Chapter 4 Adaptation
The next day, on the mountain, he had written ten jokes in his unused workbook.
However, this still doesn't solve the big problem. "Story Club" is a monthly magazine. You can use a joke in one issue. How much is the salary for a small joke? Top 10 bucks. Although 10 yuan was not a small amount for a 12-year-old child at the time, it was only a drop in the bucket for the situation he faced.
I have to think about it, I have to write longer, and the remuneration is at least a few hundred yuan.
Then the content is another problem, not only must it not deviate from the mainstream of today, but also fit his age and experience.
At his amateur level, it's okay to be a critic, and it's not impossible to write by himself, but the chance of being adopted by a magazine is definitely low, so it doesn't meet the purpose of making money as soon as possible. It can only be copied or copied.
In the few years when he just left secondary school, he would buy some literary works in his spare time. After that, he would sell them everywhere, especially after he opened his own shop, besides news, he would read online articles. News is obviously not useful. As for web articles, there are millions of words. Of course, he can't remember them all, but they can be shortened to medium or long stories.
He recalled, and then felt that there was still a problem. It is estimated that very few magazines are currently available for the themes of time travel, fantasy, magic, and fairy tales. Pure martial arts is fine, but there are too few online articles about pure martial arts. There are not many people who have the courage to write pure martial arts. As for the outstanding ones, there are even fewer.
Moreover, he is currently 12 years old and has basically no life experience, so it is not appropriate to write some articles about hegemony in the world, building a harem, or traversing other worlds.
It's okay to be a wizard, or a prodigy, but he doesn't want to be regarded as a monster.
then what should we do?
Students, schools, conform to reality, conform to mainstream values, he thinks and thinks, he did not expect such an article, but a few such movies.
Not long after he started working in 1998, he watched Zhang Yimou's film "No One Less" starring a non-professional's real name, and later watched Ni Ping's "Beautiful Feet" because it was closer to his childhood. life, so he was very impressed.
If there are more idealistic things in "Beautiful Feet", then "No One Can Be Missed" is real, or more realistic, and it is closer to daily life. So he watched it at least three times. The first time was to watch it, the second time was to appreciate it, and the third time, it was with a little bit of bad taste, to find faults and to find fault.
After all, he is not a professional actor, and he has no performance experience before, so there are still many blunt places in the performance. Being able to find out the flaws in the works of a well-known domestic director is also a bit of an inappropriate sense of accomplishment, hehe!
Therefore, even if he recalls it now, he can tell 80% to 90% of the plot of this movie, so he can completely adapt a story based on this movie. Most of the literary works are adapted into movies. If the movies are adapted into literary works, let me do it.
In addition, the important point is that he checked later that the film was based on the novel "There is a Sun in the Sky", which was published in 1997 by the writer Shi Xiangsheng. Of course, he had never read the original, but now in 1992, he Then adapt it into a novel based on the movie, which means that there is no possibility of plagiarism.
Besides, Director Zhang has so many masterpieces, and Writer Shi also has other works, so let's use this story first, it won't have any effect on them! Feng Yiping found a reason for himself.
He is not a professional author either, and he writes very slowly. At the same time, because he was used to the computer pinyin input method, he often forgets the words with his pen, and later he had to take the dictionary to the mountain.
In this way, it took him a week to finally write a novel of nearly 30,000 words, which is called "No One Less".
Films and literary works are two different cultural carriers with completely different forms of expression. In the movie, due to the time limit and the limitations of non-professional actors, some details are not so particular, some plots are not so smooth, and there are still some areas that can be refined and improved.
For example, in the village, the village chief is the only adult who has appeared on the scene. The other parents, except Zhang Jike's sick mother, did not mention it. In reality, this is of course unreasonable. In particular, if the children of the whole school are brought to the brick factory to move bricks, the parents will not find out and stop them? Feng Yiping played a bit here to make the story seem more plausible.
Another example, Wei Minzhi stopped anyone in front of the TV station and looked for the director. One day passed, and the director disappeared. The next day, he suddenly appeared in the office, and he didn't know anything about it. Only after the subordinate reminded him. Know. Immediately call the female guard who should be playing in her true colors without any decoration, and criticize her, and then find a way to help Wei Minzhi. The turn of the plot is too abrupt and a little blunt.
Feng Yiping added some more information. Wei Minzhi squeezed into the car that went to the market without buying a ticket because she didn't have enough money. The conductor checked the ticket on the road and wanted to get her off the bus. She told the conductor about her situation, but if she didn't buy a ticket, the conductor saw too many , has been numb. So the conductor didn't believe what she said, even if what she said was true, she was unmoved and still asked her to get off the bus.
At this time, there were two men and one woman in the car, and three middle school students who went to school in the city paid for her. As for middle school students, there is always some enthusiasm. In addition, there are three middle school students, two boys and one girl. The boys wanted to show themselves in front of the girls, and the two boys wanted to compete, so they scrambled to pay.
Wei Minzhi arrived in the city, and the middle school students went back to school. The middle school girl told the girl at her table what happened on the road. The girl returned home and told his father who had just returned home at the dining table. , her father is the director of the TV station.
Such a perfection made Feng Yiping feel much smoother.
Feng Yiping spent another day reading it through and checking it several times. He felt that there was no problem, and the draft was finalized.
As for "Beautiful Feet", because there are a lot of emotional entanglements in the middle, such as Zhang Meili and Wang Shu, Xia Yu and her husband, for him, a 12-year-old child who has not fully opened his mouth, it is not for the time being. It's so fitting to write a story like this.
The story is finalized, and the questions that follow are coming, which magazine should it be sent to? Feng Yiping has an impression, and also thinks it is more appropriate, it is "Harvest". This is a magazine founded by Mr. Ba Jin. It is a pure literature magazine. He has bought several issues before.
Now, we need to know the mailing address of "Harvest", which can only be found at the Xinhua Bookstore in town. Also, because there is no e-mail yet, the manuscripts sent to the magazine at this time must always be copied on the checkered manuscript paper, which will also cost money, and there is such a thick stack of paper, it must not be sent by ordinary letter, then Stamps and envelopes also cost money, plus the small jokes sent to the "Story Club", but also by express mail, adding up to several yuan and nearly ten yuan.
It’s not easy to ask your parents for this money, they don’t have it. Because of your uninsured thing, it’s probably hard to convince them to find a way to borrow it. After thinking about it, Feng Yiping felt that there was only one person who could help him, and that was his grandfather.
There are still five days left before the school, Feng Yiping discussed with his parents and wanted to visit his grandfather and play for a few days. Thinking that during this summer vacation, for the past two months, he has been helping the family with chores, actively chopping wood, and injuring his foot. Now there are only 5 days left in the summer vacation, and he said that he was going to see his grandfather, and his parents agreed. .
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