Li Yu read the script, and to his surprise, this book is very different from the original. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He felt that since Lin Zixuan was the author of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the script he wrote would definitely be faithful to the original work, at most it would be slightly modified on the basis of the original work, and would not be overturned and restarted.

Because writers attach great importance to their own works and are unwilling to destroy the overall structure.

But screenwriters are different, screenwriters' jobs are adaptations, and in order for the script to be suitable for making a movie, they do not hesitate to destroy the structure of the original book.

Structurally speaking, this script aggravates the roles of Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian, forming a parallel framework of Li Mubai, Yu Xiulian and Yu Jiaolong, of course, the main line is still Yu Jiaolong.

When Li Yu read the original book, he felt that it was difficult for Yu Jiaolong to support a movie alone, and the role was too thin.

With such a change, a triangle is formed, and the entire structure is stable, and the content is richer, which will not make the audience feel that the storyline is single, and it is the story of a girl breaking into the rivers and lakes.

Triangles are more layered than straight lines, giving the audience a sense of comfort and stability.

A script must have a main line, and the original main line of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was that Yu Jiaolong stole the Qingying Sword and roamed the rivers and lakes.

Now the main line has become a story of intensifying and resolving the contradictions between the old rivers and lakes represented by Li Mubai and the young rivers and lakes represented by Yu Jiaolong, which is the grudge entanglement between two generations of Jianghu people.

Before reading Lin Zixuan's script, Li Yan thought about how to adapt it.

How to reshape the role of Jade Jiaolong is a great challenge, and if you want to promote the development of the plot, you have to create contradictions, and then resolve them, which is a common technique in movies.

What he wants to join is the character of Yu Xiulian.

One is Yu Jiaolong with "outer yin and inner yang", and the other is Yu Xiulian with "outer yang and inner yin", and the plot is promoted through the interaction between the two.

Yu Jiaolong's appearance is very feminine, and she yearns for the freedom and heroism represented by Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian, but she is very masculine on the inside, pursuing pure martial arts and wanting to control her life.

Yu Xiulian is a woman who walks the rivers and lakes, and she is a man who stands on her fist and runs a horse on her arm.

However, although her martial arts are good and her personnel skills are proficient, she is very feminine inside, she wants to start a family, stabilize herself, and have moral rules in her heart, not as unscrupulous as Jade Jiaolong.

The correspondence between them is enough to become the skeleton of a film, then this film will be a women's drama.

In Li Yan's view, the rivers and lakes between women are also very interesting, at least the audience will not feel monotonous.

The love and hate of two women, the intimacy with competition and jealousy, the cautious you coming and going, bickering and comparing each other, these are all very attractive parts of women's plays.

However, Lin Zixuan's book added the factor of Li Mubai, and Li Mubai was only a supporting role in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

In the book, Li Mubai grabbed Yu Jiaolong and escorted him back to the capital to complete the marriage, which was a very simple process.

But in the script, this process was extended, and there was a plot where Li Mubai taught Yu Jiaolong a lesson, and the old Jianghu and the young Jianghu's understanding of Jianghu was written, so that the image of Li Mubai's hero was plumped.

At the same time, let the audience see a kind of inheritance, the rivers and lakes are not only fighting and killing, but also have their own order.

In this way, the three people form a three-dimensional rivers and lakes.

Yu Xiulian and Li Mubai are two typical characters common in Chinese society, who live for morality and community.

People in the rivers and lakes cannot only rely on martial arts, but also convince people with morality.

It is precisely because of the restraint of morality that the two paid the price of youth, and at this time, the appearance of Jade Jiaolong broke the peace of the rivers and lakes and aroused their inner desires.

There is a tiger hidden in everyone's heart, and the crouching tiger and hidden dragon on the rivers and lakes are not the same.

Lee's films are gentle, with both the inclusiveness of traditional Eastern culture and the acceptance and compromise of Western culture.

He is not the kind of director who imposes his ideas on the audience, but tells a story in a narrator way.

He has received both Eastern and Western education, understands the viewing habits of Westerners, and is good at realizing his artistic ideals within the strict and standardized production scope of Hollywood.

Or rather, he found the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures.

The script of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is very right, and Li Yu feels that there is a trick, but he has to do one thing first.

That is to translate the script into English and show it to Westerners to see if they can understand the story.

Generally speaking, it is difficult to translate martial arts novels into foreign languages, and foreigners do not understand the magic of martial arts novels, such as meridians, acupoints, hidden weapons, light skills of flying eaves and walls, and unexplained internal skills.

These words have no equivalent words in a foreign language, and the difficulty of translating them can be imagined.

Not only in terms of martial arts, but also in the entire Oriental social structure and moral concepts.

For example, Yu Jiaolong's family situation, what does Lord Yu do, why he obeys the master at home, and why does he marry his daughter to such a person.

These things that Orientals take for granted, in the eyes of foreigners, are either uninterested or strange, and will have questions.

In the final analysis, everyone's thinking logic and living environment are different.

In fact, there are some things that are difficult for even Orientals to explain, let alone explain, such as what "rivers and lakes" are.

In the face of a new culture, what can attract them is curiosity, and the other is to understand, how to cross the cultural gap through the art form of film, first of all, start with the script.

In the past, foreigners watched martial arts movies, but they only watched the martial arts part, and as for what the plot was about, they didn't care at all.

What Li Yu wants to do is not only to make good-looking martial arts films, but also to let foreigners understand the content of the story and play the role of a communication bridge.

Then the first step is to let foreigners read the script.

The script of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" does not talk about any profound martial arts, unlike other martial arts films that talk about this fist and that leg, the various sects and the ways of good and evil, etc.

Foreigners will feel confused, they can't figure out what kind of sect this person is, what kind of martial arts they use, they forget the front after reading the back, they are confused, and naturally they can't understand the content of the story.

So, just grasp one important point, and that is swordsmanship, which is the most simplified way of writing.

The second is dialogue, which has charm in ancient Chinese and is easy to understand in modern Chinese, but it is difficult to convert the two.

Li Yu found an American screenwriter named James, who had worked with him many times, and he asked James to translate the script into English first, and find foreigners to read it to see if there were any deviations in foreigners' understanding of the story.

Where there are deviations, where there are things that I don't understand, and then ponder and revise.

Anyway, with this script, the project finally has a glimmer of light. (To be continued.) )