"I had a willfulness when I wrote Skyscraper. Including the original writing of two cops, but removed nearly finished, so that the novel has almost no reasoning process from beginning to end. At the time of filming, the studio said it wanted to cry, but it was filmed. From November 27 to 29, the 2020 Shanghai-Taipei Cross-Strait Literature Camp and Novel Workshop was held simultaneously in Shanghai and Taipei, and Taiwanese writer Chen Xue sighed when talking about this year's hit web drama "Skyscraper", "To be honest, I feel incredible that this novel can be transformed into a TV series. ”
Since the beginning of this year, the genre of short dramas has gradually heated up, and at the same time as "Skyscraper", there are "Extraordinary Witness" and "White Moonlight", which are launched by the three major video websites of "Aiyouteng". The production of the three dramas has its own advantages, and the lineup is also equal, but the audience ratings obtained are obviously differentiated. Among them, "Skyscraper" currently has a Douban score of 8.1, which is the first echelon of domestic network dramas broadcast this year, and the previous hit "Hidden Corner" adapted from Zijin Chen's original novel is also listed here. In the eyes of industry insiders, network dramas that have entered the era of high-quality blockbusters are paying more and more attention to literary bases with humanistic thickness and literary value.
From the perspective of topic setting, the Shanghai-Taipei Cross-Strait Literature Camp and Novel Workshop has gained insight into this new trend of literature, film and television that has risen on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. This year's literary camp and novel workshop arranged a number of literary activities, including Jin Yucheng's theme lecture "Old Golden Map - Handling the World and Expression" and two literary dialogues", "Image Reproduction in Literary Expression" and "How to Fiction in the Virtual World". Jin Yucheng, Xiao Bai, Cai Jun, Gao Yifeng, Chen Xue, Jie Qing, and other writers on both sides of the strait who hold the original work of "Blossoming Flowers" have all "exchanged hands" with film and television to varying degrees.
In the words of film critic and scholar Mao Jian, in recent years, the correlation between literature and image has become higher and higher, and the combination of long and short literature, parallel segmented narratives, and open endings have been used more and more in film and television dramas, and movies have also returned narrative techniques such as montage to novels. "The quality of the film is getting better and better, we must consider the literary nature, the novel tells a more complete story, and learns from the film and other techniques such as storyboarding." Taiwanese writer Gao Yifeng, who works as a novelist, screenwriter and director, summed it up.
In the web drama "Skyscraper", Yang Ying played the mysterious death of the beautiful beauty store manager Zhong Meibao, as the key clue character of the whole drama, was certified by Zhang Ziyi as "passing the acting skill". Speaking of this character, Chen Xue admitted that at the beginning of the creation, he did not expect to write about murder, but in the crowded skyscrapers, how to make people intersect with each other and shake the closed doors requires an event. "This novel is not reasoning or thriller, it doesn't discuss who killed whom, but it's about how one person's death affects other people, which is what I really want to do."
Regarding the difference between literature and film and television, Chen Xue mentioned "perspective", "If the film lens shows a skyscraper, it may be shot from top to bottom, reflecting the grandeur and grandeur of the building." For the novelist, it may be from the bottom up, starting from the floor of the building. First meet the administrator, then swipe your card to enter the elevator, walk to the long walkway... I arranged the corresponding characters for these scenes, such as the cleaner and the 'landlord' who knows the building best. In particular, the 'landlord' is like a key that leads the reader into this skyscraper. ”
Suspense writer Cai Jun believes that the web drama "Skyscraper" grasps the main clues of the novel, focuses on reasoning crimes, and constructs the truth of the case in the eyes of the screenwriter but not necessarily the author. "The protagonist of the novel is different from the web drama, and the building itself is the protagonist of the novel, reflecting the classic proposition of the relationship between the individual and the city." It does not matter how the ending is interpreted, what is important is the process of telling the suspense and the process of the reader reading with questions. ”
Does first-class literature have some kind of "anti-shooting"? Mao Jian bluntly said that the "no sound" in the original work of "Blossoms" is difficult to shoot, readers can read the novel tacitly, and the silence on the screen is terrible even for a minute. Xiao Bai, who is creating an artificial intelligence science fiction novel, believes that the so-called "anti-shooting" comes from the essence of the novel narrative and the image narrative, and on fundamental issues such as information distribution, tense, and perspective, there are not many parts that can be conventiond by novels and film and television. ”
"How to make 'Blossoms'? Supported wong kar-wai as a director. Critic Muye threw out the question. Gao Yifeng put forward a fantastic idea, "'Blossoms' can be made into a science fiction film, the screenwriter controls the panorama behind the scenes, and each 'no sound' is the manipulator reversing a new story for all the characters, which is also interesting." ”
"At a time when games, VR, AR and other technologies are becoming more and more developed, interactivity has penetrated the creation of text and images." Taiwanese writer Jie Qing believes that the challenge for creators in the future may be to have both text and image thinking ability, rather than simply providing some kind of subjective narrative, "to build a world that can be entered in a novel or video narrative or even interactive way at the same time, from a technical point of view, it puts forward a higher threshold for creators." ”
Under the guidance of the Shanghai Writers Association, Shanghai Sprout Magazine and Taiwan Lianjing Publishing United Literature jointly initiated that in 2015, the first "Shanghai-Taipei Cross-Strait Literature Camp" was launched, and the "Shanghai-Taipei Novel Workshop" was added the following year, and it was held in Shanghai and Taipei in turn. While participating in the discussion of the novel workshop, Mesozoic writers and critics in the literary circles of Shanghai and Taiwan served as mentors for young literary figures on both sides of the strait and carried out various forms of activities such as blind appraisal of works.
Affected by the epidemic this year, at the Yijian Library on Nanchang Road in Shanghai and the Lianjing Bookstore in Taipei, writers from both sides of the strait completed this year's theme dialogue of this year's novel workshop through video connection "Air Dialogue". The communication between writers facing the screen has invisibly become a metaphor for the fusion of literature and image.
Wang Wei, secretary of the party group of the Shanghai Writers Association, said that with the help of the Internet that crosses the strait of time and space, writers on both sides of the strait can "communicate in an infinite space" and that "in addition to the convenience brought by the Internet, the cross-strait literary camp can continue this year, relying on the inexhaustible enthusiasm and belief of both sides in this activity." Literature brings a warm current to winter. It is reported that "Sprouts" will launch the "Shanghai-Taipei Cross-Strait Literature Camp Album" in the December 2020 issue and the January 2021 issue, publishing new works by young writers in Taiwan such as Chen Baiyan, Cao Xu, Lin Wenxin, Xu Zhenfu, Yang Liya and so on. "In the past five years, there has been frequent interaction between the literary circles in Taipei and Shanghai, and we have also published a number of albums of works by Shanghai writers in Taiwan, which has greatly enhanced the understanding of Taiwanese literary youth on the current situation of literary creation in Shanghai." Lin Zaijue, publisher of Taiwan's Lianjing Publishing Company, said.
Source: Author: Shi Chenlu