In the living room on the first floor of the villa, the two stared at each other, and after five minutes, Oliver's face collapsed, "Just take a look, if the third play is repaid, our film company will become a joke!"

Chen Dahe first silently praised himself, and then pursed his lips and thought about it, there seems to be an unwritten rule in Hollywood, three failures in a row will be abandoned, this is also applicable to stars, directors, well-known screenwriters and even small-scale film companies, even if it is the eight, if there are three films in a row to lose money, and then the difficulty of financing will increase countless times, and now this small film company that he doesn't even know the name of the company naturally can't escape this rule.

It's not terrible to lose money, but it would be a bit bad to have those theaters boycott the studio's work.

However, Chen Dahe looked down at the two big cardboard boxes under his feet, and it was a headache to think about picking out a good story from one hundred and seventy or eighty scripts.

With his hands on his hips and a few steps back and forth with his head down, Chen Dahe suddenly stretched out his right hand and made a comparison to Oliver.

"I'd give you two suggestions, would you like to hear them?"

"Yes," Oliver nodded like a chicken pecking rice, but his face was still a little unwilling, "Are there only two, do you want to have more than a few more?!"

Chen Dahe glared at her with black lines, but when he didn't hear it, he casually took out a script from the cardboard box, then found a pen, wrote and crossed out in the blank space on the back of the script, and said, "The first suggestion is to teach you a set of invincible commercial film formulas, as long as you follow this formula, the movie you make will not lose money even if you can't make a lot of money." ”

He didn't dare to mention literary films, because that thing is not something that normal people can understand, but fortunately, he and Oliver are not literary fans.

"Formula?" Oliver curiously leaned over to look at the paper, only to see a few phrases.

"Do you know Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces"?" Chen Dahe said without raising his head, asking himself, "According to the research of mythologist Campbell, whether it is magic, Hollywood movies, or best-selling comics, there is a common code, as long as you master this code, you can unleash infinite creativity and create fascinating works, and this code has actually existed for a long time, from hundreds of thousands of years ago to the present. ”

Although at this time some people in Hollywood have begun to pay attention to the content of this masterpiece, but there are not many studies that have been carried out and linked to the creation of film and television works, to say that the highest achievement is the father of Star Wars Lucas, in fact, he has always had such a story in his mind before, but he didn't know how to write it, and he tried many times without success, until he later read this book of heroes with a thousand faces, and was inspired by it, so that the classic film Star Wars produced in 77 years was born, and he also said in public many times that Campbell is his master Yoda, that is, the leader。

It just so happens that Hollywood's research on commercial films is still in its infancy, and there is no shadow of the formula summary of later commercial films, so Chen Dahe can logically use the things in the online post bar in later generations as his own to prevaricate Oliver.

"What code?" Oliver's eyes began to light up, she had indeed read the book of Heroes with a Thousand Faces, but she didn't associate it with the movie.

"An ordinary person, a journey from the known world to the unknown world, after a series of small tribulations, faced an ultimate test, and finally he overcame this test and completed the transformation from a small person to a big hero," Chen Dahe said, pointing to a few phrases on the manuscript paper, "Departure, enlightenment, test, Return, these four stages are the only way for every hero, put it in the movie, it is the process that the protagonist must go through, if the time of a film is regarded as a whole, the distribution of these four stages can be configured in the following proportions, 15 percent, 30 percent, 40 percent, 15 percent, the amplitude can fluctuate slightly, but not too big, the focus should highlight the conflict, and the rest is simple and clear. ”

Oliver nodded and looked at him with sparkling eyes, "Anything else?"

"Then there are the details, which can be called the three elements," Chen Dahe continued to write a few phrases on the paper, "It can be inspiring, credible, and suspenseful, in fact, these three elements say one thing, that is, to let the audience have a sense of substitution, the hero is not achieved overnight, he should start like ordinary people, and there are shortcomings, but he can accept difficulties, overcome difficulties, and grow, and finally become a hero!"

"Can you be more detailed?" Oliver looked at the three elements on the paper, there were some vague thoughts in her mind, but they were not clear, she wanted to hear Chen Dahe's explanation.

"It's already very clear," Chen Dahe put the cap on his pen and pouted and said, "You are very smart, but you are not a professional screenwriter, and making up stories is not your specialty, so it is useless to tell you more, this kind of thing should be left to professional people to do, find a few more screenwriters, sign a huge confidentiality agreement, and then tell them this formula, it is only right for them to create, and there is no need to explain too much, because if you can't understand this formula, you are not a good screenwriter!"

"Okay, I'll do it," Oliver tore the paper off and shook it at Chen Dahe, "This does sound good, but is it guaranteed to make money with this?"

"This only accounts for 80 percent," Chen Dahe raised his eyebrows slightly, "The remaining 20 percent, half of it depends on the screenwriter's skills, whether he can write a creative and good story, and the other half, no matter how creative he is, don't break this formula, otherwise he will die a miserable death!"

The experience of Hollywood in the next 40 years written with blood and tears is not spicy and easy to break through!

"Understood!" Oliver flicked the paper in his hand, chuckled and folded it, and asked, "Where did you come up with this formula?"

"Or else," Chen Dahe shrugged, "or have you seen it elsewhere?"

Anyway, no one has put forward this theory now, and I'm not afraid of colliding with people, specially, others can be reborn and crossed, and they can get a few songs or a few movies to brush up their reputation, and they have some common sense left to take out their hands, if this doesn't work, they won't have the face to be reborn in the future.

"Well, all I can say is that your brain is really different," Oliver blinked, put away the folded paper, and continued, "You just said two suggestions, what is the other one?"

She didn't continue to ask whether this formula was reasonable, in fact, many things were just a layer of window paper, as long as you pierced it, you would understand, oh, so that's it! With Oliver's intelligence and eyesight, it is impossible not to see the value of this formula, so naturally there is no need to ask more.

"Another?" Chen Dahe smiled, "Aren't you afraid of being laughed at and can't find a theater for screening, since that's the case, then set up a theater chain by yourself and get thousands of screens, and you're afraid that your movie won't sell?"

Hearing this, Oliver didn't respond, just looked at him and smiled.

"What's the matter?" Chen Dahe was a little confused, "Nymphomaniac?"

"you, you're a nymphomaniac," Oliver spat him angrily, blushing and said, "You still set up your own theater chain, haven't you heard of the Paramount Act?

"No need to explain," Chen Dahe raised his right hand and said with a serious face, "Listening to your tone, you know that film companies are not allowed to operate theaters, isn't this interfering with the freedom of the market?!"

"This is a bill that the Supreme Court has led to in its decision on Paramount under antitrust law," Oliver said with a smirk, "Everyone in Hollywood knows that prohibiting companies from vertically producing, distributing and exhibiting films, even though we are a small company, does not mean that we can form our own theater chain!"