Entertainment: God-level director

“Why did Brother Ran start playing in a band?”

“Wow, Brother Ran who plays the drums is so handsome!”

“Stop playing and go make a movie!”

“I’m just counting my fingers and I think Ran’s next movie may be related to this photo.”

After Lin Ran uploaded the photo to Weibo, it quickly aroused a large number of comments from fans, and some people really guessed his intentions.

However, Lin Ran did not respond to this.

What’s funny is that it didn’t take long for Wang Ziwen to Lin Ran called and said that because of this photo of him playing drums, Mango Channel came to visit him. Mango Channel was preparing a band variety show. When he saw Lin Ran posting this photo of him playing drums, he took the opportunity to invite He served as a judge and offered the highest salary to a domestic star.

Lin Ran was dumbfounded. He had no intention of participating in a music variety show.

Not to mention a music variety show, Zhejiang TV had also offered sky-high salary invitations before. He went to be a judge on an acting show, but in the end he refused due to time issues.

Precisely because Lin Ran had not yet participated in a regular variety show, several major domestic TV stations and video websites wanted to invite Lin Ran. Each one of them offered a sky-high price, hoping to win Lin Ran’s regular variety show debut.

After another day in the United States, Lin Ran flew back to the country.

After the National Day, Lin Ran came to Nortel as agreed, Take the second class.

Compared with the first class, Nortel chose a larger lecture theater for the second class, but it was still full.

Not only the directing department, the literature department, but also many students from the acting department Everyone came to listen to the lecture and wanted to learn from Lin Ran how to write a good script.

In today’s era where word of mouth is king, scripts are becoming more and more important. Without a good script, how can a good work be produced? Come

“There are more people today than last time, so I feel relieved. Lin

Ran walked into the classroom and saw a mass of black heads, and said with a smile.

There was a burst of laughter from the students in the audience.

“Next we start the class.”

After a few jokes, Lin Ran said seriously.

As soon as he finished speaking, the whole classroom suddenly became quiet. Everyone sat up straight, waiting to listen to Lin Ran’s lecture.

Lin Ran picked up a piece of chalk and wrote Chinese characters on the blackboard. Write down the words”Midas formula”

“Does anyone know Midas?”

After finishing writing, Lin Ran looked at the students in the audience and asked with a smile.

“Midas?”

“Who is Midas? A famous screenwriter?”

“Quickly search on Baidu.”

Many students in the audience shook their heads. They had never heard of Midas.

While others were whispering or busy Baidu, Lin Ran saw a girl in the front row weakly raise her hand, and turned to her Said:”The student who raised his hand, it’s up to you to tell everyone the answer.”

This girl has an average appearance and seems to be a little introverted. When she faced the gazes of Lin Ran and the whole class, her face turned slightly red and her voice was weak.

“Teacher Lin, Midas is the Phrygian kingdom in Greek mythology. He loved wealth and asked God to give him the magic of turning objects into gold. God fulfilled his wish, and his final beloved daughter and food were also given to him by his guidance. Come and turn into gold”

“This classmate, you gave a very good answer. Midas represents the Midas touch that turns stone into gold.”

Lin Ran praised without hesitation.

The girl who received the compliment sat back down with excitement, and her self-confidence improved a lot.

“In Hollywood, there is a script formula that turns stone into gold. In recent years, there have been more and more Hollywood blockbusters, the global box office is getting higher and higher, and there are more and more movies that exceed one billion US dollars.

Hollywood has summed up a set of formulas for these movies that grossed more than a billion dollars, and this formula is called the Midas formula. Lin

Ran said with a smile.

This was the first time for the students in the audience to hear the Midas formula. Most of them quickly picked up their pens and looked at Lin Ran on the stage without blinking, just like in a martial arts novel, waiting for The disciples who are taught the secret knowledge by their master

“The Midas formula includes a total of nine elements. The first movie must be adapted from fairy tales, comics, animations, and best-selling novels. Lin

Ran paused deliberately, looked at the students in the audience and asked,”Now I want to ask everyone, why is this so important?” In addition, let’s talk about whether there are any comics or novels in China that are suitable for making blockbusters?”

The students in the audience raised their hands in an uproar. This question is easy to answer. After all, there have not been too many film and television dramas adapted from IP in recent years.

“Because comics and best-selling novels have huge fan bases. For example,”Harry Potter” has thousands of enthusiastic fans, and these fans have spending power that cannot be underestimated.

If these works are put on the big screen, fans will go to the cinema to support them. As long as the quality of the movie is not too bad, it will definitely be a hit at the box office. For example,”Ghost Blowing the Lamp” has a box office of 1.6 billion.

Our domestic works that are suitable for adaptation into blockbusters include”Zhu Xian”,”Ghost Blowing the Lamp”,”The Three-Body Problem” and so on.”

A student who was pointed out by Lin Ran stood up and replied.

Lin Ran smiled and nodded:”That’s right. Commercial blockbusters are very expensive and risky. If a blockbuster fails, the company may go bankrupt. There are many such examples in Hollywood.

Therefore, Hollywood will be very cautious when investing in blockbusters, and adapted works have a fan base and are much less risky. This is also the reason why there have been more and more adaptations and remakes of Hollywood movies in recent years. The classmate just mentioned”The Three-Body Problem” 》The copyright has been bought from the market at a high price by Ranmeng Pictures. In the next few years, this novel will definitely be put on the big screen, and everyone here may be able to participate in it.”

“Damn it, the copyright of”The Three-Body Problem” is now in Brother Ran’s hands?”

“I’m so looking forward to it, only Brother Ran in China can shoot it well!”

Many people present were fans of”The Three-Body Problem” and suddenly became excited.

《Because the world view of”The Three-Body Problem” is too grand, if this novel is handed over to other film and television companies, it is very likely to be poorly made.

In fact, the movie”The Three-Body Problem” was actually made a few years ago. Fortunately, a big boss was a fan of the novel and expressed dissatisfaction after watching the movie internally, so the movie was not released to make money. Otherwise,” The big IP”Three-Body Problem” will be destroyed.

Ranmeng Pictures paid a high price to buy the film rights for ten years from the other party.

Lin Ran smiled, pressed his hands, and continued after the audience calmed down:”Let’s go back to the Midas formula. The second clause of the formula is that the movie should have children or teenagers as the protagonist.

Third, the movie must have The story has a fairy tale-like framework. The protagonist is originally a weak young man. After going through hardships and changes, he finally finds his direction in life and becomes a powerful hero.

Then my question comes again. Why should the protagonist be a child or teenager? Why should it be like a fairy tale? What about the story structure?”

“In the United States, teenagers are the main movie-watching group and the main force at the box office. The most important time of year is the summer time, because students are on vacation and have a lot of time to watch movies.”

A student stood up to answer.

Lin Ran was very satisfied with the answer and said with a smile:”This classmate is very right. Let me give you statistics from last year. North American audiences under the age of 18 accounted for the total number of moviegoers. 23% of the total, while young people aged 18-24 account for 22%. The combined number of moviegoers for the two reaches 45%. If you capture these two groups, you will capture nearly half of the audience.

Now my question comes again. Which age group is the main audience in China? Is it different from that in the United States?”

“It should be bigger than the United States”

“Yes, there should be very few domestic audiences under the age of 18. Most of them go to the cinema to watch movies after they go to college.”

“It was only after I entered college that I went to the cinema to watch a movie for the first time.”

The students in the audience chirped back.

“What everyone said is generally correct. The age of movie audiences in China is indeed older than that in the United States. However, you only confirm it based on your feelings instead of solid data support. This is very bad.

Some of the students here are studying directing, producing, and screenwriting. They will definitely make their own movies in the future, but if you don’t even know the most basic questions like who is the audience, how much is it, and what do they like? I know, so how can you make a commercial movie that is popular with the audience?

Why did Chinese commercial films fail to take off for a long time? It is because most of our domestic directors have never really considered the tastes and feelings of the audience. They have no idea what the audience wants to see, so they just shoot according to their own preferences. It is strange that the audience will be satisfied.”

Lin Ran was a little dissatisfied with the answers of the students in the audience, and his tone became more serious.

He hoped to use this method to influence these new directors who have not yet entered the industry to stop going astray.

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