Editor｜Tamia
Toki is a cultural industry worker. In October’s Daily Book, he picked up his pen and began to trace the people around him. The public relations of the movie are hot and the movie public relations, the anonymous screenwriter, the folk singer who has no concerns …In these plain and full-blown character stories, maybe you can read some real life.
likes to sell miserable middle-aged second party
40-year-old Awei, is a public relations film company, specializes in dealing with leaders, specific work every day-sorry, forgive me, a layman is not very accurate description, or listen to How did Awei introduce himself:
"Awei, what do you do in your work?"
"So, let me give you an example. Didn't it just come out a while ago, a hi tea is very popular, I have Hey tea arrived at Fushi Square at 9:30 a.m. in the morning. I only bought it at 1:30 in the afternoon. It took four hours! Then, before the cup of tea was cold, I quickly found a teacher who usually dealt with. Pass the tea to her: "Teacher, this is the hi tea that I specially bought in the queue for 4 hours today. It's still cold, you can try it. Usually I always trouble you, so I really feel sorry for it! Hey, be careful, don't be polite to me! If you don't drink it, I'm really unhappy! "—Now that you know what my job is for, wow? Party B, Party B is absolutely terrible! It’s boring!..."
said that, everyone might as well pay attention to Ah Wei’s speech style. The sentence will end with an "ah". If you have the opportunity to have a meal and chat with Ah Wei, you will be particularly impressed. An "ah" is just a modal auxiliary word, but if you string together hundreds of "ah", you can feel the emotional power of that row of overwhelming mountains—"ah" has become the theme of language, expressing one vividly All the vicissitudes of the middle-aged man of Party B in the years.
Every night at dinner and supper occasions, in a dimly noisy hot pot restaurant or food stall, A Wei, a middle-aged man with three cups and two lamps, is telling everyone about his work with a slightly moist eye socket. All kinds of hardships are full of "ah" and "ah", how can people not be embarrassed.
So, when I first met Awei, my friends really thought this big brother was quite pitiful. "You see Ah Wei is the second party every day. This job is really not something everyone can do. It's pitiful!", "You know, Wow, Ah Wei turns out to be in another industry. He must have been a newcomer in the film industry in his 40s. "
However, the above situation did not last long, because soon we learned more and more about Ah Wei's situation: A Wei's monthly basic salary is 50,000 yuan.
As everyone thought before, Ah Wei’s job, it seems that everyone is not capable of doing it...
Ah Wei’s last job was as a public relations company in a foreign-funded chemical company, and it was also dedicated to leadership. According to him, it’s like this: "You know, wow, my job is to do everything possible to help the boss invite the boss out, and have a meal together to connect with each other. The dinner is arranged, and I cannot serve my role. I eat by myself. Box lunch, no one treats me like a human!"
Before that, Awei was a small boss by himself: a small foreman in the construction industry. Because he had an uncle who was a large foreman, he followed his uncle to do projects to make money. Regarding this experience, Awei described it like this: "My uncle is subcontracted, what am I? The shrimp in the subcontract, no one can think of me! Please take a meal, I toast and others will not drink it. It’s boring, and there is no dignity!"
This is our big brother, Awei, who can make friends say that every time he drinks with him, there is an urge to curse him. Friends also said one after another: Viagra, you are suitable for the movie circle, really, your character shaping ability is too strong!
Unsigned screenwriter
Qi Qin is a film screenwriter who has been in the industry for 5 years, but there has been no independently signed work. For a while, friends were afraid of him being embarrassed, and when they introduced him, they would say that this is Qi Qin, a novelist.
Yes, Qi Qin is still a novelist. He has published two books in college and won a certain Chinese Youth Literature Award. These are genuine and well-documented, and it is easier than proving his experience as a screenwriter. However, in Qi Qin's view, unpopular novelists and unsigned screenwriters are essentially the same ashamed to mention.
So, out of some awkward understanding, we rarely mentionAnd his professional identity. It is not easy to say that it is a screenwriter, and it is true that not many people know what he has written. Qi Qin also became a little transparent in everyone's circle of friends who only showed up, drank and didn't speak much.
Xiao transparent Qi Qin, counting this year, it is the third time that Nortel has taken the postgraduate entrance examination. The first written test was 7 points poor, and the second written test was 2 points poor. This time I passed the written test. After a trip to Beijing, he came back and told us that if the interview did not perform well, we would not go on.
Later I asked him, what if I don’t read Nortel? You are already in the business anyway. With these time, it is better to write the script as soon as possible, it may become popular one day. Qi Qin said, the main reason is that he is afraid that he will not be popular. If it doesn't become popular, speaking of it, it is considered that I have studied at the Beijing Film Academy.
resume, I think of this word. Want to be genuine and well-documented. Qi Qin, who has always been ambitious and vainly trying to construct a fictional kingdom in the movie world, was first turned into a fictional life by the movie.
Earlier this year, I heard a song by Zhao Lei called "Ideal". "Ideal how old are you this year? You always seduce young friends." At that time, I was surprised by the lyrics. Qi Qin immediately thought of Qi Qin, the timid and sleepy Qi Qin who had almost foolish persistence and pursuit of movies.
, the folk singer
who came and went without a trace, one winter night before, I was woken up by Chen Ming's phone call. Then, it was his fierce voice: "Brother, help! A film director found me and wanted to use one of my songs as the theme song of the movie. I'm completely confused, can you help me to talk to him? "
hung up the phone and couldn't fall asleep for a while. I got up to make a cup of coffee and started to read the mail that Chen Ming had transferred. The situation is very simple. There is a director of a literary and artistic film who happened to see a video of Chen Ming's playing and singing, and felt that the song was very good, so he contacted him several times and wanted to use this song as the theme song of his new movie.
I found the director's phone number in the email and added his WeChat account. Things went smoothly. The other party wanted the license for the song, but the budget was not large. We didn't expect much, so we quickly reached a price that was both satisfactory.
On the day the money arrived, Chen Ming came to me and said that he would divide the money with me at his ratio of seven to three. The young man is really nice, and he values love. But with a small effort, I was not embarrassed to accept it, so I said it would be better for you to invite me to have a good meal and celebrate together. However, Chen Ming asked me to eat expensive Japanese food.
Chen Ming is a native of Tengchong, Yunnan, born in 1991, a wandering folk singer. He came to Shanghai three years ago and sang in a Yunnan restaurant in Jing'an District. There is his performance every Monday, Wednesday and Friday night, and he will show up with his guitar. The rest of the time, I don't know where he is hanging around.
My friends and I often go to that restaurant for dinner, and we are also familiar with folk music circles, so in the past three years, Chen Ming has been close to us, especially with me. However, it was not until after Chen Ming left that I realized that the relationship between us is actually weakly related from beginning to end.
On the day Chen Ming left Shanghai at the end of the previous year, he sent me a WeChat message saying that there was something at home and he wanted to go home for a while. I didn't doubt that it had it at the time. I simply concerned about it. After I said it, there would be a period of time. He didn't reply. Later, I heard that Chen Ming went to the store to resign from the boss that afternoon. Because of the sudden incident, it seemed that he was a little unhappy, so that he didn’t even do a simple farewell with the rest of the store and left in a hurry. . After
left, Chen Ming would occasionally send me blessings on WeChat during New Years and holidays, and I would reply to him. The dialogue is very simple, basically, "Brother, happy National Day!" "Have fun! (smiling face)" "When we are free, let's play in Tengchong!" "Good!"
My friends and I often go to that Yunnan When eating in the restaurant, everyone occasionally thinks of the singer-songwriter Chen Ming who was here the previous winter, and his sudden departure. It is unavoidable that this brother is acting a bit strange. All kinds of speculations are gradually taking shape in the interlacing of coveting, for example, he may owe other people money and ran away; did he make the girl's belly bigger and scared away? …Listen to me talking about Chen Ming selling a song and making some money. A friend guessed that he might not want to spend time on resident singing anymore, so he would go to Beijing with the money to seek better development.
I was drinking, listening to my friends' speculations and inferences, and wondering in a daze, what kind of situation is it? Or, it’s not that complicated, as Chen Ming himself said, there’s something at home,Go back for a while. Chen Ming didn't mention it, and I didn't ask. The exchanges between friends from the rivers and lakes are not like colleagues and close friends around them, so there is no need to know too much.
In early June of this year, I was on a business trip in Kunming, and returned to the hotel after dinner with a client. Sitting on the sofa in the room alone, I suddenly thought of Chen Ming. I clicked on his circle of friends and wanted to learn about his recent trends. The results showed that it was only visible for three days, and he did not post anything in the last three days. So I sent him a message, "What are you up to? I'm in Kunming."
Chen Ming quickly dialed a voice call, and I picked it up. There was a fierce voice on the other side: "Brother, are you here in Yunnan? Tengchong?" Chen Ming said in a regretful tone after I said that I would return to Shanghai in the next day, "Then I can only see you next time, or I will take you to Tengchong for fun...Brother, wait a moment. , I’ll find a quieter place and sing you a new song that I wrote. Don’t hang up!"
I took out a can of ice-cola from the hotel refrigerator without hanging up the phone. I opened the Cola tab and drank slowly. I heard the sound of Chen Ming pushing the door from a noisy place, the sound of passersby passing by, the sound of the shops along the street pulling down the rolling door, and the guitar bumping on the steps. The sound, the sound of calming gasps—Finally, the sound of the guitar, the singing, the sound of quiet folk songs. After listening to the song
, I asked him, what have you been doing in Tengchong for more than a year?
Chen Ming said, hi, what did you not do. I left Yunnan on an impulse before, and returned home when I was homesick. It’s just that after a long time, I feel a little can’t stay. I might go to Xitang for a while. Some friends said that there are so many bars in Xitang now.
hung up the phone and I was thinking, although we workers in the cultural industry like folk songs and advocating freedom, they are still farmers who work every day. Unlike Chen Ming, he is a true nomadic tribe. When he came, he was like a stranger in the distance to us; when he left, he was a friend of the past in the end of the world, thinking about it, but maybe he never met again in his life.
