Chapter 494: The Great Competition

On Christmas Eve, Li and Xiangjiang's production team left the capital. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info??

In the United States and Hong Kong, Christmas is a statutory holiday, and although Hong Kong has returned, it is still on par with the West in many aspects.

Next is New Year's Day and Lunar New Year, and they will not return until after the Lunar New Year.

At that time, it was already March, and Li Yu was preparing to start filming "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in May next year.

They feel that Christmas is very important, but the staff in the mainland have no feeling for this kind of foreign festival, or do whatever they should do, and there are differences between the two sides in all aspects.

In recent years, Christmas has become popular in China, especially among school students.

But the common people don't buy it, China has its own traditional festivals, and there is no need to pursue fashion.

On Christmas Day, Lin Zixuan had a very dull life, that is, going to work and getting off work, dealing with daily affairs, this year's New Year file Good Dream Company did not have a movie released, it was not very busy, and the atmosphere of the company was quite relaxed.

When he was about to get off work, Lin Zixuan received a phone call from Hucheng, the editor-in-chief of "New Sprout" magazine.

The editor-in-chief did not look for Lin Zixuan to make an appointment, but invited Lin Zixuan to be a judge.

"New Shoots" magazine is a literary journal with young students as its main readers.

Since it is aimed at students, it is inevitable that education will be involved, and this year, the magazine organized a series of discussion articles with the theme of "How to do education".

The authors of the articles include educators, writers, teachers, and sociologists, among others.

It is generally believed that education is facing a huge crisis and is far from meeting the needs of the times.

Education has turned the language, which is full of the beauty of human nature and the joy of life, into a mechanical and boring test-taking training.

The current education model is more about training students' logical thinking ability, but literature cannot be explained by logical thinking, but is an expression of emotion, which is humanistic and aesthetic.

In this case, "New Sprout" magazine united seven key universities across the country to launch a "New Concept Essay Contest".

The main theme of the competition is "Facing the New Century and Cultivating New Talents," and the magazine will invite domestic first-class writers, editors, and humanities scholars to serve as judges.

The competition format is divided into preliminary and semi-final.

The preliminary competition requires that the number of words in the essay be limited to 5,000 words, no propositions, no subject matter, no expression in public publications, and it is strictly forbidden to plagiarize or ask someone to write on behalf of you.

Participants can mail to the Organizing Committee of the Competition by letter, and the Organizing Committee will determine the number of places to participate in the semi-finals.

The semi-finals require participants to go to Shanghai and write essays on the spot.

Participants must be under the age of 30, there is no entry fee, and there are no other restrictions.

The main work of the jury is to produce and review the questions.

"New Sprouts" magazine invited Lin Zixuan as a judge because he valued his influence, Lin Zixuan not only won foreign literary awards, but also became a famous domestic best-selling author.

Moreover, Lin Zixuan is in his early thirties, still very young, and can better understand the thoughts of teenagers.

If you invite those old writers in their fifties, they have a generation gap with teenagers, and there may be different standards in judging.

The "New Concept Essay Contest" is mainly to seek novelty and change, break through the original eight-strand writing mode, and be eclectic.

Therefore, in the selection of judges, we strive to be younger, able to accept new things, open-minded, and not rigid.

In the domestic literary world, Lin Zixuan is undoubtedly a very suitable candidate.

The magazine knew that Lin Zixuan was the boss of the film and television company, and he was usually very busy, so they made this call with the attitude of giving it a try.

If successful, with Lin Zixuan's influence in the circle, he can increase the popularity of the competition.

This is a new concept essay contest, and it has not yet become famous, and the magazine can only publicize it through limited means.

"It's January, isn't it?" Lin Zixuan asked.

"Yes, we are already doing the preliminary round work, and Mr. Lin only needs to participate in the topic selection and evaluation of the semi-finals, which will only take a week." The editor-in-chief replied.

In fact, the number of applicants for the first New Concept Essay Contest was not large, only a few thousand.

Speaking of the issue of popularity, the magazine is still exploring, if you win the first place in the new concept essay contest and you can interview for university, then the number of participants may increase several times.

Lin Zixuan thought about it, he didn't have anything to do after New Year's Day, and this essay contest should be very interesting.

In the past, he could only be a judge, not the director of the jury.

The post of director must be given to an old writer, which is a Chinese tradition.

Lin Zixuan promised to go to Shanghai in mid-January to participate in the evaluation of the essay contest.

After New Year's Day, the first round of "Borrowed Gun" ended.

At this time, the evaluation of the media has changed the direction of the wind, and this drama may not be able to go beyond "Latent", but it has its own style.

Zhang Jiayi vividly interprets the helplessness and perseverance of an underground party member, and underground party members are also human beings and also need to live.

He has to hide from his wife and children at home, he has to deal with the enemy, and at the critical moment, he has to dare to sacrifice.

In the eyes of the audience, this is a real person.

The dullness in the early stage of the TV series is for the bloody blood in the later stage, when his wife and daughter were caught by the Japanese, and under the attention of the people of the whole city of Jinmen, he wanted to shoot and assassinate the Japanese general.

After watching "Borrowed Gun", the audience remembered Zhang Jiayi as an actor.

What is a masterpiece is to let the audience remember the character's work, which Zhang Jiayi has done.

In the past, the media did not have an in-depth interview with Zhang Jiayi, and a second- or third-tier actor was not worth doing that, but now a reporter went to Chang'an Film Studio to inquire about Zhang Jiayi's situation and dug up a lot of stories.

This is the price that all famous actors will pay.

Being famous is good, of course, but it also means that you will be exposed, live in the spotlight, and your every move will be noticed.

Fortunately, Zhang Jiayi is usually a stable person, has a good reputation in the unit, and has no negative rumors.

Some media inquired that Zhang Jiayi suffered from spinal diseases and couldn't straighten his waist, so he kept hanging on his waist in the TV series, hunched back, swaying, and looking improper.

The audience also thought that this was an image deliberately designed by Zhang Jiayi, which was criticized by many people.

In this regard, Zhang Jiayi didn't say much in an interview, he felt that the actor just had to act well, and there was no need to complain to the audience and win sympathy.

He doesn't need sympathy, but he has to speak with his work, which is the essence of an actor.

Now although Zhang Jiayi is not a first-line actor, he has more opportunities.

The other actors in "Borrowed Gun" also left a deep impression on the audience, and Liu Lin's calm atmosphere was recognized.

A TV series can make a group of actors popular and provide them with a better platform for exhibition, but in the end, it still depends on their own efforts. (To be continued.) )8