Chapter Twenty-Five: Film Adaptations and Free Labor
Just when Wen Xun was shocked by the number of manuscript fees brought by "Snowflake Secret Fan", he suddenly saw the office door opened, and then a familiar figure walked in quickly. Wen Xun turned his head to take a closer look, and saw that the person who came in was a woman, a woman Wen Xun was very familiar with.
The woman had a resounding nickname, "Puppy". This puppy is now wearing a tight suit, a pair of flesh-colored stockings on her calves, and some light makeup on her face, which makes people feel that she has matured a lot and is a lot more charming......
"Boss, Wang Jin called just now, saying that he was very interested in watching "Snowflake Secret Fan" and wanted to discuss with you about changing it into a movie...... "The charming puppy said such a news that made Wen Xun feel shocked.
Wang Jin? The so-called fifth-generation director in China? After opening up, is he the first Chinese director to become internationally famous? Didn't he always make some local dramas with peasant themes before, why is he going to adapt his novels into movies now?
Is your novel going to be adapted into a movie by the most well-known director in China? Although he didn't show anything on his face at this time, Wen Xun had already stirred up a monstrous wave in his heart. He already knew that he would be very bullish in the future, but he never thought that he would be like this in the future! It turns out that I really have talent in this area? It turns out that the story of "Snowflake Secret Fan" still has such potential?
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When Wen Xun woke up from his dream, when he sat at his desk and looked at the manuscript that was locked by himself, he suddenly felt that the stack of manuscripts in front of him was completely different! In his eyes, last night's manuscript was just a "defective product" that made him feel embarrassed, but now in his opinion, where is this manuscript still defective, it is clearly the embryo of a work of art! He immediately had plenty of motivation to revise this "Snowflake Secret Fan"!
So, he made an exception and came to school with the manuscript. After arriving at school, Wen Xun didn't care about 3721 and began to look at his manuscript again. What he wants to do now is to correct the typos, because his experience of writing novels when he was 12 years old told him that if the manuscript is written and the professionals pick out n more typos, the impression is called a terrible!
After carefully reading the novel of more than 5,000 words, Wen Xun only corrected less than ten typos. Perhaps this is the benefit of handwriting, because handwriting rarely produces homophone errors. It's a typo of less than ten words, or because Wen Xun was in a hurry to write, and when he couldn't remember how to write that word, he deliberately wrote it in order not to interrupt his train of thought.
After correcting the typo, Wen Xun read the novel from beginning to end again. Unlike last time, last time he was very careful to see if each word was written correctly, but this time he paid attention to the message conveyed by each word.
I have to say that this manuscript is really stumbling to write, and the transitions between many scenes are too simple and blunt. Although this kind of turning blunt problem is easy to see in students of this age, Wen Xun is different from them! Wen Xun's 5,000-word Xiaoshui will be changed into a novella in the future, and then adapted into a movie!
As a result, Wen Xun began to stop paying attention to the word limit, and began to prepare to supplement various detailed descriptions to connect all the plots in detail. He thinks that it is probably because when he writes, he cares too much about the total amount of 5,000 words, and too much about the limit of only 300 words per person at each stage, so he pays too much attention to controlling the number of words when writing, and the whole article is a bit fragmented.
Now all he had to do was ignore the word count rule and add all the details as he felt was right. Although this will cause the total number of words to exceed the standard by several times, but after the material is abundant, Wen Xun can still "prune"!
When the time comes, just trim out the less important details and keep the more important ones, so that the whole article will look detailed and natural......
It may sound like a simple process, but it's actually a very difficult process. In order to get all the materials as good as possible, Wen Xun had to think about the dialogue between everyone several times. As a result, Wen Xun worked hard in one day, and expanded the first part to 30,000 words!
Although the number of words exceeds the standard too much, such a first part makes Wen Xun more satisfied. After reading it a few more times and thinking that it was okay, he continued to write the following sections. After four days like this, Wen Xun directly changed a "novel" that was just stuck to the standard of 5,000 words into a novel of 130,000 words!
To be honest, the expansion of this stage made Wen Xun feel very cool, he had a feeling of freedom for the first time, and a feeling that he could finally fly with his thoughts. But the next "editing" part made Wen Xun feel tormented - you know, only if he thinks it is necessary details, he will expand it, and now let him distinguish which ones are important and which ones are not important, and then cut out those unimportant details...... This process gave Wen Xun the feeling that he was choosing between the very important and the more important, and the result of the choice would make him very uncomfortable no matter what-either he cut the details he had worked so hard to write, or he didn't cut the whole article and the judges cut it......
Although I know that this step cannot be avoided, it is one thing to know it, and it is another thing to do it myself. Wen Xun used a mentality similar to tearing up and slashing horses, and cut off some details that didn't seem to be so important. After a few days, by the end of the night, Wen Xun finally changed the manuscript almost, and he basically felt that he had worked hard to delete and change the number of words from 130,000 words back to 5,000 words. This back and forth seems to be back to square one, but after the manuscript has undergone such changes, at least Wen Xun himself feels that the manuscript looks completely different.
After this change, Wen Xun only felt exhausted, as if all his spirit had been consumed by the modification. After washing, he went to bed, maybe it was really because it consumed too many brain cells, Wen Xun basically fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.
In a daze, he only felt as if he had arrived in the urban area of Yuqing. After looking around carefully, Wen Xun only found that he seemed to have come to the teahouse where he met with Lilac and Lan Yang that day. "Why did I get here?" Wen Xun thought a little confused, and just when he wanted to reach out and scratch his head, he suddenly found that he seemed to be holding something in his hand. Wen Xun looked down, only to find that he was holding a stack of manuscript paper in his hand, and then looked closely, this stack of manuscript paper seemed to be the "Snowflake Secret Fan" that he had just revised before going to bed!
"Why did I come here with my manuscript?" Just when he heard the news and was puzzled, he saw a person walking in the distance, who seemed to be shoulders as high as his ears. "Editor Lan?" Wen Xun didn't even need to see the person's face clearly, as long as he saw such a high shoulder from a distance, he immediately guessed that it was Lan Yang coming.
"Huh?" Seeing Lan Yang coming from afar, an idea suddenly crossed Wen Xun's mind. "Lan Yang is the editor, I am the author now, why don't I let Lan Yang help me see what else needs to be changed?" When he came up with this idea, Wen Xun simply felt that he was a genius!
Although writing is a lonely thing, and although the author is responsible for everything, the editor does not exist to help the writer reduce trouble in certain places. And Lanyang people are quite good, and their professional level is quite high, why don't you ask him for help?
Although this was in a dream, Wen Xun immediately stepped forward to greet the man with a smile on his face and ears. "Yo, Editor Lan? Hello hello, what a coincidence, I can meet you here, why are you going? ”
"Huh? Wen Xun? Yo, what a coincidence, I just got off work, and I was thinking about which small restaurant to go to make do with it. I happened to run into you, are you okay? Come with me if you're okay? The man, whose shoulders were as tall as his ears, said boldly.
"Oh, how embarrassing is that?" Although he knew that it was in a dream, Wen Xun still really felt embarrassed. But before he could excuse himself, he was directly dragged away by Lan Yang.
The two found a Lanzhou ramen restaurant nearby, and then had a beautiful meal of ramen. After eating the noodles, Wen Xun wiped his mouth, sighed, and said, "Hey, Editor Lan, I recently wrote a novel based on the experience of the old people in my family. I want to submit my manuscript to the New Language Essay Contest, so I want to keep improving. But because I'm a novice, I feel stumbling when I write it, and I finally finish revising it, and I feel tired to death. I now know that it's really not easy to do your writing work......"
On the surface, Wen Xun didn't seem to mention asking Lan Yang for help at all, but for an enthusiastic and bold person like Lan Yang, when he heard that Wen Xun had written a novel, he happened to meet his own major, could he help?
"Really? Did you bring the manuscript? I'll take a look at it for you. As soon as Lan Yang heard Xun's words, he said with a smile. Then, he took Wen Xun's manuscript and read it directly in the restaurant.
Originally, Wen Xun thought that Lan Yang had to watch it for more than ten or twenty minutes, after all, he was a professional, so he had to watch it carefully, right? So he was still waiting with a lot of anxiety. As a result, who knows, he just waited for a few dozen seconds, and then heard Lan Yang say: "I still have to change." ”
Wen Xun didn't expect Lan Yang to finish reading it so quickly, this speed is too scary, right? He looked at the man whose shoulders were as high as his ears in a daze, only to see that the man smiled and continued: "No way, I have to read a lot of manuscripts every day, so I am used to ten lines at a glance, so that labor productivity can be high." ”
After explaining why he read it so quickly, he only heard Lan Yang continue: "I think the story you wrote in this manuscript is good, but it seems to be a little over-whitewashed, that is, there is too much rhetoric, too baroque......"