Movie Master

Calm down, Frank. Calm down. Lance picked up the whiskey on the bar and took a sip, leaving a blank. Frank still blushed and looked at him thickly, with disbelief all over his face, but he calmed down a little after all.

Lance then went on to say, Let's get out of the 'Sin City' story first. Lance knows that almost everyone has illusions about the role of Nancy, which is also a necessary element for commercial movies. If he Deliberately blackening Nancy, not only did Frank disagree, it is estimated that movie audiences would not buy it either. It's hard, it takes skill, and Lance needs Frank's help. So, Lance planned to change the subject first, Well, let me ask you a question, if you saw a beggar begging on the side of the road, how would you feel? Sympathy? Pity? Or rejection?

Repulsion! He has hands and feet, he should use his own hands to win his own life. Frank said straight back without any hesitation. Although Frank was forty-seven years old this year, he seemed to be the younger one in the contest with Lance.

Lance pursed his lips, nodded and said, It's fair. But what if he is disabled? For example, he lost his hands and feet.

Oh, God, then maybe I will sympathize with him and hope he can receive government relief money. Frank's expression has softened a little.

At the same time, there is a mentally retarded woman next to him, who looks like his wife. She has almost no ability to take care of herself, and her intelligence is only at the level of a three-year-old. Lance further expanded the story.

Frank was stunned, and frowned, This... this is a tragedy, what happened?

As you said, this is a tragedy, so you feel sympathy and pity. Lance's words were affirmative sentences, not interrogative sentences, but Frank still subconsciously nodded in agreement, Then you learned that, This man was disabled due to a car accident, due to the other party's drunk driving.

Frank had opened his mouth wide, unable to speak, but the expression already showed his sympathy, as well as guilt - the guilt caused by the previous anger and disgust.

Lance paused here, showing a smile, and continued after about half a second, But after in-depth investigation, it was found that the wife next to him was abducted from a nursing home. He not only raped her, but also Detaining the other party all the year round, and falsely claiming social relief funds in her name. But in fact, this woman's family has fallen into despair. They are tirelessly looking for their child, but they don't know that their child was kidnapped by a disabled person raped, imprisoned, and begged on the side of the road as a beggar.

... Frank just opened his mouth wide, not knowing what to say. In the end, he only choked out the word beast, and then he froze in place.

Lance picked up the wine glass, took another sip of the wine, and his brain became more active, Look, from the standpoint of this man, he doesn't think he did anything wrong, because he has already been punished by the whole world, he He has fallen to the bottom of society, so he kidnapped a woman and stripped her of all power. In his opinion, this woman's IQ is only three years old anyway, and she has no ability to take care of herself. Instead, he is saving the whole woman.

Dog/shit! Frank interrupted Lance almost angrily, and couldn't help it after he finished speaking, Damn trash! You bastard who spouts/shit! Facing Frank's vulgar curse, Lance didn't fight back, but just smiled and let Frank vent all his emotions. After a while, Frank looked at Lance with red face and panting, but found that Lance was calm and calm, even Not a single drop of sweat broke out, which made Frank choke, and then suddenly lowered his head and laughed, So, this is your purpose, isn't it?

Lance raised his eyebrows, but he smiled and said nothing, basically acquiescing, which made Frank a little dumbfounded, rubbed the bridge of his nose angrily, hesitated again and again, still couldn't hold back, turned his head to look at Lance, So, what do you mean by this example?

It means, Rashomon. Lance didn't go around in circles anymore, Everyone starts from their own point of view to interpret those sins that are selfish and even illegal, but they just say that this is what society forces them to do. , This is what survival forces oneself. It seems that the crimes committed for survival are justice.”

Frank finally tasted it, So, you are saying that you want to introduce this deep meaning into the story of 'Sin City'.

In Sin City, in fact, every character is evil, but Frank still left a few positive characters, such as Mu Fu, this ugly, hot-tempered man is like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Got Goldie's favor, found a trace of warmth, but was strangled by the cold, and was framed as a killer, even though he was a gangster, but the image of justice is very obvious; for example, Nancy, who suffered a lot when she was a child The tormented girl, who grew up and fell into the bar, numb and stiff to find a way out in the city of sin; for example, Hardigan, who almost saved Nancy with a moth to the flame, and dedicated himself to her took his own life...

However, Lance now wants to inject a real dark side into these characters, not only to complete the theme of evil against evil, to make evil truly evil, rather than justice in the skin of evil; The darkness of Shengmen has completely established the city of sin.

Yes, I have some ideas now. For example, Nancy, has no one thought about why she was kidnapped when she was eleven years old? I'm not saying that she did something wrong and deserved to be kidnapped, but her family, For example, what happened to her parents, whether their marriage broke down, or even those greedy and corrupt government officials, or cold-blooded drug dealers, Nancy couldn't bear it at all at home, so she ran away from home, It was only then that she was targeted by Roger and was kidnapped. For example, what happened to Nancy eight years later, could it be because she encountered danger in the process of selling drugs, so she was reduced to a bar... ...

Although he was also talking about the role of Nancy, Frank was not so excited this time, so he was always eager to interrupt Lance, but he still didn't speak, but gradually calmed down, as if he really started to think about Lance content of the discourse.

Another example is why Hardigan has a soft spot for Nancy and is always desperate to save her. Let's abandon those just reasons. Could it be because he is too busy with the work of the police/police and ignores his daughter , leading to his daughter being kidnapped and tearing up his ticket? Or even further, he took his daughter to work, but in the end he was confronted by gangsters and his daughter was killed, so when he saw eleven-year-old Nancy, he was desperate, Moths to the flame.

Lance's words made Frank completely lost in thought, with his right hand supporting his chin, countless thoughts were surging in his mind.

Otherwise, to put it another way, Hardigan is a dirty cop/cop. He took bribes and was bribed by drug/dealers in an operation, so he turned a blind eye and killed his daughter if he didn't want to. ; or, Hardigan is the dirty cop, and Nancy saw him committing crimes, so when Nancy was kidnapped, he had to choose to save her and shut her up. The latter Before he finished his thoughts, Lance shook his head, It doesn't make sense.

This blunt expression made Frank look up, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, You don't need to continue giving examples, I understand what you mean.

Lance shrugged, I know, this is a very difficult thing. It requires a huge role setting to sort out every role. But it's all worth it, believe me.

To put it simply, these characters are all alive, and the stories that happened to them are intertwined, thus forming the city of sin. This huge project will not only bring the characters to life and make Sin City real, but more importantly, it will make the whole story have an allegorical color, even if you savor it carefully, there will be endless aftertaste.

So, you will put all these settings into the movie? Frank said with some concern.

Lance waved his hands again and again, Of course not. This will affect the rhythm of the movie, and even affect the style of the movie. It is simply suicide. These background stories are only used to shape characters and construct lines, and will not appear directly in the entire script, but the background Whether the story exists or not can be felt from every corner and every detail of the script. This is what Lance deeply felt when writing the scripts of City of God and Murder with a Borrowing Knife.

Script skill, this is a very delicate word, but many times, the real script skill is reflected between the lines, for example, when a character said something, it may be just a sentence, or an action, a piece Clothes, but there is a rigorous and detailed structure hidden behind it, which is not easy to come by, and then this detail can be integrated into the story, highlighting or even deepening the story, this is the script skill.

This is true of scripts from famous directors such as the Dardenne brothers (Dardenne) and Mike-Leigh (Mike-Leigh). Lance hopes to follow in the footsteps of these great players, of course, he still has a long way to go.

I mean, I need to write a huge information base for the script, so I need your help. After all, this is the world you created. Frank is to Sin City, just like Paul Lin As for City of God, they are all the original authors, and then use years of data collection to inject soul into each character.

Lance doesn't need Frank as a director, but he needs Frank to build a complete life, even soul, for every character in Sin City.

So, Frank, would you like to make this classic with me?