The acting school started from 1998. Chapter 170. There are two types of suspense films. One is to have a clear end at the end; the other is to have suspense from beginning to end. What is the end? Every audience has

Your own answer.

Cheng Er's "harmonic piano", uh, let's call it "harmonic piano", is obviously the second type. The first draft of the script that Li Tang got from Cheng Er is actually the main line of the script.

With the main line in hand, the next modification is to improve the details of the side line polishing. For a movie, improving the side line and polishing details are particularly important, and can even directly determine the quality of the movie and the audience's enthusiasm for watching the movie.

For example, Li Tang watched a suspense film "The Lost Love" directed by David Finch and starring Daemon and Pei Chunhua in his previous life. The main line of this movie is nothing more than the cheating of a middle-aged literary man's husband and the elegant and black-bellied woman's wife's revenge.

Such a plot would definitely be a pool of blood if it was placed in mainland TV series, but David Finch made this bloody plot into a heavy-tasting feast through the polishing of perfect side plots and details.

Li Tang still feels a little creepy when he thinks about it. Whoever meets such a woman is unlucky? I hope the woman he meets will never be that black-bellied Amy.

In fact, the main line of "Musician" is not complicated. It is a terminally ill girl falls in love with her brother-in-law, and then sticks to the truth about her parents' murder, and then treats her brother-in-law as the murderer. The whole plot revolves around whether her brother-in-law is the murderer.

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Cheng Er has been polishing this script for a long time, and is not unprepared. For example, today he brought another side plot, which is that He Wei, as an accident assessor of an insurance company, drove an accident on a secluded road and ran into a rider.

OK little girl.

He Wei did not hesitate and picked up the girl who was lying on the ground and drove straight to the hospital. However, the girl's examination results showed that it was not caused by the impact of the car, but a small tumor hidden in the brain caused a sudden faint.
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Facing this situation of her daughter, the little girl's father didn't know whether to scold He Wei or thank He Wei, but He Wei promised to use the convenience of her accident assessment to help the little girl take out a large operation from the insurance company.

The cost of treatment is very grateful to the little girl's father.

On the surface, this side plot gives people the impression that He Wei is a good person, laying the foundation for him to be a devil later; on the other hand, it also describes that he really wants to be a good person.

But from a deeper perspective, it can also explain the contradiction, complexity, even disguise and insidious characteristics of the character He Wei.

From this plot, Xiao Ke found out that his brother-in-law He Wei took her life-saving medicine, which was actually for the little girl who also had brain tumors. This is a misunderstanding. But Xiao Ke thought that his brother-in-law killed his parents. Did he think that his brother-in-law had killed his parents?

What about the misunderstanding?

There is also the character Lin Mo, which seems a bit abrupt at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, you can think that Lin Mo is the third person made by Xiao Ke.

These can be considered in the lines. For example, Xiao Ke confessed to Lin Mo and said, "Maybe your age is about the same as my brother-in-law."

There are also things including Xiao Ke meeting Lin Mo and discovering that the things lost when his parents were killed were at Lin Mo's house, but Lin Mo said that this thing was given by He Wei. There is no possibility of so many coincidences in real life, it only means that everything is

It's Xiao Ke's imagination.

Brother-in-law He Wei is the most important person in Xiao Ke's mind, and the murder of her parents is the biggest psychological trauma in her life. So when she left the world, the two are linked. Just like He Wei is looking at Xiao Ke

After confessing that he killed Xiao’s parents, he asked the last sentence: “Have you received the satisfaction you imagined?”

The "imagination" in this line obviously implies that he fabricated the story of killing Xiao's parents in order to cooperate with Xiao Ke's imagination.

And there is a button left in the whole plot, that is, Xiao Ke only found the silver frame at Lin Mo's home. What about the watch that the parents lost at the same time when they were killed? Can it be understood that the murderer is not He Wei and Lin Mo.

The possibility of a third person?

For several days, Li Tang was competing with Cheng Er about the various details of the script. Unlike Cheng Er, who is from the creator's perspective, Li Tang is from the perspective of the actors, but more from the perspective of the audience.

Cheng Er was stunned by the reason, who made him read a lot of movies in his previous life? And among the many cults in North America and Europe, the most deficient is this kind of murder, suspense, brain-burning, ethics, human nature, and strong female fucking.

Elements such as violence.

It can only be said that Cheng Er's book is still full of pioneering in China, but it is not very suitable for the mainstream movie viewing needs of domestic audiences, but more in line with the appetite of Westerners.

Cheng Er's writing style is indeed very strong. For example, he can write the lines Xiao Ke said to Lin Mo at will: "Why do we always have to go around in circles? Why can't we just talk about the key points directly? I just met you in the morning and came tonight.

You, don't you know why? Because I am lonely, because I have expectations for you. You know the answer, but you still have to ask this. During lunch, it's very noisy around me, but I'm still distracted. In my heart

Very quiet, because I am thinking of you!"

The meaning of this line is that when one person likes another, he always has to go around a lot of circles before he can talk about the key points, but Xiao Ke is almost dead. She doesn't want to waste time or say some useless nonsense.

,She directly expressed her love for Lin Mo.

Look, this sounds so sad and regretful, and is moved by her straightforward affection, and is also very literary. It is much better than the vernacular language like Louye.

The communication, exchanges, and even disputes between the two continued until the afternoon of the sixth day. After reading the script that was revised countless times and finally finalized, Li Tang closed the screen of his laptop with satisfaction and said to Cheng Er with a smile:

"This time I'm definitely OK!"

But as soon as he finished speaking, the two of them fell into silence at the same time.

The script is done, so what?

Making a movie is not an easy task. With Cheng Er's reputation and qualifications, it is impossible for Shanghai Film Studio to invest in him, let alone such non-mainstream scripts.

If you want to make your own movie, you must first make money and then become famous, so that investors will be willing to invest in your movie.

Nowadays, all of these so-called sixth-generation directors in China take this path.

Chief Jia is a best example. He first cheated 10,000 yuan in the name of filming an advertisement and filmed a short film "Going Home to the Hill" and won the gold medal in the Hong Kong Video Short Film Competition. Then he used another one

The script of "Gentle Night" fooled Hong Kong with an investment of 200,000 yuan and filmed "Xiao Wu".

Everyone knows the story that "Xiao Wu" shines at the Berlin Film Festival, won the forum unit award, sold copyrights from several countries, and made a lot of money.

When Chief Jia was about to film "Stand Up", filmmakers from France and Japan rushed to invest in him. Of course, Chief Jia did not disappoint these filmmakers. Not only was he shortlisted for the 57th edition, which just closed last month.

The main competition unit of the Venice International Film Festival also won the Asian Film Promotion Alliance Award.

Such art films with an investment of only tens of millions will generally not lose money as long as they can be shortlisted for the three major European film festivals. If you are lucky, you can make a lot of money. Moreover, an excellent art film will be in a few years or even in the future.

There will be stable copyright income for more than ten years.

There is also Lou Ye. With the success of "Suzhou River", he has become a hot director in the domestic art film field. The only regret is that he was banned from directing by relevant departments for five years because of "Suzhou River" in violation of regulations.

Fortunately, it is said that the official's current attitude has been loosened. After all, China's WTO negotiations have already made a name for itself. If nothing unexpected happens, it will be officially admitted to WTO next year. Film is a project in the opening of the service industry. Therefore, international image must be considered, and it cannot be

No longer suppressing as unscrupulously as before.

As for why Jiang Wen, the director of "The Devils", which won the jury award at the Cannes Film Festival this year, was banned because in addition to the serious disagreement between the film itself and the domestic main theme films in terms of intentional orientation and values, it also

It touched Xiaorizi's sensitive nerves and caused Xiaorizi's protests.

Although Lou Ye is still in the banned channel, one thing is certain. With the success of "Suzhou River", as long as he returns from the ban and wants to make a movie, he doesn't have to worry about investment at all. Then there will be film dealers who will play.

Giving money to your door.

But Cheng Erke, who was a fledgling, did not have this treatment, or he did not have the qualification because he had never proved himself.

Why did Li Tang work so hard these days? He might have been idle at the beginning, but after reading the first draft, he was inevitably a little moved. As he pondered more and more about this in-depth discussion in the past few days, he liked He Wei more and more

Role.

But when I arrived, I found that I was so happy that I had no money to take pictures!

After a while, he asked arduously: "How much does it cost to shoot this movie?"

Cheng Er probably thought about it early in the morning and blurted out: "It's probably millions."

Li Tang shook his head and said, "One million will definitely be more than one million, maybe it will have to double."

He has experience. When Lou Ye first filmed "Suzhou River", his budget was only more than one million, but the money was not enough while filming. In the end, Li Tang heard from Naian that he spent more than two million in total.

It's only done.

However, when she thought of Naian, Li Tang felt a sudden change in her heart. She wondered if she would find Naian to see if she had any intention of investing. She just thought that Naian had been pregnant for more than seven months now, and I don’t know if she still has this energy.

He hesitated and said, "Or come back and I'll ask you."

Cheng Er's eyes lit up when he heard this and hurriedly said, "Brother Li, I actually wrote the character He Wei from the beginning according to your image."

The biggest problem Cheng Er faces when he wants to make a movie now is that he has no money and no connections, but Li Tang is different. He is now a well-known actor, so his connections must be much wider than him. Moreover, his words are not to fool Li Tang.

When he was writing about the character He Wei, he did subconsciously refer to the character image of Li Tang. Because he was familiar with the actors who were closer to the character He Wei seemed to be the only one Li Tang.

When Li Tang heard Cheng Er's words, he looked at his expectant gaze and couldn't help but be stunned: Hey, isn't it said that the society is afraid? Why are you so good at speaking?

However, Li Tang still gave the vaccine in advance and said, "I can only say that I can help you ask, don't hold too much hope, so as not to be disappointed when you get the time."
Chapter completed!