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One night ago, Lu Nian’an, a young screenwriter who lived alone, was found dead at home.
Everything comes suddenly. No one knows what he experienced before he died. The 30-year-old was lying peacefully on the bed, covered with a quilt, his unfinished script was stored in the computer on the desk, and the cat in the room was helplessly barking. Maybe he felt unwell at work and lay down by the bed? Or maybe he left in his sleep and didn’t feel much pain?
The Sri Lankan is dead, and all questioning is meaningless.
The first thing he found wrong was his parents who were far away from Zhengzhou. From March 3, his parents will not be able to contact him. The next day, Lu Nian’an was still out of touch. On March 5, the couple finally couldn’t sit still and decided to go to Beijing to find him. Anxiously contacted his friend in Beijing, anxiously contacted the property, and anxiously ran into the door. In the middle of the night on March 5th, Lu and Lu, who came thousands of miles away, finally saw the scene they least wanted to see.
The two were distraught, and their mother burst into tears. The police station and the emergency center came quickly, and the group silently packed him in a corpse bag and carried them to the car for autopsy. Three days later, the autopsy report came out. The time of death was between March 4th and March 5th. The cause of death was sudden cardiac death caused by overwork.
The death of Lu Nian’an did not cause much sensation. But a man who claimed to be his neighbor suddenly sent a circle of friends describing the tragic circumstances of his death in exaggerated language. This circle of friends was widely reposted in various film and television groups by people. “Living alone” “I was discovered after a few days of death” “No work or income for a year”. heart. Who hasn’t been home alone and worked at his desk late at night?
“This is pure fuel and vinegar. There is no such thing as’ opening the bowl of noodles, and Nian’s face has not been deformed.” On March 11, the entertainment capital theory linked Lu Nian’an’s media industry in Beijing. Friends Hao. He told me indignantly that Nian’s parents and friends around him were angry at this widely circulated screenshot.
For the deceased, the least respect is not to speculate or sell miserably.
What is the truth? The theory of entertainment capital interviewed Lu Nianan’s many friends before his death, which basically restored his experience in the film and television industry in the past two years. He transitioned from a youthful writer to a screenwriter with a high starting point, but two projects that took a lot of effort were difficult to deliver. His experience reflects an indisputable fact in the film and television industry: Project mortality is high, and practitioners work overtime to become normal Many people don’t pay directly in return. The general environment is difficult to change, and people in it can only move forward under pressure and try their best to fight for an uncertain future.
“His death and his script became intertextual”
Lu Nian’an remains on the Internet today. The 21-year-old boy who became famous in the youth literature circle with his novel “Liu Nian” is handsome and sensitive. However, since the publication of “Liu Nian”, he has gradually disappeared from the public view as a “national idol writer”. He suffered from depression, began to transform into a screenwriter, no longer updated Weibo, and only occasionally marked books and videos on Douban. So far, his Douban profile also lists the top ten film histories in his mind.
Although he is becoming more and more silent on social media, some affectionate book fans continue to look for him. On March 7, news about his death began to circulate on Weibo. A fan named “Gao’s Garden” was very excited. “No one has got more grief than me. Traces were found, but it was death news. ” In recent years, she has searched Lu Nian’an’s name online almost every month. Last month, she still solemnly answered the question of “Which writers with high value?”: Lu Nian Ann.
Lu Ming’an’s friend Amin also learned of his death on March 7. Waking up at noon that day, a friend sent him a screenshot of “sudden death of a writer living alone”, saying that it was Lu Nian’an. Amin, who had been unable to contact him, could not believe how he believed, and began to contact his mutual friends frantically, and the news was quickly confirmed. Huge sadness struck, and he remembered his unfinished film script “Twelve Nights”, “This is the best script I have seen in the past two years. I did not expect to form an intertext with his life . “
Lu Nian’an Photos
Twelve Nights tells the story of a female writer who committed suicide, leaving a half-written novel. A teenager discovered the novel and was so obsessed with it that he decided to continue writing. In the process of writing, the secrets about reality mentioned in some novels were gradually revealed, and the lives of teenagers changed accordingly.
“He is a creator who reads and reads a lot, and his writing style is very different from his peers.” Lu Nianan’s friend Hao told Xiaoyu. Because of this, many seniors in the literary world and the film and television industry appreciate him very much.He has a lot of relationships in the industry and has a lot of young friends.
However, Lu Nian’an, like the young people who entered the film and television industry, has a strong personal color in his works. His other movie, “My Depression Boyfriend,” is based on his real experience. In 2018, when explaining the original intention of this work, he recalled that he was still moving around as a young writer six years ago. “It’s terrible. I have to put on heavy makeup every day and pretend to be very happy. Go to the readers’ meeting. Everything I say on the stage is like lying. “
Lu Nian’an during the period of young writers
Fortunately, Lu Nian’an adjusted his mentality in time and gradually overcome depression. In the eyes of friends, he rarely shows pessimism, and is regarded as a person who loves life. After Lu Nian’an died, writer Su Beibei, who had collaborated with him in the script, went through the chat records and found that the conversation with him stayed at the Taobao shop that recommended to come to bath the cat.
Today, this cat that lost its owner has been adopted by Lu Nian’an’s friends. On March 9, Hao accompanied Lu Nian’an’s parents to collect an autopsy report and cremated his body. The next day, they held a small memorial service. Because the epidemic is still raging, all procedures can only be simplified, with only a few close friends except parents participating.
Lu Nian’an’s parents hope to bring Lu Nian’an home as soon as possible and settle in for peace. Now they have returned to Zhengzhou with their ashes. Lu Mu was still in great grief and often wept. As Lu Nian’an once wrote in a small novel, “A mother lost her child. It is too cruel for her to declare death.”
The always serious father was silent most of the time. Regarding this traditional Chinese father, Lu Nian’an wrote a small article in 2011 after the publication of “Liu Nian”, and rarely mentioned him, “He usually reads less often and suffers from severe cataracts. … but he opened his eyes hard, looked at each word so carefully, OKLike that’s all his career. “
Lu Nian’an “My Thing”
What crushed Lu Nian’an?
Hao was recently discussing with Lu Nian’an’s friends and his cooperative team on how to advance his unfinished film project during his lifetime. Everyone combed it and found that Lu Nian’an currently has two main projects: the movie “My Depressed Boyfriend” and the movie “Twelve Nights”.
The project is not going well. According to public information on the Internet, “My Depression Boyfriend” is a project co-operated by Lu Nian’an and a film company. The project started preparations in 2018, but was suspended due to force majeure. Throughout 2018, the film and television industry experienced a tax quake, the environment was suddenly cold, and many small and medium cost projects were forced to stop. Hao remembers that after the project was put on hold, Lu Nian’an did fall into a pessimistic mood for a while, and sometimes he complained to him about how unlucky he was.
But it’s too late to be sad. In March and April of last year, Lu Nian’an invested in the new project “Twelve Nights” again. The first draft of Twelve Nights was written in 2014, and he devoted a lot of effort. Originally everything went well. They hired Taiwanese director Cai Mingliang as the producer, and the actors were talking one after another, and they were preparing to start in Taiwan in the second half of the year. If it can be filmed, this will be Lu Nian’an’s first film as a screenwriter and co-director. He has even thought about going to apply for the European International Film Festival. “At that time, everything was really ready, and I couldn’t think of any reason why I couldn’t shoot.” Lu Nianan’s friend Amin said.
I never expected that cross-strait relations suddenly deteriorated. In August 2019, the Chinese government suddenly announced that the mainland completely banned Taiwan’s freedom. The Bureau of Film also released news soon, suspending mainland films and personnel to participate in the 2019 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. The visa for the creative team to go to Taiwan is difficult to obtainshake. Eventually, mainland investors decided to suspend, and the entire project came to a standstill.
Lu Nian’an was hit hard. The subject matter of this film is a little sensitive, and it is also a literary film. The main creative team still has many Taiwanese. If cross-strait relations have been tense, the possibility of domestic investment in the future is very small. “The experience during that time was just like a roller coaster. I said for a while that I could shoot and that I couldn’t shoot.” Amin sighed.
On March 10, Hao had a phone call with Pan Zhiyuan, the original director of “Twelve Nights.” The main creative team hopes to continue the show, “We are currently applying for some special funds for arts in Taiwan, and hope to get support.”
Young people who are new to film and television are beginning to doubt life. When “My Depression Boyfriend” fell, Lu Nian’an was still in a low mood in front of his friends; when “Twelve Nights” fell, he had learned to laugh at himself and said that after a year of luck, he was almost productive At the moment, the result was still empty. Behind the pretentious banter, there is more intense self-struggle.
Like many literary youth, Lu Nian’an also insists on his artistic ideals. He doesn’t watch Internet dramas and is not interested in commercial movies. The movies marked on Douban are almost all literary films. For friends’ birthdays, he likes to send books. Fitzgerald, Borges … The books of these writers are “reading tasks” that he arranged for friends.
Some books marked by Lu Nian’an on Douban
After two years of hard work, the two movie projects have had difficulty giving birth, and Lu Nian’an’s depression has relapsed, sometimes good and bad. In order to survive, he gradually convinced himself and began to take on the web drama project. When he was preparing for “The Twelve Nights”, he could not find a friend to borrow tens of thousands of dollars because of the turnover of funds. At present, the outline of the online drama project that he is working on has been completed and paid, but the first screenwriter fee has not yet been charged to his account. “He and the management have only agreed verbally and have not signed a formal contract.” Hao said. In the film and television industry, dragging money is a situation that almost every screenwriter will encounter.
Although depression is getting worse, in front of friends, Lu Nian’an strives to make him behave like a normal person. Only a few times, my friends went to see the salon together, and he would suddenly send a message saying that he was not in good mood and would not come. Friends can only comfort him a few words, it is difficult to help him substantially. Knowing that he likes to stay up late, friends have advised him, but Lu Nian’an still can’t change his irregular habits.
Increasing industry pressure, repeated depression, unhealthy habits and habits … all these are overdrafting Lu Nian’an’s body. Finally, one day, he fell without warning.
Overtime work becomes the norm, and the long-term dilemma for filmmakers
Like a stone thrown into the lake, Lu Nian’an’s death caused ripples in the circle.
A director friend of Lu Nian’an told Xiao Yu that she knew Lu Nian’an very early. The death of those around her will inevitably make her reflect on her lifestyle. “In our industry, most people are like this. Whether it’s a screenwriter, a director or an actor, they are all freelancers who live alone. It’s not uncommon to stay up late.” She remembered her other screenwriter friend, who stayed up until dawn, The resident team rushed to work even without eye-catching efforts.
The screenwriters stay up late, sometimes because the managers are pressing. Projects with tighter funding tend to be tighter in the early stages, and screenwriters without the right to speak can only stay up late for work. Sometimes it is because of the high demands of the screenwriter himself, “People like Aru.” The director friend said.
She has previously worked with teams in Hollywood, Japan, and South Korea. Due to the characteristics of the industry, foreign film crews can not guarantee regular work and rest time, but at least will ensure the sleep of staff, “at least everyone has sufficient sleep time, and the diet provided will ensure nutritional balance, but domestic film crews regardless of size , It ’s difficult to guarantee this. “
Lu Nian’s friend A Ming also told the film and television industryThe high-pressure work is well understood. In his opinion, the film and television industry is a high-pressure and high-risk industry. Except for the very few head actors and directors and producers, the vast majority of people have low incomes and their health cannot be guaranteed.
Amin disagrees with the proposals that were often launched in the industry to resist overtime work. Previous attempts to spontaneously set industry standards have failed.
At the end of 2017, 34-year-old screenwriter Zhao Yan suddenly died in the crew. In 2018, the photographers initiated a joint letter asking for an overtime pay increase, but it was finally over. Not long ago, Gao Yixiang passed away. Some people in the industry also called for attention to the issue of overtime work in the industry, but no action could be implemented. Everywhere in the world, there is news that the practitioners have died of overwork, and people can only boo about it and then stay up all night.
“The best way is to introduce a national policy to promote this matter from top to bottom.” Amin believes that only by establishing a trade union system can the policy be made available in the short term improve. However, a one-size-fits-all approach may interfere with market operations and bring a series of unknown risks, so it is not a good strategy.
In the final analysis, it is because the industrialization system of the entire film and television industry is not yet complete. The unprofessional staff, the absence of relevant departments, coupled with the cold environment and severe internal competition, people can only be forced to work overtime.
For individuals, systemic problems cannot be cured, they must be solved by themselves. “You can only make yourself stronger. This will give you the right to speak for something and not be slaughtered by others.” Lu Nian’an’s director friend said.
Because he is helping Lu Nian’an to deal with the aftermath, Hao’s advice is more inclined to prevent risks. “First of all, you must tell your family important information such as your mobile phone password and computer password, and then you must leave one or two in the same city A friend who is very familiar with each other, has been contacted at every turn, and finally must buy insurance, especially for freelancers. “This time Lu Nian’an’s loss of contact did not arouse the alert of his friends. One important reason is that he often retreats and writes. Lost a whole time at a timeWeek, so everyone is used to it.
In 2010, Japan’s NHK launched a documentary called “Missed Society” and compiled it into a collection of interviews. The book mentions the status quo of the Japanese: no blood, no geography, no society. There are more and more singles, and most of them leave their hometowns, live alone in big cities, and have few contacts with offline friends. Now China has gradually entered such a “sociable society”. But as stated in the book, To confirm whether it is related to others is to confirm whether or not you exist. In the film and television industry with loose interpersonal relationships, people should be even more so, before proving their talents, confirm their existence.
This article is from the WeChat public account: Entertainment Capital (ID: yulezibenlun) author: Yali