This weekend, Lin Zixuan is going to class.
Classes are held in a conference room of the Ministry of Culture, and there are eight classes on two days on weekends.
It includes diplomatic etiquette, an introduction to English literature, and general knowledge about British social and cultural aspects.
This is in preparation for a visit to the UK in January next year and is organised by the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Culture.
Six writers, two scholars with research in English literature, and accompanying officials from the Ministry of Culture attended the event, with the aim of familiarizing themselves with British etiquette and culture.
Even writers don't know much about British culture.
They may know the works of those famous British writers, but they don't know much about British culture, who has nothing to study that, that's the work of experts and scholars.
Due to the contact with the British royal family, social etiquette is unavoidable.
It's not that they follow their etiquette, it's just that they have to figure out what they want to avoid.
Since you want to communicate with British scholars, you can't even understand the culture of other people, at least you have an impression when you mention a certain person, and you know what it does.
Among these six writers, Lin Zixuan is the youngest and is a junior character.
The other five are all leaders of the Chinese Writers Association, in their fifties and sixties, and are influential in the domestic literary circle.
The visit was led by the Vice Minister of Culture, and the standard was not low, and many writers wanted to participate.
Life in the world, you can't escape the word "fame and fortune", these old writers may not care about money, but they care about fame.
They have a good attitude towards Lin Zixuan, Lin Zixuan is now the vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association, a member of the organization, and everyone gets along well without entanglement of interests.
In their spare time, several people chatted together, mainly they chatted, and Lin Zixuan listened.
"Xiaolin, you have creative talent, but don't waste it on film and television, words can be charming, can be passed down through the ages, can film and television do it" An old writer said disapprovingly, "That fairy tale is a bestseller, but you should focus on works with serious themes, not too impetuous." ” "Xiaolin is still young, and there is still time, unlike us who are all old."
Another writer lamented.
"That's what I'm saying, young writers nowadays can't sink down, and they always want to adapt novels into film and television dramas to become famous and make money, unlike when we wrote to leave spiritual wealth to the society and the people, and it was a reflection of an era."
The old writer from before complained.
Lin Zixuan didn't argue, and cooperated to say two sentences.
Traditional writers look down on film and television screenwriters, and novels pay attention to carving, whether it is grammar or words, they must be carefully pondered, and a novel is often revised dozens of times.
The script is not so exquisite, as long as the meaning is expressed, and the dialogue is the mainstay.
Especially in the scripts of TV dramas, in order to lengthen the number of episodes, irrigation is a common phenomenon.
TV series are sold according to the number of episodes, and the more episodes there are, the more money they make.
In the early nineties, twenty-episode TV dramas were the mainstream, and in the middle of the period, forty-episode TV dramas appeared in large numbers, and now they are moving towards more than fifty episodes.
The plot is not enough dialogue to make up, and there is no plot in an episode of the TV series, so it depends on the two people chatting.
The movie script is better, usually a ninety-minute plot, but there is also the phenomenon of flooding, and some are even made into commercials and songs.
In order to adapt novels into screenplays, young writers take the route of film and television dramas when creating stories.
This is something that traditional old writers don't like to see, and think that kind of fiction lacks depth.
Regarding the topic of who can circulate more widely in novels and film and television dramas, Lin Zixuan feels that there is no difference.
As long as it is a classic, it has value and can be passed on, novels bring people room for imagination, and film and television dramas are more intuitive, making people feel immersive.
The veteran writers talked about the upcoming Cultural Congress at the end of next year.
This is the seventh session of the Cultural Congress, and the governing body will be elected, including the chairman, vice-chairmen and honorary members.
The Chinese Writers Association will also conduct elections, and Lin Zixuan should be able to become a member of the 30 presidium members of the Writers Association.
If you want to become the vice president of the Writers' Association, you have to go five or ten years later.
No way, this meeting is held every five years, and the election is also held every five years, unless there is an unforeseen situation.
"Xiao Lin has hope to enter the presidium this time, you are a representative of young writers in the capital, and several of us are optimistic about you."
There are old writers who support it.
"Last time, I said I wanted to quit and give young people a chance, but the chairman didn't agree."
An old writer said helplessly.
Saying so is more like showing off the intimacy between himself and the chairman.
Today's chairman of the Writers' Association is a respected old-timer, and he has some connections with Lin Zixuan.
Lin Zixuan originally voted for the Hundred Flowers Magazine in Shanghai, and the president of the Hundred Flowers Magazine was the daughter of the chairman of the Writers Association.
With this relationship, life is able to be published.
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Although the Writers' Association is a relatively loose organization, it also has a regional concept, and there are more than 800 writers who have joined the Writers' Association and become members of the Writers' Association.
In the election, writers in the Beijing area will definitely support Lin Zixuan, and other regions have their own supporters.
The two-day course ended quickly, and the lecturer came from a professor from a famous university in Beijing.
They don't have to memorize, it's not an exam, and having a general impression will serve the purpose.
Several writers also had the task of writing a speech, possibly going to a university in the UK, and the content of the lecture was nothing more than a literary one.
Lin Zixuan didn't intend to express profound opinions, this kind of occasion is the safest thing to talk about.
This is an official event, not a solo show, he just needs to complete the task step by step.
In November, Li took Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to the Nordic Stockholm Film Festival, the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain and the London International Film Festival in the United Kingdom.
The film was well received in Europe, and Li Yu received awards and accolades.
After running through the European film festival, the next step is to promote and release it in the United States in December.
It used to be just a start, but now it's a sprint.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts chooses a charity film performance every year to raise money, and this year it chose Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
On December 5, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will have a grand premiere in Los Angeles.
The film will then be released in two theaters in New York and one in Los Angeles, and after the word-of-mouth of these three theaters spreads, the scale of the theater chain will be expanded.
The schedule follows the timing of the Oscars.
Two weeks later, it's the traditional Christmas schedule in the United States, and the competition is fierce, but it's also a great opportunity to get promoted, and as long as you can maintain a good reputation, you have a chance to fight your way out.
In conjunction with the presentation of various awards at the end of the year, so as to attract the audience.
Lin Zixuan did not plan to attend the premiere in the United States, and he asked Yu Dong to take the actors there, which was an opportunity to contact the mainstream Hollywood film industry. t1706231537: