Chapter 96 What will Xu Lan do?

At the end of "Certificate of Fame", I found something in the subtitles that surprised me. There were eight screenwriters for this film, and Xu Lan was the first one.Later, I saw Chen Kexin say in an interview that Xu Lan gave him a lot of inspiration, including the concept of "Certificate of Voting", which was provided by Xu Lan. With this discovery, let's think back to "Certificate of Voting Names".It is almost certain that before Liansheng was killed, the tense, tranced, and bloody monologue must and can only be written by Xu Lan: "I want to fix this curtain, have you ever seen such a beautiful gauze curtain?" Is it? I haven’t seen such a beautiful gauze curtain in more than ten years. I saw a red one in the shop yesterday. I want the green one and the red one. I asked Erhu what to do, Erhu Tiger said, green ones this year, red ones next year..."

Who is Xu Lan?The explanation on Baidu Encyclopedia is as follows: "Gender, female; date of birth, 1969; native of Jiading, Shanghai. Graduated from a junior college. He started working in 1990 and served as a director of the Propaganda Department of Shanghai Automobile Gear Factory. He began to publish works in 1992. He joined China in 1998. Writers Association. Author of novels, collections of short stories and novellas "Selected Novels of Xu Lan", "Cherry Red", "Si Fan", "Stories of the Song Dynasty", novella "Idle Love", "Memorial Musician's Good Night", short stories, "The History of Young Heroes" and so on."

It is very simple, but it is not simple. She has become famous at the age of 23, and the quantity and quality of her works are amazing. In 1993, Zhang Yimou wanted to make a film, so he asked Su Tong, Ge Fei, Xu Lan, Zhao Mei and others to write essays on the same topic, resulting in five novels titled "The Story" appearing on the market at the same time.Among them, on the cover of Xu Lan and Zhao Mei's collection, there are words such as "Zhang Yimou made a tailor-made blockbuster film for Gong Li, two female reclusive writers put all their eggs in one basket to explore the mystery".

The word "hermit" was used for Xu Lan, and it was accurate.In the 1990s when literature and art were full of smoke and dust, her works gradually decreased, and her whereabouts became more and more erratic. In November 1999, she participated in the filming of the film "The Poetic Age" in Pixian County, Sichuan. In June 2001, he signed the "Signed Author Agreement" with the Shanghai Writers Association, and there has been no news since then.In the gossip that spread in a small area, she went to Hong Kong and became the gunman of a female financial writer, and occasionally signed some screenwriting works, such as "I Want to Live".The last time she appeared before "Certificate of Names" was the collection of essays "Golden Peony" published two years ago. It was a collection of articles published in "Vientiane".

Are these experiences reminiscent of another person?Shanghai, becoming famous at the age of 23, suddenly disappearing, Hong Kong, becoming a screenwriter, living in seclusion, investigating ancient books and relics in detail, do these keywords remind me of Eileen Chang?In fact, all of Xu Lan's writings are very similar to Zhang Ailing, and the difference between her and Zhang Ailing's other female disciples is that she is gradually moving closer to Zhang Ailing's life, making her half-life a "imitation style". Book review” (a book review term created by domestic book reviewers, Fujiwara Liuli-kun’s original creation, Li Ge’s meaning is “to interpret the book from the outside with actions parallel to the book being reviewed”).

Does paying too much attention to one person make one's life follow suit and form a parallel track?Just like Chen Xiaoxu's attention to Lin Daiyu, it was fake at first, gradually became real, and then became fatal.And our so-called destiny, is it just a psychological hint, a parody of the careers of those people in history?How would Plato do it?What will Ai Iijima do?What would Paul Auster do?What will Hector (the character in Paul Auster's "Book of Phantoms") do? For life, we have always learned everything, crossing the river by feeling the stones. The so-called fate may just be the result of our learning.