After summarizing the above points, Lin Yuquan quickly targeted the short story collection "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" written by Pu Songling in the Qing Dynasty, for this collection of novels, many people may be no strangers, but they are not so familiar, because in addition to a limited number of people, everyone only knows that there is such a novel about foxes and ghosts, knowing that it was written by Mr. Liao Zhai Pu Songling, but they have not read the story in it, let alone know that this novel collection has 8 volumes, and there are as many as 491 short stories in it.

It is said that "The Legend of the Ghost Fox", in fact, "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" is not only about the story of the ghost fox, its subject matter is very wide, the content is extremely rich, the story of the ghost fox is just one of the representatives, in it, Pu Songling has created many artistic models, the characters are vivid and vivid, the storyline twists and turns are bizarre, the most beautiful and moving is the pure love between those people and fox demons, people and ghosts and gods, and people.

In the film and television dramas of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", the most familiar to the public should be "A Chinese Ghost Story" adapted from "Nie Xiaoqian", with this movie, Wang Zuxian, who has not debuted for a long time, became an instant hit, with long flowing hair, delicate temperament, and beautiful costume styling left a deep impression on the audience, and became a goddess in the hearts of countless people, and it is still an unforgettable memory in the hearts of many people who love Hong Kong films.

Of course, Lin Yuquan's goal will not be the story of "Nie Xiaoqian", and the filming of "Nie Xiaoqian" will inevitably be compared with "A Chinese Ghost Story".

The first thing he liked was one of the stories called "Painting Wall", which tells the story of Meng Longtan and Zhu Xiaolian when they lived in the capital, invited each other to travel together, and came to a temple by chance, there was only one old monk in the temple, it was late, the two stayed in the temple, and then saw that there were guests to the old monk to lead them to visit the temple. The temple is not large, and the most conspicuous thing is that the walls of the temple have beautiful and fantastical murals with lifelike figures.

On the east wall of the temple is a painting of a goddess with scattered flowers, and there is a girl with hanging hair, holding a flower in her hand and smiling, and the cherry mouth seems to be able to speak, and the expression in her eyes seems to flow. Zhu Xiaolian looked at it for a long time, and couldn't help but feel his heart swaying, thinking stupidly, his body suddenly became light, as if he was riding a cloud and mist, and he had reached the wall.

Later, I saw many palaces, but they were no longer in the world, and an old monk was preaching the scriptures and teachings on the Dharma seat, and there were many people who were watching and listening to the lecture with one arm exposed. Zhu Xiaolian was also mixed in with them. For a while, it seemed as if someone was quietly pulling the corner of his clothes. He looked back and saw that it was the girl, and she smiled and left. Zhu Xiaolian followed her, only to see her pass through the tortuous corridor and enter a small room, the ending of the story was a little unexpected, it turned out that the various stories that Zhu Xiaolian experienced in the painting wall were just illusions born in the bottom of people's hearts.

The root of his fancy to this story is that a fairy-like painting wall world can bring endless fantasies to people, and the painting wall world that Zhu Xiaolian entered with a fantasy can fully display the magic powers of the immortal cultivators and many scenes in his memory as long as he changes it slightly, making the whole movie extremely beautiful and wonderful.

However, this script has not yet been created, Lin Yuquan himself gave up, because in the process of creation, he found that a scholar strayed into the world of the painting wall and the fairy in it seems to be beautiful at first sight, but it is not sad, and it is not moving, from the perspective of emotional experience, the love of people and immortals is far less than the feelings of love between people and ghosts in "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "The Love of People and Ghosts" is more touching to the heart, without a beautiful love story, this movie is easy to become a simple visual effects blockbuster.

It doesn't matter if Lin Yuquan just wants to make a popcorn movie of pure Xianxia Wars, but he doesn't want to do that, so instead of ignoring the emotional scenes in the film, it will become an important factor in his choice. With this purpose, after some screening, he had a new goal - "Painted Skin".

The name alone has given people endless imagination, the story of "Painted Skin" tells the story of Wang Sheng in Taiyuan when he was walking on the road, he met a beautiful girl with a burden, fell in love with her at first sight, and asked to know that the other party was a concubine who was sold by his parents to a rich and noble family, and he couldn't bear the beating and scolding of his wife, so he ran away. Wang Sheng, who liked the girl, felt pity for her and took her home, and the girl asked Wang Sheng to keep the secret for him and not to leak it out, and then Wang Sheng, who liked the girl, had a relationship with her and placed her in a secret room. Wang Sheng, who promised to keep the secret, finally told his wife Chen, who was worried that something would happen to the two and persuaded Wang Sheng to let her go, but Wang Sheng did not agree, and the girl stayed like this.

Later, when Wang Sheng went to the street once, he met a Taoist priest, who said that he had evil energy lingering on his body and hit monsters. Wang Sheng tried his best to deny it at first, but then although he felt that the Taoist priest's words were strange, he began to be a little suspicious of the girl, but he still didn't believe it because he was confused by the beauty, thinking that the Taoist priest just wanted to cheat and eat and drink in the name of exorcism, and didn't take it to heart. But when he returned home, he saw a demon with a green face and sharp teeth like saws. It threw the human skin on the bed, took the colored pen and painted, and when it was finished, threw down the pen and lifted the human skin, as if shaking clothes, and then turned into a beautiful girl again.

Wang Sheng believed what the Taoist priest said, and hurriedly asked the Taoist priest for help, the Taoist priest who had the virtue of a good life just wanted to let the demon who incarnated as a girl leave, so he handed Wang Sheng a handful of dust, who would have thought that the monster would brutally dig out Wang Sheng's heart and leave. Later, the Taoist priest killed the monster and told Chen, who was bent on resurrecting Wang Sheng, that he had no ability to bring the dead back to life, but a madman who often lay in the dung on the street could, but he had to endure a lot of insults.

In order to resurrect Wang Sheng, Chen found the madman, was hit by the madman's rod and ate the sputum spit of the madman, which can be described as a great insult, but the madman left, and Chen, who felt that he had been humiliated but could not save her husband, was grief-stricken in front of Wang Sheng's corpse, and then a miracle happened, the phlegm swallowed by Chen turned into a human heart, ran out of her mouth, entered Wang Sheng's body, and finally brought him back to life.

What attracted Lin Yuquan was the painting of the skin in the story, imagine that a monster threw the human skin on the bed, holding a colored pen in the painting, and threw down the pen and lifted the human skin, just like shaking clothes, so it turned into a beautiful girl, how thrilling it is, as long as it is filmed, it will definitely make countless people crazy. In addition, there is a little but brilliant character in the story, that is, Wang Sheng's wife Chen, she knew that her husband had fallen in love with someone else's concubine, and she helped keep the secret while persuading her, and later in order to save her husband's life, she did not hesitate to endure all kinds of humiliation, and even ate the thick phlegm of a madman, she is definitely a model of a moving wife, and such feelings and scenes are definitely tear gas bombs on the screen.

Of course, although the story itself is already very exciting, it still needs major surgery, and there are several areas that need to be improved and adjusted.

First of all, in this story, Wang Sheng is purely a womanizer, because of his greed for beauty, he brought the monster home, and finally led to his own death, his wife was humiliated, and the most excessive thing is that it obviously caused such a strict consequence, and finally came back to life, except for suffering a fright, there was no loss, which is absolutely not in line with the cognition of modern people, such a male protagonist will never be liked by the audience, and his wife Chen's feelings towards him can only reflect pathos, without the slightest touch, This is not the emotional scene that Lin Yuquan wants. Therefore, Wang Sheng's character settings and story encounters all need to be redesigned.

Secondly, in this story, there are very few fighting scenes, only a small part of the Taoist priest killing the monster, which is not enough to support the big scene of a movie, and it cannot show more of the magic powers of the cultivator's world, in this regard, it is necessary to add a few thrilling fight scenes.

Then there is the character of the Taoist priest, in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", the people who appear to kill monsters are basically down-and-out Taoists, such as Yan Chixia played by Wu Ma in "A Chinese Ghost Story", if it is filmed according to the setting in the novel, it is inevitable that people will compare it with "A Chinese Ghost Story". There is nothing new in it, after all, except for "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", the film and television dramas he has watched in the past are all set like this, and they are filmed like this, it seems that an inertial NPC role has come out, but he has just completed his own role, but there is nothing brilliant about it. In this regard, he felt that it was the inertia of the old Taoist priest who should break the demon slaying and exorcism, and really create a character that is different and can give people a deep impression.

And then there's the monster.,The monster in the story wants to suck yang energy.,So turn into a beautiful woman.,Seduce those men who are obsessed with her.,Finally, after doing something hurtful and unreasonable, she was killed.,The soul is scattered.,It can be said that this is also an inertial character.,There is no personality of your own.,On her body,In addition to the beauty of the skin.,There's no liking charm.,If it's shot like this.,Then this movie will be reduced to a general demon movie.。

Why "A Chinese Ghost Story", "The Love of People and Ghosts", and "The Legend of the New White Lady" can become classics in the hearts of countless people, a large part of the reason is because of the different paths of people and ghosts, and the different paths of demons, after the real love with humans, this forbidden love itself has pathos and touching. If the image of the monster is adjusted, it becomes that he originally wanted to use Wang Sheng, but he fell in love with him, and because he loved her, he forced Wang Sheng's wife Chen to stage a husband fight, and the effect would be completely different.

Chen's affectionate humiliation of her husband and suffering from very sad humiliation can remain unchanged, but it is not necessary to be beaten and eat phlegm, the appearance of the madman is to save Wang Sheng, without this premise, the story is naturally different, but if there are only Wang Sheng, Chen, monsters, and Taoist priests, these characters also seem very monotonous, and they can't support a large-scale and big-scene movie, so they are bound to add some distinctive characters to make the story more interesting.

After understanding this, Lin Yuquan immediately began to conceive his own "Painted Skin", the story starts with the demon fox Xiaowei unwilling to stay in the fox demon valley, but after leaving the demon fox valley, due to the lack of aura in the world, he can not incarnate into a person, he can only put on human skin, and continue to use the energetic human heart essence to warm the human skin, when the general Wang Sheng, who left the city, led the Wang family army under his command to exterminate a group of domineering mountain bandits, he saved the stunning woman Xiao Wei who was originally to win the hearts of the bandit leaders, because Xiao Wei was pitiful, Wang Sheng took Xiao Wei home, Xiao Wei lied with the intention of snatching the hearts of Wang Sheng and his powerful soldiers, but in the process of getting along, he fell in love with Wang Sheng, and under her seduction, the two had a relationship.

Wang Sheng originally had a wife Chen, in order to possess Wang Sheng, Xiao Wei resorted to a scheme, harmed her, and wanted to replace his position in Wang Sheng's heart, and Xiao Wei had a wolf demon Xiao Yi who loved her deeply, in order to snatch the hearts of Xiao Wei and warm human skin, Xiao Yi set off a bloody storm in the city.

At this time, Pang Yong, who served as the general of Licheng before Wang Sheng, returned to Licheng, Pang Yong was strong in martial arts, and he was originally in love with Wang Sheng and Chen, and had a crush on Chen. After Chen married Wang Sheng, Pang Yong resigned and became a wanderer. Chen found out that Xiao Wei was in love with Wang Sheng, and found that she was not an ordinary person, so he secretly asked Pang Yong for help, hoping that he would save Wang Sheng. Later, in the process of investigating Xiao Wei, Pang Yong happened to meet Xia Bing, a cultivator who had only learned fur spells from Qingyunmen, and the two joined forces to fight against Xiao Yi, who was constantly committing crimes in the city, and Xiao Wei, the mastermind behind it.

Because of Pang Yong and Xia Bing's intervention, Xiao Wei's identity as a demon fox was gradually exposed, and she was unwilling to lose Wang Sheng, who threatened Wang Sheng and the people who left the city, threatening Chen to let Pang Yong and Xia Bing stop, and let Chen drink poison and become a demon, even Wang Sheng believed her, in order to expose Xiao Wei's true face and save the people in the city, Pang Yong, Xia Bing, Chen and Wang Sheng, who later learned the truth, launched a tragic battle with Xiao Wei and Xiao Yi.

In this process, Wang Jiajun suffered heavy casualties, Pang Yong, Xia Bing, Chen, Wang Sheng and others were finally defeated by Xiao Wei and Xiao Yi's demon law, on the verge of despair, Chen was willing to give up his life for Wang Sheng to live, and Wang Sheng was grief-stricken after Chen's death, and also committed suicide, Xiao Wei, who loved Wang Sheng very deeply, found that he could not get Wang Sheng's sincerity after all, and realized true love from Wang Sheng and Chen's willingness to sacrifice their lives for each other, and was ready to save Wang Sheng, Chen and other dead people with his own demon pill in grief.

But this accident happened, Xiao Yi, who has always loved Xiao Wei deeply, found that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't compare to a mortal, under grief, he went crazy and wanted to kill everyone, Pang Yong, Xia Bing, and Xiao Wei who woke up were not opponents, seeing that the whole city was about to encounter misfortune, Xia Bing finally took out a talisman given to her by the senior brother of the master, which could open a portal and teleport the senior brother over, but as long as this talisman was used, she would also be caught back to Qingyunmen by the senior brother if she ran down the mountain, and it would be difficult to go down the mountain.

In the end, the senior brother of Qingyunmen and Xiao Yi had a big battle and killed Xiao Yi, before he died, Xiao Yi returned to Qingming and said to Xiao Wei affectionately: "If there is an afterlife, I am willing to accompany you." And Xia Bing left a sentence to Pang Yong, "Qingyunmen, Qingyun Mountain, Jiangzhou, I am waiting for you", he was taken back by the senior brother and disappeared in front of Pang Yong's eyes. In the cheers of the people leaving the city, Wang Sheng and his wife Chen hugged each other tightly.

The story has been changed like this, in fact, except for the name "painted skin" and the three characters in it, it has nothing to do with it, it can be called a brand new story, a bit unworthy of the name or unrecognizable, but only by changing the story in this way can it conform to the ideological concepts of modern people, and only in this way can he fully show the wonder of mortal warriors against magic magic and magic magic against magic powers.

Picking up and putting down the script of "Painted Skin", Lin Yuquan immediately dialed Ding Zhi's phone and asked him to inform the directors of Shuguang Film Company to come to the company tomorrow to discuss the shooting plan for the coming year, and it is already the end of the year. R1152