As soon as Yu Dong returned home, he received a call from Yuliang, saying that Duras had passed away.
Yu Dong was not too surprised by this. Duras was not young, and he was already at an age where bad news could come out at any time.
The reason why Yiliang called Yu Dong specifically was because Duras had said good things about their Chinese literature series and had memorized it.
After talking to Yu Liang on the phone, Yu Dong went to tell Yu Hua about the matter.
After hearing the news of Duras's death, Yu Hua was silent for a while, and finally sighed, "I said before that I had a chance to visit her in France, but now it seems I have no chance."
Even though Yu Dong and Yu Hua have each written about the death of many people, the topic of death is still a bit heavy for them.
Yu Hua lit a cigarette, and Yu Dong watched him finish smoking. Then he said, "I'm going back first."
"Yeah." Yu Hua nodded.
…
While watching TV in the evening, Yu Dong told Cheng Yanqiu the news of Duras' death.
"It seems that the illness I suffered from before has never been cured, but I heard that he passed away quite peacefully and there was no pain."
After he finished speaking, he was observing Cheng Yanqiu's reaction.
He knew that Cheng Yanqiu liked Duras very much. Last time Duras said good things about the Chinese Literature Series, Yu Dong and the other authors didn't have much reaction, but Cheng Yanqiu was happy for several days.
"Oh." Cheng Yanqiu nodded and continued to watch TV, as if the news of Duras's death was nothing but a trivial matter to her.
But soon, Yu Dong saw tears overflowing from his wife's eyes.
Yu Dong went to hold his wife's hand, but she couldn't bear it anymore and sobbed on Yu Dong's shoulder.
He understood Cheng Yanqiu's feelings. In the early morning of New Year's Day in 2011, he saw the news of Shi Tiesheng's death and was sad for a long time. As a man, he hugged his pillow and secretly cried.
Even though he had never met Shi Tiesheng in person before that, he had already connected with him through his works. The world built by Shi Tiesheng using words had already become a part of his world.
When Shi Tiesheng passed away, some things were left behind and some things were taken away.
I think Cheng Yanqiu feels the same way now.
…
Duras's death did not cause much sensation in China.
After Cheng Yanqiu, Chen Hong and Fu Jing also learned the news.
It has to be said that Duras's influence in the female circle is far greater than that of the male circle.
The three female family members were sad for several days.
Yu Dongdu was fine, but Cheng Yanqiu played the piano when he was in a bad mood. The most he could do was listen to sad music a few times a day.
Yu Hua and Bi Feiyu were much more miserable. Ever since Chen Hong and Fu Jing found out about Duras' death, the quality of life of these two men had plummeted. Sometimes Bi Feiyu couldn't even take a bite of hot food.
It was not until later, after "Don't Talk to Strangers" was aired, that the situation became better.
After the broadcast started, the three of them plus Feng Ming's family often gathered at Yu Dong's house to watch TV.
Because his TV is the biggest and has the best colors.
There were only two episodes every night, and on the first night, everyone's response was just average.
Not only was the audience response mediocre, but the ratings data were also average, not bad, but definitely not very good either.
There have been many hit TV series in the past two years, and any one of them has better numbers than "Don't Talk to Strangers" at its launch.
Zhao Baogang also saw the data, but didn't pay much attention to it, because this was what he expected.
Although this TV series is not a slow hit, the first few episodes are really nothing special, and the characters change step by step.
As he expected, after the next day's episode aired, the ratings began to rise.
Especially on Dragon TV, it directly exceeded 40%. A few other channels were slightly worse, but not by much.
…
Wang Anyi went to Li Xiaolin's office early in the morning.
Seeing Wang Anyi with two dark circles under his eyes, Li Xiaolin smiled and said, "What happened?"
Wang Anyi sat on the sofa and sighed, "I watched a horror movie last night."
"Horror movie?" Li Xiaolin was a little confused, "What horror movie?"
"Don't talk to strangers."
Li Xiaolin raised his eyebrows, "Is this a horror movie? I watched a little bit of it when it started airing a few days ago. It's just an ordinary family drama. What's so scary about it?"
"You didn't see the back." Wang Anyi bit her lip, "It's so scary. I feel like I have sequelae now."
As she said that, she looked at the sofa again, and suddenly thought of the scene where the heroine was beaten by the hero. She shuddered, and then stood up, "I don't even dare to sit on the sofa now."
Li Xiaolin smiled and said, "Is it that exaggerated? What you said makes me want to go back and see it."
"It's not an exaggeration at all. The photos were truly terrifying. Now that I think about it, during the Deep Space Annual Meeting, An Jiahe even came to toast us."
"An Jiahe?" Li Xiaolin didn't react at first, but then laughed and said: "You said Feng Yuanyi, yes, he is a very elegant person. The role he played on TV is very consistent with his real-life image."
Wang Anyi waved his hand, "Forget it, I won't tell you anymore, I'll go back first."
Not long after Wang Anyi left, Cheng Yongxing came over to talk to her about work. Halfway through the conversation, Li Xiaolin suddenly asked: "Have you read "Don't Talk to Strangers"?"
Cheng Yongxing nodded with a strange expression, "I saw it. Didn't I hear last time that this TV series was written by Yu Dong? I watched it by the TV the night it started airing."
"Does it look good?" Li Xiaolin asked.
"It looks good." Cheng Yongxing sighed, "It's mainly because my wife likes to watch, and the way she looks at me these past two days is not right."
"Why is something wrong?"
"Sister Xiaolin, go and see for yourself. You will know after you see it." Cheng Yongxing gave up.
Out of curiosity, Li Xiaolin went back that night and watched "Don't Talk to Strangers".
Although she had not seen several episodes in between, seeing An Jia and the domestic violence scenes still made her gnash her teeth and curse An Jia and the bastard bastards.
Of course, Li Xiaolin could still distinguish between the inside and outside of the drama. She only scolded An Jiahe but not Feng Yuanyi.
However, there are many people who don’t understand clearly.
…
Liang Danni received several calls in the past two days, all from friends, asking her in a roundabout way whether Feng Yuanyi was beating anyone at home and if she needed help.
These phone calls made Liang Danni dumbfounded.
The TV series my husband acted in became famous, which is of course a good thing, but it seems that he acted so well that some friends misunderstood him.
Moreover, some of the friends I called were actors. Even these actors, let alone ordinary people, would have misunderstandings.
That's nothing. Yesterday, she and Feng Yuanyi went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. Suddenly a man ran out and patted Feng Yuanyi on the shoulder, warning him: Don't hit Jiang Wenli in the future, do you understand?
This incident shocked the couple, and they went out less in the past two days than before.
But it's impossible not to go out forever, after all, they are all working.
With the popularity of the TV series, more and more viewers recognize Feng Yuanyi on the road.
There are good and bad.
The better ones, those who can distinguish the TV series from the people clearly, come up and call Teacher Feng, and some of them will ask for autographs.
But these are a very small number, and more people will call him An Jiahe and look at him angrily.
Liang Danni suspected that if it wasn't in public, the other party would come up and beat him.
The couple lives a cautious life, thinking that it will be better after the TV series is over and the popularity subsides.
But at the end of March, something happened that caused Danny Liang to completely collapse.
That day, the couple went to a restaurant to eat together, and while they were ordering food, a middle-aged woman came up and slapped Feng Yuanyi in the face, telling him not to hit his wife in the future.
This incident caused quite a stir and even made the news.
…
After Yu Dong learned about this, he made a special call to Feng Yuanyi.
Feng Yuanyi probably knew what Yu Dong was going to say. Before Dong could say anything, he smiled and said, "Teacher Yu, don't have any psychological burden. The audience's reaction is so intense, which just means that the play is good. When I accepted this play,
I have been mentally prepared.”
When Yu Dong heard what he said, he didn't say anything more. He chatted with him for a few words and finally said: "Keep in touch and look forward to future cooperation."
Feng Yuanyi didn't take Yu Dong's words to heart and only thought they were polite words from Yu Dong.
…
When "Don't Talk to Strangers" was broadcast on major TV stations one after another, domestic violence gradually attracted social attention. Some news media also began to report news related to domestic violence, but most of them were relatively crude. After all, they were rushed productions.
When it comes out, the quality of news cannot be guaranteed.
While most people are paying attention to TV dramas and domestic violence incidents, some people have noticed that the screenwriter of this TV series is actually Yu Dong.
After learning that the screenwriter of "Don't Talk to Strangers" is Yu Dong, readers had two reactions.
The first type: Yu Dong is so awesome that he can become so popular in any TV series he writes.
The second type: Yu Dong is not doing his job properly. Instead of writing novels, he is writing TV series. Hurry up and write novels.
This also reminds readers that Yu Dong seems to have published fewer novels this year.
The movie "The Crowd" was released.
"The Martian" came out last year, and "Resident Evil 2" is the sequel.
There are also a few short and medium stories, do they count?
And even those short and medium stories were written the year before last according to the lunar calendar.
Just because of this matter, someone actually wrote a news article and researched it. The final result is that Yu Dong, like Wang Shuo, has begun to pay more attention to the film and television industry in the past two years and has no intention of writing novels.
When they saw this news, Yu Hua and Bi Feiyu almost died laughing - their combined output was not as good as Yu Dong alone.
"Do these people really think that writing novels is like shit, which can come out as soon as they take off their pants?"
When Yu Hua heard Bi Feiyu's metaphor, he couldn't help but retort, "Even if it's poop, it doesn't mean it can come out if you take off your pants, right?"
Bi Feiyu smiled, "The key is that Yu Dong wrote too fast before, and now he writes a little less, and he feels that he is slacking off. People who always get the first place in the exam, but once they get the second place, some people think that they are slacking off.
Regressing. Unlike us, we are used to being poor students and no one pays attention to our output."
Yu Hua tilted his head, "Anyway, I won't touch long novels in the past few years. My body can't keep up."
Yu Dong smiled: "Everyone, take a rest. This time I go to the United States to have some fun and relax. This time, we have agreed that no one of you is allowed to bring pokers."
"No need to bring it, there are poker stores in the United States." Bi Feiyu said.
…
Bi Feiyu said he would not bring poker cards, but he still brought two pairs with him on the day he got on the plane. He was afraid that the poker cards in the United States would not be useful.
Regarding playing cards, Yu Dong no longer wants to talk about them. These two are as addicted to cards as they are to cigarettes, and they basically can't quit.
After arriving in New York, everyone went to the hotel to settle down and went straight to the filming location the next day.
The filming location was set on West 53rd Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue.
When Yu Dong and the others arrived, Schumacher was lecturing Matthew McConaughey on a play. When they saw Yu Dong coming, they greeted him warmly.
"YU, I've finally come to you. We've been shooting interior scenes for a whole day yesterday, and we just got a feel for it." Schumacher hugged Yu Dong and said hello to Cheng Yanqiu and the others.
Yu Dong looked around the scene and said with a smile: "It can be seen that the shooting went smoothly."
If the shooting hadn't gone smoothly, the smile on Schumacher's face wouldn't have been so bright.
Schumacher nodded, "Matthew's performance exceeded my expectations. He was very well prepared and saved a lot of time during filming."
"It seems like it's okay for me not to come."
Schumacher said quickly, "No, no, no, it's okay if you don't come. You are the creator of the script. If there are any problems during the shooting, you are the best to find it. Although we shot smoothly, I think you must still be there."
Being able to find problems that we can’t see.”
Yu Dong smiled and said nothing more.
He felt that Schumacher's expectations of him were too high, but in fact he knew nothing about film shooting, and it was unreliable to expect him to discover and solve problems.
He turned around and pointed at Wang Hailin, Jia Zhangke and the others and said, "These are my students. I brought them here this time because I want them to learn from you."
Schumacher said modestly, "We learn from each other. Since we are your students, we must all be very good."
Yu Dong pointed at Bi Feiyu again, "This is my colleague, Bi Feiyu, who is also the teacher leading this time. If the students have any questions on the set, you can communicate directly."
"Hello, hello." Schumacher smiled and shook hands with Bi Feiyu, "I have an impression of you. I met you at the last annual meeting, and the person next to you."
The "person next to me" mentioned by Schumacher refers to Yu Hua.
Yu Hua was not good at English. Through Bi Feiyu's translation, she found out that Schumacher remembered her. She smiled and shook hands with Schumacher and said, "Director Shu has a good memory."
After getting to know each other, Schumacher took Yu Dong to direct the crew to start filming.
The students came with study tasks, so naturally they all followed.
Yu Hua and Bi Feiyu had nothing to do, so they wandered around the set.
Chapter completed!