In Beverly Hills, Zhang Ran walked into a bright café wearing sunglasses. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

There were not many customers in the café, and when Zhang Ran walked into the store, he saw Aziva Gosman, wearing a black jacket and sitting by the window, with steaming and fragrant coffee in front of him. Aziva Gosman is the screenwriter of several well-known films, including "I Am Legend", "The Da Vinci Code", "Angels and Devils", etc., in 2003 he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film "A Beautiful Mind", and now he is the screenwriter of "Future Apocalypse".

Zhang Ran smiled and stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Gossman, I've kept you waiting!"

At the beginning of this year, Aziwa met Zhang Ran in Los Angeles, and then shook hands with Zhang Ran very politely through many phone calls about the script: "I have just arrived, sit down and talk!"

After sitting down, Zhang Ran looked around, looked at the time again, and said, "Matt Damon hasn't arrived yet, but he should be coming!"

Zhang Ran was a little surprised when he saw Aziva and explained that when he was chatting with Matt Damon about the role yesterday, he found that Matt Damon had a lot of ideas, so he suggested that Matt Damon also participate in the discussion of the script, and Matt Damon readily agreed.

Aziva nodded, this play is already difficult to write, Zhang Ran has very high requirements for the script, so far he has written three drafts of the script, Zhang Ran is not satisfied, and Matt Damon has won the Oscar for Best Screenplay, with him participating in the discussion, maybe the problem of the script can be solved as soon as possible.

The two chatted for a while, and the café door was pushed open, and a man wearing a baseball cap walked in. He looked up and walked straight to where Zhang Ran and the others were: "Sorry, I'm late!"

Zhang Ran stood up and introduced to Matt Damon: "This is Aziva Gosman, this is ......"

Matt Damon and Aziva looked at each other and smiled: "We know, we are all members of the Writers Guild!"

Zhang Ran was stunned and laughed: "I see, then sit down and talk!"

The three of them knew each other, and there was nothing polite to be polite about, so they sat down and chatted.

"The Colonel's Sabre" is a novella that takes place in the European theater of war, in the European theater of war, Major Adams of the 1st Cavalry Division, and his troops meet the Russians who are sent to joint, Colonel Gurov, who wears the Chaksi saber. Adams is wary of Gu because the AI has created a bunch of dummers to act as spies. However, as the story progresses, Adams quickly dispelled his suspicions, and Gu didn't look like a robot in any way. Adams quickly paid for his judgment, and he and his troops were brought into the encirclement by Gu, where they were annihilated, and he became a prisoner and sent to a prison in Antarctica.

A few months later, Gu suddenly found Adams and told him the shocking news that due to the unfavorable war, AI does not plan to entangle with humans, and the head of AI intends to directly establish a purely silicon-based intelligent society in the entire carbon-based biosphere. However, Gu felt that this was not right, and planned to assassinate Norton during the AI high-level meeting to stop this crazy plan.

On the day of the meeting, none of the members present at the meeting were allowed to wear weapons, but Gu appeared in the conference room with a saber, and no one thought that the Chasik saber on his body was a weapon, but only that it was a work of art, and then Gu resolutely drew his sword.

"The Colonel's Saber" is a novella, the content is relatively short, the content of the novel alone cannot support a movie, and to adapt it into a movie, a lot of content must be added.

Zhang Ran's current script is a standard three-act play, the first act mainly shows the future world through Adams and his wife, showing the whole process of the robot rebellion; the second act is the encounter between Adams and Gu on the battlefield three years after the Great Apostasy; the third act is Adams's life in prison and his influence on Gu, it is under his influence that Gu has a deeper understanding of people and life, which led to the assassination of Norton.

Zhang Ran had many conversations with Aziva but did not express his views on the whole play to Matt Damon, so he first explained his concept from the director's point of view: "The story of the conflict between humans and robots is not new, and since 1920, when the Czech playwright Karel Čapek proposed the concept of robots in his science fiction drama Russum Omnipotence, great fears have arisen that humans may be destroyed by robots. For more than 80 years, futuristic robots have challenged and even destroyed human beings, replacing them with science fiction works.

I don't want to just make a visual blockbuster about the war between humans and robots, I want to build on the traditional thinking of this kind of film, that is, if technology gains subjective consciousness, will people fall into the danger of extinction?' and think about what is human and what is human nature?

In addition, this story is ostensibly a story of humans and robots, but it is very realistic, and now the whole world is constantly at war, religious problems, racial problems are becoming more and more serious, and to some extent, the conflict between humans and robots is also a racial conflict. Therefore, I hope that everyone can see the reality from the movie, and I hope that it can make the audience think differently. ”

Matt Damon nodded and said: "Mr. Coppola once said that good war movies are anti-war, and "Future Apocalypse" does a particularly good job of anti-war, very warning, and will be a very meaningful movie!"

Zhang Ran began to talk about his dissatisfaction with the script: "This draft of the script is richer in details, but I think it is a bit rigid and rigid, lacking that natural feeling, and the emotions of the characters are not prominent! When I was talking to Robert De Niro about the script in New York the other day, he felt the same way, and he felt that the transformation of the old was a bit stiff. ”

Aziva Gosman and Matt Damon both nodded slightly, Gu is an AI, he betrayed his own race, there must be enough foreshadowing, enough reason to support his actions to be believable, otherwise the whole story will seem very fake.

The novel does with this question, in which Adams asks, "Why did you betray your race? Why did you do this? Do you think AI shouldn't replace humans? Don't you have AI self-awareness?"

Gu replied: "I don't know, I just know that you can't use nuclear weapons, that's the bottom line." I don't think too much about myself. Intelligence is not something that can be reasoned with logic like self-consciousness, and in fact, I think that self-consciousness is nothing more than a high-level reaction produced in the long-term competition for survival. It's not pure intelligence. There will be something more complex, more ambiguous and uncertain about intelligence, something that I can't say myself but that does exist. ”

This passage is okay in a novel, but not in a movie, such a statement cannot convince the audience, and everyone will feel that Colonel Gu's actions are illogical. If people feel that the characters' actions are illogical, they will feel that the whole story is false.

Take "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" as an example, there is foreshadowing for Bell's transformation movie, but after watching it, many people still think that Bell changed too quickly and became a hero from a bastard.

Turning from a bastard to a hero will still attract so many doubts, and there is no strong enough reason for a robot to betray his own race, and it will definitely not convince the audience.

In fact, many Hollywood blockbusters have logical flaws, for example, in "Independence Day", the defeat of aliens relies on computer viruses, can aliens also use binary computer programs? Aren't aliens have antivirus software? But there is no way to do it, if you don't lower the IQ of aliens, don't give humans a hanging, how can you beat aliens with human strength.

Because many movies have various flaws in logic, Hollywood blockbusters often have low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and MTC, and are often scolded by critics. Of course, for Hollywood blockbusters, the purpose is to make money, and it doesn't matter at all that film critics don't rate it well.

However, Zhang Ran doesn't want to make a simple special effects blockbuster, let alone think that as long as it is a box office hit, it will be fine.

Aziva dealt with this by having Adams save Gurov once in prison, and he was seriously injured as a result. Gu asked Adams, aren't we enemies? Why are you risking your life to save me? Adams said, this is the difference between us and you AI? Gu said, I don't understand. Actually, I don't know, if I think you're an AI, an enemy of humanity, then I'm definitely not going to save you. But I didn't think much about it at the time, I just instinctively sensed that someone was in danger and I had to save him. Instinct, you know? Kindness is a kind of human instinct. I don't think your electronic mind will understand what kindness is.

Zhang Ran thinks this change is good, but it's not good enough, and the plot is not convincing enough.

In the process of Zhang Ran's communication with Aziva, Matt Damon listened quietly, did not interject, nodded from time to time, and bowed his head in contemplation from time to time.

Zhang Ran Ramat Damon came over to make suggestions, so naturally he would not let him be idle, so he said, "Do you have any suggestions?"

Matt Damon groaned and said, "Many movies will arrange the death of important characters at this time, so that Gu watched him die slowly, watched the light in his eyes slowly dim, and made Gu's heart shocked, and then he asked Adams why?"

Aziwa applauded: "My second draft is to reunite Adams with his wife in prison, Adams's wife has been in prison for three years, and she hates AI very much, and she hates Gu very much. But at the critical moment, she died to save Gu, so Gu suffered a lot of impact in his heart. However, Robin felt that it was too deliberate and sensational, and he wanted a sense of loneliness, so he was determined not to let Adams reunite with his wife!"

Zhang Ran saw Matt Damon looking at himself in surprise, spread his hands and explained: "I hope to show a sense of loneliness, I think each of us is actually lonely inside, humans are lonely, robots are lonely. Many of the choices we make, even the exploration and progress of human beings, are essentially to get rid of loneliness! The development of technology seems to make it easier for people to communicate on the surface, but in fact it has aggravated the gap between people, and it has become more lonely. Therefore, I hope to show a future world that is cold and devoid of human softness. ”

"The reunion of Adams with his wife does not affect this expression, more importantly we have no other solution now, and if we don't, there is a huge flaw in logic, and if the whole story doesn't make sense, if the story isn't credible, then everything else is meaningless," Aziva advised. I think we can go down this path first, and if we have a better idea in the future, then we can change it!"

Zhang Ran groaned, looked at Matt Damon, and asked, "What do you think?"

Matt Damon shrugged his shoulders and said, "I agree, and a movie wouldn't look good if it didn't have a woman's play, and for commercial reasons, I think Adams and his wife should be reunited in prison." He squeezed his eyes at Zhang Ran and said, "Scarlett is a stunner, the audience must want me to have a hot emotional scene with her!"

Zhang Ran laughed and said, "The audience wants to have a hot bed scene with Scarlett!" He snapped his fingers and said, "I agree with your suggestion, okay, let's discuss the next question!"