Lin Youlun has a lot of money-making movies in his head, so investing in Liu Zhenwei to shoot "Journey to the West" is not to make money.

"Two movies shot at the same time?"

Liu Zhenwei couldn't believe his ears, but Lin Youlun, who was sitting opposite, really told him so.

"With this movie, the filming of "Shaolin Football" can be slowed down for a while, as long as the film can be released during the World Cup next year, but "Journey to the West" must be released in the Chinese New Year file next year, I will arrange a big cast for you for this film, and even the dragon set can be full of star faces."

Liu Zhenwei had a bitter face when he heard about the release date of this film, but as soon as Lin Youlun finished saying the rest of the words, he immediately became excited.

Listening to Lin Youlun's meaning, he wanted to make "Journey to the West" into a star-studded New Year's film. If Lin Youlun really has such a plan, then the stars who are willing to sell his face to make this movie are afraid that they can really fill all the roles in the film. At the thought that he could actually direct such an unprecedented luxury lineup movie, Liu Zhenwei's heart beat violently, and he was as excited as if he was on fire.

"I feel like the story in the script isn't finished yet, or that something is missing." Liu Zhenwei was still excited, but Lin Youlun suddenly said such a sentence.

According to his interview, "The Great Sage of Love" had already been thought out when filming "Journey to the West", when he filmed the first two episodes of "Journey to the West", and planned to shoot the third episode if the box office was successful. As a result, the box office was not ideal, and the box office of the upper and lower episodes added up to 50 million, not that it was too bad, but that the combination of "Liu Zhenwei + Zhou Xingchi" at that time represented a box office hit, but the box office did not achieve the expected effect, Zhou Xingchi was very uncomfortable and could not accept such a box office result. So the third episode will be difficult to shoot again.

Maybe it's because the time has passed too long, or maybe it's because of the lack of the Monkey King played by Zhou Xingchi, although "The Great Sage of Love" is known as the sequel to "Journey to the West". But in fact, there is not much connection with the first two episodes, and it is difficult to taste the classic taste of the previous work from this film.

Now Liu Zhenwei has written "Journey to the West" ten years in advance, but the story behind it has not had time to be conceived. Hearing Lin Youlun ask this, he naturally didn't know how to answer.

"Just now when I was reading this script, I remembered a story, why don't I complete this story and make this movie into a trilogy, what does Mr. Liu think?"

Lin Youlun is a famous talent in Hong Kong, and he is one of the top screenwriters in the Hong Kong film industry, he offered to help him complete the script story, Liu Zhenwei naturally would not refuse, but he was very curious about how Lin Youlun would write this story.

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Jin Yong took off his glasses and rested them on the table. When he raised his eyes, he saw Dong Qianli walking to the door of his office and was about to knock on the door, so he directly beckoned to him and asked him to come in directly.

Seeing a manuscript in front of Jin Yong, Dong Qianli glanced at it curiously. The handwriting is familiar.

"Lin Sheng has a new work coming out, no, no, I want to find him to theorize, and said that the new book will give me a sneak peek, why the book has already arrived in your hands, but I haven't even heard any news." Dong Qianli was angry and wanted to go to Lin Youlun to settle accounts. When he walked to the door, he remembered that he had come to Jin Yong to discuss something serious, so he turned back again.

"You're an acute child." Jin Yong beckoned Dong Qianli to sit down, and asked the secretary to bring him a cup of tea in, "Lin Sheng wrote a new book and sent it to ask me to help him write a preface, but this preface is really not easy to do!" ”

Dong Qianli was surprised when he heard this, Jin Yong's generation of literary giants, I don't know how many current review articles he has written, can actually make the preface of a book stumped, which makes him more and more curious in his heart, what kind of strange essay does Lin Youlun have to write to make Jin Yong embarrassed like this? …,

"I really taught you to guess right, this is a strange text!" Jin Yong shook his head and sighed: "If you want to say that this book is well written, it is full of some very alternative thinking, if you don't read it carefully, you will feel that the author of this book can't tell a story at all, there is no clear main line, the characters say some inexplicable things, and then do something that people can't understand; But to say that the writing is not good, reading this book at an age when I am not easily moved, I can feel between the lines the courage that makes every ordinary and gentle person ignite the courage to tear apart fate, and finally believe that some words do have eternal appeal, a monkey singing and dancing at the end of loneliness, but it is a little more noisy than the millions of beings in this world. ”

The inconsistent evaluation came out of Jin Yong's mouth, and even Dong Qianli was confused, he jumped up from the sofa, grabbed the book on Jin Yong's desk, and saw this line of words in his eyes:

I want this day, I can't cover my eyes anymore, I want this land, I can't bury my heart anymore, I want all living beings to understand my intentions, and I want all the Buddhas to disappear!

Jin Yong believes in Buddhism, if it is not Lin Youlun who wrote the book, just looking at this sentence, Jin Yong can throw this book directly into the trash, and thanks to Lin Youlun is the author of this book, so Jin Yong's attitude towards this book was not happy at first, but he still read this book carefully, and after reading it, he realized that the gods and Buddhas in this book have nothing to do with religious beliefs, but are just a virtual symbolism.

Dong Qianli flipped through the first few chapters of the book at a very fast speed, and felt that what Jin Yong said was true, which was more like a novel than a prose, and the whole text was filled with not a plot, but thinking. The use of language is very jumpy, if you don't have to look at it, you will feel that it is a mess, but if you can see it, it will lead to some different thinking, those who think shallow are fascinated by wildness and unrestrained, and those who think deeply are moved by betrayal and reason, I have to say that it is a strange text that is difficult to understand.

Dong Qianli said worriedly: "If this book is really going to be published, Lin Sheng will set himself up as a target, I am afraid that there will be many people who will attack him." ”

I advised him of this, but he had made up his mind, otherwise I would not have been troubled by the preface. But then again, it is a mediocrity not to be envied, and now I don't know how many people's eyes are on him, waiting for him to make a mistake, and if such a controversial work is pushed out, everyone's attention will be shifted to this book, and a lot of pressure will be shared for him. Besides, even you and I don't dare to jump to conclusions about this book, if other people really jump out, the so-called criticism is probably some shallow and ignorant arguments, which will not do much damage to his reputation, and now he is calling for wind and rain in the film industry, just being scolded a few words, what impact does it have on him? ”

Seeing that Jin Yong was not worried about the controversy caused by Lin Youlun's book, but he only had a headache for the preface, Dong Qianli gave him an idea: "Empress Wu left a wordless tablet for herself in the Tang Tomb, only saying that Qianqiu's merits have their own descendants to comment, you might as well follow her example, and also leave a blank in the preface, leaving only one signature, and it is not too late to write an evaluation after ten or twenty years." ”

Jin Yong was overjoyed when he heard this, and decided to do what Dong Qianli said.

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The situation after the publication of "The Legend of Wukong" was really a prophecy by Dong Qianli, readers who went to buy books in Lin Youlun's name, many people only felt inexplicable after reading the book for a long time after opening the book, and only a very small number of people read the book patiently, and many people even suspected that they were pitted by unscrupulous pirated booksellers at first, and confirmed that the book was genuine, and the idea of ghostwriting began to prevail.

Most readers don't believe that this was written by Lin Youlun, but the preface at the beginning of the book, which is blank and left to be filled in 20 years, clearly tells everyone that this book is Lin Youlun's work.

Lin Youlun has not been famous for a long time, so some people will suspect that he is looking for someone to ghostwrite, Jin Yong's reputation for decades will definitely not preface an imposter book. …,

It was determined that this was Lin Youlun's work, and the Hong Kong cultural circle suddenly became lively.

To put it mildly, I just say that the plot of this book is out-of-the-box and obscure; To put it mildly, he called this novel bullshit and didn't know what to do; What's more, like Ni Yu, directly depreciates the book as worthless.

"I wonder if the author wrote this book while sleepwalking, and after reading the whole book, I don't know what kind of story the author wants to tell the reader, or what truth the reader wants to tell. I don't think Mr. Lin's current net worth is enough to fool readers and cheat money with this kind of work that can't even reach the level of indiscriminate filling. ”

Ni Yu's words were published in the newspaper, and even Jin Yong, who has always been objective and neutral, couldn't help frowning, but Lin Youlun, who was the person concerned, sat in Jin Yong's office with a relaxed face and chatted with him, completely unaffected by those comments and criticisms from the outside world.

"Lin Sheng is not angry at all?"

"What should I do if someone in the world slanders me, insults me, despises me, laughs at me, deceives me, or despises me?"

Jin Yong has a deep study of Buddhism, and naturally knows that this is a sentence from Zen Hanshan in "Hanshan Picking Up the Song of Forbearance", and the answer is: "You bear with him, let him, avoid him, bear with him, let him, respect him, ignore him, and in a few years, you will look at him." ”

Although Wen is like this, Jin Yong doesn't think that Lin Youlun really has such a patient mentality, he is because of madness and delusion, and those who criticize him are not seen by him, so he doesn't care or refute, and the motive for silence is actually a silent rebuttal.

Liu Zhenwei has been waiting for Lin Youlun's news since that day, until he saw "The Legend of Wukong", and suddenly understood what Lin Youlun meant when he said that he wanted to complete the story for him.

Liu Zhenwei saw the shadows of many characters in "Journey to the West" from "The Legend of Wukong", but they changed their shapes. He knew that this was the last part of the Journey to the West trilogy that Lin Youlun said, but he was not sure that he could shoot this story well.

Liu Zhenwei himself can't, but he knows that there is a person who can.

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