Chapter 253: White Deer Plain
Jia Youwei took a large stack of manuscripts written silently and took the subway to Yuanda Publishing House. The book he wants to publish this time is Chen Zhongzhong's "White Deer Plain".
In Jia Youwei's mind, there are really few works of modern Chinese writers that he can afford to look at and call them. In a sense, the vast majority of modern Chinese writers write things that are not, but are all long stories.
He believes that the best work to write about rural China is Chen Zhongzhong's "White Deer Plain", and there is absolutely no one. And the best writer who writes about rural China is not Chen Zhongzhong, but Mo Yan and Jia Pingwa.
The latter two are powerful writers who have written about rural China to the extreme. In their works, there is really no single feature that can compare with "White Deer Plain".
"White Deer Plain" is a work that can be described as epic, and it is also the pinnacle of Chen Zhongzhong's work. Or rather, his extraordinary performance.
Why do you say that? Chen Zhongzhong can be said to have become famous in one book. In addition to writing the long story "White Deer Plain", he has no familiar works.
Similarly, the rest of his works are compared with "White Deer Plain", which is simply underground and heavenly. Back then, in order to write "White Deer Plain", Chen Zhongzhong almost locked himself in the house in his hometown and stayed at home.
His wife brought food to the door every day, and they didn't talk to each other, as if they were in the form of a dead house now.
It's just that Chen Zhongzhong is forcing himself to write awesome things for the sake of artistic creation, and the latter either has social phobia, or because of some kind of frustration, he can't get out of the strange circle in his heart.
Jia Youwei remembers clearly that Chen Zhongzhong personally said that when he was creating "White Deer Plain", he was very sad once someone disturbed him halfway.
He paused to deal with it, and when he went back to writing, the characters in the work began to blame and count themselves, which shows that he is not crazy, he does not survive, and he is too deep into the play.
Chen Zhongzhong is also a writer from a non-academic background. He likes to communicate with anyone who comes to discuss literature and write, but he will also drive people away because of a disagreement.
What is also admirable is his personality. At the beginning, a senior local leader came to visit him and said that he wanted him to write works that were in line with the main theme of the day.
Chen Zhongzhong didn't give face on the spot, and said directly, you know a fart. He insisted on his own writing path, liked to smoke leaf cigarettes, and was very choking and cheap, and it was because of this that he finally died of tongue cancer.
When Chen Zhongzhong died, the Seventh Standing Committee members all sent wreaths to express their respects. Presumably, they also used their free time to watch the original "White Deer Plain" and recognized its artistic height. This writer is dead, and he can get the wreath of all the members of the Central Committee, I'm afraid there are really few people!
Even after the publication of the book "White Deer Plain", it caused quite a stir among readers, and it did not fundamentally improve his life.
Chen Zhongzhong's life was improved, it was sold in the film copyright of "White Deer Plain", through director Wang Quanan, who was the one who had the goddess Zhang Yuqi in the hearts of the D silk in the family, and was caught by the police.
The investment and shooting of the whole movie are also full of big names, Zhang Fengyi, Wu Gang, Duan Hongyi, and Wang Quanan's ex-wife Zhang Yuqi.
Zhang Fengyi and Duan Hong are both powerful actors at the actor level, and Wu Gang is most familiar with the role of Secretary Dakang he later created in "In the Name of the People", and his acting skills are also good.
However, the movie is really not good, what kind of thing is it that is a good epic work?
gives people a sense of Tian Xiao'e played by Zhang Yuqi in the movie, and there is no deep memory for the rest.
Eroticism is indeed a point in "White Deer Plain", especially the detailed description of these in the original work, which is really applauding, rather than having the urge to touch JJ.
In the movie version of "White Deer Plain", Chen Zhongzhong also participated in it and gave some suggestions to himself, but it is estimated that Wang Quanan did not listen very carefully.
After all, the time of the movie is limited, and it is impossible to shoot the epic grandeur of "White Deer Plain" in two or three hours, which is indeed reasonable.
So, everyone waited eagerly for the TV series version to come out! As soon as he thought of this, Jia Youwei became even more angry. The investment in the TV series version of "White Deer Plain" is also not small, and the cast is also strong. The main actors are Zhang Jiayi, He Bing, Qin Hailu, Liu Peiqi, etc.
As a result, Nima, the quality is worse than the movie version, and she changed it everywhere, changed it from the beginning, and the more she changed, the more troublesome it became. This was after Chen Zhongzhong's death.
"Ordinary World" was made into a TV series and became popular, while "White Deer Plain" was made into a TV series and was confused. Even if both are award-winning works of the Contradictory Literature Award, they have their own different fates.
In all fairness, Jia Youwei likes "White Deer Plain" even more, and also believes that it should write "Ordinary World" better. It's just that the former was ruined by the adaptation of film and television dramas.
Jia Youwei remembers very well that at the beginning of "White Deer Plain", Bai Jiaxuan took the initiative to find Lu Zilin to change the land, and exchanged his good land for the other party's rotten land, because when he got up in the middle of the night to pee, he saw a white deer lying on Lu Zilin's ground, and decided that this was a feng shui treasure.
It seems to be a description with a mysterious color, but it is why the whole book is called Bailuyuan, and the origin of the place name, which slowly unfolds the contradiction between the two Bailu families like a scroll, reflecting the historical changes in various places in the local area from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The whole book is relatively thick, and it is not boring to read at all, and it is fascinating to read one by one. There are also dark color elements in "White Deer Plain", not only when Bai Jiaxuan saw Bailu, but also caught other ghosts, Tian Xiao'e's ghosts.
Those who have seen the original work will be deeply impressed by "White Deer Plain". As for movies and TV series, it's okay not to watch them. If you really want to watch it, then watch the film and television drama first, and then watch the original work.
Otherwise, you can't help but scold while watching, and you don't even want to watch the film and television works after watching them. In the end, the conclusion is that what is filmed, and this is how good works are ruined.
After the subway arrived, Jia Youwei got off the subway, and went to Yuanda Publishing House with the same mission as Chen Zhongzhong did when he wanted to give his life to the editor of the publishing house.
As for the fate of "White Deer Plain", I can't control it, I just silently write out the representative works of the disappeared writers and make it public, that's all.