Chapter 20: Fashionable Themes

Deciding to participate in the drama writing competition, Su Wen has a happy trouble.

In his previous life, as a screenwriter, in addition to reading a large number of literary and historical materials, reading many classic scripts was his homework when he learned screenwriting.

In this way, there are too many plays to choose from.

So much so that he didn't know which one to choose to compete in - if he let others know that he was so hypocritical, maybe they would dismantle him.

Still distressed, Su Wen thought about taking a pen name again: "What pen name do you use?" Want to be majestic? Want to pretend to be forced? Want to be urbane? Lu Moumou? Or Xu Moumou? Tsk, that's a big problem. ”

In his memory, there are too many famous writers, and there are some who like it very much, and he wanted to directly use other people's pen names to reproduce in this world, but it is still a little inappropriate to think about it.

"Or, just use your own name?" Su Wen bit his fingers and groaned.

As a literary and artistic youth, no matter how hypocritical he is, he also has a literary dream, and he always has a dream of carving his name into the palace of literature. I didn't have that ability before, but now I have this opportunity, so why not make this dream come true?

Zhang Ailing said that it is too early to become famous, and now he is eighteen years old, the boss is not small, it's time to make his reputation, right?

The husband is in the world, he wants to be famous and majestic in life, and he wants everyone to mourn and mourn in death!

"Good! Don't take any pen names, just use the word Suwen! The big husband doesn't change his name, he doesn't change his surname! I want to make the word Su Wen the envy of everyone! Su Wan slapped the table and decided on the signature of his work.

Thinking about it again, people in the past came up with many pen names, it was because they were in a special era of terror, and now the world is enlightened, and there is no need to be incognito.

"If you all come up with dozens of pen names like Mr. Lu Da, in the end, I guess I can't remember what name I used to write any articles, right?" Su Wen figured this out, and without saying a word, when applying for the author's pen name, he directly used his own name.

After determining the pseudonym, he continued to think about what kind of drama to concoct.

"Let's see what the dramas on the list are written about." Su Wen opened the list of the 15th Drama Creation Competition, and when he glanced at it, his eyes were about to fall.

Celebrity text of a water!

What Su Dongpo Xin gave up his illness, and Yang Guifei Xi Shi or something.

"It's all historical dramas?" Su Wen counted it, and more than half of the top ten dramas were names related to historical figures.

Even the first place is a play "The Most Holy Wind and Moon of Civil and Military Affairs"!

It is the story of Prime Minister Wen Dacheng, the founder of the Chinese Empire.

The second place is "Yang Guifei", and the third place is really "Ode to Youth" that Xie Tianxing said before.

With curiosity, Su Wen first clicked on Xie Tianxing's script, which is a drama with three major acts and fifteen small acts that has been completed, I thought it was about the youth story of young people today, but after reading it, I realized that it was a story from more than a hundred years ago.

At that time, the world war had just ended, the Chinese Empire was in the throes of labor, and people of insight called for a new cultural reform. Against this background, after graduation, several college students plunged headlong into reform with the dream of a new era. Some of them ran newspapers and became literati, and some of them opened cultural companies as bosses, advocating their ideals.

In this process, there is friendship, love, confusion, progress, compromise, and persistence. took the youth of several people as an ode and composed a drama of youth.

"This Xie Tianxing still has this skill?" Su Wen thinks this drama is good, at least the characters are very tense, but the only regret is that Xie Tianxing pays too much attention to the portrayal of love between men and women in the drama, making this script unable to become an epic classic.

After watching the third, Su Wen browsed the second "Yang Guifei" again, and almost scolded his mother after watching it, this play is a drama of grievances and hatreds between men and women, and there are some explicit descriptions in the play, using a historical celebrity to carry out some polyamorous entanglement.

"This play is very delicate, it should be a female author, right?" Su Wen quickly closed the pages of the book, feeling that this book was even worse than Xie Tianxing's, and it could rank second, probably because there were too many votes from female readers.

Looking at the No. 1 "The Most Holy Wind and Moon of Civil and Military Affairs", telling the story of Wen Tianxiang, Su Wen is still quite interested, I didn't think I thought how to portray the heroic and affectionate image of Prime Minister Wen Dacheng, I think it should have both historical atmosphere and humanistic delicacy.

Who knows that after reading it, I realized that it was not the same thing at all.

The atmosphere of history is there, but it is not delicate and affectionate, to be precise, it is almost ruthless.

This play intercepted a small point in Wen Tianxiang's life, at that time he had already embarked on the road to success, driving the Mongols everywhere, and when besieging Dadu, the Yuan people pushed his previously captured wife and daughter to the city, and let Wen Tianxiang retreat, otherwise he would kill his wife and daughter.

Wen Tianxiang was about to expel the Yuan people from the Central Plains, and he was very embarrassed, with the world on one side and his wife and daughter on the other.

This script depicts Wen Tianxiang's psychology very delicately, the kind of uneasiness, that kind of unwillingness, all of which are vividly portrayed through guò lines.

In the play, between the two armies, Wen Tianxiang's wife understood the righteousness, and while the Yuan people were not paying attention, she crashed into the Yuan people's weapons and committed suicide. However, his daughter was frightened and shouted for her father to help.

Wen Tianxiang was grief-stricken, facing the expectant eyes of the soldiers, he knelt down in front of the two armies, bowed to his deceased wife and daughter, and after tears, with a wave of his hand, the army came out of the ranks, captured Dadu, and completely defeated the Yuan people. His daughter was also killed by the Yuan people because he did not retreat.

The whole play is very exciting, and it is also based on the real history of this world, but Su Wen always felt that something was almost something, and pursed his mouth: "What does this author want to express?" Whitewashing Wen Tianxiang's ruthlessness? Or is the righteousness of the family and the country more advanced than the personal feelings of the children? It is said that the wind and the moon are affectionate, but in fact, it is ruthless! ”

It's not good to comment on the ancients hundreds of years ago, Su Wen fell silent all of a sudden.

The dramas below the list also took a rough look, well, whether it is history or other themes, it is a routine, that is, love is used to carry the plot, and in the end, they all get a happy ending.

Su Wen searched for some of the world's most famous plays, both Chinese and international. Because of the long history of the Chinese Empire, the famous dramas are all historical dramas, some of which are epic and have become classics; As for the international, it is more of a love story in the context of some big times.

However, the dramas in China, even military historical dramas, are mixed with the material of love!

Is this fashionable?

"Love is indeed an eternal theme in literature." Su Wen sighed, touched his chin, and groaned, "These stories can be ranked first, and it is estimated that readers like to watch these routines." Love...... Then I'll also write about love dramas! ”

In Su Wen's mind, there are many dramas that depict love, but there are only a few classics back and forth.

Therefore, he knew what kind of drama book he was going to take out to compete.

Crackle!

Su Wen quickly typed the name of the upcoming play on the computer!