Chapter 170: About Contrast
After the source of funding was settled, Carrey couldn't wait to discuss the problem of the script with two friends - Zhang Cheng only then learned that these two were good lovers of literature, and their ambitions were writers and screenwriters.
The three of them are like-minded, and they talk about girls. Zhang Cheng listened to it for a while and felt that the movie they could make in the end should be something like "American Pie".
Zhang Cheng tried to insert some topics: "Look, how about adding some Chinese elements?" β
Kerry nodded violently: "Good mention yΓ¬, it will help us develop the Chinese market." What do you guys think? β
Future screenwriter A: "Chinese elements, then there is only Chinese kung fu." β
Well, that's all Americans know about China.
Future screenwriter B frowned: "The muscular and violent heroine doesn't seem to fit the traditional British image." However, the Chinese market is indeed a big problem. β
China imports a limited number of American films each year, but as long as they are imported through normal channels, it means tens of millions or even more than 100 million dollars in box office revenue -- this is a huge profit for a film with a small investment and small production.
However, there are too many uncertainties in the threshold for entering the Chinese market, and many films that have lost both word-of-mouth and box office in North America have also been introduced, and some films with good word-of-mouth and box office have been rejected. However, after perennial observation, the probability of blockbusters being introduced is relatively high, and the probability of films with Chinese elements being introduced is also higher, and the probability of children's movies being introduced is also higher. But none of them are absolute.
Zhang Cheng listened and saw that the iced orange juice in the cup had been drunk. I ordered another drink. Drinking an iced drink, Zhang Cheng listened, and found a time to take the opportunity to speak: "I don't think adding elements of kung fu doesn't have to take the route of a muscular woman. Watching Si Swenwen's very delicate girl suddenly start beating people, there will also be a kind of contrasting and cute visual pleasure. β
When the future screenwriter A heard this, he wrote and drew in his notebook and said to Zhang Cheng: "The idea of contrasting Meng is very good, continue to talk about it." β
Zhang Cheng said: "You see, Superman, Optimus Prime, they torture and crush humans, even if they are bad guys, I think everyone has already seen this kind of episode - and in order to contrast the strength of the villains, all kinds of special effects and settings are needed." The small system zuΓ² can't afford to play this either.
But. You see, if our female number one is a petite woman, or even a girl, who looks like Sven is a petite woman, and she is crushed with Chinese kung fu - we just need to find a big, muscular man with a weapon to abuse her. This creates a strong visual and mental contrast - it doesn't matter where the muscular man defeats the muscular man. The little girl can be used to show off her eyeballs by defeating the muscular man. β
Kerry listened and nodded, "That's a good idea." It can also control the cost well. We can start by thinking of the main line of the story. The rest of the storyboard and dialogue are left to Hollywood's demobilized screenwriters. β
Future Screenwriter B: "How's revenge?" It's a bit old-fashioned, but it's reasonable. β
Future screenwriter A: "I already have an idea, I'll say it first, let's listen to it." Female number one is set to be a girl around 10 years old. He lives with his father, who is a professional wrestler in Mexico. One day, my father was injured by a despicable opponent in a competition, lost the championship, and even retired due to injury.
The female number one wants to become stronger, avenge her father in the ring, and take back the honor that should belong to her father. But the father disagreed with the idea of the female number one, thinking that the female number one should go to school well, and then get married and have children to live an ordinary and happy life. Therefore, he refused to teach the female number one.
Female No. 1 goes to the Chinese martial arts gym in the local Chinatown every day after school to practice quietly. However, it wasn't long before the female number one soon discovered that such a practice illness could not make her stronger quickly, and after the retirement of her father as a Mexican professional wrestler, the reduction of her pocket money was not enough to pay for the tuition at the martial arts gym for a long time.
The turning point came on the way home, when the female No. 1 happened to pass by a Chinese restaurant, she happened to see a few drunken men making trouble in the Chinese restaurant, and they were easily put down by the humble Chinese restaurant chef and owner. The female No. 1's eyes lit up, and she realized that this was the power she needed, and the owner of the Chinese restaurant was obviously a worldly master who lived in seclusion here.
However, even if the girl took out her meager pocket money and wanted to learn from the owner of the Chinese restaurant, the boss firmly refused, because he has now retired, and he is now just a cook, no longer a martial artist.
After the disappointed girl came out, she unexpectedly found the recruitment advertisement for hourly workers posted outside the Chinese restaurant and took it down. The next day, the girl came here to answer the hourly kitchen clerk who washed the dishes, and took out all the advertising paper that the boss had put up in Chinatown. The boss had to agree to let her work as an hourly dishwasher in the kitchen.
The girl who had been washing dishes in the kitchen for half a month suddenly asked the boss why she was avoiding her and secretly practicing kung fu, because in the observation of half a month, the girl had never seen the boss practice kung fu.
Faced with the girl's doubts, the boss asked the girl to pick up the iron pot and stir-fry spoon for stir-frying. The girl couldn't pick up the iron pot, because the iron pot that the boss usually carried with one hand was too heavy, and even a frying spoon would take her hands to pick it up. Then the boss sued the girl, and kung fu is in life.
From this day on, the girl began to follow the life of the learning boss, starting with eating with iron bowls and iron chopsticks - weighted kitchen knives, iron-core rolling pins. As time went on, the boss's attitude towards the girl gradually changed, and he began to teach the girl how to breathe and exert force little by little.
Spring goes on, and the girl has been working in the kitchen for a year, but the girl, who has made great progress, complains that the master still hasn't taught her the real kung fu - the techniques that put people down. The boss smiled and agreed with the girl that when the girl could cook a table of meals in the back kitchen, he would teach her real kung fu.
The girl began to practice harder, and it was only after a few months that she barely managed to make a table that satisfied her boss. After the boss and the girl finish the meal made by the girl, the girl asks the boss to fulfill his promise and give her real kung fu.
The boss temporarily closed the restaurant and took the girl to the martial arts hall on the street. In the fight with the disciples of the martial arts hall, whether they were taller or stronger than the girl, they were all defeated by the girl. Looking at an opponent who fell to the ground, the girl realized that she had learned real kung fu.
One day not long after, in the back kitchen, the girl told Master SΓΉ that her life as a part-time worker and martial arts student here was coming to an end - it turned out that the girl had already signed up for the amateur lower division of the Mexican professional wrestling league. Although there is still a long way to go from the enemy's high league, the girl believes that she will advance.
The master calmly told the girl that whether she came here to cook or eat in the future, she was welcome. In the end, the master gave the girl a gift. Let the girl go home and open it. When the girl returned home, she opened the gift, which turned out to be a pink butterfly mask used by a wrestler. It turned out that the master didn't say anything, but he already knew the girl's thoughts.
The girl replaced her black spider mask with a pink butterfly mask and won back-to-back matches in the amateur lower league. A year later, the girl in the pink butterfly mask stood on the court of the Mexican professional wrestling high league amid the shouts of her fans, and her heart was extremely calm in the face of the enemy girl who had hurt her father with despicable means.
After two and a half years, the revenge battle match began, and the girl's father and master watched the girl's game in the corner - it turned out that the girl's father already knew about it.
As always, the girl knocked her opponent down again and again in the match, and deftly dodged the small tricks her opponent used to turn defeat into victory, and then tore off her opponent's mask - and was removed, which also announced the end of her opponent's career in Mexican wrestling.
The bell rings to the end of the game, and the cheers of flowers come like a tide. The next day, the girl and her father went to eat at a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw a large poster of themselves hanging on the wall.
That's all I thought, there's only one outline, what do you think? β
Carey: "Awesome, Chinese elements, Mexican elements, Hollywood elements (violent revenge), youth inspiration, children's education, family relationships......"
"It's great." Although Zhang Cheng also knows that the female number one must use white people, but there is no way, this is a white society, and white-looking Latinas may also be able to be the protagonists, but it is difficult for Chinese to become famous movie stars - the transparent glass wall in the United States has always existed, whether it is Hollywood or the research rooms of universities and colleges.
Carey clapped: "Then it's decided, tomorrow we will find someone to start writing the script and storyboard script for this outline, and I will contact the actor's agent to make a budget plan." (To be continued......)