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"Am I really that despicable in your eyes?" Li Xiaole couldn't help but touch his chin and said, "Don't worry, you are still my assistant now, but are you going to do something that an assistant should do?" I just want you to go to the infirmary first to treat the wound and come back to me tomorrow, by the way, after you have taken care of the wound, you will notify the publicity department and tell them that our TV station award has officially changed its name to Pirate TV Company, and I will pass on the logo design to them tomorrow, and let them reprint the document and pass it on to the company owner. ”

In fact, he had already thought of the names of several new TV stations before he came, such as Black Pearl Channel, Lianmei TV Station, etc., but in the end, if he chose to abandon these mediocre names and simply change them to Pirate Channel, in fact, he was like a pirate from China, who came to the strange waters of the United States and set sail~ Since this name is a good omen, it also reflects the company's free-spirited cultural concept.

"...... Pirate TV Company?" After hearing this, Mina's face was full of doubts, and after confirming again, she turned around and walked while the Propaganda Department, muttering suspiciously: "It's really strange, weishenme I humiliated him so much, and he didn't dismiss me...... Isn't he really trying to use me as a shield for dismissing employees? No, there must be some other reason......"

After watching Mina leave, Li Xiaole continued his work, and on his first day in the Pirate Stage, he stayed with the company and began working on the concept concept of The Walking Dead environment through the night.

The so-called concept draft,It's the environment props,And the drawings of the character setting,These concept drawings,Actors、Art director、Special effects artists will be able to understand after seeing,What kind of style is Shijie in this story in his mind,Doomsday,Zombies,It's a large range of types,But there are many branches,To unify everyone's thinking,Concept draft is the most intuitive。

Li Xiaole lay on the neat desk, holding a pencil and quickly drawing the main characters on A4 paper, such as "The Walking Dead", an American drama aimed at all viewing groups, at the beginning, the first thing to determine is not the outline of the story, but the context of the characters.

The reason for this is that the American television audience includes a wide variety of nationalities, people of all ages, and wants ratings. It is necessary to ensure that the actors must include actors of all ages and colors.

The most famous law in American dramas is the "white, black and yellow" three-color law, which was formulated by the top management of ABC in 1974 and has been used to this day, and almost all "all-age" American dramas will follow this principle.

The so-called "white, black and yellow" three-color law is that there must be white people to play the leading role, there must be blacks in the important supporting roles, and there must be Asian actors in the secondary supporting roles.

In fact, this is completely formulated according to the proportion of the American population, if the TV series wants to attract people, the sense of involvement is very important, and all audiences of all races must be satisfied, such as the original version of "The Walking Dead", the combination of Rick, Knife Girl, and Glenn is a typical case of this framework, and in the broadcast of the series, any "black" or "yellow" character dies in the plot, then a new character should be replaced immediately, so that the character always maintains this law.

Only by careful observation, many fans can see this phenomenon from similar themes such as "Prison Break" and "Lost".

However, in "The Walking Dead", this three-color framework is quietly changing, as more and more Asian people begin to contact American dramas, Glenn, an Asian character, has been welcomed by many audiences, and more and more scenes are in the later stage, slowly joining the main character camp.

Since Li Xiaole is a Chinese director, of course he hopes to use more Chinese actors and let Chinese actors play the role of angels in "Life Remote Control", although he has received a lot of criticism, but it seems that the public opinion effect brought by this controversy is very conducive to the publicity of the film itself.

Think about it, in Hollywood, a black man like Will Smith can take the lead in blockbusters, even if it is the result of the efforts of countless black actors in the previous decades, although he can't make Chinese actors a part of the mainstream on the screen, but at least he can add some Chinese elements, maybe more than ten years later, or even twenty years later, there will be real Chinese actors who will not be in the form of kung fu actors, but only as an American actor in the TV drama to become the first and second roles......

Li Xiaole was willing to make such an attempt, so he decided to add an important Chinese actor in "The Walking Dead", Andrew Lincoln of the male number one Rick must not move, and the popular crossbow brother Darryl must of course be retained, as for Glenn, although this role is very likable, but there is no outstanding performance, even if it is played by a Chinese actor, it makes no sense, it is better to leave it to Steven Yuan, who is of Korean descent......

Li Xiaole decided to use the original actors for these roles with good performances, he slowly thought about this problem, while "rustling" the concept draft of the actors, until he drew the role of "Sean", he suddenly stopped writing, hmm...... This "Sean" seems to be very suitable for a Chinese actor to play.

Sean...... It is the police officer partner of the male protagonist Rick when he was a sheriff. When the apocalypse comes, Rick is in a coma, and Sean goes to rescue Rick's wife and children and help them escape to zombie-infested Atlanta, where he develops feelings with Rick's wife on the way......

When Rick returns, although the two become the common leader of the team, they are estranged because they both love the same woman, and Sean's jealousy of Rick deepens, causing the character to begin to go dark, and Zuihou is stabbed in the heart with a dagger by Rick to death......

In the original version, the handling of this character is Li Xiaole's least favorite thing about the original book, although the plot in the comics is like this, but this makes the overall rhythm of the TV series tend to be extremely dark.

Strictly speaking, there is no deep hatred between Sean and Rick, although they have different views on things, but they can only be said to have their own positions, not a major contradiction between right and wrong, and the duel between Sean and Rick, a good pair, in the second season has become an accent note that the plot style is going to the abyss, which completely makes the audience feel despair of despicability towards human nature when they look at the plot...... A deep despair.

Rick also became cold and confused in the third and fourth seasons because of this plot, resulting in "The Walking Dead" Although the plot is still very exciting, it causes the tone of the whole series to change, and the story is full of despair, and even the protagonist Rick himself begins to suspect that he has a nervous disorder...... It's very uncomfortable for the audience to watch it too.

Frankly speaking, although Li Xiaole respects the handling of the original work, he doesn't like this tone of the dark style of American screenwriters, and he wants to emphasize that although there are sometimes conflicts of interest between people, although sometimes you live and die, in the end, people will still retain indelible goodwill in their hearts.........

I remember that in the Zuihou scene of the duel between the pair of Sean and Rick, the two were emotional and tried to summon up the courage to kill each other, but at the same time they were condemned by their conscience in their hearts...... Hesitant......

Sean pointed a gun at Rick, but never fired, and at the moment when he slowly lowered his head from the gun, Rick ruthlessly stabbed the dagger into his partner's heart...... But as the victor, Rick did not have any joy and joy, but held the body of his good partner Sean in his arms, and howled heart-rending in the moonlight, this scene is the most heartbreaking scene......

Perhaps this is the bottom line of art's exploration of human nature? Perhaps this grief will touch the hearts of American audiences? Li Xiaole can't know what the original screenwriters think, but if he is allowed to choose, in such a story full of too many sorrows, he really would rather be "shallow" at this time......

In his story, Sean Zuihou turns his prodigal son, but instead of putting down his gun, he shoots at the zombie walking behind Rick, but Rick misunderstands that he shoots himself and impulsively shoots Sean......

In the same way, the helpless manslaughter and the deliberate murder are completely different feelings of guilt, and Rick does not have to bear the cross of self-blame, he will understand more of the indelible kindness in people's hearts from this remorse......

This will not affect the logic of the plot, nor will it make the back too dark, and the proportion of despair and hope is equally strong, which is the most haode style that Li Xiaole thinks.

Obviously, with such a change, the audience will begin to sympathize with Sean, and the role will be more flattering, and the actor Joe Bornser in the original version does not look like a good bird, so naturally he can't be used to play it, and a new actor must be selected.

Sean, a criminal policeman in his early 30s, has a responsible, stubborn personality, and is an attractive man, Li Xiaole erased Sean's original image on the drawings and reproduced it, trying to soften the lines of his face...... Among Chinese actors, is there an actor who can control such a role with complex emotions?

While holding his chin with his left hand, Li Xiaole clicked on the actor database on the computer with his right hand mouse, and began to search for Chinese actors who were about thirty years old and had passed the English test, and soon found several qualified character information.

An Zhijie, born in 1977, a Hong Kong rookie actor, born in the United States, has good skills, replaced Li Lianjie as the protagonist in "Black Man 2", which is very suitable for the role of this policeman, but his acting skills are a little weak, and he can't afford such a complex role that is both good and evil...... Let's go next.

How about Gao Shengyuan in "Crime Scene Investigation" in 1969? A senior TV drama actor, the world's top 100 sexiest men award by People Weekly, there is no problem with his acting skills, but Li Xiaole watched his information for a long time, and then turned out his video and studied it carefully.

Sean is a patrol officer, and his temperament needs to be tougher and taller...... No way, neither can this.

Li Xiaole deleted more than a dozen Chinese actors in a row, and then finally one actor stopped him......