my movie years

Chapter 421 How to shoot interstellar war

Considering that the money given before was a little short, although Liu didn't know that science fiction themes would be popular in the future, Zhang Hao still felt a little guilty.

So Tianmi Film and Television Production Company hired Liu as the creative director of science fiction in 2018. To put it bluntly, it was to find a reason to pay him a salary.

Da Liu felt a little uncomfortable with his salary. After all, he had done nothing.

It wasn't until the production of "The Wandering Earth" began that he found something to do, and he participated in the entire production of the film, which was considered as fulfilling his responsibility.

This year, two of his works were adapted into movies at the same time, and Liu has another job to do.

Adapting "Country Teacher" is not difficult for Zhang Hao. In fact, it is not an adaptation of those works in his previous life.

It’s just that this time it’s text, no picture reference.

After a little adaptation, Zhang Hao started working on the script smoothly. From time to time, he would discuss with Liu how to adapt it appropriately.

According to the setting of the original work, the villagers in the novel are ignorant existences. They only care about immediate interests and are stubborn conservatives in the novel.

As the indigenous people of the village, the villagers are stubborn and look at everything with dull eyes.That dull look in his eyes was intimidating.

This type of people exists in any system and any system. They are the various frictions in the protagonist's life.

In fact, in Liu's other novels, this type of people are not only the friction force in the protagonist's life, they also have the dream of looking up at the stars.

However, in "Country Teacher", they have no curiosity at all, and they will not even look up to look at the stars. They only pursue the immediate benefits, which is to give birth to a boy to continue the family line.

Liu used this type of people to symbolize the prejudice in people's hearts and backward ideas.

They cannot accept any new knowledge and are restricted by various rules.

The reason for this design is to introduce the theme of "Country Teacher" and praise teachers and human civilization.

However, during the adaptation process, it was impossible for Zhang Hao to design all the villagers like this.

Some people maintain the setting of the original work, while others take a different approach. There are those who support children's reading, and those who don't care.

Another focus of the adaptation is the adaptation of the ending of the novel.

At the end of the novel, the children passed the screening test for carbon-based civilization, but the teacher who taught them knowledge has passed away.

Without teachers, children naturally cannot go to school and have to follow the same path of their parents, farming or going out to work.

As for the teacher, he was forgotten and unknown.

Zhang Hao just finished a meeting earlier, and it was said that positive energy should be promoted, but the ending of the book is not positive at all, so the ending needs to be changed.

The ending of Zhang Hao's adaptation is as follows: After the teacher passed away, a younger volunteer teacher came to the village and continued to teach the children.

The teacher’s deeds were also known and widely reported and praised by the government and the media.

Although people don't know what great contributions he made and even saved human civilization.But the reason why people admire him is his identity, his persistence and moral character in teaching and educating people.

After reading Zhang Hao's newly revised ending, Liu felt it was very good.

"I think this adaptation direction and idea is very good. It retains the children's hope and promotes the good moral character of teachers." Da Liu said.

Zhang Hao himself is also very satisfied: "In fact, in recent years, there have been many reports that many teachers are not ethical as teachers. A large number of negative news has smeared the image of teachers. I hope this movie can change this impression!"

Liu agreed: "I believe this movie can definitely do this."

Teaching is a sacred profession. It is undeniable that there are some black sheep who have tarnished this profession, but the overall image of teachers is still glorious and great.This is also the meaning that the movie "Country Teacher" brings to people's thinking.

It is indeed not difficult to adapt the literary and dramatic parts of the film. The most difficult thing to present is actually the interstellar battle part.

No one has ever seen what interstellar war is like. Even the interstellar war scenes in "Star Wars" seem a bit petty.

What age is it now? Interstellar warfare actually requires ships and cannons to bomb each other, and then requires fighter planes to attack the enemy's fleet?
Of course, you can say that the use of high-tech weapons comes at a cost, and the purpose of doing so is to save resources.

What about fighting each other with lightsabers?

Kung fu is so awesome in the movie, but in reality it's not like being knocked down by a single shot. Why in the interstellar era, everyone doesn't use guns and instead uses close combat, right?

Even if you add the Force setting, it's ridiculous. You use the Force to use a lightsaber, can't I use the Force to use a gun?

Technology is so advanced, don't tell me that the effect of the Force cannot be attached to a gun. This is illogical.

Of course, as an excellent science fiction movie series, "Star Wars" is undoubtedly a classic.The interstellar war scenes seemed unreasonable, but the audience saw it well enough because the audience could not imagine it.

After finishing the script part, the interstellar war became the most troubled part for Zhang Hao.

So Ping An and Shi Shi often saw their father drawing drafts one after another, and then discarding them and throwing them all into the trash can.

He looked so distressed that he didn't even have time to tell them stories.

Fortunately, the child's grandmother has come these days and continues to tell stories and take care of the two children.

Da Mi Mi has joined the cast of "The Wandering Earth 2" and plays the role of Hao Xiaoxi.The original Zhu Yan Manzi acted well, but she was not Zhang Hao's wife.

With Da Mi Mi, a top-rated actress with high popularity and traffic, joining the cast, who cares who Zhu Yan Manzi is!
"The Wandering Earth 2" has started shooting at the Qingdao Film and Television Base, and the cast can be said to be very luxurious.Wu Jing, Hua Tsai and Wu Jing increase the power. The names of these three people are scary enough.
Da Mi Mi even only played a supporting role. Of course, because it was a project of his own company, he didn't get much salary. The purpose was to free up enough salary space for Andy Wu Jing and others.

Andy and Wu Jing also lowered their pay for the sake of the crew.After all, the salary can be recovered through bad films, but there are not many good ones, so they expressed their support.

It's not that much of a reduction, mainly because Zhang Hao objected. People who didn't know better thought he was stingy and refused to pay actors!
In this way, Guo Fan was given enough production funds, and he did not have to worry about squeezing production costs for the cast's salary.

In the entertainment industry, such good things are rare for directors.

In addition, veteran actors Li Xuejian, Sha Yi, Wang Zhi, and several popular actors from the popular niche have joined the cast.

Da Mi Mi was busy again, so her mother Zhang Yu came to help take care of the children again, and soon Zhang Hao also went to work.

The couple is able to focus on their careers, and their great mother Zhang Yu and the whole family must be indispensable.

"Son, what are you painting?" Zhang Yu was cooking in the kitchen, while Ping An and Shi Shi were playing in the living room.

Zhang Yu asked curiously after seeing some sketches drawn by Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao scratched his head and said: "I painted scenes of interstellar war, but these are not good and cannot achieve the effect I want."

"Okay, take your time, wash your hands and eat." Zhang Yu clapped his hands and called to the two children: "Safe, ten points, it's time to eat."

The two children were very good and washed their hands under the guidance of grandma.

Zhang Hao cleaned up the table and threw the sketches into the trash can. The garbage bag containing the sketches was thrown into the trash can outside by Zhang Yu who was buying groceries the next day.

No one expected that reporters digging through trash cans would discover these sketches and then expose them online, causing quite a stir.

(End of this chapter)