The script, Ji Ming has already read it.

Gongol was the producer and the first screenwriter, and he was responsible for the whole script, and the creative process – it was a really difficult story.

“…… The whole movie is actually very focused, Mr. Liu's entire work, in addition to the world view, we actually only use one or two hundred words in the plot, that is, the earth collides with Jupiter - this script extends from this core plot. ”

Ji Ming nodded, in fact, because he didn't decide to act, he didn't plan to say a lot, but after Gong Geer finished speaking, everyone looked at him.

"Tell me, whether you act or not, your ability to pick up the script can also contribute. Ning Hao squeezed him.

Ji Ming's ability to pick up scripts began to skyrocket during the Mandarin "Thunderstorm" period, and then continued to all the projects he participated in, and those who knew him actually knew this - after all, he was still the director of the National Theater.

"I'm not particularly familiar with science fiction, but I completely agree with the book focusing on a plot, especially a special effects commercial film, the plot is too scattered and complicated, there must be risks - like the Dream Notes, it's too challenging. So I don't have much say in the overall design. It's just a simple discussion of the characters' feelings.

The emotional foothold of the book,In fact, it's the emotions of home and father and son.。 Because of this kind of home-loving emotion, there is a design to carry the earth on their backs and take it away to wander, do everything possible to keep the earth, to block the space station and Moss, their so-called defection, the design of this part is very Chinese, very local.

But about the part of father-son love, and the logic of the characters around this, I think there are some things that confuse me - for example, the character of Liu Peiqiang, he seems to be a complex combination of a father and a warrior, but the contradiction between these two identities is not particularly smooth from the script. ”

Ji Ming flipped through the script and nodded: "For example, when stopping Moss, when persuading the ground, whether he was out of affection for Liu Qi and didn't want his son to wait for death on the earth, and there was disobedience, or he didn't agree with this plan, so he would resist." If it's the former, what about his part as a warrior? If it's the latter, it means that he is an individual with a strong personal mind, and it doesn't seem to be so in line with his previous and subsequent self-sacrifice - I feel that there is something simple here, just hoping that Liu Peiqiang can show the plot of his personal hero, and the internal logic is not particularly self-consistent.

And Liu Qi, he was originally a very distinctive character, unruly, ignorant of nothing, and after going through hardships and dangers, he became the savior who turned the tide. But after I read the script, this person is still vague - he ran out of the ground, he joined the rescue team, he chose to leave after his grandfather died, and then he volunteered to join the ultimate rescue, and even after the whole world gave up, he thought of a trick to ignite the air and persuaded the world to practice it - this chain of clues is head-to-tail on the surface, but it is a mess inside, and every change in his behavior lacks enough internal and external impetus - I couldn't convince myself, he took it for granted, as if the screenwriter told him to do it. ”

Ha ha.

is also because he has not confirmed to join, Ji Ming said very frankly, because he can also see that in addition to the bosses of the company, including directors, producers, screenwriters, etc., they are very focused and enthusiastic - the slightly sloppy Director Guo's eyes are like two lights when describing the storyboard idea.

You continue. ”

"Mr. Wu played this, he was born in 99, which means that he is a carrier of our generation in the future - if we really encounter all this and live to that era, we should be like grandpa. Singing saliva songs of this era, telling jokes and ...... of this era Splendor.

But I always feel that the arrangement of this part of the script is not particularly in place, as if it was gently swept to that itch point, but in the end, it passed by, leaving behind not an unfinished beauty, but a very uncomfortable kind of dissatisfaction. Moreover, this role should actually have a lot of influence on Liu Qi and the rescue team - for example, he may have described the beautiful appearance of the early 21st century to Liu Qi since he was a child, so that Liu Qi finally hoped to keep the beautiful earth in his grandfather's memory, so as to join the rescue, and so on. It's just that this role is not so well utilized.

In addition, like Duoduo, the sense of existence is too deliberate, as if it is for the end, with a simple and naïve image of a girl, to inspire the retreating rescue team...... At that time, do you really think that a person with this kind of setting has a greater charisma? maybe a more powerful summoner, more trusted? maybe.

In the end, I think there are a lot of lines, maybe it would be better to use accents and pictures to show them, rather than sensational dialogues - a special sci-fi scene, and then instantly, how to say, emotional expression, or should be less missionary and more sci-fi.

Overall, I don't think that the establishment of the characters, as well as the emotional self-consistency, should be more than your emphasis on special effects and plot, like "Train to Busan", it is also a little worse - but I think that at least these parts should not be a minus, it can be relatively non-existent, but it should not make people feel inconsistent, and it should not be a shortcoming.

Ah, I'm particularly offensive to say this, it's completely my personal opinion, and my experience is relatively small, and all aspects of consideration may be relatively lacking, and some understanding may not be right, so you can listen to it casually. In addition, I can feel the dedication of Mr. Gong and the teachers in script creation - there are many designs that make me very amazing as a sci-fi blind. ”

Ning Hao's expression was quite complicated when he looked at him, Xu Zheng talked to him about Ji Ming, and he chatted several times - sometimes he couldn't understand Xu Zheng's identification with Ji Ming. But at this moment, he felt a little bit of what a real actor should look like, even more pure than many good actors he has worked with.

"Is it too late to go back and make up for it now?" Ning Hao relieved him.

"Haha, the desire to survive. ”

Director Guo and Gong Geer were silent for a while, and then looked at each other again.

"How do you feel?" asked them with a smile.

"Drink it on the head. As a screenwriter, Gong Geor still spoke: "We have made many versions of the script, but we suddenly found that there was a blind eye. I thought about a lot of world view, apocalyptic history, and also thought about what the character design represented, what metaphors were hidden, and even a lot of small designs that were not seen in the script, etc. But now that I think about it, it seems that a big piece is still missing, as a drama, it didn't come to life, maybe after filming, some people will say that it is a large-scale special effects ppt, not a living plot world - it may be right to value special effects and excitement, but science fiction is also a film, the basic logic of a play, because the sense of existence is not high, it is blackened by our lights. ”

In fact, from the script team, it can also be seen that there are no people who have special control over the drama - they are all young and inexperienced. So full of enthusiasm and full of shortcomings.

"I don't think we should think about everything. The representative of China Film is experienced, and Shuo Fang may not have been unaware of this problem, but just made a trade-off: "This film is not for classics, our goal is to make a domestic science fiction film that does not fail commercially - so as to open up the market for science fiction films, after the market is opened, there will definitely be more good movies, and even classics." The positioning of "The Wandering Earth" is definitely not "Star Wars" and "Space Odyssey", including "Avatar", in fact, it cannot be said to be a classic science fiction film, it may just be a classic special effects film. ”

Ji Ming smiled and nodded, indicating OK.

"I'm not denying Ji Ming, it's a simple personal discussion, and it doesn't represent the opinions of the management. Shuo Fang gestured: "I have benefited a lot from hearing you say this, and I hope to hear more opinions, the more we listen, the more likely this film is to succeed." ”

"Well......" Ji Ming sighed, looked at Director Guo's expectant eyes, and decided to continue: "The plot of "Avatar" is actually very naïve, interstellar colonization, and then among human beings as invaders, because of love and conscience, there was a heresy, and finally a big war, and then justice came - it is different from the narrative of "The Wandering Earth", there are not so many dimensional contrasts and connections, and there are not so many human choices that have nothing to do with right or wrong.

Like Mr. Shuo Fang said, the story of "Earth" should be 10,000 times simpler than now, the passionate and prominent protagonist, was selected as an astronaut to fly, and then the Earth is about to hit Jupiter, at this time, the protagonist and the mainstream decision is different, unwilling to give up the earth, so he restrained Moss and the space station, and then with his partners on the earth, thrilling to launch a big rescue, reunion, gone.

But you still arranged Lao Han, Wang Lei, and a Russian, and set up two protagonists with complex emotional reactions - including the fact that you designed such a strict post-apocalyptic survival picture, which means that you don't plan to make a pure special effects commercial film, and put too much humanity in it.

Either don't put it away, or put it in a way that's pleasing to the eye, right?"

There was silence in the room again.

Chu Qing sat in the second row, she came to visit with Ji Ming today because she was curious about CG animation, I didn't expect to see such a straightforward discussion - to complete the tip of the iceberg behind a movie, it seems that it is easier to make music and play.

She looked at Ji Ming, looked at him with a slight smile, and said a tirade that made the director and investors silent, and suddenly became proud.

"This part of the change shouldn't be very big, why don't you ask a few screenwriting teachers to come over and help refer to it?" Mr. Song of Beijing Culture suddenly proposed, which meant that he at least partially agreed with Ji Ming's opinion.

Shuo Fang looked at Guo Dao and Gong Geer, and then nodded: "Okay." ”

"I seem to have put another burden on you, and I have added another burden?"

"If there are more lice, it doesn't itch. Director Guo was very free and helpless, and soon cheered up again, and even felt a little excited: "Then go and see the special effects we made?"

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