Exploring the Entertainment Circle [Ancient and Modern]

The cumulative box office of "Queen of Guining" during the Spring Festival holiday has reached [-] million.Every day, Xiong Zian posted big-character posters one by one in the WeChat group, and the poor artist of "Queen of Guining" was also working overtime every day.

Tao Qingfeng's work arrangement also started as the holiday gradually went away.Two weeks later, I will go to the opening ceremony of "Returning East to West", and I will officially join the group in three weeks.

So during this time, he was frantically reading modern history books.He found a modern history bookshelf in the largest provincial library in province A, and it is roughly estimated that there are tens of thousands of books.Of course it is impossible to read them all.But Tao Qingfeng first spent a few days browsing, and finally picked out dozens of books with a relatively comprehensive picture of modern society.

After watching for a day or two, Tao Qingfeng found some connections.He realized that these books followed a certain internal logic and conventional direction.Under the guidance of Tao Qingfeng's simple general education theory and the "new social form" that Yan Tan enlightened that day, Tao Qingfeng reluctantly followed the "ideological" progressive theory to understand those events.

The peasantry has failed... The feudal landlords and feudal reformers have failed... The national bourgeoisie has failed... The proletariat has stepped onto the stage of history and won the final victory.This is the inherent logic that must be contained in the books of modern history.

Tao Qingfeng couldn't adapt to it for a while, he thought incomprehensibly, trying to find the traces left by a "class of scholars" that didn't even become a "class".

He read in the library all night with the lights on, with a solemn expression.After he gradually began to understand why he could not find the reason why "scholars" were alone as a certain class in the progressive chain of social formation that ran through the internal logic of modern history.Tao Qingfeng sat in a daze for a long time, which was rare, as if he had turned into a stone sculpture.A cavity of blood was about to be vomited, but in the deep self-question, it froze into ice little by little.

It turns out... the imperial examinations and the history of great sages... finally ended like that.

Overthrowing the imperial system, overthrowing the imperial power, overthrowing the stereotype... The imperial examinations, which were once incomparably honored in his era, are in essence the man-eating shackles that solidify the vitality of society...

When Tao Qingfeng first crossed over, he still felt aggrieved and dissatisfied because he was attached to an actor.

He laughed a few times, and came from the end of the denied official career, carrying with him the four books and five classics, living in this so-called era of "science and technology is the primary productive force", making him an actor , What an ironic and appropriate coincidence.

Tao Qingfeng made another mistake of "underestimating himself".In fact, if he went to Yan Tan for advice, this biased cognition of "self-denial" would be quickly dispelled.But Tao Qingfeng didn't want to look for Yan Tan at all, and the air pressure in his body became lower and lower.

Tao Qingfeng sat in the 24-hour library for the whole night, watching the bleak winter scenery outside the window during the daytime, and the vast volumes in his eyes were filled with "confucian scholars are useless, and imperial examinations are harmful to the country".There is a lot of remnant mountains and water, splashing ink until dawn.

In such a sad mood, Tao Qingfeng received the finalized four-volume script of "Returning East to West" sent by the company, and began to read it in silence.

This is the script that Tao Qingfeng got, and it is most like a "book" script, not the previous stacks of A4 papers that were fixed with a clip.This script had a plastic cover, and the cover was simply edited.Although it is still printed on A4 paper, according to the layout of the book, the table of contents, chapters, preface, and postscript are all complete.Tao Qingfeng will know soon that the script has been signed by the publishing company and will be released simultaneously with the TV series. This is a typesetting draft that has been approved by the publication.

The whole play is divided into four volumes.The titles are "East Return", "Yi Ban", "Snow Hua" and "Xi Du".The story took place under the background of the full-scale outbreak of the Japanese invasion of China and the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

The father of the hero is a certain warlord leader in the north who was peacefully incorporated by the Kuomintang during the Great Revolution.After being incorporated, the warlord became a high-ranking official of the Nationalist Party, and the hero entrusted his father's favor to take a handsome job in the police station.On the surface, he is praised as a "young marshal", but in fact he is a "vase" who is looked down upon behind the scenes.On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, his father was assassinated by devils and traitors, and the hero's situation also plummeted, and he no longer had protection.From the very beginning of the script, it was a desperate situation where the male protagonist was "fired" by the police station on the grounds of "redundancy"."The phoenix in the grass is not as good as the chicken" who ridiculed and sneered at "it's not what it used to be" with others.

In the process of the hero's constant re-recognition of life, society, and country, he first accidentally rescued the underground party of the Communist Party, and then participated in the strike demonstration.Later, due to his own efforts, he joined a certain division on the frontal battlefield of the Kuomintang, showing his military talent.However, in this seemingly step-by-step climbing process of finding the right direction in life, he has not yet fully tasted the sweet fruits of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.The male protagonist asked himself to resign from his military post because he was unwilling to follow the reactionary decision of the upper echelons of the Kuomintang in the civil war.When he returned to his hometown, he was poor and suffered from old injuries. His health deteriorated rapidly. He entrusted the care of his friends in the Communist Party and was sent to the Soviet Union to heal his injuries.There, the male protagonist came into contact with overseas national industrialists and tried his best to help them deliver war aid——on the side of the Communist Party.After years of wind and snow, when New China was founded, the male lead was finally able to stand under the Communist Party as an ordinary Communist, saluting the rising of the five-star red flag...

And Tao Qingfeng's male No. [-] "progressive youth", when the male protagonist participated in the "strike parade" in his early years, was still a college student who was still studying. He came from a wealthy background and was the son of the factory capitalist who "strike incident".In that "strike incident", he didn't know each other when he didn't fight with the male protagonist, and he turned the fighting into friendship.They have the same temperament and recognize him as the eldest brother.Later, he was sent by his family to study in the Soviet Union, where he joined the Bolsheviks.Later, when the male protagonist returned to his hometown with poverty and illness, it was also the male number three who helped him in many ways.It is also thanks to the efforts of this "righteous brother" that the male protagonist was taken to the Soviet Union to recuperate from his illness.The male No. [-] is an "engineer". He used the support of the Soviet Union to build a lot of things, and also used the original wealth accumulated by the family to support the cause of communism.He left his home country for decades.Later, when the People's Republic of China was founded, he also stuck to his overseas posts, sipping a glass of turbid wine in the direction of the motherland under the birch tree.

The script was very well written, and Tao Qingfeng was fascinated by it unknowingly, and watched it for a whole day.

On the title page of each volume, there are also quotations of poetic works in line with the temperament of the times as judgments.This is the first time for Tao Qingfeng to come into contact with "lyrics", "modern poetry" and "foreign poetry" of this temperament. He only thinks that the beautiful words and sentences should be remembered in his heart after reading them.Next to each verdict, there are simple illustrations.

——"Return to the East Volume", the illustration is a crooked gun, and the verdict is "Road to the East" Lyrics:

A hundred thousand people return to their dreams, and they must be remembered in the next life.A child's heart cannot be taken away.

The long sword in my waist hates the beacon fire, I can't kiss my homeland in this life, I would rather the sky come to bury me.

——"Yi Zhi Juan", the illustration is a flying red flag, and the verdict is Liang Xiaoming's "Long Poem":

The road is asking, the river is asking, and the exhibition is on the head of the people.

The bright red banner, the wind without a master.Torture the earth over and over again.

Who is saving?Who is instructing us to continue to be born?

One after another, the leaves representing spring kept falling in my heart.

——"Snow Birch Volume", the illustration is a birch forest, and the judgment is "I am too close" by Szymborska:

I was a birch, I was a canary.

I have stepped out of that gorgeous cocoon and owned the wealth of wealth.

I pulled my hand out from under this sleeping head.My hands were numb and full of needles.

——"Xidu Volume", the illustration is a long boat, and the judgment is Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind":

Lured to sleep by the noise of clear running water, I dreamed of ancient towers, towers and palaces.

I can't stop trembling in the strong and turbulent waves, if I can fall over the thorns of life like when I was young!

Please broadcast my withered thoughts to the universe, just like ashes and sparks from an unquenched embers, let the horn of prophecy sound!

O West Wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Tao Qingfeng very much recognized the quality of this set of scripts, and also really wanted to play a good male No. [-] - a young man who accepted "new culture" and "new ideas" since he was a child, "abandoned literature and focused on reasoning", refused to go to school, and went to a new school to study , He was admitted to university again, insisting on the road of "saving the country by industry".Become an outstanding national entrepreneur.

But the lines of this character made Tao Qingfeng's feelings extremely painful from the very beginning——

"I don't want to go there! Kong's shop should have died a long time ago!"

"Confucianism is not suitable for modern life, and it is the "biggest obstacle to social evolution" in China today. I want to study engineering. If you stop me, I will leave this home!"

"The banners of democracy, science, freedom and human rights are flying high today. I have decided to study in the Soviet Union. If China wants to be a country in the modern world, it should adopt and must adapt to the culture of this modern world."

Tao Qingfeng only felt that every sentence he read was extremely difficult.He went looking for some "new culture" books to help him understand. When he saw the pioneers say "I would rather endure the demise of the past national quintessence than the present and future nation, which is not suitable for the survival of the world and dies." When life and death are at stake, Tao Qingfeng's heart is like a fallen leaf that has been torn apart, with waves of confusion and pain in his soul, and he collapses on a chair.

At that moment, he had the idea of ​​retreating again, but can the liquidated damages be paid?Such a big production crew...

Tao Qingfeng also thought about how he first joined the crew of "The Hero and the Witch", and was devastated by the unreliability of the director and director, and even thought of quitting.But later, I gritted my teeth and survived, persisted, and solved one problem after another, and the final results seemed to be pretty good.A not-so-popular web drama got new investment and was sold to Shangxing TV Station, waiting for review...

Up to now, he has obtained this resource that is very good in all aspects.In the past, what I dreamed of was a serious director, a good script, and a suitable remuneration.It can bring improvement and benefit to oneself...everything is so perfect.

But the lines of this character are like stabbing Tao Qingfeng's soul with a knife - there is a simple wooden house there, he knows that there are many problems, but now he has to completely level it and build a more solid one on it , A house with a more reasonable structure.I can accept it intellectually, but emotionally, it's a pain like peeling cramps.

And these are not the few TV dramas packaged as Republic of China dramas that Tao Qingfeng has browsed, they are actually crude TV dramas of modern Mary Su's bloody romance with skins on.If it was that kind of rotten core, Tao Qingfeng wouldn't be in pain at all.It is precisely because this script has been carefully polished by the old screenwriter for five years-its core is built on realism, delicately fully conforms to the historical process, and ultimately points to the advanced nature of social classes and works with positive political significance.The better and more touching it was written, the deeper the pain in Tao Qingfeng's heart.

He doesn't know how to break free. This is not a practical problem that can be solved by self-will or hard work. It is a complete negation of his entire soul and values ​​in his life.

Tao Qingfeng knocked on Yan Dan's door with low pressure, and stood expressionlessly at the door.

Yan Tan opened the door and said, "I knew you would always come..."

Yan Tan changed his expression halfway through speaking, and asked with concern: "What's wrong with you?"

Tao Qingfeng still dangled a half bottle of white wine in his hand, and there was a faint smell of alcohol in his mouth, but Tao Qingfeng's face was completely devoid of alcohol.His clear eyes were filled with pain.He drank so much that he couldn't get drunk at all.

"Do you have any alcohol here that can make people drunk?"

Yan Dan paused, and pulled Tao Qingfeng into the door, and Tao Qingfeng also let him hold hands and walk forward.Yan Tan placed Tao Qingfeng on the chair in the dining room.He took the wine from his hand and made him a cup of strong tea.

Tao Qingfeng looked at the cup of tea coldly, stood up without saying a word, and walked towards the door.

When he walked halfway, his sleeve was pulled by Yan Tan, who said: "Sit down. I have other ways to comfort you."

Tao Qingfeng looked back at the half-tangled sleeve, and sat back with a blank expression on his face. Tao Qingfeng was in such a bad mood that he didn't care about his words at all.He had never been so depressed and confused.

Tao Qingfeng looked at Yan Tan who still did not let go of his sleeve, and said, "Comfort? You don't need to kiss."

Yan Dan smiled: "Your side is so cute. Don't worry, it's a very serious way."