"Am I really that despicable in your eyes?" Li Xiaole couldn't help but touch his chin with a mockery and said, "Don't worry, you are still my assistant now, but do you have to do something that the assistant should do? I just want you to go to the infirmary to deal with the wound first, and come to me tomorrow. By the way, after you have dealt with the wound, you will notify the publicity department and tell them that our TV station award was officially renamed Pirate TV Company. I will pass it to them tomorrow to ask them to reprint documents to convey to everyone in the company."

He actually thought about adding the names of several new TV stations, Black Pearl Channel, United States TV, etc. before he came, but in the end he chose to abandon these mediocre names and simply changed them to Pirate Station. In fact, he was like a pirate from China, who came to this strange sea in the United States to set sail. Since this name bodes well, it also reflects the company's free and unrestrained cultural concept.

"Piracy TV Company..." Mina looked puzzled after hearing this. After confirming again, she turned around and left while fucking the publicity department, while muttering suspiciously: "It's really strange, why did I humiliate him so much that he didn't fire me... Isn't he really going to use me as a shield to dismiss employees? If it's wrong, there must be some other reasons..."

After watching Mina leave, Li Xiaole continued to work. On the first day after joining Pirates, he stayed in the company and began to produce the environmental concept draft of "The Walking Dead" all night.

The so-called concept draft is the environmental props and the drawings of the character setting. These concept drawings will allow actors, art directors, and special effects masters to understand what kind of style the world in the story in his mind is. Doomsday and zombies are all a large range of types, but there are many branches. To unify everyone's thinking, the concept draft is the most intuitive.

Li Xiaole lay on the neat desk, holding a pencil and quickly depicting the main characters on a4 paper. American dramas such as "The Walking Dead" targeting all viewing groups, first of all, must be sure that it is not the outline of the story, but the context of the characters.

The reason for this is that American TV audiences include all kinds of ethnic groups and people of all ages. If you want to see ratings, you must ensure that the actors must include actors of all ages and skin colors.

The most famous law in American dramas is the three-color law of "white, black and yellow". This law was formulated by the senior management of ABC in 1974 and has been used to this day. Almost all American dramas "all age groups" follow this principle.

The so-called three-color law of "white, black and yellow" means that white people must play the protagonist, black people must be among important supporting roles, and Asian actors must be among secondary supporting roles.

In fact, this is completely based on the proportion of the population of the United States. If a TV series wants to attract people, it is very important to bring in. All audiences who must satisfy all races. For example, in the original version of "The Walking Dead", the combination of Rick, Knife and Glenn is a typical case of this framework. In the playback of the series, any "black" or "yellow" characters die in the plot, so they should immediately find a new character to replace them so that the characters can always maintain this law.

Only by careful observation can many movie fans see this phenomenon from similar subjects such as "Prison Break" and "Lost".

However, in "The Walking Dead", this three-color framework is quietly changing. As more and more Asian populations begin to come into contact with American dramas, the Asian character Glenn has been welcomed by many viewers, and the scenes are becoming more and more in the later stages, and he has slowly joined the main character camp.

Since Li Xiaole is a Chinese director, of course he hopes to use more Chinese actors and let Chinese actors play the role of angels in "Life Remote Control". Although it has received a lot of criticism, it seems that the public opinion effect brought by this controversy is very conducive to the promotion of the movie itself.

Think about it, in Hollywood, black people like Will Smith can take the lead in blockbusters. Even if it is due to the efforts of countless black actors in the past few decades, although he cannot make Chinese actors a part of the mainstream on the screen, at least he can add some Chinese elements. Perhaps more than ten years later, or even twenty years later, there will be real Chinese actors who do not act as kung fu actors, but only become the number one and second characters in the video drama as an American actor...

Li Xiaole is willing to make such an attempt, so he decided to add an important Chinese actor to "The Walking Dead". Andrew Lincoln, the male lead Rick, must not be moved, and the popular crossbow Godardill also has to retain it. As for Glen, although this role is very likable, it does not have any outstanding performance. Even if Chinese actors are played, it doesn't make any sense. It's better to leave it to Korean Steven Yuan...

Li Xiaole decided to use the original actors who performed well. He slowly thought about this question and drew the concept draft of the actors "Shaun" until he drew the role of "Shaun" and suddenly stopped writing. Well... This "Shaun" seems to be very suitable for a Chinese actor to play.

Sean...is the police officer partner of the protagonist Rick when he was a sheriff. When the end of the world came, Rick was in a coma. Sean went to rescue Rick's wife and children, and helped them escape to Atlanta where zombies were everywhere. On the way, he developed feelings for Rick's wife...

When Rick came back, although they became common leaders of the team, they became estranged because they both loved the same woman. Sean's jealousy for Rick deepened, causing the character to start to go to darkness, and finally Rick stabbed into the heart with a dagger and died...

In the original version, the handling of this character is what Li Xiaole dislikes the original work the most. Although the plot in the comics is like this, this makes the overall rhythm of the TV series tend toward extreme darkness.

Strictly speaking, there is no deep hatred between Sean and Rick. Although they have different opinions on things, they can only say that they have their own positions, not a contradiction between right and wrong. The showdown between Sean and Rick in the second season became an accent of a plot style that went to the abyss, completely allowing the audience to feel despair of human nature when watching the plot... a deep despair.

Rick also became cold and confused in the third and fourth seasons, which led to the change of the tone of the entire series, and the story was full of despair. Even the protagonist Rick himself began to suspect that he was in a mental disorder... It made the audience feel uncomfortable to watch.

To be honest, although Li Xiaole respects the way the original work is handled very much, he does not like this tone of the American screenwriter Dark Wind. He wants to emphasize even more that although people sometimes struggle for interests and sometimes live to the death, in the end, people will still retain indelible kindness in their hearts...

I remember that in the final scene of the match between Sean and Rick, the two were emotional and tried to pluck up the courage to kill each other, but at the same time, they were condemned by their conscience... hesitating...

Sean pointed the gun at Rick, but never fired. When he slowly lowered his head, Rick cruelly stabbed the dagger into the heart of his partner... But as the winner, Rick was not happy at all, but held his good partner Sean's body in his arms, and howled heartbreakingly under the moonlight. This scene is the most heartbreaking scene...

Perhaps this is the bottom line of art to explore human nature? Perhaps this kind of grief will touch the hearts of American audiences? Li Xiaole cannot know the original screenwriters' thoughts, but if he is asked to choose, in such a story full of sorrow, he would really rather be "shallow" at this time...

In his story, Sean will eventually turn around, but does not put down the gun, but shoots the zombie coming from behind Rick. However, Rick misunderstood that he shoots at himself and impulsively shoots Sean...

The same result, helpless manslaughter and deliberate murder are completely different feelings of guilt. Rick does not have to bear the cross of sin that blames himself. He will understand more about the indelible kindness in people's hearts from this regret...

This will not affect the logic of the plot, nor will it make the latter too dark. Despair and hope are equally strong. This is the best style that Li Xiaole believes.

Obviously, with such a change, the audience will begin to sympathize with Sean, and the role will be even more pleasing. The original actor Joe Bornser looks like a good bird, so he can't be used to play him. He has to choose a new actor.

Sean is a detective in his early 30s. He is responsible, stubborn and charming man. Li Xiaole wiped off Sean's original image on the drawings and drew it, trying to make his face softer... Among the Chinese actors, is there any male actor who can control such a role with complex inner emotions?

While holding his chin with his left hand, Li Xiaole tapped the actor database on the computer with his right mouse, and began to search for Chinese male actors who were about thirty years old and passed the English test. He quickly found several character information that met the criteria.

An Zhijie, born in 1977, is a new Hong Kong actor, born in the United States, and has good skills. He replaced Li Lianjie as the leading role in "Black Man 2", which is very suitable for this policeman. However, he remembers that his acting skills are slightly weak and cannot afford such a complex role that is both good and evil... Next.

How about Gao Shengyuan in "Crime Scene Investigation" in 1969? A veteran TV drama actor, the top 100 most sexy men in the world in the US "People Weekly", has no problem with acting skills, but Li Xiaole reads his information for a long time, then finds out his video and studies it carefully. Gao Shengyuan's temperament is a bit weak, and he is afraid that the scene will not be equal in appearance when facing the tough actor Andrew Lincoln.

Sean is a patrolman, his temperament is stronger and his figure is taller... There is no way, this is not possible.
Chapter completed!