In September, the National Day file is coming soon, and the strong competitors of the three National Day files, "The Legend of the White Snake", "Painted Wall", and "Xinhai Revolution", have begun to publicize.

And many of the movies in the Chinese New Year file, "The Legend of the Hongmen Banquet", "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", "The Great Magician", and "Counter War" have basically ended post-production and are waiting to be released.

Cheng Long and Li Lianjie are going to compete in the National Day file, Xu Ke and Zhang Yimou, the two famous directors, will also have to win or lose in the New Year file.

There are also Li Ming, Jay Chou, Zhou Xun, Liu Yufei, Deng Chao, Xie Tingfeng and other first-line stars, and the competition is not small.

Although Li Qian and Ma Xiaogang did not participate in the competition for this year's Chinese New Year, only "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" on Double 11 and "The Adventures of Li Xianji" starring Liu Ye and Zhou Xun made the pressure on the two famous directors much less.

However, they have long lost the ambition they had half a year ago, and they really have a sense of powerlessness in the face of the 1.6 billion box office of "I Am Not the God of Medicine" and the unprecedented social influence of promoting medical reform.

The new picture of Jianguomen Street, Zhang Yimou, who has been busy with the later stage of the movie, is pulling the film of "I Am Not the God of Medicine" in the computer room.

In the past, Zhang Yimou rarely studied commercial films in depth, which was not the same way as him, and he didn't need to make commercial films, he only needed to put on the skin of commercial films, mainly talking about the core of literary films, and still succeed at the box office.

However, in recent years, this method has suddenly stopped working, and the audience has not bought it.

If it is an ordinary commercial film, Zhang Yimou may not be able to watch it, but "I Am Not the God of Medicine" is commercial and influential, which no director can ignore.

No matter how much you don't admit it, the reality is in front of you.

The movie has been watched twice before, the overall structure is simple, flat and straightforward, and the three-act style is common to Hollywood, and any film director can see it at a glance.

While pulling the piece, Zhang Yimou was also memorizing things on the paper.

According to the timecode, the corresponding content and conflict, the corresponding structural arrangement, and the corresponding character relationship, in order to find out the logic and ideas of the script creation of "I Am Not the God of Medicine", the fundamental reason for the success.

However, after spending a few hours and finishing the film, Zhang Yimou found that it was still as simple as it seemed.

In the first nine minutes, the protagonist's personal contradictions, family contradictions123, and external contradictions are constructed, pointing to the fundamental contradiction of lack of money.

The state and image of the protagonist are constructed, and through these contradictions and conflicts faced by Cheng Yong, the temperament of the character when he appears is provided, and the image of a decadent, depressed and incompetent wastewood character.

The rest is a logical thing, the situation has become serious and turned around, and the content and organization have developed from the previous five contradictions.

Then, after the turnaround, the attempt failed, and another important role was introduced, and the initial results were achieved.

Then the preliminary results went to the peak, and there was a crisis again, and the choice of the hero Cheng Yong.

Grow, change, choose again.

and the 13-minute ultimate shaping of Cheng Yong, and the final 11 minutes of the ultimate shaping of themes and emotions, these 25 minutes constitute the climax of the whole film.

It took more than half a day to analyze a pull tab that was close to 10,000 words.

However, after reading what he wrote twice from beginning to end, Zhang Yimou's brows furrowed even more.

It's so simple that it's not an exaggeration to say it's unremarkable.

Even in the climax, the medical representative as the villain put pressure on the police + the police's escalating arrest + the desperate request of the patient's old aunt during the arrest + Zhang Changlin's treacherous but thought-provoking transformation + Huang Mao shaved his head and finally chose to protect Cheng Yong's hope to protect the patients with his life after returning home + The change of the brother-in-law police as a law enforcer in the process + The external Yindu Pharmaceutical Factory had to close due to a lawsuit, and only the pharmacy had medicine to buy.

A series of foreshadowing, in all of the above processes, Cheng Yong not only did not fear to stop, but strengthened his determination to do this at the juncture of more crises and losses wave after wave, Zhang Yimou still felt that there was nothing particularly clever about telling the truth.

Simple and straightforward, this story is told too clearly and clearly, step by step, it is so straightforward that Zhang Yimou can review the movie now.

Zhang Yimou shook his head, this kind of logical and natural storytelling is not his style.

Since "Hero", in order to adapt to commercialization, his films have changed from symbolism to formalism.

It's like walking a 100-meter road, Li Qian walks forward step by step, only occasionally sprinting to go faster, while he takes two steps and jumps a big step, walks two steps and runs again, and even flips and fights.

Zhang Yimou couldn't accept that the success of "I Am Not the God of Medicine" came from this simple, unpretentious narrative style, which was like a lot of people scolding him for not being able to tell stories.

In the end, Zhang Yimou still attributed the reason to the sensitive topic of people's livelihood called medicine, which touched the audience and won with the sad card.

Shaking his head, Zhang Yimou got up and came out of the computer room, turned around and walked towards Zhang Weiping's office.

However, just as he was about to knock on the door and enter, the office door opened, and Ni Ni came out of it with a look of grievance and anger.

“???”

Zhang Yimou subconsciously glanced at Ni Ni's clothes, which were very neat.

"Director Zhang. Ni Ni saw Zhang Yimou and hurriedly stopped to say hello.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Yimou wondered.

"Zhang Dong asked me... Let me write an autobiography since I made the film. ”

"Write an autobiography. ”

"But..."Ni Ni was a little embarrassed, "but let me focus on depicting the clip of the bed scene with Bell, and... Also ......."

Zhang Yimou's face turned dark, originally there was no bed scene between Ni Ni and Bell in his script, which Zhang Weiping repeatedly requested.

It's not the first time, which film Zhang Weiping didn't have self-righteous fingering, and Zhang Yimou endured it, but the scale was not much.

It's good now, what kind of autobiography is this, it is clear whether it is to be promoted with meat play, or whether it is written by the little girl herself.

"Go ahead. ”

Zhang Yimou sighed, waved his hand, and entered the office.

"Ah, this is all for publicity, just to write an autobiography, she doesn't want to write it, I'll find someone to write it. Zhang Weiping took it lightly, and then said, "After studying "I Am Not the God of Medicine" for a day, did you find anything?"

"The story is well told, very complete, plus playing the emotional card, the subject matter, let's put it together. Zhang Yimou shook his head.

"I just said it, that film is average, mainly because the subject matter is popular. ”

Zhang Weiping said disapprerovingly, "It's the same as "Tangshan Earthquake", this time our "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" has both soldiers who resisted to the death after the city was broken, and women at the bottom of the society who gave up their egos for the sake of the students and sacrificed resolutely, which one is not more touching than them!"

The big hit of "I Am Not the God of Medicine" made Zhang Weiping more confident in "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling".

Playing the emotional card and selling tears is so useful, not to mention 1.6 billion or 1.3 billion, no matter what, it has to break one billion, plus Bell can also sell overseas copyrights, and he can finally make a profit.

"By the way, Minsheng Bank has confirmed that it will invest 60 million to issue movie tickets to credit card users, and pick up 60 million box office for nothing. Zhang Weiping told another piece of good news.

......

Many people think that the biggest success of "I Am Not the God of Medicine" is that it chose the right theme and earned the tears of the audience, so that major companies are considering whether to shoot realistic themes as well.

Xu Ke, who also finished the later stage of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", is talking about a new movie with Song Ge.

"Outwitting Tiger Mountain" tells the story of the main theme in the form of a commercial blockbuster, which will indeed be very selling. Song Ge nodded, agreeing with Xu Ke's idea.

"I Am Not the God of Medicine" is not to use the technique of a commercial film to tell a story with a realistic theme, which has the same effect.

"By the way, Song Dong, you have cooperated with Li Qian before, what kind of person is he?"

Xu Ke didn't talk much about the new film they worked on, and instead asked about Li Qianlai, his face full of curiosity.

"Him. ”

Song Ge thought for a while and said with a smile, "Like Director Xu, a genius director, he never knows what his next idea is, I have a hunch that his next movie will still surprise everyone." ”

Xu Ke was slightly stunned, and then laughed, "Genius is indeed the most suitable word to describe him, but unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to meet him to discuss it." ”

......

In the entire film industry, I don't know how many people are talking about Li Qian, talking about his films, and speculating about his new films.

As they wished, Li Qian was already doing it.

When preparing the script at home, Tong Liya pestered Li Qian to tell her the story.

"Thirty years ago, a film and television company adopted a baby, and they deliberately groomed him to become the protagonist of the world's most popular non-fiction reality show, Truman's World. ”

Tong Liya interjected, "30 years ago, it was the 80s, and there was no such program on TV at that time." ”

"As a parallel time and space, just weaken the background, it has nothing to do with reality. ”

Li Qian explained, and then said, "The film and television company has turned a large island into a small city, this small city is the recording studio of the show, and the hero Truman is a salesman in this small city, who seems to live exactly the same life as ordinary people, but he doesn't know that there are thousands of cameras pointed at him every second of his life, and the whole world is watching him all the time, and he doesn't know that everyone around him, including his wife and friends, is an actor in the show "Truman's World". ”

"Turn a city into a studio, everyone is an actor, but won't Truman find out when he watches TV?" Tong Liya was puzzled.

"Smack!"

Li Qian slapped Tong Liya's smooth leg and said angrily, "Don't interject, listen to me carefully, you don't listen carefully when you read before." ”

Tong Liya rubbed her red legs, took Li Qian's arm and rubbed it against him, and said pitifully, "Then you can talk about it, Teacher Li." ”

This delicate sound of Teacher Li almost made Li Qian's heart ripple, and he almost made up a "teacher's student's..."

"Be serious. ”

Li Qian coughed lightly, looked at Tong Liya's own handprint on her leg, and reached out to help her gently grind it.

"Although the show "Truman's World" is popular all over the world, there is no information about this on the island, including TV, news, and newspapers, which is covered up, and Truman grew up, reads, falls in love, and gets married on the island, and even his wife is an actor in the show..."

"Teacher Li, I have a problem. Tong Liya raised a hand with a well-behaved face. "Everyone is an actor, including his wife, he doesn't know, so do he and his wife want that, and they were also filmed on the air?"

"Yes, but I turn off the lights when I go to bed. ”

Tong Liya looked disgusted, "Then the actress is also willing? And don't you turn off the lights? Don't you like to turn off the lights, and there is a voice? This can also be broadcast?"

Li Qian shrugged, "Just pinch it off when you sleep, broadcast commercials, and other than that, the program is broadcast 24 hours a day." ”

"That's it, but it's too difficult for an actress to play the wife of a person she doesn't like 24 hours a day, and she has to sleep with her. Tong Liya still felt a little outrageous.