If it weren't for Zhang Zhong's advice, Lin Fei might really have been unable to resist taking the role. The director who came to him told him that an important Asian character would be added to the original script, which was completely customized for him.
of.
Lin Fei was almost fooled by the director.
After calming down, Lin Fei realized that the so-called adding roles was just a gimmick. Moreover, this arbitrary addition of roles itself represented the director's disrespect for the script.
Either the script itself is not worthy of respect, or the director does not know how to respect it.
No matter what it was, he would never accept a movie like this.
…
The sales of "Cat City" are very good, probably because it has a science fiction label, so it is very popular among people.
Although everyone later discovered that this was not a typical science fiction novel, it did not prevent them from still liking it.
In addition to Zhang Zhong's fame, there are two reasons for the high sales of this novel. One is that the language of this novel is very humorous, which makes it very easy to read. It also has less than 100,000 words in total, so you can read it without realizing it.
Again, compared to Zhang Zhong’s other more traditional novels, this novel is definitely an easy read.
Take "Lord of the Flies" as an example. People who are used to reading popular novels may find the text boring and the plot progression slow. Except for a few specific scenes, other passages are not interesting to read.
Take "Metamorphosis" as an example. It should be only one-third of the length of "Cat City", but the time it takes to read it may not be much less than "Cat City" because its text is too clumsy.
, obscure and difficult to understand.
In some passages, every word can be understood when read, but when put together, it feels like you can't react, which is very awkward.
In addition to the humorous language, some of the insinuations in "Cat City" are also quite gimmicky.
When many readers read the second half of the book, they are preoccupied with thinking about what the book is alluding to.
There are still many readers discussing these, and some people have even listed the things that are alluded to in it and made a table.
Of course, some people protested against Zhang Zhong because of the insinuations, and felt that Zhang Zhong should not have insinuated his own country in such a bad way, and many of them were exaggerated, fearing that they would affect the outlook and cognition of young people.
Zhang Zhong never paid attention to such comments.
From a reader's perspective, he feels that the allusions in "Cat City" are not exaggerated, but may not be as intense as reality.
Moreover, when he read the novel at that time, he did not feel that Lao She was slandering the country. Instead, he could see that he sincerely hoped that the country would be good.
Even as he said, he hopes that Cat City is just a dream, and the reality is extremely beautiful.
But the fact is that Cat City is indeed a dream, and reality is no better than Cat City.
There are also a handful of people who say that Zhang Chong wrote such novels just to please foreign literary awards, because foreign literary awards like to award awards to novels that speak ill of China.
The reason why some people believe this nonsense is because the elements involved are all true.
Foreign literary awards do like to award awards to such novels, but they are not necessarily aimed at China as a country.
Looking at the major literary awards, in addition to mainstream ideas, there are also some relatively unified characteristics, basically with a strong critical nature. In particular, novels that criticize the government and criticize history are always more likely to win awards.
But it cannot be said that a writer wrote a critical novel and then won an award, and that the writer wrote the novel to please the award. This is logically incorrect.
Such things are not uncommon. For example, Yu Hua, because the basic novels he wrote all involve special historical periods, and many of the descriptions are quite negative, so some readers criticized him and said that he wrote them to please foreign literary awards.
These novels are a cancer in the literary world.
In literary discussions, everyone has the right to express their own opinions on what they like or dislike, but it is only limited to expressing opinions.
You can say that you don't like the way of expression in "To Live" and "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood", or you simply don't like such stories, but you absolutely cannot slander other authors for writing novels to win awards. This is a matter of principle.
Therefore, Zhang Zhong never comments on such comments, and is even a little disdainful, because he thinks these people are not real readers.
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In the second week after the release of "Cat City", the official website of 001 suddenly posted a big cover.
The tone of this cover is a bit dark, with a looming skull floating in the deep sky.
On the header of the cover, there are five words - Speaker for the Dead.
There is a line of date in the lower part of the cover - 3.23
Sensitive netizens quickly understood the meaning of this cover.
Because Zhang Zhong previously revealed in front of reporters at the annual meeting of his company that within one month after the release of "Cat City", another new book will be released.
The current cover should be the cover of the new book.
Speaker for the Dead should be the name of the new book.
Every time a new book by Zhang comes out, netizens' top priority is to guess the type of the new book.
This time because of the bizarre cover, most people speculated that the new book is a science fiction novel.
This cheered up the spirits of many science fiction fans. Previously, they were secretly disappointed because of the lack of science fiction in "Cat City". Unexpectedly, just over a week later, there was good news.
Such a large area of deep space, if it is not science fiction, netizens themselves do not believe it.
The official website of Zero Zero One did not hide anything this time, and directly announced the news of the new book on the official Weibo: the new book "Speaker for the Dead" will be released simultaneously worldwide on March 23, and the new book is "Ender's".
The sequel to "The Game".
It turned out to be the sequel to "Ender's Game", and some people guessed it right at the time.
[I said at that time that there was going to be a sequel to "Ender's Game".]
[So, we have another hard science fiction movie to watch? 】
[Why is it said to be hard science fiction but not soft science fiction? 】
["Ender's Game" belongs to hard science fiction. Since it is a sequel, it is of course hard science fiction. 】
[Your thinking is too fixed. I think this name feels a bit soft science fiction.]
[Can you guess whether a book is hard science fiction or soft science fiction with just one title?]
[You really can’t tell anything from the title of the book.]
【I still like hard science fiction.】
[What is hard science fiction or soft science fiction? As long as it is good-looking. 】
[No, I said, what are you worried about about Zhang Zhong’s book? 】