Rebirth in America

After reading the script for "Planet of the Apes," Morris pondered for a moment. This story has a huge impact on people, especially the truth revealed at the end.

"Will there be a sequel to your movie?" Morris said.

Jiang is indeed very old. Morris has been making movies for so many years, and he immediately saw the foreshadowing left by Alex.

This "Planet of the Apes" was originally a film adapted from Pierre Boulle's novel of the same name. The novel was not supposed to be written and published until 1963. There were still three years to go, and Alex thought it was quite suitable, so he took it and used it without hesitation.

Besides, the storyline and structural content of the novel and the movie script are very different. Alex chose the series of movies shot in 1968 and made some modifications and reprocessing on this basis.

In that film, the racial discrimination system in the United States at that time was mapped, and through the assumption of an inverted evolutionary chain, it sharply criticized the hierarchy that permeated various societies. When it was released in 1968, it achieved a sensational effect.

That film described the hero Taylor waking up in a spaceship and landing on a strange planet. He discovered that the humans living on this planet have become no different from animals. And the great apes became the rulers here.

He was surprised to find that the apes on this planet have a hierarchical system similar to that of humans. Apes are the rulers, orangutans are in the middle class and chimpanzees are the lowest status group.

Taylor made friends with the orangutan scientists Gila and Cornelius, but he was persecuted in every possible way by the orangutan doctor Zans.

Finally Taylor escaped the control of the apes. But he was walking on the beach when he suddenly saw the collapsed Statue of Liberty!

It turns out that this planet ruled by apes was the earth many years ago. Humanity's nuclear war wiped everything out a long time ago, and nature, in its re-evolution, chose apes as the guardians of the earth!

The script Morris saw was adapted from the "Planet of the Apes" movie. In the original history, the first movie was so successful that it spawned four sequels and two TV series. Even in the 21st century, there are still many fans pursuing it, and some directors are trying to remake this series of movies.

Since Alex thought of copycatting, he would copy all five movies in the series. In this case, he would have to lay more foreshadowing in the first film in advance. After the other four parts are also filmed. Only then will the audience clearly know what the original foreshadowing was about.

What I didn't expect was. Such a foreshadowing could not be hidden from Morris, but he only vaguely guessed that there would be a follow-up. Morris didn't know what the specific content was.

Alex took a pen and put it on a piece of white paper. Write the name of the first part: "Planet of the Apes"! He said: "I want to set up the whole story as a circular structure. The story goes like this..."

The male lead in the first film, Planet of the Apes, for some reason. Lost in space and landed on a planet that is both strange and familiar.

"As for the reason, we can make some background hints at the beginning of the film. For example, the nuclear competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, and so on. In addition, the audience can see from some details that people have begun to study the use of orangutans. Replacement of human labor.”

"Yeah, yeah, I understand! If you do this, the audience will recall it later. It's really clever to echo back and forth like this."

Just mention these film techniques to Morris, and he will immediately understand them and complete many of them.

"In the second part, after the Earth lost the protagonist of the first part, it immediately sent out a search force. The audience can know this in a certain segment of the first part, but this search force was also lost in space and went to the future. Earth."

In this film, the search team can get a more comprehensive understanding of the situation on the earth at this time, and also find the remaining human civilization. In the end, in the struggle between apes and humans, nuclear warheads were detonated again. The earth was suddenly bombarded and destroyed by nuclear weapons, and neither humans nor apes were spared.

Hearing this, Morris quickly clapped his hands and shouted: "Wonderful, how wonderful! Now, the explosion of the nuclear warhead in the second part is the highlight of the whole movie! After the foreshadowing and reflection in the first part, the second part It’s sure to shock people!”

After finishing speaking, Morris sighed without saying anything: "This is a good idea. Why don't you leave it to me to shoot the second part? You shoot the first one!"

"Hey! Do you think the second part is over?" Alex asked him, and said: "I don't want it to end so soon. Just listen to me!"

"Oh?" Morris really didn't expect it this time. He actually had an idea for the next plot, so he asked: "The earth has been destroyed, and humans and apes are dead. Do you want to make a prequel?" ?”

Alex then continued: "The impact of the nuclear bomb explosion caused the ape astronaut couple to be lost in space, and also passed through the time and space wormhole in the universe. They came to the past Earth, which was the era of human dominance. Because they showed great intelligence, they were immediately locked up by humans for research. During this period, a little ape was born. He was adopted by humans and named 'Caesar'!"

Caesar! Julius Caesar!

Morris walked around the room excitedly. Only then did he understand how the first ape-man "Caesar" who was constantly mentioned by the apes to rebel against humans in the first and second parts came from. It turns out that the foreshadowing was buried so deeply that it wasn't revealed until the third part.

"Oh! No, no, no!" Morris suddenly screamed in pain, and even Alex was startled by him.

"What's wrong with you? Is there any loophole in my plot?" Alex asked.

Morris shook his head and said with some frustration: "It's not your problem, but I just figured it out. It turns out that it is mankind itself that destroys mankind."

Alex felt strange about Morris's "behind-the-scenes" attitude. He said: "Isn't this issue that my series of movies have always been about? There is no one else but myself who can destroy mankind!"

"Hey, I thought the same way when I first read the script of your first movie. But when I heard you describe the plot of the second movie, I was secretly relieved, because human beings are finally Destroyed because of creatures like apes. In other words, it is still possible to avoid the demise of human society, as long as there is no race like apes."

Morris paused and took a breath before continuing: "However, from the third part you described, it actually completely overturns my previous thoughts. Human beings eventually die of their own greedy nature. In order to enslave others, no matter what No matter what, humans will follow this path. That is to say, the demise of human society is already doomed, and there is no way to change it..."

After Alex finished listening. Also fell silent. He didn't expect that much. I just feel that the structure set up like this in the original series of movies is more reasonable. At least it's more logical and more shocking than the new remake of the "Planet of the Apes" series.

"I plan to shoot these three movies in one go. This will not only save time and money, but also have a greater impact on the box office. I originally had the idea of ​​a fourth and a fifth movie, but I feel that after filming The words here are enough. At least leave some room for the audience's imagination..." Alex shook his head and said in a low mood.

This sentence immediately caught Morris's attention, and he asked: "There are two more? Tell me about it. If you don't want to shoot it, I can shoot it!"

So Alex told the plots of the next two parts again, and the fourth part focused on describing the highly intelligent orangutans in human society who began to try to rebel, and at the same time humans themselves were constantly fighting each other. As a result, the orangutan leader seized the opportunity and instigated human countries to engage in nuclear war. Because the orangutans had already been prepared, they avoided the nuclear attack and survived with difficulty.

Starting from this fourth film, it is basically very different from the original film in history. At least Alex believes that there is no way that human beings will be destroyed at the hands of alien races. It would be incredible if it was really like the original story about a war between humans and apes, with the apes winning in the end.

It's completely illogical! Alex felt that the movie was not convincing at all, although the director gave a strong reason for rationality, saying that human beings were degenerated. That's why humans didn't defeat the apes. This reason is too far-fetched.

As for the fifth part, it tells the story of humans being completely degenerated into animals after being exposed to nuclear radiation. At the same time, the apes began to rise, and then entered the era of civilized society, repeating the same mistakes that humans had made. The audience discovered that the apes, like humans, eventually degenerated into creatures with endless greed.

"At this time, at the end of the film, we saw the unexpected arrival of a human astronaut, Taylor, the male protagonist of the first part. What do you think? This can connect the first part."

Alex put his two fingers together to form a circle shape and said: "There are five movies in total, both in structure and plot, forming a perfect ring structure, just like a Moebius ring!"

"!!"

Morris applauded, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net He said excitedly: "I will shoot the next two movies! You must shoot them for me!"

"Well, based on this calculation, the investment for five movies is quite high! Even if the props, actors, and film clips can be reused, I estimate that the total cost will be fifteen million US dollars!"

Hearing this, Morris almost fell down. He was shocked: "You, you, how did you calculate it? Although it is five movies, in my opinion, it is at most a relatively long movie. Right! As long as the overall planning is reasonable and the resource allocation is strong, a lot of money can be saved. Fifteen million US dollars? Then we can make many different types of films, okay!"

"Is it possible? I doubt it!" Alex's estimate was of course based on his own shooting method and his attitude of striving for excellence.

"Well, you don't have to doubt that this kind of investment is definitely too much! Leave these things to me to consider. You write the remaining four scripts first!"

In the end, Morris forced Alex to code, hoping to get the script quickly and then shoot the movie based on the actual situation. (To be continued...)