Subtitle of this chapter: There are really a lot of movies about the Trinity Law, such as......

Back on the night of December 12, 1920, the location was still the small two-story building in Brooklyn, and all the characters appeared.

But when it's all there, it's time to go.

As with most social occasions, the big guy always arrives late and leaves the earliest. And the figures who can be called bigwigs in this party are, of course, Mr. Brown, president of New York University Press, and Mr. Pulitzer, editor-in-chief of Le Monde.

To put it seriously, with their identities, if it weren't for the face of the two pampered little daughters, it would be a bit of a loss to attend the opening ceremony of this kind of grass stage team-like magazine.

Now that they had already shown up, they were ready to say goodbye to their master and leave after a few acquaintances.

At the same time, they heard a commotion on the sidelines. The two men argued loudly:

"Mr. Yuan, I really can't agree with you, movies are not dramas, how can the screenwriter be more important than the director?"

"No, Mr. Fleming, please make no mistake. I mean, for some films, the screenwriter is more important than the director. ”

"Mr. Yuan, then what kind of movie, the screenwriter will be more important than the director?"

"Mr. Fleming, is this ......?"

Our Master Yuan is actually not the protagonist of this cocktail party, and "Women of the World" and "Window of the World" have nothing to do with him on the surface. And "SCP" is hung under the name of the master who loves craftsmanship. So, in theory, he was just an important guest.

He also did not make a big show of it, neither ran to the stage to deliver a flamboyant speech, nor did he find a guy who was not pleasing to the eye. Adjusting his charm value to 16 points, he put his energy into building relationships with important people.

But how could a man like Yuan Yanqian have no limelight?

The colleagues in the film and television industry brought by Miss Lillian-Guish had already known from the mouths of the big stars that Mr. Griffith and Yuan Yanqian were about to work together to make a sound movie, which naturally aroused great interest from these insiders, so they enthusiastically discussed the shooting methods of sound films with our Master Yuan.

And Yuan Yanqian took this opportunity to start selling his "director-screenwriting dual system" again, not to mention this timeline, not many people have heard of it on his timeline, so it was immediately questioned by others. And the biggest skeptic is a budding director named Victor Fleming.

In fact, this benevolent brother later became quite famous, and his most famous works are "The Wizard of Oz" and ...... "Gone with the Wind". But Mr. Fleming is still just a young director who has just turned from a photographer.

In 1911, he served as a full-time photographer for the Intelligence Bureau during the First World War, and accompanied the president to Europe as the chief photographer. He was in New York to negotiate with the publisher about the publication of his album "President Wilson's Journey to Europe."

Last year, he became a photographer for Griffith, and he met Miss Lillian-Gish.

Later, Mr. Victor Fleming's status in Hollywood was not low, and when it comes to the "Golden Age of Hollywood", he will definitely be mentioned, after all, he filmed the classic masterpiece "Gone with the Wind". The so-called golden age refers to the period after the Great Depression, when the film industry bucked the trend and boomed, and "Gone with the Wind" was filmed in 1939, which is a classic of the golden age.

But he is known as "Hollywood's supermaster", a title that cannot be considered a compliment for an artist.

There are only wrong names, no wrong nicknames. Now this "Hollywood super craftsman" is not so super, but he has begun to be a little crafty.

In fact, there are many directors who are turned into photographers, and these directors will have some ingenuity. Cinema is also known as the "art of light and shadow", as a photographer, it is natural to pay more attention to the picture, and intentionally or unintentionally ignore the story and theme, so their works are gorgeous in appearance and empty in content.

Of course, if it is a commercial film, then a director like Mr. Victor Fleming is definitely more than enough. However, in addition to establishing a "dual system of director and screenwriter", our Master Yuan also has the ambition to open up the aesthetic genre of "intellectual film".

But it's too early to say this, Yuan Yanqian first has to convince everyone present.

He habitually lit a cigar...... One of the great things about 1920 was that you could smoke in public places anytime, anywhere.

"Mr. Fleming, is this a question......" our Master Yuan took a puff of his cigarette and said after a long pause, "it's very simple. As long as it is a film that conforms to the Trinity Law, then the screenwriter is definitely more important than the director. ”

"Trinity?"

"Yes, Trinity."

Well, if the people in the film and television industry here don't know the Trinity Law, they can really die.

The Trinity was first proposed by Aristotle, who summarized the characteristics of ancient Greek drama into the Trinity Law, that is, the so-called uniformity of time, place and plot. Therefore, the three unities are the earliest theories of theatrical structure in the West. 、

In the seventeenth century, the French classical theorist of drama Boileau explained it as "a story to be completed in one place, in one day, to maintain the fullness of the stage from the beginning to the end." ”。 This rule was the golden rule of classical drama creation at that time.

However, in the eighteenth century, this theatrical theory was attacked by the "Romanticism" represented by the famous French writer Victor Hugo, and thus lost its dominance, and the theatrical situation became more colorful.

Director Fleming looked at his companions around him, and said suspiciously: "Aren't there many movies that Mr. Yuan said that conform to the Trinity Law now?" Is it ......?"

Yuan Yanqian interrupted him a little unceremoniously this time: "No, no, no, Mr. Fleming, those you said are either clumsy imitations of stage plays, or simply stupid burlesques. I'm talking about a true 'cinematic' script that conforms to the Trinity and is full of dramatic tension. ”

He continued: "I don't look down on you directors, on the contrary, I have great admiration for you artists who turn 'light and shadow' into works of art. But I think there are some scripts that only need to be written by someone who knows a little bit about the director's business......"

Our Master Yuan suddenly pointed to the female star next to him and said, "For example, Miss Lillian-Gishh can also make a pretty good film." ”

"Me?"

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