Chapter 414 Discussion About the Script

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Whether money is money or not is a trivial matter. Who can bear to talk to herself about real-time stock prices like Harley, regardless of morning, noon and night. Song Ya severely reprimanded her the next day, but a phone call at the end of the day is still inevitable. This situation lasted for half a month, and finally stopped after her freshness gradually passed.

"That's about it. The plot is not complicated, but there are a lot of singing and dancing, so finger dancing is very important."

In the evening, the office of the president of A+ Records was brightly lit. Song Ya handed the printed first version of the script to Yeremov. There were also Taraji, Hayden and two gunmen screenwriters, a white man in his forties. And a black man in his thirties, both men, and they are not cheap, and they are considered the top group of gunmen who are willing not to sign.

The black screenwriter was added at a later stage. In order to help modify the dialogue between the protagonist and his friends, he could neither use too much Chicago black slang according to Song Ya’s original idea, which would make the audience from other places confuse, nor lose the street flavor too much. , this is a hip-hop movie after all.

"Finding dancers is a very late thing. Of course, if you really want to make this movie, you need to increase the amount of dance training."

Yeremov shook his head. The director of publicity and distribution of A+ records picked up his old job as a producer, and suddenly became more confident, and directly took over the leadership of the small meeting, "Okay, I believe everyone here has seen it. It’s been more than one script, today we’re going through it again, bringing up our own problems and brainstorming. Those places still need to be revised, so if you have anything to say, Mr. APLUS can withstand the blow.”

They and Song Ya both laughed, "Let me talk first." Yeremov saw that the two screenwriters did not take the initiative to speak, so he pointed to the opening paragraph in the script and asked: "Is there any consideration for this opening line? He is too similar to the MV Alright, the whole showtime of Showmethemoney is a bit slow."

"In the tall dance practice room, the ballet dancers in tights and the messy street dancers, the contrast between the two different screen transitions implies two different classes, one belongs to the rich, restrained, and stereotyped heroine. , Refusing to change, a poor man who belongs to the male protagonist, publicity, freedom of movement, and full of vitality."

Song Ya replied.

"It's not bad. This paves the way for a series of dramatic conflicts caused by the differences in personality and cognition between the male and female protagonists due to their different family environments and life philosophies." The white screenwriter said, putting his hand over his mouth.

The black screenwriter also nodded, "I also think the opening title fits the theme very well. One side represented by street dance and the other side represented by ballet, from mutual incomprehension, to conflict, and finally merged into a performance at the end of the film, echoed back and forth."

"But it's still a bit..." Yeremov was not easily persuaded, and made a mark on the script, "This paragraph will be polished after the director is in place."

"guide……"

The black screenwriter looked at Song Ya in surprise, "You don't really want to make a movie, APLUS? There are so many group dance scenes in this play, investment is indispensable."

"Why would I hire you if I don't make a movie!?" Song Ya replied quietly.

"It's time to shoot some small productions to practice your skills." The white screenwriter asked Yeremov with a smile, "Didn't you persuade him?"

Yeremov made a gesture of wiping his neck.

"My main doubt is APLUS in terms of character design." The black screenwriter said: "Three NGers from poor families smashed the glass of the art school and stole the car. This kind of plot will not be liked by the African-American community."

"I think so too," Taraji agreed.

Yeremov and the white editor also nodded.

Song Ya thought for a while, and indeed, in the original movie, the lead actor was a white man, and the black community wouldn't have any sensitive thoughts about doing these things with two black men, but didn't he want to lead the role? So I asked the editor to write all three as black, and the question popped up, "It needs to be changed, how should I say it?"

"It's okay to smash the glass,

Stealing a car can be changed to a relatively low crime, such as... er, such as..." The black screenwriter, for example, didn't think of a suitable replacement plot for a long time. Or behaviors such as bullying are more destructive than stealing a car, not to mention that stealing a car is also related to a large plot before and after.

Setting the character’s background is a deep knowledge, and the car is a dead thing. The discomfort the audience feels when watching the protagonist steal a car is far lower than directly grabbing someone else’s twenty dollars, although the value of a car is much higher than that of two. I don't know how many times ten knives.

The protagonist and his two partners are idle young people from the slums. In the movie, the underprivileged young people should not get rid of the ubiquitous criminal life like a quagmire, but they should not make the audience too disgusted.

It is very difficult to grasp this degree. The original movie has been set very well. After a slight change in the character setting, it will affect the whole body. In the original movie, the protagonist is a white man. It is not easy for the white man to steal a car with the black man. The association of the crime rate of the ethnic group is replaced by all blacks stealing cars...

It is a fact that the black crime rate is high, but it cannot be photographed so bluntly. At that time, the black community will definitely attract criticism, not to mention that I have black blood, and I will be scolded even more fiercely. Words must be indispensable.

And it doesn't please white people either.

"How about changing the protagonist's friends to white people?" Yeremov suggested.

"Replace them all with white people? No way, it will appear inconsistent with the reality. The protagonist's partners are two brothers. Changing one means that their family background must be changed. Then what about the plot of the younger brother's death?" The two screenwriters complain.

It seems that even with the apocalypse of the whole movie, there is still a long way to go before the actual copying of the finished product, "Just replace the elder brother with a white man, and give the protagonist's family back to the two brothers."

Song Ya came up with the idea that the original Caucasian male lead was an orphan and lived in an adoptive family assigned by a welfare agency. That kind of adoptive family only adopted children in order to receive subsidies from the welfare agency, and often adopted more than one child. Our education is naturally laissez-faire.

Therefore, in the black neighborhood, there are occasional white people who confuse behind the black people, which has its basis in reality. In addition to this kind of adopted family, some poor white families who are unable to move out of the slums with more and more blacks have to let their children grow up in this environment, and they will also become hip-hop like the original movie hero Dressing up, talking in a black accent, smashing windows with black companions, stealing cars, dancing hip-hop, the type of people who have no sense of time.

"What about the protagonist's white sister?" the white screenwriter asked.

"Change it to black." Song Ya said: "Just rely on the protagonist's family background to my real family, aunt, sister and so on. The two friends of the protagonist live in an adopted family, so there is no blood relationship. The elder brother is White, brother is black."

"Then the problem comes again, what about the gag lines that the white brother is in charge of?" The black screenwriter was not happy, "Those lines are tasteless when they come from the mouth of a white man, and what about his character design that is expected to become a professional basketball player?"

In the original movie, the protagonist is a dull white guy who is not good at speaking, and Song Ya has also carried on this point, just like what Escube did in the boy on the block movie, the singer crossed the border for the first time, it is best not to try that kind of For a role that requires high acting skills, this kind of dull and rigid character design is very good for him to cover up his unprofessional acting skills.

So naturally his black friend is responsible for the chatter and the funny part, like Eddie Murphy always does in the movie, and he plays basketball very well, which also fits the usual stereotype.

"Black people talk nonsense, keep talking slang and making jokes, is this a stereotype, right?" Song Ya asked, "I remember a movie last year where white people can also jump in, I tried to reverse this stereotype, white people are dull, black people are smart , the white guy dunks, and the black guy takes the money. This anti-traditional character design works surprisingly well, and the box office has proved it."

"Didn't you dislike that movie?" Taraji asked.

"Don't interrupt Taraji, I just don't like the actor Wesley Streep." Song Ya said: "But the movie itself is still very good, and his performance is impeccable in all fairness."

"Okay, the white companion is in charge of gags, and you are in charge of basketball masters and hip-hop masters." Everyone chatted enthusiastically again to set the tone.

"If you change it like this, the character of the protagonist's sister will become a bit cumbersome." Yeremov began to talk about the third question, "Since the protagonist's family background has changed, some dialogues with the sister will be greatly deleted. .”

"Okay, let's change it." Song Ya nodded, "Continue to publish the second edition, but don't be too self-assertive." He doesn't want to change the original movie beyond recognition, then the box office will be hard to tell, although she doesn't know this movie Whether it will be successful in another time and space, but his instinct should be good.

"No, you are the one who pays." The script was customized according to the request of the sponsor, and the two screenwriters did not have any opinions.

The discussion around the first version of the script continued until late at night. After sending Yeremov and the two screenwriters away, Taraji took the coat and helped Song Ya put it on, "Do you really want to shoot it?" She ask.

"When have you ever seen me do something aimless?" Song Ya asked back.

"Well, the script is pretty good."

Taraji turned off the lights in the office, and the two walked to the elevator, "It can be seen that you have written a lot of life in it, such as the part about lifting Charlize Theron." She asked: "Will you write the heroine? for her?"

Not knowing the existence of Tianqi, she reversed the causal relationship between the two things, Song Ya shook her head, "I have already asked Amy to strengthen her practice."

"But the heroine won't be 100% hers, will she?"

"Of course, this is my first film, and I must not screw it up, or I will become the laughing stock of Hollywood."

"Can I have the supporting role of the heroine's black girlfriend?" Taraji asked suddenly.

"What?"

"I studied acting at Howard University."

"Stop making trouble..."