The "Jurassic Park" series reboot project, this is the second consecutive time that Lan Li has participated in a commercial film after "Interstellar".

During the previous awards season, there were a lot of cynical voices on social networks: now Lan Li has begun to proudly reject art films and concentrate on challenging his "money" path, this self-proclaimed "actor" actor still can't help but look at money after all, so are all the previous rhetoric "human design"?

Fueled by the Weinstein brothers' fanning of the flames, such negative remarks are very marketable, further interfering with Lan Li's Oscar journey: first "Jurassic Park", then "Star Wars Story", and after the news that one commercial movie after another was confirmed, the attacks on Lan Li became more and more violent and intense.

But for Lan Li, there was no need to respond at all.

After the transformation of the "Burst Drummer", in Lan Li's view, there is no clear boundary between commercial and artistic works, because art is originally derived from life and is higher than life, and the artistic impact brought by commercial films is also objective. What's more, for Lan Li, the most important thing is always that he will return to be an actor again, stand in front of the camera again, and devote himself to acting again, which is the most exciting and exciting, isn't it?

Others can't understand Lan Li, but it doesn't matter because Lan Li doesn't care.

In the process of rewriting and adjusting the script of "Jurassic World", you can faintly perceive the interesting phenomenon of "commercial films and works of art" opposing and integrating with each other, of course, because of the different targets, which is also destined to have many differences between the two, but in the final analysis, this is a kind of "creation", and the thinking and reflection in the creative process are objective, and it can even be said that it is unavoidable-

Even the most hollow, boring and boring popcorn blockbuster, such as "Transformers", also embodies the nostalgia of a generation for Transformers toys, and also the indulgence of ordinary audiences in bombarding visual effects, which is the charm and influence brought by film art.

However, revising a commercial film script is not an easy task.

First of all, it is important to realize that commercial films cannot compete with art films in terms of character image and thematic depth, because the goals of the two are different, and similarly, the performance space of the actors is also very different. Relying on this background, Lan Li put forward his opinion, and after Colin listened carefully, he completed the adjustment of the script.

For Owen's character, the space he needs is relatively simple: why does he hate the use of dinosaurs as weapons, and why is he willing to stick to it and fight it?

Because we love animals, protect animals, because we hate war, because we reject war, because we protect our loved ones, we stick to our beliefs, or because we are heroes, and we save the world?

If you want to take the light route, then you can choose personal emotions as the support and starting point, family, friends and lovers, etc., the so-called saving the world against the enemy, in fact, is just to protect their loved ones from harm, and Owen happened to appear at the flashpoint of this disaster, so he was forced to become a hero.

The "Jurassic World" of the previous life can be regarded as such a route.

But it's a pity that even with emotion as the support point, the director and the script didn't give much space to the characters, and in the end they only gave a little ink to the love level between Owen and the heroine Claire, and it was more about the bond between Owen and Velociraptor-

This also emphasizes why Owen can be the protagonist of saving the disaster, the problem is that such a focus applies in the first part, and the second part is a bit nonsense, let alone the distant third.

Obviously, when Chris Pratt was the lead role, Universal Pictures wasn't thinking about a sequel at all, otherwise they could have added more ink between the male and female leads, and also between the male protagonists and their friends—which is already a useful trick for commercial films: even if the earth is destroyed, the heroes and heroines will not forget to fall in love.

If you want to go the profound route, then you can choose war and faith as a starting point, Owen is a former soldier who has personally experienced the cruelty and bloodiness of war, and he has also experienced the pain and ferocity of death, which makes him have a different understanding of life and life.

Owen and Claire became each other's exes, and the real core was that Owen's deep wounds could not be healed, so the distrust caused by this took the initiative to push Claire away, and Claire also realized Owen's self-alienation, so she refused to compromise and turned away sensibly.

It is precisely because of the inability to find a bond in the intimate emotional relationship of human beings, which also makes Owen subconsciously begin to get close to animals, and the kindness and softness of his heart make him approach the velociraptor step by step, and successfully establish a bridge of trust with them, and become each other's support in times of crisis.

Therefore, when he learned that someone was trying to evolve dinosaurs into weapons, his hatred of war and his closeness to velociraptors made Owen take the initiative to stand up - not passively beaten, but actively, he needed to protect his faith, and he also needed to stick to his last harbor.

Taking war and faith as the starting point, the follow-up story can also evolve into many possibilities, and gradually flesh out Owen's image, especially the interactive bonds between Owen and Velociraptor, Owen and Claire, and fully possess the ability to derive the theme of the story to a deeper level.

The most direct reference work is Christopher Nolan's "Batman" series, which uses Bruce Wayne's understanding of family and love to establish the "dilemma" between good and evil, individual and collective, and then puts the core focus of the whole movie on the theme of "The Dark Knight", showing that every superhero must sacrifice his own tragic core meaning in order to save the world. The design of "Jurassic World" is somewhat similar.

Of course, for commercial films, directors can also choose the narrative according to their own style, go dark, then be heavy and sad, Christopher Nolan is like this, and go bright, then the rhythm will be controlled briskly, and the Marvel series of movies is the same - as for those connotations and connotations, all are left to the actors' performances.

It must be noted that it does not mean that the theme is profound, it must be bitter and bitter! This is often easy to become a misunderstanding, for commercial films, the most important thing is the narrative style, from the image to the light to the shot, and finally the content of the lines and the style of the performance, and so on, which plays a crucial role in the overall tone of the film.

So, how should such content be placed in a commercial film without disrupting the rhythm of the film, and at the same time maintain the director's personal style?

Similarly, borrowing from "Iron Man" can be used - for example, the first reunion between Owen and Claire, Claire only needs to add "I don't care about you and your problems", "Your problems are not solved yet", and so on, implying that the relationship between the two people is far from that simple.

For another example, during the interaction between Owen and the Velociraptor, a shot was added to reflect Owen's softness, which was different from the usual giggling, and for example, in the face of a crisis, Owen's expression and movements were hesitant, which seemed to awaken bad memories, but then became firm again.

There is no need to change the structure and narrative rhythm of the film in large sections, only a sentence or a shot is needed, through the construction of the lens picture, the character image and the story structure are combined, and the audience is left with more aftertaste space, and the edges and corners of the characters become three-dimensional, with the possibility of derivation, which is enough for commercial films.

This is enough to plant a seed in the movie and leave more room for the development of the sequel movie.

However, it is easy to say, but difficult to practice. For actors, understanding and presentation is not a problem, but for directors, it is necessary to take into account many aspects such as rhythm control, lens construction, content output, etc., and it is not easy to find a balance in connotation mining and high/tide foreshadowing, otherwise, commercial films will not be so difficult to make - outside of Marvel movies, DC movies are still struggling to find their own business model, which is the best proof.

But Lan Li is an actor, not a director, and what Lan Li and Colin discussed was only a script, not a shooting, and things were relatively simple.

After several discussions, the image framework of the role of Owen was finally determined: "War and Faith" became the driving core of the whole story, and Colin still hopes to discuss a more profound and larger proposition in the sequel movie, taking dinosaurs as the starting point, showing human desire/desire for war and power, and further integrating Colin's reflection on human beings and nature into it, for the exploration that "Jurassic Park" could not be completed at the beginning, I hope that "Jurassic World" can continue-

Otherwise, after the series reboot, there is no novelty and no depth, and even if the first part is a success, the crew will soon be in trouble and will return to the old routines of the previous work, unable to really impress the audience.

The entire script has completed structural adjustments, the description of Owen has increased significantly, and because of the theme setting of "war and faith", the characters and the main plot can be more closely connected, and the narrative core has become more compact and cohesive, so that the story has been "upgraded".

This is the first time that Lan Li has really participated directly in the pre-production process of a film work as a producer, and Lan Li's wisdom is condensed in the script - although he cannot be signed in the screenwriting column, this is indeed a unique experience unlike anything before.

"Jurassic World" is the name that was finally decided.