The Magnolia Awards had just ended in the past two days. Yu Dong originally thought about going, but after careful consideration, he decided to find someone to go on his behalf.
Although Yu Dong has more contact with the film and television industry, his focus is still on the literary circle and school. To be more realistic, they don't even have a screenwriting award, so why should he join in the fun?
Zhao Baogang and the others went, but they didn't win the award. The best TV series was Neon's "Koi Fish", the best director and best actor were both won by "Like Spring", and the best actress went to France
Catlin Jacob.
Generally speaking, Magnolia still wants to take an international route, and "Don't Talk to Strangers" does not please them under their current set of award criteria. It is not surprising that Yu Dong did not win the award.
Because it's not unexpected, I don't care.
On the contrary, Zhao Baogang chatted with Yu Dong on the phone for more than an hour. Although he did not complain, he still felt that he had not been treated fairly.
Zhang Yimou went to Shanghai this time not to participate in the Magnolia Award. He had little to do with the award. However, when chatting on the phone before, Yu Dong said that he had received an invitation letter from the Magnolia Award, so that
Zhang Yimou thought he would attend.
Later, Zhang Yimou went to Shanghai to participate in another event. When he arrived in Shanghai, he called Yu Dong and found out that he did not attend.
"I still can't leave, and I'm not missing a Magnolia Award." Yu Dong explained casually.
Zhang Yimou smiled and said: "Actually, they were wrong. They should not have invited you to be a guest, but invited you to be a judge."
Yu Dong smiled and said, "I'm going to be a judge. I don't know much about TV series. I haven't even watched the award-winning neon TV series "Koi Fish"."
Zhang Yimou waved his hand, "It doesn't matter. As far as I know, Yu Qiuyu is among the judges this time. Compared to him, you should know more about TV dramas, otherwise you wouldn't be able to write "Don't Talk to Strangers"."
Yu Dong also waved his hand, "Impossible. I am the screenwriter of "Don't Talk to Strangers" and I must avoid suspicion. Moreover, even if they are not afraid of gossip and invite me to be a judge, I will not do it.
Being a judge is more time-consuming than being a guest.”
Then, before Zhang Yimou could respond, Yu Dong said again: "We won't talk about Magnolia anymore. How long will you stay in Jinling this time?"
"If you don't leave tomorrow, you have to leave the day after tomorrow. Why, what else do you have to do?"
"I have nothing else to do. It's a pity that I finally came here and didn't teach the students."
Zhang Yimou curled his lips while holding the teacup, "I knew there was nothing good going on. Every time I come here, you have to pull a string."
Yu Dong laughed and said, "Your pattern is too small. As the saying goes, a teacher for a day will be a teacher for a lifetime. If you teach the students a lesson now and leave the knowledge behind, they will remember you for a lifetime. And this time I ask you to teach
Acting majors take classes, and when these children leave school, they will still be your soldiers, your generals."
Zhang Yimou raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, "Okay, okay, don't do this with me. It's just a class, I'll just go and take it. But again, I'm not that professional in class.
I'm just chatting with students, don't blame me if it doesn't work well."
Yu Dong smiled and said, "That's easy to say."
…
The Little Bear Bookstore in New York has now become a gathering place for YU book fans.
Not only local book fans often come to Little Bear Bookstore, but YU book fans from other places also come here to check out this bookstore that has held two YU book signings.
Of course, it is not just the YU section in bookstores that attracts book lovers. After all, there are also bookstores in other places that have YU sections.
What really attracts book fans is that Bear Bookstore stocks many YU signed books and the pens used for signing.
These signed books or pens will be taken out by the bookstore for lottery at regular intervals and given back to customers.
Taylor arrived at Little Bear Bookstore early in the morning. As soon as she entered the door, she went straight to the checkout counter, "Jenny, are there any activities today?"
Cashier Jenny was arranging the counter. When she heard Taylor's voice, she looked up with a smile and said, "Sorry, Taylor, there is no activity today just like yesterday."
Taylor pouted and said, "Today is the same as yesterday, yesterday was the same as the day before yesterday, and the day before yesterday was the same as the day before yesterday. There are really few activities in your bookstore."
Jenny was familiar with Taylor because they met often. She smiled and explained for Taylor: "There is no way, because our inventory is running out now. If YU can hold another autograph session, there will be more activities.
."
"Then why don't you invite him?"
Taylor muttered something, but before Jenny could answer, she raised her feet and prepared to walk upstairs. She was just complaining casually. After all, she also knew that inviting YU to do a book signing was not an easy task.
Easy things.
As a loyal fan of YU, Taylor can guarantee that she has read all...at least all YU's works that have been translated into English.
Even if it's not YU's work, but it has something to do with him, she will still read it.
For example, works by Chinese authors such as Yu Hua, Bi Feiyu, and Mo Yan, as well as the movies recommended by YU last time.
And before that, she also watched "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Harry Potter", also because of YU.
But before she took two steps, Jenny called her from behind: "Taylor, don't worry."
Taylor turned around and asked doubtfully, "What's wrong?"
Jenny smiled and took out a roll of posters from under the counter, "This is the new poster today, because you came too early and I haven't had time to hang it up yet."
"What poster?"
Taylor blinked and took two steps back, stretched his head to look at the poster in Jenny's hand, and saw it read: YU's new work "Golden Dreamland" will be released soon!
"real?"
Taylor excitedly grabbed the poster from Jenny's hand, and then slowly unfolded the rest of the poster.
The main content of the poster is the preview of the new book. YU's new book "Golden Dreamland" will be released to everyone on December 22nd.
There is only one sentence in the whole poster to describe the new book.
"This is a story about escape..."
Golden Dreamland... When Taylor saw this title, the first thing that came to his mind was the Beatles song, also called Golden Dreamland.
Is there any connection between the two?
YU is Chinese, does he listen to the Beatles?
Taylor continued to look below the poster and found something special.
In the lower half of the poster, the content has nothing to do with "Golden Dreamland".
[The movie "Sniper Phone Booth" written and directed by YU will be officially released on December 27th.]
It turns out that this poster is not only a new book preview poster, but also a movie announcement poster.
However, there is not much information about "Sniper Phone Booth". There is only this sentence in the lower half of the poster, and no other descriptions or pictures.
Taylor had heard about "Sniper Phone Booth".
YU was photographed on the streets of New York before. At that time, it was revealed that YU was working with a crew called "Sniper Phone Booth".
At that time, Taylor was very curious about this movie.
Now that he saw the description on the poster, Taylor realized that it turned out that this movie was written by YU himself.
"How about it? Are you happier to see such news than to see activities in our bookstore?" Jenny said with a smile.
Taylor held the poster and tilted his head and looked at Jenny, "Of course, but I hope that in order to celebrate such good news, your store will hold a lottery. In that case, I will definitely be even happier. By the way, the poster in your store
There should be more than one serving, right?”
"Well, what's wrong?"
Taylor smiled and shook the poster in his hand, "Just give this one to me."
After saying that, Taylor clutched the poster and went up to the second floor, without Jenny even shouting from behind.
Seeing that she couldn't stop calling her, Jenny smiled and shook her head behind the counter and let her go.
There are a lot of posters in the store, so it’s not a big deal to give one to regular customers. And this poster in Taylor’s hands may be more useful than hanging on the door.
…
In fact, Jenny was right, the posters played a big role in Taylor's hands.
After getting the poster, Taylor went around to help promote it, fearing that others would not know that YU was going to release a new book and movie.
For YU book fans, this Christmas is destined to be extremely happy.
Before Christmas, they can read YU's new book "Golden Dreamland".
After reading the new book, and after Christmas, they will welcome the new movie "Sniper Phone Booth".
Although before that, they need to wait for more than a month.
However, the wait this time is a little different, because book fans have found something to accompany their wait, and that is The Beatles' "Golden Dreams".
Book fans don't know whether YU's new book "Golden Dreams" is related to the Beatles' "Golden Dreams", but that doesn't stop them from killing the waiting time with songs.
For a time, the listening rate of The Beatles' "Golden Dream" suddenly skyrocketed, and major radio stations also played the song at the right time.
"Golden Dreams" is a song included in the Beatles' eleventh studio album "Abbey Road", and this is widely regarded as one of the band's most exquisite albums. It was sold out two months after its release.
Sold more than four million copies, making it the best-selling album of the year.
And this album has extraordinary significance to the Beatles because it is truly the Beatles' last album.
At that time, one of the members, Paul McCartney, felt that the band was about to fall apart, so he composed a set of medleys including Golden Dreams, which expressed his hope that the band could get back together.
Today, nearly thirty years have passed since the album was released.
Although "Golden Dreamland" is still sung, it no longer has the same popularity as before.
It's just that YU announced the new book title "Golden Dreamland" at this time, which made many people think of this song again.
For Beatles and YU fans or book fans, this is undoubtedly a dream collaboration.
Of course, it is not just the Beatles and YU fans or book lovers who are happy, but also Paul McCartney himself.
He even talked about this matter in the radio program "Oobu Joobu" he created. He was very happy that "Golden Dreams" could be found and listened to by everyone again during this period. He was also very happy that YU's new book used "Golden Dreams"
》This name means great honor.
Deep Space also reacted very quickly. After McCartney's radio show was broadcast, Deep Space came forward and expressed its hope to cooperate with McCartney.
Subsequently, the two parties hit it off immediately, and McCartney decided to remake "Golden Dreams" and other trilogy, plus a new song of his own, into an EP, which was released with the help of Deep Space Company.
In the future, when new books are released, Deep Space Company will randomly include books that are different from the ordinary versions among the new books on sale. Fans who buy these books can go to the store to get a free copy of the "Golden Dreamland" ep.
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In the Deep Space Company, Jimmy listened to his assistant's report on the recent popularity of "Golden Dreams" and leaned back on the sofa with great satisfaction.
This activity was not operated by him, but was proposed by Cambot on his own initiative. After Jimmy analyzed the feasibility, he decided to let Cambot go ahead with it.
For deep space, this linkage can be said to have all the benefits and no harm.
Through this linkage, they can establish contact with the Beatles, please Beatles fans, and attract them, and the sales of the "Golden Dreams" novel will definitely increase.
And what Deep Space has to pay is the cost of releasing the ep of "Golden Dreamland". This amount of money is naturally not worth mentioning to Deep Space.
In addition, Deep Space also intends to enter the music market. They have made some efforts before, but to no avail. With this incident, maybe there will be a turn for the better.
After listening to the report, Jimmy said: "Pass this news to China and stir up the news."
"Okay." The assistant nodded.
"Also, I will contact the person in charge of Deep Space China soon and arrange a time. I will hold a conference call with him and ask him to spare at least an hour."
The assistant looked at his watch and said, "It should be five o'clock in the morning over at Jinling. It might take a while."
"No problem, wait until 8:30 and contact him. You can work hard tonight and work overtime with me."
"no problem."
After the assistant left, Jimmy turned his chair and looked at the scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
The current market for Chinese music is not big, but he attaches great importance to it. In his view, China is their deep space base. As long as they firmly grasp the market there, even if the United States makes any strategic mistakes, China will
The base camp over there has opportunities for them to make a comeback.
On the U.S. side, they are more like vanguards in deep space, sprinting with all their strength, while on the Chinese side, they are taking their time and making progress step by step.
He was reminded of an old Chinese saying that builds walls high, accumulates grain widely, and becomes king slowly.
Let’s not talk about whether they want to be king or not, but at this stage in China they are just building high walls and hoarding grain.
Chapter completed!