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Lu Heng looked at the new script in his hand, with a strange and indescribable expression on his face.

This reminded him of a line in a movie he watched in his previous life: I guessed the beginning of the story, but I didn't expect the ending of the story.

Lu Heng felt that using this sentence to describe his current mood was really appropriate.

Before receiving the audition notice from the crew of "Flower and Sword", Lu Heng thought he was fully prepared.Either win the role of male number two, or miss out on this classic.But he really didn't expect that this matter would have a third ending.

"...The role of Su Muzhe is a character that Lao Yao added on a sudden inspiration after watching your audition. Before this, our screenwriting team has been working hard to adapt the script. It is more westernized, trying to tell the story of oriental martial arts in a lens language that can be accepted by Westerners. To be honest, considering the acceptance of Western audiences, there are indeed some branches in the script that are relatively scattered. If you shoot according to the original script, it is very likely that It will disappoint many domestic audiences who love martial arts elements. But we have no choice, sometimes you have to make a choice if you want to accomplish something..."

In order to allow Westerners to understand this "Flower and Sword", when Fang Kaizhi established the screenwriting team, he specially invited a screenwriter from M country who is proficient in Chinese culture from the Hollywood Screenwriters Union to help adapt the script.

The purpose of doing this is of course to break through the cultural barriers between the East and the West, so that Westerners can understand China through this unique film language.

Therefore, when Yao Suhua wrote the script, he cleverly borrowed the story prototypes of "Hamlet" and "The Encounter of Monte Cristo". In addition to the element of revenge for treasure hunting, the whole script even incorporated the spirit of cowboy exploration and detective Elements of murder.

Only in this way, the rhythm of the whole movie is a bit lengthy and fragmented. Even after Yao Suhua's deliberation, many details are still powerless.Fortunately, the slow rhythm is originally one of the characteristics of literary films, and this choice in rhythm is originally a flaw in the white jade.Ultimately, this movie allows Western audiences to understand China and its world of martial arts.

However, when this film, which successfully won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and set off an international craze for martial arts, was released in China, the audience's reputation and response were mediocre.To give the most intuitive example, the global box office of "Flower and Sword" was 2.3 million M gold, while the total box office released in China that year was less than 500 million.

After watching "Flower and Sword", many domestic audiences have responded that this is a typical literary film for foreigners.Wearing the skin of martial arts, in fact martial arts are not martial arts, actions are not actions, and the two-hour movie has no idea what it is talking about.To say it's exciting, only the last part of the film where Wen Renjing erupts makes people feel a bit interesting.

In the face of raging reviews from domestic audiences, Yao Suhua, who once wrote a classic script such as "Autumn Dew", was even evaluated by the media as "exhausted". It was not until this film went to the Oscars that it successfully won a statuette, and the direction of domestic public opinion suddenly changed. .

But what Yao Suhua and Fang Kaizhi didn't expect was that just when they couldn't take care of this choice, Lu Heng's audition gave him the inspiration and opportunity to pursue perfection.

Mr. Yao spent two days and three nights changing the script.On the morning of the third day, the entire crew announced the audition results and called all the actors together for a meeting.This should be regarded as the first meeting where all the main creators of the "Flower and Sword" crew gathered together.

After three days of repeated research and deliberation, the cast of "Flower and Sword" was finally determined as follows: Zhao Miao will play the lead actor Yu Xiaobai, Gu Runqing will play the lead actor Wen Renjing, and Lu Heng will play the lead actor Su Mu Shao Qiongfang played the heroine You Sufan... and Gu Yu, who played Yu Xiaobai in his previous life, got the role of the fourth male number Shen Gang because of his outstanding performance in the audition.

Lu Heng, who somehow became the male number three, was in a trance, and Fang Kaizhi patted him on the shoulder and said earnestly: "...After the audition that day, everyone felt that you are very good at martial arts and modeling." Talent, so after discussion, the crew decided to let you work part-time as the martial arts director and styling director of the film."

When Fang Kaizhi said this, he glanced at Lu Heng with a smile, pointed to Qizheng Fang, who was sitting in the corner of the conference room with his eyes closed, and said, "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You have to live with Mr. Fang." Learning is."

Lu Heng immediately came back to his senses, followed Fang Dao's words, stood up, and said hello to Fang Qizheng respectfully.

Fang Qizheng, who had been keeping his eyes closed all the time, moved his ears, looked at Lu Heng with his eyes half-opened and half-closed, and said with a smile: "I have watched all your audition videos. The young man is indeed very talented. Not bad."

Fang Qizheng can be said to be the most well-known action director in China, and he is well-known internationally.Lu Heng was naturally very happy to be praised by Mr. Fang.

It's a pity that time was running out, Fang Kaizhi didn't give Lu Heng a chance to express his admiration, and the topic changed back to the preparation of the crew. He asked all the actors to familiarize themselves with the new script as soon as possible.

From the preparation to the finalization of a crew, the script has never been the same in such a long period of time.Before starting the production, the script should be modified according to the opinions of the director, the producer, and even the investors. After the production, the script should be revised according to the shooting content and even the opinions of some actors.Therefore, no one knows what a movie will look like until the finished film is officially released.

Lu Heng had watched "Flower and Sword" dozens of times in his previous life, so he was familiar with every detail of this film.

In Lu Heng's memory, the opening scene of the movie "Flower and Sword" is that the hero Yu Xiaobai was ordered by his master to go to Mount Emei to visit his wife. [-]th birthday gift.

As a result, on the way, he met a female thief who stole the gift.This female thief is named Lian Hongni, she is a female disciple of the God of Thieves, and she is also the second female number in the movie.The male protagonist Yu Xiaobai had to catch up with Lian Hongni and fight with him in order to get back the gift. After finally getting back the gift, he rushed to the Han Mansion to celebrate Mr. Han’s birthday, but Han Zhentian, the Iron Wall Sword, was killed in the In his own practice room.The wound marks on the deceased's body coincided with the blade of the magic cold iron sword presented by Yu Xiaobai.

Shen Gang, the head arrester of Six Doors who was in charge of investigating the matter, suspected that the murderer was Yu Xiaobai.He wanted to arrest Yu Xiaobai and bring him to justice.But Yu Xiaobai didn't enter the city at all the night before, he was still fighting with Lian Hongni from the Thief Sect at that time, even the military service at the gate of the city could testify to him.

From this, Shen Gang found Lian Hongni's body, and learned from Lian Hongni's mouth that there is not one, but two, swords of yin and yang that are widely rumored in the rivers and lakes.

Now the Yang sword is in Yu Xiaobai's hands, but the Yin sword is nowhere to be found.Perhaps the sword that killed the man was actually a Yin sword, which is unknown.

However, this cold iron sword is a congratulatory gift that Wen Ren respectfully wanted to give to Han Zhentian.Yu Xiaobai didn't know its origin either, so Shen Gang proposed to follow Yu Xiaobai to find his master Wen Renjing, in order to find out the origin of Han Tiejian.

In order to prove his innocence, Yu Xiaobai naturally agreed.But before that, everyone has to visit the teacher's wife You Sufan.And from You Sufan's mouth, I learned that Han Tiejian is actually related to a clue of a martial arts masterpiece rumored in the rivers and lakes.You Sufan said that this incident caused a sensation in the world more than 20 years ago, but now not many people know about that rumor.He also pointed out that Han Zhentian's death might be related to this rumor.

Everyone followed You Sufan's guidance and continued to investigate the case. During the investigation process, Yu Xiaobai was shocked to find that the death of his father 20 years ago was actually related to Han Tiejian.But now the cold iron sword appears in the hands of the master...

The movie "Flower and Sword" has a duration of more than 120 minutes. Almost all the pen and ink in the first hour is about Yu Xiaobai chasing Lian Hongni and Shen Gang's pursuit of the cause of Han Zhentian's death. However, this scene is only the beginning of the movie. , or in other words, the fuse is to draw out the dark thread of Wen Renjing.

After watching the movie "Flower and Sword" in the previous life, many domestic audiences said that the plot of the movie was too scattered, with too many branches and the plot rhythm was too slow.So much so that when the final ending came, there was an abrupt end.

In the newly adapted script, the opening scene of the movie is that Su Muzhe, who has been shut down for more than 20 years, successfully exits.

Su Muzhe's identity is the younger brother of Wen Renjing and the father of Yu Xiaobai, and he is a martial arts genius that is widely rumored in the world.He asked for retreat at the age of 16, and after 20 years, he achieved great success. Facing strange people and things on Wudang Mountain, he was shocked to realize that everything was wrong.

The opening scene of the film is that Su Muzhe went down the mountain to find Wen Renjing. The reunion of this pair of brothers who had not seen each other for 20 years led to the leading actor Yu Xiaobai, and then the match between Su Muzhe and Wen Renjing led to the story of Wen Renjing. Ren Jing's mentality is very different from that of the past.This made Su Muzhe discover the clues, and then tested Yu Xiaobai's kung fu, and found that Yu Xiaobai's kung fu methods seemed to belong to Wudang decent, but in fact, his cultivation mentality had been subtly changed.Although it won't lead to madness in practice, it will get twice the result with half the effort.

Therefore, Su Muzhe concluded that there must be something wrong with Wen Renjing.But he has retreated for more than 20 years, and he doesn't know anything about what happened back then, so he can only ask You Sufan.

You Sufan is Wen Renjing's first wife, Yu Xiaobai's teacher's wife, and also Su Muzhe's teacher's sister.In Su Muzhe's memory, the relationship between the senior sister and the senior brothers should be very good, but according to Yu Xiaobai's words, You Sufan has never been back to Wenren Mansion or Wudang Mountain for 20 years, and only practiced in seclusion at Xueyanling , don't ask about worldly affairs.

This is not the senior sister in Su Muzhe's memory. If a person's temperament changes drastically, there must be a reason.

Su Muzhe deduced that this matter might have something to do with the death of the eldest brother.Following Su Muzhe's instructions, Yu Xiaobai went to look for You Sufan...

Lu Heng read through the adapted script carefully, and found that the male number three he played appeared three times in the movie. The first time is to save the male protagonist before Wen Renjing kills someone, and to stimulate the male protagonist to cheer up the male protagonist when he learns the truth and collapses. Repeat the old trick to poison Su Muzhe...

From a structural point of view, the role of Su Muzhe is a standard Hollywood mentor role.From the function point of view, the appearance of Su Muzhe deleted some branch lines that were criticized by the audience of later generations, so that the plot changed from a winding path to a targeted one.And thanks to his performance in the audition that day, Lu Heng was shocked to find that several fighting scenes had been added to the newly revised script.Using fighting to promote the storyline fundamentally increases the watchability of the movie, so that it will not have too much drama like in the previous life.

Lu Heng looked at the new script with an inexplicable expression. There were a lot of free rhetorical descriptions about the fighting scenes. The artistic conception was beautiful enough, and the resulting pictures should be beautiful enough.This is the toss...

Lu Heng almost imagined the scene where the actors were crying.

When he was smiling wryly to himself, the door clicked. Lu Heng sat cross-legged on the sofa, holding the script and turned his head, only to see Wei Linxuan walking in with big and small bags.

"I saw your new script. In the winter, I will go to Daxinganling and Tianchi to film, and I have to wear the Taoist robe you designed..."

The visual effect of layers of thick yarn moving in front of the camera is of course particularly elegant, but wearing this costume for filming in a weather tens of degrees below zero can also freeze people's noses.

Wei Linxuan really had no other choice but to spend money to make people research all kinds of hot treasures and hot posts, and now he brought all kinds of trial kits to Lu Heng: "...you see See which one is more comfortable to use, I will ask them to do more later.”