Chapter 194 The Water Is Very Deep (Fourth More!)

Michael Clayton, the author of the novel "Jurassic Park", is one of the most famous best-selling authors in the United States, and is also a very famous film and television screenwriter, director, and producer.

In the history of American film and television, there are a total of three writers who are the most powerful.

The first was Michael Clayton, then he was equaled by Stephen King, and slightly less so by Dan Brown.

Needless to say, Clayton, "Jurassic Park" is enough to make him famous in history.

Stephen King is also extremely powerful. "The Shawshank Redemption" is one of his masterpieces, but many Chinese people don't know that this master who is famous for his horror and suspense writing, like Michael Clayton, almost every novel is adapted into movie, and it was very popular.

Dan Brown, who is third, has not written many novels, but novels such as "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons" are also very popular. The film adaptation starring Tom Hanks is also well received and famous. Double income.

As for Stephenie Meyer, the author of "Twilight", Susan Collins, the author of "The Hunger Games", Ronnie Carlos, the author of "Divergent", James Dashner, the author of "The Maze Runner", etc., they are in In terms of the depth of influence, it is still worse than the above three people.

Because not only the movies are wonderful, but the novels alone, the three authors above are unparalleled masters.

For the movies he particularly likes, Yin Jun will watch and ponder over and over again.

If there is an original version of the novel for this movie, Yin Jun will also look for it.

Not only the Chinese translation version, but even the English version, Yin Jun will read it, although he often does not have a deep understanding of the charm of English writing.

Take this "Jurassic Park" as an example.

Many people watched "Jurassic Park" filmed by Spielberg, and it was absolutely eye-catching, and it was cited as a magical film.

But many of them don't know that the novel "Jurassic Park" is actually much more exciting than the movie.

For the entire three "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World", the intercepted novel content is only about 10%, and then there are a lot of adaptations.

The fourth "Jurassic World" was filmed after Michael Clayton's death. I don't know if he participated in the creation of the previous script, but the previous three "Jurassic Park" were all adapted by Michael Clayton himself. Yes, so it's all pretty good.

Especially the first episode, people who have never seen these big guys, many of them watched it screaming. After it came out, they basically turned back to the cinema, continued to scream, and continued to enjoy the enjoyment brought by the movie .

The novels of "Jurassic Park" contain a lot of knowledge, and it is not just you who can write it with such an idea.

For example, the dinosaurs you see in movies, except for a few aggressive dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex, most of them just have an appearance.

However, in Michael Clayton's book, he described the appearance, character, living habits, etc. of 15 kinds of dinosaurs in great detail. Basically, you can become a dinosaur expert if you understand it.

In addition to dinosaurs, "Jurassic Park" also involves very detailed knowledge of biotechnology, engineering, medicine, information systems, etc. It is impossible for someone who has studied in depth for 3578 years to be so handy Use this knowledge, and it's so beautifully presented in the book.

Such an excellent book...

Yin Jun couldn't write it.

the reason is simple.

He doesn't have that much knowledge reserve at all.

Even if he has read how to write in the book, he can't restore the details perfectly. Even if he can write well, he only has about 60% of his skills.

Another point is that Yin Jun actually didn't want to write in as much detail as the original work.

Because in fact, the original book has a lot of gore and horror content, and it’s okay to read the book, but if you put it in the movie, no matter where it is, you don’t even think about it being released.

Yin Jun didn't like these overly bloody and terrifying contents, so he simply followed the old rules and directly adapted the script into a novel.

Although the level of excitement is much weaker in this way, it is still a smooth story, and it is definitely not ugly to write.

Besides, what Yin Jun wants is not a good best-selling novel, as long as he can hold the copyright of the novel and the movie in his hands, it doesn't matter whether the publication makes money or not.

Compared with the little profit from publishing, the profits of movies are huge.

"Jurassic Park" is the world's first super blockbuster with a box office exceeding 1 billion US dollars!

Publishing novels is an easy task in Xiangjiang.

However, what Yin Jun wanted was not to publish in Xiangjiang, but to publish in European and American countries in order to protect his own rights and interests.

This publishing industry is not as simple as people imagine.

It’s not that Yin Jun said, you publish it for me. My book will definitely sell well. If it doesn’t work, I get 3% of the royalties, or even don’t take it...then the publishing house will publish it for you.

The publishing house first has an evaluation mechanism to discuss whether your book can be published, how much profit it will have after publication, and whether it is worth their operation.

Then, the publishing house is not a kind person.

Whether it is the UK or the US, there are not just one or two writers who have been cheated by the publishing house.

Because many people don't pay attention to the protection of copyright, they let the publishing house take the manuscript in vain, and then publish it in their own name, which has caused heavy losses.

In the end, the authors were not even paid because of insufficient evidence.

Such examples, in the past and in the future, really don't need too many.

As long as they are businessmen, they are all for the purpose of making money. As for conscience, it basically has nothing to do with them.

Of course, if it is a world-class publishing house, they care about their own wings and will not go too far, but there is a certain guarantee.

In addition, well-known writers will also receive preferential treatment, and no one dares to bully them.

But it is absolutely impossible for Yin Jun to place his hope on others. He has to control his own destiny, especially when he knows how much profit these copyrights will bring.

How to protect one's own copyright, many routines have been discussed in the future online world, but Yin Jun knows it clearly.

This is in terms of publishing and translation. Yin Jun must also find a good person.

There is no shortage of English talents in Xiangjiang, and it can even be said to be more than Singapore.

However, if you find unreliable people to help translate "Jurassic Park", it is not impossible to treat this novel as your own and publish it.

It's not that Yin Jun thinks too darkly, but in this world, if you don't think carefully enough, there will always be someone who will let you know how cruel the world is and will teach you a painful lesson.

Yin Jun himself wrote...

forget it!

It is said that his English is not a problem now, but when it comes to writing style, format, rhythm, diction, etc., he is completely clueless.

After getting someone to translate it, Yin Jun compared those dialogues with the movie version, and it would be fine to modify and improve it. Let Yin Jun write all the content himself, and there must be no publishing house willing to publish it.

Now Yin Jun is not in a hurry, because Michael Crichton will publish "Jurassic Park" in about 90 years, and his creation time should be after 85 years, and it is only 78 years now, he must not have enough idea to write this novel.

On the other hand, another award-winning trump card—"The Shawshank Redemption" made Yin Jun hesitate at first.

As Stephen King's very famous novella, this novel with the subtitle "Hope of Spring" included in his "Four Seasons" will be published in a collection around 1982.

Maybe Stephen King is already conceiving or writing.

Because this collection of novels has a total of four stories in spring, summer, autumn and winter, Stephen King wrote it at will, and it took several years to finish the four stories.

Yin Jun's rewriting of "The Shawshank Redemption" is completely inferior to Stephen King's in terms of writing style and profound meaning. If the novel is published.

If Stephen King had already written "The Shawshank Redemption", the fun would be great.

In this place in the United States, it is simply obvious who the people, newspapers and courts of the United States are supporting.

The most important thing is not that the novel was judged to be imitated and plagiarized, but that Yin Jun's reputation has been ruined since then. This will definitely be a big blow to Yin Jun's future development in the United States-who would want to fight with a notorious plagiarist? cooperate? Who wants to see a movie he made?

It is precisely because of this consideration that Yin Jun decided not to write "The Shawshank Redemption", but to write novels that are more backward.

The film adaptations of famous European and American novels are actually those ten or twenty books, and Yin Jun happened to have read and read them all.

Fortunately, most of them are works after the 1990s, and Yin Jun still has enough time to write them all.

These novels are the same as "Jurassic Park", they don't need to sell well, as long as they can be published smoothly and have copyright rights, that is the greatest success.

However, Yin Jun does not necessarily have to write all of these novels. Just like scripts, Yin Jun writes the main content, and let some writers fill in and expand, so that they can get part of the novel revenue. This is also a very feasible cooperation method.

There are also those novels that Yin Jun can't write, such as the most classic western fantasy novel in history-"The Lord of the Rings", which needs to be purchased.

According to Yin Jun's knowledge, the copyright of "The Lord of the Rings" is very complicated, and there will be several protracted court proceedings around it in the future.

In order to prevent himself from getting into these troubles, Yin Jun has to plan it slowly after he has enough strength, which is the safest way.