With "The Last Starfish", Zhang Zhong became the highest-grossing writer in China with the highest-grossing film adaptation of his domestic work, with the total box office reaching close to 20 billion Chinese dollars.
If nothing else happens, Zhang Zhong will firmly occupy the top spot on this list for many years to come, and no one can surpass him.
Not only that, outside of China and around the world, there are not many movies adapted from his works that have exceeded Zhang Zhong's box office.
Moreover, adaptations of several of Zhang Zhong's works have been put on the agenda. If nothing else, they may top the global charts within a few years.
Zhang Zhong has too many good works. Even if only half of his works are adapted into movies, and each movie only gets 200 million U.S. dollars at the box office, it is a very scary figure, not to mention that it is impossible for each movie to only have 200 million U.S. dollars.
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In addition to the box office performance of "The Last Starfish" in the past two days, there is also a relatively inconspicuous news in the literary world.
A new work by Su Ai, a writer of the root-seeking literary genre, is now on sale.
After the word-of-mouth fermentation of the first two works, Su Ai already has a group of fans.
After the new book was launched on August 16, sales reached 200,000 on the first day.
Although it cannot be compared with a pervert like Zhang Zhong, as a traditional writer, this first-day sales volume is already a very good result.
However, after the publication of "Pride and Prejudice", mainstream literary circles gave it mixed reviews.
This book is somewhat similar to Su Ai's previous books, both of which tell stories about women.
But it seems that this is the only similarity. The background of the story is set in "ancient times" in Britain, which makes people a little confused. After all, many people in the literary circle have long labeled Su Ai as a root-seeking literary genre.
Moreover, the plot of this book seems more like a dramatic story with some petty bourgeois sentiments.
Especially in the ending, the heroine Elizabeth and the hero Darcy put aside their prejudice and arrogance, and finally their lovers finally got married.
This is the most despised thing in mainstream literature.
Because they feel that such elements of love can only appear in popular language books.
The work is not ideological enough and is disappointing - a certain critic.
Of course, there are also some who are optimistic about it. For example, Zhuang Yu, who has always admired Su Ai, praised this work very much.
"It is difficult to write about things outside of life. But it is even more difficult to write about life stories that people can relate to outside of their own lives. When I first read this book, I was still excited.
It’s unclear why Su Ai set the background of the story in a certain town in England. After all, it is too far away from us. Su Ai could have followed the previous path. In that era in China, there were still many stories that could be written. However,
After I read this novel, I suddenly understood Su Ai's intention. Earlier than China, there was also a trend of female love in England in the late 18th century. I think Su Ai may have wanted to start from China.
I set out on my own to trace female consciousness, so I chose Britain during such a special period."
"However, the mainstream of female emotional trends at that time was the sentimental mood of sadness and tears and the hobby of melancholy for the sake of melancholy. This reminds me of the popular sentiments in Baodao and even mainland China in the 1950s and 1960s and for a period of time thereafter.
Women's literature is also mostly melancholy for the sake of melancholy, and sentimental for the sake of sentimentality."
"It may be that Su Ai dislikes such female consciousness, which finally led to the emergence of this book. Compared with these alienated literatures that are mainly sad and always deliberately throw women into the abyss and make the two genders antagonize each other.
, the female consciousness shown in this "Pride and Prejudice" is more positive and independent. In the book, we can see that Su Ai expresses serious criticism of life through drama and drama, and explores the heroine's self-discovery from love to marriage.
psychological process.”
"Some so-called guardians of mainstream literature may be a little uncomfortable with the happy ending in the book, but this is by no means a problem with the work, but the fault of those who always hope to tell stories with imperfections and express ideas with imperfections...
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When Zhuang Yu said this, he originally just wanted to say that using a warm and beautiful ending can also express beautiful expectations and can also be thought-provoking.
However, this passage has been taken out of context and its meaning has been misunderstood.
"Zhuang Yu scolds some writers who like to tell stories with imperfections!"
This is a headline made by a gossip website.
This matter originally had nothing to do with Zhang Zhong, but when "Alive" was released.
Some people with evil intentions connected this passage with Zhang Zhong's new book "Alive".
"Zhuang Yu scolds some writers who like to tell stories with flaws!" Adding ""To Live" is a novel full of suffering and flaws" combines it into one title - Zhuang Yu scolds Zhang Zhong.
It makes absolutely no sense.
But the world is full of wonders, and just like that, the three names Zhang Zhong, Su Ai, and Zhuang Yu were on the news at the same time.
It was originally just gossip news, and many people didn't take it seriously. But at this time, Li Siqi didn't know what was wrong. He came out and severely criticized Su Ai, and at the same time, he roundly satirized Zhuang Yu.
In fact, Li Siqi can't stand Su Ai, which is normal, because he is a representative of the "Scar Sect" and follows the path of bitterness. Of course, he can't stand such literary works, and Su Ai was once known as a root-seeking literary writer.
He couldn't stand it even more.
But it was a bit puzzling that he shot Zhuang Yu at this time. Was it to help Zhang Zhong speak up?
However, Zhang Zhong and Zhuang Yu didn't respond to this matter at all. Who was he trying to defend?
Many people know that Li Siqi and Zhang Zhong had conflicts. Long ago, when Zhang Zhong was just emerging, Li Siqi even scolded Zhang Zhong.
Now that Zhang Zhong was "scolded" by Zhuang Yu, he jumped out in a hurry, and everyone couldn't quite understand.
In fact, Li Siqi's behavior is not difficult to understand, as long as you know that he published a new book a week ago.
He probably wanted to remove Su Ai, Zhang Zhong, and Zhuang Yu from the show all at once, and everyone would exchange a few words back and forth, so that his book would get some attention.
Ordinary readers may not expect that after all, Li Siqi is also a highly respected old artist in the eyes of outsiders.
But in the literary circle, this kind of thing happens everywhere, and it is no cleaner than other circles.
However, Li Siqi's wishful thinking was destined to be in vain. He tried to drag Zhang Zhong and others off the battlefield at night. Unfortunately, none of the three of them came out to reply.
Zhang Zhong is busy with the last few stops of his book signing tour, Zhuang Yu is also busy with new works recently, and as for Su Ai, there is no such person at all.