This director needs to apologize

Chapter 172 Budget Comedy
Ashley got into her boyfriend's car, started it, and headed straight to the police station.

She was mumbling the names as she drove.

Matt, Ross Greene, Guerrero, Joe, Monica…

The car stopped, and Ashley got out and rushed into the police station, shouting Joey, Joe, Joey, Joe.

There was no one in the police station. Ashley shouted a few times and then slowly closed her mouth. Apparently she realized that something was wrong here.

She walked quietly inside and walked to the office she had been to before.

The door was ajar, so she leaned forward and listened. She could hear the sound of typing on the keyboard, so she gently pushed the door wider and wider.

She called Joey, Joe, and walked cautiously inside, the typing on the keyboard getting louder and louder.

Standing in front of the desk, Ashley could already see the top of Joey's head through the big belly monitor. He was leaning on the keyboard with his head lowered, typing seriously in a one-finger Zen style.

It seemed that only then did he hear Ashley's voice. Joey slowly raised his head and looked at Ashley.

The latter was obviously prepared to turn around and run away as soon as he saw faces like Matt's or Ross Green's.

However, the face in front of Ashley was normal, it was indeed Joey.

Like everyone else, he turned a blind eye to Ashley's strange appearance.He walked around from behind the desk and asked Ashley to sit on the chair in front of the desk. He took a chair and sat next to it.

Ashley took the opportunity to glance at the man's uniform. The embroidered signature on the left chest was Joey, not Joe.

The girl begins to recount her experiences at school and reminds the Sheriff that the music teacher was a thug who killed many people, including her boyfriend.

Slowly, the girl's words became slower and slower, until she stopped completely, because she found that no matter how unreasonable she described the situation at that time, Joey on the other side always had a blank expression and had no other expression except a nod.

Like a robot.

The next moment, as the girl "awakens", Joey opposite begins to slowly change.

First, the embroidered signature on the chest twists and reorganizes like a snake, changing from JOEY to JOE.

Then came his face, two eyes and mouth, as if the threads of his clothes were being pulled away, strings of strings rolled and disappeared, adding three empty holes on his face.

Then new strings were continuously generated, filling the three holes, and what appeared in front of them was a monster with slit eyes and mouth similar to Matt and Rose Green.

Ashley jumped up from the chair and ran out the door. Joe stood up and waved his hand, and a wall of characters lay in front of Ashley, blocking her way.

The desperate girl instinctively stretched out her hands to push against the character wall in front of her, and then a miracle happened.

The characters that made up the wall seemed to have a mutually exclusive relationship with Ashley's hands. Wherever her hands went, the characters disintegrated and disappeared, and several large holes immediately appeared in the wall.

Overjoyed, Ashley waved her hands repeatedly and dug out an exit on the character wall. She then walked out of the room through the exit and ran along the corridor.

The disintegration of the character wall caused Joe behind him to wail silently. Under the impact of the sound waves, the walls and objects of the police station collapsed into character strings, which shimmered and disappeared in the air.

Qiao opened his arms, and large swaths of strings in the air collapsed, revealing a quiet and dull background.

Ashley suddenly found herself in darkness, as if the strings of light were disintegrating.

The girl shouted loudly, Joe, Joe, but she couldn't hear her own voice at all.

All she could rely on was the faint light provided by the red and blue characters that were constantly colliding in the center of her body.

Joe was pressing behind her step by step, howling silently. He didn't move fast, but like Rose Green, he had the ability to track and locate Ashley.

He kept generating a wall of characters in front of Ashley, as if he had no idea that doing so would have no effect.

Ashley, who had no vision, ran around randomly. When she hit the character wall, she pulled it down with her hands and pulled it down, but she could never find the exit of the police station.

While running, she unexpectedly discovered that if she touched the wall with strings of strings scattered by the impact of Joe's sound, the wall would further collapse, while if she touched the intact wall with her hand, But there is no change.

This discovery made her find a way to escape. She no longer walked around but moved along the wall, luring Joe's howl to keep crashing into the wall around her, and then used the wall to keep approaching the outermost room.

As Ashley gradually approached the outskirts of the police station, Joe behind her became more and more irritable. The wall of characters was pressing down on her like a hill. The gradually increasing sound made it impossible for her to stand.

Of course, the stronger the sound, the faster the wall disintegrates. Just when Ashley was about to be buried by the wall of characters, she finally dug through the outer wall of the police station and saw the light from the outside world.

Ashley stepped into the light, and the next moment she found herself standing in a deserted neighborhood, and the surrounding scenery seemed familiar.

She suddenly turned around and found that where the police station should have been was the dilapidated board game store where she and her boyfriend had been.

Ashley stretched out her hands, one red and one blue. She took a deep breath and walked towards the board game store.

Arriving at the room at the end of the third floor again, Ashley looked at the criss-crossing hack marks on the wall and stretched out her hands to touch them.

Just as she expected, the gap in the wall disintegrated under the touch of her hands, revealing its original appearance.

This is a half-new room with a long table in the center, two chairs on each side vertically, and one chair across the width.

The horizontal chair was empty, and the other four chairs were Joe, Guerrero, Ross Green, and Matt.

The four people were arguing fiercely about something, which reminded Ashley of the vague quarrels she had heard in this room.This time she could hear clearly that the four people were arguing about how to wake up Monica who had fallen into a deep sleep.

Joe believed that the connection between consciousness should be disconnected and Monica should be forced to wake up physically. The other three objected because of the risk of not waking up.

Guerrero suggested using the observation perspective again to warn Monica inside. Joe and Ross Green thought it was useless because they had already tried it several times.

Matt felt that he could no longer keep it secret and had to contact the outside world. This was no longer a problem that the project team could solve.

Guerrero was in favor, but Joe and Ross Green were vehemently against it, which would have shut down the project and all bets were off.

Qiao pointed out that the pure consciousness body has preliminary self-awareness. This is an unexpected development. Although it is not the design goal of the experiment, it is enough to allow the project to survive.

He said with difficulty that in order to isolate the pure consciousness body, the consciousness connection must be disconnected immediately.

They have to accept this bet. At least Monica still has a half chance of waking up. If it is the unfortunate other half, that is also the price that must be paid for scientific exploration.

After saying that, Joe stood up and opened the door. Ashley noticed that the corridor outside was dazzlingly white, not the dark floor of a board game store at all.

Matt jumped up and tried to stop him, but was pulled by Ross Green. The two began to struggle, with Guerrero in the middle looking embarrassed.

Suddenly, Ashley's vision went dark. When she opened it again, she found herself lying in the bedroom on the second floor of her home.

Ashley walked downstairs with ease, greeted her father, had breakfast, and then heard the expected voice calling her name.

The script ends here.

Chen Yiming had mixed feelings when he saw it.

I don’t know if Xiangrui’s opponent will film it as it is after receiving the script.

In terms of B-level movie qualifications, the script is not too low-completion, and all the holes that need to be filled have been filled.

However, in order to achieve the effect envisioned by Xiangrui, the large number of CG shots in the second half cannot be accommodated. This brings about a problem: the budget is likely to be insufficient.

Chen Yiming looked at Xiangrui and asked, "Director Fu Da, are you sure that with a budget of 110 million, you can achieve the special effects in the script?"

Xiangrui scratched his head and said, "I've tried to reduce it as much as possible. If I reduce it any more, the plot will not be complete."

Chen Yiming laughed and said, "I mean, according to my initial estimate, basically every shot in the two escape scenes in the second half needs to be rendered frame by frame, which is all time and money.

Although the special effects are all simple string stacking, the number is too large. Even if you throw half of the budget into it, it will definitely not be enough.

What do you think the other side will do after they get this script? "

Lily said disapprovingly, "It must be a photo shoot. If you don't have enough money, just add more. Now if you invest less than 500 million in a B-level movie, you can guarantee that you won't lose money just by selling the DVD. Besides, the theme of cyber life is currently popular."

Megan, who was stumbling in Chinese language studies, only understood how to add money, so she also said, "The budget is not enough, I can invest again."

Xiangrui shook his hands and said, "With the assistant producer here, it's impossible for us to increase the budget casually."

Chen Yiming clapped his hands in agreement, "Yes, I also think that the other side cannot blatantly increase the budget. Even if the cost of team building and scenery can be saved, the cost of CG special effects cannot be saved. The price is calculated based on time and quantity.

Therefore, under the current budget, if you want to film this script, there is only one way, which is to shoot it entirely without CG.

In other words, if the cyber life is changed to dream interference, and the strings are turned into real plasma, 110 million is almost enough. "

Xiangrui immediately objected upon hearing this, "This is too low. Having nightmares is the worst way to deal with it in a thriller."

Chen Yiming shrugged, "What can I do? I don't have money for special effects."

Lily asked, "Yi Ming, if the other party really changes it as you said, what should we do?"

Chen Yiming said, "It's not impossible. Change the string to mosaic, and the amount of special effects will be reduced immediately, basically only 1/10 of the previous one."

Xiangrui looked confused, "This is too copycat. Isn't it really a C-level movie?"

Chen Yiming laughed and said, "Thriller comedies, the expectations are different, and the audience's experience is also different.

If your opponent made this script into a plasma film, it would be an extremely mediocre dream murder story. Not to mention the box office, the reputation would definitely not be very good.

We turned the script around and turned it into a spoof comedy.

Firstly, the core of cyber life can be retained. Secondly, changing the string mosaic will not be too abrupt. The resolution is a bit lower, but the general direction has not changed, right? "

　I was a bit overestimating my abilities when I rushed to the street. Everyone thought the script I wrote was a bad movie. Of course, this movie is not a classic in terms of setting. I'm sorry that I couldn't express the merits of the script well.

　　After all, many other novels such as "Saw" have been written, so I tried to innovate. Unfortunately, judging from everyone's feedback, this innovation failed.

　　However, I will gather everyone’s opinions and this section will be over soon.

　　In the follow-up, we will still stick to the original route, which is a localized adaptation of classic movies. Please continue to support me, readers.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)