The Best Director

Chapter 259: How I Impress the Heart of a Scientist

"Wow, look at that guy, it's Fantastic Jan!"

1a South Campus, in autumn, the green lawn gradually turns a little yellow, and there are also some fallen leaves on the clean and beautiful campus road. The students coming and going make the whole environment full of green atmosphere. A group of five or six students were pleasantly surprised to find that a tall man walking towards him was the mysterious Yang, and immediately surrounded him and followed him, laughing and talking: "Yang, Yang! How are you? What are you doing in 1a?", "Look at Really 1, it’s the first time I saw a real Miracle Yang!", "It feels so good!"

"Hey, dear guys, how are you doing?" Wang Yang looked at the group of happy Asian students and asked with a smile as they walked. It was easy to see that they were all Chinese, because Korean and Japanese It's not this kind of appearance, and it gives him a different impression. This is a skill that has been cultivated since childhood.

1a has a very high proportion of Asian students, often reaching %-%, whites account for more than %, Latinos account for 15%, and African Americans account for 5%. The Asian population in California only accounts for about % of the total population, so the title of ty-of-netd-ts-of-ans (Chinese university and many, many Asians)".

Of course, the proportion of Asian students in all major universities in the United States is very high. This seems to be quite natural. The policy of caring for minorities in the national higher education system has never included Asians. This kind of good thing is only for Latinos, African Americans, and Indians. Students of Asian descent are divided up, while Asian Americans need better application forms.

Looking back on the days when he graduated from high school, Wang Yang also applied for 1a and received the admission letter. As we all know, he finally chose Robert Zemeckis and George Lucas. Ron Howard...'s rival in the same city, bsp;'s film and television school and research institute are both ranked first in the United States, but the school of science is much weaker; the natural science department of the 1a school of arts and sciences, including physics, mathematics, astronomy and other majors They are all among the best in the United States, and they are in the same first-tier team as t, t and other schools. Wang Yang stepped into the Science Department of 1a campus this time to visit David Salzburg, professor of physics and Tianshuang.

"Very good! We're emptying out scholarships." A boy with a round face wearing rimless glasses spoke casually, and everyone laughed. A girl in short jeans took out a pen and paper from her backpack with great interest, and said: "Amazing Yang, I want an autograph, so I don't want to miss it." Wang Yang took it and said ok, and signed as he walked. Several young people followed him, and another boy with acne asked: "Yang, Are you going to make the set of "The Big Bang Theory"? You said that there is scientific content, and I study theoretical physics, will there be this?"

He tried to explain: "It's like saying 'string theory'. You know that the biggest problem in modern physics may be that the law of gravity does not match quantum mechanics." He made hand movements: "String theory is trying to theory, Changing the point particles into tiny vibrating strings and loops solves this problem. Will The Big Bang Theory have an aspect of this?"

"Don't talk about your string theory..." The short girl and the other girl with ponytail and apple face had several black lines on their foreheads.

Who would put string theory on a sitcom? Fantastic Young is not a physicist! They have chatted with many classmates on this topic, and they all think that "scientific content" should refer to common scientific knowledge in life, such as "Can old and new batteries be mixed?", "Can I put my mobile phone next to my bed when I sleep?" Laughing and supplementing this knowledge.

string theory? Just let it stay in the institute. Just when they thought so, Wang Yang nodded after signing, showing his signature smile: "Yes, I know string theory, there will be." They all felt shocked, and they were stunned for a few seconds before Come to think of it, string theory? Kidding. Everyone didn't wait to think about it, and Wang Yang said helplessly: "Oh, for God's sake, why does everyone see me in movies and TV? Is there nothing else?"

"Of course! You and Jessica are going to get married in January next year, right?" the short girl asked with a smile full of interest, and the gossip soul of the apple-faced girl was already on fire: "This question may be a bit personal, but I really want to I know! Fantastic Yang, have you ever been in love with a Chinese girl?"

"Let's talk about movies and TV." Wang Yang spread his hands and did not answer these emotional questions. The boy with glasses couldn't wait to ask: "One question, will there be Chinese characters in "The Big Bang Theory"? We are all fed up." The short girl nodded repeatedly: "Yes, do something!" Wang Yang nodded silently, Without disclosing specific information, he suddenly asked, "What do you think Chinese nerds look like?"

Several students suddenly looked at each other, with very uncertain expressions: "I don't know, modest? Introverted?", "Can't drink? Can't drive? Don't go to parties?"... The apple-faced girl admired: "I know you a little Not nerdy."

"Thank you, thank you, I take it as a compliment! Hey, I'm going to find Professor David Salzburg, so see you next time, bye!" Wang Yang smiled and waved his palms to them, then quickened his pace towards the front building go. Several Chinese students watched him walk away, and then they smiled and said, "He's so cool!", "What did he ask David Salzburg for? Is there really string theory?"...

Soon another student recognized Wang Yang, a group of Asians and whites, and walked towards him in surprise: "Amazing Yang! You are here at 1a. Is there a ball game today? I don't remember it!"

Not too spacious but very neat and elegant In the office, a beautiful nebula picture hangs on the wall, and there are several rows of bookshelves full of thick books beside the wall. , There are perpetual motion instruments, globes and other objects on the steel and wood desk. David Salzburg sitting behind the desk smiled a little strangely and asked, "Why did you ask me to do a TV series?"

He is a middle-aged Caucasian man with a good figure, his breasts under his shirt are bulging like a woman; the line on his head has disappeared, leaving only a black circle between the two ears and the back of his head. But with a simple and honest smile and a high and big nose, he seems to be the kind of person who is easy to talk to and get along with.

"Hmm." A white drawing board in the corner of the wall is full of densely tried physical formulas, t→b, br(t→b)=... Wang Yang stared at it for a long time with his chin in his hand, and pretended to be serious: " You obviously haven't considered the xx theory here, have you? Professor Salzburg, you should use the xx theory, and you will find a big breakthrough in your thinking. Oh cute! Looks like you are still in Newton just being hit by an apple era."

David Salzburg opened his mouth slightly, with a look of astonishment on his face, xx theory? He asked suspiciously: "Uh, sorry, what xx theory?"

"Haha! Professor Salzburg, that's why I asked you to do a TV series!" Wang Yang spread his hands with a smile, tapped the whiteboard again, and said, "I don't understand this, the Hollywood screenwriter team No one in the set and set team can understand these, let alone write or draw them. If it was a shot just now, we need this whiteboard, we need that line, and we need a real physicist.”

He came to the desk and sat down, dialed the perpetual motion device, looked at David Salzburg, and said with a smile: "Help us write clearly whether the blank space in this script is xx theory, theory, or xp theory. "

"I think I understand." Salzburg nodded suddenly. He has never done consulting work on film and television, or participated in any work, but as a smart person with a high IQ, he naturally understands everything. Salzburg was born in 1967. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from Princeton University at the age of 22, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago at the age of 27. He worked at CERN from 1995 to 1997, and now works at bsp at the age of 36. He usually teaches students, Sometimes I travel to Antarctica, fly scientific balloons; or go to Switzerland to participate in the work of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Although in Los Angeles, if you ask anyone, they will have "friends of friends of friends" working in Hollywood, but Salzburg has never been in the entertainment business. He questioned: "You mean to deliberately design the calculation formulas on the whiteboard to be outdated and have loopholes; then another person points out the latest theory and then laughs at him?" Wang Yang nodded and smiled: "Yes! That's how it was just now .” Salzburg frowned suddenly and said, “But I don’t know how to write jokes!”

"No, no, you don't need to write. We will write about this, and you will fill in the blanks, just like a translator."

Wang Yang stopped dialing the perpetual motion device, took out a few pages of temporary script from his pocket, and prepared to explain clearly. He believed that David Salzburg would be interested in this job and would do a good job. Because according to the information in his brain, Salzburg is the script consultant for the original version of "The Big Bang Theory". Xìng, if you meet someone like "Sheldon Cooper", you really don't know what will happen.

"You know that almost all scripts involving a certain professional field, movies, TV series, will have script consultants (t-kers), who are experts in that field. It's like my movie "t-21-team"."

Hearing what he said, David Salzburg nodded and said: "I have seen it. There were people in Princeton playing card counting before, but it has nothing to do with the Department of Physics, so I am staying in this office now." Wang Yang hehe He laughed and said, "Is this called not being able to tell jokes? I don't think so. Anyway, "t-21-team" has Jeff Ma as a consultant, "Prison Break", "The Devil Wears Prada"...you know "", " "Emergency Room" is also the same, the difference is that "The Big Bang Theory" is in the field of science, theoretical physics, applied physics, astronomy, mathematics..."

Salzburg took a page of the script from Wang Yang, and saw that there were several scenes written on it, just like the "xx theory" just now, each line had some blank space, and the brackets beside it read: (need fill in the scientific content), he looked at some of them were arguments, some were narrations, and some were scenes in which the characters were doing experiments, and the parentheses required the corresponding experiments and names.

There are also star symbols in the brackets, and there are notes below that require "one star is easy to understand, this is the content of 'first grade', most people can understand it.", "two stars few people understand, or search for information by yourself After ng understand", "Three stars are very few people understand, after searching a few people can understand", "Four stars are not understood by anyone except professionals, after searching, very few people can understand", "Five stars Everyone is asked to be puzzled, and non-thesis professor-level people are unreasonable."

The scripts are basically one-star and two-star. Salzburg only saw one three-star, without the brackets of four-star and five-star.

"Professor Salzburg, your job is to fill in the brackets. Sometimes you can modify them back and forth according to the situation, but it must conform to scientific knowledge and retain the original idea of ​​the script." Wang Yang said and handed him another There are no parentheses on the screenplay, explaining: "Not all scientific lines need your help. Sometimes we write it, and you help us check it out to make sure there are no mistakes or omissions. We don't want to be ridiculed. That's the script consultant."

"It sounds like batching and making test papers." David Salzburg looked at Wang Yang who was smiling and nodding. He was very interested in his heart, but he also had a concern. He asked, "Are you going to be very busy? I'm an in-service professor. , and occasionally participate in some research."

Wang Yang shrugged. The busiest part of a sitcom is the screenwriter, and he said seriously: "It won't be very busy. Normally, we will give you the script for review one month before the recording of each episode, and just return it to us within one month. , of course it’s actually one episode a week. In the current situation, we’ll give you the script for the first 12 episodes of the first season, and we’ll start recording in March, so you’ve got a long time.”

"Your other job is that you are present when recording scenes with scientific content on the set." Wang Yang turned and pointed to the formula whiteboard behind him, and said with a smile: "You need to take care of the set designer to arrange the scene and provide those whiteboards. If you want to arrange the laboratory scene, if you have any suggestions, just say so, so that everything becomes more real; and the scientific dialogue of the characters, you also take care of it. Record an episode every week, and everyone's time does not match It can be accommodated, we are booking for the whole season, so there is a lot of flexibility.”

"I seem to be able to handle it, but I have never done such a job..." David Salzburg is still a little hesitant, and he can still consider it now, but he must do it after signing the contract. He frowned and said, "I need time to think about it."

Wang Yang said ok, but he didn't want Salzburg to think about it for too long, because he was too tight on personal time, and he wanted to get the script consultant today!

When it comes to this office, whoever is good at physics and who is more nerdy is naturally Professor 1a; but when it comes to sweet talk and inspiration, no one in this school is an opponent of graduates, and the professor himself is very interested .

"Professor Salzburg, I hope that when you think about it, you know that "The Big Bang Theory" will be an absolutely funny and hilarious episode." Wang Yang put his hands on the table and looked at David Salz seriously Paul, said: "But what I want to say is that this is a good opportunity to popularize science. It is no longer the usual cows, mobile phones, batteries... This is string theory, the law of universal gravitation, quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat, and more. Puller effect! Professor, this is a scientific storm, this is hot netbsp; Listening to the rhythmic and cadenced words of this magical director, Salzburg felt his heart a little bit, it was something new discovered during the experiment that excitement.

"Trust me!" Wang Yang flipped the globe vigorously, and the whole globe turned at a speed that the U eye could not see the map. He continued: "It will attract people's interest in science, and Schrödinger's cats will become Yahoo! , Google’s popular search terms, the hottest! Do you have a blog? Your blog will suddenly have a lot of visitors, and everyone will be searching, looking, and thinking overnight, and everyone will enjoy the fun and topics brought by science.”

The joys of science, and blogging... Salzburg felt another twitch in his heart. I heard Wang Yang's voice suddenly increase: "This is science popularization! This is the contribution to science. Ten years later, who knows how many people have embarked on the road of learning and exploring natural science because they watched "The Big Bang Theory" since they were young. Came to 1a, sitting in the classroom, listening to Professor David Salzburg's lecture?" Salzburg moved his butt unnaturally.

"This series will turn scientists into superstars, and let them enter the world of ordinary people. They are no longer oil paintings or sculptures, and they are no longer Nobel laureates whose names are unclear. They are lovely people. "

"Here, professor, give it a try!" Wang Yang took the fill-in-the-blank script and pointed to a bracket, and urged Salzburg to say, "Just here, try to fill it in now." Salzburg looked at the In brackets, he said uncertainly: "Strange quantum phenomenon?" Wang Yangha laughed, snapped his fingers crisply, and agreed: "What else? Cool! Professor, I know you are an applied physicist, and you do a lot of things. Novelty, daring endeavors, that's what applied physics is, isn't it?"

Wang Yang spread his hands and frowned and said, "So why don't you try to be a script consultant, be the one who brings science to 10 million or 20 million American audiences, and 100 million or 200 million global audiences? If not now, then what Time?" He clapped his hands together, and said seriously: "Professor, I hope you will think about this when you think about it."

"Hmm..." David Salzburg took a deep breath involuntarily. He is interested, timed and paid, and more able to participate in this brewing new scientific storm. If not now, then when? Knowing that this young man was instigating, he was still instigated willingly, with a feeling of blood boiling all over his body, as if he heard a master in the physics world talk about his latest paper...

This is really, really cool! Salzburg reached for the globe and nodded heavily: "I've made up my mind, I'll join!"

"Wow! Congratulations to you, congratulations to me." Wang Yang suddenly smiled happily. The script consultant is a very important member of the screenwriting team. Especially for his current situation, the team needs to design certain scientific aspects from the beginning. Wang Yang stretched out his right hand and shook Salzburg, and said with a smile, "Professor, our screenwriter and creative team will hold the first meeting in a few days, and you need to come."

"It should be fine. I have finished teaching all my classes this week." David Salzburg nodded with a smile on his fat face. Wang Yang put away a few pages of the script and put them away, stood up, and said with a smile, "I really hope to visit the physics labs in 1a, can I?" Salzburg also stood up and made an invitation With a hand gesture, he said cheerfully: "Of course, director, I'll take you to see bsp; After leaving 1a, he continued to work for a whole day, and it was not until dusk that Wang Yang drove back to his warm home. On the soft sand, I threw the key on the coffee table and there was a snap, and Danny rushed over there, shaking his head and shaking his hand enthusiastically. He closed his eyes and shouted vigorously: "Jie Sika, I'm back, are you home? "

"Yan, I'm making dinner!" Jessica's voice came from the direction of the dining room and kitchen, and there seemed to be some aroma at the same time. Wang Yang closed his eyes and continued to rest until Danny got tired and walked away. Then he shook his head, got up and came to the fragrant kitchen. Jessica, who was dressed in casual home clothes, was busy in front of the country-style cabinet , he walked over and hugged Ye from behind her waist: "Hi, sweetheart."

He sniffed the fried u on the gas stove below, it was really fragrant, and he leaned into her ear and smiled, "You didn't buy them from Mr. Zhou's restaurant outside, did you?" Jessica She grinned suddenly, her eyes were full of joy, and while controlling the shovel, she smiled triumphantly: "Yeah! I purposely made it a bit unpalatable now, it tastes like I made it."

"It's really cunning." Wang Yang smiled and leaned on her head. Jessica looked up at him, but felt the martial arts, the holy king, the holy king, the king, the night, the killing of the gods, the seal of the gods, the throne, the demon, the world, the ninth heaven, the strongest abandoned boy Zhou royal family will kill the gods and seal the throne in the night, seek the devil, proud of the world, the strongest abandoned young master Zhou royal family, martial arts, Qiankun will kill the gods and seal the throne at night, seek the magic, proud of the world, the strongest abandoned young man, the god-making general of the Zhou royal family, kill the gods in the night Sealing the Throne, Qiumo, Ao Shi, Nine Heavens, The Strongest Abandoned Young Da Zhou, the royal family, felt a little tired when he saw him, and felt a little heartbroken. Although she was very supportive of him and full of drive, she was also worried that he would exhaust herself. She kissed him on the cheek, then stretched out her left hand wearing the engagement ring to touch his head, and said with a smile, "I'll fry a few more poached eggs later, your favorite is liu ripe!"

"Do you want me to get the microphone and the takeaway book?" Wang Yang smiled, Jessica rolled her eyes, and slapped him with a smile: "If you make me angry, I will make you burnt." Wang Yang looked at She fried vegetables, thought for a while and laughed: "If we have that or some other laser device, we can use it to heat this pot, and then we can scramble eggs." Jessica asked with a puzzled smile: "That is What do you mean? What laser? This is your bsp today;