Chapter 203: Let's get out of order
How do you play with the spatio-temporal order? It's actually very simple, let's write in the normal order first, and then scramble the chapters or something after we're done. In this way, through the shuffling of the order, when the reader or audience sees the story, it is actually seen from the middle of the story. In this way, there is no synopsis, no introduction of various characters and backgrounds, and it suddenly throws the reader and audience into the middle of a story. As a result, readers and viewers are confused, and they will wonder if this is the first episode? yes, that's right, but why is it all of a sudden? Then they thought it was strange and wanted to understand what such a story was about! It's like a person who hears someone tell a story, but he starts listening to it halfway, and of course he doesn't know the plot before and after, and of course he feels very curious!
That's right, just like people like to listen to gossip, in fact, people have a tendency to kill cats with curiosity. If you honestly tell a story from the beginning, some people may still pick and choose and don't like to listen to it, but if you start from the middle, then such a person is easy to be interested! Sometimes people are just like that. There are even times when people suddenly interrupt a few episodes when watching a TV series, but after watching the progress of the context and plot, they can make up for such a missing story without leaving ten, I have to say that human imagination is very sufficient. So it would be very interesting to make full use of the human imagination to write such a book, right?
Of course, this is all the reason Wen Xun is looking for, in fact, he just wants to have fun like this. Or if it's a little more literary and realistic. He just wanted to cool himself off. Just want to learn Quentin Tarantino! How could such a light novel or something have anything to do with a movie ghost like Quentin Tarantino? Because this is a bit of a reference to Quentin Tarantino's play in a film like "Dangerous Liaisons"! In "Dangerous Liaisons", the director divides a simple story into three parts. and then disrupt the order of broadcasting to make a very special effect. In fact, the movie "Dangerous Liaisons" is relatively unknown compared to his other works, and many people also mentioned in the comments that this movie is "not enough Quentin", on the grounds that the cult flavor is not strong enough, and the violent and bloody erotic dialogue is not refreshing enough. This may be due to the fact that this is the only film whose story is taken from someone else, and Quentin's handling of it is very restrained, which is why it has attracted this review. But. You can still see Quentin's skillful scene dismantling ability and subversion of the characters, and you can see his new approach to the story.
How to innovate? First of all, Quentin's quest for disruption and unconventionality goes without saying. In the police film "Dangerous Liaisons", Quentin's subversive label is reflected in the fact that the audience can see that the relationship between the characters in "Dangerous Liaisons" is basically very different from the traditional police films. Here, whites are controlled by blacks, men by women, police by bandits, and strong by weak. Although racism and women's issues have gradually improved in the latter part of the last century, films in which the relationship between the three is completely turned upside down can only be seen in Quentin's films. This is the first subversive one.
Unlike most Hollywood cop films, "Dangerous Liaisons" does not have overt and clichéd violent elements such as gunfights, action, car chases, and strong men. At the same time, this is another high-IQ crime movie. But he also did not focus on the play of technology, but focused on the protagonist's control and grasp of the relationship between the characters. On the one hand. The mutual trust of the characters in the film is full of a sense of crisis, and the protagonist's slightest misjudgment will be wasted; On the other hand, the relationship between the characters in it forms a suspense for the audience. Because of this, I think the best translation of this film should be "Dangerous Liaisons", which is more accurate and easier to attract audiences. Therefore, the focus of Quentin's careful design is to focus the tension of the film on the subtle relationships between the characters, so that the audience can see a suffocating psychological battle. It can be seen as a kind of "quiet violence", and many crises are tense and imminent, and indeed present a "dangerous relationship".
To sum up, we can conclude that, on the one hand, Quentin subverted the character setting stereotype of police films; On the other hand, he abandoned the routines and modes such as thrilling, action, and solving cases that are customary in many police movies. Instead, the core of the film is placed in the game between the characters. That's Quentin's quest for a disruptive model. In addition to subversion, there is also the word deconstruction, which is also a label that must be talked about by fans. The word deconstruction is quite mysterious, and it seems that many interpretations tend to read it in conjunction with postmodernism. However, in this movie, it can actually be more inclined to analyze the story with "disassembly", such as the "bag change" in it. This scene is undoubtedly the best part of the film, and it is also an important part of the audience to solve the puzzle. Obviously, this is Quentin's innovation in the original narrative of the novel, and Director Kun uses an omniscient perspective to interpret this scene from three different perspectives, and the following will analyze the artistic effect of Quentin's dismantling from three aspects:
For example, the normal linear order should be three people in chronological order to edit in parallel, Jack enters the door, Louis and May enter the mall while arguing, and Max enters; Jack tries on clothes, Louis and May finish, Max finishes; Jack enters the fitting room, and May follows, talking to Jack; Louis and Max face each other; May finished exchanging, carrying bags and Louis left; Jack walks out of the storefront, and May and Louis go out; Max goes into the house to get his bag, Jack goes out to meet the police, and May and Louis find a car to retreat...... Such frequent character shifts will draw the viewer's attention to the action of changing bags, rather than the subtle relationships between the characters. What's more, the suspense of this bag change was seen through by the audience before half of it, which inevitably caused frustration to the audience's expectations. The order of perspective after the dismantling of this plot is - Jack May & Louis Max. After these three paragraphs are separated, it directly makes each aspect of the plot more clean and neat, so it has this effect: each group of characters will be more three-dimensional after being depicted separately, and the audience will be more likely to focus on their respective interests in the process of changing bags; Since it is not the beginning that the characters are all spread out in parallel, but a single description. The "dangerous relationship" between the characters is more ambiguous. This realizes the feeling that the title wants to give the audience - a dangerous relationship. Further. The suspense of the story also deepens. On the other hand, if the normal narrative sequence is followed, then what stands out in this passage should be the complex process and action of "changing bags", rather than the contest between the characters.
Of course, having said that, Wen Xun likes Quentin Tarantino, and he won't imitate Quentin Tarantino too much in such a novel destined to be adapted into an animated film. He wouldn't be too literary in such a light teenager novel. After all, to be honest, he is not too literary and artistic. Although in such a world, he is famous for his literature and art, but don't forget that the places where his literature and art come are his dreams, not his real literature and art! So he doesn't have much interest in playing too literary things. It doesn't mean that like many literary and artistic youths, they are happy when others can't understand them. Wen Xun relatively speaking, he still hopes that everyone can understand his things, but he just wants to play a little trick!
In such a situation, he wrote such a novel, which may be relatively disrupted by the content of a dozen chapters. For example, according to ...... "2, 3. 5, 10, 13, 14, 4, 7, 6, 8, 1, 12, 11, 9" Why do you want to do that? It can be thought that Sumiko is also the protagonist, the god of such a world, but she doesn't know it. Then when she felt that the world was a little boring, through all kinds of chaos in her head, the world changed, and the story became strange and out of order! It can be said that such a story is Sumiko's spiritual world, or simply her fantasy of the world she expects in the boring daily school process!
That's right, who said that on the surface the story is a story of a middle school student and her classmates, so you can't let such a whole story be the imagination of the protagonist's head? Maybe these characters other than the protagonist are real, but the protagonist feels too boring in daily life, so she fantasizes about what aliens her table and classmates are, and then she also imagines that she doesn't know, so in the fantasy world, she messes with her classmates. Isn't that okay? Actually, it works! Maybe after the publishing house saw such a trick, it would be a headache and couldn't sleep, and it would feel that the sales would definitely be pitted, and it would feel that it would definitely lose money when the time came to make an animated film.
But who made us Wen Xun a cow? Who made Kadokawa Bookstore want to tie up Jia Hongji? Who makes everyone have a gambling agreement with each other? In front of him, the life of Wen Xun and his family is relatively difficult, and in such a situation, Wen Xun has no time and experience to mess around. Not allowed! The children of the poor are in charge of the family at an early age, and he has to think about the livelihood of the family at a young age. Where is the time and space for him to play childishly? But now it's different, now that he's famous, he's rich, and he can finally live according to his own temperament. In such a situation, he is a little willful and playful, so what's the matter? Is it a crime? Is it morally corrupt? No one in the Kadokawa bookstore said that Wen Xun was excessive, and others took care of him? Of course, in fact, Kadokawa Bookstore didn't know that Wen Xun was going to write this. I guess if they knew, they would have to stop Wen Xun in various ways, right?
Soon, Wen Xun wrote. I have to say that this kind of childish, so that the protagonist and all kinds of friends mess around, the plot is really quick to write. Because it just happened to meet Wen Xun's appetite, he could let him "do whatever he wanted", so it was really a bit of a god-like feeling! In about a week's effort, Wen Xun basically completed the draft of 14 chapters. Of course, this is the first draft, but even the first draft is quite fast, equivalent to writing two chapters a day! And a chapter is something that will make the cartoon shoot for at least 30 minutes! Whether it's China or Japan, there's probably no writer who can compare to this speed! Of course, after such a first draft is written, it is impossible to give it directly to Kadokawa Bookstore. Next, there will be revisions, all kinds of rectifications, and besides, isn't it still written in Chinese characters? Don't we need to translate into Japanese?
So in fact, when Wen Xun handed over such a completely finished manuscript to Kadokawa Bookstore, it was actually a month later. When he notified the people at Kadokawa Bookstore to come and get the manuscript, Mr. Nakamura from Kadokawa Bookstore, who was in charge of running errands for him, came over because of the fart, and then took the manuscript away without looking at it with all kinds of bows and thanks. Now I am quite happy to look at Nakamura, I feel that Wen Xun is like a model worker, and I also say that Wen Xun has worked hard. But he probably didn't think about what was written in such a manuscript at all? I really don't know when the manuscript is taken back to Kadokawa Bookstore, so what will happen to the expressions of a group of high-level executives after seeing what Wen Xun wrote!
Wen Xun really wanted to see the expressions of such people with his own eyes, but he couldn't help it. However, after taking the manuscript for half a day, it was already time to get off work, but Nakamura hurriedly called, "Mr. Wen, did you get the manuscript you handed over to me in the wrong order when the chapters were bound?" When Nakamura asked such a question, anyone could hear his expectations on the other end of the phone! Anyone can hear it, and he desperately wants to hear Wen Xun say "yes". It's a pity, there was really no binding error! So at this time, Wen Xun said lightly-"That's right, I'm not mistaken, it's such a sequence, I don't plan to write the book in a normal order this time, I just want to get into a lot of irrelevant content, just to disrupt the whole narrative rhythm!" ”
After he said this, there was no sound on the other end of the phone for a long time, I don't know if Nakamura was stupid to listen to, or if the phone line was broken or something! And feeling such a kind of surprise and incomprehension on the phone, Wen Xun really laughed and laughed, how happy! (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)