Liu Jingting stood on the podium and was still surprised when facing the defense lineup in front of him. However, looking at the expressions of the professors present, the stone in Liu Jingting's heart finally fell to the ground.

When I first chose "Waiting for Godot" as my graduation thesis, I was not without any doubts. After all, when this work was first released, I encountered all kinds of criticisms. The adapted drama was even more criticized by the audience as "things of unknown origin" and "what is this thing I go?" In short, at the beginning of the drama adaptation, basically no audience could persist in reading half of the content.

Later, after a series of interpretations and analysis by experts, the audience gradually understood and accepted the drama. In the later performances, everyone really had their own experiences, and the historical status of the drama was established.

Beckett advocates that only art without plot and action can be considered real art. His narrative is completely indifferent and impressed, allowing readers to gain a clearer understanding of nothingness in desperate words.

Of course, the criticism of the commentators is also here.

The ultimate reason why Liu Jingting dared to gamble is that he believed in these professors of Wanxiang and believed that they could see the profound meaning behind this drama.

"It's absurdism," Liu Jingting replied with enlightenment, "as an exploration of this field."

Professor Yan asked: "Will there be any boredom concerns?"

Professor Yan's expression suddenly became weird and continued to ask: "Isn't the audience the first thing you consider in your previous works?"

"The first question is, but it is also part of it. The second question is, considering the audience, but it is definitely not the primary condition." Liu Jingting answered smoothly.

Professor Cao smiled and nodded, saying, "What are the techniques for converting between popular literature and pure literature so smoothly?"

"Get rid of discriminatory mind."

Liu Jingting blurted out, and the professors here looked at each other and smiled.

Liu Jingting then asked back: "I don't know if you have read "Journey to the West" by all teachers."

“See it.”

"I've watched it more than a dozen times."

"The Wuzhuang Guanzhai stole ginseng!"

As soon as the Liu Jingting problem arose, almost half of the professors said they had seen it.

"Who does "Journey to the West" think is pure literature or popular literature?"

The audience calmed down. From the perspective of storyline, legendary and communication, this novel is of course a popular novel, but from the perspective of beautiful parallel sentences and ancient verbal words in the text, this novel has the characteristics of pure literature. For a time, these professors could not make a conclusion.

Liu Jingting looked at the professors and said to himself: "I will ask this question again after "Dream of Red Mansions" is released in the future, and it will be even more difficult to answer at that time."

"Liu Jingting, we understand what you mean. Tell me the meaning of absurd literature itself." Professor Wen suddenly said.

Liu Jingting nodded politely and said, "Literature is also developing with the development of the times. From the Book of Songs, various schools of thought to Tang poetry, Song lyrics and Yuan lyrics, each era corresponds to a certain literary form. However, the difference between literature and the latter two lies in its own uniqueness. For example, the subject of ancient poetry reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. Although there were inheritance in later generations, no great poets like Li Bai and Du Fu appeared again. From this, it can be seen that for a specific era, literary form also has specificity."

Liu Jingting made a technical pause, after all, it was not appropriate to talk nonsense in front of the teacher.

"Continue to talk." Professor Wen signaled.

"The same is true for the development of Western literature, from classicism to romanticism, romanticism to realism, then modernism, and then postmodernism. After careful analysis and comparison, each ideology is consistent with its corresponding era. The absurdism represented by "Waiting for Godot" is the trend of the Western world in the 1940s and 1950s."

“Inspiration comes from history?”

"yes."

Liu Jingting's graduation defense lasted for nearly an hour and a half. Judging from the atmosphere later, it could no longer be considered a graduation defense, but a small literary discussion.

In the end, Liu Jingting's graduation design was awarded with full excellence without any suspense, and even Professor Yan did not hesitate at all.

"Splite it out, we will recommend you and sign up for the Nobel Prize in October." Director Kang finally suggested that he had always been very concerned about the bets between Liu Jingting and Hesta.

"I want to think about this again, Director, have plenty of time."

Director Kang saw that Liu Jingting was so confident, he smiled and nodded.

"So, I want to ask all teachers to keep this article confidential for the time being."

"This is OK. Our graduation thesis is originally archived confidentially."

Liu Jingting's university life came to an end.

...

July 17, it is an important day for both "Journey to the West" and Gu Yongsheng fans. On this day, "Journey to the West", which had been played for nearly eleven months, ushered in the finale. On this day, Liu Jingting, who had been studying in college for four years, welcomed the graduation party.

In fact, at 3:00 p.m. on the 17th, the Shanru Plaza had already gathered many fans and enthusiastic audiences from all over the world. Young people chatting could be seen everywhere in the square. They either had tablets in their hands or cameras hung around their necks. They were dressed fashionable and chatting and laughing.

The stage on the north side of the square has been set up long ago, and the huge screen hanging on the building has also begun to play the trailer of the evening program in turn, and everything is ready.

At about five o'clock, groups of security guards and traffic police began to move out, and soon guarded the intersection of several roads near the Shanru Plaza. The audience in the square had already chosen their seats, sat on the ground, ate their own snacks, and chatted with friends who came or new friends they met.

The huge square was covered in darkness, roughly estimated to be close to three thousand, and there were crowds of spectators coming on several roads.

At around six o'clock, nearly 5,000 people gathered at the scene, and 60,000 of the audiences rushed over were parents and children.

Then, various media outlets with reporters were also present, and the appearance of long guns and short cannons caused a stir among the audience.

"Friends of the audience, thank you for your arrival, but please be sure to abide by order and be sure to pay attention to safety. The event will begin soon."

Just when the scene was noisy, six or seven huge speakers sounded the host's reminder at the same time.

"Tonight's live broadcast on the big screen will not only celebrate the final party of "Journey to the West", but also broadcast the graduation party of Vientiane Academy. As we all know, this graduation party is the graduation party of our Liu Jingting."

As soon as Liu Jingting's name came out, a scream immediately appeared on the scene. The reporters standing around were shocked. They had participated in fan meetings of many big-name stars and had seen many crazy fans. Judging from the current scale of Shuru Plaza, Liu Jingting's appeal is not inferior to any top-tier star today.

The screen suddenly changed, and the Vientiane Auditorium appeared in front of everyone. Many high school students at the scene had entered this auditorium and had seen the magnificence and grandness of it. In addition, their inner desire for Vientiane Academy made them unable to hide their surprise and the joy of "I have seen it".

"The big screen is the graduation party of Vientiane Academy, and Liu Jingting will also appear later."

The host deliberately paused here. Sure enough, when he heard that Liu Jingting was still in the world, there was a sudden burst of noise.

"But don't worry, Liu Jingting will arrive here before "Journey to the West" is played."

"Oh--host, you have to finish your speech, don't scare us."

"Supporter, you did it on purpose. I'm going to throw the bottle of water scarcity in my mine."

The host looked proud of his treacherous plan and said with a smile: "Everyone should be calm and watch the party of everything."

In the Vientiane Auditorium, three hosts have already appeared. As the only female host, Sun Boya, won the applause of male audiences in the auditorium and in the square as soon as she appeared.

Sun Boya, wearing a white dress, showed her exquisite figure. When she hosted, she smiled gracefully and looked beautiful. Not to mention male audiences, even female audiences couldn't help but praise "so beautiful".

The opening program of the graduation party is a modern double dance. The great equipment that looks down on major universities in the Vientiane Auditorium has finally been publicly launched for the first time.

This dance tells a story of war and parting. Although it is an old theme and an old story, under the careful interpretation of the two dancers of Vientiane and the effective backdrop of the lighting prop stage, the story is still presented to be moving.

After the dance, Liu Jingting finally took the stage. The auditorium was fine. After all, Liu Jingting was their alumnus, but Xingru Plaza suddenly fell into a sea of ​​jubilation.

Sun Boya interviewed Liu Jingting and was talking about the past when Liu Jingting gave her milk tea. Everyone was surprised to find that whether it was intentional or unintentional, Sun Boya, who was standing next to Liu Jingting, was no longer the host of the radiant Queen Fan who held the audience, but a kind and cute and even a little shy girl.

When she heard her telling about her experiences with Liu Jingting, the young audience, both men and women, were both envious and yearning.

"If she could act like a spoiled person to me like this, I would probably not be able to resist anything I asked me to do."

"If I could stand so close to Gu Yongsheng, I would definitely be more coquettish than her."

Liu Jingting's natural humorous answer made everyone feel relieved. In the eyes of fans, it is actually difficult to accept any shortcomings in their idols. Even if they are a book writer, they think it is best not to show their timidity when speaking crosstalk.

...

At 6:40, the event in the Tradition Square officially began. In the first part, Zhu Yiyi, Huang Ye, Chen Hanting and other crew members gave songs.

How could Gong Chengpin let go of such a good advertising opportunity?

After the singing, the host reported: "Liu Jingting is already on the way to arrive."

Then, the large screen switches to the Vientiane Graduation Party.

At 7:20, after a beautiful stage play in the Vientiane Auditorium ended, the screen was cut back and the host of Tranquility Square came on stage.

The scene began to be restless, and everyone realized that Liu Jingting had arrived.

"I had a long string of words to say, but when I saw everyone's reaction, I decided to give up because I was worried that before I could finish speaking, the mineral water bottle flying up from below would fire at me."

Everyone laughed.

"Let's talk about it, let's invite Gu Yongsheng, Zhang Xueyi and Gong Chengpin to appear together to announce the beginning of the finale of "Journey to the West"!"

The screams instantly soared into the sky, deafening.

Facing such a powerful scene, Gu, Zhang and Gong forced themselves to hold back the roar in their ears and keep smiling.

Half a minute later, the voice gradually faded, and the three of them did not say any unnecessary nonsense and directly announced that the "finale officially began."

"Journey to the West Overture" began to ring when the three of them stepped down. Sun Wukong, who had fallen into the sky, quickly aroused the cheers of the children on the scene.

In July of the ninth year of Tingchuen, the finale of the TV series "Journey to the West" officially started!

On the same day, the novel "Journey to the West" was launched nationwide!

...

As the TV series officially began, the scene gradually became quiet until it was silent.

The last episode of "Acquiring the True Sutra, and the Five Saints Come True" tells the story of the four masters and disciples of Tang Monk and finally arrived at the Great Leiyin Temple, met the Tathagata Buddha, and began to receive the True Sutra. However, Ananda Kashyapa deliberately issued the Wordless Sutra because the Master and disciple of Tang Monk and disciple did not give anyone a human trouble. Later, the ancient Buddha of the Lanting sent Bai Xiong to remind the four masters and disciples, and the four had to return to Leiyin Temple. The plot of Sun Wu's fierce air with the Tathagata made the audience smile knowingly.

In "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong is not afraid of the world, he is not afraid of the world, and he is making trouble with the Jade Emperor and playing tricks with the Buddha Tathagata is definitely a great pleasure in the whole story, and his sense of substitution is so strong that he has no opponents.

After this storm, the four of them finally obtained the true scriptures and were sages. However, this is not the ending, because Guanyin Bodhisattva calculated that the four masters and disciples were not suffering enough and failed to reach the 99th return to the true number, so he made up for the difficulty of "the old turtle turned over".

At this point, the whole story is about to come to an end. When Tang Monk and his disciples stood on the clouds and shouted to the Tang Dynasty, "We are back from obtaining the scriptures", everyone in the square stood up consciously and began to applaud.

"Journey to the West" officially ended.
To be continued...