February 5, 2000, the first day of the Lunar New Year, entered the new year.

In Gu Zhi's impression of the New Year, there have always been only six words - reunion, firecrackers, and New Year's greetings.

It's just that every year is the New Year, but the taste of the New Year is getting weaker and lighter.

On the fifteenth day of the New Year, Gu Zhi's family of three went back and forth to the hometown of the consultant and Lin Zhi, and finally rushed back to Shen Yong the day before the Lantern Festival.

After visiting relatives in the past ten days, not only Gu Zhi felt bored, but even his parents were a little uncomfortable.

Although everyone is related by blood and are real relatives, most of the relatives only meet once a year, and they don't know each other at all, so they really can't find any common topics.

Every day, in addition to eating, they played cards and mahjong, and the consultant and Lin Zhi had to barely cope, losing thousands of yuan back and forth.

Gu Zhi is even more boring, whether it is children, peers or adults, they can't play with him.

In an era when the Internet was not yet developed, he had to go to a black Internet café with a group of little children every day to play violent motorcycles, reminiscing about childhood classics and killing time.

The only good news is that he found that no matter which Internet café he is in, every computer is pre-installed with penguin buttons, and almost every student in the Internet café has a button number.

During the past six months, the connection between Gu Zhi and Xiao Ma and Ma Ling has not been broken, but he generally does not take the initiative to interfere with the actions of these two, and only when they make some major changes, will they come to ask Gu Zhi's opinion.

After all, he is the largest shareholder of the two companies, and his understanding of the company is so thorough and profound, his opinion cannot be ignored by the two fathers.

Finally returned to Shenyong, and after a day of easy rest at home during the Lantern Festival, Gu Zhi turned on the computer and began to type his first script.

It's called the "Butterfly Effect".

The willingness of the butterfly effect refers to "small changes that may seem inconsequential at first lead to serious consequences that were not foreseen at first".

coincides with the theme of this movie.

This is an American film released in 2004, starring two completely unknown European and American starlets, and the other supporting characters are also marginalized figures in Hollywood.

The film mainly tells the story of the male protagonist who often lost his memory inexplicably when he was a child, so he used a diary to record what he did.

After experiencing the perverted behavior of the little girlfriend's father, the mischief of putting explosives in the mailbox in front of someone else's house and causing death, the younger brother of the little girlfriend burning the hero's dog, and the hero's father trying to strangle the hero, the hero's mother moved with him.

When he grows up, the male protagonist flips through the past diary and finds that his consciousness can go back to the time recorded in the diary through the words in the diary, and try to change the past and solve all the problems that happened above.

But the consequences are often unpredictable, when he saves someone, there will always be others who are unexpectedly hurt, and each time it brings not a perfect ending, but another tragedy.

In the end, there are two versions of the ending of the film.

In the director's cut, the male protagonist returns to his mother's womb by watching the film of his birth, hangs himself with the umbilical cord, and saves everyone related to him from being implicated in his ability.

In the normally released version, the male protagonist returns to his childhood, scaring away the heroine who wants to make friends with him, and the two live happily ever after.

This is a low-cost, small-production pseudo-science fiction suspense film, with an investment of about $1 million, and a total of $96 million at the box office in North America, which is about 790 million yuan at the exchange rate in 04.

In terms of the amount of investment in this movie, it is definitely a great success, and investors have made a lot of money.

And the reputation of the movie is very good, both at home and abroad, it has received good scores, IMDB 7.7 points, Douban 8.7 points, is one of the top 100 movies on Douban.

Gu Zhi liked this movie very much in his last life, and he watched it no less than three times, and many of the details in it were handled very well.

As his first script, Gu Zhi took it very seriously.

It represents a stepping stone to enter the film and television industry, if there is no excellent quality and sufficient box office guarantee, it will leave a failed first impression on the film and television industry.

The first impression is much more important than you think, and if you don't do it well the first time, even if you pay a greater price later, you may not be able to erase the impression.

It's like when it comes to domestic movies, many people's first impression is a bad movie, which can never be changed by a few good movies.

So this first shot must not only be played loudly, but also beautifully.

It took Gu Zhi a whole month to finally complete the script of grinding the butterfly effect.

He originally estimated that he would be able to finish it in a week, but it turned out that the script was more difficult to write than the novel, and every scene and every line of dialogue had to be perfect.

Switching from a European and American background to a Chinese background, this alone was enough to torture him.

Creating, revising, polishing, Gu Zhi basically didn't leave the house for a month.

During this period, the Ming Daily Publishing House also called him once and invited him to BJ to participate in a signing event, but Gu Zhi refused on the grounds of creating a new work.

After completing the script of the butterfly effect, Gu Zhi also needed to find a director who was willing to make the film and a film company that supported him.

This is really difficult for him.

Even if Gu Zhi is now a famous young writer, the distance between him and the film and television industry is still very large, and others will not take the liberty of trusting you and making bets with millions of investments.

You must know that Guo Xiaosi and Han Han, two representatives of young writers, officially set foot in the film and television industry after becoming famous for a long time.

Today's Gu Zhi is more like a short-lived genius writer, and no one knows if he can continue to be beautiful.

So who to shoot and who to invest in has become a big problem.

Directors have always been a scarce species in China, and a good director is even more difficult to find.

In 2000, China was mainly the world of fifth-generation directors and directors in the Beijing circle.

The so-called fifth-generation directors refer to the directors who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the 80s, and the representative figures are Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Li Shaohong, Wu Ershan...

In addition to these more famous directors, the others are some unknown directors who love to make literary films, which can basically be ignored.

In addition, there is the Beijing circle, and the famous directors are Feng Xiaogang, Jiang Wen, Ye Jing, and Ye Daying.

In addition to these directors in the Beijing circle, there are also Huayi Brothers, a media giant, a famous writer and editor Wang Wei, and Ge You, a royal actor in the Beijing circle...

There are more or less red backgrounds behind these people, such as Ye Daying, everyone knows who his grandfather is, and it is estimated that there are no other directors in China other than him who can make works like "Tianan".

For example, Ye Jing, when Feng Xiaogang filmed Party A and Party B, there was a scene where the tank needed to appear, and he came forward to settle it.

In the current Huaguo, the director's profession is really 108,000 miles away for ordinary people.

Whether it is the fifth generation of directors or the Beijing circle, there is huge energy in the Chinese film and television industry.

They were all famous at this time, and they categorically looked down on young writers like Gu Zhi.

Gu Zhiyi is not from Beijing, and second, he is not a student of the film academy, and wanting to enter their circle is tantamount to wishful thinking.

And these famous directors are not very suitable for directing movies of the butterfly effect, Gu Zhi thought about it carefully, even in the whole of China, there don't seem to be many directors who are suitable...

"Do you have to catch the ducks on the shelves and write and direct yourself?"

After thinking about it, Gu Zhi still gave up this idea.

He is still too young to go to the real crew to hone for a few days, and it is impossible to shoot a good work.

On the other hand, he has no connections in the film and television industry, and his reputation as a writer is still a little worse.

What to do?

Could it be that the script is written and put here and then filmed later?

"Oh yes! There's a guy that's just right!"

Gu Zhi, who was pacing, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and an upright figure immediately appeared in his mind.