1994, it is a special year for Zhang Yimou .
That year was the centenary celebration of the birthplace of the movie. Directors all over the world were ready to leave a few masterpieces in this year.
At the Cannes Film Festival in France in 1993, Chen Kaige led his crew and won the Palme d'Or for "Farewell My Concubine". That was the first time that Chinese films shone in the international film industry.
That year, Zhang Yimou was also a little anxious. He also wanted to leave his name on the international stage, but he couldn't find a script that satisfies himself, which could make him let go of his hands and feet to shoot.
tossed and turned. Through his friends, he met a young writer who was still unknown at the time, Yuhua .
Zhang Yimou finished reading some of Yu Hua's old works and found Yu Hua to discuss it. He wanted to try it out, could he shoot his "Error by the River".
Unexpectedly, Yu Hua refused. He took out another stack of manuscripts and said to Zhang Yimou, "You look at this first." After watching
Zhang Yimou was so excited that he patted his thighs: "Okay, just shoot this!"
In the end, this movie won three awards at Cannes Film Festival , which is "Living".
"Living" uses cruel techniques to show readers how a rich young man loses everything step by step.
Everyone is dead, and every death only requires a few short lines of words.
Once upon a time, a friend of mine fell into a serious state of entanglement after watching the movie and novel of "Living".
He told me that every excellent novel has its writing to make you feel that there is fresh blood flowing, but in "Living", what is flowing is not blood, but ice residue.
He held his forehead and sighed, saying that this author must have experienced inhuman torture, lost his father at a young age, and his mother seriously ill, otherwise he would not be able to write such cruel words.
I said it's a pity, it's really not.
This man Yu Hua is very coquettish.
He just leaves all the cruelty of life to readers.
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talk show actor
Yu Hua never expected that one day he would become a hot search as the "talk show expert" .
That day was the live music broadcast meeting of Li Jian . Yu Hua not only appeared, but also claimed that he had contributed to Li Jian's new album.
people under the stage are very curious and happy - Could it be that Yu Hua wrote the lyrics for Li Jian and the strong united?
Later, the audience found that they were thinking too much. Yu Hua said that the contribution he recommended a pen to Li Jian.
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Li Jian was originally a "poor" person. When he saw Yu Hua joking, the two of them became excited and began to compete with who would give more for each other:
"I bought ten albums of your albums."
"I bought 30 new books."
"Then I bought 60 next time."
just went back and forth, and Yu Hua was inexplicably on the hot search.
No matter whether this hot search is necessary or not, Yu Hua has done more than once what shocked everyone.
Many years ago, French reporters came to interview Yu Hua and asked:
"What do you think is the biggest difference between Chinese writers and French writers?"
Yu Hua replied: "The biggest difference is that French writers write in French."
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Later, someone asked, "How many points do you give to the book "Living"?"
"9.4."
The host was surprised: "Where did the remaining 0.6 points go? "
Yu Hua replied: "You have to ask Douban this. "
Once, Yu Hua and several writers went to Shenyang together, including , which was sick when they were young and could not walk on both legs.
So several people took turns carrying Shi Tiesheng, got on and off the train, and walked all over Shenyang.
△ Yu Hua and Shi Tiesheng and his party took it on Shenyang
They also made appointments with students from Shenyang Literature College to play football together on a basketball court.
Yu Hua asked Shi Tiesheng, who was in a wheelchair, to be the goalkeeper, and then said to the students:
"Please be careful, kick the ball on Shi Tiesheng, and he may be kicked to death by you." "
That day, Shi Tiesheng sat alone in front of the temporarily raised goal like a goal god. Yu Hua and his group spent the whole game in the opposite half, frantically pouring the ball into the opponent's goal.
Later, he took the initiative to talk about this to the media, and The media asked, "Will Shi Tiesheng be angry if you do this? "
No, Shi Tiesheng has seen a lot of Yu Hua's coquettishness, and this kind of thing happened to him is not surprising.
However, coquettishness is difficult to be born with, and Yu Hua also practiced it bit by bit. This starts with the morgue where he took a nap.
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Double-faced child
Born in 1960, Yu Hua, who was born in 1960, is a doctor. Very busy and hardly has time to take care of him and his brother.
At that time, Yu Hua's family lived in a difficult life, and there was no toilet at home. When going to the toilet, he had to go to the hospital where his parents were, and he had to pass through the door of the morgue of the hospital.
There was no door to the morgue and the toilet. This was really a terrifying thing to think about. But Yu Hua had to pass back and forth countless times every day. html l4
Almost every night, Yu Hua would hear one or some people crying bitterly because of losing their loved ones, and sometimes they were even awakened.
Since he was very young, he had been able to distinguish various crying sounds.
Crying means leaving a distant relative; crying in a low voice mixed with comfort, and leaving a grandparent; and the one who cries heart-wrenchingly is the death of the closest relative or partner.
In this day after day, he has experiences that others cannot have, or is indifferent.
How calm is he? Later, Yu Hua could lie on the concrete floor of the morgue in midsummer to take a nap .
He said, "That place is very cool."
More than a year later, Yu Hua read a poem by Heine , and there was a sentence in it:
Death is a cool night.
Yu Hua said, "This is how I feel when I take a nap in the morgue. "
△German poet Heine
10 years old, Yu Hua was arrested on the spot because of a troublemaker. In order to escape punishment, he started to pretend to have a stomachache with a clue.
The father touched his lower right abdomen and asked Yu Hua if it hurts here? Yu Hua nodded repeatedly.
Father touched Yu Hua's chest again and asked if it hurts here first. Yu Hua continued to nod.
As a result, his father thought he had appendicitis attacks, so he moved him to the hospital bed and wanted to use a knife.
He still remembers that before he was anesthetized, his mother said regretfully: "He will grow up and can't be an air force pilot anymore. ”
Yu Hua was particularly desperate at that time because his dream when he was a child was to be a pilot.
And his own pretending actually broke his dream.
Soon, their family's last appendix disappeared. Some people suspect that this experience has become a shadow of his life.
Later in his novel, many fathers who were thrown to death by the author in the cessation pit appeared.
Of course, it was not just because of appendix surgery, but Yu Hua was not very satisfied with the life arranged by his father...
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abandoned doctors from the article
Once Yu Hua and several writers participated in a program. The host asked them, "Why are you writing?"
Yu Hua replied, "Because I don't want to be a dentist." The person who arranged for him to become a dentist was his father.
In 1977, Yu Hua, who graduated from high school, experienced two college entrance examinations and failed the exam.
My father was helpless and asked Yu Hua to go to the town health center.
In that era, barefoot doctors were rampant.
Yu Hua's dentist master, and even his master's master, had never attended medical school. He became a doctor by relying on self-exploration and learning from his master.
On the first day of work, the master was pulling his teeth for the patient. When he saw Yu Hua coming, he called him over to see.
He glanced at it, and his teeth fell off with a "pop". He didn't even have time to see clearly.
The master didn't wave back his head and asked him to go on. In this way, Yu Hua pulled out the first teeth in his life on the first day of work, the mouth of others.
For the next five years, he faced countless teeth in his mouth, either black, yellow, or strangely shaped and emitting an indescribable smell.
That is a place without any beautiful scenery. He said.
html In 35 years, he has extracted a total of 10,000 teeth. Finally one day, he was tired of this kind of life.
One weekend, he met his junior high school classmates while shopping.
classmates were wearing suits and ties, with a spring breeze on their faces, very free and easy. Yu Hua happened to be very depressed that day and asked, "Where are you so proud to work?" classmate
said, "Cultural Center, you have nothing to do all day, except drinking tea and chatting and shopping."
Yu Hua was shocked and asked again, how can you work there?
Classmate answered: Draw, compose music, write novels.
Yu Hua can’t draw and doesn’t understand music, but he still knows the words.
So Yu Hua resigned excitedly and began to write.
He must live a coquettish life of drinking tea, chatting, and shopping, but writing and thinking are different things!
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Ascension
There is a saying that it is refreshing to leave naked, and a job-seeking crematorium.
In those years when I first started writing, Yu Hua was in a worse mood than entering a crematorium.
After graduating from high school, he had almost no foundation at that time, so he could only find stacks of " People's Literature " to study writing methods.
Then he began to send novels he wrote to all the magazines he could find, but no one cared about it.
Later, every time the postman passed by his house, he would throw a bag from outside the yard.
Every time I hear a "click", my father will shout at the top of his voice, "The rejection is coming!", and the voice spreads throughout the neighbors.
Fortunately, Yu Hua has amazing resilience in writing. This company cannot invest in that company, and local companies cannot invest in other places.
years after year, until five years later, in the winter, Yu Hua finally received a call from the person in charge of " Beijing Literature " magazine, inviting him to go to Beijing to revise the manuscript, but the condition was that the ending would be brighter.
Yu Hua nodded to the phone and said, "Change, I'll change it! As long as it can be published, I'll change it from beginning to end!"
After the revision of this time, the entire small county town caused a sensation. Yu Hua was seen by the local government and entered the cultural center as he wished.
On the first day of work, Yu Hua wanted to test the intensity of work in the new workplace and deliberately went to work two hours late.
It turned out that I found out that I was the first to arrive, and I was secretly happy.
That year, 25-year-old Yu Hua met his first partner in his life, Pan Yinchun, the secretary of the Cultural Center, and the talented beauty got married.
Unfortunately, the two have different expectations for the future. The wife hopes to spend the rest of her life in a small county town, but Yu Hua is looking forward to a bigger stage. After a fierce quarrel, the six-year marriage of the two ended, and Yu Hua goes to Beijing alone.
At that time, Yu Hua, who was poor and destitute, was filled with anger. This emotion directly affected his works, resulting in the words of his at that time being filled with blood and death.
Someone has counted that Yu Hua's first 8 short stories wrote about 29 people who died, all of which died abnormally.
But people will not be unlucky all the time. Not long after, Chen Hong, a confidante who has been with him in Beijing and has been crowded in a 9-square-meter rental house to take care of his daily life, agreed to his proposal.
△Yu Hua and Chen Hong
At that time, Yu Hua was in a period of confusion. He felt that his previous works were not profound and did not infect people.
He wants to calm down and write a shocking and beautiful work.
When I first wrote "Living", Yu Hua used the third person to write about the protagonist Fugui, but his thoughts were like a spring, and he was frozen as soon as he started writing.
Chen Hong encouraged Yu Hua and suggested: "Since the third person is not well written, it is better to use the first person instead, which makes it more substitutable." The change of
actually changed the fog to the point where the clouds disappeared. As I wrote, I could even erupt and cry while writing.
Later, when talking about the birth of the work "Living", Yu Hua said:
"If there were no Chen Hong, there would be no "Living".
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The most cruel writer
After writing "Living", the literary world called Yu Hua "China's most cruel writer".
"Living" was too successful, which led to Yu Hua's later works seemingly all the soul sequels to "Living".
In his latest work " Wencheng ", he still discussed this question: in the turbulent era of warlord separatism, how should he live and how should he let others survive?
You think " Brothers " tells the story of the deep brotherhood, but the ethics collapse of the close relatives; you think " Classical Love " tells love stories, but it is full of vomiting truth; and in "Living", few people are alive at the ending.
But strangely, this cruelty is not annoying. Yu Hua's writing is like a scalpel with a sharp and cold light, held in a pair of hands full of temperature.
Perhaps, only people who are as vibrant and coquettish as Yu Hua can heal their wounds with bitterness.
Only in his desolate and bitter writing as barbaric and powerful vitality can burst out.
really responded to that sentence, and became an angry poet, depression made a comedian, and coquettish writer.
