said: "That's it, let's go to Lao Gu's movie theater now." ”

On the afternoon of the next day, Xu Wangqiu and the four of them put dry food on their backs, sneaked into the movie theater of the West Film Studio, and climbed up to the ceiling. Unexpectedly, as soon as Xu Wangqiu and the others climbed up, someone shouted: "Liu Lin, Gu Changwei, you also come to peek at the internal reference film!"

Xu Wangqiu raised his eyes and saw that there were more than a dozen people squatting on the ceiling, the younger one was eight or nine years old, and the older one was in his twenties.

Liu Lin looked at the young man who greeted him, and said with a smile: "Wang Xiaolie, you are also here." He introduced to Xu Wangqiu and Wu Zhiliu: "This is Wang Xiaolie, and Gu Changwei and I are classmates. This year, he was also admitted to Nortel, and like Lao Gu, he applied for the photography department. He also introduced Wang Xiaolie: "Xiaolie, let me introduce, this is Xu Wangqiu, this is Wu Zhiliu." ”

After the greetings, Xu Wangqiu and Wang Xiaolie sat together and chatted. Talk about movies, but also talk about internal reference films.

Sneaking into the cinema in advance and waiting to peek at the internal reference film is a compulsory course for the children of the film studio. But it often happens that after squatting on the ceiling for most of the day, someone's brother or friend runs in and says to the lurker, come down, the movie is canceled. The lurker can only leave disappointed and wait for the next time.

Listening to Wang Xiaolie tell them interesting stories about peeking at internal reference films, and then thinking of all kinds of things he went to Xiuying Studio to peek at internal reference films, Xu Wangqiu couldn't help but think of the Italian movie "Cinema Paradiso", which is also a child, and is also full of desire and curiosity about movies, and young people at home and abroad are the same. He couldn't help but think that if anyone can peek at the internal reference films and make their desire for movies in the future, it will definitely not be worse than "Paradise Cinema".

At half past seven in the evening, the movie began to be screened, and the name was "Women Are More Murderous Than Men", a spy film that followed the trend of 007. In the movie, the female spies use all kinds of temptation methods to let their prey fall into their traps, and there are many shots of showing off their bodies and showing their thighs, which is very sexy. For this conservative era, it's. Xu Wangqiu felt as if he was staying in a pack of wolves, his eyes around him were shining green, and the sound of swallowing saliva was constant.

The white thighs on the screen made the little boy lying next to Xu Wangqiu excited, and his saliva flowed loudly, and it ended up flowing to the heads of the audience below. The man stretched out his hand and touched it, and his hand was full of saliva, and then he looked up and knew what was going on, and immediately scolded: "Which kid is spitting on it?"

The lights of the movie theater were turned on, and the people from the security department rushed over, pulled Xu Wangqiu and them all out, pulled them to the stage, and asked the parents to go up to lead them. The adults felt embarrassed and walked up with great reluctance. One parent slapped his son in the face twice and dragged the crying child down.

Wang Xiaolie and they are from the West Film Studio, and the people from the security department know each other, so they didn't say much, but Xu Wangqiu's face was very unfamiliar. The people from the Security Section stared at Xu Wangqiu and them tightly, preparing to take them to the Security Section for interrogation. Wu Zhiliu looked very nervous, he was already from a bad background, and if he had anything to do, the political trial might be even more troublesome.

Xu Wangqiu didn't want to go to the security department, thinking about how to deal with the people in the security department. At this moment, the big bald head in the first row of the audience made his eyes shine. That's Wu Tianming. Anyone who knows a little about Chinese films knows that Wu Tianming, the leader of the fifth generation of directors, is the Bole of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and others. The West Film Studio was originally a small factory, but after Wu Tianming served as the director, the West Film Studio quickly grew into a world famous brand.

Wu Tianming is a warm-hearted person, when Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige picked up the scenery for "Yellow Earth", they ran out of money and had no food to eat, so they asked Wu Tianming for help. Wu Tianming didn't know them at all, he had only heard their names. After knowing what happened to them, he directly took out 3,000 yuan and sent the film crew's jeep to them to use.

Xu Wangqiu shouted at Wu Tianming: "Wu Tianming!"

Wu Tianming didn't know Xu Wangqiu, and when he heard him call himself, he came over and asked, "What's the matter with you?"

Xu Wangqiu immediately said: "We are from Xiuying Studio, and we came to Chang'an to take the Nortel exam." In the second exam, we want to watch some movies and discuss how to write film analysis. But the movie theater is full of old films, and the film language is relatively backward, so we wanted to see some new films, so we sneaked in, but we didn't expect to be arrested. ”

Wu Tianming studied in Nortel's advanced training class, and he was also a Nortel graduate, and when he heard that Xu Wangqiu and they wanted to watch movies to prepare for the exam, and they were the children of the brother unit of Xiuying Studio, he said to the security department: "Let them go, they are all a system, and it is not easy to get into college, so let them watch movies here!"

Wu Tianming is the troupe/committee/secretary/discipline of the West Film Studio, and he has quite a prestige in the factory. When the people from the security department saw Wu Tianming speak, they immediately released Xu Wangqiu and them, and found seats for them to take a good look at.

The lights in the screening room quickly went out and the films resumed.