The bard joins the entertainment industry

After a while, Zhang Yimou came back to his senses, looked at the two of them and asked, "Have you finished reading?"

"I've finished reading." Chen Shuo and the other two nodded.

"how do you feel?"

Chen Shuo and Yu Bo looked at each other and pondered for a moment, not knowing what to say.

Not only Chen Shuo felt there was a problem with the script, but Yu Bo did too.

But his roles are few, basically only the first few scenes.

He didn't know whether he should speak more.

But Chen Shuo felt that if he said too much, it would be bad.

Zhang Yimou knew the concerns in their hearts as soon as he saw their expressions, and said seriously: "You two, don't have any worries.

In fact, before this, we found some well-known writers, directors, and screenwriters to read the script.

Except for one of them who expressed some agreement, the others were completely negative.

So you can speak freely and say whatever you want. "

Yu Bo pondered for a while and said: "I am not professional in script writing. I will tell you from the perspective of an audience."

"Okay, this is a different perspective." Zhang Yimou's eyes lit up after hearing this.

Although he thought about not continuing to work behind closed doors, based on industry habits, the people he asked to read the script were all professionals.

I’ve never thought of finding some lay audiences to watch.

This movie was made to be seen by the audience.

If the audience's opinions can be known in advance, the revised script will be more in line with the audience's preferences.

“Although it’s from the audience’s perspective, I’m watching it with the character after all.

After watching it, I felt that King Qi’s role was a bit inappropriate.

Maybe Director Zhang modified the script based on our performance in the last interview, so that King Qi and the blind girl have a fight.

But the king of a country actually has super high skills, and can calmly resist the assassin's thrusts and counterattack them.

It always feels a little too deliberate. "

Wang Bin nodded and said, "It is indeed a problem. Do you have any suggestions for improvement?"

“The first is to directly hand over the task of fighting the blind girl to others.

But there is also a problem.

For this scene to be exciting, it can only be the exchange of offense and defense between two people at the critical moment.

If a large number of warriors suppress it, this effect will be lost.

The status of King Qi is not suitable, and there are only two people left who are suitable to fight the blind girl, father and son Sui Feng.

It's just that the assassination was planned by his father, and he came to stop the contradiction.

And the young master Sui Feng will walk with the blind girl all the way. It is unreasonable to take action at this time. When they walk together later, they will not be able to find his problem. "

"What about second place?" Li Feng asked.

"The second is to lower the status of King Qi and make him a military officer who is in a key position on the front line.

In this way, it is reasonable for him to be assassinated by the blind woman and then captured with thunderous means.

However, this seems to destroy the conspiracy pattern of the entire script. "

One problem gives rise to two solutions, and these two solutions have their own problems that need to be solved.

Wang Bin couldn't help but feel a little headache. The previous problems had not been solved, and there were a lot of problems coming later.

He couldn't think of a solution for the moment, so he simply didn't struggle at this time and asked Chen Shuo: "What's the problem here?"

Zhang Yimou, Yu Bo and others also looked at Chen Shuo, wanting to hear what he had in mind.

Chen Shuo paused and said tentatively: "What if I say that there is a serious logical flaw in this script?"

Zhang Yimou and others didn't think his words were too extreme. They had heard even more extreme words.

"What loophole are you talking about?"

"My father's bad deeds and conspiracies seemed too thin, as if he was bad just for the sake of being bad, and created conspiracies for the sake of creating conspiracies.

There is no deep inner support.

The character of the second sister is also too thin.

And her presence undermines the rigor of the story.

Since she is her father's undercover agent, she is also the second in command of the Flying Knife Sect.

The father can completely use her to deal with the eldest sister and hold the power of the Flying Knife Sect in his hands.

Going through so much trouble to prepare this conspiracy to destroy the Flying Knife Sect seems to be too much.

The stories of Sui Feng and Liu Ye are as vain as castles in the air, with no basis for their existence. "

When Zhang Yimou heard this, he thought, well, this is another person who has completely destroyed his script, and he is also the actor he selected.

"What's your solution?"

"I'm not a professional script writer, but I think since this script is already full of loopholes, I might as well jump out of it.

Isolate each character and reconstruct a scene.

Then stick to the theme and write a biography from the perspective of each character.

When all the characters naturally come together, the story will naturally come out. "

After hearing this, Zhang Yimou felt that this was an effective method.

If you can really portray several characters with distinctive personalities, set a goal for them, and then put them in a suitable situation, they will definitely be able to create different sparks.

It's just that this method almost abandoned the previous creative methods of him, Wang Bin, and Li Feng.

Recreating the script from an unfamiliar perspective would be difficult to achieve in a short period of time.

Chen Shuo saw the expressions of the three people and knew that this method might not be accepted by them.

He added: “If you don’t want to overthrow and re-create, then identify the problems one by one and then implement them.

Try to present a complete and logically consistent story as much as possible. "

The three of them thought about it and realized that this was feasible.

Li Feng suddenly said: "If you ask me, let's just get rid of the element of the palace.

Then he changed the identities of his father, King Qi, and Suifeng, and let them fall to the ground.

In this way, it will not only solve the problems mentioned by Chen Shuo and Yu Bo.

At the same time, it can also solve the problem that Zhou Jingzhi said that the characters are superficial. "

"How did it fall to the ground?" Wang Bin asked.

Li Feng said: "After removing the palace, the six main characters can be divided into two opposing camps.

For example, simple officers, soldiers and thieves.

Yes, it can be like this!

Feidaomen is a Jianghu organization engaged in rebellion, and the government wants to capture them.

At the same time, Feidaomen also wanted to fight back against the government.

In this way, the tone of the whole story will not be so condescending, and it will not seem so empty.

At the beginning of the story, the blind girl went to assassinate the chief catcher responsible for hunting down the Feidaomen.

After being caught, the chief catcher sent Sui Feng to rescue him in order to find the trace of Feidaomen.

The purpose is to gain his trust, find the location of Feidaomen, and prepare to capture and kill him.

The love between the two of them remains unchanged, and the plot does not need to change much.

Similarly, if we stick to the main line of the 'conspiracy', Feidao Sect should also have internal support within the government.

And this person is the role of father.

On the surface, he and Sui Feng were following the instructions from the head of the headquarters to eradicate the flying knife gate.

In fact, it was just a plan to draw the power of the government into the siege and kill them.

Eradicate the effective forces of the government. "