With the development of new and old literature and art to the present, most of the plots of film and television are old-fashioned, no matter how you dig out your heart to arrange the so-called new stories, you can always find the old elements left over by your predecessors in the end.

If you really think that you have any shocking and incomparably new story ideas, it must be that you haven't read enough books, movies and television.

Although the stories are already very ordinary, and good movies no longer rely on twists and turns in the plot to win, Su Changqing still found that after repeated recollections, there are very few Oscar-winning films suitable for domestic remakes.

After all, the Oscar is an academy award, and the winning films usually have a strong cultural background and are difficult to transplant, while movies of science fiction, fantasy, horror and other genres that win with imagination are usually difficult to win awards, and can only win in makeup, photography, technology, etc.

This is also the main reason why Su Changqing has been remaking Japanese and Korean works in the past two years.

He also knows that the story is not the whole story of the film, but the language and style of the shots, the moving tones and music, and the abundance of imaginative details are what make a new film fascinating.

However, without the story, there is nothing to rely on.

Su Changqing likes "The Shape of Water", which won the Oscar twenty years later, but is not sure whether it should be remade.

The film is an outlier, a rare fantasy work that wins an award, and it swept the major international awards that year.

"The Shape of Water" was nominated for thirteen Oscars, and finally won four awards including Best Picture and Best Director, and also won dozens of international awards such as the Venice Golden Lion.

The reason why Su Changqing hesitated was because although the core of the film celebrates the love and equality of heterogeneity, the plot is too dark and heavy, and it was introduced and released in China, and the audience of that era also accepted it, but I am not sure if this wave of audiences twenty years ago could be equally happy.

This era is far less focused on marginalized people than it was twenty years later, let alone understood.

At first glance, the movie sounds like an old fairy tale about a fish-fish love: a fish-man with magical abilities is captured alive and transported to a secret research institute.

The mute heroine is a cleaner at this research institute, and she communicates with the fishman in sign language between work, feeds him eggs, and listens to music.

Later, the mermaid faced the crisis of being dissected, and the mute heroine rescued him with wits and courage, and then also turned into a mermaid and swam away with him.

The story is very old-fashioned, born from the ancient fairy tale of the mermaid princess, inheriting the legacy of Beauty and the Beast, and coming to a love affair between man and fish.

Melulan Dora took the initiative to ask: "You just said that you hesitated about two stories all day, and you don't know which one to script, except for this "Departed", what is the other story?"

Su Changqing was very willing to tell her about this story: "I have considered this story more maturely, so let's tell it to you in the form of a script." ”

"It seems that you are leaning towards this story. ”

"The movie starts with a bathtub with the heroine lying in warm water and plucking her strings. ”

Melulan Dora didn't understand: "What kind of piano are you playing in the bathtub?"

Su Changqing explained seriously: "This is the habit of the heroine, who comforts herself in the bathtub every day. ”

Melulan Dora laughed in surprise, "Why did you do this in the first place?"

"Because this film is what it shows, alien love and desire. ”

"The entry point is unique. ”

"Is it unique? It seems like a common thing. ”

Melulan Dora pursed her lips and shook her head with a smile: "Maybe." ”

Su Changqing continued: "The heroine is an abandoned baby, she was thrown on the beach when she was very young, with three deep wounds on her neck, and her voice was damaged and she became dumb.

She has been disabled since she was a child, lonely, but she has the same desires and impulses as ordinary people, and she has never been able to find a lover, so she has to compete with herself. ”

Melulan Dora pursed her mouth deeper and glanced at Su Changqing: "It seems that you have been in Japan for too long." ”

"Have you seen this kind of Japanese film?"

"I've heard of it, and don't forget that I work in culture. ”

"Oh, I thought you had a good movie from the FBI that you could recommend to me for reference. ”

"Alright, continue your story. ”

"The heroine does the most basic cleaning work in a secret laboratory, and the irregular shifts make it more difficult for her to interact with the outside world.

One day, the laboratory sent a large jar full of water, and the heroine was shocked to find that there was a strange creature half human and half fish locked in the jar. ”

Melulan Dora: "A fish in human form, and a male?"

"That's right, he is not only weird-looking, but also has special abilities, this is an immortal mermaid, through contact can quickly heal the wounds of others, and even resurrect the dead, has always been worshipped as a god by the primitive tribe. ”

Melulan Dora nodded slowly: "If it's really so magical, it's almost a god, so it's very valuable for research." ”

Su Changqing also nodded: "Then there is a series of contacts between the heroine and the mermaid, exchanging each other's loneliness and fear of survival, and then there are feelings." ”

"Is it the relationship between people and pets?"

"Of course not, it's the relationship between a woman and a man. ”

"It's a little weird, how far has the relationship got?"

"They had a relationship. ”

"This ...... It's even weirder. ”

"Why is it weird, doesn't the beauty also fall in love with the lion-headed beast, Superman is an alien, his body is harder than steel, and he also gave birth to offspring with humans. ”

"It's a real fairy tale and science fiction, and Superman aside, the beast is a magically cursed prince, not a fish that looks like a human. ”

"But in the story of the beautiful beast, the beauty fell in love with a talking beast, not a prince, this can't be hidden, and the mermaid in my story will also use sign language to communicate with the heroine, and it is also an intelligent creature. ”

"How can a normal person fall in love with a real mermaid, and where is the basis?"

"Of course it's a sense of identity.,The heroine never thinks that the human world belongs to her.,She exists alone.,Not even intact.,This is a human outcast.,Has been completely marginalized.,So yearn for the identity of another world.。

And the mermaid looks weird and can't speak, and is also rejected by the human world, and even thinks he is evil, and the two are in the same situation, so they resonate. ”

"This is another of your tragic stories, and the focus seems to be on the spiritual level, so why can't you be subtle and have to show all the desires between them?"

"Why be subtle? I made a film like this to show their love and desire, and if I concealed it, it would be meaningless. ”

Melulan Dora pursed her lips and laughed again: "I thought you were a reserved and cautious person. ”

Su Changqing looked at Melulan Dora and took a sip of cider: "I'm just waiting for the opportunity." ”

The two stared at each other for a long time, and Melulan Dora suddenly changed the subject: "Grandma heard that I went back to Berlin with my Chinese friends and wanted to meet you, I wonder if I will be free tomorrow?"

The female diplomat obviously didn't hold back to the point where she didn't even let go of the fish, so she continued to stretch it.

The relatives of the old German army want to see the Chinese spiritual guy, why don't they see it?

For Melulan Dora, she ate a lot of pig intestines, and wouldn't it be a waste of her efforts not to meet her grandmother.

Melulan Dora will be back in China in two days, and something will happen sooner or later, maybe it's time to do it in Germany, and it's important to build up enough resonance.

"Of course you're free, let's go back to your grandmother tomorrow morning?"