Huayu for engineering students

Chapter 339 Preliminary Screenplay
"Vulgar, as vulgar as martial arts novels." The same comment came from Wang Shuo, who has always been most annoyed by martial arts novels.

I once said that martial arts novels are like a group of mouthless people who pinch each other when they meet and misunderstand each other from beginning to end for the sake of trivial matters.

"You don't call yourself a gangster." Wang Xu also curled his lips.

"That's a pretty good gangster, too." Wang Shuo boasted proudly.

"You're all a gangster, how can you be so elegant?" The person who answered was actually Wang Fei. She was very angry, why did both of them scold Wang Xusu.

"Rogue is the appearance, vulgarity is the inside." Wang Shuo continued to quibble.

"Yes, you are vulgar on the inside." Liu Xiaoqing interrupted. She didn't like Wang Shuo's book either.

"Hahahaha", everyone laughed.

This is funny, Wang Shuo is a very naughty person. On the one hand, the stories he writes are all about ordinary people, but they all have the pretentiousness of a literary youth.

This is a characteristic of this era. The background of being foul-mouthed and poor-mouthed is that a person's basic morals are on line, and kindness is his true nature.

Most of Feng Pants' later comedy films continued this basic setting, and the little characters played by Ge You followed this path.

Wang Xu also took a fancy to Wang Shuo's grasp of small characters. The characters in The Matrix are a bit too superficial. This is simple and easy for a movie, but it can easily make people feel "vulgar".

"Your characters are a bit monotonous. Except for the woman, the five of them are all passionate people, so there is no gap." Jiang Wen gave the fundamental reason for his evaluation of vulgarity.

"It's reasonable, your character design is too cartoonish, just for primary school students." Wang Shuo's mouth didn't spare anyone.

"It's true." Wang Xu thought for a while, and it was true that his thinking was influenced by later generations. The short and fast pace made the novel appear obviously cartoonish.

This kind of writing method can easily give people a clear portrait of a character in a very short space, but it is also a comic method. It uses exaggerated brushwork to emphasize a person's outstanding characteristics, but it will also obscure the complexity of the character. .

This writing method is simple and effective, but if you want the characters to be more three-dimensional, it is far from enough.

"There are too many characters in the novel. If you want to make a movie, it only lasts 90 minutes. It's too busy. You have to focus on it." Jiang Wen is working as a director. Although it is his first time, he sees things very well. precise.

"Yes, it would be okay to make a TV series, but it would also distract people's attention. There are too many five main characters, three at most. If there are more, it will be confusing." Zhao Baogang finally interjected. He usually He didn’t talk much, but he was indeed a person who thought deeply. He continued:

"When I was reading your book, I was thinking about how to adapt it into a TV series. I felt that your characters could be merged and changed from five to three. That would be easier."

"Baosteel said it well. If the movie is changed, even the third character must be weakened and completely turned into a supporting role. He can only play a supporting role."

Feng Pengtong finally chimed in. He had actually had the ambition to be a director for a long time, and he had already started thinking about what to do when he was working in the editorial department.

"The characters in your novel seem to be too serious and not down to earth." Jiang Wu considered his opinion.

"How to say it." Wang Xu seemed to feel something.

"No one is perfect, and the same should be true in novels. You can't just write positive things. Generally, the characters in movies will have some problems. The comics of Xiaoli will deliberately add some bad habits to the characters.

In your novel, except for the protagonist and his wife, the rest of the characters are read from beginning to end, which is quite enjoyable, but not human. "Jiang Wen took over the words, obviously he also noticed this problem.

Jiang Wen is currently filming a movie and is particularly touched by this aspect.

He had experienced that special era, where good guys had to be upright and upright, and bad guys had to be shady and evil. They were labeled and profiled. Many works at that time were done in this way.

However, after entering the 80s, people's minds opened up. In such works, it feels like the characters are floating and cannot touch the ground, and it is difficult to arouse empathy.

In the 90s and [-]s, the most popular movies and TV series were down-to-earth movies and TV series. The characters should be three-dimensional, the good ones should have reasons, and the bad ones should have reasons.

Wang Xu was also thinking carefully about their opinions. Yes, he didn't think so clearly when he wrote the article. He set his character according to a simple comic template and started writing.

The content is indeed very enjoyable, and readers enjoy watching it. Even Jiang Wen and others did not say that the story is not interesting, but it is not interesting to make a movie with such a story.

To put it more professionally, the story doesn't have enough tension. It's exciting, but the tension is barely interesting. It's just a typical popcorn movie.

Although there is nothing wrong with making some popcorn, the mainstream Chinese aesthetics are still in a period of transformation, and a large number of young people still have requirements for the tension of the story itself.

Wang Xu listened to their complaints and suggestions. He felt that making these friends was not in vain, and he had a good time drinking.

None of them were hiding anything, and they talked about everything, from characters to stories, and even philosophy and religion.

The religious attitude in China is generally pragmatic, and few Chinese believe in it unconditionally.

But the core of religion is unconditional belief. If you don’t believe it, there is no religion at all.

This is the way of thinking that has been formed in China for thousands of years. Since the story takes place in China, this attitude towards religion must be shown.

This should be reflected in the real people's attitude towards the "Matrix". He is powerful, but he is also limited.And no matter how powerful he is, he can't bring me any benefits, and I won't worship him as a god.

On the contrary, if we can get benefits by killing him, then our attitude should be to try every means to kill him. If it doesn't work in one generation, then we will slowly accumulate it. There will be endless descendants, and one day we can kill him.

It is obvious that in Western religious thought, as long as you have faith, you can get benefits, and it is full of the attitude of getting something for nothing. Even if the pie from the sky is not poisonous, it will kill you.

Chinese people have always been through hardships, and they don’t believe in their bones that anyone will give you benefits for no reason. If you don’t earn it yourself, if you get it for free, you won’t be able to use it safely.

Therefore, if you want to make the story tense, you need to annotate their actions and give them a basic driving force. Everyone can be different and not lofty, but they must be able to arouse empathy.

This is why most Hollywood movies include love elements. Such content is more likely to gain empathy in the Western world.

The Chinese view of love in this era was relatively conservative and implicit. This part was performed well in his novels, but several minor characters seemed weak.

These people can't all be for love, and it's not an idol drama, so we have to find a suitable moral basis for them.

If it's Hollywood, you can add some religious elements here, which is a tone that resonates with them, or add some traditional mythological plots.China obviously does not have this kind of religious tradition, but virtues such as benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom, trust, filial piety, loyalty, propriety, justice and shame are what the Chinese people pursue. People may not have them themselves, but they will definitely respect such people.

Wang Xu feels that it is entirely possible to give a reasonable explanation for their behavior from this perspective and demonstrate their ideas through a small amount of character behavior.

This method will no longer be so cartoonish, but will have a somewhat thicker feel. Although it will still feel thin, as a movie, it is enough.

The meal was a fruitful one, and the price of a few dozen yuan made Wang Xu exclaimed that it was worth the money. He didn't go home at night, so he spent the night in a farmer's house.

The next day, I happily took my wife home.

My daughter-in-law hasn't been home for a long time. Let's have a meal together, take a bath together, well, you know.

Feeling refreshed and revising the original text, Wang Xu suddenly felt very inspired and spent a few days making a major change to the entire story.

The story is still the same story, the background is still the same, the story of the team the male protagonist joins to capture the golden beetle.

But the character and behavior of each person have been rearranged.

Could it be that the captain embodies loyalty to his team, his organization, and even his own race?

Operator Tank embodies a word of wisdom, calmness and determination. He is the one who discovers the deep flaw, and the one who walks into the trap without hesitation. Only in this way can the unnoticed rookie protagonist successfully obtain this flaw.

The team member code embodies the word righteousness. He is also the only betrayer in the team, but the betrayal is for the sake of small righteousness and ignores the righteousness of human relations.

He was eventually discovered by Tank, and successfully used his betrayal to convey wrong information, leading the enemy's main force to himself.

Team member Cui Ying embodies the word love. She is entrusted by the captain to take care of the rookie male protagonist and has been doing her best. The two gradually developed feelings during their relationship, but they sublimated in the final battle.

Team member Ni Ao embodies the character of faith. In order to find out the reality of the world, he left the virtual world, saw the world, and truly felt the sorrow of mankind.Cui Ying even received help from many people and was seriously injured trying to save him.

In the end, in the process of searching for the golden beetle, he finally successfully reached the core layer, obtained the golden beetle that could obtain the bottom-level permissions, and brought it out.

He fought fiercely with the enemies who were following him, and finally let Cui Ying take the final blow to contain Smith. He was invaded by Smith, and died together with Smith.

The overall flow of the story was not modified at all, only the underlying logic of each person was added. Wang Xu uploaded the final modified results to GIT within a few days of work.

Of course, what is uploaded is only the novel version, which also expands the growth trajectories of the five team members, and adds some side stories to make these supporting characters more three-dimensional.

In the script that Wang Xu himself kept, a lot of deletions were made, and only the main storyline of Ni Ao and Cui Ying was retained. The others were mentioned briefly and only appeared as supporting roles. Such scenes are enough to support a movie. of time.

When Wang Xu invited several friends to have a gathering at home again, Wang Xu had almost perfected the script, and even the basic shooting plan had been set.

Wang Xu's professional skills are especially useful at this time. When creativity is not needed much, skills are like gods.

Just like Wang Xu's paintings, if Wang Xu doesn't invest any emotion, he can still paint them just like the photos, even if it looks like a top-notch work to outsiders.

But professionals will see that kind of perfunctoryness. Your painting has no soul. This is a sentence that painters often say, but it is also a sentence that people who don’t know how to pretend to understand love to use to attack others.

But those who are truly knowledgeable can see the difference between the two. Some paintings lack soul, while others, even if they are copied, still have soul and a different kind of charm, just like Wang Xu himself The one facing me.

By the way, that painting is no longer with Wang Chao. Wang Chao only left a well-taken photo.

The original painting was recommended by Leng Jun and was sent to the exhibition. At the young painter's exhibition at the beginning of this year, he won a gold medal for young painters.

The painting itself was directly selected and collected by the National Gallery of Art, and is regularly exhibited in the National Gallery.

The art museum only gave a few thousand yuan as a collection fee. This was not a matter of money, but a matter of status. Wang Xu would not make a living by selling paintings, so he agreed naturally.

For painters who can be collected by the National Art Museum, it can be said that the price of their paintings has risen directly to the national level. In a few years, they can easily be sold for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

This time the party was held at Wang Xu's home, mainly because Wang Xu didn't want to go there with a bunch of scripts, so it was more convenient to do it at home.

I just ate the mutton-boiled meat. Although eating hot-pot meat in the summer is a bit irritating, who makes it convenient? Moreover, the people of the Imperial City at this time have not completely gotten rid of the stomach-burning state and can eat meat. That will definitely not go to the dish.

If you see that in the 21st century, these people in their thirties and forties are all out of shape, you can roughly get some clues.

But unlike those young people in later generations, they knew how to control their weight earlier. Young people nowadays are all hungry.

Many people in later generations said that when a young girl finds an uncle, the first thing that comes to her mind is that she is full of fat. That is the true manifestation of these guys who are poor and suddenly rich in this era.

It's the same few people, but they don't call him vulgar anymore. Although it's not very profound, the role should not be so thin. After all, it is a commercial film. Don't forget that these people have little experience in commercial films, but equally, they also It is not as high as academic requirements for connotation.

Among the few people, there is no director with a professional background. He is either a coder or a painter. The director has also become a monk by the way, so he doesn't have that many adjustments in mind.

In fact, Wang Xu could also ask more professional people from Diying for help, but Wang Xu knew that he was afraid that they would be too professional and have too high requirements for things like connotation, which would be inconsistent with the basic concept of commercial films.

This film that Wang Xu made can be considered a genre film. It is basically a commercial film, and it exists for the sake of commerce. Although Wang Xu also knows that if it is produced, it will not make money in the current mainland market.

But this is a pilot project conducted by Wang Xu, which can be regarded as an exploration for the future. It is also a copy, and Wang Xu wants to copy it to have some practical significance.

For example, in the cultivation of talents, such a science fiction project must go through a lot of human investment and financial investment from project establishment to completion. Knowing that it is unlikely to be profitable, it must be able to gain matching experience.

Just like those scientific research projects conducted by Wang Xu, you invest money, gain experience, scientific research results, and more importantly, gain a group of talents who have experienced this level of scientific research.

It's similar here. From costumes and props, to production management, from special effects production, to photography and editing, a blockbuster movie is enough to train a team that is at least one of the best in China.

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(See you tomorrow)

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