Chapter 494: How the Trilogy Was Made
Hollywood's filming is fast-paced, because the preliminary preparation is very sufficient, so the filming process is smooth all the way, and soon, in early March, "Cold Heart" was announced, and He Mu completed his first performance in Hollywood.
During the filming, He Mu did not forget to discuss the script of "Zi Bu Yu" with Li Wenhua and Bei Sihan in China, they have already set the tone, their script focuses on the relationship between man and nature, with the help of those monsters and elves to warn human beings that they should love nature and live in harmony with nature, and use this story to promote traditional Chinese culture and festivals, which are also often reflected in comics. Therefore, the stories of "Mu Hibiscus", "Lethe River", and "Crane Death", which focus on love, can reduce their length or even completely abandon them, while the stories of "Cocoon", "Shadow", "White Snake", and "Weasel" can be focused on. In addition, "Fox Marry" and "Frost", which involve the popular characters Amber and Frost Boy, can also be played appropriately.
"Zi Bu Yu" is about the heroine Xiaoyu's experience in the ancient town, starting from summer, through autumn, and coming to winter, He Mu's idea is that since he wants to make a trilogy, he simply shoots one every season, finds a town with the beauty of classical Chinese characteristics, and completes the first part in the summer.
The whole series is based on the special world world seen by the eyes of the "Speaker", and the dark line is supplemented by the legendary story of Xiaoyu's late grandfather and the identity of the mysterious "Brother Shen", Brother Shen is throughout the story, has been mysterious, with a white dog suddenly appeared and disappeared, he guided Xiaoyu to observe the strange world around him that ordinary people can't see.
In fact, Brother Shen's title is wrong. Xiao Yu always thought that he was the son of his neighbor Uncle Shen's family, but in fact, his mother pointed to the wrong person when he identified him, and the real name of this mysterious person should be "Qiu". In addition to Xia Da and He Mu, only a few of Xia Da's close friends know this, and it may take a while for this identity to be revealed. Xia Da wrote more than a dozen stories and did not expose the identity of "Qiu", and now her readers also call him "Brother Shen", and He Mu calls him the same.
After determining the general structure and story direction, it is time to think about the content of each part, and the order of Shada's creation is basically in the chronological order of summer, autumn and winter, but there is no need to be completely confined to her creative order. The re-creation of the script should make each part have a rich storyline, and there must be cohesion, relevance, perception, and touching, and each part can be regarded as a relatively complete story. The integrity of the trilogy must also be guaranteed, which can be unfinished, but it must be concluded in the third part.
He Mu positioned the "Zi Bu Silent" trilogy as a series of movies like "The Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter", rather than a sequel movie of a general nature. The difference is that "The Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter" are planned as a whole. And series of movies like "Fast and Furious" and "Chainsaw" are the first ones to get off to a good start, and the filmmakers saw that they were profitable, so they desperately developed follow-up works, and shot one after another with a similar template.
At the suggestion of Li Wenhua, they first determined the main content of the third finale, and he thought that only by determining the desired result could we know what distance Lu Dao would take, and He Mu thought so.
The main line of the third part was decided to be "Itachi" after they discussed, which is a story of a small animal taking revenge on humans, which was finally stopped by Xiaoyu. There is room for expansion in this story. The secondary line is "Frost", which involves a very popular character, Frost Boy. Like to make a "beep" sound, Xiaoyu named him "Xiaoxiao", looks weird, wears the clothes of the ancients, has two small tentacles on his head, is very cute, Xiaoyu calls him a "strange bug", in fact, he is the elf of the frost, only the size of a human palm, they appear when they communicate in autumn and winter, and they will disappear as soon as winter passes.
He Mu first determined the basic content of the third part, this one is also the most difficult to film, because it involves both the ferret and the frost boy, these requirements for special effects alone are not simple, the ferret can be combined with special effects, and the frost boy has to be made purely with computer technology, and even use motion capture technology to perform with real people, whether it is the technical requirements or the financial requirements, it is not what the current Mizuki can afford.
In terms of the difficulty of shooting, they also pay attention to the easy first and then the difficult, the third part is the most difficult, and the second part is second.
The second part is a story that takes place in the autumn, when Xiaoyu has been living in the town for a while, and has a certain understanding of her own abilities, in the face of some strange people, things, and things, she is no longer afraid, she begins to really open her heart to understand them and accept them. This part will mainly tell the stories of "Fox Marriage", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "Migratory Birds" and "Tiger". The third part is a big explosion of contradictions between nature and man, and the second part is more mild, which can be regarded as the calm before the storm.
This one will be more relaxed, in addition to Xiaoyu and "Brother Shen", the main characters will also appear in the "Zi Buyu" series, and Amber, the little fox who is not inferior to Brother Shen, will also make a shining appearance. In order to transform into a human form as soon as possible, Amber used Xiaoyu's ability to cheat, and then invited Xiaoyu to play in their world, only to see that the girl she liked, Zhuji, married her brother Yan, and made a big wedding in a rage, and later took Xiaoyu to drink with the three old gods during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The second part will also highlight the place of Grandpa Xiaoyu's cow fork through Xiaoqin's grandmother Liang, Grandpa Xiao, Grandpa Xiao, and other characters, Xiaoyu's grandfather is Xiaoyu's mother Lin Yan's grandfather, is a character who lives in legends, and has left a lot of magical stories in this town. In addition, the identity of "Brother Shen" will also reveal some content in this part.
Overall, the second part is relatively bland, lacking contradictions and conflicts, but don't worry about it now, when it comes time to really start writing the script, the genius screenwriters have a way to create contradictions and conflicts and increase the highlights of the film, and now they are just roughly determining what the second part will tell.
When it comes to the first part, you can't be sloppy, the key to the success or failure of the whole series lies in this, the first part of the movie version of "Zi Bu Yu" must be a blockbuster He Mu can increase investment in the filming of the last two, from the content point of view, the more you go to the back, the higher the requirements for special effects and big scenes, especially the third part, which is completely a blockbuster configuration, may have to come to a nature mobilization, pull out the monsters and animals that have appeared in front of you to scare the humans who are not kind to nature.
The story of the first part takes place in the summer, and it is the first time that Mo Yu's children come to this town, where she meets Sister Yan, the sister next door who cooks super unpalatable, and meets new classmates: violent Lori Lin Qin, Gangzi, the son of a butcher who likes to bully herself and like to be bullied by Lin Qin, and Zhao Bin, who has a withdrawn personality and later became inseparable from the snake. Of course, there is also a mystery and mystery, and there will always be a "Brother Shen" and his Xiaobai who save him at a critical moment.
…… (To be continued......)
PS: [ps: I watched "Zi Bu Si" again yesterday, the more I watched it, the more I liked it, this must be a shocking movie, everyone's votes should be cast!! The first more is offered~~~]