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Not long ago, we did a very old school offline sharing, the theme is "back to the 80s".
We invited the quiet and elegant Shi An, Shi Hang, who is like Mr. Storyteller, and Jiang Wen, who always carries a sense of jianghu qi.
Three middle-aged men put together, the chemistry, completely exceeded our expectations.
This is also the first time that the new phase Live appeared, the stage was full of guests, no staff command, a rare good (lost) play (control) scene.
These two men, killed with their memories, did their best to restore the golden 80s.
In the past 80 years, Zhi'an has experienced several young crushes that belong to the real literary and romantic romance;
What made Shi Hang happiest when he came to Beijing at the beginning of the 80s was that Beijing could buy books that Changchun did not have;
Jiang Wen said that when people miss the 80s, they miss the texture that can't go back.
Although there was no Internet, no telephone, and the material life was very difficult at that time, new gadgets were endless compared to previous years.
The 1980s were at the tipping point of this intersection of old and new.
It is an era sandwiched in the middle, an era that allows people to look left and right. You can look forward or backward, and you can go wherever you want.
It is this rich and diverse social temperament that constitutes the eternal golden 80s.
Friends who did not go to the scene can now watch our retrospective video
The following is the essence of the scene, a little long, but worth your patience to read through.
Shi Hang
This time, our theme is "Back to 1980, every young man has walked through the whistles."
The so-called whistling is the whistling caused by the large-scale movement of an era, and everyone has their own path through it.
For example, you have your own reasons for coming here today.
My reason is that I have an agreement with my old friend Shibuan, and I am willing to talk to someone about a novel called "Ordained".
Take the blind box, for example, this novel is the hidden model.
There is a detail in the book:
When a father wants to explain a truth to his son and initiate a major revenge.
He did not write a word to his son, unlike the martial arts and treasure hunting novels on the market, using various treasure maps and various poems as hidden words.
He just made a fingernail print with his fingernails under a few lines in a book like "The Chronicle of History", that is, a trace left by accident.
The son can take revenge according to his father's expectations and comfort his father's spirit in heaven, or he can ignore it as an uneven mark.
Nail prints are an important image throughout the book.
Actor Mr. Jiao Huang once said that the art in his heart is the piano sound next door next door.
So, this nail print is the nail print of the next page.
Feel what you want, but if you feel it, you'll become your own 2.0. Reading is about updating and evolving yourself.
Jiang Wen
The most important thing I read in the novel is revenge, revenge is something that no one writes.
For example, Shi Jianqiao was in the 20s and 30s, and then there was no such story as Shi Jianqiao.
Stop-an
If there is a prototype in my story, it is the story of Wu Zixu.
The greatest tragedy of this story is that he fell ahead of time.
There are actually many revenge stories in the past and the present, but a person who has not been rewarded, has started and cannot end, and then the whole life is put into it.
I was very interested and then I wanted to write a modern version of Wu Zixu's story.
Some people say that Teacher Zhi'an easily does not write novels, and once he writes a novel, how to write a big cliché.
In fact, there are several basic patterns in the stories of the past and the present.
The most interesting thing about this basic model is that you can tell something that has been said many times, and you can say something new, rather than telling a whole new story.
Drama that began in ancient Greece, there are only a few stories.
Because people are made up of some interpersonal relationships. The sum of interpersonal relationships becomes a big society.
These relationships are destined to go back and forth with only those things.
Shakespeare has a lot of things that others have written about. He just spoke a little better than others.
Another example is the story of "Here Comes the Wolf". It can be from the wolf's point of view, from the point of view of the person who was deceived, or from the child's point of view.
An American poet once said: Write a story, a stupid writer is a copy, a good writer is a steal, and the smartest writer is to write the original story again, and add a little more, so that you think how it is so different, this is a great writer.
Even the stories of "Dream of the Red Chamber" have happened.
If a novelist writes a story that none of us know, then I am afraid that everyone will not understand it.
Every word you use is a word that someone else has used.
It is the key to this story whether you can write a new idea.
So what do you think is different?
For example, my story can be written as a story that is not a coincidence.
In fact, I thought of many possibilities, which I think I can write, but the question is when I want him to set a difficult problem for himself.
I'm not concerned with these character relationships, but with how this person reacts to this after this.
I very much agree. The so-called character is to react differently in the same event, which is a different person.
Some people see a car squeaking and running, some people watch it pass in front of their eyes, and even Tarzan collapses in front of him and does not change color, this is another kind of person.
After the novel was published, everyone was most interested in the two love stories in it.
Lu Xun once wrote a novel called "Wounded Death", which is a love novel. Until the writing of "Wounded Death", Lu Xun's life was loveless.
Lu Xun's original wife was named Juan, and the relationship between them was actually very bad. But in Lu Xun's life, the best works, such as "Scream", "Wandering", "Weeds", "Grave", most of the "History of Chinese Novels", "Huagai Collection", "Huagai Collection Continuation", and "Hot Wind", were written during the time when he and Juan were together.
So it is a person's creation and a person's life, which may be an opposite relationship.
Next, I want to tell the story of my first love.
@Shibu-an
Literary love story——
When I was a little older, I went to Beihai with a female classmate and went home after playing.
On my way back to the dormitory, I began to write poems for her, and I wrote one poem after another, all in my head. Along the way, I wrote about a dozen songs, and when I arrived at the dormitory, my classmates slept.
I climbed to the top bunk and felt I should write it down. Just take the electric baton and hit it all on the writing paper.
You can't write on paper, you have to send it.
At that time, there was a seal on the top of the envelope, there was glue on the seal, and as soon as I licked it with my tongue, I began to seal it. The stamp was attached, then she ran to the postbox at the mouth of the alley, threw it inside and sent it out, and she could receive it the next day.
In fact, people in the 80s lived a more literary life.
And this relationship is also gone, and the love story of that year was like this.
An emotion that will never be there again—
I have a friend who is on a boat on the Yangtze River. 16 people per cabin.
He read a book of poems on the boat, and when he was done, he put it on his own. When he returned from out, the book was being held by the man in the shop next door.
The poem is called "The Seagull", and the man's name happens to be called the Seagull. The two of them made friends because of this.
This was a matter of our time, but if we put it in the present:
There are no boats on the Yangtze River, no one is reading poetry in such a space, and no one is picking up the poetry collections that others have put down to read, so naturally there will be no unexpected fate because of this matter.
This era is really completely different from the original era.
So, what was that era?
Let's put it this way.
When I was a kid, there were two things that I had never seen—
The first is the man's belly.
Now men have extra large bellies, eat extra full, and have beer bellies. At that time, people's stomachs were all flat, even concave, because they couldn't eat so full.
Second, it's a woman's thigh.
Now take the subway, summer is a big white leg. When I was a kid, it was a cause for a commotion.
We had never seen it before, it was all long pants, even long skirts were dragged to the ground.
Compared with now, I can only say that I did not catch up with the good times. But it is not possible to commit the autumn and summer orders.
At that time, all kinds of rapid changes, some acousto-optic and electrical achievements, as well as the improvement of food, clothing, housing and transportation. There are a lot of trendy movies, music, songs, plays.
But at that time, I didn't feel good at all, because the material life was very difficult.
If there is any good in this era, it should be that the 80s are an era sandwiched between two eras.
It is a transition between two eras.
At the same time, the shadows of the two eras are cast on this era, and the past is not over, the future has already come.
You look forward and you are one kind of person; you turn your head and you become another kind of person.
And we modern people are all looking in one direction, all looking forward. If you want to buy a car, you buy a car, you want to buy a house, you want to find a job, and you have to drift north to Beijing.
And the people of that era could really be diverse, and it was the most interesting.
The best thing about those days was that you could think about your business, and I could think about my business.
I think you're treating the '80s as a skin, that is, wearing an '80s dress.
When I was filming "The Devil Is Coming", I first looked for Shu Ping, and he said that I don't write rural films. I said not a rural piece. But it has to be done particularly like a farmer. But it's not really about farmers.
This texture falls into the hands of Shinan, he must do it like, in the future you let him write anything, he can write a special image.
But I think he's still writing about something so extreme: how people choose in the face of it.
It's a texture. Shi-an was willing to do this with that smell. But the characters in it can be put in any era.
My role in the '80s was that of a set designer and a prop designer.
The more true the set, the more true the story.
They were right.
Young people still feel that the story of "Destiny" is interested, willing to catch this car, in this city to turn this circle, although the city is no longer this city, the street is not this street, spring is not my spring, autumn is not my autumn, but I am willing to take the "Destiny" tram here to turn around.
Moreover, in the 80s, everyone didn't all go aside, they looked left and right.
And now everyone's life is like turning sushi, and it is very clear to see it in a circle. You know what you're going to do in a year's time.
So if you want to understand the 80s, it's like ordinary people reading martial arts novels—
It turns out that people can jump high in the air, which is an illusion.
Similarly, when we look at those things in the 80s now, the 80s written by Shibuya are also an illusion.
Jiang Wen:
Then you are called Xingtou, which is the kind of Beijing opera they perform.
In fact, I think you can change this set in the 80s. You can change to this Wu Zixu era, and your story can be established at that time.
Question 1
Teacher Shinan restored Beijing in the 1980s, is there a diary? Or is there something special to do?
There was no diary during that time, and it was impossible to write such a detailed diary.
I'm the experience of the '80s, partly by memory. Then there are the books in the library, reading newspapers, buying maps of the time, and all kinds of books of the time.
Sometimes I only write one sentence a day. For example, the story ends in the spring of 1986, when Beijing had the first KFC store in Beijing in 1987, and the hero and heroine could not eat KFC.
Question 2
The other two have lived in Beijing for a long time, Mr. Shi Hang is a northeasterner, listening to their stories and your impression of Beijing, what is the difference?
I came to Beijing in 1988 when I was taking the Chinese Opera Examination.
At that time, there was a Wangfujing bookstore in Wangfujing. I was spending money on hotels to buy food in the province. It was to buy books in Wangfujing. At that time, whether I could get into the Chinese opera or not did not matter at all, but I was able to buy books by myself in my third year of high school, and I did not have to ask my parents for instructions to buy books, which was particularly important.
Beijing is a Xinhua bookstore for me, and its annex, a place where you can buy books that are not available in Changchun.
Question 3
What do the three teachers remember about the publishing industry in 1980?
In 1980, the book that was just published by this Wangfujing bookstore was not discounted at first, and the second was that you could not buy the book.
Scalpers at the door with a markup. Eight cents a book, scalpers sell a piece. There was a queue at the door, and when I went in, I went straight to the counter, and there was a queue at one counter, and then a book, and one person could only buy two copies, which was the 1980s, which was the opposite of now.
At that time, there were many people who bought books. Whoever says he doesn't read a book is chilled.
After I went to Chinese opera in 1980, it was like a board car, and the publisher went directly to the school to sell it. I bought a lot of books there. I think that service is very good, you don't have to run to Wangfujing.
Question 4
I would especially like to hear from teachers about what it was like to be in the 80s and in the present.
In the '80s, there was no internet, no cell phones, very few phones at home, no taxis, no computers, nothing.
You say you can stand it?
So now that I can enjoy more things, I can't care less about not reading books.
But our lives are moving forward.
I've always been the kind of person who feels that today is not as good as before, I think today is definitely better than yesterday, but why should everyone miss the past? That's another thing.
I don't think the past was good. But as a taste of a movie, as a texture of a novel, that's interesting.
Sometimes you miss the movie you watched when you were a kid, and that doesn't mean that movie was good, it's just that something is in your memory when you were a kid.
Question 5
The whole scene is about revenge stories, so why has revenge for the father become a story model?
In the past, there were only a few people in the family around them, and the family relationship was much heavier than now. And in ancient China there was a relationship between father and son, and there were too many Confucian ideas.
There are many films in China that talk about family affection, including some niche literary and art films, which are sometimes not very popular.
Once I asked an old actor who starred in such a movie.
Me: Do you think that in the future, such movies will be watched by no one, and no one will make them, and they will die?
Him: You said that the spring festival is difficult, will it disappear in China?
In conclusion, he said that if the Spring Festival is always difficult, this kind of movie cannot disappear.
Because people want to go home for the New Year, even if the family is bored.
Therefore, as long as the Spring Festival is still difficult, some people will go home, and these people may watch movies about family affection, even if there is no big star, he may also watch.
This passage particularly touched me, but the man who said it died. He is Tu Men's teacher, starring in the Golden Horse Film Emperor of "Old Beast".
【Write at the end】
Zhi An, Jiang Wen, Shi Hang.
Three men who have been on the cusp of two eras, whizzing by.
We walk through the ages they pass through, overlapping their overlapping memories.
Thanks to their sharing, we today have the privilege of truly whistling through the golden age.
Wilde once said, don't waste your golden age, don't listen to boring things, don't try to save hopeless failures, don't dedicate your life to ignorance, mediocrity and vulgarity.
Cherish the present, every moment is also your golden age.
Written by: Water Ice Moon
Editor-in-charge: Yuan Sandian
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