This director needs to apologize

Chapter 174 Helping with the aftermath of technological crushing

Xiangrui stopped while writing, raised his head and asked, "Yiming, didn't you say you wanted to change it into a comedy? Where is the comedy in the beginning?"

Chen Yiming laughed and said, "I personally believe that the appearance of comedy is contrast and dislocation, and the root cause is to give the audience a condescending sense of intellectual superiority.

Therefore, the sense of comedy is not limited to humor, wit, ugliness, etc. If it is arranged properly, the more serious and serious the actors act, the stronger the contrast will be experienced by the audience from the perspective of God. "

Lily said impatiently, "Director Chen, please stop inspiring me and just tell me how to change it."

Chen Yiming said helplessly, "This is your movie. I don't want to overstep my authority, so I'd better explain the problem clearly.

As far as the story itself is concerned, the main line is the consciousness space, and the secondary line is the laboratory. The connection between the two is that the experimenter's consciousness connection behavior can exert an influence on the consciousness space, but this influence is under the influence of Alice's subjective consciousness. , uncontrolled distortion will occur.

In the auspicious version of the script, the perspective always focuses on the main plot, and the subplot is only briefly mentioned at the end of the script. Obviously this is an orthodox suspense routine.

In this arrangement, the key lies in whether the suspense can keep the audience's curiosity. As the story progresses, the protagonist's crisis continues to deepen until the moment the suspense is revealed.

The auspicious problem is that in order to cover up the directional meaning of the red and blue solid colors, the protagonist's action goal is obscured. Although the sense of suspense is maintained, the suspense itself is no longer clear, and the audience's curiosity is distracted.

Given the positioning of a B-level commercial film, this is obviously unwise.

Therefore, in my changes, I combined the suspense of the main and auxiliary plots into one, and concentrated them into digital progress indicators. "

Xiangrui nodded in sudden realization, "In this way, the changes in the consciousness space and its actual effects will be displayed in the laboratory through signage.

As the real names of the four experimenters are revealed one by one, the audience will gradually understand the truth about the consciousness space. "

Chen Yiming extended his thumbs up in agreement, "It seems that my idea has allowed Director Fu to construct a specific image, which is gratifying.

The next step is how to adapt the visual effects in the original script in a comedy direction within a limited budget.

When Ashley in the consciousness space successfully touched Alice's talent fragment, the progress card in the laboratory lit up and began to display a certain percentage. Let me assume it is 60.

The experimenter began to follow the procedure to connect to Alice's consciousness space, replace a pure consciousness body inside, and accelerate the progress percentage through interaction with Alice.

As I just said, comedy comes from contrast and dislocation.

Now at the first level of dislocation, the experimenters wanted the percentage to go up, but their intervention caused the numbers to go down.

The joke settings here must not be difficult for our screenwriter Fu Da.

The increase in the intensity of intervention makes the resistance of Alice's subject consciousness become more and more intense. At the same time, Alice in the consciousness space gradually realizes the special function of red and blue solid colors to directly reach the underlying rules.

Then came the second level of dislocation. The experimenter who did not know the inside story continued to increase his intervention. However, the more violent his incarnation's string attack was, and after being distorted by Alice's main consciousness, the accuracy in the consciousness space became lower.

It started as a bit-level string, and gradually became K-level, M-level, G-level, and T-level.

In terms of performance, the string becomes more and more blurred until it becomes a large mosaic.

You see, you can save a lot of money on special effects now. As long as Ashley's part is more refined, it can be dealt with. "

Xiangrui jumped up happily, "That's it. I should have thought of it a long time ago. The characters should have levels. I know how the plot should develop later."

Chen Yiming stretched out his right hand and said, "Then I'm all ears."

Xiangrui took a pen and pointed on the paper bit by bit, "On the progress indicator board in the main world, the percentage numbers have been decreasing. Alice's father cannot be indifferent.

The four experimenters are not monolithic. Ross Greene, who noticed that her boyfriend was abnormal, had other plans. He colluded with Joe, who still had a chance to connect his consciousness, and planned to give up the original purpose of stealing the fragments of the talent, and instead peel off and obtain an independent consciousness. "

Chen Yiming nodded and said, "Very good, this will connect the previous and later plots, but we still have to pay attention to the tone of the comedy.

The father's actions were well-intentioned, so they needed to be self-defeating before becoming a blessing in disguise.

The intentions of the two betrayed experimenters were malicious, and the arrangement was the opposite. "

After Xiangrui quickly recorded it, he continued, "Then there is the ending. Since it is a comedy, it is natural that Alice is safe and the thieves get nothing.

It’s Monica’s ending, I can’t think of it well yet.

It stands to reason that as an intruder, she should be completely annihilated, but in the movie she has always been an intruder, and in the end she suddenly turned into a villain, which made the movie-watching experience really unfriendly. "

Lily suggested, "Let's make a compromise and let her get lost in Alice's conscious space. Isn't it considered that evil is rewarded?"

Megan said solemnly, "Monica is not a bad person, she did not do bad things."

The three girls looked at each other for a few times and then turned their attention to Chen Yiming.

Chen Yiming shrugged, "I'm willing to serve a few ladies.

According to the previous settings, consciousness fusion is very dangerous, so suppressing Alice's main consciousness is naturally a high-risk task.Do you think, if Monica is really the leader of the thieves group, should she personally carry out this mission? "

Xiangrui's eyes immediately lit up.

Chen Yiming continued to explain, "Therefore, it is only in line with realistic logic to set Monica as a non-human pure consciousness and a theft tool of the thieves group.

Moreover, the evil of the thieves group is not only to steal talents under the guise of curing diseases, but also to sell them as commodities.

This is the tip of the iceberg of the background world of the movie, and it is also an important profile that enhances the style of the entire movie.

As for the ending, we only need to hint at the independent existence of Ashley and her boyfriend when the traitorous experimenter hands over the goods.

In this way, the ending of the movie is that Alice gains health, Ashley wakes up, and the thieves gain nothing. "

The discussion of the script came to an end, and Xiangrui cheered up again and began to revise the script in retreat.

After a few days of leisure, Chen Yiming took the initiative to report to Shen Pengfei, who was busy in various places during the awards season.

Xiangrui's early preparations caused him to have diarrhea, and Chen Yiming had to help deal with the aftermath.

As Chen Yiming said, if you are an experienced producer, it is definitely easy to build a B-level movie with a budget of 110 million.

Sister Shen's actions turned out to be different. After understanding the details, especially since her opponent's family was quite powerful in Hollywood, she quickly came up with a countermeasure.

Shen Pengfei made a phone call to Maple Leaf Country and contacted the CEO of October Studio in Vancouver, ERIC LEE.

Vancouver has always been the preferred filming location for Hollywood crews. A small B-level crew, whether they are actors, behind the scenes or in post-production, can easily handle it locally.

Moreover, in order to attract Hollywood crews to settle in the Maple Leaf Kingdom, the crews can also enjoy a certain percentage of subsidy rebates on their local expenses. Although the absolute number is not large, it is not without small subsidies.

More importantly, far away from Los Angeles, it will not be so easy for Xiangrui's enemies to cause trouble again.

Of course, Chen Yiming owed Sister Shen a favor and had no choice but to obey the busy schedule arranged by the latter for him.

At present, "1951" still maintains a rhythm of more than a dozen small-scale screenings every day, but it has gradually expanded from Los Angeles to the nut states.

However, the discussion about this film has gradually heated up among professional groups.

Among them, there must be public relations purchased by Warner, but there are also many who join voluntarily.

After all, the Palme d'Or and the five Golden Globe nominations are not fake, and the relatively sensitive subject matter is also very popular with some white leftists in Hollywood.

In addition, the mobile one-shot production method is also a good talking point for professionals.

Therefore, Chen Yiming, as the director and screenwriter of "1951", attracted a lot of attention when he made his debut at the premiere of "Pandora".

"Pandora" lives up to Cuaron McKee's evaluation of being "ahead of its time". Even though Chen Yiming had the memory of his previous life "Avatar", he was still shocked when watching the movie.

The special effects of "Ark" are still within Chen Yiming's imagination. Although he knows that Huaguo Studio cannot do it at this stage, he at least knows which direction to work towards.

The special effects of "Pandora" have exceeded Chen Yiming's imagination, because he had only heard of this production method with special effects in his previous life, but had never really seen it.

Regarding the so-called 3D camera with two lenses connected in parallel, as well as the viewing frame with preset special effects, his knowledge was limited to hearsay. He neither understood the principles nor knew how to implement it technically.

At the premiere, he had a brief conversation with the great director Caron McGee, but unfortunately the occasion was limited and he could not have a more in-depth exchange.

In his heart, Chen Yiming is actually quite hesitant about whether to take the route of a technical blockbuster.

Judging from the experience of previous lives, after "Avatar", 3D blockbusters did flourish for a while, but they did not dominate the world.

The tendency of 3D blockbusters to focus more on special effects than stories has made audiences tired of them after just five or six years.

The Chinese film market is different. It is a dumping ground for Hollywood in the field of blockbusters. In the years when it was crushed by special effects technology, Chinese directors had to change their route when there was no hope of catching up with technology. This actually In disguise, it gave birth to China’s still nascent genre film market.

Although Chen Yiming can imagine how Chinese filmmakers will feel like they are mourning and how frustrated they will be after "Pandora" is released in China.

However, "Pandora" has overall more advantages than disadvantages for the Chinese film market.

Whether it is a substantial increase in ticket prices, a surge in the number of theaters, or exponential growth in investment, these are major benefits in the long run.

Therefore, Chen Yiming does not have much anxiety in his heart, and he has no additional attachment to the technology itself.

The essence of movies is to use images to tell stories after all. The story comes first and the images come second. The box office of "Avatar 2", which was more technologically superior in its previous life, was average, which fully proves this truth.

(End of this chapter)