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Chapter 119 Interstellar Filmmaking (2)
History is an inexhaustible treasure.
In the thousands of years of ancient earth civilization history, countless stories worth remaking have been born.
The ambitions of emperors and generals, the eternal thoughts of saints and great men, and the tit-for-tat and lofty ambitions of various heroes in the succession of dynasties... all shine in the annals of history and are passed down through the ages. Although these cannot escape the official history used by emperors and generals as family trees, they can never cover up their glory.
But——
Are only great men and heroes qualified to leave their names in history and be passed down through the ages?
Those little people who flashed in the stars of the times, bravely charged towards the waves of fate, but were quickly swept under the waves and crushed to pieces by the turbulent floods, are they not worthy of being commemorated?
Although the brilliance of little people before their death is small, it is enough to illuminate the long night of human civilization for thousands of years. And it is precisely because of the thousands of little people who have fought one after another and returned home in the face of death that the wheel of history can be pushed and human civilization can continue to this day.
What Le Jing wants to shoot is the story of the little people.
He will use the form of a short play of about ten minutes per episode to show the joys and sorrows of the little people in the context of the great history.
The little people are very small, and some of them have not even left their names in history, but their sobriety and courage in going against the tide of history, and the human glory that bursts out between life and death are enough to be remembered by the world.
It’s just that which little people to choose needs to be carefully considered.
Combining Shi Jing’s memory and the information found on the Internet, Le Jing has a preliminary understanding of the general background and worldview today.
The destruction of the earth happened in the year 3123 of the old calendar. At that time, scientists detected that a giant asteroid meteorite rain would hit the earth. In addition, the overall energy resources of the earth were close to exhaustion at that time, so the United Nations government made the decision to abandon the earth and find a new home again, which is known as the Ark Project.
In the interstellar era, after generations of intermarriage and mixed blood, humans have almost no racial differences. Hundreds of countries, big and small, in the ancient Earth period have now merged into more than a dozen countries, big and small, distributed on six planets. These countries have formed a close Earth Alliance, joined the Cosmic Trade Association as a community of human destiny, and conducted business with aliens from various galaxies.
Shi Jing is a Chinese. The entire Peace Star is China's territory. It is the most powerful country in the Earth Alliance. In these six thousand years, a brilliant and colorful civilization has also been born.
Le Jing skipped these and focused on looking up the historical data of the ancient Earth that has been passed down to the present. Facts have proved that the situation is not optimistic.
Ancient human civilizations such as the history of ancient Egypt and ancient Babylon have been completely lost; the history of European countries such as Britain and France before the Industrial Revolution is only one tenth of it; the history and culture of North American civilization are close to being lost; China's history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is relatively complete, and there is a large blank in history before the Song Dynasty...
It would be a pity if these excellent and brilliant histories and civilizations disappeared! Future generations should know the glory of their predecessors!
Now Le Jing is more determined to shoot them.
As a Chinese, Le Jing wanted to start with Chinese history and film the little people in Chinese history.
He thought for a long time and remembered a story in Zuo Zhuan.
The story of a powerful minister who murdered the king and a group of stubborn historians.
China is a country that values history, so since ancient times, it has set up special historians to record history and remember the glory, experience and lessons of the predecessors. However, compared with the historical events that have been passed down through the ages under their pens, the faces of the historians are vague, and many of them are transparent people without names.
The group of historians that Le Jing wanted to film only left such a short sentence in Zuo Zhuan:
"The great historian said: "Cui Zhu killed his king." Cui Zi killed him. His younger brother wrote the book and two people died. His younger brother wrote again, so he let it go. Nan Shi heard that all the great historians were dead, so he took the bamboo slips and went there. Hearing that the book was written, he returned."
In just a few words, there are three lives of historians.
This story is recorded in historical books such as Zuo Zhuan, Shiji and Dong Zhou Lieguo Zhi, and tells a story that happened in Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period.
"Cui Zhu (zhu) killed his king." Cui Zhu was a senior official of Qi, and the king referred to Duke Zhuang of Qi. So why did Cui Zhu, as a senior official of Qi, want to kill his king?
In modern terms, it was because Duke Zhuang of Qi had cuckolded Cui Zhu. Duke Zhuang of Qi had been harassing Cui Zhu's wife Tang Jiang. Not only did he give Cui Zhu's hat to someone else, but he also sang love songs to Cui Zhu's wife while holding a pillar in front of Cui Zhu, which could be considered blatant sexual harassment.
Faced with the rogue behavior of the king, Cui Zhu was so angry that he simply killed Duke Zhuang and established Duke Zhuang's younger brother, Duke Jing, as the new king of Qi.
However, no matter how big a mistake the king made, regicide is still treason, so Cui Zhu said to the historian of Qi: "Just record that Duke Zhuang died of malaria." The historian of Qi did not listen and carved on the bamboo slips: "On the 11th day of the fifth month of summer, Cui Zhu killed his lord Guang." Cui Zhu was furious and immediately drew his sword to kill the historian. Then, according to the rules, the historian's younger brother inherited the position of the historian.
The historian of Qi had three younger brothers, and none of the four brothers left their names in the history books.
The eldest brother succeeded as the historian and wrote on the bamboo slips: "On the 11th day of the fifth month of summer, Cui Zhu killed his lord Guang." Cui Zhu killed him.
The second brother succeeded as the historian and wrote on the bamboo slips: "On the 11th day of the fifth month of summer, Cui Zhu killed his lord Guang." Cui Zhu killed him again.
Finally, the youngest brother inherited the position of the historian. Write on the bamboo slips: "On the 11th day of the fifth month of summer, Cui Zhu killed his lord Guang."
Cui Zhu was furious: "Your three brothers are all dead, don't you care about your life? If you change the words, I will spare you."
The younger brother replied: "It is the duty of historians to write down the facts. It is better to die than to live without doing the job!"
Cui Zhu really couldn't do anything about these stubborn fools who were not afraid of death. He could only sigh and comfort himself: "I have to do this for the sake of the country. Even if you write it down truthfully, the world will definitely understand me."
When the younger brother came out, he happened to meet Nanshishi (a general term for historians of the vassal states south of Qi), and the younger brother asked in surprise: "Why are you here?"
Nanshishi replied: "I heard that you brothers were killed by Cui Zhu, and I was worried that the history would be tampered with, so I came with bamboo slips."
In this story of a few words, all the historians are unknown, and only Cui Zhu, who killed three historians, is famous through the ages.
However, their courage to face death and their upright character are engraved on the rough bamboo slips, which have been immortal for thousands of years and have made the Chinese historians famous and strong.
They are the real swan song of historians!
Le Jing believes that such character and persistence can still move many people no matter how many years have passed. Moreover, in this interstellar era of ancient civilization, the adherence to history embodied by these five historians will surely resonate with the audience.
…
When opening the video production software, Le Jing still felt a little sad. Although the current AI movies have greatly simplified the process of film production and greatly reduced the cost of movies, for many poor people like the original owner, movies are still a money-burning industry.
The original owner is an orphan. Although he is poor, he still enjoys the national minimum living allowance. He can get at least 3,000 star coins every month. After deducting 800 star coins for rent, it is not difficult for ordinary people to make ends meet. No matter what, they will not be so poor that they can't even eat enough.
But, is the original owner an ordinary person?
Let’s not talk about the fact that he owed a large amount of student loans just for attending the film school. Just say that this video production software is not cheap, it costs a full 100,000 star coins. In order to buy this software, the original owner can only choose to pay in installments.
Up to now, the original owner owes 200,000 star coins, and every month he has to pay back the loan alone. 1,800 star coins. According to this trend, it will take about 10 years to pay off all the loans. Even for this, the original owner has to thank the country for providing interest-free loans to poor students, otherwise, with the interest compounding, he may not be able to pay off the money in his lifetime.
With such a heavy debt, it’s no wonder that the original owner committed suicide.
With the original owner’s foundation, Le Jing quickly used the video production software to produce a ten-minute short film.
Here we have to talk about the high-tech software of the future.
The movie production software used by the original owner can directly produce corresponding movie pictures according to brain waves, and the voice library contains hundreds of timbre materials of different ages and genders, which can meet all the dubbing needs of a regular movie.
He used a flashing method to start the film. In just 100 seconds, 238 representative pictures of ancient earth civilization flashed quickly, including landmark buildings such as the Great Wall, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang, and the Pyramids, as well as inventions such as steam engines, computers, and smart phones. As for the opening and ending songs, he was penniless and directly picked two magnificent pure music from a free commercial website, which was quite suitable.
Everything was ready, except for the title.
Le Jing thought for a long time and put a few artistic words in the opening - Little People in the History of Ancient Earth Civilization (The First Episode of the Chinese Chapter)
He took a long breath and uploaded the video to the Qijiang Video website.
Qijiang Video is the largest video sharing and browsing website in China. Video producers can freely set the price of videos for sale. Moreover, all major film and television companies have dedicated copyright editors who are always watching Qijiang. There are many inspirational stories in the amateur director circle where newcomers just posted a video and were spotted by well-known film and television companies and signed a sky-high copyright, becoming a new director with both fame and fortune.
So some actors, screenwriters and directors who want to enter the entertainment industry but have no way will submit their works to Qijiang to try their luck.
The original owner often submitted his works to Qijiang before, but because the style was too literary, there were few responses and it was not sold at a high price.
So Shi Jing submitted his works to Qijiang for two years, but he was just a small vacuum with only more than 100 fans.
So after thinking for a few seconds, Le Jing decided to set the price at 2 star coins - the price of a bottle of water.
After more than 6,000 years of development, China has long achieved common prosperity. The cabbage price of two star coins is not a loss or a scam.
In order to attract viewers, many video producers will attach a video introduction of 100 or 200 words. Le Jing referred to the popular video introduction format on the website, copied it, and put it up.
Finally finished, Le Jing turned off the computer and rubbed his sore eyes.
It was already eight o'clock the next morning, and he had been busy all night without realizing it!
Now he woke up and realized that he was so tired that he couldn't even straighten his back. He had to digest the chicken soup completely, and now his stomach was starting to sing the empty city plan again.
Le Jing sighed, and according to the original owner's memory, he took out the last strawberry-flavored nutritional supplement from the freezer and swallowed it whole. The smell of inferior saccharin immediately filled his mouth, which was disgusting, but his stomach was full quickly.
Although this thing is not delicious, it is cheap and filling.
There is still one week left before the government pays him next month. If his videos cannot sell enough to cover his food expenses for a week, he may have to go back to his old job and write some historical novels to make money.
He now hopes that when he wakes up, his videos can earn 20 star coins so that he can stock up on nutrients for a week.
As for natural ingredients such as chicken, duck, fish and meat, he can only splurge on them when he has money.
He touched his chin and felt very uncomfortable.
He has traveled to the interstellar era, but is still struggling to make ends meet. It is really miserable.
Le Jing yawned and felt that his top priority was to get some sleep first and rest up before doing anything else.
He lay on the bed and almost fainted as soon as he closed his eyes. He slept particularly sweetly this time, and had no idea how violent a storm his short video had caused in a small area.
…
Luo Bao is a senior in high school this year, and is a glorious and difficult college entrance examination candidate. But he is not a bookworm. After studying, he would watch videos on his laptop from time to time to change his mood.
This day, he opened the Qijiang video as usual, and the system notified him that the author he followed, Old Scenery, had submitted a new video.
He started following Old Scenery a year ago. At that time, he had only dozens of fans. Now, after a year, his number of fans is only over a hundred.
The reason why Luo Bao followed Old Scenery was because the message under a video was very much to his liking. Clicking on the homepage, he found that he was also a video creator and had uploaded more than a dozen videos in his personal space.
Out of curiosity, Luo Bao clicked on a video, and then he understood why Old Scenery had only dozens of fans - the obscure plot arrangement, the strange behavior logic of the characters, the plot that destroyed the three views and was completely opposite to public order and morality, and finally the tragic ending of the characters being almost completely destroyed, it would be strange if such a video would be popular!
Why did he follow Old Scenery in the end? Luo Bao couldn't explain it clearly. It was probably because of sympathy. Of course, part of the reason was that he wanted to see how weird the videos shot by this person could be.
So when he saw that Old Scenery had released a new work, Luo Bao smiled and clicked in. He remembered that the last video this guy submitted was about the forbidden love between a grandmother and her grandson, and there were a lot of old people ** scenes in it, which really disgusted him. I wonder what exciting plot he has shot this time?
He clicked on the video carelessly, and the next moment, the brilliant and exciting epic soundtrack sounded. Luo Bao raised his eyebrows in surprise. This guy is finally normal for once.
Then Luo Bao had no chance to think about it anymore.
He held his breath and was dazzled by the pictures that flashed quickly.
This... what is this? !
Luo Bao's scalp numbed for a while, and he subconsciously clicked pause, carefully studying every picture that flashed on the screen:
Strange sculptures, huge and magnificent buildings that have never been heard of, strange figures with different postures, ancient and backward machines...
For some reason, although it was just the first time they met, he felt a sense of familiarity after a long separation, and his eyes were even hot, and he felt an inexplicable feeling of being moved.
This is so strange!
Those familiar yet unfamiliar photos were soon finished, and a line of artistic words appeared on the screen that suddenly turned black - Little People in the History of Ancient Earth Civilization (The First Episode of the Chinese Chapter)
Although Luo Bao was not very knowledgeable about history, he also knew that the so-called history of ancient earth civilization roughly refers to the history of human beings living on earth from 4000 BC to 3000 AD in the old calendar.
Later, because of the interstellar migration of 1,000 years, humans were colonized and ruled by alien civilizations for 300 years, which was also the darkest 300 years in the history of human interstellar civilization.
It was during those 300 years that human civilization suffered serious destruction, and most of the information about ancient earth civilization was destroyed by aliens during those 300 years.
Later, even though the human survivors overthrew the alien colonial rule under the leadership of the rebels, and multiplied and thrived in their new home, growing stronger step by step, humans could not find the lost history after all.
Over the past thousands of years, the academic community has made reasonable deductions about the missing history of ancient earth civilization based on the remaining historical books, and related film and television works have emerged in an endless stream. The "Dongfanghong" that Luo Bao watched a few days ago is a representative work of this type.
"Dongfanghong" is quite good, I don't know how this one is filmed. However, based on his understanding of the old scenery, he remains pessimistic about it. In his opinion, it is good that this guy can tell a story in one piece.
[The river is surging, and many romantic figures are born in obscurity and die quietly. Today, let me tell them one by one. ]
[A long, long time ago, there was a dynasty called Zhou in China. The king of Zhou was called the Son of Heaven and governed more than a hundred small countries. This story is a history of a country called Qi. ] As the strong bass of the narration sounded, the fog was cleared, revealing an ancient and majestic stone building, and then the picture turned again, and a middle-aged man wearing a strange red robe and a three-point mustache appeared in the camera.
[His name is Cui Zhu, and he is a minister of Duke Zhuang of Qi. The story we are telling today is, in the final analysis, a murder caused by a green hat.]
Luo Bao has now completely thrown away his pessimistic thoughts just now, staring at the optical brain screen with all his concentration, and his interest is completely aroused. Of course he knew about the Zhou Dynasty. The chronology in the history class was written about it. He knew that it was one of the earliest dynasties in China. But what kind of country is Zhou? What kind of history and civilization have you created? Even historians don't know this.
He didn't expect that the old scenery would be boldly based on the Zhou Dynasty, and he didn't know what kind of story it would produce. He hoped it would be interesting enough.
Facts have proved that the strange old scenery is finally reliable this time!
Luo Bao was furious because of Duke Qi Zhuang's behavior of sexually harassing an official's wife. If he were in China, Duke Qi Zhuang would have been arrested long ago!
So when he knew that Cui Zhu planned to kill Duke Zhuang of Qi, he applauded. It seems to him that this is a real iron-blooded man! I just don’t know how Cui Zhu plans to kill Duke Zhuang of Qi? Moreover, Duke Qi Zhuang is the king after all. Will Cui Zhu be sentenced to death if he kills him?
Just when he was full of questions, the video suddenly stopped, and a warm reminder appeared on the black screen: "The free viewing time of this video has ended. If you want to continue watching, please pay 2 star coins."
Luo Bao was so angry that he vomited blood. Isn’t it just 2 star coins? Buy buy buy! Damn, this old time scenery has improved so much, it’s really exciting!
Luo Bao paid the money readily, feeling that this was the first time he had purchased an old-time landscape work so happily.
He continued to read attentively:
Cui Zhu deceived Duke Zhuang of Qi into his home and sent assassins to kill him. Luo Bao couldn't help but screamed happily, it seemed to him that this Cui Zhu was a real man with blood!
If this story ends like this, it will be just an ordinary story about justice defeating evil, which is a bit bloody but still refreshing.
But the next development direction of this story was something Luo Bao did not expect.
【……
The old historian walked into the hall, bowed his hands to Cui Zhu and said, "I have seen the Prime Minister."
Cui Zhu casually ordered: "When I kill the king, you write that the king died of malaria."
The historian was silent for a few seconds, sat down cross-legged, and carved a line of words on the bamboo slip: "In the fifth month of summer, on Yihai, Cui Zhu killed his king."
Cui Zhu was furious, "Are you sincerely against me?" He drew his sword in anger and stabbed the historian in the heart. The white knife went in and the red knife came out. After a few breaths, the historian stopped breathing.
Cui Zhu said to his men: "Taishi is dead. Send his body to his home, and then ask his younger brother to come and record history!"
The three young brothers of the deceased historian cried bitterly over the body of their eldest brother at home. After the eldest brother was buried, the second brother wiped away his tears, put on his eldest brother's official robe, and came to visit Cui Zhu calmly. Then under Cui Zhu's angry eyes, he carved the same words on the upright bamboo slip: " In the fifth month of summer, Cui Zhu killed his king Guang.
Cui Zhu was furious and immediately killed the new historian.
Then, the third brother buried the second brother's body properly. Under the sad eyes of the youngest brother, he went to visit Cui Zhu without looking back. Then, under Cui Zhu's gaze that was about to burst into flames, he calmly wrote on the bamboo slips one stroke at a time: "In the fifth month of summer, Yi Hai, Cui Zhu killed his king."
Cui Zhu killed him again, but this time, his sword was hesitant and weak, and his face showed more fear and confusion than anger.
The youngest brother calmly welcomed the body of the last brother at home. He did not cry. He just put on his official robe, picked up the bamboo slips, followed the messenger who came to summon him, and went to visit Cui Zhu without hesitation.
Under Cui Zhu's threatening gaze, the historian did not squint his eyes and firmly carved on the bamboo slip: "In the fifth month of summer, on Yihai, Cui Zhu killed his king.\
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