Liu Rong's investment in the Lighthouse Country was obviously much smoother than Lin Guiyi's, and he bought Luke Cinemas almost without any resistance.

After all, Lin Guiyi represents the Shuangmu Group, such a big group, and the people of the Lighthouse Country are also guarding against him.

Lin Guiyi walked several layers of agents and sponsored a lot of election donations, so he bypassed their vigilance and won a theater line.

And Liu Rong is different, the swinger boy and the big dog buy a theater like buying a toy, forgive him and can't make any waves.

In fact, Luke Cinema Line bought it much cheaper than Liu Rong expected, and it cost less than a billion dollars before and after.

After some confidential departments such as finance and personnel arranged their own people borrowed from Tomahawk Entertainment, Liu Rong took Assistant Xu to board the plane and return to China.

It was impossible to let him operate behind the scenes, and he had now figured out that he couldn't do this kind of serious management work.

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Compared to Liu Rong, Han Lan is much busier now.

Wang Xianzhi's team has already drafted the script of "Silk Play", and Han Lan really didn't expect that they would really change this MV into a movie.

Under the original main plot, a lot of original plots have been added, and after reading the whole script, Han Lan's face is unwavering, but his heart is panicked.

Because in his memory, he can't find a similar film and television drama or even a work!

What does this make him think?

There is no successful experience, and Han Lan has little confidence to guarantee that their drama will be popular after it is filmed and released.

"Han Lan? What do you think? Wang Xianzhi looked at him expectantly.

“em…… Change? ”

Wang Xianzhi was silent for a moment, and nodded slightly: "It is true that there are still many problems, do you have any suggestions?"

"......" Han Lan.

Can I say no?

Of course, you can't say that in person.

Han Lan recalled the thunderbolt puppet show she had heard of in her previous life, although she hadn't seen it, she also knew that it was a martial arts movie, and it could even be said to be a fantasy.

The reasons are actually very easy to understand, after all, the shortcomings of the puppet show's expressions are there, and they can only shoot some large-scale actions as much as possible, and even use some special effects to cover up their shortcomings.

But if you follow the first version of the script given by Wang Xianzhi, a lot of space is literary drama. Literary drama means that there are many dialogues and close-ups of expressions, which makes it easier to show the shortcomings of the puppet's expressions.

Although the current expressions of marionettes can be opened and closed, and the eyes are closed, it is obviously impossible to make expressions as rich as real people.

According to the solution provided by Wang Xianzhi, it is to prepare a few more puppet heads, draw specific expressions, and replace them when shooting close-ups. Cost aside, this method still can't solve the problem of its stiff expression, and it treats the symptoms but not the root cause.

For example, if you occasionally take a close-up of the puppet's tearful expression, you can replace it with a pre-drawn puppet head. But what if you want to shoot the process of crying with joy? It's impossible to prepare a puppet head for one frame and follow the way others draw animations to make the effect of puppet expressions, right? The movie has 24 frames per second, how many heads do you have to prepare for a movie?

Therefore, in the movie, it is definitely necessary to avoid shooting close-ups of expressions with long shots as much as possible, especially the kind of shots with a lot of facial expressions.

The best solution is to beat down the whole process like a kung fu movie.

Han Lan organized the language a little and told Wang Xianzhi his thoughts.

Wang Xianzhi nodded in agreement after hearing this: "If you want to focus on play, then the theme of "Silk Play" can't be used, after all, you can't add too many plays. ”

"Then change it, some are themes, and you don't necessarily have to use "Silk Play" to forcibly adapt it."

Wang Xianzhi sighed lightly and said, "I also want to reduce some risks as much as possible." The theme of marionette show has not been filmed at all, and the risk is very high, because "Silk Play" has become popular, if it can be made into a movie, I believe there will be many fans who like it. ”

"It's not impossible to rub off on the popularity of "Silk Play", you don't necessarily have to adapt it directly, you can inherit its cosmology and create a new work." Han Lan said with a smile.

Wang Xianzhi followed his train of thought and fell into contemplation, and said: "Han Lan, in fact, I have always been curious, where did the copywriting of "Silk Play" come from? ”

"Copywriting? What's wrong? ”

"The style of the whole story is actually very similar to an ancient book, but I didn't find this story in it."

"Ancient books?"

"An ancient book that few people know about, but I think you've heard of it." Wang Xianzhi said.

Han Lan was stunned for a moment, and then realized that there is actually "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" in this world? In other words, it seems that there are many ancient works, but in modern times, there are deviations.

"Han Lan?" When Wang Xianzhi saw that he was distracted, he called again.

Only then did Han Lan react and explained with a smile: "Oh, I did imitate the style of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai".

Wang Xianzhi's face suddenly appeared.

Han Lan was reminded by him and thought of it: "Director Wang, do you remember the young man who listened to the old man's story in the story?" ”

"Oh?"

"We can use him as the protagonist and find a story from "Strange Tales" to adapt it."

Wang Xianzhi nodded slightly: "I also have this idea, but there are many stories in it......"

"Let's use A Chinese Ghost Story." Han Lan said.

"A Chinese Ghost Story?" Wang Zhen didn't react for a while, and looked at Han Lan in confusion.

Han Lan opened her phone and searched it, but found that she didn't find any relevant entries.

By the way, the saying of A Chinese Ghost Story seems to have been adapted into film and television dramas, and the film and television dramas in this world are too heavily influenced by the West, and the excavation of traditional things is very limited, and no one has filmed Zhaizhai yet. It's like kung fu movies have been unpopular before he digs them.

And in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", this story should be called "Nie Xiaoqian"?

Han Lan tried to search for "Nie Xiaoqian" again, and sure enough, she found it, so she handed him the original Chinese to read, and explained without blushing and heartbeat: "A Chinese Ghost Story is what I suddenly thought of just now, and we can adapt Nie Xiaoqian's article." Ning Caichen, yes, it's him, the boy who listened to the old man's story in "Silk Play" was him. ”

"Is that okay?"

"Of course! That young man has been able to see things that others can't see since he was a child, and he is destined to have a different fate from others, and it is very reasonable to meet Nie Xiaoqian! Right? It just so happened that there was a Yan Chixia in it, so he was responsible for martial arts, fighting with the old fox, fighting with the tree demon, and some of the fighting scenes could be filmed. And what kind of flying sword, all kinds of talismans and golden lights are all on me, and all kinds of demon special effects are on the tube, and the effect will definitely not be too bad! By the way, the most important point is that the vixens in it, especially Nie Xiaoqian, have done a little more beautiful for me, a little more seductive, and charming enough, so that men will blush and have heartbeats and nosebleeds when they see it! Anyway, it's a puppet, and the upper limit of appearance and body is very high, so there's no difficulty in this, right? ”

"I didn't ...... No. Wang Xianzhi took the small notebook and memorized it, feeling that he couldn't keep up with Han Lan's jumping thoughts.

Isn't the protagonist Ning Caichen?

Why did you suddenly focus on shaping Nie Xiaoqian?

Wait, what does this have to do with "Silk Play"?

Without waiting for Wang Xianzhi to ask more, Han Lan sent him back to make persistent efforts and continue to write scripts with the team.