Chapter 005: This man is from Earth
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"This Man Is From Earth" is a film that can provoke a wide range of thoughts and discussions, telling the story of a Harvard history professor who moves every 10 years, arouses suspicion among his friends, and confesses to his friends who have lived 140 centuries after drinking, and has to prove that he is not lying, which leads to a debate.
The film deals with the development of human civilization, religion, beliefs, and other topics.
Zhou Chen simulated filming this movie many times in space, and knew that these were not easy to deal with when remaking and adapting.
In particular, this kind of work is difficult to reproduce.
Its success lies in having a merit that most movies can't have, telling too much knowledge through the characters in the play, and at the same time putting forward a fascinating hypothesis that makes people willing to follow the plot and explore: what would it be like if a person lived for more than 10,000 years?
It is no exaggeration to say that even if this is not a movie, it is an open lecture by a professor, and the content is attractive enough.
At the beginning of the movie, John, a 35-year-old Harvard history professor, resolutely chose to resign after ten years of work, and his colleagues came to see him off and expressed their puzzlement.
Historians, religious scholars, biologists, psychologists, and other knowledgeable people gathered in John's seemingly humble house, decorated with Van Gogh's paintings, medieval bows and arrows, and prehistoric stone axes.
John took out a bottle of '82-year-old Lafite, and after a drink, he blurted out to his puzzled friends that he claimed to be the Eternal and had lived for 140 centuries.
A man who has been working together for ten years suddenly says that he is actually a cave man who has seen the Ice Age, and that he has hunted mammoths, believe it or not?
He said that he was the leader of a primitive tribe, that he had practiced with Shakyamuni, that he used to be Jesus, do you believe it?
He said he didn't sail with Columbus just because he didn't think he was the adventurous type, believe it or not?
He said that the painting that has been hanging in the room, and many people say that it looks like Van Gogh's style, is actually a Van Gogh gift to him, believe it or not?
He said he was five years old Chinese New Year's Eve and you were eighty years old, and he said he was your father, do you believe it?
Scary, right? Terrifying, right?
You think you've met a madman, right?
Haha, but the scariest thing is that you will believe everything he says in the end!
So the professors began to debate with John about how he had lived for 14,000 years.
An abbreviated version of the history of human civilization is also unfolding under the debate of everyone.
This film not only opened a new style of science fiction films, but also has a greater significance in the portrayal of religion, faith, and human nature, which sparked heated discussions in the society, which triggered a movie-watching boom and achieved a box office of 350 million US dollars.
Zhou Chen has simulated filming this movie ten times before in space, but it is just an imitation, and there is no need to modify the script and characters.
Now if he wants to remake it into a Chinese film, he has to adapt some places, otherwise he can't make some of the plots in the movie reasonable.
He lay in the bathtub, frowning and thinking, and the two plans gradually took shape in his mind......
Knock knock.
"Zhou Chen, Zhou Chen, what are you doing, taking a shower for so long?"
Twenty minutes passed, and before Zhou Chen came out of the bathroom, Gu Xiaojiao couldn't help but knock on the door and call someone.
"Right away, you're really annoying. Zhou Chen reluctantly sat up from the bathtub and washed up seriously.
"What do you say?
"I said you're really warm, you still have to listen, okay, you're really warm. ”
"Hehe, the clothes I found for you are at the door of the room, come out quickly!" Gu Xiaojiao was very satisfied with Zhou Chen's wit, put down his clothes and left.
Zhou Chen quickly finished washing, opened the door and took his clothes to change, and returned to the bedroom that had been cleaned up by Gu Xiaojiao again.
"Zhou Chen, why did you call Gu Yu under your pen name on the script network?" Seeing Zhou Chen come in, Gu Xiaojiao stopped reading the script, took his eyes off the computer, and looked at Zhou Chen with a smile.
"Obviously, for you, Gu Xiaojiao, Gu Xiaojiao, I don't know how your family came up with the name, and I'm not afraid that Gu Zi will die, Gu Yu is much better, it grows well when it is moistened by rain, isn't it?"
"What do you know, my mother's surname is Jiao, no...... , are you talking and taking advantage of me?" Gu Xiaojiao looked at Zhou Chen suspiciously, with a suspicious and unfounded expression.
"Miss, you're thinking too much, taking advantage of you, do I still need to talk about it? ”
Zhou Chen said angrily, taking a pen name at that time, how could he have such leisure.
"Yes, then you can try, besides, who are you, why are you so bright?" Gu Xiaojiao looked at Zhou Chen amusedly.
"I don't know who you are, but I know exactly who you are. Zhou Chen also looked at Gu Xiaojiao amusedly.
"Yes, then who am I?" Gu Xiaojiao's beautiful eyes lit up, looking forward to it.
"Haha, you're the one who washes my panties now. Zhou Chen smiled a little hurriedly.
"You're still laughing, your mother has also washed your underwear, am I your mother?" Gu Xiaojiao was angry, this person was really bad.
"This is too much, I'm talking about it now!" Zhou Chen emphasized.
"So what? Washing machine anyway. ”
"Does it make a difference, stealing is not stealing?"
"Zhou Chen, you stupid, can't you take the initiative to say that sentence?"
"That can't be!"
"Why?"
"It's so easy to get, what if you don't cherish me in the future?"
"Haha——, shameless!" Gu Xiaojiao was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but laugh and scold.
This may be one of the reasons why she likes Zhou Chen, Zhou Chen can always make her happy.
Zhou Chen smiled happily when she saw the girl she liked, and she was very satisfied, she had a hard time this year, and it was hard for her not to leave.
"By the way, Qiao Fei called me just now, saying that she came back from filming "Swordsman World 2" yesterday and wanted to get together with me at night, I said that at your place, she asked me to call you, what do you think?"
"I won't go to join in the fun when your girlfriends get together, and besides, I still have something to do. ”
"What is so important, Qiao Fei said that he was going to recommend me to act in a TV series, didn't you go to help me check it?"
"Yes, you come back and tell me, I'll help you check again, I have a new script that has been written, and I still need to revise it, so I really don't have time to accompany you. Zhou Chen had no choice but to tell the truth.
"New script, you are really diligent enough this year, you have written three scripts, what type is it this time, is it a realistic theme?"
Gu Xiaojiao looked at Zhou Chen suspiciously.
Zhou Chen often wrote drama scripts when he was in college, and his script was also selected as a sophomore class performance work, he is not good at movie scripts, but the truth is the same, but the quality of the first two scripts is so good, and he has received so many quotations from professional literary investors on the script network, and now he has written another one, which is indeed a bit amazing.
Although the number of words in the movie script is not much, and a 90-minute movie is only 3 to 50,000, the design of the story, plot, characters, lines, etc., needs to be perfected over and over again, and it can be finalized after several revisions.
If you create a script by yourself, it is very powerful to be able to write a good quality in a year or two, and Zhou Chen has only three of them, and Gu Xiaojiao is a little worried that he is overworked.
"No, it's sci-fi, don't worry, I'm fine. Zhou Chen sensed Gu Xiaojiao's emotions and explained.
"Sci-fi, haven't you always liked realistic themes?"
"Oh, I like it, it's just that I didn't have a good idea before, okay, let's not talk about that, I'll go and contact the person who bought the script first. ”
"Okay, I'll hear it too. ”