It's still a trivial matter if you don't have money, who can stand it like Harley who talks to herself about real-time stock quotes in the morning, noon and night, and Song Ya severely reprimanded her the next day, but a phone call at the close of the market every day is still inevitable. This situation lasted for half a month, and only after her freshness gradually wore off did it finally subside.

"That's probably it, the plot is not complicated, but there are large sections of singing and dancing, so the dance fingers are very important."

In the evening, the lights were bright in the office of the president of A+ Records, and Song Ya handed the printed first version of the script to Yeremov, along with Tarraghi, Hayden, and two gunman screenwriters, a white man in his forties and a black man in his thirties, both men and not cheap, and the top group among gunmen who were willing not to sign their names.

The black screenwriter was added later, and in order to help embellish the dialogue between the protagonist and his friends, he could not use too much black Chicago slang as Song Ya originally envisioned, which would have left the out-of-town audience in a fog, nor too much of a street flavor, which is a hip-hop movie after all.

"It's a very late thing to find a dance finger, and of course if you really want to make this movie, you have to increase the amount of dance training."

Yeremov shook his head, the director of A+ Records Publicity picked up his old job as a producer, and suddenly became a lot more confident, and directly took over the leadership of the small meeting, "Okay, I believe everyone here has read the script more than once, today we will be simple again, put forward all the questions, brainstorm." Those areas still need to be revised, and if you have anything to say, Mr. APLUS can withstand the blow. ”

Both they and Song Ya laughed, "I'll talk about it first." Seeing that the two screenwriters didn't take the initiative to speak, Yeremov pointed to the opening paragraph in the script and asked: "Is there any consideration for this opening credit?" He's too much like the MV, and the whole song Show me the money is a little dragged. ”

"The dancing in the tall dance practice studio in tights and dancing ballet in tights, and the chaotic street dance, the contrast between the two different pictures suggests two different classes, one belongs to the rich of the female protagonist, introverted, rigid, and refuses to change, and the other belongs to the poor of the male protagonist, flamboyant, free of movement, and full of vitality."

Song Ya replied.

"It's not bad, this has a foreshadowing effect on the personality and cognitive differences between the male and female protagonists due to different family environments and life concepts, and then a series of dramatic conflicts brought about by this." The white screenwriter put his hand to his mouth and said.

The black screenwriter also nodded, "I also think the opening is very suitable for the main idea, the one side represented by hip-hop and the other side represented by ballet, from not understanding each other, to conflicting, and finally merging into a performance at the end of the film, echoing before and after." ”

"But it's still a little ......" Yeremov was not easily convinced, and made a mark on the script, "this paragraph will be polished after the director is in place." ”

"Guide ......"

The black screenwriter looked at Song Ya in surprise, "You don't really want to make a movie, do you?" There are so many group dance scenes in this play, and investment is indispensable. ”

"Why should I hire you if you don't make a movie!?" Song Ya replied angrily.

"It's time to shoot some small productions and practice your hands first." The white screenwriter smiled at Yeremov and asked, "Didn't you persuade him?" ”

Yeremov made a gesture of wiping his neck.

"My main concern is in terms of personality." The black screenwriter said: "Three NGers from poor families, smashing the glass of an art school and stealing a car, this kind of plot will not be liked by the African American community." ”

"I think so." Taragi chimed in.

Yeremov and the white editors also nodded.

Song Ya thought about it, indeed, the starring role in the original movie was a white man, and he did these things with two black people, and the black group would not have any sensitive thoughts, but didn't he want to star? So I asked the editor to write all three of them as black, and then the question suddenly appeared, "Is it going to have to be changed, what do you say?" ”

"Just smash the glass, stealing a car can be changed to a relatively low degree of crime, such as ...... Uh, for example, ...... "black screenwriters haven't thought of a suitable replacement plot for a long time, it's obvious that writing as robbery, trafficking or something is more serious, and petty theft or bullying is more devastating than stealing a car, not to mention that stealing a car is also related to a large part of the plot before and after.

The background of the characters is a very deep knowledge, the car is a dead thing, and the discomfort that the audience feels when watching the protagonist steal the car is far lower than directly robbing someone else's twenty dollars, although the value of a car is much higher than twenty dollars, I don't know how many times.

The protagonist and his two partners are idle young people from the slums, and the film must not only show the ubiquitous criminal life of the low-level youth who cannot get out of the quagmire, but also not make the audience feel too disgusted.

It is very difficult to grasp this degree, the original movie has been set up very balanced, and the character design will be affected by a slight change, and the protagonist in the original movie is a white man, and it is not easy for whites and blacks to steal cars together to make the audience associate with the crime rate of the ethnic group, and it will be ......

It is a fact that the crime rate of blacks is high, but it can't be filmed so bluntly, and it will definitely attract scolding from the black community at that time, not to mention that he still has black blood, he will be scolded even more fiercely, and words such as black skin and white heart of ethnic traitors will definitely be indispensable.

And it doesn't please white people.

"How about replacing the protagonist's friend with a white man?" Yeremov suggested.

"All white? It's not good, it will seem inconsistent with reality, the protagonist's partners are brothers, and changing one means that their family background must be changed, so how to get the plot of the death of the younger brother later? The two screenwriters complained.

It seems that even with the apocalypse of the whole movie, there is still a long way to go before the actual copy of the finished product, "just replace the elder brother with a white man, and give the protagonist's family back to the two brothers." ”

Song Ya came up with the idea, the original white male protagonist is an orphan and lives in an adoptive family assigned by a welfare agency, and the kind of adoptive family adopts a child in order to get the subsidy money from the welfare agency, and often adopts more than one, and the education of children who are not related by blood is naturally laissez-faire.

So there is a basis for the reality that there are occasional whites in black neighborhoods who follow behind blacks. In addition to this kind of adoptive family, some white families who are poor and cannot afford to move out of the slums where there are more and more black people have to let their children grow up in this environment, and they will also become the kind of people who are dressed in hip-hop like the male protagonist of the original movie, smashing glass with black companions, stealing cars, dancing hip-hop, and having no sense of time.

"What about the protagonist's white sister?" The white screenwriter asked.

"It's black." Song Ya said: "Just rely on the protagonist's family background to my real family, my aunt, sister and everything else, the protagonist's two friends live in an adoptive family, so there is no blood relationship, the elder brother is white, and the younger brother is black." ”

"Then the question arises again, what about the gag lines that the white brother is responsible for?" The black screenwriter was not happy, "Those lines are tasteless when they come out of the mouth of a white man, and what about the character of him who is expected to become a professional basketball player?" ”

In the original movie, the protagonist is a wooden white man who is not good at words, and this Song Ya has also continued, just like what Escubber did in the movie Block Boy, the singer crossed over for the first time, and it is best not to try the kind of role that requires very high acting skills, this kind of wooden and dull character is very conducive to covering up his unprofessional acting skills.

So his black friends are naturally in charge of the chatter and the funny part, as Eddie Murphy has always done in the movies, and he plays basketball well, which is also in line with the usual stereotype.

"Black people talk and talk about slang and gags, that's a stereotype, right?" Song Ya asked, "I remember last year's movie White People Can Jump Inside, and I tried to flip the stereotype, white people are dull, black people are shrewd, white people dunk, black people collect money." This unconventional character design works surprisingly well, and the box office proves it. ”

"Don't you dislike that movie?" Taragi asked.

"Don't bother Taraghi, I just don't like the Wesley Streep actor." Song Ya said: "But the film itself is still very desirable, and his performance is impeccable in all fairness. ”

"Okay, that white companion is in charge of gags, you are in charge of basketball masters, and hip-hop masters huh." Everyone chatted warmly again and set the tone.

"If you change it like this, the character of the protagonist's sister will seem a bit cumbersome." Yeremov began to talk about the third question, "Since the family background of the protagonist has changed, some of the dialogues with his sister will have to be drastically deleted. ”

"Yes, let's change it." Song Ya nodded, "Continue to publish the second version, but don't be too self-assertive." He didn't want to change the original movie beyond recognition, then it would be difficult to say at the box office, although she didn't know if the movie would be successful in another time and space, but his instincts should be good.

"No, you're the one who pays." According to the requirements of the financier, the script was customized, and the two screenwriters had no opinions.

Discussions around the first version of the script continued late into the night, and after sending Yeremov and the two screenwriters away, Taragi took his coat and helped Song Ya put it on, "Do you really want to shoot it?" She asked.

"When have you ever seen me do something without a purpose?" Song Ya asked rhetorically.

"Well, the script is good."

Tarragi turned off the office lights and the two walked to the elevator, "I can see that you have written a lot of life in it, such as the part where you lifted Charis Theron." She asked, "Will you give her the heroine?" ”

Unaware of the existence of the Apocalypse, she reversed the cause and effect of the two things, Song Ya shook her head, "I have already asked Amy to strengthen her practice." ”

"But the heroine won't be 100% hers, right?"

"Of course, this is my first film, and I must not mess it up, otherwise I will become the laughing stock of all Hollywood."

"Can you give me the supporting role of the heroine's black best friend?" Taraghi asked suddenly.

“What？”

"I studied acting at Howard."

"Don't make a fuss......"