"Mr. Daniel, why did you think of inviting me to act in a movie?" Lucy stirred the coffee in front of him, don't think about it, he bought it himself, and with the emotional intelligence of that college student, he probably didn't have the experience of taking the initiative to invite guests in his life.

"No, just call me Harry." The man was obviously very uncomfortable with being called "Mr. Daniel", first shivered, and then said seriously: "I found a very good book, I want to make it into a movie, of course, I am only a fourth-year college student, so I have limited funds......"

Lucy didn't speak, this is not a reason, in the United States, there are many low-wage low-level actors, and there is no need to find a passerby who has no acting foundation.

"I submitted this project to the actors' union, hoping to find the right actors, and others are okay to say, there are only male and female protagonists, I looked at it, and no one is suitable." Harry's eyes lit up, "Then I saw you, and to be honest, I feel like this book was made for you!" I hope you'll be able to join my crew, Mr. Lucy! ”

Lucy couldn't stand such a shining gaze from a big man, so he had to say, "Then how about letting me read the script first?" ”

Although a good script does not necessarily make a good movie, the foundation of a good movie must be a good script.

Well, well, not necessarily, the most glorious time for movies in Hong Kong is the time when the script is the least important, so we can put it another way, in most cases, the foundation of a good movie is a good script, and there is nothing wrong with that.

When Lucy took the script, he only glanced at the title.

Angel of the Stockings

It's embarrassing!

Lucy flipped through it quickly, and found that this person actually got the words that he sent to the comic company and had not yet been released, and then wrote such a book based on this complete story.

it! The protagonists of this comic are two beautiful girls, okay?,Why do you say "it's tailor-made for me"!

But after a little closer inspection, Lucy discovered Harry's adaptation of the whole story.

First of all, in Lucy's comics, the whole story is reminiscing, but the male Seraphic Angel who represents himself only appears in the last grid of the last episode, and Harry opens his mind and completes a considerable degree of plot, and forcibly raises the role of this male Seraphic Angel to the level of the male protagonist, and then merges the original two heroines in the comics into one, so that there is a regular core character group.

This approach can't be said to be bad, after all, dramas without men are still niche in the end, and for a super rookie like Harry, it's better to shoot some regular template stories. But if you talk about shortcomings, after all, the time is too rushed, and Harry's own brain makes up a lot of plot injuries, which leads to the overall incongruity of the script.

But Lucy decided to star anyway, of course, if the script needed to be overhauled.

"Sometimes, coincidences come and go." Lucy closes the notebook.

“？” Harry didn't understand the words.

"Angel of Stockings, this is a comic that I drew." Lucy shook the script and pointed to the title.

Then Lucy saw Harry's expression change from stunned to surprised, then to ecstasy, and finally to shame. The whole person was stuffed into a tomato.

With this kind of acting, why go to the directing department, it's really a terrible thing.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know ......," Harry said incoherently.

"Nothing to be sorry for, how much money did you spend on the movie rights to my comics?" Lucy asked with some curiosity, although the money had nothing to do with him.

"Hmm...... $50,000 to buy, in fact, the biggest single expense of this movie is to buy this script......" Harry said stunned.

"Cut, it's sold for 50,000 dollars, and those people really don't like my comics...... Wait, you think this will be the biggest single expense? You don't want to use your smartphone to make movies, do you? Lucy first despised the comic book company's eyes, and then spotted a loophole in Harry's words.

"No, no, no, how could it be, I was going to beg my uncle so that I could use his equipment to make a movie." Harry quickly explained that this was not the time when everyone watched all the movies made on the home camera.

"Your uncle?" Luci nodded.

"Well, Ray Allen, it's my mother's own brother." Harry said a name.

Lucy quickly searched for the name.

Ray Allen, a world-famous director and producer.

"If you can make sure you can borrow professional equipment, that's a good thing. But if you have such a good relationship with your uncle, why are you still so poor? Lucy glanced at Harry in surprise, but he didn't expect this otaku-looking person to be an invisible tyrant.

"Although my family is quite supportive of me, I still don't have much financial support......" Harry felt an inexplicable sense of pride, "I can prove myself!" ”

Although it is impossible for Harry Daniel to make a full movie right now without that family connection, this does not prevent him from having the illusion that he is already independent.

"Okay, the first problem is solved, then let's discuss the second and most serious problem, your script is too bad, it must be overhauled!" Lucy put the notebook on the table.

Harry had nothing to say, of course he didn't want to admit that his brain was stupid, but now sitting in front of him was the real original, so his confidence was completely gone, so he had to smile wryly.

"I'll sort out a passable script, you give me your contact information, and I'll come back to you in two weeks." Lucy's tone was calm, but it didn't give people the courage to refute, and Harry just wanted to say that the script was very different from the comics, but finally obediently shut up.

"Your task, find other supporting roles, and leave the selection of the heroine to me, understand?" Lucy continued to speak of his request.

"Wait, I'm the director of this movie!" Harry wanted to get the power he deserved.

"But you can't find the right actor, can you? I can find the right person in the world, don't worry. Lucy was too lazy to say anything, and directly used some hypnotic techniques.

"Oh......" Harry was unsurprisingly struck, and he no longer refuted Lucy's request.

When "Angel in Stockings" is a comic, the main eye-catching thing is the transformation picture with a strong sense of contrast, but this form of expression will be very two-dimensional in the movie, because no villain will stand there stupidly and watch you pose for transformation, a movie must have at least logic, this is Lucy's view of the movie.

Of course, many times the audience will forgive some illogical plots, such as 007, such as Fast and Furious.

The plots of these movies almost don't stand up to scrutiny, but the audience just wants to watch them, because they didn't intend to see a complete story in the first place.

But is Stocking Angel 007? Is it Fast & Furious? No, so it still has to have a great story to draw the audience to the cinema.

Considering the cost, Lucy directly cut all the plots that needed special effects, anyway, the core of this drama is not about fighting, but about the reflection on the image of "angels", two angels who are not like angels at all, are the parts that cannot be abandoned.

Since this is a release in the United States, Lucy must also take into account the influence of religion, and too intense plot is easy to arouse the disgust of believers, so the positioning of "bad" has become a top priority.

This point of water-based poplar must be abandoned, in fact, Lucy gave up this in the comics, but someone still sent a threatening letter, and the spiritual cleanliness of this group of disciples can be seen.

After deletion, deletion and modification, Lucy suddenly found that the whole script had become quite vulgar, nothing more than the story of two "bad boys" who reformed their ways, and such stories in Hollywood are not ten thousand but thousand, or the kind that is piled up in a warehouse and will never be made into a movie.

So there is a good saying, making a movie is to dance with shackles, and how to express your own unique things within the range of most people's preferences is the most difficult part of making a movie.

In the end, Lucy could only overturn it entirely, and wrote a new story about angels on the premise of retaining the "sense of contrast".

"What would happen if I got to Vice City in the anime?" Lucy asked himself suddenly.

There was once such a movie called "Sin City", not to mention whether it was made well or not, but such a rotten city is indeed very attractive.

It's not that people like such a city, but it does satisfy some of people's fantasies.

In Lucy's eyes, that was the fatal temptation of man's original sin.

Everyone longs to completely release their desires, but we don't, it's this kind of self-control that makes people human, but even the most disciplined people will always be at some moment, in a certain place, quietly fantasizing, there is a place where they can release their all, whether it is good or evil.

Cinema gives people that opportunity.

But Lucy wasn't human, and as an angel, he was supposed to hate these things, just like his other siblings.

It's a pity that Lucy is not an angel either, his angelic heart core is transformed from a human soul, and he is born with sympathy for humans with original sin, which is also the biggest reason why Lucy is sure that he will not fall into heaven.

So what would happen if Lucy came to a sin capital?

Lucie's eyes lit up, and many classic images floated before his eyes, including Fang Cai's "Sin City", as well as Gotham City in DC Comics, the famous Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, Roanapura in the animated Black Reef, and so on.

What do they have in common?

These cities are not without order.

It is true that chaotic cities are prone to evil, but such evil does not become a climate, and only evil under strict order can bring the deepest despair to people, and the more perfect this order, the stronger the despair.