Chapter 142: New Script and Tool Man (2-in-1 5200 words)
Wu Dingguo was thoughtful.
Both scripts seemed to him to be a little interesting, but they were ...... to the final result
He thought it might be no fun.
It's not because he's not good enough, but he really hasn't seen this type of film before.
Why is the film category divided by genre? Because that's the tone.
For example, war movies, science fiction films, martial arts films, suspense films and the like.
But what are these two?
"Idol Legend", you say it's a youth idol song and dance film......
It starts with a bit of a suspenseful horror element.
After that, it was made into a zombie movie, and the result was a sand sculpture funny style.
And then I will give you a whole song and dance performance.
And you thought that was the end of it?
It's starting to sensationalize you again.
The sensationalism is over and bloody.
Then there is "Sword Rain Xiaoxiang".
Is this a martial arts movie?
Yes.
But not quite.
There is suspense and reasoning in it, and it looks like a suspenseful reasoning drama dressed in martial arts skin.
But I also gave you the kind of fight of the whole martial arts, and it was specially marked that the special effects must be full.
Happiness and enmity and hatred are fighting swords or something, although there is no theme, but it does have the flavor of "martial arts".
As a result, Shaolin Temple came out with a series of undercover agents again.
The most important thing is that the overall style is extremely sand sculpture.
He really has never seen this type of film.
Or that these two scripts do not belong to a single genre at all.
"Idol Legend" he is not worried.
After all, it was a TV movie shown on a movie channel, and the movie channel didn't care about ratings.
In fact, the movie channel is on the same level as the entire CCTV.
Anyone who understands understands.
What he is worried about is "Sword Rain Xiaoxiang".
It's not that I'm worried that there is a problem with this film, but I'm worried that if the film hits the street, Zhang Hong's self-confidence will be hit.
But obviously, Zhang Hong is quite confident now.
He smiled: "It's okay, this drama will be pounced, it's a big deal, I'll have money if I pick up a few more variety shows." ”
When the time comes, you will be able to continue to make new dramas.
With his talent, he can always succeed if he comes a few more times!
That being said, he was really worried.
After all, he really never hit the streets.
This is the first time to make a movie, if it is so casual......
Wu Dingguo glanced at him deeply, "Since you have already made a decision, then I won't say anything more, and the money will be on your account in the next few days." But how are you going to shoot these two films at the same time?"
"That's easy to say. Zhang Hong smiled slightly, "I have to find a few people first." But before that...... Uncle Wu, do you think this martial arts movie is really no fun?"
"If it's a TV series, it's okay, and I can even say that this script and all kinds of foreshadowing will definitely be interesting to make into a TV series. Wu Dingguo said honestly, "But if it's a movie, the probability of hitting the street is as high as more than ninety percent."
First, your drama has no theme at all. Whether it's a superficial plot theme or something portrayed, you don't have anything in this script.
Second, the style changes too quickly, you must know that movies have a main tone, which is different from TV series and belongs to a hammer deal. So it's impossible to give you the opportunity to change your style back and forth, which is basically equivalent to hitting the street.
If you really want to shoot it, I suggest that you put this film on the movie channel to practice, and that idol film should be released in theaters instead, at least that drama has a theme, and it can echo back and forth. ”
Wu Dingguo is definitely speaking from the perspective of the industry's predecessors.
Zhang Hong was silent.
He actually didn't think the script was bad.
But now after Wu Dingguo said this, it is true that this script seems to have no theme, and a bunch of holes have been dug, which is not suitable for making movies.
Could it be that he really has made several TV series, so his thinking has entered a misunderstanding?
He began to think about his purpose.
What is his purpose in making a movie?
Is it to show your ideas?
Of course not, he's just trying to make money.
According to what Uncle Wu said, if this script is made into a movie, it will be over, and tens of millions of dollars will basically be smashed into it.
So......
Raising his head, he made a decision, "Let's rest first, wait for me for a few hours." ”
He rushed headlong into the makeshift conference room and locked himself inside.
............
A few hours later, he came out of the house.
His face was tired, but full of excitement.
He figured it out!
He carefully thought about the major elements of the movie that Wu Dingguo said, and finally decided to overturn the script.
It's not that he didn't shoot it, but that the script was kept for Li Hua and them to use in the TV series, and he rewrote a set of martial arts scripts himself.
I couldn't wait to print several copies, and then found Wu Dingguo and sent one of them, "How about you take a look at this script again?"
Wu Dingguo and the others glanced at each other, neither of them spoke, and carefully read the script.
Sun Zheng: They are used to it.
After all, this is not the first time that Zhang Hong has overturned the script.
When filming "Mobile Suit" and "Flags of Fathers" before, he overturned his scripts.
It's probably the same this time.
When they opened the script, they found that the names of the works had changed.
"Tired of winning".
That's the new script name.
Wu Dingguo raised his eyebrows, which means...... Costume fantasy drama?
He continued to look back.
At the beginning of the story, it was a major event that affected the entire rivers and lakes.
It turns out that there are demons on the rivers and lakes recently, which seduces people's souls, and people in the world are panicking.
The imperial court sent the protagonist this brocade guard to investigate.
The protagonist then goes to Ningluo Town, where the monster first appeared, to investigate the inside story of the matter.
After arriving in Ningluo Town, he went directly to the local county government to inquire about the county.
The magistrate said that this incident did happen here, and there was a rich man surnamed Ximen in the local area, and he bullied men and women and did all kinds of evil, but because there were people in the imperial court, the county government did not dare to care about him.
But this time he kicked the iron plate.
A few months ago, a Taoist priest came to Ningluo Town.
This Taoist priest quickly accumulated fame by relying on fortune-telling and fishing for copper coins in his oil pot.
Moreover, he was philanthropic and charitable, and most of the local people followed him.
A month earlier, the Simon had seen a beautiful wife and had taken possession of her.
The bitter lord told him to ask for help, so he found a Taoist priest for help.
The Taoist priest said that he knew the art of disgust, and even this technique could be performed without mana.
Just use scissors to cut a small paper figure, and it doesn't matter how rough it is.
Then, as long as you write the name of the target on the paper figure, and then cut off the head of the paper figure with scissors, you will cut off the three souls and seven spirits of the target.
Within seven days, the target would fall ill or even die.
The bitter lord did so, and seven days later, Simon really bleed to death.
This matter was reported and reached the ears of the outer backers of the Simon staff.
He applied to be arrested.
When the bitter lord was caught, he honestly confessed everything.
But when the county government was about to arrest the Taoist priest, the man had long since disappeared.
After learning what happened, the protagonist first asks for the coffin to be opened for an autopsy.
After the coffin is opened, the protagonist investigates it himself.
Although he is a master, after all, the person has been dead for more than a month, and there is no cause of death from the remaining corpses.
It can only be seen that the bones have not been traumatized and that they did not die of poisoning.
The protagonist begins to track down the trail of the Taoist priest.
According to his knowledge, the Taoist priest must have used the technique of aversion to victory in other places.
Sure enough, in a nearby village, he found someone using the paper figure aversion technique to curse others.
But after some investigation, it was revealed that the person who used the technique of aversion to victory was not the Taoist priest.
No Taoist priest has even been to this village.
Here, the technique of aversion is performed by a monk - the protagonist retrieves a stack of white paper, a pair of scissors, a few brushes, and a box of ink from his luggage.
After some fighting, he subdued the monk who wanted to escape.
But no matter how he asked, the monk did not admit that he knew the Taoist priest, and only said that he had learned this method of disgust from his senior brother.
Zhang Hong handed him over to the Yamen, and then continued to follow the clues of the Taoist priest himself.
But the Taoist priest seemed to have completely lost and disappeared into this world.
There was no way, the protagonist had to go back and investigate the matter of the monk's brother.
In this investigation, he found the head of the Faruo Temple.
Faruo Temple is not an ordinary temple, this is a martial arts sect, and it is a particularly strong kind.
The protagonist came to investigate, but they naturally didn't allow it.
But the protagonist is strong, and he broke into the temple and injured the monk.
But because there were too many people on the other side, he ran away.
Now he stabbed the hornet's nest.
Faruo Temple has a very high status in the rivers and lakes, and naturally has many friends.
Black and white then issued a hunt and kill order to the protagonist.
Because he concealed his identity to investigate the case, the protagonist was naturally inconvenient to make a noise, so he had to hide and even kill the offender while continuing to hunt down the monk.
After countless battles along the way, he finally caught up with the monk.
But there are already countless martial arts people in ambush here.
After a bloody battle, although the protagonist was seriously injured, he also managed to kill this group of masters and capture the monk.
After escorting him back to the county office, the protagonist relaxes and begins to recuperate.
But he still has a thorn in his heart.
The Taoist priest in Ningluo Town was no longer seen after this.
Even if the protagonist uses the privilege of Jinyiwei to check, he can't find any trace of that Taoist priest at all, and he doesn't even know if there is such a person.
Within a month, he was summoned back by the imperial court.
The court rewarded him on the grounds that the monk had finally been recruited, and he admitted that he had indeed used the technique of disgust.
He was scheduled to be beheaded three days later.
Before he dies, he wants to see the protagonist one last time.
The protagonist agrees.
When he came to the prison, he saw a monk whose limbs were all over and covered in bruises and was already dying.
When the monk saw him, he smiled and said, "Do you think that if you arrest me, the matter will be over?" They come and go without a trace, each of them will be invisible, and you will never be able to catch them. ”
With that, he laughed three times and died of exhaustion.
Although the protagonist is still worried about the Taoist priest who can't find his whereabouts, he doesn't care much about the monk's words.
He could see that the other party was just a vindictive remark before he died.
I thought that with the death of this monk, things would be in chaos for a while.
But what happened next was completely beyond the protagonist's expectations.
The incident of the method of disgust with victory did not subside, and even the emperor's harem found that some concubines used the method of paper people to curse the queen and the crown prince.
The emperor was furious and ordered a thorough investigation, but he still couldn't find out why.
So the imperial court ordered that if someone in the world made the law of disgust, the person who found it could go to the yamen to check it.
But after a few months, instead of disappearing, the method of disgust with victory has intensified, and people almost everywhere in the world curse others with the method of disgust.
The thorn in the protagonist's heart is getting deeper and deeper, so he applies to continue tracking down the Taoist.
The court agreed.
This time, he went directly to the Horoji Temple, and after intimidating the monks by force, he finally asked for a useful message from the mouth of the abbot.
In fact, this method of aversion to victory was not invented by Horuosa Temple.
This was invented by a Taoist temple next door to them called Magnolia Temple, and then improved by their Faruo Temple.
Because they are in the same mountain range, the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism compete fiercely for incense.
Magnolia view of incense is not as prosperous as Faruo Temple, so a rumor was made up that the monks of Faruo Temple are good at using demon methods, and they will make spells to absorb the essence of pilgrims.
Faruo Temple simply calculated and further invented the art of paper figurines to win, and sold them.
Because they say it is a temple, it is actually a Jianghu sect.
Therefore, after the paper figurines are sold to pilgrims, they will quietly remove the target after writing the name of the person they want to curse, so as to prove the authenticity of the art of disgust.
After a long time, the incense of Faruo Temple has become more prosperous.
As for the art of saying that paper people are tired of winning...... In this world, there is naturally no way to be tired of winning.
The protagonist hurriedly went to the Taoist temple next door to check.
After some physical persuasion, the Taoist temple allowed him to view the materials.
But they insist they don't know anything about the trick of vanity.
Then the protagonist had a flash of inspiration and went to check the identity of the Taoist priest.
Then he discovered something.
The county magistrate of the county where Ningluo Town is located is a Taoist priest who came down from this magnolia view!
A flash of inspiration flashed, and the protagonist returned to Ningluo Town, and went straight to find the county order.
When he arrived, he found that the prefectural magistrate had been staying at home all day, as if he had been waiting for him for a long time.
After some fighting, the county commander was seriously injured.
As he lay dying, he told the whole truth.
It turned out that there were no Taoist priests at all.
It's just that he has long been unhappy with the West Gate who bullies men and women, but because of the existence of the West Gatekeeper behind him, he is helpless against him.
Chivalry is forbidden by martial arts, and as a county commander, it is naturally impossible for him to rely on martial arts to kill people - and he doesn't want to give up his official body that he finally obtained through the imperial examination.
So he borrowed the "technique of disgust with victory" that he had heard others mention when he was at the Taoist temple, and disguised himself as an old Taoist priest to plan this murder.
So he was killed.
The protagonist lets him go, and has no intention of reporting the matter.
Because when it all came together, he discovered something terrible.
This "case of disgust with victory" has no source or culprit.
Or rather, those don't matter anymore.
After the court personally went down to express a strong blow to the aversion to victory, the "art of aversion to victory" has spread all over the world.
It seems to have become a tool, or it has really become a "spell".
If at the beginning, the people were only suspicious and fearful of this matter, then after the imperial court began to clean up in earnest, things were out of control.
Ordinary people have cultivated "spells" that they have not learned before.
For example, Zhang San had a grudge against Li Si, so he prepared a paper figure with his name written on it and scissors to bury it in the corner of Li Si's house in advance, and then went to the government to report it......
Li Si owed Zhang San the silver and didn't pay it back, Zhang San came to collect debts every day and scolded and scolded, Li Si was resentful, and he also framed Zhang San with one hand......
In this world, ordinary people who don't know martial arts seem to have suddenly learned "spells".
For those who are oppressed, "spells" provide them with a chance for revenge.
For those who are afraid of being harmed, "spells" provide them with a shield.
For those who are not right-minded, "spells" provide them with rewards.
The protagonist suddenly soaked his back shirt in a cold sweat.
Because he finally understood that in this dynasty where power and advanced martial arts are untouchable for ordinary people, it seems that it has become a ...... "art of disgust" that everyone can practice by reporting the "art of aversion to victory" to slander others in order to achieve their own goals.
............
Closing the script, Governor Wu Ding breathed a sigh of relief.
He lit a cigarette and smoked silently.
After a while, after everyone else finished reading it, everyone was silent and didn't speak, as if they were still immersed in the script.
Zhang Hong's face was full of anticipation, "How is the script this time?"
Isn't it going to be deep?
There you have it!
To be suspenseful, to have suspense, to fight, to fight, to have a story, to have a story, to have depth!
And the story is complete, echoing before and after!
This is a script written by him with reference to the witch hunting in the medieval West in his previous life and the "soul calling case" of "My Great Qing Dynasty"!
After smoking a cigarette, Wu Dingguo pressed it out in the ashtray, looked up and said, "This script...... Very good. ”
Lin Muqing's eyes were about to be filled with Zhang Hong.
Zhang Hong's talent no longer needs any superfluous words to describe it.
Liu Sun and the two glanced at each other, wanting to say something but didn't say anything.
Zhang Hong smiled slightly: "Uncle Liu, Uncle Sun, can you help me with this drama again?"
Liu Yishou and Sun Zheng nodded, and Quan should have agreed.
They've been fine lately, and they're ......
And Zhang Hong actually saw that these two also had some ideas about the movie, but they were embarrassed to speak.
Then he directly invited the two to continue to be assistant directors - mainly because it felt good to work together before, and he basically didn't do anything to make a TV series.
The cast team can roughly use the same set of people, and the crew of Liu Yishou and Sun Zheng will go into battle together!
plus Zhang Hong's own team.
The three teams worked together to make two movies, and he felt that there was no problem!
You must know that counting himself and Uncle Liu and Uncle Sun, the sum of them can be said to be two-thirds of the current TV drama industry.
At this level, the director and crew team are still three-in-one, plus the picture in his head, as long as this movie can achieve the effect he wants, it will definitely not be much worse.
But the first part is to find a few tool people first.
He already has a goal.
............
In a high-end community in Shanghai, Li Xinran sat expressionlessly in the living room watching TV.
On TV, "Zhang Hong VS Li Xinran" was edited by others, and it was the competition between the two of them on that variety show.
Of course, the result was a complete defeat for Li Xinran.
With so many songs, he didn't win once.
Li Xinran watched and listened to it over and over again, listening to Zhang Hong's songs, and then listening to his own songs.
After a long time, he sighed and turned off the TV.
There is no comparison.
Although he was very unconvinced, it was really incomparable.
His agent sighed: "What, still feel unconvinced?"
"I'm definitely not convinced, if I'm convinced, then how can I improve?" Li Xinran retorted, and then fell again, "But his songs...... It's really better than me. ”
The agent tried to persuade again, but the mobile phone suddenly rang.
He answered the phone.
Then he didn't say a word, he covered the microphone of his mobile phone, and said softly to Li Xinran, who showed an inquiring look, "It's Teacher Zhang Hong who called." ”
Li Xinran's eyes widened.
PS: The previously scrapped scripts will be used to shoot TV series in the future (maybe not the protagonist himself).
Two in one, slept... (?? 3[▓▓]