Chapter 68: The Concept of the Comic Drama
Hiroshi Akabane thought that Lin Hai was joking, but after careful consideration, he found that Hikaru Utada was indeed a good candidate.
First of all, Hikaru Utada has a good image.
Age-appropriate, beautiful and slightly neutral, like Aimi Nakamura, it fits the setting of "rebellious girl" very well.
Secondly, Lin Hai said in the introduction just now that Hikaru Utada's parents are celebrities in the music industry. The addition of such a "second generation star" is also good news for the crew who have been in trouble recently.
The only question is what Hikaru Utada thinks of himself.
Hiroshi Akabane looked at Hikaru Utada, who turned his gaze to Lin Hai.
Lin Hai felt the eagerness in her eyes and said with a smile: "I'm only responsible for making suggestions, you make your own ideas." ”
Hikaru Utada asked, "Do you still want to record music?"
"Of course. ”
"I heard that your film is going to fight with Kyoko's film?"
"yes. ”
"Then ......" the girl said arrogantly, "Seeing that you are working so hard alone, it is not impossible for me to help you." ”
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The next morning, Minato-ku, Odaiba.
Odaiba, also known as Odaiba, is located on a man-made land in Tokyo Bay in the southeast of Tokyo, and is Tokyo's newest concentration of entertainment venues.
In 1853, the American Perry threatened Japan with gunboats to open the country (the Black Ship Incident), and the shogunate erected a fort here to defend against the enemy, hence the name "Odaiba".
The Black Ship Incident broke Japan's isolation and opened the prelude to Japan's comprehensive learning from the West, and as a commemoration, the Japanese imitated a Statue of Liberty in Odaiba, which looked a bit like they had come to Manhattan from a distance.
Lin Hai and Mitsuru Utada meet at the entrance of Shiokaze Park, wait and wait, wait for a phone call that says "don't wait for me yet", and then go to Kazuhiko Yukawa's studio alone.
Kazuhiko Yukawa's studio is right next to Fuji TV.
Pressing the doorbell, after a short time, Kazuhiko Yukawa opened the door with two dark circles under his eyes and invited Lin Hai into the living room.
Akabane Hiroshi was also there, beckoned Lin Hai to sit down, and handed Lin Hai a copy of the script: "This is the previous script, you can take a look at it first." ”
Lin Hai didn't talk nonsense, he looked through it, and the speed made people wonder if he was pretending.
Lin Hai was indeed pretending.
As long as you take a general look, you will know that the "GTO" in the previous life was filmed according to this script.
Lin Hai finished flipping through the script, put it on the table, and did not rush to express his opinion, but asked: "Does Fuji TV have specific requirements for the new script?"
"Nope. Hiroshi Akabane said: "It's just a request to be different from the previous script leaked on the Internet." ”
"Is there a specific standard?"
After Lin Hai asked, he saw Chi Yu Bo shaking his head, so he said, "That's easy to do." ”
"Easy to do?"
The first time he opened the door, Yukawa Kazuhiko opened the door, and his tone was not very good: "I want to listen, what good can you do!"
Seeing this, Akabane Hiroshi hurriedly explained: "Teacher Yukawa hasn't rested well in the past two days, and his mood is a little irritable......
I'm afraid it's more than that.
Lin Hai saw Yukawa Kazuhiko's reaction, and he regretted agreeing to Akabane Hiroshi's request a little. The old fox Akabane Bo didn't tell him the truth at all, I'm afraid that inviting himself to participate in the screenwriting was completely his own idea.
But the matter has come to this point, regret is useless, let's think about how to calm the other party.
Lin Hai nodded at Yukawa Kazuhiko, and then said, "It's rude." IMHO, I think this script is too conservative. ”
Kazuhiko Yukawa was obviously a little unhappy and asked, "How do you say that?"
"There are differences between Mr. Yukawa's script and the comics, but the strength of the adaptation is still weaker. ”
Lin Hai was quite polite, and did not say that he was copying comics.
Kazuhiko Yukawa understood, and retorted, "Isn't it a good thing to be faithful to the original?"
Lin Hai did not argue about right and wrong, and opened the script.
"I just read the script, so let's summarize the content of the first episode in general......"
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The first episode of "GTO" is to the effect that it is like this.
Hideyoshi Onizuka (the protagonist), who graduated from a third-rate university, goes to Musashi Sacred Forest High School to apply for a job, but is disliked by the director of teaching, and it happens that several students who have been expelled for violating school rules come to the school to make trouble, and the director of discipline promises Hideyoshi Onizuka that as long as these bad students are settled, he will promise to let him join.
Hideyoshi Onizuka gladly accepted the order, but when he heard the director of discipline scolding several students for being "scum", he kicked the director to the ground in turn. It turned out that Onizuka was a rampant in high school, and he was also misunderstood, and he was most disgusted with the teacher's differential treatment of students.
Onizuka's idea was approved by the school president, who decided to hire him, but in order to silence the teachers (mainly the director of discipline), he was asked to bring his resignation letter with him to work, and made him a 2-year 4-class teacher who was a headache for all the teachers in the school - a class that was dedicated to working against the teachers.
A girl named Nanako Mizuki in the class confided her troubles to Onizuka, saying that although her family was wealthy, her parents were busy with work every day and did not communicate with each other, especially the thick wall between her parents' rooms made her very sad.
Nanako proposes to Onizuka that she wants to spend the night at his house.
Onizuka agreed to her, but it was a trap - Nanako arrived at Onizuka's residence, suddenly began to undress, and took the initiative to hug Onizuka. All this was filmed by two boys who were ambushed on the side, and the three students used the photo as a threat to demand Onizuka's resignation.
In the face of the immortal jump, Onizuka called the little brother of the rampant clan and "tamed" the two boys.
In the face of Onizuka's care, Nanako gradually relieved her guard and asked for a stay again, but was rejected by Onizuka.
The director of discipline mistakenly thought that Onizuka had "abducted" Nanako to run away from home and go to Mizuki's house to apologize to her parents, but Onizuka rushed to Nanako's house with a big hammer, and in the panicked exclamations of everyone, Onizuka smashed the wall that made Nanako sad.
The next day, the director of discipline is happy that Onizuka can finally get out, but Nanako comes to the office and says that the parents are not pursuing it, but thanks Onizuka for tearing down the wall of indifference between the parents.
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"In this episode, I think there are three problems. ”
Lin Hai raised three fingers, and then said what was in his heart in turn.
"First, the character design of the onizuka is not plump enough. Onizuka was a rampant in high school, which is the character in the prequel work of "Shonan Pure Love Group", and "GTO" continues this character, starting directly from Onizuka University. Onizuka originally had the idea of becoming a teacher in order to soak up female students. He entered an internship school full of poor students, showed his side as a "passer-by", won the support of the boys, and then through the plot of "breaking the wall of the heart", he formally established his belief in becoming a great teacher, and then entered Musashi Sacred Forest Middle School. ”
Kazuhiko Yukawa retorted: "This is to condense the plot, after all, Musashi Sacred Forest High School is the main stage of the whole play. ”
Lin Hai said: "There is nothing wrong with doing this, but in this way, the motives and logic of Onizuka's actions are problematic. In the original book, he summoned the mob to teach the students because the internship school itself was full of gangsters, and Musashi Sacred Forest Middle School did not have that violent atmosphere, and the students were mainly psychological, and it would be untenable to continue to use violence to counter violence. If you want to reflect the influence of Onizuka's rampage experience on him, it is better to use the intuitive appearance method of 'riding a high-powered motorcycle into the campus'. ”
You Chuan and Hiko were thoughtful and did not interrupt Lin Hai again.
Lin Hai finished the remaining two questions in one breath.
"Second question. Class 2 and Class 4 are headed by Masashi Aizawa, Kunio Murai and Yoshito Kikuchi, especially Aizawa Ya, who is the most persistent in driving away the head teacher. So here's the problem, after Onizuka became the head teacher of Class 4 in 2 years, the first person to attack him was the less important Nanako Mizuki, which is illogical...... The third question. The comic itself is a work of blood and funny, but this script is a little weak in terms of blood and funny. ”
After listening to this, Yukawa Kazuhiko asked, "Then how do you think it should be changed?"
"I think there is only one thing that needs to be done to solve these problems, and that is to increase the intensity of 'exaggeration'......"
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Lin Hai's overall idea is to borrow from the 2012 version of GTO and integrate it into the 1998 edition.
Those who know the two dramas may be puzzled - isn't the evaluation of the 2012 version far inferior to the 1998 version?
In fact, the 2012 version is flawed, but the evaluation of it on the Internet is unfair.
In the final analysis, this is just the feelings of the old audience.
Here's an example.
There was a picture circulating on the Internet in later generations, on which were four versions of the little dragon girl, and the person who made the picture labeled the four of them - Li Ruotong: genuine, Liu Yifei: high imitation, Chen Yanxi: special, Jia Lingling: clearance.
In a word, one generation is not as good as the next.
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The feelings of the old audience are the most headache for the remake, and the old audience often does not pay attention to the shining points of the new drama, and only needs the sentence "ruin my childhood" to put the new drama into the cold palace.
However, Lin Hai doesn't need to worry about this now, the 1998 version of "GTO" has not yet been filmed.
In all fairness, in the two versions of "GTO", the acting skills of the protagonists are similar, but Takashi Anti-Machi has a preconceived advantage.
By the way, the highlights of the lives of these two leading actors are all related to marriage.
Takashi Machicho later married Nanako Matsushima, and the wedding broadcast rights alone sold for 200 million yen, and the combination of the two was called the "wedding of the century" by the Japanese media.
As for the protagonist of the 2012 version, AKIRA (Ryohei Kurosawa) - you just need to know that he married Chi Ling's sister.
Acting skills aside, the 2012 version has many shining points, the most important of which is that the performance is more exaggerated.
Here's the simplest example:
Hideyoshi Onizuka in the original manga has yellow hair, the Takashi Anti-Machi version has black hair, and the AKIRA version has yellow hair.
It seems to be just a matter of styling, but it actually reflects the change in the concept of "manga drama".
In the 1998 version, the director pursued "realistic rationality" - Japanese teachers are strictly forbidden to dye their hair, and even female teachers' hairstyles have very strict requirements, while the 2012 version uses the same exaggerated characters as the comics, although it goes against common sense, but the artistic impact is stronger.
In addition to the costume modeling, 2012 is also exaggerated in the plot arrangement, such as adding fight scenes - the teacher in reality, if he really fights with someone, it may be more than just being expelled......