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Chapter 78 Close to life and whitewash life

To be honest, Lin Zixuan is not very interested in the art form of drama, and he cannot remember too many drama scripts.

"Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise" are both articles that once appeared in later middle school Chinese textbooks, but are just excerpts.

At that time, in order to enhance students' understanding of the text, the Chinese teacher asked the students to find the full text of "Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise" in their spare time, which made Lin Zixuan remember it.

He also watched "The Wilderness" and "The Teahouse", but he didn't have the patience to finish it.

He remembers a foreign drama "Waiting for Godot", which is said to be a real innovation in the history of drama and the first absurd drama to be performed successfully.

Lin Zixuan watched this name in later generations. It was indeed a ridiculous drama, and he didn't understand it at all.

He had no intention of writing "Waiting for Godot" and performed absurd dramas in the 1920s. This was a matter of dying and would be scolded to death by the audience.

Therefore, Lin Zixuan decided not to write dramas in the future. He might as well write more novels if he had time.

He hesitated even for this "Sunrise".

He originally didn't want to write "Sunrise" because this drama is so similar to his life. He is a banker and has similar friends in "Sunrise" around him, which is easy to be picked up by others.

If the people around him find out, should he still be in the financial circle and live in the upper class?

This is a matter of excluding one's own class, and he is not a passionate young man.

"Thunderstorm" touched the hidden pain of the big family, while "Sunrise" uncovered the scars of this cruel society.

Lin Zixuan finally decided to write it out with many considerations.

First of all, it is because everyone is talking so hard when they are chatting. If they don’t write a drama, it will damage his image as a future literary master, especially when Lu Xiaoman is watching.

Secondly, Lin Zixuan realized that Hong Shen was a little dissatisfied with him, so he slapped his face slightly and shone his sense of presence.

After all, it is a matter of men's face and vanity.

He is not an old man, and young people should have a little personality.

Faced with Ji Hongming's bowing and admitting defeat, he could forgive him generously. For Hong Shen's inadvertent provocation, he didn't mind putting a little pressure on this professional in the Harvard drama class.

Of course, Lin Zixuan admires Hong Shen's talent more, and he wants to invite Hong Shen to the celebrity film company.

In this era, there was little difference between filming movies and rehearsing dramas.

Most of China's film talents have transformed from the drama industry, such as Zheng Zhengqiu and Zhang Shichuan.

There are also those who have transformed from painting and literature, such as Du Yu and Zhou Shoujuan.

If you want to invite the arrogant Hong Shen to join, you must have something to let him feel disappointed. Lin Zixuan believes that the script of "Sunrise" should have a certain effect.

Again, this drama can actually be filmed into a movie, and Chen Bailu in the drama is very suitable for Yin Mingzhu to act.

Yin Mingzhu was originally quite famous in the social circle of Shanghai and was not unfamiliar with the living environment in "Sunrise".

However, her family is well-off and she does not need to rely on other men to live, so she can live freely, not as pitiful as Chen Bailu, and eventually she is in a desperate situation.

If you want to bring Yin Mingzhu into a celebrity film company, you need a good script that can impress her.

"Sunrise" is like "Shanghai Holiday", both of which highlights actresses, and others are supporting roles. As long as they perform well, Yin Mingzhu will become the most popular movie star in China.

"I finally know why you are unwilling to admit that you have written "Thunderstorm"." Zheng Zhengqiu said sympathetically after reading "Sunrise", "It seems that you will not admit that you have written "Sunrise".

Drama comes from life and is higher than life.

Zheng Zhengqiu understood this truth. The scripts he wrote in the past were based on things around him. Some were seen in newspapers and some were experienced by himself.

Writing it can also gain recognition and welcome from the audience, indicating that the script is not out of life.

This is his more gratifying side.

However, he has never written a script that is as close to life as "Sunrise". This is no longer close to life, this is real life.

Lin Zixuan took out his real life and wrote it into a script, which took great courage.

The part where drama is higher than life is to say it elegantly, which is to extract the main plot from the tedious little things in life.

In fact, it is to whitewash your life.

When viewing the play, on the one hand, the audience wants to see their own shadow in the play so that they can feel immersive, while on the other hand, they don’t want to see the real life.

Because real life is too cruel, they are unwilling to accept it.

This is why Chinese dramas like a happy ending.

The audience has a sense of immersion and a sense of happiness that they have never had in life, so they receive psychological compensation and satisfaction in the drama.

This is why they like a drama.

This is the same as later readers reading online novels.

Readers always emphasize the sense of substitution when reading online novels. This sense of substitution is to conform to the experiences of most people in terms of character setting and storyline, that is, to be close to life.

However, readers hope that there are no depressing plots in real life in online novels and want to be happy.

The protagonist cannot be slapped in the face, cannot be wronged, the heroine cannot die, cannot have an affair, and cannot have any unhappy plots, otherwise why would readers read online novels?

This is embellishing life.

Therefore, no matter how the times develop, people’s common emotional needs are the same.

Of course, there is another art form among them, that is tragedy.

For example, in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the male and female protagonists are dead, and they are still a classic drama.

In China's "Battle of Liang", both the male and female protagonists died, but in the end they turned into butterflies and flew away.

After comparison, we can find that Westerners are more able to accept life-like dramas, while Easterners will embellish their lives and leave a little hope, making it difficult to escape the happy ending.

Both dramas, "Sunrise" and "Thunderstorm", are tragedies and do not leave any hope.

In online articles, it is abusive master, but it is wrong. Even the protagonist is dead, which means it is abusive audience.

But such a drama has even more shocking power.

Zheng Zhengqiu felt depressed when watching "Thunderstorm", and he was heartbroken by the tragic experience of the two families.

He was even more depressed when he watched "Sunrise", and he hated the dark twists of the entire society.

"Thunderstorm" is a great tragedy of life, and "Sunrise" is a great tragedy of society.

This is where Zheng Zhengqiu admires Lin Zixuan.

He and Lin Zixuan have a similar family background, but he will never be able to conduct such a profound analysis of himself and this society like Lin Zixuan.
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