What kind of bad thoughts can the director have?

Chapter 193 A Mountain in This World
When Yang Shu was in college in his last life, he once started filming the mainland version of "Ghost Story".

Ghost Story is a Hollywood horror film about a young couple who move into a suburban apartment and are horrified to discover that something seems to be unclean in the house.

Both were disturbed by the increasingly obvious supernatural phenomena, so they installed multiple cameras in the house, hoping to record evidence of ghosts with real images.

This operation is a bit confusing, but they are not fully prepared for the terrible situation that may follow, and they end up tossing themselves enough.

The plots of many horror movies for foreigners are based on the strange behavior of the hero and heroine. I don’t know who else in the world, apart from this young couple, would not want to leave the haunted house in such a situation, but set up some cameras. Shooting in all directions, did these two guys learn to be directors?
But the simple, mockumentary-style flick did well at the box office, grossing $2 million worldwide.

But the production cost is only 1.5 US dollars, the price of a second-hand car, just rent a few cameras, set them at the angle of the camera, and then play tricks in the house. The filming was completed in 7 days.

This is a typical case in the world's film history with a small fortune, which has reached tens of thousands of times the investment return. It is like a dream, and it has inspired countless poor film and television creators with dreams.

Among them are Yang Shu and his classmates, three serious directors, but they started filming "Ghost Shadows" not for imitation, but for a reason.

At that time, Yang Shu had just entered Nortel as a freshman, and his classmates in the dormitory were locals from the capital. His sister was engaged in futures trading in a certain company. Due to the nature of the work, she needed to work in shifts, and often went to work late at night due to jet lag.

"My sister said their company is haunted."

One day, when his sister went to the toilet on the night shift in the early morning, she found a strange situation: she passed the elevator on the way to the toilet, and happened to see the elevator go up from the 2nd floor and stop at the 16th floor.

This is a newly opened office building with a total of 16 floors. My sister's office is on the 15th floor. The 16th floor is currently empty and has not been renovated. Generally, no one will go up, let alone it is two o'clock in the morning.

"You also know that people are not so awake in the middle of the night. I didn't care and wanted to go to the toilet."

His sister was still in shock when she described the incident afterwards: "But the elevator in our company has a voice broadcast, and I can clearly hear the elevator upstairs sounding 'Ding Dong, the 16th floor is here'."

"At that time, the building was so quiet that a needle could be heard falling on the ground. I stopped in my tracks to hear if anyone got out of the elevator."

"But it didn't seem to be there. I told myself that it might be because I was wearing sneakers and there was no sound. Then I saw the elevator going down and stopped at the 15th floor where I was!"

"I swear I never touched the elevator button," my sister suddenly opened her eyes wide. "Then the elevator door swung open. Under the white light, there was no one inside!"

"I'm sure I'm not mistaken, there's no one inside!"

"A gust of cold air rushed out of the elevator, and I was so scared that I ran back to the office and told my colleagues about it."

"I didn't expect that they also said that they had encountered the same situation, usually at two o'clock in the morning, which is when I went to the bathroom."

People are always full of fear of the unknown, but his sister believes in science and believes that there must be a scientific basis that can explain it, so she reported the situation to the property management company and the company responsible for maintaining the elevator.

Both parties took it very seriously and did a maintenance inspection of the elevator, which turned out to be all right.

"It's a pity that our office building is newly opened, and the monitoring equipment is not perfect, so we didn't record the situation at that time."

In the end, it was concluded that someone should have pressed the elevator button before the elevator started to run, but the passengers might not get into the elevator temporarily.

This answer was too perfunctory, but it aroused suspicion among colleagues, so the haunted elevator spread in the company.

The three freshmen and future directors, when they heard the story of their sister, immediately thought of "Ghost Story", and acted without saying a word, preparing for an elevator horror record.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If it is really a hell, it is not a matter of [-] million US dollars at the box office, and human civilization will be rewritten.

The three of them rented ten cameras, and set up cameras at key locations in the office building. They filmed for three consecutive nights. As expected, at two o'clock in the morning, the elevator went up and down strangely.

However, the three of them checked the images in cold sweat, but found nothing, not even a ghost image.

"What's going on? Is it because electromagnetic waves are incompatible? Or are we facing something in a different dimension?"

The three art candidates, with rich imagination but limited knowledge reserves, actually don't quite understand what they mean by these words.

Just when they were preparing to shoot the fourth night, the elevator maintenance company got a fault diagnosis from the European manufacturer: this is the latest "automatic tour" function of the elevator. It can run normally, and it often happens at night when there are few people. The default is two o'clock in the morning.

As for the blowing of air-conditioning, it is normal. The elevator is originally equipped with air-conditioning. Although it will not be used after autumn, it will also turn on the self-test during the automatic tour.

Truth be told, it's technology that's haunted.

Because of this, the three young students were ridiculed by their classmates for a semester, and they were called "ghost squad".

It doesn't matter what a painful lesson, but since then Yang Shu has learned to remind himself, don't imagine that there is a pie in the sky, and don't mix things that you don't understand.

After buying the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem", Yang Shu said that he would ask Liu Man to write the screenplay. At that time, Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu didn't quite understand: "You are a famous playwright yourself, and you have created more than a dozen works in three years. It has been widely recognized, why not adapt it yourself? Liu Cixin is a writer, not a screenwriter, and letting him be responsible may not be in line with your ideas. If the cooperation is not pleasant, wouldn’t it be a handicap?”

These words are reasonable, but Yang Shu admits that although he likes "Three-Body Problem", his knowledge reserve is not enough to undertake the responsibility of adapting it.

His literacy is concentrated in humanities and art. "Three-Body" involves a lot of knowledge of astrophysics and astronomy, and also contains many creative concepts of Liu. For a person like him who regards ghosts as electromagnetic waves, it is best not to mess around.

Deconstructing "The Three-Body Problem" in depth after a little knowledge, it is very likely to come up with a pretentious script in the end. Yang Shu didn't have the courage of Zhang Fanfan's wife to change such a work into something in the style of Mary Su's domineering president. I can't even fool myself.

Liu Man appreciates his self-knowledge and honesty, but also suggested: "We can form a team and hire scientific consultants to provide advice, so that we can maintain professionalism and you can also maintain creative independence."

This is an ideal state imagined out of thin air. The biggest problem is that it is difficult to form a qualified team. If the mainland science fiction film and television industry is full of talents, it will not be in the current state long ago.

Yang Shu has seen "The Wandering Earth", which is already the best sci-fi film in mainland China, but because of too many changes to the original work, it caused many flaws.

"The Wandering Earth" also invited many scientific consultants, but they all disagreed with some of the scene settings in the movie. In the end, the suggestions and ideas could not be coordinated, so that these scientific consultants were unwilling to sign.

Therefore, Yang Shu still believes in Liu's sci-fi quality. He is a visionary with future thinking and a writer who is good at expressing. He can coordinate the relationship between imagination, creation and science, and he has the ability to control Yang Shu's heart.

Later facts proved that his decision was correct. Da Liu was very concerned about this job and regarded it as his mission. On October 10, he finished the work at hand and contacted Yang Shu.

Yang Shu booked a suite in the five-star hotel closest to Zhuanta Hutong for his work use.

At the same time, he began to recruit troops to form the "Three-Body" screenwriter team to assist him in his work.

For several days in a row, the two talked in depth all day long, almost forgetting to eat and sleep. The first thing to do was to reach a consensus on the adaptation idea of ​​"Three-Body Problem".

In the first two days, Yang Shu spent most of his time listening, trying to find out what Da Liu was thinking.

In the next two days, he spent most of his time talking about expressing his creative ideas.

The next time is a little bit of running-in, and finally draw up an outline.

On October 10, the second part of "Warrior" was released, and the final box office was 28 billion, which was more than 58.96 million higher than "Wolf Warrior 2". It is worthy of the name of the Chinese box office champion.

If Director Feng starts filming "The Battle of Changjin Lake" next year, then Kai Ge's version of "Changjin Lake" will not appear. I don't know when there will be a work that can challenge "Warrior" in the future.

Besides, "Changjin Lake" is only tens of millions more than "Wolf Warrior 2", and it is more than 1 million less than "Warrior".

As for Director Feng's "The Battle of Changjin Lake", if he wants to create a miracle and challenge "Warrior", he has to give up his speculative mentality.

Since that day, Yang Shu has been constantly asked by the media: "With the current film market situation, it seems that it is difficult for any film to surpass "Warrior" in the short term. What do you think of this question?"

What else can Yang Shu use to see besides seeing with his eyes, he is not willing to answer this question, and often shrugs his shoulders with a smile.

This may be in response to the fashionable saying that the dust of the times is a seat on everyone's head.

He is a mountain in this world.

(End of this chapter)