China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Li Mu asked the taxi to stop directly at a supermarket not far from the community, and then went to buy beef, vegetables, meatballs, duck blood and other ingredients. He was going to make hot pot alone tonight.

Moreover, he specially bought a piece of tofu, and when the time came, he would cook the hot pot and eat the fat beef. Then he would hold the white and tender tofu in his hand, cut it into pieces with a knife, and put it into the hot pot. Finally, he could eat and sing at the same time.

I wrote a ditty: I ate pickles and rolled tofu. The emperor is no better than me.

Li Mu bought three houses in Beijing some time ago, two off-plan and one second-hand. Now he will live in this second-hand house when he comes to Beijing for business trips. The former owner and his wife went abroad with their children, and they have all the furniture and appliances.

Li Mu bought a few bedding and pillows and moved in.

After dinner, Li Mu sat in front of the computer and began to think hard: He couldn't write "The King of Kung Fu" and he couldn't change it. It was too difficult and he was asking for trouble.

But besides "The King of Kung Fu", what else can he copy?

No more, really no more. Li Mu thought for a long time and finally had to come to the following conclusion - there is no movie in the world that can meet such harsh conditions!

He has searched through the film library in his mind, but he wanted to find a movie that could satisfy the two protagonists at the same time, have equal roles, both are good guys, have a peak showdown, be a global hit, and be an action movie. However, he found that this kind of movie has no

Doesn't exist.

This is not a question of whether it is difficult at all, but simply impossible.

There is no such movie in the world - since there is no way to copy it, it can only be modified. The question is, who should be modified?

You can’t magically modify “Kung Fu Panda”, right?!

Absolutely not!

How about "Captain America"?

Or "Iron Man"?

Or just copy "Avengers"?

None of it works!

Most of the top American blockbusters of the next twenty years were comic adaptations. What could Li Mu do?

Since there are too many restrictive conditions, we can only find ways to satisfy them one by one.

The two protagonists are both good guys, have equal roles, become a global hit, and have a peak showdown - Li Mu decided to first find the movie that met the most options among the above five conditions, and then make magical changes to the plots that did not meet the conditions.

"League of Assassins"!

Li Mu suddenly thought of this action movie starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy, who played Professor X in his youth in "X-Men".

In fact, "League of Assassins" is also a comic adaptation, but this comic is very niche and few people know about it. Moreover, the comic has serious self-interest. The most important thing is that the plot of the comic has long been changed by the movie.

He doesn't even recognize his own mother.

Li Mu felt that if he modified this movie, he would not overturn it.

To put it in detail, the "Assassin's League" comic is an anti-superhero work.

In the setting of comics, superheroes representing black and white love and kill each other and have a great time fighting each other.

Then after a decisive battle that determined the survival of good and evil, the super criminal gang completely defeated the superheroes. The victorious super criminal gang used black technology to erase the memory of this period of history from the people of the world.

From then on, the existence of good and evil superheroes became an absolute secret known only to the ruling class, that is, the top villains.

In the comic world of "Assassin's League": justice is dead, only evil is eternal!

The main line of this comic is the story of how the protagonist Wesley transitioned from an ordinary person to a super villain, and finally reached the pinnacle of life.

In the comics, the defeated superheroes end up miserable. The superhero who looks like Superman has suffered from Alzheimer's disease after the defeat and has become a cripple who can only sit in a wheelchair and even needs to be urinated. Batman is also constantly used by comic book authors.

Open shabu.

The protagonist, Wesley, starts out as useless as at the beginning of the movie, and then his father's lover, the fox, suddenly appears and kills all the passers-by on the street without distinction, leaving only the protagonist alone.

Only then did the protagonist know the truth about the world - it was a world ruled by super villains, and his father, the killer, had just been vendettaed by his enemies in an act of indulgence not long ago.

So will the protagonist choose to continue to live a cowardly life in the future, or train himself to become a super villain?

Of course the protagonist chose the latter!

In order to practice his ability to perform on the spot, the protagonist Wesley even randomly shoots ordinary passers-by in the crowd. By continuously killing people who have nothing to do with him on a large scale and killing innocent people in large numbers, his marksmanship becomes more and more proficient.

Wesley soon became an unparalleled deadly killer, and he began to kill people for his professor.

The professor soon gave Wesley an interesting job; in a newly discovered parallel universe, time was still in the 1980s, villains had not yet conquered the world, and heroes were still active.

Under the command of the professor, Wesley, Fox and other Brotherhood villains began a massive invasion of the parallel world in order to obtain the loot they needed.

Can you believe that this comic actually went to a parallel world?

Wesley killed Superman first and then Batman, turning this parallel world upside down. At this time, he was completely immersed in the pleasure of fighting and killing and couldn't extricate himself.

The final outcome is still that Wesley killed his father, who he thought was dead long ago. Only then did he learn that all this was his father's conspiracy.

The protagonist's father felt more and more that his physical condition was getting worse as he aged, so he ordered his lover Fox to train his son to be a super villain killer. He hoped that he could die in the hands of his own son rather than in the hands of his enemies.

He died miserably under the gun.

In the end, after the protagonist Wesley learned the whole truth, he resolutely pulled the trigger on his biological father.

The movie has already been magically modified, and Li Mu has modified it again, and the plot has basically nothing to do with the original comic.

The two protagonists are both good guys, they have equal roles, they are a global hit, and they have a peak showdown—the "League of Assassins" movie meets at least three of these five conditions.

They are all good people - it is certain that the protagonists and his son in the movie are decent characters.

Global hit - "League of Assassins" has a global box office of US$340 million, ranking around 15th in the global box office rankings that year. This is already a very high figure.

Peak showdown - the protagonist and his son have fought against each other several times. Both have the ability to bend bullets and even hit bullets. It is definitely a peak showdown.

There are two areas of dissatisfaction: one is that it does not meet the conditions for equal roles, and the other is that it does not meet the settings of the two protagonists.

The protagonist of this film is definitely his son.

But Li Mu recognized that these two items were not impossible to modify.

In the original movie, the protagonist and the killer have a father-son relationship, which obviously does not suit the identity of the two protagonists Cheng Long and Li Lian, so Li Mu decided to change the setting to two brothers.

As the older brother, Cheng Long has been carefully guarding his younger brother Li Lianlian's life as an ordinary person, until he discovered that the names of members of the killer organization appeared on the loom.

Then there is the issue of scenes. In this way, Li Lianlian will definitely have more scenes than Cheng Long, but there is a way to solve this. Just add a story line about his brother Cheng Long.

The background of the story should still be set abroad, while retaining the setting of the Loom Cult in the movie. The Loom Cult originated in England more than 1,000 years ago, and Li Mu had no problem writing it into it.

That's what writing a script is like. When you don't have an idea, you may not be able to write a word for half a month, but once you determine the general idea, the rest will become very simple.