I make a thriller, it's God chasing and feeding

Chapter 328 [Disagreement]

"How's it going? Do you feel bored?"

Lu Zhengyi looked at Ito who was already fascinated and asked aloud, "Does Tomie Kawakami's debut on the screen match the picture in your mind?"

"how to say……"

It wasn't until the on-screen test shooting was over, the actors came out one by one, and the crew began to clean up the place that Ito said in a daze, "Although Teacher Zhou Jie's acting skills are very good, she perfectly expressed the atmosphere I wanted. , but I still feel that this section is a bit too boring.”

"Many people have seen my works. Even if they have not seen my works, they know what kind of person Tomie is."

"In this case, it seems that there is no need to design this kind of plot. We can enter the plot more quickly. Now is a fast-paced era. This slow narrative method is somewhat behind the times."

After watching the filming of the first trial, he still felt a little wordy, slow and steady.

"The works I create later will have a faster pace."

After waking up from his infatuation with Zhou Jie, out of responsibility for his own works and expectations for the adaptation, Ito rarely maintained his sanity as a creator and explained aloud, "I will depict some content with a novel style. , such as human heads in the stomach, deformed monsters, corpse parts..."

The eyes of those people seemed to be burning with flames, and this flame could incinerate the ordinary man at the bar.

"You are in darkness, so you long for light?"

"Yes, we are filming a horror film, not a romance film." Lu Zhengyi nodded, "But horror and thriller also have different styles. It does not mean that only ghosts or bloody scenes can be called it. For horror movies.”

"……Yes."

"We should focus the filming on revenge against Tomi Jiang."

Facing the woman in front of him, looking at her face and smelling her scent, Akita moved to the side and told the past without hiding anything, "Miss Kawakami, you should be able to tell, Sanae... She used to be a very good-looking girl, as can be seen from the fact that the other half of her face is not disfigured."

"Jingle Bell--"

"When she was in school, she was like a goddess in school. She had a good personality, good looks, and a good family background. She was very popular."

At the same time, Akita also became the focus of attention.

His attention was not here at all, let alone the woman in front of him.

According to Ito's understanding, his readers seem to prefer the final process, that is, the content that leads to suspicion and murderous intent.

"My fans like to see these. Although it seems a little psychologically distorted to say this, it is the fact."

"You can tell me about it." Kawakami poured him a cup of coffee himself, and even took a high stool and sat directly opposite him. "You are in a foreign country and we are both Japanese. Maybe I can give you some advice. .”

It was a simple little thing, but the scene of the sunshine outside the window shining into the classroom and reflecting the smile on her face was engraved in his heart forever.

Her appearance instantly attracted the attention of everyone present.

After he appeared, behind the bar, the owner Tomie Kawakami slowly opened the door to the back room and came outside.

From the initial surprise, to the subsequent admiration, I gradually became obsessed with Fujiang's beauty and fell in love with her passionately.

"And I am actually a very gloomy person, even now. In the past, I was even more serious, a person who was not good at words, and was considered isolated in the class, but she was never like other people. , isolated and disliked me because of the 'atmosphere'..."

Then, there was suspicion, confusion, and madness, until he had the intention to kill and inflicted ultimate destruction on Fu Jiang.

What was the specific reason and when? His memory was no longer so clear. He could only remember that it was an afternoon. Because he didn't bring anything for class, he couldn't remember what it was.

……

Under Kawakami's right eye, there is a very small black mole, but it does not destroy the beauty, but intensifies the charm. "Are you classmates? Or...we only met after working. We have such a deep relationship. , we must have known each other for many years, right?”

However, although Akita could feel those gazes at this time, he didn't care.

As the store door was pushed open, the sound of wind chimes sounded.

"We are classmates."

I only remember that at that time, she who was sitting next to me smiled and said hello to me, and then lent me something.

Puzzled, jealous, angry...

This is a horror film, not an emotional, literary or romantic film.

"She is very manic, or should I say, has low self-esteem." Akita replied dully while holding the coffee, "She doesn't want to drag me down, and she also wants to give up on herself, but I don't want to give up on her, watching her silent like this. Go down."

Many people have their own 'White Moonlight', and Sanae is the same for him.

Akita dragged his tired body and came to the bar in a daze to sit down, instead of sitting in an inconspicuous corner like last time.

However, he did not explain too much.

He spoke silently, recalling the past.

In the picture, there is still the man named 'Akita', but now he is even more tired and alone.

They should focus their filming on this section.

"You love her very much?"

Gazes filled with various emotions fell on him.

Instead, after finishing speaking, he picked up the walkie-talkie to direct the situation at the scene.

The emotion I felt at that time is still very clear to this day.

Tomie's story is divided into short stories one after another, but the contents are actually similar.

"Why, the proposal failed?"

Kawakami looked at him with subtle eyes, "Do you envy her, or do you like her?"

"It makes no sense to think about these things now. Love is not something that can be described with words and words, but a feeling." Akita shook his head, "Sanae and I have known each other since we were in school. many years."

"I have helped her with a lot of things, and she has helped me with a lot of things. Whether it is out of love or friendship, I am willing to accompany her until the last moment of my life."

"This trip is my last chance. I will get her permission and truly become someone who can stand by her side."

"What a...responsible man." The smile on Kawakami's face became even wider, making many people next to him look even more intense, "Akita-kun, you are very dedicated, so why not...let me help you .”

She got up from the high chair and started walking slowly.

And when she walked from the counter to the outside and sat next to Akita, the sunlight from the window happened to shine on her face.

As for Akita, he was also stunned.

……

"How's it going? Do you feel bored?"

It had been some time since Fu Jiang started filming, and after finishing filming again, Lu Zhengyi asked the same question, "To enter the plot in this way, actually...it's okay. When we were discussing the plot, you said it casually, and I This is probably the picture in my mind.”

Adaptation is actually a bit like the creation of fan works.

We must consider not only the degree of restoration of the plot, but also whether it will appear boring as it is the same as the original work.

In particular, some repetitive content, such as 'prominence of character', 'introduction of story background', 'tightness of plot rhythm'... these are all things that need to be paid attention to.

Ito previously felt that if it was an adaptation of a work with average sales, it must be considered that the audience has not read the original work, so it needs to be introduced in a large space to avoid some of the plots and main plots in the original work being unclear to the audience, so it will appear in the perception. confusion. But the work "Fujiang" has a high audience in Dongzhou and is very popular.

So……

On the premise that there are many people who know about it, there is no need to waste too much pen and ink to outline an image of Fu Jiang.

When everyone watches a movie, they will naturally have an image foundation of 'beautiful', 'charming', 'arrogant...' instead of a blank sheet of paper.

On the contrary, using the plot to highlight the characters too much will make it seem boring.

After watching the first ten minutes of a movie, it is all "known information" and what the audience thinks is practical content.

"...There is still content."

Ito's tone was a little hesitant compared to before, "But I still think it's too slow."

"As far as the current scene is concerned, it takes up at least ten minutes of time. In addition to the subsequent outdoor scenes that will be filmed, the plot of Tomie seducing Akita took at least thirty minutes, and it may be more. It is almost the full length of the film. It’s half the amount.”

"We expected that the film would be composed of two stories, but with the way Director Lu shoots it, there may only be enough time to tell one story."

Just enough to tell the story of Akita and Sanae.

As for the two Southern Koreans, unless extra time is added to extend the movie to two hours, there will be no chance for them to appear.

"can you?"

Lu Zhengyi replied casually, "I think it's okay. I don't expect that the subsequent plot will occupy a long time."

"...You mean to say that the share of people who are suspicious of Tomie and killed to the end will be reduced?!" Ito turned around suddenly, looking straight at him with his eyes, his tone full of disbelief.

Is director Masayoshi Noh really planning to tell the story of Fu Jiang in the style of a romance film?
"Well, it's not reduced. I didn't expect it to be much."

Lu Zhengyi replied softly.

"As a screenwriter, I would like to ask how much time you plan to spend on this link." Ito asked in a deep voice, "I feel that there seems to be a mistake in the creative direction of you and me. No, my understanding of you seems to be Something went wrong."

This is different from the Lu Zhengyi he recognized from past works such as The Grudge 1 and 2, The First Commandment, and The Old Corpse in the Village.

Lu Zhengyi thought, "About... ten minutes, maybe less."

"Ten minutes?" Ito repeated incomprehensibly, his tone of voice rising unconsciously, "From the time Akita started to hate Tomie, to killing Tomie, to the end, only ten minutes?"

In fact, there is no need to film the subsequent plot, he has pictures in his mind.

According to the past development style of Tomie's manga, Akita will undoubtedly abandon Sanae, fall in love with Tomie, then hate her, and then kill her.

It's a simple process, and as someone who has been creating horror comics for many years, he is familiar with it and knows what readers want.

But the ridiculous thing now is that the director of this film had a horror film script, but he focused on filming the scene of Tomie seducing Akita.

But he only gave ten minutes to the truly terrifying, thrilling and curious place?
"Yes."

Lu Zhengyi nodded, "I don't think this process will take long."

Ito was silent.

Obviously, disagreements between the director and the screenwriter are not an easy thing to resolve.

Although outside, the staff at the filming site were still arranging the subsequent scenes, the atmosphere in front of the monitor became quiet.

"Then what if I say, I object to filming like this."

For a long time, Ito held the mirror frame with his hand and said in a deep voice, "Will I be kicked out of the production team?"

He has already signed the copyright authorization letter.

Based on what is described in the above terms, it is useless for him to go back on his word now.

"No, I'm not that dictatorial."

Lu Zhengyi laughed and said, "Mr. Ito, as a director, I hope to be recognized by you, the original author."

"But I don't agree with your shooting idea now." Ito replied mercilessly, his tone no longer as happy as before.

In the past, based on Lu Zhengyi's works, he thought that they were the same people, people who were willing to bring horror and thriller emotions to readers.

In addition, he introduced himself to Zhou Jie, the 'Fu Jiang' in his heart, so he was very friendly to Lu Zhengyi.

But it's different now.

They may not be from the same place.

"Then we'll shoot this version first."

Lu Zhengyi looked at him with a smile, "After the shooting is completed, we will shoot the next version, the one you want."

Ito paused, "...you mean, one movie, two versions?"

How is this possible? The human, material and financial resources consumed are not a simple amount.

Who will pay this money?

"Compared to other types of films, the shooting cycle of horror films is not long."

Lu Zhengyi explained calmly, "And the return rate for each of my films is very high."

"The investment is small, but the return is high. I think it is completely affordable for me to make another version, or even a third version."

"I think the most important thing is that the quality of the film is perfect enough."

Since he proposed this, he was naturally confident.

The entire crew, except for a few actors, are all his.

The investors behind the film also focus on light and shadow.

Mr. Zhang from Light and Shadow Media is his wife.

For various reasons, Lu Zhengyi wanted to make several versions, but he could actually do it.

And his wealthy appearance immediately relaxed the somewhat stiff atmosphere just now. Ito stared at him blankly, "You look like this, which is a little different from the Lu Zhengyi I know. I thought you would value efficiency very much. "

After all, he has two dramas a year, and his reputation as a model worker has gradually become known to some fans in the country.

As a collaborator, he has naturally understood it.

"The prerequisite for efficiency is quality."

Lu Zhengyi responded softly, "I am still very young in the field of artistic creation."

"Before, in China, my films were almost all in the same style."

"When I went to the Republic of China to shoot The Grudge, I tried a new style and the effect was pretty good. But this time, when I came to the Southern Dynasties, I wanted to adapt to the market here and wanted to change my style."

(End of this chapter)