Chapter 247: Return to Tradition

Martial arts novels emerged in Xiangjiang in the 60s, and the mid-to-late 60s were the heyday of Xiangjiang martial arts novels. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the 70s, Xiangjiang's martial arts novels fell into a bottleneck, and Baodao's martial arts novels took advantage of the rise and many people appeared.

If Xiangjiang's martial arts novels belong to orthodox martial arts, then Baodao's martial arts novels have obviously changed, becoming more modern in terms of storyline and language form, and adding many modern elements.

For example, it focuses on psychological description, detective reasoning, humor, and erotic love.

It can be said that Treasure Island's martial arts novels have enriched the content of martial arts, but because they are too modern, in the late eighties, there were many variations of Treasure Island's martial arts novels, and they became less and less like martial arts novels.

They feel that this is a new school of martial arts novels, and they think that they have opened a new era for martial arts novels.

In fact, martial arts novels were spoiled by a group of people in Baodao, readers didn't buy it, booksellers were reluctant to publish, and martial arts novels entered a low ebb period since then.

In the nineties, traditional martial arts novels went into decline.

At this time, some people in Xiangjiang tried to combine martial arts and science fiction, which was different from traditional martial arts novels and embarked on a path of fantasy martial arts.

Since the 80s, the creation of martial arts novels in China has been largely imitating Xiangjiang and Baodao, and has not formed its own system, and its influence is very limited.

Moreover, there are no full-time martial arts novelists in China, most of them are hobbies.

The martial arts novels published in the magazine are mainly short stories, and there are very few long-form martial arts, and the quality is uneven, and there are not many fine works.

This is related to the domestic creative environment, martial arts novels written in China cannot be too violent and dark, nor too glamorous, they can only be decent, and besides, writing martial arts novels is not considered a serious profession.

It was in this context that Lin Zixuan wrote Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, an extremely traditional martial arts novel.

In the opinion of the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Ancient and Modern Legends", this novel has an "ancient meaning".

This ancient meaning does not refer to the Xiangjiang martial arts novels of the sixties and seventies, but refers to the charm of the mainland martial arts novels of the thirties and forties, which are the most orthodox martial arts novels.

In the thirties and forties, a group of martial arts novelists appeared in Huaguo, and many classic martial arts novels were written.

People in China are always imitating the martial arts novels of Xiangjiang and Baodao, but they have not absorbed the essence of traditional martial arts novels from China.

Modern martial arts novels are fundamentally from the mainland, not from Xiangjiang and Baodao.

Although this "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has only two retrospectives, it has a strong Beijing flavor, and at a glance, you can know that the author has the experience of living in the capital, and has the unique life atmosphere and language style of the capital.

This kind of feeling is not found in reading Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts novels.

The editor-in-chief feels that Lin Zixuan has taken a different path, not blindly imitating Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts, but drawing nutrients from tradition, which alone is worth recommending.

What's more, this novel is well written, and looking at the structure, it is a long story.

If you add the prequel and the sequel, it will become a series, there is no martial arts novel of this scale in China, maybe this novel can bring a little turn to the declining traditional martial arts novels.

"Ancient and Modern Legends" magazine contacted Lin Zixuan and confirmed the serialization of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with him.

The two parties verbally agreed that the manuscript would be delivered once every two months, with about 70,000 or 80,000 words at a time, which would take up almost one-tenth of the magazine's space, and the magazine society would publicize the novel and recommend it to the relevant publishing house.

The magazine moved quickly, and they adjusted the content of the latest issue to include "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

This issue will be released nationwide on November 10.

The magazine has more than 400,000 subscribers across the country, most of whom are lovers of martial arts novels, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has a relatively loyal audience since its launch.

On the cover of this issue of the magazine, a line is printed with the words "Return to tradition, the most authentic Beijing-style martial arts novel".

Lin Zixuan got the latest issue of "Ancient and Modern Legends", and when he saw this sentence, he had an urge to complain.

It feels like introducing Beijing snacks, so can "Party A and Party B" be introduced as the most authentic Beijing movie?

Forget it, as long as the novel can be promoted.

He wants to wait for some time to get feedback from readers, and readers will write to the magazine after reading the magazine and think it is good, and this process will take at least half a month.

Besides, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has just begun, and the plot has not yet unfolded, so it is estimated that it is unlikely to cause a response from readers.

This is a long story, Lin Zixuan is not in a hurry, and it is not too late to watch it after half a year.

Even if the response to this novel from readers is mediocre, he has other means of promotion, and at the end of the serialization of the novel "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Good Dream Company will launch a TV series of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in due course.

The audience of TV dramas can be countless times more than the readers of magazines, and with all kinds of publicity and hype, it is necessary to make this story deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and cultivate an audience group, that is, fans.

In this process, the prequel and sequel of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" were written and published as a book, constituting a martial arts series.

Then shoot the prequel and post-sequel TV series, creating a super long series, closely linking the novel and the TV series to form a trend.

With these preliminary preparations, you can basically start shooting movies, and it is relatively easy to attract investment at that time.

This is Lin Zixuan's five-year plan.

This kind of promotion is not new in his world, such as a fairy sword game with mythological overtones, which later made several TV series, has a fan base, and then makes a big movie, and the box office will definitely be a big hit.

What fans watch movies is not the plot, but a kind of feelings and memories.

Lin Zixuan used "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to do an experiment, and with this experience, Haomeng Company can develop more similar film and television dramas in the future to create a complete set of industrial chains.

Of course, that was later, and now he is more concerned about the release of the Hollywood blockbuster "The Outlaw".

In the capital, "The End of the World" was strongly resisted and sniped by all parties.

Not only can movies only be screened in theaters in Haidian District, but also cinemas in other regions are showing domestic films with a lot of weight, which is to compress the box office of Hollywood blockbusters.

What's even more interesting is that there is a line of words printed above the poster of the movie "The Outlaw".

"The years of reform, fierce debates, the film market, the risk of release. ”

The "risk" here refers not only to the commercial risk, but also to the political risk, which shows the attitude of the film industry in Beijing towards Hollywood blockbusters.

For Huaguo's film industry, "The End of the World" is the first gunshot, either killed or awakened. (To be continued.) )