"See you in the evening, then. Wang Yang and Jessica gently came to a goodbye kiss, and Jessica walked to the garage, smiling and waving her hand while looking back: "Bye, Yang, come on!" Wang Yang nodded: "You too." With that, he walked back into the house and said to Danny, who was following him, "Man, Jessica has gone to learn hip-hop and I'm going to get to work, so you can play by yourself." ”

Wang Yang came to the spacious and elegant study, sat down at the desk, opened the movie and began to write the script of "District 9". But after a while, he felt something was wrong and stopped, looking left and right, there were bookshelves and potted plants, the morning sun was pouring in through the open floor-to-ceiling windows, and Danny was running happily around the lawn outside.

He immediately frowned, no wonder he didn't have any depressed feeling in his heart, now this working environment is too comfortable, the sun is shining! He thought for a moment where the place at home could be "suppressed", the bathroom, the garage, the bed under the bedroom? He laughed, picked up a laptop, pen and paper, "Kafka's Collected Works" and a few other books and left the study, and came to the utility room of the house.

Although the two have only lived together for more than half a year, the small utility room has been filled with all kinds of things in an orderly manner, many of which are gifts from fans, such as the most common plush toys, such as Disney's Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, etc., as well as superheroes such as Batman.

Wang Yang pulled a table and chair and sat down, looked at the crowded sundries and dolls around him in the dim light, and said to himself: "Well, this is not bad, it would be better if it was more chaotic." He got up to make a mess of the utility room, and sat down with his head shaken: "Forget it, Jessica is going crazy." He closed his eyes and felt the loneliness and depression of being in prison for a moment, then looked at the laptop screen and began typing on the keyboard.

Writing a script is not a simple copy of the big screen, that can't be done, first of all, a script is to be read to many people in the crew, the actors must be able to understand, the art director must be able to understand, and the special effects engineer must be able to understand...... He wasn't the only one who understood.

Secondly, a movie script, its length and content are definitely not just the 90 minutes or 120 minutes on the big screen. In fact, what the story of a movie will ultimately look like is decided and born in the editing room in the later stage, not in the initial script text, so the good scripts and bad scripts of each film company are piled up, and the screenwriters have not been valued and suffered from unfair salaries.

And often a script will have a lot of branches and leaves, several endings, and even contradictory content. Maybe a thick script will only use the 40 pages it adds up to, but it's just 80 or 100 pages thick.

Because the editing of a film requires sufficient material, the more material the more flexible, without intuitive image material and just looking at the text, no one knows what this and that combination effect will be, whether it is good or bad, and with sufficient material, editors and directors can freely combine and seek the best way to tell the story.

However, the more material there is, the higher the cost of the film. Therefore, a blockbuster film can burn 200 hours of film and cut it into a 2-hour film, often with a 3-hour or 4-hour director's cut, while a small-budget independent film can only be shot without film and strictly control the storyboard. But his "District 9" doesn't have any financial restrictions.

He has a strong desire to make a film of human transformation, and a lot of his own ideas, but when his mind collides with the idea of a future movie, and even part of his brain is firmly occupied by them, what can he do? Sitting there doing nothing? That would be stupid, that was his brain. He will not deliberately avoid it, absorb some of the success of future films, and tell a story that he wants to tell, which he does.

In the sound of "pop bang", Wang Yang kept tapping on the keyboard, stopping from time to time to draw a shot on the A4 paper with a pen, the story of his "Ninth District" is like this, in 1980, a huge alien ship suddenly flew to the earth, staying in the sky over Los Angeles, at first no one dared to touch it, for fear that it would bring unimaginable disasters to Los Angeles and the earth, but after a period of waiting, human beings still approached the spacecraft and forcibly entered the cabin.

As a result, what humans saw was millions of aliens in the spaceship, they were very ugly, and their bodies were very weak at this time, and they turned out to be alien refugees. The humans rescued them all from the spacecraft and temporarily placed them in an area called "Sector 1".

This will be the first part of "District 9," and the audience will have the same mindset as the people of that world, which is "from welcoming to hating aliens." "When the aliens first arrived, humanity all over Los Angeles, the United States, and the world was excited, welcoming them, and finally finding friends in the universe!

Wang Yang took a pencil and quickly drew a picture of a human feeding aliens on an A4 piece of paper with a smile on his face.

But these aliens are not so friendly, their social organization is like a beehive, with a small elite controlling a large group of workers, and the queen of this mining ship is dead, and most of the remaining aliens are workers, they have low intelligence, temperament, and take pleasure in destroying and killing. So when they got back to health, they immediately messed up the whole of Los Angeles, killing people, setting fires, looting everywhere...... Naturally, the attitude of human beings changed sharply, and they immediately did not have the slightest affection for these aliens. Aliens were not allowed to enter parks, subways, etc., but soon became forbidden to leave the First District, and they were officially forcibly quarantined. The huge cost of resettlement and the frequent conflicts in the surrounding area have made mankind tired of aliens, and they demand that the aliens be driven out of Los Angeles, or even wiped out in one go, of course, this proposal has been opposed by human rights activists and other organizations.

In any case, the aliens received less and less aid funds, and their living conditions became worse and worse, while their population became more and more large, and in the past 20 years, they have also changed from the first district to the ninth district, a slum surrounded by high walls and unmanaged.

For 20 years, the government has been secretly doing extraterrestrial research, but due to budget problems, the government has contracted the management of aliens to a company called the Multinational Organization (MNU), which is also one of the world's leading weapons manufacturers, and its purpose is also to crack those DNA alien weapons.

Nowadays, the people's complaints are getting louder, and in order to save management costs and public opinion, the government and the MNU have decided to resettle the aliens in the more remote and poorer Tenth District. The male protagonist Viggs is the senior administrator of the ninth district of the MNU, and his father-in-law is the president of the MNU, so the "fat difference" that informs the aliens of the relocation falls on him.

This also makes it to the second part of "District 9", where the audience will find that "humans are not a good thing either. On the one hand, the attitude of the whole society towards aliens, human beings use aliens, tease aliens, and put them in cages in zoos to exhibit and make money, because District 9 is too dangerous, and there are too many people in the world who want to see aliens with their own eyes.

These can all be expressed through quick pseudo-documentary footage...... Thinking of this, he scribbled on the paper with his pen again, and an alien clutched an iron branch in a cage, surrounded by a circle of humans taking pictures with cameras.

On the other hand, it is the story of Victrex entering the ninth district, this funny and humorous good man who loves his wife and family, and his colleagues have done all the bad things that human beings take for granted in the ninth district, cheating, beating, scolding, and brutally killing alien fetuses, everything is so unscrupulous.

While searching a suspicious house, Vickers is sprayed with a bottle of energy liquid that aliens Christopher Fussen and his friends have spent 20 years collecting, which also has assimilative effects, and Victrex begins to embark on a path of metamorphosis.

"District 9" has also entered the third part, and the audience's position will change unconsciously, and they will find that "it turns out that aliens also have good people, and they also have family and friendship...... Human beings have become inhumane, greedy, selfish, ruthless, and disgusting. ”

In order to study alien weapons, human beings can abuse and torture aliens, disembowel them, and do all kinds of experiments to exterminate humanity; for research, they arrested Vigers in the early stage of transformation in the hospital, and wanted to disassemble him alive in the research room of the MNU headquarters, and his father-in-law was indifferent to his son-in-law's request for help, and even agreed to dismantle...... But Victrex wasn't a good guy either. When he escaped from the MNU headquarters and hid in the ninth area in desperation, he was rescued by Christopher and his sons, and he also knew that he had a chance to turn back into a human, that is, to retrieve the energy liquid and help Christopher and his son return to the spaceship in the sky, which had a healing device. So all he was thinking about was turning back into a human being, regardless of whether Christopher and his son could return home, whether they lived or died, and whether the entire alien race would survive.

Wang Yang thinks that this part of the movie will be the most depressing, and the loneliness and pain after Victrex's transformation, as well as the disgusting of human beings, will be so depressed that people will go crazy! What he wants to do is to make the audience become aliens, and they will empathize with the experience of Victrex and aliens, and they want to kill all human beings!

So then came the fourth part of "District 9", in the ninth district, Christopher Fuson was held hostage by the MNU soldiers, and was about to be killed, faced with the choice of whether to save Christo, Viggs finally broke out, he no longer had Sven or cowardice, no more "I am human" thoughts, he manipulated alien mecha and a huge army to a big battle, and killed all those soldiers!

The audience will be excited and applaud to see humanity being smashed to pieces, and they will also cheer for Christopher Fossen father and son to return to their mothership, and the aliens can finally go home!

But this is not the purpose, the purpose of the whole movie is to make the audience feel more completely depressed after the pleasure, and a sadness that penetrates the heart, because ...... They are human beings.

Why is there such a story? Are humans better than aliens? What is human nature? Ugly and ruthless, selfish and disgusting? But the movie will also have a good side at the end, and Victrex's wife has not given up on him, and still misses him every day. In the end, Viggs becomes an alien completely, living alone in the 10th arrondissement, missing his wife, and waiting for Christopher Forson, who had made a promise, to return after three years.

Three years from now, will it be the apocalypse of humanity, the battle of Los Angeles, and the questions about humanity?

On the snow-white A4 paper, with the stroke of the pencil, a shot slowly appeared, and Vigers drove the mecha to send out several cannonballs, blasting away several armored vehicles that came to reinforce them. Wang Yang looked at this randomly drawn storyboard script, stretched his waist, and continued to draw.

The lens of the future "District 9" has a lot to learn, such as some techniques of pseudo-documentary, news interviews, TV reports, monitor records, and so on.

One of the purposes of pseudo-documentaries is to increase the authenticity of the film and the audience's sense of substitution, as early as the production of "Ghost Shadow", Wang Yang has already studied the shooting techniques of pseudo-documentary, but that is a DV movie, and "District 9" is a film film, and there are naturally many differences in techniques, so he recently picked up this research again, and the objects include films such as "The Clover Files".

However, the footage of "District 9" is not flawless, and of course compared to the cost of 30 million, it is remarkable. The problem is precisely because of the level of investment and the lack of funds, which makes the scenes and props inside seem a little rough and childish, such as the weapons and equipment of humans and aliens, the size and defense of the MNU headquarters, the number of troops chasing Vigers, the combat power, and so on.

If a movie is to be judged by plausibility, then it is full of mistakes, Viggs was not locked when he was disassembled, he easily escaped from the MNU headquarters, and he and Christopher Fusen easily broke the MNU...... Of course, the movie can't be seen like this, otherwise there will be no fun and no thought. And there is a realistic situation that as long as there is enough investment, regardless of the scene, props, scale, process...... None of these questions will be a problem.

Fortunately, Wang Yang has no worries about capital costs, he can design the scenes and pictures he wants, everything is based on the best movie effect, and he can create his first sci-fi movie well.

As for how much it will cost, because he has no experience in this area of production, Wang Yang doesn't know how to budget, but he asked Robert Zemeckis a few days ago and Will Smith, who is preparing to star in "Men in Black 2", and the cost budget is about 80 million to 100 million, but this cost includes his salary.

Since the current flame movie does not belong to him 100%, the proceeds of a movie will be shared, although the money is basically changed from the left hand to the right hand, but the accounts are to be clear, so he will charge a certain salary below the market price, and the director and editor of "District 9" add up to 15 million. Compared to the name "Magic Jan", this is already very cheap.

Before he was imprisoned, Paramount had invited him to produce and direct a movie with a salary of 25 million, without a clear script, which could be written by himself or selected by them, and Paramount's total investment would not exceed 70 million, allowing the flame movie to enter the game with a maximum of 30 million. Undoubtedly, this is an opportunity with very good rewards and very low risks, but Wang Yang "considered" it and still declined.

If the budget of "District 9" is 80 million, he accounts for 15 million, and the initial salary of the starring Robert Downey Jr. is 1 million, then only 64 million will be left, and the salaries of other members of the crew and the cost of film equipment will be paid...... How much money is left to shoot and do special effects?

And one of the main scenes of the film is in Los Angeles, and he is going to shoot all the live locations, which will inevitably increase the cost, and the other main scene, "District 9", can be shot with miniatures and local sets, but he does not plan to do this, which would greatly reduce the authenticity of the film, and in his plan, all the exterior locations of "District 9" will be filmed in the favelas of Africa, except for the interior scenes that must be built.

After the film is filmed in Los Angeles, it is believed that his 150-day sentence has expired, and he can also lead a team to Africa.

"Jan, I'm back, where are you?" Jessica saw that the study was empty, and looked around the room again, but didn't see the figure, and couldn't help but murmur suspiciously: "Not at home?" At this time, Danny ran forward with his tail wagging wildly, as if to say "follow me", she followed it curiously to the utility room, and vaguely heard a sound inside, so she opened the door to look, and saw Wang Yang drawing something on the paper in a daze.

She laughed in surprise and asked as she walked in, "Jan, what are you doing here?"

"Hey, you're back. Wang Yang, who came back to his senses, raised his head and looked at her, and explained with a smile: "It's nothing, it's just that there is a more working atmosphere here than the study." As he spoke, he excitedly picked up a few pieces of paper on the table and showed them to her, "Jessica, how do you see the concept art of these aliens?"

Although the final appearance of the aliens in "District 9" had to be professionally designed by a special effects company, as a director, he certainly had the right to "dictate" their looks, let alone put forward the initial concept. He smiled at the rows of shapes on the paper, felt very satisfied, and introduced to her: "There are beetle people, lobster people, bee people...... Sweetheart, which one do you like?"

"Hmm......" Jessica looked at the aliens on the paper seriously, with tentacles on their heads, two hands, and two feet...... She looked at it for a long time, and suddenly tilted her head and asked, "Which is the lobster and which is the beetle?" Wang Yang was stunned for a moment, Jessica quickly waved her hand, and said with a smile: "No, no, I recognize it, this is the beetle man! ”

Seeing that she pointed at the bee man, Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Yes, it's him." But I really need to find an art teacher!"

(To be continued)