Chapter 89: Adapting the Screenplay

Since Tuesday, most of the poster walls inside and outside the theater have been replaced with new ones.

On the new poster, the words "There are still 16 hours and 5 days before this film is stopped" are printed, and the time on it is all handwritten, and there will be a special person to update the time every once in a while.

Every movie shown in theaters will put up some posters in a prominent position to attract the attention of the audience, which is a very normal thing.

For the theater, this is a trivial matter, and no one has ever made an idea about it.

They usually let their employees put up posters, but there are also some distribution companies that have a lot of publicity, or who attach great importance to movies, will take such things to their side.

So, when the Miramax staff, holding a stack of brand-new posters, went to negotiate with the theater, they seemed very indifferent.

"What posters do you want to change for the movie that is about to be stopped?"

"Go, go, change if you want, it's a fool's ......"

And in order to vent his dissatisfaction, Harvey did not greet the senior management of various theaters, and directly let people go to various theaters.

He also gave a death order to the people below, and all theaters showing "The Killer's Tragedy" must be replaced with the latest posters within a day.

When the audience is queuing up to buy tickets, or when they enter and exit the theater, they will naturally see the posters on the wall, and some people will make some comparisons between several movies.

"I've seen "Die Hard 2" a long time ago, the scene is really hot, Bruce Willie is worthy of being the hottest action star today, his movie is absolutely wonderful!"

"Hey man, have you seen "The Killer's Tragedy"?"

"I used to play Bruce Willie really well, but his movements are too dull, go see "Killer Tragedy", you will know what real kung fu is. ”

"As for "Dances with Wolves", it's good-looking, it's just too dull. ”

"Parkour, have you ever heard of it? That's really exciting!"

"Hey, why is it going offline so soon?"

"No, I have to go and watch another one while it's not offline. ”

"Monica, my beauty, I'm coming, hehe. ”

"Honey, didn't you keep saying that you wanted to watch "Killer Tragedy", then hurry up, if you don't watch it, you won't be able to see it, you still have five days. ”

......

Tuesday's response was quite lackluster, and although the box office increased slightly, it didn't have much effect, but it made Xavi's side tired enough.

Until Thursday, the box office increase was not too large, and the highest was Thursday's more than 4 million box office, and the attendance rate also rose to more than 65%.

But the increase of less than one million is a little insignificant compared to the impact of blocking the lower line.

In the past few days, the newly released "Dances with Wolves" has gradually become popular, which is also inevitable, and western blockbusters can always attract the attention of the audience.

Harvey's temper has been very short these days, and he gets angry with his subordinates at every turn, provoking everyone to dare not approach him.

Tang Feng's side is completely different, everyone is busy with the new movie, and even the newcomers who have just been recruited have been mobilized by Wilton to act as his temporary assistant.

The most noticeable change was that the parking lot, which had been slightly empty, became crowded within two days.

Due to the different preferences of each person, the brands and models chosen are also very different, plus Tang Feng later added two minibuses, but in just two days, almost all of his family funds were exhausted.

However, everyone is still very restrained, even if they exceed the budget, they do not choose too expensive cars.

Fortunately, Jesse sent him a share of the "Rising Star" advertisement, a check for $350,000, so that Wilton could continue to recruit people everywhere.

Although a lot of money was scattered, the effect was immediate, seeing that the company's manpower gradually increased, and everyone's enthusiasm became more and more sufficient, Tang Feng was still very pleased.

In the past few days, except for receiving calls from Harvey every day, Tang Feng has locked himself in his office and concentrated on writing the script of "Little Sunshine Beauty".

"Little Miss Sunshine" is a family comedy movie about the Hoover family, who have a weird personality and accompany the little beauty Oliver on a long drive to Los Angeles to participate in this "Miss Sunshine" beauty pageant.

On this road where the whole family works together to help the youngest daughter Oliver pursue her dreams, everyone's dreams are constantly colliding and shattering.

His father, who had always believed in his own rules of success, became a loser who was despised by himself.

My brother, who swore dumb for 9 months for his dream of flying, suffered a shattered dream because of color blindness.

The emotional career failed, and the uncle who failed to find death met a high-spirited rival on the road and was embarrassed.

Because of bad habits, the grandfather who died suddenly and violently, and his incompatibility with today's society.

Finally, during the competition, Oliver danced the striptease that her grandfather rehearsed for her, which drew boos from the audience......

All kinds of hilarious plots are gathered into one movie, and they form the most popular family comedy movie that detonated the summer file of that year.

Tang Feng feels that the most successful thing about this movie is that it uses those that seem ridiculous to capture the real life of an ordinary family.

And the various experiences of this "loser" along the way have also redefined the success and failure in mainstream values.

No matter what the result of your efforts is, life has to go on, everything is not only about winning or losing, cherishing the people who love you and the people you love are the most important thing.

Tang Feng didn't read the original script, he just wrote his own script again based on the plot of the movie in his memory.

Although it is a good movie, there are still some things that need to be modified and added.

For example, Oliver's age will be changed to 9 years old, so that if Angela plays it, it will not be unrealistic because of the age difference.

And due to the difference in eras, Tang Feng also had to redesign the lines and change some details, otherwise it would be bad if there was content beyond this era.

In fact, when he wrote "The Killer's Tragedy", he found this problem, not only to work on the plot, but also to carefully consider the dialogue of the characters and the environment they were in at the time.

Take "Deadly Romance" as an example, it can be said that the plot that Quentin came up with is absolutely wonderful, but the dialogue is much worse, fortunately, he attaches great importance to Tang Feng's opinion, and it is obviously a lot stronger after being revised.

In the original version of "Little Sunshine Beauty", there are a lot of swear words and dialogues, and content that is not suitable for children to watch.

Although this looks very exciting, in order not to let the movie be classified as R-grade, Tang Feng felt that it was still necessary to redesign the lines.

But he doesn't want to give up the setting of "grandpa", if there is no radical, flawed but self-righteous rock veteran, the movie will lose a touch of brightness and will become a lot more mediocre.

It took a lot of effort for Tang Feng to re-design the lines for his grandfather, and also designed two completely different images for him.

When researching the role of "father", Tang Feng's mind suddenly popped up the image of a person, so he hurriedly called Wilton, "Wilton, you can help me run to the Actors Guild now, find an actor named Kevin Spacey, and ask him to play Oliver's father!"

"There's also a guy named Jim Carrey, he's a comedian, and the Screen Actors Guild should have information about him. ”

"Find an old actor who is about 60 years old, and ask for a copy of their information, both men and women!"

At this time, Kevin was not very famous, and Tang Feng didn't know how his acting skills were, but his age and image were very in line with the setting of this role.

Even if it's a supporting role, he doesn't want to choose a random person to play it, after all, this is a movie made specifically for Angela.

As for the role of uncle, the first thing that came to his mind was Jim Carrey, and his crazy and nonsensical performance method should also be brilliant to play this role.

thought of Jim Carrey, the image of another person, and immediately came to his mind, "If you bring Zhou Xingxing and act in a movie with Jim Carrey, I don't know what kind of effect it will have?"

"Although they are funny in different ways, they are all in that nonsensical style, which should be very good, right?"

"When I see Carey later, ask him if he has signed with the company, and if not, sign him. ”

"Haha, I can't wait now, what will their "Dumb and Dumb" look like?"