Wang Shuo and Beijing circle: the times have changed, "hooligan" is old

"Volkswagen" has been far from "literature". Wang Shuo must be counted as a contemporary writer who can be pushed to Weibo and Douyin's hot search.

After a lapse of 14 years, Wang Shuo's new book "Initial Early Year" was quietly launched, and the reader's enthusiasm was enough to surprise the bookman. The public account of the new classic culture of the producer wrote that at 1 am the day before the opening of the pre -sale, "the editor's WeChat is still being urged to buy the address." When the pre -sale was 3 days, the editor received a notice of adding 100,000 copies. The colleagues in the printing department also confirmed the number several times. "Wang Shuo's energy is too great. We just sent new books ... ... "

"Ji Yea" is one of the volumes of the multi -volume series novel "Initial". "Historical novels" written.

Wang Shuo's loyal readers will be rejoicing for the "return of Shuo Ye", and for the wider audience, Wang Shuo's name is bound to the "Beijing circle" in the concept of film and television, and this impression is basically sealed in about 20 A few years ago. "Desire", "The Story of the Editorial Department", "Sunny Days", and "Party A and Party B" and other households are well -known from Wang Shuo's original work. "It has also become a concept of some age.

Wang Shuo

Wang Shuo once again "come back", but the type of work is different from any past. He said in the preface of "At the beginning of the Chronicles" that the book was written in the early years of this century. "This mighty son tied out, and then looked up for ten years. The word changes from the fifth to the third ... "The change is not only himself, but also the so -called" Beijing circle "that was once brilliant.

Wang Shuo's "Beijing Circle"

"Chinese movies, buddy is now flat." In a heavy snowy day in 1988, Wang Shuo said to his "small" and director Ye Jing. At that time, Ye Jing drove Wang Shuo from Xizhimen to the movie theater of Hepingli Film Association to watch the movie "Big Paste" adapted from his novel "The Rubber", which was only one of the four Wang Shuo movies released in the same year.

That year was also known as the "Wang Shuo Film Year". The movie "Stubborn", "Reincarnation", "Big Paste", "Half of the Sea, and Half of Flames" adapted from his novels were released. Wang Shuo felt that the best one was Mijiashan's "Stubborn Lord", because "Mijiashan has no ability and has no idea", so she shot like it.

"Stubborn Lord" is a starting point for Wang Shuo and the film and television circle. The copyright of the novel only sold 3,000 yuan. "Director Mijiashan co -branded me, and I took more than 1,000 yuan." Before that, Wang Shuo impacted the literary world in just four years. "The sea" is also relatively "innocent". With Wang Shuo's "switch", the discussion on him is also very arrogant, and even the names of "hooligan literature" and "bitch literature".

The straightforward reason for the smooth cross -border is due to the less description of its novels. Seeing a lot of dialogue, a little change becomes a script. Wei Ren, the editor -in -chief of the magazine "Woodpecker" published by Wang Shuo's number of novels, believes that "Wang Shuo's biggest contribution is the contribution of dialogue": "Wang Shuo's language is a mixed situation that appeared during the transition period of China ... … This kind of language appears in his work, which will form a fresh, fashionable, and an entertainment behavior that will quickly spread among ordinary people. "

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In the past few years, Wang Shuo not only created a strong desire to create, but also showed a keen sense of market smell for the mass media. In 1989, he and Ma Weidu, Mo Yan, Su Tong, Liu Zhenyun, Haiyan and others founded the "Hippocampus Film and Television Creation Center". There were more than 30 writers teams. Essence

The news of the studio appeared on the "People's Daily" and posted in the "Science · Culture · Sports Edition". In the title, "A group of young and middle -aged writers entered the film and television industry." Wang Shuo explained the reasons seriously: "The hippocampus can be used in medicine, and has the effects of aphrodisiac, pain relief, and strong heart. Today, literary and artistic is embarrassed, and the two hands of Ya and vulgar teased a saw. We just want to say: Come and get a few sea horses, whoever lacks, let it get. "

If cultural works have a "status" in the influence level, literature starts to let it be in film and television since the 1990s, and the distance between the TV series and the people is closer than the movie. The first TV series that confirmed the ambition of "Horse Horse" was Wang Shuo's "Desire". In 1990, the ratings of "Desire" broke the historical record of Chinese TV dramas and even became a sensational social and cultural phenomenon. Producers Zheng Xiaolong recalled that " The crime rate decreased after the desire ", and the crew was also commended by the Ministry of Public Security.

"eager"

This is also the watershed in Wang Shuo's creation. "I was a professional writer before 1991. After 1991, I was basically a laissez -faire attitude." After 1991, Wang Shuo came out of the novel and began to write a lot of scripts. In his words, "I wrote 30,000 words in the script, took one or two million, and I wrote a book, exhausted me, and sent it to one or two million, and then pirated."

His first script written by the main title was "The Story of the Editorial Department". After the broadcast, the show was regarded as the originator of domestic scenarios. The script should have been completed by several writers of the Hermore Creation Room, but they were not flying before the filming. Ma Weidu, Wei and others were unwilling to come again. Feng Xiaogang, who was mixed in the crew, found Wang Shuo and said he wanted to help him continue writing. The matter allowed the two to start a long -term cooperation. "The Story of the Editorial Department"

Wang Shuo once listed the "Ten Years of North Television Center" as one of the "four pillars" of the literature and art of the Mainland in the 1980s and 1990s. The play is well known by more audiences. Zheng Xiaolong was the deputy director of the Beijing Television Art Center and in charge of the production of TV dramas. His team has produced "Desire", "The Story of the Editorial Department", "Beijingers in New York", and "Advantages". In Ge You, "Beijingers in New York" became popular with Jiang Wen ... Feng Xiaogang and Zhao Baogang were not in the real "courtyard children". They also slowly had independent directing through these dramas and began to obtain greater reputation.

Jiang Wen's "Beijingers in New York"

In addition, it has to be mentioned, as well as director Ye Daying and Ye Jing. Ye Daying was General Ye Ting's grandson. He met with Wang Shuo in 1985. After becoming a friend, he brought Wang Shuo's two novels "The Sea" and "Half Half is Sea Water, Half of the Flame" back to the West Film Factory, which promoted their films For adaptation, "Big Paste" is Ye Daying's director's debut; Ye Jing later made a TV series "The Days related to Youth" based on the past of the big courtyard he and Wang Shuo. The big novel "Cruel Youth" is the most damaged as "Floating", and it is written as "Dream of Red Mansions" as soon as it is not concerned. Now it is not necessary to write, "Days related to youth" is. I won't write this period, I can't write him. "

In 1991, Jiang Wen, who was adapted from Wang Shuo's "Ferry Animal", decided to directed his own plot long film. The film later named "Sunshine Day". On the birthday of Wang Shuo's birthday in 1993, Jiang Wen pulled out the banner on the scene: "The sun will always be forever Brilliant, Shuo Ye will always be awesome! "This sentence is also the footnote of Wang Shuo's status in the film and television industry at that time.

"Sunshine Days"

At the same time, the criticism of Wang Shuo began to spread out from his old line of literature. In January 1993, the "China Youth Daily" opened a column of "What Wang Shuo brought us" and launched a discussion on "Wang Shuo Phenomenon". "What to read from Wang Shuo's novels" published in "Guangming Daily" in September said: "If literature is completely based on a product concept, it will inevitably damage the characteristics and spirit of art ... change literature to" amuse ',' Spray rice to solve Yi "tools, they will refuse deep, meaningful and kitsch."

The controversy caused by "Wang Shuo Phenomenon" not only "literary commodity", but also became the fuse of the "humanistic spirit discussion". Discussion derived from "Shanghai Literature" in the 6th issue of 1993 "One -Ding Literature and Human Period of the Ruins on the Wilderness". The entire literary and art circles lasted for several years.

In early 1994, Feng Xiaogang found Wang Shuo when he ate half of the meal, saying that he was "blocked" by the media. At that time, Wang Shuo and Feng Xiaogang partnered with a "good dream company". The three films prepared "The Back of the Moon", "I'm your father", and "Live a Wolverine Life" none of them were tried. In 1997, Wang Shuo wanted to shoot Chi Li's novel "Never Back", and was killed for "Promoting Gray Life".

In the same year, Wang Shuoyuan said to the United States, and said to Feng Xiaogang before walking, "They come to me. You have a chance to live, don't die together."

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"Disappearing" Beijing circle

In the 1990s that I remembered my most prestigious 1990s, Wang Shuo said, "It's not that I can support a lot of people. At that time, I was the most famous. I can help some people. This society is snobbish. Everyone gets up. Friends are all wrists. What a good. "

In 1997, Han Sanping, the director of the Beibei Factory, found Feng Xiaogang and asked him to shoot a commercial film. At the end of the year, "Party A and Party B" were released, and the box office was 36 million. The film is adapted from Wang Shuo's novel "You Are Not a Volkswagen", and there is no name for Wang Shuo.

"person A person B"

Since then, Feng Xiaogang, who once played in the crew, has become the most familiar "Beijing circle" in Volkswagen. The rise of Feng Xiaogang on the commercial blockbuster was inseparable from Wang Zhongjun, the owner of another army courtyard. Wang Zhongjun's Huayi Brothers originally started by the advertising business. In 1988, she was shot in the field comedy "Psychological Clinic" and began to move to film and television. The following year, Huayi invested in Jiang Wen's "The Devil is Coming", Chen Kaige's "Jing Jing Xing Qin King" and Feng Xiaogang's "Endless".

Among the three movies, only Feng Xiaogang's New Year's work "Endless" made money. The film's box office was 35 million, which was the highest box office domestic film in 2000. In the same year, it was only 860 million in the country's total box office. The Huayi Brothers began to deeply bind with Feng Xiaogang. In 20 years, 17 movies were launched. Before 2010, the single -film box office of the two sides did not fall into the top three of the New Year. He also won three annual box office championships.

"Endless"

Since 2014, the Huayi Brothers launched the "de -filmization" strategy, which is the rich profit model, but the influence on the main position of the film has gradually been slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly slightly. Since the storm in 2018, the Huayi brothers have lost money for four consecutive years. According to its 2021 annual financial report, the annual net profit loss was 246 million yuan, the asset -liability ratio was as high as 64.02 %, and the total loss of four years exceeded 6.4 billion yuan. Last year, Feng Xiaogang's web drama "North Rugao" contributed more income to the film and television section of the Huayi Brothers, but the reputation was a mess. Feng Xiaogang still inspired his "big honey" aesthetic in the play. One of the publication points was "authentic modern Beijing dialect", but he was scored 4.9 points by Douban netizens because of the "suspended". There are Gao Zan commented: "It is not unreal, it is the truth of a few people ... it seems to be the carnival of everyone in the Beijing circle, or it is still a lonely picture of the past glory and no longer the rivers and lakes."

The audience "don't eat that set" has long been a sign. In 2010 "If You Are the One", Wang Shuo once again collaborated with Feng Xiaogang to write the script, with 472 million box office and 6.6 scores. After three years, Wang Shuo personally wrote, the box office 714 million, the score fell to 5.9 to 5.9 Wang Shuo also won the "Golden Break Award the most disappointing screenwriter." Wang Shuo also helped Jiang Wen write "One Step", which is also the relatively poor reputation in Jiang Wen's "trilogy of the Republic of China".

Of course, the favorite content of the creators of the "Beijing Circle" is to "write yourself", that is, to record the "hormones where you have nowhere to place" in a specific historical period, and repeatedly recall the rebellion youth under the high wall of the courtyard. "Stubborn Spirit" and "Blood Romance" have made the batch of works highly praised, but now it seems that in addition to "Sunny Days", a few works can be remembered as "image history". "Youth" seemed unsuitable for young audiences.

"Sunshine Days"

Some people say that the core of "Beijing Circle Literature and Art" can be summarized in a repeated line in the "Days related to youth": "Stealing the sunflower from a kindergarten from a young age, spitting on the passers -by upstairs, how beautiful Childhood. "

The young children of the courtyard are actually special when they were young, and even the conventions experienced by contemporaries. The previous audience could be appreciated and yearn for a "wonders", but these stories themselves were one -time. Without hunting.

More details, like Wang Shuo's "Wuzhou shock and expensive", Ge You said "Comrade Lenin does not cough", etc. At that time, it seemed to have a comedy effect of deconstructing revolutionary discourse. For the next generation of consumer groups, the next generation of consumer groups These "poor mouths" and "贫" are not humorous.

The greater change in the times is that the right to speak, publicize, and evaluate the right to speak is diluted. The reason why the "circle" is established is the gathering of resources, in the field of film and television, which is funds, actors, communication resources, etc. In 2002, the General Administration of Radio, Film and Television issued the "Film Management Regulations", etc., encouraged private capital to inject film and television production. Later, the Internet platform was encouraged. The rise has further made the market cake. The shooting is not short of money, the reputation of the public, the spread, and even the "tap water", and the information poor outside the circle is also narrowed in the information age.

Although the capital operation is still advantageous under traffic -oriented, a new "circle" form is formed in the audience, such as the "rice circle", but the rules like a small number of people like "Beijing Circle" will eventually let the most of them say that most of them say it. Calculating market rules.

If only the level of art, the "Beijing Circle" does not contribute to the most contributing to domestic literary and artistic creation. In the age of favorable policy resources, the works of Changying Factory, Xiying Factory, and Shangying Factory seem to be more able to represent the peak of that time, such as the peak, such as, such as the peak, such as, such as the peak, such as, such as the peak, such as, such as the peak, such as, such as the peak. For example, Xi'an Film Studio has produced many films at the highest prize of Berlin, Cannes, and Venice Film Festival. Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and other contemporary flags have nothing to do with the "Beijing circle". As for the "actor's hidden rules", Wang Shuo himself said: "As far as I know, no one is a drama in terms of relationship."

Silent Wang Shuo

When a lawsuit was briefly "come back" in 2007, Wang Shuo, who was 50 years old, said such a paragraph to the media, basically the "Beijing circle" threatened:

"Because they had resources than others at that time, the Baiyangdian poetry schools such as Beimao and Gu Cheng were all cadres and children. They could contact foreign poetry at that time. Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang, dads are old cadres. They have resources. To be honest, this is unfair. If you have seen a movie, he can make it different from you. You are stupid, they are not.

A large number of writers are on this road, including Zhang Xinxin, and our courtyard has produced several writers. I have always been with these people, and your workers and farmers can't get in touch with these. Of course, with the opportunity to be educated and can be exposed to. Of course, our group of people support each other, and everyone is better to talk together, and they help each other. So it also quickly formed a cultural circle. "

The success of Wang Shuo is precisely because of laughing and scolding authority, and even rebelling the privileged class that nourishes himself. At that time, the popularity of mass culture was rising, and Volkswagen consumer came to face. Wang Shuo, who stood up earlier, became a "entertainment hero of popular culture." This rebellion is quite pure. After deconstruction, it is not responsible for construction. Ye Jing analyzed his psychology: "Our generation, there is nothing, I just think that as long as there is, I want to let himself be on the altar, and you will be died (Beijing dialect, refers to breaking, breaking through ) Who. Don't put yourself on the altar. Why do Wang Shuo say that I am going to dylocate myself? Because he has to sit on this altar first, grab the right to speak, and then he will give himself a tile No one wants to be an idol, China is not fucking idol now! "When the extreme, Wang Shuo did not even fight himself. He used to scold Lu Xun, Jin Yong, Zhang Yimou and other famous artists to write a 10,000 -character word. "I see Wang Shuo" and scolded himself from the inside. In the text, Wang Shuo said that his language style of "Waves and Fame" was created collectively in Beijing, Xiao Xunzi, and Kan Master.

Wang Shuo also claimed that his "anti -cultural elite's posture was forced", because the intellectuals could not make the intellectual simply stood on the opposite side: "This is something, not we don't understand, but not to see it!" He criticized him, "He is calm, and he is still a little anxious. He complains that people have not seen the advantages he hidden." After this scolding, the parties who held criticisms could not be able to make a mouth.

At this level, if there is no inviolable altar in the era, there is no cultural idol, and Wang Shuo's rebellion is inevitable.

Since the new century, Wang Shuo has been silent for many years. Around 2000, he has also been a trough of his personal spiritual situation. His father, brother, and friend Liang Zuo died one after another. He "crushed himself completely" and "crying for several years." Seven years later, he had a strong interest in the online blog. He scolded Yu Qiuyu and Yu Dan, who was famous at the time, and also opened the "map cannon" to spray netizens from all over the world. At 500 days of the Olympic Games, Beijing initiated the "resistance campaign". A large number of netizens proposed first first. Block Wang Shuo.

After publishing "My Chitose Cold" and "Talk to Our Daughter", Wang Shuo disappeared again until the new book "Initial Year" was published in the new century. Today's "entertainment idols" are probably no longer within his attack range, but in the era of mobile Internet that "everyone can speak", the energy of individual remarks has become tiny. In every corner of the Internet, Wang Shuo no longer needs Wang Shuo to rebel and express instead of the public.

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In the past, Wang Shuo believed, "What is the novel? It is the portrayal of your own life, what is the text? It is the process of simplification ... Who is a fool who writes a novel like a long river, you might as well make a long TV series, everyone watched it intuitively."

Now Wang Shuo does not even write "himself". Instead, he took out a pure fiction novel for the first time. The four volumes of 1.4 million words, which can be regarded as a large circle and returned to the industry. This kind of return is also a kind of silence.

From then on, there were no "Beijing -Qiye" in the rivers and lakes, only the writer Wang Shuo.

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