"There is a tsunami in everyone's heart, and with the loneliness of the deep sea, everything that has been budgeted for becomes meaningless. Our whole life is about letting go, but the most painful thing is not saying goodbye properly. ”

Zhang Chu talked eloquently in front of the camera lens, he knew that when he won the Booker Prize for "Life of Pi", many people worshiped it as a masterpiece, but at the same time, some people scoffed at this seemingly popular adventure.

At that time, many book critics thought that this was the least likely to be adapted into a movie, but now this literary film that has reached commercial film investment is about to be released, and Zhang Chu, the author, is also recording a video to help promote it.

"I worked with director Li Yu to build a new plot structure, using near-perfect visual effects to concretize the images described in the text. Director Li Yu is a filmmaker I have always liked, he has achieved the perfect balance between art and business, and his best white space is perfectly reflected in the movie, if you like this movie, don't forget to go into the cinema on October 22nd and watch it for yourself!"

"Okay, perfect!"

The videographer saved the recording and gave Zhang Chu a thumbs up at the same time.

At this time, an assistant walked in front of Zhang Chu and took off the microphone he was holding on the collar, today's shooting is mainly due to the long preparation, in fact, the real shooting is just a little bit.

Zhang Chu asked curiously, "Is this all right?" Will it be shorter?"

"It's not short, it's a shot interspersed in the author's version of the tidbits, you say it very well. ”

In fact, Zhang Chu has never seen the finished product of the movie at all, he is just bragging about the movie and the director, and the business is boasting about each other. It is estimated that in the director's version of the tidbits, there will also be praise about the plot and himself.

It took an hour to change clothes, put on makeup and find light and angles, Zhang Chu was finally liberated, he got up from his computer chair, and said to the staff who were busy packing up the equipment: "Everyone has worked hard, I have prepared some fresh fruits here, let's rest for a while before leaving!"

Zhou Kang jokingly said, "Yes, there's no need to be in such a hurry. If others ask, you will say that Zhang Chu is too difficult to handle, anyway, this has already spread in the circle, and you don't care about writing two more strokes. ”

"No, no, now we have to quickly take the captured footage back and edit it, and everyone is waiting to take it out and promote it. ”

At this moment, a staff member suddenly pulled out a set of complete works of the Lord of the Rings and asked in English in a shy tone, "I like your work very much, can you sign it for me?" and write it to Tom, who is my ten-year-old son. ”

"Of course, it's my pleasure!"

It's obviously a promotional tidbit of Youth Pi, but it's also quite strange to sign the English version of the Lord of the Rings.

The twelve-person crew packed up their belongings and left, though a few of them wanted to stay and see what the traditional Chinese architecture was like.

Courtyard houses are not seen abroad!

Zhou Kang only had time to joke with Zhang Chu at this time: "I can't see it, you usually get stiff when you record the show, why is it so natural this time?"

"Maybe it's because of the environment, it's more relaxed in a familiar environment. Uncle Zhou, you sit down for a while, I'll wash off the makeup on my face, this layer of powder is too thick. ”

"I'll leave first, there are a lot of things in the company now, you have to open a pre-sale in the early hours of tonight, don't keep an eye on it. The damn Nanhai Publishing Company was too picky, so he had to print more than 1 million copies of the first printing, and the bookstores and distributors who couldn't get the goods came directly to the company to find us. ”

Zhang Chu only reacted at this time, he didn't know what the number of first prints of "The Silence of the Lambs" was, and the contract stipulated that it would be no less than 500,000 copies.

But in the past, the first printing of 1.5 million or even 2 million copies of works was usually printed, but this time only 1 million copies were printed.

With limited quantities, the large bookstore chains and distributors can keep as many books as they can, while the smaller bookstores don't get the stock at all.

This is probably the Zhumen wine and meat in the book industry, and there are frozen bones on the road!

"Why do they only print so little and have too little confidence in the work?"

But Zhou Kang spread his hands and said: "If this is a work like "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" or fantasy, it will definitely be more than that. It should be that Nanhai Publishing Company is more worried about "The Silence of the Lambs", afraid that readers will not be able to accept such horror and horror, and it is set in a foreign country. ”

Zhang Chu swore and said, "They will definitely regret it, I promise!"

"The Da Vinci Code" and "The Silence of the Lambs" are different in specific genres, but they both have a certain amount of suspense elements, especially if they are written by the same author, so they will be compared together.

The former was an instant hit at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with two million copies printed in Chinese Simplified and twice in a week. But the latter is so much worse than the first print.

"They have time to restock and wait for the pre-sale results to come out before they consider the reprint. ”

The 1 million copies printed now have long been snatched up by major bookstores, and if the pre-sale situation is good enough, then the Nanhai Publishing Company can carry out a second printing according to the pre-sale situation, which is a safe card.

It's a pity that there is no news from Random House, but the number of first prints is definitely high, and that is just the right appetite.

The United States is the largest sales market for this type of book, and it just so happens that the background of "The Silence of the Lambs" is also designed here, as well as the FBI and those famous killers, readers have long been aroused by the interest of reading.

Zhang Chu didn't know what its final sales would be, but at least he didn't have to worry about hitting the streets.

He went to the bathroom to wash off the makeup on his face with facial cleanser, and he was supposed to remove his makeup first, but where did he find any cleansing oil, but he didn't prepare it at all.

After washing his face, he was full of energy, and returned to the study to prepare for the end of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", which made him successfully change from a best-selling author to a writer familiar to the whole people.

[The account book of the golden abacus records the relevant deeds, and I read it word for word all night, and finally solved the questions that I have buried in my heart for many years, and I thought about the experience of me and the fat man and others over the years, and I have to admire the foresight of Zhang Sanlianzi, who wrote the "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", and it is not possible for anyone to retreat on the cusp of the storm.

Learning from the past and learning from the present, it made me feel something, and I made up my mind to retreat bravely, and I also wanted to fulfill the promise I had made to Shirley Yang......]

The end of the story is like this, the three of them washed their hands in a golden basin, took off the gold talisman on their necks, and did business overseas with Chen Blind, Uncle Ming and Big Golden Tooth, and no longer asked about things related to inverted fights.

The plot of "Looking for the Dragon" is a continuation of what happened after the golden basin washed his hands, but Zhang Chu didn't plan to write it, this is not digging a pit, but planning to have the opportunity to update it as a side story in the future.

Maybe when "Ghost Blows the Lamp" was released for ten years, now this group of readers has basically grown up, and then write it for them to taste it.