Chapter 569: This is unprotected?

Chapter 569: This is unprotected?

Chapter 569: This is unprotected?
"It is mainly aimed at overseas audiences, so it will be a little different from serious long novels in China," Gu Lu added.

President Jian paid little attention to the additional remarks.

The questioning of civilization is a topic that has something to do with it. As a person who has read a lot of books, President Jian can actually imagine the general plot - the destruction of civilization by "invisibility". Is human civilization something that needs to be seen and watched? Is "watching" just a visual concept?

It's hard to write. To be more precise, the subject matter is not new, so it's hard to write well. But President Jian has confidence in Xiao Gu.

"Is this book going to compete for the Booker Prize or the Prix Goncourt?" President Jian casually asked.

There was no mention of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In fact, in the eyes of people like President Jian, the Booker Prize is the highest award in the English field, and the Goncourt Prize is often used as a positive example to slap the face of the Nobel Prize, which has strong political tendencies.

"If there is a chance." Gu Lu knew that he had a great chance of winning the Booker Prize. That's right, it came from the exchange of interests.

This story tells us that no award can be absolutely free from off-field factors.

After President Jian learned about Gu Lu's writing plan for the next six months or a year, he no longer focused on the details.

Because the domestic long serious novel "To Live" has become the mainstay of the publishing house. If we can also take down the foreign one, won't we be invincible?
"By the way, Xiao Gu, I heard you're getting married." President Jian mentioned something else, "It's going to be quite a big deal."

That was the plan - later on, Gu Lu and Zhou Lin both disliked too much noise, so they declined the idea of ​​a grand celebration.

When you feel you are of the right age, people will naturally urge you to get married...

From June to July, Gu Zhou and his wife returned to the Fog City in their free time to attend Li Guyuan's wedding. King Guru also helped to organize a motorcade, which was not too luxurious, but just enough to save face.

Wouldn’t it steal the limelight from the newlyweds if it’s too luxurious?

I won’t go into detail about being a best man, but let me just talk about the sales of Yes, Prime Minister in the past month.

Sales volume: 41.6 copies
English-speaking regions excluding Da Ying: 76.9 copies
It can be said to be the best-selling novel in history.

The English-speaking region includes the United States, and since the publication of this book is not decided by Yao Xiaoju and the Little Prince Culture Company, there is no exception.

Let's look at the situation in America. Since the serialization of the "Black Mirror" series of short stories, Gu Lu has never published any works in America.

But its popularity was not lost at all, therefore, it contributed sales of 35.2 copies, almost catching up with the British Isles and Northern Ireland.

Connolly is a top writer for The Washington Post and was one of the people who criticized Gu Lu the most.

"It's obvious that the Chinese have surrendered." Connery smiled and bought Gu Lu's new work from a New York bookstore. He believed it was a victory for America.

"Tonight is a good night for champagne." After returning home, Connery put down his book and took out a bottle of Charles Heidsieck from the wine cabinet.

Connery and his colleagues were a little nervous about filming A Man Called Ove Decides to Die and the Lord of the Rings series.

The Lord of the Rings series, in particular, has gained a very impressive readership in the United States and has loyal fans.

My impolite comment about Gu Lu almost turned into a boomerang and hit him on the head. Fortunately, fortunately.

"Who can resist such a huge consumer market as America?" Connery said while drinking and reading a book.

At first, he didn't care about "Yes, Minister", thinking that it was another book that France had hyped up for some reason besides "Who Moved My Cheese?"

Just flipping through it, you will find that Connery is a realistic person, and he is too weak to be nourished and does not like to drink chicken soup.

He turned to one of the pages and almost spit out his wine.

[Five standard excuses for governments to respond to accusations

1. These things all have reasonable explanations, but for security reasons, they cannot be made public.

2. This oversight occurred due to budget cuts and weakened regulatory power.

3. The experiment is worth doing and has been completed, and a lot of valuable data has been obtained. It also provides employment.

4. Some important information can only be known after the dust settles.

5. If it is caused by personal decision-making errors, it should be handled in accordance with internal disciplinary regulations.

...]
Familiar, so familiar!
This taste - isn't it the official term commonly used by the United States?
He would spit out a mouthful of wine, mainly because he was a writer for The Washington Post and had just commented on the "drunk fish incident."

After investigating the outrageous operation of a certain Commissioner Smith, the NSF (National Science Foundation) funded a $320 million study on whether alcohol affects the behavior of zebrafish. After more than a year, all the funds were spent and the conclusion was drawn that fish with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08% were more aggressive.

Regardless of the purpose of this conclusion, the bill disclosed that five zebrafish cost one million dollars, is it too much? Zebrafish are small ornamental fish, and the wholesale price is eight dollars for 50.

Neither Gojo Satoru nor Gojo Ren are that valuable! After being exposed and criticized, the explanation given by NSF to the public was Article 4...

"Oh my God, you better say it louder," Connery muttered to himself, wiping the wine stains from his collar and mouth with a wet wipe.

Connery started from this point onwards. I don’t know who he learned this habit from, but he can start reading from the middle. The pursuit of being able to read a work even in the middle is the dream of many great Western writers, and they invented various storytelling techniques during this period. Until the French writer Sabotta wrote "Op. 1", a poker-style novel - it can be said that he was obsessed.

I have introduced "Yes, Minister" before. The main plot is that Harker becomes a cabinet minister and works with Sir Humphrey. Integrating national events into daily life, British TV series on Earth are situation comedies. Therefore, even if you watch it from the middle, you can quickly get into the mood.

And full of sense of immersion.

Because American administrators are also divided into "politically appointed officials", that is, the political officials of the British government, corresponding to Harker, and "professional civil servants", that is, the administrative officers of the British government, corresponding to Sir Humphrey.

Connery was so immersed in the story that it was hard to imagine how such a wonderful work could be created by a Chinese writer.

As a famous manuscript writer, Connery's network of connections must be more extensive than that of ordinary people, so we did some research to find out how "Yes, Prime Minister" was written.

"George Wikodo, a famous European politician, gives a lecture - who is Wikodo?"

Connally thought about it for a while, but he still couldn't think of anything. People like him who pay attention to this aspect, if not know everything about European politics, they are very clear about it. All famous politicians have traces to follow, for example, Lao Dengtou, he didn't become a famous politician because he became president, he had already made his mark in the American Tingzong era. In 79, he visited China and talked with the chief designer. In the late s, Lao Dengtou, who was in his forties, competed with Slap Zong and Clinton for the presidency...

This is what we call a famous politician!

Weikodo's name reveals unfamiliarity.

But - being able to direct "Yes, Minister" and explain politics in such a simple and easy-to-understand way seems to be a real talent. Connolly thought, while browsing the comments of American readers on the book on his phone.

"I bought the signed version. I've said before that Gu is a genius and can easily create any subject. So, when can I buy the Lord of the Rings in Chicago?"

"Does anyone agree with me? Chinese writer Gu is like a high-dimensional creature. He can perform dimensionality reduction attacks in any field! The origin of fantasy novels is unclear, but it is always a sub-genre that European and American writers are good at. But The Lord of the Rings series has elevated fantasy to an unprecedented height. Political satire comedy is a traditional project of the playwright. Now Gu appears again, sneers at his previous works, and once again creates political satire that is easy to understand and may not be surpassed in the field of popular literary genres."

"I agree. Gu's creative ability is inexplicably strong. I traveled to France last year and found that Gu's biographies are also first-rate. My best April Fool's joke in the past few years is that someone tried to teach Gu how to write a novel."

The following is LOLOLOL, which can be intuitively understood as “hahahaha”.

It was obvious that Connery was also among those being laughed at, and this group of people didn't understand at all.

He left a message: Just wait, soon "The Lord of the Rings" and all of Gu Lu's books will be available for purchase in America.

Everyone else is drunk but I am sober. This is probably how Connery feels. In any case, it is very good for Gu Lu and the spokesperson Yao Xiaoju to admit defeat to them.

"Yes, Prime Minister" was also noticed by Da Ying and American entertainment companies, who wanted to purchase the adaptation rights of the series.

The heat will continue until the end of next month...

2022/7/28

Suitable for: burial, sacrifice, coffining, moving coffins, relocating graves...

Taboo: Don’t take other things

From the perspective of an auspicious day, it seems that everything except the funeral is not going well on this day.

The reason why Flatland Culture and other distribution companies made the decision was mainly due to the release schedules of other films.

"Let's go, let's go to the movies."

"There are so many bad movies during the summer vacation. What's good to watch? I'm just curious, is the Domestic Film Protection Month to protect bad movies?"

"Domestic Film Protection Month is just a joke made up by the media. The country has never used administrative means to interfere with the scheduling of the film market."

"You're treating me like an outsider when you say that. In the early 2000s, the leaders of the General Administration verbally said that they hoped that theaters across the country would support domestic films, and from July to August, they would not encourage the introduction of foreign blockbusters. Although there is no document, what do you think the leaders' hope and dissent meant?"

"But... no leader said that. Only the media spread the rumor. And the second-in-command of the General Administration even specifically refuted the rumor. The reason why there were almost no imported films in July and August was just because of the conflict in American schedules."

"You are only talking about the surface. There are many hidden secrets. You won't understand even if I tell you."

After hearing this, Xiao Li didn't want to talk anymore. My friend, Brother Gang, was indeed right in his nickname.

It’s just that it’s a bit strange for a man to go to the cinema to watch a movie alone, so let’s call Brother Gang.

It’s just… isn’t it even weirder for two men to go to the movies?

Xiao Li and Gang Ge came to the cinema.

There are no heavyweight works in this period, so there is nothing that can compete. "The Wandering Earth" has more than 60% of the screenings.

"Look, look, what did I say, this screening schedule has not been protected yet?" Brother Gang seemed to have found evidence.

(End of this chapter)