For several days, Lin Mingyang was worried about this problem, and when he was in the living room, he usually wrinkled his brows and closed his lips. Green Nat and Billy Olsen have significantly fewer bickering, and they are both afraid that it will disturb Lin Mingyang's thinking.

"Still having a headache about the script?" Green-Nat poured Lin Mingyang a cup of coffee and sat across from him with a book in his arms.

"I'm a little lost right now, and I don't know what to do with the identity of the main character. The novels are all stories that take place on campus, without too specific story threads, and some are full of anecdotes that can make people laugh off their big teeth. And as a movie, what it needs is a plot and clues! In Lin Mingyang's original conception, he planned to "encapsulate" the novel in a journey of search and memory, and the stories that happened on campus became fragments of interspersed narratives.

In the original novel, the stories of those fragments of surnames are kneaded together to form a force that seeks to change the erroneous views that people are accustomed to. In the script, in addition to the funny special surname of the original work, these clips also have a layer of "judging society". Deeply influenced by the memory of "Three Fools in Bollywood", he couldn't find a suitable place in American society to place the protagonist Lancher.

"According to my understanding of the novel 'Five Point Man,' I don't think the most important thing is the background of Lancher's poor boy." Green-Nat put down the book in his hand, and he found that Lin Mingyang had walked into a misunderstanding.

In that novel, the author adds a lot of commentary on the current situation. For example, the problem of education, the problem of love, and the problem of the system. It can be said that although this is a work with a campus theme, the author still adds a lot of romantic and idealistic elements to it. In the face of the chaotic and complex society facing the outside world, he hopes to establish an equal space in this relatively closed and simple environment. It can be said that this novel is a commentary on the author's society, which has too many mistakes, and he hopes that when there will be a person who dares to speak and act like Lancher in the novel. I think the most important theme in the original novel is not who Lancher is, but what he did! ”

After saying this, Green-Nat closed the book in his hand, stood up, patted Lin Mingyang on the shoulder, in order not to disturb Lin Mingyang's thinking, he decided to go back to his bedroom to read a book.

Lin Mingyang seriously recalled the last words of Green-Nat, Green-Nat's reminder was like a lighthouse in the dark night, helping him clear the fog and point out a new path. Recalling the previous thinking difficulties, Lin Mingyang suddenly found that all the thinking obstacles were set up by him for himself. He has always wanted to adapt on the basis of respecting the original work, but he has been shackled to the content of the novel and cannot break through, so that he cannot make effective innovations while grasping the theme and ideas.

Thinking of this, Lin Mingyang felt a warm current rising from the bottom of his heart and permeating his whole body. Pleasure invaded his body, reaching every pore at once. The joy of the sudden enlightenment made him unable to control himself, and he rushed into the bedroom in excitement, and couldn't wait to open his laptop, leaving a trail of afterimages on the keyboard with his fingertips.

In Lin Mingyang's script, Lan Che is no longer a poor boy, he has a genius father, but because his father's thinking is too advanced, no one wants to accept it. Ping's father was busy with scientific experiments and never cleaned up the courtyard, but Lancher was influenced by his father since he was a child, and his thinking was very different from normal. Other people's houses have beautiful lawns and neat flower terraces, while the front of Lancher's house is overgrown with grass.

Since the death of his mother, the family has been classified as eccentrics by the neighbors around them, and rarely interacts with them. Despite being ostracized by others, his father taught Lancher the most important thing, which is to ignore other people's eyes, strive for excellence, and success will run after you without pants.

According to this line of thinking, Lin Mingyang's final script basically broke away from the background setting of the original work, and only retained the theme idea. He sent the finished script to Chitan Bahart, who only realized that for $200,000 after reading it, Lin Mingyang had simply bought one of his story ideas and some of the novel's funny passages that took place on campus. Lin Mingyang's background conversion is very successful, and the script that Chitan Bahat got has no trace of Indian culture at all, and it is a picture of life in American society.

Billy Olson finally recruited a Mexican student with pure Indian blood for the film to play the role of Razu in the film, so that the three "fools" in the film are made together.

Because it is only a small-budget non-commercial film, the preparation of the film is also very simple, only the heroine Blake Frairy is a real actor in the entire crew, and the other roles are "cameos" by college students in the Boston area. But the actual situation after the start of filming was not as simple as everyone expected, and the first set of shots of the film encountered almost insurmountable difficulties in shooting.

In this set of shots, Fahan, played by Billy Olsen, receives a phone call before the plane takes off, and his friend Lancher, who has been missing for ten years, finally has the news, he pretends to have a heart attack, tricks the crew and forces the flight that has just taken off to land, and he himself escapes on the way to the hospital.

It's not difficult to get footage of planes taking off and landing, but since 911, security measures at U.S. airports have been tight, so the crew couldn't shoot in real airports. The choice of this set of shots made Lin Mingyang hesitate for a long time, this is not making a commercial movie, he can't build a location for a set of shots.

In the living room of the H33 dormitory, a discussion is underway about the choice of this set of shots. Greene Nutter insisted that this was a very creative opening and should be retained, while Billy Olsen was realistic and decided that it was unrealistic to complete the shot.

"Filming is not allowed in the airport, but there are still scenes of the airport in Hollywood movies, how did they shoot it?" Greene Nat tried to give an example to support his point, "Spielberg also made a movie last year, "Happiness Terminal", you all still have an impression, right? Starring Tom Hanks, the film tells the story of his coup d'état in his hometown on his way to the United States, when the coup was overturned, his documents were not recognized by the U.S. immigration authorities, and he was denied entry but could not return to his home country, and was forced to stay at JFK International Airport. ”

"Felix isn't Spielberg, Newman isn't Tom Hanks, we're just making a small-budget, non-commercial film!" Billy Olson shook his head. Movies with three names like Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Catherine Zeta-Jones are naturally not to be underestimated. In fact, the film "Happiness Terminal" itself does require a huge amount of production costs.

Because the screenwriter of that film happens to be Andrew Nichol, the director of "Lord of War", Lin Mingyang also knows the inside story of the filming of this film. After 911, security measures at American airports became stricter, and it was a fool's dream to actually shoot an entire movie at JFK.

In order to shoot this film, Spielberg designed and built a full-fledged airport of the same size as a real airport in California, most of the filming work was completed in this simulated airport, and a small part was filmed at Mirabell Airport in Montreal, Canada, in order to cooperate with the shooting, the crew even borrowed a real Boeing 747 from United Airlines, such a high production cost is unaffordable for a non-commercial film.

Although Lin Mingyang's silence is very revealing, Green-Nat argues, "All we need is a shot, they can shoot in the airport, why can't we?" ”

Lin Mingyang's eyes lit up, and Green-Nut's words inspired him again, it is difficult for the crew to shoot in a real airport, but the crew of "Happiness Terminal" has built an airport set with a permanent surname in California.

In general, setting up a set for a film shoot is only for the sake of "superficial articles", and there is no need to pay attention to engineering issues. However, in "Happiness Terminal", because the airport must be built, every drawing completed by the art department must be carefully reviewed by professional engineers, and even every simple solder joint has not been neglected. Spielberg's pursuit of the perfect set provided Lin Mingyang with an excellent shooting scene.

It seemed that the difficulty was insurmountable, but the final solution was very simple, Lin Mingyang and Billy Olsen went to Los Angeles and easily completed the shooting of this set of shots.

The film opens in this flashback, where Fahan suddenly receives a phone call and then learns of Lancher, who excitedly asks Lazu to go on a journey to find his friend.

Then, as the camera pans, Fahan begins to reminisce about his first encounter with Lancher in college, and the actual shooting returns to Boston. Kirkland's dormitory looks good from the outside, but the inside is a little dilapidated, and the whole city was hit by heavy rain and flooded streets in the later part of the film.

Moreover, filming in Kirkland's dormitory, the approval process is also extremely cumbersome, not only to obtain the consent of Harvard, but also to report the entire filming process to the local historical building protection organization, and the other party also has to evaluate whether the shooting will cause damage to this "cultural relic" building, in short, a lot of troublesome problems, so that Lin Mingyang has to give up his plan to shoot in his "old nest".

In addition to the dormitory, another important filming location in the film, Harvard's library is "heavily guarded", there is no room for negotiation with the school on this issue, Harvard's library has always been a forbidden place for all kinds of film shooting, and it is tantamount to a fantasy to want to shoot here.

All these factors made Lin Mingyang finally give up his plan to shoot at Harvard, and they found a private engineering school in downtown Boston. The filming of the campus in the film was all done in this school. Only when filming the school gate, the crew made a simple set to cover the original school emblem. The sparrow has been transformed into a phoenix, you must know that the North Harmon University of Technology in the film is the top university in the United States.

Lin Mingyang's new film attracted media attention at the beginning of filming, although this is a non-commercial film with no stars, but every time the crew shoots, there are always many reporters in the vicinity to shoot secretly. Although the public cares about it and the media hype is just Lin Mingyang, it has also brought publicity effects to the movie. In the end, everyone knew that Lin Mingyang was making a movie called "Three Fools".

The news about Lin Mingyang's new film is not only a topic of conversation among American fans, but also has attracted the attention of some senior executives of Hollywood film companies. At Lionsgate's headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., President Gusta and Distribution Director Moore sat on a desk with a copy of the "Harvard Crimson Paper" with an interview with Ginny about Lin Mingyang.

"'Three Fools', it sounds like a comedy."

"Are you interested in this film?" Moore guessed his boss's thoughts from the contents of the newspaper spread out on his desk.

Gusta nodded, "Felix Lin is very interesting, although his main identity is an actor now, but his greatest potential in the future is not in acting, maybe in a few years, Hollywood will give birth to a young excellent director." ”

Moore also paid attention to this film at the beginning. But with the continuous exposure of the media, he found that this film was really just shot according to the standards of college students' film works. Lin Mingyang himself has three roles as screenwriter, director, and cameraman, and the film shooting is very casual, reporters can freely enter and exit the set, and the actors are all amateur cameos. Slowly, Moore, like many people, really regarded this film as a "game" when Lin Mingyang was bored, and most people had already chosen to give up before they had a deep understanding.

"How much do you know about that film?"

"According to my understanding, there is not much difference between the real situation and the media reports, and all the investment in this film should add up to less than 500,000 US dollars, and it is estimated that Felix Lin just wants to practice!"

"Is it really as simple as just practicing?" Gusta shook his head, then tapped his fingers lightly on the newspaper on the table, "You think back to the movies he directed before, Felix Lin would be a director who is reluctant to spend money?" Regardless of the film he made himself, and no matter what the media said, all I know is that he bought the rights to adapt an Indian novel for $200,000, but in the end the script was only an idea of the other party. I suggest you read this report before jumping to conclusions. ”

(To be continued)