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Chapter 613 Architecture of "The Wandering Earth"

But in fact, Jiang Wen's "One Step Away" has attracted the most attention in this year's Lunar New Year file.

Mazi has become a god in China since "Let the Bullets Fly", and "One Step Away" is the second part of the Republic of China trilogy. Jiang Wen sharpened his sword in four years.

Audiences, theaters, and relevant leadership departments all have high expectations for this movie.

As early as the "Double Eleven" more than a month before the release of "One Step Away", Ali and Xinlang double platforms pre-sold nearly 28 tickets for "One Step Away", exceeding 2073 million box office; WeChat movie tickets also An ultra-low price pre-sale strategy of 9.9 yuan was formulated for "One Step Away" with a strong minimum settlement price; iQiyi even invested tens of millions of dollars to become the co-producer of "One Step Away".

These people are waiting for the cost recovery and profit surprise brought by "One Step Away" after its release.

But Cheng Yu'an knew that the film was out of control.

Mazi succeeded once and then began to educate the audience again.

Entering December, the annual meetings of various companies attract special attention.

This year's New Year's Eve has a very long battle line, so Remote simply held the annual meeting ahead of schedule.

The headquarters no longer holds large-scale gatherings of the whole group, and let each branch and subsidiary company do it themselves.

The group of otaku code farmers in Remote Technology really invited Mr. Yoshizawa and Mr. Bo Duo over to give gifts, and they still have the face to invite Cheng Yuan over.

Of course, Cheng Yu'an couldn't say that he was very excited. He scolded the organizers of the annual meeting on the phone, and then his wife caught him and strictly prohibited him from participating in the remote technology annual meeting.

"I didn't say I was going."

"I don't know you yet."

"No...I..." Cheng Yu'an was speechless, "If I don't go, I won't go."

Cheng Yu'an didn't go, but Qin Ranqiu, a beast, went there secretly without telling Chen Zhixi, and when he came back, he told Cheng Yu'an that it was almost meaningless, it was not as good as in the movie.

Nonsense, serious people in the film and television industry will fall in love with this group of people?

On this day, Saturday the 13th, the plane Cheng Yuan and Cheng Lingfeng ordered from Gulfstream two years ago finally arrived in Beijing for delivery.

The first is the G650, and the second, the G550, will be delivered in the middle of next year.

Cheng Yuan attended the delivery ceremony, the reporter asked him the purpose of the plane: "Is it your private jet?"

"No," Cheng Yu'an denied, "This is a business jet I bought for the company with my own money. It is used for the travel of the company's employees. The next year's will be the same, not my private jet."

But Cheng Yu'an and Liu Yifei's use priority must be the highest.

Moreover, the two planes were purchased by the nephew and the uncle. According to the accounts, the company rented two planes from the two planes. The company is responsible for the maintenance costs of the two planes and pays the nephew and uncle a lot of money every year. rent.

These are all reasonable and legal operations, and there is nothing worthy of criticism.

The handover ceremony is very simple, just pull up a few banners, take two photos, and chat with reporters.

It is impossible to say that you are not happy after adding such a big item.

"It's fun for you," Wang Hongwei said at the "Wandering Earth" script seminar, "I just added an airplane."

"That's also a great happy event for the company." Cheng Yu'an didn't care, and continued to enjoy himself, "It will be convenient to go anywhere in the future."

Back to the script of "The Wandering Earth", since it was decided to overthrow the original work and rewrite the story, the screenwriter team has been rushing to work day and night, trying to get the outline of the script before the year, and choose actors and make a detailed story at the same time after the year.

"We continue to use the basic concepts of the original novel, but we have to rewrite all the characters and stories. The chronicle of "The Wandering Earth" is almost done, and the construction of the world view is expected to be finalized in half a year." Wang Hongwei leads the entire screenwriting team .

"We decided on a few characters first..." Wang Hongwei wrote and drew on the blackboard.
One of the biggest differences between writing a screenplay and writing a novel is the environment.

When a novelist writes a story, the first thing that comes to mind is the characters and the plot, but the screenwriter is different. The first thing the screenwriter thinks about is the environment, that is, what kind of scene the story and characters are in.

Film and television is a scene, each scene has its own environment.

So the screenwriter must consider the behavior of the characters in the environment and the rationality of the story in the environment.

After the environment is constructed, the screenwriters stuff characters and stories into this environment.

But the screenwriter will not exaggerate the environment as much as the novelist in the script. The first sentence of the script must be a scene, such as "day, corridor" or "night, office".

The scene description is very simple, but the screenwriter has to conceive this first.

This is probably the biggest difference between screenwriters and novelists, and it is also the reason why many writers can't write scripts across borders.

Under Cheng Yu'an's deliberate guidance, the screenwriters collided fiercely.

First of all, two main scenes were determined.

The external environment. After the earth started its wandering journey, the original novel has a more detailed description of the external environment. This can be improved by referring to the novel and a preliminary concept map can be made.

The dungeon, which is hardly described in the novel, requires the art team to construct this scene.

But the tone Cheng Yu'an set for the entire preparatory team is that the story of "The Wandering Earth" does not take place in the distant future, but in the near future 50-70 years later.

Therefore, the art team should not be too detached while pursuing the sense of science fiction, thus losing the necessary sense of reality.

The first time the art team came up with the design draft of the mine cart for digging mountains (the novel writes that humans dig rocks on the mountain to serve as fuel for planetary engines), they were sent back by Cheng Yu'an.

The design is too beautiful, too sci-fi.

According to preliminary chronicles, the first set of planetary engines was built in the late 30s of this century.

The minecart design at that time would not be what the art team came up with.

Unmanned driving is even more impossible.

Cheng Yu'an asked, "Either use the existing style, or slightly modify the existing style. Don't make it too imaginary, and it will affect the sense of substitution."

After the two main scenes were determined, the screenwriter team began to conceive the characters.

What is the name of the hero and heroine, the date of birth, identity, habits, family, resume, etc., all need to write a biography of the characters.

But these things are closely connected with the outline of the story. Without a story, the characters are empty and untenable.

Cheng Yu'an spent three days with the screenwriter team and came up with many great story entry points.

For example, a screenwriter wants to start from the dispute between the spaceship faction and the earth faction in the novel, and write about the struggle between the two factions during the wandering process on the earth.

Some people want to write about the Pacific Ice Race in the novel, about the insignificance and helplessness of human beings on the doomsday ice ocean.

There is also a screenwriter who is bold and wants to write Dungeon Rebellion.

They were all good ideas, but they were rejected by Wang Hongwei and Cheng Yuan.

These ideas are either political or too philosophical, and they are not easy to understand.

"We have the best technology, so the story must not be too profound, otherwise the audience's attention will be diverted. What I want is a simple story that takes place in the wandering doomsday." Cheng Yu'an set the outline for the story of "The Wandering Earth" Keynote, ""Avatar" is like this. His story is simple, and it can even be said to be crude. Only in this way can we allow the audience to watch the movie effortlessly and immersively."

The selling point of "The Wandering Earth" is high-level industrial production and top special effects by top directors.Within this framework, the simpler the story, the better.

(End of this chapter)