The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 143 Charlotte’s Troubles

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Luo Ming put on a baseball cap and a mask and accompanied Lin Shuyue out.

"Sister, what movie are you watching today?" Luo Ming asked.

"I heard it's a comedy."

“What are the reviews online?”

"It's quite subtle!"

Luo Ming understood instantly that this was most likely a comedy that wasn't funny.

This is exactly what happened. Luo Ming and Lin Shuyue entered the cinema and waited for about 5 minutes before the dragon logo appeared.

This movie is 100 minutes long, and it was a torture for Luo Ming to watch it in just 1 hour and 40 minutes.

The story of the movie is quite simple. It is the story of a middle-aged man looking for a job after losing his job. The punchline is the various interesting things that happened while looking for a job.

In the movie, the first job the male protagonist gets is to wear a panda suit and hand out flyers. This section is about filming how men are unlucky, and the audience's happiness is based on the suffering of the characters on the screen.

The next few jobs followed the same pattern. The unlucky character on the screen was the source of laughter, and at the end there was a forced sensationalism, which made Luo Ming extremely embarrassed.

Lin Shuyue watched it for 20 minutes, then lowered her head and started playing Xiaoxiaole.

Apparently the movie didn't appeal to her at all.

When the movie ended, Luo Mingsheng walked out of the cinema helplessly.

"Sister, next time you have a movie like this, I suggest you ask my brother to do it!"

Lin Shuyue scratched her head when she heard this and said: "I didn't expect it to be so ugly. If I had known it would be like this, I would have given the movie ticket to Lin Bin and asked him to find someone to watch it."

"It's not just ugly. Sister, you are also a screenwriter now. Let me ask you, what do you think is a comedy movie?"

"I think about it, according to the domestic classification of comedy movies, if they can make the audience laugh, they should be called comedy movies!

According to foreign classifications, comedy movies are roughly divided into four categories: romantic comedies, satirical comedies, comedy of manners, and farces.

This movie deliberately arranges various highly exaggerated or extremely funny characters in some unexpected and absurd plots, and uses a lot of gag techniques to make the audience laugh. It should be classified as a farce. "Lin Shuyue analyzed from a more professional perspective.

"Sister, don't you think the laughs in this movie are too vulgar? And all the laughs are based on the pain of the characters on the screen. It's really outrageous."

"This is indeed not very good, but the core of comedy is tragedy. I think it is a relatively normal way of writing to use the character's misfortune to set off the character's inner sadness!"

"I don't refute the statement that the core of comedy is tragedy, but I think the reason why a comedy can be called a comedy is that its core must be to make the audience laugh, and the creative team should also work in this direction. Shoot.

With such a basic tone, the film's creative team is at least working in this direction when shaping the image and story.

Looking back at this movie, it piles up a bunch of outdated jokes that are inconsistent with each other, and then asks the actors to forcefully act stupid and stupid, and do whatever it takes to highlight the audience's cleverness. This cannot be called a comedy at all. "

"It sounds interesting. Continue."

"Sister, I think comedy doesn't actually need tragedy as its core. The most interesting thing about comedy is its irony and humor.

Why are the skits in the Spring Festival Gala becoming more and more boring? Isn’t it because the Spring Festival Gala sketches were not ironic and humorous enough? Who would like this style when everyone makes dumplings together?

In fact, for most audiences, they only need comedy that is easy to understand and can make people laugh, and that's fine. "

Lin Shuyue fell into deep thought after listening to Luo Ming's words. Luo Ming's views on comedy subverted some of what she had learned.

After a while, Lin Shuyue asked: "Wenwen, what do you think is an excellent comedy? Or do you have a simple story that can make me laugh?"

"I really have one here. This story is called "Charlotte's Trouble" and it starts like this."

Luo Ming described this comedy movie to Lin Shuyue in as much detail as possible, which he had watched countless times in his previous life.

Lin Shuyue listened very seriously at first, but then she smiled unconsciously.

As Luo Ming spoke, Lin Shuyue's smile became brighter and brighter.

Lin Shuyue's screenwriting ability is definitely not bad, otherwise she wouldn't be able to serve as the editor of a popular science variety show that Station C values.

Naturally, she heard the merits of the story Luo Ming told.

From the perspective of a creator, in fact, not only comedy movies, even just a small joke, contain two kinds of logic: one is the logic deduced by the viewer based on common sense, and the other is the specific logic of the plot and characters stipulated by humor. , to put it bluntly, it is to stimulate the audience's laughter through reversal.

The story told by "Lin Shuwen" uses this principle very cleverly, bringing the audience into their own logic through "padding" and "rendering" in advance, and then using "reversal" to make the result consistent with the previous result of the audience's reasoning. Different or even completely opposite, which brings laughter.

This starts from the name of this story.

The story is called "Charlotte, Trouble", not "Charlotte, Trouble".

There is a reversal in the sentence. Similar reversals can be found everywhere in the movie. For example, Teacher Wang singles out the gangsters, for example, Qiu Ya falls in love with another person, and for example, Charlotte finally contracts AIDS. These are all unexpected after foreshadowing. reverse.

After "Lin Shuwen" finished telling the story, Lin Shuyue said with a smile: "Wenwen, your story is great! According to you, it can be made into a movie."

"I don't have any plans for the moment."

"It doesn't matter. I heard a good story today thanks to you. I will help you write the script for free. When you want to film it, you can contact Huayue. No, why should you contact Huayue! You are the sponsor, you can do it. Get your own crew.

The cost of this movie shouldn't be too high. As long as you can tell the story completely, you should be able to make a lot of money with a small gain. "

Luo Ming was a little moved when he heard this, but he didn't understand this aspect, so he wanted to ask Lin Shuwen for her opinion.

Then Luo Ming and Lin Shuyue went to the supermarket and bought some snacks.

It was already past 5 pm when the two got home.

On the other side, Lin Shuwen was looking through the photos of Luo Ming's childhood with great interest.

To be honest, Luo Ming's appearance has not changed much since he was a child. What has changed is his temperament.

In the beginning, Luo Ming would still pose or smile a bit when taking photos, but since he entered elementary school, Luo Ming's photos always look expressionless.

"Leilei, do you still remember what happened when you first entered elementary school?" Cao Hongying asked with some nostalgia.

Lin Shuwen shook her head.

"I don't remember! I was deeply impressed! It was your third day in elementary school. That afternoon I suddenly received a call from a colleague, saying that something had happened to you and asked me to go to your classroom.

When I rushed over, I saw you standing there with an expressionless face, and next to you was a crying child.

I asked you what happened. You said that this child falsely accused you of stealing his things, and you exposed his lie in public.

I asked your class teacher, and your class teacher said that's what happened, and you still had to be unforgiving and make people cry in front of the whole class.

After this incident, the classmates in the class were a little afraid of you and gradually began to alienate you, so that you didn't have a single friend in five years of elementary school.

I originally thought that this situation would be better in junior high school, but I didn't expect that you would become even more withdrawn in junior high school. You have been a loner for three years in junior high school.

At this time, your dad and I both felt something was wrong, but we wanted to intervene but didn’t know where to start, so we simply decided to give you a try in a different environment. This was one of the reasons why we sent you to the city center. "Lin Shuwen didn't expect Luo Ming to have such a past. Isn't it too much to scold his classmates?

"Mom, what did I say then?"

"I can't remember exactly what you said. I just remember that your class teacher said that you are like a little detective. You start from the fact that you have no criminal motive, and then you gradually induce the child who framed you, and finally let him I admitted that I put the mechanical pencil in your pencil case."

"Is Luo Ming's logical thinking ability so strong when he first entered elementary school? This guy was born to be a programmer!" Lin Shuwen thought in her heart.

"Fortunately, you met Rong Mu when you were in high school, and you had a good relationship with him in college. He is also a lot more cheerful. By the way, speaking of Rong Mu, you have him in your company, right?" Cao Hongying said. Asked a turn.

"Correct."

"This kid Rong Mu is pretty good."

"He's really good."

"Ding ding ding ding~" said Cao Cao. When Lin Shuwen and Cao Hongying were talking about Rong Mu, Rong Mu's phone call came.

Lin Shuwen answered the phone, and Rong Mu's slightly anxious voice came from the receiver: "Er Ming, I just met Bai Qiangwei."

Lin Shuwen was full of questions when she heard this name. The white rose here was obviously not a flower in Rong Mu's context, but should be a person, but she had never heard of this name!

Faced with this situation, Lin Shuwen could only pretend to be calm and reply: "It's just that we bumped into each other!"

"She also invited me to her wedding next month."

Hearing this, Lin Shuwen felt something strange. This person named Bai Qiangwei might be Rong Mu's ex-girlfriend, so Lin Shuwen asked tentatively: "Who is her boyfriend?"

"I don't know, but it should be nice to see her happy."

"Um, so you're going?"

"Go! Why don't you go? It's my first love after all, and half of the white moonlight in my heart. Besides, I'm doing pretty well now! It shouldn't be embarrassing to go."

"I don't care whether you are embarrassed or not. I care more about who your other half is, Bai Yueguang?"

"You know what you're asking, right?"

"You obviously have too many girlfriends, and I can't figure them out right now."

"The one after White Rose."

"Oh, her!" Lin Shuwen wrote it down and planned to ask Luo Ming later.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Lin Shuwen took a look at the backstage of Zhuoguang's official website, which showed 263.75 million downloads.

With such a high number of downloads in 24 hours, it has definitely taken off.

Lin Shuwen immediately called Luo Ming and told Luo Ming the good news.

"There are so many! The Spring Festival Gala is so popular," Luo Ming said excitedly.

"I wonder how much water there is today!"

"Liu Shui wants to check with the server. Let's wait until he goes to Bingzhou in a few days to check again! Or if you really want to know, you can call Rong Mu and ask him to go to the company tomorrow.

Anyway, Rong Mu didn't have a girlfriend, so he didn't have to go visit his future father-in-law in the second year of junior high school. Rong Mu's grandparents had passed away, so he had nowhere to go in the second year of junior high school. "

"Speaking of Rong Mu, Luo Ming, do you know who Rong Mu's Bai Yueguang is?"

"Bai Qiangwei and her bestie!" Luo Ming replied instantly.

"Best friend?"

"You also know about Rong Mu's good looks. There were many girls chasing him when he was in high school. At that time, Rong Mu had not been in love yet.

Rong Mu and Bai Qiangwei got together after the college entrance examination. The two dated for about half a year, and then broke up because of their long-distance relationship.

At this time, Bai Qiangwei's best friend, I don't know her specific name, I have always called this woman best friend, she took advantage of the situation and got together with Rong Mu.

My best friend and Rong Mu dated for half a year, then went to study abroad, and then they broke up.

Maybe it was a bit of a shock, but Rong Mu has changed since then. He changes girlfriends more diligently than I change clothes. By the way, why do you suddenly ask this? "

"Rong Mu told me today"

"Fuck! It's so exciting, why don't we give him a song called "Guest"?"

"A guest song? Can a guest song be used? Shouldn't it be a guest?"

"Um, 'Guest' is a song."

"The "Guest" at the wedding?"

"almost."

"You piqued my interest immediately."

"When I teach Rong Mu, let Rong Mu sing to you. It's not appropriate for me to sing."

"Okay! By the way, didn't you go to the movies with your sister? How did you feel?" Lin Shuwen asked, changing the subject.

"The movie was so rubbish that I regretted coming."

"Who asked you about the movie? I asked you how it felt to watch the movie with my sister?"

"I don't feel it!"

"Really?"

“Realer than real gold!”

Lin Shuwen said "hum" and stopped talking.

She felt a little uncomfortable when she learned that Luo Ming and Lin Shuyue went to the movies together. On New Year's Day, Luo Ming actually went to the movies with another woman, not even her sister!

Luo Ming was not a fool, and he naturally sensed that Lin Shuwen's mood was not right. He cleared his throat and said: "Ahem! Wenwen, watching the movie today was not without gain. The movie your sister and I watched was a comedy. ,this movie."

Luo Ming told Lin Shuwen the whole story.

Lin Shuwen showed a very interested expression after hearing this. It seems that making a movie is not impossible!

Luo Ming's company is getting bigger and bigger. According to Luo Ming's plan, after the release of "Clash of Clans", the layout of big data algorithms will begin.

If it develops smoothly, an APP based on big data algorithms will definitely receive advertising and monetize soon after it is launched.

An APP with a certain size will definitely receive some advertisements from the entertainment industry, such as the promotion of songs and movies, etc. These are resources of the entertainment industry.

If Burning Light has an entertainment department, it can use these resources to successfully enter the entertainment industry, and this movie can serve as a stepping stone for Burning Light's entertainment department to enter the entertainment industry.

(End of this chapter)