On this issue, Mai Jia is obviously the one with the most say. Since 20 10, Mai Jia has entered the so-called "rich list of writers" many times, and the royalties of a single book are millions; At the premiere of The Wind in Hong Kong, Mai Jia wore a watch worth 1.6 million yuan, which immediately caused a burst of noise in the media. His works are constantly being adapted into film and television works, and he almost created a new type of "spy war" by himself. There is no doubt that he is one of the best-selling and most profitable novelists in China.
Mai Jia is obviously the beneficiary of film and television media. He started writing novels from 199 1 and spent ten years writing a book "Decryption". At the beginning of the first draft of Decryption, it was frequently rejected by the publishing house and revised seven times. At that time, Mai Jia was far from the scenery. It was not until the words were transformed into movies and TV series, and the TV series "Assassination" was put on the screen that Mai Jia's personal popularity soared, and the sales of books were naturally not the same. The publishing house that rejected the manuscript before came to the door again, and even if it didn't see a word, it was willing to pay a high price to buy out the copyright in advance. Mai Jia knows very well, "Literature is a small circle after all. If the novel can sell the right to film and television adaptation, it is a lucky thing for the screenwriter, then I am undoubtedly a lucky one. " It is no exaggeration to say that film and television have made Mai Jia, at least the commercial Mai Jia.
Mai Jia does not rule out that he is positioned as a "popular writer". "Elegance can put on airs, but sometimes' fashion' is polished word by word." This attitude of not taking the literary shelf is also manifested in the fact that Mai Jia doesn't mind making a lot of changes to the original script. He Zhuang's new film The Listener has been greatly revised on the basis of the original work of Mai Jia, especially at the story level. Mai Jia didn't care, but praised the adaptation of the script: "I have never opposed the director's revision of my novel, but this movie really surprised me." This surprise does not come from their adaptation of my novel itself, but I found that through their own understanding, the listeners have changed a lot. "
Walking on the Knife Tip is the name of a TV series adapted from Mai Jia's Knife Tip. For Mai Jia, he is not free to walk on the cutting edge of literature and commerce. The warm embrace given to Mai Jia by the film and television circle has made him move from the literary circle to the public view, but he always reminds himself not to get lost in the torrent of business. This year's suspense action film "Moonlight is ferocious" was released. In order to create a selling point, the producer put the "Maijia Producer's Works" in a conspicuous position on the poster, which caused the director to be dissatisfied and nervous, and there was a dispute with Maijia at the scene. Obviously, in the eyes of many people, Mai Jia is not only an excellent writer, but a commercial symbol that can be consumed.
Therefore, there is Mai Jia's nostalgia for the "nameless state ten years ago". "After becoming famous, a lot of time is occupied by irrelevant things, but the pressure to write good things doubles." He even admitted that in the years after he became famous, "his works became worse and worse", and the reason why he got such high treatment and honor was "just because he made mistakes in these years and got some false reputation". However, he is also very clear that it is impossible to return to the period of "writing at least 15 hours a day", so he simply declared the Knife's Tip as his secret work, and even did not rule out the possibility of sealing the pen forever: "Just like climbing a mountain, you can try your best to climb to the top of the mountain. Once you start to rest, you may have been resting. "
Whether or not Mai Jia will continue to be at the forefront of commerce and literature in the future, it must be admitted that Mai Jia has provided us with an excellent example of the perfect combination of literature and commerce. The era of "the gentleman is poor" is gone forever. Under the economic tide, should writers stand up or look on coldly? Marshall said a sentence can be summed up: "According to the law of struggle and survival, the self-owned organisms that are most suitable for benefiting from the environment can reproduce."
According to the law of struggle and survival, we can benefit from the environment of "literature is dead".
Mai Jia on paper
Decrypt first
The biggest difference between Mai Jia and other novelists is that he is a screenwriter. 1997 after leaving the army, Mai Jia entered the TV drama department of Chengdu TV Station as a screenwriter. Mai Jia admitted that after writing the script, his ability to make up stories was greatly improved, which also promoted the creation of novels. The creative concept of "story first" also makes Mai Jia's novels more readable and visual besides literariness, which is very suitable for adaptation into film and television works. Therefore, it was Mai Jia's later success in the field of film and television.
Be countered by ...
No one expected that director Zhang Li would openly challenge Mai Jia at the press conference of Bright Moon in the Sky.
When Zhang Li suddenly began to criticize Mai Jia as a nominal producer, and said that he didn't understand why the film always emphasized the producer's work, Mai Jia who came to the film platform specially was obviously quite surprised. Later, I had a verbal exchange with tension, and then I satirized the film as a "diaosi film" in Weibo. In his view, he just made a good person once and enjoyed the friendship, but he didn't want to encounter "cruel humanity". No matter whether this farce is deliberately hyped by the film or the director, it is undoubtedly a "plot against" by the well-known Mai family.
There is "wind"
Along with the dazzling aura of Mai Jia, there are also questions from all sides. In addition to questioning that Mai Jia's writing is too commercialized, gimmicks like "10 million manuscripts" and "zero down payment royalties" are often seen in newspapers. After the famous watch was exhibited in the Hong Kong edition of Gossip, Mai Jia returned to Beijing, and almost everyone knew that the royalties he got in Hong Kong were famous watches. Mai Jia said helplessly, "I bought that watch myself." Can't I buy any watches? " Being hotly debated, this is a kind of encirclement and suppression of writers. "In fact, Mai Jia is tired of publishers' various propaganda methods, but he also understands the difficulties of publishers. "Publishers take away the copyright of books at such a high price. If you don't cooperate, it is disrespectful and irresponsible to publishers. "
On the tip of the knife
After the broadcast of "Plot Against Me", Mai Jia was dissatisfied with the producer Emperor Wen of Sui's signature of "Second Screenplay" and the absence of the word "Original Mai Jia" in the title, and had an oral dispute with Emperor Wen of Sui and the producer. Then "plot against" won the best screenplay award at a TV festival, and Yang Jian was the first screenwriter to take the stage to receive the award, which made Mai feel very angry. After that, Mai Jia initiated three lawsuits against the producer of "plot against me", demanding the authorship of the original TV series, rejecting others' improper authorship, and demanding the remaining 80,000 yuan TV adaptation fee, but the producer immediately sued Mai Jia for copyright infringement. Mai Jia thinks this is obviously "an act of revenge" and regards it as "the disaster of life".
Become a "listener"
Mai Jia thinks that Maizhuang Group is the most suitable director for listeners, and even calls it the blessing of the original novel Against the Wind. With such a sense of trust, Mai Jia also left the adaptation of the script to two Hong Kong directors this time. He believes that the biggest difficulty in adapting the script of The Listener is to turn "sound into plot", and the efforts made by Maizhuang Group in this regard have obviously been recognized by Maijia. "They are really serious about this film and work hard. I feel that they are very ambitious about this film."