Subtitle of this chapter: There are naturalist performances, and of course there are naturalistic screenwriters.

"Me?!"

Miss Lillian-Gish was stunned when she heard this. She is not the kind of stunned young man who does not know the height of the sky, and she has studied under David Griffith and spent half her life on the set, of course, she knows that directing is not so simple.

However, women in love are often carried away by love, and this big star is no exception, she has a blind confidence in Yuan Yanqian, so she didn't think much about it, but involuntarily asked: "Tired, have you written a new script?" ”

There is no new script yet, but can I "write" a copy right away?

Our Master Yuan smiled slightly and shouted in his head: "Master Ball, I want to draw ......"

"Host, your B-coin balance is insufficient."

His face was impassive, and he secretly screamed in his heart that it was bad. After meeting TS-Eliot just now, he wanted to "learn" with this great poet on a whim, so he randomly selected several modern poems at the price of 1,000 B coins at a time, and smoked out all the B coins, the problem is that there is not a single poem that can be used.

What can I do now?

He habitually lit a cigar, and when he was thinking about it, he happened to see Mr. Sanders, a current affairs reporter for the New York Times, and his heart couldn't help but move, remembering a recent social news ......

Heck, if you combine this thing and that idea, you can write an affirmative ...... Well, definitely a wonderful "adaptation" of the script.

He glanced at the guests who could be described as a "celebrity gathering", and couldn't help but feel a move in his heart, since it was an "adaptation", why not so "adapt"?

Oh, if you can write a script in this way, it will definitely be a good story in the literary world that will be passed down to future generations.

Yuan Yanqian squeezed her eyes at her lover and said, "Lilian, is the script...... I haven't written about it lately, but if you want, I can write one for you right now. ”

He suddenly raised his voice and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen. Do you know about the Dempsey case? ”

"You know, isn't it the murder case that has been in a uproar recently?"

"Speaking of which, the place where this case happened is also in Brooklyn, not far from here."

In a metropolis of millions of people like New York, it is not uncommon for homicides to occur. And because of a quarrel between husband and wife, it is naturally common for one of them to kill the other by mistake.

However, the Dempsey murder case is indeed somewhat bizarre. Like the male protagonists of those domestic violence stories, Mr. Dempsey is a terrible husband who often gets drunk, and the heroine, Mrs. Dempsey, is a weak housewife who has always been submissive.

Then one day their landlord found Mr. Dempsey stabbed in his apartment, and Mrs. Dempsey was missing. When the NYPD arrived, it was found that the doors and windows of the apartment were closed, there was no sign of the room being turned over except for the signs of a fight, the belongings were basically intact, and there was still a half-eaten dinner on the table.

The police questioned the landlord and the surrounding neighbors and learned that the couple had heard another big argument as usual the other day. Mrs. Dempsey was also seen leaving her home in a hurry.

Combined with witness testimony and on-site investigation, the facts of the case seem to have become clear. The couple, who had always had a bad relationship, quarreled again, and the wife accidentally killed her husband or deliberately killed her.

Just when the NYPD wanted Dempsheev, she turned herself in, or rather, she ran to the police station to insist that she was innocent, and that night she just ran away from home after her husband beat and scolded her, and she had no idea what happened after that

Then the police naturally asked her where she had gone, and Mrs. Dempsey happily confessed that she had gone to the house of her mistress, a salesman. The police found the salesman again, but the man flatly denied that Mrs. Dempsey had not been there that night.

So the police hastily determined that Mrs. Dempsey lied and was the real culprit in the case. The New York City Attorney filed an indictment. In the end, the jury unanimously found Mrs. Dempsey guilty and sentenced her to life in prison.

However, the verdict has aroused questions from public opinion, because the case is indeed somewhat unclear. First of all, the murder weapon was never found; Secondly, some witnesses claimed to have seen Mrs. Dempsey indeed go to her mistress's house that night; In the end, even if Mrs. Dempsey lied, it did not prove that she was necessarily guilty.

The most critical question is, how did Dempsey, a weak woman, kill her husband? (Author's note: The Dempsey case took place in 1923, and it happened in advance for the sake of the plot.) ）

Fortunately, our Master Yuan is not a true spiritual American, otherwise he would definitely have a sense of disillusionment when he sees this kind of confused case. In fact, the American judiciary is just the same thing, and even more incomprehensible cases similar to the "Norfolk sailors case" still happened decades later.

At this time, Mr. Victor Fleming couldn't help but interject: "Mr. Yuan, I admit that this case is really good as material. But how do you write this case into a script that conforms to the Trinity Law? ”

There are many movie scripts that conform to the Trinity Law, and the most common ones are...... The small movie is very much in line with the "same time, all the place and the same plot".

Yuan Yanqian smiled slightly, and replied calmly: "Mr. Fleming, my script does not write about the case itself, but ......."

He paused at the critical moment, took a leisurely puff on his cigarette, and looked meaningfully at the guests around him who had been drawn in.

"I see!" The first to react was "His Majesty the Emperor", Mr. McCall slapped his hand and said, "I understand, this script is written for court debate!" ”

When he said this, the people around him also suddenly realized. That's right, writing a court argument can condense the entire case, allow the prosecution and defense to present their evidence, and also have a fierce and wonderful debate.

Our Master Yuan gave a thumbs up to his lawyer and said, "Yes, John, but ...... You guessed it wrong!"

"I'm writing this script......," he said, turning to the crowd around him, "Jury! ”

Now everyone finally understands what Yuan Yanqian really means, but what can you write if you write about a jury?

Of course, this question was immediately raised.

"Hahaha, that's a good question. But the answer is ......"

Our Master Yuan suddenly waved his hand and drew a circle and said, "It's on you." ”

He looked around at the audience with great interest and said with a grin: "Ladies and gentlemen, do you want to finish this script with me, right here and now." ”

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PS: I'm sorry, I've always felt a little wrong with this plot recently, and after thinking about it for a long time, I finally decided to simply rewrite it.