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It took an afternoon for Chen Xin to read all of Liu Cixin's short and novel novels.

From "Whale Song", "Micro Era", "Poetry Cloud", "Mirror" to "The Wandering Earth", "Supporting God", "Rural Teacher", "Chinese Sun"...almost every work has Liu The dramatic contrast between his unique magnificence and the lonely choice of a weak life is extremely shocking and appealing, making his works extremely heavy to read.

No wonder some people commented that this unattractive man who lives in a third-tier city has spent more than ten years "single-handedly raising Chinese science fiction to a world-class level" by himself.

Chen Xin felt that this kind of praise was not an exaggeration at all, and he also found that Liu Cixin was particularly good at transforming abstract scientific descriptions into grand scenes. With a strong sense of picture, it is very suitable for adaptation into a science fiction movie.

The only strange thing is that over the years, no Chinese director has adapted his works.

China has world-class sci-fi writers, but it is unable to produce a sci-fi film above the standard. This is not so much Liu Cixin's regret as it is the sorrow of Chinese filmmakers.

Chen Xin didn't bother to think about these unappetizing things. After some careful consideration, he picked two out of the dozen novelettes and short stories. The script he needed should be one of these two. .

The first one is "Country Teacher". This novel is very famous. There are rumors that the horse racing galloping film industry in the capital has bought the adaptation rights of this work, and it has been filed with the GD General Administration. As for when to invest in filming, who knows? It's hard to say.

"Rural Teacher" tells the story of a rural teacher with terminal cancer in a poverty-stricken area who taught only a few students in the village and finally fell down on the podium.

And tens of thousands of light-years away, an interstellar war that lasted more than 2 years has also come to an end.In order to prevent the silicon-based empire from continuing its leapfrog invasion through the stars, the carbon-based civilization decided to establish a five hundred light-year blank isolation zone, which would destroy all the stars in it.

In order to avoid accidental damage to the living planet that has evolved advanced civilization, the carbon-based civilization randomly selects intelligent creatures in the living planet to ask questions, so as to choose whether to destroy the planet.

The few students led by the rural teacher were randomly selected as representatives of the earth. They answered the questions correctly according to Newton's three laws taught by the teacher before his death, thus saving the solar system from disaster.

Later, after the carbon-based civilization spacecraft came to observe closely, it was discovered that the earth civilization was far from the 3c civilization they estimated, but had evolved to the 5b level.

They found that the information between the individuals of the earth civilization is only communicated through the vocal cords, and the information transmission rate is one to ten bits per second, and the individual civilizations cannot carry out memory inheritance. There is an individual called a teacher inside them, which acts as the knowledge between two generations of life forms. The medium of communication...

"Country Teacher" is undoubtedly a very strange science fiction novel. The first half can be said to be a documentary literature about basic education in poor areas of China, and the addition of aliens in the second half makes the whole novel suddenly ethereal, especially at the end. The profession of teachers is explained in the language of science fiction, which is very appealing.

The other one is "Bring Her Eyes", which is Liu Cixin's early work and was published in 1999.

His novels have always been known for their grandeur, but this work makes people feel another kind of graceful and poignant beauty, where weak tenderness props up a huge steel machine.Chen Xin remembered that he had read this novel a long time ago and was deeply moved. He picked it up again after a few years and was still deeply involved in it.

The protagonist of the novel is an engineer at a space center. When he was about to take a vacation, the director asked him to wear a pair of glasses.

Eyes are a pair of sensing glasses. When you wear them, everything you see, smell, and touch is emitted by ultra-high frequency information waves, which can be detected by another wearing the same sensing glasses in the distance. The person receiving it, so she can feel everything you feel.Since more and more people work in the moon and the asteroid belt, the cost of returning to the earth for vacation is very high, so people invented such a thing, and some lucky people who can really go back to the earth for vacation will bring this pair of eyes, so that Those homesick people in outer space share their happiness together.

This time the owner of the eye was a young girl.During the trip, the girl Lin Daiyu's sentimentality and nostalgia for all the ordinary and beautiful things in the world made the protagonist quite impatient, but unconsciously taught the protagonist some inexplicable things.Inadvertently, the protagonist finds that certain senses that have been blunted by the fast-paced modern life are sharpened again.

This trip planted a seed deep in the protagonist's heart and changed the protagonist's views on many things. After a long time, he realized that the girl turned out to be the navigator of "Sunset Six".

The "Sunset" series of spaceships are spaceships for human beings to explore the inner structure of the earth. "Sunset [-]" had an accident during the voyage of the mantle and sank into the center of the earth. The crew members on the spaceship could not bear the blow and died one by one. The girl is alone, and she will spend the rest of her life in the closed core of the earth.And that monotonous journey turned out to be the last surface world she saw...

There is no doubt that these two novels are excellent, and the shooting difficulty is relatively simple, which are very suitable for Chen Xin to practice.

There are not many scenes in "Country Teacher", just a dilapidated classroom. Chen Xin just needs to get the interaction between the teacher and the children done. The scenes such as the alien interstellar war can be completely handled by steel.

As for "Bring Her Eyes", there are only three characters in it, the director, the hero, and the heroine, and the plot is so simple that you don't even need a script, you just need to film it according to the progress of the novel.

Chen Xin listed the advantages and disadvantages of the two novels one by one, and after thinking twice, he still crossed out "Country Teacher".

It's not that "Country Teacher" is not good enough, it's just that "Bring Her Eyes" is more suitable for micro movies in comparison.

The theme of "Country Teacher" is much more complicated than that of "Take Her Eyes". Chen Xin cannot guarantee that he will be able to express some of the thoughts in it, and the grand interstellar war scenes in "Country Teacher" are more suitable for large audiences. On the screen, making micro movies is too wasteful.

"Bring Her Eyes" does not have this problem. The overall structure of the novel is simple, the plot is concise, and the theme is profound. As long as the heroine's emotions are expressed, the film is half successful.

Moreover, the length of this novel is not long, and it can just be adapted into a micro-movie of about 10 minutes, which is almost tailor-made for Chen Xin.

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Chen Xin was sweating profusely, carrying a box of metal products upstairs. As soon as he entered the house, Gang Yan came up to him with a glass of water in his hands, and shouted: "Old man, you have worked hard, come, let's have a drink first." water."

Chen Xin took the cup, poured the water down in one gulp, and sat down on the sofa panting for breath.

Gang Bian turned around and pounced into the box for a long time, found a steel ingot, cut a small piece of it with his hands like cutting tofu, stuffed it into his mouth, and it was delicious.

Chen Xin picked up a magazine on the sofa and fanned it. Feeling unsatisfactory, he shouted, "Gangyi, don't rush to eat, hurry up and sweat for me."

"Wait a minute, it will be ready soon." The steel hammer stuffed a few more mouthfuls, and then jumped up from the coffee table, suspended in mid-air, and the parts of the whole body melted, decomposed and reassembled like mercury, and quickly became A three-bladed propeller.

The propeller was silver-white, without any visible drive, but it turned silently. The cool wind blew slowly, and Chen Xin breathed a sigh of relief.

In order to make this micro movie, Chen Xin purchased several boxes of beer and instant noodles from the supermarket, bought a bunch of sausages, eggs, vegetables and fruits, and stuffed the refrigerator to the brim.Then I went to the Eastern Suburb Warehouse twice to bring enough metal food for the steel penny to last for half a month.

"Okay, ready to start work." After resting for a while, Chen Xin took out a coin from his pocket and threw it to the steel coin. Ass behind into the room.

Chen Xin didn't have any experience in making cg movies, but fortunately, other people's experience didn't work for the special combination of him and Gang Bian.

So Chen Xin didn't bother to look for strategies or anything, he simply followed his own ideas.

First of all, we need to make a sub-shot script. This step is very critical. Gang Yan is responsible for the outline, and Chen Xin is responsible for supplementing, so as to prevent the deviation of Gang Yan's thinking.

Gang Bian had already read the novel several times. After taking over the computer, it first built the first scene on the screen according to its own understanding of the novel.

Chen Xin kept putting forward some of his own opinions and suggestions through the microphone. The two cooperated tacitly, and the scenes on the screen gradually became fuller. Then Chen Xin asked Gang Bing to write notes on the blank parts, such as the dialogues of the characters in it, Music sound effects etc.

Soon, the first act of the storyboard was completed, and Chen Xin directly printed it out with a color printer.

Then came the second act...

The shot script took more than three hours to complete, and it contained rich pictures and text, and the content was detailed.Even a layman like Chen Xin can basically simulate the scenes in the movie from his mind just by reading the script.

If other directors saw it, they would be stunned.

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