Disaster Artist

Over the past year or so, because of the "Blacklist Project", Lu Qian has been reading scripts, reading a lot of scripts, on the one hand, it is easy to fall into routines; but on the other hand, he is constantly breaking routines, and different inspirations collide. Roam through different movie genres.

It is precisely because of this that one can often draw an outline by reading a script and looking at the first three pages and the last five pages.

Of course, the existence of the "Blacklist Project" is to break routines and prejudices, so they will not judge the quality of a script by the first three pages and the last five pages. Whether they like it or not, they need to go further and give the script a chance , I hope the follow-up reading will bring surprises.

But at least a lot of information can be gleaned from reading the opening pages of the script—

For example, Su Ziyi's script.

There are too many ineffective narratives at the beginning, and the black words falling on the paper cannot effectively convey the information. From this, it can be seen that Su Ziyi is really not suitable to be a screenwriter. Maybe he has a good story in his mind, but he cannot use it as a screenwriter. The text form is transformed, this is the lack of talent.

However, it doesn't matter, the director does not need writing skills, as long as the director has the ability of screen and camera.

Lu Qian expressed his judgment very directly and frankly.

Su Ziyi didn't mind at all, and spread his hands, "It seems that my dream of becoming a great writer should be over."

The smile in Lu Qian's eyes surged, "So, what story are you going to tell? Why don't you tell me in a few words."

Conversation is also not Su Ziyi's specialty. A story is told in fragments, but Lu Qian is an excellent listener who is good at grasping the key points. In those trivial words and scattered emotions, Lu Qian can feel Su Ziyi's feelings. A pair of sincere love for this story.

In this tentatively named "Journey" project, Su Ziyi adapted it based on the experience of his grandparents. Only some backgrounds and settings are from real people, but the story is a new creation, which can be seen from here The script is indeed influenced by "Starfall City".

In a war more than 70 years ago, Su Ziyi’s grandfather was still a young man, full of passion and cynical at the same time, he organized a group of friends to start a band, and planned to tour across the entire continent , and then continue to oppose war and preach peace.

During their trip, they meet a girl whom the rest of the band members dislike, but the young man catches her eye.

The boy invites the girl to go on tour with them, and falls in love vigorously. However, the turmoil of the situation makes them unable to control themselves. Their precarious life is full of uncertainties. Seventy years ago, there were no mobile phones. That was still the time when the swan geese passed on the book, and once separated, they might never be seen again.

They quarreled several times and dispersed several times. They were torn apart in the war but met unexpectedly like fate, and then fell in love vigorously again, but quarreled again and dispersed again, just drifting all the way.

Someone said, is it necessary? Why each other?

Indeed, the war lasted for twelve years, but the boy and the girl spent less than three years together. Most of the rest of the time was deeply buried in this chaotic mess. Now in different disasters, they have no way to control their Fate, why bother to have the other party?

In fact, they didn't.

During the long years of separation, they couldn't be sure about the future, whether they would meet again, or even whether they could see the sun tomorrow. They didn't hang themselves on a tree, they tried to be with other people, However, such is fate—

They meet again, and then, again and again, fall in love with a fire that burns in their blood that never seems to go out.

But the irony is that once they get along, the fire will cause them to fall into endless quarrels, vigorous and unreserved, and even friends around them can't stand it anymore, as if seeing two self-destructive Souls embrace each other, destroying each other constantly.

However, in the ups and downs of life, they always regard each other as their only one.

At the end of the story, the war is over, and they meet again like fate. This time, they never leave each other again, just like reality, and they accompany each other to this day.

No one can see the end.

The friends all firmly believe that their love may have to end with the death of one party, and that there is no way that their passion can last six months and then start to hurt each other, and their thoughts are only from the shadow of death And a kind of beauty imagined in the mind during the process of parting from the pain, once the war is over and peace returns, all sparks will disappear.

However, in the blink of an eye, fifty years, sixty years...soon to be seventy years, time has passed like this, and they are still with each other.

Who can make it clear.

It is no wonder that the script has more than 300 pages, because Su Ziyi tried to cover a period of life of two people, spanning twelve years, and including the entire social background. Without enough space, it is impossible to present the magnificence and ups and downs of the story. Three hundred pages is not even enough.

However, UU reading www.uukanshu. Com movies can't be shot like this, the result of being too greedy is that there are no sesame seeds and no watermelon, and what is finally presented is nothing.

"First of all, it's too greedy."

"Ah Yi, you can approach it from a different angle, imitating the background of the war and the various social conditions of the lake, but mixing these details into the narrative background."

"Just like 'City of Falling Stars', there is no doubt that Lanchuan is a protagonist, but it is not necessary to describe every detail of Lanchuan in detail, but by telling the stories of the two protagonists, the times, cities and The side of society is shown, so that the story can be condensed."

"Remember, the protagonist of the story is love, not war."

Simple, sharp and direct.

Looking at the essence through the phenomenon, Lu Qian directly grasped the key point, with a clear mind, completely unable to see that the person in front of him was suffering from a headache.

"Secondly, the ending should be left blank."

"We all know that the ending of real life is beautiful, but if the movie is shot like this, it will appear too complete and lose the charm of the subject matter."

"I mean, if this is an epic of modern love, a reunion at the end is not a bad thing; but it is not, although war is not the main character, but turmoil and chaos are the background throughout, and they are also the footnotes of fate, so the ending is left blank. It can add a little depth to the color of the times."

"The story can stop at the moment before the reunion of two people."

"For example, they appeared in the same coffee shop, the boy was sitting in the corner, the girl just came in, and then the boy was about to call the waiter to check out, and the girl turned to look at the bar. Seeing each other for a second, and then the crowd in the middle imitates the lake, and time and space also imitate the lake together."

"End. Period."