Every reporter: Wen Menghua Every editor: Wei Guanhong's movie "Decryption" finally meets the audience. As the Mai family's first novel, "Decryption" has been going around for more than 30 years, from the writing in 1991, to the publication of the novel in 2002, to the release of

Every reporter: Wen Menghua Every editor: Wei Guanhong

The movie " decrypts " has finally met the audience.

As the first novel of the Mai family, "Decryption" has been going around for more than 30 years, from the writing in 1991, to the publication of the novel in 2002, to the release of the movie in 2024. Now, the film of the same name adapted from "Decryption" will meet the audience as the opening film of the 37th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards and will be released on August 3. As of August 4, the cumulative box office of the film in the two days since its release exceeded 170 million yuan.

For a long time, from "Camel Xiangzi" adapted from Lao She's novel, to "Border Town" adapted from Shen Congwen's novel of the same name, to now "The Three-Body Problem" and " The Wandering Earth " adapted from Liu Cixin's novel... These have been well received and sold well. Behind all the outstanding films, there is literature. Films draw nutrients from literature, and literature continues to innovate and spread from the language of films. The two support and achieve each other.

html On the afternoon of August 3, at the "Literature Inspiration" forum of the 37th Hundred Flowers Film Awards Film and Literature Forum, Mai Jia, a well-known writer and vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, and Cao Baoping, a famous director, screenwriter, and professor of Beijing Film Academy, presented "People's Literature" " magazine deputy editor and well-known writer Xu Zechen and others gathered together to "decrypt" the relationship between literature and film.

Picture source of the 37th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award: Official picture

Mai Jia: Reality is also a legend, and turning reality into legend is the mission of an artist

Mai Jia’s novels have been adapted into many movies and TV series, and have appeared on the screen and on screen again and again. The screen has set off a wave of spy wars.

's novels "Decryption", "The Conspiracy" and "The Wind" are collectively referred to as the "trilogy", giving the Mai family a "label" of spy narratives.

has been deeply engaged in the field of creation for many years. When talking about the relationship between the legend of creation and reality, Mai Jia asked: "Isn't the legend reality? China has risen rapidly over the past 40 years of reform and opening up. Isn't this a legend? The whole world is a legend. , Legend is also a kind of reality, reality and legend cannot be separated."

Regarding the interpretation of legend and reality in literary creation, Mai Jia admitted that he secretly made a request for his writing: "I do not allow any mediocrity. "

" Whether as a writer, director or screenwriter, we turn the mediocre and trivial realities into legends. This is a mission that an artist must complete. If you cannot complete it, then in a certain sense, you His works are unsuccessful, as mediocre, trivial, and messy as reality, so others cannot read them." Mai Jia said frankly that novels are also an art, and every writer and artist must turn decay into magic and reality into legend. Ability.

Mai Jia believes that in the hands of an excellent artist, the reality of movies and literature can even be higher than reality. "So we are a group of people who refine real life. We extract some common sense, common sense, routines, and virtues in life, just like mathematical formulas and physical and chemical formulas, so that readers can share them and grasp some of the essence of life. Things."

Mai Jia, a well-known writer and vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association. Picture source: Official photo

Xu Zechen believes that the relationship between creation and reality is an issue that all writers easily forget when writing. "Just like making a movie, we must deal with the relationship between the story and reality, the world, and people. Behind this is often how the writer understands the relationship between his work and reality."

According to Xu Zechen's recollection, he has written many An important reason for his works about life in Beijing is that he lives in Beijing. The various problems that come to me every day are all in the place where I live. These things naturally, directly, simply and crudely enter the work.

However, in Xu Zechen’s view, a writer still needs to consider the relationship between his works and reality for a long time. "First of all, literature must retain the details of reality. A very important basis for the value of a work is that it can effectively return to the historical scene, and this depends on the details. A contemporary writer has the responsibility to put the details of the times and the problems reflected in reality into his own in the works.Secondly, literature should also be able to abstract (display) the most basic and important spirit of reality. For example, we can see the core spirit and emotion of that era from Lu Xun’s works; finally, at a higher level, literature must Grasp the structure of the reality of an era as a whole. The greatness of works such as "A Dream of Red Mansions" and "War and Peace" is not only in art and the spirit of the times, but also in the structural treatment of the times in a literary way. "

Cao Baoping: From literature to movies, we need to recreate a world

"In fact, movies and novels are both a reality, and they are essentially the same. "Cao Baoping believes. However, for him, when recreating the real world in movies, he always hopes to grow another life from the novels he sees. This is a passionate and meaningful thing.

has always Since then, Cao Baoping, who is a director, screenwriter, producer, and professor, has always walked the line between art and the market in his creations.

Picture source: Photo provided by the organizer

From "Chinese Youth"'s " Dog Ten". "Three ", to "Crime and Punishment" " The Scorching Sun", and then to the black humor "The Chaser Is Also ", and " Li Mi's Conjecture" " Crossing the Angry Sea ", these films have the characteristics of a certain type of film, but they are not purely genre films, and ultimately return to the focus and thinking on reality.

Looking back on so many years of film creation, Cao Baoping said that sometimes he is concerned about movies adapted from novels. , based on the novel, you want to find a new textual expression every time, but once this expression changes in nature, the so-called reality will be completely destroyed. You have to build new expression on the basis of the original novel. New system. "So every time I find something from literature and create the story I want in the movie, the changes are huge, and there will basically be more than 50% re-creation. "

talked about the reconstruction and choice of the original novel. He concluded that the key lies in what you want to get from the original novel, whether it is a good story or a good narrative, or a deeper expression. "Literary expression is what I value more about literature. Content, it can dissect the more delicate and subtle content of human nature like a scalpel, so if this is what you care about, you have to recreate the story. I may struggle in this reincarnation every time. "

However, even so, Cao Baoping still emphasized that "you still have to find it from novels." In his view, literature is great and profound, and good novels can breed a lot of imagination and starting points. "I am full of literature. Respect, I usually try to read as much as possible. When I really come back to the movie, I need to recreate a world. ”

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