"Time Prisoner" has been handed over to the movie channel, and the rest is their business, and Zhang Ran doesn't need to worry about it. His focus is on teaching again, and he continues to mingle with his students.

Of course, Zhang Ran was not idle after class and began to think about his second movie. Regarding the second film, he has been thinking about it for some time.

This time, he hopes to make a film that will be released.

If he stays in the United States, Zhang Ran has many options, such as "Chainsaw" and "Ghost Record" can definitely become famous in one fell swoop. However, in China, a rookie director, Zhang Ran has not much choice.

Now the market is too bad, making commercial films is too risky, Zhang Ran can't afford to lose, if the new director smashes the pot with the first movie, there will be no future, and there will be no more investors to invest money. Comparatively speaking, taking the route of overseas film festivals is less risky. As long as you win the award overseas, there is a high possibility of recovering your investment.

ucLa has signed an agreement with the Sundance Film Festival, and Zhang Ran is a graduate of ucLa, so he can ask the school to make a recommendation. As long as the film has a certain standard, there is a good chance that it will be shortlisted for the Sundance Film Festival. Lin Yibin's "Good Luck Tomorrow" was recommended by the school, and finally shined at Sundance.

After repeated thinking, Zhang Ran chose a film that suited him most suitably, "Burst Drummer".

The film is roughly about Andrew, a freshman at the Conservatory, who is hell-bent on becoming a legendary drummer like Charlie Parker, who sees a glimmer of hope after joining a competitive school jazz band, and then begins to undergo hellish training from the devil's mentor Fletcher.

Finally, on the stage at Carnegie Hall, Andrew discovers that Fletcher has given him the wrong score, and that Fletcher is trying to ruin his future. Fletcher knew that Carnegie Hall's industry bigwigs had heard from ear. However, after suffering the blow, Andrew finally turned back to the stage, fought back, played the conductor with the drums, and conquered everyone with music.

This is a story that looks particularly inspirational, but is actually very cruel!

It is very difficult to move foreign stories to China, and it is difficult to bridge the cultural gap. There are many domestic adaptations of foreign films, but there are few successes, and I am afraid that "Crazy Stone" borrows from "Two Big Smoking Guns", and "People in Embarrassment" borrows from "Planes, Trains and Cars".

However, Zhang Ran feels that it is very likely that "Bursting Drummer" will succeed in moving "Bursting Drummer" to China, which can be seen from the box office of "Bursting Drummer". The box office of "Bursting Drummer" in Europe and the United States is quite average, but its performance in East Asia is quite amazing, with a box office of more than $3 million in Japan and a staggering $11 million in South Korea, but unfortunately the film was not released in China, and if China can be released simultaneously, it is entirely possible to exceed $20 million.

What's more interesting is that many domestic audiences find it particularly inspirational after watching "Burst Drummer", while the media in Europe and the United States basically think that the movie is a tragedy, and the actor has lost himself.

In East Asia, everyone believes that strict teachers produce high-level apprentices and can accept teachers like Fletcher, while in Europe and the United States, teachers like Fletcher are relatively rare, so Fletcher is the image of a demon in the hearts of many people.

The reason why Zhang Ran plans to shoot "Bursting Drummer" is very simple, the script of the film is very good, it has won many Oscar nominations, and finally won two awards.

Cost is also an important reason, the scene of "Burst Drummer" is very simple, except for a crash scene, other scenes are basically carried out in the rehearsal room and on the stage, basically indoor scenes, and the cost of the film is only 3.3 million US dollars, which is very low. Nortel has rehearsal rooms and theaters, which can be used locally.

In addition, the filming and production cycle of the film was very short, and "Burst Drummer" was only filmed for nineteen days. For Zhang Ran, who has a teaching task, this is very important.

"Bursting Drummer" is a 2014 film, relatively new, Zhang Ran's memory is very clear, and it is easy to write. But he didn't rush to do it, a movie can't just have a story, it must also have a theme, or a spiritual core, and the spiritual core of the movie is what is really moving.

Why are movies such as "Superman" and "Spider-Man" have average reviews, but "The Dark Knight", which is also a comic book adaptation, can be highly sought after? It is because Nolan has injected quite profound ideas into the movie, making this film to the level of elegance and popular appreciation.

So what is the spiritual core of "Bursting Drummer"? Is it not crazy and can't live? Is it a self-breakthrough? Or is it a self-sacrifice for art?

If it was Zhang Ran a few months ago, he would definitely think that the movie was about not going crazy and not living, and it was about self-sacrifice for art, but now he feels that the movie is about people's **, and it is about **devouring the heart.

"The Bursting Drummer" is a small story, but there is a big proposition, torture and being tortured are all epidermis, and even success is skin. At this point, "Burst Drummer" and "Black Swan" are similar, both showing the dark side under the halo of success, the humanity that is gradually lost for the sake of success.

In fact, there is no single answer to success, and it is often an accident that becomes a master and goes down in history. There must be one ingredient to success, and that is love. Andrew, who has been in the film since he tore off the music poster at home, wept when he watched the video of his childhood, he was so sad, but he didn't think about taking out the drum and beating it. When he was beaten and scolded by his teacher again and again, his original intention, his love for the drum kit, had disappeared without a trace. Instead, there is a perverted desire to pursue the ultimate, the ultimate speed of more than 400 times.

At the end of the film, Andrew did it, and he will definitely be remembered by the audience at the scene and will enter Lincoln Center. But the question is, does being at Lincoln Center mean being Charlie Parker? Andrew's suicide brother Sean Casey not only entered Lincoln Center, but was also the chief of Lincoln Center, and he didn't become Charlie Parker, let alone Andrew. Andrew lost the possibility of becoming Charlie Parker, but could well become the second Sean Casey. He followed the same path as Sean Casey, both with great skill and yet lost his love for music.

Charlie Parker is great because he pioneered jazz and took it to a new level. Hand speed 400, Lincoln Center, is only the foundation of becoming a good musician, the basic skills are passed, in order to correctly interpret the music, in order to grope to establish their own musical personality, in order to create their own music.

Andrew was talented and worked very hard, and maybe he could have really become a second Charlie Parker, but when he lost his love of music, he undoubtedly lost that possibility, which was a tragedy for both him and for Fletcher.

This is like a genius like Albert Einstein, who was oppressed by his teacher to do questions day and night, writing until his index finger was bleeding, his mind was full of test papers, and he was finally admitted to Tsinghua University. It is very good to be admitted to Tsinghua University, but for Einstein, is it a huge tragedy to become a machine that does not love physics, but can only do questions and exams?

From this point of view, "Burst Drummer" is anti-inspirational and anti-successful learning!

After figuring out what "Burst Drummer" is trying to express, it's time to think about how to adapt it. If you want to turn "Burst Drummer" into a Chinese story, you must revise it, because the movie tells the story of a jazz drummer, and jazz can't be said to be absent in China, but it's too niche.

Zhang Ran thought of two adaptation methods, one is to put the story in Xiangjiang, Leslie Cheung once made a movie called "Drummer", and the other is to replace the drummer and change it to something else, such as a violinist, Chen Kaige has made a movie about violin "With You", which also has a strict master and a high apprentice.

It is a bit troublesome to put the story in Xiangjiang, the key is that it is difficult to find actors who can jazz drums, so Zhang Ran chose a violinist. Replacing the drummer with a violin is not a big problem, and the violin can also pursue hand speed and can make people's blood boil. Zhang Ran remembers a Pantene Thailand commercial, at the end of the film, when the mute girl holds a scarred violin and plays "Canon", the impact is not inferior to "Burst Drummer".

Zhang Ran divided the story into three parts according to the Hollywood three-stage script, and each piece was subdivided, listing the plot points of each stage respectively, and then began to add flesh and blood.

Although Zhang Ran feels that the movie is a tragedy, he still tries to be as neutral as possible when writing the story, narrating the events from an objective point of view, and does not substitute his own emotions and does not intend to give conclusions. Whether it is inspirational or dark, it is better for the audience to judge for themselves!

"This story is very interesting!" Zhang Ran read the plot he just wrote, and felt very satisfied, "People should master technology, but they can't use technology for technology's sake, otherwise they will become puppets of technology, which will be pitiful!"

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Zhang Ran listened attentively, he was knocking on his door. He looked at the time, it was almost ten o'clock, and it was a big night, who was knocking on the door?

He walked to the door and opened the door to see that it was Ji Chen.