What is Wang Shuo's masterpiece? Which is the funniest?

Wang Shuo's masterpiece: The flight attendant is the most humorous: the stubborn Wang Shuo (1958-), male, graduated from Beijing No.44 Middle School in 1976, and later joined the North Sea Fleet of the Chinese People's Navy as a health worker. 1980 retired to Beijing. I joined the pharmaceutical wholesale store of Beijing Pharmaceutical Company as a salesman, and 1983 resigned to make a living by writing. 1978 started writing, and has published novels such as "Playing is the heartbeat" and "It looks beautiful". He published Collected Works of Wang Shuo and Selected Works of Wang Shuo, and then entered the film and television industry. The TV series Desire and The Story of the Editorial Department are both successful. 1997 65438+ 10 went to the United States and returned to China in July 1997 engaged in freelance writing. In 2007, I published a new book, My Chitose Cold, which contains six words.

Personal profile

Wang said he was a famous writer and screenwriter in China. 1978 started writing, and has published novels such as "Playing is the heartbeat" and "It looks beautiful". He has published Collected Works of Wang Shuo and Selected Works of Wang Shuo. His early novels, poems and literary works are all based on the growing experience of his army's "painting complex", while his later novels have formed a unique style, with popular dialogue and vitality. The narrative language is mainly banter and satire, mocking authoritative words and intellectuals' elite positions, and then entering the film and television industry, TV drama desire and editorial story. In 2007, Wang Shuo ranked sixth in the "2007 Second Rich List of Chinese Writers" with a royalty income of 5 million yuan, which aroused widespread concern.

1976 After graduating from high school, he served in the North Sea Fleet of the Navy and worked in Beijing Pharmaceutical Company.

1978 began to create. He has published several novels such as stewardess, getting out of the sea, half flame and half sea water, playing with the Lord, never treating me like a man, rubber man, playing with my heartbeat, I am your father and being beautiful, which are widely welcomed by readers. [2]

There are four volumes of Collected Works of Wang Shuo (Huayi Publishing House 1992 First Edition) and Selected Works of Wang Shuo, which caused a sensation and were "expensive in Luoyang" for a while. His early works were all written according to the growing experience of his "complex" in the army, and he also wrote some romance and detective novels. Later novels formed a unique style, writing about a group of cultural hooligans, characterized by games and decadence. The dialogue was popular and full of vitality, and the narrative language was mainly banter and irony, which mocked the authoritative discourse and the elite status of intellectuals.

The "I am a rogue and who am I afraid of" of his characters has become the spiritual symbol of some young people, just like his own "I am a code word" declaration. After entering the film and television industry, the TV series "Desire" and "The Story of the Editorial Department" planned by him were both successful. Movies and TV plays adapted from his novels are also very popular, including commercial speculation.

Although his works were all the rage, there were great differences among critics, so that a remarkable "Wang Shuo phenomenon" appeared in China's literary and film circles at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s.

Physical development coincided with three years of natural disasters, and when he was educated, he caught up with the Cultural Revolution. The so-called global malnutrition. I don't have any skills, but I only know three or five thousand words. It's the kind of person who has ambition and no talent. They should do nothing all their lives and be stones at the feet of others. It is also that life should not be doomed, society has changed, and it is difficult to generalize. In order to make the future world stand in a cone, this is a mystery.

Character experience

Folding life experience

Wang Shuo, male, from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, was born in Xiuyan, Liaoning Province. 1976 graduated from Beijing No.44 Middle School, and later worked as a health worker in the North Sea Fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy. 1980 retired and returned to Beijing to work as a salesman in the drug wholesale store of Beijing Pharmaceutical Company. 1983. 1978 began to engage in literary creation (the short story "Waiting" was published in the1/issue of PLA Literature that year). Since 1984, the first novella "Flight Attendant" was published in contemporary times, 22 novellas and 3 novels have been written, about1600,000 words. 1997 65438+ 10 went to America in October. 65438+/kloc-0 returned to China in July, 1997, and engaged in freelance writing.

Wang Shuo's dissolute charm-Soon after Sohu News was born, he followed his parents and settled in a military compound in the suburbs of Beijing. There are people from all over the country, but there are no Beijingers. Wang Shuo's understanding is that perhaps there were few people in Beijing who took part in the revolution at that time. As a little boy, Wang Shuo didn't know that there were residents in the city, thinking that there were parks besides shopping malls.

After entering middle school, Wang Shuo moved into the city, at the foot of Chaoyangmen, and had direct communication with the language in Beijing. Before that, he knew little about Beijing culture, and the language in Beijing was strange to him. It can be seen that Wang Shuo's language today has nothing to do with "old Beijing". Old Beijing is a unique language formed after communicating with Beijing language and can only be regarded as one of the new Beijing cultures. "Teasing" is the biggest feature of Wang Shuo's language. And ridicule itself is a language form that is neither hard nor soft. This language form is regarded as a weapon rather than a tool by Wang Shuo. As an ordinary person, when I was a child, I was not respected but was constantly violated. Street hooligans, serious teachers and overbearing parents can all be aggressive. You can't fight back against this aggression. But you must also take self-protection measures. Wang Shuo's choice of ridicule can not only resolve the insult caused by the other party, but also safeguard his dignity. Wang Shuo has become a "rogue" in people's eyes. An instinctive resistance, a trick similar to children's pranks, has made adults angry.

Someone asked Wang Shuo, "What is the purpose of your writing?" "For fame and fortune, of course." Wang Shuo replied. Wang Shuo wrote about people on the edge of society. In the past, idleness was not allowed in society, and everyone's social status was very clear. Since the new period, many people have lived on the edge of society. In the past, the middle class in China was attached to the power class and was composed of people from the government, the army and officials. Before the reform and opening up, these people had a strong sense of superiority in politics and their economic situation was above average. After the reform and opening up, this class gradually disintegrated. Many of them have a great sense of loss, their sense of economic superiority has been replaced by private ones, and their sense of political superiority is vague. They are unwilling to engage in manual labor and have little education. Their social status has changed greatly, and they are no longer the best among young people. The promotion of social status is directly proportional to their knowledge. At the beginning, it was a small trader who bent down to lift his spirits. Now, educated and capable people are very proud. Every writer can't write about all kinds of people in society, only familiar people. Just as some people are familiar with farmers and intellectuals, Wang Shuo's understanding of "marginal people" makes his works all about this group of people.

Wang Shuo's mother is a doctor and his father is a faculty member of the PLA Political College. Although he is not a scholar, his family is well-off, and he is a typical Beijing citizen family (this background is of great benefit to his later works to describe ordinary life in Beijing). When Wang Shuo was young, he lived in a military compound. What the children do every day is just group fighting, but that free day left a deep impression on Wang Shuo. His later novella Beast (once adapted into the film Sunny Days) was written about the feelings at that time. Wang Shuo studied in Shaoshan Middle School when he was a teenager. He is not a stubborn student at school. He even took part in the "April 5" incident of 1976 with the belief that every man has a responsibility. Although he was not a mighty and unyielding hero, he was also imprisoned for three months.

/kloc-in the summer of 0/976, Wang Shuo joined the army in Shandong after graduating from high school. He used to be an ordinary "steering soldier", a hygienist and even a cook in the army. 1978 when the university resumed enrollment, Wang Shuo had the desire to apply for liberal arts and began to practice writing. During this period, he accidentally reported his homework to the people's liberation army literature and art, and he was actually selected. This is his first novel, the short story Waiting. Waiting is a novel with a strong sense of the times and quite childish, and its writing is still very student-like. But when 1978 gang of four was just smashed, it was undoubtedly fresh and gratifying, and it also showed Wang Shuo's creative potential.

Since then, Wang Shuo has written several works on military themes, but the response is not great. In the meantime, he tried to do business. Not only did I not make any money, but I also experienced many feelings of being cheated. This experience of trying to make money was later recorded in the Rubber Man (adapted into the film Panting) and other works. When his business failed, he began to create in idleness again. The merchant's perspective let him know what is suitable for sale, so he chose this mysterious "flight attendant" as his description object, which really hit it off in the contemporary era. He said: "Physical development coincides with three years of natural disasters, and when I was educated, I caught up with the Cultural Revolution. The so-called global malnutrition. He has no skills, only knows about three or five thousand words. It is the kind of person who is ambitious and talented. It should be the stone under others' feet. It is also a fate that should not be lost. Social changes are also difficult to generalize. In order to make the future world stand in a cone, it is a sinking pool, dancing and writing. " In the 1990s, he became a rogue writer, telling him with domineering words that I was a rogue and who I was afraid of was like a slap in the face, tearing off the so-called lofty veil. Next, almost all the media participated in this vigorous debate. With the success of TV adaptation such as Desire, Story of Editorial Department, Love You Without Consultation and Addiction, Wang Shuo became popular all over the country. As the frequency of publishing books decreased, Wang Shuo began to be somewhat silent. "It looks beautiful" and "Beauty gives me antiperspirant" seem to be a little tired by Jiang Lang. What really caught the media's attention again was his essay "Ignorance is Fearless", which listed Jin Yonghe as the "four major customs", thus causing a large-scale debate between Jin and Wang. Different from the past, the participation of the Internet made this debate escalate rapidly and become heated, but nothing happened.

In 2007, I published a new book, My Chitose Cold, which contains six words. There has been a new breakthrough in language, especially the opening "My Chitose Cold", which is concise and poetic, and endowed with tenses. The last Outline of Materialism is about the universe and matter. Although there are some common-sense mistakes, the language still has Wang Shuo's domineering.

20 10 cooperated with Xiaogang Feng to create the script of the film "If You Are the One 2". Sigh written by Wang Shuo and Xiaogang Feng is 10 years ago. When "Fly 2" premiered, it was said that Wang Shuo's cooperation was a deep-water bomb. Wang Shuo's typical Beijing humor in the sequel is not only frequent lines, but also unexpected plot setting.

Folding creative experience

1985, when he and Shen were in love, they wrote "surfaced" reflecting their love life, which was published in the sixth issue of Dangdai magazine.

Since 1986, Wang Shuo has published works such as Half Flame and Half Sea Water, Rubber Man and Stubbornness. His name is familiar to more and more people, and his reputation has gradually spread from Beijing to the north, and then spread all over Chinese mainland.

At the beginning of 1987, Wang Shuo married Shen, and her daughter was born in Beijing 30 1 hospital the following year.

From 65438 to 0988, four films directed by Mi Jiashan, Xia Gang, Huang Jianxin and Ye Daying were all adapted from Wang Shuo's works, and Wang Shuo reached the first peak of his career. This year is called "Wang Shuo Film Year" by China film and television circles. Stubbornness made Ge You famous and was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor.

From 1989 to 1992, Wang Shuo wrote novellas such as "Nothing serious, playing with heartbeat, don't treat me like a man, never lose my love, I'm your father, a fierce animal, Uncle Xu, and I'm addicted to death".

From 65438 to 0990, the 50 episodes of TV series Desire, which was planned by Wang Shuo and Zheng Xiaolong, written by Li Xiaoming and produced by Beijing Television Art Center, created the highest ratings in the history of China TV series, and was called a historic milestone in the history of China TV series, and its sensational effect became a myth of the times. Social and cultural phenomena such as "desire", "desire fanaticism" and "good life is safe" are insurmountable collective memories in the cultural life of China people from 65438 to 0990. The drama has also been officially affirmed, winning the first prize of the sixth "Flying Award" and the ninth "Golden Eagle Award" long TV series.

199 1 year, the first TV sitcom "The Story of the Editorial Department" in Chinese mainland, mainly planned by Wang Shuo and directed by Zhao Baogang, was released, which also caused a sensation among the people. This TV series was later regarded by the national audience as the originator of China sitcom. No matter from ratings, social and cultural influence, or even star-making ability, so far there is no similar style of TV series to compare with it.

1992, Huayi Publishing House published a set of four-volume Collected Works of Wang Shuo, which created the atmosphere of collecting works by living writers. As soon as it went public, it caused national sales. At the request of Wang Shuo, the publishing house implemented a royalty payment system for this set of books, which was the first time that Chinese mainland implemented royalty payment after the Cultural Revolution. Wang Shuo's appeal objectively won the legitimate rights and interests of many writers. Xiao Gan once said, "Wang Shuo has untied China writers."

After 1992, Wang Shuo's novel creation began to be paralyzed. On the contrary, his name appears more and more in film and television works.

1994, the 8-episode TV series "Death Addiction" adapted from Wang Shuo's original work also became a hot topic for the national audience that summer. However, the popularity of TV series seems to have a greater influence than the novel itself, and Wang He and Jison have become household names. In the same year, Jiang Wen adapted Wang Shuo's novel Fierce Animals into a screenplay, and made it into a film Sunny Days as a director, which became an instant hit. The success of this film turned Jiang Wen from a young actor into one of the most talented and internationally influential directors in Chinese mainland. This film won the volpi Cup Best Actor Award (Silver Lion Award) at the 5 1 Venice International Film Festival. The 33rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Photography and Best Screenplay Adaptation. Best actor award at Singapore International Film Festival. Quiet became the winner of the Best Actress Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain. Time magazine of the United States selected the top ten films of the year as "the top ten international films".

It was silent for many years after 2000. In 2007, he did a lot of moves. His new novel My Chitose Cold was bought by London Bookstore at a high price of $3 per word, setting a record of 3.65 million, which is the highest royalty work in China. This is a change from the previous humorous style, with Buddhist scriptures as the material.

In March 2007, Wang Shuo was interviewed by a reporter. He admitted that he had taken drugs because of mental illness in the past. In the interview, he also admitted that he had been a prostitute. He also believes that sex workers who work hard in the sex industry are "the best people, better than those little intellectuals, and their hearts are much cleaner and kinder." In addition, he also showed his American green card in the interview program of Phoenix TV.

Wang Shuo has a large readership in China. His novels were remake into TV series and movies in1990s. For example, TV series Addiction was adapted from the novel Addiction and Death, the movie Sunny Days was adapted from the novel Animals Are Fierce, the movie Looks Beautiful was adapted from the novel of the same name, and the movie Enemy Father and Son was adapted from I am Your Dad. He also participated in and led the scriptwriting and planning of many well-known film and television works with wide influence, including Peking Man in new york, Story of Editorial Department, Haima Dance Hall, I Love My Family, Stubborn Master, Party A and Party B, Sighing I Love You, Dreams May Come, If You Are the One 2: Don't Worry, etc.

Since 1968+0990 became famous in the early 1990s, the controversy about Wang Shuo and his works has never stopped. He is even called a "literary critic", and some people call his works "rogue literature". On the other hand, some people call Wang Shuo the representative of the "New Beijing School" (compared with the traditional Beijing School, Lao She and others).

1993, Wang Meng published an article "Avoiding Sublime" in Reading magazine, which affirmed Wang Shuo's phenomenal position in the so-called orthodox literary criticism field ("He and his partners' playing with literature is just a reaction to salvation literature." "He tore off some false lofty masks. Moreover, his language is lively and catchy, absolutely vernacular, and there is absolutely no stereotyped Party writing and bookishness. ”)。

In public articles or occasions, Wang Shuo made fierce criticisms on many celebrities, including Qi Baishi, Yi Shu, Jin Yong, Zhang Yimou, Li Ao, Yu Dan, George W. Bush, Chen Shui-bian, Wu Zhi and Yu.