Chapter X: Adaptation of Real Cases

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Invest in films, for what?

Art, Force, Feelings, Humanities?

Convex!

Wu Xiaozu scoffed, his idea at this time was a pit... Fishing ...... Make hay.

It's a very cheesy and bad idea, but it is extremely realistic.

There are dozens of mouths waiting to eat in Kwun Tong, and his brothers and family need him to raise them. Maybe we can't do everything for others, and we can't learn to be saints;

However, within the scope of his ability, give an explanation to his former brothers, settle down for their families, and give themselves peace of mind. It's not a moral bondage, it's just a responsibility.

Call me a big guy, and I wish you a lifetime of glory!

The life and death of the first brother can only do his best. This is Wu Xiaozu's idea.

400,000 new dramas that test the water to make money, what theme is the best to choose?

Later generations of movies and online dramas of all sizes have told us what theme is the fastest to make money!

Thriller!Thriller!Thriller!

Flat-chested.

The thriller genre is very suitable for a small erecto... Big.

At the same time, thrillers can quickly circle the audience and win the box office.

As for what specific type -

Zombie films? Sorry, no Uncle Nine, zombie movies are just zombie movies. After all, Hong Kong Island does not have zombie soil like "The Walking Dead", "Zombies Play Across the Line", "Dawn of the Living Dead", and "Terror Planet". The main thing is that there is no money!

You can't ask a makeup assistant who can only do bridal makeup to do the work of styling or art direction.

Stream-of-consciousness thriller?hehe, if this thing doesn't play well, it's easy to become a popular science film - a brain-dead director's cultivation manual. Anyway, countless directors in later generations have thrown themselves on this road.

So the question is, what else is there in a thriller?

If you ask this question, you must not have watched "The Silence of the Lambs", "Chainsaw", "Human Meat Char Siu Bun", and "Dish Fairy", "Pen Fairy", "Bowl Fairy", and "Plate Fairy", which popularize shame knowledge......

Wu Xiaozu chose a real case that was not well-known in later generations, but shocked the whole Hong Kong in the 80s for an original adaptation.

Titled: "The Butcher on a Rainy Night".

The script is mainly about the "human dismemberment case" that caused a sensation in Xiangjiang in the same year as his imprisonment.

He was very impressed by the case, which shocked the whole of Hong Kong Island at the time. It can be said that everyone knows it, and everyone knows it.

Taxi driver Lin Guoyun frantically mutilated four female passengers in a row, first killed, then committed *** acts, and finally brutally dismembered the corpses, the whole process was tragic and dehumanizing.

The case was a sensation in '82, and the Governor MacLehose personally intervened in it. So much so that the people of Hong Kong Island "talked about the change of forest color". After the case came to light, the taxi industry suffered a huge blow - many taxi drivers lost their jobs tragically.

The trading volume of the license plate exchange fell wildly like an N-shaped line, and the anxious Hong Kong Island taxi association had to cooperate with the competent authorities to introduce a number of policies to ease the impact.

One person influences an industry!

On 11 February 1982, the police found a dismembered female head and two arms in the Shing Mun River, based on a report from the public. After investigation, it was confirmed that she was a dancer in the Starlight Nightclub - Chen Xiaolan.

The cruelty of the methods and the horror of the crime made the Xiangjiang police feel pressure. At the same time, this cruel murderer did not stop committing crimes. No one knows, this is just a prelude to a series of corpse shredding cases!

On May 29, the waste pickers reported to the police, who called the police. Another dismembered female head and stump were found in the garbage dump, which was identified as Chen Yunyun, a 31-year-old married night shift cashier at a convenience store.

On June 17, tourists found another mutilated body of a woman who had been killed by the same brutal method in the woods of the park, and at the same time, the body was found under the stone moth in the park, and the body was identified as Liang Xiufen, a 39-year-old female cleaner in the mall.

On July 2, Xie Huixin, a female student who had just attended a banquet, disappeared, and her family called the police, and her body was found by the police the next day. The body was dismembered, and at the same time there was a major breakthrough in the case, the police found that there were small tadpoles left in the dismembered body.

At this point, four similar cases of serial murder and dismemberment were placed in front of the public, which immediately caused a huge social panic, and the pressure on the police increased sharply, and they were at a loss.

The murderer's methods were cruel and dismembered, which caused a huge obstacle to solving the case. What's even more terrifying is that the interval between crimes is getting faster and faster, which also proves that the murderer is becoming more and more unscrupulous.

The Hong Kong Governor and the Commissioner of Police had to frequently come forward to comfort the frightened citizens, and even issued a "military order" to the police force. But all this did not ease the tension, and the torrent of terror continued to spread. Many companies have canceled the night shift work of female employees, and even many Feng sisters on Balan Street have not been introduced, which can be seen.

Just when the police were at a loss for what to do with the case, a photo studio staff in Wan Chai found a photo of a woman being mutilated while developing the photo and quickly called the police. Let the murderer of the serial murder case, the taxi driver Lin Guoyun, appear in the eyes of the police. After investigating and collecting evidence, the police confirmed that the taxi driver was the murderer of the crazy corpse mutilation case, and immediately dispatched police forces to arrest him. Only then did the sensational serial corpse shredding case be announced.

In the process of investigation and evidence collection, the police were shocked to find a large number of photos and videos of dismemberment taken by the murderer. The case-handling personnel collected evidence while vomiting, and the whole scene was appalling.

At that time, this case, which was feared by the newspaper as a "rainy night madman", really had a huge impact.

It even prompted the Traffic Management Department and the Joint Police Force of the Security Bureau to issue the latest taxi management bill, and it took a long time for the Xiangjiang taxi industry to recover.

The case had all the elements needed to be adapted into a film.

It is a serial murder case that caused a sensation in Xiangjiang. There is social communication, and there are gimmicks, and it is full of topicality.

Cruelty, perversion, thriller, *** and other marginal elements are enough to attract attention.

At the same time, the investment in the adaptation of this event into "The Butcher on a Rainy Night" will not be very high, with box office expectations and selling points.

In his previous life, this serial corpse shredding case was adapted into TV unit dramas, TV series, movies, and comics many times.

Such as "Hong Kong Strange Case: The Butcher of the Foggy Night", "No. 1 Imperial Court", "Record of Clearing Grievances 2", "Confidential Archives Lin Guoyun", "Record of Hong Kong Strange Cases".

Even, Huang Jiaju, the lead singer of the famous rock band BEYOND on Hong Kong Island, also created a song "Dead Romance (part2)" in order to explore the thought process of "Perverted Crazy Demon Forest Passing Through the Clouds" and the abstraction of death.

Among them, the most famous is "Hong Kong Strange Case: Doctor Lamb" filmed by Universal Pictures in the early 90s, starring Ren Dahua and Li Xiuyuan.

However, Wu Xiaozu never thought of plagiarizing this film. That movie can only be said to be decent, except for the horror, gore and pornography.

In his opinion, the thriller movie of the strange case, although it focuses on bloody pornography, is a challenge to the acting skills of the actors.

Most of these movies are based on real cases, and the audience has a preconceived impression. This requires the director to give the film a new eye-catching element. Otherwise, why go into the cinema to watch a movie, it is better to find out the video materials of the year to understand.

In the script of "The Butcher on a Rainy Night", Wu Xiaozu gave Lin Guoyun more elements to sublimate this perverted character.

Every movie will have the tone of his performance. Enough Sven, crazy enough, and perverted enough, this is the tone of Lin Guoyun's character in Wu Xiaozu's drama.

Under the tone of the characters, begin to plump out the characters. The taxi driver must have been very low-key on weekdays, sven and wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses. 】

He would be a devout believer in Jesus, so he used to have a Bible in his hand. Firmly believe that all beings are lambs and God is the shepherd.

He also has some cleanliness habits, so he often wears a white handkerchief. The taxi must be clean. He likes to wear a white shirt, black trousers, and white socks. Have the same cleanliness as obsessive-compulsive disorder!

In the next few days, Wu Xiaozu immersed himself in writing the script while perfecting his shooting plan.

As for the storyboard script, you can't write until after the location survey. Terrain, light, and climate all affect the camera position and shot, so storyboard scripts are generally studied according to the actual situation after the location survey.

The choice of which actor is doomed to the success or failure of the film.

Don't?

Wu Xiaozu touched his chin. With the skills of dozens of peripherals that he has coached, it is estimated that it is still a little worse.

Director Wu thought about it for a second, and decided to recruit a good actor, as far as he knew, there was an actor who needed to be saved by himself.