In this day and age, as a Chinese, it is impossible to gain long-term attention in the American media.

Not to mention the mainstream newspapers in the United States, even in literary publications, they will not revolve around just one novel.

A lot of great things happen every day in the United States, and new books are published every day in the American literary scene.

Lin Zixuan is not the center of the world, so the trend caused by "Gone with the Wind" has long ended.

Of course, due to the best-selling Gone with the Wind, there will still be people talking about the novel, but it will not be a hot news topic, and will only occasionally appear in some critical literary magazines.

Lawyer Peterson wrote to Lin Zixuan about the situation in the United States.

Lin Zixuan has a certain popularity among American readers, but readers are forgetful, and if they want to maintain their popularity in the American literary world, they must continue to launch new works.

This is also Lin Zixuan's plan.

He wants to use new novels to constantly consolidate his position in the Western literary world, until others can no longer ignore his existence.

In fact, at this point in time, "The Catcher in the Rye" is not the best choice, and "The Great Gatsby" is the novel that really fits the American society in the 20s.

The 20s was a short but special period in American history, known as the "Tumultuous Age".

It refers to the 10 years from 1919, after the end of World War I, to 1929, before the economic debacle of the United States.

During this decade, the domestic economic situation in the United States has been very good, bringing unprecedented comfort to the lives of many Americans.

Real estate trading and stock markets are particularly active, and some speculators have become nouveau riche overnight in this type of gambling industry.

In society, the amount of wealth has become the criterion for judging a person's success or not, and people have begun to blindly make money, make "fast" money, and make more money; Chase to get richer, to become richer......

At the same time, American hedonism, Spencer's theory of evolution, and James's philosophy of pragmatism were all flourishing in the United States.

Traditional Puritan morality and religious beliefs such as "industriousness and frugality" were gradually replaced by consumer hedonism such as the pursuit of personal wealth and the enjoyment of material life.

Against this backdrop, in 1925, Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, thus establishing his place in the history of American literature.

As a result, he became a spokesman for the "Jazz Age" in the 20s and one of the representative writers of the "Lost Generation".

The Lost Generation was a literary genre in post-World War I America.

In the early 20s, Gustein, an American writer living in Paris, said to Hemingway: "You are all a lost generation. ”

Hemingway used this sentence as the epigraph of his first novel, "The Sun Also Rises", and the "lost generation" has since become the title of this group of writers who have no program or organization but have the same creative tendencies.

The so-called "confusion" refers to the hesitation and disappointment they share.

Representative writers include Hemingway, Faulkner, Johann Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Eliot and Kenmings.

Most of these writers lived through the First World War firsthand.

On the battlefield, they witnessed the great catastrophe that war brought to mankind, experienced the torture of war, and learned about war-weariness among ordinary soldiers.

After the end of the war, they no longer believed in politics and decrees, but they could not find a new and reliable spiritual support.

Therefore, pessimism, disappointment, hesitation, worry, and in a state of confusion and not knowing where to go.

Although the writers of the "Lost Generation" exuded a strong pessimistic mood in their works, and had a negative and disgusted attitude towards war, their works broke through the shackles of tradition in terms of content and art form, and influenced the creation of many later writers.

Salinger, the writer who wrote "The Catcher in the Rye," was one of them.

Born in New York in 1919 to a wealthy Jewish merchant family, Salinger was sent to a military school in Pennsylvania by his father at the age of 15.

Salinger joined the army in 1942, and in 1944 he went to the European theater to engage in counterintelligence work.

The war had a great impact on him, and Salinger spent most of his time in seclusion after returning home, living a life of seclusion.

Like Hemingway and others who lived through the First World War, their literary creations are spiritually connected.

This is also the reason why Lin Zixuan chose "The Catcher in the Rye". This novel continues the creative spirit of the "Lost Generation", writing about the pessimism and hesitation, emptiness and depravity of the entire era.

Of course, there is another reason that he has only watched the movie "The Great Gatsby" and has not read the novel, otherwise he would have plagiarized the novel directly.

Xiao Li acted well in the movie, but unfortunately he was not even nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor.

In Peterson's lawyer's letters, the situation of "Huo Yuanjia, the Great Hero of Jinmen" and "Sunrise" is also introduced.

American film companies are more interested in oriental action movies such as "Huo Yuanjia", but they are basically repulsive to sound movies.

"Huo Yuanjia" was bought by Universal Pictures for $50,000 and screened in several theaters near New York's Chinatown, where it was popular with the Chinese and made good profits.

The reason why Universal Pictures was chosen instead of the United States Films, which he had previously worked with, was related to Mary Beck.

Because of the "plagiarism door" incident when "New York Holiday" was screened, Mary Becques lost a lot, not only at the box office, but also with the perfect image she created.

Therefore, she is no longer interested in Lin Zixuan's movies.

At the first Hollywood Awards held in February this year, Mary Beck won the Best Actress for her role as Princess Anne in "New York Holiday".

But a huge controversy ensued.

Because the night before the award ceremony, she invited all the judges of the Central Jury to her villa to entertain "refreshments", and she really won the award.

Public opinion in the United States was in an uproar, believing that there was a shady scene and that the awards were unfair.

Lin Zixuan thinks the media should ask when the Oscars are fair.

The award for Best Foreign Language Film that he was looking forward to was not set up, which shows that the American film industry is extremely xenophobic, and it is difficult for Chinese films to enter the American market.

Sunrise, a sound film with a Douglas Sheila's introduction, was heavily supported by Western Electric.

They also wanted to promote sound movie theaters, so they chartered the Piccadilly Cinema in Manhattan, New York, to screen "Sunrise" and invited reporters from major newspapers and film company owners to watch the movie.

In order to worry that the audience would not understand the plot, a booklet was also printed.

In the booklet, in addition to introducing the plot of the movie, there are also movie lines translated into English, and they translated "Sunrise" into "An Oriental Woman Who Wants to Sink into the Sea".

Americans find the movie name more appealing than "The Sun Has Risen."

Lin Zixuan was extremely speechless, this is the cultural difference between the East and the West!