at home.

Wu Yuan, who had slept with his fiancée Meimei in his arms, woke up and didn't relax for long before he received a call from Chen Kaige again.

After Director Kaige indicated that he had sent the script to his email, Wu Yuan, who originally planned to give himself a vacation and not deal with any work, accompanied his fiancée, cast an apologetic look at Liu Yifei and came to the study.

It's more like a study than an office, and in addition to a bookshelf, there are piles of scattered documents, scripts, and a top-of-the-line desktop computer on the desk.

Sitting on the soft office chair and turning on the computer, Wu Yuan skillfully logged in to the mailbox and found the script file sent by Chen Kaige in a bunch of reports and documents from several companies under his control.

"The Orphan of Zhao – The Final Draft"

Sure enough, it was this movie.

Sighing in his heart, Wu Yuan clicked on the attachment of this mailbox with some curiosity and looked at it seriously.

"Zhao's Orphan", which is based on the Yuan Dynasty playwright Ji Junxiang's miscellaneous play "Zhao's Orphan".

And the story itself is adapted from a rebellion of the Zhao family, the home of the minister of the Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Compared with Ji Junxiang's Yuan miscellaneous drama, Chen Kaige's script of "Zhao's Orphan" has changed the spiritual core of the story, and it is no longer a noble and tragic choice for heroes in the traditional sense, but a story of a small person falling into the big whirlpool.

This is also a common way to interpret movies.

However, the script directed by Kaigo abandoned the compact three-part repertoire performance of the original work, which was simple and bright at the beginning, a stroke in the middle, and a happy and vengeful ending scene.

It stands to reason that as a commercial film, this three-stage repertoire is the most suitable and most acceptable way for the audience.

Almost most commercial blockbusters are such a routine.

Take "Iron Man 1" as an example, the first act is Tony Stark's appearance pretending to be forced, the second act is kidnapped and in a predicament, struggling to survive, and the third act creates a steel mecha to quickly counterattack, a spark with lightning, kills the terrorists, and completes the birth of Iron Man.

This is a three-part rendition of the most common commercial film, old-fashioned but easy to use.

Applied to "The Orphan of the Zhao Family", it should be the first act when the Zhao family had an accident, and there was only one infant baby left in the whole family, and in the second act, Cheng Ying went through many difficulties and dangers, overcame the total difficulties, raised the Zhao orphan, and cultivated him into a qualified minister, and then finally the Zhao family returned like lightning and killed all the people who had led the tragedy of the Zhao family.

Well, it's a typical prince's revenge-style plot.

Again, although the story is very old-fashioned, in the field of commercial films, such stories are market-tested and insured.

In the case of investing one or two hundred million, it is not wrong to take this safe route, at least the final box office performance will not fall below the glasses.

However, Chen Kaige did not do so.

In other words, he has added a lot of plots full of his personal ideas to this three-stage structure.

From the script, Wu Yuan can see that Chen Kaige tries to make the characters highly humanized and three-dimensional, and interprets historical events from a realistic perspective.

But he still made his own old mistakes, and like "Wu Ji", the themes and clues thrown out are a little too confused.

It's still the same old problem, the plot in the first half of the film is smooth, and Chen Kaige has changed the important plot in the first half of the Yuan miscellaneous drama.

But the bad thing is that Chen Kaige has only changed half of it, and the first half is to interpret the story of the Spring and Autumn Period from the perspective of contemporaries, which is full of humanized interpretation.

But in the second half, he returned to the plot of the original Yuan miscellaneous drama, the theme of the Yuan miscellaneous drama is loyalty, but the theme of the first half of the film adapted by Chen Kaige is human nature or revenge

This makes Cheng Ying, the protagonist, very different in personality and emotional changes in the first half and the second half of the script, and the plot of the movie and the plot of the meta-miscellaneous drama are stiffly spliced and do not fit, which has disturbed the theme to a certain extent.

Kai Zige, who got rid of the absurdity of "Wuji" and broke free from the invisible shackles of "Mei Lanfang", still did not indulge in dancing.

In the adaptation of the traditional plot, not only is it not brilliant, but it seems clumsy, and the story development is tight before and then loose, and it can only be regarded as half an excellent work.

can only say, is it worthy of Chen Kaige?

Wu Yuan sighed secretly in his heart.

Chen Kaige's "half-god" problem really can't be changed so easily.

"Search" and "The Legend of the Demon Cat" are not occasional, but inevitable.

Even after experiencing the edification of "Painted Skin 2", Chen Kaige has made a lot of optimizations in the script rhythm and story framework of "Zhao's Orphan", but his unchangeable literary and artistic temperament still allows him to avoid inconsistencies and pretentiousness when writing the script by himself.

"This script is about 20% different from what I remember." Wu Yuan said to himself: "But even if you change these two percent, I don't feel like it will become a blockbuster movie." ”

"If you die, you can pay for yourself."

Wu Yuan hesitated.

He actually has a choice, that is, to provide Chen Kaige with some suggestions for script revision.

has been making movies for so many years, even if most of the time he copied the script, he has already learned a lot.

At least in the shooting and design of commercial films, not boasting, Wu Yuan really feels that he is better than Chen Kaige.

In the field of commercial film script writing, Chen Kaige can get up to three points, but Wu Yuan can get six or seven points if he does the script himself, and the difference here is big.

After thinking about it, Wu Yuan opened a blank document separately and tried to straighten out the second half of the script of "Zhao's Orphan".

According to Chen Kaige's temperament, it is definitely necessary to retain the theme of human nature and amplify it, and integrate the original plot for adaptation.

"Dada......"

The crisp sound of keyboard tapping sounded rhythmically in the study.

Under Wu Yuan's changes, the second half of the story continues to follow the first half of Chen Kaige's adaptation.

After the change, Cheng Ying is a mediocre and tragic character, and he can't even control his own fate, all his choices are dictated by circumstances.

But his kindness, forbearance, and love are equally infectious.

Tu Anjia is ruthless, but he also has a soft side in his heart, the truth was doubtful back then, he didn't kill the two children at the same time, and now he also let Cheng Ying and his son go.

At the end of the story, Tu Anjia's death is an inevitability, which is a redemption for his past sins, and it is also in line with Han Ju's simple revenge mentality.

In short, unlike the theme of the Yuan miscellaneous drama, Wu Yuan continues the contradictions of human nature shown by Chen Kaige in the first half of the script, and continues the characters shown in the first half and unfolds the plot to avoid the chaotic sense of staggered performance.

As long as the sense of separation and chaos between the first half and the second half of the story is clear, and it is simply done as a revenge of the prince who endures humiliation and burden, then "Zhao's Orphan" is still quite interesting!

It took an afternoon for Wu Yuan to sort out and revise the script and send it back to Chen Kaige.

"I hope Director Kaigo will accept it." Leaning back in the boss's chair, Wu Yuan breathed a long sigh of relief. (End of chapter)