Chapter 702 A single book is about to be published
"I'll come again after Christmas."
When Llorente said this reluctantly at the airport, Zhang Zhong didn't know how to answer it.
"Dad, what did Uncle Danny tell you just now?"
Zhang Zhong did not correct his daughter's pronunciation and said with a smile, "He said he was very happy staying here these few days. The scenery is beautiful and the food is delicious. The most important thing is that he is very satisfied with his father's hospitality."
Pengpeng scratched his head, "Really? But I think he only said a short sentence."
"As for language, sometimes there will be some differences during the translation process."
"Is it the same as the ancient poem we learned? It's a short sentence, but when translated, it's a long sentence."
Zhang Dian nodded, "Absolutely."
Xu Yuhan covered her mouth and said with a smile, "This Mr. Llorente is quite talkative, which is a bit beyond my expectation. I remember that some people used to say that he was an abstinent person. He was quite handsome, but his expression was always as cold as ice."
"Maybe it's because you want to gain some fat and relax your mind. You have a soft heart and a fat body. Let's go, let's go back too."
On the way back, Zhang Zhong saw the poster for the movie "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". The name of the movie was not changed and the title of the book was copied.
A ten-character movie title is relatively long, especially for a movie that goes to theaters.
It's not like Wenner never thought of changing the movie title to a simple one, but after much deliberation he finally kept the book title. After all, the novel is so popular, so changing the title would have to specifically indicate "adapted from a certain book".
It's a bit troublesome, and the effect may not be good.
In fact, when he was at the airport, Zhang Zhong also saw the advertisement "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
It seems that Wenner Entertainment has officially started the unknown round of movie promotion. Although he doesn’t know which round it is, Zhang Zhong guesses that it should be the penultimate round. The movie has been officially scheduled for January 22nd.
, there are still less than three months to go.
After this wave of publicity, there should be one last wave of publicity before the movie is released.
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After Llorente and the others left, Zhang Zhong was finally free to devote himself to writing "Lord of the Flies".
Because he could only write from memory, it was impossible for Zhang Zhong to remember all the plots of "Lord of the Flies". He even couldn't remember the names of the characters clearly, except for the names of a few important characters.
, everything else is a little blurry.
Therefore, the "Lord of the Flies" finally written by Zhang Zhong is definitely different from the original work, but these details are not important. The key is the core of the work. As long as the core of the work is expressed, Zhang Zhong will be successful.
Speaking of which, the story of "Lord of the Flies" is not too complicated.
In the distant future world, the Third World War broke out, and a group of British boys were arranged to get on a plane to evacuate. Here, Zhang Zhong directly changed the British background to China, and the characters were naturally changed to Chinese.
On the way to evacuate, the plane crashed and all the adults died, leaving only a few surviving little boys.
The protagonist of the story is a twelve-year-old boy named Ralph. Although he is naughty, he is well-educated, kind-hearted, and has a little leadership ability.
Because of his age and the conch he picked up that could be blown, he successfully became the leader of the surviving children.
But not everyone is convinced of his leadership. There is a choir among the surviving children, and Jack, the leader of the choir, is a wild and very irritable big boy. He originally hoped and was sure that he could become
The king among these children was eventually snatched away from leadership by Ralph.
Resentful, he took some children and split into two groups with Ralph.
Ralph wholeheartedly hopes to guard the bonfire and wait for rescue, so that everyone will obey his arrangements and everyone can live on the island in an orderly and civilized way.
Jack is different, he has his own set of jungle laws.
When he took the children hunting and obtained meat, the balance of power began to tilt towards Jack's side, and more and more children chose to obey Jack in order to eat meat.
There is a key element in this novel, and that is the beast.
Not long after they arrived on the island, a legend about the beast spread among the people. At first, some people said that the beast was a snake, while others said that the beast came out of the sea.
Ralph told them that there were no wild beasts at all and that the strange noises they heard were just the sound of the sea breeze and waves.
But the children who were attacked by fear were unwilling to believe his words.
Later, on a night of thunder and lightning, the children formed a circle and danced a strange dance to drive away the beasts, but by mistake they killed Simon, Ralph's good friend, who came out of the forest.
Later, another good friend of Ralph's, Piggy, was also pushed off a cliff and fell to his death.
If the deaths of Piggy and Simon were somewhat unexpected, then after killing these two men by mistake, Jack and the others lost their last bit of humanity. They began to hunt down Ralph, and even went so far as to hunt down Ralph.
Don't hesitate to burn down the entire island.
It was precisely this fire that made a ship discover their existence, and Ralph was finally saved.
The story is that simple, and there are not many memorable points in the plot. But in order to tell this story well, Zhang Zhong needs to pay attention to some things, such as the "beast" that runs throughout and symbolizes people's inner fears.
It took Zhang Zhong more than a week to finally finish writing this novel, which was not too long. He then spent five days revising the book repeatedly before it was finally completed.
He sent the written "Lord of the Flies" to Chen Qing and asked him to arrange translation into other languages.
But he himself did not rest, because the matter of "Lord of the Flies" was not over yet.
When writing the Chinese version, he tried his best to write it in a way that he was familiar with and more suitable for Chinese people. Now, he is planning to write the English version of "Lord of the Flies" again in Golding's way.
Fortunately, he had already written it once. Although the English version was not quite the same size, his speed was much faster this time. It only took him a week to write and revise the English version of "Lord of the Flies".
When Chen Qing received the English version of "Lord of the Flies", she sighed, "Sure enough, it's faster to translate it yourself. Versions in other languages haven't been released yet. There are so many people in a translation team, it's not as good as just one of you."
Human efficiency is high.”
Zhang Chong smiled and said, "Don't worry, this book won't be published in the near future anyway."
Chen Qing nodded, "Yes, I know."
"Lord of the Flies" will not be released for the time being, because the company has another plan during this time - the first volume of "Harry Potter" will be released as a single volume.