The bright sunlight shone into the study through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and Wang Yang sat in front of a green 21-point small gaming table, looking at the stacks of chips in front of him attentively, touching his chin and thinking about the camera. There are also several decks of cards on the small table, each with two cards face-up, two cards for the dealer, strings of chips of different equal values, and an open laptop and pen and paper.

"I'll play with you. Wang Yang laughed playfully, looked at the position of the dealer opposite, as if there was a person standing there, he slightly curled the corners of his mouth, and pushed out a large pile of black chips on the table with both hands. Then he frowned, feeling that it was not cool enough! He picked up a pencil and drew a few notes on the A4 notebook, a thick copy of the "MIT-21-Team" storyboard script, which was full of various shots and lines.

Wang Yang moved the pile of chips back, thought about it, then picked up a round black chip and flicked it, he looked at his fingertips, and suddenly imagined the picture of the chip spinning on his fingers, and then bounced high and caught it again, and pushed out the large pile of chips with his right hand at the same time, and smiled at the corner of his mouth: "Let's make a break." With that, he closed the chip on the table with his left hand and snapped.

"Yes, Natalie is very cool. Wang Yang muttered excitedly, and used a pencil to draw several continuous shots on the paper such as "chips spinning at fingertips", and then markedly: "When the left hand puts down the chips, slow motion." He couldn't help but smile as he thought about it, and said to himself, "Slow motion is really a cool twin brother." ”

Cool, exciting, and exciting are all the style of "mit-21-team", and these three are combined with each other, the cool characters and cool graphics will be exciting, and when they are excited, they will be nervous about the action in the casino, and the genius team will feel exciting and cool when they are clever and retreating, all of which are like a chain, one link after another, but from the cool to the end. The success of the film can be said to depend on the word "cool".

So where should the coolest side of card counting come into play? The story is the story, just the story of the card counting plot, must not leave the table, this can not be avoided, why avoid? its charm is here, its cool is here. The camera screen on the gambling table should be developed in accordance with the plot and appropriately, so that the audience can intuitively understand, not boring, not lame, only cool.

But 21 is different from the confrontational cards of stud, the opponent at the table is only the dealer who deals the cards, and the dealer has no gambling skills, so his existence is not to provide tension and excitement, he is just a poor worm, set off the cool and high intelligence of the genius group members.

Card counting is not gambling, but a calm number game, and when Jeff Ma and the eldest sister are the first two big players to be calm and arrogant on the inside, and the head is completely a crazy gambler, in fact, the heart is like an Intel chip working, playing others around, it is the coolest thing at the gambling table.

"Exploded. Wang Yang flipped over the dealer's card on the table, said lightly in a voice, and immediately changed his playful expression, and let out a burst of weird laughter: "Wow, hahaha-" He stopped and shook his head, which ruined the cool brother and cool girl to become a madman, and the specific way to do it is left to the actor.

After a trip to Las Vegas earlier this year, he had the idea of filming "MIT-21-team" and "The Hangover," which made him even more interested in the story of MIT's talented students storming Las Vegas. After more than half a year of busy ideation, as well as many contacts with Ben Mozridge, the author of "The Capture of Las Vegas", he already had an idea.

In addition, Ben Mozrich readily agreed early on to sell the screen adaptation rights of the novel to Flame Films, but both parties kept it a secret for the time being.

This time is a little different from the five films he has directed before, because the help given by future films in the past is to let him know that he wants to shoot such a story, and there are many successful experiences, but this time "Mit-21-team", this Jeff Ma story, and the future boring, lame, boring, procrastinating, and infuriating "21 Point Winner", all tell him about failure.

How to avoid these failures, how to achieve success? This time, there is no ready-made good thing, everything he wants to think about in the movie, the big story and the small details, is more and more.

The story of Mit-21-Team will be played by two main lines, the so-called cat-and-mouse game, but who is the cat and who is the mouse? The famous female detective hired by the casino, Beverly-Griffin, is a cat, Jeff Ma and others are mice, and she plays a game of cat and mouse, but Jeff Ma and others are also cats, and Beverly is a mouse, and they play a game of cat and mouse.

One main line is the Blackjack group, starting from Jeff Ma's perspective and experience, he started out as an ordinary student, fighting with others in bars, and Natalie discovered his incredible numeracy and card counting talent, and then Natalie invited him to join the Blackjack group, learning the skills of card counting, and the disguise code in the casino.

After learning well, Jeff Ma followed Natalie to Las Vegas for the first time, and for the first time he tried to play the role of a big player, and with his humanoid computer on board, the group became more and more powerful, and they became cooler and cooler.

At this time, Beverly Gracefin, a female detective in another main line, began to slowly approach the target with clues, and the crisis came. But in this cat-and-mouse game, Jeff Ma and others are always able to save the day and play Beverly in the palm of their hands, and instead of being recognized, they take advantage of the summer vacation to sweep the whole of Las Vegas and become a nightmare for every casino owner.

Just when Beverly Griffin was fired from the casino, disheartened but unwilling to give up, she unexpectedly found a key clue, and was completely stunned, the mysterious card counting group may be all MIT students!?

She convinces the casino to rehire herself, and in another operation by Jeff Ma and others, she cooperates with the monitor to lock them down, evict them from the casino, and officially list them as persona non grata.

Just when the casino owners thought they had won and the game was over, and they were throwing a celebratory dinner for Beverly Griffin and the rest of the detective team, Jeff Ma and Natalie walked into the casino without makeup and in the open, and the two big players teamed up to make the final madness, sweeping Las Vegas in just one night that the casino owners will never forget, and then left in style.

The bosses and detectives who had come to an abrupt halt in the celebration were stunned, how could they not be recognized? When Beverly Griffin and the others rushed back to the casino to take a look, they saw their true colors.

After this, the casino re-stored all the images of Jeff Ma and others, and every doorman, waiter, and dealer had to recognize the appearance and makeup of those guys, and conduct all-round manual surveillance, they are the blackest people in the Las Vegas blacklist.

But the eager casinos did not wait for the mit-21-team, Jeff-Ma They all know that card counting is never the right way, if they stay in the casino for a long time, card counting will become gambling, eroding their whole brain, so this can only be a moment of youth frivolity, life has to go on. They happily finish their studies at MIT. This is the end of the movie.

"We've never gambled, we're just doing math. Wang Yang smiled and muttered, picked up the ace of spades and the queen of spades on the table, and smiled in an expected tone: "Black Jack!" He shook his head: "Ok, I need some music." With that, he stood up and walked over to the vinyl record player by his desk, where he took out several vinyl records from a drawer and picked them up, and put one of the AC/DC albums inside.

Soon the bright study was filled with fiery rock music, and with the ......shouts of "Oooo

Wang Yang hummed and swayed slightly to the chair, swaying his feet with his eyes closed, and some images were vaguely stimulated, and a set of cross montages appeared in front of him with the singing.

Beverly Griffin was running nervously in the hallway of the hotel, while at the gaming table, Jeff Ma and Natalie each opened a pair of Blackjacks with faint smiles on their faces. The song rang out: "t.n.t-and-ill-www.xstxt.org-a-powww.xstxt.orge-explode...... (I'm going to win this battle!I'm going to be loaded!Watch me explode!)!"

Beverly rushes to the casino, Jeff Ma and Natalie get up from their chairs, and the MIT team walks up with chip bags and smiles on their faces...... "im-dirty, mean-and-mighty-unclean...... (I'm nasty, nasty, and mighty evil, and I'm a generalized man, public enemy number one.) Do you understand? So watch your daughter, watch your wife, watch the back door of your house......."

While Beverly was searching everywhere, sweating profusely, the MIT team had already stepped out of the hotel, got into a top-top car and drove away laughing, Natalie in the back of the car laughed and whistled, grabbed a handful of chips and threw them into the air. The screen focuses on the round chips churning in the night sky, and after a slow motion, the sports car drives by at high speed, and all the valuable chips fall crisply onto the road.

The T.N.T song is so fucking powerful!The AC/DC song seems to be a good fit for the soundtrack of "MIT-21-TEAM"?Wang Yang laughed and hummed "watch-me-explode" along with the music, and drew the shot idea on AK paper with a pencil, a typical cross-montage that creates tension, but often very effective.

However, in this set of shots, the images of Beverly Griffin and Jeff Ma are still a little blurry, because there is no confirmed actor. They are the male protagonist and the second heroine, and the role candidates need to be focused and strictly searched. The MIT group was initially set to consist of 6 people, two big players and four card counters, including an Asian girl, a white man and a woman, and a black boy.

Although 4 of the 6 people in the realistic 21 o'clock squad are Asian, it is obvious that the mainstream market needs to be taken care of on the big screen, except for Jeff Ma, who cannot be played by a white man, other inconsequential roles must be mainly considered to attract more audiences, because this is a commercial film, because the higher the box office, the greater the victory of the new screen image of Chinese Americans.

"Natalie tossed ...... with chips" Wang Yang suddenly remembered something to laugh as he recorded this scene, he hadn't named her heroine for so long, and she had always replaced it with Natalie. He smiled and shook his head, which would affect the audience's sense of substitution, and when the people on the screen called Natalie, it seemed to remind them: "You're watching a movie." ”

He thought about it and stopped, walked to the desk and picked up the mobile phone next to the computer screen, anyway, Harvard University hadn't started yet, so he called her directly, and answered it with a few beeps, and said with a smile: "Hi, Natalie!" Natalie over there snorted weakly and said, "Hello Mr. Marvel, what's the matter?" I warn you that I'm in a bad mood right now, come and comfort me. ”

"What's wrong?" Wang Yang frowned suspiciously, and went to the record player to turn off the hustle and bustle of rock music. Natalie sighed leisurely and said, "I just want to start another semester, the whole university is almost over, this time flies really fast, I will lose in time!"

Wang Yang suddenly understood a little, it turned out to be a girl's emotion that youth had passed? He smiled a little strangely: "Why did you suddenly think about this?" Natalie's voice was weak, as if she was about to die, "Do you need a reason?" Wang Yang said "no", how to comfort him? He walked to the gambling table and sat down, and said with a smile: "Man, you just need to remember that there will always be a young person who is a year older than you." At least somebody will scold that guy in the future, 'You're so old and you're young, blush for you,' but no one will say Natalie. ”

"Hah!" Natalie let out a spirited laugh, "Interesting." Forget it, whatever! I really want to just turn into a shrimp worm and eat garbage in District 9. Wang Yang was confused, and was about to ask what you were talking about? She smiled again: "Young, tell me, what are you looking for me?"

"I'm making sure of your character's name, so I'm calling and asking you, what do you want to call it?" Wang Yang said, his left hand while stacking the chips on the table, stacking them one by one.

Natalie pondered for a few seconds, but said casually, "I don't know, it's called Jessica." Wang Yang said helplessly, "Man, can you be serious?" Natalie laughed and said with interest: "What do you mean? Jessica can't do it?" I don't even know why my parents gave me a French name, Natalie, a child born at Christmas, bad...... Oh!"

She seemed to remember something, and said incomprehensibly, "I seem to have been born in June?

"Ask your parents. Wang Yang smiled and said in a serious tone: "There are also answers to my questions." Natalie over there was still nonchalant: "Okay, let's call Juno." Before the words fell, she heard his "ah" roar in a suppressed voice, and she smiled: "Forget it, it's better to have your name, young, if a girl is called this name, I think it has a lot of personality." ”

He still gritted his teeth and roared angrily, and she immediately said, "How about yolk (egg yolk, lanolin)?" Wang Yang couldn't help but smile and frowned, and said, "How do you know my nickname?" But no, no, no! ”

"Then I can't think of it, you can get up yourself. Natalie's voice sounded disinterested, and she then asked, "By the way, have you found a candidate for Jeff Ma?" Wang Yang looked at the swaying chip column in front of him, carefully continued to fold it, and replied, "I haven't started looking for it yet, but it's too soon." Natalie suddenly snorted and said with great interest: "I have an idea, how about you act?"

"Hahaha! Interesting idea, you haven't seen me act yet. Wang Yang suddenly couldn't help laughing, his hand trembled, and the entire chip column fell on the gambling table with a bang, damn it! He shook his head and smiled: "Although it's interesting, I don't think it's a good idea, my acting skills are too stinky, and I don't have any desire to perform, maybe I'll make a cameo appearance as a student of MIT, you know to satisfy my dream of a prestigious Boston school, but the starring role is forgotten." ”

And as a director, he is used to the feeling of being in control, every character and every part of the picture is under his nose, and if he is in the picture, he can't look at the performance of the actor and the performance of other people from behind the camera, he will not be able to adapt. This movie is not a toy, every movie is not a toy, and there is no room for error!

"I've just heard of your acting skills, so I want to see your ng scenes so I can laugh at you!" As soon as Natalie said that, she burst out laughing: "Hahahahahaha-" Listening to her louder and louder laughter, Wang Yang sneered: "Boring!"

The two laughed and talked for a while, and then ended the call, but the result was still that the name of the heroine was not confirmed, and the selection of Jeff Ma was still a question mark.

(To be continued)