No "layman" can not achieve the sea rock
The layman, referring to the vulgar; Vulgar people; Buddhism and Taoism refer to secular people who are not ordained, as opposed to monks. This "layman" here is absolutely not pejorative here, and some are just a neutral word. "Xunzi Confucian Effect": "No learning, no justice, rich profit as the glory, is also a layman." "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Biography of Zhang Heng": "[Heng] is often calm and calm, and it is not easy to hand over the layman." Tang Yuanshu's poem "Reward Duan Cheng and the Various Chess Streams Will Meet and Give Gifts": "There is infinite joy in this, but I am afraid that the layman will know." The third and second times in "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Appeal to the Heart of the Heart to Live Baoyu, Death to Jin Ju with Shame": "Bao Yu said: 'Stop! cease! I am just a layman of the world, and I do not want to associate with these people. Lu Xun's "On the Collection of Southern and Northern Dialects: On Reprinting Woodcuts": "The distinction between Chinese elegance and customs is here: Yaren often cannot say what he thinks is good, but laymen have to ask about the content." Of course, the author does not have these meanings, and the "layman" I want to say refers to the masses of us who live in this society ordinaryly. A word we all use to "laugh at ourselves."
Haiyan's novels often express something else through love, such as fate, the collision of different moral views of young and old people in this era; the smallness of personal fate in the whole society. There is also a subtle grasp of characters and language. Haiyan's multiple identities determine the particularity of his perspective, and also add a sharpness and rationality to it. But between the transformation of multiple identities, Haiyan has always maintained the most authentic and frank disposition, just as he pursues a transparent self-requirement. "
- The Great River
"Commercial culture as a consumer product, its leisure and entertainment function is inevitable. However, in my opinion, as long as it is culture, it must be emotional activity, and emotional activity should be the sublimation and enrichment of emotion. However, we see that the process of entertainment and commercialization of culture now, or the process of cultural commercialization with entertainment as the main feature, has entered a state of excess and disorder. "
- Sea Rock
When Wang Shuo and Hai Yan began to write, Chinese literature was still only a "unified" literary circle, and there was no distinction between pure literature and popular literature, and the two of them became an era when the representatives of "popular literature" received great attention. For many years, literature has always been a product of the temple, many of the writers we see are from orthodox literary circles, and after the craze for roots in the eighties, it seems that "pure literature" has begun to decline. In China after the mid-1990s, with the increasing acceleration of commercialization and urbanization, it has entered the information society, and the concept of pluralism and multi-function has gradually been accepted by the public. As far as the cultural field is concerned, with the introduction of cultural research concepts and methods, the coverage of culture has also been greatly broadened, and popular literature has been accepted by the literary family and entered the field of literary criticism and literary history research.
Since the beginning of the Republic of China, a variety of genres such as social romance novels, historical novels, martial arts novels, and detective novels have emerged, but they gradually disappeared in the period from the mid-1940s to the founding of New China, and only after the reform and opening up did they regain their vitality. In Taiwan and Hong Kong, there are martial arts novels such as Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng, and Gu Long; there are romance novel writers like Qiong Yao in Taiwan. These popular literatures are rejuvenated in the land of the mainland.
In the creation after the 1990s, the consumption of people and things was also significantly strengthened. In the consumer society, the symbolic characteristics of commodities are distinct, the use value is lagging behind, the consumption of exaggeration, conspicuousness and luxury has become an increasingly common demand and behavior of people, and the level of consumption has become the standard for defining the quality of life. At the same time, the resulting material consumption began to gradually increase the demand for spiritual consumption. People look forward to the birth of good works, but people cannot fully accept works that are too academic and esoteric, so people need a perfect unity of "art and popular" to satisfy the emptiness of people's spiritual life. In this case, Wang Shuo, who is good at expressing the "leper culture", was born, and at the same time, There is also a Haiyan who is good at "police and youth love culture".
Haiyan, whose real name is Lu Haiyan, was born in Beijing on November 7, 1954, and is a Chinese writer and screenwriter. In 1985, he published his first novel, "Plainclothes Policeman", in 1994, he created "Never Look Away", and in 2000, he began to attract attention for the adaptation of the TV "Never Look Away". In 2002, Haiyan's "What to Save You, My Love" was adapted into a TV series. In 2004, he won the Best Screenplay Award at the Golden Eagle Festival of China Television for the TV series of the same name adapted from "Jade Guanyin".
The success of Haiyan's works is due to us "laymen", we lay people are the people who really make Haiyan's works have such a wide influence, and Haiyan's works are also thanks to people like us. So how "tacky" are Haiyan's works?
1, Catering to the genre works of the "laity"
The so-called genre, that is, the model composed according to external forms and internal concepts, is an important sign of the maturity of popular literature.
Popular literature is therefore formulaic in nature. When it comes to "genre", Hollywood works are the most "genre".
"The important function of genre is that writers establish effective dialogue relationships with a wide audience of various cultural backgrounds through genre works, and by conceptually facing various human survival problems, expressing various social complexes, and dealing with the basic complexes of these real societies, typized works establish and comply with the mainstream values of society and the psychological aspirations of the public Haiyan works as a successful genre creation, which is actually a tacit understanding reached by popular literature producers, consumers and texts in the process of continuous running. Fixed patterns can feel familiar, resulting in a sense of intimacy, because the aesthetic habits of the masses are always relatively conservative and stable. "
——" On the Typological Characteristics of Haiyan Works"
When a person is no longer reduced to a lifelong anxiety about material survival, he can find and enjoy emotions.
——Haiyan, "Plain Life"
Reading such things is something that most people in urban areas do, and I don't think anyone would think that these works from more than ten or twenty years ago were written for the rural public. Therefore, Haiyan aimed at the positioning of the market before writing, specifically writing about urban life, because Haiyan itself has also grown up in the city since childhood, so it must be more convenient to write about urban life. In addition, for the theme, Haiyan has determined the direction of writing this kind of subject from the beginning of "Plainclothes Police", at that time, almost no one wrote about this kind of subject, and for sensitive and mysterious subjects such as police, drug trafficking, and crime, it will definitely attract readers' reading interest. Haiyan, who used to be a policeman, was very familiar with such things, so the theme of public security came into being.
2, Catering to the plot of the "laity"
Haiyan has his own means of grasping the plot. He told himself that he had to find a plot that grabbed the reader's attention every eight minutes of reading, so that the rhythm was bright and clear, and the plot of the work was very tight. You can't help but look down and read down. There are constantly moving plots that motivate you to read further, which is why Haiyan is always able to grab the reader. Is the plot of the anti-drug female policewoman in "Jade Guanyin" who is at ease from a simple and ordinary girl to a strong soldier who breaks into the drug cartel very heart-wrenching? Isn't the love affair with the other two male protagonists very moving? With such a plot, do you need to portray too many characters and environments, as an entertainment novel, the most important thing is his ups and downs.
I'm like a rag that wipes the dirt off your body, wipes you like a city man, and you throw me away.
——Haiyan, "What to Save You, My Love"
There will be many accidents in a person's life, unexpected happiness, unexpected disasters. "
"People who always want to get unexpected happiness, it is difficult not to have unexpected disasters."
—— Haiyan "Chang'an Thief"
A lot of times love starts with compassion. The often clumsy way of love is actually the most powerful
Always think of a person's bad, maybe not loving, maybe not loving enough.
The producer of "Haiyan Drama", Hairun Film and Television Production Co., Ltd., is a long-term cooperation object of Haiyan from "A Matter of Wind and Snow" in 1994 to "Plain Life" in 2002. Hairun adopts the form of a studio in operation, combining the main creators with the production and distribution departments, and the experience and advantages of Hairun in distribution, formerly known as Hairun International Advertising Co., Ltd., are also obvious. In order to create the "Haiyan Drama" brand, Hairun Company's investment in the drama "A Matter of Wind and Snow" as early as the mid-90s has reached more than 10 million, which was a big deal in TV drama production at that time, and the same example is the 20th century "Jade Guanyin" drama, which also invested more than 10 million, and even went to Canada just for one and a half episodes. In order to ensure the stability and quality of "Haiyan Drama", all the script adaptations of "Haiyan Drama" are carried out by Haiyan himself, in order to ensure the original appearance of the script during the filming process, Haiyan signed the following contract agreement with Hairun on the script: "Party A respects the integrity of the TV script created by Party B, and promises to stipulate in the contract signed with the producer and director of the TV series that the shooting work should be carried out according to the script created by Party B, and if the script needs to be changed, it should be completed by Party B." If the producer, director or actor changes it by himself, the content of the change shall be agreed to in writing by Party B. If the production and distribution of the TV series is delayed because Party B does not agree to the changes, it shall not affect the performance of both parties in Article 3 of this Agreement.
3, catering to the "layman" characters and the fashion of life
The male and female protagonists of Haiyan are very beautiful, whether they are decent or villains. Especially the hero and heroine must be very good-looking. Such works have the characteristics of romance dramas and thus attract countless young audiences. The love and the tear-jerking male-female entanglement firmly grasp the reader. The entangled love of the hero and heroine in "Never Look Away" is not what makes you look very anxious. The young people in the work live an enviable urban life, eating, drinking, and dressing beautifully. This is also a bit of a resonance among young people. The appearance of the object and the beauty of the body are repeatedly chanted, and sexual relations are also presented in praise or denigration. The names of many grade brands continue to appear in his works: Pan Xiaowei's birthday gift to Lu Yueyue in "A Matter of Wind and Snow Moon" is a Dior handbag worth 6,000, Ouyang Lanlan teaches Xiao Tong to use a BMW in "Never Look Away", and Yang Rui in "Jade Guanyin" If he does not involve too many famous brands, then he must talk about the grade of abalone and other valuable delicacies.
Haiyan's seemingly simple work actually has its own cleverness, and he uses a so-called civilian perspective to narrate in the third person. The calm, wait-and-see attitude writes a thrilling story, and under the calm brushstrokes is actually Haiyan's keen grasp of market dynamics and the preparation and prediction of readers' curiosity. This is Haiyan, a cheesy writer who tells a slightly tacky story. As for the amount of literature, it is not what Haiyan cares about, not what the author cares about, and it is not what the market cares about. To cater to the market is to win fame and fortune.
He only has a fourth-grade degree, but his elegant demeanor has been praised by many people. He is not a full-time agent, but he is the original creator of stars such as Xu Jinglei, Lu Yi, Sun Li, and Tong Dawei.
——China Economic Network