Chapter 357: The new movie is about to start
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After the album was released and the results were not bad, Su Li himself was much more relaxed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
These days, he's under a lot of pressure and has to do a lot of things every day, and now that the album is finally released, his heart is a lot more relaxed. Over the next few days, Su Li was also able to have some rest.
After the release of his new album, Su Li has a lot of free time, and most of this time is used to finally perfect the script of "The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers".
"The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers" is a novel of more than one million words, which has to be compressed into a movie within three hours, because he knows the difficulty of adapting this book into a screenplay, Su Li has read it many times, and the script has been changed and changed. Naturally, many things in the original novel cannot be shown in detail in the movie, and many plots can only be put on the big screen selectively. And these plots, after selection, will become a complete story.
Otherwise, if it is described as the original book, it will definitely make the movie become something that wants to say everything but can't say anything clearly! It's just that to condense a multi-million-word novel into a story of several hours is not a simple matter, and it requires quite strong screenwriting skills. That's why Su Li has worked so hard for so long, and it took so much time to complete the first draft of the script of "The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers".
The completion of the first draft of the script does not mean that everything is fine, in fact, it just means that the general positioning of the script has been completed, and what kind of story a movie wants to tell, something needs to be filmed, but it is still very early to become a script. The first draft of the script did take Su Li more than half a year, and after many, many choices, he finally decided on some things, and at the same time, he wrote what this movie needs to tell after careful consideration...... Su Li condensed this movie into a story, after the protagonist joined the Eighth Route Army, a series of choices, and from beginning to end, the story was determined with the main line of fighting devils. This story was finally determined after Su Li spent more than half a year and his increasingly powerful screenwriting ability.
After the first draft of the script is decided, the next thing to do is to continuously improve the script to make it more suitable for the art form of film and more attractive to the audience, on the other hand, it is also necessary to eliminate the irrelevant things and some irrational things in it. When the official script comes out and you can actually start filming, it is estimated that it will be around September.
In a year's time, even a stone can grind out flowers, not to mention Su Li's current screenwriting ability, and it is also an adaptation? In fact, the first draft of the script on Su Li's hand has far exceeded many finalized scripts, and after the next revision, even if he wins another Oscar for Best Screenplay, it is estimated that it will be more than enough.
When the script began to deepen and the content began to develop further, there were some problems in front of me. The combination of artistic and commercial surnames, this is indeed a big problem, artistic surnames and commercial surnames, although it cannot be said that water and fire are incompatible, but it is indeed not easy to achieve a balance between the two.
At this time, a big problem faced by Su Li was the relationship between special effects and plot.
The movie "The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers" is the main theme film for the country, praising the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were active during the Anti-Japanese War. However, for outside audiences, the main selling point is first of all Su Li's high popularity, as well as the success of the movies he directed and wrote in the past, and the others are the big selling points of the 3D war film "The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers".
In order to serve this selling point, the relationship between special effects and the plot has also begun to become prominent, and special effects must serve the plot, which Su Li also knows. If the plot serves special effects, such a movie will often have special effects for the sake of special effects, and in the end it will completely evolve into a popcorn movie, and everyone will watch it, and those who come to see the movie will see nothing except special effects. However, using special effects to serve the plot, there may be a situation where the audience does not see too many big special effects scenes from beginning to end and scolds the cheater.
In this way, there is still an inevitable conflict between the plot and special effects, to say that "Inception" is a more typical movie in which special effects serve the plot, and both aspects have been carried forward, but now Su Li finds that it is not so simple to achieve the perfect coordination between special effects and plot, and let special effects serve the plot. In fact, Su Li thought about it a little far, after all, he is still the screenwriter, director, and starring of this movie, so there are more things to think about.
Now the strength of Li Guang Entertainment Company has been able to make "The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers" to the extreme in terms of technology, Su Li believes that everyone can see an unusual three-dimensional movie in "The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers", and will be shocked by the technical content contained in it. I was amazed at the realism that I had never experienced before, but even then, the power of special effects could not be amplified infinitely in the movie.
Striking a balance between the two is not an easy task.
But this balance is necessary, Su Li can't let the good image he has worked hard to manage be shattered because of this movie, and the image of a boutique code name he established before should be continued. So naturally he can't make this movie into a popcorn movie, but to make it into a special effect like "Inception" to serve the plot, all for the sake of a good movie.
Therefore, in the future, the relationship between special effects and the plot will become one of the most important issues in the process of revising the script.
Su Li is really relatively idle among artists, and even more so among first-class stars. Most of the other celebrities dream of Su Li's current status and Su Li's current popularity all the time, if there is Su Li's current popularity and status, then a lot of money must be at your fingertips.
Because of this, those more famous celebrities are basically very dedicated to making money, not missing any opportunity in their lives to improve their fame, to earn more money, and hope to rely on these things to become a good surname cycle of sincerity and benevolence...... Therefore, there are few first-class stars who are not busy, and there are really no such as Su Li!
After the release of Su Li's English album, although his news in the entertainment industry cannot be said to have disappeared, there is indeed not too much news about him. However, what is incredible is that although Su Li's exposure rate is indeed not high now, there are still so many people who are paying attention to his news, and there are still so many people waiting for Su Li to update his Weibo and blog all the time to learn about his latest developments...... Even if Su Li doesn't appear in public for a few months, everyone won't forget him.
Because those who like Su Lige, naturally they will not forget that unique voice, Su Li's songs, which have always been high on the charts, also remind everyone that there is another person named Su Li in this world, he has a high attainment in songs, and many songs can be regarded as never tired of listening. And those who like Su Li's movies are even more unlikely to forget him - "Eavesdropping", "Seven Pounds", "Source Code", "Inception", "Love of the Hawthorn Tree" Every movie that has a major relationship with Su Li is remembered in people's hearts.
In this era, when directors are becoming more and more impetuous, and Chinese films are becoming more and more impetuous and getting worse and worse, the boutique image of Su Li's movies is a signboard, and many people who have been poisoned by bad movies will look forward to Su Li's new movies and look forward to being able to experience Su Li's masterpieces again.
The other people are die-hard fans of Su Li...... Therefore, on the whole, Su Li's popularity really doesn't need too much exposure, he has reached a height where he no longer has to rely on exposure to survive.
Therefore, Su Li also calmly pondered his script every day, pondering the shooting of his new movie, and the preliminary preparations for "The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers" are also slowly carried out in Su Li's preparations, and when it is close to July, most of the sets of "The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers" are completed, and the props are almost in place, and the next thing is to find actors.
This movie Su Li still hopes to use a big star lineup, this is still a blockbuster, and he will make "The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers" as starry as "Inception", and even surpasses that movie! Now, the list of the main actors involved in "The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers" needs at least ten or so big-name stars: four people who are combined into the four words "Defend the Family and Defend the Country": Wang Bao, Chen Jiayao, Li Wei, Fan Guowen, there are four places here, counting the two heroines: Lin Xinyu, Hideko Qingtian, there are six people, and the traitor Duan Cheng, there are seven people. After adding some characters such as Camp Commander Wu, the ten stars of this movie are roughly estimated.
Su Li still plans to play the leading role himself, and he is really a little worried about others, not to mention that the male protagonist of this movie is indeed similar to himself in terms of age and setting. Some others also made up their minds and sent out their own invitations.
Now Su Li's value in the entertainment industry is not ordinary, and the movies he makes are synonymous with cash cows and super reputation, in this case, few stars should be able to refuse this temptation. Sure enough, from the current point of view, these people have basically agreed, and some even pushed off the current schedule for the sake of Su Li's movie.
"The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers" is not only a 3D blockbuster that Su Li is about to start, but also a main theme film, whether it is from the perspective of personal economic interests or from the interests of their own reputation, they have no reason to refuse. What's more, making such a movie is also easy to leave some good impressions on the country, which is very attractive to stars. Therefore, the stars who were not selected by Su Li are a little regretful, and even a few stars specifically hope that Su Li will give them a role...... It's a pity that Su Li already has an actor list in his heart, and it is useless to have many people.
The plan of "The Country Breaks the Mountains and Rivers" has been launched soon.
(To be continued)