In this era, as a Chinese, it is impossible to gain long-term attention in the American media.

Not to mention the mainstream newspapers in the United States, even in literary publications, they will not just revolve around one novel.

Many big things happen in the United States every day, and new books are published in the American literary world every day.

Lin Zixuan is not the center of the world, so the trend caused by "Gone with the Wind" has long ended.

Of course, due to the best-selling of "Gone with the Wind", there are still people talking about this novel, but it will not be a hot topic of news, and it only occasionally appears in some criticized literary magazines.

Lawyer Peterson wrote to Lin Zixuan to introduce the situation in the United States.

Lin Zixuan has gained a certain popularity among American readers, but readers are forgetful. If you want to maintain your popularity in the American literary world, you must continue to launch new works.

This is also Lin Zixuan’s plan.

He wants to use new novels to continuously consolidate his position in the Western literary world until others can no longer ignore his existence.

In fact, at this point in time, "The Watcher in the Rye" is not the best choice, and "The Great Gatsby" is a novel that truly conforms to American society in the 1920s.

The 1920s were a short and special period in American history, known in history as the "noisy era".

It refers to the decade from 1919 after the end of World War I to 1929 before the great economic collapse of the United States.

During these decades, the domestic economic situation in the United States has been very good, bringing unprecedented comfort to the lives of many Americans.

Real estate trading and stock market are particularly active, and some speculators have become nouveau riche overnight in this type of gambling industry.

In society, the amount of wealth has become the standard for judging whether a person is successful or not. People have begun to make money blindly, make "fast" money, and make more money; pursue becomes richer, become richer...

At the same time, American hedonism, Spencer's theory of evolution and James' pragmatism are popular in the United States.

The traditional Puritan moral concepts and the ideas of "hard work and thrift" advocated by religious beliefs were gradually replaced by consumer hedonism such as pursuing personal wealth and enjoying material life.

Against this background, in 1925, Fitzgerald wrote the work "The Great Gatsby", thus establishing his position in the history of American literature.

He has thus become the spokesperson of the "Jazz Age" in the 1920s and one of the representative writers of the "Lost Generation".

The Confused Generation is a literary school in the United States after World War I.

In the early 1920s, American female writer Gstein, who lived in Paris, said to Hemingway: "You are all a confused generation."

Hemingway used this sentence as the inscription for his first novel "The Sun Rises As Always", and the "Lost Generation" has since become the title of this group of writers who have no program and organization but have the same creative tendencies.

The so-called "confusion" refers to the confusion and disappointment they share.

Representative writers include Hemingway, Faulkner, John Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Elliott and Kenmings.

Most of these writers have experienced World War I first-hand.

On the battlefield, they witnessed the great disasters brought to mankind by war, experienced the torture of war, and learned about the war-weariness among ordinary soldiers.

After the war, they no longer believed in politics or laws, but could not find a new and reliable spiritual pillar.

Therefore, he is pessimistic, disappointed, confused, worried, and in a state of mental confusion and unknown where he is heading.

Although the "Lost Generation" writers showed a strong pessimism in their works and had a negative and disgusting attitude towards war, their works broke through the shackles of tradition in terms of content or artistic form, and influenced the creation of many later writers.

Salinger, the writer who wrote "The Watcher in the Rye", is one of them.

Salinger was born in 1919 in a wealthy Jewish business family in New York. He was sent by his father to a military school in Pennsylvania when he was 15 years old.

Salinger joined the army in 1942, and in 1944 he went to the European battlefield to engage in counter-espionage work.

The war had a great influence on him. After returning to China, Salinger lived in seclusion most of his life.

Like Hemingway and others who experienced World War I, their literary creations are spiritually connected.

This is also the reason why Lin Zixuan chose "The Watcher in the Rye". This novel continues the creative spirit of the "confused generation" and writes about the pessimism and confusion, emptiness and depravity of the entire era.

Of course, another reason is that he has only watched the movie "The Great Gatsby" and has never read the novel, otherwise he would have plagiarized the novel directly.

Xiao Li played well in the movie, but unfortunately he didn't even have the nomination for Best Actor for Oscar.

In lawyer Peterson's letter, the situation of "Tianmen Hero Huo Yuanjia" and "Sunrise" were also introduced.

American film companies are more interested in oriental action films like "Tianmen Hero Huo Yuanjia", but they are basically rejecting audio movies.

"The Great Hero of Tianjin Huo Yuanjia" was bought by Universal Film Company for $50,000 and was screened in several theaters near Chinatown, New York. It was popular among Chinese people and has good returns.

The reason why he chose Universal Film Company instead of the United States Film Company, which he had worked with before, is related to Marie Beckford.

Because the "plagiarism door" incident occurred during the screening of "New York Holiday", Marie Beckford suffered a lot, not only the box office losses, but also the perfect image she created.

So, she no longer had any interest in Lin Zixuan's movies.

At the first Hollywood Awards ceremony held in February this year, Marie Beckford became the best actress with her role as Princess Anne in "New York Holiday".

But what followed was a huge controversy.

Because the night before the award ceremony, she invited all the judges of the Central Jury to her villa to entertain "refreshments", and she really won the award.

American public opinion was in an uproar, believing that there was a shady story and that the awards were unfair.

Lin Zixuan thinks the media should ask when Oscars will be fair.

The Best Foreign Language Film Award he is more looking forward to is not established. This shows that the American film industry is extremely xenophobic and it is difficult to get Chinese films to enter the US market.

The audio film "Sunrise" was highly supported by Western Electric Company under the introduction of Douglas Sheila.

They also wanted to promote audio movie machines, so they booked the Piccadilli Theater in Manhattan, New York to screen "Sunrise" and invited reporters from major newspapers and owners of film companies to come and watch the movie.

In order to worry that the audience would not understand the plot, a booklet was printed.

In the brochure, in addition to introducing the plot of the movie, there are also movie lines translated into English. They translated "Sunrise" into "A Oriental Woman Who Sinks in the Sea of ​​Desire".

Americans think the movie's name is more attractive than "The Sun Rises".
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