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At 14:30 pm on January 21, 2024, "Chen Yu·Winter Living Room and "Solid as a Rock" New Book Sharing Session" was held at Beijing skp rendez-vous bookstore. Chen Yu, the author of the original novel of the movie " Strong as a Rock ", screenwriter, writer, and vice president of the Chinese Film and Literature Society Song Fangjin , Bole Marketing founder Zhang Wenbo, and folk art and drama actor Jin Guangfa visited Beijing SKP together to share "Strong as a Rock" The original intention and plot details of "The Rock" explore the value of in-depth creation in the short video era.
In 2023, the movie "Sturdy as a Rock", with Chen Yu as the original author and screenwriter and Zhang Yimou directing, was released. It was widely recognized by the market for its sharp storyline and profound character descriptions, and ranked first at the box office during the National Day period. At the same time, various interpretations of movie details, backgrounds, and character prototypes have also become popular online searches. In January 2024, the original novel "Sturdy as a Rock" written by Chen Yu will be published by Huacheng Publishing House and will meet a broad audience of readers.
"The novel "Solid as a Rock" will make people who like movies more enjoyable."
That afternoon, many readers and dozens of media came to the bookstore. The first stage of the event was hosted by Zhang Wenbo. Chen Yu first talked about the original intention of creating the new book "Solid as a Rock". After the movie "Solid as a Rock" was released, "Many viewers and friends asked me what kind of plot was the part that was removed from the movie? This is some people. Others said that the character in this line is very interesting, but not satisfying. Is there any story behind him? These are the two main tendencies in my social media, so I once tweeted that it was as if "Solid as a Rock" had become an archaeological object." Chen Yu wrote " The original novel "Sturdy as a Rock" is precisely to answer their questions: "This novel will make people who like this movie more enjoyable."
Chen Yu, the author of "Sturdy as a Rock", is the author of " Sniper " and " Riverbank Red" The screenwriter and original author of films such as "" and "Sturdy as a Rock", he is known as "the best storyteller in the Chinese film industry"; he is also a scholar who proposed the artistic concept of "narrative dynamics". Song Fangjin also spoke highly of the storytelling of "Sturdy as a Rock": "Storytelling is a very sophisticated craft. We have seen the true story from Teacher Chen Yu's "Sniper", "Solid as a Rock" and "Across the River" The subject matter, the real originality, the real thing." ""Solid as a Rock" is like gold. You can see the difference between the novel and the movie by comparing it. The movie is a waterfall, and the novel is a bend in the river."
" The author is an engineer of human emotions."
Regarding "Solid as a Rock", what readers are most concerned about is how the novel presents aspects that are not covered in the movie. In the original novel "Solid as a Rock", the behavioral logic and story of each character are fully displayed. In this regard, Chen Yu said: "At least half of the novel is devoted to the pair of police detectives Su Jianming and Li Huilin. The battle between Zheng Gang and Li Zhitian plays a relatively large proportion in the movie. In the novel, as a How young people face the outdated conspiracies and fighting methods of the past plays a large part in the content, so the character Li Huilin is shown more in the novel. From my creator's mentality, young people are the future, and young people will Sweeping away these dark things, my position is here, and there will naturally be a hopeful ending."
Chen Yu believes that in "Sturdy as a Rock", Zhang Guoli "Zheng Gang is the best I can imagine. "The most complex person in contemporary Chinese society", and Li Zhitian, played by Yu Hewei, "is an extreme" and "the extremeness of his behavior is very outstanding", and outside of the work, "the author is an engineer of human emotions, he is constantly using various This kind of drama and sitcom explores what people's inner world is like."
The novel "Solid as a Rock" has a more profound and comprehensive narration of the two characters. There is a plot in the book that describes the meeting between Zheng Gang and Li Zhitian twenty-eight years ago, revealing the origin of the two many years ago. At the event, Chen Yu and Jin Guangfa improvised this episode together. Jin Guangfa's unconventional performance style aroused laughter from the audience.The second stage of the
event was hosted by Chen Yu. Three guests expressed their opinions on "deep creation in the era of short videos." Zhang Wenbo, based on his experience in film marketing, pointed out that short and fast videos actually provide a great opportunity for deep creation of film works. The effect of gathering popularity; Jin Guangfa shared his experience in short video operation and believed that fragmented video works themselves also need heterogeneous and unique content; Song Fangjin believed that different media products are actually "water can carry a boat but also capsize it." "Relationship. The readers and guests present had an in-depth exchange with Chen Yu on the different expressions of novels and movies. The winter living room was filled with a warm and enthusiastic atmosphere.
