Chapter 181: "Thunderstorm" will come out
People in the literary world began to attack Su Wen, more precisely, people in the theater world who fought him.
The first to stand up was Mark River, the first winner of this year's drama writing competition, and Su Wen was on the bar again.
Previously, he attacked Su Wen as a poisonous weed, saying that "Romeo and Juliet" is poison, has no value, and will only teach bad children. At that time, Su Wen wrote an essay to refute him, bitterly calling these mentors as smoky things.
At that time, Mark He, who was angry at that time, temporarily stopped, and this time, seeing that Zhang Fangge was going to make "Romeo and Juliet" into a movie, he couldn't help it anymore, jumped out, and published an article called "The Dramatist Who Doesn't Know Why Drama" in one of his newspaper columns.
There are several paragraphs in it that say this:
"Today's young people, Mao has not grown up, and it can almost be said that they have no life experience, and they dare to write something called a love epic or a work of female awakening. This is too much of a child's play! This kind of person has no respect for literature at all, and will only operate commercially, and will only make gimmicks! Now that he has openly said that he wants to make a movie and want to poison more audiences, I can't be silent anymore.
"Yes, I'm talking about Su Wen, a young man! May I ask Mr. Su, how old are you, do you know what life is, do you know what female awakening is, and do you know what love epic is? Even, do you know what drama is? In drama, there is comedy, there is tragedy, are you sure you really understand?
"I said you don't understand anything! Your Romeo and Juliet is all about dying for the sake of tragedy. Do you think the dead are a tragedy? Not to mention killing the protagonist, even if you kill everyone, it doesn't have to be a tragedy. Tragedy is a strength. It's a literary value that I don't see in Romeo and Juliet at all. I only saw a young man artificially write the protagonist to death, which is called a kind of epic. This work is much worse than Zhi Liang Zhu, without a little historical vicissitudes and profundity, and it cannot reflect the enlightenment of life. So, I say Romeo and Juliet doesn't have any value. It was even more of a mistake to make him into a movie, he would mislead the audience into thinking that a love epic is just that. In fact. It's just a pediatric thing!
"As long as there is a little common sense, they will not praise this work, and I call on people with a conscience to rise up and boycott "Romeo and Juliet", let alone go to the cinema to see such an unknown work!"
No one could have imagined it. The Mark River is not only on the bar with the Suwen. also blatantly clamored for a boycott of Zhang Fangge's movie. You must know that Mark River is also a well-known writer in the theater industry, and some of his works are said to have been adapted into film and television works, from which he has made a lot of profits, how dare he offend the biggest director in the film and television industry?
For this article by Mark River, some agree with it, and some scoff at it. Others are noncommittal.
Some people also say that Mark River is sensationalizing and using Zhang Fangge's new film project. Hype himself up and brush up on his presence.
If the Mark River was just one person tinkering with this, of course, it would not be able to become a climate, but after the Mark River, the boat injustice in the literary criticism community also jumped out.
On his "Cultural Weirdness" program, he once again ridiculed Su Wen, he quoted Mark River's article, saying that Su Wen has no experience, but pretends to be deep, completely tragic for the sake of tragedy, and is a kind of contrived literature, which is not only worthless, but even has a negative impact.
He believes that making Romeo and Juliet into a movie is an irresponsible attitude that will lead the audience astray. Then he mentioned Su Wen's other work "A Doll's House", saying that it was named a masterpiece of female awakening, which was completely commercial hype and was touted.
After Zhou Buping's remarks, his friends in the literary and art criticism circles also jumped out one after another, either on TV, in newspapers and magazines, or on the Internet media, all of them challenged Su Wen and found thorns in his works.
Soon, many writers in the theater industry made remarks, accusing Su Wen of being unworthy of his name, and even his joining the Drama Creation Society was taken out to talk about things, saying that the society was too hasty, just because Wang forgot to say that it was good, and pulled Su Wen in without any assessment, which was unfair.
At this point, the literary world has criticized Su Wen a lot, and no one can imagine how things will develop to the point.
Originally, a playwright's work was adapted into a movie, and it was directed by Zhang Fangge, a big director, which is a good thing for the playwright industry as a whole.
As long as the movie is successful, everyone's works will be better. Why is Su Wen's glory so dazzling to them?
Could it be...... Is it because of jealousy?
"It's a certainty." Su Wen guessed that others were really jealous of him, although the film project had just started, but it was only a week, and it was said that the physical book of "Romeo and Juliet" had sold nearly two million copies.
It's only a week, which is almost the total amount of the previous month, which shows how influential Zhang Fangge is.
Originally, because of the operational ability of Fresh Culture, although "Romeo and Juliet" is in good condition, if it wants to sell more than 10 million copies, it is estimated that it will take more than two years to accumulate.
Now it seems that tens of millions of sales can be achieved this year.
In addition, "A Doll's House" operated by Matrix Company is making great progress in the physical book market, so that maybe two drama works that sell more than 10 million copies will appear in Su Wen within a year.
This makes it difficult for playwrights who are still struggling to sell millions of copies. Envy, jealousy, resentment, mixed together, and red-eyed people criticize Su Wen, which is understandable.
Careful people will find that most of these playwrights who criticize Su Wen are in the south, and many of them are writers from Dongguang Province and playwrights from the north.
What is it when the playwrights of the South attack the young literati of the South? Are literati light?
Some people couldn't stand it, so they ran to ask Xie Kun, the playwright representative in the south, and wanted to ask him to come out and administer justice.
Xie Kun was interviewed. He said calmly, "I've heard about it. Su Wen's two drama works, I also found and read them. It is true that there are brilliant points, but the words of some peers also make sense, for example, tragedy for tragedy's sake is indeed blunt.
"Let's talk about 'A Doll's House'. It is indeed dominated by female characters, and the stories told are also from a female perspective, and the spiritual connotation is also revealed. However, if you want to say that it is a great masterpiece of female awakening, I think it is debatable. Why? Because times are different. If it had been a few decades ago, this work might have been called an awakening. But. Nowadays, women's consciousness has developed to a climax. Where is still awakening. Not to mention anything else, many of Ms. Heshui's works can be said to be masterpieces of female consciousness, and we have long had classics and examples in this regard in our country, so where do we need Su Wen, a young man, to represent it? ”
Having said all this, Xie Kun also does not recognize the value of Su Wen's works.
In the end, he said with a smile: "Mr. Mark River is right, Su Wen, this young man. Do you really know what drama is? Do you know what comedy is and what tragedy is? ”
Xie Kun has a great influence in the drama industry. He doubted Su Wen like this, and everyone even questioned Su Wen's ability.
This reporter is also bad, after interviewing Xie Kun, he immediately ran non-stop to interview Su Wen, said all the original words of Xie Kun, and asked him what his opinion was.
"I don't understand what comedy and tragedy are?" Su Wen smiled suddenly, "Say I don't understand, then do they understand?" Can they explain what comedy and tragedy really are? The concept of literature is just a concept, the benevolent see the benevolent, the wise see the wise, why should others agree with their opinions? Once it's different, say that people don't understand, what is this, is literature kidnapping? ”
"Literary kidnapping?" The reporter's eyes lit up, and he ran back to find Xie Kun again and told Su Wen's reaction.
Xie Kun sneered again and again: "A young man, who doesn't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth, and what he can't comprehend, just says that others want to impose it on him, this is not the attitude of doing literature!" ”
The reporter learned to be obedient this time, and directly dialed Su Wen's phone and asked him to argue and fight against Xie Kun in the air.
"Then ask him how he understands comedy and tragedy!" Su Wen's words were simple
Of course, Xie Kun wouldn't answer, and snorted coldly: "I can't teach him yet?" ”
The reporter was helpless and conveyed it to Su Wen.
Su Wen smiled: "Tragedy is the destruction of valuable things in life for others to see; Comedy tears the worthless to people to see. This is my opinion on tragicomedy, you ask Writer Xie Da to see if he has a deeper understanding! ”
After speaking, Su Wen hung up the phone.
He didn't believe that if he threw out Lu Xun's famous sentence, Xie Kun could still refute something. Lu Xun's opinion may be limited, but it is extremely profound, and no one can really argue with it.
Sure enough, after listening to the reporter's relay, Xie Kun was stunned and muttered: "Tragedy is the destruction of valuable things in life for others to see; Comedy tears the worthless to show people......"
The more I pondered, the more shocked I became.
Is this Su Wen's opinion on tragicomedy?
This young man's understanding of literature is so profound?
Xie Kun was silent, he only felt that his mouth was bitter, and he couldn't say anything, the reporter asked again and again, he was impatient, drove the other party away, left him alone, and chewed Su Wen's words attentively.
The reporter didn't know what the depth of this insight was, so he wrote out what he saw and heard today and published it.
Su Wen, who is in the limelight these days, suddenly stunned many playwrights and deeply shocked many literati because of his insights on tragicomedy.
"Tragedy is the destruction of what is valuable in life for others to see; Comedy tears the worthless to people to see. ”
This is a profound quote that combines literature and life!
After this passage was published by reporters, it immediately caused a sensation in the literary world, and everyone who paid attention to the matter was deeply shocked by this profound sentence.
Tragicomedy is not only the patent of drama, but also the expression of other literary and artistic works, and novels are also divided into tragicomedy.
In the past, everyone simply divided tragicomedy, for example, the way of expression was joy, or the ending was a happy way, which was called comedy; Otherwise, it is a tragedy.
Comedy makes people laugh and is more humorous; Tragedy is sad, more shocking. In the eyes of the literati, tragedy is the most valuable and the most difficult to create, not that the death of one or two people is called a tragedy.
This is also the reason why everyone questioned Su Wen's "Romeo and Juliet", because this drama is a tragedy, and the hero and heroine die by mistake, and earn everyone's tears for nothing, in their opinion, they simply don't know what to say.
However, Su Wen can say that "tragedy is the destruction of valuable things for others to see", and he also said that he did not understand tragedy enough, which is a big joke.
Many people, who have written a lifetime of tragedy, can't explain this concept thoroughly, only Su Wen's sentence made them suddenly realize, so that they really understand what tragedy and comedy are.
So, would someone who uttered such profound words not know how to create tragedy and comedy?
The questioners were also silent and did not dare to speak out again, and for a while, whether it was newspapers, magazines or TV networks, there were many voices criticizing Su Wen.
Even if they still have objections to Su Wen's works, they don't dare to attack each other with words that he doesn't understand tragicomedy.
Not convinced?
There is a kind of thing you say - tragedy is the destruction of valuable things in life for others to see; Comedy tears the worthless to show people!
I have to say that Uncle Lu Xun is profound, just two sentences, he repelled all the people who surrounded and suppressed Su Wen, at least let them retreat temporarily, and they didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore.
Just these two sentences helped Su Wen to relieve the siege, this is the charm of words!
Others were defeated, but Su Wen refused to stop there, he was well versed in the essence of Taizu's "it is advisable to chase the poor with the remainder, and not to sell the name of the overlord", and even more deeply won the instructions of the old man Lu to "beat the water dogs", and began to throw out his big killer -
He published a message directly on his own meager side:
"You all say you want a real tragedy, then I'll show you what a real tragedy is! The new theatrical production has been finalized and will be released soon. Stay tuned! "Thunderstorm" will come out, who will compete! Tips: This work is sad and flows backwards, please bring your own tear wipe. ”
This passage is so loud that it can be summed up like this: My "Thunderstorm" is the real tragedy, please bring your own tissues for those who watch it, so as not to shed tears and have nothing to wipe!
As soon as "Thunderstorm" comes out, who will compete!
This is Su Wen's expectation for the "Thunderstorm" that he has been tinkering with recently, for this work, he has the highest expectations, and the most attentive, just the "adaptation" work, it took him nearly a month, meticulously crafted, in order to retain the essence of the original work, changed to conform to the background of this world, so that it is more suitable for Chinese people to read.
"Thunderstorm? Su Wen has a new work, or is it a drama? ”
It's just such a piece of information, and people in the industry who have seen the hot market of Su Wen's previous two drama works are in an uproar, especially the people from the cultural company, who can't wait to pounce on it and take a few bites, and eat a bowl full of pots! (To be continued......)