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Writer?s Story Adapted to Blockbuster “Let the Bullets Fly” was premiered on December 16th, 2010 and instantly showed every sign of becoming a blockbuster. The incomplete statistics on January 5 indicated it had grossed more than 500 million. The film is based on “Ten Night Stories” by Ma Shitu, a Sichuan writer born in 1915. While it was screened in the version of Sichuan dialect in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, the 97-year-old writer came to watch the cinematic version of his thriller. He was enormously satisfied. The cooperation between director Jiang Wen and writer Ma Shitu came back to a day in early July 2008. That morning Ma was practicing calligraphy at home when telephone rang. An official from Sichuan Federation of Literary and Art Circles called to ask whether Ma would mind if Jiang Wen came to visit him the next day. Ma Shitu said okay but wondered why the famous actor and director came all the way to see him. Ma Shitu has been a veteran member of the Communist Party of China since 1938. Three years before he became a Communist, he joined a Communist-led student movement. Then he was a high-ranking communist official working under cover for years. After the founding of New China in 1949, he was appointed to various high-ranking positions in Sichuan Province. Ma is a writer of national renown. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Southwest Associated University in 1945. Since 1935, he has had 19 books published to his name. A novel he published in 1961 established him as a writer of national renown. The preeminent writer later became the president of Sichuan Writers? Association and a director of the China Writers Association. The next day, Jiang Wen came with flowers and fruits to visit the veteran Communist and writer. With the director was Ma Ke, a partner of Jiang Wen?s new film studio. After they paid their respects to Ma, Jiang explained the purpose of their visit. He wanted to adapt “Ten Night Stories” to a film. M