Angel, look to the hometown

Macie 2022-04-07 09:01:06

Speaking of Thomas Wolfe, he is not well-known in China, but his contemporaries are famous, such as Hemingway, Geraldsfield, and Flaubert. Not famous because Wolfe died young, with a short life of 37 years, but lived in the best time of mankind. In 1928, Wolff took the manuscript of his novel and found the editor Max Perkins. From then on, he saw the hero and created a legend in the history of literature. Max Perkins, the greatest editor in the history of American editing. The works edited and published by him are like thunder: "A Farewell to Arms", "The Great Gatsby", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "The Sun Also Rises", "Time and the River", "Angels Look Home". . . . . . His story with Hemingway, Geraldsfield, and Wolfe has always been well-known, and Pulitzer Prize winner Scott wrote a book about him called "The Greatest Editor." This time the movie "Genius Catcher" is about the love and killing of the genius editor and the genius writer. Writers are often selfish, especially genius writers. Their minds are full of thoughts, and their mouths are eloquent. Every word and every sentence they think is the emergence of inspiration, a gift from the muse, and the subjectivity of their thoughts cannot be destroyed. After Tolstoy wrote "War and Peace", he specially attached a letter to the editor, saying that if each chapter deleted more than 100 words, he would have to fight with the editor. While some writers are brilliant, but their writing is messy, and they can write wherever they want. If they don't organize and edit, they can't publish at all. Wolf is such a writer. At that time, his debut novel "Angel Looking Hometown" traveled all over New York's publishing house, and no one was willing to publish it until he met Max Perkins. Perkins has a keen eye, and has compiled and published this "Angel Looking at Hometown", which is destined to be passed down in history. Let Wolff also become famous in one fell swoop. However, after becoming famous, Wolff also had arrogance and exaggeration, and did not think that his works had editorial credit. Even fell out with Perkins. Later, when he died of illness, he came to his senses and wrote a text message to Perkins with all his last strength on the sickbed. Perkins, who had attended the funeral, shed tears after reading it. The movie is a biographical genre, so if you don't have a certain understanding of the history of American literature, you should not understand it. There were very few viewers in the movie theater, including us, a total of six people watched it. No, such a bland and chewy plot left the scene early. I just watched the movie in silence. This can't be blamed on the children's shoes that left the show. For example, one day we are going to make a "Biography of Zhu Ziqing" or "The Biography of Chen Yinke", and we will invite old actors and big stars to act as a major event in the Chinese film industry, but if this film is released overseas , how many foreigners can you count on listening to "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond" or "The Legend of Liu Rushi"? How many foreigners can you expect to study the history of modern Chinese literature in order to understand the life story of a scholar? That's it. The novel "Angel Looking at Hometown" was read when I was in school. The translated version at that time was very good. The translation of Wolff's writing style as crystal clear as a creek was amazing, and the various short sentences were like gold. . Hou's literary youth read David. Salinger, Wolff, and Márquez are standard. If there is no such reading experience as "The Catcher in the Rye", "The Hometown of Angels", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and "Growing the Willows in Years", they will shamelessly say that they love literature. But these books can only be read when the worldview is formed. For example, the book Catcher in the Rye, if you don't read it when you were a student, and you are shocked by the psychological metaphors in the book, you should read it later as an adult. Either it's boring, or it's contemptuous. The same is true of "Angel Looking Hometown", a Volvo autobiographical novel. The protagonist of the book, Eugene, is the lost generation of that era, fully describing the helplessness and hesitation of the intellectuals after World War I. And the 1820s were the best of times and one of the worst of times. The smoke of the First World War has just dissipated, and the trauma has not yet recovered, but there have been many masters in the world at the same time, whether it is dramatists, writers, novelists, and philosophers, all shining under the sky of that era! East and West are the same. I can't help but think of the short, big and tight words, the masters come in piles, and then leave in piles. In this era, there are no masters. The film starred by two actors, Ju De Law and Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney. They are both Oscar winners and queens, but seeing the original little fresh meat Ju De Luo on the screen turn into an uncle, I feel very embarrassed. Where did the heroic sniper Vasily go in "Barrier on the City"? However, Colin Firth's acting skills are as exquisite as ever, and the superb performance in "The King's Speech" proves that this uncle is a born old actor! As for Nicole Kidman, if you go to the sexy and charming girl in "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Moulin Rouge", then forget it, time is like flying knives, knives make people grow old. . . . . The filming is very delicate, the rhythm is eloquent, the montage technique is exquisitely used, and the sense of lens is very strong. There are many scenes in the film, which test the actors' positioning and performance. Can be said to be a good movie. But if you don't really love movies and literature, don't go to the cinema and suffer that sin. Kidman, if you go to the sexy and charming girl in "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Moulin Rouge", then forget it, time is like flying knives, knives make people old. . . . . The filming is very delicate, the rhythm is eloquent, the montage technique is exquisitely used, and the sense of lens is very strong. There are many scenes in the film, which test the actors' positioning and performance. Can be said to be a good movie. But if you don't really love movies and literature, don't go to the cinema and suffer that sin. Kidman, if you go to the sexy and charming girl in "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Moulin Rouge", then forget it, time is like flying knives, knives make people old. . . . . The filming is very delicate, the rhythm is eloquent, the montage technique is exquisitely used, and the sense of lens is very strong. There are many scenes in the film, which test the actors' positioning and performance. Can be said to be a good movie. But if you don't really love movies and literature, don't go to the cinema and suffer that sin. Kidman, if you go to the sexy and charming girl in "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Moulin Rouge", then forget it, time is like flying knives, knives make people old. . . . . The filming is very delicate, the rhythm is eloquent, the montage technique is exquisitely used, and the sense of lens is very strong. There are many scenes in the film, which test the actors' positioning and performance. Can be said to be a good movie. But if you don't really love movies and literature, don't go to the cinema and suffer that sin. Kidman, if you go to the sexy and charming girl in "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Moulin Rouge", then forget it, time is like flying knives, knives make people old. . . . . The filming is very delicate, the rhythm is eloquent, the montage technique is exquisitely used, and the sense of lens is very strong. There are many scenes in the film, which test the actors' positioning and performance. Can be said to be a good movie. But if you don't really love movies and literature, don't go to the cinema and suffer that sin. Kidman, if you go to the sexy and charming girl in "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Moulin Rouge", then forget it, time is like flying knives, knives make people old. . . . . The filming is very delicate, the rhythm is eloquent, the montage technique is exquisitely used, and the sense of lens is very strong. There are many scenes in the film, which test the actors' positioning and performance. Can be said to be a good movie. But if you don't really love movies and literature, don't go to the cinema and suffer that sin. Kidman, if you go to the sexy and charming girl in "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Moulin Rouge", then forget it, time is like flying knives, knives make people old. . . . . The filming is very delicate, the rhythm is eloquent, the montage technique is exquisitely used, and the sense of lens is very strong. There are many scenes in the film, which test the actors' positioning and performance. Can be said to be a good movie. But if you don't really love movies and literature, don't go to the cinema and suffer that sin.

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Genius quotes

  • Maxwell Evarts Perkins: [looking at the three cates containing the manuscript of Thomas Wolfe's new book] This - is Of Time and the River? Well done. Now go home and get some sleep.

    Thomas Wolfe: I... I...

    Maxwell Evarts Perkins: Let me read it.

    Thomas Wolfe: Read it kindly. Please.

  • Thomas Wolfe: I'm sorry I'm not decent enough for your fine dinner parties and your fine friends, but before you drag me out to the wood shed, I think you ought to look at who is giving the lesson. Am I supposed to grow up like you?

    Maxwell Evarts Perkins: No, Tom, but you're supposed to grow up.

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