It took an afternoon for Chen Xin to read Liu Cixin's short and medium-length sci-fi novels in their entirety.

From "Whale Song", "Micro Era", "Poetry Cloud", "Mirror" to "The Wandering Earth", "Supporting God", "Country Teacher", "Chinese Sun", ...... Almost every work carries Liu's unique magnificence and the lonely choice of a weak life, and this dramatic contrast is extremely shocking and infectious, making his works extremely thick to read.

No wonder some people commented that this man who lives in a third-tier city and is not good-looking has spent more than ten years and single-handedly "single-handedly elevated Chinese science fiction to the Shijie level".

Chen Xin felt that this kind of praise was not exaggerated at all, and he also found that Liu Cixin was particularly good at transforming abstract scientific descriptions into grand scenes, his words were very hard, Jishu logic was solid, his imagination was gorgeous, and the description of the scene had a strong sense of picture, which was very suitable for adaptation into science fiction movies.

The only thing that is strange is that over the years, no Chinese director has adapted his work.

There are no shijie-level science fiction writers in China, but they can't make a science fiction movie above the standard, which is not so much Liu Cixin's regret as the sorrow of Chinese filmmakers.

Chen Xin was too lazy to think about these unappetizing things, and after some careful consideration, he picked two out of these dozen short stories, and the script he needed should be to choose one of the two.

The first is "The Country Teacher", this novel is very famous, and it is rumored that the capital's Horse Racing Galloping Pictures has bought the adaptation rights of this work, which has been filed with the GD General Administration, as for when to invest in filming, it is difficult to say.

"Rural Teacher" tells the story of a rural teacher in a poor area with terminal cancer, who teaches only a few students in the village, and finally collapses on the podium.

And tens of thousands of light years away, an interstellar war that has lasted for more than 20,000 years has also come to an end. In order to prevent the silicon-based empire from continuing to leapfrog through the stars, the carbon-based civilization has decided to establish a blank barrier of 500 light-years that will destroy all the stars in it.

In order to avoid accidentally harming the living planets that have evolved advanced civilizations, carbon-based civilizations randomly select intelligent beings from living planets to ask questions, so as to choose whether to destroy the planet or not.

The students brought by the village teacher were randomly selected as representatives of the earth, and they answered the questions correctly according to Newton's three laws, which the teacher taught before he died, thus saving the solar system.

Later, after the carbon-based civilization spacecraft came closer to observe, they found that the earth civilization was far from the 3C civilization they estimated, but had evolved to the level of 5B.

They found that the information between the civilized individuals of the earth is only communicated through the vocal cords, and the information transmission rate is one to ten bits per second, and the civilized individuals are also unable to carry out memory inheritance, and there is an individual called the teacher within them, which acts as a medium for the transmission of knowledge between two generations of living organisms......

"Rural Teacher" is undoubtedly a very peculiar science fiction novel, the first half can be said to be a documentary literature about basic education in poor areas of China, and the addition of aliens in the second half makes the whole novel ethereal all of a sudden, especially Zuihou explains the profession of teacher in the language of science fiction, which is very infectious.

The other is "Bring Her Eyes", an early work by Liu Cixin, published in 1999.

His novels have always been known for their grandeur, but this work gives people a sense of another kind of graceful poignancy, and the tenderness of the weak props up the grand steel machine. Chen Xin remembered that he had read this novel a long time ago and was deeply moved, and after a few years, he picked it up again and was still deeply immersed in it.

The protagonist of the novel is an engineer at the space center, and when he is about to take a vacation, the director asks him to bring a pair of eyes.

The eye is a pair of sensing glasses, when you wear it, everything you see, smell, and touch is emitted by ultra-high frequency information waves, which can be received by another person wearing the same sensing glasses in the distance, so that she can feel everything you feel. Since more and more people work in the moon and asteroid belts, the cost of returning to Earth for a vacation is very high, so people invented this gadget, and some lucky people who can actually return to Earth for a vacation can bring these eyes, so that those homesick people in outer space can share their happiness together.

This time the owner of the eye was a young girl. During the trip, the girl Lin Daiyu's sentimentality and nostalgia for all the ordinary and beautiful things in the world make the protagonist quite impatient, but unconsciously teaches the protagonist some inexplicable things. Inadvertently, the protagonist finds himself sharpened again by a certain feeling that has been dulled by the fast-paced modern life.

This trip planted a seed in the protagonist's heart and changed the protagonist's perception of many things, and after a long time, he learned that the girl was actually the navigator of Sunset Six.

The "Sunset" series of spacecraft is a spacecraft for human exploration of the internal structure of the earth, and the "Sunset Six" had an accident during the navigation of the mantle and sank into the center of the earth, and the crew on the spacecraft could not accept the blow, and died one by one, and finally only the girl was left alone, and she will spend the rest of her life in the closed center of the earth. And that monotonous journey turned out to be the ground shijie that she zuihou saw......

There is no doubt that both novels are excellent, and the difficulty of shooting is relatively simple, which is very suitable for Chen Xin's practice.

There are not many scenes in "Country Teacher", just a dilapidated classroom, Chen Xin only needs to get the interactive plot between the teacher and the children right, and the scenes such as the alien interstellar war can be completely solved by Gangdi.

As for "Bring Her Eyes", there are only three characters in it, the director, the male protagonist, and the heroine, and the plot is simple, and you can't even use the script, as long as you follow the process of the novel.

Chen Xin listed the advantages and disadvantages of these two novels one by one, and after thinking about it again, he still crossed out "The Country Teacher".

It's not that "Country Teacher" is not good enough, it's just that in comparison, "Bring Her Eyes" is more suitable for micro-films.

The theme of "Country Teacher" is much more complex than "Bring Her Eyes", Chen Xin can't guarantee that he will be able to express some of the ideas in it, and the grand interstellar war scenes in "Country Teacher" are more suitable for the big screen, and it is too wasteful to make a micro-movie.

"Bring Her Eyes" has no problem in this regard, the overall structure of the novel is simple, the plot is concise, the theme is profound, as long as the heroine's emotions are expressed, the movie is half the success.

And this novel is not long, just enough to be adapted into a micro-film of about 30 minutes, which is simply tailor-made for Chen Xin.

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Chen Xin sweated profusely and carried a box of metal products upstairs, and as soon as he entered the house, the steel hammer greeted him with a glass of water, and shouted: "Lao Dou is hard, hard work, come, drink a glass of water first." ”

Chen Xin took the cup, poured the water down with a grunt, and sat down on the sofa panting.

The steel hammer turned around and threw himself into the box for a long time, found a steel ingot, cut off a small piece of it with his hands like cutting tofu, and stuffed it into his mouth until it was delicious.

Chen Xin picked up a magazine on the sofa and fanned it, feeling unpleasant, and shouted: ", don't be in a hurry to eat yet, hurry up and help me blow and sweat." ”

"Wait, right away. The steel hammer shoved a few more mouthfuls into his mouth before jumping up from the coffee table and levitating in mid-air, the parts of his body dissolving and reorganizing like mercury, and quickly turning into a three-bladed propeller.

The propeller was silvery-white, and there was no drive in sight, but it turned silently, and the cool breeze blew slowly, and Chen Xin exhaled comfortably.

In order to make this micro-movie, Chen Xin purchased several boxes of beer, instant noodles from the supermarket, and bought a bunch of sausages, eggs, vegetables and fruits, and stuffed the refrigerator to the brim. Then I went to the eastern suburbs warehouse twice and brought enough metal food for the steel hammer to eat for half a month.

"Alright, ready to get started. After resting for a while, Chen Xin took out a coin from his pocket and threw it to Gangyi, who quickly turned back into a human form and caught it with his mouth, squeaking and chewing, while following Chen Xin's ass into the room.

Chen Xin doesn't have any experience in making CG films, but fortunately, other people's experience doesn't work on the special combination of him and.

So Chen Xin didn't bother to look for a strategy or anything, he simply followed his own ideas.

First of all, it is necessary to make a storyboard script, this step is very crucial, the steel hammer is responsible for the outline, and Chen Xin is responsible for supplementing it to prevent the deviation of the steel hammer's thinking.

The steel hammer had already read the novel back and forth several times, and after taking over the computer, it first built the first act on the screen according to its own understanding of the novel.

Chen Xin kept putting forward some of his own opinions and suggestions through the microphone, and the two worked together tacitly, and the scene on the screen gradually plumped up, and then Chen Xin asked the steel hammer to write annotations on the blank part, such as the dialogue of the characters in it, music sound effects, etc.

Soon, the first act of the storyboard was completed, and Chen Xin directly printed it out with a color printer.

This is followed by the second act......

The storyboard took more than three hours to complete, and it was full of pictures and texts. Even a layman like Chen Xin can basically simulate the scenes in the movie from his mind as long as he reads the script.

If other directors see it, they have to be stunned.

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