Chapter 276 "Love Has an Afterlife" (34)
Xu Lan is a very good writer.
Shen Xudong bought one of her selected novels and heard someone say that Xu Lan looked like Zhang Ailing...
"Red Sandalwood Board" and "Cherry Red", the charm has a certain impression, but it suffers from an anticlimax, and some of the "idle strokes" imitating Zhang Ailing's cold eyes on life are a bit too hard and deliberate, not natural enough, and the story is not subtle enough...
"Leisure" comes second.
As for "Ginkgo Ginkgo" and "The Story of the Stone", standing in a collection with the other articles should really make me feel ashamed...
Among the eight novels in the collection, "Ginkgo Ginkgo" and "The Story of the Stone" are regarded as Xu Lan's debut novels.
Therefore, Xu Lan is talented and talented. I don’t know what kind of achievements she can achieve by concentrating on writing, but she seems to stop writing...
Later, she seems to have been a screenwriter for a period of time, and she participated in "The Call to Action"...
Shen Xudong nodded: "I have read "Ginkgo", which feels a bit like "Rouge Button"..."
"You've seen it, it's great..."
Yu Feihong recounted her fate with "Ginkgo Ginkgo"...
It’s just that I read the novel when I was young and felt it very much. I bought the rights to adapt it and planned to make it into a movie...
By the way, the name was also changed: "It's called "Love Has an Afterlife", and it was Wang Shuo's name!"
"Master Shuo...can I read the script?"
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"Love Has an Afterlife" is a very miserable movie...
It is said that the cost was 40 million, but the box office was less than 2 million!
No matter how you calculate it, it’s a blood loss!
In fact, this movie has all the conditions to become a hit: beautiful, tragic, and haunting!
Moreover, the screenwriters are Wang Shuo and Zhao Zhao;
Photography is by Lai Yaohui of "Happy Together";
The film editor is Lin An'er, who is known as "the best editor in the world";
The recording director is Wang Danrong, winner of the Hong Kong Film Awards Best Sound Effects Award, and the costume designer is national first-class stage art designer Mo Xiaomin...
They are all prominent figures, and whoever you choose can stand alone.
But... this story is too bland and focuses on complex psychological activities. In fact, it is not suitable for making a movie at all...
The story of "Love Has an Afterlife" is very simple. It should be in the late Qing Dynasty. There is a pair of brothers who are the leaders of a group of horse thieves. The younger brother is named A Ming. One day, he meets a girl named A Jiu. He likes her and snatches her away and brings her back to the village.
Ah Jiu seems to be very afraid of him and has always been taciturn. Even after the two got married, things didn't get better.
A Ming is not discouraged and just wants to resolve the other party's resentment with sincerity.
After a year like this, A Ming suddenly realized that no matter how hard he tried, he would never succeed. Nothing can change the status quo. Frustrated, he chose to become a monk.
Ah Jiu followed him inexplicably and lived in a broken house outside the temple, cooking tea and cooking for him every day.
Another day. His brother was suddenly ambushed and fled to the temple, where he was seriously injured and died. Immediately afterwards, another group of horse thieves surrounded the temple, and the leader was Ah Jiu's brother.
The parents of this brother and sister were killed by A Ming's brother, and they planned to endure the humiliation for many years. Just for today's revenge. But Ah Jiu has fallen in love with A Ming, insists on seeking death, and makes a promise: we will meet again in the next life...
Later, during the Republic of China, a couple moved here, and the wife looked exactly like Ah Jiu.
Under the ginkgo tree in the temple, A Ming, who turned into a ghost, has been waiting for fifty years.
A Ming told this story to Ah Jiu...
The story is quite cliché, telling the love story between two people who have been enemies for generations, upside down in a ghostly space.
Ten years of preparation shows that... the movie itself is already outdated!
If it had been filmed in the 1990s, it would not have done well at the box office, but its reputation would have been very good!
After thinking for a while, Shen Xudong said: "...Teacher Yu, please don't mind if I tell the truth..."
Yu Feihong smiled: "It's okay, you tell me!"
Shen Xudong said bluntly: "The story is a good story, but not a very good script. There is almost no dramatic conflict. Is Ajiu coming to the cottage on her own initiative or forced? How can she contact her brother when she comes to the cottage? Why does she have to come to the cottage? Undercover? Is it because the copycat is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so there must be an internal response? In addition, Ah Jiu’s sense of struggle is not reflected..."
Too dull...
The male protagonist is a bandit. He can obviously add some thrilling fighting elements, so he should let his hormones burst out of the big screen;
For Ah Jiu who is lurking, you can add some suspense and thriller elements: you Ah Jiu is an undercover agent, don’t move and just stay in the house all day long, you are not a wooden person;
By the way, you can also add a small amount of light comedy content. For example, the male protagonist can have a funny follower and have some funny conversations...
Only in this way can I watch it...
Yu Feihong looked a little embarrassed...
Wang Xiaoping quickly asked: "Feeling of struggle?"
Only then did Shen Xudong realize that Yu Feihong was not one of those pure men in the dormitory...
The species are different!
After considering his words, he said: "...Why did you fall in love with the enemy who killed your whole family? Just by sending flowers? I think we can add some details about the relationship between the two..."
After a while, Yu Feihong shook her head and said: "...I think it's okay to add details, but if you add the scene of Ah Jiu contacting her brother for the sake of dramatic conflict, the story will change!"
"Do you want that kind of aesthetic feeling? With a touch of sadness?"
"right!"
Shen Xudong smiled bitterly: "It is difficult for this kind of work to sell well, and... it is also difficult to win awards."
"It doesn't matter, as long as I can take pictures!"
"...Then let me say a few points. Please change them...at least the logic will be more logical..."
"…Thank you very much!"
Wang Xiaoping: "You two, stop chatting here and have something to eat first!"
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It’s hard to convince Yu Feihong...
She did "Love Is Afterlife" not to fulfill her dream of being a director, nor to make money, she just wanted to do it...
Many people commented on "Love Has an Afterlife": Yu Meiren's willful work, under the calm expression, there was a little girl living in her heart.
Isn't "Love Has an Afterlife" a work for girls?
If you take a closer look at this movie, the characters are like pieces of paper, and the emotions that transcend Youming are not convincing enough...
It is a romantic pathos that moved me.
It's good. I planted the seeds when I was twenty-five. I realized this dream in my thirties and devoted myself heartily...
How many such opportunities can there be in life!
In this case, then move closer to pure love!
Shen Xudong read "Ginkgo Ginkgo" once and was wondering how this would unfold...
Then he heard someone knocking on the door. He stood up and opened the door. It was Yu Feihong...
Yu Feihong was not worried about Shen Xudong at all and went directly to his room in her pajamas.
"...Teacher Yu, what can I do for you?"
"I want to discuss the script with you again..."
Shen Xudong quickly poured her a cup of tea, then took out his notebook: "You tell me, I'll write it down!"
"...You first tell me what you think..."
Shen Xudong pursed his lips, thought about it, and then said: "The framework of this story is actually quite good. Now we just need to clarify the story of the previous life..."
"right."
"The A Ming in his previous life was a bandit. He liked Ah Jiu and snatched her away... I don't think it's logical to not have a relationship!"
"…They got married later!"
"What I mean is that we should have sex on the first night..."
Yu Feihong frowned: "Then Ah Jiu must hate him very much..."
"How about we change it to when A Ming was about to enter, he noticed tears in the corners of A Jiu's eyes... and ran out of ideas?"