The film is about Perkins, played by uncle Colin Firth, and Wolf, played by hair transplant enthusiast Jude Law, two British men who traveled thousands of miles to the United States to play the roles of the 1930s. The story of a pair of New Yorkers who fell in love and killed each other.
The protagonist of the film Perkins is an editor, equivalent to the current editor of the new media. You may not know his name, but you've heard of Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe and Hemingway? Three-handedly, they pushed American literature to its peak.
And on the backs of these three successful men, the same man, Perkins, was carried.
How powerful is Max Perkins?
Hemingway wrote "The Sun Also Rises," "A Farewell to Arms," and "For Whom the Bell Tolls." ", he is the editor; Thomas Wolf wrote "Angel, Looking Home", "Time and River", he is also the editor.
When I discovered these three people, they were all unknown and worthless rookies in the literary world. There is no doubt that Perkins is the driving force behind these influencers.
Come, let's walk around with a small gift.
Fitzgerald even called him "our common father." Perkins said arrogantly, I am not targeting anyone, I mean that everyone here must call me Dad.
By North!
Perkins loves talent very much.
In order to launch Fitzgerald's debut novel, he did not hesitate to fight with all the senior editors;
because Hemingway was jealous, he gave up editing Faulkner, which indirectly led to the latter winning the Nobel Prize for Literature;
Sherwood Anderson Once complained about Perkins' concern for rookies: "Every time I come to the office, you don't say anything to me, but you and Wolff talk so much. Humph, punch you in the chest with small fists, big bad guy !"
Careful readers will ask, why are these great writers crying and shouting to bow down under Perkins' miniskirt, scrambling to be his ministers under his skirt? It's very simple, because he has mastered talent mining and management skills, and makes good use of mind mapping, which can turn corruption into magic.
As an editor, Perkins is deeply involved in the entire process of each book. He would categorize those writers and break them down.
There is nothing wrong with Fitzgerald's writing, but his procrastination is a stubborn disease. Every time he arrives at the deadline, he can receive a series of deadly calls from Perkins; If you change it, if you change it, you will be confused; and Wolff is even more exaggerated. Every time he makes a revision, he will write more new words that are far from the topic...
In this process, the choice of the title of the book, the characters The appearance, the use of foreshadowing, the choice of scenes, the addition and deletion of chapters, the use of keywords, these are Perkins' strengths.
In addition, Perkins is a headline party.
If it weren't for him, "The Great Gatsby" could only be called "Terry Marlow of West Egg"; ".
What great and secret gossip is there between them, today I'm going to take a look at the sketch.
Fitzgerald's
first author to be favored by Perkins was the famous Fitzgerald.
In 1919, A Fei, who hummed "I used to ask endlessly, when will you come with me, but you always laugh at me and have nothing" successfully abducted the rich wife back to her hometown. He opened a public account, and with all his strength, he clicked and sent the Virgo "Paradise on Earth". One day has passed, one year has passed, and it has been refreshed countless times, and the number of readings is still 1.
He began to use alcohol to relieve his worries, resting when he was drunk, and witnessed countless New York at four in the morning.
He could avoid the night when he sang to wine, and the streets where there were no people around, but he did not escape the godfather Perkins.
Soon, Perkins resisted pressure from the publisher and insisted on publishing the work. Unexpectedly, the first edition sold out in just a few days.
The great Fitzgerald was an instant hit. Langley Grange.
Phoenix Man became famous and would always be floating. He and his wife began to live a life without shame. Either spend a fortune, or fall into poverty. Fitzgerald, who appeared in the movie "Genius Catcher", is in the worst period of his life. His wife, Zelda, was hospitalized with schizophrenia, while he himself was too addicted to alcohol to write.
One person I drink and get drunk, and when I get drunk, the monks become two pairs. At this time, only Perkins was the only one who never gave up, depended on each other in life and death, and continued to be his ant flower, supplemented him with love and supported him until he went to Hollywood to write scripts until he died.
The jealous Hemingway complained that this is the greatest tragedy of our generation.
A genius just dies. Small gifts and then walk around.
In Hemingway's
early years, Fitzgerald lived in Paris and met Hemingway, an American journalist in Paris at the age of 17. In 1925, the warm-hearted Affey recommended Hemingway to Perkins, and swore that he patted Perkins's chest and said, "Serena is not hot, and God is hard to tolerate."
So Perkins began to love Hemingway endlessly, often paying for his willfulness. It is said that once Hemingway decided to travel to Africa on a whim, Perkins advanced a large manuscript fee for him as travel expenses before Hemingway's next work was written.
Love it, my friends!
But Hemingway was a rebellious boy who was not satisfied, and often turned his face and didn't recognize anyone. This tough guy has repeatedly made public rudeness, "It's okay if you want me to continue publishing novels with you, then you fucking don't find fault with me."
For such an arrogant and arrogant declaration, Perkins is probably the same as nothing. "Don't make trouble" makes Hemingway stand there and continue to write—Hemingway likes to stand and write.
Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe is a lunatic. Xue Zhiqian looked at the kind of person who would say "neuropathy".
Jude Law, who plays him, can tell you that as soon as he comes out. He was the icon of Beat writer Jack Kerouac, unrestrained, loud, and talkative, and liked to beat the floor hard with his unnamed leather shoes.
We, the common people, are so happy today. Happy, happy, so happy today!
When Wolfe met Perkins, his first film was originally titled Oh, Lost! (O, Lost!)" autobiographical novel is being rejected by publishing houses all over New York.
Only Perkins finished reading it. And only Perkins said I'd be willing to publish it.
Wolf couldn't believe his nose, he was ecstatic, shouting in the crowd, everything is the best arrangement!
There is one more thorny problem, the manuscript is too long. When it was finalized, 90,000 words were deleted by Perkins, but Wolff was only convinced and expressed his gratitude to him again and again. After the novel was published, there was a fire, and even in that era when workers had to queue up on the streets to receive bread and milk, they still sold out.
Wolff Xiaohe only showed sharp corners.
With the encouragement of Perkins, Wolfe began to write a second novel, Time and River. At the height of writing the book in 1933 and 1934, Wolfe would often shut himself up in his apartment at 111 Brooklyn Heights for weeks at a time.
Wolff has unlimited creative passion, and his ideas are like diabetes insipidus. The words poured out under his pen, as if never ending. He just writes, he loves the characters he writes, he loves the feeling of being struck by lightning...
He is too tall, a stupid big man of nearly 2 meters, he can only write standing up, and he can only stand by a refrigerator write. It is simply the best refrigerator advertising spokesperson of that era. Wolfe likes to read and write, and Wolff will help the refrigerator without helping her grandmother.
After each draft, he let it float to the floor, picking it up only at the end of the day.
When the final draft was finished, he moved the manuscript to Perkins' office, which contained several boxes and more than 5,000 pages in type.
Perkins' head is big when he sees it!
In order to complete the revision of "Time and River", the two lived and ate almost together for 9 months, and they had endless discussions and quarrels about the revision of a chapter, a paragraph, a sentence or even a word every day. The two men worked day and night for "Time and the River", and Perkins' wife and Wolf's lover could only complain.
When Confucius commented on this relationship, he was very emotional.
At that time, Wolf fell in love with a married woman and stage designer Ai Lin, but she didn't know anything about managing feelings, just like Li Bai, who failed Du Fu, and Fa Hai, who didn't understand love. And the heartless Aileen gave up her ex-husband, children, and dignity, and was determined only for the man in front of her.
Not cool at all.
Not to mention how painful it is to fall in love with a man who doesn't come home.
Xiaopin thinks that she was born at an untimely time. If she was born in China, you should read more about "how women with high emotional intelligence fall in love", "whether he loves you or not, just look at this", " Xu Jinglei: Don't care what men think, you have to live like a wild horse." She was relieved immediately.
Will continue to send Moments: don't bow your head, the crown will fall; don't cry, your lover will laugh.
What makes Xiaopin even more incomprehensible is that when two men don't like to go home and are tired of being together all day, why don't the three of them go to Tianjin Satellite TV's love defense battle?
Having said that, Wolff is not only cold-blooded, but also a master at crossing rivers and demolishing bridges.
After Wolff became popular, other publishers offered higher royalty offers. Wolff's wings were hardened, trying to prove that he could make a breakthrough without Perkins, plus the years between the two of them. Resentment arose, delete my manuscript, change the title of my book, move my punctuation, and think about it! Do you think you are a great party A, your son will not serve you!
He wrote a letter to Perkins breaking up the friendship, and the great ship of friendship was turned over.
Perkins' occupational disease was so serious that he read the letter and took notes.
After the breakup, Perkins had to eat with someone to find out about Wolff's whereabouts.
Although the two broke up, Perkins has never held a grudge. When Wolff was involved in the lawsuit, Perkins, who had not been with him for a long time, was still willing to testify for him. Later, Wolff was also probation. When he fell ill, the only thing he couldn't let go of was the glorious years of friendship with Perkins.
Forgive me for the uninhibited indulgence of loving friends in my life.
In Seattle, Wolfe had a premonition that he was about to die. After receiving a letter of condolence from Perkins, he shook his pen and wrote back to him:
No matter what happens - I have had this "Foreboding", I thought about writing to you to tell you that no matter what happens in the future, no matter what happens in the past, I will always miss you and miss you, just as I will always remember three years ago on July 4th, when you and I were there Meet on the boat, then we climb to the top of the tower to feel all the strangeness, glory and power of the city and life below.
Your forever
Tom
translation is, if I have a ticket, do you want to come with me?
Perkins is certainly reluctant.
Three days after the craniotomy, on September 15, 1938, Wolfe died, 15 days before he was 38 years old.
Wolff was nostalgic and appointed Perkins as the executor of his estate. At the time of the burial, he was designated as his coffin bearer, but Perkins avoided the crowd and stood alone in the trees, just as he had played in Wolff's life—
an editor standing behind the writer.
The story is about to end.
The man who cultivated the three great masters of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe is often asked the same question, "I wonder, your writing level is higher than that of so many great gods, Why don't you write it yourself and open an official account?" Perkins '
answer was always cold and restrained:
"I am an editor."
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