In a huge conference room not far from the secret meeting room of the three bigwigs who rule the Hong Kong cinema chain, it was already noisy and bustling, and the best screenwriters in Hong Kong gathered together.

When Yang Lin pushed the door open and walked in, the conference room immediately quieted down, Yang Lin saw a short and obscene guy actually jumped down from the long conference table, and saw Yang Lin staring at him, this guy smiled and showed his little black teeth: "Tell everyone a joke, please, please!" As he spoke, his short stature nimbly crawled through the crowd to the rear.

Yang Lin smiled slightly, Wen Jun!

He came to the main seat, swept his eyes, and a sense of pride couldn't help but rise from the bottom of his heart.

Look at the people sitting around the long round table, Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Wen Jun, Zhang Jianting, Liao Yongliang, Chen Xinjian, Chen Guanzhong, Xu Guanwen, Er Dongsheng, Wu Siyuan, There are directors and actors in these people, but everyone has a unified identity: screenwriter! It is these people who are about to lead the future of Hong Kong films to dominate Asia and compete with Hollywood movies for more than ten years. Although in the end, it was inevitable that the ambition would not be rewarded, but the most glorious period of Hong Kong films in the whole decade was when they worked together to create it, how could Yang Lin not admire him?

Now he is also one of these people, even though he may be the most "incompetent" of these people, but the God-given advantage and the "cheater" against the sky give him the ability and responsibility to take these people to create a more brilliant Hong Kong film new world.

Wu Siyuan sat on Yang Lin's left hand position, he looked at this cutting-edge Hong Kong film boss who was about the same age as his son, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. What were you doing when you were so old?

Wen Jun is very active, he is not qualified to sit in the front row, so he stood up in the back and said loudly: "Mr. Yang brought everyone here, what is the big thing to say?" Hurry up, I'm still waiting to go down and eat. ”

Everyone laughed.

Yang Lin nodded, sat down with a smile, and said: "Everyone knows what the script is, it is not only a book with a plot, but also the foundation of a film and television work. Needless to say, everyone knows that no director can make a bad script into a business card, but a bad director can destroy a good book. However, in Hong Kong, screenwriters who are very important in a work have not been given a corresponding status, if you want to list some well-known directors and stars, you will effortlessly make a long list, but if you want to ask which famous screenwriters you remember, you may not be able to name a few on your fingers. Except, of course, those who can also serve as directors here...... But after watching a bad movie or a bad TV series, the first person to be scolded is often the screenwriter. ”

Everyone didn't know what Yang Lin meant by saying such a long paragraph, and they all listened quietly.

According to the dictionary explanation, the role of screenwriters in the entire art form of film and television dramas or stage plays is mainly to write scripts, that is, to create stories, lines, main scenes and cutscenes, highlight the center of the story, and shape the characters' surnames. In other words, what the audience sees is a story written by the screenwriter. Such an important role is often overlooked, and instead suffers from all kinds of injustices. What injustices have Hong Kong's screenwriters encountered? How are they treated? What kind of group are they? What problems do screenwriters themselves need to solve? ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately resonated with everyone, and they began to talk about it.

A curly man with glasses in the back row stood up and said, "My name is Rokiry, I used to be the screenwriter of "Illegal Immigrant" and graduated from the film department of New York University. He probably knew that he was not well-known, so he first introduced himself, and then said: "In Hollywood, screenwriters have a very high status, in addition to producers, screenwriters are the most powerful, because the book of a drama is in his hands, he has the most right to speak, producers respect the screenwriter's artistic creation very much, but the premise is to save money for the producer and maximize the box office benefits, the screenwriter can work with the producer to resign any director, and even a big star can make the producer resign any staff." In Hong Kong, screenwriters have no right to speak, their status is very low, many directors can point at the screenwriter's nose and scold at will, modify the results of the screenwriter's labor at will, and there is not even a screenwriters association in Hong Kong, which is simply incredible. ”

Xu Ke also interjected: "In the past, screenwriters appeared as creators, but now, most screenwriters are no longer creators, but have become craftsmen. If a producer takes a fancy to a theme, he has to find a screenwriter to write the story, unless it is a top-level screenwriter, and most screenwriters nowadays, everyone calls it 'processing with supplied materials', which is to place an order. A lot of times it's the producer who sees something that is very popular, and he says, 'Let's make something,' and the screenwriter does it. In this way, the work does not belong to the screenwriter in the first place, and the identity of the creator is not well represented. ”

This guy is really knowledgeable, and that's a good point. Yang Lin nodded and said: "Lao Xu's words are too good, everyone is doing this, if there are any films with good box office, everyone will rush to top them, and those that are deleted and changed will be filmed." What is the value of screenwriting? In the long run, there will be no screenwriters, just find someone casually, can't make up a story, won't you change the story? ”

"That's no way, everyone has to eat." Xu Guanwen was not far from Yang Lin sitting: "I'm fine, after all, it's a bit famous, and everyone gives face." But I have also seen too many screenwriters who have no say in their own works, from producers, directors, to actors and even field workers who distribute box lunches, they may point fingers at the script, and some actors are complacent about changing the dialogue of the script. First, I finally finished writing the script after working hard and fighting countless nights, but the other party suddenly decided not to shoot it, and your hundreds of thousands of words suddenly became a pile of waste paper; The second is that it was finally filmed, but it was filmed beyond recognition, and the screenwriter used it to ravage. But it's okay if you're dissatisfied, it's like this all over Hong Kong, if you don't do it, some people are rushing to do it, what should you do? ”

Wu Siyuan also sighed and said: "This is the current situation of the Hong Kong screenwriting industry, in fact, who doesn't know the importance of screenwriters? Take Mr. Yang's "True Colors of Heroes" and "Mr. Zombie" as examples, although the success of your director cannot be erased, if I want to say that the credit for the script is even ranked first. But Hong Kong's screenwriting industry is a garbage industry, and it's not even as promising as picking up garbage. Picking up trash costs almost nothing, and the education to train a screenwriter is costly. After coming out, there were still a very difficult years of frustration and darkness until the first play was written. Many screenwriters have no income, and even have to rely on friends to help them and their parents to support them. In this case, what can you do even if you know the important surname of the screenwriter? Nobody wants to do it. ”

Wu Siyuan himself is a screenwriter, and he knows the situation in the Hong Kong screenwriting industry well, and his remarks also silenced everyone.

Yang Lin broke the silence and said in a deep voice: "What Mr. Wu said is a phenomenon, and there are even more infuriating things. Recently, I did my research and found something even stranger: the right of authorship was not respected. It is not uncommon in Hong Kong for screenwriters who are involved in the creation of a script to be denied the right of authorship after the work is published. The authorship of screenwriters has been seriously discriminated against and even deprived of, and there are many cases of obliterating the authorship of screenwriters on various posters, promotional materials, and video tape covers. ”

When he said this, there was some silence in the conference room, and some people didn't look so good on their faces, including Wu Siyuan.

Yang Lin snorted coldly in his heart, is this the so-called unspoken rule? Lao Tzu doesn't care, in order to achieve Lao Tzu's goal, he has to puncture this abscess. "Why is this happening? One of the reasons is the issue of profit: many producers often deliberately ignore the name of the screenwriter out of interest considerations. Take the release of movie posters as an example, actors and directors are often at the top of the list, while the screenwriter's name is put in a corner. even didn't log in at all, and what appeared on the screen after the movie was filmed was actually another name, and the remuneration was never paid. ”

The venue was quieter.

"He went to the director to ask for clarification, and the director responded: 'Your book was adapted by him, so the screenwriter should be him.'" The man carefully checked the script with the one that had been published, and found only a few line changes: there was also a kind of director, and the original script said: 'Have you eaten?' He changed it to: 'Have you eaten?' Then he asked to co-sign the screenwriter with you and share your remuneration. It's not an exaggeration at all, if you see the director signing the screenwriter at the same time, I think there is such a suspicion. ”

I'm picking! Dude, what are you doing here? Don't you know that saying this is about to cause public outrage?

Wu Siyuan looked at Yang Lin in surprise, and after a little thought, he already understood Yang Lin's intentions. happened to meet Yang Lin's gaze, and found that Yang Lin was smiling at him, Wu Siyuan was stunned for a moment, quickly understood, and nodded to Yang Lin with a smile. This kid, this is a big gift for me! To accept or not to collect?

Yang Lin stood up, waved his arms and said: "Screenwriting is the most important part of a movie, not only has it never been taken seriously, but it has also been subjected to such and such unbearable suppression. In the long run, how can Hong Kong films improve? Does every director have to write the screenplay himself? Only when screenwriters stand up and protect their own interests can the screenwriters be valued and respected, can they better develop their good surnames, can they attract more outstanding talents to join, and can they ensure the progress of Hong Kong films. So I propose here that we set up a Hong Kong Screenwriters Guild, where we defend ourselves and give ourselves the motivation to develop. ”

Hong Kong Screenwriters Guild?

In fact, many things in this world are not as complicated as imagined, the key is whether you dare or not, whether you do it or not. Just like now, as soon as Yang Lin's voice fell, the audience remembered the deafening applause. Even Yang Lin himself was quite surprised and couldn't believe it, could it be so easy?

However, since the response was good and unanimously agreed, Yang Lin was very happy, waved his hand to stop the applause, and proposed: "We need a person of high moral integrity to lead us to protect our own interests and ensure future development, so I propose that Mr. Wu Siyuan be our first chairman of the Hong Kong Screenwriters Guild." ”

Xu Ke, Wang Jing, and many screenwriters and directors stood up to support Wu Siyuan as the chairman, and someone took the lead and Wu Siyuan's status was enough to serve as this person, and everyone was kind and unanimously elected Wu Siyuan as the first chairman of the Hong Kong Screenwriters Guild.

In the thunderous applause, Wu Siyuan stood up reservedly and waved his hand again and again to express his humility, saying that he was immoral and incompetent, how could he dare to steal this position, but his soft humility was soon drowned in the applause, and finally he had to reluctantly accept the chairman's position with a heroic face. Once he ascends to this position, although he has no real power, it will be of great benefit to the improvement of his prestige and qualifications, and he already has the confidence to lead the Hong Kong film industry, and he is full of pride. However, Yang Lin made such a big move and wasted so much effort, is it just to help me get to the top? He didn't believe that Yang Lin was a living Lei Feng, so what did Yang Lin want from me?

Yang Lin applauded with a smile on his face, but he was thinking in his heart: Dude doesn't like to be in the limelight, you just stand in front and accept the flash.

Looking at Yang Lin's smile, Wu Siyuan didn't know anything, and his heart was weak for a while. (To be continued.) )