This director is very reliable

Chapter 616 Script Discussion (Third Change)

"The Road to Life" is the first draft of "I'm Not the God of Medicine"...

Han's daughter is Shen Changlin's junior sister, a 11th-level director of Nortel.

It's still pretty good, I didn't just start as a director, I started as a screenwriter first!

However, she did prepare to film "The Road of Life" by herself at the beginning - otherwise, there is no need to win the right to adapt it.

After saying hello, Shen Changlin flipped through "The Road to Life"...

"Road of Life" is purely following the direction of the documentary. The main character, Lu Yong, is in a good initial state. He should be a middle-class man. He is sick. The main relationship is arranged as the protagonist's family relationship, and the focus is on family affection;
The reason why he helps to buy medicines is mainly because many patients don’t know how to buy medicines across borders, don’t know English or even use a computer.

Of course he has selfish intentions: as more people buy medicines by himself, the business of Indian pharmaceutical companies will be better, and then it will have the confidence to continue to produce generic second-generation and third-generation drugs.

Shen Changlin shook his head: "This way of handling is not popular enough, and it is difficult to resonate!"

"...Brother, please give me some pointers..."

"Our character is Yaoxia... If he is sick, it is difficult for the audience to believe his motives. Is it self-help or rescue?"

"The hero of "Dallas Buyers Club" is self-help + rescue!"

Shen Changlin shook his head: "No, the protagonist played by Matthew McConaughey is suffering from AIDS... The background of the story is the 80s of the last century... Let alone the last century, even now, everyone discriminates against AIDS carriers, not only because they should The disease itself is more due to the reason of carrying HIV. The hostility between the two protagonists of "Dallas Buyers Club" is far from the FDA, big pharmaceutical companies, and legal regulations, but the mainstream view of society! They have no friends, only We can hug each other to keep warm!"

"Lu Yong is different. Lu Yong is a medicine man, and more than a thousand people pleaded for his life...Then who is the villain in our case? The only enemy of Lu Yong is the pharmaceutical company. Whether he has profited from it or not, he will It is a just act recognized and supported by patients and the public!"

"The procuratorate..."

"We are a socialist system in which the people are the masters of the country, and emotion must be greater than the law..."

Married girl Han nodded...

Shen Changlin continued: "Let the protagonist's class down, become a poor, proletarian citizen, a healthy person... The main relationship is arranged as a group of five people, and the other four correspond to courage, faith, patience, and sacrifice; these attributes inspire the protagonist to awaken Get better, generating the 'growth' theme."

"The class change has widened the arc of the characters, which is closer to the status quo of the majority of the people, grounded, strengthens the audience's sympathy for the protagonist, paves the way for the ending, and at the same time can shape the protagonist's initial goal - to make money, to make a lot of money.

Health changes solve the problem of two superficial desires. If the protagonist is a patient, he needs to save both himself and others, which will cause several major problems such as complicated motivation, logical illogicality, and lack of action.

From the perspective of script logic, the main problem with these two external goals is that they conflict with each other, and it is difficult to achieve them at the same time, making salvation not noble enough.

The theme of "self-help + rescue" is not as good as the theme of "rescue"...

In this case, the moving effect of "giving without asking for anything in return" in the second half is stronger.

With such a change in the basic setting, the two magic weapon themes "rescue" and "growth" came out, and the arc of the characters was also lengthened to the hero's road from mortals to gods. "

When Junior Sister Han heard this, she already had a general understanding, and asked with a smile, "Brother, are you interested?"

Shen Changlin glanced at Ning Hao, then nodded: "Indeed, I'm quite interested in this subject!"

"Then you are the director?"

"Okay..." Nodding his head, Shen Changlin remembered "Burning": "This is a script I wrote, and my junior sister can give me pointers!"

"... I am not qualified to teach my brother... to learn."

After receiving the script from Shen Changlin, I flipped through it...

……

In fact, in the original version of "I'm Not the God of Medicine", I don't understand what the role of the policeman played by Zhou Yiwei is.
The ex-wife immigrated to take away his son, the fight for custody, and the fact that his father lived in a nursing home and had no money. These two things hit Cheng Cheng enough to constitute the reason why he had to make money. Why did he set up the police as his brother-in-law?
Perhaps, this setting is to increase the private emotional line of the police towards Cheng Yong, so that the police, as a bystander of the whole incident, treat Cheng Yong from "disgusting and disgusting" to "understanding him and talking calmly"...

A side reflection of Cheng Yong's greatness?

Really... no need!
You just assume a policeman who doesn't know Cheng Yong at all...

Unknown, business-like, to slowly investigate, more and more emotionally involved, to give up handling the case.

In doing so, the police are more able to act as bystanders who stand on the same side as the audience...

Also, Zhou Yiwei's acting was really bad, what did he say, 'all my police friends are like this! ', the police...are they all so greasy and pretending?

pull back...

And the ending!

The verdict of "not guilty" was the climax—patients came to the court from all directions to support Cheng Yong, and stood outside the court to wait for the trial result.

The former aunt can be sensational: God will not wrong a good person;
The patients shouted to the judge and the plaintiff's lawyer: Cheng Yong is not guilty.

Judiciary officials warned the crowd not to interfere with the judicial process. The crowd stopped shouting, but asked people to buy small national flags, each with one hand, and waved the national flag when they saw a judge.

In the end, the court ruled that Cheng Yong was acquitted. The patients inside rushed to the corridor window and shouted to the patients outside:

"Not guilty"!
This "innocence" is also hope, justice, axiom, and what is good is rewarded.

The last shot is a close-up of the national emblem and national flag of the court, and then it is added-we are a socialist democratic society where the people run the country!
Of course, the god of delivering medicine on Ten Mile Long Street is also very touching...

But it is still a bit weak - those who hold salaries for everyone should not be frozen to death in the wind and snow; those who open the way for freedom should not be trapped in thorns...

Forget it, when the time comes, we will film two kinds of endings, and let the audience choose when we order the screenings!
Just thinking about it, Junior Sister Han has already finished watching "Burning": "This script is really good!"

"Do you want to take a picture?"

"...I...I might not..."

"What's wrong? Didn't you learn to be a director... In this way, I will be the producer, you will shoot, and you can choose the actors!"

"Really?"

"...Is there any truth in this..." Shen Changlin decided to provoke her: "Why, Liu Zhenyun's daughter graduated from the New York Film Academy, and after returning to China, she can make "One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand Sentences". Directors can't make movies?"

"Or do you think the top students of the New York Film Academy are better than our director department at Nortel?"

""One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand Sentences" is her father's original work..."

"The original work of "Burning" is "Burning the Barn" by Haruki Murakami!"

This time, even Ning Hao was stunned: "Haruki Murakami?"

"...Didn't I tell you? This is Haruki Murakami's original novel "Firefly, Barn Burning and Others" "Burning Barn"..."

"...Brother, I'll answer the phone..."

Junior Sister Han took out her mobile phone, chatted for a while, and then said, "My dad is coming over..."

"Come on..."

(End of this chapter)