Lin Chaoyang appeared on the cover of Time magazine, which caused great responses in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three regions.
Since the discourse power of Western media began to invade in the 1980s, the style of Time magazine has been erected by various domestic media that followed the trend and joined in the fun.
In the eyes of many ordinary people, being able to be on the cover of Time magazine is a world-class celebrity.
No ordinary national leaders can do it.
What does Lin Chaoyang Energy say when boarding it?
This means that he is now an internationally recognized great writer!
Although Lin Chaoyang has won some international literature awards in recent years and is said to have been very popular overseas, this popularity is obviously not more convincing in the eyes of ordinary people!
In the 1980s and 1990s, people were blindly superstitious about the media, especially the authoritative Western media.
With the enthusiastic reports on this incident by many media from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the Three Places, Lin Chaoyang's status in the Chinese literary world has unknowingly increased by half a step.
However, the Chinese-speaking regions' pursuit of Lin Chaoyang is more due to the media's exaggeration. After all, there are still very few real readers of Time magazine in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three regions.
Compared with the domestic momentum caused by media exaggeration, the impact of Lin Chaoyang's appearance on Time magazine in the United States is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and more influential.
In the past two or three months, the people have just experienced the baptism of the "Lin Chaoyang phenomenon". The popularity of Lin Chaoyang and his works has just dropped in the American cultural circle. Time magazine continued Lin Chaoyang's popularity.
A handful of firewood.
What Lin Chaoyang said in an interview with Time magazine, "One orientation, one disease" and "the world is big and can accommodate all the differences" are frequently quoted by the media, and they have become famous quotes for a while.
trend.
Many homosexual organizations and AIDS organizations also wrote these two sentences on the sign and promoted them when holding events.
On October 11, 1987, a "Mark to Washington for homosexual rights" event took place in the United States.
The event was huge and had a far-reaching impact. The following year, in order to celebrate the first anniversary of the parade, the people participating in the parade decided to make October 11 the "National Outing Day".
When Lin Chaoyang's "famous quotes" were widely reported by the media, some homosexual organizations began to call for "the world is big and can accommodate all the differences" as a promotional slogan for this year's National Outing Day, and it was quickly supported and widely in the United States
spread.
"Uncle, do you really support homosexuality?"
Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Tao Xiwen asked Lin Chaoyang, he was reading the South China Morning Post just now.
In the past two months, the Xiangjiang media has reported on the huge response caused by Lin Chaoyang's works in the United States. Every time, they can always find new angles and materials.
Today, the South China Morning Post's report on Lin Chaoyang was focused on the fact that American homosexual organizations regarded what he said in an interview some time ago as a propaganda slogan. This angle was chosen in an amazing way.
In front of the child, Lin Chaoyang certainly cannot say that he is "hiding evil intentions" by doing this, and he has to set a good example for the child.
But when he thought that his eldest nephew was about to go to the United States to study, he did not dare to claim that he was too arrogant.
I am afraid that my eldest nephew will take his words as a golden rule, and if he goes to the United States and gets involved with those people, he will be punished by death!
After weighing the two, Lin Chaoyang said: "Broken sleeves, Long Yang's habit has been there in ancient times. Those who see it will not blame it, but the strangeness will be destroyed. In modern society, everyone has the right to choose their own life and must know not to interfere with each other.
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"But I think Americans don't think so. They always like to impose their ideas on others, and so do these homosexuals.
Their orientation is different from that of ordinary people. After all, they are outside the mainstream, but they are going to the public, which is too domineering."
Seeing that his eldest nephew had such a positive view, Lin Chaoyang took a snack and said, "The Americans act like this. They are very domineering. You will know when you go to the United States."
"But I think they highly respect you." Tao Xiwen said again.
"In any country, strength is the best way to win respect!"
Listening to Lin Chaoyang's words, Tao Xiwen thought that Lin Chaoyang was giving him some advice. He nodded, "Thank you uncle, I remember!"
Tao Xiwen passed the Shuimu two years ago and studied hard. She planned to graduate early and study abroad.
According to Shuimu's regulations, you must submit a written application and study plan one year in advance for graduation, and complete all courses, and be included in the unified management of the graduation grade.
In July just passed, Tao Xiwen successfully completed all the undergraduate courses and officially graduated from Shuimu.
Two months earlier, he had successfully applied for a master's degree at Stanford University.
During this period, he ran to Xiangjiang and worked at Sugar Games, praised himself for the cost of studying abroad, and waited for Stanford University to start in September.
The two were talking, and Tao Xiwu came back from outside with his wet hair. He had just finished swimming in the pool.
"It's so cool! Uncle, your swimming pool is much more enjoyable than swimming pool!"
Lin Chaoyang looked at his dark skin, then looked at the white Tao Xiwen, who was also born to a mother.
This is a bit big.
"Where are you reading the newspaper again? What's the best thing to look at?"
Without Lin Chaoyang's response, Tao Xiwu was not embarrassed. He glanced at the newspaper in his elder brother's hand and said, "It's in English? It's boring!"
It’s not that the English newspaper is boring, it’s that he really can’t understand it, so Tao Xiwen sees it through and doesn’t say it through.
"I read the newspaper that day, and it said that my aunt and younger sister are 'two beauties breaking the boundaries', "the business sisters", it's so amazing!"
Although I don’t know what newspaper Tao Xiwu was reading, according to his habits, it is likely that after the gossip tabloid sugar game was acquired by Yulang organization, Tao Yumo became famous in the Xiangjiang business world.
Also, because of the fact that his sister Tao Yushu became famous first, many media always like to tie up the two sisters when reporting to attract readers' attention.
Xiangjiang media and citizens have always liked this family narrative. Li Zekai became famous after selling satellite TV.
Known as Little Superman; the Luo family of Eagle King Real Estate is called "A Five Heroes" by the media.
When they arrived at the Tao Yushu sisters, some media shouted the name "Two Beauties of the Tao", and Tao Yumo was extremely proud of this.
Her compliment was not only because she became famous in the business world, but also for some other reasons.
In the past media narratives, Tao Yushu's name was "Lin Tao Yushu" or "Lin Tai". Now it is tied to Tao Yumo, and Tao Yushu finally has his own surname in the media narratives.
Tao Yumo believes that this is all her credit.
"You'd better say this in front of your sister-in-law. When she is happy, she will throw you a little bit of melon and two dates. If you don't you get rich immediately?" Lin Chaoyang joked.
Tao Xiwu laughed and said, "Uncle, you have a good idea. I'll try it when my sister-in-law comes back."
Seeing his younger brother's cynical attitude, Tao Xiwen couldn't help but shake his head.
After talking for a while, Tao Xiwu asked Tao Xiwen if he would watch a movie. Tao Xiwen said he would not watch it, so he ran to the audio studio by himself.
Lin Chaoyang's family has its own audio and video studio, which is not very useful, but the facilities are first-class, especially the copies of hundreds of movies, which look so cool.
I watched a movie in the audio-visual room. The nanny came to call Tao Xiwu for dinner. He came to the restaurant and asked Lin Chaoyang excitedly: "Uncle, is it difficult to shoot an animation like "Chinese Heroes"?"
"The Hero of China" was only out of stock two days ago, and it has achieved a box office of HK$30.24 million in its own port. It is currently being released in mainland China, Bay Island, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions.
The box office was not a big hit, but in terms of cartoons, this result was already quite good.
"I don't know about this. If you want to understand it, let your sister-in-law take you to the company and ask for advice from professionals."
Tao Xiwu looked at Tao Yumo, "My sister-in-law!"
"Take you to change your career and don't make trouble for me!"
After the sugar game was sold, Tao Yumo has been promoted to vice president of Yulang organization and second-in-command of the company. He is truly "below one person, above ten thousand people."
"My sister-in-law, you are too partial. My brother is just working at your company. Why am I going to make trouble?"
"What your brother learned can really help in the company. What do you know?"
Tao Xiwu was discriminated against by his relatives, and said, "You are discriminating against your academic qualifications. Wouldn't he go to a good university?"
Tao Yumo sneered, "I'm not discriminating on education, I'm discriminating on IQ!"
Tao Xiwu:
After struggling for a while, he felt that his little arm could not twist his thighs, and he smiled and flattered Tao Yumo, and finally won the opportunity to visit and study at Yulang's institution.
A few days later, the Barcelona Olympics opened in a hot spot. The Chinese team sent 251 athletes to participate in the competition, and finally won a good result of 16 gold, 22 silver and 16 bronzes, ranking fourth in the medal list.
When watching the closing ceremony, Tao Xiwu looked forward to it and said, "I don't know when our country will host the Olympics!"
Since the end of the Yanjing Asian Games, the Yanjing Municipal Government has regarded Yanjing's bid for the Olympics as a top priority, but it has always been a secret state.
"It will be held, it's just a matter of time." Lin Chaoyang said with a smile.
Nearly September has passed since the Olympics ended. One of the two brothers Tao Xiwen and Tao Xiwu are going to go back to Yanjing to apply for graduate students, and the other is going to start school, so they go back to Yanjing together.
At the end of the month, Zhang Yimou came to Xiangjiang with a copy of "Qiu Ju's lawsuit".
In a few days, he will take this film adapted from Lin Chaoyang's early short story to participate in this year's Venice international film industry.
As early as a week ago, "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" had an internal premiere at Yan Film Studio. At that time, all the well-known domestic directors and film critics were present.
Everyone gave high praise to "Qiu Ju's lawsuit", which made Zhang Yimou feel much more relaxed.
Last year, he filmed "The Big Red Lantern" and won the Silver Lion Award in the Venetian film industry, but this movie has a polarized reputation at home and abroad.
Foreigners think this movie is beautiful and has a Chinese artistic conception.
But many people in China believe that "The Big Red Lantern Hanging High" is suspected of revealing its shortcomings and pleasing foreigners with feudal bad habits.
Such contradictory reputation evaluation made Zhang Yimou feel at a loss for a moment. He was not busy celebrating the achievements for some days after winning the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Instead, he dragged the crew to discuss the mistakes in the movie, and finally summarized more than 30 mistakes. This time, the film "Qiu Ju's lawsuit" was filmed. The content of the story reflects the appearance of the Chinese countryside, which is what he has always been good at, but it is different.
What is, he learned the lesson of "The Big Red Lantern Hanging High".
Instead of focusing on the experiences of "stereotyped China" that are curious and contradictory, we should restore the spicy and satirical nature of the original work as much as possible.
After an internal screening, the lights in the screening room lit up. Zhang Yimou was a little nervous. He wondered whether "Qiu Ju's lawsuit" would be recognized by Lin Chaoyang's original work and whether it would be recognized by Tao Yushu, the boss.
"What do you think of Kaige?" Tao Yushu did not comment at the first time, but asked Chen Kaige next to him.
"It's quite interesting." As soon as Chen Kaige spoke, he felt condescending and giving advice to the country. After the success of "Farewell My Concubine", he regained his confidence in Zhang Yimou.
"This documentary style shooting technique is a fresh attempt, representing a modern film aesthetic view, Yimou has re-understood the characters, stories, life and society.
The shots in the movie have a wild, vigorous vitality, which is a bit similar to returning to nature.
This is exactly in line with the essence of Uncle Lin’s original work. Realistic literary works should have such wildness!”
Piaogui Piao, but Chen Kaige said everything on the point. Zhang Yimou nodded, "Kege said it really well,
Thank you, thank you!"
Chen Kaige smiled generously, "Uncle Lin's original work, in line with the quality of the movie, Yimou, you will definitely be back with the Golden Lion Award this time!"
His words were explicitly to praise Zhang Yimou, but in fact they were flattering Lin Chaoyang.
"The winning ability is only part of the award, sometimes it depends on luck!" Lin Chaoyang said, and then said to Zhang Yimou: "The film was well shot."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yimou's back could not help but straighten. In his opinion, a hundred words of praise from the outside world were not as good as a word of praise from Lin Chaoyang.
With Lin Chaoyang's words, he felt more confident.
Not only because Lin Chaoyang is the original author of "Qiu Ju's lawsuit", but also because of his deep-rooted admiration for Lin Chaoyang.
After the movie was screened, others also expressed their opinions on the movie, and their evaluation was optimistic. Everyone agreed that the movie's level was sufficient.
Yu Yuxi is now the second-in-command of Lin's Film Distribution Department, specializing in participating in the exhibitions of various films at home and abroad.
For many years, she has been deeply involved in the three major international film festivals in Europe, and has dealt with many secondary film festivals.
During this period, she has learned a lot of information about this Venice International Film Festival. Including "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", a total of 23 films were shortlisted for the main competition unit.
But the competition is not fierce, and there is no real shortlist of works by major directors, so she is optimistic about Zhang Yimou's exhibition path.
"There have always been a surprise in the film festival, otherwise how did young directors like Yimou and others come forward? You shouldn't be careless!" said Tao Yushu.
When attending a film festival, the quality of the movie is important, but public relations are also important.
Yu Yuxi's face became solemn as he listened to Tao Yushu's words, "I understand."
Tao Yushu's face softened slightly, and he arranged to invite everyone to dinner tonight.
More than a week later, good news came from Italy.
"Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" won the Golden Lion Award at this Venice Film Festival with an undisputed number of judges.
At the same time, Gong Li also won the Best Actress Award for her outstanding performance in the film, becoming the first Chinese actress to win the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival.
"Qiu Ju's Sue" also set a record for the Venice Film Festival and became the first film to win two grand prizes.
Over the years, Lin's Film has produced and produced films that have made great achievements in the three major international film festivals in Europe.
Moreover, the company's strength is not the same as that of the past. Good news came, and the company was filled with joy, but there was no Meng Lang.
For film companies, a Golden Lion Award is not only a rare honor, but also a real benefit, not to mention that this is Zhang Yimou's second trophy with the highest honor of the three major European film festivals.
Everyone knows that there are not many mainland film directors, and Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are the ones Lin Tai valued the most.
The two of them did not disappoint Mrs. Lin's trust. Over the years, they have won three Golden Lion and Golden Bear trophys, and there are more honors from other second-rate ones.
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This time Zhang Yimou won the Golden Lion Award, everyone understood that he had embarked on the path of master and had a vaguely detached position in Lin's Film and even the Asian film industry.
The most intuitive example is the Asia-Pacific Film Festival, which was also held in September, because it was participating in the Venetian Film Festival.
The crew of "Qiu Ju Fighting a Lawsuit" did not go alone, but the jury awarded the best film to "Qiu Ju Fighting a Lawsuit".
The Asia-Pacific Film Festival, also known as the Asia-Pacific Film Festival, was first founded in 1954 by the Asia-Pacific Film Producers Alliance.
In 2019, it is held in member states and member regions every year.
However, due to ideological reasons in the early years, China has never been invited, but instead Xiangjiang and Wandao became its members.
After Tao Yushu learned about this situation a few years ago, he signed up for Lin's Film's films every year, especially the films of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, which never missed them once.
She looks down on third-rate film festivals like the Asia-Pacific Film Festival, but it does not prevent her from causing trouble to the hostile forces.
Aren’t you not allowing Chinese films to participate in the exhibition? I just participated, what can you do to me?
The movies of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige can be killed at the three major European film festivals and participate in the competition for the highest honor. It is naturally a dimensional reduction blow to participate in the Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
If the organizer does not give the award, he will lose his credibility. If he gives the award, he will also be slapping himself in the face.
Tao Yushu played this trick very beautifully. In the past two years, Lin's Film only won a few scrap awards for films. This year, the organizers finally couldn't bear the pressure.
Not only did "Qiu Ju's lawsuit" win the Best Picture and Best Director, Leslie Cheung also won the Best Actor with "Farewell My Concubine".
In addition to being the best actress, Lin's Film's films have almost won important awards at this Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
Shi Nansheng, who led the team to attend the film festival, called Tao Yushu from Seoul to report the good news, but received an puzzling instruction.
"In the future, Lin's Film will no longer participate in the Asia-Pacific Film Festival."
Shi Nansheng was very confused and couldn't help asking, "Madam Lin, why?"
"It's nothing. I just want to tell them that they were able to win the award before because our Lin family didn't come. When we came, the award was ours.
Not participating now is for their own good, so that they won’t even find any awards in the future!”
Feeling the domineering aura in Tao Yushu's words, Shi Nansheng was full of admiration.
She felt that although she was already a well-known figure in the Hong Kong film industry, she might never have the domineering aura like Mrs. Lin.
“Yes, I understand.
Two days later, Shi Nansheng brought people back to Xiangjiang from Seoul. What surprised Tao Yushu was that she brought her back to Tao Yushu during this trip.
"Teacher Lin, this is director Ang Lee from Bay Island."
After Shi Nansheng's introduction, Tao Yushu learned that this time Ang Lee took his directorial debut "Pushing Hands" to attend the Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
The movie shines at the Bay Island Golden Horse Awards last year. According to the normal historical trajectory, "Pushing Hands"
He should win the Best Picture Award at the Asia Pacific Film Festival.
But unfortunately, Ang Lee met Zhang Yimou in his childhood, which resulted in no success in the exhibition.
Shi Nansheng and Ang Lee met at the film festival. After chatting, they found that they all knew friends.
Ang Lee is a friend of Wu Nianzhen, a screenwriter of "The City of Sadness", and Wu Nianzhen happens to know Anhua Xu again.
Shi Nansheng was good at socializing. Seeing that Li An looked worried, he asked him what he had to worry about, and Li An told him about his thoughts.
His debut work "Pushinger" invested NT$13.5 million, which is approximately HK$3.6 million.
The funds were provided by Bay Island China Film. Although it shone at the Golden Horse Awards, the box office performance after the movie was released was mediocre, winning only NT$18 million. China Film, which was responsible for the investment, also lost a lot.
There are Zhongying in the mainland, and Zhongying in the Bay Island, but the full name of this Zhongying is Central Film Industry Co., Ltd.
Recently, Ang Lee is going to film his new film "Wedding Banquet". Wandao Zhongchao proposed an investment budget of NT$8 million and would also invest half of it with Ang Lee, which means they are only willing to invest NT$4 million.
For the remaining money, Wandao Zhongying asked Ang Lee to find a way for him.
But in fact, according to Ang Lee's estimate, the cost of "Wedding Banquet" requires at least NT$20 million, and the funding gap is huge.
Like Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee has a face full of bitterness and deep hatred.
Tao Yushu couldn't help laughing as he listened to his complaints, "These people in Wandao are really petty!"
Ang Lee looked wrong, Tao Yu apologized in writing and explained: "I'm not talking about you, I just can't stand the people from the Wandao News Bureau."
When it was first established, the Wandao News Bureau and the Hong Kong-Kowloon Free Association caused trouble for Lin's Pictures.
Although times have changed, Tao Yushu doesn't mind causing trouble for them.
She then said, "How much is the funding gap now?"
"16 million."
"Didn't you just say 20 million?"
"There's the Zhongying side-"
Tao Yushu waved his hand and said, "I'll give you 25 million yuan, and the funds on the Bay Island are no longer needed. The talents he trains are reluctant to spend money. How can he retain talents like them?"
NT$25 million, or more than HK$6 million, is included in Lin's Pictures. Tao Yushu, a movie invested in this way, doesn't even care much about it.
Ang Lee saw such a generous financial supporter for the first time, and he didn't know what to say for a moment. He held it in a while before saying, "Thank you, Mrs. Lin!"
Tao Yushu asked: "Is there anything else I need to solve?"
Ang Lee hesitated: "There is Zhongying's side--"
"Did you sign a contract with them?"
"No." Ang Lee shook his head.
"Then what else are there to worry about? They don't pay for it!"
Chapter completed!